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^2g?_ GOOD J J im AUx FfiEB.1 An Opportunity That No Femur Should Let Pass Bim. 2iO\v liv ?i-y P?vi; rotaive Kea?&r oi This Paper Can Get Good Rending Sf stier ft.T?3oii?to?y Fr ?a. Tho Bulletins named below aro of fered to tho farmers everywhere free of oharge by the National Department of Agriculture. Thcso Bulletins aro published at an expense of thousands and thousands of dollars; and the big gest and most enterprising farmers, tho ablest and most exporlonoed scien tist, have co operated lu making thom as accurate, helpful and up to date as money and brains can make them. If theso publications were issued there fore by some private publishing house, tbey could not be sold for less than 60 couts eaoh; and at this price undoubt edly some good agent could sell you, Mr. Header, not a fow copies bearing on subjects in whloh you aro interest ed. And that would bo all tight, too; you would get your money's worth. But now those Bullotlns are oiTcrod free, and tho long wintor nights are coming wiu n farmers should have plonty of reading matter on baud. We urge ovory farmor to make a list of those ho wishes -those relating to the orops and subjeots in willoh ho Is especially interested to his Represent ative or Senator in Congress, or totho Seoretaryof Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The copies asked for will then be promptly forwarded, free of cost to him. Some of the Bulletins relating to gardening, ilower-growlug and housobold work, your wife may need for herself; get them also. Here is the Hst from whloh you can make your soleotlon: No. 22. The Feeding of Farm Anl mais. No. 24. llog Cholera and Swine Plague. No. 26. Peanuts: Culture and Uses. No. 27. Flax for Seed and Fiber. No. 28. Weeds: And How to Kill Them. No. 29. Souring and Other Changes in Milk. No. 30. Grapo Diseases on the Pa cific Coast. No. 31. Alfalfa or Lucerne, No. 32. Silos and Silage. No. 33. Peach Growing for Market. No. 34, Meats: Cern position and Cooking. No. 35. Potato Culture. No 30. Cottonseed and Its Products. No. 37. Kaffir Corn: Culture and Uses. No. 38. Spraying for Fruit Diseas es. No. 39 Onion Culture. No. 4L Fowls: Care and Feeding. No. 42 Facts About Milk. No. 43. Sewerage Disposal on thc Farm. No. 44, Commercial Fertilizers. No. 46 Insects Injurious to Stored Grain. No. 46. Irrigation in Humid Cli mates. No. 47. Insects Affecting the Cot ton Plant. No. 48. The Manuring of Cotton. No. 49. Sheep Feeding. No. 60 So'ghum as a Forage Crop. No. 51, Standard Varieties of Chick ens. No. 52. The Sugar Baet. No. 54. Some Common Birds. No. 65. The Daily Herd. No. 50. Experiment Station Work -I. No. 57. Butter Making on the Farm. No. 58. The Soy Pean as a Forage Crop. No. 69. Bee Keeping. No. 00. Methods of Curing Tobacco No. 61. Asparagus Culture. No. 02. Marketing Farm Produce. No. 03. Caro of Milk on thc Farm. No. 04. Duoks and Geese. No. 05. Experiment Station Work -II. No. 06 Meadows and Pastures. No. 08. Tho Black Rot of the Cab bage No. 69. Experiment Station Work -III. No. 70. Insect Enemies of the Orapo. No. 71. Essentials in Beef Produc tlon. No. 72. Cattle Ranges of tho South west. No. 73. Experiment Station Work -IV. No. 74. Milk as F< cd. No. 75. Tho Grain Smuts. No. 77. The Liming of Soils. No. 78. Experiment Station Work -V. No. 79. Experiment Station Work -VI. No. 80. The Poach Twig-boror. No. 81. Corn Culture in the South. No. 82. The Culture of Tobacco. No. 83. T< bacci. Soils. No. 84. Experiment Station Work -VII. No. 85. Fish as Food. No. 80. Thirty Poisonous Plants. No. 87. Experiment Station Work -VIII. No, 88. Alkali Lands. No. 89. Oowpeas. No. 91. Potato Diseases and Treat ment. No. 92. Expoiirnent Station Work -IX. No. 93. Sugar as Food. No. 94. The Vegetable Garden. No. 95 Good Hoads for Farmers. No. 96. Raising Sheep for Mutton. No. 97. Experiment Station Work -X. ? No. 98. Suggestions to Southern Farmers. No. 99. Insect Enemies of Shade Trees. No. 100. Hog Raising in the South. No. 101. Millets. No. 102 Southern Forage Plants. No. 103. Experiment Station Work -XI. No. 104. Notes OU Frost. No. 106. Experiment Station Work -XII. No. 100, Breeds of Dalry Cattle. No. 107. Experiment Station Work -XIII. No. 108 Saltbushcs. No. lol). Farmers' Reading Courses. No. 110. Rice Culture in tho Unit ed States. No. ill. Farmers' Interest Li Good Seed. No. 112. Bread and Bread Making. No. 113, Tho Apple and How to Grow lt. No. 114. ExpcrlmcntJStation Work -XIV. No. 115. Hop Culture In California. No. HO. Irrigation In Fruit Gruvs lng. No. 118. Grape Growing In thc South. No. 119. Experiment Station Work -X V. No. 120. Insects Alloting Tobacco. No. 121. Bean?, Peas, and Other Legumes as Food. No. 122. Experiment Station Work -XVI. No. 123. Red Clover Seed: Informa tion for Purchasers. No. 124. Experiment Station Work -XVII. No. 125. Protection of rood Prod ucta from Injurious Temperatures. No. 12?. Practical Suggestions tor Ifarm Building?. No. 127. Important Insecticides. No. 128. Eggs and Their Use* as Food. No. 129. Sweet Potatoes. No. VU. Ilou??bold Teats lot De tection ot Oleomargarine and Reno vated Butter. No. 132. Insect Enemies of Grow ing Wheat, No- 133. Experiment Station work. -XVIII. No. 134, Tree Planting in Bural School Grounds. No. 135. Sorghum Syrup Manu facture. No. 130. 