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* RECORD BUSTERS They Made Thjings Hum During | the Past Year. -L 7 HIGH WATER MARR tu It Wai Attained in Various Feats, Epi iQdes~"*nd Events Noted'Through .nt the Country, Ranging from Grave to day, from Lud icrous to Grotesque. The strenuous record smashers made things hum during the year just closed. The high water mark was attained in various feats, episodes and events noted throughout the country, ranging from the grave to the ga; and from the ludicrous to the gro tesque. Chicago produced the prize villain, a man who wi s accused in court by his wife, sister and employer with desertion, ingratitude, thef t, ly inn intemperance profanity aod sh ging "Bedel?a" when the neighbors wanted to sleep. Tb?s champion simply fail ed to live up to bis opportunities or be might have posed as the, much wanted Pat Crowe and the man who struck Bdly Patterson. A Pennsylvmia firmer won a medal from bis neighbors by having his wife arrested for cruelty because sile in sisted on working a phonograph over time on the tormenting air "Hiawa tha," in spite of all protests. In St. Louis a thirsty man drank nine quarts ol' whiskey in 24 bonis, and died. Evin the Prohibitionists must now admit that ju n hos some value. The classic town of Evanstown, the Beat of Northwestern university, de veloped thc biggest pm eater uf thc year. Five thick, juicy pies a la mode-smothered iu ice cream-de voured at a single sitting v as the new record set by Ed O'Laughlin in a con test with Lawi?hce E'.?g.M;*ti, who lost by half a pie. But in the drinking line Harry E. Vale of Eaglowcod, a Chicago suburb, seems to have taken the I un. "He diank up our bakery," laid Mrs. Vale, in ber suit for divorce. "It was a pretty big drink, but Iv.* swallowed it in short order." Checks to siloou keeper? arg'egat lng several thousand rh.liars bhOAOtl what that big drink had cost An ambitious Missourian wrote 40,088 words on a postal card, a leal in chirography ahm st ;JS dhllcuhi to achieve as would be a sane explana tion as to why he did lt. During a tire In a Nev; York hoti I a woman dressed herself in less I an 15 minutes. This ricard Is likely to stand for at least a e. nilli v. NEW CHAM CHIN-. Percy T. Bennett fa *j man lin t. New Jersey judges caVr-cfle cl au | o i long distance pianist ol the wi ri i without waiting to lu ar fioin oil th ? young ladles who are enc Icing "Tin Maiden's ! rayer." In a Mowat k theatre he battered out "Farewell, My Lady Love," and etc : foi 24 ours at a stretch, when compassionate friends Interfered and dragged him borne bodily though he tl. res tani d another explosion. Ono buudrad and ten tiroes In seven years was the moving r. cord of the Whelan family of New York, ai.d a moving tale it furnished in a Harlem court when Mrs Whelan tcstiiietl against her husband for non-support and drew weird word picture; of his nomadic habits. Mr. Whelan looked as if still alioth, er move would have cheered bim up sorxewbat whin she told tho judge the only way she could v,ret nu nev from her roving spouse was to take it cut of bis trousers pockets while he was asleep. SOME i LD fi: 1'I.K. Moses A. Cleveland, said to he a cousin of the ex President set a i cv pace for octogenarians. At Worces ter, Mais., l:e and ai.o', her v? ti ran Ol the Civil war, euch teing 80, tana half mile fo it race. Cleveland w ni the dash by l?verai jaros, and a hox ! of cigars imo the bargain, win re non ?>n cha 1er ged any m.-.n of Ids with no .takers, at . f t he old boys ' ( the girls H' and Mrs ?h ly l'a . ' cele Si laj H ai h. ta w di ti. ?( li re cc O to R nf Iii te m as is Wi bl ll) un ni: Cl un yt' (10 of De $li is t fCJ.' Tho other was a photograph of the 1 Chicago Board of Trade, showing t the bulls and bears enamoring in the t pit at fever beat. Twelve pounds of c flashlight powder being rilslr buted at c 350 different points around tbe bal cony and ign Hedy simultaneously by c electricity. i BIO FAMILIES. t Two record smnshlng families bound ] for Chicago landed from a steamer at ? Baltimore in April. The head of one family was J < soph Ziwinski, aged 78, whose sons, daughters and grandohil- . dren number 30. Tho head of the other ! was Carl Zenko, thc father of a brood j numbering 17. The Two Million club, for promoting population, emght to . hand out a few medals to Joe and . Carl. An extraordinary instance of punot- . ualtty in maternity was given by Mme. Byrres, giving birth to a boy, fourth tu ai rive cn the same date at exact intervals of one year. Men of sch nee regard this as a remarkable re- < cord, and great curiosity ls felt os to whether the woman will again bring ell the feat in January, 1905. All hands agree to place the terpsi chorean pennant over the domicile of ! Mrs. John Polinski, a Jersey City