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?Nf* A Vit ?nw ^* 77 ZI TVS "S? KILL? GIRIJ AND WOUNDS umn S W??W l'E^A?V? B?ayer Mobbed and Boaton by Fol low-Workore Before the Arrival of the Folio?. At New York, Thursday there wes mordor done In the grimy sweatshop of Heller So (Jo., at 67 Spring street. Antonietta Naolool, a pretty nine tomi-year-old Italian girl, who was to have beet a bride In two weeks'1 time, wac ?bM? through the head and the left breast and died instantly. Tho young man whom she was to have married, Yinoenzo Lovora, was shot, too, but hts wounds aro not serious. He is now In St. Vincent's hospital. Tho man who ls charged with the shooting ls Guiseppe Figlia. Ho ls a little wlzened-up blt of a man, and an expert tailor. JU ls said that it was the Jealousy whioh tho little tailor aroused In Antoinette Naolool and her sweetheart, who, though they had worked In the sweetshop moro than two years, could not fcq lal tho now-oomer's work that led co tho fatal shooting. The girl, nor follow employos say, had taunted Flglla with his punlnoas until he had boen goarded beyond enduranoe. When Flglla had been disarmed, after discharging the bullets, whioh killod tho bride-to be and wounded her betrothed, the sweatshop work ers pounced upon the maraudorer and almost tore him to pleoes before the polloo arrived. It was neoesiary to oall out tho reserves to get Figlia to the Hulbert y street station in safety. He required the attention of a sur geon before he was looked up. He was badly out and bruised. The ?hooting ooourred at noon Thursday. Flglla, ao?ordlng to the stories thp/j tho sweatshop workora, had gone to the sink ho wash his hands before eating his frugal lunch. As he was standing there, soourlng the grime from his stubby Angers, Antoinette epproeohed. AB Boon as she osmo within speak ing distance, the girl, it ls seid, ad dressed to tho little man some insult ing remark. Then, it ls charged, she spat in his faoe. Tho rod color rushed over Flgllia's swarthy feaures at the Insult which the girl had offered him. The two were standing within three foot of eaoh other. Figlia pulled a rovolver from his hip pooaet. He fired twloo. The first shot penetrated the girl's left oheek and ranged upward. The seoond entered her left breast and - pierced the heart. Without a cry the girl fell to the Aoor. Lavora, her sweetheart hed wit nessed all that happened. He rushed upon Flglla, paying no heed to tho revolver's smoking barrel. The tail or fired twice more. One shot broke Lavora's Jew and "ho other lodged in the fleshy part of his right shoulder. Bub the wounds felled to stop the rush. With blood Bbreemlng fiom his shoulder and faoe he grepppled with his sweothoert's murderer end bhe bwo rolled aboub to gobbet looked in each other's arms. As soon as bhe revolver had been wrested from him, bhe other workers book oourege enough too atteok him. They oamo upon him In a body. They Btruok bim with their fists and kiok ed him as ho writhed on the Aoor, trying in vain to shield his body from tho blBws that wero being rained , upon it. One of the workers piokod upFlglla's rovolver, end had lb level ed In bhe prosbrauo m*.n'a direction, when polioeman Fulvey appeared. Fulvey had blme bo grab his arm and Bolza bhe rovolver before he had a ehenoo to Aro. Deoteotive McLaughlin Joined Fulvey. They had bo draw bbelr olubs to drive the infuriated Italians baok from bholr prisoner MoLaughlln senb in e oall for thc reserves, end nob until bhey arrived wes lb deemed safe bo bake Figlia through bhe streets to the Mulberry Bbi %ev. polloo station. Vinoenzo Lavora was removed to Sb. Vlncenb'a hospital._ MAKE THK BOMB BillGHT. A Lay Sermon l'or Motliore, Fathoi a and Chiltlron. How muoh better to UBO Borne of the good bbings of lifo as wo goalong; to make our homes as cherry and bright as possible now. Do not starve today, either body, mind or soul, think Ing-thab poverty will kneok at your door tomorrow. Don't board and sorimp through all tho best days of your life that you may bo generous in your will. Lifo is uncertain, and it ls bebter to make your ohildren happy while under tho parental roof, to edi to that home e ?rory agenoy that will make their lives swooter and bobter, than to de..y thom these that you may leave them at large aooount when you aro gone. It will be too lato for them to return kindness to you then. Don't keep the parlor Bhut up and live in tho kitchen, unless you want the boys and girls to be anxious to leayo you. Don't think they must not go anywhere but to Sunday aohoo) and prayer mr.otlng; romembor you were young onoo yourself. Do not ask them to walk two miles to a singing or kcture after working hard all dey when there aro two or three horses In your barn that would et j jy the trip as much as they. For God's sako, show them you think as much of them as VDU do your beast if not moro. Tako time to enj)y tbo saciety of your friends, especially tho companionship of your children; it will only bo a fow years at tho best that they will bo with you, and tbeso ought to be years of happiness to both you end them. Would you nob rabbor haye thom back when out In bbo world to that blessed heme, though lb may nob heve been a menslon, where bhoy roooived moro joy and comfort than the world oan afford, then to have them forgot home in e week end hardly return to your burial? If wo are vory happy In this lifo wo must en j y whet every dey brings. We should bo gretefu) and glad for all tho good tbat cornea