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THE THIRD BULL BUN. Historic Ground Chocen for the Man oeuvers of the Army. BOTTE CABOLINA WILL BE TEERE Twenty-two Thousand ltegulars and . State Troops Will Take Part lu Fortnight's Operations. A Shamo Battle. Major General Corbin will fight the third battle of Bull Run. The gen eral staff of the army is now engaged upon improving the strategy of Gen eral "Stonewall" Jackson in what is regarded by military strategists as the most masterly campaign of the civil war. From Fortland, Mc., which never came nearer to war than seeing in thc oiling Spanish ileets which never ex isted, the army manoeuvers will be transferred this year to Manassas, V>.j which still bears the marks of the heavy blows dealt by blue and gray forty-two years ago. For the first time an opportunity will be afforded for effective compari sons between the old army which fought and the new ar ny which is being trained to fight. Can the mod ern armament and the methods ol transportation which have developed forty years from the days when Pope and Lee raced from their respective bases to thc battle ground change the result of their manoeuvers? Twenty two thousand modern soldiers will be used to test thc prowess of the ancient armies of the rcbelliou and prove what would have happened had the commanders whose names made his tory possessed (Crag-Jorgensen rifles, Dougerty, wagons and thc new army field gun. It is probable that no Held of any of the great Southern conflicts could have been selected which has suffered so little change as the low-lying laud in the Valley of Northern Virginia between Thoroughfare Gap and the Potomac. There have been few alterations in the general make up and characteris " tics of Manassas since the rear guard of General Tope's army fell back tu "Washington. Railroad lines and roads which afforded Hie old combatants their only methods of transportation other than tint afforded by the coun try roads have not changed. The lines shown upon the map of 18(52 are still unchanged, except that upon what was thc left Hank ol the Northern army there has been const ructed a road between Alexander and Frcder icksburg, and a line across what was the base of the Southern army from Fredericksburg to Charlottesville. These latter lines would so materially have affected the operations of the civil war that it is probable, if the general staff follows its plan nf repro ducing the campaign of 1802, they will be barred by thc umpire. Eighteen thousand regular army troops and four thousand militiamen from various Eastern states will par ticipate in the operations, which will continue from September .") to 20. This is thc largest body of regulars and militia gathered for manoeuvres in the history of the Gui ted States. The tieldr of Bull Run. Bristow Sta tion, Milford and Manassas Ju net iou will again be trod by armed soldiers. The same strategic points which play ed such a vital part in the contest of military science waged between Gen eral John Pope, the Federal leader, and General Robert K. Lee, Confeder ate, stand the same today as in ISiiii. Major General Henry C. Corbin, commanding Hie division of Hie At lantic, will he in supreme command. Licutant General Adria R. Chalice, chief of staff, whose actual lighting service In Cuba, Hie Phillippines and Cliina in the last few years is fresh in mind, will observe the manoeuvres, military attaches of foreign govern ments will witness the evolutions. Convenient as the scene of lighting will be to Washington and Baltimore, and even Philadelphia and New York, thousands of onlookers are expected to lind their way thither. Already Inquiries that pour in upon the war department show that many an old veteran who fought in the cam paign of August. 1802, intends to see how the soldiers of today will handle themselves on thc lighting g mund. To this dav wherever the veterans of the campaign of tho great rebellion gather stories as to "red Virginia mud" have a prominent, place, lt is declared there is rm "stickier" mud in the world and no time when it is "stickier" than the last rainy harvest months. The campaign of 1863 w is fought for the most part by veterans of at . least a year's standing. There were four regiments from in or near thc city of New York in that campaign, hut they had had time to learn thc differ .enee between thc pavements of the . iajttnd of Manhattan and the shifting ^ Gsluftk in the wake of ? Virginia rain ?.Q - xefttforjp. lt is considered highly proba ^c \Cto !irm>' uilicers that thc rcgi 0?. ?nVehts from the stale <?f New York so i?$sP fortunate as to he allowed thc oppor r Ul aUL'ml these manoeuvres .O .^wi^be apt to encounter some incon k k^Weblence before they equal the record yv??V "of Ge^?^il Stonewall Jackson when he toif&itf two armies in the same day "f? GbVycviid Thproughfari Gap at points ** iif tcjcji\*rentes of red clay apart aol "---^W0h'.H\tj>st lah-g;y ol Hie game of |M;J. NA\^Ob-operation of militia with regular v^,?;^ v I rou ps, .which forms thc basic princi v*^ ' plo of thc n:?Henal scheme of defense, e /-twilHhe, ?kl?orded thorough operation A\T ^n (JJ/??MC manoeuvres. General Cor i>0^r'" roc* h Hy., wi ni lo Virginia to j-ysA nwl^arrw^euients for obtaining per >'\\'"t^^'H^'iM?. upon the* land tle > sijjiki as vtWn?big ground. Properly owners' Eolith ina,, thc army could he ;L^K^og^Ar?t^tnorc thc first week in 0* ^ S^pt?n^jti'rV 'Alun tho harvest will \\, ?hA\V5vlVe^i,i. comu/l?ted and there will ?? ? <?