Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BURGLAR SGIENGE Described by a Reformed Yegg man ia His Testimony AGAINST HIS PALS. He Says that South Carolina ls an Easy Proposition for Professional Bur glars. Says Cracking Safes io this State !s Just Like Finding Money. "South Carolina's the easiest State to operate In," said John MoCartby, ahas John O. Dandrell, the reformed yeggman, who has been given a short respite from the Vermont State peni tentiary to come to Charleston as a State's witness to testify in the safe blowlrg and p-jstortlce robbery cases last week In the Untied States circuit court, the remark being made in pre facing a description of the manner in which the y(gg nen do their work. During the past three or four years there have beeu made robberies of safes and vaults in posolllets and banks in South Carolina, and McCar thy was probably telling the truth, when he made the plain and candid statement, the corroboration of the many witnesses to his testimony In the robbery cases, durlrg the past week, having shown that tue reform ed yeggman can tell the truth and really seems desirous of making a clean breast of bis past and starting life anew. McCarthy has operated in many States in the Union, including the distant California, Mexico, Ari zona, as well r s the States along the Atlantic seaboard, South Car dina, North Carolina, Virginia, Massachu setts, Rhode Island and V< rmout, his robbery of a bank at Newfane, in the last named State a few months ago, resulting In bis conviction and a sen tence ul a term of seven years in the pentiary at Windsor. His testimony on this point is certainly competent, and lt m ght be better classed as "ex pert" testimony. The statement that South Carolina is an easy mark-"lt's just like Und ing mouey," as McCarthy went ou to explain-ls riot through any lack of etUeiency In tho care of postotllees and bank vaults In this State, but became of the sparsely settled condition com paratively speak ii g, and the "open character of ti e country," which en ables the yepgmen to easily make their escape, alter a "job," as the op eration of breaKh g aLd robbing safes is termed, lu the more thickly set tled communities of the North and West, the robbe is run greater chances of arrests, and when they lind an easy mark they naturally woik lt, and this is why there have been so many safes blown and robbed In ?south Carolina during the past few years, and it fur ther accounts for eleven men no.v servicg terms in the Federal prison at Atlanta, fieut up bv Poslollice Inspec tor Gregory and the other lynx-eyed detectives of the Post?nico Depart ment, with the certainty that the number will be increased by several more convicts, as a result of the pres ent term of the circuit court. "The first thing we do wdien we reach our base of operations," saii McCarthy, "ls to secure a Cram's map, giving the names and location of banks in cur vicinity, for we always try to proceed Intelligently in our woik, and the banks are more invit ing tbau postotllees. A job is usually done by four men, although some times there may be three, but four at least is almost necessary for a success ful operation. When we secure the map, we study the railr; ad time ta bles and the general topograpical fea tures of the immediate section. We select tho bank and one or more of the gang will go 'scouting* to see that the job can be safely pulled clT. Ti e police protection of tho town is in ves tlgated, and attention is giv.n to the movements of trains and general ave nues of escape, as web as a place where we may safely meet before be ginning woik. A mau will go imo the bank ur pi st: tile ito lave a hill chanced that, he m ght survey the. lo cati >n of things ana as the '.-conting' is a most important part of the j tb, it is always cart fully attended to, sometimes two ur three days beleg devoted to this work. The scout re turns to the bas aod acquaints the party of his ii ve.slig.alon, and if his report is favorable, a time is then fixed for the Job and arrangements made accordingly. "Thc pn.pa,ai ions of the nitro glyc?rine is a matter of the lirst con cern, of course, and Ic- me . ay r ght here, lt makes a man awfully sick io handle, lt, even cir ry lng ir, in a grip. The fun.es will turn a ti an'sstomach, and some tin es make bim sick for two or three days. On account of Its dangerous nature, we can't buy it, and weare fore; d totx'ract it from dynamite, which we usually steal from a quarry or magazine, near the hts; of opeerati'ns. "We neur start out on a j b with less than a pint of the explosive, f r we. need a 1 as a quar ter or a half pint for a j- b. We lak< about ten slicks, six Inches lung and a half ?neil in diameter, crumble ii in a piece of c o' h, and then place it > us p;nderi io a can <if warm water. We keep constant ly renew tho warm wa ter. which gi v. s the operation tin name of 'cooking tho soup.1 As the glycerine comes out of the dynamite lt bBing heavier than the wat i, 1 drcps to tbe bottom of the can, and when we have s .Meiern iv extracted the glycerine, we. draw t ff the water from ab ive thc explosive by means of a syringe. Tue glycerine is thin strained for we. have to get t ut all particles of dust, in order to make lt Bater in handling ?ndalo for better results, when we use on a safe. "One man will carry the bottle of glycerine and thc tonis, which consist of a few cakes e f . oap, drills and im plements, but gen rally speaking, we do not laden our.