The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, December 08, 1905, Image 5

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TA?OEl) MEDICINE. At tho Bequest of Interested Fatties the date of Hoforolnfc tho liftw Postponed o Jmnirary 2. "ai- Mfckoru Ap*!' ? io,- :.fce Bellera. The oommlBlonor of iuusrnal reve nue, Jshn W. Yerkes, tome time ago began an investigation concerning al oohollo compounds lab -lcd as medi cines.and held out to the publio as remedies for disease* and tho result of the examination was given yesterday lu a circular to collectors. It fol lows: "On September 12, Circular No. 073 waa issued from this elli io, non corning alo moho compounds ad vor tlsfid and sold as med lollies under various names, some of which wore composed obiefly of distill d spirits or mixtures thereof, without tho addi tion of drugs or medicinal ingredients in sufficient quantity to chango mat erlally the obaraotcr of the alcoholic liquor. "In that circular it was stated that beoause thcBO preparations were held * out to the publio as medicines woulel not afford ground for relieving their manufacture from npeelal taxes as rectifiers uud wholesale liquor dealers and would not relievo thu retail deal ers therein fiom special tax as retail liquor dealers under tho provisions of the Federal statutes. "It was further stated that this omeo would, by analysos made in the ohemloal laboratory here, of these parlous compounds determine wbether manufacturing aud baudllug ?yid bo Hablo to tho special gt until such anni y sos oncluslons reached s and merchants njfood faith-l 4#?0 tiecem t was tho ba - to make public f tho various prepar hd by anaylsls to be within forms of tho ruling o' September "By reason of the caro given in making analyses of these compounds the ellice bas been unable to cc m pie te the examination of all such com pounds now upon tho maiket, How ever it has made the following prep arations, and linds that they are within tho terms of ruling of Septem ber 12: Atwoods La G/lppe Spec lie, Cuban Glngerlc, DJ Witt's Stomaob Bitters, Dr. Bouviers Buohu Gin, Dr. Fowlers Meat and Malt, Duffy's Malt Whiskey, G lberts Rejuvenating Iron and Herb Juice, noatotters Stomach Bitters, Kudros, P?rima, Rockandy Cough Cure. "Since tho ruling was made, man ufactures of preparations referred to in that ruhug and wholesale drug gists and retail druggists handling them have demonstrated that largo looses would occur to them if the ruling was made i ll ;ctivo,ou Deo ember 1. They have stated that in good faith and under rules heretofore controlling- they have purchased these compounds In large quantities, have them in steck and that lt would be impossible to dispose of them by the dato originally determined. rOSTJPONKS BNFOKCBMBNT OF LAW. "After careful consideration of this phase of the casi and to protect? those who in good faith have engaged in the sale of tl.ose preparations, this office has determined to make the or der effective as against mauufso! urcs on Janurary 1, 1006, Instead of Deo ember 1, 1905, said date, Janurary, 1 1900, being the beginning of the third quarter of tho llhcal year. "With regard to all handling these preparations as retail dealers both druggist and other merchants, the order will be made effected April 1, D306 the beginning of thc last quarter of the current fiscal year, .p "This i nico will continue to make .''lyses of other preparations blmilar [f?0i>bose already examined, and will announce from time to time tho con clusions reached. "Until public notice Is given as to other preparations than those above ramed, manufacturers, diugglsts, and others handling these prepara tlons will not be held Hablo for other articles than those set forth herein provided that the et inpounds are sold in good faith as medicines." Tho tJood Old Hort. Tho woman that rode horse bick to cViiirch with a black silk reticule hauging to the horn of her saddle. The man that would always mike a cross mark and spit In lt when he hael to turn back after starting. The soap maker who would never touch a pot of soap until the moon was right. The woman that could spool, warp and put lu a web ot cloth in ono day. Tho spinner that could card, spin and reel six cuts In a day. The old gentleman whose coat poe* kots were orammed full of biscuits by his wife when he started ill se^ oral miles to church Sunday. Tho saving old fe'low who could wear hts Sunday SIIOCB ten years with out half soling. The man who poured his steaming caffeo into his saucer and after blow ing on it sipped loud enough to bo heard by his nearest neighbors The thrifty wlfo who c mid knit two pairs of wool sock', in a week, wo. king only at night by thc light Of pine knots or in the dark. The well dressed man who had a blue broadcloth spike tailed coat mado about 1 s:i0 and when going to meeting always put his coat tails into his breeches pocket to keep them from getting soiled