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THE BOUNTY RECORD. Published Evory Thursday ?AT? \ING8TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA, j I ?IlY? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. The adoption of a marriage liceuse law in Wisconsin reduced the number 1 of marriages iu Milwaukee from 4200 in 1898 to 2S10 iu 1*00. The city had formerly been the "Gretna Green" for couples from states adjacent to 1 Wisconsin. Since 1833 the population of Ireland has diminished by one-half, while the taxation per head has doubled. Ia the same period of time the population of Euglaud has largely increased, while the taxation per head has diminished by about one-half. ' .. ... .. The Manila papers sav that a fortune awaits the ma;: who shall put up ice plants in the larger cities and towns of the Philip** iue Islands. The only ice plant in the archipelago is 1 that at Mauila, which is owned by tho j government; and after the govern- | meut has taken all the ice it needs for > hospital and other purposes, the re- | maiuder is sold to the soldiers, shop- ' keepers and natives. The supply is 11 ?* ' --? ~ ^ ^ 1, .i ilamn n it i anogiuer nm?ci|uuic iu .......... v., and the prices charged are said to be | "outrageous." Siuco the board of education in : Boston has provided luncheons f >r its : public school children at nominal prices, it is said that marked improve?. ment iu the health of pupils is noticeable. The scheme Las been in operation only about three years, and was brought about after iuncli agitation ' aud predictions of failure. However, the experiment has proved a success, ! aud has been made to pay its way, j the substitution of wholesome soups ! nud baked apples for sweets and pastry being most beneficial. A notable feature o: Massachusetts \ statistics of crime is the comparative\ ly recent marked decrease iu the nam- I Jber of prisoners. Speculating on the ! causes for the decrea?e, the Boston Herald assigns the war as a prominent onei It turned attention to new and excising subjects, and many young men 'addicted to drink enlisted in the army. The improvement of business j' bas also been a factor in the reduction. The more general employment of men has taken them out of temptation and reduced the amount of over- ! indulgence. I Edinburgh, a small towujn John- j sou county, Indiana, not far from In- ! dianapolis, is held up asj: a marked ex- j ample of what a muuicij^lity can do with ownership, of public utilities, j Iucaudesceut lights for business j houses cost only 20 cents a month aud j lesidences 15 cents, the light being j better than that for whicb^Iudiaunnolis is paying a minimum j^tice of SI, the Press of that city repifts. Wa- | ter is distributed for the remarkably low price of SI a year,and Jtelephones ! cost from 50 cents to $1 aj&ontb. It is remarkable that the limited patron- | age of a sraa'l community can make Much enterprises .profitable at the rates mentioned. . Lompoc, iu Santa L'arbara county, 1 California, grows mustard for the! whole nation, according to the San ; f"M?i 1 n too rAo-inn i 1 L auuio W vu. Vi?iv*v. - ? ? ? V - WQ.x."2000 acres aro cultivate;! to the Feed, J 4be industry employing about 2..'0 farmers. No one employs himself exclusively in cultivating the plant, hecause of its refusal to yield two sue- ! ces^ive crojis upon the same land. A?-1 coidingly the mustard raiser can only j ilevote a puit of liis farm to it each j season. The land from which he harvests his crops this year must next year he planted to hefti;s. or hurley, corn, pumpkins, or beets. Indeed, results show that it pays to skip two years in planting mustard, and only turn the soil to it- use every third season. What active , "ineip'.ethere is in j 'he soil that is withd awu by this exacting plant to the land's impoverishment has not yet been determined. When it has been learned how to feed j the soil, iu order to replace what the j growing mn.