Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J OHN, I wtt you woall call at Mvs. Ftyan's on your way to town and tik b?r to com next week and help bo. dean Itooea. It's teltiui pretty late, ana I don't Ilk* to pot It off to long." The liiau took a step or two forward, then turned toward the tall, spare, bollow eyed woman, who waa hi* wife, and answered: ' **Ia It really necessary, Susan V* A glance round the room was> her an swer. "Let it go this fall." ssld the man. "I'm sure it don't look very bad." "Oh, John; the house Is dreadfully dirty. Look at the walls and win dow s.** "1'ooh! I aee dirtier ones every dsy." Then^as if another thought had struck liiin, he said, "Couldn't you do a part this week and a psrt next?" "I don't know. Perhaps so." The answer came lu discouraged tone*, and the churning was contin ued in nervous, spasmodic Jerks. The man saw her discouraged look, nnd said an he went out: "Well, if you must, 1 reckon I can let her know. I don't see how It is," ?sld he, soliloquizing, as be trotted his horse at a low rate along the winding prairie road. "I can't see how It is that Susan thinks she must hire so much done. Looks like she ought to be able to do ail she has to do. True, In harvest time it comes a. little hard 011 her. I hire three or four men then; that makes more cooking; but then I've heard wimmen say they'd as soon cook for six as two. Now, there's my mother; she used to cook for eight or ten men harvest time and had seven children to do for. We've only four youngsters, and don't milk half as many cows as father used to. But I reckon the wimmen them days were made of better stuff than nowadays. <Jlt up, Dobbin. I've hired a heap of work done for Susan this year. She liad help when we killed hogs, and then she was sick and 'Nerry <Jlltnan come and stayed two weeks, and 1 had to give her five dollars nnd her board. I couldn't very well afford it, either, for my mowing must be paid for this fall, and I want to buy some more stock, too, this fall and I must have a com planter next spring. But here, if I haven't missed Mrs. Flynu's and didn't stop. Git up. Dobbin." What was the hollow eyed, tired looking woman thinking of all this time? Thinking of! She had no time to think of anything but work. The (?burning was not done, the breakfast dishes were unwashed, the milk was not skimmed, the week's ironing stsred her in tie face, and last, but not least, was th3 little one tugging at her skirts, begging for nourishment. But It does not cry, so she keeps on at the churning until the little one's pa tlcuce is exhausted and Its screams are heard above the slash, slash of the 4aburn. The mother can no longer re sist? baby must be cared for, though ?all else go untouched. She was naturally a tidy woman, nnd ?x she looked around upon the untidy house she grew nervous almost to de spair, and the tears fell fast upon the baby's face at her breast. Oh, how welcome those silent visit ors when the heart is overburdened l>y grief or trial! They seem to be the rivers that wash our hearts from selfishness. Mrs. Wilton wept long and bitterly; but when the tears were wiped away no also was her burden of toll and care, nud tenderly klsslug her sleep ing hnbe, she laid him in his little crib and went about her work eheer fully if not eontentediy. She pos acsscd a cheerful disposition natural ly, but she was not a stranger to those hopes anil aspirations that odiho to most of us to cheer our discontent. She loved beautiful things. She loved nature, nud longed for a stroll over I the prairie that lay broad and bright around her. But she found very lit- 1 tie encouragement for luxuries, even the luxury of a ramble out of doors. Her hushund was a sordid, money loving, money getting mnn. who saw no ufc for anything thnt there was no money in. He kr.ew all the ways and means of money getting and money keeping. He had taken his loving wife from a loving home in an East ern State, and made for himself a liotr.c in the prairies of the West. He was deemed a very shrewd man by the jieighhor* around. He knew when a piece of land was worth selling or buy ing, and he was always getting some "good chance." His wife had long Ago found out that money was his idol, and everything must be sacrificed to it ?even herself, she sometimes thought, when, with aching head and tired fe?