on his horse. Carolina Spartan. <?or.ii lip Hoad. At the annual meeting of the stock holders Of the Atlantlo Coast Linc Railroad at R'cbmond, Va., last week T. M. Emerson, of Wilmington, N. C., was elected president ; vloe R T tor. vin, roslgncd. Mr. Emerson was for merly routh vice presidout and traffic manager. He succeeded Mr. Erwin on the board of dlrootors. All the other otbeors and directors wero re oleotcd Alex Hamilton, former sec ond vloe president, waa promoted to bo first vice presldont. C. S. Gads den was promoted from third to sec ond vloo presldont. J. R. Kenly was made third vice president. A divi dend of 3 per cent, was declared on tho stook, plaolng lt mu o instead of a 5 per oent. basis. Tho annual re port showed an i creiso In mllleage, gross and net rece its. President Emerson started with tho road as a clerk in tho freight oflloes in Wil mington, N. C., at 976 per month. * c 1 i i \ POISONED HI8%IFE. oii?attoiiAl Chamen Afcatntjt a Phy sfotan of Grecmboro, Dr. J. B. Mathews, a well known physician, was arrested at Greensboro, N. ?., Friday on a warrant charging him wltb the murder of bis wife, whc died Friday night af tor suffering ex cruciating agony for more than 12 bOurs. The warrant was issuod by Mayor Murphy. Uer death, aooordlng to Dr. J. P. Turnor, the coroner, who was oalled to her bedside, resulted from a dose of stryobnine followed by a potion of morphlno wbioh Coroner Turner nlloges was administered to the wt mau by her husband. Dr. Mathews was arrested at mid night. Ho maintains that while ho prescribed for his wlfo he did so in the hope of alleviating ber pain. Ocr oner Turner, who swore out the war rant against Dr. Mathews, makes sen sational oharges against Dr. Mathews in connection with the socnes in tho dying woman's room. Dr. Turnor alleges that after suffer* lng f jr hours thedylug woman direct cd lier 10 year-old son to seek another ph) alelan, her husband, according to the ?l ionel's story, having refused to summon one. Dr. Turner, who was the fl rab to reach tho stricken woman'r. bedside, diagnosed tho oase as ono of poisoning and at once administered antidotes, whlob failed to have the desired effect. As the end approach ed, Dr. Turnor alleged, tho husband entered tho wife's bedroom and askod Dr. Turner If he might kneed ab the bedsldo and pray with his wife, re qui s'jlng Dr. Turner meautlme to leave tho roc ra, which Dr. Turnor ro fused to do. Dr. Mathews knelt at his wlfo's bedside and clasping ono of her hands In bis prayed in a voice plainly audi ble throughout the room. Continuing, Dr. Turner says ho discovered his patient was writhing in pain, and ap proaching tho tied, be threw back the o jverlug and charges that ho ellscov ed a hyp. dennie, syringe bad bien plunged into tho woman's leg Do says he seized the syringe aud ordered Mathews from the room Mrs. Mathews died a few momonts later and tho cor oner's Jury was notltlod. Both Dr. Mathews and his wife aro well known hore. Mathows was looked up short ly after midnight, stoutly insisting that ho had no Intention ot taking his wlfo's life. Niii M? CREMATED. As Thej SI umbered on Board a Pull Boat. A dispatch from Mobllo, Ala., says nine persons, whose names aro not yet known, ocojpyiog a "pull" boat on Middle river, willoh runB botween the Tensas and Albama rlvors, were bum ed to death Friday in a Uro which de stroyed thc boat. Sidney Wheat, the negro steward, was tho only survivor of tho 1J mon who lived on tho orafb. Wheat escaped death by being awake owlr g to illness. The crackling of burning timbers warned him In time. Ile Jumped into ttio rlvor and 9soaped Just as the boat collapsed. Stewart aud Butt of Mo bile, who owned to boat, say thore had been no steam on her for three days. They were at a loss to accouub for the burning of tho vessel. According to Wheat's story the nine men wero r/ump?d into a roaring fur nace whllo some of them wore asleep. Thoy were roasted alive. The boat was used by mon who were engaged In getting logs out ol narrow placw for raftlrg purposes, lt **as constructed somewhat similar to a el edge boab and bad a sbiucbure for sheltering the machinery and apartments lu willoh the orew and employes lived. In this case those on the vessel oc cupied the second story of the struc ture. The lire had evidently been burning for some time when Wheat was awakened. Ile says he rushed In and yelled to the others to get out as fast as bhey oould as the boab was burning. Ile dues not kno v wheather any of the men heard him. Ho leaped from the vessel Into the rlvor and a moment labor tho vessel collapsed, precipitating che other men Into the blazing hull. What a Wino W.fa Knows. She knows that homo ls more than half what you make lb, and tbab a builder of a happy home ls a success Indeed. She knows bhab lb takes two to prolocg a family quarrel, one can therefore terminate it. Sho knows that Hilling v house with bargains