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SURE! BT M'LAXDBCEGH WILSOX. Howdv, Longtace! Come to scare me With your mournful varus"' Crops are ruined? Well, L bet you We will till the barns! P Hard times goin' to be likely; Stocks and bonds will crash; See no profit? Well, I bet you W e will get the cash! Flats and fine hotel apartments Makin' people roam; Love is busted? Well, I bet you We will have the home! Country s pom to the bow-wows On a* rapid i)lan ; See no savior? Well, I bet you We will get the man! Bible's gettin' mighty shaky; Jonah's got to humD; Ain't no jedgment? Well, I bet you We will hear the trump! S^*HER ANSWER^! 4 4 i By A. R. Thomson. j ELL, Vincent, I congratulate you on an excellent O |/1 T O piece of work. 'Her An? JliL * swer' is pretty sure to be ?ne tke attractions at the Academy, old man." And Frank Errington, who had just looked in from the next studio to see Vincent Armstrong's completed picture, turned to his friend with a pleasant smile, and shook him cordially by the hand. v-* "I'm glad you like the thing," responded Armstrong, "and I hope it'll be as successful as you predict. Tbat v > Is to say, I should hope so if I?if Winifred forgave me. Otherwise it doesn't matter?nothing matters." \ "Winnie hasn't answered your letter?' Vincent shook his head. "I hardly expected she would," he said* gloomily. "You're unduly despondent, Vincent. You have been foolish, certainly, but now that my cousin has learned from v your letter exactly what took place between you and Angela Weir I'm confident she's not the sort of girl to remember." "She did once," replied Vincent; "but now it may be different. You may be certain Ralph Weir has painted my conduct in the blackest colors, -or Winnie would never have written me the reproachful letter she did. I'm dreadfully afraid that in spite of my reply she still believes his exaggerations." "I don't see why she should, now that you've explained the matter. By the way," he added, after a moment's pause, "I've been wondering why Weir should have called upon you last week?' "So have I, Frank; but I think he wanted to learn what had happened between me and Winnie, and also whether I had done anything big for the Academy. You see, he hates me, and?" jae was uuerrupiea uy a iuuu. at the street door below, and, rising from bis chair, left the studio to answer the summons. A minute or two later be re-entered, crying joyously, as be banded bis friend a telegram: "You were rigbt, after all, old fellow. ' Bead that" Errington obeyed, reading the following message: "Am in London with mother. Must see you. Have three upper-box seats His Majesty's to-night. Meet us outside entrance at 8. All well. "WINNIE." " 'Her AnswerH " exclaimed Frank with a glance at the picture standing on the easel in front of them. "Really, iVincent, you're not unlike the man you've depicted on that canvas. His doubts have been set at rest by a letter?yours by' a telegram. This is the main difference between you. Well, old fellow, I'm delighted?delighted!" - ; II. Some three hours later?just after 7? Errington, who had long since returned to his own studio, was engaged on a sketch for an illustrated paper?for he was a J<black and white" man?when Vincent Armstrong, dressed to go out, put his head In at the door to bid his friend "Good evening." "And, by the way, Frank," he said, "I shall have to bother you for your latchkey once more, for I haven't found my own yet. It's strange that it hasn't turned up before this. Why, I first missed it from its accustomed nail behind the door the day after that man [Weir was here." "Well," replied the other, "you're welcome to mine. I shan't be going out till I go home at y, ana i aare say you ' .won't mind coming down to let me in In the morning." "Oh, no!" said Vincent, with a laugh, as he took the key. . "I shall have been np hours before you arrive, I expect." Eighteen months before, when on a sketching tour with Frank Errington, the latter had introduced him to his cousin, Winifred Alston, whose father was the leading solicitor in the pretty Hertfordshire town of Canthorpe. The result of this introduction had been that when, some weeks later, he returned to London' he was practically an engaged man. He got off the 'bus at St. Martin's Church, and reached the theatre just before 8, eagerly scanning the people who had already arrived at the upper circle entrance. His friends were not among them, however, nor were they to be seen when the hour struck and the doors were flung open. For the next half hour he stood there watching the fresh arrivals who came in everincreasing numbers as the time for the commencement of the play drew nearer. His vigil went unrewarded, however, and at 9 o'clock he began to fear that something must have prevented Winifred from coming. L Weary and disappointed, he went ! straight