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TABUED MEDICINE. t tho Btquost of Interested Parties the da'.e of EuiWoiuk tho ?jftiv Postponed to JaimrBvy 1 for Maker? And April 1 lor tho jellore. The oomnatBioner of louernal reve nue, Jahn W. Yerkes, some time ago began an investigation ooucernlug al oohollo compounds labeled as medi ci nos and held out to the publlo as remedies for diseases and tho result of the exam! nation was given yesterday In a circular to collectors, lb fol lows: .'On September 12, Circular No. 673 was Issued from this elli >o, con cerning aloohollo compouuds adv.nr tlsed and sold as mediolnes under Various names, some of which were composed oblefly of distilled spirits or mixtures thereof, without tho add1 tlon of drugB or medlolnnl Ingredients in sufficient quantity to chance mat erlally the charaoter of the alcoholic liquor. 'Tn that olroular it was stated that because these preparations were held out to tho publlo as mediolnes would not afford ground for relieving their manufacture from special taxes ap rectifiers und wholesale liquor dealers and would not relieve the retail deal ers therein fi om special tax as retail liquor dealers under tho provisions of the Federal statutes. "It was further stated that this oflloa would, by analyses made lu the ohemloal laboratory bore, of these arlous compounds determine whether manufacturing aud handling old bo Hablo to tho special at until such analyses pncluslons reached s and merchants njfood faith-) imo TJeoeru t was tho I "os to make public | f tho various prcpar und by anaylsin to be within 'tonna of tho ruling of September 2, "By reason of the caro given in making analyses of these ccmpoune's the c lil oe has beeu unable to ci mplete the examination of all such com pounds now upon tho market, How ever it has made the following prep arations, and linds that they are within the terms of ruling of Septem ber 12: AtwoodB La Grippe Speo.llc, Cuban Gingeric, DJ Witt's Stomach Bitters, Dr. Bouviers Buchu Oin, Dr. Fowlers Meat and Malt, Dully's Malt Whiskey, G lberts Rejuvenating Iron and Herb Juice, Hostetters Stomach Bitters, Kudros, Teruna, Rockandy Cough Cure. "Since the ruling was made, man ufaotures of preparations referred to in that ruling and wholesale drug gists and retail druggists handling them have demonstrated that large looses would occur to them if the ruling was made ell iotlve en 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 bel Impossible to dispose of them by the date originally determined. POSTPONES KNl'OHCKMKNT OF LAW. "After care ful consideration of this phase of the casi and to protect those who in good faith have engaged in tho sale of tl.ese preparations, this office has determined to make the or der effective as against manu'?c'ures on Janurary 1, 1000, Instead o? Dec ember 1, 1906, said date, Janurary, 1 1000, being the beginning of tho third quarter of the ilfical year. "With rogaid to all handling these preparations as retail dealers both druggist and other merchants, the order will be made elected April 1, 1000 the beginning of tho last quarter of the current fiscal year. "This v. nice will continue to make .''lyses of other preparations (similar 'bl"those already examined, and will announce from time to time the con clusions reached. "Until public notice ls gi von as to other preparations than those above ramed, manufacturers, diuggtsts, and others handling these prepara tions will not be held liable for other articles than those set forth herein provldeel that thc a inpounds are sold in good faith as medicines." Xii o Uootl Old Hort. Tho woman that rode horse bick to cVitirch with a black silk reticule hanging to the horn of her saddle. The man that would always nuke a cross mark and spit in it when he had to turn back after starting. The soap maker who would never touch a pot of soap until thc moon was right. Thc woman that could spool, warp and put lu a wob of cloth in one day. Tho spinner that could card, spin and reel six cuts in a day. Tho old gentleman whose coat poe* kctfl were crammed full of biscuits by his wife when he started i IT se?' oral mlle? to church Sunday. Tho saving old fellow who could wear his Sunday shoes Len years with out half soling. The man who poured his steaming CDffeo Into lils saucer and after blow ing on lt sipped loud enough to bo heard by his nearest neighbors The thrifty wife who e mid knit two pairs of wool socks In a week, wo. king only at night by the light of pine knots or in the dark. The well dressed man who had a blue broadcloth spike tailed cos made about IMO and when going to meeting aldeys put his coat tails into his breeches pocket to keep them from