10 ir th Roads. No. 137. The Angora Goat. No. 138. Irrigation in Field and Garden. No. 130. Enamor: A Grain for the Standard Regions. No. 140. Pineapple Growing. No. 141. Poultry Raising on tho ? Farm. No. 142. Prlnoiples of Nutrition and Nutritive Valuo of Food. No. 143. Conformation of Boof and Dalry Cattle. No. 144. Experiment Station Work -XIX. No. 145 Carbon Blsulphld as an Insecticide. No. 140. Insecticides and Fungi cides. No. 147. Winter Forage Crops for tho South, No. 148. Celery Culture. No. 141). Experiment Station Work -XX. No. 150. Clearing New Land. No. 151. Dairying in the South. No. 162. Soables in Cattle. No' 153. Orchard Enemies in the 1 Pacific Northwest. 1 No. 154. Tho Home Fruit Garden: Preparation and Care. No. 155. HDW Insects AfTeot Health : in Kural Districts. No. 166. The Homo Vinoyard. No. 157. Tho Propagation of Plants No. 158 now to Build Small Irri gation Dltohes. NJ. 169. Soab in Sheep. 101. Practical Suggestions for Fruit Growers. No. 102. Experiment Station Work -XXL No. 164. Rape as a Forago Crop". No. 105. Culture of the Silkworm No. 100. Cheese Making on the Farm. No. 107. Cassava. ' No. 108 Paarl Millet. N i. 109, Experiment Station Work -XXII. ! No. 170. Principles of Horse Feed- ; lng. ; N ). 171. The Control of the Cod- ; Hnii Moth. No. 172 Sc vie Insects and Mites on Citrus Treen. No. 173. Primer of Forestry. N >, 174, Broom Corn. NJ. 176. Home Manufacture and uso of Un fermented Orapo Juice. No. 170. Cranberry Culture. No. 177. Squab Raising. NJ. 178. Insects Injurious In Orin berry Cul. ure. No. 170. Horso-shoelng. N ). 181. Pruning. N ). 182. Poultry as Food. N ), 183. Meat on the Farm-Butoh eriug, Curing, Eic. No. 184. Marketin? Livestock. No. 185. Beautifying the Horm Grounds. Ni. 180, Experiment Station Work -XXIII. No. 187. Drainage of Farm Lands No. 188. Weeds Ujed in Mediolne No. 180. Information Concerning tho Mexican uottoo Boll Weevil. No ino. Experiment Station Work -XX IV. No. 191. The Cotton Boll Worm 1003. N ). 102. Barnyard Manure. N t. 193. Experiment Station Work - XXV. No. 194. Alfalfa Sead. No. 15)5. Annual Flowering Plants No. 100. Usefulness of the Amerl can Toad. No. 107. Importation of Garni Birds and Eggs for Propagation. NJ. 198. Strawberries. No. 199, Com Growing. No. 200. Turkeys. No. 201. Gieam Scperator on Wes torn Firms. No. 202. Experiment Station Worl XXVI. Nu. 203. Canned Fruits, Preserve) and J ?1 ?cs. No. 204. Thc Cultivation of Mush rooms. No: 205. Pig Management. No. 200. Milk Fever and Its Treat mont. No. 207. Game Laws for 1904. No. 208. Varieties of Fruits Bec om mended for Planting. N ?. 2)9. Controlling the Boll Wee vil lu C< ttonseed and at (fineries. No. 210. Experiment Station Worl< -XXVII No. 211. The Use of Paris Green h controlling the Cotton Boll Weevil. No. 212. Thc Cotton Boll Worm 1901. No. 213. Raspberries. N). 214. tt :ncllolal Bact.orla for Lou u QI I nous Crops. NJ. 215. Alfalfa in thc Eastern SUtos. No. 210. Control of thc Cotton Boll Weevil No. 217. Essential Steps In Seour lng and Early Crop of Cotton Nu. 218 The School Garden No. 210, L'.sson Taught by tin Oraln-Rusfc Epidemic of 1004. X i, 221. Fungus Diseases of thc Cranberry No 222. Experiment Station Work - XX VIII N J. 223. Miscellaneous Cotton In seots In Texas. No. 224. Canadian Field Peas N . 225. Expotimcnt Station Work XXIX N ?. 220. Relation of Coyotes to Stock liaising In tho West. N . 227, Experiment Station Work XXX No. 228. Forest Planting and Farm Management. Throe Ijtvlnjr Wives. John W. Chastcon, who had been a resident of Live 0.?k, Fla., for several years, has been arrested and lodgod in Jail hero charged with bigamy. It ls alleged Chasiccn has three living wives. At tho outbreak of tho Span Ish-Ameiioan war Chasteen loft his second wife, who now lives in Califor nia, and enlisted in the army. Beo ently he applied for a pension from tho Federal government. His second wife, believing him to have died while in the army, had likewise applied for a pension as a widow of a Holdlcr. By a i omparlson of notes at tho pension bureau, his second wlfo was informed of his whereabouts. Tho outcome ....... ?.I" ? -..-<-1 n tv. inn ctiicnu. Burned Wiro and Ohtlilron. At Madison, Ind., Geo. Ford, a far mer, set Uro to his house Thursday morning, burning his wlfo and three children to death. Ford in under ar rest and is believod to be insano. SH00L LIBRARIES. Ufeuy Requisitions Coming in Every Day for Them, Interesting Circular Lottor Issued hy ttxo Sis-tii 3?i ?rlnttittAe?t ofi Education-Number by Counties. The state superintendent of. educa tion Is Bonding out the following olr oular letter: To County Suporlntondents and Teachers: This o?loe ls receiving library re qul8itlons at the rate of ono a day. Now ls the r**ne to push this work, I think that the state appropriation will ?hold out until tho end of tho year, but lt will bo impossible to get the state mouey during January and February, as we have to walt for the appropriation bill. Let us bear from every first-class teaoher on this im portant matter. Surely every ono of this ol ass oan raise $10 In order to se ouro a 840 library During tho past eighteen months libraries have been established and increased as follows: Eatab- Inoreas lishcd ed. Abbeville. 10 Alkon. 12 Anderson. 16 3 Bamberg . 8 Barnwell. 12 1 Beaufort. 8 Berkeley. 8 1 Charleston. io 3 ?herokeo. 7 ?hester. 1) ?hester?cld. 6 Clarendon. 12 ;i holleton. ll l Darlington. 12 Dorchester. 1 Edge Held. 13 2 IvalrUold. 14 2 Lflorcnco . 17 Seorgotowu. 2 Srocnville. 