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WEALTH MISUSED 440 Trust Control One. fifth of Country's Wealth. WE ABE THE EICHEST Our Millionaires ?rc Kings ludecd. In 1855 There Were Onlj Twenty.eight Millionaires in New York While Tooday lt Roast Over Two Hundred. Tho article bolow is a collection of paragraphs from an artlolo by Cleve land Moffett entitled "The Shameful Misuse of Wealth," and published in' SUCOCBS Magazine It will ?rove in teresting to many as a comparison of figures lu the growth of the country's wealth. It is admitted that we are tho rich' est people in tho world today,-thc rlohest people the world baa over seen. The vaunted wealth of Croesus ib es timated at only eight million dollars bub there aro seventy A mer loan eu tates that average thirty live millions eaoh. New York is beyond compari son thc richest city lu existence; the New York Herald estimates its wealth * at thirteen thousand million collars. And to tue country at larne thc laut annual report of the controller of the currenoy snows that the slock of gold in the United Status, ($1,320,400,000), 1B greater than lhat oi any other land, while our banking power aggregates1 nearly fourteen bullens as against its? i than twenty billions for ali loreign 1 countries. We pi educe one third of Ibo world's coal, one- lui rd of its grain, one-hith ct lis wheat and three fourth of its cotton. Wc products more steel aud lion than England and Germany together and our ruanui ?o tures are nearly double those of Great Britain and Ireluuel combined. Our railroads carry iwmo as much mer ohandiso every ytur Kb is Carried Oy all the iaihoadb of all thc other na tions. James Bryce in "The American CorumonweaiLn, " observes that up to .1830 or 1810 lhere were no great for tunes In AU. eilen, lew large roi Limes arid no poverty. Bul, v riuiug of thc later eighties, LC sa\?: "Now there is some poverty, many largo foraines, and a greater number oi gigantic for tunes than io a><y (.thor country lu the world." That was twenty >earu agol What would Mr lhyoj say to day if ho could read statistics shotting that there arc three million illUially recognized paupers lu the Uniieu State?? That a million aud a halt chilarcu between the ages of ten and fifteen are employed in oui mlooi ana factories? Ta??b one person in ever) twelve who dieri lu Wow York e>Ly is buried in thc peeler's Hud? As showing tuc rapid growth of in dividual fortuues lu this country theiej lu lute)cst in a hst oi lien men print ed by the New Yolk bun in 1855 ac cording to which Now York oliy ac that time boa&ied only twenty eight millionaires. Aud * pamphlet pub lished some y( ars cat lier say? that in 1846 Philadelphia could show ouiy ten estates valued at a million or moroj tho richest being that of Sit puen Girard which icathiO seven millions. In contrast to winch lu 1802, acocrd lug to tue Now York fri burne, lucre wi le Loen over two hundred million alies in Philadelphia. As to N. ti Yoik city the number of its millionaires, aocorciug io toe best information, is over t..o thous and while ibo number ol millionaire:! In thc United bules ls i*.i ll >.-.L II Vt thoub&nd or bull the bJtal i on ber lu the world. Wc shall pr-. . ny HLC what a huge part of tho o . ..cual wealth is pLsi esked auel o ntrolled by these live thousand Inoivlouais, Tnere 1B ono family alos?, the bi <. < f which slandd thc richest a.< d m >.i poworiui man in the World, Jo u L>. Rockefeller, and t!?e wealth oi uh it fumily iii estimated at n thousano mit lion dollars, a sum uo hugo that thc Luman miuo quite fails tu g:asp lu, sum bo huge that li at ibo bi it tl Christ Mr. Becki feller hud begUi making a. colihi a mint lc <i << hud io all these dollars accumulate daj ano night for ail these centuries ho would not y6t, lu 1000, have amassed a thousand million dollars, Anci if Mr, Rockefeller si.enid luuay turn li,ls wealth into gold c io ai d luke il cu? of tho country, say imo Canada, he would carry acroi.s tho border three times as much geln au wi uld then re malli In the Li.nttd State?, Nor would he cany it bimbel! for the weight of .t would be om, thousand sevoii hundred and lift) tom;. Aua if he loaded it on the backs of porters, each nan hearing nhs uv.n v/el.ht lo collei ?. old, ( ay 160 poor ds,) iL would require twenty-three tbouhand meii LO move it. And if \ he y wrist ei u ri feet apart tho hot of them wen d reaoh forty-four miles atd would cccupj Ut teen hours In pussh g a given peino. None of which takes any itccouut o? the ci ally li tcrest en this fortune which interest if paid ingold we.uld require the streng!h o? teven mei e.. cauy it. Continuing our list of multi-mill looaires sud taking the nine richest A mer leans aftei Mr. Boc kef tiler, it IN easy to sec that these nh e must have a billion between them, Bince Andrew Carne gie alene I.s.. mt re than a third ol a billii u, and tho 11 ber t Ight In elude Marshall thin, W. is. Vander* hilt, John Jacob Astor, J, P. M rgan, Russell Sage, J. J. Uni, Senator Wm A. Clark and V/ininm llockt fol er, This gives us tv.o thousand million dol?an, for ten mool And, without mentioning further names, I u? ,r thc following estimate of tiie live thousand leading fortunes In the United ?i,ale: ; it, ls only au ap proximation ina ii han i ci n fcpp cv. d as reasonable by the statistical < ?p n of R, c. Dunn Sc Co.. and by byron W. Holt, editor of Moody's M.iga '/Ino," a monti,ly review for investors, bankcr i and men of affairs. Also by severn) financial authorities In New Yoik City to whom l have submitted lt. I have seen higher estimates, but, after cari fm consideration, I behove that this ene m.:.y be accepted as Well within the I rubi MO. OK KOHTUNKS AMOUN' io aggregat ug * 2 ooo ooo,ooo 00 4!