Into our lives, and petlently boar our trials, believing that all things If rightly uaod will fib us for tho enjoy mont of perfrovi happiness horoa/ter. Murder and Hntolde, Ab Atlante after a fight with hor drunken husband, In whioh he used a hatohet and a 32 oalibre revolver, Mrs. Jno. F. Ocoper wa? knooked nearly to pieces ab her homo, and ber husband ls dead from a selMnflioted wound aftor he thought his wife's life extlnot. There were no oyo wit nesses to the fight, so itsoausels un known. Her wounds indloeto that |*io woman was attacked from bohlnd. Blood on hor hands indloeto she made a fight for her life. Both bodies wrre on a bed and wero found by tho ohild ren on returning home. Bdieon Has Oompletodl Hie Most WooCsrfa? Insertion. For years Edison, tho Wizard of eleotrioity, bas been giving out de tails of an Improved storage battery onwblob be ha? booti at work. It 1B said to bt all that could ba dosirod ti a motor-In do Itel y longer lived than any battery now in uio, so light lt oan be unod to run a btoyole or light veblole, remarkably oheap, and Us oost ot operation ls next to noth ing. This wonderful engine WAS entirely complete Bavorai years ago, and al most any other men than the mighty Ed lion would have at ono? placad lt on the market, leaving the public to discover any possible defects. Not so the Wlzzard-ba dosirod a thorough test. He nUw-rt them at work undor every oonoelvable handicap and strain. Some represented automobiles speed ing over oorduroy roads tor months, and Infinitely mora required of them than will ever be demanded In ordi nary uso. These tests thousands of machines, have proven the batten/ all that oan bo desired In a ol ic.ip motor. It ls the longest stop In tho use ot eleotrio ity asja motive po^er, yet attained. It greatly simplifies the problem of aortal navigation, giving a motor light, bub powerful enough to drive a huge vessel. As heretofore, tho lnvontor has had to piaotloally oroate tho material of whloh tho motor ia mado. He has had to search the world for rare min arais, and from bli giant mind evolve praotloal methods of transforming thom Into tho wonderful mcohanlsm the world ls so eagerly awaiting. There ls no doubt fchl? motor ls woll nigh perfect as a ohe&p, inde structible power, doming aa does with ohoap aloohol as a fuel, coin cident with an evur lnoreastng de mand for suoh motors >n farms, In ?hops, OB vehicles, and In places whero lt was never beforo thought of, this new motor may bo regardod as one of the greatest bloaslngs provi dence through EdiBon, has oonferred on humanity. Stook Food Fraud. The Raleigh Progressive Farmer prints a notable artlole exposing the obook food fraud, whloh it pronounces tho most stupondoui swindle now be ing praobioed upon Amerloan farmers. Millions and millions of dollars are Bpenb every yoar-several thousand dollars a year perhaps lu this vory country-for gaudily advertised "stook foods" "oondltlon powders" oto., ior farm an?malo, white the In vestigations aud tests mado by the Experiment Stations have demon strated that theso preparations are nothing moro than oommon meal, bran, otc, with a little ohoap sul phur, salt, Epson salts, peppor, salt peter, cte., ju I dod to chango tho taste and tho mixturo (hardly more valua ble thanBhlp stuff) put up iu Haming paokages, advertised in farm papers, and sold to gullible farmers at rates rauglng from 8250 to $2,600 a ton. Theso stook foods, winch can bo found in almost any country store, have rocontly boon tested in seven different Experiment Stations, und our farmers who aro paying suoh enormous prioes for tho mixtures, should be interested la the results -aa reporbod by Tho Progressive Farmer. In Minnesota steers without stook food gave better rosults than those using the steck foods. In Kansas two lot of sheep were fed an thoso without stock foads made 117 pounds greater gain. Tn Massachusetts a (.light gain in butler was made-but at a In creased cost of 48 cents a pound I Of nineteen experiments in NO?V Jorsey, sixteen showed ao gains, and in the three oases whare gains wore made from stook foods, their lost was so greai as to make their use unpro?ba ble. In Iowa $1.40 u steor was lost by using these highprloed mixtures. And so lt goes. Tho Progressive Farmer gives ?nstanos after Instance but we mention these examples more ly to warn our farmers against wast ing further the many hard-earned dollars that go ont from our oouutry oaoh year for theso much-ad vor tlsed frauds-for frauds they are, although ao conspicuously advertised In many farm papers: aud the Progrosslvo Far mer reports that lt loses $1,000 a year in advertising patronago by exposing them to its readers. Hero is ono lit tlo leak whloh our farmors may atop and keep some good money at home. Lat Btook foods alono. Tlioy Do No Hui m. Tho Pcmborg Herald says: "It ls said that Dantvder, the Orangeburg negro, is preparing to again couteBt the seat of Congressman Lever. The only thing in these oontosts is the foes allowed by oongrois, and that is what Dantzlor and his nogro lawyer are after. In faot, we havo little doubt but that the lawyer, Moorer, is tho prime mover In this contest busi ness. A stout buggy traoo properly admlnlstored would ho the hes) moans of stopping this sort of 'graft,' and we commend lt to the white psoplo of Orangoburg." We fully agree with The norald in everything ifc aays in tho abovo paragraph except the aug gestion about tho uso of the "stout" buggyy trace proporly admlnlstorod. Suoh solon