1? 1 3 roon wood. 14 2 Hampton . 5) FTorry. 12 Koisbaw. ll Lancaster .... . 9 Laurens. 18 1 Lee._ 13 Lexington. 9 Marion. 22 2 Marlboro. 15 2 Newberry. 13 )oonee. 14 )rangoburg. 19 G Picken?. 10 1 L?chland. 30 10 Saluda. 13 Spartanburg. 23 Sumter. 12 1 Union . 8 Williamsburg. 8 York. 25 Total. 251 Gl Wo have received notice of ?hc building of quite a number of new chool houses UDdcr the act of the iaat session of the legislature to on fjourago adequate Behool buildings. The comptroller general will, in a few lays, send out another apportlDnment if dispensary funds. The law pro vides that Borne of this money may be used for this purpose. This ls a great opportunity for a community which needs a new school building, It gives i good opportunity also for several communities to consolidate theil .iohools. Please let your trustees understand hat local or special taxes may bo vot ed after January 1st. There ought] o be a great many such taxes voted for next year. This ls the only plan under tho law to replace the dispan <ary funds In those counties which wive or may vote out the dispensarlos. Por the last two or three years the iohools have been receiving fri m $200 000 to $250,000 from dispensary pro uts. This amount exceeds either the ooll tax or looal taxis Local tax itlon is one of tho best ways to raise chool revenues, because it require! oeal Interest and enthusiasm. Most )f the states raise tho great part of .heir school funds by local taxati n. While some districts have voted all ?he constitution allows them to vote, /et loss than 20 per cent, of our school .cvenuresaro raised In this way. Let as agitate this question now so that he people may be ready to vote by January. Allow mo again to call the atton lon of teachers to the Teachers' Reading circle. Progressive teaohers mould keep studying, and lt will give renewed zeal to study with other such teachers in the township or county. Wishing you a most successful ses don, I am, Sincerely yours, O. B. MAHTIN, State Supt. E'mention. It ibbera Killed. The four robbers who took four nundrcd dollars from the post< lllvV U Wild Hose, Wis., and then i111 cl Ohe bank wltnout getting booty, ear ly Thursday morning, were ovortakon >y a posse of citizens late Thursday. A battle In which more than two hun ired shots were tired, raged for near ly two hours. O.ie of the robbers was killed, one was mortally wounded, and Ohe fourth surrended. None of the robbers have been Idem Mod They refu te to talk. Although the robbers tept up a valiant running Ure, but aie member of the posseo was wound id. Tue posse originally included jsn constables, but as the tlvht waxed warm lt was constantly recruited, un til at the llnlsh one hundred cltlz ms were tilling with smoke the valley In which the robbers cornorcd, three niles from Wild Rose Hods II In Own Wo. At Now York, William R. Travers, millionaire mm of loisuro, son of tho celebrated wit and Wall street operator, William R. Travers, com mitted suloldc Friday by shooting himself through the head In lils apart incuts In Madison avenue. Thc sui cido ls inexplicable, Mr. Travers ho ing In the prime of Ufo, in fair health and the possessor of a large fortune. Mr. Travers married Miss Lily Harri man, a sister of Mrs. W. K. Vander bilt Jr. Tho couplo separatod throe years ugo, Mrs. Travers going to Paris to llvo. Won't ItnliiBtftto lllui. Gov. Hey ward has dcollned to roln sta te Treasurer Wbctsell, of Dorches ter, In splto of the faot that tho dele ijatlor requested it and Whctsell plac ed on deposit tho amount of his al leged shortage. Ho expressed his bo lief In Wbetscll'5 Innocence of lntcn national wrong doing, but felt he oould not aot as bc did in thc case or the Edge Hold trcasuror for the reas Ou limo the oomplruner g?nerai char ged that there was evidence against Whctsell of fictitious entrhs and Ir regular dashing of warrants. Tine police In GrecnvlHo bavo noti fied tho gamblers ot that city that thoy must shut up shop. WEATHER AND CROPS. linar Report for the Burean tor the '?'etti- farmed. The weather bureau in charge -y* Seotion Direotor Bauer issued Wed nesday the final orop report for tb o year as follows; The woek euding Monday, October 2nd, had a mean temperature about four degrees above normal in the oontral and western parts aud about normal on the coast. Tho extremes were a maximum of I 04 at Blackville on September 25th, and a minimum ot 00 at Florenoe and Greenville on September 28th. There was considerable oloudiuess over the I eastern pa?t, but almost continuous j sunshine over the western parte. There were no high winds or other conditions that were damaging to orops or that Interfered with farm work. With the exoeptton of trace of rain over tho eastern half of the state, the week was without precipitation. The I drouth has become intensified over thc central aad western oountles where toe ??round is too hard and dry for fall plowing and seeding opera tions, and wber., in many localities, water ls soaroe, with wells and small streams rapidly drying up. The weatbor conditions were entirely fav orable for haying operations and for gathering oom and cotton, There has been no ohange in condi - tion of cotton, except that there con tinues to bo some premature openly j. Tho entire crop has opened unusually fast and picking will bo finished ear lier thanu8ual with continued favora ble weather. Ina few localities there ls a small to p