Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Boyond Ibo prison coll Release! Boyond tho stormy passage Peacol Beyond thc starless night The great Sun's rising Beyond these wilds a homo Of death's devising. After tumult ons years To creep Within a lonely roora And sleep! After tho exigence Of human hunger, Bread, and lodging, and wino To need no longer! IIow I have longed for th Isl And yot How can I go content Forgot All that was dear In lifo Entwined about you? How can 1 pass Boyond lu Peace without you? Fors ot ton Forgotten you? Well, If forgetting Be thlrklr g all tho day How tho long hours drag since you left mo (Days seem years with you away) Or hearing through all thc strange babel Of voices now gravo, now gay. Only your voice-Can this bc forget ting? Yot, 1 nave forgotten, you say, Or counting each moment with long ing, 'Till the one when I'll see you again; If this bc forgetting, you're right dear, And 1 have forgotten you then. Forgotten you? Well, If forgetting Bo reading each face that 1 sec With eyes that mark never a feature, Save yours as you lust looked at mc. Forgotten you? Well, if forgetting Be yearning with all my heart, With a longing half pain and half rapture, For thc time when wo never shall part. If thc wild wish to sec you and hear you, To bc held In your arms again If this be forgetting, you're right, dear, And I have forgotten you then. Forgotten, you say! COTTON STALKS MAY Ul<2 US 101) TO MAKIO <;ooi> PRINTING PAPHXt. Latest and Most Interesting Inven tion to Make Paper From Useless Product. The manufacturo of paper from the fiber of the cotton stalk ls one of thc latest and most interesting inventions of tho now century, says Harvle Jot dan in Manufacturers Reord. For many years export Inventors leave been busily engaged experimenting with tho cotton stalk, aud now it appears from recent developments that their labors and expenditures of monoy are to be rewarded with sigual and strik ing suocess. Not only have these in vestigations passed tho experimental stage but they aro rapidly being shap ed to bo plaood Into practloal opera tion. It has been ur questionably de monstrated that all grades of paper, from tho best form of linen grade to the lowest, cr,n be manufactured from tho cotton stalks. In addition to thin, a variety of by products, suoh as alco hol, nitrogen, material for gun cotton and smokel ss power, oan also be se cured In paying quantities. Tho time ls not now far distant when paper plants equipped with all modern ma oulnery and devices for making paper will be built and placed In operation throughout the oottun growing states of the South. Tho establishment of these mills for the manufacture cf pi per from oottou stalks will at once de velop a new industry of quite enor mous proportions of a waste product whloh at the pres; ut time has com parative little or no value. It will prove the entering wedge of checking the present incr. using cost of paper, whloh is becoming such a burden upon the newspaper industry of thc country. It ls estimated that on an acre of land producing a halo of cotton at least one ton of stalks eau be gather ed. Upon this basis of calculation this new industry can annually dopend upon from 10,000,000 to 12.000,000 tons of raw material. This will not only furnish necessary supplies to meet all home demands, but a so permit of the export of pulp or iinished pro duots to forelgu countries. At the present time there ls approximately .287,000.000 Invested in paper mills in the United States, with but few plants loodttd in the South. The bulk Of tho material going into the manu facture of paper at thc present time ls spruce pine, and which is annually beoomlng more expensive In the deple tion of tue forests and the high pric3s whloh suoh timber commands in the market for other uses. Tho utiliza tion of a waste produot suchas he cotton stalk, manufactured into com mercial paper, will bc a boon of lncsti matable value to the whole country. Tho practical effect of this new In vention will bc to Increase tho present value of the South's cotton crop near ly $100,000,000 annually. The grow ors will be amply paid for the expense of romovlng tho stulks from their fields and delivery to tho paper plants and In addition thereto receive a pro fit on tills produot of their labor. In tho southwestern seetlon of tho cotton belt the nov; lnoustry will especially bo of vallie and a blessing. With the removal of thc cotton htalks from thc fields in the early fall tho death knell of tho boll-wcevll will bc sounded and its present devastating Inlluenccs re duced to a minimum. So that from every standpoint thc speedy develop ment and extanslon of this now indus try will be welcomed In all seotlonsof tho cotton bolt. Paper manufactured from tho cotton stalk ls of the strong est texture and softest Knish, it ls reported that several plants will bc oreoted during tho next few months In certain sections of thc South whloh will no lu full operation by January 1, 1007. MiiHt llnvo Boon <h#/.y. At Comfort, Texas, ou Thursday in tho presence of tho assembled wed ding guests, at the homo of lils In tended bride, Joseph Relnhart, the