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Wll l THE COTTON CROP. Oi The Ceneue Office Make* Public Its Final Figurei w FROM THE DINNERS REPORTS, to ci Over Klovt'n Million Union ( imttxl i at i b< OuriiiK the l.um Year. Tlie j. i. i tiiiiiierieH uml the se Oil MIIIh. ti ti The censusothee Tuesday made publie the final H^ures of cotton produc- hi tion obtained from the reports of cot- j'j ton dinners. The quantity of exit ton j,, ginned from the growth of 1902, exelusive of linters, amounted to 11,078,- bl 882 running bales. Hales as pressed at the ginneries are equal to 10,030,94") bales of a f>00-pound standard, or counting round bales as half bales 10,f.88,250. During the four years cover- , ed by the ginning reports of thecensus ( otllce the average crop, exlcusive of linters, has been 9,902,277 bales of 500 s pounds. The crop of 1902 shows an increase of 728,088 bales over this average. While the crops of 1899 and 1901 show a decrease of 550,88(1 and 302,532 bales respectively. For the crop of 1902 there ha. been a general increase in all the States, ??otli east and west of the Mississippi river, with the exception of Alabama and Texas. Drought in Alabama and fhelKtll weevil in Texas are responsible for the losses in those States. The report contains many interesting details concerning the variation of production in the various sections of the country. For instance, attention is called to the degree of compensation which has been maintained for the past three crops between the divisions of the cotton belt as made by the Mississippi river. Fast of the Mississippi production decreased in 1900 518,250 bales. This was more than olfsct by tiie increase west of the Mississippi river of 1,090,892 bales, or 25.7 percent. In 1902 the territory east of the Mississippi increased its production in a manner which largely compensates for tlie material loss west of the river. The per cent, of the country's production grown in 1902 east and west of the Mississippi was 53.6 and 4*1.4 respectively, against 47.2 and 52.8 in 1900. To show the extent of the reduction in the cotton crop in " Texas it is shown that whereas in 1900 Jthat State produced 34 per cent, of the entire crop of the United States, or about one-quarter of the cotton : supply of the world, in 1902 the Texas 1 product was only a little over 22 per ! cent, of Uie entire product of this 1 country. The States showing the most n tiooable Increases in production in 1902 are Arkansas. Georgia, *' Louisiana and Mississippi. The increase in Arkansas is remark- ^ aljle, being 204,022 bales, Or more j than 27 per cent, over the total reeeipts f"i the smallest crop that of v 1899? and 157 2. 1. or over 19 per cent, orer that of 190), the largest u crop piior to that of 1902. There was ul no a large increase in the productioi. of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. The combined crops of these . territories for 1902 were 54*1,282 bales, % as compared with 215.591 bales for 1899. an increase of 229,791 bales, or 152 per cent. ' The figures on the ginning industry j show that there arc 20,948 ginneries In the United States. The average number of bales ginned per active ^ establishment in Texas was 502, in f Indian territory 855, and in?>klahoma 992, against 254 in Alabama. 292 in ^ Georgia and 200 in North Carolina. This great dillcrence in the average number of bales of cotton handled per ( establishment is due to the extensive t] employment in the newer cotton produring States of modern methods of ( handling seed cotton and a more gen- y eral employment of round bale presses. The values of the crop for 1902 is . estimated at $501,897,124, making it (* the second most valuable crop of the ( United States, corn taking tirst rank and wheat third. The value of the ^ raw cotton exports for 1902 is given at $290,1551.819, giving that article the ,. tiist place in value in Amer'ee.r, ex . p< rts. The export price for 1902 was about 1 cent per pound less than that ? of 1901. The valueof the cotton crop of 1902 (* in the States included in the Louis- , iana pu>chase is given at $112,885.04 I, or more titan $5,000,000 more than (l the original price paid to France for ( that U rritory with interest at 2 per cent, contponnded to tlie present time. .... .... u i no rapui development or me cot- s ton seed oil industry is represented c as annually increasing the quantity | of short cotton saved to the commer- j cal woiid by the reginnlng of cotton ( seed for oil extraction. A canvass of s this industry has developed the fact a that a to cotton seed oil