getting soiled on his horse. Carolina Spartan. <j>oes Dp lionel. At thc annual meeting of the stock holders of the Atlantic Coast Linc Railroad at Richmond, Va., last week T. M. 3Cmerr.cn, of Wilmington, N. C., wa? elected president; vice ii, T. Er< vin, resigned. Mr. Emerson was for merly fouth vice president and trafilo manager. He succeeded Mr. Erwin on tho board of directors. All the other olllcors and directors were re elected Alex Hamilton, former sec ond vice president, was promoted to be first vice president. C. S, Gads den was promoted from third to sec ond vice prcsidont. J. R. ICenly was made third vice prcsidont. A divi dend of 8 per cent, was declared on the stook, plaolng it m a 0 Instead of a 5 per cent, basis. Thc annual re port showed an 1 croise In mtlloago, gross and net rece its. President Emorson started with tho road as a clerk in thc freight Alicea In WU alington, tf? C., at $7? per month. ti POISONED HIB WIFB. Sensational Changea Against ? l*hy Hfolan or Greensboro. Dr. J. b. Mathews, a well known physician, was arrested at Greensboro, N. 0?i Friday on a warraut ohaigiog t?m ?-Ith thc ourior c? hi? wife, wh? died Friday night after suffering ex cruciating agony for more than 12 , hours. The warrant was iesuod by Mayor Murphy, lier death, according i to Dr. J. P. Turner, the coroner, who 1 waB called to her bedside, resulted from a dose of strychnine followed by a potion of morphlno which Coroner Turner alleges was administered to tho weman by her husband. Dr. Mathews was arrested at mid night. Ile maintains that while he prescribed for his wife he did so in the hope of alleviating ber palu. Ocr ? oner Turner, who swore out the war , rant against Dr. Mathews, makes sen- , satlonal charges against Dr. Mathews ( in connection with the scenes in thc ( dy log woman's room. ( Dr. Turnor alleges that after suffer ing for hours the dying womau direct ed her 10 year-old sou to seek another physician, her husbaud, according to the omonm's story, having refused to summon ono. Dr. Turner, who was the { first to reach tho stricken womanV. . bedside, diagnosed tho oaso as ono of ? poisoning and at once administered antidotes, which failed to have the desired tfftob. As the end approach ed, Dr. Turner alleged, tho husband entered the wife's bedroom and asked : Dr. Turner If he might kneel ab the j hedsldo and pray with his wife, re- j qui s'.?lng Dr. Turner meautlme to ? leave tho roc rn, which Dr. Turnor ro j fused to do. Dr. Mathews knelt at his wife's ( bedside and olasplng one of her hands ( in his prayed in a voice plainly ai.di , ble throughout tho room. Continuing, j Dr. Turner says ho discovered his , patient was writhing in pain, and ap < preaching tho hod, he threw back the t o iverlng and charges that ho dlscov ^ ad a hype dennie syringe had bren , plunged Into the woman's leg He - ?ays he seized the syringe and orderrd Mathews from the room Mrs. Mathews alud a few moments later and tho cor oner's Jury was notltlod. Both Dr. Mathews and his wife aro well known here. Mathews was lookeil up short ly after midnight, stoutly Insisting that bo had no intention ot taking his wife's life. Nl??? MEM OKl?MaTED. As They Slumbered on Board a Pull Boat. A dispatch from Mobllo, Ala., says nine persons, whose names aro not yet known, occapyicga "pull" boat on Middle river, which runs botween tho Tensas and Albama rlvors, were burn ed to death Friday In a Uro which de stroyed tho boat. Sldnoy Wheat, the negro steward, was tho only survivor of tho 1? men who lived on tho craft. Wheat escaped death by being awake owlr g to Illness. Thc crackling of burning timbers warned him In time. Ile Jumped into tho river and escaped Just as the boat collapsed. Stewart aud Butt of Mo bile, who owned to boat, say there i had been no steam on her for three days. They were at a loss to account for the burning of tho vessel. According to Wheat's story the nine men wero r ump id luto a roaring fur nace while some of them wore asleep. They were roasted alive. Tho boat was used by mon who were engaged in getting logs out of narrow placos for raftlrg purposes. It ?as constructed somewhat similar to a d odge boab and had a stiucbure for sheltering the machinery and apartments in whloh the orew and employes lived. In this case those on the vessel oc cupied tho second story of the struc ture. The lire had evidently been burning for some timo when Wheat was awakened. Ile says bo rushod lu and yelled to the others to get out as fast as they oould as the boat was burning. He does not know wheather any of the men heard him. Ho leaped from the vessel Into tho river and a moment later tho vessel collapsed, precipitating Ghc other men