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?GJLO? DUTY OF WOMEN, i The President Gives Advice to the Congress of Mothers. CUBSE OP DIVORCE. The Impornanee of the Family. The Rearing and Training of Children. Woman's Influence in the Life of the Nation. Every Wo man Should Read lt. President Roosevelt delivered an ad dress before the Congress of Mothers in Washington last week, which every woman should read. We give the en tire speech below: In our modern industrial civilization there are many and grave dangers to conterbulance the splendors and the triumphs It is not a good thing to see oities grow at a disproportionate speed relatively to the country; fer tbe small land owners, tbe men wbo own their little homes, and therefore to a very large extent the men who till farms, the man of tbe soil, having hitherto made the foundation of lasting nation al life in every State; and, if tlfb foundation becumes either too weak or too narrow, the superstructure, no matter how attractive, ls In eminent danger ot falling. But far more important than the question of the occupation of < ur cit izens ls the question of how their fam ily life is conducted. Nu matter what that occupation may he, as long as there ls a real bi me and as long as thone who make up that borne do their duty to one another, to t heir neigh bora and to the ?tate, lt is of minor const quenc ^hellier ttie man's traue is plied in the country or In the city, whet her it ca ls for the work of the hands or for i be w( rk of the head. VALUE OK THE FAMILY UOMK. But the natiou is in a bud way if there is nu real heme, if the family is not of tbe right kind; if the mau is not a gond husband and fath.-r, if he is brumby or cowardly cr selfish, if the womun oas lost ber sense of duty, lt she ia sunk in vapid self indulgence or bas let her nature he twisted so that she prefers a sterile psi udo-inteileo I uah ty to that great and beautiful de velopment of character which comes only to those nhcte lives know tin fullness of cut y done, of elicit made and self-sacrifice undergone. In the last analysis the welfare of the Slate depends absolutely upon whether or not ttie average family, the average man and woman and their children, repaint the kind of citizen ship Ut for the foundation of a great nation; aud if -we fail to appreciate tbis we fall to appri elate ti e rcot morality upon which all health civi lization ls based. No piled up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliai Cii of art istic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unle>s the average man pos 8e8sses honesty, courage, common sense, and decency, unless he works hard and is willing at need to light hard; and unless the average woman is a good wife, a good mother, able and willing to perform the tirst and greatest duty or womanhood, able and willing to bear, and to bring up as they should be brought up, healthy child ren, sound In body, mind, and char acter, and numerous enough so that the nation shall increase and not de orease. MAN THE BREADWINNER. There arc certain old truths that will be true as long as this world en dures, and which no amount of pro gress can alter. One of these ls the truth that the primary duty of the husband is to be home maker, the bread winner for bis wife and child dren. and that the primary duty of the woman is to be the helpmeet, the house-wife and mother. The woman should have ample educational advan tages; but save In exceptional cases the man must be and she need not be, and generally ought not to be, train ed as the lifelong carter as the family breadwinner; and, therefore, after a certain point the training <>f the two must normally he di li?rent because the dutha of thc two are normally dif ferent. This daes not mean Inequality of function, but it doer? mean that nor mally there must he dissimilarity of function. On the whole, 1 think the duty of the woman the more impur taut, the more thtlLult and the more honorable of the two; on the whole 1 respect the woman who does her duty more than 1 resptct the man who does bis. No ordinary work done hy a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a tam ly of small cmldrtu; f< r upon her timo and strength d?mai d. are mane not < uly eveiy hour of the day but every hour of ih< night. Soe may have to get up night after night to take cure 0. a sick child, ai d yet n.u-a by oay c ntiuue to oo all ht r hou o hold oui.es as well: ann If the tamby means aie h cant st e must usually en joy even her rare holidays laking her whole broun of children with her Thc birth pangs make all m n the deb or of all won en. A rove all our sympathy and rt gard are due to the struggling wives tm ng thti.se whom Abraham Linc li, called thc plain people, and wi om he so lovtd ?iud inn ted; fer the lives of these women ar< often lead on the h ni ly hi Ights of q 1 t, seif sacr. ticing heroism. DUTY OK MOTHERHOOD. Just, as tho happ i st ai tl most lion orable and mo.