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? SEROI? GIRL SigLU a Te'?'perate fattie .With'. A -~ Huff? Alligator. AKSDSD WITH A BV?m?U /lllii? NeUon Atraol;c(| tho ltouUio rina aavod Hor invalid at<Hh?r ?nd tho Family of Children. A braxo. glrl?s desperado fight with an eporrpQUS alligator Is described by an. Atlanta Journal correspondent at Marble Falls, Texas. Allie Nelson, who lives with her motlier and young bi other and sister in a cottage on the banks of the Ra you Magee, is the heroine of tho remarkable adventure. It was about fl o'clock in the even ing when Mrs. Nelson, who ls an in valid, called her daughter's attention to a curious grating sound that came from the room next door. The children had been playing there but a short time before, and thc mother, who was exceedingly nervous, felt worried . at the slightest hint or danger. Alice Nelson, though she Is only 17 years of agc and frail in appearance, has a rare amount ot pluck and deter mination. She arose quickly and hastened to the children's room. The spectacle that met her gaze as she threw open the dour was sufficient to unnerve a stronger person. A HORNING LAM 1' HER WEAPON. In the dickering light of tho lng lire she saw her little brother and sister asleep upoo the hearth rug-wearied with their play they had lacked eneivv tocllmhon the high four-post bcd in the corner. Crawling fd owly over Un. (loor in thc direct ion of tho lire was a great slimy alligator. Green foam dripped froni its ponderuus jaws and its wicked stony eyes glittered with a balefvl light. Alice Nelsen- perceived that notan Iustaht was to bc lost ir tile lives of the little ones were tri bo saved. Already as she stood in the doorway the big reptile was within about live feet of tho little girl's re cumbent form. There was no time to look about for a proper weapon. Seizing a large oil lamp from a, table within reach of her arni the girl leaped forward willi a scream, calculating lo di aw the atten tion of thc reptile from tho children tn herself. As with open mon Lb it turned toward her she raised the daming lamp above her head and threw it willi ail the strength she possessed into the open jaws of thc monster. With an angry bellow thc saurian snapped his saw-like, teeth together; and then, while the jets of burning oil enveloped his head; he plunged around the door lashing his tail and writhing with agony. Chairs and tables were smashed to splinters, and the noise of . thc breaking furniture combined with the bellowing of the saurian quickly aroused the household. CHILDREN SCREAMING WIT11 KIUCUIT. "I never once thought of my own danger." says this heroic girl. "My mind was lixed upon reselling the little children, who were screaming with frigiit and so dazed by the awful scene that they could do nothing lo help themselves." \ Thanks to the power of will, Alice Nelson was able to cope successfully with her terrible antagonist. .She avoided his charges and tile deadly sweep of his tail by her rapid dodging from side to side. Without losing one of the moments so precious to her lu the unequal contest she picked up the children and tossed them upon the high bed in the corner out of the monster's track. The cries of her mother, who still lay on her couch in the front room ignorant of thc exact cause of the tumult, attracted the girl's attention and she would have run to her, but as she turned her head the alligator was almost upon her, and at tho same mo ment the front door blew open and the two house dogs ran in to the aid of their young mistress. It was because the front door had not been securely fastened that thc alligator was enabled to gain access lo thc house. Prowling about in search of food-young pigs or stray puppies -the creature had penetrated to the children's sleeping room without be ing observed by any one in the small household. Goaded by the. barking and snap ping of two dogs the saurian floundered out of the children's room and made straight for that in which lay the in valid mother. . . HOT COALS IN ITS MOUTH. Mrs, Nelson says that when tho al ligator crawled imo her room it made straight for thc glowing embers in the hearth. It was evidently confused as most wild beasts and reptiles are-- by the light and was partly blinded lo the objects around it. Alice Nelson might have taken re fuge upon thc bed in her mother's room, but recollect ing thc good use to which she had put thc lamp, she. grasped a large lire shovel and filling it full of red not coals dashed it again at thc creature's open mouth. Enraged by this second fiery attack the alligator doubled suddenly alu ?nt and leaping clear or the Hour fell upon the planking of thc Moor with such fury that"the whole house swayed and shook with thc shuck. Thc noise of thc impact, mingled with Hie loud bellowing was such that Miss Nelson stood for a moment completely un nerved and