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?>/n>KAD F H OM TBJtW. Astronomers and Geologists Find Evl* deneen that Ail Water ls Rapidly Dlsssppeailng from the Face of the Earth, Which Means Death to Ail Life. Is the earth drying up and shall we (meaning by "we" the human race as re. resented by our desoandautf). dir of thirst? A warning that this fate is not Im possible, or even improbable, seems to be convoyed by some of the older worlds around us. The moon has b . oom? as dry as a bono, although the dark and empty beds of many soas and oceans aro plainly visible upon its bur face, showing that there was once a timo when tho lunar world possessed plenty of water. Tho planet Mars is moro than half dried up, ind now retains so little water that In the Winter timo lt ap pears to bo hil locked up in tho polar snows and leo Holds, which aro so thin that they quickly melt away when Mn Bummer sun shines hot upon them. Tho planet Mercury apparently pos sesses nr. water at tho present time, although, In the nature of things, since it ia composed of the same geu orai elements as tho other planets, lt niu.it have had water upon its surface at some past period in Its history. Some think that evon Venus .ls a dry, hot world, with little or no water available to support inhabitants. Tuc observations of Prof'?3sor Lowell at any rate support this conclusion. From i lu so examples we seo that there ls nothing essentially improba ble In the Idea that the waters of the earth may eventually disappear, leav ing lt as dry and barren as its near companion, the moon. But there ls moro din o':, and start ling evidence of the drying up of the earth than any afforded by their anal ogies with other planets. This evi dence is of a eden ti flo nature, and we And it in the known disappearance of many great bodies of water v.nioh ut lsted on various parts of the globe in formor times, ano in tho gradual, and In somo oases, rapid, dessication of vast continental areas. Nothing more 01 ol noir) could well be found than thc proof afforded ty recent toientific ex ploratlon of Central Asia tnat a large part of the greatest of the continents, the one which ls boiieved to nave cou talned tho Garden of Bilon and thc oradle of mankind, has becu turned Into a waterless desert within the his toric perloul Ejist of the Caspian Sea and north and weBt of the vast ranges of the Himalayan mountains, within a few years past tho remains of largo cities have been found, covered with drift ing Bands and cooking dust which the dry windB whirl up in immense smoth ering clouds. Sumo of tne>,e vanished towns of Central Asia give cvideucc in their ruins that they onoe lay on / the shores of lake3 and rivers ano other bjoiesof water which have since completely disappeared. Nt>w they are emly the dessicated skeletons of a oivll zttton whoso founders either per Ished of thirst or were drlvon forth into more favored lands where the ad vanolr.g aridity has not yet attained a fatal point. Central Asia ls a lofty plateau, and it ls on these higher levels of the earth that the disappearance of the water has everywhere first been mani-' teated. All tho Arlan deserts seem to bo advancing their sandy frontiers on evory side, and invading tue sur rounding lands which s.lll retain, though lu diminished measure, theil supply of life giving wator. Thc greet, binders are everywhere; reoe.iing be foro the remorseless yellow wastes. The continent of Africa has lonjj been undergoing a similar drying pro cess. There are In the midst of the Desert of Sahara plain evidences of tho foruer existence of Inhabited oases that were once green and Hour iBhlng with trees and smaller vegeta tion, but which are now swept by sand storms and destitute.of tho least drop of water. Ono of the things that most powerfully impressed thc minds of the members of thc British A io dation for the Advancement e>f Sci ence during their visit to Afrlci last Summer, was tho )a( k of water over vast arcas of that continent and the universal necessity of Inlgatl m to keep alive thc lands that are yet in a habitable condition. Tito president Of tho Bnglr cering Section of the As stolatlou deolarcd that it ls a general condition of African agriculture, that tho needed water must oe provided oy human intervention. Left to nature, many of the now Inhabited parts of Africa would q lickly bo turned into lifeless deserts. But the stiuggle can only bo malnta ned successfully as long as tho present supply of watet oapablo of being turned Into irrigat ing ditches remains undiminished, and tho tximple of the fate that a part of Central Asia has sulfured indibatos that tho time is sure to como when tho supply will be lnsutlleiont. Many African lakes havo disappear ed in whole or in part within a few generations Lake Ngami, discovered by Livingstone, is no longer in ? xlst coc? ; Lake 'lobad, which oecupicd a conspicuous place on maps of A.