-t useful task tl a;, can be set m y man is to carn enough for the support of I I-. wife : nd family , for the inn iiit! up ?nd starling in life of his children, so the mos Impor tant, the m st honorable and d?sirable task which can be set any woman is to be a go* d and wise mother in a home marked by self-respect and mutual forbearance, hy wtliii g ness to perfu-m duty, and hy iefu al to sink Into self Indulgence or avoid that which entails effort and self sacnlice. Of course there are exceptional men and excep tional women who can do and ought to do much more than this, who can lead and ought to lead great careers of outside usefullness In addition to not as substitutes for-their home work, but 1 am not speaking of excep tions; I am speaking of the primary duties, I am speaking of thc average oltizen, the average men and women who make up the nation. Inasmuch as I am speaking to au as semblage of mothers I shall have nothing whatever to Bay in praiso of an easy life. Yours is the work whloh a never ended. TSo mother has an easy ame, and most mothers have very hard times; and yet what true mother would barter for experience o? joy aud ?or row In exchange for & life of cold selfishness, whloh insists upon prepet oal amusement and the avoidance of* jare, and which often finds Its flt dwelling place in some flat designed to furnish with the least possible ex penditure of effort the maximum of comfort and of luxury, but in which there is literally no place for children. NO GRISELDA TY rte. The woman who 1B a good wife, a good mother, ls entitled to our respect as is no one else; but she is entitled to it only because, and so long as, she ls worthy of lt. Effort and self-sacrifice are the law of worthy life for the man as for the woman; tba ugh neither the effort nor the self-sacrifice may be the same for the one as for the other. I do not in the least believe in the pa tient Griselda type of woman, in the woman who submits to gross and long continued Ul treatment, any more than 1 believe in a man who tamely submits to wrongful aggression. No wrong-doing is so abhorrent as wrong doing by a man towards the wife and tho children who should arouse every tender feeling in his nature. Selfish ness towards them, lack of tenderness towards them, lack of consideration for them, above all, brutality lu any form towards them, should arouse the heartiest scorn and indignation in every upright soul. I believe in the woman's keeping her self-respect Just as I believe lu the man's doing so. i believe in her rights just as much as I believe in tho man'* and Indeed a little more; and 1 regard marriage as a partnership, in wnlcu each partner is In honor hound to think of the rights of the other as well as of hld or her own. But 1 think that the duties are even more important tuan the rights; and in the long run I tnlnk that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well dono, than foi the in-istence upon Individual righi* necessary though this, too, must often be. Your duty ls hard, your re-pou sibillty great; but greatest ?if all it your reward. 1 do uot pity you in the least. Ou the contrary, I feel respect aud admiration for you. DON'T WASTE AFFECTION. Into the womau's keeping is com mitted the destiny of the generalloni to come after- us. In bringing li] j our cuildren you mothers must re member that while it ls essential ti be loving and teuder lt is no le. essential to be wise and firm. Fool isl mess and affection must not b treated as mtcrcbar.geable terms; am besiues ttaining your sons and daugh tors in the softer and milder virtue you must seek to give them thus stern and hardy qualities which i alter life they will surely ueed. Som children wiil go wrong lu spite of th best training; and some will g.i rign even when their surroundings ar most unfortunate; nevertheless an ia meuse amount depends upon th family training. If you mothei through weakness bring up your sor to be selfish and to think only fe themselves, you will be responsib for much sadness among the wome who are to be their wives in the fi ture. If you let your daughters gro up idle perhaps under the impressic that as you yourselves have had I work hard they shall know only ei joyment, you are preparing them I b? useless to others and burdens themselves. Teach boys and gh alike that they are not to look fe ward to lives spent in avoldicg dit culties but to lives spent in overc jr lng difficulties. Teach them th work, for themselves and also for ot ers, ls not a curse but a blessing; sei to make them happy, to make the enjoy life, but seek also to make the face life with the steadfast resolut ii to wrest success from labor and a verslty, and to do their whole du before God and to man. Surely s who can thus train her sons aad h daughters is thrice fortunate arno: women. THE BLESBING OF CHILDREN. There are many good people w are denied the supreme blessing children, and for these we have t respect and sympathy always due those who, from no fault of their ow are denied any of the other gre blessings of life. Hut the man woman who deliberately forcge these blessings, whether from vlciot ness, shallow heartedness, s-lf-lndi geuce, or mere failure to appr?cia aright the difference between the a important and the unimportant why, such a creature meritscontem us hearty as any visited upon the a riler who runs away In battle, or up the man who refuses to work for t support of those dependent upon hi and though able-bodied ls yet conte to eat in Idleness the bread whl others provide. The existence of women of this ty forms one of the most unpleasant a unwholesome features of modern li If any one is so dim of vision as fai: to see. what a thoroughly unlovi creature such a woman is I wis'i th w-iu'd reid Judge Robert Gran i ovil "Unleavened Bread," pout s- lions!y tlie character of Selma, a thhik of the fate that would s n ovorc me any nation which develop its average and typical woman al" such lines. Unfortunately it woi he untrue to say that lids type ext on'y lu American novels. Tl at only exists in American life is ma Unpleasantly evident by the statist as to'he dwindling families evld? lu iq wally sinister fashion by t c ns1 s .