The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, March 17, 1905, Image 7

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DIVORGEJFACTS. Some Figures That Shows The Growth of the Evil in THE UNITED STATES. South Carotina Stands Alone as theil Only State in the Union that Does Not Allow Di voces Among Her People, and She ts Proud Of lt. Some startling figures have recently been punished In reference to tbe prevalence of crime In this country One of the leading magazines printed Rome statistical tables showing tbe number of murders and homicides lu the United States from year to vear They increased from 1,260 in 1881 to 10,062 in 1800. The nun ber of this class of horrible crimen was nearly nine times as large in 18Q0 as it was fifteen years before Tbere had been a steady increase j ear by year. Since then there bas been a small decrease. There were 8,970 htmlcldts in 1903 ?even times as many as twenty years ago. With the increase in the number of murders there has bi en a correspond in g increase in the number or suicides in this country. In 1881, th? re were only 006 suicide: in 1903 there were 8,597-more than fourteen times as many. Every year, with only two or three exceptions, the number has been greater than the year bo oro. There bas beer, a similar increase in the number of divorces. Before the 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 lt could be obtained only by applica tion to the Legislature. But lax laws nave been enacted, and this evil has been fostered until now tbere are pro bably twenty or thirty thousand di vorces granted ?very year; that many families destroyed; that many homes ruined, under the forms of law every year, in this country. During the thirty-two years from 1869 to 1901 less than three hundred divorces were granted lu the Domln lon of Canada. During the same period, nearly seven hundred thousand divorces were granted In the United States. The population of tho United States is about fifteen timos as great as that of Canada, but the number of divorces has been not fifteen times aa large, nor a hundred times as large but more than two thousand times as large in the United States as in Can ada I 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 Hortbern than In the Southern States but at a rate that gives grave cause for apprehension. There is not one Of the Southeru States, with the ex ception of Tirglnla and North and South Carolina, but grants more di ?orces every year than Lngland and "Wales united with their thirty-three million population; and in the North ern States, Michigan furnishes si times aa many, Ohio eight times 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 grante d, incieased in New Hampshire from 130 in 1867 to 436 in 1899. Ohio Ircm 901 in 1867 to 3,217 in raw. - ^ Indiana "froin .iT006 Jn 1867 to 4,699 in 1900. Pt nnsylvanla frtm 675 in 1867 to 2,889 in 1886. Illinois Iiom 1,071 in 1807 to 2,606 in 1886. Alabama from 78 In 1867 to 002 in 1886. Arkansas from 121 in 18G7 to 046 in 1886. K? ntucky frcm 292 in 1807 to 757 in 1886. Mississippi from 49 in 1807 to 504 in 1886. North Carolina from 21 In 1807 to 163 in 1880. Tennessee from 287 In 1867 to 801 in 1880. Ttxaafrom91 In 1867 to 1,326 In 1880. Virginia from 90 In 1807 to 238 in 1888. In eight States reporting statistics, the proportion nf divorces to marriage in 1902 wes 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 arrlagos. Bhode Island 1 divorce to 8 marri es. Indiana 1 divorce to 7.0 marriages. Maine 1 divorce tu 0 marrhigts In these States there has been a rapid Increase in tbe number of di vorces during che decade, and this is probably true of the country at largo. South Carolina is the only State that does not allow divorces. She bas no divorce law, and will net allow them for any cause. Such are somo of the facts In refer ence to the condition of our country -a fearful prevalence of murder, su lol des and divorces-and an in orease 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, anda public sentiment ls created that will make and enforce better laws than we 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 menths or a year or a longer period is a good ground for divorce. One of our exchanges tells of the fol lowing Incident! "A member of the Philadelphia Bar Association was recently consulted oy 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, said she. 