^?Be i?OTngrtWoraps from tho march *i ^jrf*infffcvtry.^caWtliy and artillery. ON5 Bi^tlm^^^tf?^gh it has ihe ad vaut^i^e, of bMj^p^ompat-atividy cool v aim is coiw^nien^\'i() the Virginia \ ta,T\^t?f?ftn^.\\J^ ara whacks. Most td ,\ tJ>erf!atiirf?j?^ gu<jtfPorganizatlons go v.' **Tntu etan nca rid JiO^rttlieir mannen KO0 \ ?vW* li.r?Xralv and^i?ust. Thc mill '. \ flamen, wiHt^mS?'^Y?Mliory is an oc y. N?upatlo^o*ccoiHutry \<f that which ttH\v\\OriYike their are better abie to leave H^rN?v>{ht^',s and shops - N\ihNng thec\^MiVNsurti>Hcr months. . v'^Whon #^M^W .(-;^iiirM:i: and At?dbdus^rjp^V^?.G&%?Tmfc'm: up in Sep \oc tve^^elc 0!^&^dlrvxi^^fi^V^^&r them to "Sabtatft WuUfuVt^ dl^'Vy ^1le ci ty. , N'^Thus Wie.\i^?fi;i^vt^res^0itliLioii will . 'o** be 8malle\^Yk?Vp IfrY^fe-tiaff?nocu vres *V v^re held )jf J^^^a^Cfffonth, if . ^cV^madc thi^ftjitjh^'i?r^ot^s?wftnic war ^..opfare.jSflfiki^ in not &?v fa?il?tt?fTi^^^fe*? V i r inkicft aM^xV^^f^^S^i0 thc cal for military operations of this character. General Corbin believes tbat al though the militia will not be able to remanin throughout the fifteen days to be devoted to tho manoeuvres, regiments from New York, hardened by their work In the summer encamp ments at Peekshill' would be able to leave New York on fast treep train Friday night of each week and be In Manassas before daybreak, thus ob taining Saturday and Sunday for work In the Held, and they would be again in New York on Monday. THE WORLD'S FAIR. Sonic Facts About tho Grout Show at St. I,UlliH. Grounds cover 1,240 acres. Cheese weighing two tons. Exposition costs $50,000,000. For athletic events, $150,000. Hose garden lo acres In area. G laut bird cage; 300 feet long. Special pavilion for sculpture. Forty-four states participate. Automobile speeding contests. Giant locomotive at full speed. Indian exiblt; covers 40 acres. Fifty foreign countries exhibit. Model India school; 100 pupils. Special corn exhibit cost $50,000. Natural garden of wild Howers. Art pottery works in operation. Model school for blind and deaf. Mining gulch; 12 acres lu extent. Louisianna history told in Howers. Statue in butter of John Stewart. Regular hat factory In operation. Icc plant-300 tons daily capacity. Placer gold mine minning gulch. Phillippine exhibits; cost $1,000, 000. Pavilion built cnterely of peanuts. Decorative sculpture; cost $500,000. t?ueen Victoria's Jubilee presents. International angling tournament. Iron statue of Vulcan; 50 feet high. Four acres of growlt-g fresh fruits. Thc widest boiler plate ever rolled. Typical Pennsylvania coal breaker. Pure-food exhibits cover two acres. Turquois mine in actual operation. Full-sized yacht, completely rigged. Idaho silver nugget; weight 10 tons. Operating lapidary and assay olllce. Outside live-game exhibits; 10 acres. Turbine engine of 8000 horse power. Gem cutting, grinding and polish ing. Live stock, 37 acres; $250,000 in prizes. "Hank" Monk's famousstage coach. Largest organ-145 stops, 10,000 pipes. Locomotive tests throughout, sea son. Models of coal mines and applian ces. Factory for making pens of all kind:;. Airships tournament: $200,000 in . prizes. I Larucsb gas engine-3000 horse power. Factory where paper boxes are made. Practical shoe factory in operation, ation. Kai ti bow gardens, amid the cascad es. Meeting of National [lowing Regat ta. Manufacture of nitrogen from the air. Athletic sport:; and games in gener al. Primitive Mexican copper-mine oap. Floral clock; minute baud i.'JO pounds. Display of jewelry valued at $10, 000,000. Whale !>2 feet long; papier-mache cast. Full-size model United States war ship. L berty Hell in Pennsylvania build ing. Four acres of agricultural imple ments. Edison's personal exhibit of inven tion. Tobacco exhibit; covers over bali acre. Imitation diamond factory in oper ation. Butter and chose exhibit: over an acre. Wireless-telegraph station In opera tion. Athletic contests: all nations and races. Wireless-telegraph garden in opera tion. Tree H00 years old, from North Car olina. Bimonthly exhibit of seasonable Howers. Cato on balcony in Horticultural building. Typical frontier trading post repro duced. Ilelil Up and Hobbed. A dispatch from (J reen ville to The State says on Thursday night last, between lo and ll o'clock. l>r. I. E. Crimm was going to his office on Main street, in the second story of the Bur gess building, and he was accosted just as he reached the olllce door in the dark hallway with a gruir demand for his money and diamonds, and a pis tol was thrust into his face, while he was ordered to hold up his hands. I ir. Grimm was taken completely by surpris" and as he was unarmed at the. tinie there was nothing else to do except to surrender for the time be ing to the inevitable. The bandit grasped the necktie of Dr. Crimm, where he usually wears a diamond pin, and then demanded his diamond ring, placing his weapon near his victim's temple. He grasped the right hand ol Dr. Crimm, on which lie wore a ruby ring, and in getting it olf the linger was badly bruised. Ile had asked for money and received $(1, and just as thc ring was se.