>t, she had sought her pillow. Thus years had gone by, until few would recognize in the hollov eyed, sunken cheeked, prematurely old woman, the fresh, rosy girl John Wilton had brought there eight years before. Mrs. Wilton did not ask her husband If he had stopped at Mrs. l'Mynn's; she ?nip|iosed, of course, he had: and the following week she w.itchcd every day fot; her expected help. Watched Iml not waited," for as the hours went by slie began the task and kept at it iMittl It was done. Mr. Wilton pretended not to see all Ibis. He kept aloof as much as pos ?lble, so as to avoid any explanation lie might be called upon to make; but when alone with himself, he said: "Well, Susan is getting along nice ly, after all. She'll have the house whining agin Saturday night, and then I'll Just give licr the money I'd had to I>ay Mrs. Flynn. It'll go toward buy ing the winter tilings for the family;" and ho gave the well tilled pocketbook a loving squeeze. Saturday night found the house all milling, as Mr. Wilton had prophesied, but Mrs. Wilton looked more tired and worn than ever. It had been a hard week for her, and even the clean bouse was hardly a recompense. Hut Mr. Wilton felt satisfied. Strange that lie could not perceive the odor, of the ?essence of life in the shining windows and whitened walls: and ho only said, as he glanced about hint: "The house donning over, oh'.1 Well, here's live dollars to pay your woman /with," and he chuckled to himself, for lie well knew some of it would come back to bin la the ahape of aocki and undershirts. "I wouldn't for four times that much feel ao worn out aa I do tp-nlght," sighed Mrs. Wilton to beraalf, aa ahe thanked him, and atowed the pittance away for future uae. The weeka wore on toward winter, and Mrs. Wilton sighed hearllj aa she thought of the garments, large and a mall, to be bought and made. FIrat, John moat be fitted up; then the four little ones, and laatly, bereelf. Her own ?hare would be alim, ahe thought, but then ahe had not much outdoor work to do, and ahe could get along with less. But, oh! ahe did long ao much for a new merino dress, with bright, warm tints, or. a pair of gloves, or a collar and a bit of ribbon for her neck. But these were not to be thought of. Nothing but bare neceaaltlea could be her's, for John had been buying stock, and had paid for hla mowiug machine, aud met a uote or two, aud he felt "quite poor/' he aald. Foor woman! She had not had a nice dress since her marriage. Then she had a good aupply? but- things will wear out, and moat of these were now doing duty as children's clothes, or skirts for herself, and her l>est dress was now a cheap delaine. She sighed just a little, half smothered sigh, aa she thought of all this on the day she went to lay out her money. It did not take her long to dispose of the small amount, for she had laid awake nights pondering how to make one dol lar do the duty of two. and the prob lem was worked out with the utmost precision. Now that the goods were purchased, the next trouble was bow to get tbein made coon enough. She had been obliged to put off purchasing for want of means, and now she could not tell which was most needed. "If I only could get some one to help me for a week. I could soon see my way clear," said Mrs. Willon to her husband, one evening, as slie sat stitching on her little garments; "or. better still, had I a sewing machine," she ventured to say. Mr. Wilton knocked the ashes off his cigar and said: "I don't see how it is, Susan, that you're always complaining of having no much to do, and wanting help all the time. Why, there's mother; she never used to think of hiring any work done. She used to make everything for eight of us and weave all the cloth besides." Mm. Wilton did not answer; her heart was too full. "Nowadays the wimraen want so much help to get rid of work," continued Mr. Wilton. "I'd like to get a sewln' machine, but It's out of the question now, there's so much to be got." Mrs. Wilton thought of Jllie mower and the corn planter, but said nothing; she felt a little pang shoot through ber heart, then It sank back again as a heavy load. She did not go to bed that night until long after her hus band was sleeping soundly. She had worked hard all day, and sleep would be a welcome gueft, but the little gar ment was much needed, and she must sit up and make it. Oh. how her tired eyes ached, but not worse than the poor, hungry heart ached for sym pathy and comfort. She thought of her money loving husband, and wished he might become more thought ful for her comfort. "If it were not for iny children," she cried to herself, "I could see very little to live for." Then tlie thought of her little ones, motherless, sent the fresh tears to her eyes, but gave a sudden impulse to her tired tinkers, nml she stitched away for another hour and saw the garment completed, and neatly folding it away, she sought her much nceuea rest. Sabbath morn ing Mr. Wilton put on a warm new undershirt, and saw his little ones looking fresh and sweet in their new garments; but he saw not the lingers which had so patiently wrought out tbese changes were that morning scarcely strong enough to fasten the garments of the little ones about their chubby little forms. Spring came, bright and joyous an ever, dotting the praries with flow ers and tilling upland and valley with floods of melody. Mrs. Wilton bad been growing thinner and paler all winter, and