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DIVORCE FACTS Some Figures That Shows The Growth of the Evil ia THE UNITED STATES. Sooth Carolina Steads Alone as the Only State Ia the Union that Does Not Allow Di voces Among Her People, and She ts Proud Of lt. Some startling figures have recently boen punished in reference to the prevalence of crime in this country. One of the leading magazines printed tome statistical tables showing the number of murders and homicides in the United ?States from year to vear. They inoreased from 1,260 In 1881 to 10,662 in 1896. The nuu.ber of tt ls class of horrible crimes was nearly nine times as large in 1806 as it was fifteen years before Ti.ero had been a steady increase > oar by year. Since then there bas heen a miall decrease. There were 8,976 htmicldis in 1903 seven times as many as twenty years ago. With the Increase in the number of murders there has bf en a correspond lng inorcase In the nu'nber of suicides In this country. lu 1881, tbtre were only 605 suicide: in 1903 there wcre 8,697-more than fourteen limes as many. Ev* ry year, with only two or three exceptions, the number has been greater than the year be'ore. Tnere has been a similar increase in the number of divorces. Before tbe Civil War the number of divorces was very small. A divorce casa was the occasion for columns in the secular papers. In some of the States there was no provision for divorce. In others it could be obtained only by applica tion to the Legislature. But lax laws have been enaoied, and this evil has been fostered until now there are pro bably twentv or thirty thousand di vorces grantee cvrry year; that many families destroyed; that many homes ruined, under the forms of law every year, In this country. During tho thirty-two years from 1889 to 1901 less than three hundred divorces were granted in the Domin ion of Canada. During the same period, nearly seven hundred thousand divorces were granted in the United Staten. The population of tho United States is about fifteen times as great as that of Canada, but the numher of divorces has been not fifteen times aa large, nor a hundred times as large, but more than two thousand times as largo in the United States as in Can adal Two thousand times as many families have been destroyed by this evil, two thousand times as many children deprived of the comforts and blessings ot a heme, in cur country as in the sister nation on the North. The evil has been rapidly increasing for a generation, more rapidly in the Northern than in tho Southern States bnt at a rate that (?ives grave cause for apprehension. There is not one of the Southern States, with the ex ception of Tirginla and North and South Carolina, but grants more di vorces every year than Lngland and Wales united with their thirty-three million population; and in the North ern States, Michigan furnishes six times as many, Ohio eight times as many, and Indiana ten times as many divorces in any given period as Eng land and Wales combined. The increase in a few of the States has been as follows: The number of divorces grant? d, increased in New Hampshire from 136 in 1867 to 436 in 1899. Ohio from 901 in 1867 to 3,217 in /1900. Indiana from 1,096 In 18C7 to 4,699 in 1900. Ptnnsylvanla frcm 675 in 1867 to 2,889 In 1886. Illinois liom 1,071 in 18rt7 to 2,006 in 1886. Alabama from 78 in 1807 to 662 in 1886. Arkansas from 121 in 1867 to 6i6 in 1886. Kmtucky from 292 In 1867 to 757 in 1886. Mississippi from 49 In 1867 to ??4 in 1886. Noilh Carolina from 21 lu ?867 to 163 in 1886. Tennessee from 287 in 1S67 to 801 in 1886. Tua? from GI In 1867 to 1,326 in 1886. Virginia from 90 in 1867 to 238 in 1886. In eight States reporting statistics, the proportion of divorces to marriage in 1902 wts ns follows: In Massachusetts 1 divorce to 10 marriages. Michigan 1 divorce to ll marri ages. "Vermont 1 divorce to 10 marri ages. Ohio 1 divorce to 8 8 marriages New Hampshire 1 div. ree to 8 3 arriagoa. Rhode Island 1 divorce to 8 marri es. Indiana 1 divorce to 7.6 marriages. Maine 1 divorce to 6 marrlugrs In these States there has been a rapid increase in the number of di vorces duilng the decade, and this 1B probably true of the country at large. South Carolina is the only State that does not allow divorces. She bas no divorce law, and will net allow them for any cause. Suoh are somo of the facts in refer ence to the condition of our country -a fearful prevalence of murder, suloides and divorces-and an in crease from year to year In the num ber of each which, if not checked, will be ruinous in its effects. The remedy will como when the conscien ces of the people are aroused, andu public sentiment Is created that will make and enforce better laws than wc now have. There are about twenty five different grounds upon which a divorce ls granted in one or another of;the States. In forty-eight out of the fifty one States and Territories desertion by one party or the other for six months or a year or a longer period is a good ground for divorce. One nf our exchanges tells of the fol lowing Incident! "A member of the Philadelphia Bar Association was recently consulted by a woman who asked how long it would take to obtain a divorce. He Informed her that In the present state of the calendar he thought that ten months would be sufficient. 