The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, September 02, 1904, Image 7

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.MSW-? ,v?/== ?i&r ln .. -fa wiiundred vean? . We will not i-?inlrll n It will not mattere?ll The honey or thtPP* The summer days that we have known Will all forgotten be and flown; The garden will be overgrown Where now the roses fall. A hundred years from now, dear heart, We will not mind the pain. The throbbing, crimson tide of life Will not have left a stain. The song we sing together, dear, The dream we dre- ni together here, Will mean no mor unan means a tear Amid a summer rain. A hundred years from now, dear heart, The grief will all be o'er. The sea of care will surgfe in vain Upon a careless shore. These glasses we turn down today, Here at the parting of the way, We shall be wineless then as they, And not mind it more. A hundred years from now, dear heart, We'll neither know nor care W hat came of all life's bitterness, Or followed love's despair. Then All the glasses up again And kiss me through the rose-leaf rain; We'll build one castle more in Spain And dream one more dream there. JOHN BENNETT. HAS FALLEN ON BLEEP. The Passing ot tho Brilliant and Gentle Carl. McKinley. Mr. Carlyle McKinley, chief editor ial writer of The News and Courier, died at two o'clock Wednesday morn ing at his residence in Mount Pleas ant. Mr. McKinley was conlined to bis home for more than a year, during which time he suffered intensely, which was especially the case during the conclusion period of his Illness and death came as a great relief to him. During his long illness Mr. McKinley exhibited remarkable patience, forti tude and resignation, with always a kind word and a pleasant smile, not withstanding his great alliiculon, Tor those who gently administered to him. He had hopes of ultimate recovery from his trouble until he was ac quainted some months ago with its true character and told of its se rlous nature, but with a truly Christian res ignation he determined to meet the end as calmly as his rapidly wasting physical condition permitted and he patiently awaited the summons. The funeral services were held Wed nesday afternoon at (i o'clock at tbe First Presbyterian church in Charles ton. The following gentlemen served as pallbearers: Messrs. James Simons, J. C. Hempblll, It. T. Logan, Yates Snowden, J. ll. Marshall, George il. Smith, W. H. Murphy, Frank 1'. Cooper, ll. C. Richardson, G. IL Sass, James S. Simons, R. V. Royal, W. A. Leland, J. P. K. Bryan, C. M. Pinck ney, R. IL Pinckney, James S. Mur doch, Earl Sloan, T. R. Waring, George E. von Kolnltz and A. 10. Gon zales. The body was taken to Lexing ton, Ga., for Interment, leaving Char leston at ll o'clock Wednesday night over the Southern railway accompan ied by members of the family and Maj. J. C. Ilemphill. Mr. McKinley was born in Newman, Ga., November 22, 1847. Ile was thc son of Charles G. McKinley and Frau ces C. Jackson of Athens, Ga. Uh mother's father was a professor lt -Franklin college in Georgia and aftei o?ing taught by private Instructors lu entered the Presbyterian Theologioa seminary at Columbia, where he grad uated In 1874. lie taught school lu Co lumbla for some time and in 1875 be became the correspondent to Tin News and Courier, serving this papei until 1879, when he went to Washing ton as its correspondent, lie continu ed to act in this capacity until 1881 when he went to Charleston to accept a position on the staff He was the author of "Au Appeal to Pharaoh, " an argument for deport ation of negroes to Africa which at attacted much atcentiou and which Hist appeared anonymously and was attributed to Henry W. Grady and others. It was warmly commended by the late Sir Henry M. Stanly lu a personal letter to the author. Some of his poems have been widely quoted. He was a distant relative of the late President McKinley. Mr. McKinley married Elizabeth IL Bryce, daughter of Campbell R. Bryce of Columhla, May 18, 187(1, who with three sous and one daughter survive him. BOGUS MONEY ORDERS. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany Defaulted dy an ICmployee. J. T. Lauey, alias A. P. Standish, formerly receiving clerk of the West ern Union Telegraph company at Dal las, Texas, was arreste'l at Atlanta on Wednesday on a telegram from the company In Dallas. The telegram specified no charges, but Laney, who ls under twenty years of age, admit ted to the otllcers that he and a con federate whose name he gave as Black, alias Edmund Seaborn, had stolen $1,100 on bonus telegrams; According to Laney's story his father ls now chief operator of the Western Union company in Dallas. Ile ad mitted that ns receiving clerk he sent bogus telegrams for money to a con federate who traveled from city to city. Laney wes