was now scarcely able to be about the house. The doctor had recommended rest. But how could she with so much lying undone about her. "If I could only go away for awhile." "I wish you could, I'm sure," replied her husband. "But, Susan, I don't see how I can afford It, I might sell some of my stock, but prices are low now, It wouldn't pay at all. I couldn't get much more for them calves than 1 gave for 'em last fall, after keeping 'em all winter. And buying my corn planter about took all my cash." Mrs. Wilton did not reply. Indeed, I doubt very much if she heard his remarks at all, for she was dreaming of the old homestead, with its wide gables and large comfortable rooms; of the stately maple*, that she knew were now putting forth their young blossoms from their candelabra shaped limbs? of the sloping meadow, with Its violet covered hillsides? of the robin's nest In the clierry tree; and, alwve all, of tho sweet old face that loomed up through all, and with out stretched arms yearned to embrace her tired blrdllug In the home nest. John Wilton glanced at her as he went out of the door, and mistook the flush of anticipated Joy for the bloom of health, and went off saying: "I guess she'll get better as the days get warmer. I'll try to biro somebody for her this summer." "I can do nothing for her," sahl Dr. Oraves to Mr. Wilton, who had fol lowed him out of Mrs. Wilton's sick chamber. "Nothing for her? My God, doctor! You don't mean that she Is past all help!" And John Wilton's heart seemed to stand still for n moment "I did not say she was past help/' re plied the doctor. "Tho truth Is, Mr. Wilton, your wife Is worked down, and unless she has rest, and plenty of It she will die. And I may as well say she will never get rest here. She must go away where she will have no care of house or family, or she will die. You , mr.y And another wife, but your chll drw wtR Mm tad tMlUr Mtkr." ?o saying, tk* doctor drm away. Tho door *m portly op?, and lira. Wilton hod beard, la her tick ehta ber, tho doctors words, and hor heart Soto o groat loop, which undoubtedly would bore crootod alarm for her hod the doctor known It. Ob, If obe could only go homo! Boom to tbo old bomeatMd ? homo to moth* or ond root. reet. root! Oh. bow loos It occmod since she realised tho fnlloot meaning of that word; even while obe lay there she seemed to boor her moth* er'e voice, and feel her soft band ca ressing her. Bnt the next moment came the ree Using sense of the ImpocsibU tty of such happiness. How could she go with the children, now that oho woo ?o weak, antf how could she go with* out them? And how could oho bo spared to go, and, lastly, bow could John afford to let her go? All hope oeemed loot when she looked the mat ter straight In the face, and she turned her white face to the woll ond chut her eyeo as if to keep back the tears which she felt were coming. Mesnwhlle John Wilton wos thor oughly sroused. He stood for a long time Just where the doctor had left him. After a time, he stsrted up as it seised with a new Impulse snd went straight Into the house to his wife's sick room. Mrs. Wilton was lying ?ery still, with her face turned from him. He went softly up to the bed side to see If she wss sleeping. A ray of sunlight coming through the torn window shade revealed a tear tremb ling beneath the half closed lids, and John Wilton turned away with a sigh so deep .that his wife turned feebly on her pillow aud without opening her eyes, asked: ?'What is It, John? What Is wrong?** *'l nn wrong. Susie, dear!" It had been many a day since Mrs. Wilton had heard call her Susie, and It was no wonder that she opened her eyes wide In astonishment. He was at her bedside now, tremb ling like a convict. "Do you hate me, Susie?" ''John, what a question! You know better!" "You are an angel, or you would hate me. Here I have been killing yon by itiches for years and never thought, until to-day, that you might be mor tal. The doctor has bceu telling me that? 1 hat " "I heard it all. John," said Mrs. Wil ton, the tears trickiiug down her wan cheeks. "Did you? Well, Susie, it shall be as lie said. You shall have rest. You shall go home to your mother and stay a year, if need be." "But how ean you spare me, John?" "?How could 1 spare you forever?" whispered her husband. "But. John, how can you afford it?" "Well enough. But we must not talk about it now. You are too weak tp be excited about anything. You are to get well as fast as you can, and in two weeks we will all be off to mother's." Mr. Wilton proved a true prophet, for in two weeks' time Mrs. Wilton was far enough recovered to begin the journey. How far the prospect of ttiat journey went toward making her able to undertake it we will not say. Mr. Wilton accompanied his wife. It was too much for her to undertake to go alono with the children, the doctor said, and Mr. Wilton was very obe