Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y_ BURGLAiWlWcl! Described by a Reformed Yegg man in His Testimony AGAINST HIS PALS, tie Says that South Carolina is an Easy Proposition for Professions! Bur? glare. Says Cracking Safes io this State Is Just Like Finding .Money. "South Carolina's the easiest State to operate in," said John McCarthy, alias John O. Dandrell, the reformed yeggmao, 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 bio wir g and postolllce robbery casen last week in the Uni'ed States circuit court, the remark being made in pre facing a description of the manner in which the ye gg nen do their work. During the past three or four years there have been made robberies of safes and vaults in pos'otil?is and banks In South Carolina, and McCar thy was probably telling the truth, when he made thc plain and candid statement, the corroboration of the many witnesses to his testimony In the robbery cases, durltg the past week, haviug shown that tue reform ed yeggman can tell the truth and really seems desirous of making a clean breast of his past and starting life anew. McCarthy bas operated In many States In the Union, including the distant California, Mexico, Ari zona, as well ts the States along the Atlantic seaboard, South Cst dina, North Carolina, Virginia, Mis-achu setts, Rhode Island and Vt rmout, his robbery of a bank at Newfane, In tue last named State a few months a^o, result!cg in bis conviction and a sen tence ol a term of seven years in the pentlary at Windsor. Hin testimouy on this point is certainly comp?tent, and it might be better classed as ''ex pert" testimony. The statement that South Carolina is an easy m irk-"lt's just like Und ing money," as MeCariuy went ou to explain-ls not through any lack of efficiency In the tare of poslctllees and bank vaults in this State, but b:cau:e of the sparsely settled condition com paratively speaki: g. and the "open character of the country," which en ables the yeggmen to easily make their escape, ait'-r a "j b. " ns the op eratlon of breakii g and robbing safes is termed. In the moro thickly set tled communities of thc North and West, the robbe is ran greater chances of arrests, and when they lind an easy mark tl ey naluialiy woik it, and this is why there have brou so many sites blown and robbed in South Carolina during the past few years, and it fur ther accounts for eleven men no.v servit^ terms in the Federal prison at Atlanta, se.it up bv Po donlee Inspec tor Gregory and the other lynx-eyed detectives of the Postoitice Depart ment, with thc certainty that the number will be Increased by several mere convicts, as a result of the pres ent term of the circuit court. "The first thing we do when we reach our base of operations," said McCarthy, "is to secure a Cram's map, giving the names and location of banks in our vicinity, for wc always try to proceed intelligently In our woik, and the backs are more invit ing than posteffices. 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 railnad time ta bleB and the general topograpical fea tures of the immediate section. We select the bank and ot c or more of the gang will go 'scouting' to see that the job can Le safely pulled cfT. Tbe police protection of tue town is invis tlgated, and attention is u'iv.n to the movements of trains and general ave nues of escape, as weit as a place where we may safely meet before be gloning woik. A man will go Into the bank or pesti Hie ; to bave a bill chanced that tie m gtit survey the lo cati m of tilings ana as the 'scouting' is a most important part of the j ib, it is always carefully attended to, some times two or three days being devoted to this work. The scout re turns to toe ttis?, aun acquaints the party of his ii vestlgatlon, and if bis report is favorable, a time is then fixed for the j ?b aud arrangements made accordingly. "The preparations of the nitro glycerine is a matter of the Lirst con cern, of c urse, and le", me tay r gin here, lt makes a man awfully sick io handle it, even carrying ir, In a grip. The fun.es will turn a u au's stomach, and some tin es make bim sick fur two or three days. On account of its dangerous nature, we can't buy lt, and weare for?ai to extract it from dynamite, which we usually sb al fr m a quarry or magazine, near the bis: of opeeratlons. *We neur start out on a j b with less than a pint of the explosive, f r wo need a 1 as a quar ter or a half pint for a j-, b. We lake about ten slicks, six Inches long and a half men in diameter, crumble ii in a piece of cloth, and then place it sus pended In a can of w-.un water. We keep const am ly renew the warm wa ter. which glVt'S the tip ira. ion the name cf'cooking tho soup.' As the gi} cerlue comes out of u e dynamity lt being heavier than the wat.i, it drops to the b.itt' m i f thc can, and when we have s .llidem ly rx* raced thc glycerine, wc draw t II thc water from ab ive thc explosive by means (if a syringe. Tuc glycerine is then strained for we have to get out all particles cf dust, in order to make lt sa'er In handling ?ndalo for better results, when wc usc on a safo. ' One man will carry the bottle of glycerine and the lo ls, which consist of a few cakes e f f.oap, drills and im pit menta, but gen. rally Bpraking, we du not laden ourselves with tools, for we always linda blacksmith's shop, or a railroad .section, house, at s me point convenient to the job, which we break open ant) get the brace, sledge hammer and a few chisels or crow bars to prize thc outside door of thc i bank or post 111 o and tin n to operate i with on thc bank or vault. 