mills liave ( neen operated during the season of j 10U2-O and that they have obtained ^ from the reginning ?f seed of tlie growth ot' 1902 lintets amounting to l!u;.22 t bales of f>00 pounds each. Cotton bulletins are promised at i more frequent intervals in future t years The first report next season r will cover all cotton ginned of the r grov.thof 1903 up to Sept. 1; the sec- n ond to Oct. 1H; the third to N n, 18:1 n thr fourth to Dec. l.'t; the tilth will j. 1m* the flnal rcp<?ri, and will cover the t t ?tal growth of the year. t r Where In lie? t L. L. Copeland, postmaster at He- J thune, a station on the Seaboard Air Line about .">0 miles from Columbia. " disappeared from his home on April . 2y and since that time nothing has :] been lieard of him. Copeiand left He- ' thune April 2b, purchasing a railroad 1 ticket to Camden. When the train ' rea -bed Camden he decided to come ? on to Columbia, paying the dilference J3 in fare. He was expected to return ,l to his liome on the same day' j " Tlie l>oor The Washington i'ost says the C United Slate* supreme court has n closed the '"door of hope" right In the v * face of those Alabama negroes who s L regarded the ballot astheir Inallen- ? I al.!.' onset -Sl ~ . ??-ri MORS KAI* NEEDED. rop Pisi|ren1n| Favorably But Warmer Weather la Mredott. The folkjwin*; weekly crop bulletin as Issued last week by Section l>ireo? >r Itauer: The mean temperature fur the week iding 8 a. m., Monday, May 4lh. was Mint ho decrees, which Is 3 decrees ;luw normal. There were few warm rys during the middle of the week, jt the first and last days were unasonably cool, and unfavorable for re germination of planted seeds and le growth of young crops. The rouna remains com, ana owing tome ek of ruin, lias become hard and usted, this being especially true of jtloin lands and clayey uplands, rust occurred on the 28th at a few jrtheTn points, but did no perceptlIc damage. There was quite a general rain on pii 1 2U, accompanied by hail in the urthern counties falling to a depth of x inches at Hickory. This rainfall as benetlcial, but was followed by rying winds, and the need of rain is gain noted over a large portion of the Wite, more, especially in the truck tising districts Showers occurred ver the central and eastern counties n May :trd. the eiTects of which will e noted in next week's correspond nee. The dry weather enabled farm work i> make rapid progress, and planting f the staple crops is nearly tinished. xcept that some upland and almost 11 bottom land corn remains to be lanted over the western tier of Connies. and bottom lands in the central ounties, though some have already ten planted in the latter. i-arly corn is coming up generally, nd much has received its first worklg. hut stands average only fair, and re poor in localities, owing to the avages of birds and worms, and to mperfect germination. Replanting is one extensively. The weather lias een too cool for favorable growth. Cotton planting is nearly finished nd will be entirely finished the coning week if tlie weather remains favorhie, but owing to the prevailing cooless germination is slow and some eed failed to germinate at all. Many uch fields are being replanted. Some elds have fair stands and are being ultivated, but plants look sickly. Tobacco is almost all transplanted, nit. Is making no perceptible growth, lice Is in the same condition, which rowth Is at a standstill. The Georgeown districts are being sown at this ime. Iii a few localities oatH are promisor, and while still poor, show some mprovements, but correspondents re>ort the oats crop generally unpromisng with probably half an average ield. They are heading low. Wheat is also poor, owing to rust ind the hessian ily. Fruit continues promising although >ear t ress are beginning to blight in arious localities and peaches to drop n Charleston county. In the same ounty a green louse is damaging vhite potatoes. llain and warmer weather would he if great benefit to all crops. Tin" Wealth of the Worhl. When the noted statistician Mullall made his estimate of tlie world's vealth ten years ago, says the Spartanburg Journal, the l*nited States tood third in point of aggregate vealth, being exceeded by Itolli England and France, and was sixth in vealth per capita. Today the aggregate wealth of the United States is learly as >.rreut as that of tlie combin(I wealth of tlie two next richest ountries, England and France, l>oth ?f which were richer than it a few ears ago. According to figures lately compiled rom apparently as reliable sources as ire possible, the total wealth of the "uited States was in li?02 *S?4,00i>.100,000, or nearly one quarter of the Lccumulations of the whole world, vhile the wealth of England was i ">0.000,000.000, thai of France *48,>00,000,000 and of Germany *40,000.100,000. In per capita wealth tlie United Hates leads all the world except Kngand and France. Our per capitals 11,235, wliile that of England is *1,442 >nd if France *1,257. Australia lias si. 220. Denmark *1,105, Canada S5I80 and Holland *878 per person. Vmong :?11 the nations the percentage >f debt to wealth is lowest in the "niled States. The liritish debt per >erson is *80, tlie French *148, tlie Inrtivm <4" t hn !. ivtiuuu VI.;, tllC ivu.