'I wish to be married again tonight.' " "Recently another lawyer was ask ed if he could not hurry along the signing of a decree, as preparations bad been mads by a young woman for 1er second marriage, and that unless .he decree were signed lt would be rery inconvenient for lier, as the sup* )or for a second wedding had been irdered." And suoh ls the state of public ien tl m ont when these women have ob tained a legal separation, there are ni ni at era who will sanction and en loise there action ss light bj x??i?y ng tbem again, there are thousands u and out of the Church who will recognise them as respectable Their locial standing In many communities would not be compromised. The great truth is lost sight of by the present age, tbat marriuge ls not in institution created by the State. It was ordained or God in the Garden of Eden. The law of its perpetuity was laid down and enforced by Onrlst. Legislatures have no power to add to ar modify God's laws. Only on the ground named In tbe Bible can tbe marriage relation be dissolved with out Violating the laws of God. Anotber. great truth is mat there ls far more Involvtd in tbe granting of a divorce than the cornford or hap pinessof the husband and the wife. The divorce of the parents is of tin th?' ruin of the children It deprives tin m of the father's t are, or of the mottler's love, and IIB effect on them is barm tul But tho ev.l is greater t an tnls. D-struy the family, and you swtep away one of the props on which b -ui Church and State rest. It is a step, a long step, lu the direction of anar chy. Society can survive tue destruc tion of the State, but it cannot sur vive tbe des'ruction of the family. The Chm ch can survive the destruc tion of the State, but it cannot sur vivo the destruction of the family. The family ls the unit, and it ls tbe foundation of society, and of tbe Church and of the State. Destroy the family, and St rn.us injury is Inflicted on all that is good. If the Church would refuse to re cognize as in good staudlng those who bad been unlawfully divorced-if min isters of the gospel would refuse to marry tbem-if public sentiment would emphasize their reproacb, this great evil would be obecked. We call it an evil. Is it not a orime? And ought not the oivil law so to re gard it? If it be a felony for a burglar to rub a borne of a hundred dollars, is lt not a moro serious otfeuse for one of both of those wbose duty it so to pro tect and guard lt, to prove false to their trust and destroy lt? Should not the civil court take cognizance of tbe fact that whenever a family ls de stroyed, somebody has committed a serious oflensd in causing tte destruc tion? Should it not at tbe time of granting tbe divorce, decide also who ls the party wbose fault makes it necessary, and inflict a penalty on the offender commensurate with the of fense? We think the tide is turning, and that there is some improvement In thc morals of the land. There are not quite as many homicides now as there were eight years ago. There aro some smyptoms of improvement in tbe mat ter of divorces In the last live or ten years. And there is Increasing spirit ual power lu the oburches. 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 ts irom this source that the remedy ls to be expected. A STRANGE 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 sent from Jones county to tbe asylum and pi aced In charge of Dr. Buchanan. Ile seemed to bc broken down and si.(Taring from some strange malady, a wasting kind of disease. In course of time the hos pltal authorities began to treat bim for consumption. It was noticed that he had a mania Tor eating plaster off the walls of the building, wherefore he was o in fined In one of the wards. A few nights ilnce he ate a hearty Hopper and re tin d, but in a short whlie called for water. The waler wa1? supplied, and half an hour later the attenaant wen 4 fr or the bucket and found the man 3ead. An autopsy was held and tho phjsi ti ns found: Six biass w enches, such as used on water fauce s; ten brass and iron screws, elwht Iron and bra-s nu's, bight iron ai d brass washers, ti n pieces of bi nt wire, seventy live iron and steel nails, some three ii ches lom/; fifty-three brass pins, live keys, forty nine pieces of tin, one 10 com piece, < ue penny, one glass b ttle stopper, a- d a mi-.cellan? om collett on nf bits of glass, which semed to bavi been chewed up. Them were also enough ellar butti ns and buttons of other varieties to have sticktd a haberdasher's store, rocks, pebbles, Brocken and other ai tic) s too norm r aus to mention, and ali of whiob was finessed m plaster and cement. The ease ls t he m st leniarkanle that has ever developed in trie state .f Mississippi, and the physicians have preserved the stomaoh to be ex hibited at the medical societies Dur ng bis stay of 4 years at the asylum me patient did not seem to suffer any pain. Tho Old Uai tin " lnizH. Governor Heyward ha? received a etter Dorn a member of the Eleventh south Carolina volunteers, Osgood's jngade in reference to a captured flag if tho company, which will be among .hose to be returned to the state by he war department. The writer as , survivor asks that the Hag be pre en ted to the remaining