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RECORD B They Alade Things Hm^During the Past Year? HIGH WATER MABR Was Attained ia Various Peats, Epi Bodef~?nd Events Noted~Through? .ut the Country, Ranging from Grave to Gay, from Lud icrous to Grotesque. The strenuous record smashers made things bum during the year just oiose<L _Tbj?-tlfgh" " water mark was a^fclrined in various feats, episodes and "events noted throughout the^ountry, ranging from the grave to the gay and from the ludiorou? to the gro teeque. Chicago produced the prize villain, a man who was accused in court by his wife, sister and employer with desertion, ingratitude, theft, lying, ' intemperance, profanity and Binging "Bedel?a" when the neighbors wanted to sleep. This champion simply fail ed to live up to bis opportunities or he might have posed as the much wanted Pat Crowe and the man who struck Billy Patterson. A Pennsylvania farmer won a medr: from his neighbors by having his wife arrested for cruelty because she in slated on working a phonograph over time on '.he tormenting air "Hiawa tha," in spite of all protests. In St. Louis a thirsty man drank nine quarts o ' whiskey in 24 bouts and died. Even thc Prohibitionists must now adrait that mai bas some value. The classic town of E/anstown, tho seat of Northwestern university, clo veloped the biggest pie ? ater of the year. Five thick, juicy pies a la mode-smothered in ice cream-de voured at a single sitting was the new ^^^--jjecprd Get by Ed O'Laughltu in a con ' lesfwith Lawrence Eogllsh, who lust by hali a pie. But in the drinking line Harry E Vale of Englewood, a Chicago suburb seems to have takcu the I un. "He diani: up our bakery," said Mrs. Vale, in her suit for ci Ivo "It was a pretty big drink, but b swallowed lt n short order." Checks to saloon keeper; afgregat lng several thousand dollars, showed what that big drink had cost. An ambit nus Missourian wrot 40,088 words on a p is tal card, a real tn chirography1 aime.st as difficult aohleve ao would bo a sane expiant] tion as to why he did it. During a tire in a New York hotel a woman dressed herself lu liss I 15 minutes. This record is likely to stand for at least a century. NEW CHA ii PIONS. Percy T. Bennett is a man that New Jersey Judges call tho chauI] lo i long distance pianist of tho wo?ld without walting to hear from all the young ladies who are practicing " The Maiden's Prayer." In a Newark theatre he battered out "Farewell, My Lady Love," and eic ; for 24 ' our at a stretch, when compassionate friends interfered and dragged bim homo bodily though he threatened another explosion. One hundred and ten times in seven years was the moving r< cord of the "Whelan family of New York, Sr1"^.-. moving tale it furnished n a Jtriem court when Mrs. Whelan ^stifled against her husband for ngpsupport tiinYeci'VM? drew weird wutdj?r&cs of bi.-, ??.die habits. ^ ~ " ' ?f still anoth AUDITORIUM Towered bimvup _>ue told the judge " the only~wti7 *?ne could get mi nej from her roving spouse was to take it cut of bis trousers pooke'.s while he was asleep."" SOMK ( LD PE TL IO. Moses A. Cleveland, .said to be a cousin of the ex-President set a i ew pace for octogenarians. At Worces ter, Mass., l?e and another vetera . o' the Civil war, each bein ,' 80, tan a n halfmile foot race. Cleveland won ?? the dash by several yards, and a box [ of oigars Into thc bargain, where ?r upon he challerged any man of his age in the worlc-with no takers, at -last accounts. While thc exploits of thc old boys arc under review, those .of the girls should not bs forgotten; and Mrs. ,0 g.Margaret Black of Greene county Pa , pj^deserves first mention. At vhe cele bration of her ninety tbhd birthday '^n August lt was anno?oced that stn: had never been fifty miles away frc m the place of her birth and had never ridden lu a railway train, nor ever seen one; yet this remarkable old lady's descendants include six chil dren, 4!l grandchildren, 111? great grandchildren and 2i) great-great grandchildren. A RECOUD IN SPEX.T.mNDINO. Shrewd g i esse rs naturally would pick Indiana as the scene of the latest record breaking In political oratory. In tho last campaign Congre -u r. Landis delivered 00 speeches In less than a month. This long distance spellbinding pro'luced t*\o results his own re-election and a ihn at affec tion which temporarily lecked bia jaws. Miss Maggie Albany's remarkable achievement as a Sunday school pupil brought bei a gold watch carly In 1904. Fur ::8 years, without a single dereliction, abe bad r.ltoi ded i.he ser vices of thc El em /. i Methodist Sun day i.ehool bi Philadelph a. Sue be gan at the age of 3 years. "If i-die at 80," said proudly, "it will be a Seventy .seven ye irs' record." AMItlTinus WOMEN. Mhs Annie S. Pick of Chicago rc turned from ?iou.ii Araei ca with i laurels as a mountain climber. .'