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H CLEMSON C1)L1M~ WHAT IT DID AND WHAT IT GUST TO RUN PAST YEAR ? ! | WHAT PLAN I IS WORTH rublic Sorvlco of SUilo luhUiuiioii a l4u*i;e I'urt of Expeuiliturt's Um Vearf. rithidvut liiKK? ^ ara>> t4n* T?*usUh'h i hut tiic Until of Such r aervico In Ati(?u( l.raciica. i'ho t a winy-Llm a annua* icporl ol lUe board oi li utuecs 01 Cioiasox B College, winch in no* being prni ten 4a <x uvi t'Oi <iiu ^aj I ot low annual rti purl 01 tlio Stale .aupei ill leu?i wilt o5 ? 1 ><Jucau</i.i, has d goo . uitX'ij i.it* i .I. I I ing manors in u ioi inoso lnioresttV | In nial.toi? educations auu ?oi tin u J?< XK'i'al public. l lit' I >3, o K eourao, (or the fiscal yoai endm#. f| June 20, 11)12. U l/Ui ill# 111*' oobaiuu llio {M.UUt'Xll oil ? ? raiuicui was 81 i, of whom T'J8 wort * ft oiu South Carolina. i ?? .? tit y other umtriculatOB besides those ol j the regLlur roins, matting a io?ax o S48. larger b> Mf? than any previous | session's enrolment. Among t li o imporiaul achieveu'.t utki ol llit your uru mentioned such things h?: , 1. The new dairy building and dairy barna at u coht ol' about $ 12.m?o. 2. I'llw additions to barrack at a coat of about $;tu.uu0, thus 1 nor nasi n* tl.o atudfiit capacity about 100 (variola. The obiublisbuuMil of tho Peeexperiment station a-t an initial coat of about $2 0,UUU. , t. The co operative combination 01 I ho Knapp d e m o n h t ru t lo n force# *uu the extension work divUion of the Collie. 4. The recombination ot' the a#rricnJlural department of the (College aikl the Kouth Carolina orperiuiont station. 5. 'I'llf* establ iahinent of the a oi k boy course and the one-year agncullurtl conrKo. , ti. In the matter of finances, h brief h ileinenl of resource* and exicudltui eu may be of Jntoreat. A bal at.ee iTum the previous year of fc">2, 9 7.10. the fertilizer tag tax of 52 21,(njf > , end income from the United SJat*'f (ion mment, the CI em sou be<tuiv;t. etc., of 751,043.55, mske a total o) $3'2-t it'bO.j for rwMMiroe# i v ; a lie .-buto work I1 Ofl.k8G.5C?, . ia;n'iit additions to the plant l^:27 making a total of 731k.- I in:; ] t for expenditure#. lb I . i.v?,ond ! for public. State work 1? shown i;i u table. giving the figures from 1007-8, when the amount wa,only 5fj,3tit;.! 2 until 19 111-13, when i ho amount being expended i* about * $( 2 1,2 1 ?!.33, if present cutimate* In: lil Die president, Dr. W. M. Riggs, in hU statement to the tiunteed has the ' 1 * ' " i/ /I i t? to I lolloping to sa.> : n ir? m? u. Mniii'l a warning note agai nst under taking new linos of public service. Wo am now in a balanced condition, iiatoad of having too much money, aa i.-> often charged, we are confronted wiLi 1 tho poHHibllity of having to diop some 01 our public work, should the tax: tjo below $2;>0,00o tin* year, for we receive only about $511,000 from all other sou roes." The inventoried property of the }ollege on Jul} 1, 1 9 1 2, was tho large sum of $ 1 ,.'<2 7,7 28.0 7, Nearly two and a .tall milliotiH have been paid tc the college in privilege tax inoa ?y since the College was established. Douucnng Cte one and one-third milllions above mentioned as inves*< d i , the College plant, and a little ever half a million that has b?*en spent all told in fertilizer analyses and other public State work, there is left Eligibly less than one million which with (.iovorniuont and Clemson befiu<ait funds, has been used to teach ] ! ,000 students. , M to 'he State per student a ( lomson during the .tess'nn was $J 16.2*>, ;i low figure for a college giving the kind of education furnished at Olenison, and Including I ho operation of costly laboratories, and , the opportunity to follow one of | tuany, rather than one of few, courses of instruction. The cost to the parent ner student was ?16f> for board,!, i a...it 1 ic<-)t nnft writer. unf I'Mirm j, ii< <k, forms, medical and other fees, books and necessary equipment. J 1 he board of visitors, one from ' j oarh district, including auoh mon aa ' ( Judge Purriy, Mr. J. Tiimoro Martin, Mr. David