on thc point of fainting. But she rallied lier benumbed facul ties, and in thc hope thal, the .saurian might he driven out ol' thc house by thc dogs she encourged them to bark and snap at its tough, slimy hide, which even their sharpest fangs could never penetrate. T?IH ll A TTL 14 WON". As the now thoroughly maddened saurian floundered about in agony upon tin; Moor tile girl's eyes fell it pop the tall andirons, one of which had been shoved into ?he coals and was already glowing red with the heal. In a desperate attempt to drive thc creature out she picked up this i roi) arid hurled ?tat the glittering, vici ous eyes. Hut apparently the crea ture was heedless of this form of at tack by this time, for it only bellowed the louder. "The last part nf the experience," said the girl, in telling or it after ward, "was the. most terrible of all. I bad run to thc back door aller a heavy axe which I knew rested lhere, and with lids in my hand I Tushed back lo my mother's bed room in time to lin'! the alligator with its front feet resting on thc bed. "It was making clumsy efforts to drag its whole body up lhere, where my mother was crouching in terror. I knew that in spile of its awkward | movements and the hums that had j disabled lt tills maddened icptilc could still deliver a well directed blow with j lU powerful tall that wo.ui? fell nh bx. "So I had to be very- caUtlu??, In approaching. Dut ut last the opp?r* tunlty was presen ted, and I stood near enough .to tho venomous head tu raleo tha heavy weapon In my lmridn and deal a Rtrolcif ut tho neck Just hack of tho skull, Tho steel crashed through hoth thu -tuugh-hlrto and tho Unhjliev haue and Ky hurled to tho helve, ; sprung away just In tlmn to he out of re tm h or tiip dealt) utrugglo." When the f rienda of Mw family "ar rived aqd wpre Void whajihafl-hanp?n. pd thoy could hardjy ofedjtthe story. 'Tho gl'oat saurian lay quivering ??ii the flour, and tho hopse Ipcked ns if it had. bepp wrecked qy~'vaiidals and shagen by a eyuKai? The alligator was drugucd to tho hanks of the bayou, where it still showed mast orly evidences ur vitality as lt was heiiiif chopped tu pleurs. M hs Alice Nelson is now thu heroine in* tim neighborhood, and her admir ers arc preparing t<? present her with ?i good rille that will send steel bullets through tlie toughest hide. * GEN. WILIE JONEF APPOINTED T<ii Succeed ?he Ijiite Mr. linkes on thc DispciiHury Hoard. Governor Heyward lias appointed Gen Wilie .Innes to succeed the late A. F. II Dukes on the board of direc tors of the State dispensary. Gen. Jones had accepted thc appointment, but will not stand for reelection at the hands of thc legislature at the expira tion of his tenn in January of next year. Ile has served bri Hie board be fore, having been chairman bf the lirst hoard organized after the management was transferred from a board consist ing of certain Stale olllcials to a board elected by the general assembly. The following statement was niven out from the governor's ellice last night: " This app. iiil.nieilt was made after much careful consideration. There were many applicants for Hie position and many well qualified to discharge its dulles. Hut, alter most carefully considering the situation the governor concluded to appoint Gen. Jones be cause of bis previous long and clllcicnt service as a member ?if tile board, his eminent fitness for the position by reason of ins long business training and the very high esteem in which he is held by everybody in thc Stale. "Gen. Jones was not an applicant for tho position and has consented to accept only to lill the unexpired term with thc distinct understanding that he will not consent lo be a candidate for reelection before the coming legis lature." The State slate says the appoint ment of Gen. Jones will no doubt cause no little surprise, but will probably meet with general approval, for he is well known over the Stale and is chairman of the Democratic party or ganization. There are now in Colum bia a number of delegations waiting to urge upon the governor the claims ol' their respective candidates and to them the news of the appointment may come as a shock. The people of South Carolina can not appreciate how the governor has been besieged for the past three days. The telegraph companies have ret" >d a harvest. Mic special delivery lei ? ..; have come by dozens and the long dis ! lancee 'phones have been kept busy. Having taken time by the forelock the governor no doubt has avoided a lot of annoyance in the way of oilier appeals for Ilim to appoint this, that or the other one tb a place which seems to bc coveted very much. Ail Old Soldier* Pall. At Augusta. Ga., oh Wednesday, George Moore, au ex-federal soldier and one of Sherman's men on his march through Georgia, was arrested and lodged in jail to await trial for burglary. He entered Hie home of Mr. J. W. llohcrlson, on