>u >ggre gating :i 000 ooo,ooo 00 4600 aggregating lo ooo.ooo.ooo.oo 6000 aggregating 16 000,000,000 t)() Sp that live thousand nu n in thia country actually own (without count Jng what they control,) nearly one sixth of our entire national wealth, It ls interesting bo consider how much richer tho rich will got, and I may remark hore that thor? 1B no need to h q dre how uauoh poorer the poor will got. If they are to live at all they o\n get rnuoh poorer. What Kroater burden of poverty oan we put on tbe four mllltuu A mo rie vu fami lier, who today with their bo*t tAll oan gather lesa than four hundred dol?ate a ye?*' P What moro can wo take from them than wo bave already takon? The Massaohust tts Bureau of Libor bas colleotod statistics showing bo A tbo peor families spend their pitiful incomes. It appears that 83 88 ciao. wc:k goes for food. Shall we cut that down? Or shall we cut down the $2.01 a month thoy spend for cloth ing? or tho 91 50 a year they spend for furniture and household furnish ing.,? Or the $7 a month they pay for foul, dark rooina in a tainted ton emeut ? And these aro not the poorest of the poor, these are aclf-reupcotlng la borers, producers of tho national wealth; theru aro millions of others whose lot la worse than theirs,-ten million, Hubert Hunter estimatos, in helpless poverty, out of work, out of bealth, out of heart with the world, broken driftwood, vagrants, tramps what shall wo t.ako from them? Sixteen yeats ago Tarnns? G. Shear man, a distinguished eorp iraWon law yer and brllllaut writer on economic questions. prophesied that "within thirty years the United States will be sub9taut,laUy owned by less than one lu tl ve hundred of the malo popula tion 1" In tho United States today tnerr ?re 440 larg .? industrial, franchise and transportation trusts with a capital ization of over twenty thou aud mil Hon dollars. Which, rays tho "Wall Street Jeurnal," ls "or.u-tlfth of the wealth .In tho country and the most powerful part of it for lt 1? wealth nuder such concentrated control that lt practically sways too wlu.lo." It may b? obj coted that th"! ch 11 dren of millionaire lines have a per feet right to dispose as they please * f their fortunes and their llv:s. if the> choose to follow tho unprofitable way.', of steam yaohts and motor cars, why after all, this ls a freo country. To willoh we might reply that no man has a moral right to squander mil lions on Bhow and sellisli pleasures while thousands of his fellow men an perishing of want, while tens of thi usan da by their utmost labor ano pain can barely secure Lite necessities of life, ltemi.mbor the wit toiling ai my enslaved in our fiCorles and mines, men, women aud children, millions of them, giving the strength uf their bodies and the hope of their seuls that a f w thousand rich men may draw handsome dlvirbnds on in vestments, dividends which they havr. done nothing to earn and which 1? bores them io spend. Extraordinary happenings arc al ways unexpected yet ot.ee In a cen tury or so, like the advent of a mighty conqueror or reformer, they do come ?op;'.K.-\ Aud if there Bhould arlss tn this lanr! a man of thirty or forty who, starling with two or three bil lions ( iwued or controlled by bim,) should be great enough to brush as rt* the tram?is of indolence and tempta tion, great enough to seo that never in modern timos bas there been effcr i j to a mau, not even to Napoleon, no stupendous a obauoo as this to wield absolute desp tic power, grout enough llnally to uso his two or three bil lions to its full potentiality then, well there would surely be interest ing history roado In that man's life time 1 Wc have had our Iron kings, railroad kings, copper kings, sugar kings and otuois, out there is one kind of king we havo not I ad yet. A real king? Y?r, for bow long, pray, wc uld this republic stand against the aggressions of such a man, a great minded despot without oonsoicnoe or bounds to his ambition, one In o>uo oarisou to whom eu?. Il lokfellers and Oarru gi H would s-cm I.kc blundering beginn?rt? Already our miilloaa'.r H.;v, nate . have begun to buy our curls, and legislatures, to corrupt our cities, to debauch thc publie con science; bc would liulsb the wmk and uo it thoroughly, he would make the laws, own tho newspapers, subsidize churches and colleges, nu uld nubile opinion, direct tho machinery ol justice, control thc Industries, tin o.'.iiks, tho insurance companies, the I conditions of labor, regulate supply And demand, tlx prioes, absorb pro tito, centralize everything, be every tulug. TO PROTEO C WILD BEASTS. Oi. v.