Into the blfi/.lng hull. What a Wino W.fa Knowe. She knows that homo is moro than half what you make it, and that a builder of a happy homo is a success indeed. She. knows that lt takes two to prolot g a family quarrel, one can therefore terminate it. She know that hilling p liou.se with bargains keeps a couplo from owning tho house in which they placo them. She knows that If we thought all we said we'd bc wise, but if we said all wc thought we'd be foolish. She knows thal some people sneer at love In a cottage, bul love that could wish to live any whoro else, is not love. She knows that proud people seldom have fri? ids. lu prosperity they know nobody; in adversity nobody knows them, says Woman's Life. Slio knows that to make long lived friendships ono ir.mt bo slow In making them. She knows that thc woman who gains a trllli moanly is meaner that tho trills. She knows that "it is less pain to learn in youth than to bo Ignorant In old ago." She khows that if she can not throw brightness over her home lb ls best not to throw a web blankot over lt. Sho knows that the wifo who thinks she ls perfect ls goncrally the most imperfect. The unwise wife may protlb by studying what thc wiso woman knows. Killed hy Canoor. Afbcr living ovor ninety years with out any serious illness, Mrs. Matilda Scott, of Belleville Mlfllu county, Pa., live months ago pricked her fore head with a pin. Cancer rosultod and sho died last week. Sho was tho mother of twolvo children and gave se ven sons to tho Union army In thc civil war. Sho was tho second oldest woman In central Pennslyvanla ard would have reached 100 next Febr t ary. Fatally Hfiot. While out hunting In the country near Anderson on Thursday Mr. D. McAdams, a ?veil known plumbor of Anderson, wpr. accidentally shot and physicians say that he cannot llvo. A covey of birds was Hushed and his companion, a Mr. Mitchell, tired at the hirds but tho ohargo entered Mr. McAdam's head, fatally wounding him. _ i ?yo nilled. Two men wero killed and about a di /sn more or less seriously Injured in the wreck of the Philadelphia oxpross on tho Central railroad of Now Jorsey Friday night hoar the Pennsylvania Haven Junoblon, 100 miles north of Philadelphia. Tho dead, Fireman Rupert of Mondi Chunk, Pa., and an extra engineer named Dotroy, who wag ridinijf home on the locomotive. COTTON BY COUNTIES. What tho rubi I? ?In? ot South Caro Unit liare Dono. The ot is H? bureau has just issued Its Qrst statement by counties showing tx ctly how many balea of cotton have been cdnned in eaoh to Novem ber 14, leos. This is the first time this has over been done and will prove exceedingly interesting to growers In the slate and others interested in the cotton iudustry. The follo?dug figures ?how what has neon ginned in the year 1904 and 1005, to November 14: tuon. 1004 Abbeville.27,733 25 717 Aiken.30 131 30,224 Anderson.15 841 40 480 Bamberg.20 080 2) 9o5 Barnwell.37 587 38,115 Beaufort. 5 011 4.728 Berkeley.13 058 13 6lo Charleston. 6,292. 7 344 ?horokeo..ll ooo 11 088 ?hf 8'tr.20 891 18 982 Chester tlold.12 060 12,1 (?8 Dlarendou. 24 370 20 232 DolletOU.12 787 ll 980 Darlington.24 255 27 588 Dorche ter. 7 604 8 8 Pm F ine Held.24 002 23 107 Fait Held.21,085 20.612 Florones.23 006 22 052 George'own. 2 004 1 403 Greenville.20 430 31 800 Greenwood.20,923 22 707 Hampton.20,923 22 787 Dorry.io 080 1", 280 Kershaw. 5 525 0 737 Lancaster.IO 050 16,800 Laurens.17, ll!) io sr? Lie. 23 320 20,603 Lexlogton.10,284 10,200 Marion. 30 062 30 201 Vlarlhoro.38 500 3:i 8?2 Newborry.31,722 31,-126 Dconee.10 921 ll 801 Drangeburg.o 1,074 71 on i Plekens.10,049 ll 050 lUohlaud. 10.530 14 077 .[aluda.17 730 io 931 Spartanburg.40.355 15 800 Sumter. 20 735 30,717 J' lon .14 .107 14 3)4 Williamsburg. 20.030 10 632 York.29 800 28 271 How tu JL'roAt your J.own. Praise it, Improve lt.. Talk about it. Write about lt. Tra di at homo. Tell of its business resources. Tell of its natural advatages. Trade and induce others to trade hero. When strangers come to town usc them well. Don't call your best friend frauds and impostors. Support the local institutions that benellt your town. Look ahead^. of yourself when all tho town 1B to bo considered. Don't forget you live oil the people here, and you should help others a? they help j ou. Don't advertise in the. loocl pacor "to help the proprietor," bub to help yourself. Lot's get together and keep things moving, hustling all tho time; ohoer fully keeping a stiff upper lip waiting for the good time coming for tho old town. Lit's try it, D . lt now. IJ re Stock.'lVntlf. Tho receipts of all kinds of live stock at thc Chicago stock yard for the present year greatly rxoeed those of any prcocdlng year of Its history. Arrivals up to date foot up ?cm ?thing over 14 000,000 and estimating tho receipts for the balance ol the year, tho grand total will ba c ?usidarably. In excess of 10,000 000 ami this does uot include over 500.000 hoad sent di rect to paokors outside the yards. ( ) cattle, 3 400,000 head have beei ro oelved during the year. Cal vos 880, 000, hogs 7,700,000; sheep, 4 810,000; horses.127,000; or about 110,000 moro oalvos than ever before, nenrly 300, 000 moro sheep than any other ive r.l and over 9,00S mora hors; s than aro the figures: 3 080 4 pounds av u?u pols. Ono million silver dollar.