back to bit studio, and, having let himself in, raised the gas and flung himself on a chair. Then he glanced up at the easel on which he had left his picture, and noted with amazement that the curtain he had thrown over it had been disturbed. The next moment he bounded forward with a cry of despair?the picture, his great picture, was unrecognizable. Some one had taken a brush and absolutely covered the canvas with black paint. Trembling in every limb, he staggered backward to a small table, on which, for the first time, he noticed a lady's visiting card. "Miss Winifred Ashton," he read, and then the full horror of the thing burst upon him. " 'Her answer!' " he gasped, " 'Her answer!'" And with a long, vacuous laugh he ran from the room, stumbled down the < <>> ? ? nr\rI wiph/ul rtllf intrt tha Til t OI till Of auu lUOUVAl vuv 4?vw WMV remembering no more. III. Vincent Armstrong stirred slightly as he opened his eyes upon the May sun* shine, then gave a deep sigh. Finally he asked in a feeble voice: "Where am I?" "Hush," replied Frank Errington, who sat by his bedside, "do not talk, and I will tell you all. You have been very, very ill, old fellow, and you are in my father's house. I brought you here in a cab one night, when?when I met you just outside your studio. A lucky meeting it was, too," he added, cheerfully, pausing to note the effect of his words. "Yes, yes," whispered the other, "I remember. The picture! Winnie sent me a telegram to get me out of the way, and then spoiled my picture. It was her?" He broke off with a half sob. "You are trebly^ wrong, Vincent, as you shall hear, though exactly how I discovered some of the facts will keep till later. It is sufficient to say that one of the fellows in the next pair of studios to ours supplied. me with enough evidence to wring a confession out of the man who had stolen the key of your studio, who sent you the telegram purporting to come from Winnie, but whose intention of injuring your picture was happily thwarted- in an extraordinary manner. As a matter of fact, your picture is one of the sue ces9es of the Academy." "Yon?you mystify me, old man." But Vincent's voice was stronger, and there was a new and eager look in his eyes. "Well, what happened was this: Shortly after you had left to keep the bogus appointment at the theatre there was a knock at our front door, and I was astonished at opening it to find myself confronted by Winifred herself and her mother. They had come up from Canthorpe that afternoon on a flying visit to town; they had to get a train back in half an hour, and their cab was waiting outside. Winnie had brought a picture which she had painted which she wanted your opinion on ?a capital copy of a Corot, though, of course, of small intrinsic value. Well, we took it into the studio, and?to make a long story short?I placed it on the easel to get a good view of it, removing yours, which was much the same size, by the way, to a corner of the studio. Ten minutes later Winnie and her mother left, Winnie writing a brief ">? nn Kortfc nr >?OT message xvi juu uu ?? visiting card. They had, of course, had no intention of visiting His Majesty's, and I thought it would make them uneasy if I told them of the telefcram you had received, so I merely said you were out Shortly afterward, leaving Winnie's picture on the easel, I went home, returning an hour later to await your coming, and talk matters over. "I've already told you how we met, and it only remains for me to say that while I was away from the studio Ralph Weir, who'd watched me out, but was really quite ignorant of Winnie's visit to London, let himself in with your key, and damaged what he thought was your picture. And now," concluded Frank, "will you please excuse me a minute? I want you to see ?your nurse." Efe hurried from the room, and Immediately afterward there entered? Winnie. Slowly she came forward to the bedside, and almost before Vincent had murmured the one word '-forgive" in tender, loving tones, she spoke "her answer."?New York News. Five Tears In Hli House. 'A French count was kept prisoner in his own house in Paris for five years. His jailors were his two servants, who wanted his property. The nobleman is Count de Sampigny d'lssoneourt He is sixty years old. His servants were an old man and his wife, who had been in the count's service for twenty years. When the police broke into the house a few days ago they found the count and the two servants. The count declared that the couple had kept him in a constant state or terror, and had prevented him from leaving the place. They had further compelled him to take doses of ether, and to make out a will leaving to them the whole of his property, the estimated value of which is over $300,000. Ail Act of God. Judge John C. Pollock, of the Kansas Federal Court, now sitting in Kansas City, Kan., gave an opinion the other day in the case of the Empire and Minnesota cattle companies to recover $50,000 from the Santa Fe Railway for the loss of cattle during the flood of 1903, in which he decided in favor of the railroad company, holding that the flood was an act of God, and | that all persons whose property was destroyed thereby must bear the losses alike. The opinion is considered by I lawyers to be of much importance in the flood suits now pending in both Federal and Wyandotte County courts. -Kansas City Times. T [ csj?sjrsirv>fNjrsic\n\>i1 I SOCTfl CAROLINA i \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. * | ?