forced to loa ve Dal las about a month ago, since which Mme he and his confederate have traveled extensively over the country, visiting St. Louis, Kansas City and Baltimore, where they separated, Laney coming then to Atlanta. From here he sent a telegram to a young woman In Dallas, which led to his ar rest. A dispatch from Dallas, Texas. Bays: An allldavlt tiled herc by G. M. Baker, local manager of the West ern Union Telegraph company on Au gust 12, alleges that during the previ ous week J. T. Laney, a clerk, by co operation with E. S. Black, conspired to swindle the company and did se cure from the company the sums of ?300, $400 and $400, aggregatin $1, 100, and that all trace of the offend ers was lost. The scheme was this: A young man entered the olllce at Memphis and asked for $:i00 tele graphed from Dallas for him. ile was told that no such amount had been received, hut a telegram to Dal las confirmed the deposit here of the amount and the sum was delivered. At St. Louis $100 was secured In the same way and at Chicago the same plan worked. At this end, when the query was received Laney, lt is al leged, would Inform the operators that thc amount bad been deposited. He made no record or entry on the books. Wednesday a telegram from Laney was received here for a young woman. Her reply was sent and instructions given that detect!vas accompany the messenger boy. Laney formerly lived in Augusta and was widely known. TEN CENTS COTTON. Mr. Horse Thinks Southern Farmers Can Fix the Price WHAT THE CHOP WILL BEACH. Ho Believes That Cloven and a Quar ter Million Balea la a Maxi mum Estimate Por thia Year'? Crop. In view of the world-wide interest in the probable yield of cotton this year and of the remarkably close ap proximation of last year's yield made far in advance of the government's estimate, by Mr. S. F. B. Morse, then a member of tbe tirm of Daniel J. Sully & Co., Mr. Morse's estimate of tbe orop tb is year is of unusual inter est. Identified as Mr. Morse bad been for many years willi the fight for fair prices for cotton, bis estimate of a yield not exceeding 11,250,000 bales this year will command univer sal attention. Data gathered by bim last year were the foundation for the bull campaign making possible the vast additions to the income of south ern farmers. For the data proved the great shortage of the orop. In an interview published In this week's Manufacturer's Record Mr. Morse takes the position that excited specula tion and appalling fluctuations are not the best means for the attain ment of fair prices to the grower. His contention now is that the south is able and ought, through the use of legitimate business methods, to secure permanently fair prices from the world's spinners for a product which ls essentially a natural monopoly. In his interview commenting -upon tbe discussion by D. A. Tompkins, pub lished last week, of the question "how to maintain of a fair average price for cotton," taken in connection with a recent interview as to cotton conditions from a Britlbh standpoint, Mr. Morse says: NO MO lt H STARVATION PRIOBS. "The business brains of the south have now within reach every neces sary facility for the prevention of any recurrence of starvation prices for the south's great staple without hav ing to invoke the aid or speculative forces of any sort or kind, lt is a purely business proposition to deter mine cotton values by averaging the prices of preceding periods and esti mating the increased necessities of the world. From a careful Btudy of statistics and a conservative estimate of expansion in consumption, it is my opinion that 10 cents per pound ls the minimum price the south should make up it*? mind tn take for it? cot ton year in and year out so long as lt holds a virtual monopoly lu cotton production. That this can be doue by a comprehensive warehouse system and an abatement of existing evils in handling is admitted by all business men aud bankers who have given to this subject their honest, earnest thought." In view of the almost absolute ac curacy ol Col. Morses estimates of last , year's crop and of those of the three prececding years, he was asked to give I lils views as to the crop now about to be harvested, "lt is too early," he , replied, "for any one to form a deli >. nitc opinion. Any estimate made - now must necessarily h.