-, weigh 60 031 pounds avordupols or nea ri j 28 1-4 tons. liAi'KO Sin kn. Thc founder of the no w stool hai g Delawanna and thu lo is of four per sons on board, including Oapt. John B. Munsey and his wife, tva? report-: i at Boston, Maas., Friday, by the Un; Scranton, which had buen bowiug thi Delawanna from New York. Tue barge went down in a heavy fica at 8 30 o'clock Thursday night about el?, ht miles east by south fio n Minots light. One of thc cro w of v,he Dala wanna was saved. So quickly did the barge founder after tue snapping ol the hawsers that the crew had abso lutoly no time to assist tho tow, which disappeared almost before th Scranton could put about. Tn? so'.o survivor was found clinging to a fra,' meut of a broken boat. Un laid the Delawanna WM thrown on her beare ends by a terrille sea, and thc water il joded into tho hold. SufTjrod lloAvy IJOHH. Wc regret to learn that Nr. A. A. Dant/.lor who is a m ist prosperous and enterprising farmer, of tho Bllo? rec section, had tho misfortune last week to loso his gin house and all contents by Uro. Inside tho gin house there wore between thirty-tl Vi and forty bales of ungi unod cotton. In addition all of tho machinery was destroyed Including engine boiler, saw mill, grist mill cte. Altogether the loss will amount to something like $5,000 and Mr. Dant/.ler had no In miranee- on any of tho property desroy ed. While thc loss will fall very hoavlly on Mr. Dan!/.lor he ls a man of energy an I determination and ho will build himself up again. Mr Dantzler Isa good citizen and is well knownovor the oountry and his friends sympathise with him in his great loss AIW?JH Otoan, Did you ever notice that tobacco ia always clean. If a man drops a piece of meat, no matter how clean the door may be, ho will either give lt a plok or plok lt up and lay it to one side Ito will iv.ver oat it. But let him drop his ping of tobacco on thc ground and no d florence how dirty tho spot was where lt fell, ho will pick it up and give lt a careless swipe on his coat sleeve or on tho bosom of his pants and thon tako a chow with greater rolDh then ever. < ?"ii II ino Vi loi II. Tho dispatches tell us that an In dianaveteran has Hist refused 916, 000 back pension. Undoubtedly tho mon Is a genuine veteran and wants to keep his namo on tho roll of honor as a lighter and not as a grafter. Tho simplest mothor ls wiser than tho brightest; childless woman, bi - oauso experience is tho only sort of wisdom worth having. / WANTED MOTHER KILLUC. < '/liol ll nail Wolli <- ii ?rid:: veil In CIllC rolorm ?or the Infirm. Ml?s Anna II ?tl, of Olnoionatl, who recently attraoted a great deal of ab tcnt?ort by an address Bhe made In Philadelphia before a national conven tion of humano workors, ls a daugh ter o'tho noted explorer Hall, who lost bl? Ufo many years ago on a trip to tho far north, lu her address Miss Hall advocated administering chloro form to poisons hopolessly ill and suif ring. The government paid Explorer FTalPn family ?18 OOO by roasou of hlH doath while, on a J airnoy of solontiflc research to tho north polo, and thh money has caused lit igation In tho fa nally. Fi id ay ?n Judge Pllcger's court dur ing the hearing nf a will o iso of Miss Hall's mo1 brr, Mrs Marcy Hall, a Mrs. Sim coo test! tied that f rr qoenth while she was about the room where Mrs. Flail lay dy lt g she heard Ma1 Anna Hall urge tho attendit g phys! olr.n tn let her administer chloroform to end her mother's si.IT ring. MISK Hall Insisted, said the witness, tba? 1er m itlur was lu great piin, and as death wan Inevitable lb wau not right to lab Iv r self ;r. T ir d v?tor, tho witness said, assur ed Miss lt ill that her mother was .' ? M not In pain, as she was in a semi comolous condition. Tho wit iv ss said the physloian remarked one lay to Mis-i Hull: "You are a th? us md years ahead of your time, Mlsx Hall." Some day perhaps, what you advocate may hecomo tho practice, bul uot in this day. WOMAN KILLED DENTIST. Ail tho Parties to tho Tragedy Bald to be Prominent? .1 s Mrs. Birdsong, who shot and kill en Dr. Thomas