*:loa when many of tho older rcadors of this newspaper were school children, has now half dried up. Smr.ller huellos of water havo completely vanished. The same story t;omes from Aus tralia, from South A morita, and oven from parts of our own Western couti try. Th? great Salt Dike in Utah ls rapidly receding, like a puddle elryhiK in tho sun, leaving an ovor-broaden lng neargo of white salt waste around ita shrinking boachos. Some of thc arld western lands which modern en terprise has brynn to cultivate, with tho aid of Irrigation wolis and ditches, are known to have been once the bot toms of great lakes and seas. The process whereby these waters have disapporrcd ls a continuous one, though Ita progress may be masited for a time by human effort. Yet man oannot make a water supply ; he can only take what nature gives and dis tribute lt In such a mannor as may best su.t his needs. But when tho supply falls lie mustglvo up his effort. Through his own fault ho often ac ?tfffCSl cssUat'on of tho land, paffl over the world lt lias been dc oostrated that destruction of forest br!?ge)about arid ondit lons. Uveu If the fortunate pr?senos of mountain ranges,tentfj to keep up the supply of wat r for certain districts by oov.dens lng the moisture drifting in from tbe cot o and storing lt up lu glaciers and springs, and especially In the porous, spong' -Uko ?oil of gr a . foresta; yet the destiuo :h n or tbe forests, and tho detudatlnn of the hill slopes dofeatf* thin kindly purpeso of nature, oaoslng tbe water in ralnv seasons and during the rn? ltlug cf the mountain ?now? lo ru h down in destructive ll ois, which swiftly cr ss t-e lower lands without staying to moisten their soil, and hur ry ' o be lost in the sea. Man cannot lift tho ocean waters to freshen the continent?; only the pow er of the sun can do that, arid If, by making smooth and clear Its road baofc to tho ocean he enables the wabar that bas descended on the hill* in the form of raia to hurry down again to sea lovel, be loaes all the ad van (.?gea that the aun has offered him, and finds hit farms drying up and himself and his oattle threatened with a thirst thal cannot be quei ohed. L4 thlp process go on lonff onougt and tho earth will possesa no mora fredi i-ater, except p.no.i as pours use le&sly and destructive 1/ down in tb? form of oloud-bursts and deluging rains. Then it will not be possible for tho great populations of the globe to find suutenanoo by hugging thc seashores, And in the end seas them -elves will shrink and ultimately dis appear. hut what, it may bo asked, become? of the water that hal disappeared when lakos and rivers dry uf? Muon of it sinks Into tho earth's crest. Thc globe is hot within and ls gradually oooltng. As the Interior oools ore vices and cavities are fo.Tm?d, and thc surface water, seeking the lowest level under the force of gravitation, pena bratc8 to great depbhs Underneath South Dakota and som? of the other States bordering thc Kooky >Mountain rogion, lt has boen demonstrated chat thoie is an im mouse sheet of underground water gradually nuking its way through thc sandstones towards tho Mississippi and th? Gulf. At present some of this water oan b? reaobed and brought to the surface by me.uis of artesian wells, but as tho globe continues to eccl tho water will Biak lower and lower, until lt cots too deep to be brought to tho Burfaoo by human con triyanoo. And not ouly doss tho water of the earth tend to disappear by sinking into the c-u: t aud forming deep rorer* volrs and vast sheets there, but muon of it prohably entors Into chemical combination with tho cooling rooks. In the oaHo of tho moon, whore tho cooling process, owing LO the compar atively smell dimensions of the luaai globo, has gone on muon, more rapidly tuan In the earth, it Is believed by many that the water formerly exist lng on tho surface as lakes, seas and rivers, has been oomplotoly absorbed by oxidation, tho oxygeu of the water combining with the metalliferous in tcrior rooks. And the ultimate fate of i ho wators of tho earth may be similar. lu faot, the wliolo history of our planet, as geology has disclosed lt, in such as to lead to the conclusion that tts surface must eventually beoomo a dry and barron waste. At first a mol ten glube, tho earth cooled down un til it had a ernst of solid rock. On this crust, as lt In turn cooled ciT, tin vapors of the atmosphere de c ndod ind condensed iuto oceans. Some nave thought that in tho beginning the eiitir evri-h wasovored