-vi a ilsi ie. as to divorce, wlti are fairly appalling; for easy divo is now as it ever l as been, a bane uny nation, a curse to socljiy, a mi nee to the home, an incitement married unhappiness and to imm ahty, an evil thing for m?m anc still more hideous evil foi v.omi These unpleasant tendencies In i American lifo are made evident art Ici? s such as those which I actu ly read not long ago In a certain i per, where a clergyman was quot seemingly with approval, as cxpre ii g tho general American aititt wnen he said that the ambition iny save a very rich man should he rear two children only, so as to g Iiis children an opportunity "to ta i few of tim good things of Ufo." A VICIOUS DOCTRINE. ThlB man, whoso profession i .'.'iliing should have made him a mc teacher, actually set before otb the ideal, not of training children :lo their duty, not of sending th forth with stout hearts and rei minds to win triumpths for thc iel ves and their country, not of owing them the opportunity, ? ,'i viug them the privilege of mak their own place In the world, b forsooth, of keeping the number children so limited that they m "taste a few good thlngsl" The i to give a child a fair ohance In llfi lot to bring it up in luxury, but iee that it has the kind of train that will give it strength of ohai ter. Even apart from tho vital qi tlon of national life, and regarding only the individual interest of the children themselves, happiness in the true Bense is a hundredfold more apt to come to any given member of a healthy family ot healthy-minded children, well brought up, well edu cated, but taught that they must win their own way, and by their own exertions make their own positions of usefulness, than it ls apt to come to those whose parents themselves have aoted on and have trained their chil dren to act on, the selfish sordid theory that tue whule end of iifo is "to taste a few good things." The intelligence of the remark is on a par with its morality, for the most rudimentary mental process would have shown the speaker that if the average family in which there are children contained but two children the nation as a whole would decrease I in population so rapidly that in two or three generations lt would very de servedly bo on the point of extinction, so that the people who had acted on this base and sel?sh doctrine would be given place to others with braver and more robust ideals. Nor would such a result be in any way regret table; for a race that practiced such doctrine-that ls, a race that prac ticed race suicide-would ther by con clusively show that lt was unlit to exist, and that lt had better give place to people who had not forgot ten the primrry laws of their being. IT'S ALL SIMPLE ENOUGH. To sum up, then, the whole matter is simple enough. If either a race or an individual prefers the pleasures pr mere eire ri less ease, of self-indulgence, to the iuuuitely deeper, the infinite ly inevitably in the end pay the pen alty who know tho toll and the weari ness, but also the Joy, of hard duty well done, why, that race or tnat individual must have higuer pleas ures that come to those had ing a life both vapid and Ignoble. No man and no woman really worthy of the name can care for the life spent solely or chi-Hy In tht avoidance uf risk and trouble and lahor. Save In exceptional cases thc piiz.'.s worth having In life must bi paid for, and the life worth li vin.! must be a life of work for a worth) end, and ordinarily of work more f^i others than for oue's self. Tue man ls but a poor creatun whose effort ls nut rath r for tho be: ? croient of bis wife and children thai fjr himself; and as for the m ?th? r her very name sta ,ds, for loving un selfishness and self-abnegation, and in any society iii to exist, ls fraugh with a^suciatlOLS which rentier it holy The woman's task ls not easj-u< tank worth doing ls easy-but In d i ;ng it. aud when she has done it there shall come to her th highest and bolle ?t Joy know to mankind; and having don it, she shall have tue rcwar prophesied in Scripture; for her lui> nand and her children, ye , and a people who realize that her work Ht at the foundation of all national ha? pluess and greatness, ?hall rise up an call her blessed. Stoic m. Horse anti UUKKT. Mr. .John Ulmer had his horse an buggy stolen from him on Satura.! night, whilo In, Orangeburg. M Uimer lives a few miles from the cit; In the East Orange section, and wi detained until after dark Satur?t night In Orangtburg. Ile had h horse hitched on the street, and a n gro oame along and appropriated tl outlit. Tue matter was reported I the police department, and Cult Fischer telephoned to all near! towns to be on the look out. Suno; afternoon word came that the hon and buggy bad been located ne; Cope, and instructions were issued 1 arrest a negro by the name of Dyk for the stealing. Accordingly bc w arrested, although against his wi and is now in "limbo." Tho hor and buggy will bc returned to M ?lmer. It ls said that Dykes was Orangeburg Saturday night, and tl sired to take a negro woman aloi with him to the neighborhood Cope, where Dykes was living. 