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V? w" ' * 1 *> : l ?? VOL. V.. NOw 32. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1908. Sl.SOPer Year THE SCENT: OR., [TRACED BY DIVINING ROD* By i LADY 1 MARGARET MAJENDIK. CHAPTER I. 1 ?I wonder why there are ao many children In the world; children are the greatest abomination In exist ence! " said Reginald, threading hi* way through his innumerable broth ers and sisters to the schoolroom fireplace. A small sister had posses sion of the best armchair, a faded chintz concern with ears to it. Reg gie, of course, dislodged her and took possession, while little Letty, perfect ly satisfied of the droits d'alne, made no remonstrance, but squatted on the rug. They were all there. Reggie, home from Oxford; the beautiful Janet, who enjoyed the privilege of being grown up; Arthur, whose future fate was not decided, but who was the ? tallest, handsomest and most attrac tive looking of lads, though all unan imously declared that he had inher ited Saxon wit with Saxon beauty, and would never do any good with hla brains. Little Letty, on the hearth rug, crept up and leant against his long legs, sure of not be ing rejected there, even though she might be an inconvenience and al ways in the way. ?? Tola, an abbreviate of Ceneren tola, or the Clnderwltch, aat upon the table; a little sunburnt brunette of seventeen, with curly brown hair and eyes like diamonds; and she had chil dren all about her. Tommy, Johnnie, ^Uiry Cllly, Jack Eddie! No wonder the splendid Reggie looked down on the herd with the outspoken expres sion of disgust, which nobody minded In the least. Janet settled her hair before the cracked oUf mirror. "Well, Reggie," she said, "having called a family council, what Is the result? Are we not all In committee?" "You know ay well as I do," growled Reggie. "We must resolve ourselves into a Committee of Ways and Means. There is something up." "Something down, you mean," said Tommy, who was scribbling at a ?able. "Mother's eyes are red." "That's nothing new," said Tola, sorrowfully, hugging the baby. "Don't Jaw," said Reggie, giving Tommy a little kick, which extorted a growl of "Shut up?do!" "I Imagine," said Janet, coming forward, and looking lovely, "that the last remaining hope of the family, the last diner at the tenant's dinner, has given notice to quit." "And like our first parents we shall ? be reduced to living vaguely on the fruits of the earth," said Tola. "And how to avert it?" "By putting our shoulders to the wheel," said Arthur. "Of course, we fellows must take whatever work f comes in our way." 1 "Reggie," said Janet, timidly, "I have taken a step alroady. I have put in an advertisement offering my self an a lady help, and I have two or three answers here, which I kept to open at our meeting." "So that was the secret of our daily walks to Plumtree postofflce?" cried Tola. "Quick, Janet, do see what they * are about." Janet opened the first two letters and read them at first gaily, then V falteringly. The one offered intolem^ ble conditions, and the second held out no hope of any salary. "Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" she sighed. "This will never do. Now for my last hope." The third letter proved to bo only an agent's advertisement. ' "I am plad of it," said Arthur "Nonsense, Janet; mother would never hear of such a thing. What could possess you to Imagine It? Let us be serious. You can still have Uncle Alfred's clerkship, I suppose, Redge?" "I suppose so." rather sullenly, ffllxty pounds a year, after sending me to Oxford, too. I wonder how he has the face!" "I wouldn't despise sixty pounds a year," said Arthur. "I wlch I had a it chance of it." "I never said I did despise It; only when one has been brought up to ex pect everything to be bo differ ent " 1 v# "Hush!" cried Tola. "Is not that papa calling?" A stentorian voice rang through the house. "Boys! I say, hoys!" Reginald rose slowly and wont downstairs. "Poor boy! It Is hard on him," said Janet. "I really did think i Uncle Alfred would have acted differ ently." ' "I think It was very kind of him," Mid Tola; "and after all Reggie's protestations, It seoms that he wants to give up tho only chance any ono of us has had, except Tommy." . #Tomniyl" "Yes. Tommy. No! don't frown at j sae. I did not mean to let it out. but ?? I have begun I may as well finish. Tommy had earned ton shillings from the Plumtree Gazette." "Wefl done. Thomas!" said Arthur, Phllng hjs brother's curly wig. "And : how?" - . "By my literary efforts," said Tom. "I have been a contributor ffc that Lfations weokly." ikWow often? When? ' What do Ma**"- .... "Oh! for ever so lodfc. I furnish the epitaphs." "Well," said Janet, with rather a careworn look coming over her sweet face. *1 must go about my business. We seem to be doing no good, and it is not worth while waiting till Reggie comes back." Arthur followed her to the door. "Don't be down, old girl," he said kindly. "Something is sure to turn up.