bride, who danced seveotv-seven times ] u& ber wedding reception and then foil In a swoou. She had kept her feet twinkling from 4 p. m. until long after midnight, and lt to >k a quick ? and e'ever doctor to pull her back to c msolousness. QUICK MARRIAGE, DEATH, DIVORCE, , At South Bend, Ind., Miss Mary Marcie- Tutt, a saleswoman, murrle i George P. Morehead, a well to do mer chant, in baste, but subsequent events came so swift that she never thought I of repentance. A few minutes after the ceremony Mr. Morehead willed his bride 850,000; two hours later he was deiid. ! At 4:15 o'clock one afternoon R. C. Dobbins of Chicago w as closing up a ' *15 OOO business deal for a big depart ment store; at 4:17 was slipped out to 1 a justice shop and at 4:18 was married 0 Miss Bisele; at 4:20 o'clock he was Kick in the treadmill, engaged lu an- ' other big t a isiction. 1 "N i time f >r sentiment in this i jrcat age of civilization and progress," ; he said. But it remained for David Metcal', ! a Chicago printer, to experience all the degrees of matrimonial entangle ment in a shorter time toan auy other man in history. He was tir^t marrie* in April, 1S82. Fie separated froi.i bis wife, and la-.t September, when, entering the sere and wrinkled period court .sd arid won M 'ss Lucy Rounds, nged 20, applied fo- di vi ree and supp s jd lt was v;rai. ed; married Miss Rounds, who barned he had hot been legally divorced, and had him arrested Hr bigamy; held to the grand jory: ul vor ce given to the tirst wife on a cross bill: blgam st rc. : li ase ! on a wiri of habeas c >rpus; five minutes later if marrie d to Miss Rounds in the presence ol tirst wife, slow mihi" ?.nd curtain tm thc love alTalrs of Dave, all these later events having occurred wi tb lu a few wo ks I) sorted fourteen limes In 2;i yi ar-, w ;s a record thrr. didn't Milt Emma Larson of Chicago, and with the erouri.'s aid she lei Carl go i r keep?. '"iv seems almost incredible," said Judge Brentano of tins c.ty, when Mrs. t'oen/.o told her tr>ie of woe; and asked f?.r a divorce, "thai this slip of a girl si ouid have had such a mai ital 1 xpuriei ce." "1 was married at 14," s'oe said, I 'ann now I'm aln.ost IG. My hush:.nd, Siverla, beat nie mot tiing, noon and nigh!., and l don't, want to go back to Ulm any more." S u; didn't have to. Tho speed record for divorce wau awarded to Mrs. M iry M. Roach, who .vos si t, rree 'ro n Frederick L Roach, son "f thc president of the Chicago Union Traction company, in proceed ings lasting lio minutes. L?o Pelt/.. also a Chicagoan, achieved the high water mark In male lng t hreat s. ' On 930 different occasions since our bridal trip In 1S80," the wife de clared, "Leo has menaced me ana warned me that I would soon see my linish." The judge assented when she added: "This is where 1 get ( tl." After 25 unsuccessful attrmpts '.lieil I?ivis of Cadillace, Mich., com milted suicide at Milwaukee by tak lng poison. She had tried almost every known melt od, Including bridge jumping, and was a filleted with a suicidal mania. The tiual blow fell when she was rop ovtd for complain ! ing about the color of the curtains In her room; TUE UIOOKST LODSTBn. The biggest lo jster ever seen in Chicago arrived from the Atlantic coast In November. It weighed 18 pounds and 8 oui ces, was over eight t long a;.d han claws 15 inches lu length. Tie dealers estimated Its ige at 100 years; As it died on the iv. a line lot of salad was missing, [poster, a ribbon bedecked Iowa wi Ighlng 11,060 pounds, broke ords f >r hi ft at the live stock Chicago. 36 cents a pound "on the ? Hie unprecendented price '??-Show for rdie champion ty ot MTnfte?toSSd b>' . bit hunt of tn? >?,". ( hrego'n In Jam1' ' ir ted that 10,000 \, d, s ?me 700 'inputing I UTTING: of Sp' y 82,000,000 a day at times. The lat er mint, belog tho only one which nakes cents and nickels, also turned mt 925,000,000 a month In these ?nins part of the year. Marshall Field shattered all previ ous records In taxpaying. The Chicago nerchant paid on an assessed proper ly valuation of 840,000,000, which Maced him at the head of heavy tax layers io the United States. LUCKY BAULKS. The youngest baby In the world to itart life with a bank account was Hiram Goldstein of New York, 820 laving been placed to his credit one mur after bis birth. Llttio Miss Widener of Polladelpbla received the handsomest birthday gift; at the ago jf three sut, received ohecks for 1500,000. A TERRIBLE STORM. tirent Snow Drifts Piled Up in New Yurie's Streets. A dispatch from New York says not in several years has New York been visited by a storm of such pro portions as that which commenced Tuesday and continued until earlj Wednesday. Nine Inches of snow f ll. paralyzing trafile, and the market drop in the temuerature brought un told suffering to the