It. Cokor, Mr. Thos. F. Parker, and others, in the opening | paragraph of their report, said: "We , nr* pressed with the magnitude j and value of the work done at Clem- , son, and with the line spirit that < seems to prevail among its faculty. j , The apparent discipline and the flm* . appearance of the student body, and j the thorough business like manage- ; mont of the whole Institution, made i an impression upon all of our mem- j hers." And the legislative committee t in its Inst report, says: The College < has been injured by criticism from , those who were not fully informed, and ban been annoyed by attempts to 1 interfere with its income by legisla- c tion, which is unwise and ill-advised 1 ?and we request that CI em son Col- \ ? f 4 WILL OPEN GATES WIDE f GOV. BLEASK THREATENS TO CLEAN OI'T I'KISON. L ulesM iA'K?lature Atudisluw Ilohfw) Juill Hi* A'ill E?|Uul Uie ArkuiisuH (lOViuiN.i > ICocoiu A uiupaich li kjitt .11 clo Kock, Ark., say* UovoiLor VV. JJoughey, who will retire Iiom oitiee January 1, ibrfuod uurdoha ouaditv to otate and 44 county convicts us u protest against the cifciVici tease system in vague in this Slate. As u result three state convict camps will be abolishedSeveral cauips wheer couviCic ait* engaged in the building of good roads however, will be continued in operation. The convicts pardoned were nerving sentences of from one to hfteen years. The governor in a statement explaining his action in issuing the pardons scored the convict lease system and magistrate who imposed lengthy sentences for trivial offences. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says (lovornor Bleaso Monday sent Governor I)onaghey, of Arkansas, who liberated 360 convicts in that State, a telegram of congratulation. "He has put mej out of business," said Governor j Bleaso, who was making up the IN* oi Christmas pardons and paroles. "If i 1m; next Legislature does not abolish the hosiery mil) at the I'pii1 tent Jury South Carolina can look out for a similar experience to that of Arkansas," continued the Governor i referring to the liberation of the 360 j convicts In Arkansas Sunday. ell says, In substance, that unless i the Legislature abolishes the hosiery mill at the Penitentiary, which hoi has fought so long and bitterly, dub-1 bing It "a tuberculosis incubator." ho will follow the Arkansas (lover-j nor'8 example and liberate the convicts. OKA\(,KBI JU; CX>liI,KfiK. The (Jrent Christian School of South ! ern South Carolina. I During the past year thiH Hchoo has been born again. We have spen i (iuiie a handsome sum during to { Hummer on the grounds anu uui.u I ings. We now have a new auditor ! ium, new parlor, new equipments urn 1 ail dormitories and class room I renewed inside and out. We have HiKU'tMi teachers and ofticers, splendid faculty and a fine student body. I>ur ing the pant eight months we have raised $25,000 for the enlargement and better equipment of our college pla^it. We have aiso bought ten acres of land just a block or two away from our present site. Upon tli new land wo hope soon to erect large modern hoy's dormitory, whic' will be surrounded by parks and fields for all kinds of athletic sports In short, we are determined to mak the Orangeburg College the great Christian school of lower South Car olina. Our motto is, "to give the very best library and religious ad < vantages at the least possible cost.' ' We now give bond and tuition for , $125,000 for the entire year and we make a Hpeelal price of $75,000 from . Christmas to end of session. We make the claim that we have a schoo " as good as the best and at the same | cimo the price is in reach not only of the rich but of those of Bmall means With the price the Orangeburg Col lege offers no ambitious boy need bo deprived of a college education. We a a k all who contemplate going off to college to investigate the merits o our school. Wo expect to enroll quite a large number of new students after Christmas. Why not you bo among the list. Write for Catalogue or for information to W. W. Rivera President. Orangeburg, S. C.; II. M j Foreman Financial agent. j TWO HALES TO THE ACRE. j Three Thousand rounds Lint Cotton From Tliree Acres. j One thousand pounds of three-sixteenths lint cotton per acre raised on throe test acres at Anguilla. Miss., is tho result achieved in sclent!lie? cotton planting and cultivation, as reported by J. P. Hearst, an agent or the United States deportment of ag-: rioult.iire, who has charge of the demonstration farming in Sharkey, Warren and Issaquenna counties. j Mr. Hearst said that this cotton was raised by proper cultivation and good preparations. In ten additional -- ? .11,1 m/\ ?