man who was to have been mai rind to her, shot and Instantly killed Miss Ernestlno Kutser and then shot him self with probably fatal tesults. Tho cause of the tragedy is not known. Foolish Humor. Surgeons in tho schools In New York cut fungus growth from many childrens throats a few days ago, giv ing rise to a vt ry sensational rumor that Jewish children's throats wero bel?g cut In anti Jewish riots and causing suoh a panlo that tho sohcols had to be dosed. BOOKS 4D0PTED. TEXT BOOKS TO BB UH 101) IN THB s; HOOIJS. Business Was divided Cut Among j Sevoral Hov.ses-yany Kew Books Pelected. The State board of eduoatlon last week completed the adoption of text books to be used in the pubilo sohools of tho State for tho next live years. It is said tbat the list solcoted will com pare quite favorably with the book adoptions In other States, and lt is also claimed that this ls the best Hst wbloh South Carolina has bad. There has always been more or less of a ditlerenoe between tho books used Ip the public sohools In tho country and thone used in the graded sohools, bub many of these di lt or onces have beeu eliminated lu this adoption and lt is said that tho Hst selected will do for any olty school In tho State. Governor Hoy ward presided at the meeting and State Superintendent Martin, by reason of his having been tn tho sohool work as a teacher and subsequently has been able to give so much time to the comparativo s'udy of the merits of text books, c ff ?red valuable suggestions. The oiher members present, representing the congressional districts In tho order uamsd, wcic: W. K. Tato of Oharles tou, J E. Boland of Blackville, D. W. Daub lot Clemson College, A. G. Rombert of Wofford college, A. R. Banks of Lanouster, Hartwell M. Ayer of Florenoo, and A. J. Thaok ston of Orangeburg. The board adopted Dr. n-:nry Alex ander White's History of South Caro lina for tho elementary grades and Gol. J J. Dargan's for the seventh and eighth grade-'. Waddy Thomp son's general history of tho United States was selected. Another book by a South Carolina author willoh was put on tho Hst is Dr. D. D. Wal lace's book on civics. Uuder the new rogulatlois made by the State board of eduoatlon, there will be established In Columbia a cen tral depository for the handling of these text-books. Tills means that prcbably $100,000 a year in uow busi ness will bo turned locso In Columbia. This has been going to Atlanta and to the publishers and lt will be a great accommodation to tho teaohers In the State who may order from Columbia and get tho books the same day or tho following day. In the ommon sohool course, the best lot of readers was given to May nard, Merrill & Co , whose ' Graded Literature Series," 1, 2 and 3, were adopted. B. F. J jenson & Go., keep tho fourth and fifth readers. Silver, Burdett & Co., wore awarded stooud plaoe, their "Stepping Stones to Literature" being used as supplemin tary to Maynard, Merrill & Co.'s books. The selection of readers constitutes one of the prlnolpal Items Maynard Morrill & Co., were repre sented by Mr. MoMlohaol of Georgia. The spelling books adopted were two: Hunt's "Progressive Course In Spelling," published by tho American hook oompany, and tho "Benson and Glen Speller and Detiner," by D. O Heath & Go. The Slate oom pao y offered the speller prepared by Supt. W. H Hand of Chester. Tho selection of arithmetics w&S 8> follows: "Brook's Mental Arltbme tlo," by Christopher Sower & Co.; Wentworth's elementary and Went worth's praotloal, by Ginn & Co. Messrs. Newson & Co., through their representative, Mr. Soborer, succeeded In placing both grammars for the c:mmon sohool courso, "Bush lers's Modern English Grammar" (with oompositlon); and Hotohklss and Bedder's "Modern English Les sons." Frye's higher geography, by Glun & Go., was retained, but tho Amerl can Book company placed Redway and Hlnman's "Natural Primary Geogra phy." Mr. Craw, of D. Appleton Sc Co., lauded tho order for physiologies, there bel?g two books of Kbron for advanced and intermediate classes. Lee's primary history, by the B. P. Johnson company, was retained, but Waddy Tnompson's History of the Quited States, by I). C. Heath & Co., was put on the list and Chapman's South Carolina History was supplant I ed by the history by Dr. Henry Alex ander White, published by Silver, Burdett & Cu., aud Dargan's History . ?f South Carolina, published by The State company, will bo used for the higher classes. Mr. O, P. Barnes, publisher, secur ed the order for Barnes' "Outlook Writing System," and D. C. Heath & Go., received award for their natu ral system of writing. These em brace two different styles of writing. Tho Augsburg System of Drawing was adopted and the "Riverside Series nt Song Books," by Houghton, M ill tn & Co., was put on tho Hst. Tee following books were adopted for use In the high sohool course: Euglish-Sykes' Elementary IOn gllsh Composition; Tappan's Eng land's and America's Literature; Literary Masterpieces. Latin-Bibi's First Book In Latin; Glldersleeve-Lodgo Latin Grammar; H ar por So Toi man's Caesar. Business Courso-The First Hook in Business Methods; O Neill's Punct uation. Natural