city's poor. Th. bllzzird caused seven d atna In New York and vicinity, while many per ions overcome by the cold, dropped to the street, some of them receivln,: fractured bones. The storm began with an icy sire , which strack to cir raUs and caused a speedy abandonment of railroad and trolley schedules. The sleet, covere I thc sidewalks and streets with Icc and rendered them almost impassable. Scores of horses fell and mauv were s > badly injured that they nad to b: killed. A tine snow succeeded the sleet, ind. aided by the wind, soon piled un drltts th it shutoff many suburban points from the city. Five of the seven men who met death from the results of the storm died from exposure, another slipped on the ijy plat'orm of an elevated station f 1 in front nf an approaching train and wa- ?round to pieces Th ! seventh, L. W. Idler, a conductor o i the Pennsylvania railroad, bliuded b t the driving snow, sti-pped in front t.f the '"Congress'oual L'mlted" train, at .South A tn boy, N. J., and was instant ly Killi cl. The demora1 izatlon of the surfac? car Fervice played havoc with thos-2 going tn business. The elevated t.r.iu.s ran Infrequently, throwing the bulk f toe r.itllc from the upper districts of the cltj tD Hie subway. Even the underground road d d not escape the storm. At the Times Square s'a'ion snow drifted In, forming a drift tive feet high and it was Impossible fer people to use the itition until the snow had been clearod away. UALb.??N UbUNlY. Currict? tljo EJlcoMon liy en Over whelming Majority Last Work. The p-ople in the territory involvrd have declared bi favor of the estab* lisbmentof Calhoun county. The elec tion appi ars to have been overwhelm ingly In favor of the new county and lt is but left to tho '.enislature to rav. Ify that action. A dispatch to Ti e Stare Wednesday night irom its cor respondent at McCo mick says: "R; turns fi'om election fur establishment of Calhoun county show an over whelming majority, bejond the iw.i Lhirds rii|uircci by the constitution. Rettins shu A the following figures: Al bey illa, ayes 240, nays 41; Edge Held, a\es 237, nays 95; Greenwood, ajes 50, nays ll. This muk s a total of f>?i for the establishment of tho new county against 147 in opposition." There was considerably m irb than a two-thirds majority in the territory in each of the counties affected. Thc State's correspondents at Edgefield and Abbeville corroborated these figures. The lines of Calhoun county as pro posed this year are as follows: The line of the proposed new county will run from tin mouth of Stevens' creek on the Savannah river and up tlc Savannah river to a point opposite t! e lower er d of Coe"ar Island, the Hue running south so degrees east 1,4 2 Chains to a stake on Greenwood ct u t ty line, bei ea along ti e lower line >f Greenwood county south 12 3 I d> gives esst 140 cha'ns lo m:le post on C. & W. J. railroad near C. M. Sibert's thence ron;.' straight line to the Ti 1 man White place, thence to the bou ie nf W. T Lovelace, thence across Cuf f ec town creek at a point neor Chu.a Grove p ac2, thence along Hie line >f Edgetleld and Greenwood county line to ron p n In Martintov/n road, then :e [.own Mrrtintown road to centre poi t of upte- bridge over Turkey cre;;{, thence along tiie middle line of Tur key creek to Big Stevens' cm <. thence along the middle iine t.f B g Stevens' creek to thc mouth of sa cl creek, at Savannah river, the rolnt if beginning. Hch'ioiM-r Wreckotl. After a night of intense suffering rrom the old, dirging Tor dear life :o Lim masts of their shipwrecked voss. 1. n?i.VY .'? ->?IS breaking over her dec.s '," everything before thc .ts fury, Capt. F. G. composed tl e cri .?> ma C. Mid lit t i i, tu Charleston, * carried to ?*/ ii tug ' her OUR SENATORS. S eua tor Tillman Was a Busy Man Daring the Session, Som? Faots as to His Work Taken From the l&eoord. What Sena tor Jhatimrr Did. Senator Tillman was a busy man at the last session of congress, despite the fact that he was laid up wi tb an ulcerated throat part of the time. The new Congressional Reoord index shown some interesting things about the lines of his activity during that session. He was one of the mest fre quent speakers in tho senate and, de spite his throat trouble and his en* forced absence, he managed to be heard about as often in the total as any member of the senate. During the session he was appoint ed a conferee once, was appointed a member of one funeral committee, and was excused from serving on the confereced committee to which be had been appointed. During the same time he Introduced six bills in the senate all ot them pension bills, ?