would bo harled with de light hy the rodmouthod Republicans of tho North and do Orangeburg and tho wholo State great harm. DanUler and his lawyer really do no harm in their contest, and if the Republicans In Congress want w olroulato a few thousand dollars through tha?e elec tion graf tors we oan stand it. Con gressman Lever will have no trouble In holding Ids seat, as Dantzler did not get many votes in tho district. Should Not Ito Allowed. Ono neighbor should not allow his ?tock to depredate upoa his neigh bor's fields. There ls no tolling how muoh trouble and annoyanoo this lu to a man who ls ongagr.d in raising ?crain and wintor vegetables. Tho law requiros that all steck should be ihut up and not be allowed to run at larg?, but a man does not want to b ke up his neighbors stook whon lt ???noys him aud no man should force lils neighbor to do it by failuro to ob ier ve the araenltlos of lifo. Every man should praotloe the golden rulo, that is to do to othors as would have Shem do to him. So if your stook ts running out and annoying your lelghbor, h* neighborly and shut >hem up, as you would want him to lo if his stock was annoying you. Flnod For Whlpuln? Hoy. A lady at Yorkvlllo sued a man or whipping her ohild. The man la!med that he whippod tho oMll coause hoimpisod upon his ohlldren t sohool. A verdict fpr $100 dam gos was awarded the lady, CHANGE NEEDED. BOMB TI M BL. Y STGGBB?10NS TO Tua LAND OWMEK8, Pr?Hint Euinous Frito lots Must Be Stopped end a Bettor Hyatom Agreed On, Working our fenns with "standing wages hands" is fatt booomiog a thing of the past, sail the Southern Culti vator. The greater part of our ne groes muon, prefer to work on shares as they term lt or to rent tho land. The majority of our farmers havo been very lax In their methods of making contraots. A more verbal agreement was entered into, whereby the landlord was to furnish so many aores of land to be cultivated on shares, or for so many pounds of lint ootton. Very few land? lords have any definite understanding as how this land is to be kept up; how fertilized; how plowed and culti vated and what crops were to be planted. The Idea has been for the negro to plant and make all the oot ton possible and this was all. Now we think the time has arrived for a radloal ohange and according to our best judgement, it should ba executed something Uko this: 1, There should bo a written cou traot. The negro ls freo, and while ?the majority do nothing but abuse this freedom, still wo had as well be gin to adjust our methods to this con* ditton and treat with him as a freo agent, but put proper and neooasary restrictions upon him. No ono can ontor upon a oontraot with another without assuming certain conditions, and these oondltions should be clearly sot forth and their fulfillment duly domandod. 2. Tho preservation of the soil should be demanded and a forfeit for all failure to keep up terraces and suoh safeguards fully agroed upon. S. Some system looking to the ro tation of orops should also bo don?and ed. 4. Just how muoh was to be furn ished as the work on tho orop pro gressed should also be dearly sot I forth. If any ono can suggest othor or of fer a bettor form of oontraot our ool umns aro open to thom, Wo so often hear men making remarks Uko these "I would like to farm if I oould oou trollabor." "I oan not get a nogro to take any oare of the land." "I oan not make them work Uko I want to," etc., and tbore is universal com plaint of tho unsatisfactory oondition of negro labor. Now the question arises, Who is going to rule? If we tamely submit we will certainly bc tun over, We may have moro or less olash by undertaking to hav* a rational agroo ment, but as wo conoelvo it, 'tis ours to dlotate the terms, and thou lt is loft with thom to accept or not. The sooner we begin some rational sys tem, tho bettor for bobh partios. We are fully aware there are many far mers ot that forceful oharaoter that simply rule on their promises, and they havo been enabled to got along well, but others are not constituted this way and they suffer. Tho strong should help tho weak, and those who can do without a writ ton contract, should use one to help their neighbors. All other oountrios have a system and wo must hava ono, too if we wish tho best reaults in our farm operations. We admire the example of Mr. J. C. Strlbllng, of Pendleton, S. 0. Ile says no tenant can stay on his laud who will not agree to sow down one third of his land every year, or oarry out a regu lar throo /ear rotation of grain, oom and ootton. This io good business; in tbeond it will be bsnollolal to Mr. Strlbllng, to his land and to the ne gro tenant. Ot course, our negro laborers are going to get worse and worao each year as long as wo submib to their trifling and oaroless ways. It is simply a question o' who is going to diotate terms We do not advo cate wronging tho negro In any way, but If weare to dwell together In uni ty and for tho upbuldingof ouragrloul tural interest, thon we must bogin a more rational and exaotlng systom of demands upon them for tho proper carrying out all labor oontraots. Wo call upon all our readers not to make trades for another year without a v/rltten contract and put it in there how they are to improve tho laud, about terraces, rooks, stumps, gullies, galled spots and what they are to plant and how they are to cultivate it. lt ls a little trouble, but it will pay both ways-it will pay In oalling your attontion more olosoly to tho noods of your land, and it will