* "I never heard that anything did turn up for Mr. Mlcawber," she an swered, quickly. "At all events it is no use folding one's hands to wait until it does." He drew back. * I don't want to do that," he sa'id, quietly. "Oh! Arthur, I did not mean any thing, but it does rile me to see Reggie with all his splendid talents and his grand education, and every thing to be thrown away on such a paltry employment; and yet, if he re fuses It, it is like giving up wider prospects still. There, I won't grum ble." And, drying her eye#, Janet went off. Arthur went slowly downstairs with his hands in his pockets. This theory of Reggie's splendid talents? was it only a theory? He had be lieved in it implicitly in spite of every successive report, first from school and then from Oxford?either Reggie was growing too fast for work, poor boy, or he had an unfair master, and Reggie could never stand a master he did not like. Then at Oxford he had turned out to have lost all the previous years of his life by having been so badly taught. Then it was most unsafe to press on the highly strained intellect of genius; and. Anally, Reggie obtained no hon ors, merely scraped through as hun dreds of others have done, and came home beautifully got up in appear ance, but with spall honor to him self, and a gratified feeling of self respect, In the belief which he found unshaken in the breasts of his family ?that his superiority was unassail able, only that he had been unfor tunate in his surroundings. Arthur had his hand on the handle of the door when his rather came out of the library and stopped his exit. "Here, Arthur, I want you," he said, briefly. The library of Denstone Court was, ala**! only now called so by courtesy, as the books were gone. Only the yawning shelves remained. It was a fine room, and, like the rest of the house, had about It the ghost of de parted comfort and luxury. The Squire of Denstone Court looked about as woin away and shab by as his own furniture. He had let i everything slip helplessly through his fingers. His poverty might at one time have been grappled with, but the time had gono by now. Poor Mr. Denstone got more and more deeply Involved, more and more hopeless; and he found no help in his wife, who, worn out by the cares of her large family and the feeble petu lance of her lord, had subsided Into a mere household drudge. The sons and daughters might have been a comfort individually, but they were tremendous incubus en masse. One powerful friend they had In the Undo Alfred, tho succcssfui Liv erpool merchant, who had sent Reg inald to Oxford, and whose offer of a clerk's place In his house, nt a salary of sixty pounds a year, had seemed such a downfall to all their hopes. It was on tho subject of this offer that Mr. Denstone wanted to speak to ills son. "Come here, Arthur," ho said, ner vously, "and sit down. I want to talk to you, but It fidgets me to see you standing." "You look tired, father," said Ar thur, kindly. "I am afraid something has worried you." "I am always tired and always worried," said Mr. Denstone, Impa tiently, thrusting his hand through his thin gray hair, "but I am quite used to It now, thank heaven. It Is really your mother s fault, she docs worry so about Reggie." "What about him?" said Arthur, surprised. "Of course, tho salary is not a very high one, but with his tal ents he is sure to get on, and my uncle will probably offer him a part nership." "But he Is not to have It, you see." "Not to have It? Has my uncle re tracted his offer?" "Yos, he has; and In the most un flattering manner. It is that that has so upset your mother." "I am so sorry," said Arthur, fer vently. "I always knew how It would be," said Mr. Denstone. querulously. "Regglo gives himself the airs of a marquis, and dresses like a dandy. Your uncle Is a plain man, and, bless my soul, he married his cook, as you know, and can't be expected to bo a judgo of refinement. He actually writes theso words: 'Youf Bon is much too fine a gentleman for mo. I want a clerk, not a young swell; and I want a fellow who appreciates the luck of gottlng tho place, not one who turns