with wa ter. Hut. as tho cooling of tbe globe continued much of tho water consti tuting the primeval ocean was ab s .rbed Into tho deepening crust. Thon continents mad J their appearanoaand then gradually beoamo more exton stvo. But In tho earliest period at which geology has ventured to draw ? chart of the earth, wo soo that th? proportion of laud to water was very muob less than it ls todiy. Gradually tho dessication has pro oeeded, and apparently it is destined to go until oven the Atlantic and tht Pao tl i have disappeared, and all tin watrrsoftho earth are withdrawn Into Its Interior ordostroyod by chem ical disse 'dallon of the l?qu d and thc recombination of Its elements v.itt. iolhl matter. Long before that stage is attained, however, all animal ano vegetable life will have dlsappoareo from the land?, for they cannot sur vive tho withdrawal of th? froah wa ler upon whloh tholr ex'stenoo de pends. The salt oceans, becoming ever mer? salt as tholr volum shrinks, may at '%8t roach a point of oonoen tratlon where even marine life will be destroyed. Thus th? last pistura of th? earth that geology oan form by glancing Into the future shows lt stripped of lb .nhabltants and of all forms of Hf ., ind deprived of wator and porbap also of atmo?phore--a bare wrook of a planet, drifting In the ctheral ooear of Immensity. G rr b'- P. Sorvlss. Tho abovo arbiol? ls c opyrighted by Harper & Brothers and ls published by permission of Harper's Weekly. MURDER AT CR?b'?ON. A Negro Doy Kill? * Negro Man Foi flin Manny, On last Saturday afternoon just bo foro dark George Honkies, a negro boy, shot and killed Joe Brown, a ne gro man, at Creston on the Atlantio Coast Line Railway. Brown was em ployed by the railroad to ?blond to the pump, and was in what ls known as the pump house when Hopkin* shot bim. Tue ball p&ssad through the body of Brown and he died almost instant ly. Hopkins when he did the shoot lng waa on tho outsldo of the houue and shot through a small opening in the wall, Brown, his victim, not b? lng awaro of lils presencs. The obj?ot cf the murder was robbery, as Brown had been paid ult that day. Whon killed, howevftr, ho only had llvooents on his person as lie had paid up somo debts br foro he was shot. Hopkins, who ls about slxbeon yoara of age, is what may bo termed a bad rascal. It is said that he had at different times threatened to kill other people In and around Creston. His victim was an honest, hardworking man, and we hopo tho law will avongo his oruel doath by hanging Hopkins. Mr. Mur ray, thc railroad agent ab Croston, wired Sheriff Dukes of the murder, und lt. ww not long bofore hs h*d Hopkins In tho county Jail, where he will remain until court moots In May. KU.?u ms Brother, TwO negro boys, Babe and Jelk Pitts, brothers, aged 18 and 20, got Into a difficulty in Plcxens county on Sunday night when Babe shot and killed Jclk with a pistol, itjth were under tho Influence of liquor. i i WHAT WAS DONK. NEV? LAWS OFGKNEHAIi INTER' EST TO TB S3 VUBFjtO Passed by the legislature of Pouth Carol i aa at Itt Tate Station. A? ur u .1 the gmeral assembly did a great deal of local Ululation and wheeo "<>t'i are not ot general looorros, RfT'.o ting generally only the counties in which they arise. Ilelow will be found * list of the enaoimentc In which the entire Star,? ls interested: To establish Christmas holidays in .-ibo state colleges. To lnoorpjrat? the Uaion Carnegie Kr-ie libary. To chango the name of Routh Caro lina college to the Cuivsralby of louth Carolina. To ratify and confirm the o^artor of tho Central Carolina P J wer oim pany. To ^rlv.de for a monument to m\rk the grato of Gen. Thomas Sumter. To prevent restaurant and eating bous3 keepers at railroad and steam boat orations from furnishing meals to white and oolored pass*ngoi.i to gether. To have application fee? of c*nl lares for rn? d) cal lioenses to go bo the general fund. Making appropriation for dispensa ry investigation. To on rabi ts h a board of pardons. Appointing a bunk examiner. {establishing a flab oommttalon. Establishing a fund for disabled Uro mou by taxing Insuranee eocapaulos. To lix the Balarles of bbc eire ult ste nographers at. $ 1,600. To establish a cou at j court In Rich land. To celobrato South Carolina da7 In the public schools. To buy now fl*gs for eke Stat? house. To oharter th? Central Railway oompany of South Carolina. To punish the stealing of ear bras tes. To prevent merchants when In debt from selling their sioak other wise than usual. To require railroads at Junotlonal points through tb? rallroaa commis alon ty) ereol depoii. To require railroads and other com mon carriers to pravlde toilet? at sta tions, To give tho federal government