Butler at his ( 01:6 at Monticello, M.ss., Saturday morning, ls lu jill and her husband, Di\ JamoB Birdsong, a well known dontist, has hoon placed under arrest as accesso ry An inquest was held Saturday af temo m before Justice John W. Steen' bu?, lt v/as brief. Neither Mrs. Bird tong nor her husband wtu d make any statement, lt ls believed that Mrs. Birdsong In her trial will set up slander aa the ground fer the killing, there having been considerable gossip connecting tho names of the two for aomo d;;ys past Last Thursday, after thc womau *>ad visited the Lihou of the dead man, she went heme and tried to commit suicide by taking morphine, but puy stolans woro hastily summoned and her life wa;; saved. She was in bed all day Friday,, but Sa* u'day morning af ter her husband lsftfor his oflloe she got up, secured his pistol and walked bo !,ho office of Dr. Bu lsr. The riooter was alone when sho en '.oreel and without a word she began to lira on him. Dr. Butlor retreated, tue bcooud shot being ii red whllo he was going through tho door. He fell Lo tho sidewalk and tho woman ilrtd throo moro shots at him, two of the womans bullets ponoiratlng the m ms bo lt t The (load doclor was a nophow of formnr Ch vernor Looglno, of .lick soo, who will come here Monday to take part lu the preliminary trial, which is set for that date. Dr Bird song has engaged tho Hon. Et, JM. Miller, uf Uuzelhurst, a noted crlmi nal lawyer, to dofond him. Dr. Ddt 1er lea ve i a wido w and f .mr children. Kluan Shots Tho ru in who don't have friends-1, don't deserve them. Tho man who ''knows himself" nev er looks like a "dude." Thc fellow who "calks to himself" Ofti n h? -> ?ui ass for a listener. Nearly all of us oould write a large book on the things "we don't know." It's a shame for thc rich to have to did aod leave their diamonds and poo din dog*. A religion that won't produce "smiles" ia not tho brand wo are look ing for. Show us a mau who uover "falls" and wi Ml show you a man who is too lazy to try. When lb takes money to get peo plo to notice a fullow, ho must have boen du.-ned common buforo. The girl who makes a confidant of her mother 's tbe girl who never his much bad news to peddle. No man cao "settle up" and get ade.ir receipt from God until bc qu ires his ace innis with his neigh burs. Tho fellpw who thinks that the wo: ld ow c. s li i m a living, ls never ablo toot'ltcot only about ten cents on tho dollar. The fellow who bel le vet, two muob in ' pr., vidonoe" ls tue chap who g m orally has an empty pocket and a pat elin 1 pair of panis. If we know that all thc foolish p io< pie wore to be k'lled on a Certain day, tho ... jnity of us would got busy wri'ni/ faro .voil letters. Yho follow who helio vos that a "horse shoo will b;i g him good luck," is the follow who is willing for his wife, t) take In washing to sup l? il himself and throo or four hounds. Thc devil is not afraid of the Preach er who uses blank cartridges What this coun try need a isa lob of BEAL preachers ou the "dring line." with 1 aded (? sp i guns and with grit enough to usa them. No Itaoo SulolUo. Tho wife Of W. W. Wilson of Ans bin, near Chicago, ls a wanan after President itoosovelt's own heart. She has within th? last eiohtcen months made an anti-race suicide record of giving hirth to two sots of triplots and less than foul years ago ibo samo mother gave birth to twins. And aU are reported to bo alive and o ling well 111* related in reference lo Mrs. Wilson that she has a twin, who In the ni )thor of twins,whllo twins have also ?pp'.'are i in tho homes of hero usina. OJ Mr. Wilson's side he has uncios who are twins, and one of his sisters ls the ra ithor of twl ns. I> HBHtrOllH HtOI'lllH The Detroit .Tournai siys 140 lives havo boon S?crlfl e ', over 70 8' I, s woro wrecked and a loss of nearly *v 000,000 has boen sustained in thc thieu lng stormi on tho Groat Lakes this Beatson, That this ls most disffi brous se.i.sou In the history of ship ping on tho hikes ls beyond doubt. Tun astronomers have dlscovorod an pld comet with four babies. Such a thing never happenod during form er administrations. It's the BOCBC voltlan idea. ii MAKES YOU WELL ALL OVER." ?i x RHElJWACIDE goes right to the seat of the disease, sweeps all the germs and poisons out of the blood, cleans up ail the pingue* &Pois in the body and sets aft the organs lo Wi>rk ag?In In Nature's way. Purely vegetable, non-alcohol ic, 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. RHEUMACIDE ls the only remedy that cures rheumatism to stay cured. MOST POWERFUL BLOOD PURIFIER 4m WORLD. 