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WANDERLUST. Bevond ihe Kast the sunrise, bsvond the WYst the sea. And K;w and West the wanderlust that will not let me be; It works in me like madness, dear, to bid me say good-by! For tlie seas call and the stars call, and oh! the call of the sky! I know not where the white road runs, nor what the blue hills are. But a man can have the sun for friend, and for his guide a star: And there's no end of voyaging when once the voice is heard. For'the river calis and the road calls, and oh! the call of a bird! ' Yonder the long horizon lies, and there by night and day The old ships draw to home again, the young ships sail away: And come I may, but go I must, and if men ask vou why, You may put the blame on the stars and the sun and the white road and the skv! ?^eraia uouia, m ine spectator. I-MRS. ADMINGTON^! BUTTS IN. . | Y( years Mrs. Admington had wanted, a telephone in I F tlie ^ouse' ^ut ^er husband _, . i j j |, had not seen his way clear iSfe ; to have one till recently. It was a day of joy and triumph for the little lady when, finally, the instrument was fastened to the wall over the Admington's front stair landing. It was on a circuit with other 'phones and when the bell rang in one house it rang in ten others. The Admingtons, like every other family on the line, had a certain number of rings for their own particular call, but it took them some time to get over being startled when any other number was sounded. K- It bothered Mrs. Admington less than -other members of the family, and it gave her pleasure to talk about "ringing up" her friends, which she did with an accustomed air that seemed to indicate there had been a telephone in every room in. the Admington house for years. It was different with her husband. He didn't like telephones any too well *>, -} in the office, and he was sure one in the house would be an abomination. He was confirmed in this belief the first night their 'phone was in commis> (if sion by being awakened from a sound Isleep by the jangling of the bell and be1 ing asked by an impatient inquirer: h, * "Say, are you the undertaker?" The morning after the 'phone was pr? installed Mrs. Admington started to put it to most practical use, that of gfe- ordering things for dinner from the market. She was thinking how pleas' 4j. ant it was just to ring a bell and tell the grocer what to send. She took down the receiver and put it to her ear, but was somewhat vexed p>. " to hear a man's voice and discover that . the line was busy. "I'll have to wait, and I'm in such a hurry," she pouted, but remembering an errand in another part of the house, . she busied herself for a few moments. Her next try at the 'phone found the line still busy. Mrs. Admington was % tempted for a second to listen, but ?;< .didn't think that would be quite fair, so again she hung up the receiver afcd %"> sat down to wait till the line should be disengaged. She fidgeted in a little chair for a minute that seemed ten and then went to the 'phone again, saying to herself: * >. "Those people must be through talkIing by this time." But they were not, and as Mrs. Admington took down the receiver for //.' . the third time to call up central she heard the emphatic declaration of a .very decided young woman: "Well, I don't care. I'm going to . marry him anyway." ?Mrs. Admington knew that she ougbt ; to drop the receiver, but she couldn't ^ let go. It was glued to her ear. And, :Vv anyway, the next instant she heard M'- the voice of the man she had heard twice before, and he had been monopolizing that wire long enough. "But how long did you say you have known him?" he was asking the yoxmg woman. "Why. I've known him only two weeks," was the reply, "but I've seen .*- him an awful lot in that time." "Well, don't you think two weeks a ' pretty short acquaintance to marry on?" urged the man. * "It would be in most cases," admitted the young woman, "but with us it's different. He's awfully nice, and he likes me, and I like him, and he doesn't want to wait. He doesn't believe in long engagements, and neither do I." "Well, you're a simpleton," was Mrs. 'Admington's mental comment, as she shifted from one foot to the other and moved a little nearer to the 'phone just as the man's voice was asking: "Isn't he willing to give you a little \ time to get ready? A woman can't be married conveniently on a day's notice, it ne naes you so uiuv.