^lilll 9?>?, till* Canadian $.">0, while the debt per perron in the Tnited States is only $1-. The total wealth of the world is riven at $400,000,0(H),000. It will be een that nearly all of it is concentrated in the jjreat civilized powers, threeifths of it beinjr in hands of the 'nited States, England, France and icriuany. <>n the other hand, the eini-ci vilized countries, like China nd India, are growing poorer, hein^j trained of much of their wealth by he countries where higher civilizaion prevails. l*ay t'pOr Marry. In the Argentine Ilepuhlic they lave solved to their own satisfaction lie "bachelor problem" by the s'in pie ncthod of making it cost an unmaried man as much money to live in unnarried bliss as it would cost, him to narry. A man is marriageable in Arrentina when lie is twenty. If from hat date and until lie passes his wcnty-eitfhth birthday lie wishes to emain simile, lie must oav *"> a mnotli o the state. For the next live years lie tax increases 1 DO percent. Met ween hirty-fivc and fifty, the bachelor is nulctcd to tlie tune of #2o a month. Yom his tifteenth year to seventyive. $:U) a month is the tax, but havng reached the seventy-fifth year, he tax is reduced to 810 a year. After ighty, a man can remain single withut paying anything. There is a aragraph relating to widowers, who re given three years in which to nourn, and pick a successor. It Is aid that the new law works like a harm. }l'r in Indiana they whip young woicii on the bare back with barbed dre lashes, but we presume they will till continue to he shocked when nine hlack brute is lynched down uuth for assaulting helpless women. Z^^ciT-^. ?c- , ?rrVh L00K8 L?Kr. WAR "" Rutiiu II mh Biru m l.orgtr Force to Occupy HlMiichorla. The state department ban received official continual Ion from its agents in China of the Increase of the Russian garrison In Neu Chwang. Manchuria, and tliere is reason to believe, If President Kousevelt approves, that it is preparing to lake vigorous steps in the matter. Secretary Hay Is in communication wltli {'resident Roosevelt in California and until the latter's decision the secretary's course will pend. It is stated that the department has had its patience tried bv the course of the events in Manchuria and that it now con templates a more radical step than any which has heretofore marked the negotiations between the powers on this subject. The proposed step eon- j t templates Joint action by Japan, Eng-1 r land and tlie united Stales. K The proceeding negotiations have j been hampered by the inability of t this government to act jointly with * other nations without violating its i traditions, but it is now hinted I hat t some plan of co-operation with Kng- ] land and Japan may be devised that i will have the effect of convincing the i Russian government of the united de- i termination of the three nations to in- { sist upon Russia's evacuation of Man- ( chtiria, while not actually committing j the Uiiitid States to a formal alliance. | This program is subject to the ap- j proval of the president. If it is not < looked upon with favor by him the j state department may fall back on Its i former method of individual represen- j tat ions to Russia and ask another ex- ( planation of the happenings in Manchuria. In such event the Russian answer is already forecast by the otlicials here. Under the Russian repre- f sentation to the powers the troops 1 were to have been withdrawn from . Neu Chwang just one month ago to- 1 day. it is undeistood as a matter of fact. ' that a potion of the Russian fore; was withdrawn from barracks in the city to tents outside. It is presumed from Pekin advices that these troopr have now returned to the city. However, it is pointed out that Russia employed a saving clause in the promise to withdraw from Manchuria, the language being. "Provided, however, that the action of otlior powers shall not stand In the way." Russia, it