-,- Ives with tonis, for we always lind a blacksmith's shop, ora railroad section house at s me point convenient to thc joh, which we ; break open and got the brace, sledge hammer and a few ebb els or crow- ? bars to prize the outside dour of the i bank or post ill e and t in n to operate, i willi on the b^nk or vault. "In going to the place we all do nut 1 go together. One or two will make some other point nearby, that thc sus- i picions of thc conductor and train 1 crew may not bo excited. Wc drop i off the train as near together, how- 1 ever, as we can mid then wc. make the 1 point of ronrle/.voup, generally in the I woods at some point already agreed ! upon. Much of our mecess dtp-nels i upon eluding the railroad people and ? town authorities and this is not easy, i when a train ls In charge of such a \ man as Conductor Blanchard, to whom 1 ls more due than any other person i that tbe bank at St. George was not robbed, as was testified in court a few < days ago. A wide awake conductor will come near to putting oil our Job at any time. "Tho time of operating ls between midnight and 2 o'clock in the morn ing. Wo time ourselves to begin work about 12 o'clock. Well, the first thing we do, upon coming from under cover -and by the way, wo don't bother to dlguise ourselves with false beards and all tbat sort ot thing, usually held in the publio mind-is to take a stroll through thc streets about thc bank or postofflce. We look carefully. It may be necessary to catch a watchman, gag him and tie him up, but wa ohmau like to sleep when everything gets quiet, and things are quiet in the aver age country town at midnight. We get the tools, and if our keys dj not fit the locks wo then break open the do >r and reach the safe or vault. Two men stay on the outside to watch, while tho othjr two, with an electric flash light, or dark lantern, get to work on the safe. The importance of the men un the outside 1J shown by the break ers waiting on their signal for the blowing cf the Bafe. When the holes have been drilled and prepared for blowing it ls the men on the outside who Rive the slgnol for the act, on the principal that if any sus picious movement of aa officer or neighbor has been noted, the noise of tbe explosion may be deferred until things again become quiet. The reporr of glycerin? ii sharp and quick noise wbich especially cominendB Its use, for hardly does it take place than lt ls all over and if lb should be heard by anybody in the neighborhood, they soon turn over in their b.^ds and gc back to sleep, believing tbat they dreamt of the repjrt. "A safe is a 'poto' in the parlance of yeggman. The two men on the in Ide get down on their knees bofore lt and begin work. They thoroughly soap tbe crevices of the outside door, and then begin to drill the hole for tbe cotton, saturated with the glycerine. Toe hole is drilled between the com bination and the bandle, close to thc combination, first with a quarter-Inc' drill, then, wlt'i a live-eight and next with a half-inch drill. Into this hole ls placed the saturated cotton, cou nected with a cvp and fuse, which art held lu place with s ap which alst deadens the sound. Then, everythim is ready for the signal from the t ut side. It is given and the explosloi takes place in the lock box on the in side, breaking the lock and sometime forcing the f oor off the hinges. Tn operation of blowing the safe require Just a certain amount, for a too beav 1er charge of glycorine might kneel of the handle and jjim the dour am ?Ive trouble. Once the outside doo is i ff then the yeoman turo their at tenti jn to the inside sheet do.ir, whiel is caller! the 'ktister' in the languag of the safe blowers. This is the hard est door to open, and the blowers ar some times at their wits ends to ge on the inside. A bole ls drilled un the explosive is inserted. Another ei plosion takes place, and probably onl I one sheet of metal comes off. A bo! is loosened or knocked out of plac? and Into this opening another cbarp of glycerine ls inserted, and this oj oration is continued until the door linally down aud the cash drawer rifll .d. "The work of blowing a safe r quires about an hour and a half, at Immediately at its conclusion the gat makes off as soon as possible. Vi 'strike across country1 unless a co veulent freight train passes, neve however, dividing tho booty until d; lighr. on the next morok g Some tina we have to bury the trc-asure, or part of it, and the tools having to 1 hidden some times, too. When \ take the train we never ride mo than about twenty-five miles, when ^ then strike aero s country, putth further distance between us and o pursuers. In hurrying the tool bag treasure, we always carefully sele the place, making it easy of fiudii upon our return. "Dodging bloodhounds is done 1 attaching a small ph ce of cloth, sa uraitd. with the oil of mustard to t heels . f our snnes. ' We us<":d to u vaseline withl doforra, but the trout about tl.-ls drug is that we could n ?et the stroll off our clothes wh we wan? cd to do so. ?o the oil mustard is now us d to advantage, dodging officers we have a merry tic of it. some times being cf ten forced . ace tlie music It all depends up the character cf the man or men the hear! of the p sse." McCarthy could not help but sm as he thought of somo town mars- i who have stood in doorwa\s wb tirol upon, and noon the yeggmen g ting out of the way of harm, th tiri; g their guns in the air, makii gnat, profession of carnpsm> s-. ai vigilance tn hold their jobs. M:C? thy can tell some Interesting thb nf what town officers have railed do, hut, this ls n it his business, or I elma?ion at this time. There are many other interest! things that McCarthy cn tolland r teil to a reporter of T e Even'&g Poi which would nuke good newspar. stories, but he is now trying to ll down ills past and the story of 1 aivpn'ures in many States, with tin i hrlhir g epis- des and such Sidellgl