pay lu getting tho negro to do some botter. We do not claim it will bo a "royal road;" thero will be many obstacles to overcome; but it ls oortalnly a road loading in the right direotion. Got Ula Woll Dug, An Irishman took a oontraot to dig a woll. When ho had dug about twon ty feot down, ho oamo ono morning and found that tho well had fallen in and was filled to tho top. Pat looked oautlously around and saw no one was near, he then took off his hat and ocat and hung thom on the windlasa, and crawled into some bushes and waited events, In a short timo tho noighbors discovered that the well had fallon In, and seolng Pat's hat and coat on tho windlass supposod that he was at tho bottom of tho excavation. A few hours of digging olearod tho loose Barth from the well. Just as tho ex cavators had roached tho bottom and were wondering where tho body was. Pat oame out of tho bushes and good naturodly thanked thp diggers for re lieving him of bia sorry Job. Pitch Hutt lo. Seven negroes shot, threo of whom will die, is the rosult of a general row ind shooting affray, growing out of tn old feud at Marlotta, Fla., Sunday norning. Those fatally woundod aro Lester Brimson, Alox Prime and lomos Hadley. They are In the lospltal for treatment, ap are the our other woundod men. Seven no fres, oharged with doing tho shoot og, have been arrested and aro in All. Tho oilmax oame th tough one icgro, strklng another with a fonoo doket. Friends of each armed them ed ves and tho war began. Tho Jaw tone of one of the negroes was shat ered and his tongue shot off. B'.??oa Htm Hight, At Huntsville, Ala., Oalob Brown, , negro, criminally assaulted a white roman on the streets Saturday. Irown was seen to oomrait the orimo y a polloeman, who shot him, but io made his escape. Later he was ound doad at big home. Tho investigation of tho Eastern tate Hospital at Williamsburg, Va , as Anally resulted In thc dlsobargo ? tho physicians in charge. V. USE OF urmamj IVESKS. MOT? and Move Pooptej Who Stand Wh?n Thoy Reefl s&id Write. Upright reading danke aro constant ly growing ?u popularity. Uniik* or dinary desks, they a**yuenally fitted to their user?. The/ OVO comfortable only when they ave Af th? proper height ) Contrary to what oo.^M?sht think, rending while on ooa*C Yent 1? not tiring, rt han teen adorned chiefly by porsou? who nm oompatlad to sit at n dnnk much of th air time and Uko to stand up for * chango. Writ ing ls Just ac easily aoeocnjjliahca at these desk?. J "We're ?old a gvaai many auch deafen to lawyer?," cold a doolor, "and they un? them nt home. This given nome relaxation after they hav* nat ah day In their offiocs at ordinary doak?, loaning ovar In tl un wny men do. "Lawyers, more than any other class of professional men, arc cleo compelled to read at night. They ar? my best ouetomerf for tho up right desks, although X soil them as well to architect?. "Thc mou who nco them arc ol wnys enthusiastic. They flay that to stund up ot their work la less fa tiguing than to ult down, and is lu nny ooeo a groat rollof from tho mo notony of the other attitude." Are Minister?? Sous Bad? The bishop marked thc name? of those whom ho deemed "worthy of remembrance for som? norvic? per formed In religion or politics or lit erature or nclonoe or art or com morco or philanthropy or warfare or som? other nspoets of th? various lifo of th? nation." Of suoh name? he found 1,3TO who wcro the chil dren of olergym.cn or ministers, tak ing no account of tho?? who were grandchildren of olorgymou or re moto descendants. Of tho children of lawyers, there w?r? 510, and of doc tors 360. The son? of clergy mon who became themselves clergynnvn wore 850. He further assorts that "superiority which tbs olergy enjoy In rospoot to thoir ohildron, to tho other profession? Hos beyond dis pute. Tho Buporlority has beou not of numbers only, but of dogree Pi om olerical homos have sprung moro distinguished sons than from tho homos of any ?ocular profes sion."-Eoslio'B Weakly. Ancient Jeweler*? Association, Birmingham jewelers have boen famed since tho middle of tho ?evon toonth century. When Chavles II. brought whh him to England the French fashion of wearing metallic ornaments Birmingham at once took tho load lu supplying thom, aud tho city thoa commenced a career of prosperity which has never ?evo for brief periods Buffered abatement. Even Southey, who could scarcely find sufficiently censorious language to desoribe Birmingham, allowed that it "excelled every other pilco In tho world for watch ?hain?, neck laces, bracelets, buttons, buoklta and snuffboxes, though," ho said, "they wore dearly purchased at tlie ex pense of hoalth and morality." Strength of Sand. Over thirty y oars ago M. Beauer noud, a French savant, preved by experiment that a quantity of dry : and, placod In a box of thitvjshoot iron, or even In a canvas bf L and subjectod to a slight comp- ?slon. forms a mass capable of roaisti/ a pressure of sixty tone, witr it breaking or oven straining thc ir or bug. The sand, however, rema ii perfectly divisible, so that If a .v ill bolo bo mado in tho box or bi-..,. lt will (low Blowly, and with so llu 1 o unce that a small pieco of pater pasted over the opening will chick tho How, even with tho sixty tt'iis weight upon lt. UHien Banks Were Established. It hi to Italy that tho first os'.ab lishment of banks is credited. Tieso banks were founded by Lombard .lows. Tho un mo "bank" ie derived f?m tho word "banco," which origin*Hy WHS a term applied to benches