* based on im ; pressions rather than upon oplniouB, i though there are several conditions r surrounding the growing crop which ; have already become clearly apparent 1 to all careful observers. Notable ? among these ls the gradual delerior . ation in soil, the apparent degeneracy ? of seed virility and the increasing ex : baustion of clllcient farm labor. . Making the most moderate allowance for the consequences of these three elements of contraction, and leaving other drawbacks out of the calcu ? lation, a crop of eleven and one quar ter million bales is the maximum to be expected. How far this maximum may be reduced by unseasonable weather, early frosts and the Increas ing depredations of the boll weevil aud other insect enemies, it ls as yet impossible to foretell. rOSSlULK MAXIMUM. "Hut, for the sake of argument, let us ligure on the possible maximum not only for this season but for the next two or three years, lt ls my contention that, by virtue of a con stant expansion in the world's re quirements and the fact that there is no substitute for cotton, and in view of the encroachment on manufactured reserves due to recent short crops and the exhaustion of reserve raw ma terial, it would take every one of these eleven and one-quarter million bales (i. e. the maximum crop) for at least three seasons to restore a normal parity iu the relation between raw materia! and manufactured. In sup port of this contention I may quote from the lirst of a series of articles on the cotton requirements of Great Britain now being published simul taneously In tile New York Times and in. the London Times the follow ing paragraph: " Mst. Stated in a single sentence, the present position amounts to this: The world's supply of cotton ls no longer equal to the world's demand. " '2nd. The estimated yearly in crease In Hie demand ls put at from iou,ooo to not),ooo bales, and not only is the present production inadequate, but in another ten years an additional ;">,ouo,ooo bales may be required. Lancashire's shortage for the last year or two may be put at 1,000,000 bales. ' ".For the foregoing reasons, coupled with the fact that the south is lu u position of greater independence than heretofore for the exercise of a souud discretion in marketing the coming crop, with means at hand for holding whatever cotton lt may be considered desirable to keep ol? the market, my deliberate conclusion ls that the south is abundantly able and ought to lix as the mimlmum price for the lirst movimiento* this season's cotton 10 cents a pound. By doing this our planters, merchants and bankers will be in a posit ion to get the benelit of any rise due to climatic or other con ditions which may be developed while the crop ls being picked. Will Inventante. A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says on his return from St. Louis, Gov. Joseph M. Terrell held a conference with Sampson W. Harrison, adjutant general of (ieorgia, In which the re cent Statcsboro lynching was dis cussed. The conference terminated with the appoint ment of a court of Inquiry to investigate the conduct of the militia from which thc mob took thc prisoner. The court ls composed of the following gentlemen: Col. A. R. Lawton (retired) of Savannah, president; Col. W. K. Wotcn of Al bany, Lieut. Col. W. W. Barker of Atlanta, Maj. lt. L. Wyly of Thomas ville and Capt. Warren Grlce of Haw klnsville. After the appointment of this court Gov. Terrell issued a state ment. * i STRANGE BEA STORY. Abandoned Vessel Frees Itself from Reefs ?nd Drifts to an Island. A strange story of the sea of a de serted vessel Balling about with not a soul aboard comes from Sydney, Aus tralia. The British bark Dumfriesshire, while bound from Dunedlln, New Zealand, to Nohoue, on the west coast of New Caledonia, to load a cargo of nickel ore struok a reef the early part of-July. Tho vessel was under full sall at the time she hit one of the submerged coral reefs abounding In that danger ous locality. Captain Taylor and bis crew of eighteen men considered the situation suoh a perilous one that it was resolved to abandon the vessel be fore she sank. Accordingly the crew made their way ashore to the Island during the night, taking suoh effects and clothing as they could. When daybreak came the vessel bad disap peared from view. "She has foundered and gone to the bottom," declared the captain, and be and the crew gave devout thanks for having left the vessel in time to Bave their lives. Subsequently a passing steamer was hailed and responded to signals of distress. The crowd of castaways was taken aboard, and all hands were positive In their declaration that the Dum friesshire had gone to thc b atom the master of the steamer made no fur ther search for the wrecked craft, but proceeded on bis course. The true fate of the missing vessel subsequent ly was learned. During thc night that the captain and crew abandoned the supposed sinking craft the vessel gradually worked ber way off the reef. She had not been damaged to any serious ex tent by striking thereof, so when the rising tide came up and the wind shifted the vessel Blipped off the reef easily, as if a band of tugs had drawn her. The vessel then started on a voyage on ber own hook. She sailed tifty miles arouud