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FATE. The shy is cTouded. the rocks are hare! The sjuay of the tempest is white in air; The winds are out with the waves at play, And I shall not tempt the sea to-day. The trail is narrow, the wood is dim, The panther clings to the arehine limb; And the lion's whelps are abroad at play, And I shall not join in the chase to-day. But the ship sailed safely over the sea. And the hunters came from the chase in glee; And the town that was budded upon a rod: Was swallowed up in the earthquake shock. ?Bret Karte. A NIGHT ON THE PIIY=CLALLAI1. -?+-C?3-C-*> By OTIS LANDSEER SEIBERT, |w/' Wg| LL wild beasts are now ^ much more afraid of men J1 than in former times, and - this dread of mankind has wfc. increased as human weapons na\e grown more deadly. Once and once only have I seen a panther that was other than a skulking, timorous brute, intent only on escape. It was fifteen years ago, on the Olympic shore and range, south of the Strait of Juan de Fuea. I then | held a kind of roving commission from the Smithsonian institution. I was but twenty-two, and was thus put on J J xiixt?5cir-r\A nno V_ my meine xo peueu~cn.tr uuiuum *iuu? ters of the world aud keep my eyes v/ open. And that time the region was a veritable terra incognita. On the map it is termed Clallam County, but for a hundred miles east and west, particularly among the mountains, it was then as primitive and savage as when our race first set foot on the continent. It was one vast tangle of brush and rotting tree trunks, which gave way like wet paper underfoot, letting the unwary explorer through into unsuspected holes, where he might, very possibly, find himself in the lair of a grizzly that had never yet learned gunfear. Bears and panthers were the monarchs of this solitude. Humanly speaking, too, it was a lawless coast. Scattered along the shore, often leagues apart, were a few "lookouts" of otter-hunters, who were a law unto themselves, and did not hesitate to send a far-killing bullet after those who intruded on their "ranges." The flakes of a few Victoria fishermen might be stumbled on during the season. About the river mouths one would at times catch glimpses of an Indian canoe, or a thin line of smoke rising at sunrise or sunset. But the forest was too dense, rank and tangled for srood huntinsr. and the Indians and half-breeds here were mainly those whom murder or other crimes had rendered outcasts. In some expectation of finding the precious metals, I had been trying to reach a high mountain valley, visible from the coast, by ascending the gorge of th? Puy-Clallam. from Tort Townsend, in a sailing dory, which carried my small kit and stock of provisions. A little way up the tidal portion of the river I had come upon an old log hut, in a secluded nook of the shore. It had evidently been deserted for several years, but it served me as a base for my tramps up the gorge. On the night of my story I had returned to it! rather late and thoroughly tired, after f a solitary jaunt of twenty miles or more. I put on half a salmon to boil In my porcelain kettle, "over a fire which a rock and the end of the hut sheltered, and I also made a skilletful of hot "breakfast food:'' this, with sugar and a spoonful of diluted canned milk, appeased my hunger a little, till the salmon was cooked. Meanwhile dusk had fallen, and the swarming mosquitoes drove me to don net and gloves. The hum of thousands of these insects blended with the dis tant roar of rapids up the river. To eat my salmon in peace it was necessary to smoke out the hut and retire inside?for the insect pests dashed ? blindly into my platter and into my mouth. The moon was not yet quite in sight over the wooded mouutain across the stream, but its light was slowly diffusing itself athwart the wilderness; and presently I heard two sea-otters miauing at each other down in Little Bay. They seemed to be close in to the shore; and as my supper had revived me considerably, I took my carbine and stepped outside. It was possible, I thought, to get a shot at them as the moon came up; and a sea-otter pelt may be worth a couple of hundred dollars. My little cooking fire had burned down, and I scuffed some loose sand over it-with my foot as I stopped to listen to the otters again. But a dense gust of mosquitoes dashed iitfo my face as I stood there: and reflecting that I might have to lie or stand quiet for some little time if I stalked the otters, I went back inside for my head, net and gloves* standing my carbine ' against that end of the hut as I did so, for the door was at the other end. It took me a minute or two to find and put on the net in the dark interior of the hut; but I was coming out when, not twenty feet away, I discovered some large animal with eyes that glowed like coals in the obscurity! It was in the very act of crouching to spring at me! I heard the sough of its breath as it drew itself together to jump, and I leaped back .into the hut and slammed the door. I had no time to spare. The beast came plump against the door with a