. : mg her feats was the ascend i i S rata, tho Bolivian mountain, from 20,000 to 25,000 fiet high. Si c surpassed tho best previous marks by i olhg within OOO feet of the top. S ie hat! many narrow escapes, but next year will go climbing again. "Nothing on earth tco high for an ambitious woman," siro said. Tho largest bottle eve- blown was made last year at the Illinois {lass works at A'ton. lt wati ? wine but tle seven feet high, and wi .s made for a wine exhibit. GIANT MIOTOOIIAPIIS. In the year's harvest of oddities two enormous photographs cut no mean figure. One was a picture of the Gulf of Naples, marie by a 13 rlln company and shown at S . Louis, lt was .'10 feet long and 5 Teob high the largest photograph ever produced In the world. is tho ass? regret ty L .,*no other waa a photograph of the Chicago Board of Trade, showing the bulls and bears clamoring in the pit at fever beat. Twelve pounds o? flashlight powder being distributed at 350 different points around tho bal cony ar.d igcitedjBlmultaneou8ly by eleotriolty. BIO FAMILIES. Two record smashing families bound for Chicago landed fiore a steamer at Baltimore in April. The head of onr> family was Joseph Zowlnskl, aged 78, whose sons, daughters and grandchil dren number 30. Tbe head of the other waB Carl Zenke, the father of a brood numbering 17. The Two Million club, for promoting, population, ought to hand out a few medals to Joe and Carl. An extraordinary Instance of puuot uallty in maternity was given by Mme. Bynes, 'giving birth to a boy, fourth to arrive on the same dato at exact intervals of one year. Men of solcnco regard thia as a remarkable re cord, and great curiosity ls felt as tc whether the woman will ugaln bring off tho feat in January, 1905. All hands agreu to place the terpsi chorean pennant over tbe domicile of Mrs. John Polinski, a Jersey City bride, who danced seventv-sevan times at lier wedding reception and then fell in a swoon. Sbe bad kepo her ieee twinkling from 4 p. m. until long after midnight, and it to k a quick aud e'evor doctor to pull her back to consciousness. qUICK ll A KUI AO rc, DJiATn; t.voncE. At South Bend, Ind., Miss Mary Mum lo Tutt, a saleswoman, married George P. Morehead, a well to do mer chant, in haste, but subsequent events came so swift that she never thought of repentance. A few minutes afior the ceremony Mr. Morehead willed bis bride $50,000; two boura later he was dead. At 4:15 o'clock one afternoon R. C. Dobbins o? OhloagO wan closing up a $15,000 business dp il for a big depart ment store; at 4:17 was sllppi-d out to a Justice shop and at 4:18 was married '0 Miss Elsele; at 4:20 o'clock he was l ack in the treadmill, engaged In an other big transaction. "No time for sentiment, in this great age of civilization and progress," lie said. But lt remained for David Metcalf, a Chlcigo printer, to experience all the degrees of matrimonial entangle ment in a shorter time t ?an any other man in history. Ile was first martie-' in April, 1882. ne separated from bis wife, and last September, when, entering the sere and wrinkled period, courted and won Miss Lucy Rounds, aged 20. applied I fo~ divree and sn p sari it was gran ed: married Mi ;s Rounds, who learned ho had t;ot beau legally divorced, and had him arrested for bigamy; held to ?he grand jury: ulvorce given to the lirst .".?ic on a on s bill: blgcm st re li ased ou a wiri pf habeas corpus; fl<' minutes later leniorrlcd to Mls9 Roui 's in the presence ?-..f first wife. Slow music und curtain on thc love affairs of Dave, all these later events having occurred within a few wei.ks Desertad fourteen times in 2:t years was a record that didn't tull Emma Larsen of Chicago, and with thc court's aid she le. Carl go for keeps. "lt seems almost incredible," said .lucige Brentano of thin city, when Mrs. Cosenzo told ber tale of woe and asker! Tor a divorce, ' that this slip of a girl should have had such a marital i xp;:riet ce." "I was married at li." sho sahl, "and now I'm almost 16. My husband, Si'.veria, boat me morning, noon and night, and 1 don e, want tb go hack to bim any more." She didn't have to. Thc tmf "1 foi divorce was i* -.(U/r ,. -vM. Roaob, woo "W?^tVlTo? .io._. uVr : CA- L Roach, .!'n of the president of the Chicago Uniou Traction lompa.ny, in proceed* logs lasting 20 EC uutes. Leo Peltz. also a Chicagoan, acide ved tho higt: water mark In mak ing threats. ' On u:io different occasions since our bridal trip in 1S80," tho wife de claro-!, "Leo bas menaced me ano warned me that I would soon see my finish." Tito judge assented when she added: "This is where 1 net Cff." After 25 uunicccssful attempts ;k eil Davis of Cad iliaco, Mich., com mitted suicide at Milwaukee by tak lug poison. Shi had tried almost every known method, including hrir'g \ jumping, and was a filleted with a suicidal mania. Tho final blow fell when she was r.-proved for complain ing about the color of tho curtains in her room. THE BIQOEST LOBSTER. The biggest lobster ever seen in Chicago ar.ived from the Atlantic; coast in November, It weighed 18 pounds and 8 ounces, was over eight feet lor-g and bad claws 15 inches in length. The dealers estimated its age ai, 100 years. As lt died on the way, a tine lot of salad was missing. Monster, a ribbon bedecked Iowa steer weighing 3,000 pounds, broke ?ill recorels f >r heft at the livo stock shew in Co lea go. Beef at 30 cents a pound "on the hoof" was the urprccendented price paid at this show for ?hc champion steer, Clear Lake Jute, exhibited by i??. University of Minnesota. The largest rah ilt hunt of tho yoar took place In Oregon In January, A ht :i it was reported that 10,01)0 cot tontails were kilted, s?me 700 men u.d women participating In the daughter. RECORDS IN WU1TTINO. Miss Mai Carrington of Springfield, Mass., In a typewriting contest at idadiscn Square Garden, Now York, i ade a record of 100 words a minute jdndfolded. At the St. Lou!? fa'r, 3. If. Cole of Catskill, N. Y., broke ?be world's record for the greatest lumber of words In Bevon continuous (iours of typewriting, Ills total was ?8,044 words, an average of nearly 08 words a minute. Mayor McClellan of New York sot i lively galt In autograph work by signing bis nair.o 37,000 times cn a new issue of city bonds. Mr. Arm ttrong, assistant secretary of the ircaiiury at Washington, has sigrid lis name to Official documents more .han 0,000 times a day with a pen, jut often lie had lo resort to ma.'sage Lo keep his arm in working order. In a conti st. hy Chicago hank c erk* Lemoyrfe S. Hatch proved tho adage I..it practice makes perfect by count* ng a total of $0. J00 In notes of va ii )us denominations in tbe record .reaklng timo of 21:0? I 5. MONEY. The. total nun.ber of postal orders sued by the goxernment during the ast fiscal year passed the 50,000,000 uark for the Iis.