-r bills for the relief of constituents. Ile offered Uve motions aod resolu tions duriug the session. One was t > Investigate the appointment of tb? ar my officers who went lu under the constructive recess policy of the ad ministration. Another was for the In vestigation of Ihe C um appointments which by tills time number a half a score. Another was to ascertain the powers aud limitation!! of the admin istration relativo to recess appoint men ls. Still auother was to recon sider the vote bn the bill for the re lief of Q leen Llloukalanl ot thc U&w aiian islands. Tho otner motion was for the improvement of tho Wit?r?e river. This waa the only motion of S luth Caro11 na Interest, except that relating to tba Crum ease, offered by .Senator Tillman during the entire session In two instances he introduc ed petitions fur constituents. lt was lu talking lint the senator from South Carolina who always com mands attention when he ls billed io speak, is H 1 busy. Ile talked at length on ttl ; agricultural appropriation bili, discu sed tho reports ot the agricul tural experiment stitions, had a great deal ti say on the subj ;ct of animal breeding discussed the subject of buildliik'S for the executive debert ments, had some remarks to mvke ab nit tho estate of R W. Bullock and a great deal about tho appoint ment of Crura. The constructive re cess business went down bard with him and he bad a lot of things t? say about lt. Ile sp ik? on a baker's (Uz en ol other subjects during the ses sb n. Senator La'.lmcr had a little to say during the session, but was busy along other lines. Ile concluded that the only solution of the good roads ques tion was to have lliom built by feder al aid, and one of the two times be spoke during the session was to advo cate his bill ulong that, lino. Tho other time he addressed tile senate to say something about rural free delivery, a subject that is just now one of thc standbys of every new member of the bouse and senate. Mr. Lit liner Introducid three pub lic bills during the session. (Jue was to give federal aid to the building ol ri.ads. Tiie second was to obango the organization of the police foiee 11 Washington while another was tc erecj a public building at Anderson. Mr. Lad mer made several motions during the session. One was an lt qulry for informat'on relative to thu Im provement of the PO?dee river, and another was to have the departmeut ? f agriculture ascertain the cast of road building. He moved once during tiie session that tho senate adjourn, and that was when he announced the death of Representative Croft. Summed up, Mr. Latlmer introcm - ed three pub ic bills, and six pr.vate one?, addressed the senate twice, oller ed live notions, presented live pet i tiens and was appointed a member of a funeral commute_ (?nmhliiiK on Government ilrportw. Tho New York American says the government slit uki stop gambling on its reports regarding the cotton crop or make them public dally. The American yoes on to ; ay : "The busi ness of buying and s1 liing futures In c it ton is new reduced lo a gamble on the C? overn ment reports of ttie s'ze of the crop. Recently the C nsus De partment ga.ve out a report that we will know tobe coriector incorrect ::ot before next At gust. But it served the purpose of knocking down prices half a cent a pound. The speculators settled tl olr b^ts and are now awaiting the ne-:t report. The value of the crop WHS not changed. t.'oU.'in. ls as valuable today as lt was last week, but the shift lu the statis tics enabled a shift In prices, and t hai, is all tho use tbe report served. Tho United States hi_s abolished lot teries su i other .'onus of interstate gambling, lt shouh take steps to -4 i Us Information from being used for plain gambling. If these r? ports wer given out as they arrive, from clay to da>, the ?amblers would al leas lia ve to seek bets in other busi ngs- The cotton future business In Ne* York h::s becoona mere gamble, not 'ti cotton, bul w tat tho Govern mei reports on cotty n." Tho Ameri can s rlK'tit and t'ie sooner tho mat ter . remedied the better lt will be for thc best interests of the whole country. <;iiArt?ir IVt-H. Thc ann;.al report of the secretary eto has about bren completer) 'i gu rca regarding the fees re . la en made available. The that tho amount of fofs 14 vas slightly under hen the total was s explained by tiie tty of the com "'ir were snn?l lng SK),UUO, there were * other THE LAST DAYS Of Poit Ar nur Pictured by Oeu S toe DSOI, the Commandant. Ilcr.w Casualties ami Disease- Had Depleted tho Dravo Defend ors to Tcu Thousand Mon. Gen. Stoessel's dispatches, by way of Ohefoo, to the general staff, at St. Petersburg rt lat? how the position of tbe fortress of Port Arthur gradually becoming less safe and more critica", the ravages of scurvy increasing en ormously the casualty lists already HO considerable { ona the Japanese as saults and bo-i. Inn men LS. Towards tbe end of the year the supplies of ammunition completely