up his nose at everything here, and scents tho whole house with cigars. So you may tell htm I have changed my mind, U jrou havs a more humble minded youth ibobi your sons. I don't mind trying him; but not thle young cock who crowa too loud for my dunghill. I want a plain, honest fellow. I hate your geniuses. If you can't supply the article. I can look elsewhere; but Betsy would much like a nephew about the house. Your fine gentle man looked upon sixty pounds a year as about enough to keep him In cigars; but In that we agree to differ.' What an unfeeling letter, Arthur." "I am afraid Reggie must have offended him," said Arthur, thought fully. "It Is just my luck," said Mr. Den stone, fretfully. "If I have a son with brains above the ordfnsry, he goes and flies in the face of Provi dence. Your mother thinks nothing would be lost by your trying now." "I'wish I might," cried Arthur, eagerly. "But not If Reggie would feel as If I were supplanting him." "No fear of that, my good fellow," said his father, rather contemptuous ly. "You hardly look Mke brothers." Arthur felt that was true enough, as far as clothes went, and he was unconscious cf his superior physical advantages. It Ik extraordinary how Isng family delusions continue. At this moment Mrs. Denstone came in. a little, pale, rather trembly woman, with a sensitive, pink color coming and going in her thin cheek. "What does Arthur say?" she said to her husband. Arthur put his arm round her ten derly. "There is nothing Arthur would not do for you. little mother." he said, "and so you may imagine that this opening is bliss indeed, only if Reggie does not like it " "Reggie won't mind. He thinks it might just do for you," she said. "One cannot wonder at his horror of the idea after what he had expected." "All right!" said Arthur. "Then I will start for Liverpool to-morrow morning. I don't see why 1 shouldn't send you every sixpence of the money, mother mine, for 1 shall evi dently board with my uncle." CHAPTER II. "Good-bye, Arthur! God bless you!" Baid his mother, choking back her tears. The whole family had accompanied him to the station. There they stood, all thirteen of them, on the platform. Arthur thought to hlm?elf that they were an uncommonly good-looking family, ?nd he wondered how far sixty pounds a year would go to re place the shabby, black cashmere gowns that Janet and Tola wore. Reginald was so disgusted at their all having come that he walked off to the upper end of the platform and tried to-look as if they did not belong to him. He did not think them good looking at all; on the contrary, he thought the ohildren hideous, and as for Tommy?the vulgarity of that boy! "Take care of yourself, my boy," said his father. "Give Aunt Betsy my blessing," said Tommy; and when the train moved off, ho flung an old slipper after it for luck. Janet slipped away and joined Reggie. "Oh, Reggie," she said, MI wish It had been you." "Thank you for nothing, my dear! I am thankful It Isn't." "But, after all, perhaps, if Uncle Alfred had only persevered a little, he would have seen what a pity it was; so much talent!" "Gammon!" said Reggie, who, with all his faults, was too much of an Englishman to stand flattery. "Good gracious, Janot! there is Colonel Cur tis, and you are such a guy. Do, for goodness sake, efface yourself among t.ho rabble." Janet drew up her haughty little head. "If he cares about my dress " she said. "Dress by hanged!" said Reggie sharply. "At least you should look like a lady." Colonel Curtis was advancing to ward them. Janet meaut to stand her ground, but her brother's words brought the tears rushing Into her eyes, and she was obliged to retreat quickly, and take refuse among the children. Colonel Curtis eyed the retreating eleven wistfully, but It was more than he could do to join them. That would havo been too formidable. Reggie was advancing upon him with a eo: dial smile, but he was too much disappointed to wish to talk to that vapid youth, so he only nodded to him and went on, and Rcggio walked home by a roundabout route to avoid the cavalcade. Arthur arrived In Liverpool about 7 o'clock. He was full of Interest and curiosity about his new home, and his mind was too much occupied with the hopes and fears which chased each other therein, to havo room for shy nesK. even when tho moment arrived in which he found himself being con ducted by a footman into tho library of his uncle. Poor Arthur! A llttlo pang shot through him as the contrast struck him forcibly between this solid, hand some, comfortablo apartment, rich with