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OUR INDUSTRIES, $h?r?{8 f?o i?al?iug in fc??th Caro lina's Mareil of Progress. SOME INTERESTING FIGURES (.'rntilyinu Kt'portu :?n tn tho Amount Invented in Small Hunk*. Cotton Scetl UH Mille, Kt ei. ^ As a ru?e thc tirst quarter of tho year ls not propitious for the incor poration of new industries and enter prises, but this year the olllce of the secretary of state lias recorded the organization of a very large number of companies which show that the State knows no halting in the forward march on thc road of progress. There have been a great many banking in stitutions set on foot-some of them companies of not very large capitaliza tion, but still in thc lield for the up building of small communities. The number ol' small colton seed oil mills is increasing so rapidly that thc situa tion becomes almost alarming, for fear that they will get in each others' way and be able to operate for only a small part of the year on account of the Tact that thc supply of cotton seed is restricted and t he Iii? organiza tions will and must have seed in order to keep their plants running. There is as much abuse of machinery idle as there i.s in machinery In operation. lt is said. There have been a few colton mills organized and others which have not reported to thc secretary of state are hoing projected. As a rule these are small mills in sect ions not occupied heretofore with such industries showing that the. dc.velopcment of South Carolina is not conlincd to one section. The most significant fact in connection with tho cotton mill business is the. tremendous amount expended in the Increase ol' the capitalizat ion of companies which have been operated for some time. Thc total amount of cotton mill capitalization this year is $4,000,000; in banking institutions, $1,0115,000; in cotton seed oil mills. $:!08,000; in light, power and ice companies, $335, 000; and the total amount ol' all con cerns-chartered and coin missioned since the lirst of t hc year is $7,2813, 000. Two other great corporations have bled letters asking for commissions giving them authority to open books ol'subscription -the Magnolia Mines company of Charleston. $300,000, and tim Columbia and Augusta Railroad company, which shah he chartered at an amount iud. to exceed $'20.000 per mile. COTTON M 11.i.s. Chartered-Cluck mills. Anderson. $500:000; Hamer mill, Dillon. $100, 000; Maple Cotton mills. Dillon, $100, 000; McGee Manufacturing company, Greenville, 8100,000: Isnqucna mill. Central, $200,000. Total $1.000.000. The Banna mill at Coalville was or ganized as the successor ol' tho. Coal ville mill, $100,000: thc J ta m be ru mill was reorganiza!, $110.ooo: the . Marlboro Cotton Mills company, capitalization $1,500,000, was organiz ed with thc mills at McColl as nucleucs: mill at Jonesville was or ganized with the Alpha, ami the knitting mill as nucleus, $250,000. Total reorganized mills (some of which had shut down), $1.800,000. Increase of capital stock-Clear water blcacbcry, $300,000 lo $ loo,ooo: Brandun mills, $300.000 to 150,000: Liberty mills, $75.OOO to $175.000: Orr mills, $100,000 to $800,000: Gainesville (Ga.). $500,000 lo $850. 000. Tola!, $1,050,000. The Morton Spinning company ot Clover is being organized $150,000, commission issued. Grand total cotton mills. ? I.ooo.ooo. HANK AND TKITST COJIPANIKS. Thc amount of money invested in bauk and trust companies has also been astonishing. The following were chart ered: Home bank. Lexing ton, $30.000; Hank of Morry, Conway. $25,000; Bank of Walhalla. $30,000: Farmers bank, Helton, $50,000: Farm ers and Merchants hank, Marion, $100,000; Converse Savings bank, Con verse, $10,000: Bank of Saluda, $25. 000: Bank or Carlisle. $10,om?; Ken nedy Banking company, Blackstocks, $20,000: Bank of Hock Hill, $75,000: Gaffney Savings bank, $30,000; Bow man Loan and Trust company, Bow man, $5,000; Bank of"Fountain Inn, $15,000 Easley Loan and Trust company, $50.000: total amount ol' in corporated banks-$175,000. Increase in capitalis?t ion-Bank ol' Marion, $25,000 to $50,000; Merchants and Planters bank, CalVnev, $50,000 to $75,000; Bank of Dillon, $25,000 lo $50, 000. Total increase: $75,000. Commissions issued tocompahiesbe ing Organized-William Coleman ? Co., Columbia, $500,000: Timmonsville Loan and Trust company, $25 000; Bank cf Springfield. $20,000. Toi al. $515.000. Crank total in organized and project ed iianking companies, $l,O05,ooo. COTTON S IC IO l) (Ul. Mil,I.S. The following col lon seed oil mills have been chartered: 'Tiklependcnl Colton (Jil company, I he greal riv .1 of the. Virginia-Carolina Chemical com pany, $l,0l'o, 000: Foil Molle, $20,i)00; llowesville, $20;00i); Lydia,$3,000: West minister, $20,000, Williamsburg $20 Ooi); Clarendon, $25.0?io; Bishoiivillo, $25,000; Allendale, $25,000; Wullerboro, $25,000; the lo!al bcirfg $183,000 out side ol' the consolidai ion ot' the several companies into 1 he Independent. In audition lo the above the follow ing are in process of organization: Prosperity, $20,000: Townvile, $25,ooO; Cameron," $20,000; lOdisto: al North. $20,000; Donalds. $15,000; (lc,mee, ai Walhalla, $20.000, ami Pauline ?ii Spar tanburg count v, $15,noo. Total, $115, 