-u x should think he "would give you a chance to get a few clothes together? a trousseau, you know. Won't he give you a month or six weeks for that?" "No," was the answer. "He's going away within a month, an<Whe wants to be married so I can go with him." "Isn't he coming back?" "Yes, he's coming back, but he doesn't want to wait till then." "Well, if he likes you so much, don't you think that's a little unreasonable?" suggested the man. "Unreasonable!" thought Mrs. Ad. fiiington. "The fellow's a perfect pig." But the young woman at the other end of the wire evidently had a different opinion. "I might think he was unreasonable if things were different." she said, "but I can get ready and I don't mind if ft is 9 sudden." "'Well. I don't want you to think mo too much of a meddler." came back the voice of the man. "I only want to suggest tilings that Seem to be for your good. Now. you say you've known this man for two weeks. Are you sure you will care for him at the end of two months? Wouldn't it be weli to wait that long and see?" "We haven't the least bit of fear of that." responded the young lady in tones of perfect assurance. "He says we were made for each other." "Made for the madhouse," muttered J Mrs. Admington to herself, losing all patience. "And how old did you say he was?'' resumed the old man. JL \JL l%? "And you are twenty?" "Well. I'll be twenty-one in a couple ; of months." "And how old are his children?" "The boy is fifteen and the girl only ten," spoke up the young lady, evidently without fear of tackling so tough a job as looking after the youngsters. The man was silent for an instant, ! trying to think of something else to ! switch the young woman off the matri- : monial track. Mrs. Admington was hoping he would be successful, but he i wasn't, se he fired a weak parting shot. ! "Well." he began, hopelessly, "all I : can say to you is that if you marry that man after having known him only two , weeks\you will be doing a very foolish 1 thing, and in looking after those two children you will certainly have your work cut out for you." "I don't care if I do," came the voice I Of the young woman snappishly. "I've ; thought it all over and I'm going to marry him anyway." Mrs. Admington wasn't able to con- j tain herself any longer. She had no j sooner heard the young lady's ulti- . matum than she broke into the conver- ! sation with: "Don't you do it. If you do you're a perfect goose and you ought to know j it." Mrs. Admington heard gasps of surprise from the other two, and then the ' voice of the man: "Well, who in thunder are you?" "I'm not in thunler anybody," ! snapped Mrs. Admington, "but I'm j considerably older than the young lady i at the other end of the wire, and I've learned a few things she ought to know j before she marries a man twice as old as herself and with two children as big as she is." "Pity you didn't learn not to listen to private conversations," snapped the j voice of the young woman. "And another pity you didn't know better than to discuss such matters over a telephone," retorted Mrs. Ad- i mington, spicily. "But I'm glad you did, for it gives me a chance to tell you you're a little simpleton if you marry that man, and you'll regret it before the year is out. He's old enough to be your father, and he wants you to marry him before you've prepared enough clothes to get you decently out of town. He ought to be ashamed of himself, and you ought to be spanked. Goodby." And then Mrs. Admington hung' up j the receiver with a rap that almost j broke the hook. "I've given that young woman a ' piece of my mind, and I hope it will do her some good. But I don't suppose it will. Xext time I catch'her on my telephone she will probably be asmng some lawyer to get her a divorce."? j Chicago Record-Herald. Local News. (From the Mount Olympus Journal.) By Franklin P. Adams. Diana has gone hunting this week. Mercury is sporting a new cane. Cheer up, Niobe. It might be worse, j Galatea has given Pygmalion the stony stare. Daedalus has got a new buggy. Get j ready, girls. j Get your horses shod at Vulcan's.? j Adv. Looks like we would have a late fall , this year. / Drink Nectarine. Looks like Nectar and costs less.?Adv. Venus has a new way of wearing her i hair. Ah there, Adonis! Somebody has been purloining apples from the Hesperides orchard. Cut it out. boys. Leander swam the Hellespont to see his best girl last night. What a lover won't do is a caution. A most regrettable incident happened here last night. Narcissus of this place fell into the pool. ! Don't forget Pan's recital on the mount to-night. A pleasant time as- j sured to all.?Adv. As we go to press, the weather is simply Elysian. We are touching | wood, so as to ward off Nemesis. The Cyclops boys are treating with i the oculist, but we regret to state not much improvement is being made. Atalanta has entered for the hundred- j yard dash Field Day. Midas was a pleasant caller