control over the ouarrantlne ?ta lons. To prevent railroad companies from charging exwa fare for crossing bridges when entering th? State. To give tho federal government contrai ov?r certain lands on Sullivan's Island. To allow South Carolina eolkgt to clo;;o College street hotwesn Pickens ..nd Bull and co open Pickone between Green and Pendleton streets. To require common oarrlers to io wdgh freight and to establish scales .or that purpose. To require railroad companies to give informan concerning th? ship ment of livo stock. To cut dead trees from near the pub do roads. To incorporate the Newberry, Whitmlre and Augusta Railroad oom pany. To Incorporate tho Middle Carolina ina Western Raliway oompany. To punish indecent expotur?. To dango name of th? Saluda River Power oompany to the Green ville Carolina Power company and allowing tho oompany to build a dam ?oroBS the Saluda bolow the present ono. To allow suits agalnp insurance com paules to bo brought in the counties whore tho loss ooours. Joint resolution to buy 50 coplas of Kl-?*8? "The Jews of South Car olina." To incorporate tho Plodmont Power jompany. | To allow an illegitimate ehlld to In herent from its mother. To amend dispensary law, making regulHtions as to o'.hor eonntlct the ^ame In H wry and Beaufort, The general bill on voting pre cincts. Tho pure food bill. To appropriate 820,000 for tho Jamestown exposition. The general Magistrate* bill. To establish aa Industrial school for boys-th? reformatory. To maka Thursday of fair week a logal holiday in Richland. To ?stablish a oounty ?omrt in Aiken-alto oise ls lamttr. To publish the names of benefici aries in Stat? institutions aad th? name? of their panants or guardians. To prevent supervisors and commit donors from furnishing sounty tup plies whilo in ( ffloe, To maka the solicitors salaries 11, 700. To repeal the law ?ximpting Con federate vefcerani from license wheo foaling in teed ?otto?. Allowing olty eounoils rather than boards of health ito appoint h?altb of fice's. TJ rcqulro State house elerka to give bond. To re-survey the Blga?sld-Alkon lino. To have expsrfc ehsmlsts examine the bodies of persons tuppocod to hare been poisoned. To prohibit wrong ute of badges or insignia of seoret orders by persons nob members. The Morrl? I>i?l(l*mr, At Washington Dr. Minor Morris, whoa? wife som? weeks ago was ?jest ed from th? Wnlte heute, where th? nad gone te pr?t?nt alleged grievances to the president, Tnursday gav? out for publication the corr?* pond sn oe whieh recently passed between him self and the president regarding the oas?. Dr. Morris demanded a public apology cf the president "for tint outrage on womanhood and common droency." Secretary Loeb replied bo th? letter, atarblng an Investigation by the chief of polloo ahowod that the arrest WM Justified, and the klndtst act to Mrs. Morris and ber kinsfolk was to refrain from giving th? oato additional publlolty. Pi j? -?un CiiAkea. I / title Gladys Dlbmar, th? bhrec year-old daughber of bli? keeper of the .optilo department of bh Bronx KOO in New York, sbranga bo say, muoh pre fers a four-foot black snake which she eal ls "Indigo" for a pet Instead of a doll which she keeps at home. Shebas many a frollo and romp with this ps oullar playmate, and teems to have no regard for his snakeshlp, for the pulls him from hin bag tba* he sleeps !n at tiny old timo, and compels him to play with hor whon she ls lone lome. She ls fearless in tho zoo not hesitating to attaok tho largest ot tho reptiles, dragging them around by tho ball, CAUGHT AT LAS]!7. - f Scion of ? Wealthy Parfilly 1 cot ed Many Homes AND GOT A BM PILK He WtB Aided by His Evening Dross ?i d Fashionable Demeanor in His Rubbing Trips Which Has Been Going for a Yest or More. The police of Brooklyn wero as tounded Thursday by the revela: I un following the dlHoovory that In Her man Jonsen, a young man ?who io three dave had been a prisoner at the Raymond str?e\, j .il, they haye a fash ionablo robber who has, within tin psst twelve months, during which Hie authorities tried lu v*tn to oatoh ihm, looted no less than one hundred homes in Manhattan and Brooklyn and whoso pilfering* are alleged' to *ggrogabe $16,000 in Jewelry alono. Lattars found in Jensen* Strunk fur nished evidence that tho young man ls the solon of a wealthy and well known family lo Cbptn hagon, Den mark, from where ha has been receiv ing an annuity. D^cumouU showed that he tras highly e- uoated a)id had moved in the bent sooioty. The pi lioe also found seventy pawn-Mokots fer stolen ?tuft aggregating 93 OOO, several suit ors**, half a room full of houD?bold goods, trinkots, j ?weir? and a great q.tautlby of tho finest kind of mon's