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itu xuou uluui'by weat. iu?pu? uur raouis nita ?mi'te uur OJIVOO tu lujr J. tn>scj??iuu ?ap^y, t? vitr .i;<xu<iw Ulorlous In I'liy Just Delenoo." --'"' . -- -. VOL. XXVI BENNETTSVIL?.E. S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1901. -* NO 16 CAUSES OF SUICIDE Freely Discussed. By ithe Coroner oftNew York. HOWiMEN FACE DEATH. , ll ?a Claimed that rVioro Germans Destroy Themse Ivo? Than Any Other Nationality. Pitiful Gason. There woro 471 suicido* in tho bor ough of Manhattan last yoar. Opti mitts may bo surprised that tho .num ber is largo, possimists that it IB . so small. Of all tho gruesome statistics that fil ter through tho oononor's offioo and find oblvion in tho pigoon bolos of tho hoalth department IhoBO pertaining to tho city's (suiciden aro porhaps tho most interesting to a ntudont of lifo an hu man ?aturo. 10von tho mon in tho corone VJ offioo philosophize, ovor thom and its a raro thing for a man to spin philosophical concludions out of a tragedy that.is.all a part of tho day's "Those suicides always Sot ono think ing," said ono of tho amature .philoBO phors to Sun roportcr. "Thoro aro so man nays in every oaeo. Its an easy matter to return a vordiot of ouioido by illuminating gas, or oarbolio aoid, or Whatever tho motl od happens to bo, but tborc's suoh ? lot back of all that. "About ono person in a dczon loavos m Tho law forbids tho publica tion ef thoko loiters now, but tho files of them make queer reading matter. Eftoh ono hes its own individuality boars tho Btamp of tho porson who 7?roto it. Givon that lettor you can construct tho mao. Some of them aro carefully writton on good paper; some aro scrawled on temps of paper, mar gins of nowspapors, books or hacks of onvolopop; som o aro in a firm, clear hand: nomo aro blottod and almost Moglble. "Its qucor how differently men faoo death. Now, there aro tho Germana. Thoro aro moro snioidos among tho Germans in this oily than arnot g any othof notionality. Seems odd. doosn't it? Qno wouldn't expect a stolid, boor drinking raco to go in for suioide. A German would be tho last man I would expect to seo lose his balanoo and run amuck. A dago, now, or a Russian or an Irishman-that wouldn't eurpriso mo; but, bloss you, thoy don't oommitt suicide*. Whon thoy got down on tho world the Russian throws a bomb at somobody; tho Irishman breaks somebody's head; but tho German drinks his beor, goes to his-room and quietly puts a bullet holo in himsolf. - "Thoy say its a racial instinct. It ?j oortninly is easier on tho publio than tho other methods of working off stoam, ? but wo could spar o o thor citizens bet-, ter than wo can ' spate tho" Gormans'.' Tho troublo With tho Gorman is that ho thinks too mueh. Wo'vo decided that down boro. Ho usually has a dcoont education and povorty or diegrAoo go hard with him. Ho oan't reconcile hiniBolf to failure 'Thon tho avorago German scorns to bo a good doal of an agnostic Half tho timo ho doesn't boliovo in a hereof tor of any sort, and of oourae its a lompation to him to put an ond to things altogether. Now a Oatholio Irishman bolievoB ho will bo damned if ho lakes his own lifo, and he'd just as soon enduro tho damnation ho's used to right hero as samplo anethor varioty that may bo woree "Very few Hobrows commit suicido. Sometimes a man of his raoo will do it, . but tho suicido of a JOWOBBB is a very roar thing. Tho Russian and Polish Hebrews of tho cast side look melan choly enough for anything, but thoy usually enduro lifo. It is tho Christian girl of tho'cast sido who drinks oarbolio acid-not tho Jowess. Tho Amoriour born girl is tho moat frequont viotim too. Bho hoads the roll of woman snioidos, justas tho Gorman hoads tho Hat of malo suicides. Why's that? Is she more in toll ige ct too? Doos sho suffer moro from unhappy conditions than tho other girls, or is sho moro rookiest), and moro likely to got into troublo? Ob, I toll you, theso suioido files make an interrogation point of mo. "After tho Gormans on tho list oomo tho Americans, but tho suioidoa whoso nationality oan't bo dctorminod aro lumped in with tho United States list, so it isn't quito a fair guido. Next como tho Austrians and Bohemians. Then a long way be bind tho Irish. Tho .nor nationalities drop in by ones ar. J. twos. You seldom hoar of a negro suicido. A darkey is too irrepressible. No mat tor how hard luok goos today, ho thinks ^e will be coming his way tomorrow, ..and fixed dopresBion is absolutely im possible to him. Whon ho does got worked up to suioide, ho usually hangs himself. A Gorman prefers shooting himself. Thoy'vo all boon soldiorsmore or less and feel a ocrtain dignity oon ?looted with a gunshot wound. "Tho Amorican affects shooting, too, but has a liking for illuminating gas. The womon almost always tako poison or drown thomaolvos. Y ou nco tho ordinary man oan swim and its rathor hard for him to drown himself. Ho nerves himself up for tho plungo, and tho wator cools him off.' Ho oan swim and doos. But with a woman it is dif ferent. "Talking about mon and womon, we've ofton noticed how fow womon kill thomncl vc o for love Mon do it soores of thom. A man's swootbeart jilts'him, or the girl ho loves will not havo him, and ho blows out what fow brains ho has. You. don't, onoo in a bluo moon, find a woman doing that sort of thing. A woman takes her own ? 3f?