-moil tn lOtitflatltl to Iti-Htriot Bl? li un tl UK in Ali CA. A dlspatoh from Loudon says: A plea for tho protection of wild aol mais has been made by a deputation which waited on Lord Elgin at the colonial office on behalf of thc So el; ty fer the Preservation of the Wild K moa of the E upiro. Tne doputa lon was headed by L >rd Ourzon of l< noltston. lt pointed out to Lord E gin that many of the mo:?t Interest lng species of wild animals lu ibo v .r lous colonies and AfricMi protectorat es wero in danger of extinction by pot hunter? and sportsmen, and sub mitted tue following recommenda tion to him: That the returns of all game ani mals killid should continue to bo in cluded lu tho annual reports of each protectorate or colony. That & map Bhould bc prepared showleg thc present game nerv?s In Africa. That thc sale of bides, horns, etc., of gaaio animals in the British domin ions lu A Tncu fend at Aden should bu prohibited. That the sale of elephant tusks weighing 'ess than twenty-live pounds should bc prohibited, That no shooting whatssovor, ox c pt for administrative re&sous, should be permitted in a reserva, Muldu U|i l<'lvo Hlfi?n UOAOllOS. At Wawona, Cal., ti ve Yosemite V.uley stage coaches were beld up last week thc entrance to thc National l'.irk by a lone highwayman, wno ob talned a considerable amount of m ul ey and jewelry. Tue conveyances were halted in rapid succession at a curvo hi tho roan noar A wallace, at tho Identical Spot where a bandit a year ?go robbed several wealthy tourists :;f their valuables. The Stages were traveling sufilclr-utly fAr apart to fcvold each other's dust ?it I woori the ihut vehicle ron obed tho turn in tne ruad, the highwayman, wins-.: f -.atur is were bidden by a duster thrown ,v.r ld., heal, stepp (lout, pointed a fun at the di iver and odmmaudsd bini ?0 lult. Some of the wouieh pan en ters screamed willie others began wldly to secret their valuables, "1 think that's the funniost Joke I ever wrote. Everybody laugiis thc list time they read it; you're thc only ixcoptton," said Y. ung Scribbles, dis gustedly, ''Wby, 1 laughed," replied l.dum. "YOU did? N .t ?D'S 1 could ?ntico lt. No: you worn't bom at ho timo."-Philadelphia Proas. TH BOU? a THE STATE BHOUE NU WS ITEMB FItOWl AIIIJ OVKKSOUrii OAHOLilNA, 4 Baton of Information in Condensed Form for Buay Beaders. The Lutheran Synod will establish a large publishing house In Columbia. Southern train No. 20 ran over and killed an unknown negro at Winns hero, S. C , Sunday night. Tho Bank of Mayosvllle, a amah in stitution, bas been olosed by order of State Bank Examlnor Hollouian. De positors will get their money in full. The town of Belton is to have an opera boiute. W. K. Stringer, bank president, han already lot tho ooutraot for building lt. . J. II Sloan president of the Amorl eau National BAiik, of Spartanburg, ano! also of the Southern Trust Co., of that city, died U^t Thursday. Sixty five personu.ns attended the state campaign meeting in George '.own on SUurday. Diok Watson W?S killed with razK by Willie Bull-both oolorcd in Darlington on Saturday. R uiben Ford, a negro seotlon hand, wan mu over aud killed by a train al Union on Saturday. Tho total stealings by Treasurer Hughes of tho Union Building and Loan v? iodation amount to $(30,008. 10 vin Crano, aged 18, of Pine Mountain, Ga., was ruu ovor by train in Walhalla and died from his injuries on Friday. Hov. J. 8, Moffatt of Chester IB prominently mentioned as the proba able successor of Dr. F. Y. PrcsBley aa president of Erskine college A negro was run over %nd killed near Whillsboro by the Southern' fast mull on Sunday night. He had fallen asloep on tho track. The gntnd jury of Spartaiburg have presented the conductor and en ginoei of a freight train on tue South ern for running the train on Sunday, ind they will be prosecuted. Commissioner Tatum lias appoint ed Lucius L Bultmau of Columbia in,til recently a beer dispenser-to sucoaed the late J as. T. Barks as a e!e:k at the state dispensary. Aaron P. Prioleau, colored, late contestant for a seat In congress, wan oommltteed to jail in Charleston on Friday to servo a sentence of three monti s for tampering with the mailt? while running an a pastal clerk on the A tittil lo Coast Line. According to a story In The State of Tuesday, a negro woman named Nettle Brocks, said to be from Green wood, waj guilty of the most inhu man of or 1 mes, infanticide, having .'. cabled a new born babe to death in bor cabin in Columbia Sunday night. M -. S A. Pros doy, of D.ie Weat, has only recently aooepted a professor ship lu an Egyption college, the Col lege of As?uc, at Assut, Egypt and is now en his way to begin work In that institution. Thc town of Assut har. ?bout lo.oco inhabitants. Tue col lege has an enrol.menti of about 850 Btudents and has a high standard ot lust! uetion. OWING THOUSAND S Broker Alexander Skips Out fro 111 Angust?