keeps a couple from owning tho house In which they plano them. She knows that If wo thought all we said we'd he wise, but if we said all wc thought we'd be foolish. She knows thal some people sneer at love In a cottage, but lovo that could wish to live any where oise is not love. She knows that proud propio seldom have file ids. lu prospeilty they know nobody; In adversity nobody knows them, says Woman's Life. Sho knows that to make long lived friendships one must be slow in making them. She knows that bbc woman who gains a brlfh meanly ls meaner that bbc trills. She knows that "lb is less pain bo learn in youth ih?n to bo ignorant In old age." She khows that If she can not throw brightness over ber home lb ls best not to throw a wet blanket over lt. Sho knows that the wlfo who thinks she ls porfeet ls gonerally tho most imperf 03b. The un wiso wife may protlb by sbudylng whab bho wise woman knows. Killed by Canoor. Afbcr living over nlnoby years wlbh oub any serious Illness, Mrs. Mabllda Scotb, of Mellevlllo, Mlflln county, Pa., ii vu months ago pricked her foro head with a pin. Cancer resultod and sho died last week. Sho was the mother of twelve children and gave seven sons to tho Union army in thc civil war. Sho was tho second oldest we man In central Pcunsly vania and would have roached 100 next Fcbru ary. Fatally Shot. While cub bunting in tho country near Anderson on Thursday Mr. D. McAdams, a well known plumhor of Anderson, was accidentally shot and physicians say that he cannot live. A covey of birds was llushcel auel his companion, a Mr. Mitchell, tired at tho birds but tho ohargo enterod Mr. McAdam's head, fatally wounding him. _ Two Killed? Two men wero klllod and about a eh /.rn more or less seriously Injured In bho wreck of the Philadelphia expross on tho Central railroad of Now Jornoy Friday night near tho Pennsylvania Haven Junobton, 100 miles norbh of Philadelphia. Tho dead, Fireman Itu por b of Monoh Chunk, Pa., and an extra engineer named -Dotroy, who was riding home on the locomotivo. GOTTOH BY COUNlW. What tho Publie Gins of South Oaro lina Have Dono. Tixe osnsus bureau bas Just Issued tts ti 1Kb statement, by counties showing ex ctly bow many bales of cotton have been ginned In eaob to Novem ber 14, leos. This ls tba first time thia ba) aver been done and will prove exceedingly interesting to growers in the otate and otberH intcrostod in the cotton industry. Tho following figures show what has beon ginned in thc year 1004 and 1005, to November 14: 1005. 1004 Abbeville.27,733 25 717 Aiken.30 131 30,221 Andereon.45 841 40 4K0 Bamberg.20 080 2Q 005 Barnwell.37 587 38,115 Beaufort. 5 011 4 728 Berkeley. 13 058 13 015 Charleston. 5,202. 7 314 Oborokeo..ll 009 11 088 Ches er.2? 801 18 082 Chesterfield.12 050 12,108 Clareudon. 24 370 20 232 Colletou.12 787 ll 080 Darlington.24 255 27 588 Dordie tor. 7 504 8 85(1 Klge field.24 002 23 107 F*il field.21,085 20.512 Florcnc?.23 OC ? 22 052 George'own. 2 001 1 403 Greenville.20 430 31 800 Greenwood.2(?,023 22 707 Hampton.2(?,023 22 7S7 Horry.1? 080 15 280 Kershaw. 5 525 0 737 Lancaster.10 060 15,800 Laurens.17,410 10.817 Lie. 23 320 20,503 Lexington.10,284 10.2!)0 Marlon. 30 052 30 201 Marlboro.38 500 33 852 Nowborry.31,722 31, li Oconee.10 024 11 8' Ovangeburg.01,074 71 001 Bickens.10,040 ll 050 Richland.10.630 14 0 Saluda. 17 730 io 931 Spartanburg.40 355 46 890 Sumter. 20 736 80,71' tJ? lon .14 307 14 3 M Williamsburg. 20.930 1!? 53 2 York.20 800 28 271 How tu JL'roM your I'OWD, Praise lt, Improve lt.. Talk about it. Write about lt. Traci ? at homo. Tell of its business resources. Tell of its natural advatages. Trade and induce others to trade hero. When strangers come to town use them well. Don't call your best friend frauds and impostors. Support tho local institutions that benefit your town. Look aheacj of yourself when all the town is to bo considered. Don't forget you live. o?i the people here, and you should help others a? they help jo t. Don't advertise in the loo.l parer "bo help the proprietor," bub to In lp yourself. Let's get together and keep tilings moving, hustling al! the time; oi-.ei r fully keening a st ir upper lip walting for the good time coining; for tho old town. Lot's try lt, D > it now. lt ye ci took Trait**. Tho receipts of all kinds of live stook at tho Chicago stock yard for tho present year greatly rxjeed tlvjse of any preceding year of its history. Arrivals up to date foot up sein ?thing ovor ll 000,000 and estimating the receipts for tho balance, ol ?he. year, the grand total will ba o m.Ud^rably. In excess of 10,000 000 and this does not Include over 500,000 head scut di rect to paokers outside the yards ( ) cattle, 3 400,000 head luve beei ro ceived during tho year. Galven 8?0, 000, hogs 7,700,000; sheep. 4 810 ooo; horses,127,000; or about 110,000 m iro oalvos than ever before, ne-irly 300,? 