*U8e ??. ^l88raoo? or pbyeioal suffering or diauouragomont, but sho ?oidora doos it booaus.6 sho lovos a man who doesn't lovo hor. "You don't flupposo that that moans tho mon love moro deeply than tho womon, do yon? I cant's seo it that v/ay. I. nu pp ono a woman's prido koop? her fr?macknowledging, cvonby e3oath, that she was jil tod. Tho diagraoo of that acknowledgment would scorn worso to her than tho death. Thon, too, whon a man's in lovo and hopcloss. ho usually goes out and go tn drunk, Tho depression following dobauoh is ro sponaiblo for a nig poroontago of our suioldos. In that doprossion, a follow'a lovo troublo look? oven verso to him than U did before he got drunk. So ho writes anoto to tho hoartlecs charin - or and roakos way with himself boforo ho is thoroughly ?ober. "Tho wotnou soldbm loavo letters,*, thoy usually try in every way to avoid identification; but tho mon seem to tftko a cortain satisfaction in tho dra matic ond they aro making and want! all tho spootaoular features Of oourso, thore aro many exceptions to all .those gonoralitioa. I'm only giving you my own impression? from study of tho re cords. "Tho mothers are tho poreona for whom most of tho lottors aro loft. Thoro aro lottors to haabande, wivoa, DWI!01 heart1), but a big majority of tho, suicides BOC m moro worried about tho elli ot of tho thing upon thoir mothora than about an j thing che- Lottor aftor lotter hpga a mother to forgivo and not to grit vc, and a Rood many of thom aro not written to tho mobbora. but ask that tho nows bo broken lo tbom gent-; ly. Its natural enough A s weit heart or wifo or friend ia all very vol, but it? a fellow's mot her who in going tobo hardest hit when ho throws up tho garni; and down at tho bottom of his heart tho fellow knows it. "Thero'u ono funny thicg about tho loiters. If tho writer mentions God or tho hcrcaf t< r at all ho usually st oma to feol protty bur o that God will forgivo him. Thcro's Bomo anxiety about what surviving friends may think of tho move, but a fair cortainty that God known how hard things aro and will un dera<and. ' Ono o'ass of suioidos includes tho cranks-all sorts and conditions of cranks Thoro was tho man who thought ho had swallowed dy muni to and would rathor kill himself than wait to bo blown up. Thon thoro vas .tho man who boliovcd that ho was boing followed and wquid bs murdorod. Wo'vo Boon a number of euoh oases The man who always heard angola urg ing him to dio and orno to heaven waa another; and ono said ho had beon hypnotized by somo pooplo on tho stroot, and his lifo was spoiled. Of course*, thoso mon aro simply insano I'm B?rry for them, but thoso oaaos aren't pitiful liko somo. "When an old man of 70 commits suioido boonu ro ho oin'tboar hoing de pendent upon bia ohildron any longor it makoa you think. Ouo seldom find? an old person taking his own lifo. Things must bavo boon protty hard for that old follow. Ho looked liko a good patient soul, too. "Thon I always have felt sorry for tho men who mado away with them selves BO that thoir wives and ohildron could havo tho insurauoa monoy, and for tho invalids who faood lingoring doath and drcadod tho burden and ox ponse for thoso thoy lovod. "I've novor had a tuloido oaao broak mo up as ono did yoars ago. A awoot faoed, worn woman had consumption. Hor husband oould earn vory little, and ?ho finally got so abo couldn't work nt all. Tho ohildron woro half starved; and nt last tho mothor just put hor self out of tho way, not booauao sho minded suffering, but beoauso that waa tho only'.-Way. in ,whioh sho oould. holp. along and mako hor husband's burdon lighter. "Tho man who can't got work-I'm sorry fer hun. Of oourso there uro oharitios; but some mon aro proud, and thon a man oan starvo to death while tho wheels aro gotting iu motion. Thoro's ono man I suppose I ought not to f.ympathiz J with, but I can't help doing it. HO'B the follow who is ac out and out failuro and knows it. He ought to pull himsolf together and mako up for lost timo. It's contemptible oowardioo for him to oonfops himsoll beaten and ohuok tho wholo responsi bility ; but when a man ron ohos-well, say 40- and, looking baok socs failure and wastod opportunities all along thc lino, and realizos ho's a wreck, bod} and soul, ho has a pretty bad quarter ol au hour. "A good many suioidos cover dis graoo that novor oomos to tho oars ol tho world. Wo don't have so many Wall stroot suioidos as in old days though. Thcro seem to bo moro wayi of wriggling out of tight finanoial plaooi nowadays, or OIBO business mon hav< moro luck. "By tho way, thoro's a grim irony ii ono oollootion that has accumulated ii tho coroner's offioo. You'd bo surpriser to BOO tho number of rabbits' foot amulets, and lu,iky oharms of ono sor and another that havo boon takon fron tho bodies of suioidos and oasualt; oaaos. Thcro used to bo a drawer ful of them, but I don't know what has bo como of thom. "Grip has addod to tho number o suioidos in this oountry, and oxtromi hot wcathor always swolls tho list Comparatively fow porsons oommi suioido during tho wintor. Tho oaso bogin to multiply during April am May. I suppose tho spring stirs poo plo up and makoa thom restless am unhappy. "Juno is oallod tho suioido month b, statistioans, but August is usually th big month here. Tho hoat baa workei on a man's norvos by that timo, an whon a soorohing spoil oomes alon ho's half orazy and irresponsible 4 Suioido goos in waves, liko variou kinds of orimo. Ooo man u-os a oci j Cain method and otbor oases of th j arno kind will follow. Oarbolio aol has boon a great thing this last yeal It uso tobo, always, Paris groen < rat poison. Illuminating gas suicide bavo koroasod wonderfully. But, al tor all, its tho pistol and tho wator th? koop tho suioido records orowdod." Now York Sun. Plant Loss Cotton. Prrsidont Harvio Jordan, of tl Georgia Cotton Growers' aassooiatioi and of tho In toro tato Cotton Grower association, said rccontly: "Wo are now oonfrouted by th? moi difficult of probloms. It is, how to koc tho farmers from planting too much co ton. Of oourso, wo oan hope for nothir but ruin if thoaoroagols very oon aider, My inoreased, In tho first plaoo,8Uppl morohanis aro soiling on oredit moat i 121 2 con ts per pound and oom at i ?or bushol; mules aro