'Impossible, Bald she. 'I wish to be married again tonight.' " "Eeccntly another lawyer was ask ed If he could nob hurry along the signing of a decree, as preparations had been made by a young woman for her second marriage, and that unless the decree were signed lt would be very inconvenient for her, as the sup per for a second wedding had been ordered." iL nd such is the s ts. te of publirt sentiment when these women have ob tained a legal separation, there are ministers who will sanction and en dorse there aotion as right by marry ing tbem again, there aro thousands in and out of the Church who will recognize them as respectable. Their social standing In many communities i would not be compromised. The great truth ls lost sight of by the present age, that marri u ge ls not an institution created by the State. It was ordained or God in the Garden of Eden. Tba law of its perpetuity was laid down arid enforced by Onrist. Legislatures have no power to add to or modify God's laws. Only on the ground named in the Bible can the marriage relation be dissolved with out v.olatlng the laws of Gol. Another, great truth is that there is far more involved in the granting of a divorce than the comfort or hap piness of the husband and the wife. The divorce of the parents ls often th-' ruin of the children It deprives tin m of the father's tare, or of the mother's love, and its effect on them ls barm tul But the ev.l is greater t an this. D struy the family, and you sw, ep ?way one of the props on which b itu Church and State rest, lt is a s' rp, a long step, in the direction of anar chy. Society can survive tue destruc tion of the Slate, but lt cannot sur vivo the des ruction of the family. The Church can survive the destruc tion of the State, but it cannot sur vive the destruction of the family. The family la che unit, and lt is thc foundation of society, and or thc Church and of the State. Destroy thc family, and si rlous injury ls indicted on all that is good. If the Church would refuse to re cognize as in good standing those v im had been unlawfully divorced-If min isters of the gospel would retune to marry them-if public sentiment would emphasize their reproach, this great evil would be obecked. We call it an evil Is lt not a crime? And ought not the civil law so to re gard it? If it be a felony for a burglar lo rob a borne of a hundred dollars, ls it not a more serious offense for one of both of those whose duty lt so to pro tect and guard it, to prove false to their trust and destroy it? Should not the civil court take cogulziuce of the fact that whenever a family is de stroyed, somebody has committed a serious offensd in causing Its deslruc tlon? Suould lt not at the time of I granting the divorce, deoide also who is the party whose fault makes it necessary, and inillot a penalty on the offender commensurate with the of fense? We think tho tide ls turning, and that there ls some improvement In thc morals of the land. There are not quite as many homicides now as there were eight years ago. There are some smyptoms of improvement in the mat ter of divorces in the last live or ton years. And there ls Increasing spirit ual power in the churches. With the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that many are praying for, will come a change that will correct many exist ing evils, and it ls rrom this source that the remedy is to be expected. A ?THAI-J GE CASE. A. Hardware* Store Found in a Young Man's Stomach. A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., says four years ago a young man. 19 years of age, was s nt from Jones county to the asylum and placed in charge of Dr. Buchanan. Ile seemed to be broken down and suffering from ?ome strange malady, a casting kind of disease. In course of time the hos pital authorities began to treat him for 'jonsumptlon. It was noticed that lie had a mania for eating plaster off the walls of the building, wherefore he was cinfln^o In one of the wards. A few nights since he ate a hearty supper and re tir? d, but in a short white culled for water. The w.-.tcr was supplied, and half an hour later the nttenaant wi n ;? f*er the bucket and fouud the man dead. Ari autopsy was held and tho physl cl ns found: Six b'ass w enches, such as used ou water faucets; ten brass and iron screws, eli;ht Iron and bra?