Walton Way, and stole a gold watch. On his per son, when arrested, were found quite a lot of jewelry and other valuables supposed to have been stolon, also papers showing ilia0 lie was drawing a federal pension, and a pathetic let ter from his sister in Kentucky, beg ging him to give up his vagabond life return homo and reform, He was formerly a member of Co. Il Fifth Ohio Volunteers and is nearly sixty years of agc, Work of II Mob. Wednesday night at an early hour Andrew Rainey, a negro, was taken away from Constable Hell by a mob and so badly beaten that, he died. The constable was on the way to Haiti bridge, Ga., with llalt.ey to place him in jail to await trial on Hie charge of arson. He was suspected of having fired the residence of Fred Lang, a farmer, living Hi miles in Hie country in the night and when the family were asleep in till house. Near the town a mob overtook the deputy and prisoner and demanded thc latter un der pain of death. Ilalney was ter ribly beaten and his skull was frac tured. Aller Hie beating he was car ried to the jail, where he died. A lt i ch Thiel'. Geo. T. Gilbert of Waycross, Ga., must go to thc pen for robbing freight cars, though he is a man ot' n cans, being worth $2*>,000 or $30 000. His..effort to have his sentence commuted to a lino were unavailing ..uni he must dollie penance rei) ii Ired by Hie law. This is as il should bo, and we hope to sec the lime when all judges ivllj iloas thisone did. Wileri a rich man di.os a crime, lot li i'm take the same physical punishment that is meted ont to the lowest eliain gang darkey. This lends to bring all crimi nals flown to a common level, whore they belong. A man's money should avail nothing, when lie is guilty of violating Hie laws of tho land. A Million forTuske/iee. The trustees of thc Tuskegee Nor mal and industrial institute in Ala j bama have received $000,000 towards the endowment fund from Andrew Carnegie, who attended the recent mooting in behalf of the Tuskegee iu sl i tule, where ox-President (J rover ("loveland presided. Tho trustees wi li meet soon lo lake formal action in accepting thc gift and al Mic same time lo take measures Instill further i Increase the endowment. j Tim Journal, of fayette, Kan., says the account of a recent race trouble in its town was "gros dy ex aggerated." It gives the "simple" facts without exaggo titi rig Hiern, as follows: "Thc white people of the town simply tied four negroes, one man and three women, to a l roo and in rsc whipped thom Hil they were bloody and Hie man fainted. Tile wi men, weit; handled a little rougher than they ought lo have bet II. being dragged from their beds In their night gowns. The people of Fayette arc peaceable and quiet and will notadopt severe masures unless driven to it." BOLDi?i15 HASS?OESDi I'ho Bravo Follow? FOURUC ??til T?jolr A ul limn I lion dava Out. The British war ooloo at London Thursday recoivcd from Brig, Gen, Mn no luir, in command of tho Bf. tish farooa In Sotnallland u dispatch datad j 90 ralle? westv/4rd of Qaladl. SuipalJ land, April l?i W foRovvg: ,lJ regret tq report that a flying column under toe command nf Co], Cobbe, which left G nindi, April 10, U reoqqQOlter the roar} to Walwa!, lind a mysterious oheck April H- Firing Was heard ii) tho di ruction of a H mal] party, under tho ouuimand of Col, Oil voy, wbiph had hoon sent in a wus? tcrjy direction to rcuunnolter, "Col. Cobbe dispatched Col. Blunk ett with 1(10 men of the Second hut-! talion or the King's African Hilles, 48 of the Second Sikhs and two- Maxim guns for the extrication of Capt. Oli vcy, If necessary. As a matter of fact Capt. Ollvcy had not been en gaged. Col. Plunkett, on joining the detachment, coutinucd to push on. At 11.45 Col. Cobbe heard a heavy lire In thc direction taken by Col. Plunkett and at about 1 in the after noon a few fugitives coining In re ported that Col. Plunkett had been defeated with loss. "The news has been fully corrobo rated since and I have to report the total loss of Col. Plunkett's party, with the exception of .'17 Yaos, who have ar rived herc. "The latest information extracted from the fugitives is to the effect t.iat Coli Plunkett pushed on after the enemy's force to open country several miles westward of Gumburru, where he was attacked by a very strong force of mounted troops and thc enemy's infantry, who attacked at close quarters. He kept back the enemy until he had no inure ammuni tion, when he formed a square and charged with bayonets in the direc tion of Col. Cobbe's Scareba. He mored some distance In this manner but a'great many men, including Col. Plunkett himself, were killed ur wounded by the pursuing enemy. "At last the enemy's Infantry over whelmed the square and annihilated them all with tho exception of thc 37 fugitives above mentioned." Another dispatch from Gen. Man ning, who immediately un hearing