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Va. : "Four bottles of K H RUM ACIDE have entirely cured mo ol a long standing case of rheumatism ami (.really improved my general health, i was a total wreck, having had rheu matism for twenty years. 1 spent sev eral weeks and much money trying specialists in New York, but RHKU MACIDK is the only cure I have found When i be ti a ll to uso it I weighed I IO pounds. Now I weigh 180 pounds, my i.orinal weight. "W. K, 11UGIII?S." CURES AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL. Sample bottle and booklet free if you send fiv? cents for postage to Bobbitt Chemical Company, Proprietors. Ballimore. START TO GET WELLTODAY CURES Rheumatism, Sciatica. Rheumatic Oout, Lumbago, Catarrh, indigestion, Constipation. Kidney Troubls, Liver Diseases, La Orlppe, Contagious Blood Poison, AU Blood DI.oases. TBE BOOL WEEVIL. Dum ARC <1 Colton to on liv lent of $50 000,000 in ? Yoar. The extent to which tue crops cf the United States are ravaged by In sets is scarcely realizad by thc pub lic Tho mb j oct is thus referred to by U. Arthur Williauas in thc Sucoess Magazine: "The proceeds from tho wheat crop, the average annual farm value of which may be roughly put at $400, 000.000, have in more than one year been cut tlown as much as BO per cent as a result of the cninch bu? and the hessian Hy. King cotton alone was damaged to the extent of uoarly $50, 000,000 by the Su called Mexican noll weevil in the single state of Texas in 1003, according to a carefully com piled report issued by the cousus bu reau. The apple crop has been re duced as much as 25 per emt in many instances through the operations of the codling motu and other Insects. So ene might po tn rough the entiro list. The burdon ls distressingly heavy, but it is safe to assert that farmers themselves-who, obvkudy, ought to know as much of this phase of the matter as anybody-will agree that tlnir losses, in practically every Instance, would be far gnat er were the scientific knowledge of the ?\ part mont of agriculture's sta IT rot pot to account. A oareful survey of the facts leads to the conclusion that tho total damage each year would be from two to l* ur tl mts as large were it not for the department of agricul ture's unremitting warfare against the pests, and that amalmum des truction of $2,000,000 000, or nearly one-hu If the whole yoarly value of the country's crops, at present, would be possible." Tho l-Miiontuo Woman, Thc lime has come when thc edu catod wt m vu can no longer regarded as a freak. If according to dredlct ions, domestic happiness ls to fall a victim t,o the monster, "higher edu cation," it ls time to prepaac for the funeral: Tue old fallacy that ?Iris are not abld to mentally cope with b >ys in the qursult of classic studies has received its death blow. Of hon or credentials issued tim ugh the year the larger number has boen received by girls and more wom?n aro) seeking admission to the c diegos than thc collogca have room for. The old c-iy that women have no use for the high: er branches, because she will get married does not disprove thc fact that her trained Intellect renders her all tho more capable of carrying on to a satisfactory te? mibus the manifold duties allotted her in her capacity of wife mi thcr and housekeeper. For tho i n format hm of men who are con: shit ring thc talking of Hi?rate women as wives for the sol? purpose of insin; h g domestic peace, we call attention to tho fact that thc divorce courts do not seen) to be crowded with educated woman. Wotford itoy DiHApPt ?rp. A dispatch frmn Spartanburg to The N ;ws and Courier says. "Hugh Creighton, a student of Wi fford Co' li ge, disappear! d from tho city Satur day. Tho youog man's father, the Rev. C. W. Creighton, of Greenwood, editor of the Christian Appeal, was hero Sunday makin? inquiries, but has found nothing to indluato whero the young man ls likely to have ?one. Tuc 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 hlB father at Greenwood. Tho young man understands typesetting. A. IO. M ictus a newspaper manager of Dat roi t, says: "Tno true barome I ter of business is the oe. un try editor j When ho ls prosperous every bt dy else must bo. Tho country editor ls j the last to get his dues. This year) he ls doing a good business, which i means that the entire country is un* ? usually prosperous." COL Coward, the ethclent superin tendent} of the Citadel, can be rolled up >n to do what ls right in the oase of hft/.lng nov/ under investigation in that institution. Thore is no suoh thing as policy with tho Oolonol. Ile will d? his duty regardless of person s' consequences to himself. TiiK Southern Cjtton Association is one of tho best organizations in the South. Kvery bu dncss man and cot ton farmer In the entire