survivors of be company, whesa ranks, he Bays, ire being rapidly depleted by death, t has not been deoided what will be lone with the state Hags when they ire received, but the supposition has leen that they would Le retaint d by he state as historical relics. Until heir disposition is decided Governor Ieyward cannot reply definitely to everal requests of a similar oharac er he bas received. Murder and Suicido. Mrs. Isaac Abrams, aged 50 years, ?as beaten to death, and Mrs. Sadie Hiatham, aged 30 years, ber daugh er, was fatally Injured ty the younger /oman's husband, John E. Chatham, fi yearBOld, a prominent druggist of ?hester, Pa. After murderously as aulting the women, Chatham at empted to kill lils one year old child, nd then shot himself in the bead J [th a revolver, dying later at a hos ital. Tho baby's head wes grazed y a bullet and one of its cars was adly lucerated, bub the little one is ot seriously hurt. The weapon used y Chatham upon his wife and mother i-law was a hammer. A i<'atul Jump. Jno. E. McCracken of Conway umped from an Atlantic Coast Line rain near St. Stephens on Monday dghtof last wcok and was killed. It snot known why he Jumped. A BBIGf?T'OUTLOOK For the Bucoesa ot the Southern Farmers Cotton A o sedation. President Smith Baye the Farmers and Business Mon Generally Will Stand Loy ally to the Move ment. The Columbia State says Mr. E. D. Smith, Held anent of the Southern Cotton assoolatioo, was in Columbia Tuesday of last week after a week's campaigning In Georgia. He visited Augusta, Columbus and Macon in Georgia and O pell ka, Ala,, where he sp' ke.to a orowd. Monday he spent at Union aud twice addressed orowds which overflowed the court, house-farmers in the morning nd. business men at night. They all expressed deep Interest and he ls sat is?fd that Union will contribute liberally to the support of the move ment. lu an interview with Mr. Smith, he said to a reporter of Tue State: ''AS a re-ult of my trip I am more enthusiastic than ever over the pros r ot of success. Every Srate in the colton belt east ot the Mississippi river is hara at work perfecting its organization, getting the pledges signed, collecting funds to defray the expenses of the local and general or ganzatlons. "Ali classes of business are co-oper ating entl us astkally: ' I find that South Carolina has the proper spirit, but it 1B not general enough. I want to oall upon every county, where lt has not been done, to call a meeting immediately of the oxeoutlve committee and appoint an organizer for the county at large and two men from each township as pledge takers, the organizer to tlx dates at onoe where he may meet the people of 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 ls so taken up and the time for aotlon is so short, 1 have to use the newspapers to reach the people In time. "There is a general Impression abroad that the west ls 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 stile. "There lc a movement In every State to prepare for taking care of the cotton locally by building ware houses according to the standard warehouse system. These warehouses will not cost more than tl.250 to $1,500 If the ware room ls sufficiently large to hold from 1,000 to 1,200 bales. "Water hy a system of forced pumps and tanks can be secured, and thc maximum rate of Insurance can be had on this cotton so stored at 50 cents per 8100 worth. The different States are taking up this question and are rapidly perfecting ample room for taking care of their cotton locally through this system. This is our ultimate salvation. "The wheat growers of tho west never won tuelr light until they had completed their system of organizing, placed their wheat in them and hecur e 1 loans to meet their pressing needs, and sold to the world at large their wi.eat whenever the purchasing worin was forced to give them the price tbal they demand d. "I hope that every county In the State, and every locality shipping fiom 1,000 bales and ab ov-i, will take i lils matter up at once and begin to place themselves In a position where they can btore their OOLLOO, and rapid ly borro* money at thu lowest rate of linens ; and where they oao t>ecur. tue lowe t rate if Insurance, and hence make themselves independent of the tluciuatl ns of thc market ar.d possibly so io dispose of their conon as Lue world demands it at the price th y demand. "1 wish to state again before clos ing Lb,s interview ti.at I h >pe that ail those who feel BO disposed as well ?s tn. se appointed by the organiza ti. n, will take the Held, and f>.r ibo ia xl 20 da) s urge upon the farmers Li.e absolute necessity i f rec.ucing acreage, and curtailing fertilizer*. For their encouragement I will state i hat in Alabama a gem ral State or gan iz -r has been appointed at a salary or 82,500 per