\>rsHNic\> rJCNjrsifMi Arrangements About Complete. Arrangements for the Conference; for Education which begins in Colum- j bia April 26 are about completed- The ! program will extend over three days, j The speakers will include some of the most prominent in the country, among , them being the president, Robt. G. Ogien, Seth Low, Edward ML Shepard. Veteran# Hold Reunion. The annual reunion of the survivors of Company. G, third South Carolina | regiment, was held at Fairview, elgh-j teen miles west of Laurens, the past week. . I Judge Allen Barksdale of Rleston, ! La., who is a distinguished survivor of this historic company, known as , "The Briars," was one of the principal speakers for the occasion. : * Mule Sales Considerably Off. A well known dealer in live stock at Union said that during the season just ending not near so many mules have been sold as in past years, and of those sold a great number haa been for draying and on public works. Of the fertilizers sold this season, it , seems certain that an. unusually large quantity is being used in the cultivation of corn and other crojps, exclusive of cotton. * Negro Slays Wife and Self. Peter Adkins, a negro, shot and instantly killed his wife, Elsie Adkins, the tatter's home in Beaufort. After killing his wife Adkins shot himself through the right lung and throat, Inflicting mortal wounds. After shooting himself Adkins tried to effect an escape at the point of his still smoking weapon, but fell from exhaustion, incident to loss of blood, and weus captured. * * * Governor Not to Interfere. The lunacy commission of five physicians have reported to the governor that after a thorough examination they ! can discover no evidence that Ned Mack is of unsound mind, and that interviews they have had with several ; persons who have known the condemned negro some fifteen years, farther convinces them of the accuracy of their conclusion. On the strength of this report the governor has refused to interfere, and Mlack will be executed at Manning on the 28th. Conspirators Convicted. In the United States oourt at , Charleston the three men recently convicted of conspiracy to rob and robbing the po8toffice at Latta, S. C.,were sentenced. Rudolph Rabens got three years, James Johnson, alias Murphy, seven years, and John King, five years, all at hard labor in the federal prison at Atlanta. The sentence of Johnson was longer on account of his plea of gufity to larceny of government funds j at Enoree, S. C. Notice of appeal to the court of appeals was given by attorney for Rabens. * Parr Swings from Gallows. Mburion Parr, the cotton mill operative, murderer of the boy, Clarence Shealy, whom he killed in a most bra- j tal manner by slipping up behind him apparently in a drunken frenzy ana cleaving his skull with a hoe, paid the death penalty on the gallows at Columbia, with a smile on his lips and without a tremor. Parr confessed his crime to his wife and she caused his arrest and relations have been somewhat strained between them* even after his conviction of murder, but recently he publicly ttrgave her everything. To Fix Magnetic 8tation. W. H. Burger of the United States coast and geodetic survey, has been in Greenwood to fix a magnetic station of the survey for the convenience of local surveyors. He made a careful observation of the latitude and Ion- I gltude and of the variation of the compass as well as- the magnetic strength of the earth at that point He had placed at the graded school building on Byrd street a stone set In the ground flush with the surface indicating the result of his labors, and this will be used by local surveyors for proving their compasses. They can correct any of their compasses to suit local variations. ! * i Ex-Senator McLaurin Loses Suit. In the United States circuit court the verdict for $41,639.26 was found against ex-Senator John L. McLaurin at Charleston in the suit of the International Trust company, of Baltimore, on a promisory note, the verdict being found by the jury upon the instructions of the court. As president of the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad and vice president of the Brunswick and Western Construction company, Mr. McLaurin gave his personal notes to