of the defeat of Col. Plunkett startod for Gumburru with 4(10 men, says fur ther Information reached him fruin Col. Cobbe to the effect that the lat ter, with 220 troops, was encamping with plenty of food and supplies and four days' water. CONTRABAND WHISKEY Found Itu ried In n Vegetable Garden at Greenville. Tho Greenville correspondent uf The State says: The Sunday sinners with the opening of spring time are seeking the shade of the woods again, where their favorite pastime ls shun ing cards and drinking mountain dew. Chief Hall, with Constables Altom, Bell, Conley and Whitmire, reinforced by Sheriff Gi heath. Deputy Herman Rallonger and Jailer Holcombe, raid ed the l:irj,rc body of woods near the overhead bridge on the Paris Moun tain road for gamblers and liquor sellers, and succeeded in entrapping four negroes, three of whom were taken to Jail, charged with selling liquor. The otllcers saw that on enter ing the woods they say crowds of white men and negroes down on their kness in circles, which is the regula tion attitude of crap shootes, and the moment the o ll lee rs came In sight they scattered In every direction. This piece of woods ls a'rendezvous on Sundays fur factory operatives and trilling negroes, who engaged In gambling, selling liquor, drinking and lighting, according to taste and In clination. The constables on return ing to thc city raided a negro house near thc Laurens depot, where they found and confiscated several bottles of contraband liquor. Munday after noon they made a visit to Cripple Creek, near the Air Line dep.. where (:rimc doth abound at all times, and went to thc home of George Bollng. colored, where he was digging In his garden. After he had dug a space of about 20 feet the oflleers invited him Into the house with them and a search was made for liquor. Constable A'tom felt the need of exercise, and returning to the garden he picked up the grubbing hoe, with which he went over the same ground that George was digging, and a wo man asked him not to dig up her seed, but Allom struck a few more licks and unearthed four bottles of liquor. George Holing was immediately arrest ed and taken tu Jail for sa fe-keeping; as lt is against the law to grow whis key In this way. His mother ls a white woman with a negreo family who has served a term in Jail for sell ing liquor, and she went ahead of the olllcers so that George might hide the whiskey she knew was in his posses sion. TnE most, signillcant feature of the progress of the settlement of thc race problem is the change in sentiment of the oort bern press on the subject. The New York Sun, one of the most rabid Republican papers in the coun try, has turned almost completely around in its position, lt admits thal Hie good, law ahidihu citizens of the south must settle the question to their own satisfaction, and says thal, there is now a better understanding in thc north of the burden the south has to bear. PREACHERS of Pennsylvania are vigorously denouncing the bill muzzl ing the press, and calling un thc governor to exercise the veto power. Thc Slate says lt is natural to lind the pulpit championing a free" press, fur in so doing it stands fur light and honesty In public allai rs against crime, corruption and everything unclean. Preachers and the worthy papers are working on pantiled lines and they often lind themselves traveling to gether in the same road. NEW York and South Carolina siro the only Slates in the union without louse divorce laws, says the New York Sun. "There ls a marked difference In the mural sentiment in those two States, however," says tho Columbia State. "A New Yorker may step over the river in .Rr,ey, get a divorce, return hume, remarry at unce anil be unaffected hy thc incident. South Carolina seatiment is as discouraging to the system as are her laws." TUE Indianapolis police were com pelled to turn in a riot alarm thc other day lo save the life of a negro a crowd of white men wanted to kill. Such a little Incident; says the Wash ington Post, but gu to show the geo graphical rarrilllentibns uf the race I" roblciu. THt?laoN HAND; ^ EuiBia Haa Broken Faith With the United Statoa I?f GOBBLING UP MANCHURIA. Vu lesa tho Huon I a na Mooodo from Tliolr Oontftnd QI> China a Groat War Moy bo ? till" If ?'suit. A dispatch from Peking China, says Russia lias demanded that China sign an agreement practically ceding to her the sovereignty of Manchuria and excluding ottier nations from that country. The Russian charge d'af faires, M. Planeen, has informed Prince Ching, president ofthc foreign office, that no further steps in the evacuation of Manchuria will be taken until this agreement is signed. Prince Ching refused thc Russian terms, but his refusal probably pleases Russia as his acceptance would have done, as j either alternative means the relinqu ishment of Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria. T'1C