000. Increase-Kershaw. $25.000 io $35, OOi'. Grand total of new capital in mids organized and projected this year, $308,000. KKAL KSTATi: I )KV ICI.Ol'.M KNT. Darlington Hotel company, $25,n6(): Summerland Hotel company, $25,ni Mi; Summerland Development company, $25,000; Greenville Improvement! Co. $2.r!,0oo;c.;oi;t li Fud Land Improvciucnl company, Mullins, $10.000; Stone Lum! Company, Greenville. $25,000; Bisliop ville Real Rsl ate company, $5,000; Cal houn Falls 1 livestmcnl company, $30, oiio. Total, $175,000. The Hall's Island farms. Beaufort (increase from $50^000 to $05,000) $15,000; Toinortey plant a I ions, hean fort county. $50.000: Paugiaiubrga club (August Belmont's hunting re servation,) Hampton county, $0,00(1. Total. $125,000. York villa Building and Loan asso ciation, $30,000; Vigilant, Charleston, $120,000: Hclipse, Charleston, $150, 000: Rome, Sumter. $200,000; Pru dential, Wlnnsboi! . $30,000; Rltter prise, Union, $75.000. Total, $575, 000. baf?Uria r-ir?j fef?ck oompad.Vi K?I' lli?fai $27\U?O| ?rtn'nov Hriok *?;UU0j ^o?tlir-rn Hydraulic RrieK coihpanv, Oiu'irishton, ?25,000! lian khison ?lrlck C'ripany, North Augusta $:io,u00. ' Tout, 887.000. TOUACOO WAKKHOU8KS. Hntcrprisc of Florence, $15,000; Farmers of darlington, $10,000; l\o ples of Conway, $1,000; Planters ot Leesville, $1,000; Clieiaw warehouse, $2,500; Marlboro, at Rennet tsville, $4,000. Total,&M,">:K). ruui.ic uriiariKs. Sumter Ice, Light and Power com p:ui\\ $75,000; Columbia, Ice and Kucl company, $:w,000; Hock Hill Water, Light lind Power company, $50,000 to $150,000 increase: Summerville Ice and Cold Storage company. $;to,()O0: Marion Light and Power company; $100,000. Total, $:W5,000. VAIUISD 1N1>U8TKIKS. Morgan Wood and Iron works, Spar tanburg, $10,000; Cummings Iron works, Walterboro, $10,000; Vulcan Supply company (hardwoods,) Cam den, $5,000; Sumter Lumber company, $12.000: United Timber company, Darl ington, $100,000: Black River Steam boat company, $5,000: Campmau-Mur phy .company (hardwoods,) $10,000; Charleston Canning company, $10,000; Granolithic Roofing company, Ander son, $10,000: Tannopiline company, Columbia, $23,000; Omega Raby Car riage com pan v, Union. $10,000; Rutfalo Lick spnngs,*$10,(i(H<; SI. GeorgosTcle phone excunugc, $5,000: Carolina and Georgia Mining company, Columbia, $:i0,000; llaiiis Manufacturing com pany, coupling device, $12,000; Rjooks Steam Valve company, $12,000; Ches terfield Naval Stores* comnanv, Cho raw, $15,000. .Total, $421,000. To which blay be added thc Ander son Mai tress aiid Spring Red company (increase fruin $2.500,] $22,500; Ander son SpuOl and Robbin company of Charleston (increase from $41000 lo $20,000) $10,000-making a grand total ol' varied industries ol $450,500.-Co lumbia Stale. Au Holiest Con Tension. Mr. R. M. Lamer, the Washington correspondent of The News and Cour ier, says "in a very broa?l"sense it is true that lavish expenditure of money has been a powerful factor iii deter mining the l ist luiir Presidential elec tions. Generally the Republican par ty has had the sympathy and support ol' great corporations, able to make big campaign contributions. Presi dent Harrison was undoubtedly elect ed by the use of money in 1888. Rut four years later, in 1802, when Mr. Cleveland came in on a ground swell, thc bulk of campaign funds was with the Democratic party. Mr. Cleveland might have been elected without the money, but it nevertheless played an important part. Had it not been for the tremendous campaign fund ol' 1800 Mr. McKinley would have never seen flu: White House as Chief Magis tiato." This is an honest, as well a; an im portant confession on the part of the correspondent ol' a newspaper that j bas blindly worshipped at the shrine ol' Grover Cleveland for many years and which bas never had any usc tor William Jennings li ry an. It will be noticed tba!. Hie admission is made that the bulk of the campaign funds in 1^02 wa-, with Cleveland as against Harrison, which indicates beyond a doubt tliat the trusts wanted bim elected. In the lace ol' an admis sion ol this kind is it any wonder that many people believe the charge made by Mr. I i ry an and others that Cleve land lid rayed Iiis party, lt will bc noticed also that the admission is made that "had it not been for*i he tremendous campaign lund of 1800 Mr. McKinley would have never'seen tbc. While House asChief Magistrate." lu thc face ol'an admission ol this kimi bow can it be maintained that Mr. Ibyan's nomination in 1800 de-; leafed tlie Democratic party that year? Vet every once in a while some light headed individual who may happen lo be editing a trust pa lper chirps on:- that lilyan ruined the I Democratic party. As a matter of lad. it took all the money toe trusts could raise and the desertion of a lot ol' so-called Democrats to the plunder ers to keep I ?ryan out of the White House. Under these conditions it is not strange that Grover Cleveland who was tlie candidate of t he trusts in 1802 should support McKinley who was the candidate of the trusts in I SOO. Mr. Lamer goes on to say that "in business and financial circles there is a deep resentment at flic prosecution ol' tlie trusts and the outcome of the Northern Securities case. This deci