*, UK. Revelation of t'.o il lauclal embar rassment of thc ilrm of cotton fae tura of Alexandoi & Ah x lader, at Au gusta, Gi.., ime of the largest in the state, dr v b p discrepancies of about $145 ooo, fob .wing the disappearance o? Thomas W. Ali xander, head of the tirm. Mr. Alexander left Augusta July 7o:), after hoi rowing $200 from a friend, saying tie was going ?.o New York. The. following night ids broth er, Bishop Alexander, the Junior member of the, li rm, received a tele gram from him asking that hts cnico dot k b;! opened and three letters found there be delivered. O IG of the letters I wu3 io his partner, in willoh a state mont was made of the finanoial em barrassment of tho linn, and saying that if Mr, Alcxaud -.x WAS not bick In August i by Wednesday hu would er !)? .. i ngaln Another letter A' s ;i ?1 , i I toa inoal mill prosl rl . t, uud a third to Mr. Alexander's wife. T.JO maimer hi which the money was S40U1 .r!(l har. not been made known by the ihr?, o b.uiks who are thc los ors, exc.pt that it was In the shape of loans. Tue Georgia Railroad bank sustains a loss of il lf>,000, which was marked (If Its books Thursday, and charged to tho surplus aud undivided prob a accounts. Tiic National hanks of Augusta lose:- $7,OOO, and tho Na tlonal Exchange bank $2 000. Thc available assets of tho firm amount to about ?S0.000, while thc personal lia bllltlcsof T. w. Alexander, in addi ?don to the amount of loans, ls about $20 000. In his letters T. W. Alexander states that he alone ls responsible, that his brother knew nothing of the financial end of tho business, and '.ad nothing to do with it. Much sympathy ls expressed for his broth er. WAHI StosMOl Shot. The. commission appointed to In vestigate thc surrender of Port Arthur 'IM ?nlshtd Its labors and re O'lmmondn that Lieut. Gen. Stoossel, t ie former commander of tue Russian fore s at fort Arthur, be dismissed from the army and shot, that Lieut. Gon, Fock, who commanded the -Uh Ii]wet Siberian division at Port Ar tbur, be dismissed from the army and undergo a year's hard labor; that (icu. Kftlss, chief of staff of Gen. StoOfiBel, be dismissed and banished, and that Admiral Alexleff, former vlceioy In Hie Kar Lint; Lieut. Gen. Smirnoff, commander of the l'ort Arthur fortress, and Gen, Vemand er bo reprimanded. The formal trial if these officials will take place diortly. Moltii i- ForKolH lint- Oil 11<1< Terri Qed by Uro on a Long isiand bectric train at Atlantic avenue and I lue. bi place, Wooflhaven Sunday a woman loft hor baby behind to join the crowd rushing panlc-st.rlokcn from tho cars. Passengers among whom .varo women, tried to escape by doovs uid windows. Tho odes of tlie ohild i' ranted a. physician, who rescued lt |? from the ll vmos. Hereafter tho "opened hy mistake" meuse will bo a miHtake that will wat $200. Tho posti nico depart ?ont, lias ruled that mail must be ooked over before leaving tho ollloo, ind that any letter put In your box >y mistake must ho returned beforo caving tho posteilloo undor a penalty if $200 for failure to do so. TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY. } Aooidontally Shot And KU I od By lil? , Unolo. By an cooldontal discharge o' a gun, a 12-year-old boy WM Instantly killed by his unolo Wednesday after noon lu the county, 12 miles from Co lumbia, on the Winnsboro road In the Camp Ground neighborhood. The uamo of tho little fellow who was tho victim of the lamentable mishap was Sam Sharp, a son of S. S. Sharp, a ' prosperous farmer of that section, the ? uncle, whose guu was discharged with < suoh deadly result, was D. T. Sharp. Mr. Sharp, the undo, is only 22 yoars i of ago. A heartrending feature of tbe tragedy was that the mother of ? the boy was standing noarby when tho guu was dl80hargod and was a horrifi ed witness of tho entire affair. Mr. J. L. Sharp, a brother of the young man in whose haud tho gun was discharged, carno to Columbia and : notified Coronor Walker. From what oould be learnod from Mr. Sharp when he arrived in the oity D. T. Sharp went to tho homo of S. S. Sharp in tho af tornoon and had his single barrel breech lop,dlng gun with him. While thore his relative laid the ?un on a picoo of lumber and traced tho outlines of tho stook on it for the purpose of making another Kim stock. When ho started homo, young Sharp, thinking that the shell had boen extracted from the gun, threw it over his arm and went to ward the front of tho house. Tho llttio follow was on a shed near which his unolo passed and in the play be tween thom tho gun waB dlsoharged, the load entering the ohild's head making a fearful wound. It ia said that the unolo ls almost crazed with grief. _ CHANGES AT CLKM80N. Vaoanolcu in Faculty Filled at Ite oont Mooting. Tho board of trustees recently held a very important moetcng and con sidered carefully all the interests of tho college. Appropriations were made for oarrylng on the work of the various departments. Four members of the faculty resigned: Prof. J. S. MoLuoas, assistant professor of Eng lish for ten years; Mr. B. M. Par ker, inBtruotor lu textile industry, Mr. Tlmberlake, instructor in draw lng, and Dr. Nelson, assistant veter inarian. Prof. McLucas has been elected pro fessor of English at the Carnegie Technological institute, Pittsburg, Pa Ho graduated at the University of South Carolina aod later took hlB iraster*8 dogree at Harvard. Mr. B. M. Parker has accepted a position with his alma mater, the Agricultural College of North Caro lina at Raleigh. Mr. Tlmberlake has gone In to moro remunerativo work than teach ing he wlil bc in thc cotton oil mill business at Harts ville. Mr. Timber lake was at Clemson only one year, hut during that time ho mada many *arm friends. Dr. Osoar Nelson has gone to ILckensaek to pn.c.lce as a veteri narian. Ho Isa skilled practitioner aud will likely succeed. Mr. D. W. Daniel was oleo' f d as sociale professor of English, E Earle assistant professor . fextllo department and. Dr. M> ii Powers pf New York university asis taut veterinarian. Sheriff Hhot liy Deputy. Sher.if J. R Turner of De pend, Fia., was shot in the left breast and perhaps fatally wounded by his deputy, C. M. Kurt.'