'Tn going to the place wo all do not i go together. One or two will make; some other point nearby, that the sus picions of the ci aductor and train : crew may not be excited; Wc drop i off the train as near t( gelber, bow- I ever, as wc can and then wc make thc i point of rendezvous, generally iii the 1 woods at some point already agreed upon. Much of our success depends upon eluding the ru I hoad people and ! town authorities and this is not easy, ; when a train 1B in charge of such a ] mac as Conduotor Blanchard, to whom i la more due than any other person that tue bank at St. George was not robbed, as was testified In court a few days ago. ? wide awake conduotor will come near to putting off our job at any time. "The time of operating ls between midnight and 2 o'clock In the morn ing. We time ourselves to begin work about 12 o'clock. Well, the first thing we do, upon coming from under cover -and by the way, we don't bother to diguise ourselves with false beards and all that sorb ot thing, usually held In the public mind-ls to take a stroll through the streets about the bank or postnfflce. We look carefully. It may be necessary to catch a watchman gag bim and tie him up, but wa obmau 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 do not fit the locks we then break open the doir and reach the safe or vault. Two men stay on the outside to watch, while ! the other two, with an electric flash light, or dark lantern, get to work on the safe. The importance of the men tm the outside ls shown by the break ets waiting on their signal for the blowing of the safe. When the holes have been drilled and prepared for blowing it ls the men on the outside who give the signol for the act, on the principal that If any sus picious movement of an oilicor or neighbor has been noted, the noise of the explosion may be deferred until things again became quiet. The repon of glycerin1; is sharp and quick noise wi-, ?ch especially commends Its use, for hardly dors it talco place than it ?H all over and if it should be heard by anybody In the neighborhood, they soon turo over in their b:ds and go back to sleep, believing that they dreamt of the repjrb. "A safe ls a 'pete' in the parlance of yeggman. The two men on the in ide get down on their knees before it and begin work. They thoroughly soap the crevices of the outside dour, and theo begin to drill the hole for the cotton, saturated with the glycerine. Toe hole is drilled between the com bination and the handle, close to the combination, first with a quarter-iuc'i drill, then, wit?i a live-eight aud next with a half-inch drill. Into this hole, ls placed the saturated cotton, con nected with a oap and fuse, which arc held In place with soap which alsi deadens the sound. Then, everythinu is ready for the signal from the out' side. It is given and the exploslor takes place in the lock box on the In side, breaking the lock and sometime! forcing the foor off the hinges. Tu? operation of blowing the safe require! just a eertaiu amount, for a too heav 1er charge of glycerine might kneel of the handle and jim the do jr anc ?ive trouble. Once the outside doo: is i ii the:: the yeggman turo their at tenti jn to the Inside sheet do >r, whlcl is caller! the 'kclster' in the laugmtg' of the safe blowers. This ls the hard est door to open, and the blowers an some times at their wits ends to ge on the Inside. A hole ls drilled ant the explosive is inserte:!. Another ex plosion takes place, and probably onl, one sheet of metal cornea off. A hoi is loosened or knocker! out of place and into this opening another charg nf glycerine ls inserted, and this op oration is continued until the door 1 (?nally down and the each drawer 1 rilli d. "The work of blowing a safe rt quires about an hour and a half, an immediately at its conclusion the gan makes ct! as soon as possible. W 'strike acro s country' unless a coi veulent freight train passes, neve! however, dividing the booty until da Ugh* on the next morning Some ti mt we have to bury the treasure, or part of it, and the tools having to I hidden some times, too. When w take the train we never ride moi than about twenty-five miles, when w then strike aero s country, puttin further dist: nc:' between us and oi pursuers. In hurrying the tool bag ( treasure, we always carefully seiet the place, making it easy of iludir upon our return. "Dodging bloodhounds is done t attaching a smull phce of cloth, sa urand with the oil of mustard to tl heels . f our s;i!?es. We used to U? vaseline with! deform, hut the troub about this drug is that we ci.uk) rit ^et the smell off our clothes whe we wan'cd to do so, so the oil < mus*ard is now us d to advantage. 1 dodging officers we have a merry tin of it some times being often forced I face the music It all depends upc tho character of the man or raen i the head of the p sse." McCarthy could not help but sra! as he thought of some town mars- a who have stood In doorways whe tired upon, and noon the yeggmen a - ting i nt of the way of harm, the tiri; g their guns in the air, makb gnat, profe.