as beam cist upon them, are loft t repnr ed at this lime. McCarthy I re'ormd. Ile has hopes Of making useful citizen oat of tilca-e'f one tm se days. Ile has been assigned tho shoe manufactory department his prison, a trade which he may f low when he bids farewell to the pr on wu Us. McCarthy will spend a part of 1 time in pris .n, writing a story of 1 adventures, which will be printed ncok form, and from the public terest which attaches to the busln <-f blowlucrand robbing safes, the bc ought t ) take well In South Carollt Tiie term of seven years is a good lo while to upend behind walls ot ur, ite, but McCarthy seems perfectly signed to h?3 fat-i. U \ ls determin to he a better man In the future, a having broken off with his associa' be is c?rtalo to amount fco sumo thi in his remaining days. He ls a stroi well built man of twenty five yoi of age, and |ho will leave thc pr?? at an age when Ids faculties on^ to bi well developed, and ready to ? ?ogo in an honest and honorable t sai ion, as his whole purpose shows ?.If now. lils first robbery was N >rfolk, in July, 1898, and his li lias brien committed. McCarthy is a native of Phllad phla. The names by which he ?cnown are his bobo names. He c lot say now where be will finally Ht ife anew, but he ls bent upon doi letter, and bo has no fears or doul that ho will succeed in his purpo Ho fears no assault by the men up .vhem he lias voluntarily turr state's evidence, and in this he pn tbly counts upon the governmt jutting his former accomplices bo'nlnd iho prlfiou walis, and trusting that ;hey too might make a similar deter mination to-lead a better life and be ?omo useful oltizenB upon being again ilven their liberty.-Charleston Post. THE ?ADDK8T WORDS. ROT. Or. Hillls' Opini?n or Itomr.rko of Young Rockefeller. In the course ol his sermon in Fly - 1 mouth church, Brooklyn, recently, ' the Rov. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillls ' referred to the gift of $100,000 made i by John D. lt eke felier to the A ra er i can Board of Foreign Missions, and to Mr. Rjokefeller'8 son. He said in part: "The saddest words that have been written in this generation were spoken before Brown university by a young man who ls to inherit one of the greatest fortunes in this country. They were spoken in defense of the trusts. Listen to them: 'The Ameri can Beauty rose can bc produced in all Its splendor only by s iori ticing the early buds that grow up around lt.' The rose lias 1.000 buds and in order to produce the American Beauty the gardener goes around it with a knife and snips 909 in order that all the strength of the beauty may be forced into o .o bloom. lu his ec nomlo argument this young mau tells the working classts brutally that 999 small business men must bi snuffed out of existence in order that his American beauty, the trust, may be produced. Listen to Christ: 'Let the strong bear the burdens of the weak;' and again: 'Give and it shall be given unto ynu.' "These words in defense of the trusts are the most heartbreaking tbings in the literature to those who know what ls g ring t) come In the fnture. Can you wonder that after that, when a man gives gifts, we have no gratitude to return?" HUNDRED ARS Ot? WiATHEB. Cold Dsyn in Goorala anti South Car ol i nu For a Century Pant. The following interesting clipping frt m an old die of the Augusta Chron icle si,o ?.s the cold days in Georgia and South Carolina for the past one t uudred years. It will be read with Interest: 1804-Cotton killed In May. . 18H5 -The ccld summer. 1818-Great drought, cotton 32 cts. per pound. 1827-28-Mild winter. Leaves and cot ten no* k'l el. 1830-Great drought. 1835-February 7, the cold Satur day. 1840-"riarrlson freshet" in May. 1844-Another cold sa ntrer. 1849-Great sleet April 15lh, kills cotton and corn. 1851-Jauuary 21, sec ind coldest day known in the south. 1855-Fine crop year. Hotsummir. 1800-Largest cotton crop to that date. Hot summer. 1862-Great fruit crop. 18(14-Cold summer, no fruits. 1866-Hot summer, no fruit. 18(57-Great crop and great decline in p-ic-s. 1875- March 20, great cyclone. 1880-December 30, temperature at zjro in Middle Georgia. 1882 -Largest oat crop ever made in Ge rgia; corn and cotton crop 1884-L-.ng fall drought, nearly three mouths. 188C-January 8 14, intense cold; Savannah river at Augusta solidly frozen. 1887- Hot summer; temperature at 100 bi June and July and heavy rains 1888- Wet summer; poorest crop year in many years; no fruit; great freshest in Augusta; September 10th, higln r than ever known. 1889- Fr?stln uppsr Georgia, June 1st, and abnormally cud In southern parts; drought In M ty greatly retards crop:-; much cotton not up June IC; great peach crop, first in several years. Kc, icc donn Of A Bachelor. A girl never uuderesr.imites the importance to t >e world of titles matinees and bonbons. When a man retires from business to t-ik> life ea^y, he has t'i get up all the earlier to pull his son out of bed. There is F.omet-hlng ubout a wo min's hat that makes a man fe .1 sym pathy for the inventor of Hying ma cliinvs. You can always c nvince a woman that it is ra oe becoming for her to wear her hair tho way s ie does than it would b: for any to iv else. When you hear a man praising his neighbors It's doughnuts tu fudge he wants to sell his house. Nothing gives a woman's religion sued a jolt a ? the suggestion that she got thc husband heaven really intend ed fur her. Now the summer girl will soon hu gill to freeze on to the reckless youth who has a mania, for squandering his coln for l'-e c-eam. Killed too Bborijr. Sher'IT J. M. Poag of Tate county, Miss., was sh .t and killed Wtdnesday by eight maski d men, names unknown, who entered