the island and tinah ly came to a safe anchorage at a place called Peum. A white settler noticed a strange aud unexpected vessel bear ing down upon bis little Island. The craft seemed to navigate in an odd way; certainly whoever was handling her did so in a way that the settler had never seen before. When the vessel all but went aground he decided/ that some crazy sort of an individual was running tbe craft. The settler went out to the vessel, and to his astonishment saw that the craft was completely desert ed. He appreciated the opportunity, however, for he at once let go both ?incoo.s and claimed her as a prize. Thc craft is an ironbark ci !,262 tons gross and was built in 1877. She is valued at about at about 875,000. The new owner of the beat is waltiug for people to come along and pay him salvage on the prize that was literally Heated to his fi ont door. DEMOCRATS CONFIDENT. Hoke Smith Declarer Timi Parker's Gitaneen Improve Daily. The Atlanta Journal says Hoke Smith, former secretary of the In terior, has just returned from a trip to the cast. Mr. Smith spoke in the borough of Queens In answer to a speech of Secretary Shaw, made a short time before. The New York papers were enthusiastic over Mr. Smith's presentation of? the Demo cratic idea, and such leading papers as the Brooklyn Eagle, New York World, New York Times and others editorially ap,-roved his speech. Mr. Smith visited Judge Parker, whom be has long known intimately, and says that the judge is in the best of health and spirits and feels contideut that tbe people of the country cannot, fall to endorse the sensible, clear, and constitutional platform set forth by the Democracy. Mr. Smith ls very jubilant over Democratic prospects, and among the encouraging things he says: "Judge Barker is receiving loads of letters every day from Republicans voluntarily proffering their support. They say that they desire tu ie turu to a government of the fathers, a government administered In accor dance with t he law of the land and the constitution." Speaking of New Jersey Mr. Smith says that the Democratic managers are confident of their ability to carry it for Parker and Davis. Mr. Smith talked with Chairman Taggart and ts certain of Mr. Tag garts ability to carry Indiana. Mr. Taggart says if he don't carry Indiana he will quit politics forever. Mr. Smith feels more confident about the result than he has since 1SD2, and says. "If we don't win this lime I am the worse fooled man in the world. The conditions are very similar to those of 1892, and all the regular Democrats of the country fui well as the Independents are against Roose velt. The independent press is unani mous for Barker: the independent vot ers are all for Parker; the happily re united Democracy is a unit for Bar ker; Tammany ls enthusiastic for Parker; and I cannot see for him a possible defeat."_ Took Him for un Onlcer. The Augusta Chronicle says A. Bishop, a farmer living just outside of Rebecca, Ga., was shot through the abdomen by a negro Tuesday night while on a moving train of the Atlan tic and Birmingham, and it ls believed that he will die of his injuries. Mr. Bishop boarded the train at Rebecca for Cordele about 8 o'clock and took one of the front seats of the middle car and was talking to the newsboy about a robbery at Fitzgerald that had just occurred Mr. Bishop said that the robbery b d been the work of a negro and that he knew him. Ile then give the newsboy a descrip tion of the negro. Just ahead was the negro coach and both the door of this coach and that occupied by Mr. Bishop were open at the time of the conversation and the description was heard by one of the negro passengers. Mr. Bishop had not concluded his de scription when one of the negroes In the coach shot him through the ab domen. Mr. Bishop hurriedly pulled his gun and tired at the negro, but it is not known whether or not he hit him. Tiie ne^ro Immediately after the shooting, jumped from the mov ing train and made h s escape. * Ghidlren Drowned. A special from Oleburn, Texas,says: Pour children were drowned Thursday evening by the capsizing of a boat In the Brazos river, nejar Acton, Hood county. The dead:.' John Franklin, aged Hi; Kltt Fraulein, aged 10; Joe Franklin, aged 8;/B. F. Goodman, aged 12. There ytere six boys in the boat at the tline??f the disaster. The boat struck a :<jW and turned over. Two boys, narwa unknown, swam ashore. The bd3,e3 of the victims were recovered, ft A miriam ir/uiW Oi the New Torie American Qi ve B I Parker Big Gain. WATSON MAKES POOR SHOWING. ?Jnnvn.ua or Over Hoven Hundred | Voters Shows That thc Demo crats Aro Flocking Back tu The Party. During three days last week The New York American took a straw, vote In New York on the Presidential eleotiouB. A canvass of 774 voters was made. They