-s nu's, eight iron ai d brass washers, tm pieces of btnt wire, seventy Uve i rt ui and steel nails, some three it ches lonu; tifty-ttiree brass pinn, live keys, forty nine? pieces of tin. one 10 com piece, ? ne pe* ny, one glass b tt.e stopper, anda miscellaneous collection nf bits of glass, which semed to hav> been chewed up. There were als" enough e llar butto ns and buttons of other vari-Mies to have stockt d a haberdasher's store, rocks, pebbles, crocken and other at ticl s too bumer ous to ni -uti ri. and all of whioh was encased in plaster and cement. The case ls the m st lemarkable that has ever developed In tue state of Mississippi, and the physicians ha.ve preserve'' the stomaoh to be ex hibited at thc medical societies Dur ing his stay of 4 years at the. asylum the patient did not seem to suffer any pain. Tho Old Battle Kl aga. Governor Ileyward ha? received a letter fiom a member of the Eleventh South Curolina volunteers, Qagood's brigade in reference to a captured Hag of the company, which will be among those to be returned to the state by the war department. The writer as a survivor asks that the Hag be pre sented to the remaining survivors of thc company, whisa ranks, he says, are being rapidly depleted by death. It has not been decided what will be done with the state Hags when they are received, but the supposition has been that they would Le retalnt d by the state as historical relics. Until their disposition is decided Governor Ileyward cannot reply definitely to several requests of a similar charac ter he bas received. Mumer anti Smolde, Mrs. Isaac Abrams, aged 60 years, was beaten to death, and Mrs. Sadie Ohatham, aged 30 years, her daugh ter, was fatally injured ty the younger woman's husband, John E. Chatham, 35 years old, a prominent druggist of Chester, Pa. After murderously as saulting the womeu, Chatham at tempted to kill bis one year old child, ind then shot himself in the head with a revolver, dying later at a hos pital. The baby's head was grazed >y a bullet and one of its cam was melly lacerated, bub the little one is sot seriously hurt. Thc weapon used ay Chat ham upon his wife and mother in-law was a hammer. A Fatal Jump. J no. E. McCracken of Conway jumped from an Atlantic Coast Line tratn near St. Stephens on Monday night of last week and was killed. It ls not known why he Jumped, A BRIGHT ?OUTLOOK For the Success ot the Southern S . i ?; ? . Far inora Cotton AD notation. President Smith S?yo the Farmer? .nd Businooo Mon Generally Will Stand Lioy?ily tothe Movement. The Columbia State says Mr. E. D. Smith, field ascent of the Southern Cotton association, wa? In Columbia Tuesday of last week after a week's campaigning In Georgia. He viBlted Augusta, Columbus and Macon in Georgia and Opeltka, Ala., where be sp- ke to a crowd. Monday he spent at Union and twice addressed orowds which overflowed the court house-farmers in the morning -.rid buainens men at night. They all expressed deep Interest and he la sat isdt d that Union will contribute liberally to the Bupport of the move ment. lu an Interview with Mr. Smith, he said to a reporter of Toe S.ate: "AH a re-ult of my trip I am more enthusiasts than ever over the pros ni ot ut success. Every State in the colton belt east ot the Mississippi river is hara at work perfecting tts organization, getting the pledges signed, collecting funds to def ray the expenses of the local and general or ganizations. "Ali classes of business are co-oper ating enthusiastically: '"I And that South Carolina has the proper spirit, but it 1B not gener?! enough. 1 want to oall upon every county, where lt han not been done, to call a meeting Immediately of the executive committee and appoint an organizar for the county at large abd two men from eaoh township as pledge takers, the organizer to fix dates at once where he may meet the people ot the township to instruct them as to the general purposes of the organization; tho pledge takers to visit every farm and secure the pledges of those who have not yet signed, and to take the names of those who are not signing and to push this work vigorously from now until the time for planting. "If time permitted I would write a personal letter to tho presidents of the several counties in the States, but as my time 1B BO taken up and the time for action ie so short, 1 have to use the newspapers to reach the peoplo in time. "There ls a general impression abroad that the west is not standing by the organization, but has turned its cotton loose. According to infor mation received from the best sources available to us, these receipts indi cate cotton shipped to the ports to be compressed and warehoused and not for sale. "There ls a movement in every State to prepare for taking care of the cotton locally by buliding ware houses according to the standard warehouse system. These warehouses will not cost more than tl.250 to 31,500 if tho ware room is suflloiently large to hold from 1,000 to 1,200 bales. "Water by a system of forced pumps and tanks can bo secured, and thc maximum rate of insurance oan be had on this cotton so stored at 50 cents per 8100 worth. The different States are taking up this question and are rapidly perfeotlng ample room for taking care of their cotton locally through this system. This is our ultimate salvation. "The wheat growers of the west never won tnelr ?>?ht until they had completed their system of organizing, placed their wheat in them and secur ed loans to meet their pressing nee: s, and sold to the world at large fci.elr wi.eat wbenever the purchasing worin was forced to give them the price that they demand d. "I hope that every county In thc State, aud every locality bhipping fiom 1,000 bales and ab >v-i, will take i tils matter up at once and begin to place themselves In a po.