-tired by him the passing ol' a number of persons in Iront, ol the door on Main street caused him to take Hight down thc hack stairs. Bandits Garroted. At Santiago, Cuba, four bandits convicted of murder were garroted in the provincial jail, lt was the first legal execution since the Spanish re gime. Two executioners who arrived there from Habana Wednesday with thc garrote were almost mobbed while on their way to the jail. President Palma was petitioned to commute thc sentences, but he declined to inter fere. Children Drowned. As a result of a cloudburst in cent ral Texas and this section Wednesday no trains were moving in or out Thursday. Five miles of track of the International and Great Northern were washed out north of here. Five children were drowned in a creek last night near hero. < !oCIiin*Ghiiia liavaged. A hurricane ravage Cochln-China on Sunday. A hundred natives were killed and great damage done. All the telegrah lines In Sagigon were destroyed. Many native vessels were injured. / VETERAN OPERATOR. Tos. W. Kates, Beauregard's Suderin tendent of Telegraph. AN INCIDENT OF FOfcT SUMTER. When He First Took Up the Key, the System WAB Very Crude, and the Bounder Waa Not in \1Jso Then. The Columbia State says Mr. Joseph VV. Kates Monday retired from the service of the Postal Telegraph com pany after having served as general superintendent of the .southern divis ion of the Postal since 188U. The an nouncement of his retirement was re c?! ved with regret over the lines, for he hud managed the construction of the great system from Richmond to New Orleans, and he leaves tho ser vice to get a well earned rest. Mr. Kates did some work with the key in this State at a time when the telegraph instrument was just coming into use. lie commenced his work at Petersburg, Va., in 1858-41 years agc -before the "sounder" was med. The messages were received on a re cording paper register and he was jone of the first to take messages by sound alone. There were but two men in the olllce at Richmond at that time and Mr. Kates and another handled all the exciting news of the John Brown raid. Ile transmitted the famous mes sage of President^ Jefferson Davis or dering Gen. .Joseph E. Johnson at Winchester to make a juncture with Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard at Manus sas Junction, lt required over ari hour to send the message, the new wire being imperfect and the receiv ing operator quite inexperienced. Had the message been "bulled" in transmission the Confederacy might have met with disaster in the very ti rsl battle. In the fall of 1801 he was assigned to duty at the headquarters of Gens Polk and Beauregard, and at thc memorable battle of Shiloh and the preceding campaigns he shared the dangers and privations of the soldiers. All of the wires in the south at that time were owned by the Southern Telegraph company. In 18153 he was appointed by Gen. Beauregard to superintend the mili tary lines around (marleston. Ile connected Forts Sumter and Moultrie with the land batteries. As told ir The State recently, Mr. Kates' re mained in charge at Charleston until tsiit, when he was given a more im portant assignment at Richmond, Gen. Beauregard and others gave him autograph idlers congratulating him on Ids services to the Confederacy, After the war Mr. Kates went north where news of his distinguished ser se rv ices had preceded him and ht found no trouble in securing employ ment. The following incident ol't ht terrille bombardment of Fort Sumtei by the land batteries on Morris island shows the nature of Mr. Kates' ser vices to the government of the Con federate SUttcs: "At one time when the lire on thc fort was very heavy, the cable coil' necting it with Charleston was broken by a shot or shell and communication ceased, much to the dismay of thc brave defenders of the fort, who, at long as the telegraph instrument-con tinued "ticking," knew they were not entirely cut off from the outside world. "The approach to Sumter frort Charleston, altogether impracticable in thc daytime, was* dangerous and exceedingly risky even in the darkness of night. The succeeding night thc broken cable was examined by Mr. Kates, who went over its route in a small boat. Ile found that it was deeply Imbedded in the sand, and the whereabouts of the break could not be ascertained. Gen. Beauregard tuen directed that a new cable be laid, which order was successfully executed second or third night after the break, by Mr. Kates, and communication re established before daylight, and with out the knowledge of the Federal batteries at Cummlng's Point, only a few hundred yards distant. V?r this work he was warmly commended and complimented by Gen. Bau regard and his adjutant general, Thoma? Jor d?n." WOULDN'T TAKE THE MONEY. Church Kcl'iiHcd $80,000 liecutiHe the Giver Died io n Theatre. Last December W. W. Cooper of Kenosha, Wis., lost his life in the terrible disaster of th?; Iroquois the atre In Chicago. The Tribune of that city says that after his death it was found that he had willed $80,000 to the beard of foreign* missions of the Methodist Episcopal church to aid in its great work. Last weekt the secretary of thc board. A. IL Leon ard, communicated with the county clerk at Kenosha informing him that the gift had been refused by the board of missions "because Mr. Cooper met bis death in a place of amuse ment not countenanced by the church." Jn his letter Mr. Leonard said that thc decision of the board was unanimous. Thc money will now probably be distributed between the widow and daughter of the liberal minded Chris tian who died In the theatre lire. His good intentions, however, in making thc gift when thc time for distribut ing tho tinal awards comes will prob ably st and as an offset to the resolu tion adopted by the board of missions. How much better it would have been had the board followed the course pursued hy the Citadel Square Baptist church of the city of Charles ton in thc liberal