South should be enrolled In it as members. It has alroady sa?'cd tho South millions of dollars and will savo lt millions moro by keeping up tho prloc of oe?ton. WORTH: BILLIONS. Seme Figures To Tho Value of Do moHtio A ? I m ?le. S.'oetary Wilson with his usual loy alty lo all that pr?tai us to tho farm and farmer, cal's attention In his an null report to tho valu) of d >m istlo an'mils and diary and poultry pro ducts. He dejaros that tho faithful horse 1 was tlrst threatened hy tho by olde, j then hy the suburban trolley ane* the automobile, but none of these things have been able to diminish his num - bers or decrease his value. Tuero were the sccotary says, 17,000,000 horses and mules at work upon Amer ican farms at the close of the crop yoar and their value was ?1,2000 000 000 nearly as much as the corn of the year. The prlcos of the animals have stead.ly risen. Milch cows ero likewise arl vane! r g Jn numbers and value, there belog 17,530,000, valued at 0482,000.000. Other cattle, however have declined lu number and value, last winter |. numbering 43 GG9.000, and being j worth $60,000,000. Sheep t?ro among ; tho losers but hogs are holding their j j positions in numbers and valu?. | \ And there's tho faithful old hen of.' 1 the farmer and the suburbanite ', Sccotary Wilson docs not fall to band ; [ her a bobqJet in passing. Ha says j sho ls a worthy companion to the ow in tho favors she showers up m the. ': i American people. The anneal pro ; '. duotion of eggs is not a fore of bil! - I lons and tlie products are valu d at half a billion dollars. I'Uns arc doing ! substitute duty for high priced meats I the secotary says. j Telepathy. I This case of telepathy is reported : from Union in a dispatch to the Slate. A remarkable instance of presentment of danger to his little child Ifrlday caused C. F. MacGreg I or, who waa bu.ily at work in tho spinning room of the Union cotton j mili No. 2, suddenly to stop work j and rush home, whero he arrived i j iusb In time to see hts little lo months-old child a mass of lltmes. j The mother had stepped out to a j neighbors for a few moments, and j but for the timely arrival of the j father, tho obild would have buen ' burnod to death. As it is, the eliild j may yot die. The father's hands were terribly burned in the Hames, Dismissed, The secretary of the navy has or dered tlie dismissal of Midshipman .Joseph Ralph Williams, of Tatterson, N. J., a member of thc first dais, for unsatisfactoriness in studies and con ( duct, lt ls seldom that a midship man of the first class ls dismissed for anything but speclllo misconduct. Williams testified before the court martial whloh is trying Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., anl told rf lanincidont where Commander Hugo Osterhaus reported a midshipman for not resenting au Insult, another mid shipman having oalled bim a "cheer ful liar,'' which was afterwards ex plained to have been a j .ike. Does Muoh Good. Miss Holen Guild, with the intelll gent assistance of Miss I J //.ia Al? man. annualv disburses $500,000 in charity. Probably Miss Gould supports directly and Indirectly more charities than any person living. Whllo it do? s not mean that sho gi ves a vay suoli sums as are recorded of tho Rockefeller and Carnegie charities, on the best; author ity her donations annualy rei c i 500 or moro beneficiaries. Miss Altman ls a Vassar graduate and first mat her present employor some seven years ago, when Miss Gould was visiting the college. Since then she has been an active agent in giving away nearly ?4, ooo.roo. Mhlp mid Crew boat. It ls behoved that the steel steam er Ira II. Owen haB been wiwcked and that Its crew of 10 men are drowned The ship was last seen on Tuesday 40 miles from Outer Island hi Like Su porlor. Thc Ohloago owners have given np all hopo of tho vessel. Thc Owen's captain was Jos. Mulligan of Hu (Talo. "I do not bollevo in sandwiching courtship with rollglon," said tho sec retary of tho Y. M. ?. A. In Now York recently. "'No man oan hold a hymn book with a charming young woman and pay attention to what thc minister Is saying." Ho advocates soperate churohes for the two sexes. DuitiNu tho Civil War many peo ple hirod mon to light In tho war in their stead. Sorco are now asking tho pension .commissioner to pay thom the money . thoy spent for this pur? pose. They will get nothing. I Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typt guaranteed course 20 weeks. Sin? hand, 53 moa, 12 callB for graduates mand. Write. Babbit Drills Hack Saws Fitting's C?TT?N GIMNLR SAND Write for Prices on Couplings Guagci Guage Cocks Oil Cups Oil (.'ans Belt, lcat Injectors Pipe Lace Leather, Packing all kinds, Shaft