the Jail and made an in eff c ual attempt to liberate James White, a white prbioner who is to be placed on trial on a charge of murder. O ?e of the invaders was wounded. Ti ey gained an entrance to the J ill beforo Sheriff Poag was aware of it Poag ordered them to leave; when they refused to do so he fl red, wound lng one man. The others (ired on tlie sheriff, two bullet? taking effect, one parsing the left lung. Tue men then left, taking their wounded c -rnpanton with them. Sheriff Po&g died an hour later. Four of the men were arrested later. Died While ; i ? ic it k i ti ir. At Atlanta, Ga., Washington Dt-ssau of Macon, one of the most pro minent members of thc Geo-gla har, died Wednesday willie adrirea-dng the supreme court of Hie State. The cause :if the death was apoplexy, which re mited fatally within io minutes after lie was attacked. Mr. Djssau was aorn In Maori tn July, 1852. He was graduated fron the University of Georgia In 1870 and began at once the iludy of his profession, ne was pr?v ient of the Georgia Bar association n 1892, a member of the electoral collection lu 1883, anti was a delegate is large from Georgia to the national Democratic convent ion in 1S88. Two ?VIinerti Found Dead. A special from Gadsden, Ala , says iwo miners, Bob Ileald and Horace Williams, were found d ;ad In a coal nine near Atalla Wednesday. Fifteen oilier., left the mino Tuesday night on iccouut of bad air, but tho two went lack to Investigate and did not re urn. It ls nor, known whother they lied from black damp or beoauso hot dr was pumped Into tho mine. A LAST APPEAL rc- Cotton Farmers to Reduce Their Cotton Aircngo, \ml Bavo Thomsoivcu ?nd ?11 Other Bnelnoss Mon from Banlo rnptoy Next FAIL The recent government report esti mating tiie total cotton yield of last season at 13,597,782 bales should for aver dissipate any furtive delusions on part of large or small planters tbat they oan play fast aud loose with their restriction determination and depend on fate and Sully or any other factor to beat off a return of the low price era next fall, says the Atlanta (J institut lon. Unless we are greatly mistaken in its gauging of the situa tion, the agricultural interests of tbe south will grasp the full meaning of this ominous report and ding to the programme outlined by their state and geueral organizations as the one sure rock of safety for the coming season. It is extremely probable that the total crop of 1904 05 will touoh four teen million bales, with allot the cot ton not >et in slight or otherwise un accounted for. Of this sum a large proportion will bo consumed, part of it at fair prices and part at prie? s compelled by tho bear? lu the time of market distress. A large percentage of tbe current crop will likewise bc held over and added to next year's yield, if the present tenacity ot the farmers cont iuues. If, therefore, the south duplicit?s this spring the aoreage of last spring, little imagination is required to fore see that calamitous cona;-.nonce. To a degree, of course, the bumper crop of last year was due to abnormal cli matic c -nditlons, which will hardly bc repeated in their entirety during the impending season. It is a matter of plain logic, however, to anticipate an other overwhelming yield, should there be co restriction in the 1904 acreage, even though the meteorolog ical conditions of the two seasons were at radical variance. For the southern farmers to gD to market next fall with a thirteen or even a twelve million-bale crop, to' which must be added the one or two millions admittedly lobe carried over, will bi to precipitate, at the very be ginning of the marketing season, the disastrous prices which prevailed last December. Indeed, with unscrupulous speculators armed by the middle of June with the knowledge that them has been no perceptible decrease in a :reige, and with the anticipated glut in the market from the present hold lng movement, it would be by no means surprising or unnatural if they were able to hammer c"own prices to a new low-water mark. It ls need'ess tu enlarge on the meaning of such a catastrophe to every state in the south. Right now in the thick of tho plant ing season, when they have it in their power to dictate the autumn prices for their product more surely than the most ingenious clique of speculators, they must divest themselves of the fa tal delusi m that SDmehow, by scm? unfathomable, mysterious necroman cy, they can produce an overwhelm ing crop and obtain for it tho prices paid for a smaller one. The case is one of plain self-preser vation, the confronting of a proven condition, nob a casuiflin,._theory. Whether from speculative, 'lugglery, tbe bona tide laws of supply '-.nd de mand or auy other agenoy, theWrtin ent, inescapable fact stands QJiu. that a crop even approaching the dimen sions of the i ne of last year meats low prices and consequent disaster to the farmers and the cotton states gen erally. This being the case, it ls not only the duty, but the Interest, of every cotton farmer to reduce his aore age radically, flinging finally from him the temptation to co otherwise, Low pri"es for one planter mean low prices for all, a fact that should secure the universal observation of the restric tion propaganda. We have no intention of as^umintr the hysterical pese of the alarmist. Hut, in common with tho most ob scure farmer, we cannot view with re lh.h the p"ss bllity of a repetition of the old, haggard, low price years, with private and i ubllo ere it prostrate in many loca'iiies, bu-lness stagnant and l?velop n.;nt it a standstill. Yet, in our sincere judgment, that is one < f tue risks contingent on the produc tion of another record-breaking crop next