useful and Interesting books, and the poor, old, shabby room at homo. The contrast botween the two brothers was much tho same. The shabby, gentle, peevish Squire, with bis sad face and threadbare coat, and the smart, stout, dapper, old gentle man with his thick black hair brushed Into a formidable cockatoo tuft on his head, and his clothes of the best make and quality. Mr. Al fred Denstone wns not alone; hit wife and one guest wore already as sembled for dinner. To he Continued. GRfATHJRBT FIRES Chisholm Minnesota, Entire^ Wiped Out FIRES CHECKED; GREAT LOSS The Tcttu of Chisholm Wiped Out and Thousands of Acrcs of Minne sota Land Burned Over?Many Persons Lc't Homeless and Desti fij* Property Loss Runs up in Millions. r>uliith, Mian., Special.?After ?1e stroying flit' town of Chisholm 0:1 the Mcsaba range, ami burning over thousands ot ncies in St. Louis < ailcton and Itasca counties in Min nesota, and in Douglas county, Wis consin, the many forest tins which have been raging in these regions were checked <?:i Sunday. . CliMiolm, Minn., a town of 4.000 inhabitants on the Mcsaba Iron range 00 miles iio.th of Duluth, was com pletely wiped out. The dam.-.gc to real property is now estimated at $1.00(1,000 and that of personal property at $750,000. The insurance carried bv Chisholm mer chants was about $5.)0,000. Governor Johnson Iisucs Appeal For Aid. St. Paul, Minn., S|?:?ci.-1.?(Jover n<>r Johnson Sunday issued the fol lowing proclamation: A great disaster has come to northeastern Minnesota. Chisholm, one ot tlie splendid cities of the Mcs aba range, lias been totally destroyed by a destructive forest tire wliich swept over a large portion of St. Louis county. Kvery home and bus iness house of that community is burned, and 6,000 people are sudden 1\ rendered homeless, the propertv loss amounting to millions of dollars. Karly reports indicate also the total destruction of the mining locations of Shcnando, Hartley and Pillsbury, Hie total number of people rendered homeless will reach 12,000 and vast tracts of agricultural lands have also been devastated. "This disaster is without paretic! in the history of Minnesota and in view of the appalling calamity, I ap peal to the generosity of the people of Minnesota tor liberal aid, and ow ing to the great necessity, ask that this assistance be a< prompt as pos sible. V The loss on the buildings at Chisholm is estimated at '?2,000,000. Chisholm is iu the center of the great est iron producing area in the world. Refuges poured- into 1 Jibbing until the population of 10,000 was almost doubled. Clpsholm presents a scene of ruin and desolation. Blackened and smoking piles of charred wood, little heaps of gray ashe*. searching gaunt skeletons of brick ami mortar, oil canopied with a dense pall of smoke comprise what was one of the most flourishing towns on the great Ma range. The only remaining building are the new high school a giaded school, a ( atholic church, the Italian church and a dozen dwel lings in the southernmost part of town. FIRE SWEEPS RAWHIDE. Three Thousand People Rendered Homeless. Rawhide. New., Special.?As a re sult of a disastrous fire which ravag ed this city on Friday three thousand people are homeless and property is destroved to the amount of $1,000, 000. The lire started in the Rawhide J rug Company's building and fanned by a gale the flames swept on-lward over the town until they reached tlio I eople's Hospital. As a last resort Ions of mining dynamite were wheeled into the town Sfiuare in truks, placed under the block of huil linjts and touched off bv short fuse. The hospital was paved. Miners fiorn surrounding mines aided the fire fighter?. So tar as known no one was seri ously injured. President King, of the Uawhide ( oal ami Iron Company, ordered a special train to bring lum ber snlllcient to erect five large tem porary buildings at Rawhide. The ruins were .?en relied (o recover valu ables lost in the (lames. Reconstruc tion work will occupy five hundred carpenters, comtm ncing next week. Laborers are being ini|H>rted. Visible Supply. New^ Orleans, Special.?Secretary Hester's statement of the world's visible supply of cotton issued last, week ^sliow* the total visible to be L('H.5|0 against 1.710.502 la?t week and 2,21 l..