year. He ls actively engaged lu visiting every county of lils titate with the co-op'-ratlon of the commissioner of agriculture and the pre-iidciit of tho Sti.te asseclatlon as web as tho county organizer. "In Mirslhslppl Gov. Vardaman, S. nator Noel and other prominent men have taken the Held and are urg ing thc work forward. "The newspapers of this State are rendering valuable assistance, and we are sun. that they will continue to do so. "Friday the'Holding company' will meet in New Orleans for the purpose of perfecting the flual arrangements by wnich the spot cotton of those who care to contribute can be taken In the pool; and efforts will be mado to eon irol as far as possible the market for suoh cotton as cannot be held, and will not bo pooled, but forced upon the market. "Everything now depends upon the farmers to stand by their pledges; the merchants, bankers and corporations are doing their part. It remains alone for the farmers to do theirs. If they fall in this they need not expect nor will they have ground to ask thc assis tance of the world at largo again to help thom in time of need." Hurled to Death. While soven men were being foisted In the carriage In the Clear Spring colliery at west Pittsburg Thursday tho ropo broke and the men were hurled to the bottom, a distance of 250 feet. All were killed. Immedi ately after the accident a resoulug party wns organized, with J. L Coke, goneral manager of the Clear Spring Coal company, in charge. The bodies of thc seven men were found In a heap at the bottom of thc shaft horribly mangled._ MfuiK' tl for Murder. At Rome, Ga , Bob Sutherland and Courtney Baker, negroes, were hanged Wednesday for murder. Both negroes made li ngtby speeches from tho scaf fo.d, admitting their guilt Suther land killed two negroes and wounded three others at a dance last Christ mas. Baker killed his wifo, _ - . : GETS A GOOD PI.-VOE. President Roosovoir, Appointa tr. Dcm erat District Attorney. Prcsid 'ut Roosevelt has offered tbe placo cf district attorney for tbe nortbern district of Georgia to F. uart er Tate, late Democratic con gressman from the ninth Georgia dis trict. The place pays 85,ooo a year. Mr. Tate was in conference with tbe president Wednesday morning and it ls understood that he accepted the apprintment. E. A. Angler is dis trlct attorney now, bat bis term will soon expire and Mr. Tate, will assume the duties of the office then. .No Southern appointment Made since Roosevelt has been m the white hr i use will be more surprising to south ern people than this, unless lt is the appointment of Judge Thomas G. Jones, a staunch Democrat, as feder al Judge for northen district cf Ala bama. The two appointments are very muoh on the same order as both the appointees belong to tbe Democratic party and the president pursued the same non-partisan policy in select lug each. Tbe appointment of Mr. Tate, like fiat of Judge Jones, shows the presi dent In a favorable attitude towards the south, since the selection un c? lubtc-dly will meet with the cordial approval of those whom lt affects. In tbe fitness of Mr. Tate for tho position and in the non-party spirit In which the appointments is made the president bas st ruck a cord that will most assuredly And 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 tho 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 bas been the Roosevelt policy to keep an eye out for good men retlreing from congress and as soon as it became known last year that Mr. Tate had been defeat ed by Mr. Bell for renomination in his district, the president took up thc matter of sekoting a place which might prove a?cfiptable to him. Stealing, Pare and Simple. By a vote of ninety to eighty the National Douse of Representatives on Friday voted Itself and the senate 8100.000 mileage for the extra session of congress held in November, 1903, and perpetrated what is described by leading members of congress as "petty theft," but what is stealing, pure and simple. Mileage is avowed to mem bers of congres at tbe rate of twenty cents a mlle going to Washington and returning home. They are supoosed to get this mileage, for each session. The extra session of congress, held in 1903, ended the same moment the reg gular session begun. There was no interim aud none of the members who voted himself mileage actually took the Journey. Tho members did not even leave their ser.ts. When an effort was made to put an extra mileage bill through at the first regular session, the newspapers dis cu',sed the matter so severely that the movement became unpopular, and when the bill was called up a mem ber called for the yeas and nays, and there was a stampede to tho cloak room. Practically no member was willing to step Into the open andjvote for the grab. When Mr. Sherman offered his amendment to -ipr?' deficiency bill In conami_oeo bf /, e wb' le, lt was opposed by Mr. TJnder wo d. of Alabama, who was mainly responsible for defeating it a year ago. He was assisted by MK Little field, of Muine; Mr. Dcatmond, of Missouri, and Mr. Baker, -of New York. Mr. Underwood said that if this am ndm nt passed the members w. uld be collecting twenty cms a onie for a trip they had never tak n. They had not left the capital city and nor even tbe fl or of the house. Mr. Iiak r denounced the amendimnt as a '"gtah," and taunted the Republicans by d^dailug no R -publican would dare tn d.