year. We cannot believe that the s luthern farmers, bearing in mind these nightmare possibilities, will de bb irately elect to exouangf for them ?be comparative ease aud affljence of the last three years. Fatal Saloon Brawl. I^y J oj co, a bar;ender, was killed an1 John Djyle, one of the proprie tors and a waiter, named Weston, were injured s-eriously Thui-sday in a Haloon brawl, on West Tnirty-flrst street, New York. A party of men and women became disorderly an1* were refused service. They refused to leave and the walter removed the table. One of the men drew a knlef and began cutting right and left Joyce received injuries, whloh q lick ly proved mortal. Seventy-five per sons were In the place. Among those who csciped was the man wdio elia the cutting. William F. Q-iiney, one of the proprietors, and four walters were arrest) d. All declare they used no weapons, and acled In self-defence. The party causing the trouble was composed of eight womon and two men who drank champagne freely. Haco War In Kansas. A dispatch from Coffey ville, Kan., says a race war has been narrowly averted here as the result of an as sault hy a negro upon Mrs. John Grif fith (white), wife of a machinist. In anticipation of a clash the Mayor is med a pn c'amatlon ordering all citi zens to dlsaim, and many special of licers were sworn in. Negroes have tieen arming to prevent the lynching if any innocent negro. Wednesday in attempt to disarm a number of jlacks resulted In a dozen revolvers icing leveled.at Chief of Police Smith's lead. Other negroes rushed to tho iccne, but a body of whites stopped diem with leveled rifles. There were nany arrests. Toe negro who as laulted Mrs. Gritllth ls still at largo. Ktlloil in a Hint. Five hundred shots were fired and a ?uaiber of men were wounded in a lot, which resulted in the death of ?wo miners, Elias llauklnen and John Sckdahl. at nibbing, Minn., Wed ?esday. The riot followed a strike of nlners at the Hull and Rust mines, vho were refusod an advance of 25o a lay. When the night crew went to york a body of strikers ann. d with liles fired. The miners returned the Iro. This surprised the strikers who led, leaving llankinen and Eckdahl lead on the ground. PRESIDENTS IN RETIREMENT. Only Ten Lived lion ger Th RH Mr. Cleveland Alter TJO.IVi ncr Office. ' Only ten men who have held the office of president reached or sur passed Mr. Cleveland's present age of 68; only six exceeded it by so much as '. ten years, and none exceeded lt by quite 20 years. Only ten president* hive survived their retirement from office longer than Mr. Cleveland, and four of these lived to a great age. Washington, who survived hi* re- . tirement less than three years, ( thought himself an old man when be was first made provident at 'ho age bf 67. John Adams survived his retire ment a quarter of a century, and his son, John Quincy, who outlived bis retirement nearly 20 years, waa the only president who had nearly as con spicuous a public career after occupy ing the preaidenoy as before. Monroe's slr years after bis retire ment from office were parsed in com parative obscurity as a resident of this city, and his dying hours were embittered by scandalous accusations in connection with Jackson's selzur.j of Spanish forts In Florida during the first Seminole war. Polk outlived his retirement less than a year, and there is every reason to supp so that bad Arthur compassed bis ambition of an election to the presidency in 1884 he would have died early in his term, for he outlived hli> retirement less than two years. Tyler, who outlived his retirement j 20 years, emerged f tom obscurity near the end of his life to preside over the vain peace convention on tho eve of the Civil war. He afterward served in the congress of the Confederate States. Buchanan lived more than neven years after his retirement and tcok the epportunlty to write what was In effect a defense of his administration. Jefferson and Jackson were the only presidents who exercised a really pow erful Influence over ?party councils af ter their permanent retirement from puhlic office, though Van Huron was an active politician as lurg as he had hope of renomination at the hands of any party. Johnson was the only retired presi dent to enter th? United States sen ate, and the younger Adams was the only one to serve In the house of rep resentatives. Cleveland and Harrison have been the only retired presidents to be con? splcuously successful in private bus! ness. It ls not generally known that Mr. Cleveland still serves as consult ing counsel in law cases, in which his experience in the olllco of president may be supposed to have given him special qualifications as au adviser. His fees in such cases are large, as were tho.;e of Mr. Harrison as a legal adviser and a lecturer on oonstitu tional law.-??ew York Sun. WHAT bULLY BAY8. The Cotton Kin? (?Iv? WIBO Advice to Southern Plantora. "To the uotton Growersofthe South. "If you wish to win your battle and obtain a fair price for your cot ton you must reduce your acreage very considerably. "You have surprised the world by the manner in which you 'nave held your cotton. "Surprise it again by cutting down your cotton acreage. "Do not be led astray by the pres ent 8teadlr_e;s of prices. "Three eames have contributed to bring about this rise cf more than one cent a pound. "First: The urgent demand aris ing from an unprecedented oousump t on "Second: Your courage aad wis dom in making the buyer meet your terms. ' Third: The belief that you would out your acreage to such an extent that the supplios from this crop and the growth of 1905 06 would n.ake a oommeicial cr jp no larger than the wor.d needs. ' The first two causes loss