Russian demands are as follows: First, no Manchurian ports or townB are to be opened; second, no more for eign consuls arc to be admitted into Manchuria; third, no foreigners ex cept Russians are to he employed In the public service of Manchuria; fourth, the present status td thc ad ministration of Manchuria is to ie main unchanged; fifth, the cusU ms receipt0 at the port of No well win g are to be given to the Ilusso-Chinesc bank: sixth, a sanitary commission to be organized under Russian control; seventh, Russia is entitled to attach the telegraph wires and poles of all Chinese lines in Manchuria, and eighth, no territory In Manchuria is to lie alienated to any other power. WILL MAKK A ritOTKST. A Washington Dispatch says Minis ter Conger at Peking has cabled Sec retary Hay a synopsis of the demands upon China by Russia respecting the control of Manchuria. This account agrees precisely with the press report, of Russ'a's latest coup from the Chinese capitol. Secretary Hay wilt take no action In thc matter until he has communicated thc facts to the Pressldent and learned the latter's wishes. The present impression here is that Russia's action is distant breach of raith with the United Slates. Russia pledged itself three times formally in documents that ate on record that the "open door" should be maintained in Manchuria and that Russian troops would be withdrawn as soon as peace was restored. Finally thc latter promise took the shape ol treaty stipulations. lt was provided that ttie evacuation should take place with in three distiuct periods. The Russian soldiers should nave quit Manchuria .on the 8th of this month, according to the treaty, bfit a plausible explanation Tor the tempor ary retention of the remaining Rus sian troops was offered by Russia in the claim that the country was-still disturbed, and that vigorous-nr^ ? !?; measures were necessary for purposes of sanitation. Olllcials declare that there is no danger of war with Russia over the incident. The government of the United States will record its ideas of what should be done in Manchuria, and, as a result of Secretary Hay's projected conference with the Presi dent, lt is probable that a further re monstrance will be added, but lt is anticipated that Russia will, for the time being at least allay foreign op position or at least that of Hie United States by carrying out its pledge as to the open door. INSURANCE PREMIUMS. (iver Throe Million I)?.II;?r.>, Paid itt This State JjiiHt 11'ear. Thc comptroller general's office ls preparing the annual bulletin of the business done in this State, by thc foreign insurance companies last year. By "foreign" is meant all companies which lia ve agencies in this State and not chartered under the laws of thc State. There was a great advance, in thc volume of insurance and in the amount of premiums. It is a fact worthy of note that the amount of premiums paid by residents of South Carolina to these insurance companies was more than double the amount re ceived Into the State on account of losses. The following advance figures will be of interest to Hie great army of insured in South Carolina: Foreign lire insurance companies wrote risks of $31,549,428.41. Pre miums received were $330,350.00, and losses paid were ?22t>,707.07. United States lire companies Risks, $58,104,785.42; premiums, $804,517.31; losses paid, $407,153.10. Life companies-Risks, $15.803, 007.70; premiums, 82.030,480. ll; losses paid, $898,077.05. Accident companies--Risks, *21, 322,220.40; premiums, $12,308.01; losses paitl, $341,105.50. The total volume of risks written by life, lire, and accident companies in 1002 was $127,130,442.02, au increase of $13,883,924.54; the total amount of premiums received in l!>iJ2 was $3,294,050.011, and increase ot *403, 87(>.f>2 or au increase of over 15 per cent; the total amount of losses for 1002 was $1,020,054.40, an increase of i2l.?O,U05.8O, or over 20 per cent, above last year. 'Plie following license fees were re ceived by tlie. State from the insur ance companies: From foreign lire insurance companies, $3,081.75; from United States lire insurance com panies, $8,222.f>8; from life, insurance companies $13,352.40; from fidelity, accident and surety companies, $2, 910.54; mortgage company, $100: fraternal societies, $175. This makes a total of $28,448.27. TliK law in regard to children work ing in colton mills goes iuto etfect May 1. After lha. date no child un der 10 years shall bc permitted to work in any c ititon mill in this State and no child under 12 years shall be be allowed to work in a mill from 8 o'clock in the evening lill 0 in the morning. In 1904 the tige ls raised to 11, and in 1905 to 12. Exceptions are made in cases where the labor of children under prescribed ages is ab solutely necessary to support a wid owed mother or a helpless father. THE PENSION