higher than thc ave boon in yoars, and everything oh is up in proportion, Thoroforo tho mt who has thoso things te buy cannot ho) to raiso cotton this year for lons than oonts per pound. If tho price goos don to 6 oonts next fall, tho moro cotton 1 has triod to mako the doej>or in debt wi ho bo. The necessity for raising ? suppl ios at nome wai noyer groater tin it is right new, and if we' fail to impre this faot upon tho fannora ot the BOAH thia year, there will be gloom and di astor among thom ?.oxt fall." THE NEGRO RACK. A Miuiiter Argues That They Aro Not;Deao?nded From Adam. lu tho lastnumbor of tho ?iblo Bap tist, a roligious monthly megazlno, oditod and owood by Rev. li li. Cars well, Jr., a woll known Baptist minis tor, is an artiolo whioh contains some startling etatemons and will ovate quito a sensation in tho roligious world. Before quoting from tho artiolo abovo ref or rr d to, ic is but propor to state that Rev. Mr. Carswoll is a. nativo of this county, aad is a gradu?to of Mor dor University, tho Southern Baptist Theological sominary, and an author of p< voral works upon theology, b?lidos havine filled aa pastore?me >f tho lead ing Baplibt pulpits in this state and Texas. That ho is a man of extraordinary ability, of great montai grasp, a bard student of tho Biblo and an editor, and leo'urcr. whosj famo is boundod only by tho extent of tho Southern Baptist denomination, gives groat woight to his editorials. Mr. Carawell is io bin fif tte tli yoar, and resides in North Augusta, but at tho present timo is holding a mooting in Lako City, Fla Tho odi'orial in tho Biblo Baptist is upon "Traditionalism,* and in it ho dissents from many ourront thoologioal views, whioh li J says aro only basod upon tradition, and whioh ho holds to bo erroneous. Ho says: "It is puro tradition that assigns to nogroos a pl?co in tho human family. Tho Biblo will bo explored in vain for suoh a doctrino. Even tradition finds no nogro in tho original oroation as mombcr of tho Adamio housohold. "Moroovcr, Noah's other eons, Ham and Japheth, woro whito and produced only whito tribos and kindreds. Tho Canaanites,. whom tradition'taught us to regard as nogroos produood by tho Hamatio ourso, wo know to havo boon a r*oe of blonds-tho South Irish of later timon, tho prevailing typo boing fair skinnod, Wu 3 eyod and red hairod. Truo they bavo boon sorvaots always, ditoh diggers and table waitois." Ho then asko the question: "What then will Biblo folks clo with thoso traditions that class nogrooB with tho family of Adam? ' Y MI soo tho quostion is up to us. If tho negroos bo not desoonded from Adam, thon tho orthodox view is that Christ did not dio for thom. Hcnoo thoy aro lost, or a spooial provision is m tv do for thom in tho plan of salvation, or they still need a Messiah who will vot save thom. But Mr. Carswoll con tinues: . ' "For tho prosont, wo aro not oon corned about tho origin of tho nogro, or whether, liko Adam, ho was made immortal-in God's image; but wo sing ly say tho Bible contradicts that tradi tion whioh roads tho nogro into tho family of Adam. That tradition is fal 10. Iiis unioriptural. It is unaoioutiflj. It is wholly un ton able. No man over boliovod.it savo in You seo, aooording to tho Bible Bap tist, wo havo all been wrong up to dato. Wo look in vain to find thogo?d editor's viows as to the origin of our "Brother in Blaok," but he doos not attompt to throw any light on tho matter, but simply says: ' "W both or tho. nogro is 'Pro-Ada mio,'or 'Post Adamio,' wooaronotto Bay; but ?uro it is, ho is Mistra-Adamio.' Again: "Tho negro is unknown to oreation as a hum?u." This sounds very muoh liko an author who signed himself Ariei, and .who directly aftor "the war, between tho s tatos," wrote a broohure, endeavoring to provo that tho negro had no soul. If, as Hov. Mr. Carswoll states, "a ro study of tho Biblo account of oroa tion and all history" havo brought him to his oonoluBions, would it hot bo be neficial to tho nogro for him to prooood further and solve tho problem of whioh ho writer, and givo tho nooded infor mation to tho many seekers of truth who are striving to fix tho status of tho nogro in the divino plan of salvation. In tho moantimo, it is noodloes to stato that tho tradition of tho origin of tho negro will still bo hold to by those who, in lieu of something bettor, are obligod to hold to it "in thoir ignoranoo or in advanoo of investigation." Augusta 11 or aid. Gold Brick Swindlers. The State says Gov. MoSwoonoy has isaUod a requisition upon tho governor of North Carolina for throe gold briok swindlors oapturod in that Stato. Thoy aro wanted in both Nowborry and Aikon counties, in this Stato, for swindling oitizons out of several thousand dol lars, and havo boon identiQod by at loast ono of tho viotims. Thoso follows had a slick soborno. Thoy would tako an iron or braes briok and have it gold plated. They alBO had li?los bored in tho metal, whioh thoy filled with puro gold? - Thoy would lot tho viotimS soo thom boro into tho briok and thon givo him tho shavings of puro gold BO that ho could havo thom to .tod. Thoy would aleo lot tho victim mark tho briok so ho oould idontify it lator. Of oourao tho tos ts proved all rieht and tho Halos woro made In one in s tan 00 thoy worked in one of their gang mado up as an In dian. Tho wholo thing was very smooth, and of cour JO tho viotims woro "doad oasy." If tho mon aro brought back thoy will bo tried in tho county of Nowborry first. . What It Cost. Aooording to aopooial from Wash ington, sinoe tho rebollion in tho Philip pines 50,000 monis tho lowoatestimato of tho war department of the casual ties buBtainodby tho Filipino forcea; ,7,667 riflos have boon oaptured or sur rendered and 605,142 rounds of ammu nition, as show by ineomploto returns, havo boen soiled. The number of Filipinos