-ta d withdraws, the in-j diistry is expected to assume larger j proportions. NEW ENTERPRISES. Evidences of South Carolina's Inc re asIngProsp;rity. A commission for a charter has ' been issued to the Oconee Electric Power Manufacturing Company, of Seneca. The company proposes to develop and utilize the water power of ("Vnneross Crpek and to onerate a cot tori mill with the power, which is aisoi so be offerer! for sale. The capital fctock of th',\.ompany is to be $100,001)." The corporators named are: J. S. Jennings, Oak way; D. ' Van Smith, Charleston; J. P. Carey, Pickens; P. M. Cary, W. S. Lunney, W. R. Doyle, J. G. Harper. M. S. .Hunter. John Hopkins, J. W. Harper and M. W. j Coleman, of Seneca. A commission for a charter has been issued to the Mallory and Sellers Telephone Company. The company proposes to connect by telephone Latta, j Blenheim. Sellers, Marion C. H., ! Loughlinia and other adjacent points, i The capital stock of the company is to | De $l,UW. me corporators uuiuc-u ; are: Messrs. A. J. Matthison, W. R. Atkinson and G. D. Matheson. Wednesday T. K. Elliott, T. H. Ketehin, J. E. McDonald, A. it. Elliott. appointed corporators of the Winnsboro and Camden Railway Com- i pany to build the railroad from Winnsboro by the most practical route, received articles of incorporation. The capital stock is placed at $200,000. The road when completed will be a Seaboard Air Line branch. It will be thirty miles long. For Charleston Harbor. In the sundry civil bill, which passed the House Tuesday, the follow- : ing appropriations were provided for . Charleston harbor: $45,000 for dredging and $175,000 for completing the new improvements which were au- ! thorized last year. It is the present expectation of the river and harbor committee to pass at this session an . emergency bill, which, while not male- | ing any additional appropriations; ? ill lorrfelotinn far -siiph Will yi\J*l UO UJ I^glwiuuvu tv/i cases as demand some immediate action. Congressman Elliott has the as. surance of that committee that they will include in their bill a provision authorizing the Secretary of War to use the $175,000 for dredging under the contract system, Instead of devoting that sum to the building ">f a 1 dredge. Under any circumstances, ! however, there will be no lack of : money for carrying on the dredging of the Bar. Killing at Chester. Chester, Special.?Watchman Lindsay killed Operative Weathers Monday at the Springstein Mill just as the whistle was signalling dinner. As the operatives were leaving their places Lindsay walked up to Weathers and J shot him through the heart with a 3S-calible gun. Weathers caught hold of Lindsay, threw him down, and was about to administer a sound clubbing, when he rose, staggered back and fell ! dead upon Ihe floor of the mill. Lindsay gave himself up to the sheriff and is now in iail. He is not talking, out says he can show sufficient grounds I for acquittal. His attorney, S. E. MeFadden, will apply for bail at oncer Coroner Shannon held an inquest over the body and the verdict rendered was that Weathers rame to his death from a gunshot wound in th?j hands of Lindsay. Material for History. Chief Clerk Jesse T. Gantt. of the Secretary of State's office, has found another batch of documents connected with the Revolutionary records of the State. They eontain the original awards and receipts of Revolutionary soldiers. Mr. Gantt thinks that he can make up practically a complete roster of the troops from this State from the records of the office. The papers are unassorted, and no effort has been made to classify the names. Mr. Gantt has been working on the records for several months and thinks it will take fully two years to classify, index, and catalogue the names. Mr. Gantt estimates that there are from 13,000 to 30.000 names in the papers he has. but does not yet know how many are duplf c<>e names. Educational Convention. 11 lij expecteu taai uui ass man jv,000 teachers will attend the anuual convention of the National Educational Association to be held in this city in July. They will come from all parts of the United States, aud will represent the best intelligence of the country. Soldiers' Home for Charleston. Charleston, S. C., Special.?A committee of representative business and professional men will leave here Wednesday for Washington, where they appear before the House committee on military alfairs, on Thursday. in support of the Senate bill providing for the establishment at Charleston of a branch of the National Soldiers' Home. This project has been approved by the United Confederate Veterans, by the Grand Army of the Republic in local and national encampments. by the city council of Charleston, the Legislature of South Carolina, and all Federal and Statr officers id this State. THE RACE QUESTION DISCUSSED. Proceedings of tue Race Conference at Montgomery. Montgomery, Ala., Special?The Society for the Promotion of the Study cf Race Conditions and Problems in the South elected the follow ing officers: President, Hon. Hillary A. Herbert, of Alabama; vice presidents: Alabama, James Weatherly; Arkansas. Clifton It. Breckinridge; District of Columbia, Hen. J. L. M. Curry; Florida. W. A. Blount; Georgia, Hon. Clark