their force the moment it ls known that there is a prospect for a moderately largo cr ip n xt year. "Ev.u if the mills take 12,000,000 hale-, ouring tbe current season, this would leave a oarry-over-?f 1,??? O?? bales Hence the necessity of a smaller crop this year. "Do not let any rise in prices be tween now and the end of the plant iniz seuson deter you from reduclug your acreage "Such an advance would be merely anticipating that you" wert making the decrease which your friends have advi ed you to make. "If the June report of the govern ment shows that you have failed to make sufllcient reluotlou the only persons who would be gainers by the advance would be the speculators who sell out their futures at a prolit. "The price of the cotton yiu pro duce will be regulated bv the.uctual, not the expected, rec uctlon. "Don't dep -nd on your neighbor to do tile reducing. "In this matter of acreage reduc tion bear in mind three suggestions: "Don't rely on b\d weather to cut down the size of the crop. "Don't put a large acreage into cotton simply because it ls too late to plant corn or other diversified crops. "lt would b? far better to let part of your land He idle than to run the risk of raising a crop so large as to make possible another period of low priced cotton. "I am making this appeal to you because I regard the next few weeks as critical to thc south and because I believe that every man who ls Inter ested in the welfare of the south Bliould urge the importance of a ro duced acreage. "DJUSIEL J. SULLY." WOIM.m a Suicido. The body of Mrs. Grace Loomis, who claimed to bo the wife of Charlea Loomis, said to be a millionaire, was found Thursday in a balf-tlllle:l hath tub in a fashionable boarding bouse in Chicago. Frequent throats that she intended to kill herself leave no doubt of suicide. Domestic trouble was the cause. Ilattlor Miiowcd Fight. An apparently dead four foot rat tlesnake which-Joshua Butler of Pitts burg, Pa., brought td* Iiis home hore for its skin and rattles thawed out and attacked his child. Miner John Mc Mahon killed the snake with a dub just In time. The making of shoes for dogs has now developed Into quite a big in dustry and is especially nourishing in Labrador. Tho dogs attaohed to sledges travel at a great speed over tho rough leo and some protection for the feet ls necessary. Tho shoes aro made of sealskin. ORANGEBU?G BANKS Eave Million! of Collars on Eoposil. in their Vault?. The County HM Ton Bank?, All ol 1 Willoh Aro Doing Well an? Mn kl nj: Money. The quarterly Btatesments of the various banks of thc city and county of Oraugrburg for the quarter ending Marou 31, showing tbe quarter of business on that day, gives an inter estlng insight into the fluanolal condi tion of Otangcburg County. There are four banks in the olty of Orangeburg as follows: BaukofOr angeburg, K isto Savings Bunk, Peo pie's Bank and Farmers' and Mer chants' Bank. These four banks have a combined caph al of $210,000, and a combined surplus of net earnings of about $125,000 additional, which may be classed as a part of the capital These four banks had on dr.oosic on March 31, in r. und figures, thr-e quarters of a million d- liars. To gether the combined capital Burplus and deposits of tbe banks of the city aggregate considerably more than a miillor dollars. Tnere are six other banks in the smaller towns of the county, ten banks in all in Orangeburg County, and independent of capital and sur plus there was about a quarter of a million dollars on deposit in these outside banks of the county on the date of tho statement. The aggre gate amount on deposit in the various ten banks of Orangeburg County now foots up very close to a million dol lars. All of the banks of the county show a steady ino ease in amount of de posits, earnings and volume of bust ness. The greater number' of the.>e banks have been organized within the past few years, and all are prosperous and successful. In business circles lt is recognized that the business and conditions of the banks of a communi ty reilict che general welfare and business conditions of that c.immuni ty. .The showing above ls taken at a season of the year when there is gen erali? a minimum rather than a maxi mum amount of money In tho cjunty. The best showing financially, as ,1s well known, can be made during the fall and winter months. Ten years ago or ev?n five years ago nothing like tbe above showing could be made from the s:atemcuts of the banks of j the county. The business growth of Orangoburg city, as well as its growth in buildings and population, during recent years have been enormous, and the busi ness conditions of the city, which is I the county seat and business centre of this large and fertile county, rtilx'.s I a general advancement and prosperi ty for the entire county that ls noth ing less tuan remarkable. Orange burg County has had little outside capital to come In to build up its towns and communities is the work of the native citizens and hume capital almost entirely. O;angeburg County is almost ex clusively an agricultural section and the towns aro almost entirely depen dent upon agriculture for their sup port. Tills fact is worthy of consid oration, and there are few larne man ufacturing establishments in the county to accomplish big things or handle large sums of money. It is true that there are a few successful factories in the ciunty, two success ful cotton mills in tho city, but the number ls exe edlngly small for a oouty of the siz ? aud wealth of Or angeburg County. This county is a fair Illustration of what is being done all r>\i r the South, and the North and Eist may weli keep their eyes ou tLe S ;uth for the next decade. Greater tilings