/., willie they were raiding a "blind tiger" at Lake Helen Tues day morning. Kuri/ ll red at one of tho negroes, who was try;iig to escape. The bullet struck tho side of a door, glanced and penetrated SherllT Turner's broist. In tho excitement that followed all the negroes escaped. KIBHUU WroiiK Woin?ii. Testimony in the divorce case of Mrs. Miry K ix ?beth J -nen ugiinst Judge Orville Davis Jones, of Edina, Mo., Populist candidate for Governo ln 181)6, reads like a chapter from the Decameron. The case was called be fore Judge O'Neill Ryan, of thc Cir cuit Court, and Mrs. Jones testified that she changed places with lier ser vant and reoslvad a kiss from her hu& oand intended for tue lips of the maid. Judge Jones, who ls lighting tho case, looked surprime! wlion hin wfc recited the details of tho soiiemo Into which she hau entered with thc servant to entrap her husband. Sie said bhe took her seat In the dining room ono dark, moonless night. The shades v/ore olosely drawn and the room was blaok as a dungeon. Her husband's room, she testlliod, was next to thc dining room. Aboutit o'clock her husband opened the door, Mho said, and called to tho servant asking If ho oould come in. "I did not answer," she said. "1 sat per fectly still. My husband cropt silent ly Into the room, throw his arms around me and planted a kiss on my Ups. All the time he thought he was kissing the servant. The next day 1 hld in the pantry and heard Judge Jones telling Kate how ho enjoyed tho kiss. Tin y Wen) Thirsty. In the oapital oity of Maine, in a hotel not far from tho railroad Station, was employed for some years before tho enactment of the Sturgis law a very popular dispenser of ardent comfort. Ono stormy night the train from Bangor was belated until nearly midnight, and a party of Boston mon arrived tired and hungry After registering, they spied light In the dispensary, and fount1 ibo "chemist" on duty, arida supply pf malt and spirituous fluids and some crackers and cheese were obtained. As the ordlnanoes of most cities In prohibition states required 10 o'olook dosing, "Jake" was asked why ho rappelled to ho open so lato. "Well," ie replied, "wo don't generally, but st now thc legislature lu lu session, md wo have to be accommodating to /ho members.-X Wheat Drop For The Yoar. The Dally Trade Bulletin lias Is med Its annual cstlmato of tho wheat jrop, making the total yield 720,000, 300 bushels. Including supplies wrrlod over, tKe total supply for ,ho year ls 821,000,000 bushels. The ?Btimated consumption is 45,000,000 nishels. The aggrogato world's orop s H.ooo oo? bushels moro than last 'ear. Child ri M !lui iicd To Death Anulo Wlmblsh, aged 1(5, and R?h rt Wlmblsh, ?ged 6, children of Mr. ,nd Mr. R. W. Wlmblsh, of Savan tah, Ga., were bumed to doath Thurs ay night at tho homo of tho'.r grand athor, W. G. Jordan at B't. Valloy, la. ?. juaru. a nra ST0EM HITS TENT _ / OF PAWN 1412 BIL.L.VJ CHEAT WILD WEST 8UOW. ?nd Causes Paulo Among the 2000 Spectators Pawnee Bill Pre serves Order. One of the most violent storms of tho season swept over Bayono, N. J., on Wednesday as the climax of a pe riod of boat and humidity that had caused a number of deaths and many prostrations, and driven sovoral per lons lnsaue. Tho wind blow at fifty miles an hour and lightning struck in many places whllo tho rain for an hour fairly do luged tbe city. Lightning struck two of the Now York Yacht Club's thirty-footer?, the Minx and Dablnda, caught in the storm during tho race oil Glen Cove, L. I., and their esoapo from dostruo tlon was remarkable. A bolt also struck the dome of the Brooklyn Fire Headquarters and playod bavoo In many places in Staten Island, killing one man. Portions of Williamsburg were flooded. More than 2,000 mon, women and children In tbe main tent of Pawnee Bill's Wild tfest and Far Kurt Show at Bayouno, N. J., wore thrown Into panic when thc storm pounced down The spectators stampeded, while the wind toro down all of the auxiliary tents, liberating 400 performing hors es and uprooting troos and Bonding the water In sheets driving through thc streets. The borBO tent oollapsod upon tho herd and the animals kicking their way to liborty, while Ms>jor Lillie (Pawnee Bill) and bia aids were doing their best to restrain tho audience tn tho main tent. To the co lness la due fact that no ODO was seriously burt, though women had their hats and