olobhos. Jensen's specialty was robbing fash ionable boarding aud exolusivo apart ment bouses, In which hlsoultured air bad made him a favorite and where ba won his victims by his many accom plishments. Tho evidence was found tn a room at No. 210 Soventh street, Brooklyn, to which he was tracked by the s^rewdooss of a negro maid of Miss Frances Adrain, of No. 105 Elli ott placo, Brooklyn, whose homo was robbed two months agi. Jensen secured rooms at Miss Ad nan's home through his line air and smooth conversation. A few days la ver ho disappeared, and with him sev eral huudrod dollars worth of jowelry and household stuff. Miss Adrian's maid saw him getting tit a car at. Third avenue aud Tenth street, and told the pol loo. D?tectives Gomerlngor, O Gonuoi and Delaney made a sesroh of the neighborhood and dually inquired Thursday at tho house of Mrs. Mary Deeming, In Seventh street. The de tectives were convinced when they opened the trunk and were surprisocl to lind he waa already in prison ou another charge, lils picture was alan In the Rogues' Gallery. Too police say they have seveniy complaints against Jensen, many et whom have identified his picture. All tho victims declare the fashion*!/' robber rented rooms, displaying c dcntials, stayed ono or two days, a^ then disappeared along with hundreds of dollars worth of loot. BEAVSRS IN STRIPES. A Formnir Hitch 1'osrolUoo Olliolal in the Pena Geo. W. Boavers, former ohlef of the division of ewlararlos and allow ances of tho postoffloo, who began a term of imprisonment in tho Mounds vllle, W. Va., penitentiary las week, was tho guest of honor of the Wash ington oolony in that institution at breakfast aftor his arrival. Upon his arrival in the ponltontlary Heavors was treated as tho other prisoners from Washington who came with htm; that ls, he was stripped of tlie clothe.* ho wore a"d, aftor a bath, whloh, by tho way, he Bcemod very much bo enj-)y, he was ^uniformed In prison stripe?. When this was done he was nkrti to tho mess hall, whore he was oordlally greeted by Machen, Lorene and the Groffs, all of whom had gone before, for effanses similar to that which caused Beayors' down fall. While the new member cf the Wash lng ton oolony made a strong eQorb lo bsar ti?, lt was plain bo be seen thal/ he was suffering deep humili?t , n, and try as he would oquld not sb?.ke off thc signs of his diagrams. G sorgo W. Beavers, who pleaded guilty in criminal court No. 1 bo defrauding bho Unit od States, was sentenced by Juiitloe Gould to Imprisonment in thc penitentiary for a period of two years, his term of aorvloe to begin upon his arrival In prison. Beavers was tndiotod Jointly with Seato Senahor Goorge ff. Green, of Bingham, N. Y., of defrauding the government in oonneetlen with the sale of Bundy time roeerders for use hy the pot<t< fiioo department. When sentenced, Beavers expressed R dosiro to go to the penitentiary as soon as possible to begin his term of impris onment. Aooordlngly, Wardon Har ris, of bhodlstiiot jail, sent him to MoundSTillo In oompany with fourteen othor persons who wero convlefced in the local oourta within the past mon th. Beforo leaving the jail tho ?envi?te were handcuffed aud chained bogethor la bhe usual way. Among bhe prison ers v/ors bhree white ?se? beside*, beavers. When bhe gang was lined up, Beavers wa? bhe odd man and was the last one to bs slipped on bho oom mon ohatn to whloh they wero all linked by bhe handouffs whloh they had upon bhelr wrists. The prisoners were eonduebsd into a eoaoh of a Baltlmoro and Ohle train ohalned together, Beaver? being the lasb of the babeh bo enber bb? ?ar. Ho consequently was given a seat In the rear end of tim oar, and while he was able to vlow tho humiliation whloh tho others felt, none was able to sec how ho boro his disgrace. A Ului ?to lloyu. Tho boy who saves his monoy Borne day owns a farm of his or becomes a banker, the merchant, tho profession al man. Tue boy who never savos a oenb makos tho man who "earns his bread, by tho swoat of his brow;" who never owns a homo or enjoys tho lux uries of hfo. Ho always has a kick coming, and novor letH a chance to klok go by. IO rory thing goes wrong with him whon he ls a man. Parents should use every posslblo moans to make graduates of economy of tho boys a-id girls, CURES AF RHEUMACIDE has had failed. Rhoumacic Johns Hopkins Hospital, of Salem, Va., and D. H remedies and the doctoi Almost a M?melo In This Cn Bobbitt Chemical Ofl?p?| S* C' ' Gentlemen;- In September. 