are representative, and the result shows some interesting facts, the most significant being that the Democrats who bolted Bryati in 1900 are coming back to Parker, and that laboring men show a growing fa voritism toward Watson and Debs. People in all the walks of life were seen. Wall street sentiment was test ed by means of a canvass of the Broad Exchange building. On Sunday re porters saw members cf the Central Federated Union at their meeting. Saturday afternoon 400 persons cross ing Brooklyn Bridge gave their choice for President, and Monday at tbe noon hour a canvas was made of the em ployes of the Uneeda BlEcult factory. COMPARKD WITH 1?00. Effort was made to get the vote or 11)00 and the contemplated changes. In the Broad Exchange Building Judge Parker makes heavy inroads into the McKinley column of 1900. The same ls true as to the voters who dally cross the Bridge. Among the la boring people Parker does not com mand the full Bryan strength, but Roosoyelt does not reap a correspond ing advantage. The laboring men think kindly of Debs, and Tom Wat son's speech and platform are also winning favor with thom. lu the Broad Exchange building, of the 145 lawyers, brokers and Stock Exchange men seen, 20 in 1900 voted for Bryan. Parker will get (i'd of this number, Roosevelt 81 and Watson 1. Fifty have changed from McKinley to Parker. Two of the Broad Exchange Bryan men will vote for Roosevelt. One of the Bryan men will vote for Roosevelt, he says, because "Roose velt ls nearer the 'common people' than Parker and hiB crowd." The j Parker men who were McKinley men in 1900, many of them say, are-mere ly coming back to the regular Democ racy. One Broad Exchange member said he believed Roosevelt would bring about trouble in the South if re-elect d. Another said he feared the Presi dent would involve us In a war with a foreign country and another said be would vote for Parker because he be lieved in the "law and the Consti tution as against bluster and the big sticki" TUE BUOAD EXCHANGE VOTE. 1900. For McKinley. 125 For Bryan. 20 1904. For Roosevelt.'... 81 For Parker. 63 For Watson .1. 1 Changed from McKinley to Parker 50 Changed from Bryan to Roosevelt 2 Many members of the Cental-Fed erated Union refused to say | \they voted in.1900, but of tue i_ .nen seen, 17 said they voted for McKinley, but .I of these will not vote for Roosevelt. Of the :17 who voted for Bryan, Park er will lose 10. Seven change from McKinley to Park r and two change from Bryan to Roosevelt. Thirteen leave Bryan for Debs, and of the Bry an men Watson gets 8. One of the workingmen changing to Roosevelt said: "I like Teddy. Ile has a sympathy lor the working man. Ile ls warmhearted, and that's what 1 like." Tile other laboring man wno lea vas Bryan for Roosevelt said: "Roose velt or Parker will be president. Be tween the two 1 preter Roosevelt. Personally 1 am for Debs, but our day ls not yet." The Debs men as a rule said they were for him because plutocracy do minates both the greater parties, and he stood for personal liberty and equality of all before the law. CKNTHAL K?DEKATEO UNION VOTK. 1900. For McKinley.17 For Bryan.?17 19U1. For Roosevelt.13 For Parker.21 For Watson.12 For Debs.2ti Changed from McKinley to Parker. 7 Changed from Bryan to Roosevelt.. 2 Changed from Bryan to Debs.Di Changed from Bryan to Watson. .. 8 BISCUIT WOKKEKS POLLED. Among the employes of the Uneeda Biscuit Company Roosevelt falls short of the McKinley vote and Parker shows a slight lead over the Bryan vote or 1900. Watson gets eight or the Bryan men and Roosevelt two. Parker catches six of the McKinley men of 19U0. VOTE IN BISCUIT KA OTO lt V. 1900. For McKinley.47 For Bryan.TA 1904. For Roosevelt. ?hi For Parker.7.8 For Watson. 8 For Debs. 5 [Changed from McKinley to Parker. (? Changed from Bryan to Boosevelt.. 2 Changed from Bryan to Watson.. .. 8 roi.I. OK BROOKLYN Ult! DO E. The Brooklyn bridge poll is a rep resentation of the great army that daily crosses that structure. barker there makes heavy gains. Of the i'.iO pei ..ons declaring themselves Parker leads Roosevelt by .'i? votes. These same people In 1900 gave McKinley a majority of 224. The change ls due to the return of Democrats who bolted In 1900. Fifteen of the 103 who voted ror Bryan In 1900 will have none or Parker, tine or these, a bookkeeper In a wholesale clothing house, said, "Roosevelt believes lu the people, and is to my mind nearer Jeffersonian Democracy than Parker." "I have voted the Republican ticket four times," said a Brooklyn lawyer, "but 1 am against Roosevelt because he acts without regard to the legisla tion or Judicial department or the (lovernment. BROOKLYN UKI DOK VOTE. 1900. For McKinley.:i27 For Bryan.103 1904. For Roosevelt.194 For Parker.2:'.2 For Watson. 