-fend the steal. This brought Mr. Sherman to his feet-, with the declaration that the amendmeut had been a^ju-'ircd right and proper by ! v>o eminent memb;rs of the ho se, acting as sp'aker, on previous occa sions. A vote was tak-:n by teller and the amendment was pissed by 69 to 49. Mr. Uuderwool called for the ay. s and n< es when tho bill was re ported to toe house, and the amend ment was sustained by a vote of 90 to 80." We h.i ve not seen tho v -te on . he steal, but we feel satisfied that i'0 member from this State voted for lt. Cotton Lim Imatea. The idea of Issuing semi-monthly cotton estimates, instead of monthly est mates, by the agricultural depart ment, has again been rejeoted by the Republican majority in tho national hou.se of representatives. The senate committee was favorable to the change, but the houso members, at *the Instance chiefly of Statistician Hyde, of the agriculturaldepartmeut, worked Its death. Mr. Hyde's chief objeotlon to the issuance of semi-monthly cotton esti mates, lt appears, is the fact that they will cost the government some money, wheres the data upon whiob the present guesses are based is ob tained free from volunteers. That, If he has not been misquoted, is his professed reason for not wishing for a change. The Atlanta Journal voices the sentiments of 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. Every ! biog useful must be paid for. We don't exactly follow the argument of thc statist iclan to the effect that the present system costs nothing, for certainly lt takes up the time of the department clerks even to make gu? ssas at the orop. But even If" it costs the government nothing, lt has proved it-self to be a 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 ls worth something, it would be better not to Issue estimates at all. Certainly in that manner the inter ests of tho cotton plantera would not be Injured, aud the department offi cials would not have to suffer under the general belief that they insist on tho retention of the system of month ly estimates In the Interests of the market gamblers.'' Corielyou lt? Higo? Chairmanship. George B. Cortelyou Wednesday took thc oath of cilice as postmaster general At the conclusion of the cere mony be announced that in a few days he will rettie from tho chairraans'iir of the Republican national commit tee. He will be succeeded by Vico Chairman Harry S. New, of Indiana polis, who will become the acting chairman of thc committee. COTTON WAREHOUSES Recommended to (,o Erectod in All Communities. Fire Proof Honans Will tenable tho Farmers to Plaoe Cotton in Negotiable Form. At a mont lng of the committee op warehouses of tho Soutn 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 Spartanburg: "That it is the sense of this com mittee tl-at wo recommend to every community lu Soutb Carolina where the nece>sity for warehouses exist tn build these warehouses through their own efforts or by outside assistance if proferred, or if possible to attain them at a cost of from 8800 to 81,200 with a storage capacity, respectively of from 600 to 1,000 bales of cotton." The Columbia State says this is practically a "call to arms," for with out warehouses it will be wellnigb imp silble for the farmers to win, and to k>ep won, the light which they now have well in hand. The market is now showing the effect of the fight the farmers have been mak ing to hold their cotton for better prices. Advices from Liverpool are to thc effect that English manufac turers are organizing to proteot them selves against 15 cent cotton, for they corlHently expect the market ta 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 duotlon" this Is said to be 1,000.000 bales short of what the >anand will be, for the Egyptian crop ls reported a failure and the India crop will be j little better. If Buch ls tho case, and these are thc advices which the cotton association bas received from authentic sources, all the cotton farmers of the southern States must do ls to hold what they have. It was developed at the meeting that If the farmers in different com munities in thc State will take the proper amount of interest in building warehouses, lt will be possible to make arrangements whereby the funds 