\ te ?? o r? o M. 1 . rv(.' n'JS It h^JtMKlKI \* I IJ J/ ? (in i (1 lO'u, ?i 11 \ i I ? In tho same immediate territory (ho n average cotton yield did not. exceed i in most instances 2 5 0 to 300 pounds a >f lint cotton an acre. j t Ho paid that, where tho tept was i made on those throe acres, ho found r holl woovlls during the early part, of r tho Reason and the squares contain-j ng these droodod insects were hum* i d. iie contends that even with the p weevil, Intensive cultivation will ov* a >reome all obstacles. Mr. Hearst is t arranging a number of domonstni- a :lon meetings. j j ?. m ? a :hnf Clark will never forgive TPrysn s for preventing his .nomination when t inv Democrat could hvvo been eleet- j ?d. It was the men backing him that <j 3efeatod Clark and not Rryan. opo bo allowed to work out its hiph ^ Jostlny without interference from the p Legislature with the plans of the a joard of trustees and the faculty." p IALKS JJ? PLAIN VIlSON ISSUES A WA8NIN6 Tt BIG BUSINESS MUST START NO PANICS Iho IVenident Elect Hmyn There Have Been Threats Made and H? Ua> Heard the ltuinblingM, Hut That He 1m Nat al All Afraid of The.st T<t. M IM President elect Wilson raisod a warning linger tonight to any man who might deliberately start a panic in the United States to show that intended legislative polices were wrong lr a Bpecch at the banquet of the Southern Society of New York he declared he had heard sinister premonitions of what would follow if the Democratic party put into etfeci changes in the economic polices The President-elect first distinguished in his speech between "natural" and "unutural" panics. He >fuld In muny cases panics had come nuurally because of a mental disturbance of people with reference to leans and money generally. "Rut the machinc'v is In existence," he said, "by which the thing can be deliberately done. Krankl} 1 don't think there is any man living who dares use the machinery for that purpose. If ho does 1 promise hini, not lor myself, but for my fellow country a gibbet as high as Human's.' The governor added that he meant no "literal gibbet" for "that is not painful," but bo said it would he a gibbet of public disgrace which would live us long "us. the members or thut man s family survive.' "America with hor eyt-8 open isn't *oing to let u panic happen," continued the governor, "but 1 speak as 11 I expected it?u? if 1 feared it. I do not. 1 am afraid of nothing." The president'-elect's speech covered a variety of subjects. He treated first of sectionalism, declaring that It should not exist. "There is a vast deal to do," he >?a!d, "and it can best be done by forgetting that we are partisans of anything except the honor and prospeiItv of the nation itself." Mr. Wilson then referred brieiiy t< provincial tern and said that so nn people had an idea that all the thinking people of the count iv v. u a done in New York city. He said the Southern society represented an Importation of thought from the South into the great metropolis. "1 am happy to feel that there is no longer a ferious consciousness of see tlonal differences in the United States. There can be no sectionalism about the thinking of America from this time of because no .hnnlheadml iT-au can prove that there are such things as sectional interests." The governor here told his hearers jf his strenuous day. "We thought wo 8* rtaighteiied things out in New Jersey," he said. 