1 did not own a horse and buggy, simply appropriated Mr. Ulmer's ot: tit Ho told the woman that t team belong to him, evidently des ous of making au impression on ht The horse and buggy were recogtvz from descriptions sent out fri m t angeburg, and the apprehension Dykes re-uited._ A Kaon Itiot. A special from Lake Village, Arl says a pitched battle was fought I tween a sheriff's po'se of white m and three negroes suspect-, d of mt d'?r on the shore of the lake near tn town, Tuesday af:erni.on, two of t blacks being killed outright and C. Owens, manager of the Re i L ?plantation, wounded In the arm. T third negro etcapid to thc wool Bloodhounds were sent for and p upon the fugitive's ti all. lt is believ that he will be taken before n.ori?ti The bodh s of the negroei were t ik ttl Lake Village and placed in i county Jail Wiiere they *ere view by larg.- crowds. Recently two i?ro ers namoi Watson were i"tir e near Dumas. Ark., and tho 'line i g roi s were said to have par lc pi' m the ci I me. Kill? U Oy ? lob At Long View, Te xas, Juan Si veus, a negro imprisoned in he j c -arg? d witu assault up n C in An ii sou at a saw mill near that pince, w snot to death Tuesoay in his cell bj mi b. Tue mob entered ih? j vi 1 a forced the Jailer to deliver t- e KI to the upper compartment Fr there they called tue negro to t front of bis cell, telling him th lr tentlon. The m gro aske I aud eel ved permission to write to nts n ther, returning to tue cell door, whi tie ie l wttti a 44 calibre p?siol bul through the hear j. Everything (jillet there Wednesday. Tue net is supposed to be from Birmlngha Ala. Anderson, who ij ts as;rt was struck from behind by the neg ls in a critical condition. rt lim It ?A ill l>o. Thc Stato says "live years of t cent cutton, home production of fa supplies and the supply of south! m irkets with those products wh may be produced pr-.tltably In l south, and the mo nentum of t prosperity will be such that nothl can Impede its wonderful progrc Is not the promise of suci res worth serious effort? The associ?t and co operation of southern farme bankers and merchants ls the prc ise." ?'i.jiti.it ?. ,v... i .. c ? - ? ? ?Jl?Iocr?T. Minister Qrlscom reports to ?t?te department that thc Arr lean military attaches who w captured with the Russians Mukden are Col. Vallery Havarti the medical corps, and Captain V. Judson, of the engineers. La reports) to thc Griscon minlstor that both are welland receiving ev possible courtesy from the Japan SUEE TO ADVANCE. This is the Opinion of a Sellable Fz pert About the Pou th, Prof. W. O. Johnson, Editor of Agri cultural Papers In Now England, Enthuslaatlo Over tho South. Prof. W. G. Johnson, managing ed itor of The American Agriculturist, and Mr. Thomas A. Barrett, the treasurer of the Orange Judd Publish ing company of New York olty, were In Columbia last week. These gentle r.r-n are making a tour of the south studying agricultural conditions. Wed nesday Mr. E. J. Watson, commission er of agriculture, accompanied them to Ridge SDrines where they looked over that section. Prof. Johnson is particularly interested in the peach Industry, and bas just oompleted a book entitled "The Peaob Crop." The State says he tx pressed muoh surprise ut the extent of the peaob In dustry in Saluda county, and stated that ho did not think one-fifth part of the available area is devoted to or chards. Having visited every peech belt In thc United States, Prof. John son thinks tar uers could moro profit *b'y pl uit more peaches and less cot ton io that section. Thusday in co npany with Commis sioner Watson, Mr. T. P>. Tbackatnn <>t thc Southern railroad and Mr. E. H. Cl irk, secretary of the Columbia Cham er of C unmerce. Prof. Jo .n3on and Mr. Parrots were given a 1< ok at s..me of the industries about Colum bia. They vlsi ed the po*er plant, ^1 ss factory, Olympia cotton mill ard < t 'T places. Toe dairy farm of Mr. F. II Hyatt and the government diversification farm were visited, thursday af temo m Governor Hoy ward ace mip mied the party to thc farm of Mr. lt. C. Jones, about four mi es no th est of the oliy. Friday Commissi uer Watson and Mr. Thack stun toOK the visiting gen' lernen to Aiken to lo di over conditions there. Whou s :eu at the Columbia Thurs . .ay night hy a representative of Che S:ato. Prof. Johnson made the foliow II g statement: "We are greatly inter ested in t he agricultural development of tlio s.i'Utli. We belli ve the south to day < IT rs the greatest inducements to mon ? ho are looking toward the fa^m rhu advantages are unsurpassed in this .superb climate for men who want to loca e on farms. There ls no place In this country where such a diversi fication cf crops can be successfully rotated as in the south. ''Mr. Barrett and myself have bean making annual trips through the south ru States for the past five years Bich trip op ms up new l?eles for de velopmeat and we arc surprised at the many opportunities offered for capital in commercial enterprises as well as in agricuhure. ''We have never seen a more cr>m plele power plant than the one visit ed in that eley Thursday. With the dev. 1 'pmcnt of the great commercial centres, the outlying agricultura1 dis trict must and will keep pace with them. This means that men who are looking for farms are turning their eyes southward. "I do not bellco there is a worn out farra in South Carolina. 