dient, cheerfully acquiescing in every suggestion and even styggestlng things for her comfort that he once would have thought unnecessary expendi ture. Bnt Mr. Wilton was not minding the expenses now. He had sold his young stock for much less than he paid for them that bis wife might be nursed back to life aud health, And he could but rejoice at tho sacrifice when he saw her eyes grow bright and her step elastic, . "Stay as long as you please," was his parting message to his wife, as he bade iier adieu at the door of the homestead. Six months Susan Wilton stayed In t lie home nest. Oh, what n joyous, thorough rest that was. It seemed so good to wander about the old place again, almost as free from care as In her girlhood days, now gathering the flowers from the hillside, or bathing her tired feet in the meadow brook or sitting under the shadows of the state ly maples, twining their leaves into garlands, hunting t lie hen's nests with the children, and enjoying all their games with a relish she never dreamed she could feel again. And what a joy to sit for hours at the feet of h,er who first guided her own faltering steps. The poor womout woman drank in every moment of joy as though she knew the cup would not always be so full. Bnt with returning health onmp n strong desire to return home to Its du ties nnd cares once more. So, one morning in early winter, she left her good-bys among the hills of her old home, and went hack to life's every day duties with a glad and thankful heart. But the old life with its cease less round of work nnd "toll without recompense" was over. There were to he no more yearnings for sympathy, no inoro words of disapprobation, no more of tbe "penny wise nnd pound foolish" economy. Husband and wife share alike in comforts, oml the old, hard life is buried.? Waverlcy Maga zine. HI* Precedent. The Punkvllle Debating Society was In regular session, nnd Mr. Q. Watklns Mpurllng was making an earnest plea on the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, That man's overy act 1* the result of a selfish motive." "I go further than that, Mr. Presi dent," he said, "About three-fonwtbi of the things a man does is because he's envious of what somebody else does. Tho pin-headed speaker that had the floor last on the other side lied like a pirate when he said " Here the president of the society rapped on the desk. "The gentleman must not use such langunge as that," he said. "Why not?" "Because It Isn't parliamentary.** "It may not be parliamentary, Mr. President," voclfercd Mr. G, Wutkint Kpurllng, loosening his collar and roll ing up his sleeves, "but, by gum. It'i congressional." ? Cincinnati Commer cial-Tribune. fctr.iw. pressed Into blocks nnd made hard enough to use as pnvement, I* in use for this purpose in some of th< | streets oC Warsaw, Poland. . Kiwg jMULwmqa. tn Ftp mey i i? KiglM iyj kmpisg jUpd over * Burmese The Fl?Mh Ootsmment has decided to erect an eMftric telegraph Hue aeroas tto Great Sahara. i Reports of the wholesale slaughter of deer and game tirds out of season roms to Duluth Mm the ranges. More thai 000 students worked their wsy through Columbia University last year, earning hi vsrious ways $74, flM.1T. The oldest woman who married In Berlin last jsar was seventy-two; 228 were orer fifty years, and one under sixteen. ? remarkable stste of contraband has Just been brought to light in Spain, where the growing of tobacco in Spain Itself Is prohibited. One of the features of the Lewis nnd Clark Exposition in Portisnd next year will be a great dog show. At least 1300 dogs will be there. It is promised. ?^a Italian. Luciano Buttl. iias per fected a photographic apparatus capa ble of registering the Incredible num ber of 2000 photographic impressions a second. An Austrian genius has made the dis covery that celluloid, prepared in a special way. provides a material out of which hats and the most delicate flowers can be made. Two pictures which were found in the old Roman Cstholic cathedral ar Leeds. and which were bought by a dealer for a few shillings, have been pronounced to be a genuiue Itubcns and Vandyke. A new form of looping the Toop Is promised the Parisians. A French en gineer says he will make a motor car run down a steep slope to a wide open ing in the track, at the edge of which It will mount a springboard and turu a complete somersault. KEWS OF THE FAR EAST. Admiral Skrydloff arrived at Yladk rostok. Five American-built submarines ar rived in Japan. A division of the Baltic fleet reached the Sue* Canal Another Japanese attack on Lone Tree llill wus repelled. Don Carlos' son was dccorated by Kuropatkiu for bravery in buttle. Japan was .reported to be making large purchases of coal at Cardiff. Fifteen hundred Chinese bandits un der Japanese officers were put to rout. Pattl Is to sini; in St. Petersburg for the benefit of the Russian wounded. The Anglo-Russian North