-dtion where they can store their conon, aud rabid ly borrow money at tho lowest rate of lu teri s ; and where they oan secure t e lowe t rate i f iusurauce, and nence make themselves Indi p ndent of the tiuuiuati ins of the market and possibly so to dispose ot their cotton as tue *i rid demands lt at the price th y demand. '1 wish to state again before clos ing this Interview tr.ao 1 h ipe that ail those, who feel so dh pubed as well as th< se appointed hy the organiza ll n, will take the field, and for ihe next 20 dajs urge up ai the farmers Li.e absolute necessity > f reauoiug acreage, and curtailing fertilizers. Fur their encouragement I will stat,e that in Alabama a gem ral Statu or gat.iz -r has been appointed at a salary of 82,600 per year. He is actively engaged iu visiting every county of his State with the co-op'-ratlon of the commissioner of agriculture and the president of tho M .to association as well as the county organizer. "In Mississippi Gov. Vardaman. Senator Noel and other prominent men have taken the field and are urg ing the work f.rward. "The newspapers of this State are render lng valuable assistance, and we are sun- that they will continue to do so. "Friday the 'Uolding company' will meet in New Orleans for the purpose of perfecting the final arrangements by wnich the spot cotton of those who oarc to contribute can be taken In the pool; and efforts will bo mado to con trol as far as possible tho market for suoh cotton as cannot be held, and will not bo pooled, but forced upon the market. "Everything now dopends upon the farmers to stand by their pledges; the mord?anla, bankers and corporations are doing their part, lt remains alone for tho farmers to do theirs. If they fail in this they need not expect nor will they have ground to ask the assis tance of the world at large again to help them in time of need." ?I m lt (I io Me LI li. While soven men wero being kolsted In the carriage in tho Clear Spring colliery at west Pittsburg Thursday the rope broke and the men were hurled to the bottom, a distance of 250 feet. All were killed. learned! Hely after the accident a resoulng party was organized, with J. L Coke, .jouerai manager of the Clear Spring Joal company, in charge. The bodies jf the seven men were found In a heap M the bottom of the shaft horribly mangled. Hanged for Murd sr. At Rome, Ga , Bob Sutherland and Dourtney Raker, negroes, were hanged Wednesday for murder. Roth negroes made lengthy speeches from tho soaf ro.d, admitting their guilt Suthor land killed two negroes and wounded three others at a dance last Christ mas. Baker killed his wife. - GETS A GOOD PLATOS. President Roosevelt Appoint? ? Dem crr.t DlBtrlot Attorney. Prt'sid ^ut Roosevelt has offered the place Of distriot attorney for the northern district of Georgia to F. Carter Tate, late Democratic, con gressman from the ninth Georgia dis trict. The place psys 46,000 a year. Mr. Tate was In conference with the president Wednesday morning acd it is understood that he accepted the apprlntment. S A. Angler is dis trict attorney now, hut his term will Boon expire and Mr. Tate, will assume the duties or the office then. No Southern appointment made, since Roosevelt bas been In the white house will be more surprising to south ern people than this, unless it ls the appointment of Judge Thomas G. Jonis, a staunch Democrat, as feder al Judge for northen district of Ala bama. The two appointments are very much on the same order as both the appointees belong to the Democratic party and the president pursued the same non-partisan po Hoy in selecting each. The appointment of Mr. Tate, Uko that of Judge Jones, shows thc presi dent in a favorable attitude towards the south, since the selection un c? lubterily will meet with the cordial approval of tbose whom it affeots. In the fitness of Mr. Tate for the position and in the non-party spirit in which the appointments is made the president has struck a oord that will UH st assuredly find a hearty reception in the whole south as well as in the state of Georgia. It has been known in official circles, here for some time that the president desired to have the government in some way retain the services pf Mr. Tate whom he regards as one of the ablest public servants in Washington life. It has been the Boosevelt policy to keep an eye out for good men retireiDg from congress and as soon as it became known last year that Mr. Tato had been defeat ed by Mr. Bell for renomination in his district, the president took up thc matter of selecting a placo which might prove acceptable to him. Ht on 11 ii rr, Paro anti Simple By a vote of ninety to eighty the National II ouse of Representatives ou Friday voted itself and the senate 8190 OOO mileage for the extra session of congress held in November, 1903, and perpetrated what ls described by leading members of congress as "petty theft," but what is stealing, pure and simple. Mileage is allowed to mem bers of congres at the rate of twenty cents a mlle going to Washington and returning homo. They are supoosed to get this mileage for each session. The extra session of cougress, held in 1903, ended the same moment the reg gular session begun. There was no interim and none of the members who voted himself mileage actually took the Journey. The members did not even leave their seats. When an effort was made to put