bequest made to it by Kinma Abbott, one of tue queens of the operatic stage. There is such a thing, in our opinion, as being too squeamish about somethings and not squeamish enough about others. There has probably never been a bequest to thc board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, or to any other board cf foreign missions lu the country, which has not been made by poisons who have attended thc the atre occasionally. Probably there was no objection to their benefactors, however, because they were not burned to death in a theatre lire. There arc some things that good peo ple do we cannct understand. News and Courier. I'olKicH Onuses Murder. At Charleston, W. Va., during a political meeting Friday night lean Chandler was fatally shot by Wm. Leachman at the Patrick school house, where a meeting was held preliminary to the Republican primaries tomor row. More trouble is expected to follow this outbreak. There have been a dozen men shot In this State luring thc political contest for the Republican nomination for governor DEMOCRATS ARE HOP EFUL. Both Parties Organizing fo(r a Warm Cam pal ?ii. Whatever may be the falte of tho Democratic Presidential ticklet to be nominated at St. Louis In July, Democrats in Congress believe they have a chance of controlling the next House of Representatives, anil they will make a determined and aggres sive tight to accomplish-1 hat end. The Republican leaders, while not conceding there is the slightest prob ability of a Democratic House majori ty in the Fifth-ninth Congress, will take no chances, and are preparing to wage an active campaign in every close Congressional district. There ls in the present Congress a Republican majority of thirty-four. Could the Democrats hold the dis tricts they now have and capture eighteen of the districts now repre sented by Republicans, they would have a majority in the next .Congress. The Republicans assert thls|ls Impos sible. The Democrats contend that lt not only ls possiple. but ls probable. The Republicans are anxlois to in crease their majority In thp House. During the session of Congress just closed, the margin on account of.ab senteeism, was often too flose for comfort. / To thc Middle West thd Republi cans are looking for thar gains. There are districts In Obio\ Indiana, and Illinois now represente^by Dem ocrats, which they believe*they can carry. \ Judge Wade, who reprejints the Eleventh Iowa district, ls Mie only Democrat from that Sta? in the Rouse. The Republican letters have practically decided to nomijjte A. F. Dawson, now private set&tary to Senator Allison, to make lin? race against him, and believe Hiey can carry the district. Judge l'ad? hall a plurality in thc lastelecti?jof about 1,200. ) Thc Republicans do not epect any marked change in thc repr>-entation from Eastern States, with te excep tion that they hope ? defeat Mr. Granger, the D?mocrate Repre sentative from Rhode Is'andand may capture one or more of th, Greater New York districts now represented by Democrats. It. is not expected that any Republicans will b elected from t he South, but there Hi fear in Democratic quarters that :ie Popu list party may be rejuvenati in some ot' the Southern States. Should thc Eastern conn*vat!ves dominate the St. Louiseonuition, if is said Southern Populists 'ho have co-operaterl with the Demeclts t,i:;cc 18?H1 probably wou'd declhuto con- , thine the alliance. Sliouldthe old alliance ol' Southern POOUJLS and Republicans be reformed, ti Demo crats may lose a number of ats. Shoula such a situation aie, how ever, it is possible thc Repblicans would lose In the West any rj/antage Democratic losses In the Sou? might give them. Should party allument in a number ol' Western State.4o back to whore it was before the ito cam paign, a number of Republics mem bers might fall ol' ri-election. The Democrats have large Ians for capturing thc next Iluuse, fl they count on diff?rent channels I politi cal thought to help them in li?rent parts of the country. Not only have the D?j-ocr) nnrk cd- Mr. Ovcrstreetr tl?- Sj r?a^ the Republican commit^ sfcat, but they declare Its chairm?ti Mr. Babcock, is in danger of suffeig a like fate. In tho last electh Mr. Babcock had a pltrality of moithau 8,000, but thc Democrats count! the disaffection of LaFollette Repulcans to wipe this out. In Illinois th 3em crats arc planning aggressive.cam paigns in thc districts represend by Me.-srs. Routed, Marsh and Wrner. in Iowa they insist that not on1 will Judge Wade retain his seat, bdthat the Democrats have a chance opeat Ing Mr. Lacey in the Sixth dtrict. They expect to regain the Corado seats formerly represented by Issrs. Shafroth and Bell. They count d sen?? timcnt for Canadian reciprocity to help them along the canad latffron lier. The Cont ol' Government] The appropriations made i the Sessions ol' Congress just enccl ag gregated nearly i>SOO,000,000. This is the lirst session too ol' digress. When the second session of tb!Fifty eighth Congress closes it is grtain that thc sun of the appropriates of it will bc somewhere near a pillion and a half dollars. Yet only ? short lime ago the people were horded be cause one Congress earned the name ol' the "Billion Dollar" Congres. Cer tain large bills such as the Rivr and Harbor, too were shorn of theiiusual proportions, and Hie appropriations for public buildings were u usually meagre. The forty millions ,nid to the French Panama Canal Coipany arc not included in total voted lt the sessii n of Congress. Whence thou comes t