violence that nearly hurled it back and me with it! One paw came at the crevice by the door-post. I set my back against the door and dug my heeis into I the earth to hold it fast, yelling all the ' while to scare the creature away. But \ my shouts did not frighten it in the j least. With eager growling it dug and i tore at the door with its nails. It even | tried to uig the earth away beneath it. Then it coursed eagerly round the hut ! in long bounds, and leaped on the roof. I Some slight smell of my fire lingered I at the farther end of the hut, and my I 'carbine, too. standing there, must have given off odors; but these smells appeared not to deter the animal. With low growls it dug at the poles j and boughs of the roof. The old dry i stuff rattled through on me as I groped for a log bench in the hut to set against the door. I feared that th* beast would tear a hole in the roof and spring down on me; but the thick, matted mass of sodden boughs embarrassed it. All the time I was shouting savagely, and I made haste to strike a whole card of matches, hoping that the odor j of brimstone or the gleam of light ! would deter the beast from its attack. But immediately it came digging at ; the door again, as if transported by ; ferocity, and again I threw my weight . against the inside of the door, for I j dared not trust to the bench. My disgust with myself for being | such a fool as to leave my carbine out- i side can easily be imagined. I was at j my wits' end to know how to beat the j creature off. Plainly it was bold from i hunger, and had no doubt smelled my salmon, half of which was on a shelf just inside the hut door. I had thoughts of throwing the fish out to it, and then an idea came into my mind, j For preserving the skins of birds and ; small animals I had taken along a I quantity of arsenic in a bottle. When 1 the violence of the creature's efforts at ; the door had subsided and it was rac- j ing round the hut again, I hastily cut j a deep gash in the fish with my knife; j then, striking another match. I put in i as much as twenty grains of the poison. I By this time the animal was on the ; roof again, scratching and snarling and snuffling. Opening the door a little, I j flung out the salmon. I had scarcely j done so when, pounce! came the beast ! to the ground. With a sniff and snarl j it seized the fish and ran off a little i way. Not so far. however, b'ut that I j could hear it eating, its teeth gritting ; on the backbone. There must have been five or six j pounds of the fish: but within half a | minute the animal was back, sniffing about the place for more. I listened anxiously. It jumped on the roof again, then prowled round the hut. Presently there came an interval of frightful staccato screech! Then fol lowed some lofty tumbling all over the j ground about the hut, enlivened by j the most blood-curdling yells it is pos- | sible to imagine! Teeping out, I caught glimpses of what occurred. Sometimes that poor brute went ten j feet in the air. then it clawed up the I earth and brush, turned wild somer- | saults, and tore and bit its own flesh, j It tried in vain to vomit forth the ' poison. If not hard-pressed in self-defense, I ; would never administer arsenic to any i living creature. Fathetic moans succeeded the i screeches, and then the suffering ani- ; mal dragged itself to the stream, " where I heard it noisily lapping water; | and after tlint the end came verv soon. ! Fancying that its mate might have i been attracted by the yelling, I hastily j secured my carbine and stayed inside : the hut till morning. At sunrise I found the creature dead, ! less than a hundred yards from the | place where it drank. It was, as I * had supposed, a mountain-lion, or pan- ! ther, a big male that would have j weighed two hundred and fifty pounds. ! I am sure, and probably one that had I never before seen a human being, or ! learned aught of tin deadly guile of ! man.?Youth's Companion. Yes, Sir. The other day an inspector was ex- ! amining a class in a Peckham school, ; when he came to the word "imagina- ! tion," and then asked the meaning, i Xo one could tell him. "Now," said the inspector, "I'm going to shut my eyes and tell you what I can see. I can see my house, j A baker's cart is at the gate. The j baker goes up the steps and rings the bell. The servant opens the door and | takes a loaf from him and pays him." j He opened his eyes and inquired: , "Now, then, what would you call ! that?" Up went a little hand at the back of ! iu - -1 - iLie ciass. "Well, Willie, speak up," said tHe inspector. "What do you call it?" "A lot of lies, sir."