000 moro sheep than any oilier roo rd and over 9,000 more horses than aro the figures: 3 080 4 pounds av; ic'u po'8. One million silver dollars weigh 60 931 pounds avordupuls or nearlj 28 1-4 tons. Ilario Min kn. Thc founder of the now stool barg Delawanna and the Jo ;s of /our per s uis on board, Ine'uding Capt. Joh? B, Munsey and his wife, wan rep H . - I at Boston, Mans., Friday, by tho tug Scranton, which had been towing the Delawanna from Now York. The barge went down in a heavy fica at 8 30 o'clock Thursday night about ;1>. ht miles ear.t by south from Minois light. One of the crew of the Dela wanna wai sflvod. So quickly did the barge founder after the snapping ol the hawsers that the crew had abso lutoly no time to assist the tow, which disappeared almost before t h Scranton could put about. Tue so e survivor was found clinging to a fras* mont of a broken boat. Ho Laid the Delawanna was thrown on hoi b am ends by a terrific sea, and the water flooded int J tho hold. Hu?Tjro? Ilowvy i,. Wu regret lt) learn that, Nr. A. A. Dant'/.lor who is a most prosperous and enterprising farmer, of tho Iv lo ree soction, had tho misfortune last weak to lose his gin house and p.ll contents by lire. Inside tho gr., house there were between thirty-liv, and forty bales of unginnod cotton, In addition all of tho machinery was destroyed including engine boiler, saw mill, grist mill etc. Altogether tho loss will amount to something like $5,000 and Mr. Dantzler had no In suranooon any of the property dearoy ed. While the loss will fall very heavily on Mr. Dan!/.lor bc ls a mau of energy and determination and he will build himself up apaln. Mr Dantzler ls a good ottizon md is wi ll knowaovor the country and his friends sympathize with him in his great less AIWAJTH Oman, Did you ever notice th'-tt tobacco ls always clean. If a man drops a pin o of meab, no matter how clean the lloor may be, ho will either glvo lt a pick or plok it up and lay it to one sido. Ho will m.vtir oat lt. But let him drop his plug of tobnoco on tho ground and no d fferenco how dirty tho spot waa whore lt fell, ho will pick it up and give lt ? careless swipe on his coat sleeve or on the bosom of his pants and then take a chew with groater relish then ever. Oonulno Veteran. The dispatches toll UR Mmt, an In. diana veteran has Just refused $15,. 000 back pension. Undoubtedly tho man ls a genuine veteran and wants to keep his name on tho roll of honor as a lighter and not as a grafter. Tho simplest mother is wiser than tho brightest childless woman, bi - cause experience is tho only sort of wisdom worth having. WANTED MOTHER KILLED. GfnolniiAtl Woman Uoltovedjn Chlc rof>*j?M? for tho Infirm. Miss Anna ll Ul, of cincinnati, who recently attrr.jted a great deal r>f at tentJorj by an addross she made In Philadelphia boforo a national conven t?on o? humano workers, ls a dnugh ter o'tho noted explorer Hall, who lost his lifo many years ago ou a trip to the far north, lu lier ac'dress Miss Hall advocated administering chloro form feo peisous hopelessly ill and su ff ring. The government paid Explorer Hall's family $18 OOO by roasou of IIIH doatb while on a J <urnoy of scientific research to tho rorth polo, and th h money has caused litigation lu the fa mlly. F.idiy ?n Judge Plleger's court dur ing the bearing of a will ciao of Miss Hall's mot lier, Mrs Marcy Hall, a MM. S i ru ooo testified tbat trr q ieutb while she was about the room where Mrs. flail lay dying she heard M's1 Anna Nail urge the attendit g phys! dan to let her administer chloroform to md ht r mother's si.IT ring. Mist Hall Insisted, slid the witness, that Mer in ithrr was lu great psln, aud as loath was inevitable lt was not right to 1 it her Bott sr T ie dieter, tho witness said, assur er! Miss ll ill that her mother was really not In pain, as she was In a semi coutolous condition. Tiio wit nf ss said tho physician remarked one Ky to Miss Hall: "You are a tin us Mid yeats ahead of your time, Mis-. Hall." Someday perhaps, what you ad vee,te may become tho praotlce, but uot in thin day. WOMAN KILLED DENTIST. All tho Purlieu to tho Tr? ff ody H?ittl to tie Prominent. .) :sMrs. Birdsong, who shot and kill ed Dr. Tliomas Huller at his t flL-e at Monticello, Miss., Saturday morning, ls lu j til and her husband, Dr, J amos Birdsong, a well known dentist, bas been placed under arrest as accesso ry. An ir.qu-st was held Saturday af teruom before Justice John W. Stoen' but it was brief. Neither Mrs. Hird nong nor ber husband wind make any statement, lt ls believed that Mrs. birdsong In ber trial will set tip slander as the ground for the killing, there having been considerable gossip 0 mncotlng the names of the two for 1 some days past Last Thursday, after thc woman *>ad visited the office of the dead man, slic went home and tried to commit . u'cic'.o by taking morphine, but puy 8lolans wore hastily summoned and her life wir; saved. She was in bcd all day IPrlday, butSa'.irday