se; tn tho market-place for the oxchangii of money. Tho first public bauk Ina opened in Venteo In 1550. Tho Bank Of England wa? established in 1?98. Scrapings of a Tunnel. In cleaning out tho Hoouac tunnel the scrapings from tho roof und other dirt which had fallon from the engines and had been swopt Into small plies beside tho tracks amounted to 23,031 cubic foot. It took 7 7 cars with double drop sidon to tako this out, their capacity equalling 275 ordinary flat cars. Fifty mon were employed eight Sundays nights. Properties of Vegetable?. Vogotablos not only contain stimu lants but aro cnpablo of producing an intoxicating influence on those who dopend on them exclusively for food, according to an investigator ile cites a CUBO In which some young people of his acquaintvuco suffered from partial Intoxication as the re Bttlt of o purely vegetable meal. Wluvt l'a nama Stands For. lt lu supposed by some that Mana ma derived Its n a mo from tho native word for butterfly, Explorers of tho Interior toil of swarm of butterflies, which at time? riso on nlopos of tho mountains In dei.to clouds, darken ing tho sunshine. Fat Oadot? I lar ved. ft has been decroed by the au thorities at Wost Point that no fat cadet may go Into onvalry, because of bis lack of nglllty and tho unne cessary burdon to tho horco. \V?nc? Their frayer?. An out of the ordinary feature of tho South Carolina Carolina Oottftr* onoo in Columbia last week was a message from Govornor-elect An6e', who sont his greetings Rud "asked bbe prayers of thc conference for his ulmlnistratlon." Tho massage wan jroughfc by IUV. W. M. Duncan. In ibis oonnootlon tho Rev. Mr. Tray prick called attontlon to tho faot that Wade Hampttn, thirty years ago, m mo upon thc door of tho conference ind aakod its prayers. This was in L8tfl, as the reconstruction povorn nentwas ovorthrown by Hampton and ihe Domtorats. Th? aoorotary of the ion ferenco wa? di rooted to writ? to Mr. \.nsol, assuring him that ho hid the tjmpathy and prayers of tho confer moo, though no formal ordor was )assed for any special prayers, Thc American Sugar Helloing Com pany was found guilty of accepting a chato of ?2(1,000 from thc New York Central Railroad. Gen. J. Franklin Boll is to rai re adled from Cuba January lat, i and ?cn. .Theodore Whit placed In t un oand. V OUB OIL MILLS. ALARM" I?AO?ER3, OLI VBl QUO W [MHB Ar D| HUTTE'lt-M\Hf?UH. The Industry Can Increase the Hout h's Production Over fifty Mil lion Dollars Per Annum "South Carolina's oil mills nore never moro prosperous," said ODO of the leading ootton seed orushersof the state to a Columbia Record man re o&utly. "The same thing n i^ht be asid," be added, "of tho mills through out the South.'? Good time for tho mills moans tre mendous onhauoemrnt of the wealth production of tho community, and h 8 statement will be troloomed according ly. No industry in tho South amouotn Ho moro and 1B talkod about less. Juet bow vital the business is to Southern prospority may bo realized from a nummary of the information romain tug with Tiie Rsocrd man after a long conversation with the crusher quot od. "There are," ho said, "about eight hundred cotton socd oil mills ard cot ton oil refineries located lu tho South. Of those, about nevonty-llys are own od by Eastern, K srfchern and Western stockholders. Ono oompany, a ma jority of whose stockholders, and all of whoso oxoeutivo ollloers, are South ern mon, owns about ninety plants. Tho balance, over six hundred, arc ownod by local pooplo, mauy tnou sands of whom aro farmers. "To tho South, therefore, belongs alargo part of tho development of this wonderful industry, and tho prouts, when any aro made, aro divided among tho people who oithor product tho cotton, or whoao interests are identified with those of tho ootton grower. "It is tho only manufacturing in dustry that noithor asks nor re?oives national or stato promotion or sub ildy; that totea its own skillet; thal for years returned to tho farmers fron. 76 to 100 por cont, of the gross vahn of its producta after paying cash for tho raw material and tho oust of pro duotion. It feeds both maa and boast and helps to clothe tho human family. lt ls tho bingle American Industry that has survived foreign and domes bio opposition without 'squealing,' and yet as had, or now bas tho olive grow ors of Europe and California, tin American m -at paoke^s and the but ter makers of the Weat crying around choir government for ptotocMor agatcst this ycung gi:<nt. Its record ls brilliant with good deeds and it. work J? only just beginning. Ita pro meters and thoao who have ;.;ive>\yearf to its development, may woil ho prouo of Its achievements, and rcmemlTiirint? the difficulties it has < voreome, ano ibo bright future before it, they car ignoro tho few opponents that art Still left at home and abroad, as thoy out no moro figuro nov/ t han the* 11/ bo tho ox's horn." Dlsousslug tho value of cottonseed, formerly a waste product, he f.*ld thoj are now used, principally, ior plank ing, miling, feeding stook or f?rtil z lug crops "About eitfbt par cont, of the seer orcp," ho stated, "ltj needed fo; panting purp, ??a, amountlngi on th? acreage of 1905 00, to about 405,000 tons. Tho total production of send, n a basis of tho orop of 1005 00, nt DUO pounds of seod to the balo of cot ton, was 5,130,000 tons. Deductlug the ernennt for planting left 4,726, 880 tons for other uses, lt appears from tho government reports that About 3,500.000 tons were orushod al t' o oil mids during the samo year, or aboub seventy per cent, of tho s?.