killed oannot bo aoouratoly determined, as Genoral MAO Arthur in his dispatohis states that it ls impossi ble to be aeourato on this point, It would not aurpriao offioials should tho Filipino fatalities reaoh 25,000, and some say that 60,000 is oloaor to tho real finura. Adjutant Genoral Coibin is satiifiod that tho casualties sufferod by tho Filipinos will in t hem u ol voa form a potont reason for tho abandonment of further resistance by the natives. A nine million bale crop means ten oent cotton, whito atwolvo million balo orop moans five cents.cotton. Farmors whioh do you prefer? A STRANGE STORY Told by Hugh H Haviland of Greenville Ky. A REMARKABLE OA8E. gays H? !s the Son of Or Theo dore Keattle, Whofor Thirty Yoara Masqueraded a? a Woman? Tho Louisvillo Courior-Journal pub lishod tho following remarkable ?tory on last Friday: "Hush H. Haviland of Groonville, Ky., olaims to bo ono of tho heirs of a fortuno left by 'Dr. Thoodoro K tattlo,' another 'Murray Hall.' il *Dr. Koattlo' diod at Punta Gorda, Fla., in 1896. Thou it was disoovorcd that tho Mootor' vas a woman and that for 30 ycard oho had so maequoradod, Tho woman was a mothor Thoso who wera supposod to know, say that in 1853 a little boy was plaood in thoProtostant Epinoopal asylum by 'Dr. Koattlo' thon confessedly a woman, known as Kato Havilaadr Tho boy's namo WAS Hugh H. Haviland... Ho was lator bound out to a farmor and finally to au indopond ont position at Greenville Thin is tho story of Hugh Haviland, told by him self, in a lottor to Tb o Courior. Jour* nal. UU-_1 - A A lil 1_iL! i* Gi uiini i jr -xv junia uu ?nun liuvinug of his parents. Thou oamo a lottor from a Nov York lawyor, G. Tarlotou Goldthwaito 141 Broadway, who wroto that while searching for tho hoirs ^of "Dr. Thoodoro Koattlo," whom death rovoalod to bo a woman, ho had found that in 1853 ?ho, going by tho name of Kato Haviland bad put High H Havi land iu tho Protestant Epiaoopftl' or phan asylum at Louisvillo. Hugh H. .Haviland at Groonville, is rogarded as that boy. That Kato Haviland was "Dr. Kjattlo" waB, it is said, praoii oally established by witnotsos in Now York and Brooklyn. But Hugh Havilaud is hoir to but half the fortuno- A girl who is ex peeled to divido it with him, Graoo M Clark Elliott, Haviland's niooo, BO Lawyor Goldthwaito says, behoves her solf solo hoircBH to hnhray Clark of AuBtria, who diod worth $25 OCO.OOO. Hugh Haviland's littlo Bister, Kato Haviland's other child, aooording to Lawyer Goldthwaito, was put by tho mother with foster parents, Tho girl grow up, morrlod Clark and went west with him. In 1877 thoy wont to San Francisco, and thoro a ohild was born. Within two wooka tho dolioato mother, Kato Haviland's daughter, died. Tho: baby was plaood in tho hands of Mrs. Martha A, Griswold, supprintQudont of.. thq llomo^for tho FriondloBB V?''. Ipi.; bray ?lar<?i who ?M??d ?VmoBl ihit?o^ dlat?ly for Australia. . Sovoral years af tor Mrs, Griswold hoard of Clark's death and advertisod for Bomo ODO to adopt tho littlo orphan girl. Tho Elliotts rospondod, and on August 21, 1878, woro grantod papors of adoption by a oourt in San Frauoisoo. In 1897 tho Elliotts loarnod that Im bray Clark hal loft a fortuno of $25, 000,000 to whioh thoro was no hoir, and bogan a fight for their footor daughter's righto. Tho ostato is tied up in tho English oourts, and though hundrods of olaimants have oomo forward, nono has boen able to provo olaima to tho satisfaction of tho British authorities. Graoo M. Clark Elliott had almost givonup hopo whoa Lawyor Goldth waito'* lottor oamo telling hor she was heiross to tho oatato of hor grand mother, tho spurious "Dr. Koattlo," of Punta Gorda. Now Miss Elliot: ox poots to provo hor olaims. A Woman's Splendid Grift. Another southorn oollogo has boaomo a bonofioiary of ono of thoBO bloneod per sons who use thoir wealth ' to tho glory of God and tho benefit of mon. Mrs. Joseph mo Lomoino Nowoomb, who diod in Now York Wednesday loft$3,000,000 to Tulano University. Sho had before hor death givoo at various timos sumo to that groat institution aggregating $750,000. Mrs. Nowoomb has won a plaoo in tho largo and lengthening list of woalthy womun who have used thoir monoy for tho benefit of tho publia, a list onnoblod by tho namqs of Mrs, Stanford, Gwondolon, Caldwell, Holon Gould, Mrs. Tubman, of Augusta, Miss Toifair, of Savannah, and hundrods of other womon whom God has given to our ooualry to ble?? and holp it. Tu tano university is already a groat sohool. Mrs. Notvoomb's maguifioiont bequest will holp to mako it a groator ono. For many years tho university wau prosidod ovor by that ri'po scholar and splondtd gontleman, Gonoral William Proston Johnston. Ho helped mightily to givo it tho high ohavaotor whioh has attrac ted to it young mon from all ovor tho south' and plaood it among tho loading educational institutions of Amiriov lt is now tho riohost oollcgo in tho south and its usofullnoBS and influence will bo greatly ovidonood by tho logaoy of Mrs. Nowoomb.