'They won't stay straightened. There ire some people in New Jersey who ire happy that they can count tin lays when they can get rid of nie Rut they are not going to get rid of no. A man can live in Washington md know what goes on in New Jorwy and a man can say from Washington what ho thinks about New Jersey and ho can say it in the most dfectually way?by mentioning nam"This anonymous assertion of in qulty ought to bo stopped. It's all rory well to make the public who ?? r?a flirt Irtiini.ils nf the poiintrv but t also ought to bo iu a do public who rwns thin or that Idea. If it can not >o prod need by law it can be proluced by conversation. 1 have gone hrough a campaign in which I onJeavored to apeak of things, not of lersons, but you speak of person* iy implication when you speak of hinga and the plainer you make the ipeach the more effective you niak" he mark. The only way to keep on* )f trouble In the future Is to hot your name is eo nee ted with the ipbt thinn:. "I say this not as a threat but to :onvey this intimation that men hnve jot to stand up and lie counted and nit their names down. I think co loon as we see this is business ami lot amusement an enthusiasm wir rise by which it will be revealed th.V lonor and integrity of pnrposo bree ' tore prosperity than any other thing' n the world. God knows the poor iiffer enough. A man would hosiat.e to take a single step that would nvolvo further suffering We must novo to the emancipation of the loor. "The (ask ahead of mo so far as t is making appointments to rf wholly hateful but tho task ho far a it is leadership of the Knifed Sines is full of everything thai is bright nd touched with confidence because know that all you have to do is to ppoal to the people ot the I'n'fec fattvs on the* right ground and put hose who are wrong out of business am rot a brave man?because I on't know anything to bo afraid of. "Some people are making all sor's f Rinstor predictions as to the Motile we are going to get into at Washngton. I don't think there should he uy concorn because It is going to b<> ubllc troublo and a great jury is a! ways going to kuow what the evidence in the case is. "1 have been warned by some newt papers about keeping the door open oecause they have said ao many neoie want to get Into it. Perhaps I ?ould have said that the door wli 'pen omy to people who come to .rauaact business. "I want to say that I may not be very popular by preferring business to etiquette but after I take the oath 1 shall feel obliged to cut out everything that doss not touch that business. itnt business has to be supported and comprehensively present od to the people, so I will not feel i nocooaary to stay In Washington all the time but to find out by conservation with my neighbors everywhere what they think, for it is a grea' deal more Important to the country what you think than what 1 think." The governor discoursed Hoinewha* vehemently on politics and aaid there vaa "too much manners In politics, and that "good taate often stands in the way of public morals." "It Is not thought good taste In politics," ho said, "to Bay anything about one's opponent unless it is complimentary, but it may bo very Bervicoblo." 'Mr. Wilson smilingly declared that since he had left the "academic walks to get into the road" he had found an increased temptation to profanity. "I think that the recording angel probably does not hear those things." ho added amid laughter, "for there 1 is such a thing as righteous anger." The speaker here made reference to possible changes in economic policy, though ho mentioned no specific thing. "Some people say." he assented "that business Is going to he disturbed by the changes which are going to bo undertaken by the I>emocratic party. I mean changes in economic i policy. Husiness cannot be disturbed ! unless the minds of those who conduct it are disturbed. A panic, according to the dictionary, is really a state of mind. There is lust as much money In the country the day after a panic as the day before, bet it is disturbed differently as a result of the panic." "Here the Governor issud his warning against the deliberate starting of panics. Ah be concluded his speech ho remarked that perhaps ne hnd rambled in his subjects, but that he had tried to steer away from politics as much as possible. Throughout the speech there were f-equent interruptions of applause, and there was n storm of cheers when Gov. Wilson finished speaking. Mrs. WilBon Bat in a box with nor daughters. TIk1 bal lrooni in tho ho'. 