gave out, there were 14,000 sick and wouunded in tbe hospitals and 300 fresh casual ties coming in daily. The general re ports that at the end of the seine he had only 10,000 men underarms, thu) remainder of tho original garrison having been either killed or disabled. The text of Gen. Stossel's di' pitch es follows: On Di'cmbei 28 ths general wrote: "The position of tho fortress is be coming very paluful. O ir principal .momies are scurvy, willoh is mo wi nu 'lo'*'n the meu, and ll-inch shells, whloh know no obstacle and against which lhere ls no projection. There only remain a few who have net been attacked by scurvy. Wo have taken all tbe posHible measures bui the dis ease is spreading. Toe passive endur a^ce of tbe enemy's bomb .rdment, tho ll-inch shells, the impossibility of le olyirg for want of ammunition, the outbreak of scurvy and the 1 ss of a nass of officers- all these causes dim inish dilly the capabilities of thc de fense. The tale of tho loss s of higher officers ls an indication of the enor mous losses we have sustained. Of io genera's two, Krondratenko and Tse.r pltsky, have been killed, Raznatovsky 's dead two ure w tunded, myse'f and Gennadeire, .while G>rbatowsky H suf fering from contusi >ns. Of nine regi mental commanders and colonels, Prince Matohabeii N lou.nenko bas been killed, Douiro anti Giagolew have succumbed to wounds, and four Others have been wounded: One lieutenant colonel has been killed and two are woundt d. "'Am >ng rho Helli artillery. C il. Ir man was wounded, Col. P-?terofJ was killed and six officers were wounded. Among the other high ( lil :er.s there .vas an enormous pcrcntsg' o' kll'ed or several times wounded. M my com panies are commanded by ens'gns and the compan'?". only average 80 u.si strong. 'Tue Japanese since Poce m-" er 18 have refrained from assaulting. Tues day they explore 1 a mir e under the fortifications of fort No. 6, and about a score of hardy .lapa: e e mount el the rampart, but were exterm?nate I by bi)oi evs and hand grenades. In ie venge the Japai e-e bombarded ail nignt long and ah,day long ?Ith ll Inch shelis, especially the hospitals and ambulances, although knowing full well that there w.ts no possibility of our wounded heroes j lining the ranks of the defenders. "There are 14,000 sick and wound td in the hospitals and the number ! Increases by snout 700 daily." Oa December 2D Gou. Stoessel wrote: \ "At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning ' the Japanese blew up part of the par apet of fort No. 3. They afterwards ' opened a s-rverc bombaidment along the whole front, but especially on fort No. 3. At about 3 o'clock iri tho after noon they dashed to the attack of the ! parapet from th-', moat and glacis, where they had naen heid in readi ness. TAO attacks were repulsed, but tie Japanese occupied the funnel 1 shaped opening formed by the explo sion and reenforced by their rest rves, b gan to run across the moat io groups i f about five. They occup e! the parapet and at du-k two batta lions had entered the interior of the fort. Our troop-, fought froni the en trenchments, which were badly dam aged. Part of our troops hid them selves in the casemates, but the Jap anese placed machine guns in front of the exit from the casemates, thus d; - privlrg our men bidden there of all possibility of making an attack. Tor e counter attacks from the outside by our reserves met with no success. T?.e .fort cm equently remained in p s*es . sion i I th i J apa noe. O ir losses were j consld ?rable, especially in officers, j The si rvivors ot the gai rison succed pd lu getting out of tin fort by the windows, by the occupation of this fort t ic Japanese became masters of , the ?hole north front, and the fort ress can hold out only a few days i more. Wo have almost no ammuul ; lion. I will take mensures to prevoot ; carnage In thc streets. "Scurvy is sensibly wakening the garrison. I have now under arms only lo ooo men, all sick. "Gens. Kock and Nik'tlua have been veritable heroes and admirable col labt rators." Gen Stoessel's report of December 28 and 29, palntlrg th" ba?rc wing picture of the depleted and exhausted garrison lighting on hopelessly, were posted on the bul'etln boards Tuesday atti rn on and attracted enormours crowd-, whose grief at the fall of the fort ref s was swallowed t.p hy admira tlon fi r the heidie tiefen lois. Too war office r.nd admiralty were s ion brs'.rg ed by grief striken relatives and friend* of those at Port. Arthur, eag erly asking for news, but the stat's j were, completely without details and could give linne. Tue city is perfectly <iuiet the agi tators finding that the people were. In no mood for demonstrations against thc goveri ment. It is presumed that tho emperor is already acquainted with thc details of the terms of the surrender, it being assumed that Stoessei was allowed to c mmunicate direct with his majesty, but the war i thee is still w?hl.,,l. h formation ex copt s ich as is contained In the Vt kio dispatches. ' At the fo'o'.gn office, willie it was ld that any proposals Japan might would receive due consideration, 'nlalH were unable to imagine 'd be nessi hie for Japan to 'us which Russia could dod 1'lniol. 