his demand for such a sum? The Army and the Navy, excluye of Pensions now cost the 1'nited [tates more than $200,000,000 animally. Pensions alone in 1803 cost $13"42f>, 040, and for the ensuing yei! the amount is larger. The omnloi fact is that our expenditures largcV ex ceed the revenues. Each yea the dclicil grows larger. Roosevelt' Ad ministration thus far has expanded $883,000,000 more than Clevelmd's. The enormous extravagance d Re pul iran policies will make a Sirong campaign argument for the Lemo ciats in thc Presidenta! election, -. I Where la Itv Re . ?rds unearthed in the tnlce of the Treasurer of the United .frates at Washington show that a find of $100,000 was raised about fort/ years ago to erect a monument to [lincoln The money was raised by popular'Sub scription, thc design for tht monu ment accepted, and then the project mysteriously drooped out tit" sight. What became of the $100,000 is not known. Most olllcers of the association formed to carry on the work have long since died and those now living profess to have forgotten the very ex istence of thc scheme. The monument as planned was to be erected In front of thc capitol and was to have been of granite, seventy feet in height. He Wan Particular. At Pittsburg, Pa., William L. Hart ley, white, and James Edwartls, color ed, were hanged Thursday In the Allegheny county jail yard. Roth men had an ample supply of nerve. 'J1 ney were hanged separately. Hart ley asked that he be not hanged with a negro as be feared his family would have to bear thc disgrace of the pub lic, having thc impression that he committed crime with a negro. Ills request was granted by Sheriff Dick son. r THOUGHTS FOR I? BS. Good Advice for the Mho Make tho Crops The following we ?oin the Greenville Mountaineer. THU CHUKN Every man ought to a little about: everything that i-ns him and a great deal about a things. Our strong point ls dmr 'e speak of churns for the famllj not for | dairies and large creas. The old style dash Churn, whemude of wood or clay, turns out.ejmt but ter and butter milk. '. ls the best cheap churn. But it than that ls thc revolving twinging churns. There is no daand no machinery about therdrby may be a little slower than thei churn. They are dust and Hy pn Of the revolving churns the barihape 1B perhaps better than the cal, for lt is stronger and not Mab > warp. About this time of the yeae 'Ven ders of patent churns wllkrt out. Do not listen to them. ;o your hardware store for churns I not to traveling agents. Last ya large, good looking man by ttume of Foot came here with a san churn, warranted to make butt? three minutes from fresh milkeam 01 sour milk. He was not lous tc sell churns, but wanted tul coum ty rights. De was placea Yorl Jail a few days ago for frai Then Is a lirm in Spartanburg t is oui $25 to the same Foote. 1?re is perhaps, a man in Green vi ?Vb. o ba suffered In the same way b woul? admit it. The swing chura also : good one, simple, easily mared am strong. Let these fine avelln agents alone. Buy no countr Stet rights for anything. CULTIVATE CROPS EAT. Farmers cannot begin thiultlva tion of their corn and cotton.) earl) Weeds and grass are going tome u with cotton, or a few days aid of I The liest and most eLTectivtorkin may be given with a harrow weec er and before the seeds arc u The missionaries arc needed all vcr tt land to impress farmers witthe ldc that keeping crops clean Igiot tl only object in working then: Killie grass is a mere incident. If the was not a grass seed in alield tl cultivation would be neeeary. 1 stirring the topsoil air antsunligl get into it and evaporation cut o Tile moisture below, insteaof esca lng in thc air, goes ti) the rets of tl plants and keeps tbc plat: food soluble form. Let no one go it in his head that he will work is crop certain number of tines ancno mot After every rain it vould e well run over the land and break.bc- crus i )f course, il the shovcrs fal sevei clays in succession, that ;annot done. These cxpandng harrows cultivators are excel lint on smoo laud. One may clean la corn or ci Lon row at one run. fy running eli to one side this week Ind then ch Lo thc other thc next t will keep t top soil broken all thc time. Ne^ plow corn deep after itbegins to se nit thc lateral roots auoss tho ro\ The shallower thc better. Begin jime, work often, keep ut lt. Ne' et a hard crust form in the mi adi THE CROW SEASON. At this Lime of the year a thoug ess farmer will loie a day or t Hinting and destroying a crow's ne Io. will also fret and fume because ew crows light in his corn tield ea ii tu.a ?- -i ??il rf?o?\rov.-{4jil?* ?wo of grubs and worms. Toe ci las a bad name, not on account of ?ompany he keeps, for he Is very a .ocratio and quite particular ab lis associates. It may be his ci ;hat has brought him into disrep imougst farmers, for it is certai lot thc harm bc docs. Thc fact ibo crow is very much like his enei nan. He has an Idea that the fai ir ought to strike a balance sheet : place his good deeds over on thc crt nile against his wrong doing. Thc ;ouut would stand aboul this w )n thc credit side would be thousa if bugs, worms and injurious Inst iestroyed. ( )n the other side wt oe only a few hills of corn pulled md a few watermelons pecked Sr. Lhe crows. They do more good tl barm. Cut worms, bud worms Other insects destroy ti tty times much corn as the crows do. ADVICE TO YOUNG KAKMEKS. There are. hundreds of young fa ers in the State. They begin tl work with high hopis and much thusiasm. That ls right, ir thus