l????, An tnoieaie or Over Five iidtidbeU Name? Over batt Vanr, Tao comptroller general haa w?de 'publia tho number ot pensioner* in eaoh oQunty, Tuero are GOO more, IPI? yeir than last year, tho total now. amounting to 8,230 against T.660 last yoar, The inoreaso Ha*? boen 8^cr 1 tbrougout the atato, The state boa rd. haa endeavored to hold the Hst down and to re&trlot tho pension fund to those who wore absolutely entitled to its boneflts, It will ba interesting to know that the most numerous class of pensioners will th's year get only $17.35. whereas last year they gob $19.05. This reduction In tho arnott it to go t? the pensioners Is simply be oause of the increase in the number adjudged to be entitled to the benlits of the fund. It will be something or a Bupr'8<5 to many who have been, watching pension legislation to see where most of the pension fund goes, as ls Indicated by the numbiir or pen sioners In each of thc counties. The comparative Hst ls as follows: Total Number Pensioner.?-". Counties. 1902. 1903. Abbeville. HI 148 Aiken.-. 2=14 258 Anderson. 440 44,3 Bamuerg.?.; - . 55 ti? Harnwell............ .. 125 137 Beaufort. 37 35. Berkeley. 110 HO Charleston..-. 108 118 Cherokee. 201 202 Chester. 1 lu 135 Chesterfield.'. 200 228 Clarendon . 138 132 Collefon. 334 353 Darlington. 227 . 215 Dorchester . OH 80 Edgegeld . 103 117 (tai rneld. 124 . 121 Florence. 175 101 Georgetown. 43 51 Greenville. .'IOS ? 418 Greenwood. 130 KIO Hampton. 170 191 Horry. 207 233 Kershaw. 30 135 Lancaster. 258 257 Laurens. 245 258 Lee._- 129 Lexington. 171 211 Marion. 231 244 Marlboro. 138 158 Newberry. 153 159 Oconee. 204 3tlli Orangehurg. 158 183 Plckcns. 250 220 Kiohland . 107 214 Saluda. 151 159 Spart anburg. ?351 DUI Sumter. 200 131 Union. 1 (5** 170 Williamsburg. 152 174 York. 2ii4 315 Total. 7,750 ii,250 POISON SENT BY MAIL. A Mun Hutu Prepared Food From Package mid Pn.Hi-) Dead. A special dispatch from Pensacola, Fla., to the Atlanta Journal says: Ro land L. Morgan, a gentleman who came here several years ago from El gin. lil., and established quite a set tlement tit a point In Pensacola Bay, six miles from the city, received a "package or prepared food through the mail Monday and upon swallowing less than a spoonful was dead In fifteen minutes. Later examination of the body shows unmistakable evidences of strychnine poisoning and a test of t! e food he eat was made demonstrates that it contained enough strychnine to have killed a dozen men. Morgan's relatives can attach suspicion to no one, as he had not a known enemy. In view of this the conclusion is made that thc poison was meant for some body else, although addressed to Mor gan. Tiie food came in thc manufac turers' package, this hoing enclosed with common white paper. Thc post mark is indistinct and postal authori ties arc at a loss to say what is thc emanating office. Three deaths came near being caused by the contents of the package. 'As soon as the same was opened Mri-. Morgan and her mother tasted and immediately became deathly sick. Not profiting by this warning Mr. Morgan himself mixed some milk and placed it in his mouth. Rigor set in at once and thc deathly stulT acted so quickly that lie fell into an orange bush near by and badly lacerated his face. De tails of thc case were printed in thc afternoon papers and caused a sensa tltn Morgan was well fixed llnancially and his relatives stand among promi nent people in Illinois and Ohio. Try Them. Mr. P. J. Riicker, of Columbia, writes ns follows to The State: "An egg wrapped in paper, packed in a close box in hot weather will keep three months better than one laid out in Hie air three days. It is the air that ruins fresh meats, fruits, lish, ice or eggs. Wrap an egg the day It is laid and lt will never hatch. Eggs left In open air in July or August will hatch in three weeks without a hen or an Incubator, so they are not Ht to cat In tine", days unless they are wrapped. Nature has prepared scales on fish, peelings on fruit, shells on eggs to keep the air off them. A fish wrapped in paper in hot weather, not cleaned, will keep 24 hours better than one cut and salted two hours. There is Just as much sense in wrap ping up meats, tish and eggs in hot weather to keep them as there is to wrap np ice to keep lt. All 1 ask of you is to try it; wrap good with paper and tie so no air can get to them. Wrap eggs tho day they are laid, the same as you would lemons, and pack lu a close box. There ls one thing certain that we have not learned al) yet-we only live to leam. Solomon just learned that he was a fool when he got ready to die and cried out that all was vanity." lt would do no harm to give these recipes a trial. .Seven VictlinM. lt ls now practically certain that seven perished In the wreck on the Kile at Red House, N. V., last week. The bodies recovered arc but pieces of human fies h and bone burned to crisp and cannot be called bodies. They bore no clue by which they could be identified and railroad officials are unable to do anything toward identi fication. IN questioning the logic of allowing the negro suffrage when refusing tho ballot to the Indian, the New York Sun asks: "Is the rasclal difference less fundamental In the case of the African than that of the Indian'r1 Are the ultimate possibilities in the way of training any more apparent at Tuskegee than at Carlisle?" KEW ENGLAND'S WAIL. ' p r .