4 Changed from McKinley to Park er.148 Changed from Bryan to Roosevelt.. A5 HANGED FOB ??UBDE3. Death Penalty Enforced Friday on a Negro In Picken?. The Pickens correspondent of The State says Henry Jones, the negro murderer of Constable Columbus Jones, who was hanged Friday went upon the death trap a few minutes after ll o'clock, and before the plac ing of the death cap upon tho doomed man tue usual opportunity was given bim to make a statement. Jones avowed bis readiness for heaven and beseeobed everybody to meet him up there. He warned his race against the possession and use of Ure arms. Fully 1,200 people, outside the walls of tbe building, listened with bated breath at the last words of the man soon to be hurled into eternity. At the conclusi?n of his confession be chose to pray, and hav ing prayed for some time, and seem ingly drawing to a conclusion, Sheriff McDaniel descended the steps, one of which, as the sheriff stepped upon lt, sprung the death trap, and in the twinkling of an eye tbe t eek of tiie wretched negro was broki n and soon his life had gone out. Toe prisoner's mother did not visit him on his fatal day and he was buri ed at the expenses of the country. In the vast crowd that assembled at the jkil there were not more than 50 ne groes. Sherill McDaniel and the people of Pickens generally feel relieved that the execution la over and not the slightest trouble arose, although some threats had been made by the negroes in the past few days. Sheriff McDaniel did not take them seriously, though he took the pu caution to telegraph tiie governor Tuesday for a company of State militia. This was not thought necessary by the gover nor, who instead requested the sheriff to deputize enough trusty men to see that the law was carried out. It has been authoritatively learned here Friday afternoon that a military company in Greenville Friday night remained in their armory ready to move at a moment's notice and could have been transported to Pickens in less than au hour's time. Heavy guards were placed at the ?all Thurs day night and the dispensary was closed until Friday af term on and the vast crowd bad left for home. Jones' crime was the killing of Co lumbus Jones near Easley. The lat ter, a young white man of excellent character and a magistrate's constable, went to the negro's house to arrest him. Henry Jones, on the arrival of the constable, shot him and lied. He was arested some days later lu Spar tanburg county aud ou account of the xcitement in Pickens county bel emporarily in Spartanburg. Sept em tiri- Wrntlier K e cord M. Tbe following data covering a pe riod of 17 years have been com pt red from the weather bureau records at Columbia. They are Issued to show the conditions that have prevailed during the month of September for the above period of years, but must not be con strued as a forecast of tbe weather conditions of the coming month. Temperature -mean or normal tem perature, 7f> degrees. The warmest month was that of liioo, with an ayer age of 79 degrees. The coldest month was that of 1888, with an average of (52 degrees. The highest temperature was 104 degrees on September 18. 189(J. The lowest temperature was 42 degrees on September 30, 1888. Tire earliest date on which "killing" frost occurred In autumn, October 19, 1896. Average date ou which lirst "killing" frost occured in autumn, November 8th. Average date on which bsb "kil ling" frost occurred in spring, March 2:ird. The latest date un which last "killing" frost occurred in spring, April 10, 1899. Precipitation (rain or melted snow) Average for the month, 4.12 inches. Average number of days with .01 of an inch or more, 8. The greatest month ly precipitation was 7.09 inches lu 1890. The least monthly precipitation was O.oti inches in 1887. The greatest amount of precipitatiou recorded in any 24 consecutive hours was 4 90 in ches on September 17 17, 1901. The greatest amount of snowfall recorded in any 24 consecutive hours (record extending to winter of 1884 8.7 only) was none. Clouds and Weather-A verage num ber of clear days, 13; partly cloudy days, 10; cloudy days, 7. Wind the prevailing winds have been from the uortheast. The average hourly velocity of the wind is 8 miles per hour. The highest velocity of the wind was 53 miles from the southwest on September 30th, 1902. Slipped Into the Se?. The Charleston correspondent of The State hays a section of the front beach on Sullivan's Island, extending over an area of 100 feet by 150 feet, was washed away at 4 o'clock Friday morning, leaving an excavation of 30 to 50 leet deep. The landslide oc curred in front of the Pringle and Moises houses, the cave-in reaching within 2,"> feet of the residences. With tiie extension of a few more feet, thp residences might have been wrecked and lives lost and injured during