Science Ilunnioutt Agri culture for tho Common Sohools; Halley's Botany. Civics -Wallace's Civics. Geograpy-Tarr's Physioal Geog raphy (new). Algebra Llpplnoott's Elementary Algebra; Wentworth's Now Sohool Algebra. li l8tory---Dargan's History of South Carolina; Myers' Gonoral His tory (Rev. El); Amer.oan Hhtury Los Hots, Hart. Geometry Well's Essentials of Go omotry._ Wanted to Hoar Til man. lb was announced that before the adjournment of tho presont session of congress Senator Tillman would make a red hot speech on the caso of B. F. Barnes the man who has Just been appointed postmastor of tho olty of Washington, and tho man that Sen ator Tllman -believes responsible for tho rough treatmont of Mr?. Minor Morris at tho whlto house somo months ago, thc sonate have boon packod overy day, and long lines of expectant peoplo have waited patient ly for an opportunity to secure a seat and bear what Senator Tillman might have to say on the subj ct. OLD man Daniel Boone, who bas been dead for lo tbeso many years bus been made thc innocent Incentive for another drinking bout In old Ken tucky. should bo Given the Ornoo Olianoe Town Ohlidren Haye. it ia & remarkable nun? that a iarga part of the brain and brawn has al ways cc?o frou? the nu ei districts o? all countries. We might go down tho business streets of any town in South carolin* to-day and take an Inventory, so to speak, of the men who aro doing the business, and wo would Hud a Urge part of them were reared in the coun try. We do not write to make odious comparisons between the country ohlloron and the town ohlidren, but we wish to call the attention of par ents In the country to tho new order of things coming to pass. We wish to ask fathers and moth ers if it ls reasonable to suppose that their boys and girls in the country who only have an opportunity to oui* tlvate and develop their minds from three and one-half to four mon tim in tho yoar will be able to stand up and oompete with and outer Into life's strugles witb the boys and girls in the towns who bave 0 months to improve th? mind and bo trained for life's work; to say nothing of the magazines good literature and leoturcs to which they have access. It is not reasonable to suppose that ohlidren who have practically the same natural ability and have more than twice the oppor tunlties the others do, will bo equal when the content comes. Parents of the rural districts, your ohlidren aie aa dear to you as any par ents. Do you want them to bo help less or Inferior in oapaolty to their fellows in the years to oome? I am sure no truo parent does. But n.ark the predlotioo; unless tho parr nts of the rural districts bestir themselves and secure moro of the advantages for their ohlidren in the way of educa tion, tho time will surely como when those who havo lt not must nor vc Thin is not a pleasant thought, but lt is as true as the Gospel itself. Wo do not want to see parents of tho rural district;? satisfied with three or four months' school; they must not ho con tent with this if they expeot to keep PACO with tho towns and villages. ON TH JE KUM. Sensational ButtH HAVO noon Brought Against Ti num. The prosecutions the government ls about to begin can very properly bo olassed as sensational. They aro said to be against the Standard Oil Com pany and tho Pennsylvania railroad, I seems these ooporatlons arc not to uo balloted but tholr olllolals lu re sponslblo positions are to be. Mr. CaB8at tho president of tho Pennsylvania is mentioned as one of tho railroad mon who will be prosecut ed. His trial would attractattonblon in Europe as well as in this country, since there aro fow bettor known men in the tlnauolal world than he. Tho trial would be a notable ono for the defendant would be prosecuted by the ablest mon the government could ob tain and would bo defended by law yers whoso fame is not confined by stato Hues. It han been intimated that lt la not thc purpose to prosecute any of tho heads of tho Standard Oil Company, but that Intimation isn't authorita tive. It wouldn't be surprising if tho heads of that trust were attaoked. It ls dltlloult to see why the president of the Pennsylvania railroad should be prosecuted and not the chief men of the Standard Oil company. In Wall street it is said the Stan dard OU Company realizes it must adopt new methods of dolrg business that its preseut method cannot be 'pur sued any longer with safety. Uenoo, lt ls proposed to greatly lnorease the trust's oapltal steck and to list the shares on the stook exchange. In ad dition it is raid reports of its business will bo published regularly and tho policy of seoreoy will be abandoned. It this lutormatlon ls correct it would seem that tho great trusts are on tho run aud that tho government has but to pursue its advantage to bring them to terms. A few days will doubtless show what tho pro gramme of the government ls and whether or not the trusts aro ready to abandon the fight and agree to oboy thc laws for their regulation. Willi Tito Humorists. Knicker-Do you think wc should wash our soiled Huon lo public-? Boker- No; I favor sending lt to the laundry for total destruction. Now York Sun. Eumeral la-It's too bad you've giv en Jack his walking papors. Ho's thc goods, all right. Gwendolin-Yos, and he's tho cann ed goods, all right.