orop. but for the orop In goneral and on sandy lands in par ticular, t <o tcp orop is unimportant, and tho ocourenoe of either an early or a very late killing frost will not vary the yield materially. Tho aver age of tbe actual ligures from a full re port on tho p8iocntago of tho orop al ready picked, indioato that for the eastern division of the state 71 per cent, has been picked; In the central division 7(> per cent., and in tho west ern division 6!) per cent. Reports on sea-Island indioato that about 30 por cent lias been picked. At least two thirds of tho unpicked cotton ls ready to pick, and picking will bo practical ly finished, with continued favorable weather, by the oud of October. All late food and forage crops are suffering for rain. Corn is being boused 1 - many localities. Weather Ideal for saving pea-vine hay and for baying generally, but has been unfa vorable on truck along the coast, and for Bowing fall oats._ HolplOHB ?to Bavo niiii. At New York notwithstanding a desperate strugglo of his wife and son to bold him by thc feot after ho bad fainted and toppled over tba sill of an open window, Geooge P. Krapp, cash ier of the Cooper Exohango Bank, fell to tho st cet from tho fourth fioor of his homo at No 209 West 97 th st reot today and was killed. Mrs. Krapp and her son, Harbert, saw Mr. Krapp who was In ill health, suddenly fall over baokwards. Both mother aud son jumped to tho window in timo to seize tho falling man by tho feet. They held him safely for a few see onds, screaming for help, but tho as slstance was slow in oomiug, and Air. Krapp's weight began to slip away from his rescuers. The realization of this terrible faot oaused the wife' strength to leaye her completely nd tho son, with his mother hollas his sido, compelled to hold his tarbor alone, was too light foi his father's1 superior weight. Exhausted and on tho point of being dragged over the window sill hloise f, the boy lost his grip and Mr. Krapp fell to the street. He died soon afterwards. ROT Would Suooood. If a biy ls t-> succeed in life's battle for bread and position among thoso at tho top he must be alive, says an ex ohange. If ho is a cigarette fiend he will nevor be anything or anybody but. a oom mon drudge. Success tells what a yi.ung man must do to win: No young man can hope to advance rapidly who lacks an enterprising progressive splr it. Indeed, enterprise ls a rcqulsit to employment. No ono wants to employ a youth who lacks push. Ile must be allvj to and in tOUdh with the spirit of tho hour, or he is not wanted any where. The enterprising employer wants every employe to Bhare ids splr it. The unenterprising business man feels all tho more keenly the need of assistance from those who can mako up for his falling. Eorce, push, dyna mic qualities are everywhere In eager demand, while the (lawing, incompe tent, un progressive wait In vain for a start or for promotion. l*rov?d a t'ost. The mosquito unintentionally im ported from America, hasbcon making such havoc with the Hawaiian Gland ers' idea of personal comfort that the government has been vainly looklcg for outside assistance to cope with it. The introduction of the mo1 quito eat ing Afrloan frog has done something. Hut the mosquito still sings and thc once happy islanders are now hoping that more complete results will follow the coming of Alvin Soale of Leland Stanford University, and his proposed attempt to acclimatize a certain mos qultO-eating American fish. CorrcotH Toddy. The Columbia States takes occasion to correct Teddy as follows: ''Mr. Roosevolt claims to bo an historian, and it is well known that he is also a lltcrator. Ho should, then, be moro faithful to history and to literary tra ditton thon lie shows himself in bis mimicking of thc smthernors who have Invited him to ride the best horse in the country, slr.' Acaordlng to his tory-as written in New England and according to literary tradition as preserved in the same sacred region -this must necessarily bo tho best boss In the country, by gad, sub.." uot on* Light. Thc president of ono Insuranco company borrows $100,000 from Mr. McCall's company at tho Interest r&te of 1 1 2 per cent, per annum; thea Mr. McOall borrows $76,000 from tho other president's company, at the same rate. Of course, both compan ies lost money, but why complain? Tho Columbia State says tho polloy holclrrs should commend these gentle men for their moderation; they might havo takon tho money and mado the companies pay them tho intorest. MIIIHIHK From Homo. Nothing lias been heard of Edward Bceman, a bookkeeper of a lumber concern near Charloston, who disap peared from tlicro about threo weeks ago. Ills dlsappearaoo Isa mystery. He !r> known to have had about ??O? on his person when he loft there and lt is thought ho hoarded a train and is somo distance from Charleston, probably at or on route to Oregon, whoro he has rolatlves, Ho has a wife and one child. He *as marriod about a year ago. LINCOLN'S TACT. Il?-.