an extra mileage bill through at the first regular senslun, the newspapers dis cu'.S2d the matter so sevoroly thoo the movement became unpopular, r.nd when the bill was called up a mem ber called for the yeas and nays, and there was a stampede to the cloak room. Practically no member was willing to step into the open and vote for the grab. When Mr. Sherman offered his amendment to **j? ; deficiency bill in commut?e bf / e wh> le, it was opposed by Mr. Under wn d. of Alabama, who was mainly responsible for defeating lt a year ?ugo. He was assisted by Bin Little Held, of Maine; Mr. Dearmond, of Missouri, and Mr. Baker, of New York. Mr. Underwood said that if this rm ndm-nt passed the members w.'uld be collecting twenty b?nis a nnle for a trip they had never tak n. They had not left the capital city and nor even the fl or of the house. Mr. liak r denounced the amend mt nt as a '?gian," and taunted the Republicans by declatlog no B -publican would dare tn defend tt.e steal. This brought Mr. Soerman to his feet, with the decl?ra'iou that the amendment had been adjudged right, and proper by two eminent members of the ho se, ...ding as st)'aker, on previous occa sions. A vote was taken by teller and t he amend ment was pTSsed by 69 lo 49. Mr. Uuderwooi called for thu ay. s und n<es when tho bill was re ported to trie house, and the amend meut was sustained hy a vote of 90 to 80." We h.ive not seen tho v.ite on he steal, but we feel satisfied that i o member from this State voted for lt. Cotton lv.oinaifH. The idea of issuing semi-monthly colton estimates, instead of monthly est mates, by the agricultural depart ment, has again been rejected by the Republican majority in the national hereof representatives. The secte committee was favorable to the change, but the hous? members, at "the Instance chiefly of Statistician Hyde, of the agricultural department, worked tts death. Air. Hyde's chief objeotion to the Issuance of semi-monthly cotton esti mates, it appears, is tho fact that tiley will cost the government some money, where?s the data upon whloh the present guesses are based is ob tained free from volunteers. That, if ho has not been misquoted, is his professed reason for not wishing for a ct ange. Tue Atlanta Journal voices the sentiments ot every right think ing man when lt says: "But suppose it. does cost the gov ernment money to maintain a depend able system of collecting Information. Everything useful must be paid for. We don't exactly follow tho argument of thc si.-tis' i dan to the effect that the present system costs nothing, for certainly lt takes up the time of the department clerks even to make gtiissos at the orop. But even if' it costs the government nothing, lt has proved itself to bea mighty expensive system to the planters on numerous occasions, and an exceedingly unreli able system always. "If the department cannot get the necessary money to maintain a sys tem that is worth something, it would be better not to issue estimates at all. Certainly In that manner the inter ests of the cotton planters would not be injured, and thc department offi cials would not have bo suffer uuder the general hcllef that they ioslst on tho retention of the system of month ly estimates in the interests of the market gamble's.'' OoriPlyou lt? HIK"? Chairmanship. George B. Cortelyou Wednesday took the oath of ellice as postmaster general At the conclusion of the cere mony he announced that in a few dayH he will retire from tho chairmanship of the Republican national commit tee. He v 111 be succeeded by Vio? Chairman Harry S. New, of Indiana polis, who will brome the acting chairman of tho committee COTTON WAREHOUSES Recommended to "o Erected in All Communities. Fire Protif Houses Will Enp.blo tho Farmers to Place Cotton in Negotiable Form. At a meeting of the commlttee on warehouses of trie South Carolina di vision of the Southern Cotton, associa tion held in Columbia Tuesday, the following resolution was adopted unanimously, on motion of Capt. W. E. Burnett of Sparenburg: "That it Is the 6ense of this com mittee that wo recommend to every community in South Carolina where the uece;aity for warehouses exist to build these warehouses through their own efforts or by outside assistance if proferred, or if possible to attain them at a cost of from $800 to ?1,200 with a storage capacity, respectively of from 600 to 1,000 bales of cotton." The Columbia State Bays this is practically a "call to arms," for with out warehouses it will be wellnlgh imp sslble for the farmers to win, and to k-ep won, the ?