at this J~r"fc " - TTT - J?C omce \> eanesua>, auu xcn. uo wherewithal for a year's subscription. | Come again, Mide.?New York Tribune. Mine Tunnel Used at Jail. An unused mining tunnel with a sheet iron door across the entrance constitutes the branch jail at the lively smelter town of Kennett. i Constable Limbaugh asked the supervisors to make an appropriation for building a calaboose, a convenience that was a necessity m the lively i camp. The supervisors could not afford to grant the allowance. The constable supplied the deficiency by getting permission from the mining company to use the abandoned tunnel. He furnished the sheet iron door himself. The tunnel is a long ore. It makes a commodious calaboose and one that is mighty secure.?San Francisco Chronicle. Official reports show that about IOC lives were lost in making the SimDlor tunnel CROP NEWS OF HYDE j Furnished by Reliable Farmi ers Throughout South, i AN ANSWER TO JORDAN President of the Southern Cotton Association Asked for Co-Operation of Mr. Hyde and the Latter Makes a Pointed Reply. A Washington special says: The attitude of the department of agriculture toward the Southern Cotton Association, organized at New Orleans last year for the purpose of bringing about a reduction in this year's cotton acreage, has been indicated in a letter sent to Harvie Jordan, president of the association, with headquarters at Atlanta, by John Hyde, chief of the bureau of statistics of the department. In a letter to Mr. Hyde some days ago Mr. Jordan said that the Southern Cotton Association had undertaken to prepare full, complete and correct reports on the acreage. Requests for authoritative information had been sent to secretaries and correspondents throughout the belt, he said and in many cases house to house canvasses had been made. Bankers, merchants, manufacturers, buyers and others, including a very large number of farmers, had been asked to furnish facts, and the presidents of state and territorial divisions have seen asked to meet at New Orleans on May 30 to turn in their reports and lave them consolidated and published. Mr. Jordan supposed, he says, :hat Mr. Hyde was busy getting information on which to base his report, :o be issued June 22, and he impressed on the statistician the importance Df obtaining as complete a report as possible and having it as nearly correct as possible. The association jrould gladly co-operate with the department, he said, and, in turn, desired the department's co-operatioii ind assistance. Farmers were going juitely ahead and reducing their acreage, he asserted, and he urged the statistician to get as much of his information as possible from the farmers themselves. To this letter, Mr. Hyde sent the following reply: "I nave the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, suggesting the co-operation of your association and this department in the work of ascertaining the newly planted acreage of the cotton in the southern states. "You do not, however, suggest any means by which such co-operation could be rendered effective, and I note that the meeting of the presidents of the several state and territorial divisions of your association to be held at New Orleans for the con SUU U a HULL Ui lucii icpui 10 auu preparation of the whole report for publication has been called for a date only three days in advance of that set for the publication of the report of this department. "I may, perhaps, be permitted to remark, however, that in the public utterances of the officers of your association there has been a manifest disposition to prejudge the situation that is entirely incompatible with the sprit in which this department conducts its investigations. "With regard to your suggestion that this department secure as much information as possible from people who are planting cotton, I beg leave to state that fully 90 r?T cent of the department's county and township correspondents are farmers, and I venture to express the opinion that if, notwithstanding its most earnest endeavors, it should fail in ascertaining the exact facts relative to the new acreage planted, whatever error is made will, as usual, be one favorable to the farmers." SIX INSTANTLY KILLED. Exploding Boiler of Engine Deals Destruction at Columbus, Ohio. The boiler of an engine standing aear the Hocking Valley railroad roundhouse in Columbus, Ohio, exploded Monday afternoon, instantly killing six men who were at work nearby. i Tie building was damaged and quantities of the debris were scat, tered in all directions. I The engine was being tested for its first run after rebuilding. Four engines standing nearby were wrecked. I SEVENTEEN DIE I1M TUNNEL. i Fire-Damp