*v <lio President Won M Han? abalee From aa Antagonist. In thc spring of 1801 G oui ?o D. Wiso of Virginia and two other young aontuerners, ultu of whom stood six , feet four, were attending school in Waebjn.rtou. The morning the news of \ the flrlug on Fort Sumter reached i them they docldcd that it was their duty to return at once to Richmond, ! their homo, and enlist lu thc southern causo. As Mr. Lincoln wn? to give a . public reception that uHrot, young : Wiso proposed that they attend, to seo what ?ort of man tho president really was. "No,?' said tho tall fellow. "I for ono won't go near tho rascal." "But," urged tho third youth, who ot once fell lu with tho suggestion, "there is going to. bo war, and Mr. Lincoln will undoubtedly riso to groat promi nence. We really owe it to ourselves to know something about tho mau." More abuse followed from tho tall fellow. "Now look here," broke In young Wisc, after tho argument had gone on for a spell, "Fred and I here are going to that reception tonight, nud you aro going with IIB." The upshot of tho matter was that tho three young mon went to tho re ception and lined up with sovernl hun dred others to greet President Lincoln. Of the three friends the tull fellow stood flvst in linc, with his hnuds held resolutely behind lils back. "I'll go," ho had finally said, "but I'll no vcr shake hands with him." Slowly tho threo southerners passed up with tho lino until tho tall fellow stood opposito the president. His two friends waited breathlessly for the expected or tho unexpected, they scarcely knew which. The president reached out his hand. Tho tall fellow, with his bunds still bo hind him, looked tho president straight In tho oyo and with a proud toss of the head passed on without taking tho outstretched hand. Across the sad face of tho president flashed a look of surprise und Inquiry, and then a merry twinkle leaped to his eyes, ns he had divined tho causo of tho ?light, "Just a moment, young mau," he said, ns the tall fellow wus passing ou. "How tall uro you?" "I-I-I'm six feet four," stammered tho youth, utterly astonished at the question. "I believe I can match you," returned tho president. And thou and there, before tho assembled throng, ho turned back to back with tho southerner to de termine which of tho two was the tall er. Tho southerner outmatched tho president. "Young man, I can't match you," thc president was forced to admit, "but," ho added, putting out his hand again and smiling kindly Into tho eyes of tho young follow, "I never let anybody tall er than I am got by mo without shak ing hands." And tho southerner, completely over come, took the extended hand. Nor did ho over again speak Ul of Mr. Llucolu. The Gront CH jr. It never misses; lt can never miss any ono. It loves nobody; it needs no body; It tolerates all the types of man kind. It has palace? for the great of tho earth; lt baa crannies for all tho earth's vermin. Palace and cranny vacated for a moment find new ten ants as equally as tho hole ono makes In n stream-for aa a critic London ls wonderfully opon minded. On succes sive days it welcomes its king going to be crowned, Its general who hus given it a province, its enemies who have fought against lt for years, Us potentato guest from Teheran-lt will welcome each with identically raptur ous cheers. This ls not so much bo causo of a fickle mindedness ns be cause, since it is so vast, lt hos au diences for all players. It forgets very soon, because lt knows so well that lu tho seal? of things any human achieve ment bulks very small.-Huepfcr's "Soul of London." Tho Clmvron. "Did you ever notice," Inquired an old veteran, "that the sergeants and corporals ol' the anny now wear their chevrons with tho point upi It's only been in lato years that they've done so. The marines always did, but tho army for years had tho points down. It'l only lately that the chevron hos been understood. Tho chevron ls inherited from tho feudal days and incant a roof. A mon who hod rank enough to bo n noncommissioned officer was required to bo a freeholder, a mon who owned tho roof over his hoad. Thc chevron represented a gabled roof. Tho pri vates owned no homo. Tho Increase hi rook for different grades of noncom missioned officers was measured hy additional roofs, the sergeant, for in stance, having threo chevrons against ono for tho lauco corporal. You'll find that nearly all of these military devices havo some origin of historical interest." -San Francisco Chronicle. Kline,,. From Shi?linlJtln. What a queor old earth lt is! Down In Martinique wo havo a safety volvo In wicked old Mont Peloe, whick botches out death to thousands aa the spirit moves her, and away up in Alan ka thero is another on Unlmok Island, callad Shlshaldln, striving with might and main to melt aoine of tho leo of Ht. Rilas and worm tho gold hunters of the Klondiko and Nome. Shlshaldln ls the most romarkohlo volcano In tho world. In addition to a continuous omlaslon of douse white amoke or steam, circular rings apparently soveral hundred feet In diameter and of wonderful sym metry and whttoness emerge In puffs at short intervals from the very top of tho mountain. It couses one to think of the possibility of old Pluto of Pondolon smoking a elgarotte.-New York Preas. HI?; Flro in Ilambm'K. A dispatch from Hamborg to thc Nows and,Courier says at nine o'clock Friday night lire, started probably bj rats, among tho freight stored In thc Southern Hallway dopot, and await lng dollvery, destroyed thc depot and contents, and platter ii, six cars, load ed with merchandise and cotton, and cotton on thc platform, in all 210 hales of cotton, and damaged the storo of iL C. Folk about $700; tho sale? and livery atablo of Jones Broth or.'i about $200 and their stock of ve hicles about $:t00. Tho losses on cot ton aro estimated at 811,000; mer chandise in cars and depot at $20,000, which Includes cotton mill supplies in tho oars, worth $3,000, the depot and platform at $10,000. Mr. Folk was fully Insured, as was probably Jones Brothers, and the railroad and cotton losses aro doubtless covered, Tho total loss ls from $40,000 to $60, 000. Tho town has no lire dopart mont, and tho flames could only ho fought by a buokot brigade. A seven year-old colored hoy at Donalds killed his flve-yoar-old broth er on Friday with a shotgun, / - ?. ' '. *"? ?" OHBAP XX0UB9IOH ?