?London Tit-Bits. Sincere Quackery. A rather remarkable case of sincere ' quackery, which perhaps may not be as rare as is generally supposed, occurred in London some time ago. An old lady sued Sir William Broadbent, a leading London practitioner, I because he refused to buy or try her I elixir. This "was 110 common remedy, j being free from 4hose minerals which j are the root of all evil, but the skillful ! blending of an herb of which medical ; men know nothing." Needless to say, ; the old lady lost her case, which she | pleaded in person. Her sincerity was j as obvious as her stupidity, and made j her a pathetic rather than a ridiculous ; figure. Russian Diplomatic Sirens. The Russian Government, too, is also , represented abroad, not only by its am| bassadors, but by unofficial diplomats ! : of a most interesting description, "a j corps d'elite of iadies who are de- ! spatched to the various capitals of the j world. In Washington Czardom has i 110 less than ten of these ladies. They j entertain lavishly, and their drawing- j rooms, with shaded rose-colored lights j and luxurious furniture and hangings, ! are palaces of ease for weary legislat- ; ors and Senators." These fascinating ! sirens then dictate in whispers what 1 laws shall or shall not bo passed by j i Congress.?Joubert's Fall cf TsardoDQ* j VULTURES OF A A REMARKABLE SIGHT AFTER r.ust Everywhere, a Flapping:, tant Blue of the Sierra J a Mammoth?Ani Tfcei Cone of Desert Scav< rion Fri By O. WILL! P1 hv^ T night the moon looks: down upon a desolate, arid A I plain, stretching away to J J the great Sierra Madrej mountain-chain, deep, shad- j ^-vti-t- 1-iltm o o il i net tlio \VP5t. I ern sky. The air is chill, and a bleak j wind searches out every fold in our blankets?we might almost be spendin.? a night on the tundras. Absolute silence reigns: neither coyote nor bird of the night breaks the awful hush. If one is wakeful it is a relief at times to grind one's heels into the pumice, or to cough, every sound making a welcome break in the everlasting rhythm of the desert's sleep. With scare a moment of dawn the sun floods everything, a most welcome warmth for a while, soon to make one gasp ;n its breathless heat. Long be-1 fore the rainy season actually begins. ] vegetation seems to feel a quickening in the air: the plants scent the coming I moisture weeks beforehand: the rushing streams, swollen with the melting snows from the lower mountain tops, brings life to the lands through which they flow: spring is awakening everywhere?except on the alkali plain The very last glimpse we have of it shows no sign of spring, no hint c.' green nor of returning life, no resurrection of flowers, not even a green blade of grass. Where a thin rind of red-brown grass roots partly covers the white dust, parched mesquite bushes find root, and strange, uncouth organ cacti I rear their columns, like mammoth can-1 delabra. Here wild-eyed cattle roam uneasily, nibbling occasionally at the bitter grass stems. Farther out in the desert, where even the mesquite and cacti fail, we ride slowly across the parched surface, wondering if a single living thing can endure the bitterness of the earth. In the distance moves the whirlwinds -of dust, tall, thin columns with perfectly distinct outlines, undulating slowly here and there, both life and death in their silent movement. A distant vaquero is the focus of a great cloud of white* dust, raised by the horse's hoofs. Pools of dark water with white, crystalled edges now appear, the liquid seeming little different from the solid plain. Most remarkable it seems to us when a stray great blue heron now and then flies silently up from the desert (what can possibly attract these birds to such a place of death as this, distant even from the bitter pools?), and flaps slowly out of sight. Twice a great ebony raven sail's through the dusty air over our heads?the same bird repassing. No other life is visible, save the balanced black specks ljigh against, the blue, as invariably a part of a Mexican -1 j-.f Ulfl lllVllt UprAllS UU > rtd die diaio u L ui^uK **v* vultures, ravens..ill move slowly, seeming less alive than the distant dust columns. But we feel the real spirit of the eternal desert, when, as we turn to retrace our steps, we spy a something white, different from the surrounding earth, and the spell of past ages falls upon us. The bitter water is ever drying up. the whirlwinds carry the dust from place to place, the birds come and go as they please, but this relic of an elephant of the olden time brings past and present into close touch. What scenes has the desert looked upon since this mammoth staggered dying into the quagmire which proved its tomb? Our eyes smart from the dust, as we reluctantly turn our horses' heads on the back trail; for we should like to stay and search out these fossils?more fascinating in a way than the living beasts and birds which people the tropics beyond. THE SCAVENGERS. One of the most wonderful of the exhibitions of bird life vouchsafed to us in Mexico comes as we leave the alkali plain and ride away among the mesquite scrub. A confused mass of black appears in the air. which soon resolves itself into hundreds of individual specks. The atmosphere is so deceiving that what at Prst se^ms to be a vast cloud of gnats close at hand is soon seen to be a multitude- of birds; hinpthirris nerhaDS. until we approach and think Them ravens, and finally, when a quarter of a mile away, we know that they are vultures. Three burros lie -dead uppon the