sion and a score ol' kindred matters have caused a widespread rage against President Roosevelt's administration. His nomination next year is regarded as a coi fa in ty, but it is very probable, if tlie Democrats are conservative in their candidate and their platform, that the millions of campaign con tributions next year will go t> the Democratic managers, in which event there will surely be trouble, if not de feat, for the Republican candidates, in spite of all that can be said about President Roosevelt's unwonted popu larity ami the great prosperity of the country.'' This simply means that If the Democratic party will nominate Clover Cleveland or some other candi date wb > is known to be in favor nf dat trusts, that the millions ol' dol lars raised by the trusts for compaign purposes will be turned over to the Democratic managers instead lof the Republican managers. Can the Demo crat ie parly, alford to do any such Hiing as that-' Rotter for it tobe defeated a hundred times than to win a hundred victories on any such terms. If tho Democratic party is to vie with tlie Republican party in trying to please the trusts lo secure campaign funds to debauch votes its mission is ended, as there is no usc for two par lies aiming af tile same thing. Vet this is exactly what Cleveland and his followers advocate. Some of us are Democrats, not for the loaves and lisbes, and we would rather see the parly defeated in a tight for the musses than lo be successful by the aid of Hie Dusts. Those so-called Democrats who believe in winning a victory Hail way should go into the Republican party. Tlie Democratic party would be better oil' without them. Disemboweled by i>lule. A dispatch from Florence Sunday night says: information of a horrible accident has been received from Sav age, in ibo lower part ol' this county. Swinton Dozier, a well known resident of that community i was killed by the kick of a mule on Sunday afternoon. Tbc kiele was so strong that thc abdo men ol' Mr, Do/.ier was cut open and bis liver loin by the hoofs of the anima!, lt appears from what can be learned that the mule was sick and Mr. Do/.ier went up behind him and tapped him with a switch to make him move about and the mule let Hy loth his heels, striking tlie man In tile pit Of the .stomach witli thc above result. Mr. Do/.ier was a middle aged man and his death is untimely. Wcrfi?>? OF Biets ?OTJI??ED, ^ ?'pii?itvi'l Simio Uec?dUilItt \\'tili'? Cui?fliieil in Coli. ll ls wf?ll known that the nui?UUr of leuehii word-, verses, etc., conlahh ed in LIH: iii hie lin ve been counted j bul by whom when or where ls nob goner' illly known, says The L?os ton Herald; TreiiL's publlc.itinn. entitled V'C'oiiosi Hes of Hie Bible," speaks ol' Hie oe i eurrenee as being nf Spanish origin,1 and that the Prince of U ru nada, icai ing usuipall*ni, caused Mle arrest of tho supposed wouldbe usurper and b.v order of Hie Spanish crown he was thrown into au old prison called Hie place of skulls, situated in Madrid, where he wascouliued for thirty-three years, with no other companion than tlie rats, mice and other vermin that frequented his dismal cell. During his coulineineiit he counted the letters, etc, contained In thc Bible, and scratched the several num bers on thc stone walls with a nail. When his work was discovered hc~was furnished with writing utensils and ordered to make a copy of the results of Iiis long and tedious; task, and on ItsDcihg completed he tinnily receiv ed his liberty. . Tlie following is a corrccct copy of his great work: The Bible contains 3,5(SU,48n let ters, 77:i,7'l(i wolds, 31,17a verses, 1,105 chapters and iii! books. The word and ecu rs 10,044 times, the word Lord 1,80:1 limes, the word Jehovah 0.855 tunes and the word reverend hui once, which ls in the ninl li verse of the one hundred and eh wni li paslni. Thc mindle verse is Hie eighth verse oi the one hundred ami eigh teenth psalm. The lwciity-lii sl verso, of tho eleventh chapter of Ezra con tains ?ill thc letters of the alphabet except thc letter j. The tlncst chapter fo read is the twenty-sixth chapter of the Acts of Apostles. The most beautiful chap ter is the twent-thlrd psalm. The nineteenth chapter of li Kings and thc thirty-seventh chapter or Isaiah arc alike. The four most inspiring promises are to be found in the stxtli chapter of St. .lohn, thirty-seventh verso, and fourteenth chapter, second verse; also, eleventh chapter of St. Matthew, twenty-Hf th verse, and the thirty seventh psalm, fourth verse. The longest verse is the ninth verse, eighth chapter of Esther. The shortest verse is the thirty-tlfth verse, eleventh chapter of St\-i?hn. There are ten chapters in the book ol Esther in which Hie words Loni and Hod do not occur. The eighth, liflcenth, twenty-lirst and thirty-li rsl verses of tlie one. hundred and Seventh psalm are alike. All the verses ol' the one hundred and seventh psalm end alike. The one hundred and seven teenth psalm contains but two verses, the one hundred and nineteenth I psalm contains 17(! verses. There an no words or mimes of more than six syllables. It has also been discovered by some persons unknown that in .had, third chapter, third verse, ttie word girl occurs, and in thc eighth chapter ol '/..icha ria li, tilth verse, Hie word girls is mentioned for the only time in the whole book. The eighth chapter of Esther, ninth verse contains ti tty-two Ls. The word now appears twenty-four times in Hie Old Testeraient and three times in thc New JUSTICE AT LAST. The lltMiiarknblo Cune ol'a Woman Scut Un for Ijire. The Columbia Stille of last Wednes day says from out of the portals of the state prison will come a woman Lilts morn lng whose pale and furrowed brow would excite pity ina hart ol stone. For the tirst time in seven long yea rs she will wear Hie garment ): that arc not striped and breathe th'.1 air of freedom. The thouuhls that are hers in this new sunlight of liber ty may never be known, but if ever woman had cause to curse justice and hold tn high ridicule the majesty of the highest law it is Mis. Plume Ipili, whom the governor has pardoned. In the annals of crime there are few narratives like this woman's and per haps criminal jurisprudence docs not record a more signal miscarriage of justice. A little over seven years ago Watson Hall, a well-to-do farmer and machinist, was found dead, shot through Iiis head, in his home near Mars Bluff in this state, lie was ??ea lcd tn a chair erect and a gun stood near him, evidently placed there to indicate Huit he had committed sui cide. Tho effort to suggest self-de struction was futile, however, and the murderer, Aleck Ferrell, was arrested and in due time convicted of thc crime and sentenced to life Imprison ment. Mrs. Hall, the dead man's wife, who also sentenced to life Im prisonment as an accessory before the fact. There were several witnesses against her but none of them test!tied to any material point that would have inore than suggested conviction. The woman, on account of her belief in the doctrine of "swear not at all," being ;i member of a holiness society, refused to testify in her own behalf and allowed herself to be convicted. Weddell Hon's Mvorced Witta Near Brankford, tn Smyth county, Va., lives Wesley Itrickley, whose wife died a number of years ago. His son Samuel recently obtained a divorce, whereupon the father took out a license to marry Iiis son's grass widow. To perform Hie ceremony, the services of Rev. Winters London were engaged. Thc minister had been told by someone that it was unlawful for a man to marry his daughter-in law, and it was with some reluctance that he stood before the contracting parties and paonouneed them man lind wife. However, lie went through with Hie ceremony atid then shifted to the other foot and said: "'My friends, I have, been told that it is unlawful for you to marry, 1 will keep tills license until I learn how that is, and il it is against the law, I will not call you married and will return the license to the clerk marked not exe cuted." Brickey was arrested and his case is now pending in the county of Smyth. Ten Men Kt Heil. Ten workmen engaged in making a tunnel on thc Mexican Central's ex tension at Tuxham, in Hie stale o? .lalislco, lost their lives lu a cave-in caused hy several earthquakes coming in rapid succession. The first shock caused thc falling of interior workings, ?md when the gang of workmen went to clear away the debris they were caught by a second cave-in, which re sulted from fr?sl? shocks. I NINE! SIM KILLED I Cy the Explosion of a FdWiler Will iii j'.-'v"..'{xi) '1 ' . . ' F?nney ivan ia. IT WAS FELT FIVE MILES AWAY. Matty IVojde VWt'C Seriously I ?J in red by I tri tig Itlowii About, thu Mn i td lng? In Which Thry Worked. The extensive plant of the Crescent Powder company, ab-Gunister, PaV, was completely wrecked by a series of Tour explosions Friday morning. Of the thirty employes, nine were killed outright and all the others were badly injured by being blown about the buildings in which they were employ ed. The dead: Frank MeKernan, Ross Kennedy, George Fay, Andrew (hirril lace, Charles Ross, William Lyons, Gutseppl Maleo, Frank Strass, John i'etrovtn ki. Tho ages ol' the dead rattged from 20 to 2;"? years. Seven of them were Americans and two were Italians. The list of Injun d includes Adam Taggart, of Pittsburg, the Superin tendent of thc company, who was ! found ujiionsci us in his otllcc by his wife and was dragged out ol' the burn ing building by lier at tile peril ol lier own bli-. Tin: Urt i expli shm occurred among thc material in lbe mixl ig hou?e blowing that hui li (oe to atoms ami also dtStr ying thc two punching houses and the olllce. Nothing was left of the structures. Fire arose in the other buildings. The force of the explosion was felt in towns live miles away and all houses tn the locality were damaged. The bodies of the dead are unrecognizable. The Ure at the deserted plant continued throughout the day and no person ventured near thc doomed structures, fearing additional explosions. There are 2.210 boxes ol' dynamite stored in tile buildings and greater calamities arc predicted should another explosion occur. Terror-stricken farmers and limestone quarrymen have flocked into the town ol' Williamsburg for refuge. The Crescent Powder company sup plied thc powder and dynamite used in the large limestone quarries of the United States Corporation in this county and is owned by Pittsburg ca pal