Explosion Causes a Great Tragedy in Syria. { Seventeen persons have been killed by an explosion caused by fire damp in the Bosruck tunnel at Liagen, in Styria. The explosion took place in the lower galleries on the southern side of the tunnel. There were seventen men in the tunnel at the time, and, it is feared, all perished. i | PEPPERED EIGHT MEN, i I i ; > ' Crazy Negro Runs Amuck With Shot | Gun and Revolver in Kentucky. A Deputy Sheriff is Killed. ' j In an attempt to arrest him, Bob | ' Shaw, a negro, supposedly insane, j ! killed one man and wounded seven, i near Whitman, Ky., Monday after- . ] noon. The body of the dead man lay j j in front of Shaw's house, while he , | continued to defy the officers, j Sunday afternoon Shaw was ter- j ! rorizing the community around Whit1 ? ? J .roe cont tn OTIT- I I liiau, dUU iiu apyrai ? tio abui. I.V vn I ensboro for help. A posse was at I once formed, but as soon as they ap- j proached the madman's house Be | opened fire on them. j Town Marshal Watson was shot in : j the face and Deputy Marshal John J. j Jackson in the back. Others wounded were Dr. G. H. Plitt, a boy named Howard, and a boy named Pelly. Monday morning a posse headed by j Sheriff Kelly went from Lewisport ; ! to Whitman and found Shaw sitting ; on his front porch. Shaw quickly barricaded himself in his house. The posse tried to storm i | the house, but the negro opened fire, ! i wounding James Ford and John RobI inson. He apparently had only small : i shot, which saved the lives of those | hit. | Shaw was shot at twice. He had ' I two revolvers, but announced that he j i would save them for work at close ' | quaj-ters. A great crowd gathered I around the house, keeping at a safe j distance. | Will C. Brown, a deputy sheriff, volunteered to go to the house ana ! take Shaw. When within fifteen feet j of Shaw, the crazy man fired, blow| ing Brown's head completely off. About 6 o'clock Monday night a i mob of men and boys surrounded i the house and set it on fire. Shaw i remained in the burning house as < {long as he could stand the heat and finally leaped out and tried to escape. Nearly one hundred shots were fired and Shaw's body was riddled with bullets. . \ | POTTER BACK IN GEORGIA. ! . j Embezzler Returns from California in Charge of Detective. Maro S. Potter, the young bank cashier, who, it is alleged, absconded with $26,(WO of the funds of the Bank of Davisboro, Ga., and left the citizens of that city in a frenzied furor, ! arrived in Atlanta, Monday, in charge j of a detective, who arrested him in : Los Angeles, Cal. j Potter, it is charged was a stock- j I holder in the bank, in addition to bo i ing the cashier. He sold his stock, J and on November 17, last, it is al, leged, that he left with all the funds I of the bank. Shortly after his disappearance the bank was put in the hands of an assignee. For five months the young man had ! eluded the shrewdest sleuths of the j | country. Upon leaving Davisboro he * ' went to Atlanta and stayed a day 01 | two. He saw that things were get ting hot for him there, and he left j for the City of Mexico. He arrived, it is said, in the latter J city with $12,000, which he proceed- J | ed to get rid of with a high hand, j While out automobiling with a friend, ! he ran over a Mexican, and to es- 1 cape arrest for 'his offense, it is charged that he left for California, j He took in several cities in Califor! nia, playing the races and living like j a titled millionaire. From city to , , city h6 would go, changing his name 1 j as he went, until finally his funds * ran out, and he landed in Los An- : geles penniless, without friends, and with the bloodhounds of the law hot at his heels. ( ? < TEXAS STORM DEALS DEATH. i Rain and Wind Do Frightful Damage in Lone Star State. Several lives were lost and serious damage was done to crops in many sections of Texas Sunday night by the terrific wind and rain storm that 1 prevailed in many sections. Streams are out of banks and bridges have 1 been washed away. I PRESBYTERIANS ARE UNITED. Cumberland Church is Voted Unani- : mously Into the General Assembly. ' The Cumberland Presbyterian ( church was voted into the general assembly at Winona Lake, Ind., Monday amid a storm of applause,without a speech and without a.dissenting vote. It was the final action of , the general assembly on one of the greatest questions which has come before it since the civil war. ana . brings back into the organization a branch which went out during the war because of differences over the que^ lion of slavery. PLAGUE KILLING THOUSANDS. Appalling Number of 750,000 Dead in India Since Last January. Three-quarters of a million of people have