\*ht which they now have well in hand. The market is now showing the effect of the light the farmers have been mak ing to hold their cotton for better prices. Advices from Liverpool are to thc effect that English manufac turer ire organizing to protect them selves against 15 cent cotton, for they corfl-lently expect the market to goto that figure. At very generous esti mates there were 12,000,000 bales raised In tho south last year, and not withstanding the cry of "overpro ductlon" this ls said to be 1,000.000 bales short of what the >?mand will be. for the Egyptian crop ls reported a failure and the India crop will be little better. If Buch ls the case, and these, arc the advices which the cotton association has received from authentic sources, all the cotton I farmers of tbe southern States must do ls to hold what they have. It was developed at tho meeting that if thc farmers in different com munities in the Slate will take the proper amount of interest In building warehouses, lt will be possible to make arrangements whereby the fuuds sub scribed locally will be augmentad by the same amount by capitalists who are Interested in this great move ment. The entire committee was present, Missrs. E. W. Robertson Columbia; Leroy Springs. Lancaster W. E. Burnett, Spartanburg; B. Bar rls, Pendleton; T. B. Stack house, Dil lon; L. W. Youmans, Fairfax. Mr. Stackbouse and others of the committee expressed the belief that there would be many warehouses butt, and that the movement should he started at once In order to get the bulldiugs ready for ocoupancy by the time the new crop corni s in. Archi tects and contractors were consulted as to tlie cost of erecting warehouses and the information reosived was very satisfactory, for it showed that the cost is not prohibitive, and that alrrobt any community which has the progressive spirit can raise enougl money to build a warehouse whioh will acommodate all tho cotton raised in that neighborhood, or at least all of the surplus cotton. On motion of Col. Leroy Springs of Lancaster, the following was adopt ed unanlmou-ly: "Tnat we urge noon the farmers the Importance of storing theirootton I promptly on b?lng ginned in the stan 1 dard warehouses where they can get negotiable v.areh-iuse receipts, thus savii g it fr. m loss in weight and dan age and putting lt In negotial shape so that they Mil not; be forced to se 1 only at th ?Mr own pi?asure, a1 lt, his bsen demonstrated by the ac tlon of the New Orleans convention that reasonable prices can be mai talned Irrespective of the size the crop by the judicious mar ketlng of the cotton, which can only be accomplished by the effect! warehouse system." Mr E D. Smith, president of th State r ivlslon of the cotton assoc! tlon, was present by invitation and offered the following suggestion, which waB adopted In the form of a r?solu tlon: "Tnat any Information as construction n cut side assistance can be obi--lined by rommunlcatir.g with the Columbia ellice of the Southe Cotton a>s (dation. That a copy the e re olutions be filed in this otb and that a copy be given to the press I with the request that all county pa pers publish them." Mr. E G. Sothels, as an Insurance expert, told the committee, by invl tlon, what requirements will be nee essary to make a warehouse wellnlgh tirepro' f and an acceptable* risk. M C. C. Wilson stated, as an architect called In by invitation, that these warehouses could be built 40 by 1 feet with gravel roof and best pattern for 81,200, the sprinkler system cost about 25 per cent. more. Such house would have a capacity of 1,00C hales. A 500-balo capacity ware house could be built for 8800. storage for any more than 1,000 balet is required separate warehouses should he built. Mr. E. W. Robertson was electee chairman of the committee and M F. H. Weston s'cretarv._ Monazlto in Greenville County, Monazite in large quantities hat been discovered in tho creeks anc branches around Lenncrman in Grove township, Greenville county, and toni of tho mineral is b?irig taken out anc tested. The anal} ses by reliable m eraloglsts show a very large per ce pure monazite in the samples senl for analytical purposes, anda trace gold ls found in every sample. New York concorn has secured right from most of the land owners In that neighborhood to mine the minera wherever traces are found, and t land owners get 815 a ton for thi orude ore when taken from the ml This royalty is paid for unmlned oro and it will thus bo seen the lani ownor where any quantity ls securci ls extremely fortunate, as he ls pot no expense whatever, and thc minera is found only In branches and marshe whero the land ls unfit for cultl tlon. Monazite is worth in a refinei state about 81,OOO a ton, and is large ly used In tho manufacturo of lights, in combination with carbon for wicks. Four Killed. By the breaking of a cable In Shrcwsburg c ial min?, near Charles ton, W. V.l., Wednesday, four miner were killed and teu seriously burt Four of thc injured will probanly di? Turee cars were conveying miner (rom work when a cable parted r\n the cars were precipitated to base of the mountain, sixteen h dred feet, with lightning rapid (Jars and tlpplo were badly wreckc ind a number-!6f. miners frightfully crushed, SHOT DEAD IN HOME. A TJcnver Teamater Killed a Han and Woman and Himself. Ohtef of Police ?Dil Folloo Burgeon Danaorounly Wounded In Try IHR to Capture Infuriated Man. At Denver, Col., mad with rage be Baus3 of his defeat in a law-uib ia whloh K. Fill, the man whom he pro nounced his bitterest enemy, had been vlotoilous and swearing vengeance against him and bis family, George Sohlstler. a teamster, armed himself with a rifle Sunday and started out to do murder. As a result of the affray three persons are dead, one ls missing and three Others are wounded, two at least dangerously. The