isis. There were eleven build ings in the plant, of which number live are still standing. The estimated value of the plant was &3f>,000. STATE SUMMER SCH03L. Supt. Martin Hives Some Additional In Tommi inti in tl ega rd Thereto. The State of Friday says the State superintendent of education. Hon. (). li. Martin, bas returned from Rich mond where he attended the great educational conference. Thursday lie made additional announcement in re gard to the Slate Summer school for teachers, which will be held at Win throp coi lege from .hmo 23 rd to Jilly 21st. Winthrop is an excellent pl:,";", for such a school because of ?hy splendid equipment, accessible, libra ries, reading rooms and ex lc HM ve ac commodations. Arrangements baye hecti made for boarding in the college and lids gives thc South Carolina Summer school qiute an advantage over some others because the teaclu-is ?ire conveniently localed and can en joy better advantages. Courses of study have been provided in pedagogy, school supervision, el di tton and leading, grammar, literature, rhetoric, library work, drawing, sight singing, music, history, georgraphy, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, obser vation work, nature s tildy, botany and school gardening, manual I raining and kindergarten principles. Some of the ablest teachers of the State and na tion will take par. in this work anti ii large attendance is anticipated. A special feature of this school will be a series of addresses by some ol' the most effective platform speakers avail able and some work will be done hulk ing to the educational campaign which has been planned for the summer. A j meeting of county superintendents' and other campaigners will be held (hiring the session of the summer school. In addition to the regular courses of work by the teacher students there will be lectures Intended for such students as desire some recreation as well as work. Quite a mimer of teach ers after a bard years's work do not desire regular study, hence this ar rangement. Thc prospectus, giving full an nouncements, will bc Issued as soon us possible from the olllce of the superin tendent ot education. County boards are rapidly making recommendations as to instructors for t he various coun Lj summer schools and as soon as these arrangements are perfected, the sched ules will he published. The Louisiana l'tirchane. Mr.. Charit s M. Harvey gives in the current World's Work, some amazing statistics as to the bigness and value nf our middle West anti South -the "Louisiana Purchase" from Napoleon. The thirteen original st it cover S20, 944 square milts: the purchase cov ers 87;"?.OOO square miles. All Furope except Russia and Scandinavia ls only 1,237,(?07 miles. Ralf a billion dol ?a rs worth of corn was raised on the purchase in 1H02, 48 per cent ol'the product ol' the whole country. More than half the wheat crop and ?18 per cent of ils oat crop were raised on thia terri to y. Missouri alone bas more people than hail the thirteen colonies that revolted from Uri tan. Colorado, a part of the purchase, alone produc ed last year *2S,oi>0,000 in gold, more than the entire territory of the Unit ed States hail produced from the land ing of Cabot to t he strike at Slitter's mills in ISSI. Montana alone bas added $1,000,000,000 to the world's weal h of metals. The corn yield of one state, Iowa, for the single year 11)02 would pay six times over thc price we paid Napoleon for fourteen states or patts ot states and terri tories. A ratal Duel. A fatal duel with pistols occurred across the Tennessee river from Lamb's ferry, Alabama as a result of which .1. R. Melford and F. Osborne arc dead. A quarrel having arisen between the two. Osborne went to his ihonie nearby and returned with a pis tol whiCo be emptied. He turned to run, but Metford, mortally wounded, 'tired at the Hoeing man with deadly effect. Roth died shortly afterward. f?? TH2 LAD?E8, fi.iii'?t' Kaela ft bout Fi?g/?ke?nelit.-i 'iiin't \V111 Intercut Them. The longest engagement on record, says .thc New York World, is 75 years and it took place in Hohem la, where engagent: nts of 15 and even 20 years are so common as to cause no remark. The names ol' the wooer and wooed were respectively Kran/, ltosuer and Anna Renner and they had been cjuiliog continuo;) ly tor 75 yeats, but had repeatedly deferred the bridal day. At I st Krai z bec; me fata ly til and was married on bis dcuui-uc? on the eye nf his one hundredth birth day, tb<-age ol' the bride and. widow being ?a. In Russia long engagements are not relished by betrothed young men, al though the ladies usually aie notai all averse to them. Indeed, tbc+'v latter not infreqneutly use till sorts < f arti li?es in order to stave off the wet - ding day to as distant a date as pos sible. Perhaps the custom which decrees that the Russian bridegroom elect must send bis sweetheart a pres ent every day. no matter whether the engagement last for ten week or len years, may have something to du with this anomalous state of attains. The regularly recognized length of a Siamese engagement is exact ly one n ontli. For the bride to ask tor au extension beyond that limit is held lo savor ol' reprehensible prudery; Moreover in Siam, old maids are u - known, as