Howell; Kentucky, Rev. Chas. E. Craik; .Louisiana, C. R. Ficklin; Mississippi, R. B. Fulton: Missouria, Rev. J. F. Cannon; North Carolina, Henry E. Fries; South Carolina. J. C. Hemphill; Tennessee, Charles W. Dabney; Te*as, Governor Jos. D. Sayers; Virginia. J. Hoge Tyler; West Virginia, Wm. A. MacCorkle; Secretary, Rev. E. G. Murphy, Montgomery; treasurer, F. S. Bali, Montgomery. The conierence thus lax nas been a pronounced success. The race problem conference begun at 10:30 o'clock. Mayor Alfred M. Waddell, of Wilmington, N. C., opened the discussion with an address largely dealing with the conditions in North Carolina, His statements were given enthusiastic applause. When he denounced the legislation which enfranchised the negroes as the meanest po litical crime in the (history of nations. the audience of a thousand people cheered the sentiment, as they did when he demanded a repeal of the fifteenth amendment, in the galleries there were perhaps a hundred negroes, leaders in Alabama, including Booker1 T. Washington, of Tusktegee, and W. H. Council, of Huntsville. He said in paTt: "In this age of new religions, new philosophies, and new theories, social and political?if they really are newthere has been much to excite the astonishment and indignation, the pity and contempt, the fears and laughter r.t the reflecting man whn has anv large acquaintance with human history and any love for his kind. One only, however, of the phases of modern civilization?if we may so term it ?has been sufficient to excite all these emotions in success or combination. This phase constitutes the drama which for 33 years past has been playing before the eyes of the world in these Southern States under various . names, ranging from the high-sound- j ing phrases 'Afro-American Problem' ! down to the plainer, more correct and j generally accepted one of the 'Negro ! Onpstinn ' ^ "It is not my purpose to discuss the . constitutional questions involved, j That straw has been very thoroughly j thrashed and the outcome by a general consensus of opinion among lawyers. as well as by decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, has been that the constitution of the United States does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone; that an : act of a State Legislature in regard to suffrage which does not in terms violate the provisions of the fifteenth amendment is W\?hin the reserve powers of the States and that a State has the absolute control of the suffrage within its own territory, provided only that no discrimination shall be made against a citizen because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. "Granted the power, and admitting the necessity for some restriction, the question is: What is the fairest, wisest and most just arrangement that can be made in regard to the franchise under existing circumstances? In the! solution of this question is wrapped up the future of the Southern States for ! weal or woe, and ' therefore the welfare of the whole country. And when I say the solution of this question, 1 mean the solution of it by legal and constitutional methods. So far as the actual exercise of the franchise by the mass of negroes i3 concerned, it is already settled, at least for some years to come, but such a condition is abnormal and must be a source of perpetual trouble and discontent." Large Oil Mill for Tallahassee. Tallahassee, Fla., Special.?A deal has been closed' by George W. Saxon, president of the Capitol City Bank, for C. W. Henson, president of the Citizens' Bank and Trading Company, of Chattanooga, for a site on which to l?'iild a large cotton seed oil mill. Mr. Henson is the head of a synmcate which already owns several plants cf this character in other States. American Garrison Surrounded. Manila, by Cable.?A force cf rebels on May 2. attacked 20 men cf Company I. of the Forty-fourth regiment, stationed at Barotac, Iloilo province, on the island of Panay. Three of the Americans were killed and seven wounded. The enemy, estimated to number 400, surrounded Barotac and attacked the place on all sides. After two men had been kiilod and four wounded the American commander sent four men to try and got through to communicate with'the remainder of the company at Dumangas. Of ftto four men cne was killed and three wounded. The latter managed to return to Barotac BRYAN NOMINATED: Allen Presents His Name to Wildly Cheering Populists. KtltiNI BAMIMi LAW UtNUUINUU, Middle 'of thj Roaders Nomlnat: Barker for President and Donnelly for Vice-President Sioux Falls, S. D., Special.?Bryan v.us nominated by the Populist