-Ohloago Tribune. Miss Piano-I understad you do very handsome work and make very pretty pictures. Photographer-Yes'm, but I could glvo you an oxaot likeness if you wish. -Philadelphia Lodger. "I havo done the state somo ser vios," tho politician began, "and I-" "Yes shouted ono of tho delegates, "and you oharged tho state about sev enteen times as much as it was worth." -Chicago. Itsoord-Herald. "Minnie, come right into tho house this Instant!" "Why, ma?" "1 told you not to stay who e thoso naughty boys wore using horrid language. I just heard ono of thom say 'packing house' as distinctly as could be." Uhlcago News. Weary Willie (reading "ad.") "Man wanted to chop wood, bring up ooal, bend furnaoe, tako care of gar den, mind ohlckons and children." Frayed Fagin (groaning) -Qccl Dcm matrimonial advertisements make me tired.-Judge. "I think that's tho funniest Joke 1 I ovor wroto. Everybody laughs the tlrsttime they read lt; you're tho only exooptlon," said Young Sorlbblos, dis gustedly, "Why, 1 laughed," replied O.dum. "You dla? Not so's I could notice lt. No: you worn't born at tho timo." -Philadelphia P/oss. $75,000 for Greenwood, The Senate has passed a bill ap propriating S75,0U0 for a government molding at Greenwood. At tho samo tilmo tho senate out 85,000 ott the imount appropriated to Greenville, caving tho amount 975,000. It will now go to conforenco. Mr. Johnson will stand out for $80,000 for Groen /Hie. It ls not thought that Qreeu .vuud will get anything Uko 175,000. H Ain Amt loo <Jroain. At Aroadla, Fla., Albort Simmons, ibo 10 year-old nogro who on Maroh 17 last murdered his aunt and his two .hild i eu, ohopping up their bodies and 'cedlnv them to tho hogs, was legally tanged Friday. Just botero the exe rtion he oalled for ham, eggs and loe 'ream. .. ?; ; j,. . Pertinent Reflection*. Tho noblest form of forgiving ls forgetting. A fool even In a king's robe ls no less foolish. What tragedy can compare to r, life thrown away? No man who loves his felloir-man 1 ooulu be mean. A man's manner either makes his fortune or mars lt. The more charity giveth tho more charity has to ?ive. Beoause a man ls poor ls no 1 adioa- 1 tlon that ho is cheap. Life is made up, the Arabs deolaro, of a wish and a dream. Most of a woman's air oastlts aro locatod on Honeymoon Hill. The path to tho poorhouse is strewn with ninety-eight cent bargains. Only ho oan do the great ?hlngs well who does the little things willing ly. Tomorrow may never oome; yester day ls gone forever. But here's to day. The oynlo will oonQde, first thing, that life's whipped oream is nothing but soapsuds. Well, granted that politeness is simply Idealized polloy-It's worth while oven at that. Shakespeare says the soul of a man is in nls ol othes. And yet tho wise ones prate of the vanity of woman 1 And after all, Ufo ?lves most of UB what we deserve. -Now Orleans Pic ayune. Ghoan thu Bottor Way. The Columbia Record says Tim monaville has no short dispenser or dispensary, but lt is short a dispen ser. And all this ls cn aooount of a revival moating oonduoted there re cently by Evangelist Leach. Mr. Leach knows all about the evils of thc drink devil by actual contact as well as through inspiration, and his efforts on this subject are UBally such as ought to appear in blaok type even in a great family newspaper. Ho bas converted various pcrsous at Tim monsville, including the dispenser, Mr. W. H. White, who has forthwith resigned. At least that ls tho in formation thatha8 reaohed the state board about the matter, and an inspec tor ls to go there in a few days and transfer tho stook to Mr. White's suc cessor, because Mr. White since his resignation has not wanted to touch the thing at all._ Watterson tor Bryan. Perhaps the most widely interest ing newspaper announcement of the day is tho outspoken endorsement of William Jennings Bryan as the Demo cratic nominee for President by Colonel Henry Watserson in the Louls vllle-Courlcr Journal. He formally pledges tho Courier Journal to Mr. Bryan and prediots tho latter's nomi nation by tho Demoorats for the oillce of President in 1908. Ho says the Nebraskan ls at tho best of his pow ers, and that if the party oannot unite upon him it oannot agree upon anyone. Dedaring that the Repub lican party ls a mammoth trust and tho greatest of all syndicates, Bryan ls picked as tho one man equal to the task of leading the Democratic/hosts out ot tho wilderness in which) they have been groping for ten years Hard on Trust?. \ At St. Louis a notable antitrust decision has banded down In t')h cir: oult court by Judge "Ryah "..o wdeu that a purohaser does not have td pay for goods brought from a a?