<(i4 las( year. Of this the total of American cotton is 000.502 against 0CUWM0 Ins' week and L2SS, 3S0 last year. And of all other kind's including Kgyp;, Brazil, India, etc., 722,0-10 against 711,040 las( week and 022.075 last year. Of the world's visible Mipplv of cotton there is now nfionl and held in (Jrcat Mritian and contineiitnl f'.urope 050,000 against 1,310,000 last year. Ncjqrro Chairmen Arrented. Atlrnfic City, Special.?Jesse Jack son, (lie negio chairman in charge of the chair containing Charles Rob erts and Mi-. Williams, principals in the boardwalk shooting mystery was placed under arrest Saturday under $ >00 bail. Whether he is wanted as a witness or on the theory that he was a confederate is a mvstery, Jackson repudiates the published statement in which he scoffed at the highwayman theory. mutts. Ill PERSONS INDICTED Participants in tb? Springfield Biot Hare to Answer to the Law. Springfield, 111., Special.?the spec ial grand jury called to probe the re cent race riots, adjourned Thursday affcr returning twenty more indict ments. This makes a total of 117 during the session. Among the in dictments returned were four against Sprinfield |>olicemen, Oscar I)ahl kamp, Jose Ferendez, Joseph H. Ohl man, and (Jeorge W. Dawson. They are indicted for alleged failure to suppress the riot when detailed for that duty. .Sheriff Werner, Chief of Police Wilbur Morris, Captain Char les Walsh, of troop 1). Springfield and other oflicers are commended by the grand jury. The report condemns alleged "cow ards" among tlie officials and says: "We condemn in unmeasured terms the cowardly, contemptible ac tion of tlio.-e members of the force, who, having taken the oath of oflice. failed to do their duty; men who were paid from money from the pock ets of the people of this city to pro tect kfc ami property; men who were ordered by the heads of departments of the folice to go out and disperse the mob, and not only failed to use a club, handle a pistol or raise a voice against (lie mob, and on the side of law and order, but some of whom are shown to have assisted by act and word in doing the work lliai lias brought destruction to thousands of dollars of property and has brought the blush of shame to every laivahiding citizen of this city. "We retommend that the civil ser vice commission of the city of Spring field, without fear orJ'avor. ami while evidence can easily he obtained, de termine by fair trial who failed to prove himself a worthy member of the force, and deal with him accord ing! v." Cannot Stop Beer Shipment. Montgomery. Ala.. Special.? In re straining the Birmingham city au thorities from interefering with the shipments of beer into that city Judge Thomas (J. .Jones, of the Unit ed Stales Court held that the ship ment was an interstate shipment un til it reached the purchaser. The Letup Brewing Company, of St. Louis made a shipment which was held up at the express oflice. The city judge held, that the interstate haul ended at the depot and that it was unlaw ful to deliver the consignment by transfer wagon to the place of the consignee. Judge Jones holds that such is not the case and that the transfer company us well as the ex press company are within national statutes on interstate orders. Her Body Found Without a Head. Boston, Mass., Special.?Chester Jordan, aged 25) years, of f>00 Med ford street, Sotnerville, was arrested by Boston officers late Thursday afternoon on the charge of having murderd his wife, Hnnorah Jordan, whose body minus the head was dis covered dismembered in a trunk at 7 Hancock street, Boston. The head :s believed by the police to be in a furnace of the family home in Som erville. The police state the murder was committed two days ago. Jordan is an actor and his wife was also connected with the stage. Her age was 23. 36,COO Cold Baths and Still Lives 108 Years Old. New York, Special.?Mrs. Kliza betli Hunt celebrated her hundred and eighth birthday in Brooklyn Every morning in tlie last 100 years, she says, she has taken a cold plunge. She says that she is the only living woman who was kissed by fieneral LnFayetfe. The incident oecured on the sfeps of the City Hall 84 years ago, and Mrs. Hunt tells how the Oeneral had remarked about the brightness of Iter eyes and said lie wished France could boast of women so fair. Mrs. Hunt is a native of Lancaster, I'o. Made Millions and Kept Tfccm. St. Louis, Special.?Judson M. Thompson, 77 venrs of age, one of the most frugal millionaires in the city, and for many years a conspic ious figure in St. Louis financial af gairs, died at the home of his son. It was his custom to buy clothing at a little outlay of expense and wcai tho apparel as long as it would last. General Stewart's Fnncral. St. i/ouis, Special.?