dead: K. Fill. Mrs. K Fill. George Sohlistler. Missing: A child of the Fills. Wounded: ? Dr. Frank Dulin, police surgeon; Capt. Wm. Bohanna, chief of police, wounded in leg; Mike Kelly, slightly. The wife of GeorgeSchlstler ls pros trated over the affair and may die from the Bhock. Sohlstler had brooded over his troubles with the Fill family, who were immediate neighbors, and an nounced that he would even up matters. Taking a rifle of improved pattern, and budding on a belt of smokeless cartridges, be started for the Fill home. Fill saw Schistler ap proaching and making threats. De tried to avoid him by entering the house, but Scbistler sent a bullet into his brain and Fill fell dead. ? Mrs. Fill rushed to her husband's 'side and received a bullet from Sehlst ler's rifle, sbe too fell dead beside tbe lifeless body of her husband. Sohlst ler then set fire to the F1U home, which waa destroyed. A son of the Fills ls missing and ls believed to have perished in the flames. Satisfying himself that the tlamrB would perform their mission, Schist ler returned to his home and barri caded himself. In the meantime the neighbors appeared on the scene, but quickly retreated when bullets from Scbistler's rifle began falling near them. A telephone message vvas sent to police headquarters and an ambu lance with Police Surgeon Dulin, Capt. Bohanna and three ofllcers bur rier! to the scene. Upon the arrival of the officers and before they could leave the ambulance a rain of bullets fell about tbem Da hn and Bohanna 'fell to the floor of the ambulance wounded. The condi tion of the former is critical. The driver reined his horses when another shot from Schistler dropped one of the animals to the ground. With th" assistance of spectators the wounded reen were removed from the scene. A strong array of police olllcers was then Bent to the house and after a furious excbage of shots the place was entered and Sohlstler was found in a dying condition. He died soon af ter wards. GONE BACK TO HEATHENISM. Re-turns to His Old Tribe and Be comes Its Obler. A dispatch from Huntington, Ind., says: The executive committee of the missionary board of the United Brethren in Christ has dropped from the rolls-of the cbruoh Daulel Fllok inger Wilberforce, a native African, who was brought to t^ils country as a cutid and, after being educated, was returned by tho board to his old tribe as a missionary. It is charged by the board that after a service of 25 years as a missionary the negro minister bas been lured back to heathenism, has become abief of bis old tribe of devil worshippers and has contracted plural marriages in the wilds of Africa. .Nearly 50 years ago Daniel Kuniier Flickinger, then secretary of tue mis sionary 'joard of the chuoh, was in west Africa on mission work. While visiting a Congregational missionary, announcement was made that a male child had been born in the negro vil lage. The host of Dr. Flickinger christened the baby Daniel Fllckinger Wilberforce. .Twelve-years later the boy had been brought to America by a returulng missionary. Dr. Flick inger accidentally discovered his namesake at work at the missionary house in New York. Dr. Fllckinger took the lad to Dayton, O. The boy was sent to school, then through high shool and later to a medical college at Cleveland. He married a negress at Dayton. Later the two went to Af rica to do missionary work among the old tribes from which Wilberforce came. Later the m'33ionary and family returned to this country and Wilberforce lectured throughout the central States. His four children, two daughters and two sjna attended Central college there. Two sons aro still in this country, one at Otterbeln college and the other in the Dayton High school. Wilber force returned to Africa. The board has been informed of his relapse to heathenism, of accompanying plural marriages and of his becoming chief of the tribe. The venerable Dr. Fllckinger is much depressed over the backsliding of his protege, but sanc tions the action of the board. Takos the Cemetery. Resident of Whiting, Ind., are in dignant because John D. Rockefeller bas bought the village cemetery, cast of the town, as an annex to the Stan dard OH refinery. He needs tho ground for his pipe lines from the east and the cemetery will soon be honeycomb ed with oil pipes. What is to become )f the bodies has not been determin ed. The cemetery ls well Improved ind there aro many beautiful monu ments which will havo to be removed. UitlzenB declare the Standard Oil com pany could build its pipe Hues around the cemetery and let tue.dead rest Sn peace. Hilled a Potloeraan. At Colon an American negro named John Wells, from South Carolina, on being refused udlmittance to a dance Thursday nlgtit, shot and killed a policeman and wounded two other persons. Tho murderer was arrested ind probably will be sentenced to a term of imprisonment in Ohlrquo jail is bin rt; ls no oapltal puuishmuut in Panama. Fatal Hotel Fire. At Island Fall?, Me., Are late Fri lay.'night destroyed the Woodsmen's lotcl. The three year-old daughtor if Luther Hall, proprietor, was burn ?d to death.and three others are be loved to be lost. Hall, the father, ivan so badly burned