-o?lled trust. Tho Cahill Swift Manui'?oMir iug company filed suit for f~ $2-10 against Joseph IV Walsh, a plumber, on the allegation that Walsh had bought goods tc tho value of thojuJg meuD asked and had refused tb pay for them. Walsh acknowledged that this was true, but his oounsel termed tho company a "trust," and argued that Walsh did not have to pay for goods bought from a trust any more than he would have to pay a gamb ling debt. Walsh's defence wu: bas ed solely upon this anti trust argu ment. Tho oourt sustained him. 11RV?KOU ol' noll Weevil. A dispatch from Atlanta says State Entomologist Smith has written to Commissioner of Agriculture Hudson, declaring that tho boll weevil is bound to make ravages in the Holds of Gcor gia cotton unless something radical prevents. He urges Commissioner Hudson to take the matter up with thc general assembly and arrange some way whereby the farmers may be reimbursed for a part of abo crop, whloh will uccesaarily be destroyed. Entomologist Smith has lust returned from a visit to Mississippi, where he has been making a study of thc pcs tlferous Inseot. He urges the farmers of tho state to be on their guard and report au appearanoe of it in Georgia In order that it may bo exterminated at once. Croker un Ury an. Harry Walker, of New York, has received a letter from Richard Grok cr, former leader of Tammany Hall, oxpreBsing the hope that Mr. Croker may live to see W. J . Bryan deoted President of tho United States. The letter which ls dated Dublin, June 10, which is In partas follows: "Youl lotter reooivod and also the newspa per dippings. You havo my senti ments regarding Bryan, as I look up on him as ono of tho most able men In our country. I have no doubt but that ho was robbed of both elcotlons by tho trusts and also misjudged. I hope 1 may live to see him President of the United States, No Mmokors Wanted. The navy department wants no more apprentice boys at Norfolk Navy Yard who smoke oigarettcs. Of the 10 applicants for live vaoanolcs four wore found to be addiotcd to tho habit of smoking oigarettos. Tnoy wore re jected forthwith by the examining surgeon. Apprentices addiotcd to tho uso of cigarettes have hoon found un desirable In the past and no more smokers will be accepted, lt ls prob able that tho same rulo will be appli ed la other navy yards. Jealously Ijort Tu Killing. Speolals from Rosswell, Ga., say John A. Grimes, a well-to-do farmor, aged 2?; ?bot and instantly killed Mrs. Eva McGinn, a young widow, at hor homo near Rosswoll Thursday. Jealous iufatuatlon ls said to have boen the cause of tho orlmo. Grimes turned tho weapon oa himself but In flicted only a slight wound. Ile gave himself up. Donounooi Hoarat. Senator Balley denounood Hearst's methods In his Cosmopolitan Maga zine story of The Senato. Ho said such publications should bo outlawed, lie showed that Hoarat, while con demning oorruptlon had spent m iro money In one word than he, Balloy, had spent In all of his eleotions In Texas put together. 1 BOHOOL BOOK DBPOSITOBY. rho lt. Ii. Bryan Company, ot Oolam. ! bl?, dot? lt. There was a merry oki battle io Columbia ou Monday night of last week boforo tue representatives of tho publishing houses recently award ed oontraots to furnish school books bo tho state over the seleotion of a . ?lato depository, a fat oonbraot worth , ibout 850.ooo in the five years the present contract has to run. 1 Tho only contestants were The State and the lt. L. Bryan oompauy, , both of tbis oity. It was but natural that Columbia should be awarded the depository, on account of Its location, Mid these wore tho two loading book store concerns of the city, although The State peoplo have not attempted bo haudle shod books heretofore. There was spceohmaking, and all that sort of thing, Governor Hoy ward baoking up tbe olalms of Tho State people and State Superintendent Mar bin leaning to the Bryan company, it ls said. The Bryan company won tinnily bv & voto of three to one, tho vote of the publishers' representatives being ap portioned according to the amount of bbo contracts they had with the state. The contracts total about half a mil lion dollars worth of school books to pass through tho Bryan company's hands within the five years, tho pub Ushers to pay the stato depository 10 por cont for this handling, and the sub-dcposltorlea, to whloh tho Bryan people are to ship in turn, also get 10 per cent. The prices of tho books are stamped on their baoks and ar? fixed in the oontraots the publishing con cern allowing a book to be sold above b'-o figure to bo liable to a 825 fine for caoh effonae. Stato Superintendent Martin says bhab although several changes have been made the sbabe will save on the whole aboub 20 per cenb. for the pat rons of tho schools, and bc is to short ly glvo out a statement sobbing forth the comparativo prlocs in detail and establishing his contention that there has been a saving. The oontraot, bo points out, also prevents the retail book pooplo putting on au abrltrary profit and oharging to suit them selves. He says that in some instau ces the retail book stores had added a profit of 75 per cent. Tho law re quiring tho county superintendents bo aot as tho agents of the publisher? has proved a dead lotter, and there was no hopo of getting tho books satisfactorily handled in this way, Mr. Martin says. ALCOHOL JPROM POTATOES. Now Industry Opening for tlio South ern Oil iv? 11 lu. There was a meeting of tho cotton seed oil mill men of South Carolina ? hore Thursday that mean much not