--~ - . Tho t?outh U Slowly tout Study Clo*. ? ina Hov Cotton Milla. At Boston, MOM,", on Wednesday In an address of welcome to th? delegates to tho unouiil meeting of tho New England Gotten Manufacturer*' awsq dallon, Lieut, Gov. Curtis Qulld, Jr., reviewed the general condition of co tr ton rniinufuuturinti In New England and made comparisons between tue in dustry In th?t cectlon and In tbp sqqth, He declared ihut in splto of compe tition New England held the scepter of cotton manufaclurn in th h country Uttd called attention tn tile fads nindi he salli indicated one grave calley of unrest in this particular industry. He quoted ligures shoeing the In crease in the number nf active coll?n spindles in Hie county from 1890 1892 and said it was idle tu depy lite fact the rate of inciense in the south was much swifter than in New England. He gave further figures showing that the south, in comparison with New England, pays live-eights ILS many operatives a little over n third as much wages for operating alxjut a third as many spindles and said: "Not proxi mity to the cotton fields, not climate, but cheap labor, (ung hours, together with utter absence of excitement, and extreme moderation of taxation ex plain the growth of tim south. ' "Ry the substitution or tine goods for coarse goods in our factories, Mas sachusetts lias managed to put ol? the day of settlement, even to show an In crease, but ultimately the set day of settlement must come and wo must face and deal with conditions that i have reduced thc spindles in some or our northern States. Massachusetts with thc shortest time limit and thc , oldest age limit of any Suite in the union lias to face the compctilion of States that limit neither age nor time. Thu.solution of the problem is not in admitting little children in the Mas sachusetts mills nor In lengthening the. hours in Massachusetts, but here and now tu begin a crusade that the demands of hu maid ty, enforced by law in Massachusetts, shall be enforced by law in all the States. Lot us hot drag Massachusetts down to the level of Ala bama; let us lift Alabama to Ihe level of Massachusetts. Let us have uni formity of factory laws throughout the United Stales, lt is idle for Massa chusetts to stand alone with wise re strictions when Alabama ?nd Routh C?rqlln? compite with Hie loll of in farit ti II gc rsi awaiti t Hie labor ?.f uni. and women." WOULD WELCOME JEoUS. A Kubill Sn; a the ?I?:\VM Wiilllll H. the "Kinf? ol" Glory " "ir Jesus Christ should ieturn to earth tomorrow he would be welcomed in every Jewish synagogue in the land and every Jew would say willi bax id, 'Lift up your heads, ye everlasting d jors, and the King or Glory shall come in.' " This vvas thc climax or the lecture which Dr. II ireh delivered Thursday nie,ht before the Epworth League or St. James Methodist Church at Chi cago. A big audience gave the speak er a storm or applause. He eulogized thc Lord's prayer, repeating it in uni son with Christian friends. "The Jews," said Dr. Hirsch, "do not believe In original sin and Inherit ed depravity. They believe every man ls a responsible, free agent, and is not Involved in Hie guilt of his fathers ?ir children. "As they reject thc doctrine ol original sin, they reject , of course, the doctrine of redemption from sin. They I.clieve in the Messiah, but the Me? s-iah of thc Old Testament is a tem poral prince, who shall reign over the Jews after they shall have been re united and have become a nation again in Palestine. " The Jews hold that Jesus preached nothing but Judaism, the .supremacy of the commandment to love God and man, thc doctrine or the fatherhood of God, thc doctrine that the Sabbath was made for man, the abrogation of thc law of retaliation, the obligation to love even one's enemies, and even the Loni's prayer, which, we redily ad mit, is the sublimest petition ever framed In the human language; all these we claim were taken from Jewish writ ting, some of which were com posed hundreds nf years before Jesus was bom. "Jesus was crucified by a Roman Governor ?md Roman soldiers, and though his crucifixion was instigated by Jews, it was by a few jealous priests and not by thc mass of the jewish people. "SQ far as modern Jews are con cerned, tiley regard Jesus as'one of the. noblest spiritual teachers that ever ap peared In thc world. The socalled dis ciples