*ed available over and above that neces sary for planting purposes. "lt is generally known tbat while tho seod has a certain feeding value, lt docs not compare with the feeding v.tluo of meal and hulls, tho latter being in far better mechanical oondl tlcu. Besides, who i seed arc fed to octtle, or put uuder orops, it entailii au enormous loso of tho cotton seac products which should be Bftv?d. "Tho fertilizing value of seed ls confined almost entirely to tho amount of meal contained In it. As this average-) from 775 to 825 pounds, it io evident that ovary pound over that quantity in a ton of 2.000 pounds hi almost wasted when used i'or fertilizing tho land instead or" ho ing orushed by the mills. "Thu milis wdl gem rally exohange meal and hulls for seed with thc farmer un a bads that will maka it far bettor for tho .'aimer todo this than to feed them to block cr uso thc seed for fertilizing tho soil. "If tho eced aro crushed at the mills, the chlof product is a high grade material, and tho by-pioduots surpass any other stock feed. "Not over about seventy per cent, of tho surplus seed aro converted Into oil mill product, but If all thc aoeci exclusive of what ls needed for plant ing wore orushed, thc groas commer cial value would be douuio the yaluti of thc-, raw soed unod In any other way, and would Inorease the value uf the South's prod nc .s f rom tl .ls source alone, nbouti 850,000 ooo. lu addition to this, nearly $1 D.000,000 would he paid cul In v/dgos ny tho mills, prac tical] y all of which would ho disburs ed In the South where the seed arc produced. " Mou? the G? rr lore. Some of our exchanges have made meir.ion ol tho fact, that farmoro liv lng along tho lines of rural roufs have contributed a buihal or so of corn to thocanlo'. Tilla ls a SUg gestloa that might well bo noted up on by tho patrons of cvory rm al route. The carriers have a govern ment position, lt bi true, but lt is b" no means a soft, una p. it tikes a good dmi of management to make both ends meot when they arcobllgtui to keep* two horses, live in town and buy all tuc noco?asary provision at tho market price. Tho carrier* of ?ir country have gone over their routes during th? muddy weather at v groat lncouvenler 0$, and are al R'U)s faithful in the dh.ch&rge of ihOit dulles. A bushel of jom or so given tu tho Oitrrlor would tard ly be mb sed h.- the farmer, but t would bo a groat Having In ho ex pense of horse feed a^.d thc geni-rous ict would certainly ho appreciated by tho faithful mail min, lillico in How. Thursday night a few milos fr?m Wlntersvlllo Dock Jone?, a white nan fifty year? cid, and ll or act, Imlth, a white man twenty-soyon ears c'd, were killed at tho mino of tho former. .Smith went to ee Jones daughter; both mon wore Irlnklng. Jones ordered Smith from ho houso, and as he did not leave hot him through tho stomaoh with a hot gun. Jones fell dead from a pis ol bullet in tho brain. Will Smith sys lloraos Smith ?hot Jones;* but Irs. Jones says Will Smith fired tho ?tal shot. / ORIGIN OF NATIONAL HOLIDAY. JToha A4M.ni? #poh9 of .Inly Second Instead of the Fourth. On the 8d of July, 1776, John Adams, thea ono of tho ropreseutn tlve? of Massachusetts In the Conti nental Congress, wrote to his wife Abigail: "Yesterday th? greatest question .wa* deolded whioh was ovor debated In America., and a greater perhaps never wa? nor never will bo decided among men." In a second lotter, wlitton the ?ame day, he said : "But the day la past. Tho ld of July will be the most memorable epocba In the history of America. I em apt to boltevo it will bo cele brated by succeeding geuoratione a? tho groat annlvoraary festival. It ought to bo commemorated aa tho day of deliverance by nolemo aots of devotion to Cod Almighty. It ought to be solemnleod with pomp und pa rade, with ?how?, games, sport?, guns, bell?, bonfires and illumina tions, from ono end of this continent to the other, from thia time forward, for evermore." When tho resolution was taken up the 2d day of July, 1776, tho inde pendence of tho Thirteen Hulled Coloulos from tho throuo of Groat Britain was definitely decided upon. Tho 2d, and not tho 4th, may bo called tho truo date o^ the separa tion, Wo could with propriety cele brate tho "Fourth" two days earlier. That tho participants In the work considered tho 2d na tho true date ls shown by tho letters written by John Adams, quoted at tho beginning of tho article Tho popular fancy, how ever, seized upon tho 4th, tho dato of acceptance of Jefferson's moro drumatlo declaration of tho reasons for tho separation, as the proper day to colebrato. The dobnte upon tho document wau continued until tho afternoon of tho 4th, and, says Jefferson, might have run on Interminably nt any other season of tho year. But tho weather wns oppressively warm, and tho hall lu which tho deputies ant was clone to a stable, "whence tho hungry flies swarmed thick and floreo, alighting on tho logs of tho delegates and biting hard through their thin silk stockings. Treason waa prefornblo to discomfort," and at last the delegates wore brought Lo snob a atnto of mind as to agroo to tho Declaration without furtlier amendment. It ls a mistake to suppose that tho document was eigned by tho dele gates on that day. It ls Improbable that any signing wan dono save by John Hancock, tho president of tho Congress, and Charles Thomson, die secretary.-Harper's Magasine. "Round About.