gowns torn In tho mad rush for the exists. In tho ring of the main tent a troupe of Arabian aorobats were be ginning their performance when the storm broka. Suddenly two of tho guy ropes, shrunk by the rain, snap ped at either end of tho great oval tent. The ridge poles bent and the main supporting polei swayed and trcmblod. From the spectators went upa or y that the tent was about to fall. Oae end did fall. Pawnee Bill oaught at the aupportlug pole which threatened to drop on the heads of a group of women. The pole struck bia Shoulder dislocating lt, but ho had diverted L.H fall: Pawcee Bill stood with a mega phone, and In spite of thc paiu lu his Injured shoulder called In stentorian tones: "All spectators o une Into the arena. The tent will not fall, bub j ou will keep dry herc." Many obeyed him, but hundreds of others fought their way to the exits and rushed luto the drenching rain despite thc assurances of thc attend* ants and of the police on duty. The rts^rvssfrom the stations reached the tent when the stampede was fairly uuder way and aided in extricating tho women and ohildren. Many reported the los? of purses and jewels lt ugHand bracelets were pick td up by omployes and sent to the M/ "Ape station. Tito horses from their collapsed tent raced through tho streets, but Pawnco Bill's cowboys raced after them and lassoed tho ailmals ore after another. No elf )rt was made to bold an ? xhlbltion Thursday night. Pawn- e Bill said his loss would reach $5,000. Ohartcod With Chert? A dispatch from Charleston says three Southern raliway baggage masters, Mallet, Browning arri Pea cock of the Charleston Columbia run, have been dismissed from service on nciount of theft. Searob ol their homes in Charleston has netted the constables considerable quantity cf the stolen goods and upon the con fessions of the men, t ie railroad au thorities have decid od not to prose cute them. One of the men has been In the sei vice of thc company for 15 years. The men have been suspected for some time, but it was nob until a few days ago that tho evidence was deemed Kullii?iontly c uicluslvo by thc detectives of the road to charge tho men with the guilt. The matter was brought to a focus by tho repeated claims for l isses on the run between Charleston and Columbia, which have increased considerably recently. The railroad odicials refuse to discuss the matter, except to admit that losses have occurred and three men have been dismissed. The reason gi von for not prosecuting thom ls the recent failure of the juries to cou viol men who were oharged with breaoh of trust. T?? llorso'fl Foot, If tho horse cannot readily uso his foot lu a natural way, lt ls a great hurt tc his vaiud. The HoMcshoers' Journal says that a large por cent, of k'.l the horses are continually moro or less lame. Of this number it ls esti mated eighty par c-jnt. are lame in tho foot. Ho tr many horses retain the shape of tho foot In ooltboodV Very few and for a very short tl mr, not losing this shape solely on account af shoe, but b'cuise tho shoe ls an Improper one, usually, in fact, nearly ilways, too heavy, the u>e of the frog ?titlrely destroyed; this Consequently wasting,.thc sede pared and drying up n consequence; the wall losing itt itrength to carry the weight through ?XOOHSIVO rasping of tho whole fabric; if tho horn becoming a dry, brittle itrophlcd mass, instead of hoing sup? ile, linn at the heels, with perfcot jars and an clastlo frog, giving a ipr logy motion to thc leg in the riding iOrsesofso much value. Tneso cvlla ?oiild always be remedied If we could inly got ail farrlors au intently Intelli gent and humane to leave ( IT bbc old )ractlco. J\l?ke Haldon ion Wagon, Five hundred men, women and ihildron took part Thursday In a Hot n tho H ist Side of N iw York, dur ng which they made n raid on a vagon load of Ice Intended for freo I retribution a nong thom and took very pound In the wagon, Police rc erves woro callod out, but when they url ved the Ice and crowd had dlaap teared. Typhoid fever is "oaught" nine Imes In ten oltlier from liles or drink tig water. And tho drinking wator atches lt not from tho lower regions, ut from il 1 tilly premises-the germs f thc diseases being swept In by the alus. The Hy, likewise, fetohes the Isease germs from nob distant lllth. low this is not theory. It ls a faot. t is not to be questioned. Being so, no oan prevent fever, If you koop our prerrls?s olean and wholesome sing Hmo freoly-tho titos and tho oods will havo nogorms to oarry, mm OF. POO A HON ? AS Was Burled at Gravesend, I0n?., ?nd Liatck Burned. Wm. 10 Curt.1s7~v#rlt!ns? from Lon don to tho Washington Star says: Speaking of distingu? died A merl oana, reminds me that thorn has been aotlvo Inquiry here of late oonoerning the whereabouts of tho remains of the first Amorloan prluooss. Pocahontas was her malden name, and she after wards became Mrs. John Rolfe. She was tho mother of a considerable por tion of tho proHont population of Vir ginia and also has several promluent descendants on this side of tho water, Including Lieut. Gen. Baden. Powell, Inspector general of cavalry in tho British army. The present inquiry seems