-Atlanta Journal. Qoh. Rossor Accepts. Tho Stato says General Thomas L. Hosier of tho Confodorato army has written to Capt. Wado H. Manning,8oe? orotary of tho ronnion exooutivo com mittee, that ho will attond tho coming Stato reunion in responso to tho invi tation extended him//He Bays ho will attond this gathonng with groat ploas uro. It may bo montioned hero that it was Gen. Hoasor whoreoaptured atTre villian Station tho toorotary of the lo cal ooramittoo on June ll, 18C3. Biehop Thomas Frank Gailor of Ten nosaoo has written Capt. Manning that ho rogrota that ho will bo nttablo to attend the reunion hero. Ho is tho oo m man tl ant of camp N. B. Forrest of Nashville, Tonn. "Blaok Death." Hobart MoWado, United State* oon flul at Canton, China, reports that 10, 000 deaths from tho plague known as "Blaok Death" have oflourrod there du ring tho past six weeks, and that thero are ?6 vises of smallpox en board tho United States monitor Montery. Only one death has resulted on tho Mon tory, and the other oases of smallpox are progressing favorably. T?KE CHRISTIAN K KDEAVOR Thej Coining State Convention to bo j , Hold in Charleston. Tl?o following is^ tho programme of the {ohth annual meotiag of the Saith Carolina Stato Christian Eadeavor con volition to be hold in tho Ci rou.'ir Con gregational ohuroh in Charleston tho Hitit to 18th inst: TuVaday Evening-Woloomo porvioe, 0:3(1}?10;30 p. m. by Chrism n Endoav oroi'? of the oity. Wm. 8haw, tho treasurer of tho Uaited Boaicty of Christian Kndoavor, will bo proaont . WodnoBday-Morning scs'ion, 6:30 (mnr|80 prayer nicotina:; 10 o'clock, "Hojw may wo inoroaoo our mombor Bhlpjfl Diaouaaion. IO 30, "How may we i l?o roano intorest in oui prayer meet iug?<?y Diicussim. ll, ''How nny.wo inervase iatoroat in missions? '-W, H lluhuard, Charleston- Dleouiaion led by Sjjito proiidont. 11:30, "How mav we iftoteafo iaterost ia tho ohuroh nor viotCT '-llov. Arthur Crane, Charles ton. rOpon disouaaion. 12, Evangtltstio sorvtyo-Rov. Mr. Tjador, (ho eminont Swedish ovangelist 12:30, .adjourn mopW Aftornoon sosoion-3:30, Junior rally;' lcd by Miss Ooralio Harvoy. Pa Ecr pn j-inior work, Miss Charlotte itofe.; World Wido Junior Eadoa vor, Mr. Wm. Shaw, Boston, Mass. Ejo ninfe. eosaion-8, devotional, Rov. Tjftcfor. Addroas, Mr. Wm. Shaw, Boston, Mass, llcooption. Thursday-Morning sossion: 10, do votiohs, Hov. -Tjader. 10:30 address. ll'iiPt appointing oommittoos, 11:30 ad dronj. 12.15, report of soorotary and troasuror. Roport of proas oommittoo. R?pOrb of superintendent of junior work.. Adjournment. Aftornoon eos si?n^-3.30, ovangolistio address, Hov. Tjader. 4:15, prosidont's addrosB, Hov. J. ffii Kirb>o. 4:30, roports from sooio t?o?i; ; iC?cotion of off?oora. Adj our ninon t.. Evoojng BOBfl??n-"8, floag geryi?o^ Ad drojjflrjtcv. J. Y. Fair, D. D., S?va? nah; .'(ia, Consecration sorvioo. Wm. ShaW. Tho Southeastern Paasongor associa tion] haa grantod tho following rod no od ra toil .go vor ni n g from tho i'motional points nainod: Abbovillo $6 35, Allon dajovjt?;Anderson $10 40, Augusta, Ga. $6 20, Barnwell $4 65, Blaoksburg $10. 20,"Colhouu FallB $9.65, Camdon $6 35, OarUalo $7 60, OaUwba Junotion $8 60, Oh^lotto. N. 0 , $8 80, Ohoraw $6 35, Cheater $7 90; Clinton $8 55, Oolum bia ',$5 85, Denmark $1.05, Fairfax $?'.7&:.- Groonvillo $11, Groonwood $8;6?, Lanoa^ter $3 35, Lumms $9 05, Ketroorry $7 30, Orangeburg $3 85, ProVpority $7,15, Rjok Hill $8 60, Savannah, Ga., $5 25 Spartanburg $9, Suitor $4.45, Yomassoo $3 25, York vitlejkO?. Tlokqts aro restricted to continuous pa?t??ge in oaoh direotion to bo sold Apel)) 15, 16 abd 17,- with final limit Aprlll 22, 1901 inclusive. ". 'f?]J;. Work, o?a MobT ' TK'ce wcokfl ago o . B'mallp.ox eflso du- j ?Vy?\ti>c?:^ tho patient j hiing ? railroad man namod William Moyjrs. The victim was isolated in hin rooms in the Armstrong blook, tho board of health hoking a pest houso, and soon rooovorod. La'or, fivo new oases dovel opod, and tho board of health dooidod to soouro a temporary post house. A yaoant sohool houso in tho eooond ward was sooured and oarpontors and plumb ers woro put to work fitting it up. Whon itbocamo known, tho people living nearby booamo greatly wrought up and rosolvod to mako ttoublo. Thursday night at 8:30 o'olook a mob of oyov 300 men and women surrounded tho sohool houBO. Their loadors clutched tho night watohman, Charlea Story, and held him firmly while tho inoondiarios battorod opon a door and sot firo to the plaoe. All who attomptod to prevent the firo wore kept baok, and in a fow minutes the ontiro building, a largo two and a half story woodon struct uro. was in fiamos. Plumbors' tools and other ariioloa in tho houso Woro burned and the oxoitomont ran high, mon and women running up and down tho strcots, crying against tho board of health. As tho fiamos follod and oraoklod, tho mob howlod Us delight. Threats wore made as to what would be dono if polioo or hoalth officers intor forrod, but thoro waa no intorforenoo. No arroata havo boon made. Good for Beaufort. A Washington dispatch says Admiral GrownBhiold, who has j ant returnod from an iriapootion of southern ports with a viow to tho establishment of a naval training station, Ima rooommondod to tho seorotary of tho navy that tho naval station at Port Roy al. S. C. be utilized for this purposo. Tho aoorotary heartily approvos of tho recommenda tion and informed Congressman Elliott that tho buildings at Port R-yal would bo usod and improyod for tho ae oomodatiou of from 500 to 1,000 boye, ohiofly from tho south. Tho station, ho told Mr. Elliott, would bo made a most important ono. Tho maohinory 'now at Port Rayai dry dook will be transforrod to Oharloston in accordance with tho rcoont act of Congress remov ing the dook station and now buildings will bo mooted near Charleston for ita roooption, it hoing impossible to re movo those at Port Royal. An English Fortune. Tho Columbia Stato says a lottor haa boon roooivod in that oity Baying that Mrs. MoSwoonoy, wife of tho governor of South Carolina, ia among tho hoirs entitled to a for moo of ono hundred and forty niuo millions of dollars in Eng land. Thia fortune ia to go to tho heirs of Gov. Moore of oolonial timon, 1700 to 1720. and Mrs. MoSwoeney and several others in this Stato are do soondantflof that omcal, and the family treo has boon very well preserved WhntntopB will bo takonby tho hoira in thin Stato aftoroonforonoo with one anothor romains to bo neon. A Good Idea. Biahep Homy M. Turner, of the African Methodist ohuroh, has been oonduoting Easter Borviooi in aevoral of tho oolerod ohurhcB at Maoon, Ga. He ia advocating among tho negroes the banishment of the or i min a'. olftBBOB of their i-AC?, having them carried to Af doa, sayatr . s will do a ?eat deni toward aplving the rroe problem. He also advises the building of stoanv BhlpB to build up oovomoroo between thia oountry and Africa, He a>y* such an onterpriie would neon enrioh the, flouthorn port?. "BLACK DEATH. Thousands of Ca?oa Reported to Mulina Hospital Servies FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, lt Has Lodgment In Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America lt is Depopu lating India. Tb outfits of casos of bubonic, plaguo In all parts o fib*?