already died of the plague in India this year, according to figures furnished by Indian Secretary Brodrick, in the British house of commons. The mortality from January 1 to April 1 was 471,774, while another 215,961 succumbed during the four weeks ending April 29. - ' * ' ' ' ' ' V. ? : CSJCSJrMCMfNJfSJTsKSJI I SOUTH CAROLINA 2 \ STATE NEWS ITEMS, i rs>CMfsjrs>rocMcsjrsi? Dispensary Voted Out. At an election in Pickens county, the past week, the dispensary was voted out by an estimated vote of 4 to l. Seven boxes out of twentythree gave 14S for and 534 against the dispensary. ^ ^ w * Beat His Wife to Death. At Edgefield, one night the past week, Walter Hill, colored, shot at his wife with a Winchester, hut, failing to hit her, he proceeded to beat her to death with the weapon. A sister of the woman was badly iniured in the fracas. Hill escaped. * * * New South Carolina Industries. The Chattanooga Tradesman ireports the following new industries established in South Carolina during the past week: Georgetown?$10,000 boat oar and hardwood company. Greenville?$8,000 land company. Darlington ? $75,000 veneer company. Barnwell?Building and loan company. * * Ship Brings Only Five Dollars. An unique sale was made in Charleston one day during the past week by brokers representing the owners of the Norwegian steamship Lief Erikson, which was sunk some months ago off Bulls Bay in five fathoms of water. The vessel is of steel, 2,128 tons register, and cost $200,000. It was bound from Cuba to Baltimore, with a cargo of sugar when sunk in a collision. The price paid at auction was $5, by J. B. Hyer, who expects to save many times that amount from the wreck. * * * Veteran Meets a Tragic Death. Jeter W. Crim, a confederate veteran, was thrown from his horse and killed at Johnston a few days ago. Mr. Crim had been out plowing and was riding home sitting sideways on his horse. In some way the horse bolted and Sfr. Crim's feet became entangled in.the trace-chains. He was dragged for a quarter of a mile, with the horse going at full speed. When the horse was finally stopped, nearly at Mr. Crim's home, the unfortunate man was still alive, but unable to speak, and in that condition he lived for about thirty minutes. * * * Prominent Newberry Citizen Dies. J. W. M. Simmons, cashier of the Newberry National bank and one of that town's most highly esteemed and substantial citizens, died a few days ago at his home, after an illness of only a brief duration. He was connected with the bank for a period of 25 years, having been promoted to the position of cashier several months ago. He was 53 years of age. Mr. Simmons is survived by a wife and five children. He wps a consistent member of Averleigh Presbyterian church and a Mason of high Btanding. * Big Lumbfer Mill for Charleston. Plans are making for the establishment of a big lumber mill neai Charleston, which will have a shipping capacity of twenty-eight schooners a month, greatly increasing the export I of lumber from Charleston. The plant will consist of two* band mills, dry kilns, planing mills, sheds, etc., covering forty acres. Already timber rights have been secured on 50,000 acres of land, and It is expected that the corporation whose capital stock is $300,000, will be in operation by January 1 next. There are now seven large export lumber concerns at Charleston and the output of the new company will considerably increase the shipment of lumber from the port. * Cotton Mil! Fight Reaches Climax. A Columbia dispatch says: The fight for the control of the Laurens cotton mills of Laurens, this state, reached a climax during the progress of the annual stockholders' meeting, when G. H. Milliken, representing the firm of Deering-Milliken & Co., of New York, selling agents for a number of cotton mills in this and other states, arose to nominate a ticket in opposition to the present management. He and others of his friends were served with a restraining order, issued some time ago by Judge Klugh, which prevented them from voting the stock they owned. They immediately left the meeting, which proceeded to re-elect President W. E. L. Lucas and his ticket. * * Kid's Cries Were Stopped. "Ill make you shut your mouth," thus said a little five-year-old negro boy nurse to his ten-months-old screaming charge, at Union, a few days ago. Running to a shelf, he seized a bottle, he had seen the family use. It was laudanum. Going back he gav6 the squalling baby a dose. Soon it '' s'.vr.