else in mach i i Columbia Supply Co., - - fi Pl ! % i pi t I m m T S Wi h justly h di iv. that $287 spent with us buys more lasting Piano satisfaction than S100 spent els? where. There's a reason. Write us about it. Pull particulars by return mail. Yt iv, ? I M High Grade Organs, $47 50 to $05. Ludden & Bates, S. M. H. Dept. "10 ' Favannah, Ga. AU BOO, Popular MUH?O 17o , or :t ptoo'H l\>r BOO? i". iff w m W. m jl? ? % hi Ni iii Woman litllH Woman. A dispatch from Cae ir to Tho News and Courier says tn a tight that occurred at the county farm Thursday between two colored women Amy Osborne and Margaret Attics, Inmates of thc home, the former re ceived Injuries from which she died Saturdiy cvenlrg. Tim twoold women 003Upied tho same oabln and had al ways gotten along pleasantly, but Thursday tlnro was a quarrel result ing In the tragedy. Tho Attics'wo man struck hor antagonist with a heavy st lek on tho front part of the skull, the i IV ets of which produced death Coroner Leckie held an tn quest and committed Margaret Attles to j ill on the oharge cf murdor. A peculiar fact In connection with the hom'clde Is the great age t f the wemen. Margaret Attics is said to bc 76 years old, while the dead woman ts roportcd by rellablo persons to have been 1)7. Kept Oorpuo l\>r Y o a rn. Following tho death of Mrs. Llore Thompson, an agod and cccentrlo wo man a search of her cottage on Boyle Heights at San Francisco, Cal., di* ?osed in a storeroom covered with dust a hermetically scaled box cotalnlng thc 3)rjso of her daughter, who died l.wcnty-soven years ago. Tho body of tho young woman had born dis membered. When the box was open id a dlslnteimont cortitloate, sign id H\ H. Bm'eie, undortaker, Am icarsfc, Mass., Noven b r 7, 1881, was found. Tho body had been snipped from tho Eist. TiiBC'ty of Washington, tho capi tal of the United Statesi has a colored population of ninety thousand, more jhan any other cltv in the world, and New York olty follows with savent y jhousand, and Ohloago third witn ihirty-ilve thousand. AT a rocent political mooting in New York a oandidato yollod: "Whaii s tho one thing that we of this cern nunlty aro suffering most froupr at ibis time?" Ttiero was a silence,and /hon a man with a big deep volooJjald 'bed bugs." \ ) R N E 'H j? )-writing, English branches, Full le course- of either Business or Short in about 20 days. Can't supply de MACHINERY OWNERS. i ihe Following _ - - Lubricators Bdlfc, Gandy Bolt, Rubber Drill Bress .her Ejectors 1 lammers Files Pulleys ititf, Collars for Shafting and anything aery supplies. . . Column a. S. C. WEAK MEN, 1 CAN RESTORE YOU TO PERFECT MANHOOD. I Havo Ilocn SIIOOOH rally Treating lllnr*H ?H ol' Men l<?r ii."? Y .jars and My IVlctlioil ot* Treat mont AB surett VDU a Positive- Por manent Cure. I can positively rostor weak mon their lost vitality and all I want is an opportunity to convince yon tliat 1 cn . If you aro in a ?seth, do joe tod condition, discouraged nod broken in health, sit right down nud writo mo a loiter and let ino tell you in my answer why my treatment will positively and perma nently re.storo to you tho vim land vitality you onco possessed. 1 liavolgivou tliia Condition tu eel tl study for ovor twonty-flvo years and I know, and it Jins boon proven by the large ninnber ol' people whom I ? have cured, that I am capablo of thoroughly I ni dcr.slauding every possible treatment no I cordlugly. .My wide oxporlonco has taught mo . that there are hardly two taso of this Mitwhs exact ly alike, and hence eaeli must bo troadg | differently if a cure is ever brought aboutis prepare tito proper tr ont mont in 1117 o ni laboratory to 111 ot the demands of ovory individual case, aller I havo given a thorough oxnmination. My method of treaomomt in tho result ol' all these years of o'oso study and it is to-day recognized by tho medical profession as (ho most thorough und scientific troatniont for men. 1 have had great success in curirg tho alllicded at a distance. Hy the aid of a oom? p'eto system of solf-oxaiir.nation blankfl l ean diagnose n caso at a distance and if you aro in this condition, or if you suiter from any other disease ol' a chronic nature, writo me. DJ not look for a cure in tho many widely advertised "roady-mndo1 medicines, freo troalmonta from fake medical companion, ole., oto., for w'ill not only liov?r bo cured but you will beconio worse, addition to losing tho money you havo spent. My oliargosaro very reasonable, and no lunn shmild hesitate writing mo on this ac* count. I have been established in Atlanta for many years md my reputation aa a skillful specialist is kno MI to all. 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