1 m. ??..? (> >i.- baminet took place wan ot'owderl, the list of guostn incl'idiuLT ni nervous prominent in public ll'o Tho Wilsons will remain in New York until tomorrow. TrUVKI) MM1SM P?Y ItLKASK. \Yc? 11 liT Abheville Man Is Freed by tho (lo\eruor. It. A. Uichey, a wealthy white man of Abbeville County, Herving ten year sentence in the penitentiary ior assault upon a 1 it.tie white >;*rI vv.,s tut ned Joose by (lovernor Blease <?n ThurHhay, with tin* requirement . hat he en ted into bonds of $ a, 0 0 0 to i ne eeiMilied to by ine clerk ot Court of Abbeville County, and that he preo :ir himself betoic the Coventor on November 23, 11113, for sucii action ' then as the (lovernor may deem wise Rickey whp released from the hen itentiary Thursday afternoon and lef at once for his home in Abbevill . County, whi'i't li s w!re and daughter are. Richey, a wealthy white plant er, of Abbeville County, was convict ed of statutory rape in the sprin cf IPlh, his alleged victim help*? . voung white girl, who was iiviny in' , his home, and who was said to hav ' been under It venrs ot age nt th tlmo the offence was alleged to nave been committed. Tho board of pardons rnoommcnii ' ] cd a parole for Khliey and they stnt I, i *. that tho alleged \iotiin npptnrodi with tho matron of tho Door of Hope ^ where she is now residing, and do-1 dared that Kichey had boon sufficiently punished and a shod for Herri errv. In the reasons given out by the Governor it is stated that Richev at present is a hopeless invalid, unable to leave his bed at the. Peniten- ^ Mary, and several physicians have soj *" pronounced him. Ufchev's farm isj ^ within a few tulle* of Abbeville and he is a prominent planter. The case attracted widespread interest on account of the prominence of the man accused. Murdered in tho J*bilIpplnes, Gfl.pt. John Watson, of the Sth cav- r alrv, stationed at Augur, Parracks, a Jolo, Philipine islands, who was h reacherotislv murdered by a Moro j Wednesday night, was a native of f Kansas. He wsh graduated from s \.'cs' Point in 19hn and assumed com- u m-oid of T-oop 11. of the tSh cavalry i n M areh. t noo ? ? Sixty Rebels Hung. Ponies of sDty rebels hanging ? t'rr" 4rccs w. re counted by persons w vr.yr.iK,,,, )JV qu, Saturday near b 1 is Ornicop, the f*te of Mexico. Th!* o '? one of tho ' es .ilt* o1* the oampn ign n - ? i il.? v ^ I ? I * J, .w ' v"i i :i ?' 1 r ? ; ? i " ' > i i i'fii u!" i i. i, * ' Two attempts wore mad* this wopV In ?otith Cnrolina by fiends to assault white women arid the fJovornor tl threatening to turn all the rotcues in w the penitentiary loose is not very lr pleasant. readimg, tl MAKES A SHORT VISIT ISKYAN STOI'8 OVKIt AT FI/OHKX(t; A HALF HOIK. Hmjm He Has Orcat i'onitrlence in Wilson and Fcel.s Sure He Will Win I'uldic Approval. A dispatch from Florence says Willi am Jennings Bryan passed through that city Wednesday morning on his way to Winston-Salem from Washington. He is of course a marked man wherever he travels and he travels us a Democrat in the reguiur coach* y or a Bullman where he can write his uiitoriuls for The Commoner or make up his speeches to thrill the countrv with. He was very anxious iu see the morning papers of this State when he got there and to get a breakfnut u I I tin fn ti.nnu n-illnir h An u>> kilt'V U V. I ti 1 U 14 I Wi U X living ?l\' II .J*. Ho was spoken to by many admirers, and entered with genuine pleasure into the discussions at the station. He would have made a speech if tho time had been mug enough, and the crowd around him j willing to let him get away. i .> i:u correspondent of The State he said that ho would not care to exp.ess an opinion on the personnel o! tie* cab inet. He smiled at the me < * told of his having a private olliee u; \> ash ington, and other stories that ue m circulation make reading toi the yel.t w joui nals. He would not comment, elihir. ot tlie suggestion of the demand ?. i ti.