1899. Ito matlsm In n very bad form (Inflammatoi month after the dist aso started 1 had 0 my work mid uo to bed. It continued worse until my arms and hands wer K?OIv"'.s,> ,m,c,h so ll"?t 1 could not us a mon!h. 1 WS as Mplesa as n baby fe 12 months. I he muscles of my arms : wero hard and shriveled up. I s?ffere many tunes over. Was treated by six < Physic ansln McColl. Dillon and Mar none of then; could do mo at ye od um I?. Ewing, of Dillon, came to see me me to try your R II KUM ACIDIC. ?"e go bottle of thc medicine and I beean to and before thc lust bottle was used un to net better. I used b'A bottles and v p?ete y cured. That was years UKO health has been excellent over since had no symptoms of rheumatism. V further that I ben .n to-walle In about after I began to take RHEUMACIDE i tani of clutches; In about three month Otranto take it I could walk as good ody. and went back to work again. Yours truly. JAMES WU CULL lil) HIM DOWN. \ FUI Ii ACC. OUNT OF ?tit. ZACK nt ot ; 111 ;t ; s DoTcnoo of South Carolin* In tho Bo- Callod Dlvoroo Congress in Washington. Although S jutli Carolina has no divorc? laws of Us own and does n; t give levai sarctiou lo divorc* proceed ings, tho Palmetto State llyured in an interesting ecsne that ocourred Thursday lu the Cougrois on a Uni form Dlvoroo L->w, now In sosslon In Washing on sa-'s "lt. M. L." tho oor respondent of tho News and Ouurloi. South Carolina did not think lt neces sary to send a delegate to the Con gress, hut she was ably championed by Mr. Z oh MoGlre, of Columbia, who was pr?tent as a specialer. One of tho delegates fr^rn New York, Mr. Logan, sa d that N iw York had only one c.- ir;' for divorce, and obj cted to any resolution adopted sanctioning additional one. Ile added that South Carolina had no divorce law and therefore lt would Dot be proper to suggest any causes for a dl voroo law in that State. Mr Rlchburg, of Chicago, In aD im passioned speech, deolarcd that on the statute bo ks of South Carolina was a law providing how much money a man may will to his concubine, fie strongly asserted that tho slate of movali y obtaining in S tutti Carolina was, thercfo.e, not a flo ex imple for other States. Mr. McGhee, a spectator, Bitting nex^ to Mr. Logan, disputed the slur ?hus cast upon his native State. AH tho suggestion of Mr. Logan Mr. Mo Ghee was reoogn'z d to m%ko a stati ment in defence of Som h Carolina, lie said ho belloved South Carolina was not represented, probably bronte Governor Hayward did not fcol thai South Carolina had any part In the divorce conference. Being present he added, and being given the privi lege of the door, he wished merely to correct ?ny Impression that might b< made by tho improper slur upon South Carolina. Governor Pennypackar, presiding, interrupted to state that, so far as South Carolina wa? oonoerned, lie be llovod the Congress rather held up that State as a modol. Mr. Moonee said ho had noted that, and did not bsllavo thoa? pr?tent, s a rule, wculd stand for tba slander against tho morality of his State. Ile added that ho was not in a posl tb n to deny that Ibero might be on the statutes nome suoh law, but if so it was an old froak law. Ile had lived In South Carolina some thirty odd years and could deny that, as to laws in forco, as a matter of fact there was no such law, and that the charge that there was recognised con* oubiuage was a slander beneath the Congress. While he was spoaklng the gentle man who had mado tho charge stat ed that he knew there waa suoh a law. Another gentleman, sitting near the front caused prolonged laughter and applause by calling ont: "There ls no limit to the amount In obhor States." Mr. McGhee also said that, In his opinion, while South Cand?na did noi tn this andjuevor bad in anything tried to foroo her peculiar views, cur.toms, Institutions or laws on any other State or Seotlon, whafcevnr resolutions this or any other Congress might pass would not afTeut his State, as ho did not be lieve South Carolina would for many gonoratlons, If ever, pass a divorce law. Tho unoxpected dc fender of South Carolina wa? loudly applauded when he roan mod his stat and thanked the Congroaa for thler oourtesy arid pn falcnco in granting him a healing. Ilniitfod 111 II i au 11. A apodal from Montlosllo, 111,, says that the dead hedy of William De Grt.f, an aged dirr.obor of the First National Hank of MauHtlold, was found hanging In his home at Mr.ns llold, today, he having commit ted suicido. Tho reason aailguod for tho dood is bhat tho grand Jury ls on tho evo of an examination of the condition of tho bank on roport that .700,000 has been embedded. W. O. Fairbanks, president, and L. M. Fair banks, another dlrootor of the bank? aro brothors of Vloo President Fair banks of the United States. IV... . V ?