\-iv ', " - > vi-:->;* * I ceased screaming and slept soundly, t Several hours afterward the mother, a washerwoman, returned home. She attempted to arouse the child. All efforts failed. She saw the bottle. The boy questioned, admitted the quoted remark and his deed. Fright| ened, the mother summoned a physi; cian. He found the child in a comai tnsp state. For hours he worked, and. by heroic remedies, saved the child's : life. A STRONG INDORSEMENT A | Given Citizens' Industrial Association by National Manufacturers. Among the many resolutions adoptI ed at the meeting of the National i Manufacturers' Association in Atlanta was the following: Whereas, Organizations exist in this country whose principal efforts are directed against individual initiative and private ownership of property, the fundamental principles of which this country has, in little more than a century, so rapidly developed in the ! arts of peace that it stands today ; first among nations in respect to the intelligence and the prosperity of the masses of the people, and, i Whereas, These organizations would j substitute in the place of American government & system based upon paj ternalistic principles borrowed from ; Europe, where individual liberty 48 little understood, and the recognition 4 ^ of which principles in this country would inevitably entail disastrous consequences to the welfare of all classes ' in the commonwealth, and, ' | Whereas, Many labor anions whfch are classed among these organizations are committed to the prosecution of a | militant policy against the enforce; ment of individual rights, and are frei quently dominated by men who are | antagonistic to law and order, unmindi ful alike of the blessings of peace and t; | the rights of others and reckless in ; the advocacy of measures that must -ii I result to the injury of their followers, ' and. Whereas, a propaganda of the most serious character is constantly being waged against our institutions, spread" ing dangerous and fallacious doctrines broadcast among the more ignorant vJj classes, and, * Whereas, The Citizen's Industrial Association of America, which was /|*j organized in Chicago in October, 1903, \Jj ( for the purpose of encouraging and promoting the spirit of patriotism, of disseminating its knowledge $n eco| nomlc questions, of instilling respect for the laws of the land, and fos- / $1 tering a general demand for their enforcement, and of creating a strong public sentiment against the abuse of - M power by labor organizations, has al- ^ ready accomplished great good along -rll these lines, contracting in considerable * '^11 measure the propaganda of those organizations antagonistic to American .-M principles; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Citizens' Industrial Association of Vmerica is rnti- |1| tied to the unqualified and earnest . endorsement and support of the good _ citizenship of the entire country, and, , be it further ' ;^l Resolved, That this association hereby re-afflrms its endorsement of the j said association expressed 07 reouiur . ^ I tion adopted at the last convention v* of this organization at Pittsburg in | May, 1904. BOOK AGENT RUNS AMUCK. Kills Two Men, Wounds Woman and Fires at Girl. At Natchez, Miss., at an early hour ^ Friday, Peter Matheson, a book agent, shot and killed A. Z. Bidwell and Ste^ phen Jones, fishermen; fatally wounded Mrs. Sue Pruette, his mother-inlaw, and fired one shot at Ida Rossin, a 14-year-old girl, without effect. The trouble occurred about Mathe- ^ son's child, whom he claimed had been abducted from his home by Its grand- N J3B parents. Matheson and his wife are f }$*$ separated. He sued for custody of the child one year ago and the courts gave it to him. MANY RUSSIAN CORPSES. Left on Sanguinary Field After Brief Scrap With Japanese. Imperial army headquarters at Tokio made the following announcement . |j Monday morning: "In the direction of Changtu on May 20 a force of the- enemy, consisting of over a battalion of infantry, a regiment of cavalry and two guns, made a detour to the eastern height at Santaokou, eight miles east -A of Changtu, and from the vicinity of a coal mine, ten miles east of Changtu at 11:30 o'clock Monday morning ? "/J commenced a bombardment. "buDsequenuy a xtu^iau iuikc,wtwt forty-five guns, appeared on the northern height of Chilyanpao and at 4 p. m. two batalions of the enemy advanced from the eastern side of the village, but were repulsed. "Another mixed force of the enemy j entered Erhsihlipao, where they set fire to the village and retired. "The enemy's cavalry dismounted and attacked the Japanese guard on the right bank of Liao, 13 miles west of Fakumen, on the morning of May 20. After an engagement lasting twc hours, the enemy retreated in disorder toward the southwest, abandoning 300 killed and wounded. "Except these collisions between forces, the situation is otherwise un