/-world alooo Nov. 1 ; lust bavo boon reported to tho marino hospital sorvioo. \*? Rio Janeiro from Fob. 1 to 20 thoro ?o ou rr od iivo now oasos and throo doaths. At Hongkong', China, 31, all fatal, occurred during tho week onding Fob. 18. Tho plaguo is stoadily inoroasing in Capo Colony aooording to roports reooivod hoth in London and Paris. Tho official report from Capo Colony for tho weok end i og March 2 show? 24 now casos, two doaths and four suspoots, for tho following week 50 casos. 18 deaths and ll sus pects. Sovoral Europeans havo beon attaokod and a number of natives have boon found dead from tho disoaso. The rats aro ro por tod to bo "trekking" from Capo Town in groat nu mb om and at Simonstown tho rats aro roportod to bo dying from tho plague At Mauri tius during tho two weoks Oeding March 8 h thoro woro io tho island 18 oaflOB of plaguo and 23 deaths. On Maroh 14, two frosh plaguo oases aro roportod to havo ooourrxd in Forth, Wost Australia. Tho marino hospital sorvioo Burgoon in ohargo at London has roportod that tho rumor of suspaotod plaguo at l^&ajiyiiojv^ published in tho Paris papera, probaBiy" is" 'u?T??ffdod* bufcex? tra prooautions are hoing oxeroisod at that port in viow of tho largo numbor of troops returning from South Afrioa. Tho plaguo at Karakuga, Russia, is statod in tho official report from l'aria to bo on tho doorcase, tho same roport saying that 13 doaths frtm oholora oo Ourrod at Singapore, Strait Settle monto, during tho last weok of January. A roport publishpd in a Borlin papor and forwarded hero says tho plaguo at Capo Town is now attacking tho woll to-do peoplo. Tho marine hospital sor vioo surgoon. Dr. Greone Albortin, has just roportod that in tho Kirgison re servation Koranuk, Russia, 13 per sons have fallen victims to tho plague and in .tho presidency of Bombay, British Esst India, during the week ending Feb. 8th there.ooourrod . 1,770 plague oasoa and 1,293 doaths, an in oroaso of 519. oates and 314 deaths ovor tho previous .week. In Bombay oity ,that week, there were 1,050 OR?OS of the plaguo, ail,, increase of 309 ajad . 1,359 deaths dito io th?-plag?o, $010 Mewh 2 fifty plaguo oases had occurred in Caps Town; of which 12 terminated fatally. In Argentina five plaguo pa tionts were in tho isolation hospital at San Nioolas on Fob. 7 and plaguo wa? suspected in the eitles of Bollovillo and Marios Juarez Official notioo has boon reooivod that tho governmoot of tho Banish West Indies had railed the quarantine against Port Said and Smyrna and de clared tho port of Brisbane, free from plaguo. PROFESSIONAL PALLBEARERS. They Have a Funeral Uniform and Con* duot Themselves With Propriety. . Milwaukoo has taken a stop in ad* vaneo of Now York in tho way of con ducting funorals. In ordor to provide pallbearers at funorals where families oannot or will not make arrangements for thom, a pallbearers' association has been formed whioh will furnish at Bhort notioo and at reaeonable oost a uniformed osoort for tho dead. Tho uniform will oonsist of a blaok ooat with laoo rutilas at tho wrists and wide whito laoe collar. Knee hreoohes, blaok stookingB, buokled shoes, a blaok hat Uko thoso worn by tho Knights Tem plar, and a sword oomploto the outfit in ploasant weather, but whan it rains or in cold woathor a heavy blaok mili tary doak will bo wotn overall. There are many poople in Milwaukoo -mostly Gormans-who aro "freo thinkers" ?nd bolong to no religious organization. Many of thoso aro mom hors of tho Turnor sooietios, and fun orals in thoir families are oonduoted by tho Turners. Others do not bolong to any sooiety, and whon a doath oo oura in tho family a professional funoral orator is usually called in to oonduot tho sorvioos. The funeral orator's nuo . COBB and the love for display v/hon a bo lo vod relativo ia laid away doubtless suggoBtod tho organization of tho pall bearers' association, and it is boliovod that it will be financially suooessful. An undertaker whoso plaoo of busi ness is in tho orowdod tonemont houso district Bald that a similar assooiation would probably reoeive good support in Now York. In tho Italian d Int riot elab orate funorals take plaoo daily. Pa rents may neglect a ohild whilo it is in good health, but when the little ono dies thoro must bo plumes on the ho ar BO, tho ooffin must ho of an expen sive kind, and a band of muslo must preoodo tito funoral procession te tho ohuroh, whoro there is moro show, and from tho ohuroh at loast te tho limits of tho Italian distraiot. Tho uniformed pallbearers would probably find patron age in that part of tho oity., In many plaoes in Europe thoro are business eonoerns whioh furnish not only uniformed mourners and pall bearers, but funoral trappings for tho Korsos in the funeral prdoossion. Tho uniformed pallbearer ls tho first step in that direo tion, and if ho succeeds in Milwaukee this new knight ef tho mel ancholy aspe?t many become a featuro at New York funerals.-New York Tribune. Two Ty rai. d. ? A dlspatoh te tho New York Herald from Habana ley? that La Dinon ?don is receiving tolegrams from- ?ill parts of the inlaudexprossing ?dpport of its oourso rt ?id tW. it attfeAU with a new lino under the title" bonding, readingi "Suppressed by Weyler, October 23, 1898; Suspended by Weed. April 6 1901.'