morning after hor husband lift for his ellie.; she got up, seen red lils pistol and walked to the ellimo of Dr. Bu 1er. The dooter was alone when she en tared and without a word she bogan to tiro op him. Dr. Butler retreatid, the recoud shot being fired whllo he ?as going through the door, He fell to tho 8iddwalk and tho woman fired throe more shots at him, two of tne womans bullets penetrating the nuns he tit. The dead doctor was a nephew of former Gcvernor Lougino, of dick ron, who will come herc Monday to take pari la the preliminary trial, which is set for that date. Dr Bird snug has engaged the Hon. R. N. Miller, of Ilazelburst, a noted oriml nal lawyer, to defend him. Dr. But 1er leaves a widow and f niv children. BURP Bhoia The man who don't have friends, don't desorvo them. The man who "knows himself" nev er looks like a "dude." The fellow who "talks to himself" often h< s an ass for a listener. Nearly all of us coul l wrluc. a largo book On tho things "we don't know." lt's a shame for the. rich to have to die and leava their diamonds and poo dle dogi. A religion that won't produce ' smile:," ls not tho brand we are look ing for. Show us a min who uever "falls" and we'll show you a mau who ls too lr//., to try. When lt takes money to get pen pie to notice a ft How, ho must have boen durned common buforc. The girl who makes a confidant of her mot.'.'er ls thc girl who never lias much bad news to peddle. No man can "settle up" and get a oleir receipt from Hod until bc quaros his accounts with lils neigh bors. The fellow who thinks that thc wo ld osves him a living, is ne\\ir a'jile tu c lk ot only about ten couts on the dollar. The fellow who believes two much in "pri. vid.'nee" ls the chap who gen erally has an empty pocket and a pat che i pair of pants. If we knew that all the foolish p:o pie were to he killed on a Oer tain day, tho mujirlty of us would get busy writing faro .veil letters. Tho fellow who believes that a "horse shoo will bii.ig him good luck," ls the follow who Is willing for his wife bo take In washing to sup l? rt himself and threo or four hounds. The devil Is not afraid of the Preach er who useshlank cartridges What this country needs Isa lot of REAL preachers on tho "tiring linc," with 1 ad od 0 sp 1 guns and with grit enough to uso them. No Knee Kuloltm. Tho wife of W. W. Wilson of Aus tin, near Chicago, ls a woman after President li loscvelt's own heart. She hay within th?! last clohtcen months made an anti-race suicide locord of giving hirth to two sets of triplets and less than four year? agu tho sum s mother g?tvo birth to twins. And a'l are reported to be alive and doing well ltU related in reference to Mrs. Wilson that she hus a twin, who ht the ni >ther of twins,while twins have also sppeare i in the homes of her o u.slns. OJ Mr. Wilson's sido he has uncles who aie twlnp, and one of ids sisters is thc m ither of twl ns. I) H?m reim H forms The Detroit Journal stys U? UVCH have been saerlll o ', over 70 s' hs were wrecked and a loss of nearly 17.000,000 has buen sustained In thc threo big stOrmi on tho Great Lakes this season. Tua*, this ls most dlSfS brous season In the history of ship ping on tho lakes is beyond doubt. 'J mc astronomers have discovered an old oovnot with four babies. Such a thing never happened during form er ad m I llstratlons. lt's tho Roose veltian idea. "MAKES YOU WELL ALL OVER RHKUMACIDE goes right to the seat of the disease, sweeps als ifre germs and poisons out of the blood, cleans up all the plague snots in the body and sets sf! th? organs td work agsto 3fa Nature's way. Purely vegetable, non-alcoholic, it ls yet the most powerful of cleansing medicines, and at the same time regulates the liver, tones up the stomach and builds up the entire system. RH EU WI ACIDE is the only remedy that cures rheumatism to stay cured. MOST POWERFUL BLOOD PURIFIER A WORLD*. CURES DISEASE BY REMOVING THE CAUSE. RHEUMACIDE has cured thousands of cases after all other remedies and famous doctors had failed. Austin Percelle, of Salem, Va., spent $200 in medicines and hun dreds of dollars for physicians' fees, and at last he was cured by half a dozen bottles of Rheumacide. G. Dietrich, of 2120 Ramsay street, Baltimore, says it has "made him a new man." Mrs. S. A. Combes, 114 S. Cilmor street, Baltimore, says it cleansed her blood, took away her pains, and made her "feel like a new woman," Your druggist and recommends Rheumacide. sells After Noted Doctors Palled. .Here ls a case cured hy RHEUMA? special Hughes . >y K ClDK niter noted New York special ists lind failed. Mr. W. R, writes (rom Atkins, Va.: . l our bottles of RHKUMACIDE have entiiely CH red me of a long stu nd I ni; cuso o( rheumatism and ?really Improved my general health, was a total wreck, h;iviitu had rheu matism for twenty years. 