inspired, it would be belter Hiern Lo give up farming and hire by thc day. In Hm lirsL place debts have to be made for land, st or supplies, be sure to meet the i ment. If before pay day comes see that you will not bc ready, your creditor, make a plain Staten: to him and have a fair understand i Make a friend oui of the man owe. l>o not try to farm with c weak stock and worthless Implctne As you purchase plows, harness the like get the best, (iel those t will last. l>o not buy according to scrip tion and advertisements. If need some special implement that have never tried and any o? y neighbors are using it, take a day go and see lt at work. If you that it has been lying In the fi corner or under a shelter without ing used- let it alone. Beware men willi patent labor saving Im ments. The hardware merchant supply your wants. Get in thc h; of keeping tools and harness In tl proper place. Du not scatter ll around, (let In the garden lut Never neglect that. (Jet dower ? and rose bushes and give the wit' chance. Mingle with your ncighb Swap days and dinners with th Keep on good terms with them. \\ ahead so as to give thc wife a day even In thc busy season. Remcm that when you are in thc Held the I afternoons seem to bc about 24 ho in hiring hands to help you make contract very plain. Ray them w you promise and if they do thc v well praise them. In that way can always get good hands if they in the neighborhood. Then by lng in a kind and generous way wards your neighbors, you will alv have their assistance and sympc in misfortune, and they will rcj with you iti prosperity. Jumped from Bridge. A dispatch from New York says lirst suicide by jumping oil the Williamsburg bridge of hundred thirty-live feet, was committed morning by an unknown well dre woman. Thc woman walked to a u near thc centre of the bridge clal to thc railing and with a wild jumped. She went feet lirst and skirts acted as a sort of paracl: She struck the water over a hun feet below with un Insulllclent I to Ink but to stun her. She was ried down the stream by the tide ~ank. Her body was not found. THE BEBT TIME TO DIB. A Thoughtful Article from tbe Pen or Mrs. W. H. Telton. It v?as a great poet wW wrote the following: "Whom the gods lovo die young," WUB Bald of And maur deaths dei they escape by this, The denth of friends, mid that which sjays Btlll more, 'Hie doath ol friondsHp, love, youth, all that is, Except moro breaths, and sluco tho silent shoro Awaits at last even those who longest miss Tho old archer's shafts, perhaps tho carly grave, Which men weep over, may .bo..meant to save. Perhaps I am not correct; hut 1 have long felt that Death is often times the best friends that poor mor tal man may have, when life is hope lessly lilied with weariness of spirit and thc burden of sorrow. If Death means a release from suffering, men tal or physical, who will dare say that Death is not a friend? It ls the philosophy of life to bear the inevitable with resignation and patience, but thc abstract proposition here considered is whether lt is the best time to go before there is noth ing left but endurance and "mere breath." I know and understand the Chris tian belief of "Thy will be done," and would fain make lt clear that it is oidy God's gracious promise which can sanctify grief and hopeless sorrow (thc promise to be with us in "fiery trials" and "deep wators"), but still 1 contend that the best time to go b when your good inlluence has reached its zenith aud those who love you besl will mourn you most, whether in in fancy or in four score years. Have you never seen a person out live health, wealth, friends and hap pl ness? What is there so pitiful undo Heaven as a creature that is bank rupt in all except "mere breath," l poor mortal who ls a burden to th world? You have seen boys of line promise fine family, line fortune make abst lute shipwreck of all except the C? pacity to breathe, to exist. Go aimed to have them do well, but the would not. Who will say they had not outlive their best time to die? When I was a girl just entering rr teens, a clean hearted, upright, raoti erly neighbor made an afternoon via p. j to my iiouse and told the painful stol 1C I of the downfall of her daughter to u ' mother's sympathizing ears. Tl tragedy, the mother's grief, thc awf blight that fell on that home, on h young sisters, on the parents, on hi poor self, was ruy first view of tl awful gufferin" mich conduct mig! and would entail on those who sa such youth, love and friendship die cruel and unnatural death. Now, was it a sin when that po motlier wailed aloud, "Obi why didi she die when she was a dear, swe little baby?" After thc grief-stricken mother lei and my own dear motlier clasped n in her arms and warned mc of tl evils and temptations to which th poor young woman bad succumbed, it a marvel that 1 have always fe that such misery was the deepest sr row and the blackest gloom that cou ever fall on any pure hearted mothei life? If the poor creature had died in i fancy how thc tears would have fa en, and her memory would have be cherished! Hut She outlived, ot -wore, outraged the patience, me i fectlon and the comfort of those w have died gladly to have made h the clean once more. "Perhaps the early grave that m weep over may be meant to save Who knows? Long years ago I read a story of trip by s-.