Sea con vention was signed at St. Petersburg. Kauihnrs. the commander of Rus sia's Third Manchuiau army, started for the scat of war. After three days* flghtlnir the Japan ese rested one night and l hen resinned the attack on Kuropatkin's left tlank. Japanese troop* on the Sha River warm themselves with pocket stoves, camp-fire* being out of tin* question, the lines arc so close. Japan in a friendly manner drew the attention of the British Govern ment to supplies of coal sent in British vessels to the Baltic fleet Generals Nafcamura and Katto led specially trained swordsmen to a band to-lu\nd tight within the rorts in the fourth general assault on Port Arthnr. The Russian Emperor summoned to Ttarskoe Sel<> a deputation from the zemstvo representatives, and listened attentively to views on the memorial recently presented to hint. General Oku reported the repulse of attacks on his centre ami left divis ions. the Russians in the latter action leaving roan? dead on tlie Held. The general situation is unchanged. JjAi'On WORLD. Japan has a federation of labor w!lh almost 300,000 mmbcrs. The Japanese ripp worker Is a famil iar sight in Texas and Louisiana. News from tho Santa Fe. Cat.. ma cblnlsts' union !s very encouraging. The American Federation <">r Lahnf convention was held in San Francisco, Thp next convention of tlio l.rirk* layers and Stonemasons' International Union wlir meet in San Fntueirco Jan uary 8, 190". In Wisconsin the eight-hour day Is prescribed in manufacturing and me chanical establishments unless other wise agreed upon. During the year 100" Toronto had twenty-four strikes, involving JWV2S men, or Almost a quarter of the union labor men in the city The Central Federated Union unani mously passed n resolution railing for the nhoiltlon of the New York City Ilapid Transit Commission. A State Federation of Labor ha* been organized In Utah, and efforts are to be made thoroughly to organize the workmen in that territory. Recently published census figure* show that every fifth child between the ages of ten and fifteen in the United States is a breadwinner. The president of thp Iron Moulders' Union of North Atherlcn was arrested in Cleveland. Ohio, charged with abet ting the destruction of property. The Federation of La Inn* at Hip con vention in San Francisco voted *75,000 for immediate relief of the strikers ur.C have levied an assessment tor iuturo relief. Those Steel Trust employes who at the Invitation of the compui > invested in shares of the concern'^ stock are now congratulating themselves <>u the recent rise In value of their invest ment*. Spring* on a Pennsylvania Watershed. On the samo farm In Potter county. Pa., are two strong, clear springs which bubble up out of the white sand with great force, and about three miles distant Is another spring of like character. If ft chip were thrown Into each of these and could float on uninterrupt edly to the sea they would roach their destination many thousands of miles apart. One Is the fountain head of the Qenest e river, which flows Into Lake Ontario, and finally reaches tho ica at tho mouth of the Oulf of St. !^awrence. Tho other Is tho fountain 1 cad of tho Allegheny river, which i nltes at 1'lttsburg with tho Monon l .ihela to form tho Ohio, and reaches tiie sea at the mouth of the Missis sippi. The third Is the fountain head of Pine creek, which flows Into tho west branch of the Susquehanna and reaches th-? sea at Chesapeake bay. ?National Geographical Magazine. DOWN ON CHANCES Goveraaeit Takes i Staid Afaiist Guessing Cutest* A STRONG DECISION AGAINST TIEN The Attorney General Holds That They Are Illegal and tha Poetoffice Department W?l| Accept Thle View ef the Matter ? The Elimination From the Maila of Advertieemente Relating to Them Will Not, How* ever, be Made Abeolute at Once-? A Rear Admiral to be Named For The North Sea Tribunal. Washington. Special. ? An Important nee ting or the cabinet was held to day. Twc questions of conccrn, par* ticularly, were considered, the first being the appointment by the Presl dent of an Amciican naval offlcer on the North Sea tribunal, and another being an opinion tendered by Attor ney General Moody, regarding the le gality under the lottery laws, of guess ing contests, which have been con ducted by many newspapers and mag azines. It was settled definitely that the nppolntee to the tribunal would be a rear admiral of the uavy. It is practically, cortuln that the selection will be made from among three offi cers ? Rear Admirals Davis. Chadwick and 8ands. Admiral Dewey let It be understood that lie does not care for the honor. Attorney General Moody's opinioa on guessing contests Is of a most sweeping character, and while the Postmaster General has no inclination to work hardship upon anybody, ho will put the Attorney General's judg ment Into effect us soon as may bo practicable. He realize! that many