1 spent sev eral weeks and much money trvinif specialists in New York, but KHEU* M AC I DIS is the only cure I have found Wien I began to use it I weighed I tO pounds. Now I weigh 180 pounds, my normal weicht. "W. R. llUGHliS. " CURES AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL. Sample bottle and booklet free if you send five cents for postage to Bobbitt Chemical Company, Proprietors, Baltimore. START TO GET WELLTOD AY CURES Rheumatism, Sciatica, Rheumatic Co Ut, Lumbago, Catarrh, Indigestion, Constipation. Kidney Trouble, Liver Diseases, La Orlppe, Contagious Blood Poison, AU Dlocd Ploaasas. TBE BOOL WEEVIL. DaniAKCri Cotton to nu lOxtont ol $."?(> ooo,ooo in a Y oar. Tho extent to which the crops cf the United States are ravaged by in sets is scarcely realized by tire pub lic. Tho Rubjeot ls thus referred to by C. Arthur Williams In the Success Magazine: "Ttie proceeds from the wheat crop, j tho average annual farm valuo of j which may bo roughly put at $100, 000,000, have In more than one year been cut down as much as 60 per cent as a result of the cninoh bug and the hessian Hy. Klug cotton alone was damaged to the extent of nearly $50, 000,000 by the so -called Mexican boll weevil in tiro siegle state of Texas in 1903, according toa carefully com piled report issued by the census bu reau. The apple crop has been re duced aB much as 25 por c;nt in many Instances through thc operations of thc codling motil and other Insects. So one might go through tho entire list. Toe burden ls distressingly heavy, but lt is safe to assert that farmors themselves-who, obvlcudy, ought to know as much of this phase of thc matter as aoybo-'y-will egree j that their losses, In practlcilly every ? instance, would be far gr? aler were j tlie Bolentitle knowledge of Mic ch part | ment of agriculture's ste IT rot put to account. A careful inirvey of the j facts leads to tim conclusion that tho total da nagc each year would be from two to f ur times as largo were it not for the department of agricul ture's unreraitth'g warfare against the posts, and that amalmum des truction of $2,000,000 000, or nearly j onc-bblf tho whole yearly value of' the country's crops, at present, would be possible." Tiui lOiluoateo Woman, The time bas come when the edu cated sve mm can no longer regarded as a freak. If according to dred lot* I ions, di -nestle happiness is to fall a j victim to tho monster, "higher edu cation," lt. is time to prepaae for the funeral: Toe old fallacy that giris are not abld to mentally cope with b >ys in thc quriuilt of classic studies bas received its deatli blow. Of hon- j or credontlals Issued tim ugh the year the lu^er number has been received j by girls and more wonim aro seeking I admission to i in; colleges than the) colleges have room for. The old c-ty | that women have no use for the higo: er branches, because she will get married does not disprove thc fact that lier trained Intellect renders her all tho more capable of carrying on to a satisfactory teJmlhus the manifold duties allotted hor in her capacity of wife mi thor and lu u.sekeeper. For tho In fermat hui of men who are con: .shh ring thc talking of Hi?rate women a-i wives for the sola purpose of Insui; lug domestio peace, wc call attention to tho tact that tlie divorce coulls do not seem to be crowded with educated woman. Woll'ord Hoy OlBAppuarf*. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The N :ws and Courier hays. "Hugh Creighton, a student of Wi f ford Co' lege, dlsappeart d from tho city Satur day. Tho you"g man's fatbor, the Hov. O. W. Creighton, of Greenwood, editor of tlie Christian Appeal, was herc Sunday making inquiries, but hut. found nothing to Indicate where Hie young man is likely to hav3 gone. Tho boy Is 17, has light hair, delicate features, Is tall, slightly stooped, and was last seen wearing a gray suit The police are requested to look out for him, and If found to notify his father at Greenwood. Tho young man understands type-setting, A. IO. M ictus a newspaper manager of Detroit, says: "Tuc true barome ter of business is tho ocuntfy editor Whon lie ls prosperous every bi dy else must bo. The country editor is the last to get his dues. This year lie ls doing a good business, which means that the ontire country is un usually piosporous." COL Coward, the etllolent superin tendent/ of the Citadel, can be roiled op .o to do what ls right in the ease of hazing now under Investigation In that institution. There is no suoh thing as policy with tho Colonel. He will do his duty regardless nf person a' consequences to himself. TIIK Southern Cotton Association ls one. of thc best organizations In the South. livery hilliness man and cot ton farmer lu the entire South should bc enrolled in it as numbers. It has already saved tho South millions of dollara and will savo it millions moro oj keeping up thc price oi custon. WORTH: BILLIONS. S cmo Figures To Tho Value or Do niPHtio Animale, S:cotary Wilson with hlsuf.ual loy ally to all that pretal us to