1 "v oe that there are a great many k?:,>r and unimproved farms, but they are capa ble of being made very productive and profitable. These farms need intelli gent management and nothing else. Wc have today seen two splendid ex amples of what such careful super vision can do In a short time. The farm of Mr. F. H. nyatt and that of Mr. R. O. Jones were types of aban doned farms three year.s Hgo. Today they are mod AR that are a credit to any community. "The largest crop of corn ever ra!s ed on an acre of laud was produced In South Carolina. .Some year.s ago The American Agriculturalist oir.-red a prize of ?500 f jr the largest amount of corn grown on ene acre. Capt Z J. Drake of Marlboro county, this State, won the lir.st piize, producing 255 bushels of corn on one acre. The second prise was won by the Slate of Georgia, while Iowa and Nebraska ame in for third and forth places. ??. ce this contest the eyes of the north ami northeastern States have been turned to the south. "Last year Mr. Barrett and I visit i d Capt. Dr.iko at his home an 1 saw the acre un whioh this world record corn t r.>p was produced. Perhaps noth ing In thc history of agriculture evjr ba;.p ned that tnrne.i the attention ot inc country so closoly io South Car o'.iua as this marvelous corn crop. I tic this as au instance of what can he d ii on these soils when properly handled. "1 ino sat i Qed the Southern States will develop agriculturally more rapid ty i i the o xi> 10 ye irs than any other .eel o !. 1 have been advising my ; liai .-. to 1 i?k .southward before pur fbi it .' new farms. Wo think tho s nth Ci' lina department of agrlcul ure is w rking along the right lin-s t. dove np t e vast agricultural areas. U w sj ?ur mt h i ls of colonization ti : li rs t attracted our attention. You . r t. ; be co uni ulatel In having Bo euihusia ii and earnest an advocate m diver iii d farming as we hav f. nod : 11 Commissioner E J. Wats m li c. lu r S a s would modi their Im migrai ion laws after those of South Carolina the splended lauds now uti .co i pied would soon be the centres ot thousands of happy and prosperous homes. "V< e am greatly pleased that Gov. Heyw .rd ha* d splayed his personal int r< .t In the development of your agricultural resjurces by the estab lish i eut of a department that isdolng ? o n uah good wink. In our opinion one ? f the features of Gov. Hey ward's administration that will stand out prominently in the future will be his personal interest in the agricultural development of this State. We are indeed tilad to know from the govern or's wn lips that ho has and ls giving agriculture such close personal atten tion. We predict a great future for South Carolina fanners." Katiti Watei-Hpout. A terrific waterspout at Lafkln, Burnett county, Texas, causing the water to rise In thc river and sur rounding creeks 14 feet In live minu tes, catching half a dozen campers ID tho bottoms and drowning two of them, four barely escaping with their lives. Considerable stock was swept away. For 30 minutes hail is reported to have fallen ttl the depth of 1 1-2 Inches, with such force as to wreck many farm houses._ Paid tito Penalty, Robert Bowles, a negro, was hanged at Covington, Allcghanoy county, Va., Friday fur the murder a year ago of J. A. Ruff, a Chesapeake and Ohio radroad fireman. Bowles con le-sed tho killing bul olalmed self defense. AN INVOLUNTARY HERO, Bow a Captain Won Glory (n Battle ' Which Bo Didn't Deserve.. "Speaking of war incidents," said a ? veteran newt-paper man "a friend of mine In West Virginia who wore the Union blue in tbe civil war was the principal actor in an affair that was : unique. Ile was promoted from oap- , tain to colonel for bravery in the face ' of the enemy," when as a matter of < fact he was brave on the occasion 1 which brought about bis promotion 1 because he could not help it. It was a oase of bravery being actually forc ed upon him, against bis will. i "It appears that the Union troops I of which the captain's company was a part had b come demoralized to some extent by the tire of the confederates, and the soldiers were KCitteted over the battle field in squads. The cap tain bad seeured a stray horso, and soon after mounting the strange animal an orderly dashed up to him and said: "The general commands you to charge your men and take those works in front of your Lue." "Turning to the scattered troops the captain sang out : "Rally, men, the general bas or dered us to capture those worls ahead." "As some < f the soldiers were l'nlrg up lor the advanco the captain i.cct dentally touched h:s impurs to tbe ll mks of the s- range b- r.se. With a snort the animal, seizing his bit in its be-th, sprang forward, and going like a whirlwind, headed straight for the enemy's works. N '"Gome on. m-n,'shouted the cap tain, as he clung on for dear life ?WK] tugged at the bi idle In a desperate elTort to brlug the excited beast to a standstill. Rub tbe more he tugged at the bit tho f.