** Anothor amusemont feature brought forth und vorKing on tho sensational, la shown In tho illustra tion, and there is no doubt that lt will give ploosuro-seekers who rldo thereon an exhilaration far removed from tho ordinary. It ls called a "round about." In tho center ls a towor, probably IfiO foot high. Sup ported at the top of the tower is a frnmo, consisting of semicircular ribs, which revolve with n s'inft lu the con ier of the tower. Suspended from the ribs on cables are a num ber of cars. When tho shaft and circular frame arc rovolvod at groat spood tho curs gradually loavo tho lovel of th? ground and shoot out on each side. Tho position of cars would bo similar to that of a car swung on tho end of a cord. Largest Plower in tho World. Tho largest flower lu the world has been supposed lo bo that of rafucsiu arnold!, which forms tho entire plant and grows to a dlamoter of throe feet as a flat, circular para site on trees In Java and Sumatra, but a still larger-single specimens weighing as much ns twenty-two pounds -has been reported to exist In Mindanao, ono of tho Philippines. A German authority now declares that the largest flower yet discov ered is produced upon ono of the Aroldoae of Sumatra. The plant has a leaf thnt may attain a circum ference of fifty feet, and the leaf stem ls a column twelve feet high and threo feet In cl rca ni f o renee. The fully expanded (lower takes the shape of a mammoth funnel four foot in diameter. lt ls light green or whito outside, and the Interior is vino red and velvety. The pindi creamy yellow llvo feet high, has a penetrating odor. Count Boni do Castellano has lost his wife and her monoy and his scat In tho I''reneh Chamber of DoputloB, but he still has his reputation. Ho couldn't lose that If ho tried. Springfield, (Mm-s.) linton. The proposed Ship Subsidy bill was denounced as conscription by Prosl lent Samuel Gompers bet?re the (Vmorlcnn Federation of Labor. A Comm oreo Commission Bulletin ?hows that iho not earnings of rall? ways in tho Celie states Increased icarly $97,000,000 last, year. Work on Hie Virginia Bullditg for i/ha Jamestown Exposition luis been Halted by fi strike. Tho amount of cotton reported by die Census llnre.au as ginned up to November l l la 8 621,480 bales against 7,601,180 last year. President, KOOSOVOlt received an en l/husl?stle reception from tho Porto Uleans, to whom lie promised oltlzcri ihtp. The American Federation of Labor, lt its annual sessional Minneapolis, Minn., declared for woman sulVrage. Tho Norfolk and Western Railroad, inriounced a ten per cent wage in jreasc, eifcetlve December 1st? Prosldent Roosevelt finally refused o icscind the order for tho discharge )f a bp.talllon of negro troops of tho rwcnty-lifth Infantry. HINGING CALL AO TUB l'A UM Hilf? TO M BET ANO ORGANIZE! To Carry on tho fight for Living Fri?os for Cotton to ftueoees. Tho regular annual reorganization of the Southern Cotton Association and .lection of officers for tho y ?ar 1007 will take piece In the near futuro. Meetings will bo called In all tho div ll sub-divisions, Oountioi or Parishes and States of th? Cotton bolt. The County meetings are hareby oalled for tho first Saturday In December in all tho Cotton growing oountles at their rospeotive County seat for the purpose of electing offloors for tho ensuing year and to seloot from one to throe representatives to .attend tho State division Meetings to be held at all th? State Capitols on tho first Wednesday lu J .-.ninny, 1007. At the State Div inion meetings tho State officers mutt he elected and also the members of tho Now National Executive Commit tee. The inseting of the Nations1 Executive Committee will bo hold st Birmingham, Ala., January 15 10 1907, at which time the offlcftrsof th' National Asscolatlon will bo elected sod "the policies of the Association outlined for tho year 1007. Tho An nual Convention of tho Southern Cot ton Asscolatlon will be hold at Bir mingham, Ala., on Jan. 17-10 1007 whioh will bo attended by delogatt?? from all over tba South, said delega-, tes to be ohoBon by tho various coun ties without restriction to Numbers. Those dates condensed aro as follows: State Meetings Wednesday, Jan. 2. 1907. Executive Committee, Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 15 10, 1907. General Convention, Thursday, Friday ?nd Saturday Jan. 17 18 19, 1907. THOM PT ATTENTION DKRIKBD. To maintain Ihe power and ?m oi onoy of tho Southern Cotton Asso elation it ls imperativo that these maetlngs be fully attended bj tho peo plc and the best men that can be sc oured elected as efflcors to tho various positions to bo filled. Indifference oi lnaotlon will seriously oripple tho efll olanoy of tho Association. The Aaso elation is in need of funds to properly carry on it work and lt ls earnestly hoped that at all the County Meetings tho annual due3 will bo promptly paid up. Tho Southern Cotton Ausoolation has saved millions of dollars to the South in the psBt two years of its ex ielenco and it should neaivo tho loy al and patriotio support of all the peo plo of tho South. In the meantime stand pat for highor prioes and sell the balance of tho crop as slowly ss possible Continuous storms, frosts and freez?a has cut the crop down tc a supply inadr-quate to meet tho do mands of the ootton trado for 1907 and present prices are too low. Let Ul have a great rally of the pooplo at these meotlnga and with renewed hopo and courage, deeply thanking an al mighty Providence for tho blesslcgs whloh the South has enjoyed for the past two years, cement