National convention hore by acclamation. The committee on permanent organization recommended Thomas M. Patterson, of Colorado, for permanent chairman; T. H. Curran, of Kansas; Leo Vincent, of Colorado, and E. M. Deisher, as permanent secretaries. Mr. Patterson briefly sketched the history of the Populist party. The speaker gave a short history of the financial legislation of Congress during the last administration of President Cleveland, and that of Presiaeni McKinley. "During this controversy," he said, "the seed of the People's party, which had been sown with 1S92. began to bear fruit. That party believed then, and believes today, in the right of the people to control the issue of their own currency without dictation of Wall street." Mr. Patterson said the People's party did not surrender its rights when it nominated Mr. Bryan in 1S96. "Wo never could have nominated any other man," he said. He predicted a sweeping triumph for Mr. Bryan in November, and that his election would mean that the rights of the people are advanced to a higher level than ever before. A conference of chairmen of State delegations followed to discuss th< vice presidential situation. Chairman Patterson made a bittei argument against "repeating the fatal mistake of four years ago." Senator Marion Butler strongly advocated a nomination as essential to the welfare of the party. A compromise proposition was submitted by Geo. F. Washburn, of Massachusetts, who advocated the naming of several men to be presented to the Democratic National Convention, any of whom would be acceptable to the Populists. There was considerable talk about a compromise which it was hoped would be acceptable to the friends of Mr. Towne, end to those who are opposed to making a nomination. This compromise is nominate .>ir. iuwae uuu appoint a committee to submit his name to the Democratic National Convention Mr. Towne to withdraw in case the Democrats do not accept. No conclusion was reached. W. J. Bryan was put in nomination by Senator Allen, seconded by General Weaver and others. "Mr. Chairman." interrupted Senator Allen, amid perfect silence, "I move that the rules of this convention he Suspended, and that William Jennings Bryan be nominated by acelamatior for President of the United States." As one man, the convention arose. Hats, canes, umbrellas, flags, were waved, amid enthusiasm, while the band played "Old Hundred." A Bryan picture was hoisted to the desk while the convention applauded frantically. Chairman Patterson announced the nomination unanimous. At 5.45 p. m. the convention adjourned. The fliddle of the-Roaders. Cincinnati, 0., Special. ? Wharton Barker, of Pennsylvania, was nominated for President by the Middle-of-the Road Populists on the second ballot, 1. A. Park, of Kentucky, elected chairnan of the National Committee. Following is the platform adopted: "The People's party of the 1'nited States, assembled in National Convention, this 10th day cf May, 1900, affirming our unshakeu belief in the cardinal tenets of the People's party as set forth in tto Omaha platform, and pledging ourselves aq.e,w to continued iuvocac.v oi tnose grand principals of human liberty until right shall triumph over might and lore over greed, do adopt and proclaim this declaration of faith: "(1).?We demand the iniative and referendum and the imperative mandate for such changes of existing fundamental and statute law as will enable the people in their sovereign capacity to propose and compel the enactment cf Such laws as thev deslro- to reject sucn its tney aeem injurious to Iheir interests and to recall unfaithful public servants. ' (2).?We demand the public ownership and operation of those means of tommunication, transportation and production which the people may elect, such as railroads, telegraph, and toiephone lines, e:al mines, etc. "(3).?The land, including all natural sources of wealth is a heritage of the people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and a lein ownership of land should be prohibited. All lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the gorernmcnt and held for actual needs, and all lands now owged by aliens should he reclaimed I } oy ine government ana ueiu tor actual Bettlers only. "(4).?A scientific and absolute paper money, based upon the entire wealth and poulation of the nation not redeemable in any specific commodityj but made a full legal tender for air debts and receivable for all taxes and! public duties and issued by the govern-} ment only without the intervention or banks, and in sufficient quantity to meet the demands of