to have been inspired by the approaching celebration of the 300th anniversary of tho settlement of Jamestown, Va., and tho Jamestown exposition. An association of women has apparently undertaken to recover tho dust ot La Belle Sauvage," as Hbo was called by admiring Europeans upon her first appearance In London, and rebury it in hor native country, after the manner In which John Paul Jones bas recently been honored. It will be very d. Ill mit and, Indeed impossible to gratify their ambitious aud commendable Intentions, for the dust of P(Cihontas was destroyed by ll? nearly 200 years ago. Mr. Ilonr/ S. Wellcome, one of the leading Amer loan o'tlz ms of London, who has taken groat Interest lu everything that relates to Pocahontas, presented hor p ?. trait to tue senate of the Uni - od States several years ago, and Senator Daniel, who ls descended from Pocahontas, acccptod the gift In behalf of congress. Mr Welloome's investigations show ed that Mrs. John Rd fe died in 1017, ot smallpox, at Gravesend, at the mouth of tue Thames, whore she waa waiting for a vessel to return to Vir ginia. Sho wau burled in St. George's ?huroh, and thc register contains an entry of that faot. The ohuroh, how ever, was entirety dest royed by tire In 1720 and rebuilt lu 18:il. During ttu rebuilding ibo romains of several half burned collins were removed from thc vaultB. Tney had no marks by which they could be Identllied lt ls believed that the remains of Pocahontas were among this nameless dust THI?K? ?ILLMAN CUTE Fuir Visitor in SonatO Gallery Thun KxpreeHoa Uer Opinion. An observant parson In tho senate gallery yesterday noted an occurrence which, while without bearing upon tim matters of state which were un dor consideration in that august body, ls Interesting tor several reasons, one of which is the f*Cu that Senator Tlllmau unoonsoiously figured In the episode. Taree beautiful young ladles enter ed tin (gallery aud seated themselves near the above mentioned person. Two of them; j ldged by their con versation wore frequent visitors to the galleries while thc third was ap parently a visitor to Washington. Sho asked li rat of all tba,- Senator Tillman be pointed cut to her, and an expression of disappointment came into her faoc when si ie was told that ho was not In the onanabar. Sovoral minutes were spent then In carual references to the "next best" Sen at or Tillman being absent, and the next bo tt was Senator Li Follette. Suddenly o <e Of tho two were more oi less familiar wita faces of the Senators' exo'aimed, ' There ls Till man right beyond Batley-ace?" Imm?diat- ly the other two looked and saw the South (Jaro'.lnlau in a characteristic pos*, wich h'.s tbumb In his vest, hair magnllicontly tous led, and his ono oyo loosing keenly at thc presiding olllcer. There was a mo m eu 6 of silent con templation on the pare of tho vouug lady who had never Lciore seen the senator; then, In a tone walch evi denced a desire to contradict what had beoome a tixed impression with a blt of emphasis on the "1" which ls beyond the printer's art, s ie said: "Why, 1 think ho's ou-.o," ALL liLKKL LOACH. l- l, nt ot Itu Kind KvOV .Undo in Unitod States? The tlrst all-steel passenger car for a railroad ev jr made lu the Uolttd States passed through G ecnvllic over the Southern Hillway Monday morning, tue car for the past two ?eeks having been on exhlbtion at the master car bulldets at Washington Wednesday and equipped for active service sivya Tue News. Tao new car Is the first of three which are being nmde for tho South ern Road as an experiment. If these three prove successful, the entire road will be equipped with the all-steel coaches anu other re-ads with lesa courage for experiments will quickly follow suit. Thc Pennsylvania otb dals have recently bebome Interested in tho move of the Southern and they also have ordered an experimental oar, whioh will soon be In actual ser illo, if they provo praotioal, that road also will adopt them Immediate ly. The lirst steel car ls considered a handsome atlalr by the railroad men who have seen lt, and has created a stir of Interest among the olllolals of' thc roads, lt is over 7 1 feet in looth, Uti feet Inside length, i> feet I .inch wide and 14 feet 2 lucaes high. The entire car 1? made of compressed steel and what little wood ls used ls lire proof. Many a wrcok could have been pr; vented If steel had been used Instead of wood. Such a thing as being crushed beneath tho seat would bc almost an impossibility. So, If tho steel oars are adoptod generally by the railroads as lt seems probable that they will be reduced to a mini mum. The greatest disadvantage of tho new oar ls its oxoosslvo weight. lOxploHion i- m i fc'lvo, Ag a result of an explosion In tho Dixon mine, at Hugor, W, Va., in the cBbt end of the Tug River Held, at 8 o'clock Thursday Wallace Mitchell nod four miners. Ernest Jones, Pal mer Harris and lt,bert Harris, broth ers, and John Gilmore aro dead, and hill CroU?O and Langdon WhiLosides will die from burns and shook. The men were going on duty f jr tho night and had started down tho shaft lu a buoket. They had geno about half way down, when thc explosion