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, Mtssrs. E. W. Robertson, Columbia; Leroy Springs, Lancaster; W. E. Burnett, Spartanburg; B. Har ris, Pendleton; T. B. Stackhouse, Dil lon; L. W. Youmans, Fairfax. Mr. Stackhouse and others of the committee expressed the belief that there would be many warehouses bult, and that the movement should he started at once In order to get the buildings ready for occupancy by the time the new crop corni s in. Archi tects and contractors were consulted as to the cost of erecting warehouses and the information received was very satisfactory, for it showed that, the cost is not prohibitive, and that alTOst any community which has the progressive sp'rit can raise enough money to build a warehouse which will acommodate all the 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 unanimously: "That we urge upon the farmers the importance of storing theircotton promptly on being ginned in the stan dard warehouses where they can get neg ?tiable v.arelviuse receipts, thus savii g it fr. m loss in weight and da-j age and puning it In negotiate shape so that they will no? he forced to se 1 only at their own pleasure, as it his b3en demonstrated by the ac tion of the New Or'eans convention 'hat reasonable pnces can be main tained irrespective of the size of tho crop by the Judicious mar keting of the cotton, which can only be accomplished b ? the effective wart-house system." Mr E D. Smith, president of the State divisi?n of the cotton associa tion, was present by invitation and offered tho following suggestion, which was adopted in the form o? a resolu tion: "Tuatany Information as to construction or outside assistance can be obtained by communicating with the Columbia ellice of the Southern Cotton ass jciation. That a copy of the e re-olutions be filed in this otllce and that a copy he given to the press with the request that all oounty pa pers publish them." Mr. E G. SeihelR, as an insurance export, told the committee, bv invita tion, what requirements will be nec essary to make a warehouse wellnlgh fireproof and un acceptable risk. Mr. C. C. Wilson stated, as an architect called in by Invitation, that these warehouses could be built 40 by 10C feet with gravel roof and best pattern for 81,200, the sprinkler system to cost about 25 per cent. more. Such a house, wuuld have a capacity of 1,000 bales. A 500-balo capacity ware house could be built for 3300. If storage fur any more than 1,000 bales 1H required separate warehouses should be built. Mr. E. W. Robertson was elected chairman of the committee and Mr. F. II. Weston secretary. Mnnazltu in Greenville County. Monazite in large quantities has been discovered in tho creeks and branches around Lonnerman In Grove township, Greenville county, and tons of tho mineral ls being taken out and tested. The anal} ses by reliable min eralogists show a very large per cent, pure monazite in tho samples sent for analytical purposes, and a trace of gold is found in every sample. A New York concern has secured rights from most of the land owners in that neighborhood to mine the mineral wherever traces are found, and tho land owners get 815 a ton fur the crude ore when taken from the mino. This royalty is paid for unmlned ore. and it will thus he seen tho land owner where any quantity ls secured is extremely fortunate, as he ls put to. no expense whatever, and thc mineral is found only lh branches and marshes where the land is unfit for cultiva tion. Monazite is worth in a refined siatc ahmt 81,000 a ton, and is large ly used in thu manufacture of arc lights, In combination with carbons for wicks. Four Killed. By the breaking of a cable in tho Shrcwsburg c >al min-, near Charles ton, W. V.l., Wednesday, four miners were killed and teu seriously burt. Four of tho injured will probanly die Turee cars were conveying miners from work when a cable parted and the cars were precipitated to the base of the mountain, sixteen hun tired fret, with lightning rapidity. Cars and tlppln v,ere badly wrecked and a number- "6f. miners frightfully crushed. SHOT DEAD IS HOME. A Denver Teamster Killed a Maa and Woman and Himself. Chief of Police an il Polloe Burgeon Dangerously Wounded in Trying to Capture Infuriated Man. At Denver, Col., mad with rage be cause of bis defeat in a lawsuit In which IC. Fill, the saan whom be pro nounced his bitterest enemy, had been victorious and swearing vengeance against him and his family, George Soblbtler. a teamster, armed himself with a rille 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 Sohllstler. Missing: A child of the Fills. Wounded: . Dr. Frank Dulln, polloe surgeon; Capt. Wm. Bohanna, chief of polloe, wounded in leg; Mike Kelly, slightly. The wife of GeorgeSchistler is pros trated over the affair and may die from the