-.: Hmo In history, the rross revenue o: the business being lil, 020,670. Records r?r coining gold currency it tho mints hi Philadelphia, San francisco and New Orleans exceeded Lil former ma ka, tho output of 'hliadoiphla alone aggregating near ly $2,000,000 a day ot times.: The lat ter mint, being the only one which makes osnta and nickels, also turned out 1257000,000 a month Jn Uiese coins part of the year. Marshall Field shattered all previ ous records In taxpaying. The Chicago merchant paid 'on an assessed proper ty valuation of $40,000,000, which placed him at tho head of heavy tax payers ia the United States. LUCKY DA HI !?:fl The youngest baby in the world to start lifo with a bank account was Miram Goldstein of Kow York, 120 having bien placed to his credit one hour after his birth. Little Miss Wideuer of Fnlladelpbia reoelved the handsomest birthday gift; at the ago of three sut received obceks for 6500,000. A TERRIBLE STORM. Great Snow Drifts Pltod Up in Now Yolk's Street*. A dispatch from New York says not In several years bas New York been visited by a storm of such pro portions as that which commenced Tuesday and continued unttl early Wednesday. Nine Inches of snow f di, paralyzing traine, and tbe marked drop In tho temoerature brought un told suffering to the city's poor. Tho blizzard caused seven d.aths lu New York and viclulty, while many per sons, overcomo by the cold, dropped to the street, some of thom reoelvlng fractured bones. The storm began with an icy sleet which struck to cir rails and oausod a speedy abandonment of railroad and trolley schedules. The sleet covered the sidewalks and streets with ice aud reudered them almost Impassable. Scores of horsos fell and many were s > badly Injured that they uad to b-e killed. A linc snow succeeded the slee t and, aided by the wind, soon piled ue drifts that shut off many buburba ? points fri m the city. Five o' tho seven men who met death from the results of the Rtorm died from exposure, auother slipped oo tho Icy platform of an elevated Station fi ll lu front of an approaching train and wa* ground to pieces. Th ; seventh, L. W. Eller, a conductor o i the Pennsylvania rillroad, blinded b > the driving suow, stepped In front tf the "Congressional Limited" train, at South Amboy, N. J., and was instant ly killed. The demoralization of thc surface car service played havoc with those going lo business. Too elevated tralca ran Infrequently, throwing the bul i .i tho f iliio fro n the upper districts of the el ty to the subway. E?en the. underground road did not escape the stoi m. At the Times Pquare sta ion snow drifted in, forming a drift ti\e feet high nod lt was Impossible fer people to use the station until the snow had been olearod away. UALsOUri UuUNlY. Carried tho IOIrction hy un Ovc. virtielmtii|? Majority Iiiiut Week. The p"cpl-e In tho territory involved lia ve declared in favor of thc estab lishment of Cilhouu county. The elec tion appears lo have been overwhelm ingly In favor of the new county and it is but left to the legislature to rat lfy that action. A dispatch to Tee State Wedne.-day night from its cor respondent at McCo. mick says: "R: turns from election for establishment pf Calhoun county show an over whelming majo:Ry. beyond the two thirds n quired by the constitution. Returns show the following figures: Abbeville, aves 24<>, nays 41; Edge Heid, ayes 237, nay* 05; Greenwood, ajos 50, nays ll, lOhls mak s a total of 5?1 f< r the establishment of the T-rfw county against 147 in opposition." There was considerably more than a two-.lhirds majority in the territory iu each of the count ies afftcted. The. State's corresponde nts ut E.lgeiie':d and Abbevillo corroborated tber.e figures. The lines of Calhoun county as pro posed this year are as follows: The line of the proposed new county will run from lbj mouth of Stevens' creek on the Savannah river and up tte Savannah river to a point opposite, tie lower end of Cedar Island, tho line running south 80 degrees east 1,4'2 chains to a stake em Greenwood ce u i ty Uno, tbet ci along the lower line of Greenwood county south 12 3 -i de grees east 140 cha!ii3 to milo post on C. & W. C. railroad near C. M. Slbert's thence along straight line to thc Till man W hite place, thence to the house of W. T. Lovelace, thence across Cuf feetown creek at a point near China (.rove p'uee, thence along the Une of ridgefield and Greenwood county Une to iron pin in Martintown road, thence r.own Martintown road to centre point of upper bridge over Turkey creek, thence along the middle line of Tur key creek to Big Stevens' creek, thence along the middle Une of Rig Stevens' creek to the mouth of said creek, al Savannah river, the \ oint of beginning. Sctiooner Wrecked. After a night of intense Buffering from th( cold, dirging for dear life .