all gills many. The rea son for tnls KS ypioably to he found in the iow estimation in winch unmar ried women are held. i'll-y are not. only looked down upon; they tire ab solutely til no account whatever. As soon as tim marriage ceremony is per formetl, however, inc hitherto neglect ed ?inti despised little female atom be comes di-ilinelly a "somebody."' I'eo plo who would not have deigned to even recognize her existence while in the state of single "blessedness,'* now admit ber willingly to their houses and even go out of their way tu seek Iber friendship. Still, it is not until j she has become a mother that she is I held to have reached ber highest estate. Then she has attained the pinnacle of honor, can claim as a j right presentation ?it court and is ad dressed bv tlte coveted titled of "The Matronly One." In the Argentine Republic an en gaged man who dallies beyond a rea sonable time ore leading bis fiance to -thc altar is heavily tined; that ls if he is over 20. Moreover, he is not per mitted by tb:: Statt: after attaining that age to enjoy tree the pleasures of bac lelorhood, even"'ll li hough he may not have committed himself so far as to have promised marriage to any maiden. In other words every Argentine -lack must choose Ills Jill as soon as be arrives at years ol' discre tion. If he fails to do so the penalty is a payment by Hie denuder of *5 a month to the national treasury, and this is increased as the years go by up tu nu fewer than $.'10 per mouth. Only when he bas celebrated his eigh tieth brithday, ll he evei d ie.-? St? is he held ex-mipt, ttie legislature probably regarding him then as a "hopeless case" so far as the matrimonial market is concerned. There is, however, even as a young man, one loophole ot escape provided for him. lr he cati prove tout he bas proposed and been re used three times in one year he is held to have,, as iL were, done his best, anti to lui ve earned immunity. The I'riith Ab.mt 'i'liskeKre. Tt> the issue of Thursday last of ? h.- Washington Post, a lawyer of Montgomery, Ala.. G.minn Macdonald, by nam :, contributed a long letter in which ne d ?fiare i that tn? onus ot such appointment^ to ulhje of negroes iii:it President .Roosevelt bas m.ute. les entirely on the shoulders ul lirooker Washington, who instigated him in regard to them; that the wh?li blame for the tdked lo-doiit.h White House dinner is also due lo Biukei Washington, wno forced himself on th-i! Chief Executive'.- hospitality wit ii an eye tu bis own glorification; and lastly that Hooker Washington's work at Tuskegee anti the Influence ol' that institution is greatly tnisunderstopil, not only by the easily gulled North, but even by many prominent Southern newspapers. Mr. Mcdonald declares that dwelling in the adjoining county to that in which Tuskegee is situated, bc knows whereof he speaks. That so far from bestowing an "industrial education" upon the blacks, the in stitution incites dreams of "social equality" both by precept and ex ample, and turns out ''soft-handed negro dudes and loafers, who earn a precarious livlug by 'craps' and petit larceny or exist on the hard-earned wages of cooks and washerwomen whose affections they have been enabled to ensnare," and that the girls are taught music and paint ing and "to rustle In line dresses In miserable Imitations of white women," while their poor old mothers labor over tub and cook stove to support them in idleness. There ls much more in t he letter of au uncom plimentary nature to Hooker Wash ington, but what we have quoted is sutllcient. The Augusta Chronicle says if Mr. Macdonald's accusations are well founded they constitute a very serious matter and lt is due to the philanthropists of the North and those in thc South, who with lip and pen have appladed anti encouraged the work being done at Tuskegee; that thc exact truth should be given to the world. In view of Mr. Macdonald's charges and his standing and reliabili ty, according to the Post, the truth should be made plain. How that is to be done thoroughly ?md satisfactorily, I wc dp not pretend to say. It is un d lUhtcdly a dilllcult undertaking, but , Hooker Washington owes it tu him self and his friends ?ind the world ?it large to u ode rt ?ike it. I'liey (let $ IO,OOO. A special from Mason city, Pa., says Agent .Ioho Peterson, of the United States IOxpress company at Britt, forty miles west the eily, was compelled by two masked and armed men to open the sjife in bis olllce Thursday morn ing. and permit the robbers to take a package containing $10,000. They also secured other packages of money, ?inti al ter binding ?md gagging Peter son, they escaped. Two traveling medicinemen have been arrested, but. Peterson was unable to identify them. The * 10,000 package was registered and was to be transferred from the Milwaukee to the Minneapolis and St. Paul railway. Mr. Peterson placed the package in the shipping safe, ile then worked at bis desk until a lap on his shoulder startled bim and he turned to be confronted by two revel vers. The men, after compelling bini to open the safe, tied bim and gagged bim securely and placed him In a rear room where his son found bim hours later. DR. HATHAWAY. Recognized as the Leading and Most