shock. Sohistler had brooded over his troubles with the Fill family, who were Immediate neighbors, and an nounced that he would even up matters. Taking a ride of Improved pattern, and budding on a bait of smokeless cartridges, be started for tbe Fill home. Fill saw Schistler ap proaching and making threats. He tried to avoid him by entering the bonne, but Schistler sent a bullet into his brain and Fill fell dead. ? Mrs. Fill rushed to her husband's side and received a bullet from Sob ls tr ier's rifle, she too fell dead beside the lifeless body of her husband. Schist ler then Bet Are to the Fill home, which was destroyed. A sou of the Fills is missing and is believed to have perished in the flames. Satisfying himself that the flames 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 Schistler's rifle began falling near them. A telephone message was sent to police headquarteis and an ambu lance with Police Surgeon Dulln, Capt. B?hanna and three officers hur ried to the scene. Upon the arrival of the officers and before they could leave the ambulance a rabi of bullets fell about tbem Da lia and Bohanna 'fell to the floor of the ambulance wounded. The condi tion of the former ls critical. The driver reined his horses when another shot from Schistler dropped one of the animals to the ground. With the assistance of spectators the wounded men were removed from the scene. A strong array of police officers waa then sent to the house and after a furious exebage of shots the place was entered and Schistler was found in a dying condition. He died soon after wards. GONE BACK T? HEATHENISH. Koturiui to His Old Tribe and So corres Its Chief. A dispatch from Huntington, Ind., says: The executive committee of the missionary board of the Gaited Brethren in Christ has dropped fr ?rn the rolls of the chruoh Daniel Fllok. lnger Wilberforce, a native African, who was brought to tils country as a collei and, after belog educated, was returned by tho board to his old tribe as a missionary. It ls cbarged by the board that? after a service of 25 years as a missionary the negro minister has been lured back to heatbenism, has become chief of his old tribe of devil worshippers and has contracted plural marriages in the wilds of Africa. .Nearly 50 years ago Daniel Kumier Fllckinger, tben secretary of tue mis sionary ooard of the cbuob, was in west Africa on mission work.. Whn3 visiting a Congregational missionary, announcement was made that a male ebb., oad be?n born in the negro vil lage. The host of Dr. Fllckinger christened the baby Daniel Fllckinger Wilberforce. -Twelve years later the boy had been brought to America by a returulng missionary. Dr. Fiick inger accidentally discovered his namesake at work at the missionary house In New York. Dr. Fllckluger took tbe lad to Dayton, O. The boy was sent to school, then through high shool and later to a medical college at Cleveland. Ile 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'sslonary and family returned to this country and Wilberforce lectured throughout the central States. His four ohildren, two daughters and two sjns attended Central college there. Two sons aro still in this country, one at Obterbein 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 aud of his becoming chief of the tribe. The venerable Dr. FlickiDger is much depressed ovor the backsliding of his protege, but sanc tions the action of tho board. Takes tho Cemetery. Beal dent of Whiting, Ind., are in dignant because John D. Rockefeller has bought the village cemetery, east of the town, as an annex to the Stan dard Oil refinery. He needs the ground for his pipe lines from the east and thc cemetery will soon be honeycomb ed with oil pipes. What is to become of the bodies lias not been determin ed. The cemetery ls well improved and there are many beautiful monu ments which will have to be removed. Citizens declare the Standard UH com pany could build its pipe lines around tho cemetery and lot the.dead rest in peace. Kiiitui * Policeman. At Colon an American negro named John Wells, from South Carolina, on being refused nd imlttance to a dance Thursday nlgut, shot and killed a policeman and wounded two other persoos. The murderer was arrested and probably will be sentenced to a term of imprlsunment In Ohlrque jail as there ls no capital punishment in Panama. Fatal Hotel Fire. At Islam Falls, Me., fire late Fri day, night destroyed tho Woodsmen's hotel. The three year-old daughter of Luther Hall, proprl.rlor, was burn ed to death .and three others arc be lieved to be lost. Hall, the father waB so badly burnod in trying tu save his child that h? ls not expected to recover, I THE GUINARD S . oox^?Tivo X Manufacturers Brick. Fire Proof S Flue linings and Drain Tile. Pre 9 or millions. K?LFYREI KHiFYR That ls exactly what lt IM, a