is understood, now claims that this proviso was violated by Japan when she mobilized her Ileet and otherwise showed signs of military preparations which were construed as a menace to Russia. Accompanying the news of the reoccupation of Neu Chwang comes a warning from other agents in China that the Russian altitude is injuring the chances of the treaty which Mr Conger and Consul Genera) Good now have been negotiating with China involving the opening tv> American trade VI LI1C poi IM 111 i <y Ivll'T'l Jtl (1 <111(1 >li)UKdeo in Manchuria. The latest advices are that the treaty is already practically last owing tu Russian opposition. This fact is construed to give the t inted States a direct interest of what is happening in Manchuria. A DEATH TRAP. The hives ol' Cola nit Men <'riiNhctl Out. Details readied Roanoke, Va., Tliursday morning of a fearful catastroplie which oecured last Wednesday evening in tlie east end of tlie West End tunnel, known as Tunnel No. 2. at Eggleston Springs, (iilcs connty, on the Norfolk and Western railway, in which nine men were killed and live injured, three of them fatally, while two others were almost miraculously saved. Railroad contractors were engaged in double tracking tlie two tunnels at the point named, and it was to their operations that the accident happened. It seems that when the tunneling force had removed the earth and stone for the tracks at the point where tlie calamity oecured. a huge slide of solid stone gave way on the mountain side and came down at an angle of about l"? degrees, striking the gang fairly and literally crushing the life out of nine men. T! is strata of solid ruck was found, on examination, to be connected only by clay seams, and when the foundation was removed the strata, some .">o feet long, came with tremendous force and without warning, catching the men in the death trap. One man was in a niche of the tunnel-way and was only grazed on the face and head and escaped with slight injuries, lie was removed with- j out great difficulty. A second man, j who stood on the outer edge of the I slide, was only slightly hurt. but three j others were more unfortunate and j so hadiy injured that is is feared they will die. The l?odies of the other nine men, some of whom are white, are under the mountain slide. A wrecking car and derrick was taken out from ltadford, but so far have been of , no avail. There is no likelihood that the bodies can be recovered soon, as the rock will have to be dynamited and removed by the bit. This is con-! sidercd a most dangerous proposition as tin' length of the strata cannot he ascertained, and there is imminent danger of a second crash as soon as the base is removed, and a consequent loss of other lives. Sen Nit I iomil Arrest. A dispatch from Walhalla to The 1 State says Hoyt llaycs was committed ! to jail here Tuesday charged with the j murder of his wife, who was shot and ! instantly killed on the morning of I April 'Jc?. .loiin K. Mason, Ks<|., of I ()akway committed Mr. Hayes upon an ; I atlldavit of Mr. Cramc, the father of the wife of younj; Hayes. It was currently reported that Mrs. Hayes had < committed suicide and left a note say! in!/ why she had done so. The arrest ! of youii)/ Hayes has caused i/reat, ideal of excitement in the commu- < 1 nily where all the persons live. The j parents of lioth Mr. and Mrs. Hayes | are prominent families. i i t.~ A WurnliiK t(> Nettrocit. The New York Times pays what noks very much like a substitute lor he slave pension scheme as a means T i' tin ni(.ir ii<-k'o ignorance into money i is been r<*v a e I by n let'er recently icelved by William Pickens, the oloreU Yale student who delivered lie notable contribution to the c'.e- w ale i n llayti. The letter Is from ci me L. N. Musgrovfc; of Slurgls, Ky., at ,nd its writer, as secretary of a socle- Si y named the Sons of Freedom, pur- C owh that l'ickens take part in the It irganizatlon and euulpincnt of an b\ ,rmy here for the purpose of eaptur- a< ng llayti and setting up there a new ol [overnment by Aiugricau negroes! in Vtid a most peculiar government, too, si l will be, if the plans outlined are a. arried out. While Republican in ci orm, it is tc? be administered as a | c< rreate corporation, with every citizen l stockholder. All land titles and j oi ranchises are to vest in the State, i it md if tliis latest brand of Utopia pro- j p< luces any criminals they are to he set d idrift in well provisioned boats to L nake their way?if they can toother di ihores. Agriculture and manufactur- ai ng are to he encouraged, schools ir 'stahlished, and perfect liberty as- w iured to all to all. that is. who will a hey the rules and do what they are w iold. In return for his cooperation ^ IMckcns is told that perhaps he will p jc made president of the society, and e) ueanwhile he is to deliver lectures ^ md raise money for the purchase of |; irms and battleships and the payment m )f salaries, including his own. This e s certainly a noble scheme for some || nirposes. Somebody ought to Invest!