%? Wives and husbands should take sumo ploaauro as thoy go along, and not degenerate into mero tolling ma chines. Recreation ls neoessary to keep tho hoart In Its place, and to got along without lt ls a big mistako. TER THE D< i cured thousands of cases o le cured John F.. Efin? and , the greatest hospital in the . Olmsteat!, the Norfolk. Va., rs had given up hope. Rheu of rheumatism she Hughes, of Atkins. VJ There is a reason wh cal science, and whil of the blood, it oper most delicate stoma* se. Vue. ia ok rhea* y). lu? i five up to trow o badly ?0 them, touched ir nearly toil lees (1 death llffcrent ?on, but il Dr. Ji He toit? t mo ono take it. I beean as com and my . Have VIII say six days With tho s after I as any L.KKS. SWEEPS ALL A purely vegetable r< cures by removing the cato Sample bottle and booklet BOBBITT ClIEil BEfiV?I) TH IM ?m?T THE TWO P13KPOOKBT.3GET rHN YE VHS APIECE. fchultz and Beckwith Convicted anu Bent to tho Penitentiary for a Decade. The State of Thursday says Joseph Schul-? and A. J. Bjck.vlth, allias A. J. Kavanaugh, tvro of tho plckpockots arrested at the fair grounds on Wed nesday of fair week, wyre convicted on Wednesday of lost week and son touo d bo ten yoars* penal servitude. Tho Jury readied a verdict in about 15 minutos. The mon were returned to : J\ll Thursday night aud so far as; known no further cIT.irt will be made to delay the execution of their seo tence. j A great deal i f loterest was mani- J fes' cd in this trial and bho verdlot of thc jury and tho sentence of the court met with an expressed approval whert ever it was announced' Shuhz and Kavanaugh woro arra'gued aud a jury drawn just before the adjournment of court of Tuesday afternoon. Wednes day morning the oaso wau called as ? soon as court conven- d and tue entire forenoon was devoted to hearing the testimony. The testimony w?.s prac Coally the saa-e which wa? brought our* at tue preliminary hearing a ;e? d*>s a.flor their arrest In O; o ?er. Nether ot the defendants was put upon tne staud, nor was any olbin evidsiiC-. off ered by the defense. Too attorneys for the defense had titilo upon which to base tholr argum-nts and the con viction of tho mun seemed to bo a forgone conclusion. The testimony showed that there was a gang of nine of bliese pickpock ets operating together at the fair grounds and the detectives on duty there watcocd them operating in the crowds at tho street oar exits aud when boarding the C&?S. Tiiey were surrounded by a number of dilgers after all of them hbd been spotted and four were arrested and ttkeu to thc oflleo of M glstrato lilley at the fair grounds. While the plckpookots were In tlie oiilco a disturbance was created oy a drunken outsider and one of the four dived through an open window and made his cnoapc. An old negro man In oharge of an outbuilding called the attention of the dotectlvos to tho faot that several of these men, two of whom he later Idenbllled as Shullz and Beckwith, had entered the house and buried sev oral pocketbooks. A search showed that the men had dug a hole, plaood tile pocketbooks in it and covered them with dirt. A few minutes lalor thoy were unearthed and niue purses, from which the money lu d been tukcu, wore found. Thc oaso upon which tho mon were tried waa for robbing 1). J. Gault of Union. There are four othor oases against Shalt/, and live against Beck with. Aftor sentence had been pro nounced tlie soltoltor moved tba* the other cases against tho prisoners be placed on the continued dooket. Neither Schult z nor Beckwith wt old have anything to say aftor thoir con viction, but wero in a surly mood and only asked how soon they would be sent to begin their sontenoe. Aftor arriving at the Jail they talked much In whispers, but would nol allow any one else to hear their conversation Killod '.in Road. Mystery surrounds tho death of Maok Minor, a well known Oltiz?n of Scott county who was found dead near Clinohport, Va., Wednosduy morning, with a bullet hole through his head. The body had apparently been dragged some distance and thrown Into a ditch near tho roadside. At 2 o'olook Tuesday Minor went to a store and prccurred some cartridges. An hour labor women living near where tho body was found, testify that they heard shots il red. There le strong evidence that tlie murdorcr was in wait for Minor and tired upon him as ho passod. i'roftoher Killod. At Knoxville, Tenn., on Friday night, tho lt?v. G. H. Wells, colored wan shot and instantly killed by James Uoram colored, at the home of a negro ?vornan whore the preacher had been aalled to porform a wedding oeromony. All wero at suppor, boforo tho wed ding, when a disputo aroKO over a trivial matter i Uoram pulled his pis tol and tiring tinco at tho preacher, who fell dead, the bullet having on lered near his heart. Goram escaped, following the Inquest by tho coroner, the