'olly lilli to The '. the 14 year sell, who rc accldontally ming with stol." In 1, which > loaded, ' acct c '-sslng A. 3 ,ea was lng ds ut MORAL FIQTTRS IN OUR POLITICS William J. Bryan tho stron^cet Force In the Nation. Thoughtful men in America are coming steadily and rapidly to the conclusion that William J. Bryan is the strongest moral force in the poll* tics of the rc oublie, says the Atlanta News. ? There has never been a eampalgn led by this great democrat In wbiub the moral note has not been heard, clear and defluite, above all other is KUJSof tho canvas?. R'ght, Juitc and truth, a? Bryan saw them, have been the key words of every argument that has pulsed the two most elo quent and stirring presidential cam paigns that the American hustings nave ever known. Everywhere the moral note bas been dominant. Take fer instance the recent contri but on ut the Outlook, perhaps the most thoughtful utterance of Mr. Bryan since the St. Louis convention, and this is its general paragraph: "The democratic party ls now in a position Lo cm ld r thc moral issue? presented by pending problems, and lu the presentation of the moral phases of public qucstious is the stier gth of the democratic position today. Every great pollue il ques lion has an econ -unie bearing, und every ?conomie question is at f tunda lion a moral questa JU. Tie lins be tween right and wrong runs through every problem of government, and rho ti nal decision ot the pr. hiern is along tills line. No pr< p milton is better supported by history than that "rig lite usn<'ss eialteth a nat ii n," and it it as true of a partv as it ls o' a nation. In fact, no one ein form an accurate Judgment upon the individu al min or upon gr ?ups of men who dues not accept a? hs major premise that truth rests upon justice, and ls omnipotent. Justin s? far as an in dividu il follow? this doctritie he suc ceeds; there is no other measure of success. Io proportion as hi} departs from inls doetilne he fails. If fora time he seems to prosper, his pris perlty is only apparent, for no amount of wealth or honor can compensate for the doing of an inj istlee, aud history deals with men, with parties, and with nations, according tu one inex orable law-"Th; wages of sin ls death." WU-?re was there ev ;r a political career more charl;, pitched and more le.solutcly maintained along high lines tuan thi ? It ls like a we.-t wind driving tuc miasma vi meiern poli tics lo hear a man talk like that when all men know that there ls a mm behind the w ?rds wno has lived the weirds to the Hoe and the letter. T;.ere ls nota stain on Bryan's public or priv?te life, even in the mirr ir which his enemies ho'd up be fore him. No wood r that Lyman Abbott, in thc Outlook, staunch in dependent, and often staunch repub lic.m. should editorially declare : " There is no misunderstanding Mr. IUyan. He does not guard his atllrm atiuu i with so many qualification that no man can guess wtiat he really af firms, nor leave so ma'iy loop-holes for ie tri at In c ise hi? doctrines fall to tlncl adherents, nor use words In a dot ble sense, nor employ them to ob seu^e his meaning, nor put on a sem blance of wI.-,dom and morality by In dulgence iu general plattitudes. He ls clear, definite, positive, concrete Th- intelligent and honest reader can easily understand his meaning. Whether he will be the democratic candidate tn 1908, or even the demo eratic leader in the interim, it ls too ear'y lo prophesy. But it caunot b; dou led that he ls the clean st and ablest exponent, If nut of opinions en tertained, at least of a p iliiical spirit and purpose shared by a very great number of American c tfzens, and so the representative of a polit cal fore which mu>.t be reckoned with, and if reckoned with, must be under stood." It ls not the language of enthusi asm or of partisanship, but a simple statt merit of truth which challenge the cand* r of all true citizens, that Bry an's life and Bryan's arguments and Bryan's record of consistency and sin cerity have enriched the moral tone of the republic. Wo have said years a?o as wa say tod ty, that if Wi lian J. Bryan lives and labors for ten vears lo^irer on the same lofty plane thar he follows now, he will hold In ibis rep ibl e the position which William E Gladstone hoi 1 In our Mot.ier England across the sea. A moral force tn a republic must eventually h. c imo tts mightiest force. Found tit . Hoad