-slon of carnpstn-ss an vigilance tn hold their jobs. McOa thy can tell some. Interest lng thii ( of what town officers have failed t do, hut this ls n >t ills business, or ii eli nation at this time. There are many other interest ir ihings that McCarthy ein tell and d tell to a reporter of T: e Even'Lg Pea which would mr.kc good newhpapi stories, but he ls now trying to li' down lils past and the story of h aivpn'ures in many States, with the ? hrillii g ?pis- des and such Bideligh as he cm cist upon them, are left u repor td at this time. McCarthy bi re'or ned. Ile has hopes o' milking useful citizen oat of him-elf one < tm se days. Ile has been assigned I the shoe manufactory departan nt i his prison, a trade which he may fe low when lie bids farewell to the pri on walls. McCarthy will spend a part of h time In prison, writing a story of h adventures, willoh will be printed hook form, and from the public I to est which attaclies to the bus'ne of blowing and robbing safes, the bot ought 11 take well in South Carolin The tenn of seven years ls a good lot while to soend behind walls of gra ?te, but McCarthy seems perfectly r signal to lils fate. Ho ls detormitn to lie a better man In thc future, at having broken off with lils ass^oiati he ls certain to amount to some thh In his ron ainlng days. Ile is a stron well built man oi twenty ilve yea of age, and 'he will leave the pris?: at an ago when ids faculties ougl to ba well developt d, and ready to ei rige in an honest and honorable v cation, as lits whole purpose shows I self now. Ills lirst robbery was i N ?rfolk, in July, 18<)8, and his la lins horn committed. McCarthy ls a native of Phlladc phia. The names by which he known are bis hobo names. Ile cr not say now where he will finally sta lifo anew, but lie is bent upon doll better, and lie lias no fears or dooli that he will succeed In his purpos Ho f -ars no assault by the men upt whom be has voluntarily turnt State's evidence, and in this he pro tbly counts upon the govemmei puttlnrr his former accomplices behind the prison walis, and trusting that they too might make a similar deter mination to-lead a better life and be- ' come useful citizens upon being again given their liberty.-Charleston Post. THU SADDEST WORDS. ROT. Dr. Hillls' Opinion of Remarks ol YomiR Rookofoller. In the course of his sermon in Ply - mouth church, Brooklyn, recently, 1 the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillls referred to tbe gift of 8100,000 made by John D. Rockefeller to the Amerl can Board of Foreign Missions, and to Mr. Rjokefoiler's son. He said in part: "The saddest words that have been written in this generation were spoken before Brown university by a youDg man who is to inherit one of the ereatest fortunes in this country. They were spoken in defense of the trust H. Listen to th-m: 'The Ameri can Beauty rose can be produced in all its splendor only by sicrlilolng tbe early buds that grow up around lt.* The rose has 1.000 huds and In order to produce the American Beauty the gardener goes around lt with a knife and snips 990 in order that all the strength of the beauty may be forced into o .e bloom. Io bis en nomio argument this young man telis tdie working cbissrs brutally that 900 small business men must bj snuffed out of existence in order that hii American beauty, the trust, may be produced. Listen to Christ: 'Let the strong hear the burdens of the weak;' and again: 'Give aud it shall be given unto yr.u.' ' These words in defense of the trusts are the most heartbreaking things In the literature to those who know what is gdngt) come in the fnture. Can you wonder that after that, when a man gives gifts, we have no gratitude to return?" HUNDRED Y-f ARSOe* WEATHER. Cold Days in Goorala and Saudi Car olina For a Century I'aat. The following Interesting clipping fr< m an old tile of the Augusta Chron icle s?.o \s the cold days in Georgia and South Carolina for the past one t undred years, lt will be read with Interest: 1804-Cotton killed in May. .. 1810 -The cold summer. 1818- G teat drought, cotton 32 cts. per pound. 1827-28-Mild winter. Leaves and cot ten not kU'ed. I8:h)-Great drought. 1835-February 7, the cold Satur day. 1810-"Harrison freshet" in May. 1844-Another cold su.nrrer. 1819- Great sleet April 15th, kills cotton and corn. 1851-January 21, sec md coldest day known in the south. 1855-Fine crop year. Hot summer. I860-Largest cotton crop to that date. Hot summer. 18<>2-Great fruit crop. 1804 - Cold summer, no fruits. 1800 - Hot summer, no fruit. 1807-Great crop and great decline in p-ic-~s. 1875- March 20, great cyclone. 1880-December 30, temperature at z^ro in Middle Georgia, 1882-Largest oat crop ever made in Ge rgia; corn and cotton crop 1884-L".ng fall drought, nearly three months. 1886- January 8 14, intense cold; Savannah river at Augusta sol.diy frozen. 1887- Hot summer; temperature at 100 lu June and July and heavy rains 1888- Wet summer; poorest orop yrar ia many years; no fruit; great freshest In Augusta; September 10th, high? r th in ever known. 1889- Frost in upper Georgia, June 1st, and abnormally oool in southern parts; drought in Miy greatly retards crops; much cotton not up June IC; groat peach crop, first In several years. lt.