(Jen Alexander P. Stewart, with one exception the last of the lieutenant-generals in the Army of the Confederate States, who died at Biloxi, Miss., last Sunday at the age 80, was buried in Bellefon taine Cemetery, this city, lato Wed nesday afternoon. In accordance with the custom of the United Con federate Veterans, the interment was not marked by the call of tho bugle or by the beat of the drum the absrnee of these martial tributes signifying for the ve*?uaug that then warfare is over. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS News of Interest Gleaned From All Sections of the Stzte and Arranged For Busy Readers SOUTH CAROLINA POSTMAS TERS. Annual Convention to Be Held in Columbia. The following circular letter hns been issued from the office of the president of the South Carolina Asso ciation of Postmasters: South Carolina Association of Post masters. Office of the President. Charleston, S. C. To the Postmasters of South Caro lina : The tilth annual convention of the South Carolina Association of post masters is hereby called to he held in t he | tost office building at Columbia. S. ( at 10 a. in., Wednesday, Oc tober 'JS. UMIS. Ollleeis ol the Association are till ed t?? meet promptly with the caccii five committee ai the cilice ol the post master at Columbia, S. ;it S p. m. Tuesday. October 27, I! MS. The constitution of the National Assoc:;*.!ion oj I'?tsj masters of lirsi class officers provides that the presi dent or tiist vce president of State as*ociations of postmasters shall he ejigible to membership in licit Asso ciation. Closer affiliation of the Na tional Association with State asso eations i? further actively sought ami ^ ill he urged through legislat ion foreshadowed at the meeting of Na tional Associations at Chattanooga. Tenn., September 15-17, to provide for representatives or delegates to he elected by State associations. We will, therefore, at our forthcoming convention elect representatives or delegates, as may then be determined. Postmasters in South Carolina not enrolled by payment of 50 cents mem bership fee and $1 annual <luos, should be constitutionally eligible to participate in its deliberotons. Kn roll promptly and aid the rank am! Hie ot whieft you are a part in co operating with department officials that the postofficc department sus tain as efficient and patriotic distinc tion in the regard of our countrymen as is accorded any co-ordinate de partment of the National Govern ment. None should rest otherwise satisfied respecting it. " Information" circular from the office of the secret a rv-treasurer will be maile to you. If you fail to re ceive it, address him at Suimnervillc. S. therefor, and fail not to l?e present at Columbia in convention with us on October 2S, 100S. Fraternally yours, \V. L. HARRIS, President. JAMKS O. LA 1)1). Secret ary-T rca*urer. Summersville, S. C. The object of the Association is to keep in touch with the latest ideas and methods of business, ami to dis cuss and thoroughly understand the needs of the mail, so a< to be able to act iu harmony with the department in Washington. The coming convention will prob ably be addressed by some of the leading officials of the department, who will come to Columbia for the purpose. BLUE LAWS AFFIRMED. Lower Court Sustained in Punishing a Sunday Meat and Ice Seller. Columbia. Special. In the case of William .lames, n .Manning butcher nnd dealer in ice. convicted of scllling ice and fresh meat al Mailing on Sunday, the State Supreme Court handed down .in opinion of great in terest to the advocate- and opponents of Sunday blue laws throughout the State. The decision will be receiv ed with great jov and satisfaction by those advocating an air-lig.'il lid be-J ing kept on all the cities and towns ol the State on Sunday. The con viction ot James is aliirmed on the i ground that he violated the Siate I law on the subject, that he could not escape on the ground that either ice or fresh meat is a necessity in a town the size of Manning. t ndcr a strict application of tin law, which the legislature has stead fastly refused to alter for over a cen tury, all train service in the State could be stopped, as could street cars and the publication of newspapers. One paragraph in the law goes so far Six Pardons Refused. Governor Ansel Tuesday announced his decision on six pardon petitions, marking each "pardon refused." The petitioners were William Hartzog, of Orangeburg, and Arthur CliMholm. of Barnwell, four years each for car breaking; General llagnod, of Hnrn well. five years for manslaughter: Thomas ,T. S or, of Greenwood. thr#e months for keeping a training house; ?Toe Warren, of Colleton, ten years for manslaughter: William Henry, of I1 airfield, three mouths for gambling. CONDITIONS AFTER THE FLOOD Pathetic Letter Addressed to Presi dent of South Carolina Red Cross. The Charleston News ami Courier says: The following pathetic stoiv of the appaling destitution that now prevails in the flood-swept sections of the State i< publish.1*! that the ]H'ople may learn of conditions and coiurihnte to the relief of liicse starving human beings. "What can tin* Red Cross d?