of Jesus have persecuted the Jews with savage ferocity for ages ai tl the Jews have borne their perseculiot s with lamblike gentleness and silence.'' Ten Mon Killed. Ten workmen engaged in making a funnel on thc Mexican Central's ex tension at Tux ham, in the stale of Jail.s leo, lost their lives In a cave-in caused by several earthquakes coming in rapid succession. The first shock caused the falling or interior workings, and when the gang or workmen went to clear away the debris they were caught by a second cave-in. which re sulted from fresh shocks. DR. BIGGERS HUCKLEBERRY CORDIAIv FOR THU Bowels and Children Teething. It is THE GREAT SOUTH RUN lt EM EDY for the bowels, lt is one of the. most pleasant and olticiicioiis remedies for all summer complaints. Al a season when violent attacks of the bowels are so frequent, some speedy relief should be al hand. The wearied mother, losing sleep by nursing the little one tee tl ling, should use this medicine. FROM 11 EN KV W. (?HA DY. The Const Hut ion Edi toni I Rooms. Atlanta.(?a., May 2.'i; 1887. Dr. Waller A. Taylor; Atlanta, Ga.: Dear Slr:--1 have never given a certificate on merits of any medicine, but I lake pleasure In breaking my rule on this subject In behalf of your Riggers Huckleberry Cordial, lt is the besi medicine I have ever seen for usc in Hie family. Kif ly cents invested in a bottle of this medicine, and put on a shelf convenient for use in Ibo begin ning of any bowel trouble, will often save life, and will save in almost any family ten time its cost in doctors' bills. I have a friend whose life, in my opinion, was sit veil hy Hie prompt use of this cordial. It ought tobe in every family hi the land, especially at tills sear.on of the year. I take pleasure in thus testifying to it merits. Veiy truly yours, HENRY W. GRADY. h or sale by all druggists. Mc to. 50e. pet bottle. Haltiwangor-Taylor Drug Co., I'roprlotorH. Atlanta. Gn. Continuas fo mallo Miraculous Cures WAD THIS LETTER! ALMOST A MIRACLE. DILLQU, 8. C., Au tr. lBth, 1CCI. In il ?onuftri^??tei?'' ?*8/ i *>?k rheumatism in a very bid fora, bed? It contfnita to-Si-?!0 ?B?^IP*? ?? ?,v? "P ?ny.work ?nd to UH io muobto that l^VfiTJt?*,'.? u?m njy aras and banda wera bcdly drawn, feeTtiuohod mVbJD?* i Ji*2 fhS^'Mr logs were drawn back until my i^LuJi?? i?y D ' *aa.as helpleaajjia a, baby for nearly twelve mo nt bi. The muso ?a of nTv ?rm. a?^iS!Ln^V?l?!?."j*f ? 9^ nearly twelve mouthe. many*Z S over. 7w??tr2??,?0i??S^?i^3?nd shriveled up. I suffereddeath carno ta BOO mo. Ho told mo to try Tou r fi n^\7. ri,p- *wlo*? Ot onion, of tho modiolne and I begin to taUn"?ndboio^ti,1? V./?6*?* mo one 5ottI? bojran to got bettor. 1 uied flv? andr J K-I? ????.thB Of8* bottle wu uaed up I That waa two Teare ago.?nd m^ he??tb^^^ ?"'?^ no.aymptorus of rheumatlem. I rora^?'^^nroMAO?D?" ?T'f?pTSne?^ remedy for rhoumatlam on the markot I cannot a**?T T.,rtwT#i?^.thS J*** recommended lt to others since andlt has .curreditbem? ?uoh.for lt. I have i. r.8ay further, that I began to walk in about six dava after I bonn in t.v. toB#52^?^&Tii&tb0 ald .of "utchoa; inT?b?utlbre'emonths att?fte?^ to Uko lt, I could walk aa good as anybody. Bud weut baok to work again. . . _ Yery truly, JAMK8 WIWtSB. All Druggists, or sent expresa prepaid on receipt of $i.co. ' Bobbitt. Chemical Co., - " Baltimore, fid. TAYLORS cherokee Remedy otSweet Gum & Mullein Cures Coughc. Told J, Wlioop'titr Cou^li, Ln?Trippe 2> net .til Throat and Lum*'I rouhles M ?de of Pure Sweet Gnni, Mill lein mid Hone v. S'i u<- l?rn???H? sells it 2f> anH ?o. The Cable Company, -THE LAUGEST MANUFACTURERS OF High Grado Pianos and Organs TINT TIIT?5 WOI?vD. Factories, Ch i cairo and St. Charles, Illinois. Capital, TWO MILLION DOLLARS, $2.000,000. Branch Honso. 282 Kiri? Sb. Charleston, S. C. 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The boats nre 180 feet long and provided with 200 horse power steam euglnes which turn a drum fastened on the deck. The chain comes in over the bow, passing along on rollers lo the drum, around which lt ls wound three times. The chain ls then enrried to the stern, where lt drops back into the water. The steam ers tow live barges containing 1,500 tons. I.oftlcnl. "I could have mn riled either Whip per or Snapper If I'd wanted to, and both of those men whom I refused have since got rich, while you are still ns poor ns n church mouse." ?li*- Of course. I've been supporting jon n'i ttiese years. Thor havffn'r. Co LON KL Watterson calls Grover Cleveland au "arbiter in modo." If the Colonel should throw that at any body in Kentucky there would be a street duel. If you nrc not w mm or semi Tnr tho !>?>..!) will 1* fient yu,i (??.?. ton Viiilhaway, M U ...cl want to kno-,v thu '.ruth about your troublo, sena tor roy froc booklets ttnd seit c xnmlnatlon bianka. 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