Pi day at the Stato Fair shoeing its fir Every Farmer, OH Mill, Saw Mi property Ehould have them. For sal : M COLUMBIA SI Columbia, ?a o Th? ina/ Southeastern Lim CHARLES1 Building Material of all ki "RUBEROID." W hi BB^e^^T^dorphTne^^ Habit, Habit Habit Cured by Keeley J 1320 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 75) Ooh enne solicited. INTERESTING DATA. Population or Etoh State When Ad- ] m lt tc cl to tho Union. Does population make a state? j What are the great essentials of state hood? These are the questions, which, according to the Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post j Dispatch, are being discussed in tho senate. This correspondent says that | the population of each of the original thirteen colonies when the union was formed was as follows: Connecticut, 237,046; Delaware, 50,006; Georgia, 82,548; Maryland, 310,728; Massachu setts, 378,787; New Hampshire, 141, 845; New Jersey, 184,130; New York, 340,120; North Carolina, 303,751; Pennsylvania, 434,373; Rhode Island, 68,825; South Carolina, 24,073; Vir ginia, 747,610. The population of other territories at the time they became states and the dates of their admission to the union was as follows: '"Vermont, March 4, 1701, 85,425; Kentucky, March 4, 1704, 73,677; Tennessee, May, 1706, 60,000; Ouio, November, 20, 1802, 42 360, L .ulslana, April 12, 1812. 76 506; Indiana, Deo. ll, 1816, 24 520; Mississippi, Deo. 10, 1817, 75, 448; Illinois, Dec. 3, 1818, 53,211; Alhbama, Dec. 14, 1810. 127,001; Maine, March 15, 18150. 208,335; Mis souri, August 10, 1821, 66,586; Ar kansas, June 15, 1830, 52 240: Michi gan, Jan. 2G, 1837, 160,000; Florida, Mirch 3, 1845, 72.000; Iowa, Deo. 28, 1846, 163,000; Wis onsin, March 3. 1848. 300 000; California, Sept. 0. 1850. 02 527; Minnesota, May 11,1858, 172 053; Texas, March 1. 1845, 150. 000; Oregon, Feb. 12, 1850. 52,465 Kam-as, April 13, 1850. 107,206; Wes' Virginia, Jau. 10, 1863. 4t0,000; Nevada, Oct 31, 1864, 42 401; Ne braska, Mardi 1, 1867, 123 003; Colo rado, July 4, 1876. 136,000; North Diknta, Jun i 2, 1889 182,719; Smth Dakota, June 2, 1889 328 8u8; Mon tana, Nov. 8, 1880. 132,160; Washing ton, Nov ll, 1880, 340,300; Idaho, July 3. 1800, 82,385; Wyoming, July ll. 1800, 60,703; Utab, July 4, 1896, 276,746.^_ TU? sali) lit Ouoinod. Dispatches from St. Petersburg con vey the Information that the revolu tionary element of the socialist party in Russia has decreed the death of four more members of the royal fam ily, including the baby boy who, if he lives, will .?-orne day be czar of all the Russias. Sergius was a known tryant and a proven theil. He used hts high office to tiloh money from the pockets of the people. He solicited contribu tions to add to the scanty comforts of the Russian s .Idlers in Manchuria and turned thc funds to his personal ac count. He plotted and schemed against men and women of his own blood for the Hake of his personal ad vancement. "But the baby," says the Atlanta Journal, "he bas done nothing to merit punishment. He ls Interested in no greater problem than the task of getting a ohubby big toe into his rosy mouth. He has never harmed anybody. Unfortunately for him the accident of birth made him the son of the czar ot Russia. In the name of common sense, his future is unwelcome enough if he ls let alone. He will never know the democracy of childhood. Re cannot go about the streets Uko most boys. He will never know the delight ot going to a 'kid' party, where he could play 'King William' and kiss the prettiest girl in the room. Not for bim ls the demo cratic pleasure of wooing and winning a wife. The pleasure of planning and toiling for a home will not be bis. When he is of a marriageable age a solemn council of state will seleot 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. His lot will be a hard and unen viable one at the best. Pity, and not hatred, should be his portion." Destroyed Cloth. A dispatch from Greenville says Charlie Crane, Tom Rlgdon and a man named Duncan, mill operatives, were arrested Wednesday morning by Sherill Gilreath aud placed in the county Jail, charged with having bro ken into the cloth room at Monaghan mills, in the suburbs of that city, and destroying nearly 81,000 worth of cl >th, stealing s pistol and also seve rn I pieces of oloth. The prisoners affirm their innocence. The oloth had b^.en baled for shipment, and in this condition it was an easy matter to slash ft 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 tuen done to the property. Throo Drowned. While boat riding on Lako Monroe near Smdford, Fla , Su iday night Miss Mangle L-xmey, of Th imasvllle, Ga.. O ,.o McE.roy and Reese Boyd, of Sandford, were drowned. The young people left the dook at 10 30 p m. in a small row boat. 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