-1 Icc 11, m i- or A Bachelor. A nirl never uuderesMmites the importance to t ie world of titles matin-1- s and bonbons. Wheo a mau retires from business to tuk . life easy, he has to get up all the carder to pull lils son out of bed. There is something about a wo min's: hat. that makes a man ?e?l Sym pathy for the inventor of Hying ma dlin es. You can always c nvince a woman that it is m ne becoming for her to wear her hair the way s ie does than it would bi f >r anybody else. When you hear a man praising lils neighbors lt's doughnuts tu fudge he wants to sell his house. Nothing gives a woman's religion sucti a Jolt at the sugg-stl >n that she got the husband heaven really Intend ed for her. Now the summer girl will soon bv gin to treize on to the reckless youth who has a mania for s"uauderlng bis coln for t'-p c-eam. Killed tbe Sheriff. Sheriff J. M. Poa g of Tate county, Miss., was sh it arid killed Wednesday by eight. ma,ski d men, names unknown, who entered the jail and made an in effectual attempt to llnerate James White, a white prisoner who is to be placed on trial ou a c iarge of murder. O ie of the Invaders was wounded. Trey gained au entrance to the J ill b<-fore Sheriff Po s g was aware of lt Pi-ag ordered teem to leave; when they refused to do so he tired, wound lng one man. The others tired on the sheriff, two bullets taking effoct, one pvsing the left lung. Tue men then left, taking their wounded companion with them. Sheriff Poig died an hour later. Kour of thc men were arrested later. Died V\ hilo Speaking, At Atlanta, Ga., Washington Dessau of Mr.con, one of the most pro minent members of the Geo-gla bar, died Wednesday while addressing the supreme court of tho State. The cause of the deat h was apoplexy, which re sulted fatally within 10 minutes after be was attacked. Mr. Dessau was born in Macon in July, 1852. Ho was ittaduated fron the University of Georgia In 1870 and began at once the Uudy of his profession. Ile was preii lent of the Georgia Bar association In 15*92, a mombor of the electoral :ollectlon In 1883, and was a delegate is large from Georgia to the national Democratic convention In 1888. Two MineT Found Dead. A special from Gadsden, Ala , says !,wo miners, Hob Heald and Horace Williams, were found d.:ad in a coal nine near Alalia Wednesday. Fifteen niners left the mine Tuesday night on iccount of bad air, but the two went sack to investigate and did not re turn. It ls not known whether they lied from black damp or because hot Llr was pumped into the mine. A LAST APPEAL P Co Cotton Farmen to Reduce Their . Cotton ? oreugo, tViul Have Themselves ?nd All Other i Business Men from Bank ruptor Next Fall. The recent government report esti mating the total cotton yield of last season at 13,607,782 bales should for ever dissipate any furtive delusions on part of large or small planters uf?at they can piny fast audloose with their restriction determination and depend on fate and Sally or any other factor to beat off a return of the low price era next fall, says the Atlanta C institut lon. Unless we are greatly mistaken In its gauging of the situa tion, the agricultural interests of tbe south will grasp tbe full meaning of this ominous report and ollas? to the programme outlined by their state and general organizations as the one sum rook of safety for the coming season. It is extremely probable that the total crop of 1904 05 will touoh four teen million bales, with all of the cot ton not > ot in sk'ht or otherwise un accounted for. Of this sum a large proportion will bu e mau med, part of ic at fair prices and part at prlcts compelled by tho bears la the time of market distress. A large percentage of tbe current crop will likewise be beld over and added to next year's yield, if the present tenacity ot the farmers continues. If, then f ire, tbe south duplicit?s this spring tbe aoreage of last spring, little imagination is required to fore see that calamitous consequence. To a degree, of course, tho bumper crop of last year was due to abnormal cli matic conditions, whlcbwill bardly be repeated In their entirety during the Impending season. It is a matter of plain logic, however, to anticipate au otln r overwhelming yield, should there be no restriction In the 1904 acreage, even though the meteorolog ical conditions of the two seasons were at radical variance. For the southern farmers ti ga 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 to be 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 .Tuno with the knowledge that there has been no perceptible decrease in arrenge, and with the anticipated glut in the market from the present hold lng movement, lt would be by no means surprising or unnatural If they were able to hammer down prices to a new low-water mark. It is net-d'ess to enlarge on the meaning of such a cat;.strophe to every state in the south. Hight now lo tho 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 delusl in that SDmehow, by scm - unfathomable, mysterious necroman cy, they can produce an overwhelm ing crop and obtain for it the prices paid for a smaller oue. The case ls one of plain self-preser vation, the confronting cf a.-proven (condition; not a casuist?