Hody. The body of Jell S. Phelps, thc capitalist of Battle Oreek, Mich., who mysteriously dis: ppear-ed a number of weeks ago, and who later supposed to have been located In British Colum bia, was found Wednesday badly de composed in the iver chere. Phelps wi:s the construe i r of a sanitarium hore bearing hi3 i ame and was prom inent in the foid Industry. In 190,'i lils atlairs beeane involved and bc was given a year , n which to stralgh-, ten out the tang o. It was just be fore the expiration of this year that he disappeared. Soon after Phelps disappeared lt was discovered that $30,000 of stock In a publishing house lunt Phe'ps was Interested in oaci hei n forged and iscd to secure loans in m banks in A', rian, Tecumseh and In this c ty. thuin zzled Fenelon Money? Mr. D. H. Alexindrer, funeral pen sion examiner of Savannah, arrived at Rei ufort Wednesday morning aid caused tho arrest of Peter Watson, odored, of St. Helena Island, on the nhargo of embezzling pension money belonging to some minor children lt ls charged that, as guardian of the minors of B. Olin pli n, WatsoD appro priated s rac of the money to his own use. Ho was given a hearing before United States Commissioner J. O'H. | Saucers and was held In bond in the sum of $500, Ont Him at i, i - A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C., says: "Will Harris, a noted negro crim inal, wboe.-icped from the State's prison about a year ag >, under a 30 year sentence foi ham burning and who was some months ago outlawed by magistrate's prcclam Allon, was ar rested In Salisbury Tuesday. While at large in t i's county Harris created a veritable reign of terror in tho sec tion In which he was known to stay. Many farmers stayed up all night to guard their premise* against his torch."_ nu- tit cat Need. The Jacksonville Metrap>ills says: ''Educate the \ouih at hazards is our advice. If parent will not send their children to school let a law be enact ed to make them do it, and every child whi In thc comb g years sing thc praise and preoolalra the blessings of their benefactors." KILFYRE! KILFYR. That is exactly what lt ls. a Pl day at the State Fair showing its tir Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Baw Ml property should have them. For sal COLUMBIA SI Columbia, ?. O. The mac Southeastern Lim CHARLE8T Ballding Material of all kii "RUBEROID." ' 1 THE GUINARD Building and Re-Pres-ed Brick. Sp Terra Cotta Flue Linings. Prepai for millions. Whlske I Morphine I Olgaret Habit, Habit I Habit Cured by Keeley 1 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 76) Coln ence solicited. COST OF A NEWSPAPER. One Dollar Per Y .-ar Ia Too Liittle for a Good Pitper. A number of weekly papers are -alslng the subscription price to S i. 50 A year, without any enlacement or improvement. T?ey are forced to raise the price or go out of business on ace unt of the increased pri?e of < all material that KO to mike upa newspaper. The folio wini* editorial from Sunday's Wilmington Messenger ii to the point: "The Gasto:)ia Ga zette announces that it will advance tbe price of ?B hubnoriptlon from one dollar lo one dollar and a half a year. This ls not done because of contem plated enlargement or material im provement of thc paper, but as the editor says, for purely business rca I son;-.. The increased cost of living and of labor in the printing business and the ad var c ; in the price of paper has made this increase of fifty per cent in the' price of the paper a ne cesdty. We are not surprised at th's announcement.. We do not see how any editor caa issue a first class week ly paper for the small subscription price of one dollar a year. The sur prise is that the Gazottehasnot made this change before this and that others have not done likewise. Tho i daily paper w?lch also iasuesa weekly ! edition has the advantage In the mat tor of sa\lrjg expenses over tho paper 'j which has ouly a weekly and semi-1 weekly edition, and still none of the fo m r class In this Rtctlon of the. country Is getting rich by any means j ; with their do-lir a year editions. If they canuot make anything off their ; publication how can the other class j of newspaper men be expected to do j BO? And again a man who will not j pay a dollar and a half for flfoy-two j Issues ot his county paper ou^ht not to be furnished one at any price. The fifty cents additional is very lit tie to each individual subscriber, bub the sum total amounts to a great deal wich the man at the other eud of the linc. Tt.is same idea applies ? lo prompt payment of subscriptions ; to weekly newspapers and weekly odt- li Clora o? the dallies. Take a pap :r ! with, say, six thousand mmes on its weekly Ila?. If every man pays his j dollar promptly this means six thous and dollars in cash to the proprie tors. Every dollar that ls