&TE8 TO Columbio, S, C, And lloturu, Vi? Sonthorn M c.* I way, The Southern Railway will soll ex cursion tlokets to Columbia, S. 0., and return, from all pointe within tho State of South Carolina, and from Charlotte, N. C., Ashovllle, N 0, Wilmington, N. c., Augusta, Ga., Savannah, Ga., and interino-Hato points, aooount STATK AQIUOULTUKAI. AND MECHANICAL FAUL OOTOUKR, 24th-27th, 1906, daily Ootober 22ud to 20jh inclusivo, and for morning trains scheduled to arrive in Columbia before Noon, October 27in, at rate of one first olass fare plus 25 oents plus 50 oents for round trip, tho fifty oents covering ono admission to Fair Groundd. For Military Companies and Brass Bands in Uniform, 20 or more on one tloket, one cent por milo traveled in each direction pluss arbitrarles per capita. Datc8of sale samo as for Civil ians as rdi?wn abovo. FINAL LIMIT ALL TICKKTS OOTOBJBR 20th, 1905. Southorn Hallway, in addition to the regular passenger trains running on convenient schedules to Columbia, will oporato special trains Ootober 25th and 20th between following points: Between Branchville, Camden, Sum Ur and Columbia. Spartanburg and Columbia and intermediate pointe. Anderson, Bilton and lntermeadiate points to Columbia. For further information, apply to any tioket agent, or write H. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. G. To CHICAGO, III , AND RETURN Account National Baptist Conven tion (Colored), October, 25th 31st, 1905. Jue fare for the round trip Tickets on salo Ootober 23rd and 24tb limited to return leaving Chicago not later than November 5th, 1905. F jr further information as to rates, schedules, etc, call on any Southern Hallway Agent or address, R. W. BUNT, D P. A. Charleston, S. C. PKOOKS MOKOAN, A. G. P. A. Atlanta Ga. Leaps I rom a Window. In New York, rather than face trial on tho Indictments charging him with fraudulently taking money from the Weissel estate, Armitage Math ews, lawyer and secretary of the coun ty Republican committee, committed suicide today by Jumping fr< m a win dow In his apartment to a stonepaved courtyard. He struck on his bead, fracturing his skull, and died in a short time. Mathews, who was a young man, had advanced rapidly, both in the practice of bis profession and in- politics. He was a friend of Former Governor Black and of Abra ham Gi ?ber and they were loyal to him in his trouble, acting as legal ad vlsers aud doing all they could to aid him to obtain the chango of venue from his ccuo'oy, for which ho appeal ed. Tho change of venue was denied Woduesday ard tho trial of the case was set for Taursday before Justice Davy lu the orlminal branch of the supreme court. Karly Wednesday morning Mathews received a speclall delivery lotter. After reading lt his housekeeper heard him go to a bath room and open a window. A few seo onds later ho jumped to his death. Several tenants in a houso in tho rear of Mathews' apartment saw him jump. A doctor was hurriedly tum moned, but could do nothing and Mathews died in a few minutes. Ill? Cannai i'rojecictl. President John S. Shaw and the board of directors of thc Lake Erb and Chlo Uiver Ship Canal Company, accompanied by a number of engineers and other advisors, started from Pitts burg, Pa., Friday on a two days' trip to examine the two routes proposed for a ship canal connecting tho Evie Lake with the Ohio river. At Asbta bula, Ohio, tho Pittsburg party will be Joined hythe <. Miers of th^ Ohio and Pennsylvania .Ship canal Comp any, of which Joseph H. Cassidy, of Cleveland, ls president, and the two organizations will continue the trip to gethor. One of the two routes ls from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Pittsburg, the other from Erie to Pittsburg. Bich route ls about 105 milos long, and the cost of either would be about 830,000, 000. President Shaw is of the opluion that tho work could be completed and the canal oponed to traillo in the Bum mer of IOU. ltpfasod rv Knout William S. Brown, of Wakefield, N, J., filed in tho United States oir cult court at New York a suit for $10, 000 damages against William C. Mus uhcnbclm, proprietor of the New As tor hotel. Browns says that on the night of August 0 ho attended the theater in New York with h's wife and was dolayed so that he missed his last train homo. He went to the hotel and applied for a room, but lt was re fused to him. The hotel clerk, bc says, intimated that Brown was with a lady not his lawful wife and refused him accommodations in the presence of a number of guests in the hotel lobby in such a mannor as to cause him $10, 000 worth of damage to tho feelings of his wife and himself. OAI'IH IItorn Wanted. The government ls In qu ;st t'f car penters to go to Panama to work. Transpotation will bc furnished and a steamer sails every five days fre-m New York City. It takes seven days to make the trip and wages are paid enroute. Men work but eight hours por day and 60 cents per hour ls the schedule paid. Tho