only for the oil mills but also for tho farmers. Those who have kept up with suoh matters will recall that sev eral weeks ago a chemist in Arkausas, J. C. Spurlin, discovered that donat ured alcohol could be extraoted In large quantities from the potato by tho usc of the present oil mill ma oblnery. The matter was noticed es pecially by tho oil mill men and Thursday at the meeting the whole suggestion was gone over and its practicability disousscd. If thc scheme ls worked out suo ' oessfully it will be of mutual advan tago. The oil mills now shut down in sun m r and Just about the time the potato orops are coming In. The farmers often have to throw away hundreds of bushels of potatoes bc cause of a glut in tho market or the faot that they have sprouted t< o soon. These could be sold to tho ol! mills at slightly rcducod prices and used by them for making of denatur ed ale .1ml. The government now propsoes to remove the tux from this product and booan then be produced very cheaply Tho faot that lt will keep labor or ganized during the entire year ,1s also If considerable advantage to the oil mills. After much discussion lt was deotded to obtain further Information about the projeot and then take some definite action. Tho tax ls not re moved by tho government until next May. The meeting of tho oil mill mer. was primarily for the purpose of ef Tcctlng an organization to be known is tho South Carolina Cotton Seed Jrushors' Association of the sr. roe en terprlses. There was a very large at tendance and P. D. Hunter of Dar lington was elected president, J. T. Stephens, vice president and B. F. Taylor of this oity was elooted secro iary and breasurer.-Columbia Sbato. lt lia? Uuon li nter, lt has been bot, vory hob in faot, )ut, says the State, Section Director [lauer lu charge of tho weather mrcau In Columbia says that thc 'thermometer has boon higher In .J une ind in f '.ot thc temperature bas not icon umunal. Wnat has made thc )0oplc long for the bree/, s of the fans s tho moisture In the atmosphere, tfoarly every day tho little howor would add to tho humidity md for this reason the heat has been cit more. This ls tho UfeUal Mme or a little hot spell, tho highest eglstered this year being 05 degrees ?arly In June and again on June il Last year June 20 saw the n e r o u r y shoot up to 07 and 'ot tho peoplo this year will assert Jiat lb is tho "hottest ever." A >rcak In tho wave ls expected shortly, ?owevor, If precedents are followod ind in faot the nights now are bogln dug to be a little more bearable. Triple Muioltlo. A suloldc pact between Mrs. Mary lehrend, a widow, and Edward Gan or, who bad a wlfo and Uvo oblldren, oBultod Friday In the death of both he man and the woman and Peter lohrons, the 12 year-old son of Mrs lehrens. All three were found dead n tho woman's apartments in Dokalb ,venue, Brooklyn, with ovory gas iiirner turned on. Mrs. Ganzer bad coently asked Mrs. Bohrens to give Jai /.sr up, threatening at the name Imo to prooure warrants for tho ar est of both. Two letters wore left .y tho suloies, one by Mrs. Behrens to ier "frlonds," and tho other from lanzar to his brother In-law. In i .i vin.".- Tomb.. After lighting against death for loro than twenty-two hours, Jere Uah Fisher, a plumbor, was rosoued live Thursday from a sand pit at 'homklnsvlllo, Staten Island, In rhioh ho had been imprisoned slnoo 1 o'olook forenoon. Tho rescued ian ls In a ptbiablo condition from Khauotlon, and lb ls not ocrbain that e will survive the effcot of the rightful ordeal. MEMORIAL BERVI?K?. Tributo of ?lespoot I??id tho Ii?to Dr. J. A. om ton. The Sumter Watohman and South* ron says the very highett testimonial bo tl io esteem In wi doh Dr, Clifton was held by the oltlzens of Sumter was presented Sunday night week ago at tho First Baptist Church, whither BOO or 1000 portons went to attend a service in his memory. The audlenoe was mado up of a multitude who seemed, for the time at least, to ha>e forgotten or Ignored the faotthat they were not all members of the same re ligious body, i The momorlal service was conduct ed by the pastor of the church, Rev. 0. G. Brown, D. D., in which the meeting was held. Ile read a paper concerning Dr. Clifton, which he had written for tho Christian Advocate, and thou followed it up with a talk of fifteen or twenty minutes upon some of the traits willoh characterIz cd tho lamented dead. Tho tearful eyes and solemn facen of tho multitude uttested tho fact tbat they were heartily In sympathy with tho uttered words. Dr. Clifton's wife and ohlidren were present and express ed their thanks to many over the faot that such a meeting had been hold. The choir had solcoted special song., for the occan'on, and tho muslo WOB pleasing. Prof. Schumaohor's render ing of "come, ye Disconsolate" on the violin, was vory touching and full of moving patho*?, as was also the nong by Tom Walsh, "If I Were a Voloo." _ AV bat a Wanto ol' Mon ny. Thc annual military expenditures of thc several great powers of tho world aro enormous. A recent issue of thc British Bluebook says the United Kingdom spends for this purpose each year $157,000,000; India, $100,000,000; F