the farm and farmer, cal's attention In tits an nu al report to tho valu$ of d iraistic an'mils and diary and poultry pro ducts. Ile dcc'aros that the faithful horse wa? Orst threatened hy tho byolcle, then by the suburban trolley and the automobile, but none of these thinus have been able to diminish his num bers or deoreasc his value. Tuero were the sccotary Bays, 17,000,000 horses and mules at work upon Amer ican farms at the oloso of the crop year and their value was 81,2000 OOO 000 nearly as much as the corn of the year. Tho prices of the animate have atead ly risen. M i lob cows Bte likewise advanclrg In numbers and value, there heir g 17,500,000, valued at 1482,000,000. Other cattle, however have declined in number and value, last winter1 numbering 43 QC9.000, and being worth $60,000,000. Sheep are among the losers but hugs are holding their positions in numbers and valuo. And there's tho faithful old hen cf the farmer and the suburbanite Sccotary Wilson d JCS not fail to hand her a boliq let In pawing, ita says abc isa worthy companion to elie ow in tho favors she showers up m tile. American people. The anneal pro : duotlon of eggs is not a fore of bill-! ions and the products are valu d at j half a billion dollars. Kiga arc doing 'substituto duty for high priced meats thesecetary says. Telepathy. 1 This case of telepathy ls reported ? from Union in a dispatch to thc j State. A remarkable Instance of I presentment of danger to his little child Friday caused C. I<\ MacGreg ! or, who was bu ?1 ly at work in the spinning room of tho Union cotton j mill No. 2, suddenly to stop work j and rush home, where he arrived j just in tim? to 'ice his little lo months-old child a mass of ll imos. j Tlie motlier had stepped out to a I neighbors for a few moments, and i but for the timely arrival of tho ! father, tho child would have b;?en burned to death. As it is, the child may yet die. The father's hands were terribly burned in tho Hames. DiBlltlBBOdi The secretary of thc navy has or dered the dismissal of Midshipman .Joseph Ralph Williams, of Patterson, N. J., a member of the first olass, for unsatisfactoriness In studies and con r duct, lt ls seldom that a midship man of the Urst class ls dismissed for anything but specitlo misconduct. Wi)-'ams testllled bofore the court marnai whioli is trying Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., anl told (f j au incident where Commander Hugo Osterhaus reported a midshipman for not resenting an insult, another mid shipman having called him a "ohcor ful liar,'' willoh was afterwards ex plained to have been a J jke. POOH M noll Qood< Mis:} Ilolon Guild, with the intelli gent a?lstance of Miss L zzle Al? man, annuulv disburses 8f)00,ooo in ob arl ty. Probably Miss Gould supports directly and Indlrecly moro charities than any person living. Whilo lt dors not mean that sho glvos a vay such sums as are recorded of tho Rockefeller and Uarneglo charities, on the best; author ity hor donations annualy ref o'? 500 or moro beneficiaries. Miss Altman ts a Vassar graduate and ti i st mat ber present employor some soven years ago, when Miss Gould was visiting the college. Since then she has been an active agent In giving away nearly 8-1, ooo,roo. Ship MU? Of< w lumi. It ls behoved that the steel steam er Ira H. Owen has been wrecked and that Its crew of ll) men arc drowned The ship was last seen on Tuesday 10 miles from tinter Island in Like Su porlor. Tho Chioago owners have glvon up all hopo of tho vessel. The Owon's captain was Jos. Mulligan of Hu (Talo. "I do not bolievo In sandwiching courtship with roliglon," said tho sec retary of tho Y. M. CA. in Now York rocently. "'No man oan hold a hymn book with a charming young woman and pay attention to what thc minister ls saying." Ho advocates soporate churches for the two sexes. DUKING tho Civil War many peo ple hired mon to light in tl.o war in their stead. Rome aro now asking tho pension commissioner to pay thom the monoy they spent for this pur PO30. They will get nothing. j O R S B C Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Type guaranteed course 20 weoks. Sing hand, 8 mos. 12 calls for graduates maud. Write. COT KN GUNNER SAND Write for Prices on Babbit Couplings Guagcs Drills Guage Cocks Oil Cups Hack Saws Oil Oans Belt, leat Fittings Injectors Pipe Lace Leather, Packing all kinds, Shaft: else in machii Columbia Supply Co., ? - 1 Wi ?mjs'.ly bilhv. that $287 spent with us buys more lasting Piano satisfaction than $400 spent elsewhere. There's a reason. Write ns about it. Full particulars by return mail. High Grade Organs, $47 00 to $05. Sig I & a Ludden & Bates, S. M. H. si % Dept. " F ' I havannah, Ga. m ? m T fl? y'. All 50o. Popular Muslo 17o, or S ploo>H f>>r ROO. ii hi di h* >"< ? iii Mi Wunun li illu Wu m nu. A dispatch from Chester to The News and Courier says In a tight that oocurred at the county farm Thursday botween two