examination of applicants has boon suppondad for a short time. All that is required ls for a man to qualify an a good carpenter. POSTMASTERS throughout tho coun try mint pay their debts or retire from thc publlo service. Worried be yond endurance by the army of Collec tors scoking tho payments of debts contracted by clerks In the depart ment, the postmaster general last Saturday Issued an order in which he announces that he "will not harbor anyone who c mtracts a debt on the strength of his official position and then, whlthout sufficient oxouso neg lects to make payment." This Is taken to apply to postmasters as woll. TUKUM has been considerable lnllu enco brought to bear upon Atlanta's city council, urging a suspension of the ord I ni nco against pool soiling at tho coming state fair. Tho council rofused, ard lt ls claimed that the fair will be a falluro In conscquonoo. If fairs cannot no conducted success fully wltlK ut allowing these gambling features they had bettor not bo hold at all. Tnw governor has restored Treasur er Patterson of Edgcllold to his office, ho having madoa deposit to oover fully his shortage. Bookkeeping," Shorthand, Type guaranteed course 20 weeks. Singl hand, 8 mos. 12 calle for graduates i maud. Write. -BS?iWuINREr^ Write lor Prices on i Babbit Couplings Ouages prills Guage Cocks Oil Cups Hack Saws Oil Cans Belt, leath Fittings Injectors Pipe Lace Leather, Packing all kinds, Sbaftb else In maohim Columbia Supply Ca.. - - ?.?.?.?.?????????????.?.?.I 1 THE GUINARD COIvUMJi f Manufacturers Briok, Fire Proof 2 Flue linings and Drain Tile. Pre # or millions. TEN THOUSAND DROWNED. Poarful Work of tho Tj phoon on tho Coast of Chin?. * - The steamer Tartar, which arrived at?Vlotorla, B. 0 , on fest Wednesday night from tho Orient, brought news from Shanghai that the loss of Ufo among the native of tho island at tho mouth of tho Yangtse Uiver as a re sult of tho typhoon at the beginning of September was tremendous. Tho North China Dairy Nows, of Shang nal, says: "To the east of Taraagmlng, two Islands, one calling Yawoshwa, tbe other Shihlou8ha, distant about twen ty miles from Woosubf, have suffered muon from tho typhoon, nearly all the Inhabitants having been swept away. Tho islands have only been inhabited for a short time, comparatively speak ing, as they aro of recent formatlou and are not much above high water mark. It ls reported that nearly 10, 000 people have beou drowned on these two islands and the smaller Islands adjacent. Tamagming itself bas not suffered much, hoing well above the high water making." The Shanbal papers say that the damage to the Canadian Paotflo Liner Empress of Japan by the typhoon will necessitate tho expenditure of 8100,000 for repairs. During thestom the steam er Peohill, formerly the Kio Grande du S fl, foundered near the mouth of the Yangtse. Her crew ot 64 were sav ed by the German steamer Albeugo. Own Your Own Hinno. It is surprising tho amount of reut a mau will pay, if he stops long enough to figure lt out. Many young men who marry and "settle down" and begin to pay rent will be far better t ff In ten yearsjlf they begin purohasng property this year than if they continu > to pay rent. Many of thom do not stop long enough in their dally work to think of a possible rainy day and years pt old age, but go on spending the fruit of their toll until the time comes when they havo to step down and out to make room for tho young men of the future. Then comas tho old, old ques tion. They are not prepared for an emergency of thia kind, and they wish that they had bought when they were young and have a home of their own when the the time of acquiring lt is passed. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the property purchased in creas s in value. Why not Ague th IP out to your own satisfaction, make up your mind and start at once to pre pare a home, Where were you six, eight, ten, or fifteen years ago and what did you have. If you have paid rent all these years you have your rent receipts to show where your money has gone, but where is tho home you might have owned If yeti bad been paying your money towards a home of yt ur own. What will you haye them? Will lt be a home of your own or t bundle of rent receipts. All real es tate has a value, and If purohasod at this value the buyer oannot possibly lose. Lor,k around you, If you aro an old resident of this city, you know about what certain pieces of property sold for ten or fifteen years ago. What are they worth today? We do not need to answer. In the hlBtory of the past you have many models, and all b if ore you is an almost absolute cer tainty that real estate valures will continue to rise, with tho inorease of population and tho natural demands for residential and business locations. Which do you prcfor, the comfort of y ur own home or a package of rent rocelpts, and live in the other fellow's house. Why longer pay tribute to Caesar? Why not be independent? A Canadiau farmer, noted for his absent mindedness, wont to town one day and transaotcd bis business with bho utmost precision- He started baok; on his way home, however, with the firm convlotlor that ho had for gotten somethi g-what it was be could not rocall, try how ho would. As ho neareo homo tho oonvlotlon In creased and three times he stopped blah' i8oand went oarofully through hh pocketbook in a vain endeavor to ?isoovcr what ho had forgotten. In due course bo reached