commerce, i3 thel best currency that can be devised; but! until such a financial system is secured; which we shall press for adoption wrtj favor the free and unlimited coinaao^ or silver ana goia at tne legal ratio of 16 to 1. i "(5).?We demand the levy and collection of a graduated tax on incomes and inheritances and an constitutional amendment to secure the same if necessary. "(6).?We demand the election of President, Vice President. Federal judges and United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. > "(7).?We are opposed to trusts and declare the contention between the old parties on the monopoly question is a sham battle, and that no solution of this mighty problem is possible without the adoption of the principles of pvbilc ownership of public utilities." , LITTLE THINGS V>ometlmM Decide a Man'* Fat* la limine**. The truth of the saying that little tilings may often times piay an important part to men's affairs when the men least expect it was Illustrated one day recently. "See that young man; over there," remarked an insurance' friend of his, pointing to one of his clerks working away industriously at a desk in another room. "Well, he got his place in my office through the striking of a match, although he doesn't know it. I was standing at the entrance of this building about a month' ago, waiting for a friend to come down the elevator, when that young man' approached me with a letter of recommendation and an application for employment. I had made it known a few days before that I needed another clerk and he had heard of it. However, I' had almost made up mv ~>md to take I on a young man who hac beer, to see me the day before, and was about to tell the last applicant so, when he pulled a match from one of his pockets to light a cigar he had been smoking, but which had gone out. 'Sorry, sir,' he said, balancing himself on one foot, while ho lifted the other so as to admit' of his striking the match on the heel of his shoe. 'SoTry, for I would like very much to work for you, and I think I would have made you a good clerk.' The match-scratching incident made me think so, too. Right at the young man's elbow was a great Italian marble column,upon which were the marks showing where many matches had struck by vandals too utterly indiff.Vent to the rights of others to refrain from indelibly stamping their vandalism upon property to restore which would have cost hundreds of dollars. It would have been the most natural thing in the world for many a man to have scratched that match on the marble column, and the fact that this I young man chose to use the heel of his J shoe instead showed that he was thoughtful and conscientious, two very excellent traits. I was so impressed that I told him to come and see me, and the result of the visit was his securing the position. And his month in my office has shown that I made ao mistake in sizing him up."?Philadelphia Incuirer.. To Correct Bashfu>nesj, "The bashful young girl must stop thinking about herself," writes Margaret E. Sangster in the Ladies' Home Journal. "I heard the other day of a man. a college student, who went to visit his sister, a college student also. He was the one man. as it happened, in the dining-room with five hundred girls, and he had occasion to cross the room with their bright eyes beaming | on him with curiosity and interest. Said I mv informant: 'The boy was completely at his case. You would have j thought his sister the only girl pres| enr.' Evidently the young man's i mother had brought him up in a sensl. ble way and he was free from that ; bane of comfort, self-consciousness. It ; is hard for a very diffident person to l>e | free from awkwardness, and very ; acute distress and much humiliation ! may be the results of an extreme shyness. Try not to think how you look, j what impression you are making, what sort of gown you have on. Do not let i your mind dwell on yourself, but think , of what you are to do. and of making j others pleased and happy. Onefc you are iree rrom seir-consciousness, oasafulness will trouble you no more." Briton's Argument to Savages. On his African journey to Uganda Sir II. II. Johnston addressed the Baso rr., a tribe living on the east siiijjpt" the Victoria Nyanza. lie told thenl that the Britons were once as uncivilized the Kairrondos, a tribe which the Basoga despise, wearing no clothes and j painting their bodies, but that Christianity had made Britain great "We want yen," he said, "to learn Christianity and follow our steps, and you, too. will lie great." The speech, It is said, made a profound ImDresslon on the