-a from New York to Charl ton. A gay party on deck were ta lng of the dangers of the sea, ant young motlier said: "If my little b should be taken from me, I know should die, 1 never could give li up." A passenger, a woman in mourni dress, who bad not spoken befo said: "Lady, you speak rashly: knew a woman as young as you i who loved lier boy as devotedly you do, and 1 heard her make 1 same remark time and again. ()i her child was sick and she cried anguish: "Save him, L.crd, to mr must have him. 1 cannot live wi out him." ''That woman lived long enough soe ber boy a convicted and conder ed felon, a murderer, and lie died the gallows tree. She must bi him, she said, and she did have hi but she wished ten thousand til ten thousand, that he had died wi she thus clamored for his life." Hising from her seat the bl rotted woman said: "I am that d boy's mother, and your clamor your boy has wrung this story fi an anguished heart. He careful wi you demand.'1 The world is full of suffering. '. outside weeks of griefs are only a ti of the sorrow tlie world furnisl The secret trouble, the hidden guish, the untold woe arc the dre fu' Mi'niis which riot in poor moi lives, li the roofs could be lif bow these car king carts would pride of its glitter and vanity of gilded display. lt is only righteousness which alteth a nation and a contented m is the only true beaven of mortal istence. We should daily pray fi proper understanding of the best ? truest things for our own souls! lg m to i a ?e. to .al be or til >t ise )SC he ?er nd vs. in ^er cs. ht wo :st. i a rly ^or .ow the ris JUt ilor ute nly i is ny. rm ind id it ac ay: ods iCtS mid up ia re lian and as rm mir en uot for out , ir ock >ay you see icnt ng. you mor nbs. and .bat de you you ?our and find mee be : of pie can Etbit ieir icm bit. seed e a ors. em. 'urk out iber ting u rs. the mat ..ork you are act to days itbv nice i the nev/ and this i8sed (lint med cry her inte, ched 'orce car ani! Died from Chloroform. At Clinton, Landrum Hunter, a of 1:2 years of age, and son of Mr. 1). Hunter, died there Wednesday half past 1 o'clock from the effects chloroform. The drug was adminls ed in order to extract a splinter wi the boy stuck in Iiis foot about tl weeks ago. The operation was ] formed Wednesday morning aboi o'clock, after which heroic meas' were taken to restore the boy to 1 but to no avail. Additional ph clans were called In and all hop restoring him to life was not abane ed till half past 1 o'clock. HU mains were carried to Cedar She Spartanburg county, about 1? n from that place, for burial. lind iii>ir Breadth ICsoape. A party of eastern tourists tm lng through Yellowstone park 1 had a narrow escape from being d ed to death in a chasifi along Golden Gate road which leads Into park from Gardiner. A coach cont lng live passengers slipped over side of a precipice, lt was oaugh brush and its descent stayed for instant, during which the passen managed to extricate themselves and escape, clinging to the rocks brush. The stage soon fell wit crash to thc bottom of the cat 700 feet below, killing thc horses demolishing the vehicle. All the bengcrs were painfully bruised. BEGINS WORK with the first dose, cleansing the blood of all thc poisonous ?ddt that produce RHEUMATISM, driving out all the dangerous germs that infest the bo dy-th oj is the way cures are effected by Other medicines treat Symptoms; Rhiumati?t rtm?vu tbs faust, and, therefore, its CURES ARE PERMANENT. Helps the digestion, tones up the system. Sample bottle free on application to BOBBITT CHEMICAL CO., Pro prietors, 316 West Lombard St., Baltimore, Md. Everybody Should Reed This.^ car louds of pipo and car load of iron. Cheapest placo in state to ouy pipe and iron. 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Don't think Uiat every ono who hangs out a sign as a "watch maker" is competent to repair your uno watch. Repairers who aro fully competent are scarce Wo do work only ono way,-tho best-wo cnn .make any wart of a wutch, or a completo watch. Our prices are often no moro than you poy for inferior work. When om cli??Kt? for work \? S1.5Q or over we wi\\ pay espre?a charge one way. Sui.d TU, yuur watch, 1?. H. Ii AC H ICHOTT IC & CO, Jewelers, 1424 Main SU, Columblu, S. C. Fine Watch Repairing. Southeastern Lime & Cement Co. CHARLESTON. S. C. Building Material of all kinda. High Grade Roofing "R?BEROI0." Write fnr brices, \ . Whiskey Morphine I Cigarette All,Drug and Tobac Habit, Habit Habit | Habits. Jf Cured by Keeley Institute, of ?. ap. 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 75) Columbia, S. C. Confidential co&espond ence sol ich ed.___Jj_ jl^ime Cement, Plaster, \\ Terra Cotta Pipe, Roofing Paper, Car lots, small lots, writeA Carolina, Portland Cement Co., Charleston, ti. C\ Kussiu nml Japan. The recent .Japanese victories over the Russians on land have caused many to believe that the war is nearly over and that the japs will have no trouble in bringing the Russians to terms. People who take this view are not familier with the history of Rus sia. The war has hardly begun. Rus sia's enormous resources and endless Kt.aj'Jna. .aufttlliUW-Jjvajy^iiot -yeU-,eouu\ into play, but they will. As the At lanta Journal says ''the most strong ly marked characteristic of Russia through her entire military-history has been dogged tenacity. Defeat has never dismayed her. She has never known when she was whipped. What she bas lost through force she has ever regained through persistence. A people who could burn their ancient and sacred capital in order to starve out an invading army are not a people to weaken over the loss of a few war ships or to cry f jr peace even if all their far-off Pacitic dominations