home, and was mot hy his daughter, who looked at him surorlse, and oxclaimed, "Why, father, where havo you loft mother? Boat host. Major General Corbin, cabling to tho war department regarding tho ro cont typhoon in Manila, says that all of tho ohioors and six passengers on board the Ley tc, the government coast guard boat, were lost. Tho diapatoh add? that temporary shelter post? at six points were destroyed. Will Uto? lt. A Kansas City Judge has well nigh broken up carrying concealed woapons In his district by Imposing $500 finos or an alternativo ot 500 days on tho gang. Some immigration of tho sort of this judgo would bo acceptable down this way. SCHWAB, tho steel magnate, has or dcred himself a $160,000 silver dlnnor sorvlco. Even with that, however saya the Chicago Itscord, he will ? it. impossible to take moro than one mouthful at a timo. THE Marlon county farmers are standing out for ll cents for ootton Only two bales wero sold In Marlon on Friday and none oe Saturday. R N ?' Bl? DA, OA. -writing, English branches, Full e course of either Business or Short* in about 20 days. Can't Supply de Belt. Gandy Drill Press the Following Lubricators Bolt, Rubber ter Ejectors Hammers Files Pulleys ig, Collars for Shafting and anything ?ry supplies. . - Columbia, S. C. BRICK WOKKS, IA o. Terra Cotta Building Block ir pared to .flu orders for thou ands Honest Treatment for Weak Discouraged men. Do Not Throw Your Money Away on Worthless Treatments, But Write to Dr. Hathaway, tho South's Most Export Specialist, Who Can Be Deponded Upon to Curo You. 25 Years Experience. MEDICAL LOOKS FREE, Wirte for Them. If you ATO a man Bittering from unnatural ilischurgos, omissions, oromuturo diso' argo, or from a completo losa of your maoliood, do not throw your monoy away on tho many worUi IOHH i rout i un 11 from fako modical companies, "instituios," otc, but sit right down and writ? to Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, 88 Inman Bldg, At limtn, Ga. This physician lias perfected a method of treatment after ovor 25 yoars of ex perience that will positively restoro any weak, ivoruout, discouraged man to a typo of pecfeot nanhood, whothor tho patient is youug, old or nlddle-aged. lloaci; made medicines cannot >ossib y euro this condition, but oach and ivory case requires spoaially prepared troat uent admiuiutored by au export physioiau who s competent to understand just what your ?so roquiroH. Tho vast oxporlonoe of Dr. lathaway has niven him a knowledge of this londition in moa not possess vi by .any other >hy8i*ian; and every man in tins oonditloa ihould write him without delay. Everything B kept stritoly oonlldontlal, nod all medi dnos, which aro prooarod in his own labora ,ory, are sent in plain p.iokages. During the rears ?nd voars ho has boon es'tablished in At mit i ho "has ooudu;tod his h isl ness in an iqr.ost, straightforward m:\nnor, and his repu ai ion is known to all. Ho will B*nd to ?aoh mfferor his book for mon, entitled '.Rlaall leas, Vigor aid Health." Ho also oures all >thor disouio' of mon such as Strioture. Va ricocole, G loot, otc, and if you aro atti io tod ,vrito liim for a book on your disease. He ?as a number of th tm. Havo no hesitancy in ivritinn him. Tlio address is J. N13 WTO M HATHAWAY, M. D., 88 luman Bldg., Atlan ta. Ga. - - ORGANS - - .of tho best puality $45 up Upright Pianos From $225 up. Write Us for catalogues . and .terms. Malone's Music House, 1432 Main Street Almost opposito Masonic Templo. . - COLUMBIA, S. C. Htruok m Mino. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, says the British steamer LMio struok a ligating mino ninety miles east of Shatung lighthouse on September 30 and fifteen of her orow and passen gers are reported missing, among thom two foreign engineers. Girls, just beoaiuea young man has a oarrlage and a horse that oau go fast, do not conoludo tbat he is Jost tho man you mint have for a hus band. Takes something more than that to matee a sensible giri happy. Look for a man. Don't be in a hur ry. There are lots of them in the world, only lt takes a Httlo time to lind them. 7N Spartanburg the gamblers have threatened to give out tho names of soma of their patrons if the authori ties persist In their purpose of closing up the dens In that olty. The men who visit gambling dons should bo ex posed. Wo know of no moro effective way of breaking up the gambling hab it than that. Accouru NO to the census of 1900 tho wholesale value of the 'patent medlolnes, consumsd in tho United States during the connus year was '.Dom, $(?0.000,000. Adding to this one third for tho retailer's profit, we ?ot the enormous sum of about 180, 900,000 annually spent by the people for patent medlolnes. TIIK Philadelphia Press says holders if policies In tho big Ufo oompanles tro. at loast Unding out that they have beon paying too muoh for their in surance. Tbat ls their part of the rev elations. TIIK Augusta Herald says: "Caro lina's graft ls not confined to the dis ponsry alone, no matter how wloked folks would havo us believe it." That ls too true. IK you havo In mind anything that will help the town to grow and pros por iet it oe known tbat those Jntor ast^d in puihing tho town- to .the front may havo tho benefit of your judgmont In tho work they have h'ad. Ture Chicago Journal suggests Vhat the lifo insurance companies get out a now form of polloy Insuring reputa tions against suffering from exposure