- p j itc the purposes. and until this is u tone we would advise our colored fel- n ow-eiti/.ens to have nothing to do j n ivith the scheme, unless they are anx- j jt ous to get buncoed out of their hard i a earned dollars. A st r? njie t'liNc, U A strange ease in which a man's ^ tpcech was restored by a tit of anger Is 1 reported by the Helena correspondent ll for the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Accord- :l lug to this story, John Matt, for many ^ years an employe of the Great North- c em railroad, was : tricken with par- '' alysis more than fifteen months ago. 8 When he was able to walk again he 11 found to his "tow that he could not a utter a word. hough he could hear r distinctly. About two weeks ago he was taken ill and condlined to his bed. For several days he hovered between life and death. One afternoon 1 several friends called, and while they 1 were present the doctor came upon a the scene. Matt was in a semi-stupor c and seemed unable to recognize even ' his most intimate friends and rela- 3 tives. The condition of his health 11 was discussed, and the visitors were c unanimous in expressing the belief N tliat death was inevitable. When s Matt heard this lie rose from his pi 1low as if by magic and exclaimed in terms far more forcible than elegant that he was not a dead man, nor did lie intend to die. Then, suddenly ' realizing that lie had recovered his t voice, lie apologized profusely for the i abuse lie had heaped upon his physi cian and friends and became fervent ' in his thanks for their presence. "Had you not come,'' said he, "and i made me angry 1 do not believe 1 ? would have recovered my voice." From that iiiuin<ja his recovery l.as been ' rapid, and a few days lie will re- 1 sume his work. i The Case of the Leper. In the Savannah Morning News of recent date appeared an article from Washington, which stated "A curious , case, involving a leper soldier from the ( Philippines, is before the War Depart- , merit, having been referred to the | judge advocate general to determine in what manner Die atliictcd soldier j sliall receipt for liis pay. The lep?'r is . an enlisted man. in the artilerv, and t at present is isolated on an island in ( South Carolina, near Savannah." As ( a matter of fact this leper patient is ( now. and has been for upwards of two j months, at Fort Screven, on Tybee Island, and the statement that the un fortunate man is isolated on an Island in South Carolina, near Savannah, is absolutely without foundation. This ! case lias been reported to the govern- . racnt authorities at Washington for probably two months, during which 1 time the man has remained at Fort ' Screven under treatment, and an analysis of liis blood has demonstrated ? lierond question that lie is atliictcd , wiin iins luamsome malady. Fatal lliinnwiiy Accident. 1 Mr. Morgan Shumakcr, one of the I oldest citizens of < hangeburg county, t who lived about three miles from Kl- > loroe. was thrown from his buggy on t Monday of last week and injured so .s badly that he died the same evening. Mr. Shumakcr was entering Klloree in a buggy when his horse took fright from a train, which was leaving tin ,v depot and ran away. The animal was ' thoroughly frightened and ran at 1 great speed. In turning a corner the ( buggy was turned over and Mr. Shu maker fell with a great force on his ' face. He was picked up and exami- ' nation showed that his face was liadly < cut and his skull crushed. S>r. A. C. s Baxter was called to .>oe the unfortu- f nate man. and after awliile restored 1 him to consciousness. He was then ' removed to his home and lingered un- ' til Monday evening when he died. f A colored woman who was in the bug- js gy with Mr. Shumaker escaped witli | a few slight liriiiscs. Mr. Shumaker was a highly respected citizen and his | t t ragic death is greatly deplored by j * many who knew tlie old gentleman. 1 * ll?