? Evidently that Cuban edite -V'a'?oo\l Mgo of en advertisement, mn .> .iiMi??mwai?li<.i. ???? ? ? I'MIIW <iun. iwil'iy flohooner Wreoked and Her Crew5 Adrift on a Haft. Tho stoamsbip S tato of Toxas, whioh nrrivod ot Baltitnoro. on Tuesday had on board Oapt. Berry and tho crow of six mon of tho wrecked nohoonor Erio, pioked up at er a last Sunday, Tho 10rio was wrookod tho day beforo, oh Frying pan Shoals, and hor maator and orow were drifting; almost exhausted, on a raft, whon rosoued- hy Capt. Bldridgo of tho Stato of Toxas, Capt. Dorry of tho Brie, whioh belongs to J aokf oxi ville, Fia,, said tho vost ol was bound, with lumbor, from Savannah to Yarmouth, N. S. On Saturday, April 6, she en oountcrod ho av y seas and'donso fogs. In a floroo galo sho was driven on Frying pan Shoals. At tho timo tho Erle wont agrount tho wind WAS blowing a terrifio gah and tho wo at her was so hoavey that *u was impo&siblo to soe moro than a fow yards ahead. Tho sails wore blown to shreds, and thon tho vessel booaino unmanagoablo. Ship and otow woro at tho nu roy of tho olomonts, and lato Saturday tho vossol was sont orashing on tho dangorous shoals. The ship was leaking badly, but hor oargo had kopt hor afloat. Shortly after striking ehe began to go to pieocs. As wave af tor wavo swept tho lumber off hor dookp it also oarried away tho ma?ts, /and thou ?Capt. Botry aod his mon lashod thom Solves to tho aftor houso. Allthrough tho night tho sovon mon woro buffeted about by tho rough soas, whioh con tinuously broko ovor them, and whioh woro boating thoir little float to piooon. When thoy woro taken off by tho State of Toxas, tho litt lo houso was slowly oinking and tho mon were up to thou kneos in water. They had neither pro visions or drinking water, and whou roflouod some of them woro so woal thoy had to bo asBistod aboard thoir ros OUOr. _. ' . Foresaw Cuba's Fate, Whilo Captain Baphaol Sommos wa roving tho soas in tho Sumter, ho oar "Yiod six prizos into Cionfuego8t,.pAjjr-?( haVc ?tuu turnod ovor to.^fioir ownor? by tho Govern^ .?fadtiral of Cuba. Thif was naturally annoying to tho ontor ? prislDg oaptain, and ho says in hie memoris, publiehod in 1868: "I plan ned a vory protty littIo quarrol botwooc ; tho oonfoderato otates and Spain, ie oaso tho formor should establish thoii indopondonoo. Cuba, I thought, would mako a couple of vory rospootablo states, with her staplos of Bugar and tobaooo and with hor similar systom of labor and if Spain refusod to foot our bill foi tho robbery of those vossols wo wouU foot it ouraolvoo at her exponso.".Thai plan fell through, but Captain 8ommoi oontinues with a passago tho oonolusioi of whioh may striko somo poo plo as curiously proph?tie: "Boo old Spain 1" ho oxolaims. "I though perhaps to forgiVo thoo, for thou wan afterward kiokod and ouffed by tho Ver: power to whioh thou didst tiuoklo-th' fodoral steamers of war .oinking fro o un 'Ofct&y land-of Cuba,' ohasing vooaols ori shoi and herding thom in oontotnpt of th: jurisdiction and in o pi to ol thy re monstrances. And tho day is not fa distant whon tho sohoolma am end th oarpet-bag missionary will tinoamp o: the plantations and hold joint o on von tioles with thy>freemon in tho interoe of goldliness and tho said pohoolma'aT and missionary." Aooording to somo ? the Havana papers the day whioh Oat tain Sommes foresaw is come, an thirty yoars is "not far distant" in th roalm of prophooy. What the South Oo? Do. ' The im por tanoo of Southern mam facturera of cotton goods going into a lines of manufacturo instead of ooi fining thoir efforts to ono lino whori they become oompotitors with or anothor, has boon many times ornphi sisod by thoso mast familiar with th field. Tho advice is wino, for it oo talnly is tiuo that tho mills here i tho cotton flolda should produ< ovorything thatds maufaoturod from tl ootton, and oan. The reoont ventui of tho Langloy Manufacturing Cor pany at Wost Point has douions trat? the possibilities in a lino horotofo practically untomhod. Thisoompan of whioh Captain l?dward Lingloy gonoral manager, ii manufacturing li robos, fanoy towels, portioros oroohi Marseilles and tho Mitohollino quil ali of whioh aro designated, woven a ? dyed at Wost Point. Samplos of t work of this company whioh hs reaohod Atlanta show that cvon in infanoy it has attained a high stand? of suoooss. Thoro aro othor lines as 3 practically untouchod in whioh cotl manufacturers oan fiad opp?rtunit for a remunerativo market. Posp tho groat growth of tho induotry in I past doondo, it is Still comparativolj its infanoy.^-Atlanta Constitution. A Tragedy in Now York. Hon j. Forst, a brokor, and mombo* tho Consolidated oxohango, Now Yo oommittod suioido . wednesday tho Hoffman House. Aftor a night meditation, spout no ono ?ooma to kn whore, ho wont to tho hotol at 5 o'oh this morning and .was found dy three hours later. Before modioal arrivod ho oxpired. A boll boy diso ored the body, Alotlor addrossod Mrs. B; Forst, a numbor of shares stock, somo promlsory notos, $07 cash and a bottlo whioh had oontai earbolio acid were found in tho room Light was thrown on tho nuic whon his suspension was anuounoo<3 the oponing of businoos en tho C solidatod oxohango today. It ia n i of the oxohango that if a mombor < not show a olean sheet at the ond the day'e transaotions or if he has debts outstanding to mombors of exohange ho is suspended for 24 lu with the privilege of reinstatement soon a? ho sottlos tho. ditiorenoos. was learned today that Mr, Forst outstanding dobts amounting to $10 the oloao er bueinoss yesterday and ls boliovcd to haye boen tho ornum his sutoldo. The agricultural dopartmont ha? oovorod,as thb result of ex'peritn oova?ng. sevoral seasons, in diffo states, that flavor may bo M into 0 and that many eggs wliioh