<> the masis of their shipwrecked vessel, heavy seas breaking over her dec s and car-ylng everything before t ie mad ru h of its fury, Capt. F. (}, Globs ai d six men composed thu crt w of tho s shooner Emma C. Mldrlleto i, from Nwport News to Charleston, with a cirgo of coal, were carried :o WilmiiH ton by the Wlllmlugton tug Alexander Jones, tho vessel and lier cargo being a total wre k cn Frying Pan slio,ds. The schooner wat .stru-.k by Tuesday night's gale and broce completely in two from stem tosiera. Capt. Gibbs and crew were rescued >y the life saving crew at Cupe Fear and Oak Islind stations, being later trans ferred to the tut'._ In Uooil Bb apo. Special dispatches from Ti kio say that the Port Arthur garrison wis marshalled ab 0 o'clock Tbursdty mc min.- at Yahutsul hi accordance wi jh the terms of the supplementary | ng.cement. Tue Standard's Port Ar thur correspondent reports that t ie town appears to have t een a lill le damaged by Hie bombardment. Car riages and rickshaws, be says, are m iving about with well dressed peo ple who apparently aro anything but starved. The ruined fort? resemble bills Phaken by a mighty convulsion and in many eaies every trace of Hie works has disappeared._ Post ni Ol?rkii Dianilsacd. W. E. Crlsmou ?.nd W. E. Stokes, clerks In the Portsmouth post?nico, were dismissed from the service Thursday by Posta aster Hutt. This action was ordered by the post Qloe depart nent upon recommendation of tho civil service .rrnmlssion, bofi rr. which holli had been tried for alleged Irregularities In tin lr examination te fore tho civil scrv.co commission lu Portsmouth. OUR SENATORS. Senator Tillman Waa a Busy Han During the Session. Sumo Facts as to III? Work Taken From tho Keoord. What Sena tor ?i?tlm<?r Did. Senator Tillman was a busy man at the last session of congress, despite the fact that be waa latd up with an ulcerated throat part of ibo time. The new Congressional Record index shows some interesting things about the lines of his activity during that session. He was one of the mest fre quent speakers in the senate and, de spite his throat trouble and his en forced absence, he managed to bo 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, 1 and was excused from serving on the confereces committee to willoh he had been appointed. During the same time he introduced six bills in the senate all of them pension bills, rr bills for the relief of constituents. He offered live motions and resolu tions during the session. One was to investigate the appointment of tb? ar my officers who went in under the constructive recess polloy of the ad ministration. Another was for the in vestigation of ihe Cum appointments which by this time number a hal' a score. Another was to ascertain the powers and limitations of tho admin istration relative to recess appoint ments. Still another was to recon sider thc vote bu the bill for the re lief of Q leen Llloukalani of the Haw aiian Islands. Tho other motion was fur the Improvement of the Tf it?r?e rivor. This was tho only motion of S uth Carolina interest, except that relating to tho Crum case, offered by Senator Tillman during the entire session In two Instances he introduc ed petitions for constituents. lt was in talking tint the senator from South Ca'ollna who always com mands attention when be ls billed to speak, is so busy. Ho talked at length on tho agricultural appropriation bill, discussed the reports of the agricul tural experiment stiltons, had a great deal to say on the subject of animal breeding discussed the subject of bulldtugs for the executive depart ments, had somo remarks to mnke ab iut the estate' of R W. Bullock and a great deal about the appoint ment of Crum. The constructive re cess business went down bard with him und bc had a lot ot things to say abou J it. He spoke on baker's doz en ol other subj jets ouring the ses sion. Se lator Latlmer hal a little to say duri; g the session, but was busy along ollie Unes. Ile concluded that the only iolutlou of the good roads ques tion vas to have them built by feder al a 1, and one of th3 two times he spoke daring the session was to advo cate jis bill along that lino. Tho other time lie addressed the senate to say something about rural free delivery, a subject that is just now one of the standbys of every new member of the house and senate. Mr. Intimer introduced three pub lic bills during the session. One was to give federal aid to Lite building nf roads. Tho second was to change the organization of the police foi ce of Washington while another *?as to erecl a public building at . 4|arson: Mr. Latlmer made-sever- "*' ~"i during the session. One was an inquiry for information relative to tlie Im provement of the Peedee river, and another was lo have the department i f agriculture ascertain the ca*t of road building. He moved once during the session that tho senate adjourn, and that was when ho announced the death of Representative Croft. Summed up, Mr. Latlmer lutrodu: cd threo public bills, and Bli pr.vate ones, addressed tho senate twice, offer ed five motions, presented five peti lions and was appointed a member of a funeral commltte._ Gullibility ?