plain. This we knew yesterday, and here are the scavengers. Never have we seen vultures so numerous, or in more orderly array. A careful scrutiny through the glasses shows many score of black and turkey buzzards walking about and feeding upon the carcasses of the animals. From this point there extends .upward into the air a vast inverted cone of birds, all circling in the same direction. From where we sit on our horses there seems not a single one out of place, the outline of the cone being as smooth and distinct as though the birds were limited in their flight to this particular area. It is a rare sight, the sun lighting up every bird on the farther side, and shadowing black as night those nearest us. Through one's partly closed eyes the whole mass appears as a myriad of slowly revolving wheels, intersecting and crossing each other's orbits, but never breaking their circular outline. MEXICAN DESERT. ! A RIDE OVER TOE ALKALI , Stray Great Heron, the Disfladre Chain, the Bones of 1 the Whirring, Black infers Scenting: Carom Afar. AM BEEBE. ## I?? i The thousands of soaring forms hold j us spellbound for minutes before we I ride closer. Now a change takes place, j as gradual but as sure as the shifting j clouds of a sunset. Until this moment j there has been a tendency to concen- j trate at the base of the cone, that portion becoming blacker and blacker, until it seemed a solid mass of rapidly revolving forms. But at our nearer approach, this concentration ceases, and there is perfect equilibrium for a time. Then, as we ride lip a gentle slope- into clearer view, a wonderful ascent begins. Slowly the creeping spiral swings upward; the gigantic inverted cone, still perfect in shape, lifts clear of the ground and drifts away; I the summit rises in a curve, which, little by little, frays out into ragged lines, all drifting in the same direction, and before our very eyes the thousands of birds merge into a shapeUss. undulating cloud, which rises and rises, spreading our more and more until the eye can no longer distinguish the birds, which from vuitures dwin- ! die to mere mores noaung ana ;osi among the clouds.?New York Post. FACTS ABOUT TIME. It is a Sea, a Sandy Beach, a Bank, a Shoal and an Abysm. Time is hard to define. According to the best poets time has a -heavy foot, a tooth, a forelock and breakable legs. It travels in divers paces; it ambles, trots, gallops, runs, rolls and stands still; it has -whips; it crops roses* So far it seems like a horse. But it has a forefinger, also a reckless hand j that writes wrinkles. This explodes I the horse theory. Furthermore, time flies. Henc-e, "a bird of time." Time is money; being also a bird, time is a gold eagle, perhaps; money is the root of all evil and procrastination is the I thief of time. Therefore, procrastination is (1) a chicken thief. (2) a good thing. The wickedness of time is beyond question. It is vindictive. "I wasted time," mourns King Richard, "and now doth time waste me." Time waits for no man. Time shall throw a dart at thee. Time robs us of our joys. Time will tell. Time is unthinking. Time presses its debtors. The time is out of joint, and well may it be, considering what a nuisance it is. ' Time is a sea, a sandy beach, a bank, a shoal and an abysm. Also it is a whirligig, which seems odd when we recall that time, is quiet as a nun. Time is good. bad. high, 'fine, rough, hot, Christmas, spring, waltz, common and lovely. Among good times may be mentioned quitting time and dinner time.?Newark News. The Wrong Mediolne. You probably remember the schoolboy who, in a composition on pins, said: "Pins have saved the lives of many j people." His teacher was astonished at this statement, and asked him to explain it. He replied: "By people not swallowing" them." That was not the case with the man in the following incident: "My dear." Mr. Finnicky said to his wife, "I don't think those pills I have j been taking have done me much i good." "Why, you haven't taken any for j three weeks." "Yes, I have. I've swallowed one three times a day as directed." "You have? Then why is it that there are as many left in the box as there were three weeks ago? What box have you been taking them from?" "This one?marked for me." "Dear me, John! That is my shoe* button box."?Birmingham Herald. Japancnc CaOctshlp?. , Cadetships in the Japanese Navy are open to every subject in the Empire, i as are also commissions in the army j and all civil appointments under tne Government. There is no system of nomination, and the successful candidates are chosen entirely in competitive examination. The naval exploits during the present -war have naturally given a strong impetus to the eager-! ness of high-spirited youths to enter j a service which has won such glory j for their country, and the applications for naval cadetships during the present I year already far exceed in number I those of any preceding entire year. In one district of the four in which they ! are received they already amount to over 9700 as against 3000 in 1903 and 3300 in 1904.?London Chronicle. Duration