the hours of night, when the inmates of the bouses were all as'eep. The cave In is supposed to have teen caused by the currents washing away the beach. The point of the Island where the cave in occurred is next to tim. jetties, the narrowest part of the channel. The constant swirling of the warier between the stone gril lages, which are on each side of the place that was washed out, probably undermined the beach and caused the landslide. A small boat which was high and dry on the beach has been lost, swept Into the vortex and car ried probably down the coast. A similar washout, but not as large, oc curred a few years ago. The cave-in has caused much excitement among the nervous people on the Island, who are fearing other landslides. She Wu-. Disappointed. Because her husband refused to allow her to enter their year-old child in the baby show at Savin Kock last week, Mrs. Frederick Schotte attemp ted to end her life on Friday night by taking poison. She was very proud of her baby and was sure to win a handsome prize. Proodlng over her disappointment, she took poison. Physicians saved lier life. A Cave In. A cave-in occurred on the Knoxville aud Augusta branch of the Southern ballway Wednesday afternoon at a point where workmen were excavating for the foundation of a bridge pier at Little Uiver, Tenn. A heavy freight train had just passed over the point and this no doubt caused the earth to give way. Six men were burled of whom two were killed and four in-1 jured. AT -p rp rn -DD -on nu TiTinvrw How He Would Have Settled tho American Slavo question. It ls sometimes Interesting to hark back a few decades and bring back some of the forgotten episodes of tbe (treat War Between the States. The recently published letters of John Ruskin, tbe great English writer and tritio, reveal some of his ideas about the glgantlo struggle that was going on this side the water. The letters were written to Charles Elliott Norton of Boston and tiie following is a good i sample: * "The mise rabies t Idiocy of the whole has been your mixing up a ?ght for dominion (the most Insolent and tryanuical, and the worse cjnducted, In all history) with a sol distant fight for liberty. If you want the slaves to be free, let their masters go free first, In God's name. If they don't like to be governed by you, let them govern themselves. Then, 'treating them as a straugor State, If you like to say, 'You shall let that black fellow go or' -etc, as a brave boy would fight another for a fag at Eton-do so; but you know perfectly well no fight could be got up on those terms; and that this tight ls part'y, for money, partly (as those wretched Irish whom you have Inveighed Into Itt-bow) for wild anarchy and the devil's cause and crown every where. ' As for your pre. cious proclamation (emancipation) 'A gift of that which is not to be given lt\ al) the assembled pc wore of earth and heaven.' "if 1 had it there-there's a fine north wind blowing, and I would give lt to the hist boy I met to Hy it at bis kite's tull." This was written in 18<j;i, and while the issues of that day are now almost ancient history lt is interesting to southern people tn re?all how one of the most cm in net English scholars and thinkers regarded the position takeu b> the north, and what bc thought of the proclamation of ?mancip?t ion There were mauy great men in Eng land who thought as Ruskin did, though they did not at all times ex press themselves in such plain lang uage. _ THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS No Material Chango tn AverfR? Condition of Cotton. The following is Section Director bauer's weekly crop bulletin: The week ending 8 a. m., August ^2d, had a mean temperature of 80 degrees, which is also the normal Tor the week; there wasa slight deficiency in temperature on the coast. The extremes were a minimini] of 59 al Hatesburg on the lf>th, and maximum of (ii) at Batesburg, Black vii le and Howman on several dates. The sun shine averaged about t>5 per centum of the possible and was very beneficial after the recent cloudy weather. Hall and high winds did considerable dam age locally on the lf>th, from Aiken county westward to Oconee, and in Williamsburg; also lu Georgetown on the loth. There were quite general showers mostly In the form of thunderstorms on the 15th and 19th, with heavy rain locally in nearly every part of the State, and there were occasional light showers on other dates except the last two of the week, which were practical ly without- rain. Lands and crops were damaged in a few places, but generally this week's precipitation was not unfavorable, although a week of dry weather would prove beneficial. The average precipitation was below normal, with, however, excassive amountsln localities scattered over the whole State. The general