-..,theory. Whether from speculative 'luggTery, the bona tide laws of supply \nd de mand or any other agenoy, fcheipertlu ent, inescapable fact Btandj? ?tfb.. that a crop even approaching tbe dimetis sloes of thc t ne of last year meats low prices and consequent dhaster to the farmers and the cotton states gen erally. This teimr the oase, it ls not only the duty, but the interest, of every cotton farmer to reduce his aore age radically, Hinging Anally from him the temptation to co otherwise, Low prices 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 assuming the hysterical pese of the alarmist. Hut, in commun with the most ob scure farmer, we cannot view with re lh.h thc possibility of a repetition of the old, haggard, low price years, with private and [uhlic cte lt prostrato in many loca'iiks, business stagnant and ievaio J n-?nt at a standstill. Yet, in our sincere judgment, that ts one <f n e risks contingent on the produc tion of another record-breaking crop next year. We cannot believe that the sanborn farmers, bearing in mind these nightmare possibilities, will de hb irately elect to exohange for them Ohe comparative ease and atlloence of the last three years. Fatal Saloon Brawl, It'iy Jojce, a bar.endtr, was killed an1 John Djyle, one of the proprie tors and a waiter, named Weston, were injured seriously Thursday In a saloon brawl, on West Tnlrty-Qrst street, New York. A party of men and women becime disorderly an'' 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 Jovce received Injuries, wbioh q lick ly proved mortal. Seventy-livo per sons were In the place. Among those who escvped was the man who did the cutting. William F. Q-ilney, one of the proprietors, and four walters were arrested. All declare they u-ed no weapons, and neted In self-defence. The party causing the trouble was composed of eight women and two men who drank champagne freely. Huco War In Kansas. A dispatch from Coffeyvlllc, Kan., says a race war has been narrowly averted herc as the result of an as sault by a negro upon Mrs. John Grif fith (white), wife of a machinist. In anticipation of a clash the Mayor ls sued a proclamation ordering all citi zens to dlsaim. and many special of licers were sworn in. Negroes have been arming to prevent tho lynching of any innocent negro. Wednesday un attempt to disarm a number of lilaeks resulted In a dozen revolvers being levele.d.at Chief of Police Smith's aead. Other negroes rushed to the icene, but a body of whites stopped them with leveled rifles. There were nany arrests. Tue negro who as iaulted MM. Grlfllth is still at large. KtlloU in a Riot. Five hundred shots were fired and a lumber of men were wounded in a ?lot, which resulted in the death ot iwo minors, Ellas Hauklnen and John Kokdahl. at nibbing, Minn., Wed icsday. The riot followed a strike of ninnis at the Hull and Rust mines, .vho were refused an advance of 25o a lay. When the night crew went to work a body of strikers armed with liles fired. The miners returned the lro. This surprised the strikers who led, leaving UankiDen and Eokdahl lead on the ground. PRESIDENTS IN RETIREMENT. Only Tea IJivoa L.on?or Than Mr. Oloveland Alter Leaving Office. ^ Only ten men who have held the office of president reached or Bur passed Mr. Cleveland's present age of 68; only six exceeded it by so much as i ten years, and none exceeded lt by quite 20 years. Only ten presidents have survived their retirement from util ce longer than Mr. Cleveland, and four of these lived to a great oge. Washington, who survived bl* re tirement lesa than three years, . thought himself an old man when he V was first made president at the age of { 67. John Adams survived his retire ment a quarter of a century, and his son, John Qulnoy, who outlived his retirement nearly 20 years, was the ( only president who had nearly as con- ? splouous a public oareer after occupy lng tho presidency as before. Monroe's six years after his 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 seizure of Spanish forts in Florida during the first Seminole war. Polk outlived his retirement leas than a year, and there ls every reason to supp'se that had Arthur compassed his ambition of an election to tho presidency in 1881 he would have died early in his term, for he outlived his ' retirement less than two years. Tyler, who outlived his retirement 20 years, emerged from obscurity near the end of his life to preside over the vain peace convenUou on tho eve of the Civil war. JJe afterward served in the congress of the Confederate States. Buchanan lived more than seven yeard after his retirement aod rcok 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 public office, though Van Buren was an active politician as long as he had hope of renomination at tue hands ot any party. Johnson was the only retired presi dent to enter the United States sen ate, and the younger Adams wa3 the only one to serve in the house of rep resentatives. Cleveland and Harrison have beeu the only retired presidents to be cous spicuously successful in private busi ness. It is not generally known that Mr. Cleveland still serves as consult ing counsel in law casos, in which his experience in the office of president maybe supposed to have given him special qualifications as au adviser. His fees in such cases are large, as were tiio^e of Mr. Harrison as a legal j advleer and a lect urer on oonstitu tlonal law.