-sbor tho horse went towards the enemy. "Bullets were 'z:pplng' uncomforta bly close to the capt lin and he ex pected to be punctured ny a mink? hail at any instant. Ile glanced back ward and saw his scattered followers far in tbe rear. He was closs upon the earthworks, when gripping the reins and closing his eyes, the mean time yelling 'whoa' at the horse he prepared for the worst. With a mighty bound tin animal cleared the works and was on the ir side. The sole d. fender was a gray clad confederate Infantryman who had been pegging away with his musket at the Union line. "Surrender, you scoundrel ' shouted the ctptain, partly in terror and part ly to terrorize the solitary confederate soldier. "You go to Hades, you Infernal Yank,' replied the Southerner, as he dashed down a hill aud disappeared In a hearoy ticket, leaving the cap tain and his excited prancing s'.eed in sole possession of the works he had captured single-handed aud against his will. "I was simply rushed into fame and glory by a crazy runaway horse,' said the captain, but when my pre motion came, with a thrilling description of my 'heroic charge and capture,' I simply accepted lt as one of the for tunes of war, a'i though it was a mis take and I did not deserve it, I was glad I escaped with my life." Boys Aro Watched. When we see the boys on the strcetH and in public places, we often wonder if they know that business men are watching them. In every bank, store and ofllce there will soon bea ?place for a boy to fill. Tho e who I have the management of the affairs of bo ,1 ness will select one of the boys. They will not select him for his abili ty to swear, smoke cigarettes, or tap a beer keg. And the "society swell" who is daft about little st dal func tionsand is happy in the conceit that he is "just the art'elo" that young ladies lind Indispensable on all OCOV slons, "given the "glassy stare" quite as often as the bier guzzler or ciga rette smoker. Business men have a few loose habits lh:-ms.dves; but they are looklug for boys who are as near gentlemen In every sense of the word as they can Bad, and they are able to give the char icter of everybody In the city. They are not looking for row ches. When a boy applies lor one of tm se places and is refused, they may not tell him the reason why they oo not want him, but tne boy can depend upon it t tat he's been r-.ted aocor I lng to hts behavior. B >ys cannot af ford to adopt the habits and conver sation of the loafers and rowdies If they ever want to be culed to respon sible p isitions. Bra pty Cl?;nr Bnxes. A dispatch from Wa-lilngton says John W. Yerkes, commissioner of In ternal revenue, has jus.sent out to co'lectors of interoal r venue not tic i tlou that af it r May lit next the ollie CJTS of uis bureau Mil strictly inf ore the liw rela lng to thc u-;e of empiy and bra: ded cigar box s by c'gar ai d tobacco dcaKrs Tue lux s will be s-iz d for forfeiture and pe s m il pro ceedings will be taken against the of fenders. C m missioner Yerkes says that thc law is pl ilo In providing p .n alt'-s for the usiug of empty eigu boxes, branded or marked in auv wny purporting tos low that the provisions of tue internal revenue laws have been c. - -ohed with. The penalties are so t-evere, the commissioner stites, that "is ofllce has hesitated to Invoke them for the prevention of the practice of making and Using "dummy," cigar boxas for advertising purp ses, a prac tice Innocent enough on tts face and not ordinarily resulting In fraud upon the government. When the boxes or receptacles are marked or branded with factory numbers and caution notlccB there can be no doubt of the applicability of thc statute to them, and manufacturers and dealers are. warned against this In the future. The mittcr was br< ught to the atten tion of the commissioner by B. D. Crocker, collector of Washington, who wrote that empty boxes of the kind de-crlbed were being distributed among dealers for advertisements and display purposes. The eromralssioner ls careful to reiterate that any empty box bearing the Indented brand and caution notice come within thc pro visions of section 3455, which will hereafter be enforced. Merchants and others who doal In cigars had better give strict attention to the above. Hohbod K Bank. The vault In the bank of Peters burg, Tenn., was blown open Thurs day and all the cash taken. The amount stolon ls reported to he $4,000 The Bank of Petersburg is a State in stitution. Tho officials say that the thieves secured $7,000. The steel vault was blowu opeu with nitroglyc erine and tho strong box emptied. The burglars escaped. U? AWFUL CHIME. \, I'lack Brute Arrested for Assault ing a little Girl. rho Victim, Who Ia Only Eight Vcnrs or Aue, Told All About the Assault. William Johnson, a brutal negro was arrested and lodged in the Or mgeburg Jail ot? last Friday charged with a most heinous crime. He is ?barged with criminally assaulting a little eight-year-old white girl, the daughter of a widow, Mrs. Howell, who lives in Cow Castle Towship, a tew miles from the town of Bowman. On Friday morning, about five o'clock, two white men from the neighborhood where the dastardly crime was committed, went to Sheriff Dukes' house on the outskirts of this city, and woke him and asked him to go with them and help arrest the j scoundrel, who, they thought, was being harbored by the negroes in the cm m unity where he lived. They were fearful of serious trouble with the negroes In case they under took to arrest the brute without a peace effl '.er being present, and to av dd tr uble, they thought lt best to call on S'lerltf Dukes, who they knew was ever ?eady to respond to the call of duty. Sheriff Dukes left immedi ately for thc scene of the outrage, accompained only by his son, Frank. Much to the surprise of the Sheriff and his son they went to within two miles of the Howell home, where the outrage was committed, before they met any one who knew anything of it. This was somewhat remarkable as the crime had bceu c mmitted at li ast a week before, and the negro had i.een chased anti shot in the leg. W.herJ Sheriff Dukes