of Dictation. The times of digestion of different foods are about as follows on an aver- | age: Milk, rice, about an hour or less;, whipped eggs, barley soup, salmon,! trout, about V/j hours; peas and flesh, : about 2 hours or more; sago. 1% hours; i barley, boiled inilk, raw eggs, cabbage j with vinegar, soup with fat and bread, j about 2 hours; raw milk (Richet), baked eggs, ox liver, 2% hours; lamb,; beans, potatoes, cabbage, hash, 2% j hours; boiled eggs, beefsteak, white j bread, ham. beef, fish, muttou, 3 ! hours; pork, poultry, veal, brown bread, 4 hours: salt pork, hard-boiled eggs, 5 hours.?Russell's Strength and Diet j I SOUTH CAROLINA \ j \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. jf rsKMCSifM INJCNJtNJCSl* Brock-Shoots Billingsley. E. G. Billingsley, vice president of the West Construction company of Chattanooga, Tenn., was shot in Darlington a few days ago by Joe Brock, a finishing smith of the same concern. * * * Participants in Riot Unknown. No arrer's have been made as yt in connect.on with the disorderly conduct at Landrum, says a news item from Spartanburg. Several state constables went to the town, but found everything quiet. The parties who j created the disturbance, it seems, left soon after the affray and have not ! returned. * Two Held on Murder Charge. Charged with killing Charlie Gilliam, I colored, Horace Sheppard, alias George I Gilliam, and Richard Gilliams, both negroes, have been arrested and lodgi ed in the* county jail at Newberry, j Gilliam was shot from ambush at i night, his dead body being found the following morning cue mile from the scene of the shooiing. It is said that I there is strong circumstantial evidence against the men. * C * Mass Meeting of Farmers. i A big mass meeting of the farmers of Spartanburg county will be held at | the court house the first Saturday in | August, under the auspices of the j county cotton growers' association. ' | President Smith of the state organizaI tion is expected to be present and i possibly Harvie Jordan of the general ; ! association. Speech making will be i participated in by all those of prorojnece who are present. * * * To Investigate Dispensary. The sub-committee appointed b: | general committee which was created I V* - 4-U^v Inp*. A# flin loTlcl O t'TTP | uy LUC lao L OCOOIUU VI buv ive<w<uv>.. w [ for the purpose of investigating the i dispensary system, will hold an open ! session in Spartanburg on August 8th ; and it is expected that the proceedj ings will be closely followed. The sub-committee, which will conduct the proceedings, has already held j two sessions, but as both were secret, I what information was obtained is not ! known. I * * * Tax Hurts Charleston Plant. ! The high tax and license tax for I canning oysters and other shell fish, ! passed at the last session of the legi islature, has resulted in the determin| ation of a Charleston concern to dis| solve its corporation, after organizing j and purchasing a site and starting the j construction of its canning plant. 7 : Some delay was experienced in get! ting the full information from Coium| bia about the law, and the organization ! proceeded in the meantime with the ; result stated. The law was enacted ! upon the introduction of a bill by the i Charleston delegation and now it ! happens that the act militates against a local concern which would have < expended $5,000 in wages a wee^'. * * * Kaiser Bill Accepts the Honor. At the recent golden jubilee of the /"<V. n .loctrm uermau xvme owiciy ui ^uai ivoivu, Emperor William of Germany was | unanimously elected an honorary : member of the society to take the place of Emperor William I, who was for many years an honorary member of this society. President Emil H. j Jahne has received from Herr Zoepffel | of the imperial German consulate at Atlanta a communication conveying | the information that the German emI peror had accepted the electfbn, "in consideration of the circumstances that his illustrious grandfather was also an honorary member of this society." In 1907 the great national German j fest will be held in Charleston, and it I is hoped by the promoters that the German emperor will be personally { represented on that occasion. * * * To Erect Cotton Waste Mill. A cotton mill waste mill is the latest I industry planned for Spartanburg, and i is the outcome of the visit of Messrs. Corr, Ayers and Hoffman, well known j Boston and Philadelphia capitalists ??