- was over eighty years of age. Served Mini ICi^hi. I A special from New Hern, N. ('., ' says George Vanu, ;i negro ex-convict, ( who had shot at a young white man ' named Thomas (ireen here, was shot ' to death on an excursion train here ' by olllcers last night. lie was resist- ' ing three officers and tired at oilloer ' Dixnp, wounding liim in the thigh. ! He then attempted to throw OMccr Lupton olT the train. A fusilade fol- i s lowed and the negro was instantly . killed. I Cotton Way l'|?. ' A dispatch from New Yord says un- i tier dale of May ?>: "May cotton sold ( today at in. 7. Yesterday's highest i point was 10. UN. May eotton eon- t tinned to advance and at Jl.au was r Hinted at 1U.7"?. In tlie afternoon t May eotton sold between 10.70 to 10.7f> until Just before the close when ' I there was a sale at 10.77. j d 'V / - - I r 1 I I I n I I r ?^ THE ASSA83IN ARRESTED he Arrest Accomplished by the NhrrltT :?u?l Pohm orMevru. The capture of Curtis Jett; charged j itli the assassination of .?. II. M ir- | mi In Jackson, Ky., Monday, was; xomplishcd witIhhiL blcxxlshed early unday morning lli> is now in Ltie lark county Jail at Winchester, caring a warrant, wliicli had been worn out by Sam Jctt, uncle of the) cuscd, Sheriff McCord arid a posse f seven men left Winchester at ildnight Saturday. Itcachlne .lack- i >n':; ferry, to miles distant, at 2.JO; tu.. they h-rt tlielr busies and ossed the Kentucky river to Madison >unty, in canoes. They proceeded on foot to the home r Mrs. A. llajs'^in, Jett's mother, two lilcs from the ferry. Six of the os.se were stationed around tlie welling and SherllT McC >rd and >eputy Stokely approached tlie front oor and knocked. Jett's mother nswered and after some parley adlitted that Curtis was within. They ere admitted and found Jett wake but in bed. lie shook hands ith the sheriff and said lie would ive no trouble. Ueachitig under ills I iilow he drewijuthis pistol and turn1 it over to ids mother to keep. He j lade no show of resistance and was mded in Jail at Winchester by day- j jilit. Jett's stepfather, A. Hagjrin. ] barges that when Jett r >ached liisj ouse Saturday night from Jackson lie ] roc ceded to draw liis pistol on him nd ordered liiin to net out of the eigiiliorhood. Ilaggin went to Ilichiond and sw< re out a warrant. cliargig Jett with breach < f the peace by ssault with a pistol in tlie jail Monday Jett was corouinicative on all matters save tlie illing of Marcum. "I'll get out of llis all rijilit ." was tlie only statement ( ie would make which could construed t s a reference to tlie charge. lie said S| ie wanted to be tried in llreathitt : ounty. He was bitter in denouncinjr ' lis uncle wlio had hina arrested and j aid that tlie score would lie evened t ip when lie was at lilierty. When .sked about tlie statement tliat live nen would testify tliat he killed Marum. he sneered and said: "What's tliat to you?" To Sheriff McCord lie was equally ion-communicative as to the Marcum ragedy. Jett is 28 years of age, Ltliletic in build, with deep set, keen :ycs and has bushy red hair. That 10 submitted to arrest was an agreeible surprise to the officers, who feared in encounter. Jett denied tliat lie Irove his stepfather from home. He viii be arraigned Tuesday audit is . up posed lie will be transferred to the i fackson district for trial. I Held for Itaimom. I Col. Martin Kricson, worth several i nillion dollars and well known I hroughouL the* boiilhwest, lias iieen j laptured by the Yaqui Indians of i Minora. Mexico, and held for $500,000 < unsoru. Two weeks ago he left Mexico City for Sonora, after seeurng e. concession for a large tract of igncullural and mineral lands on the Yaqui river. Wliile 011 liis way to lis property lie was captured by the Indians, who have since demanded ransom for Ins release. The American refused to pay the sum demanded, ind he is still held by the rebels. 1 Seneral Lorenzo Torez and Colon-;! Kosterlitskv. who are in command of tiic Mexican military forces in Sonora, nave been asked to rescue tlie caplive. and they have set in motion two large detachments for that purpose. r\merle ms along the border desiring to aid in the pursuit have also been isked to assist tlie troops. One reginent of t mops will pursue the Indians rom t te north and the other from die south, and Colonel Kricson is alnost certain to be rescued, unless he s murdered. iit-lilim Suspicion. A! Los Angeles, ('al., acting under :ist 1 uctioiis fr-.m tlie secret service bureau at Washington, tin police riiursday arrested a man who is suspected of being one of the four brothers of Czolgosz, Hie assassin ??f tlie ate lbcsident McKinlcy. Great icerecy lia> iieen ma ntained almut die arrest. No charge lias been odged against him, the police simply iclaining the man on suspicion