in trying tu suve ila ciilld chai he is not expected bo ecovor. ?.?.?.??.????.?.?.?.?.?.?.I I THE GUINARD X Manufacturers Brick, Fire Proof ' X Flue linings and Drain Tile. Pre 9 or millions. Il KILFYRE! EILFVR1 That is e+actty what it ls. aifh day at the State Fair showing its tin Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw Mi property should have them. For sal COLUMBIA SI Columbia, ?s? o Tho mar Southeastern Lim CHARLES! Building Material of all ku "RUBEROID." ' WbJske I Morphine | Clgaret Habit, Habit Habit Cured by Keeley S 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 75) Cole enoe solicited. INTERESTING DATA. Population or Knell State When ad mitted to Lhe Union. Does population make a state? What are the great essentials of state hood? Those are the questions, which, according to the Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, are being discussed in the senate. ThlB correspondent says that the population of each of the original thirteen colonies when the union was formed was as follows: Connecticut, 237,946; Delaware, 59,096; Georgia, 82,548; Maryland, 319,728; Massachu setts, 378,787; New Hampshire, 141, 845; New Jersey, 184,139; New York, 340,120; North Carolina, 393,751; Pennsylvania, 434,373; Rhode Island, 08,825; South Carolina, 24,073; Vir ginia, 747,010. The population of other territories at the time they became states and tbe dates of their admission to the union was as follows: ''Vermont, March 4, 1791, 85,425: Kentucky, March 4, 1794, 73,677; Tennossee, May, 1796, 60,000; Olio, November, 29, 1802, 42 360, Louisiana, April 12, 1812. 76 506; Indiana, Dec. ll, 1816, 24 520; Mississippi, Dec. 10, 1817, 75. 448; Illinois, Deo. 3, 1818, 53,211; Alabama, Dec. 14, 1819. 127,901; Maine, M*rch 15, 1820. 298,335; Mis souri, August 10, 1821, 66,586; Ar kansas, June 15, 1830, 62 240; Michi gan, Jan. 26, 1837, 160,000; Florida, M ireh 3, 1845, 72.000; Iowa, Deo. 28, 1846, 163.000; Wisconsin, March 3, 1848. 300 000; California, Sept 9, 1850. 92 627; Minnesota, M-ey 11,1858, 172 063; Texas, March 1. 1845, 150. 000; Oregon, Feb. 1?., 1859. 52,465 Kansas, April 13, 1859. 107,206; Wes Virginia, Jan. 19, 1863. 410.000; Nevada, Oct 31, 1864, 42 491; Ne braska, March 1, 1867, 123 993; Colo rado, Julv 4, 1876. 136,000; North Dikota, Juni 2, 1889 182 719; S>uth Dakota, June 2, 1889 328 8U8; Mon tana, Nov. 8, 1889. 132,159; Washing ton, Nov ll, 1889, 340,390; Idaho, July 3. 1890, 82,385; Wyoming, July ll. 1890, ?0,703; Utah, July 4, 1896, 276,746.'^_ Til? Hu by la Uuoinod. Dispatches from St. Petersburg con vey the information that the revolu tionary element of the socialist party In Russia has deoreed the death of four more members of the royal fam ily, including the baby boy who, if he lives, will some day be czar of all the Russias. Sergius was a known tryant and a proven theif. He used his high outee to dich money from the pockets of the people. He solicited contribu tions to add to the scanty comforts of the Russian s ddlers iu Manchuria and turned the funds to his personal ac count. He plotted and schemed against men and women of his own blood for the sake of his personal ad vancement, "liut the baby," says the Atlanta Journal, "he has done nothing to merit punishment. He ls interested in no greater problem than the task of getting a ohubby big toe toto his rosy mouth. He has never harmed anybody. Unfortunately for him the accident of birth made him the son of the czar of Russia. In the name of common sense, his future is unwelcome enough if he is let alone. He wili never know the democraoy of childhood. He cannot go about the streets like most boys. Ile will never know the delight of going to a 'kid' party, where he could play 'King William' and kiss the prettiest girl in the room. Not for bim is the demo cratic pleasure of wooing and winning a wife. The pleasure of plauning and toiling for a home will not be his. When he ls of a marriageable age a solemn council of state will select a wife for him. And he will live through all his years In dally dread of the Knife of the nihilist, the boom of the assas sin. Ills lot will be a hard and unen viable one at the best. Pity, and not hatred, should bo his portion." Destroyed Olotb. A dispatch from Greenville says Charlie Crane, Tom Rlgdon and a man named Duncan, mill operatives, were arrested Wednesday morning by I Sheriff Gilreath aud placed in the county Jail, charged with having bro ken into the cloth room at Mnuaghan mills, in the suburbs of that city, and destroying nearly $1,000 worth of cl >th, stealing s, pistil and also seve ral pieces of cloth. The prisoners ailinn their Innot: '.nee. The doth had b >en baled for shipment, and in this condition it was an easy matter to slash lt with a knife to such an ex tent as to render it unfit for sale. Sheriff Gilreath said that he thought at least 81.000 damage had been done to the property. Turee Drowned. While boat riding on Lake Monroe near Sandford, Fla., Su iday night Miss Maugl? Looney, of Thomasville, Ga., O ..o McE roy and Roese Boyd, of Sandford, were drowned. The young people left tho dook at 10 30 p m. In a small row boat. 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