be taken from them. It wits her early was with S weeden which not only taught the world to know her but taught Russia to know herself. Her navy that had been years in building was destroyed in the tirst engagement, but she proceeded to build ano tb sr, turning a marshy wild erness Into the great city of St. Petersburg, as a nnvy base. When thc land forces of the czar were ignomini ously defeated in the tirst battle, hil only comment was, "The Sweedei have the advantage of us at tirst, bu they will teach us how to beat them.' Por nine years the eagles of victor; persistently perched upou the banner of the Swedes, who had overrun al western Russia and were making thei triumphant march upon Moscow. Ru at last Russia was ready. At Pul towa the Swedish army was annihila ted. "The same indomitable spirit hal i marked every movement of Russk from the time wheu at the close o the middle ages she was a semi savage, semi-Asiatic power, so hem med in by barbarian lands and hostilf races as to be almost entirely cut oil from Intercourse with the civilizer, world to the present, when she ha! pushed her lines out to the seas 01 every side to the Caspian, the Arctic the Azoy, the Baltic, the Black anc the Pacitic. Men still living remem ber Russia's marvelous exhibition o power and pertinacity that made tb' Crimean war one of the most remark able in history. With England France, Turkey and Sardina com bined against her, she held out mag ni ticen tl y for three years, making tb siege of Sebastopol the most mern orable and destructive of all time, am yielded only a thin strip of territor; along the Danube as the price o peace. "But the Issue was not settled. I never is with Russia. Within ; quarter century afterward she, hai gained all she had contended for, am more-the war of '77 gave her every thing she had lost in the Crimea struggle, while Turkey was shorn u half her l-airopean possessions. Jt i impossible to sympathize with Russi civilization, hut lt is also impossibl not to recognize lier mighty prowes and her undying persistency. Wber ever she has found herself up again? a stone wall that could not be sui mounted she has patiently worked bc way around tb-the signillcant thin ls that she has always got beyond il She furnishes the world one of it best lessons In patience and pe severance." Charges In Uniforms. The Columbia State says there wi be several changes in the Souther railway uniforms this year. All wi be made up from 14 ounce chcvlo Tho conductors will wear doubl breasted skeleton lined coats, wit vests and trousers to match. Instea of a single breasted east as heretofor tho tlagraeu and brcakemen will wei a double breasted sack coat, wbich the regulations will require to be worn buttoned up. The porters will bo uniformed as Pullman porters and will be required to keep their coats buttoned. Instead of the familiar monogram, "S. R.," the lettering on the collars wh\ be "Southern," those of the conductors in gold and those of the trainmen in silver. The Coast -Iiiuo monjil! weat ?ar?a . .j,rrihft p.nn,tr will be singlb breasted with veal The conductors will wear plain bia? buttons but those of the train mea will be brass as heretofore. "A. C. t D." will appear tn gold on all the col lars, except on the porters' uniforms, where the lettering will bc silver. Diet! From Old Wound. Samuel S. Stafford, a prominent lawyer of Oxford, N. Y., ls dead there at the age of sixty-seven years. His death was caused by blood poisoning, resulting from a wound received be fore Port Hudson on June Iii 1863. Ile was lirst lieutenant of Company A, of the One Hundred and Four teenth Regiment, N. Y. V., and for a number of years bad be'en secretary \ of the One Hundred and Fourteenth j, Regiment Association. He repre- rf sented Chenango County in the StateJ Asssmbly iu 1805. Nearly Starved. Miss E. Huesse has been fouffad un conscious in her residence, 4 iori Grand Boulevard, Chicago and tsffken to a hospital where lt was 'uwvr? her weak and emaciated couoUtlons was the re sult of a fast lasting/rur . more than twenty days. Miss wtuesse lives alone in a handsome bous? and ls regarded as wealthy. The ipollce assert that recently she joined| a new cult, chief of which ls said to grains of wheat, p air are necessary t; may reftover. )e that only a few re water and fresh sus tai u life. She In the last twfenty years, according to the ligures &>t the labor bureau at Washington, onere have been more than 22.000 stnlkes, involving a loss to employees and/employers of over 8400, 000,000. Th themselves if that of their loss to the workmen as been more than twice employers. DR. HATHAWAY. MenjndWm who are In nt-eil of th? bent medical treat ment Hhould not fall to consult Dr. Hatha way at once, a? he Is r c ? o K n 1 r. e rt as tho leaning and iuost3uo cessful specialist. You are safe In placing your case In his liando,as he ls the longest established and has the best rep utation. He cure? where others fall; there ls no patchwork or experimenting In hts treatment. Per sonal attention by Dr. Hathaway, also spe cial counsel from his associate physicians when necessary, which no other omen has. If you can not '.all, write for free booklets and question Wanks. Mention your trouble. Rv ?rything strictly confidential. J. Newton Hathaway, M. D. ' 28 inman Building, 221 S. Broad St Atlanta Ga. A GOOD PIANO? Good Materials, Skill, Knowledge, Care and a lotof little things you don't see, all cost money-pay las much as you can. 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