Successful Specialist in His line ia the United States. ?ht> specialist li now Indispensable. In hil Walks of lifo Micro ii a demand foi1 the mail Who can do ono particular th Inj,' botter than any ono else, mid auch a man ls ono Who hos confined lils endeavor to, and centered all of his energy and ability on the iipcolalty he has chosen for his life's work. Early in my professional career I realized that Oh ron lo Diseases wero not being given tho attention which their importance warranted. I siw that tiicso diseases required a special fit ness which tho busy practitioner could never acquire, for more than twenty years I have de-' voted myself exclusively to tho study and treatment of: these diseases, and the fact that physi cians recommend mo to their patients ls an ovldonce of ruy skill bud ability In my spot-U? Hun. I . give special counsel to physicians with, obstinate and obscuro cdSes. I havn devoted particular attention to chronic diseases vt men and women,and no other olass of discaso requires mora Intelligent and expert treatment. It ls a fact that a majority of men owe tho seriousness of their condition to Improper treatment, and a failure to r?alisa tho importance of placing their case in tho hands of a skilled and export specialist. iVI??M*.?naa** rinMi'ii.i Overindulgence, Indiscretions and excesses are "not tho only. l\SBrVnilS UBUIIIlV causes of nn Impairment of sexual strength. Buch a deran.xo ~ J moot frequently comes from worry, overwork, mental strain, otc, which gradually -weakens and injures thc system before tho unfortunate victim realizes tho truo nature ot his trouble. 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I j D??*?*?M Tlli3 horrible dlseaso ls no longer incurable, and when I say that I can cure the most sevoro coso I do so because I . jiniifl I OlSrial know just what my treatment has accomplished. If you have nores, pimples, blotches, ?oro throat, pains In tho a^?v?w?* ? ?,,>'**" hones, falling hair, or any symptoms which you do not understand, lt is important that you consult mo at once, and I will toll you f rankly whether or not you are an unfortunate victim. 1 will guarantee to euro you without the uso of strong and Injurious drugs,tn as; quick, if not quicker. Hmo than any known treatment. My cure ls a permanent ono, and ls not moro patchwork,and tho disease will he eradicated from the system forever. Scud for my freo booklet, "Tho Poison King." N Women who sn [Ter from the all men ts peculiar to their sex are cured by my gent?o and painless method of treatment, which avoids all necessity for surgical operations. If you suffer from bcarlng ilown pains, backache, irregularities, lenchorrhea, etc., wrlto mo about your case. I have restored women. Send for my free booklcton women's Diseases. . I>i*????^*?? My specialty also Includes nil other chronic diseases, such as Rheumatism, Catarrh, Diabetes, Bright's UnrOniC U!S8?SeS r{",e,'??? Stomach, Mver and Kidney, Diseases, Piles, Fistula, Rupture, Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia, St. Diseases of Women lo henlth thou? ls equipped with the molt appro Home Treatment ?fefti countries. Correspondence ronihU-iitl-tl. Dance, etc.,'and all who want skillful, expert treatment should write mo about their case. My ollie _ d x - Kay and electrical apparatus, so that my patients get tho benefit of the latest discoveries of science. 1 Invite everyone to consult me without charge, and will refund railroad fare one way to all who take it. If you cannot see mo th person write forsymptom blanks and full Information about my sue lan of home treatment by wi.Ich I have cured patients lu every State in thc Union and la foreign ss Inman lUiilding, ??? S. Broar1?St.,5? 1 lari t ii. f?a. , M. D. MEMORIAL DAY. ?iiu 17? Not Fall ti? Honor th? >l??mory Next Saturday is Memorial Day, and the graves of the dead heroes of South Carolina who dieri for lite. Con federacy will he decorated with sweet Howers hy our noble women. Once a year, foi* the j ait three decades, sa s the Atlanta Journal, thc people ol I'm southern stales have observed a day l for the decoration of the la-1 resting places ot* the Confederate beides, ami the recital of their valorous deeds. ; Anil now the seas-?ps have again shin- j eil to springtime ami the founts ol i memory are unscaled on many a preen : lilli. Amid thc strains of man lal ! music, thousands make their way to! the Howe roi mou mis h tua h w.ioh ' lie ttie benns of-thc soiuh. Upon; those mounds they pince their tribute* ' of a (Tootion and rev?tent renard: and the lonesome grasses are brightened willi fresh !1 AV.MS. I tis liUitu. lhere tore, that, we should consider 'ora mo ment what this day means, and woy it is ohserved, especially in reference to the changed conditions ol this century, .iud tue. long perspective whic.li now lies between the present generation and those who wore the gray. Mem< H lal day, as it ls observed in the South, is whit its name implies a day ot' memories, lt is hot designed to ki.ep alive, any feud or sect! n il issue, lt. is reverent au I retrospective. The c uitroyersy which urged then; ..lead soldiers to 1 iv down ; heir lives for t heir country bas Ween buried wir.ii li tem: a. M I I he .