arrived at the Howell home, Mrs. Howell told him all about the outrage that bad been perpetrated on her little daughter by the black brute, William Johnson Mrs Howell told a straightforward story, which is amply corroborated by the sid condition ot the innocent little girl, who was the victim of the scoundrel's lust. . Mrs. Howell said that on Thursday, March ?, William Johnson and two other noires came to her home to get some oil and othtr articles. She saw two cf the negroes leave, and she thought that Johnson had gone also, as she did not see him about the place after she saw the two negroes who carno with him leave. On Siturday, March ll, the little girl complained of feeling very bad'y, and Mrs. Howell says she told her to bathe, not suspecting for a moment, what the real trouble with ber little daughter was. The child continued to complain and Mrs. Howell not knowing what to do to relieve her sent for Dr. Carn, her family physician. When the truth was realized all were horror stricken. The little girl then told the piti able story of how the black brute, Johnson, had criminally assaulted her on Thursday, March 9, and that she was afrf ld to tell about it as Johnson said he would kill her if she did. The recital of the brutal story by the Ht tie child was straightforward and truthful, and showed what a demon Johnson certainly is. After hearing the awful story from the Hps of the little c din's mother. Sheriff Dukes went out In quest of th? brute, who he found in the cus tody of three other negroes, who claimed tn be boldiug him until Sheriff Dukes could ref.ch the t erne. Tue negroes who bad the scoundrel in cu-.tody said they had no idea of aid ing or abetting him, but was simply holding him for the otllcers of the law. It seems that Johnson attempted to escape and had been shot through the leg. but by whom we did not learn. Tue brute, of course, d; nits thu crime, and claims that one of the men who came for Sheriff Dukes shut him. Ile bears a bad name in the community lu which he lives and the general opinion ls that he ls guilty of tho crime cbargad against him, and that he ought to be swung up, but they want it done 1- gally. S.ieriff Dukes acted with a great deal of dis re'Jon in the matter and landed his man In jail before anyone scarcely knew of the crime. The scoundrel will liaveaspecdy trial, and, if the things charged against him are proven, bc will stretch hemp as surc as two and two are four. Such brutal villians should Lot be allowed to liv, iruong honest people.-Times and Democrat. - Dotti! tn a Cob. Tho body of a women, who had been dead several hours, and a man, unconscious, were found in a cab, which was drlv. u up to the Br oklyn polic; statl >n on a gallop Wednesday. The man was suffering from alcoholism and possibly from the eff cts of a thug. Ile may recover, ll ; and the. driver of the cab have been detained. Toe man gave the name of Thom; s Deegan, and Sdid he lived in Monroe street, one of the h. t ter class of residential sections of Brooklyn. The dead woman, he said, was Mis-. Mary Savage, thirty years old. The po ico surgeon upon a cur si ry ex ? mi-ia- i >n of Miss Savage's b 'dy decided that she probably sue cum? ed to weak heart, superiuducod by alcoholism. W*KCH ot Sin. The girl, found dead from strang ling at a Newark hotel Friday night, was idem'ti. d as Mamie Dennis, of Jersey City, a working girl. Two hotel employees were arrested and held as witne*s.>s. lier man com panion is missing. Miss Dennis was twenty-two years old. Ttie missing man had visited the hotel with the woman a number of times. A drink ing glass, containing a white sedi ment, ls being Investigated. HaiiKi'd tor IHurilur. At It ime, Ga , Bob Sutherland and Courtney Baker, negroes, were hanged Wedne-d iy for murder. Both negroes made lengthy speeches from the scaf fold, admitting their guilt. Suther land killed two negroes and wounded three others at a dance last Christ mas. Baker killed his wife. Two Thousand Killed. Private mail advices from the Cau casus Indicate that the situation there has not been exaggerated in earlier reports. According to one let ter tho Armenians estimate the num ber of their dead at 2.000. A woman was arrested on Tuesday lu New York city for bigamy, who ls only 23 years old and bas been mar ried three times, all her husbands be ing alive, nor mistake was in not zeetlng divorces as she went along, Tine hanging of a white man in South Carolina for murdering a negro .viii open the eyes of some of our crit ics at the North, K?LFYRE! KILFYH That is exactly what it is. iL<v day at the State Fair showing Ita fir? Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw Mi property should have them, For sal COLUMBIA SI Columbia, ?. O, Tho mac Southeastern Lim CHARLEST Building Material of all kh "TYUBEROTD." } WhJske I Morphine | Clgaret Habit, Habit | Habit Ourod by Keeley I i329 Lady St for P. O. Box 76) Coiu cen iJlioicvl. A GRACEFUL COMPLIMENT Paid Sclioitor P. T. Hildebrand by tho Bar of Charleston. The "News and Cjurier says at the meeting of tbe Charleston Bar in the County Court room Wednesday morn ing thc f -Bowing resolution, offered by Mr. W. A. Holman and fittingly seconded hy Mr. Simon Hyde, Col. A. T. Smythe and the Hon. Duncan J. Baker, were unahimcusly adopted: Whereas, at the recent session of the General Assembly the county of Charleston ba3 been put In the 9tb judicial circuit, and by reason thereof P. T. Hildebrand. E