are yet In the m iking all over the South, and there is no finer fit ld in the entire Southern country for thc investment of capital and launching of huslne-.s enterprises than the county of Orange burg and the city of Orangeburg. A Hr liliane aitU 1 Jin-.i lile W bitOWaStl This ls known us t'^e goverum nts whitewash, and no mttter how often it appears lu print, there is always a call for 'ts rcappearli g. As lt must beapplied not t > any surface, it should be made or kept in a large kc;tie or portable furnace, in order to h at as wanted. It is claimed that about a pint of the mixture will cjver a square yard up:>n the outside of a he use, if properly applied and that it Is suit able for wood, bri :k or stone, answer ing as well as oil pain's, and being much cheaper, and will retain its brilliancy for >ea?s. Brushes large or smnll are to be used, according to the neatness of the job required. Coloring matter may be used, varying thc tint ingi to suit the taste. No 'mattoe what quantity is desired, these are the pr? p rtions In which the Ingred ients are to be used. Half a bushel of go id, un-.la::ked lime; slack with boll lng water, cover during the process to keep the steam In; strain the liquid through a sl.'ve fine enough to retain all unslacked lumps. Hiss dve a pack of clean b irrel salt in a little water and add to the solution; boll to a thin paste 3 pounds of rice (rice fijur would be b.-tter) and stir into this boiling' hot; one pound of nice glue, previous ly dissolved (to disolve tho glue, lint soik until S )ft, then put into a vessel; immerse this ve-sol in another one larger and full of bnillroj water, and boll until liquid) In water, and half pound of whiting. To this mixture add five gallons of hot water, stirring well; cover closely and let stand sev eral days. When so good a whitewash as this is claimed to be can be so cheaply made, lt is strange that any far m-holder will live or let his stock live in dark dingy quarters. Now is the time to begin In earnest to Improve the borne. Mclaurin lift Hani. In the United States Circuit Court at Charleston on Wednesday a verdict for 841,030.28 was found against ex Senator John L. McL&urln in tl e suit of the International Trust company, of Baltimore, on a promissory note, the verdict being found by the Jury upon the Instructions of the court. Ttie suit grows out of the Industrial ventures In which the ex-senator engaged, upon the termination of his career In congress. As president of the Brunswick and Birmingham rail road and vice president of the Bruns wick and Western Construction com pany, Mr. Mr. Lau rh? gave his personal notes to the trust company, being in dorsed, however, by Frank A. Urn s'edt, who appears to have been one it the promoters of the pr< j ;et, in which the ex-senator was counect id. The industrial concerns seem to have been more on paper than in fact, but tho notes of Mr. McLaurin were valid, iven if the Industrial projects wore a 'alluro. K?LFYRE! Tbat is exactly what lt ls. al. day at the State Fair showing its fir Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw M property should have them. For sa COLUMBIA SI Columbia, J* G The ma Wblske I Morphine I Cigarct Habit, I Habit I Habit Cured by Keeley J 132a Lady St. (or P. O. Box 15) Cole se ol td. THE GUINARD COIvUMB r Manufacturers Brick. Fire Proof Flue linings and Drain Tile. Err or millions. ^'Wt ARE LO ? c* FOR YOUR " .COLUMBIA LUMBE COLUMBIA TH cl BUBAL FREE DJBLlVEaY How It Hts Developed Slneo tho Sys tem Was Started. So successfully has the rural free de livery system operated in the United Statt s, and so indispensable has the service become, that it has long ago passed the experimental stage, and is now one of the everyday business fac tors of the country. Probably the next unusual step in this regard will be the extension of j the service to Hawaii, Port > Rico, and the Philippine Islands. No routes have as yet been established in the Insular possessions, although one pe tition from Honolulu, asking for thc establishment of a route from that city into Walhall, was received and reported on adversely. Following are some faots in regard to this poupular service, made public a few days ag j, which are very inter esting: More than 5,000 new rural routes were established in the various states and teriitories during the ten months ended April 1, and over 1,000 addi tloual routes were authorized and will be put into operation within tbe next sixty days. At this rate, it will be but a comparatively brief time before every rural community In the country sufficiently populous to justify the service wi'l have rural free delivery. Postmaster General Cortelyou said re cently that tho present policy of ex tension would be continued, and that there would be no change save that an effort toward economy would be made wherever possible without curtailing the service. On April I there were 29, 090 rural routes in operation as against 24,568 i n June 30, 1904. Petitions for addi tional routes to the number of 4,521 arc pending, and of these, 1,016 have been authorized and will be started within sixty days. Illinois still leads In the number nf routes, having 2,450, as against 2.125 at the last report. Ohio has moved up into second place, with 2,161, as against 1,816. Iowa held second place ten months ago with 1,863, and now has 2,084 lodlana comes fourth, with 1,894, as against 1,658. The other states having a large, number of routes are as follows: Pennsylvania, 1.679; New York, 1,611; Michigan, 1.594; M asouri, 1,544; Kansas, 1,367; Wbcmsin, 1,203; Tennessee. 