>n Government Reports. The Now York American says tho government should stop gambling on Its reports regarding the cotton crop or make Hiern public dally. The American goes un to taj : "Toe bush , ness of buying and selling futures in ( cotton is now reduced to a gamble on the Government reports of the stzo ol ? the crop. Recently the C nsus De- , partmont gave out a report that we i will know to be correct or incorrect , not before next August. But it nerved the purpose of knocking down prices half a cent a pound. The speculators settled their bots and are now awaiting the next report. The value of the crop was not changed. Cotton is as valuable today as it waa , last week, but tho shift in the statis lies enabled a shift in prices, and tl lit is all the use the report served. The United States has abolished lot teries and other forms of interstate | gambling. It shoulc take steps to ( sl ip its information I rom being used for plain gambling. If these r< ports . were given out as they arrive, from! day to day, thc gamblers would at I least have to seek bel s in other bust ness. The cotton fu ,uro business In , Now York has hecomia mere gamble, ( not on cotton, but w lat the Govern ment ropoits on cottx n." The Amer!- |, can 's right and the sooner the mat- , tor is remedied the idler it will be for the best lntcresis of the whole country. (/Manor I 'OOH. The annual report of thc secretary of Htate has about been completed and the ligures regare lng the fees re eel ved have bren made available. The totals show that iht amount of fees rece ve? for 1904 was slightly under tba. of 1003, when the total was 818 OOO, but this is explained by the fact that the majt>rlty of the corn pan s organized this year woro small one; with capital averaging $10,000, whl a the year previous there were mai y now cotton tallis and ether lary .. corporations formed. The fig ure! are as follows: 380 leolarallens.* 002 50 318 :harfers. 705 00 LOI oieomonsynary charter.. 3u3 00 313 notaries public. 1,017 25 3 commissioners of deeds.. . 0 75 Certificates . 53 50 Charter foes . 7,368 20 Foreign corporations. 400 00 Railroad charte?, records.. 276 10 Amendments. 66 50 Increase of capita' . 2,970 90 Decrease and dbs-duttons.. 20 00 Renewals. 384 00 Miscellaneous. 6 00 Total.$14,577 70 win ii.-. linnoaoliod. After a thorough Investigation thc house of representatives ha? ordered thu impeachment of Federal Judge S wayne of Florida for high crimes and misdemeanors. TEE LAST DAYS Of Port Ar hur Pictured by Gen Stooaael, the Commandant. Ilcnw OasuuKlea and Dlacaao Had Depicted tho Bravo Dol'entl ore to Ton Thousand Mon. Qen. Stoessel'a dispatches, by way of Obefoo, to the general staff, at St.1 Petersburg relato hew the position o! the fortress of Port Arthur gradually becoming lets safe and more critica', the ravages of scurvy increasing en ormously the oasualty lists already so ? considerable f'osn the Japanese as saults and bombardments. Towards the 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 oom lng in dally. Tho general re ports that at the end of the seige ho had only 10,000 men under arms, the remainder of the original garrison having been either killed or disabled. The text of Gen. Stessel's dh pooh es follows: On December 28 tba general wrote: "Tbe position of the for trew is be coming very painful. Our principal enemies arc scurvy, which is mowing down tbe men, und 11-inch shi lls, wblob know uo obstacle und against which there ls no protection. There only remain a few who have not beeo attacked by scurvy. We have taken all the possible measure* but the dis ease is spreading. Toe passive endur ance of the enemy's bombardment, the ll-lnoh ?hells, the impossibility of re ply li g for want of ammunition, the outbreak of scurvy and tbe less of a mass of officers-all these causes/dim inish dilly the capab.lilies of the eV? fensc. Tho tale of the loss s of hlg>?^ officers ls an indication of the mous losses we have sustr ined. Or\7 senprals two, Krondratenko and Tser pltsky, havo been killed, Itaznatovi-ky is bead, two are wounded, myself and Gonnarlclie, while Gurbatowsky is suf fering from contusions. Of niue regi mental commanders and colonels, Prince Matohabell Nnoumenko has been killed, Douire and Glagolew have succumbed to wounds, and four others ! have b' en wounded: O.ie lieutenant colonel has been killed and two are wounded. "Among thc Held artillery, 0>1. Ir min was wounded, Col. PeierotT was killed and six officers were wounded. Among the other high o fl! eera there was an enormous percentage of killed or several times wounded. M-iny com panies are commanded by ensigns and the companion only average 60 ir? i strong. ''Too Japanese since DecamVer 18 havo refrained from assaulting. Tues day they exploded a mb e under the fortifications of fort, No. 5, and ab air, a s:oro of hardy Japane e mounted tho rampart, hut vere exterminate 1 by biyo: ats and band grenades. In ie venge the Japaro-e bombarded a'l nlgnt long and all day long with 11 Inch shells, especially the hospitals and ambulances, although knowing full well that there was no possibility of our wounded heroes joining the ranks of the defenders. "There are 14,000 sick and wound ed in the hospitals and the number increases by about 700 dally." OQ December 28 Gen. Stocssel wrote: "At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning tho Japanese blew up part of the par apet of fort No. 3. They afterwards opened Tr severe bombardment a'ong the whole front, but especially on fort No. 3. At about 3 o'clock in the after noon they dashed to the attack of the parapet from tho mont and glacis, where they had been held In