rauco,tl27,000,000: Ger many $101,000, 000; Austria-Hungary $87,000,000; Italy $58.000,000; Japan $24,000,000; Russia 194,000,000; United States $115,000,0^0. These amounts do not include the amount paid in pensions by any of tho governments named: The United States, In addition to tho 115 000,000 named above, pays each year, $140,000,000 In pensions to her old soldier. Including what she spends for pensions, the United States spends more than any other government for military purposes. Our military bur den is Gie heaviest horn by any nation in the world. When we contemplate the vast sum which the so-called Christ ian nations of the earth spend In*,training soldiers, building ships, guns and other engines to destroy men wc are almost forced to the conclu sion that our profession of hoing fol lowers of thc meek and lowly man who had not where to lay lils head while on earth is false If we were His followers lu fact we would have no use for these tilings and the money spent for them could he used for other and nobler purposes. This vast sum of money properly used would banish poverty from the cai th and would bring joy and happiness to thc world instead of death and destuotlon as it now does. Whiskey in K* UH un. As every body knows Kansas is one of the three so-called prohibition States, but lt will bc seen from what a Kansas naper says below there is no trouble to get whiskey out there. A man hy the name of C. S. Jewel, of New Castle, Pa , wrote to th" Appeal to Reason,.a weekly paper of large cir culation puhl shed at Girad, Kansas, the foilowieg lei ter: "Prohibit lonlsts hore say t bat out in Kansas t hey have no use for jails since prohibition lias been adopted, ls that so? The Appeal to Reason replied as follows: This will he news to Kansans. If prohibition rules n Kansas it has not been discovered, In this little town we have live open saloons and there arc some lifty or sixty saloons in the county. Cur jails are just as full as in Pennsylvania. Just as long OS pro f?t can he made selling liquor it will he sol t-according lo law or in violation ol'law. In Kansas prohibition does not prohibit.. Oin saloons are really a greater menace than licensed saloons. When it is known t hat about three thousand people in Kansas hold Unit ed Stales Internal Revenue licences to retail whiskey and other liquors thc statement of thc Kansas paper can easily be believed. Ml.(Kiln Two Mon. At Wadley, Ga , Will Smith, ar, escaped negro convict, carly Thursday thot and killed Marshal Morris ol Mldvlilo, and mortally wounded J. J. Pope, a well known planter, living near there. The negro who was serv lng a twenty year sou tono, had es japed from thc camps. Mr. Pope dis jovored that thc negro bad taken re fuge at bis former homo and was bo lng protected by bis wife. Summon ng Mandu 1 Morris the two approach ?d the cabin and wero met with a colley of shots which o ntlnued until Lhe marshal was dying on the ground md Mr. Pope lay mortally wounded Smith then came from the cabin, ex vrnined bis would be captors and dis ippearcd Into the dense woods. Much ?xcltemont followed and a posse was Tunned Immediately at Wadley, willoh ls now In pursuit of the desperate ne <ro._ How ii Should no. What a holy and divine thing the unman heart Is if people would do as dod Intended when ho breathed Ills mago Into man. Woman is inllnltoly flohcr in God like qualities than man. Human nature is a beautiful thing ui God Intended it to live, but the trouble ls that this wild, mad Boram ile for the dirty, blood-stained dollar loesn't leave poor humanity much of i chance to develop Itself exo. pt on ;hc brutal, animal sido. Our present .octal system -or lack of system-ls ispcolally designed for crushing out di that ls good In humanity and de veloping all that ls bad. Tm? Chicago Record-Herald asks, 'Who can mention a single good hing that United Slates Senator [Matt has ever done for thc people?" rim Houston Tost very truly says Matt has never claimed t o he a servant >f t he public. Ile has been a political nailer all his life and has never pre luded to he anything clso. Platt is tot. sailing under false colors. Tm? New York Wyoning Sun regrets hat the great Umpire State of New fork is "unrepresented In thc lipper louse of Congress" but lt can't awak n any answering regret on tho part if tho two political mummies who bow thc salary for representing tho tato. VICIOUS SBA SNAKES THERE ARE FIFTY VARIETIE8, ALL OP THEM VENOMOUS. IVItn the Exception of ?he Cobra ?nd Doebmaater Af Arno?, No Serpent on Land Kill? 8o OulcUly ?nd Ter? ribly mm Do Thone of the Ocean. Fearlessness ls one of the roost strik ing characteristics of soa snakes, and lt odds greatly to the danger that I? to be apprehended from them, for lt often leads them to attack fishermen and Bwlmmcrs, and eveu to climb up the anchor chains and through the hawse holes and attack the crow, and as the bite of every one of the fifty known varieties ls fatal there ls great fear felt of them In the ocean spaces which they Inhabit. These fifty varieties are all classified ander tbe general title of thanato phldia. None of them Is able to live ?ny where except In ocean