held back 'rom hun is j jstso much cash lost by bim. To 5o;e the fee of one subsorlb er who has taken and read the papar for a year is not much, but when you bolgin to multiply that by ten, twen ty, fifty and a hundred lt will amount to a great deal In the course of a few v ears. Tin se subscribers are scatter- j ed all jver the State. The one dollar | is v-:ry little to each one of these sub scribers, but when they all come to the newspapers proprietors they amount tu a good deal. The man wrn fills to pa> his sui scriptlon does m t save much. Ile has cheated the editor out of on'y a dollar; but when such cas3S pile up by the score lt is a serious matter to the newspaper man who depends on the Individual dollar subscriptions to keep his business, go ing and to provide for the mainten ance of himself and family. Were all newspaper subscribers to realiz) this condition many more of them would oe a great deal prompter than they are In paying their subscriptions.11 Crum ta Contirinod. Th nomination of VV. D. Crum, a negro, tu be collect r for the pert of Charleston, S. C., was contlmed by the senate in executive session friday by a vote of 33 bo 17. Crum has been nominated by the president three times and in addition to these nomi nations has receivtd three recess ap pointments, and ls now serving under the last of these. Confirmation was opposed by Senator Tillman, who ob jected to the appointment of a nojro. Senator Tillman mide a speech de voted almost eotlreiy to tho question or the constitutional right of the president to make a recess appoint ment when no actual recess had oc curred, the s?nate having adjourned one session and begun another at noon of the same iay. Fiendish DoPravltjr? G.iv. Vardaman, of Mississippi, after an Investigation of the whipping of Convict Howell of Sergeant Puckett at the ll minn penitentiary Bald: 'Tue punishment infl.oted upon this un fortunate convict was fiendish aid betokens a depravity which would dis grace thc most abandoned criminal in thc penitentiary." The governor has employed counsel to proiicute Puckett In the State courts. Puckett, whese time as sergeant has expired, is very defiant and is not apprehensive of conviction. F'aiis Do?d. A special from Yorkville to The Statesaya Mr. Napoleon A. Simrll, while sitting on a mule at h s resi dence two miles east of Yorkville Tuesday afternoon, had an attack of heart trouble and fell (lcd, Mr. Simrll wituessing the sad occurrence. Mr. Simrll was one of the most suc cessful and enterprising men of York county, and was highly esteemed by his many friends. He leaves a wid ow, one son and two daughters. One of the latter ls a student at Winthrop college. Tun Augusta Ohror'ole says: "The bucket-shop gambler;: may buy and sell "paper cotton" to their hearts delight, but the farmers and cotton faotors aie still in possession of "spots," and Bpot cotton ls what count? in the present game. Bil KILFYRE111 Ire Killer, DJ noa*traiioa every e fighting qualities. ill. Ginnery and any one owning JPPLYCO.. shiner? Supply house of the State e & Cement Co. ON, 8. C. ids. 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C. ??.?-??.?.?MMM- MM GUARAS / TEED BY A BANK DEPOSIT Railroad Fare Paid. 509 FllKK Courses Offered. BiardatCosi. Write Quick GEORGIA-ALABAMA BUSINESS COttEGE.Macoo.Ct, SOON after he was electee President Roosevelt declared bis ocnvlotion that the tariff should bo revisad and inti mated that he would call a special session next spring to pvrform the work. Now he admits that he has been talked oit of calling a special session in tbs spring but adds that he may d'? so in tba fall. Tua Spirtan burg Journal Hays " .br; truth ls that influential 'st ind-px tors' are threat ening the prc:,idt ii and declaring that if he persists n tho policy of tariff revision ho will disrupt his party aa badly as did Mr. Cleveland during his last term."_ "ITAVK we put a lemoirat or a re publican in tba White House?" No question has been mora frequently asked by republican' tban this, and it bas buen reiterated nure than ever since thc president sent to congress the annual report of Commissioner of Corporations Garflel i who adopts, as his ohief recommendation, after a year's sturly of the subjeot of Federal control of trust?, a scheme first pro posed by William J. Bryan at a olvio federation banquet in Chicago, Biz or seven years ago. THE modern locomotive costs 416, 000 or $18,000, according to size and equipment. The passenger locomotive;! In former days were embellished with extra brass work and trimmings, the bright parta were kept by tho ilrerren in a state of glittering effulgence, and tho passenger engine cost more than the freight engine. Nowadays, tho trimmings are not put on, and the passenger engine, baing lighter, xwtsless than the mammoth freighter