the trust company. Counsel for defense endeavored to show McLaurin had been deceived, but tbis was not deemed sufficient to invalidate the written obligations. * * * To Import Mill Labor. According to a news item, the presidents of the cotton mills of Spartanburg county have formed an association, the purpose of which is to import mill labor into the county that the mill communities might be peopled with first class help. It is believed that the association will be eventually widespread and that the presidents of cotton mills In other sections of the state and the Piedmont country will co-operate in the movement for there is a great scarcity ot labor at this time and in order to carry on the work it has been necessary to import labor from the mountain districts.of North ^Carolina. . The I^bor from that state is provfhg* a&tisfactory to the local j mills. Of course at the first they are ! through inexperience green but possessing intelligence after a few weeks become skilled in the work. The time waus when there was no j difficulty in securing mill operatives, but during the past few years cotton mills have been built so rapidly that it has been impossible to secure the required number of operatives. The farms in the county have furnished considerable help, hut only a certain per cent of the people in the county are willing to take up mill work and leave the farms and this proportion has long since become exhausted and now the mill owners must look elsewhere for their supply of laborers. * Italian Ambassador Visits South. The Baron Edwardo des Planches, ambassador of Italy at Washington, spent last Sunday hi Charleston and vicinity, having come to South Carolina to look over the truck lands In view of the agitation for Italian immigration in this section. In company with Mayor Rhett, M. V. Richards, of the Southern railway, Italian Consul Sottile and Captain Jean Montet, of < the French cruiser Troude, now in port, fihe ambassador was taken out to see the splendid truck farms near the city. A trip to the famous Magnolia gardens was made and a lunch enjoyed at the Charleston hotel, ot which the distinguished visitor was given much valuable information. The ambassador left Sunday night for Atlanta, wfcither he went on the same minion to Georgia. There have already been several Italian colonies located in Georgia for agricultural purposes, and thus far the colonies give promise of great success. . The advent of Italians into the southern states of America has aroused the attention of their government and Ambassador des Planches as a result comes to see with his own eyes the lands that are tempting his countrymen to leave their own historic soil. oyama Heard from. Constant Skirmishing in Manchuria Is Reported by the Japanese. The following announcement was made at Tokio Saturday from the headquarters of the Japanese armies In Manchuria: "Our force .advancing east along the Hailung road defeated a body of the enemy April 14, near Heishihmu, 10 miles east of Panshl, and vigorously chased them towards Laohotsu, 26 miles east of Panshl. Another force advancing north from Sing King attacked the enemy holding a position five miles south of Pachaisu. "There has been no change elsewhere in the mllitaiy situation." "goodby, suckers, goodby" Is Parting Injunction of Alleged GetRich-Quick Concern. The American Mercantile Assocfa-' tion, alleged to be a "get-rich-quick" concern, with offices in Kansas City, ha's been closed and this noftice posted on the door: "Goodby, suckers, goodby." The whereabouts of the officers of the association is not known. The company's head office was at St Jo seph, Mo., and from there a notice had been sent out to Its subscribers announcing suspension. A CENTURY AND FIVE YEARS. 4 Sole Survivor of War of 1812 Celebrates Another Birthday. Hiram Cronk, of the town of Ava, N. Y., only survivor of the 1812 war, celebrated his 105th birthday Wednesday. The aged veteran lives with his daughter on a farm near Ava. He enjoys splendid health for a man of such years, and his faculties are as keen as those of many persons half his age. IMMIGRANTS ARE WANTED. Huntsville, Alabama, Chamber of Commerce Takes Action. At a meeting of the Huntsville, Ala., chamber of commerce Friday - - ? J night, a resolution was aa^cu memorializing the commissioner of agriculture of Alabama to take an active part in the movement to secure immigration from the north to Alabama and to appoint a special agent to remain in New York city and direct the attention of the best class of immigrants to the state. tt5CJ3U Kaininj; PixB. Tig raising is, no doubt, a very profitable business where cheap food can be had from city garbage, else so many of the extensive farmers near the cities would not persist in swine breeding year after year; so well, in fact, does the business pay that the nearby farmers