o ni plo huntod up another minis? tor and wore married. f Rheumatism after al! the doctors and all other means others? of Baltimore, after the famous specialists of world, had failed. Rheumacide cured Austin Percoll?. , contracter, after they had spent large sums on other macidecured Mrs. Mary Welborn, of High Point, N. C ? had endured for 20 years. Rheumacide cured W. R. a., af ter the most famous New York specialists failed, y it cures : Rheumacide is the latest discovery of medk 8 powerful enough to sweep all germs and poisons out^ ates by purely natural methods, does not injure t?w?k sh, and builds up the entire system. fi ?lili POISONS OUT OF THE BLOOD. amedy that goes right to tho seat of th? disease and io. Your druggist sella and recommends Rhoumaoide. fr?? If you send five cents for postage to niCAL COMPANY. Proprietors. Baltimore. Rheumatism, Sclatloe, f<i Lumbago, ^' Rheumatic Gout, Indignation, Constipation. Llvar Trouble, Kidney Trouble. La Grippe. All Blood Dlseasst, Blood Poison Can Be Cured. At Your Own Home. If Youl!ive Any of Its Symptoms, Write Dr. Hathaway of Atlanta, Qa. He Cati Cure It In Any Stage and Without Great Expense. A Quarter Century of Experience. Send for Valuable M^?lisb" spcSaiiBt.1WoH8hpd nndBook. Other Diseases Cured. you have any symptoms of this disease, that io recognized aa tho mont trancherons and |far Ieachind ?sonso that nillicts mankind, such na pimples, sores, ulcers tu tho mouth and Aroat rash or copper colored spots on tho bndyWjils, falling out of hair Sha eyebrows, otc.,writo him a lotter. Ho will send you ft valuable book on tho disease and his export opinion of your ca?o free of cl.argo. Best Obtainable. This treatment assures you of a euro turd uo | Norvoun O-Mjlllfy [I^st vitality] V?rl matter whe:*? or lo whom you niny go you will j OOOOl**, Ht rio? ort , Kidney sturt Ular) And no trentmeut that will give you as auroro Dr. J. Newton Hathaway of Atlanta, Oa., tho South's most export, reliable and ?uccoss ful specialist in bis lino of treatment, Mys most positively that ho has a mothod that will euro any caso of Specido blood Poison or syphilis whether in Primary, Secondary or Tertiary stage, ?nd ho gire? ovorv alllicted nor son opportunity to investigate this method. If, suits, and too, tho cost is very moderate, Dr. Hathaway is not a "men only" "cure all" doctor, but au honest, upright physician and spoolallst, mill juu eui oouault him with per feet confidence. His specialty also lucludesothor private and chronic diseases of mon and women, such aa dor Die H. Ot-tAri h. ttktn IHHOSSOH. Diseasesof tho H?arr, i,iv<u-nntlStom no??, diseases i? -ouli?i< to wouaon, *>?e, and if you are afllictod you eau consult him without chara o. -His hourn .t"v?t.p? '..'-ft'n porfoct. Every thing slnotly cniidcntiar. 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They will stand never* cold without hehir Injured, and will mature a hoad of Cab ling* Two to Three weeks sooner than lt you grew your own plants lu hot bods mid cold in'mOy'Largest QI)||to)nftrg ftrfl Market Qarrtonars near tho intorlor towns and eitles of the Mouth. Their profit dopends upon thom having Karly (Jabbago; for that reason thoy pur chaso my planta f?r their crops. I nlao grow a full lin* of olhoriPlants and Fruit Trees, stich ns Strawberry, Sweot Potato. Tomato. Ksrg Plant and Pepper Planta; Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum, Oherry and Apricot Tren?, Fig Kuaties, and Q rape Vina?. ... BOX 86. YOUNG'S ISLAND, ?. C Special tereni te perion? who make up club YSV1V4 (~* P.PR ATV .nUra, Write for Uluitratod oaulosuc .. " ?"*. ^? VJL-.1 Vf"V, * * ? o.?.???.????????>????? oa?B9B .?.?.?.?.eas ! THE GUINARD BRICK WORKS? I COL/UMBIA &m O. Manufacturers Briok, Fire Proof Torra Oott* il ill ll i f 131 >>f or^ Flue linings and Drain Tilo. 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Our Small Payment Plftl a makes owner ship of a high grado Piano or Organ easy. Just a few dollars down and a small payment each month or quarterly or eoml -annually and tho instrument is yours, jg?. Wrlto us today for Oelaloguos nnuour Spec ial Proposition of Kasy Payments. Addre? Malone's Music Go., Columbia, 8. O. ,000 AM*. TEED BY A 4h rs ?\?\?\ BANK DEPOSIT rt> ?\ . . VI II I R.R. F,iro P.tld. Noto? Tikes x^r^aiww DOO I'RKK COURSES Board at Cost. Wrlto Otikk 8E0S??? ?LftB?IIA BUStHFSS COLLEGE. Maesa, Ca, wm iia,v<; t<i stand. Tho Minneapolis Journal saya that ono microbe br eda 140,000,000 Ina day. This s?ems incredible bub the deuce of it is wo o*n't disputo lb. Wo haven't counted thom, and until we can take a day off from buslnafB mab? ters to do this blt of c, msus work tho Journal's oounb will have to stand,