unlil after the president snail iiave left Lo-i Angeles. Il is said that C/.ol >os/. lias been living in this city for several months bsinc rmpliyedina amale factory. Mis actions, it is aid. have not been out of the ordinal y. A Vucrr <'anr. A dispute h from Appieton to The State says a mule helonyinir to Mr. Henry Walker came to his death in an im.'sual way two days ajro. lie was lrawing a plow in the tiold when a jueen bee. piloting a vagrant swarm ?f the industrious stingers, took a 'aney to tlie ears of his muleship and iliglitcd on Liic tip of one of these un,table appendages. The whole swarm ollowed the queen and was soon setJed over tlie head of the unfortunate inimal. Ili.s efforts to free himself rom the undesirable propinquity hut mraged tlie bees, which, stung him to tueli an extent that lie died. A Democratic \ ictory. At I ?.?!? i * Vs.. * . t : ... i\i. imiLilui/ii' LIII- ?iiiiiu *?i .upervisors uncounted the ballots of >ix of the -4 wards Thursday. No naterial change was shown from the inotlicial returns of Tuesday's mulicipal election which gave McLane, Democrat. artO majority for mayor ?ver Congressman Frank C. Wachter, Republican. On joint ballot the ouncils will stand Irt Democrats to 13 Republicans, although several of he wards are very close, and the ottl. ial count may change a vote or two Two Men Killed. At Moultrie, (Ja., Col. M. .1. Farall, solicitor of the city court, and ! >r. Frank Daniel, physician for the i icorgla Northern railway, were killed Thursday night by Dr. Daniel's motor ar colliding with a log train on the rcorgia Northern. The gentlemen tad been tishing and were returning o town In the motor car. A heavy i din was driving in their faces and , hey held an umbrella in front, i Wither saw the log train, which was Kicking. Six cars of the train were lerailed. 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Eire Proof Terra Ct tta Flue Linings. Prepared to t<l! orders for thousaii's or Tor millions. GASH, DOORS. BLINDS, INTERIOR FINISH, MOULD- I ING AND LUMBER, ANY QUANTITY. I cs ^ I or I lie l<nili<"* "" " B^- - ?..???-M^wi??? A Chicago chemist has nade their- I . I"\ *wr~v .crest ing discovery tli.it T"? p"i c> ot. f 1 "I I T Is 1"^ W ( ^I t ? ,he so called silk used in skirl v hlousrs ** ' 1)1 J 11V/1 1/ ind dress-\s is nothing i,,vs Mian tin. speaking to a reporter fur \ he Chicago | z / A/ \ 1A T \T / A I'tibune, this chemist said that "the AlA'v'I l~\vJf? jractice of substituting tin for vegeable substance originated hi Ger- Inexpensive to lay. nany. The vegetable matters were Kasy to keep in repair. io detriment, though equal brilliancy Light ana very durable, if color was not obtainable, and there Watcrpro* f and ordorless. was not the same sbeen and 'feel' when affected by change of temlandlcd as that produed by real silk, perature. which has the rustle so pleasing to Elastic, adies' ears. 'The practice of the anc* Alkali-proof. Iyer,' he explains, 'to whose hands Fire-resisting and oil-proof, tihe silk yarn is intrusted for dyeirg \ ermln will not attack it. ind weighting, is to boil it, and in m All ready to lay. iolng he reduces every sixteen ounces Needs no painting or coating, to twelve, thus eliminating the nat- Will not deteriorate with age. aral gummy substances aud the foreign matter added for the purpose of ?WRITE FOR PRICES spinning. The twelve onces were then brought up to fourteen by the use of 'sOI 'Til F ASTFR V tannic acid, etc. Today, by the sub- <j\J \J I liL.AJl ititution of tin, the twelve ounces are ^ \?r?> raised to sixteen ounces, or even thirty I 1 VI 1? X- ru\!u\ I )unces. 'The proportion ol "weight* Ing," is more than in black silk.' saiil / V \ V! D A V V x manufacturer to whom this state- V^vJM I A. A I . ment was submitted. 'Frequently only one-fourth or the woven material All classes building material, is real silk; the other three parts are Lin and dye.' *" This chemist added: CHARLESTON, S. O. "Any woman can test for herself whether the silk she is buying is tin weighted. Let her hold some threads Brooklyn people about Carlton in a Dame, and the genuine will leave aVenue have decided that Dr. Morris an ash resembling that of wool when Brooks, the colored pastor of a burned, with no traces of filament, ]arge negro church, has to move from while the tin weighted simply loses its y,e house used as u parsonage. They color and tenacity, each thread-re- are getting very "uppity" in Brookmaining distinct in a thin wire j..Q gaUZe." DrentiiM Koonevelt'a I?efeut. Charles V. Barton, otherwise known BAGGERS HUCKLEBERRY as Earl Count