sometimes express wonder that more is not done in the pig raising line on the back farms, where the food can be raised very cheaply and the swine pastured a good part of the time, and all without the annoyance to neighbors sometimes caused in thickly settled districts. A good market can be found almost anywhere for young pigs of common stock, while pure-breds can be sold at correspondingly better values by those who have the knack of working up a trade in such lines. Soil Feeding Experiment*. Two years' experiments at the Oregon Station gives the following results: Twenty-five bogs and seventeen head of cattle have been kept from the middle of May to the middle of August on a very small acreage of ground. Crimson clover was first fed to the herd, then a first crop of alfalfa was used, followed by peas and green oats. After this a second crop was fed, and last a third crop. An account of the cost for cutting and feeding has been carefully kept, which has aggregated three cents per cow. Based on present prices the income from the dairy products during this period is expected to be $284.20. This shows that by soiling any farmer can make up for the want of pasture for a long, dry summer period. At the same time he will be enriching the land, for the nitrogen in the growing plants will save him the purchase of the necessary fertilizers, in order to produce the same results.?L. A. N., in Tndiana Farmer. Stirring Cooking Food. Where more or less food for stock is cooked, some handy way of stirring it ought to be devised. Of course, the I old-fashioned ladle, or the great wooden spoon, is always available, but if the quantity is large, to use these instruments means aching arms and shoulders. A stirrer which will save much labor is readily made in the following manner: Make a shaft of a strip of wood two inche3 thick and long enough so that it will qstend three or four inches above the top of the kettle. At the bottom of this shaft make paddles by crossing two thin boards two or three inches wide. Fasten a crank to the top of the shaft, and to this crank fasten a pole, or not as preferred. Then prepare a strip of board six or eight inches wide, bore a hole through the middle, through which to pass the shaft match both ends to fit over the handle of the kettle and at one. end fix a slide and a! set screw to hold it in place. If the cooking of the food for stock is done away from the house, as it ought to be, one should build a fireplace of bricks and cement in which to set the kettle. The illustration shows both the fireDlace. or not. as suggested, and the plan for making the stirrer, and it will be seen that it is comparatively easy to arrange the device , as suggested.?Indianapolis News. Zj-g* in W?terj?laM. | It is believed that in waterglass we have a preservative which will, when used for preserving eggs, give better satisfaction than any other method available for those who desire to keep eggs for any great length of time. Eggs put down by this method have kept for three to nine months, and the eggs have some out in better condition than by any other method tested. When strictly fresh eggs only have been put down, at the end of six months they have invariably come out in better shape than the average market eggs supposed to be fresh. Use pure water that has been thoroughly boiled and then cooled. To each ten quarts of water add one quart or slightly less of waterglass. When the heavy jelly-like solution is used, threefourths of waterglass will be ample. The solution maj be prepared, placed In the jar and fresh eggs added from time to time until the jar is filled, but be sure that there are fully two inches of waterglass solution to cover the eggs. Keep the eggs in a cool, dark place, well covered to prevent evaporation. A cool cellar is a good place in .which to keep the eggs. If the eggs are kept in too warm a place, the silicate is deposited and the eggs are not properly protected. Do not wash the eggs before packing, for by so doing you injure their keeping quality, probably by dissolving the mucilaginous coating on the outside of the egg. For packing use only perfect eggs, for stale eggs will not be saved and may prove harmful to the others. All packed eggs contain a little gas, and in boiling such eggs they will crack. This may be prevented by making a pinhole in the blunt end of the eggs. To do this hold the egg in the hand, place the point of a pin against the shell of the egg, and give a quick, sharp blow, just enough to drive thopin through the shell without Injury to the egg.?North Dakota Station. Good Work With Hand Separators. The method of separating cream by hand machines on the farm and collecting it for the creameries is becoming very popular in some regions and seems likely to supersede the old plan, of taking the whole milk to the factory. The advantages of the