thousand j of people have Invested small or jarge amounts of money In the various schemes in the hope or expectation. In the words of the opin ion. that Ic-ck would enable them to win large returns. "A comparatively small per centagc of the participants will realize their expectations." con tinues the opinion. "Thousands will get nothing." The Attorney General says the schemes ara iu cffect lotteries under the guise of guesstng contests. Hitherto the Postofllce Department has been operating in respect to guess ing contests under opinions tendered by the Department of Justice. These opinions have held that where the persons could use a "dope book." or records, or scientific information, in making their calculations, their guess es wore an application ot knowledge which. In the view of the Attorney General, eliminated to an extent, at least, the factor of chanco. The opin ion held, ;o quote one of them direct ly, that "calculation, foresight, knowl edge. Inquiry and information enabU the participants to approximate thf correct results and the nso of tb% malls In promoting such enterprises is not a violation of the law." Attorney General Moody points out. however, that "since these opinions wore writ ten. the Supreme Court of the United States and the Court of Appeals of New Ycrk. have ruled that cases iden tical in principle to these under con sideration were guessing contests." Postmaster General Wynne tonight gave out a statement, saying: "As a number of legitimate business enter prises have adopted the ostimating or guessing contests as a means of ad vertising. and in view of admission to the mails of matter pertaining to these contests within the last few years, the elimination of these schemes from the mails cannot Lc made immediate ly ansolute. If such a scheme ha* air* ady been entered upon in good faith, the Department wiii not issue an order that will seriously Injure a legitimate business. Kach case will bo handled separately, and no scheme which iuvolves the plan ruled against by the Attorney General will hereafter be allowed to commence op erations." No Important Changes, Mukden, y Cable.? No important change tias taken place in (he situation. Only occasionally skirmish?* have oc curred nlong the right and center. The Japanese have been feeling out the Russian strength on the oxtreme left, resulting iu four days' lighting with tue Japanese eventually retiring. Progress of "Open Shop" Idea. New York, Special. ? Members of the Citizen's Industrial Association repre senting all sections of the country were present when the second annual convention of the organization opeaerf in the new Hotel Astor. It is* the aim of the convention to bring about a complete organization of manufac turers. business men and all large em ployers of labor to advocate the "open shop" idea. President David M. Far ry, in his address, reviewed the growth ?: the "open shop" movement and said that within a year 1.000 factories have ?pened their doors to workmen with out regard to their membership in anions. Yacht Stranded. Charlestnon. 3. C.. Special. ? The yacht Josephine, from Providence, which loft Philadelphia about three weeks ngo with Ernest T. Pepper and James Carnan on board, en route to Fort Myers. Fla., was blown ashore oo Debordca Beach, near Ocorgetown, on account of the engine breaking down, and was towed into port this evening by the launch Deencc. The yacht was ?lightly damaged ami will be ducked and repaired. No one was hurt. Tha President Returns, Washington. 8pcclul. ? President Roosovelt arrived here Tuesday at 7.02 a. m.t from his visit to the St Louis Bx position. The special traUi was awaited by a throng of several hundred peonle in the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, and as the train drew Into the station,' thet crowd broke Into cheering. It was 1.1 minutes later when the President, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter Miss Alice Roosevelt alighted from their car. They were driven at once to tho White House. PALMETTO AFFAIRS Occurrence* of Interest In Varlcu* Parts of ths Stats. Gsnsral Cotton Market. Galveston. quiet S 9-16 New Orleans, easy 8 1-2 Mobile, quiet 9 5-10 Savannah, steady 8 3-8 Charleston, steady 8 1-4 Baltimore, nominal 9-7-8 New York, quiet 9.00 Boston, quiet 9.00 Phlladelphis. steady 9-23 Charlotte Cotton Msrkst. Good Middling 8 1-3 8trlct Middling; 8 3-8 Middling 8 1-8 Tinges and Stains 7 7-8 to 8 1-4 Weak. A New Csttle Disease. Within the last month Dr. Louis A. Klein of Clemson, the state veterin arian. has received letters from a num ber of farmers concerning a disease, unfamiliar to them, which was causing the death of their calves and yearling cattle. This disease was manifested by the following symptoms: Gradual loss of condition and strength, with the animals feeding well; a soft, sack-like swelling under the jaw. which was not hot or