readi ness. Two attacks were repulsed, but the J apa?ee occupied the funnel shaped opening formed by the explo sion and reenforced by their rest rves, b gan to run across the moat ia groups i f about live. They ocsup'ol the parapet and at du^ two batta lions bad entered the interior of the fort. Our troops fought .;'jm the en trenchments, which were *adly dam uged. Part of our troops bid them selves in the casemates, but the Jap auese placed machine guns in front of the exit from the casemates, thus di> prlvii g our men bidden there of all possibility of making an attack. Three counter attacks from the outside by our r?serv?s met with no success. Toe fort con equently remained in p ses sion tf the Japaner e. Our losse? were considerable, especially in t.fllcers. The survivors of the garrison succed cd in getting out of the fort by the windows. Hy the occupation of tbi.-, fort the Japanese became masters of the whole north front, and tbe fort ress can ho.d out only a few days more. We have almost no ammuni tion. I will take measures to prevei t carnage in thc streets. "Scurvy in sensibly weakening the garrison. I have now under aruas only 10,000 men, all sick. "Gens. Pock and Nlk:t!na have, been veritable heroes and admirable collaborators." Gen .Stoessel's report of Drcomb.r 28 and 21), paintii g the harrow ing picture of the depleted and exhau ted garr'son fighting on hopelessly, were posted on the bul etin boards Tuesday af tern ion and attractei enormours srowdii, whose grief at the fall of the fortress was swallowed t p by admira tion fi r the heroic defen lers. Toe war rrfllce and admiralty were soon brsirg id by grief striken relatives and friend? of those at Port Arthur, eag erly asking for news, but tho staffs wero completely without details and could give none. Toe city ls perfectly quiet tho agi tators finding that tho people were in no mood for demonstrations against the govert menti It ls presumed that tho emperor is already acquainted with the details of the terms of the surrender, lt being assumed that Stoessel was allowed to c mmunlcatc direct with bis majesty, but tho war Dfflco is still without Information ex cept? s cb as ls cou l ai ooo in the Ti kio ?lspat ines. At the foreign office, while it. was ?ald that any proposals Japan might mako would receive due consideration, thc officiais were unable to Imagine how lb could be ooaslble for Japan to ofter conditions which Il?tala could ?ccept. A dispatch from Holly Hill to Tho 3tato says J 1m Russell, the 14-year j)d son of Mr. T. S. Russell, who re resldes nearllolly Hill, accidentilly jhot himself Thursday morning with tho proverbial "unloaded pistol." In Laking bis father's old pl.st.ol, which waB believed to bo unloaded, from a bureau drawer lt was accl lontaily discharged. Ibo ball passing through bis bund and entering bis leS just above "Jio knee. The ball was aol taken out but the boy ls resting juicily Thursday night. The wounds ire not thought to bo serious, but ..iii be Home time in bealing. Tho Unlimited Pistol. MORAI PIQUBE IN OUR POLITIC8 winiam J. Brynn the Btronjceat Furo? in the Nation. Thoughtful mon in America are coming steadily and rapidly to the conclu don that William J. Bryan ls the strongest moral force in the poli tics of the republic, says the Atlanta News. There has never been a campaign ied by this great democrat In which thc morai note has not been heard, clear and definite, above all other ls hu? Of tho cauvasi. Right, ju >t cc and truth, as 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 have ever known. Everywhere the moral note has been dominant. Take for iustauce the recent contri button of the Outlook, peihaps the most thoughtful utterance of Mr. Bryan since the St. Lnuls convention, and this is its general paragraph: "The democratic party ls now in a position to oom id cr the moral Issues presented by pending problems, and In tho presentation of tho moral phases of public questions ls the strength of the democratic position today. Every great political que3 tiou has an econ-mic bearing, and ovtry economic question is at founda tion a moral question. Tue line be tween right and wrong ruas through every problem of govc-rnment, and tho final deolsiou of the pr .ble.ro is along thin line. No prcp-jsltluh ls better supported by history titan that "right e usness exaiteth aViation," and it ls as true of a partv ai it ls of a nation. In faot, no one c in form an accurate Judgment upon tho Ipidivldu [??.1 man or upon groups of men who "* !S?? acoe.pt at lils major! premise -crests upon Justice/ and is Ju it io ai far/as an in ^V'^VTOPQf; ;thls doctrine bo sue oceds; ther?os no T^Vscr measure of success. Ia proportion as ho departs from this doctrine he fails. If for a time ho seems to prosper, his pros perity ls only apparent, for no amount of wealth or honor can compensate for the doing of an iujistlce, and his cory deals with men, with parties, and with nations, according to one inex orable law-"The wages of sin ls death.'