/i miii fartnrs to the city, where , auu ? w . they spent two days as the guests of J. B. Cleveland. I The party inspected several available sites for the proposed factory and I expressed themselves as being highly ; pleased with the place, j The building of the mill will likely be the result of their visit. The plan will be something new in the cotton mill industry for this section, and the estimated cost is $200,000. Its products are rop? and twine and various other articles that can be made from the waste material incident to the manufacture of cloth. i * * ? Discuss Eccze from Pulpit. Probably the most unique airing of the dispensary question ever had in South Carolina occurred in the h'stor- j ic Red Hill Baptist church a: Parks- j viiie. From the pulpit cf this edifice i v- -;t .Vy,"".1 . "r yiSgssj termer Congressman W. Jasper Talbert and ex-Soliei or J. W. Thurmond locked horns on the liquor traffic. The occasion was a union meeting of Baptists and Colonel Talbert, among others, was on the program to discuss "Is it an opportune time for the Christians of South Carolina to make a decided stand against strong drink as a beverage?" Colonel Talbert denounced the dispensary system in its entirety, while Mr. Thurmond defended the institution. The assembly was large and the v r.peakers stood in the pulpit. At. the -dose of Colonel Talbert's remarks, Mar. Thurmond, who was among the auditors, advanced and dcl.ve:ed a very earnest speech, advocating the dispensary. Ke declared that if it was rightly conducted it was the best solution i cf the liquor question and that there would be open barrooms in South Car ouna wuain two years 11 ine prumuii tionisrs shculd win their fight. Mr. Thurmond said he recognized the great evils of whiskey, but that men might honestly differ as to the ! best means of reducing the evil. "Does the present mode of selling * liquor produce more.evil than other ' ways?" he asked. "Some evils must be prohibited outright; others are best prohibited by controlling them. This is the case with whiskey. "If you will take your present law and enforce it, it will be a good solution of the question. If you vote prohibition you will have it but a year or two. The leaders of this anti-dispensary movement in Columbia are work-' lug toward high licens-% and prohibition is. but a step en their way to that end." . Colonel Talbert asked the speaker if it was possible for the legislature^ to vote for barrooms, and he un- / qualifiedly affirmed that it could do I SO. Colonel Talbert?"Do you believe j that thev will do it?" Mr. Thurmond?"I bei'eve tney wiu do it in two years' time." Colonel Talbert?"Then God have mercy upon their souls."" A HAPPY RECONCILIATION. f | Re.v. J. W. Roberts and His Divorced Wife, Reunited in Marrriage. Dr. J. W. Roberts, formerly pastor " of Trinity church at Atlanta and president of the Wesieyan Female college at Macon, and his former wife, Mrs; ^ Minnie Rober.s, have reconciled all; their differences and on Tuesday evening they were reunited in- marriage at ' Atlanta. Only members of the family were present, and the affair was a very quiet and simple one. The reunion of Dr. Roberts and his wife will be a matter of congratulation to their hundreds of friends throughout Georgia who had never ceased to grieve at the unfortunate separation which finally ended in divorce. Dr. Roberts has been one of the: most distinguished ministers in the southern Methodist church. I^ater he became president of Weslevan Female' college at Macon and, under his administration, the institution prospered. It was while at Weslevan that the troa- ' ble which led to the breach between himself and wife occurred. Dr. Rob- ,-s erts resigned from the institution, though exonerated of any wrong-doing by the trustees, and aiso withdrew from the Methodist conference. His ^ withdrawal was regarded as & distinct | loss to Wesleyan and also to the | Southern Methodist church. In speaking of the reconciliation and re-marriage, Dr. Roberts said: "The beginning of the unfortunate separation was brought about by Circumstances which neither my wife or S me could control. After the start there were errors made, in judgment, but never was there a time when my wife did not love me, nor was there an instant when I did not lore her and our dear children to the very utmost of my heart I have suffered greatly; how much no human will ever know, but it has been suffering with the knowledge that if the matter : were never righted here it would be in the world to come. I am happy today and so is my wife. The wrong to both has been righted." ???____ MAKE WAR ON MOSQUITOE8. Is Advice of Surgeon General Wyman to Southern People. A Washington dispatch says: In I discussing the yellow fever situation ! Surgeon General Wyman declared that | it could not be too strongly impressed | upon the people of the southern states j that the only sure way to prevent the ?. ?iifavor is to screen j spread oi ,?cuuw 4Vf V* ? ? ^ | every person who develops any fever ; whatever; to war against mosquitoes j by sulphur fumigating of houses and i by using petroleum on all pools and i water receptacles. i . 4 I ; j COTTON CONDITION LOWERED. j | Deterioration Shown in A|| States Ex! cept Georgia and the Carolina*. The Journal of Commerce, New I j York, published its August crop report I Tuesday, consolidating the returns of | 1,325 special correspondents. It shows p. condition of 75.4 against 81.2 for June, a decline of 5.8 points. This condition compares with 84 for the corresponding time last year, 77 in 1903 j 2nd SO in 1902. Deterioration is shown in all states except North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. I . /,'./* ' " < T - V . M