our hearts' and I thoughts Into a oloaer bandage of un ity for the material and moral up balldlug of our dearly beloved Coun try. Yours truly, HAltVIK JOHDAN, Pres. Southern Cotton Association. WILL DBMAND?N aUIRY. Huimtor Tillman ls Orodltod With Much an Intention. W. W. Prloo, tho Washington cor respondent) of the Columbia Rcoord nay? it is understood at Washington that Senator Tillman will introduce a resolution In Congress calling for an Investigation of President Roosevelt's aotlcn in dismissing from tho army without honor and withont trial by court-martial threo negro companies, some of whoso members oommittod murder at Brownsville, Texas. Senator Tillman has not yet arriv ed In Washington and it ls imposai; lo to verify this rumor, but it is hollev od that his Bpeeoh in Chicago indi oi--tes that he viii take such action. A Republican politician in discussing tho report said: "If Tillman doofi introduce an in vestigating resolution lt will bo tho smartest thing ho has done slnco ho became a Senator. It will pub tho Repubhoans in a hole. It will hush Republican criticism of the Pr?sident and force Congressmen and Senators of his party to stand by him fraoti cally to a man in bis aoblon in dis missing the negro troops. Tillman is shrewd enough to seo that such will lo the tffeot of introduoting by him of a resolution providing for an in quiry into the Brownsville affair. Will bo Hanged. Ab Atlanta, Will Johnson, positive ly identified by Mrs. J, M. Gamble and J. N. Camp a? tho negro who at tacked and assaulted them in June and In October, was Saturday oon vlotod by a jury and sentonoon to be hanged on January 4. Johnson was 8rro?tod on the 1st day of tho trial Jue Glenn who was first oharged with the crime. Wc Have Ono 26 horao power Talbott, second 1 ly been overhauled. This ISngino i a great bargain for anyone) who ia in We ar? headquarters for anything prompt at*?ntion will bo given to all oar?. Write uawhea you aro in tho ?io get pourricea before placing yoni Ssis;*?!? Siipviy u?3-. > - Early Cabbage Plants Gua EARLY JEP.BEY CHARLESTON QUC0 WAKEFIELD LARGE TYPB ThoKftrltoa? WAK F Fl ELD The 2a Oabbago Orown Scound TCarlloat Hoad PRICE: InloUeM te 4 tn. nt $1.(50 per m.. & to S F. O. Ck. YOUNG'S ISLAND, 8. C. My G"^nlnA I guarantee l'lnnta to glvo pwr< UBHMUCO prie* to any onatomor wlin la t grown In tho ?pon Sold, on ttnaooaet of Son! growing; tho hardloat planta that can bo gro roaut In tho Interior of tho (Southern Ht atoa Maroh. They will aland aovoro oolrt without bago TWO lu Throe wooka eoonor than lt yo (nv ino?, My T .argent Ountomorn nvo tho Market q tho South. Their profit dependa upon thom h otiano my planta for their oropa. I alao grow a full lino of othar Plants nnd Uto Planta? Apple, Pe?oh, Pear, Plum, Che terrai te penont who make ap dab VJf/?Vjf -*<kt?, Wilt? <<* I'lu?tf?t?i4 epilogue, w VV 4VH BA1XB0AD MVRQJ3R 0DIT AKHtnHt tho Bouihoin Hallway Will Ho Honra 1?? tl ?nu Mr y. The OoJuDcbJ* State M.ys the unit brought by tho Stute of South Caro* Wu? against tho Southern railway, al laging a violation of tho constitution of tho State hy tho railway company lu leasing the old South Carolin* and Georgia railroad and ii? extonslon from langville to Marion, N. 0., ls down on the roster for tho present week of the civil court to bo tried Sat urday. But the hearing will uot be gin at this Mme as the attorneys en gaged on both sides held a conference f .? of NOT. 12 at which lt was aureed that it should be heard at A special term of court to be held by Judge Memrnlnger in January. Several years ago the Southern ac? quired the South Carolina and Geor gia railway and its ooaneotlons by lease. The charter of the Southern under Its requirements, presorloos that it shall oonstruot A line to Charleston. This has not boen d no and the ac quirement of the already eotablished line ls con nt rued as tho purchase or lease of a competing line of railway. Throe years ago the legislature pass ed a j dnt resolution authorizing the tuohey general to bring suit against thc Southern, testing the alleged vlOs latlon, aud to employ the necessary y -'v counoil to ausist in the prosecution off J tho oaso. Several ot the strongest at Corneys in the S toto wore employed p.ud tbe ?ult was begun by the lato Attorney General U. X. Gunter And lt was brought in Kershaw county. Laut year, by tbe agreement of all the * counsel interested, an order/was ts susd trauafering tho hoariug to Rloh l*nd oounty. The caso haa never . beon heard as tho only time lt was over called for a bearing it was contin ued at the request of tho attorneys for the railroad. Tho trial of the oa?a and its result are awaited with muoh interest by all who are oonvommt with the situa* Mon. It ls stated by the offloials of tho Southern that thtro are many Im provements amounting In money to a large figure that are being held In abeyance awaiting tho settlement of the oaso. It is said by thoso on the f other side that this is being used as. A JV lever to induoe a favorablo settlement" of the ease for tho railroads. ROY. Dr. Alfred" E. Dickinson, for forty years editor of the Religious Herald, died in Richmond. $5,000 BANK DEPOSff &R.F*?r?l4.N<*Ml 800 PHBB4 it Coat." Bo?rditCo*.Wrt*?< THE WORLD'S BEST PIANOS, SUPERIOR ORGANS, for thc I Tomes or the Churches at low prices and on easy terms. A GOOD HOLIDAY PRESENT can be had, either of a piano or an or ? gan on easy torms at a speoial prioe AT MALONE'S . - . 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