* Where was there ever a polltloil career more clearly pitched and moro tesol ut ely maintained along high lines tuan thi ? It ls like a west wind driving the miasma nf jnndprn nrii. tics to hear a man talk Uko that whou all men know that there is a min behind the w >rds who has lived, the words to the ll oe and the letter. \ Tr ere ls nota slain on Bryan's' publi? or private life, eveti in the1 tnirroi which his enemies bo"d up be fore I lm. No w nd r that Lyman Abbott, In the Outlook, s'auuch in dependent, aud of cn staunch repub iiCtin, should edito dally declare-: - "There lu no mi mnderstandjug Mr. Bryan. He docs not guard bis affirm ations with so many qualification that no man can guess what he really af firms, nor leave to many loop-holes for retreat in oise Lil doctrines fall to find adherents, nor use words In a double sense, nor employ them to ob sea ; o bis meaning, nor put on a sem blance of wisdom and morality by In dulgence ia general plattitudes. He is clear, definite, positive, concrete. The intelligent and honest reader can easily understand his meanlug. Whether he will be the democratic oandldato iu 1908, or even the demi - oratio leader io the Interim, it is tob early to prophesy. Rut it cannot bc doubted that he is tho clearest an-? ablest exponent, If not of opinions en tertained, at least of a political spirit and purpose shared by a very great number of American c.tlzens, and so tho representative of a poUt'cal fore which must be reckoned with, and if reckoned with, must be under stood." It is not tho language ot enthusi asm or of partisanship, but a simple stat/ ment of truth whlc'j challenge the candor of all true citizens, that Bry au's life and Bryan's arguments and Bryan's record of consistency and sin cerity have enriched the moral tone of the republic. We have said years ago as we say todiy, that If William J. Bryai lives and labors for ten years longer on th3 same lofty plano that he follows now, he will hold lo this rep lbl c the position which William E Gladstone held in our Mother England across the sea. A moral force in a republ c must eventually bc erne its mightiest force. Found Iii- Dead Uody. The body of Nell S. Phelps, the capitalist of Battle Creek, Mich., who mysteriously disappeared a number of weeks ago, and who la*er supposed to have been located In British Colum bia, was found Wednesday badlv de composed In the river there. Phelps wiis the construct >r of a .sanitarium here bearing his name and was prom inent In tho fo id Industry. In 1903 his affairs became involved and be was given a year in which to straigh ten out the tangle. It was just be fore the expiration of this year that he disappeared. Soou nitor Phelps dlsapoeared it was discovered that 8110,000 of stock in a publishing house that Phe'ps wa? interested in had betn forged and ised tc secure loans fr? m hanks in Adrian, Tecumseh and in this c'ty. Embezzled i'onhlon Money? Mr. D. H. Alezander, funeral pen sion examiner of Savannah, arrived at Bei ufort Wednesday morning a id caused the arrest of Peter Watson, 0 ilored, of St. n dena Island, on the charge of embezzling pension money belonging to some minor children It is chuged that, as guardian of the minors of B. Chaplin, WatsoD appro prhtcd s'mo of toe monoy to his own uso. Ho was given a hearing before United State? Commissioner J. O'H. .Saucers and was celo lubond in the sum of $500, Got Hun Mt Last* A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C , says: "Will Ha? ris, a noted negro criminal, whoe.sc:.ped from the Stale's prison about a year ag >, under a 30 year sentence foi barn burning and who was some months ago outlawed by magistrate's proclamation, was ar rested In Salisbury Tuesday. While at large in fels county Harris created a veritable reign of t-rror In tho sec tion In which he was known to stay. Many farmers stayed up all night to guard their premises against bis torch. "_ Ttic Great Need. The Jacksonville Melrapolls says: "Educate the youth at hazards is our advice, if parents will not send their children to school let a law be enact ed tu make thom do it, and every child will In thc coming years sing tho praise and proclaim tho blessings of their benefactors." KILFYRE! KILFYB That la exactly what lt ls. aB day at the State Fair showing its tl Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw M property should have them. For ss GOLUMBI? S 2olumt>i?t, S. O. Thema Southeastern Lin CHARLES! Building Material of all ki "RTJBEROIO." THE G??N ARD COIvUMI Building and Re-Freshed Brick. Si Terra Gotta Flue Linings. Prepa for millions. Whlske I Morphine I Cigare t Habit, I Habit | Habit Cured by ICeelejr J 1320 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 76) Ooh once solicited. COST OP A NEWSPAPER. One Dollar Per Y?ar In Too Little for a Good Paper. A number of weekly papers arel Jabing the subscription price to 81.60 a year, without any enlargement or Improvement. They are forced to raise tho price or go out of business on ace mit of the increased price of 1 all material that go to make up a newspaper. The following editorial from Sunday's Wilmington Messenger ls to the poiut: "Tho Gasfeoola Ga Z3tte announces that lt will advance tbe price of Its subscription from ono dollar to one dollar and a half a year. This ls not done because of contem plated enlargement or material im provement ot the paper, but as the editor siys, for purely business rea sons. Thc increased cost of living and of labor In the printing business and the nd vac c; in the price of paper has made tills increase of fifty per cent in tho prleo of the paper e ne cesdty. Wc are not surprised at this announcement. We do not see how any editor can issue a first class week ly paper for the small subscription price of one dollar a year. The sur prise is that the Gazetto has not made this change before this and that others biFcnr*t none likewise. The! ldaiJ/ paper which