-' world for him to ho at th i < . ' c the department of state in tiiis * uin . i y on the grounds that n would j mean the peace of tho world. 11 I n nothing to say of the appea' 'V. seems to be made bv the Balkan ;111 i??s for the aid of America in their Ugh for fair and Just terms of pca? i " Turkev. He said that he d: 1 no know enough of the real situation u quoted. He did talk, however, of the on* look tor the Pemcoratie party, an the prospective administration o Mow Wilson. He said that Clov. Wi' .v n cam ? into oflic-e under circum stances that were unusual and niosfavorable. Not only has he the en tire confidence of the Democrat! Party, but he has the confidence of the Republicans as v,tU, i no J if' u? *1 rejoice that he has defeate.' Roosevelt, and the Roosevelt men re'oice that ho has defeated Taft. f" that all wish hi in well. "My confidence in him," he said, "has grown as my nct|nnintanee with him has increased. Ho has two things ossein in! to enable him to win the approval o! the public. First he is conscientious -that is, ho socks the approvy! of his own conscience in what ho do^s and socoml his sympathies are wit1 the masses. With those two point* fixed, we can draw a lino on a public 'nan iust as a surveyor can draw si lino on the earth when he has two points fixed." PKATH FOLLOWS ST ISAM KIL Kmir cif Ifer Company Hie Violenth Huiiiig Voyage. The log of the liner Korea, which has arrived at San Francisco for the Orient, reads like the table of eonLents of a dime novel. One day out iom San Francisco a Chinese passenger jumped overboard and was trow nod. , Another Chinese passenger war daimed as the victim of a Tong win before the ship reached Honolulu He had sought to save his life b\ light from San Francisco's Chinaown, but a gunman froiu the enemy's ranks sailed with him on the Korea and found an opportunity to iro the fatal bullet The slayer itleld by the Federal authorities at Ionolulu. He-fore the liner left that port aright r Chinese made an unsuccessful ittempt to commit suicide and a day at or still another Chinese jumped ivorboard to his death. At Yokohama, on the homeward oy ago, a Japanese peddler plunged . A 1. ..V .. .... it. .V ..v.:,. 'PL,. IbSt, a \>a i <i 1111 a 11 I'll ii,e nui|>. ? n? n-ddler fled but was captured on nn>thor nbip in the harbor. Jlonnssir ecovered. On December 0, 10. C. Mi 11 or, a sabin passenger from Manila, was jiving bis two-year-old son a vhen ho accidentally turned on the lot, water. The child wan scalded so mdly that ha died an hour later. ?. Hioko Arm (Yanking Auto. Mr. Henry .1. Habitant of Ham berg. ;ot his arm broken Wednesday, in ranking his automobile that a "torloon in front of his store, the right rm was broken just above tho wrist v a "kick" of the machine. The inury, though naturally quite painul, is not considered to be nioro erious than the usual fracture, and ill heal In due time. .?! Cause of Hard Tir.e s. Vo?f these are hard times. Wei' hrow away ashes and soap. \Vei( aire dors and bnv lions. We prov [i I reels and huv vegetables. We catch; ; sh fm a four dollar rod. We send, 1 nr hovp out with a forty dollar gun. I r.'l a twenty dollar don* to hunt ton rnt rrnmo. Yos. those are hard rues, but vhoso fault is it? Governor Tllceso threatens to fliniv j doors of tko prisons of the State ' dd? open and turns the convicts . >oso. In the meantime crime is on 1 i? increase in the State. ' i/iutu oiftli PLACE li . w a i ts and turkty are Nrf APAKT in THuk ittiMS OF PEACE Tlwrti Is Such u Great DilTeroneo IJtMuwn What the Balkan Ntateat OeniMiiil mikI What Turkey la Willing *o Concede Thut Theta Is Talk of Meditution. Plenipotentiaries considering ar( rangement or' peace between Turkey j and the Balkan States met Monday in ai. ja uies nuaco, ai i^ouuou. A uey adjourned early iii the afternoon wiiliout having entered into discus^ sion of the peace question. The day's feature was the address of welcoiut* delivered by Sir Edward Orey, tho British secretary for fo. eiga affairs* j who was elected honoarary president of the conference. The responses of [ the heads of the various delegations I indicated a desire to accomplish tin* j purpose of the conference. i The terms formulated by Turkey have been kept secret, hut it may t?