-New York Sun. WHAT bULLY SAYS. Tho Cotton King GlvrB Wise Advice to Southern Planters. "To the uotton Growers of the South. "If you wish to win your battle and obtain a fair price for your out ton you must reduce your acreage very considerably. "You have surprised the world by the manner in which you have held your cotton. "Surprise it again by cutting down your cotton aorenge. "Do not be led astray by the pres ent HteadlteiS of prices. "Three causes have contributed to bring about this rise cf more than one cent a pouud. "First: The urgent demand aris ing from an unprecedented cousump t on ' Second: Y'our courage and wis dom In making the buyer meet your terms. ' Third: The belief that you would out your acreage to such an extent that the supplies from this crop and the growth of 1905 06 would n.ake a commercial crjp no larger than the worid needs. ' The ?rst two causes lose their force the moment lt is known that there is a prospect for a moderately larg* crop n xt year. "Even if the mills take 12,000,000 bale* during tue current season, this would leave a carry over-of 1,500 000 halos Hence Ibo necessity oi a smaller cr<.p this year. ' Do not let any rise In prices be tween now and the end of the plant ing season deter you from reducing your aurea se "Such an advance would be merely anticipating that you" wen* making the decrease which your friends have adv! .ed you to make. "If the June report of the govern ment shows that you have failed to make sufficient reiuctlon 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 ye u pro duce will be regulated by the.uctual, not the expected, recuction. "Don't dep.'nd on your neighbor to do the reducing. "In this matter pf acreage reduc tion bear In mind three suggestions: "Dou't rely on bid weather to cut down the size of the crop. "Don't put a large acreage into cotton simply because lt is too late to plant corn or other diversified crops. "lt would ba far better to let part of ycur land Ile 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 beoauss I regard the next few weeks as critical to thc south and beoause I believe that every man who is inter ested in the welfare of the south should urge tho importance of a re duced acreage. "DANIEL J. SULLY." Woman a Suloltlo. The body of Mrs. Grace Loomis, who claimed to bo tlie wlfo of Charles Loomis, said to be a millionaire, was found Thursday In a half-llll'.ecl hath tub in a fashionable boarding house in Chicago. Frequent threats that she intended to kill herself leavn no doubt of suicide. Domestic trouble was the cause. Ilattlor Showed Fight. An apparently dead four foot rat tlesnako which Joshua Butler of Pitts burg, Pa., brought t? his home hore for its skin and rattles thawed out and attacked his child. Miner John Mc Mahon killed the snake with a club Just in time. The making of shoes for dogs has now developed into quite a big in dustry and is especially flourishing In Librador. The dogs attaohed to sledges trayel at a great speed over tho rough ice and some protection for the feet is necessary. Tho shoes are made of sealskin. ORANGrEB?JRGr BANKS lave Million! of Bollara on Teposil. in their Vaults. --- i :tio duuuty HM Xon Bank?, Alt ot 1 W?ioli Arft Doing Well and Makins Stoney. . Tho quarterly statements of the rarious banks of thc city and ounty ii Oraugrburg for the quar' . jding daron 31, snowing toe quarter of justness on that day, gives an inter isling insight into the financial condi tion of Orangeburg Uounty. Tber? are four banks in the olty of Drangeburg as follows: BaukofOr ingeburg, E isto Savings Bank, Peo pie's Bank and Farmers' and Mer shan ts' bank. These four birks have a ;ombined caul al of $210,000, and a jnmblned surplus of net earnings ot ?bout $125,000 additional, wblch may ba clashed as A part of the capital These four banks had on deposit on March 31, in r, und figures, tur^e quarten of a million d liars. To getbbr the combined capital surplus and deposits of the banks of tue city aggregate considerably more than a million dollars. Tuero 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 tbere was about a quarter of a million dollars on deposit in these outside bauks of the county on the date of the statement. Tbe aggre gate amount on deposit In the various ten banks of Cvangcburg County now foots up very clu.-.o to a million dol lars. All of the bankB of the county s?iow a Bteady Icc ease in amount of de posits, earnings and volume of busl 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 reflect che general welfare and business conditions of that c mmunl ty. . The showing above ls taken at a s.-ason of the year when there is gen erally a minimum rather than a maxi mum amount of money In tho county. The best showing financially, as ,1s well known, can be made dur ng the fall and winter months. Ten >ears ago or even five years ago nothing like the above showing could ba mad. frou the 8:atemonts of the tanks of the county. The business growth of Orangeburg city, as well as its growth in buildings and population, during receut years have been enormous, and tho busi ness conditions of the city, which is the c-mn ty seat and business centre of this large and fertile county, rt fleets a general advancement and prosperi ty for tho entire county that \s noth ing less than remarkable. Orange burg County has had little outside capital to come In to build up its towns and communities ls the w.irk o' the native citizens and home capital almost entirely. Oiangeburg County is