1.231; Texa*, 1,181, Minnesota, 1,141. Ne vada bas but 1 route, New Mexico but 3, and Wyoming but 5. The Ninth Iudiana district has more rural r utes than any other Con L'resslonal di-trier., having a total ot 201. The Eighth Indiana district c ?mes second, with 189_ CARS Fi'R MOT KEB. I toy H and Girle, tn Her Old ARC. Don't Ni'Rlect ilor. What can possibly be sadder than a mother neglected in ber old age. ? To think of all the pain, lorrow, trouble and anxiety she endured for u-t. ber many sleepless nights and ourdened days when she held in her arms the little feverish, fretful body who would allow no one else to hold lt to relieve her own weariness 1 Then wheo health again returned lt was still a continual cry for "mama ! mama !" the livelong day I And then to think that as the years pass the growing children will depend less and less on "mother" till Anally they cease a together to go to her for her c lunscl and care, aud think because she ls growing old, faded and wrinkled hat 3i e dues not care for love and tenderness as all other human beings do. They neglect to show her the small courtesies we feel due our younger frlerds, "because ehe will not notice tin m" or she ls "tco old fashioned to ULderstand" the up-to date politeness. To us at leait it ls a heart breaking spectacle to behold, for as "mother" grows older we should give her more Instead of les-, tif our love and tender care, and should honor her years and expe i leuce by asking her advice evon on trivial subj cts, for she will then feel that she ls still necessary to us and can have a snare In cur dally trials and joys as of yore, when she was all in all to us. Take my withered hands in yours, Children of my soul. Mother's heart is craving love, Mother's growing old. See the snows of many years Crown my furrowed brow. As I've loved and pet ed you, Love and pet me now. Lay your bands upon my head, Smooth my whitened hair, I've been growing old the whilo You've been growing fair. I have toiled and prayed for you Ask not why or how As I've loved and petted you, Love and pet me now. Take my withered hands in yours, Children of my heart, Mot ber's growing old, your love Makes of life sweet uart. Touch with loye my faded cheek, Kiss my anxious brow. As I've hived and petted you, Love and pet me now. Take my withered hands In yours, Hold them close and strong. Cheer me with a fond caress, 'Twill not be for long. Youth immortal soon will crown With its wreath my brow. As 1 loved and petted you, hove and pet me now. Take my withered hands in yours, This your heart will prove ; If you owe nie anything, Pay the debt in love. . Pre s me in your strong young arms, Breathe a loving vow That as I loved and petted you You'll love and pct mc now. BEI KUFYBSUI ce Killet. 03 axutracioa every ' e lighting qualities. Ul, Ginnery and any one own'ng leny LJPPLY?O./ ohinery Supply HOUPO of th* iStaTje Habita. :iuatftiite, of &. O mbia, 8. O. Cen?1 dont lal corr; sjfonu. BRICK WORKS, m IA, &- o. ; Terra Cotta Building Blocks, for g ?pared to fill orders for thousands _ * MEN?'WRITE TO ? DR. HATHAWAY ABOUT YOUR CONDITION. He has been Treating Diseases of Men for Twenty five Years. His Reputation is Firmly Established. . ^ ? VALUABLE BOOK' FREE. DR. HATHAWAY. Whose Knowledge Is Free to th Sick. Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, ot Atlanta, tho groat specialist in vho treatment of diseases of men,- wants to hear" sfjom eve iu-ui who reads this .vmonncomouflV^hc ii dieted wiUi any private disenso, Xxl lot JHim O' plain to thom his new a>stem oM 'driuj/ thia class of disease, whiah cures in hall1 i ho time required by tho old method. Dr. Hathaway lei. (KOO tenting diseases of mon for moro thoa a quarter century, and ho ia continually ordinating and perfecting now methods by which he eon euro i ho afilie tod. Ho has eurea patients scattored all ovor this country, whom ho has never seen, whose disease* he was ablo to euro by a system which ho has for curing tho dUlicted at a distance, and if you are aar? fering from any dispose peculiar to your sex, or any o thor disenso of a chronic or lingering nature, such us Stricture, Varicocelo, 'Nerv ous Do i li ty, Loss or Manhood, Blood Poison (Syphilis), Kidney and Bl iddor Complaints, Rheumatism, Diseases of tho Heart, Stomach and Liver, oto., you should immediately. wrlto thia great specialist, and let him explain to you tust what ?B ttio rature of your trbufci* and just what to do for rolief. Ho will conn sei and advise you for nothing-advice that ia based on 25 years of actual experience. A. great many men make, tho mistake of their lives by placing their casca with their local physician, for tho nvera^o practitioner no matter how competent ho may be, has not had tho experience necessary to successfully treat such delicate diseases. What you need, sad what you will bi) connie!led to resort to if you over got cured, is skillful, scientific treatment, administered byan exportspo- ialist whom you know is coin etent o treat you. Dr. Hatha way luis been established in Atlanta'"" or nearly li years, and his reputation is known to all. He hus built up tho largest practico in this', country by dealing honestly with the pooplo. I You UiKc no risk whntovor in dealing with him -you can always feol assured of a "square deal." You cannot expoct to go through life afflict ed with n disease that you know will eventual 11 lead you to a possible death, BO write Hr Hathaway a letter right now. telling him just how you suffer, and he will immediately send you his opinion of your case, accompanied by a valuable book on your disease, all of which is absolute y freo. (Javo no hesitancy in Writing him. Tho nnrmnnwit. p.ddressis J- NEWTON' HATHAWAY, UL D, 88 Inman Hld;;., Atlanta, Ga. 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