*t asserted on good authority that they include the renunciation by botn sides of any money transaction under the form of indemnity or otherwrse. except the taking (iter by the Balkan States of a portion of the Ottoman public debt proportionately to th? new territory they acquire. Thev provide also that the Sultan shall bnie a representative in th? territories pussitig to the allies, where Ottoman Courts shall be in stituted for Mussulman subjects. Adnaaople, the lirst Turkish Capital in Europe and sutiounding terrrtory shall remain subject to i' : y Tho 'I^urco-Hulgai ian frontier ti? he south of Adrianople shall bo marked by the Maritzn Rive. < tlm territory west of Muritza us fur as the Struma River, would go to Bulgaria, which thus would leave ili? port of Kavala, to which she has long aspired. Furthermore, Turkey will otui' T that Saloniki, o^ ?r the possession or which it is pointed out serious Groco-B.ul&arian antagonism has arisen shall remain to Turkey and, together with Monastir and Scutari and their respective districts shall form Ottoman territory surrounding Albania. Servia is to have Uskup, Pristine, Mitroviteza and part of the SanjuR j of Novipazar, the remaining part going to Montenegro. To Bulgaria is conceded the Islanor of Thracos, but Turkey claims possession of the other islands in thn Aegean, including Sa mot brace, imbros, Eemnos and 'MM.* h ue. together with those now occupied b\ Italy, because the latter belongs to Asiatic. Turkey. But the administration at fVmBtnntinoplo pledges itself to obtn'u from England, Russia, France an r Italy, the four protective Powers i*\ j Crete, their consent that this islam? be annexed to (Irecce. These terms would give the allies four-fifths of the territory which a few weeks ago was European Tur key, but notwithstanding what scorns, to be a great concession, a. com par ison of the terms of the allies w'*r? those of Turkey is sufficient to shoir the immense gulf separating them. Even admitting many concessions are made on both sides, an ultimata understanding appears extremely d *?cult. Because of this, the idea or meditation has been put forward All the delegates, however, declare emphatically that (hey know nothing about mediation, and that it is extraneous to their mission here, whtcn is limited in the negotiation of nonce either they or others must rocolvc* the authorization of their respective Governments. The delegates did not refuse to discuss the question unofficially and remarked that it would be impossible for Russia or Austria to mediate, an both of these Rowers are too interested in the settlement: nor could Germany, because she is hound to Austria; nor could Italy, because of the recent war between that country and Turkey, There only remains England and Prance, which might be acceptable to both parties, but their selection might give umbrage to1 Germany and Austria. It was pointed out that the only great Power absolutely disinterested and impartial is the United States, and that if it were possible to bring about some of the same Intervention whic h in I DOT) led to the conclusion of peace between Russia ami Japan, this might load to a< utal med iation. ? I Tho Augusta Chronicle says thar Willis I.. Monro, who is head of the weather bureau, is a practical fjtrrnrr. i 1 ;.8 place is in Marylnnu. 'rhoy tiro booming him for secretary or* agriculture. Ho is a printer by trado and is a self made man. ind n tltn* type of tho self made man at that. ? o Saw Mill Klplctle Two negroes wo.ro killed, two white men injured and two negro?x<* in lured when a boiler exploded oti rhursday at a saw mill operated by Tames Hurt on on the farm of M-n [amy Dugas, one mile from Edge field rhe injured men will recover. - f .? *