occur red. The llr.it live mon named wore blown out of tho bucket and down to tho bottom of tho shaft, whero they wore later picked up. Their burlies wero crushed almost to a pulp. Thc IX plosion was cause 1 hy tho mon hav lng a gast l:nc lamp in tho buokvt, while descending, tho light Igniting in accumulation of gas, It is carder to laugh troublo away dhan to ory lt away. ) { ayn-.. ,. J-. ?'DISPXHS?EY TIOKBT. ll?sult ot Senator Ttlluian'? Np^eoh _ at Lamar. A special to tbo Columbia State says thc speech of Senator Till iran dclivorod by him at Lamar WcdncecUy ls the genoral topic of conversation. It lb olaimed by many that they hu vd never seen Tillman more -ener getic and v!g. rous. S T ral remark ad that 'it is the BU mo old Ben of '92." There ia no douot but tbat he made a (treat impression on the ' wool bats." ,l'ihe old court bouso ring" L the ory. Somo people in Darlington and other parts of the country brouKht out Mr. D. T. McKoithan for the State Senate and Toe County Messenger, in commenting on bia oan did:07, mentioned nu. platform and advised the opponents of the State dispensary to form and advised the opponents for the bouHo of reproson - tatlives and lt has been Bald that a slate wag made. It soems that Till man was Informed of tho faot and hence ho urged organization of those favoring the retention oi the State dispensary to Join they rt?&t bo as well organized an the \antis" aud must work as energetically in order bo defeat the "court house ring." It ls reportod that Immediately af ber the meeting a number of peop'e met and discussed tuc situation and as a ooustqueooe lt )s likely that a full dispensary blokot will be put ID tho field for the legislature. NSW MEXICO ?BKMBLKS. Ono Hurt! qtinko After Another Passes Over Kio Grande Valloy. A dlspatoh from Santa Fi., N. Mt', j nays that two more earthquake shock; ocourred at Sooorro Wednesday morn lng. Tho shocks were fol? distincte ns far south as E. Pa^o, Taxas, when Tuesday a street oar was thrown frou the track by a ?hook Refugees trot Sooorro and ottier towns In the lt G;audo Valley are daily 0 >mlng t .S^nta Pu ana Albuquerques. All Wednesday night ono tronco, .iftcr anottior passed over tho lowoi lt lo Grande Valley, keeping the peo ple at the highest tension. But lev people havo slept In houues for tlu past few nights. Ojservers report?e chin spirals of smoke In tho lava Ueldb ,n tho direction of Al&ma G ?rd? probably from hot springs or otho) volcanH manifestations. A drench lng rain pasned over thu Vitley durin? tim night, adding bo thu discomfor of campers. JUrain ka. Envy ls the tributa small mindi pay to success. It, la beater bo ride a hobby than to sit by the roadside and grumble. Children may go tho way yoi point, bot they are more apt to K< the way you lead. When a man begins hunting for ar excuse for a mean action ho can gen erally lind it. S'jm?? mon lob broblo drive them tr drink, tu^i there are more men whe bsat broublo bo it. There ls somothlng wrong about a boy that does not take kindly to pow der burns and noisa on fie Fourth of July. There ls something good in evei. the worst of us. The paoktng hous< proprietors have not yet put oannee German oarp on tho markot. This ls about tho time of year when the ambitious ollege graduati discovers that his diploma does noi pr(J idlce tho prospeoblvo omployei ugalnt?b him. ? This ls bhe season of year whet, the weary professional mau goes tc a northern tinning resort for a change and rest. After disposing of all his change he oomes home to rout. All the world's a stago, and the press agents earn their money. You can not down a man who uses his failures for building stonet. Yesterday was a failure If you om. not recall lb wlbh pleasure today. The easiesb way out somtlmes prc vides tho shorbesb way in again. A lob of men have lost oharaoter bj sbrlvlng to build up reputabion, Y .u can nob csblmate bhe good J churoh ls doing by bhe heighb of itfc spire. God measures the gift by the heart of tho giver, and not by tho size o? the gift. Wo arc too apt to think about tht virtues of our friends and talk abouv their faults. Thc man who spends all of his time boasting of his anooitry Is not giving his posterity an equal show. If tho women ever strike for elghi hours a whole lot of men will go ti working ov?rtlme without pay. Don't make tho mistake of think | lng the opportunity knock! bub onoe. Opportunity knocks evory day. Our lOiiornioua Trade A itatement Issued by the Depart mont of Commerce and Labor say? tl tat the foreign oommeroe of th( United States in tho tisoal year just nndod aggregated $2 ?70.000.000. Il the trade with Porto Rico and Ila wail, whic!i was Included in out foreign oommeroe prior bo their an nexation were added, the total woulc materially exoeed S3, 000,000,000 Both Imports and exports exoeed bhose of any earlier year, total lm? ports hoing 11,220,000,000 and ex. ports SI, 144,000,000. Halt For foul try. Salt is as essential for poultry as for humans or animals, out lb is nob wise to ferd lt by Itself. Tho bettor way ls to use lt to season tho food whenever that oan bo done. 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