almost ex c'usively an agricultural sec-Ion and the towns are almost entirely depen dent upon agriculture for their sup port. This fact is worthy of con: : J oral lon, and there are few larue man ufacturing establishments in the county to accomplish big things or handle large sums of money. It 1B true that there aro a few successful factories in the county, tiwo success ful cotton mills in tho city, but the number is exe edlogly small for a cjuty of the S?Z? and wealth of Or angeburg County. This county ls a fair illustration of what is being done all ?v< r the South, and the North and E'st may well keep their eyes ou ti e S ;uth for the next decade. Greater things are yet In the miklnir all over the Sjuth, and there ls no liuer livid In the entire Southern country for the Investment of capital and launching of buslne s enterprises than the county of Orange burg and the city of Orangeburg. A i tr i ll lan i and Purublc Whitewash This is known as t^e go ver nm nts whitewash, and no m ittcr how often lt appears in print, there i; alwa>s a call for its reappcaili g. As it, must be applied hot t : any surface, lt should be made or kept lu a large kel tie or portable furnace, in tinier to h at as wanted. It is claimed that about a pint of the mixture will ejver a square yard upon the outs ide of a he use, if properly applied and that it is huit able for wood, bri :k or stone, answer ing as well as oil paints', and belmr much cheaper, and will retain its brilliancy for >ears. Brushes large or sm til are to be used, according to the nt-atness of the job required. Coloring matter may be used, varying the tint lng-} to suit the taste. Nd matter what quantity ls desired, these are the prop Ttlons In which tho ingrei ients are to be ust:d. Half a bushel of go id, unstacked lime; slack with boll lng water, cover during the process to keep the steam In; strain the liquid through a Bieve flue en -ugh to retain all unslacked lumps. Dlss ?Ive a peck of clean b irrel salt In a little water and add to the solution; boll to a thin paste :i pounds of rice (>l:v. fljur would be batter) and stir into this hoi li mr hot; ono pound of nice glue, previous ly dissolved (to disolve tho glue, lint soik until s ift, then put into a vosse"; Immerse chis vessel In another one larger and full of boiling water, and brill 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. Whsu so good a whitewash is this Is claimed to be can be so jheaply made, lt ls strange that any farm-holder will live or let his stock live in dark dingy quarters. Now is the time to begin in earnest to Improve Me home. Mo Laer in Hit Hard. In thc United States Circuit Court it Charleston on Wednesday a verdict for $41,6:19.28 was found against er Senator John L. MoLaurln In t! e suit if the International Trust company, if Baltimore, on a promissory note, the verdict being found by the lory tpon tho instructions of the court. The suit grows out of the Industrial /entures in which thu ex-senator mgaged, upon the termination of his jaroer In congress. As president of the Brunswick and Birmingham rail road and vico president of the Bruns wick and Western Construction com jany, Mr. MuLaurln gave his personal totes to the trust company, being in lorsed, however, by Frank A. Um i'edt, who appears to have been one >f the promoters of the prc j -ct, in vhich the ex-senator was connected, The Industrial concerns seem to have >een more on paper than In fact, but he notes of Mr. McLaurln were valid, ivcn if the Industrial projects woro a allure. KILFYRE! KILFY! That Ia exactly what lt ia. &BT day at the State Falt showing Ita fin Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw Mi property should have them. For sal COLUMBIA SI Colombia. 9 O Tba mm rVhlske I Morphine I Oigarefc Tabit, I Habit I Habit Cured by Keeley 1 132 j Lady St, (or P. O. Boa 76) Golm no cftd. THEOUINARD I Manufacturers Brick. Fire Proof ' Flue linings and Drain Tile. Pre or millions. P(lt ARE LOI I FOR YOUR 0 ^COLUMBIA LUMBEI COLUMBIA TH* JB.??AL FREJ? DBLIVEaY How It Has Developed Blnoo tho Sys tem Was Started. So successfully has the rural free de livery syobem operated in the United Siat< s, and so indispensable has the service become, tbat it bas long ago passed the experimental stage, and is now one of tbe everyday business fac tors of the country. Probably the next unusual step in this regard will be tbe extension of the service to Hawaii, Port ? R.'co, and the Philippine Islands. No routes have as yet been established In the insular possessions, although one pe tition from Honolulu, uski&g for thc establishment of a route from that city into Walball, was received and reported on adversely. Following are some faots in regard to this poupular service, made publie a few days agj, which are very inter esting: More than 5,000 new rural routes were established in the various Btates and ter; I tori,-s during the ten months ended April 1, and over 1,000 addi tlonal routes were authorized and will be put Into operation within the next sixty day s. At this rate, it will be but a comparatively brief time before every rural community in the country sulllclently populous to justify the s?ivice wi 1 lia ve rural free delivery. Postmaster General Corbelyou said re osutly that the 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, 09G rural routes in operation as against 24,568 rn June 30, 1004. Petitions for addi tional routes lo 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 montes ago with 1,863, and now has 2,084 Indiana comes fourth, with 1,894, as against 1,658. The other states having a largo.number of routes are as follows: Pennsylvania, 1.679; New York, 1,611; Miohlgan, 1.594; M ssouri, 1,544; Kansas, 1,367; Wl-onsln, 1,203; Tennessee. 