-dient monoliths w.itei to .vcr heavciiwaod where they test, are symbols nf p .:u>", notof war. Mern ni,tl ?liv stands ior all I hat was hesi, and all that i-> hes!, in the soiiUi o? Hie past ami ol' Hie present. Tn? same spirit which impelled .Stonewall .1 edi son. anti ?it whose hid ling t he s void of Lee Hashed from its scahhard, lives in the south today, changed only as to.object -the guiding star of that region where patriotism never dies nor falters. The men who rome from Appomat tox, and their sons, lilted the south out of Its ruins and rebuilt it info more than its ancient opulence. This task was not inferior to the one which lay before them when they marched out in ism. If it was less perilous it was more tedious. It called for all the resolution, all the moral courage, all the faith, hope and energy which could he summoned by the li nest AngOr Saxon stock which the world bas ever known. Patiently uncomplainingly, they rebuilt, replanted, and have since reharvested. Of such liber were the people who fought for home rule In the south. Ot' such a force and purity was the spirit which led forward those who sleep today around the soldier's monuments. It ls this spirit, devoid of sectional strire or issue, which In form Hie observance of Memorial day. To reinem her, to reverence, and to re peat-these are the privileges of those who decorate the soldiers' graves and who gather near them. But in this burying of sectional strife. Memorial day has lost not one atom ol its insistance upon the right eous patriotism of those whose mem ory it perpetuates. Not for years and never, we trust-will the day be come a memorial of misguided fanatics | who died for an unjust cause. Let the phrase, "They diet! for what they thought was right," perish half utter ed upon the. feeble lips that would frame it. Let any suggestion that those who wore the giv.y were rebels, led hy rebel chiefs, remain locked up in those distorted sectional histories, where they belong. With the mere abstract merits of the controversy, i ? Memorial day and the generation I which now observes it has nothing lo do. 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Medical llecord as saying that there was a close relationship between uncleanly raw vegetables and cancer, . and the- editor of the Journal adds that If it be granted that cancer ls of parasitic origin the germs of the dis ease might be lakeu hilo Hie system by the eating of such food. Dr. j Lyons of Buffalo discovered that can- ? cer was most frequent where the pop- ; ulatiou were notorious consumers in : large quantities oft, uncooked vegetables. Uaw vegetables are j dangerous because they carry the : living germs of the disease directly into the system. The harm is done through lack of cleanliness, and not through thc consumption of the fruits. From time to time attempts have been made to prove tht't cancer was caused by eating raw tomatoes and DR. BIGGERS HUCKLEBERRY CORDIAL,. FOR TIIIO Bowels and Children Teething, lt is TH IO GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY for the bowels, lt is one of the most, pleasant and ollicacious remedies tor all summer complaints. At a season when violent attacks of lite bowels are so frequent, some speedy relief should bi: at band. The wearied mot ber, losing sleep by nursing the little one teething, should use this medicine. FROM HENRY W. GRADY. The Constitution Editora! Rooms. Atlanta, (ia.. May 23, lt*?7. Dr. Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga.: Dear Sir:--1 have never given a certificate on merits of any medicine, bul 1 lake pleasure in breaking my rule on this subject in behalf of your Riggers Huckleberry Cordial, lt is the best medicine 1 have ever seen for use in the family. Fifty cents invested in a bottle of this medicine, and put on a shelf convenient for use in the begin ning of any bowel trouble, will often stive life, and will save in almost any family ten lime Hs cost in doctors' bills; I haye a friend whose life, in my opinion, was saved by the prompt use of this cordial, lt ought to be in every family in the land, especially at this season of t he year. Make pleasure in thus testifying to it merits. 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More typhoid fever has been carried about in the leaves of lettuce, raddishes, cress, tomatoes, and similar raw vege tables, than lu any other way, except by drinking water, is the rather alarming assertion of P.onn of Ger many; but this statement is modilied by thc explanation that it is in the wator used to cleanse the vegetables of thc dirt and grit rather than In the leaves. Our table water is intered and boiled for table use when wc have any suspicion that typhoid lurks In thc neighborhood, but the servant is allowed to wash thc raw vegetables with thc suspected water. We eat thus with our lettuce or tomatoes a few thousand typhoid germs, and then wonder how we ever got typhoid. It ir. not wonderful that we get it, but lt is strange that it does not spread more generally. Cooking vegetables will destroy all typhyoid germs, and one ls safe in using suspected water in this way. If cancer bc of parasi tic origin, thc spread of the disease by vegetables would likewise be pre vented by boiling.