tender; scours; sometimes a wa tery discharge from the eyes. The ani mals usually lived one to three months after being attacked. Only young cat tle were affected, even where the old cattle used the same pasture and barn. Of the cases reported only three re covered. On one farm the young cattle had been carried off in this way for three years. Investigation of the dis ease has not been completed, but on several farms visited it was found that the trouble was caused by small worms, one-half of an inch long and about as thick as a hair. In fact, at first sight, they had the appearance of short white hairs, but on closer examination the larger worms show a red stripe curl ing through the body like a corkscrew, the red stripe on the white background presenting the appearance of a bar ber's pole. These worms, which are known as the twisted wire worm, were found by thousands in the fourth stom ach of the affected animal examined, lying in the mucous of the stomach wall and scattered through the con tents of that organ. They live on the blood and body Juices of the animal they inhabit, thus depriving the animal of the nourishment it should derive from its food. The Farmers' Union. Anderson. Special. ? A country organ isation of the Farmers' Educational Co-operative union was formed in this city last week. Hon. J. P. Glenn, for mer State senator from this county, was elected president. The work of organizing subordinate lodges has been going on for some time, and the union starts off with a good enrollment of members, it is probable that the farmers' organization that has existed in Anderson county for some time will be merged into the union, which has now been established in all the cotton States. 8outh Carolina Items. A speclsl from Orangeburg says; After a harmonious but lively and interesting session the convention of teh United Daughters of the Confeder acy adjourned sine die to meet next year at Johnston. The day was given largely to a consideration of the report of the historical committee and af terwards resolved itself into an ex perience meeting and interchange of of viows on matters pertaining to the good of the order. The election of officers for the following year resulted as follows: President. Mrs. Harriot Shannon Burnet. Camden; First vice president, Mrs. James Conner. Charles ton; second vice-president, Mrs. Lulu Ix?e Vandlver. Anderson; third vice president, Mrs . Mortimer Glover. Orangeburg: fourth vice-president, Mrs. R. D. Wright, Newberry: record ing secretary, Mrs. August Kohn, Co lumbia: corresponding secretary. Mrs. H. G. Clifford. Union; treasurer. Miss Mary McMlchael, Orangeburg; auditor, Mrs. C. C. Feathersthone, Laurens. A stock company is being organized at Conway to start a broom factory. It is thought that a large plant will be established for this purpose. Seven Scotch emigrants arrived at. Sumter last week, and were immedi ately given employment. The ttaptist State convention ad journed its sessions at Chester last week after a most profitable and inter esting meeting. It will meet in Colum bia next year. The little 18-months-old daughter of Charlie Hobson. who lives two mllej from Pickens, was burned to death Thursday morning. The father was badly burned in attempting to rescue the child. The family went out early picking cotton and the child's dothlng caught from a fire that had been built in the field. . The commission hns been received from the seerclary of state for the or ganization of the company, which will operate a trolley line from Charleston to .Summerville. The Philadelphia con tractors who are interested In the pro ject will arrive In a few days to go over the route and arrangements aro being made to organize the company and start the construction as soon aa possible. It appears (hnt an effort may be made In the next general assembly to amend the child labor law. In order to make Its provision* more stringent. The law as passed Is said to have been somewhat of a modification of the bills Introduced originally. There has not been any complaint from the mill managers since It was passed, except that some of them claim that It turns loose an Idle class upon tho streets of the mills town and therefore that a compulsory educatlrn law should be passod. Wat Slightly Burned. Anderson, Special.? Mr. T. H. Rus sell. jr., commandant of tho Staunton Military academy, has returned to tho city for several weeks. The academy was destroyed by fire a few weeks ago and Mr. Russell suffered some slight injuries from burns and also lost much of bis clothing and many lmoks. , The school will be ready for work about the 1st of January, when he will go back to Virginia to resnume his dutle* as commandant. AIMED AT TIE MINE ? ? . " Stockade Established aad Bad Tiaics Are Expected STRIKERS INDICT JOS. LEITEI Charge of* Bringing Armed Men lnt? Illinois Preferred Againat Officers of the Zeigler