q , will no longer be the solicitor in this ounty; and Whereas, his official labors termi nated with the session of the Court Just closed: Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Bar of Charleston in meeting as sembled, That we part with our BO licitjr with regret, and further, thal we express to him our thanks for thc very ?b'.e manner 1 J which be bas rep resented the State In the pro.ecutlon ut casus in the Court of General Ses sions, and for the many courtesies shown the members of the Bar; and we commend bim to the people aud Bar of the new circuit to which he has been assigned. Solicitor Hildebrand expressed his appreciation of the kindnesses shown him here and his regret at being cnt off from Charleston County. In speak ing of the change in the circuits Thc News and Courier says: "Mr. Hilde brand bas been solicitor of thc 1st olr cult, Including Charleston County, for the past four years, and has establish ed a record for successful prosecutions second to none in the S.ate. He has recently bren re elected for a four year term and will continue to serve the new 1st circuit, comprising hld hom,e county of Oranyeburg, Djrches ter, Berkeley and Georgetown. AD able speaker, genial and courteous, he has made many friends in Charleston, who regret the loss ot his sarvices to this county as well as the fact that his visits will neither be AO frequent or so prolonged." CALL FOR EVIDENCE. Pcrauns Are Urgnd tn Como Vor ward ami Toll All. At its meeting last week the dis pensary investigating committee de cided to issue a call for all persons In the State who have evidence against the munagoment ci the State dispen sary to come forward with lt. The county p <p:rs are requested to copy the fo lowing, which ls the official I eill: "All p rsorsln this or any other State ar? requested to send any infor mation In their p ssosslou relating to the affairs c f the South Carolina State (lisp! nsary which ls the cause of an\ complaint. T toy are also requested to sta'e full)- any fasts that the) have, as to irrr.'u'.arltics, mismanage nient or corruption therein, or of an> one cinnectid therewith, with sug gestions a3 to how the truth of the same may bn. properly ascertained. "Ntl communication will bs con slderi d unless signed by the parties sendii g it, hut the name < f the s<md cr wilt not be given to the public If such be. d sired. Communications should be sent to either of th" unders'gned. "J. T. HAY. Camden, S. C., "C. 1). BLKASK Newberry, "N. CHRISTENSEN, Jr.. Beaufort, "A. L. Ci ASTON, Chester, "T. B. FRASER; Sumter, "D. A SPIVBY, Conway, "J. FitASKK LYON, \hheville." Thu Valuo nt Bu .i,?. An orui'liologist recently asserted that except for the destruction of bird life in Texas, there would have been no cotton boll weevil plague. Tuln may or may not be correct; yet lt in coming to bo generally recognized that the farmer has no bettor friends than the birds ll.lng about, his acres destroying insects and the seeds of noxious weeds. And there ls to be noted a movement in several of the States to the end of protecting the hirds-game and non game-because of their good ofll -es to the farmer. It is the nature of birds to feed on In sects and seeds. The Investigation of the stomachs of doves, partridges, sparrows and larks bas shown that their food consists almost wholly of bugs, worms and seeds of weeds. In the st m ii ch of one dove, examiued by a scientist, there were found ap proximately 2,500 seeds of weed?; and this was ono day's feeding. lu the stomachs of several partridges moro than 90 per csnt of the food was found to be bugs and worms destruc tive to vegetable life. Should not these facts be sufficient to commend doves and partridge's to the most dis tinguished consideration of the farm ers and law-makcrsv One little spar row that was killed in a cotton deld bad forty army worms in its stom ach. Wasn't that enough to make the cotton farmer tho friend of the sparrow? Muat 8i:rvo Hts Hontonoo. The supreme court Wednesday ren dered a decision In the case of Mor gan Thralkill, convicted in Saluda of manslaughter and sentenced to lifo imprisonment. Ho was convloted of killing Vau Burton, white, last year. The court affirms the decision and Thralkill must serve his sentence un less executive domeney should inter fere. S? ?OLFYISESI! n Ohr. D? oin? or AG io i ev sty j fl~ht!3g qualities. ll, Ginnery and any one owning IJ?J?LT00.. , ' ' Ixinory Supply house of the State e & Cement L;o ON? 8. C. ids. High Grade Hoofing iVrite for prices i All Drugand Tobaooo 1 Habits, as tit vite, of ?9. C rabis, 8. (J. 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Ashley, a minis ter of the Ohrlbtlan church, residing near Newport, Tenn., was given a sentence of Qf teen months in the peni tentiary in the federal court Wednes day, for violating the pension laws. In investigating bis case, a pension jzaminer discovered that he was a Digamist. After Ashley had been glaced on the pension rolls, a North karolina woman claiming to be his wife, made application for a division >f the pension. Ashley swore she vas not his legal wlfo, but that his wife was a Tennessee woman. In vestigation proved that Ashley mar led his first wife in 1865 and had rever obtained a divoroe, but had ibandoned her thirty years ago, mar rying a second time after earning to Tennessee ?to reside. He pleaded guilty of perjury and may be prose cuted for bigamy when he has served ils federal sentence.