1.231; Texa?, 1,181, Minnesota, 1,141. Ne vada has but 1 route, New Mexico but 3, and Wyoming but 5. The Ninth Indiana district has more rural r. Htes than any other Con i/resslonal db trier, having a total ot 201. The Eighth Indiana distriot c 'mes second, with 189_ CARfi Ft-R MOTHER. noys and Oiric, in Hor Old ARO. Don't Neglect Hor. What can possibly be sadder than a mother neglected io ber old age ? To think of all the pain, forrow, trouble and anxiety she endured for m, her many sleepless nights and burdened days when she held lu her arms the Utile feverish, fretful body who would aliow no one elsa to hold lt to relieve her own weariness ! Then when health again returned lt was still a continual cry for "mama ! mama !" the livelong day 1 And then to think that as the years pass the growing children will depend less and less on "mother" till finally they c;ase a together to go to her for her counsel and care, aud think because she ls growing old, faded and wrinkled ;bat si e does 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 frier ds, "because she will no'j notice tin m" or she is "too old fashioned to understand" the up-to date politeness. To us at lea?t lt isa heart breaking spectacle to behold, for as "mother" grows older we should give her more instead of les-, of our love and tender care, and should honor ber years and expe ii.'lice by asking her advice even on trivial subj cfcs, for she will then feel that tdie is still necessary to us and can have a snare ia cur dally trials and joys as of yore, when she was all in all to us. Take my wit hered 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 hands upon my bead, Smooth my whitened bair, I've been growing old the while You've been growing fair. I have toiled and prayed for you Ask not wliy or how As I've loved una petted you, Love and pct me now. Take my withered hands In yours, Ci ii ld ron of ray heart, Mot lier's growing old, your love Makes of life sweet part. Touch with loye my faded cheek, Kiss my anxious brow. As I've loved and petted you, Love and pet mc now. Take my withered hands In yours, Hold them close and strong. Oheer me with a fond caress, 'Twill not be for long. Yout h immortal scon 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, Tay 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 pet mc now. Bil K?TOEI?! v re fCtllgr. DJ nViMtratton ovary 3 fighting qualities. 11^ Ginnery and any one own'ng jpk,YOo,; ?h?nery Supply house of fche ^tate Habits. nstltute, of O mbla, 8. 0. Confidential ocn; aponri ?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?Ol .?.?.? BRICK WORKS, IM IA, S. O. rerra Cotta Building Blocks, (or g pared to fill orders for thousands . MEN-WRITE TO DR. HATHAWAY ABOUT YOUR CONDITION. He has been Treating Discaaes of Mon for Twenty five Years. 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VaricocelovNory ous Do i I i ry, Loss or Manhood, Blood Poison ?Syphilis), Kidney and Bl idder Complaints, ihoumatlsm. Dh ea: es of tho Heart, Stomach, and Liver, etc., you should immediately . writs this great specialist, and loi him explain to you just what is tho rature of your trouvin . and Just what to do for relief. Ho will coun sel and adv leo you for nothing-advice that is based on 25 years ot actual experience. A f;roat many men make, the mistake of their ives by placing their cases with their local physician, for tho average practitioner no mat ter how competent ko may bo, bas not had the experience necessary to successfully treat such delicate disoases. What you need, and what you wilt bu compelled to resort to if yon over got cured, is skillful, scientific treatment, < administered byan expertspo ialist whom yon know is com- etent o treat you. Dr. Hatha way his been established in Atlanta"" or nearly it years, and his r?putation is known to all. He tuts built up tho largest practice in thia country by dealing honestly with tho people. You take no risk whatever in dealing with him -you can always fool assured of a "square deal." Yon cannot expoct. to go Uirough life afflict ed with a disease thal you know will eventual? h lead you to u possible death, so write Dr Hathaway a letter right now. telling him just how you suffer, and ho will immediately send you his opinion of your case, accompanied by a valuable book on your disease, all of which is absolute y froo. Have no hesitancy in writing him. The permanent addrossis J- NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D, BS luman Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. 1 A Proposition of Interest ag To all readers of this -.piper, who call or write for treatment within the next 30 days J. will cure them of the following disoases for ONE-HALF my usual charge: LOST MANHOOD, SYPHILIS (blood poison), GONO RHE, GLEET, STRICTURE, VAR? COCELE. RUPTURE, CATARRH and all CHRONIO DISEASES, of both sexes. 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