Courtney the "lireatn CZOW 1~>I iVI Prophet," who eighty days before President McKinley's assassination at Foil tiik ButTalo came to Washington from Bowels and Children Teething. Seattle to warn the President not to It is THE GREAT SOUTHERN leave Washington, as he had dreamed REMEDY for the bowels. It is one of an Impending disaster threatening l',e most pleasant and oflleactous Mr. McKinlev. h:is rlr..!.m?i remedies for all summer comnlaints ii ,. i . i> * * r?"V"i! At a season when violent attacks of 1 resident Roosewlt >e I the tiowcls are sofrequent, some speedy for re-election by a New ^ ork State i r<?licf should be at hand. The wearied Democrat, writes Die Washing ton ! mother, losing sleep by nursing the correspondent or The New York Sun. little one teething, should use this It is a matter or record that Barton, medicine. about September 1. 1901. was com- FROM IIENRY W. GRADY, polled to leave the White House by The Constitution Editoral Rooms. the policemen stationed there, as he ... , i , 7 1 r ? .. , , , . .. , . ' ... Dr. Walter A. 1 avlor, Atlanta, Ou.: was thought to be a harmless but Dear Sir:?1 have never given a anoying crank. Barton said at the certificate on merits of any medicine, time that he had dreamed that l'resi- i take pleasure in breaking my dent McKinley would be killed, and rule on this subject in behalf of your appeared much affected when no at- Riggers Huckleberry Cordial. It i> the tent ion was paid to his warning. The best medicine 1 have ever seen lor use Dream Prophet" has the following in the family. Fifty cents invested in to say in regard to the next election, a *iottie of this medicine, and put on a i - i ,i ,i I, . 1 shell convenient lor use in the beginn April lie.uned that resi- nj?^0f any bowel trouble, will olten dent Roosevelt would be defeated in SUVe life, and will save in almost any the next election and that a Demo- family ten time its cost in doctors' erat from New York would Ik* elected, hills. 1 have a friend whose life, in my This dreain came to me under the opinion, was saved by tiie prompt use same circumstances as others, and 1 of this cordial. It ought to lie in every Know in my own mind that the next 1,iml|.v ,n ,int> iant|i especially at tills President will Iwa Democrat. I can of t he year. 1 take pleasure in oven name the man.' Mart..,, ha. I I'M* to rt nwltja some very remarkable view.-, oncer HEX 11Y W \rlJADV tain subjects, but lie is evitlently Kor sale by all druggists. *i>c to. ">oc. thoroughly sincere, or thinks lie is. per liottle. He is a small, dark-haired mm, about ? w _ *, , t, ? years old and a native,,r Ky,,tacky. Haltiwanger-Taylor Drug Co., He is an employee of the g ivernnvnt ^ Tiik man or woman who eannot Ihey Say About the Metal get up a damage case these days is Roof Paint, rather slow. Tw , oers ns in Atlanta. 111? I 1>U f'PIf If I VslTW man and wile, mi, l.ieel.el,in railway 1,1 1 & CaliAM U . for *2.000 each because they had to or I'XCbK v\M ^ai' 110 rain ^>r a car. J. <t. Write us for Circular that te!U_\.?)u Carr sues the company for ?o0U tie- what such people, as cause the cai .ailed to stop 'or him, American Window Glass Co. in consequeuce of wliieh he became w. Maynard, Capt. C s n i v. Ilex Acetylene Generator Co.. ~ kia ) Standard Plate Glass Co., J! r,'*-4 Wnmon have to say about this piece of good#, f 'iCi i ( llll "aUlllull DISTRIBUTING AilKNTS. /<m sr.'SM Sterol Builders Supply Cu? / ^ *-^FV to.-onaiiit or iintha- G15 Plain St., Columbia. S. C. ' wftj "" I leti the | ^ %-^wS v-irixhr,:; Carolina Portland LJ J'J Pn cium.E-ITON tf_.-- 1.1- miiil.-.;i> l;t? in Hie | V C lliCllt iin.itli i 'o?..l!w.. , . """VII * tlll'llll.l. w^-ia. _ l< i o->t?hlishfd n .... ... ... nnd i.o, the i-e-t rep Lasers White Lime, Omenta, Hre utaiion. Ho euros Bricks, Terra Coll a l'ipes. /. where otters full; _o- J v. * J there is no ]?trti Work '/ *5|^'aW7Bp^|or experimenting In f V\K H -won?! ^-'imou hvor" I'AVB T?K STKKKT.S. .1 I is t?K> CX?? ' i Hn'ho?ny. ?!,?. *i>e i pensive In more ways tliau one Tor a r>H. iiat" ?w ir. e^?:^ unse^from^ , ^r<>W|M^< prosperous town to have poor wtion necoxsarv. whteh nootiior office hn?. if i streets. It 0 Sts tiintiey to pave, hut you can io.t eais, wnto f fr.-e Ik...',i. n ?n,i What does it cost to wade through one-Moti blanks. Mention mm trouble. KvorythttiK stnetiy oitiidenuu! j Newton mud ana mi re six months of the year r Hathaway. M. i>. I i?ave the streets by all means as a matss ltimat) Building 22$ S. liroad St* t tor of convenience and economy. It Is Atlanta, La a Rood Investment In the end. t