condition corn is slightly better than heretofore, and the weather enabled considerable fod der to be saved from old coru; all reports on young corn continue favor able so that a good crop is practically assured. There ls no material change in the average condition of cotton, for while on sandy lands it contluues to shed excessively and rust ls spreading, the plants are turning yellow and are dy ing in places, and In many places have ceased to fruit, on red lauds there is a marked improvement In fruitage and growth, though the weed is too large on clay lands generally and some fields have become foul, and while the bottom crop is light, the middle crop ls heavy. Holls have begun to open in the southeastern counties and some cotton has been picked, hut picking will not be general in those sections until about September 1st. Sea-Island cotton ls blooming profusely and ls well fruited. Tobacco curing is practically finish ed. The crop was very satisfactory one. Karly rice is ready to harvest and late ls heading; the crop bas Im proved and is now an average one, or better. Peas, pastures and late gar dens are doing well. All minor crop are very satisfactory. A heavy rain damaged truck In the Georgetown dis trict, while in the Charleston district more rain would be beneficial. There is every indication of heavy yields of all kinds of forage crops. Late fruit is rotting extensively._ Cotton i H Kii>?;. lt ls said that probably never sluce the Civil War has there been such suf fering as now exists in Old England and New England among cotton operatives and manufacturers. The New Orleans Picayune says: "There "nave been many years when English spinners have reaped great profits from the low price of American cot ton, while at the same time Ameri can producer* who bad the cotton to sell were driven to desperation. Now the boot is on the other leg, and the conditions are reversed. The foreign spinners suffer because of the high prices, due to consumption outstrip ping production, and producers are reaping the benefit of the enhanced value of their product. Of course, present strained con ditions will disappear and the vari ous branches of the trade will readjust their relations with each other. The Increase In consumption will stimu late production, and iu course of time the supply will again equal the de mand, and with the backward swing of the pendulum the other extreme will be reached and overproduction will again give spinnt ra an advantage over producers. There is, tlu refore, no reason to feel any too much con ccru.over the present dis ress ot brit ish spinners." We do not believe that cotton will ever go below the cost of production again as lt did a few years ago, unless some business depression ?that occurred then occurs again. Under normal conditions of business wc do not believe that the South can produce a cotton crop large enough to depress the price of the staple below a living figure. IT IS charged that thc expense of the Populist side show will be paid by the managers of the Republican cir cus. PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAKOL1NA, CL-INTOIM, 3- C., HOARD, ROOM-RENT and TUITION for Collegiate Year fox $117.50. Next Session begins Sept. 22, 1904. For Cataloguo or information address ?I? JEJNOE?Efc, 0o??6i<mb At Osborne's Business College AUGUSTA, GEORGIA OR TUITION REFUNDED BOOK-KEEPING. SHORTHAND ?. AND TELEGRAPHY WRITE U.S. FIRMAN UNIVERSITY, GRENVILLE, S. C. EDWIN McNEIL POTEAT, President. Courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) and Master of Arts (M. A.) Library Reading Room, Laboratories, Large and Comfortable Dormitories, Expenses reduced to*a Minimum. Next session begins Sept. 14. For rooms apply to Prof. H. T. Cook. 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Holding his hands above his beal Wednesday, he shouted to the old time CJuantrell followers: "1 have been in Ohio, l'ennsylvauia and other states we had learned to hate because they gave birth to the Federal troops we hated so well, and their people have treated rae like a man. Mut here In Missouri, among my own people 1 am unhonored. "Then why should 1 not turn to. the belief of the people who have in' my declining years proved my friends.1 1 am an ex-Confederate and an ex guerilla, boys, but I am no longer a Democrat. This year 1 vote the1 straight I ?cpu bl lean ticket from Roosevelt down the line, the same as the people will vote it who have been, my friends in < >bio, Pennsylvania and other states." So deep was the wound that James inflicted on the veterans that when the old followers of (.?uantrell held their anuaul election or ofllcers later, they refused to honor the ex-bandlt with the title of captain. Ilauccil in W millington. John W. 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