Mining Company ? At* tacks on the Mining 8ott|oment Do* scribed By the Company's Attorney aa Desperate ? Machine Guns, Aidsd by Bsarchlighta at Night, Hail Bui lats Into the Bushes In Answer to Shots From Ambush? Military Call* sd Out. St. IjOuIs, Special. ? A spccial from Duquoin, III., says that It became known there Wednesday that three weeks ago Joseph Inciter was indicted ois three counts on the charge of bringing aimed men Into tho State, contrary, to recently passed statutes. No attempt has been made to aerve the capiat or to arrest Loiter, because State's Attorney Scott will reUre and' wishes to leave the case over for his successor. Indictments have also been returned against Attorney Henry Piatt, of the Zeigler MJniug Company. The charge is taking armed men through the State without permission of the Governor. There are three counts In the indictments. The punishment for the offense on which the two men have been Indicted is confinement in the penitentiary from one to Ave years, with no tine rs an alternative. Union miners and railroad men in charge of the cars on vhich It is alleged imported miners rode and were guarded by armed men ^ere the witnesses before the grand jury. Members of the executive board of the United Mine Workers say that leniency was given Inciter and Piatt and that no one outside the grand jury room knew that indictments had been returned until the information leaked out. Thus far in the Zeigler trouble, one n an has been killed. That was on November 16th, when a car load of miners was being imported and tho car was fired on from ambush, onr Austrian being fatally shot. Thero are no records of any other person even having!! been injured. A few have been waylaid and beaten, but they were not in Zeigler. They were men who bad gone to some of the nearby towns where iiquor is sold. For these assaults, only one arrest has been made, and tho prisoner proved an alibi and was released. Attorney Piatt says the attacks on Zeigler had grown so bold and had become so desperate that Sheriff Stein found It necessary to call out the militia. All was quiet Wednes day night. Just what effect the pres ence of the militiamen will have on tho strike al the Zeigler coal mines remains to be seen. At Zeigler the stockado is about. 800 feet long and 400 feet wide. It is a tight board fern e about fifteen feet high. At each end at diagonal corners are block I oases, in each of which Is a ma chine gun. As soon as the darkness approaches these guns are placed In readiness for an attack. They are used, too, Attorney Plat says, every P r.:ght. There is probably no denying the feet that some shots are fired Into tho stockade from ambush. It. only requires one shot for the men be- , hind the machine Ktins to Ret. in ac tion. They send bullets Into the trees 600 yards away like hail. 1'latt says these shots from the machine guns have been answered promptly. Youngest Catholic Bishop. New Orleans, Spcc-ial. ? In the pres ence of a congregation which crowd ed the old St. Louis Cathedral, Father Cornelius Vandeeven was consecrated Bishop of Natchifoches. Bishop Mer sichaerts, of the Indian Territory, preached the ?ernion and Bishop Dunne, of Dallas; Bishop Allen, of Mo bile; Bishop Mer.daguer of Browns ville, Texas; Bishop Gallagher, of Gal veston; Bishop Host ip, of Natchez, and Bishop Ritcher, of Grand Rapids, were present. Bishop Vandeeven Is perhaps the youngest of the Catholie bishops in this country. Until lately he has been in charge of a -church at Baton Itouge, l>a. Proposition Received. Panama, By Cable. ? Secretary of War Taft who is here for the purpose ef effecting a settlement of the differ ?ncew between Panama and the canal commission received the Panama prop osition In writing late Wednesday af- j termion nnd may make his reply noon. The negotiations between the Secre tary and the 'government are being conducted In secret au*l no details as to their naturo.'Will be made public un til an agreement lj reached. v Gastonia Bank Fails. Gastonia, N. C.. Special,? Quite a sensation was sprung here Wednesday afternoon, when State Bank Kxamlner J. O. Mllington closed the doors of ths Gastonia Banking Company at a o'clock, and took charge of tho assets, pending the appointment of a receiv er. The failure of this well-known fi nancial Institution came as a complete surprise to the citizens of the town, Mr. John F. Love. a prominent cotton mill man. Is president, and Mr. .fames A. Page Is cashier. Joint Invitation to President. ( Atlanta, Gn., Special. ? An effort oH*| ginatlng here, has been set on fdot to havo the committees representing Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville and Knoxvlllo in the National Manufactur ing Association, which have cxtlmdM invitations to President llnosc^lt to v I h i t the South, meet at an carty data in Washington formally to pre^ftnt tho in\ itatlon.