plan are very evident. The farmer is saved the daily trip to the creamery, an item which represents considerable time, and at certain times of the year great inconvenience. He has the fresh skimmilk to use for calf feeding, free from being: mixed with other milk, which may. be soured or contaminated with germ* of disease, and from neglected or badly kept herds, and the milk is in the best possible condition for production of veal. ' By running a route through the- ' . cream district the collection can all be done by one. man, thus providing the farmer a market for his cream at his own door. These advantages are so evident that farmers are demand- '3 ing the convenience and insisting on being relieved from the need of hitching up a team to haul the milk every) day. The defects of the plan are such a* to have prevented the change in somedistricts. The main trouble is the lack of uniformity in the cream. Some farmers with little experience with modern dairying or the use of separa-., , tors fail to exercise the care needed In clean milking, a clean room for the separator, cooling the milk and separating it while it is fresh. The problem of making the system a success Is that of educating the producers to separate the milk under thebest conditions and to have the cream . collected regularly and frequentlyCream collected once or twice a week is unfit for use, but the successful routes collect at least four times a week. Some creamery managers ln? ^ sist that the main trouble is the failureto keep the cans clean. These managers give special attention to deliver- | ing the cans perfectly, clean and sweet; having a double set of cans and leaving them at each farm all ready to use.? v'.| Massachusetts Ploughman. ( Silage ts. Grain. The object of this experiment was to . Q determine whether silage might not be substituted for a considerable portion of the grain usually fed to dairy; . . ^ cows. Two rations were fed carrying /M practically the same amount of dry matter. In one ration over fifty per cent, of this dry matter was derived from silage and less than eighteen ;}M per cent was derived from groin. ^'181 In the other ration over fifty-seven per cent of the dry matter w^s d^- -. rived from grain, no silage being fed* Ten cows, representing five different jgj breeds, were fed these rations from two to four months, five cows taking ? the test the foil four months. The cows fed the silage ration pro- ; dnced 96.7 pounds of milk and 5.08 pounds of butter fat per hundred pounds of dry matter. The cows fed the grain ration pro* - , duced 81.3 pounds of milk and 3.9 pounds butter fat per hundred pound* of dry matter. The cost of feed per hundred pound* of milk was $0,687 with thd silage ration and $1,055 with the grain ration. The cost of feed per pound of butter fat wag 13.1 cents with the ' silage ration and 22.1 cents with the grain ration. The average net profit per cow per: month (over cost of feed) was $5,864 ^ with the silage ration and $2,465 with |j the grain ration. 4 Comparing the average daily product J of each cow for the entire test with hear average daily product for the month previous to the change in ration (op ? the first month of their test in the case of two cows), the cows fed the- i silage ration shrank 2.84 per cent in mHt ami mined 1.89 Der cent in butter >-' fat production. The cows fed the |jj grain ration shrank 9.11 per cent in milk and 14.18 in butter fat production. Upon the conclusion of the experiment each lot of cows was found to - J have gained in live weight: The silage; * | fed cows an average of 47 pounds per head, the grain fed cows an average ~ sof 57 pounds per head. ~ The facts herein reported seem to justify the conclusion that silage can be made to take the place of a considerable portion of the grain ration. It . | is believed that by growing more of the feeds rich in protein?clover, al^ilfa, soy beans, cowpeas, field peas, ^ vetches an<jl ensoillng them, or feeding them as hay, it will be possible to fur- . ther reduce the amount of grain feed. It is the expectation of the station to continue the experiment the follow- '-p> ing winter.?Ohio Exp. Station Bulle* tin 155. "The American Language." Describing "the American language* in T. P.'s Weekly, a writer points out the real difference between the speech t of the educated American and the edth /; cated Englishman. You may talk for. ten minutes to a professor from Har- % vard without being conscious of strange speech, only the professor's voice la % pitched slightly higher than your own. " For "the German speaks from his dia- J phragm, the Englishman from his chest, the American from his throat, and the Frenchman from his palate.*? ' London Chronicle. r Seventy-five years ago the first regular news boat to intercept packet ships for foreign intelligence was pttf V } in commission in New York.