aro posed to be Injured through pao1 eeouro thoir flavor and oolcr booaut lemothing whioh the hena havo 0? Se alltho >treng things whioh he 'keepers: say and *hink about eggs sh hot bo charged indiscriminately ?gi tho shipper? and doalors, GOEBEL'S MURDER. Tho Formar Chief -Couhael for Taylor Tolla of Oonapiracy ftENSATIONAL TESTIMONY. According to Th?? Rapuhnnjm'? ;? Testimony Taylor Knew of ? Impending Fat? of Qov. Goobel. Ex-Gov. W. 0. Bradloy, ohiof oouu sol for ox-Gov. W. 8. Taylor in tho gubernatorial contes? oaso before tho legislature last year, gavo sonoationat testimony Wednesday atFrankfort.Ky., in tho trial of OaptC 0*rnett JU?, ltlploy, who is ohargod with conspiracy, with others, to bring about tho murder of Wm. Goobel* Mr." Bradloy dotailed a conversation' whioh, ho said, ho had with Oapt, Riploy whilo tho latter vms in ohargo of his military company dur ing tho oooupanoy of tho Stato oapitol : by: tho Taylor troops last spring, in whioh Ripley told him of frequent oou forenoos with Gov. T?ylar prior to tho assassination. . ,Tho witness said Riploy told him he was in the exoeutivo oilioo tho day bo foro tho shooting and oomplalnod to Taylor booause ho had not oaliod out his (Ripley's) company and askod him whoa ho should havo tho company ( ready. Taylor roplicd: " 'My God. havon't you brought thom y?t?. Gooboi will hot live 24 hours,' or 'cannot livo 24 hours,' I havo forgotten which ho said," doolared tho witness. ;>.'.VV J nd KO W. H. Yost, assooiato oounsol with Bradley in tho oontoBt ease, ao cording to tho witnoBS, waa pr osent, and hoard tho conversation. In re j spqnaojourxguestion as Jo whether ho Uno' w?tn??s, hV?rc(''of,*any o'dlaspiUdy iVX kill Mr, Goobel, tho witnoes stated that \ on Jan. 26tb, tho day ,tho train load of mountaineers orrivcdV. some ono, ho could not how reoal|>v/ho, told him that partios in tho orowd wero waiting in front of the Stato houso to kill Gooboi.: "I said," oontinuod tho witness, "it. shall bo stopped. I will go ia tho son-, ato ohambor and como out with Goobel, and seo that ho is not hurt or in j ' suited." V'V "I looked up and saw Whatton 0bldr. ? I on and told him to got Kinley,; .Otilton and others and sond thom to me.. '.Ho said: 'Goobel is not going to bo hurt.V Oulton and Finloy told; ihoMt was a > . ; fako-and that there was nothing in it; they oohdomnod violence,-al I did." A Jury was\ soourod Wodnoaday to hear tho caso of (^arnott Ripley, aoous Cd. of complicity in tho shooting of \: Gov..Gooboi. Befondattt entered.a plea of riot guil ty; In Op?ning tho jdase for tho prose cution Judgo . WilliiiraS'.doo^rod (thoro .was ? Conspiracy" tb xiii 'goobelf; . fhat Riploy was oohnootod wjth it through out; that ho loft Frankfort tho ovomng boforo tho assassination with informa- ; . tien that it was to take placo tho next day arid that ho contributed to it by going homo and equipping his company to bring it lo Frankfort whon Gooboi had been killod. .'. . The Largest Vossol. Tho polioy of transportation com panies thoso days is to mako biflor ongin?s, bigger freight oars and biggor passongor ooaohoB, ??nd in ships to got as much tonnage as possiblo in a ,singlo bottom,. Thoro aiM fast'. pa?HougOr trains and fast passenger ships, and a - constant offert to roduoo tho sohodulo t|mo of trips by so a and laud.. Thou : thoro aro hUgo moguls and. loyiathau ships that aro not bulltfor raoing time, ? but whioh oarry immense tonnage. ''At Bolfast a few days ago thoro was launoh ed a now steamer'for thbvw^i%?ta^'; ; Line whioh surpasses; all that havo gouo beforo in this later par??oular. Whilo not being abio to co m po to with somo . others in tho mattor of speed. Tho Ooltio will havo a passongor carrying oapaoity of 2,859. It is. designed oa pooially for tho omigrant trado, abd has 1,700 berths for choir accommoda tion. Whil? the Ooltio ia exceeded in length by tho Oceanic 24 foot and by tho Buotsohland 6 foot, it is ' novor tholoss tho largOBt vossol for its ton nage is 3,600 greater than that of tho O oe anio and nearly doubio that of tho Kaisor Wilholm der Grosso, and itu displaooment of 33.000 tons is 12,500 \ groaior tban tnat of tho latter vossol, ' Whilo its displsoomont and tonnage aro, 10,300 moro than thoso of tho Groat .lOftStorn. /Lnfoi'mation Wanted, .'. V". Govy^MoSwconoy has roooived from Mr. H.^do Ocotlogon, tho British" eon--, sui at Oharlosl'On/'tbo following lotter, tho requosts of whioh will bo oouipliod with: dir: I have the honor to inform your oxoollonoy that Ihavo roooived in structions from his Britannic majes ty's government to furnish a report relativo to the purchase of public lands and tho holding of lands by allons, in your State, and I should fool greatly obligod if you could glvo mo a copy or an abstract of tho laws on tho sup joot now in foroo, together with tho addvoBB of the propor H tato land officer ?if any) who should bo applied to for uriher details, by prospective f?roign investors if tho existing laws pormit of thoir buying puhlio lands for mining or othor purposes. ? Hi? Mind Gouo. ; A London dispatch says that Gon. Oe Wot, the Boor oommaridor, is to disturbed by tho hopelessness of hip , oauBO that ho can truthfully bc dc rt . eribod as insano. Ho goes in fr ar of his life amidst his own troops, and kebps himsolf surrounded, night and day, by a body guard of ohosbn adher ents, wornbia, own ranks voiooa aro now moro froquontly heard calling itripora* tivoly for peaje? \ ?&rd on L^wyoiH. Tho Springftold Mass. Republican , gays; "The fanare of rofovra:...loglsl?* lion for \ho divoroo evil in Hbodo Ie land is charged up against tho Rhode Island la'vyors, who organized an op position whoa thoy percoiyod tbat tho proposed law wovld injaxb.'thoir prao* tico in thu divorce courts,' '^ho people who think that lawyers arc, a pest will have a new argument,"