/" remarked Mr. Kaufman, "unless money is scut us to save these lives. The recent ilood horrors in China, in kind, ii' not i:i degree, are being revived near oar ov.ji dor*-.*' Tiie account read thus. Lykoland, S. C.. August l!'-IS. Mr. A. t . Kaufman. President South Carolina Red Cioss, Chailcs ton. S. C. Dear Sir: I want lo call v<;:.r at tention to the c:?ndi?io*i of about forty families ef (uliir.d p:opi.* that 1 know pcifonailx iii this ni'uity. | These people live in li;!'c, ;iu'0 Yalle\ that lias just been s?v,.pi l?y the Most disa-trious Hood ever known by tl.e oldest inhabitants, a:; 1 i::?s di?;tro\cd everything bu' tl.t e;:'.?iiis; not one of them l:as a h a <-ii:? ken or ?o\v left. All iif their hedda.id furniture was destioyed, and they had to take to boats for their lives. Thev have absolutely notninj- hit, and will suffer if they do no; -.>t help. None of them have even corn meal. The.se conditions 1 know of person ally, as 1 tool: a boat and went down in lh;it country during the wors: of the high water, and have seen and talked to them since the waters have receded. They will be glad to yet anything, bed mattresses, ?piilts, blankets, old clothes, meal, baron, A few dollars to each family would tide them over for a while. Any thing you might send them, 1 will see to its proper distribution. My freight depot is Lykcs. and postollice Lykesland. on the Atlantic Const Line Railroad. As to reliabil ity and responsibility, I rei'cr you to the editor of the Stnte, Columbia, or the President of the 1'nluietlo Malik. I am writing you this because I personally know all of these colored people, and realize their pitiful cou dition. The while families i:i the sane* *ec tion, of course, lost heavily al?o. I have no interest i.i these overflowed lands, and have not lost a dollar. I am the freight agent at this place. Yours verv trulv, \V. I.vkes. Mr. Kaufman added : The magnitude of the suffering oc casioned from these Hood-* is not fnlly realized. In Augusta, (la.. 10, 000 people are said to be in extrem ity. (Jrcnt destitution prevails in many other sections of our Slate be sides that above noted. Contributions, large or small, are urgently solicited. 'I'liev will be gratefully received by Tr? as':rcr John It. Reeves or l're*iden! A. ('. Kaufman, South Curelina Mrauch Red Cross, or at The News and Cou rier otliee. Official South Carolina Weather P?c port. The weather for the week cn-lin r August ,'tl, was particularly note worthy on account of the unusually low August temperatui" dts inj- the latter portion, and the excessive rain fall in the western portion ilia! caus ed unprecedented ilood*. The p;ecipit at ion was .?*.. e in the western portion und u' :<.;.llv above r.oimnl in the central p <v! .0:1, and normal, or above, in the ? ?;; : i portion. A number of places .'i, ?!??? western counties rcpoit.-d v..* klv amounts in excess of ten inch' . v.**? 11 a maximum of l.'klli imltes a: ? >:? ? 11 ville. (Owing to iiitcrr.iV i! tr ail and telegiaph ?ervi?e, iipm's re not received from many statu*.;s iii the western division.) Tin' heavy rainfall early in the w?ek do !y fol lowing e\( essive pree:pi'.il !<<:: rear the close of the previous w.vk. caus ed destructive lloo :s in ah the si reams in the western half ef the State. I'revion- records of high water were exceeded bv ftom one and a half feet to six feet, or more. My the close of the week the {|oud .->tlitres had reached the lower coiirsrs of the rivers, exceeding previous high wa ter records by front one foot t<> four feet. The damage caused b\ the ylieavv rains and the Hoods was wide spread, including the practical de struction of all bottom land crop-* and damage to uplands by erosion. State Weather Miiicau Director Mailer has received a few answers to inquiries sent out by him. but not enough so fur to make up a general estimate, lie does not hope to bo able to formulate a general report under perhaps two weeks. Reports that have come in so far indicate that Spartanburg county'* damage will go over $7."?,000. 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