colored women Amy Oibomo and Margaret Attlos, inmates of tho home, the former re ceived injuries from whioh sho died Saturd ly evenir g. The two old womon coupled tho same oabln and bad al ways gotten along pleasantly, but Thursday tlnro was a quarrel result ing in tiie tragedy. Tho Attics wo mau struck her antagonist with a heavy st lok on the front part of the -kuli, the i IT ets of willoh produced death Coroner Leckie held an In quest and committed Margaret Attles t > j HI on tho charge cf murder. A peculiar fact In connection with tho hom'olde Is thc great age ( f the wemen. Margaret Attles is said to bc 7f> years old, while the doad woman ls reported hy reliable persons to have been 07, Kept Oorptio i\?r YOUTH. Following thc death of Mrs. Llore Thompson, an an od and cccontrlo wo man a scarcli of lier cottage on Boyle Heights at San Francisco, Cal., dil c osed in a storeroom covered with dust a hermetically scaled box cotalnlng the c iriso of her daughter, who died bwentysoven years ago. Tho budy of tho young woman had been dis membered. When the box was open ed a disinteimont cortillcate, sign ed F. ll. B iu'c'lr, undertaker, Am hearst, Mass., Novemb r 7, 1881, was found. The body had been snipped from tho Fist. TiiKo'icy of Washington, tho capi tal of tho United States, has a oolorcd population of ninety thousand, more than any othor cltv in the world, and Now York olty follows with sovenly thousand, and Chicago third WitU thirty-tlvo thousand. AT a recent politloal meeting in New York a candidato yelled ; "What ls tho one thing that wo of this cou! munity aro sn IT iring most frorar at this time?" Tuero was a Bllenco. and thou a man with a big deep volee ?iald "bod bugs." ^ ) R N E ' H i^ v. (-writing, English branches, Full le courso of oithor Business or Short iu about 20 days. Can't supply do MACHINERY OWNERS. die Following j -- Lubricators Bdltj (Tandy Belt, Rubber Drill Press her Ejectors 1 lammers Files Pulleys ing, Collars for Shafting and anything iery supplies. . . Columb a. S. C. WEAK MEN, 1 CAN RESTORE YOU TO PERFECT MANHOOD. 1 Havo linen Huoocs-fully Treating Disease of Men tor 25 Y.-ars and My Method of Treatment As sures You a Positive, Per in anent Cure. T cnn positively roster weak mon (hoir lost vitality and nil 1 want is un opportunity tu convince you that 1 eft . if yon aro m n wo? k, do joe tod condition, discouraged and broken in health, sit right down and writo mo a loiter and lot mo toll yon in my answer why my treatment, will positively and penna* lu'iilly restore to you tho vim land vitality you onto possessed. I Imvoigivoit tliis condition srooiil study for ovor tWOnty-flvO years nial I know, and it lias hoon proven by tho Iorgo number of pnoplo' whom I havo mred, that I am Cftpftblo of thoroughly I Ul dof&tnndiug every possible treatment no I cordingly. My wide experience has t?ncht mo Hint there aro hardly twocoso ol'this i.ntwhs exaet ly alike, and honco eftolt must bo treid? differently ?in caro is ovor broughtabouts s preparo tho proper treatment in my o ni laboratory te in et. tho demands of ovory individual ease, utter I hilve givdtl ft thorough examination. My method ol' treaememt is the result ol' all I hese years ol' o'oso study and it is to-day rccogld/.cd hy the medieal profession as tho most thorough and soiontiflo troalniout for mon. 1 have had great 8UCC0S9 in eurieg tho nflllodod nt ft distance. Hy tho aid of a com pleto system of solf-c\am:nation hlunks I eau diagnose a caso ?ta distance and if you aro in this condition,or it you suffer iron? any other disease ol' a chronic nature, write me. *J)jiiot look fora euro in the many widely ndvertisod "roady-niado' medicines, ireo treatments from fake medieal companion, otc, oto., for will not only never lie eared hut yon will become worso, in addition lo losing tho money you havo spout. My charges ft ro very reasonable, and no mau should hesitate writing me on this nc count. 1 have been established in Atlanta for many years ?nd my reputation an a skillful specialist is kno MI to nil. ho s ire to vvr.to me for my book for mon, entitled "Manli ness, Vigor ml(| Health" it is absolutely froo for the asking. Address J. Newton Hathaway, Al. D() 88 Inman Bldg., Atlanta, Oft. I - - ORGANS - - ? of tho best piutlity $15 up I Upright Pianos From $225 up. Write Us for catalogues and terms. Malone's Music House, 1432 Main Street ? Almost opposite Masonic Tompio. S COLUMPIA, S. 0. IT rr quires a good deal of courage as well as money for parents to send their sons to some of the oolleges of tho present day. Dy the brutal sava gery of tho so called hazing tho health as weil as tho life o' students aro on dsngircd. Ilaz'ng should bo stopped in tho colleges. It Is brutal. Gov- ney ward ru** deotdtd to kecrj}& tho State o instables in ail tho ooun|| ties that haarvjte'd out the dlspeniu.|| ry untlb^E?io legislature meet, and thozet that body deoldo tho quos?