water. Hvery variety and subvarlcty ls as poisonous HS the cobra or the bushmaster of Af rica. Indeed, with the exception of theso two laud varieties, thcro ls no make on land that kills so swiftly and ?o terribly as do tho sea snakes. Ow ing to their fatal weapon!? and their ease and celerity In swimming there aro practically no enemies wlfich,- de stroy enough of them to diminish their numbers. Almost all the thanatophldljt*. are beautifully colored, even more gorgeous than any of tho lund suakos, with the poBslblo exception of the coral, cross and carpet snakes. They oro banded, striped, speckled and blotched with green, olive, yellow, blue and black and present a most brilliant specb)clo as tliey aro seen swlmuilug below ibo sur faco of the transparent blue ofihe Indi an ocean. When they are swimming at tlie ordinary rate of speed they seem to undulato all over. They do not wind through the wator as the eel don, but (heir locomotion resembles that ot the caterpillar except that lt ls far more graceful, and MS they move and twist the colors play along their sides and backs as they do on the dolphin. Wbon they dash at their prey at full speed they move like an arrow, with their heads and necks thrust straight before them if they aro swimming under ftie surface, or, If they are darting along the top of the water, with their heads elevated just enough to clear the waves. When they ?re racing along thus their sole means of locomotion ls their broad, paddle shaped tall, which ls peculiar to ali the sea snakes and forms tho only striking difference be tween them and tho ordinary laud ser pent. This paddle Is used like a steamer's screw and has immense power. Bent tideways lt will stop tbe snako Imme diately as If ' * creature had anchored suddenly. Wu. dozing or resting ovoi reefs, which are . *>mon In tho corni banks, snakes hold lu to the rocks or bottom with their broun ?alls and will often sway in this way for hours ha ?aim weather. Men moy have recovered from the hites of theso serpent?, but thora are certainly none en record. Most of their victims are Malay and other na tive fishermen, ?nd ?hore dwellers and physician? rarely get te see them. Statistic? ?re not kept In that part of the world, so it 1? impossible to Ascertain how many ?re killed in this way each yoav. Travelers say that there I? hardly ? fishing village which bas not lt? tale of death to tell Scientists once held to the opinion that tho deadliness of the bite was due not to the venom, Uko that of tho land snakes, but to some property that caused blood poison, as does the bite ef many fishes which aro not poisonous in themselves. But this opinion was changed after the medical men on board Uie British warship Algerlne had made caroful observations of a sailor who had boon bitten. They proved that tl io snakes were directly poison ous ?nd that they carry fangs charged with venom exactly like the cobra. Tho opon ocean ls the homo of the sea suakos. They do not even ascend the rivers. Their favorito haunts are the arms of the sea, which separate tho Islands of China, India aud tho south Pacific seas. They don't stay near the shores, but remain at some distance from tho land. They are luca pablo of much movement on land, and after wriggling about and biting sav agely tiiey will stay still till they die. They aro found In many part? of tho world - in the Indian and Pacific oceans, from Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar to the western shores of Panama and from New Zealand to Japan, In the hay of Bengal ?nd the sea around Nlcobars, Molucca, Timor end New Quinos.-New York Herald. Double Klonen, Nearly nil the doublo flower? of gar dens were first found wild. Double buttercups, double primroses, double falsies, doubie roses ?nd roany other tilings were first discovered among their wild fellow? ?nd Introduced Into tho gardens. The florist, however, can produce double flowers. He watches this tendency in nature. If a flower usually ha? five petals, ?nd be dis covers that some of the ?tarnen? h?vo somewhat of a petal-like character, the pollen ls taken from these Sewers and others In ? normal condition fertilized with this pollen. The tendency, ?nee started, 1? then given te the progeny. Almost ?ny species of plant will in this way be capable of producing double flowers. It ls surprising that, with this knowledge, more attempt? at this lin? of Improvement In ordinary garden flowers ?re not made. There 1? as much difference between genuine patience and sullen endurance .s between the smile of love ?nd the malicious gnashing ef the teeth.-W. fl. Plumer. JAPAN may bo administering Korea "for the good of thc governed" as some da lui, but thc Koreans do not appear ,o have found it out. Tine Abbeville Medium says: Hr. Clifton was a gallant soldier, a good citizen and a true Christian." What more need be said of a man._ Insurance At ) T. S. Scose, President. PALMBITO MUTUAL FIRE fipartanbn A home fl roll usu raneo company that Management Capable and Conservative Write for particulars. We Have i )no 25 horno power Talbott, second hi y hoon overhauled. 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