also Issues a weekly | edition Mas the advantage In tho mat tor of saving expenses over tho paper which has only a weekly and Berni- j weekly edition, and still none of the lo m r cluss io this scotloo ??.oft*he. couutry ls g?tting rich by any n??l?t??S with their doll ir a year editions. If I they cannot make anything off their publication how cm the other class : of newspaper naen be expected to do ? so? And again a man who will not pay a dollar and a half for fifty-two issues of his county paper ou.'ht not to be furnished one at any price. The fifty cents additional ls very lit tle to e&cb Individual subscriber, but the sum total amounts to a great deal with the man at the other end of tho lina. This same Idea applies to prompt payment of subscriptions to weekly newspapers and weekly edi- j lions of the dallies. Take apap.r 1 with, say, six thousand names on its weekly list. If every man pays his dollar promptly this means six thous and dollars in cash to the proprie tors. Every dollar that is hold back 'nm him is just so much cash lost by bim. To loie the fee of one subscrib er who has taken and read the paper for a year ls not much, but when you belgln to multiply that by ten, twen ty, dfty and a hundred it will amount to a groat deal In the course of a few 1 years. These subscribers are scatter ed all over the State. The one dollar ls v; ry little to eaoh one of these sub scribers, but when they all come to tho newspapers proprietors they amount to a giod deal. The man .vb ' ftl!s to pa* bis subscription dies not save much. Ile has cheated the editor out of only a dollar; but when such cases pile up by tha score It is a serious mattor 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 reallzj this condition many more of them would be a great deal prompter than they are in paying their subscriptions." Crnm is OonUrined. Th nomination of W. D. Crum, a | negro, to be collect r for the pert of 1 Charleston, S C., was confimed by ! the Bcuate In executive session Friday 1 by a vole of 33 to i7. Crum has been F nominated by the president three times and iu addition to these nomi nations has recelvtd three recess ap pointments, and ls now serving under the last of these. Confirmation was opposed by .Senator Tillman, who ob jected to the appolntmont of a negro. Senator Tillman made a speeoh de voted almost entirely to the question of the constitutional right of the president to make a recess appoint ment when no actual recess had oc curred, the senate having adjourned erne session and begun another at nocn of the same Jay. Fioiuiish DoPravlty? Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi, after an investigation of the whipping of Convict ILiwell of Sergeant Puckett at the Rankin penitentiary said : "The punishment Inflicted upon this un fortunate convict was fiendish and betokens a depravity which would dis grace tho most abandoned criminal in tho penitentiary." The governor has employed cojn.sel to prououto Puckett In the State courts. Puckett, whose time as sergeant has expired, ls very d?liant and ls not apprehensive of conviction. Falls Dead, -J* A special from Yorkvllle to,-The State Baya Mr. Napoleon Av Siraril, while sitting on a mule at bte resi dence two mile3 east of Yorkfllle Tuesday afternoon, had an attack ot heart trouble and fell dc.id, Mr. Si.uri) witnessing the sad occurrence. Mr. him nt was one of the most suc cessful and enterprising men of York county, and was highly esteemed by his many friends. Ho leaves a wid ow, one son and two daughters. One of the latter is a student at Winthrop college. Tnis Augusta Obronlole says: "The bucket-shop gamblers may buy and sell "paper cotton" to their hearts delight, but the farmers and cotton faotors are still In posse sion of "spots," and spot cotton is what counts in the present BAH*. re fighting quo 'ill. Ginnery de by gPPLYOO.. ehinery Supply house ie & Cement Co. row, s. 0. nds. High Grade Roofing Write for prices. MA., &* O. >eoial Shapes to order. 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SOON after be was elected President Roo3evi?lt declared his conviction tfiat the tariff should bo revised ani mated tbat be would call a sp session next i pring to perform work. Now be admits that he been talked out of calling a speoi?* session in the spring but adds that he may do so lu the fall. Toe Spartan-' burg Journal says "oho truth ls that Influential 'Btind-pi .tars' ara threat onlng tho president and declaring''. that if he persists n the policy of tariff revision he will disrupt his par jr as badly as did Mr. C??? his iast term"^-* '"> ? - "H?j/vsTwe put a demoorat err J_ publican in tho White House?" question has baan more frequently asked by republican* than this, and it j has been reiterated m jra than over / since the president sent to congress/ the annual report Of Commissioner off Corporations Garfield who adopts, as) his chief renommeodation, after a' year's study of the subjeot of Federal control of trusts, a ichome first pro* posed by William J. Bryan at a olvlo federation banquet in Chicago, Bis or loverryears ago. THK modern locomotive costs $15, 000 or $18,000, acceding to ..ize and equipment. The passonger locomotives In former days wero jrnbelllshed with extra brass work and trimmings, the bright parts were kt pt by the Bremen In a stale of glittering effulgent vand Lho passenger engin . cost m?r'^, the freight engine. Nowaj*^ trimmings are not rut., passenger r?|m 508 ts less tba