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* * I M. BOUNTY RECQflP, Published Every Thursday ?AT? WNGBTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ? BT ? C. W. WOLFE . Editor sad Proprietor. Controller Color's latest analysis or New York City's expenses s'uows that the park system of the metropolis costs each inhabitant a trifle less than half a cent per annum. Cheap enough, considering the benefits they get therefrom. A receut report of the United states Secretary of Agriculture stares that the introduction into California of the insect which fertilizes the Smyrna fig has proved successful. In one locality more than six tons of Smyrna figs have been produced. An important parasite has also been introduced to pre.v upon nil- Ulivc nvunr, *>> Iiijiiuuuto the olive growers of California. The Old Age Pension net. which has just been enacted by New SouTh Wales, provides that every person of good character over the age of slxtytive who has continuously resided in the colony for twenty-tive years shall receive a pension of ?6T? per annuru. but if husband and wife be both eligible for the pension lisAbey are to receive only ?19 10s. each. The pension is to l>e diminished by ?1 for every ?1 of income possessed by the pensioner. The aet will be administered by district boards appointed by the Co omnr The Ameer of Afghanistan lias issued an order that all the young men throughout the country, who are not permanently employed at some occupation. are to join the army. He has also caused it to be proclaimed that a vision he had when he came to the throne in which he was instructed to build a wall around the country has been fulfilled. The references to the boundary treaties with the British and Russian Governments which have fixed the frontiers of Afghanistan. This wall, he says, the people must be ready to defend with their lives, and they must cease quarreling among themselves. An interesting contribution to educational research is furnished in the annual report or tne President or tne St. Louis Board of Education. This educator takes issue with those who helieve that poverty is the main cause of children leaving school l>efore the completion of the course. Inquiry h.1s shown him, he reports, that the losses in attendance occur almost entirely among the older and the backward pupils, who have lost interest, or have grown discontented because of the contrast in point of progress between them and younger children. For these the excuse of poverty is regarded as only a cloak. Added to the influence of the children in the matter ;s 'he parents' lack of appreciation of the value of au education. llere is what one of the big men of the New York Stock Exchange lias to .say of the changes in the financial trnrl.l < h?f o?*a f ! 1." I nrr T J !/ *> **\T ? I'L' this as a prediction. By 1010. and possibly within loss time, members of th? New York Stock Exchange will l>e trading iu London securities, just :;s American securities are now Ik ing traded iu iu London. The money ceuI . tro of the world will surety be on this side of the Atlantic, for never in history were fortunes beiug piled up so rapidly or to such enormous proportions as they now are here. Already we have more money than oik rich men know now to invest to advantage, and the small* percentages they arc willies to accept are ample proof of 1L We are sure to l>e supreme la matters of finance, and my belief is that the change will come in five rather than ten years. That it will come is ... the belief in Paris and in Berlin, as I learned from mcu who handle enormous amounts of capital in those centres, though th >y do no* believe the change will come as soon as I have I predicted. But come, they admit, if surely wilL" V ENGLAND DECLINES. Nicarasinn Canal Trojecl May Ec Eeld Up. _ ? i ANSWER TO SENATE'S DEMAND British Will Submit a Counter Proposal, Hoping An Entirely New Ajj-eement flav Be Rer.cheti London, By Cable.?It has been learned by a representative o" the Associated Press that a reply will shortly be sent to the United States in regard to the Nicaragua Canal project. It will not comply with the Senate's demands. Neither will it be in the nature cT a flat refusal, though for purposes of immediate construction, it will be tantamount to such a refusal. It will consist, mainly, in a counterproposal. or proposals, lihely to necessitate extended negotiations. The nature o? the proposal is rot yet ascertainable. ]>ord Pauncf fote will probably be the medium through whom the answer will be sent and by whom the subsequent negotiations will chiefly be eonducted. In British official opinion, it is likely that several months will elapse before the matter reaches a conclusion, by which time the HayPauncefote treaty will have elapsed, on the basis of the Senate's amendments. The British counter-proposals are cow formulating, and it is hoped an entirely new agreement satisfactory to both countries, will eventually be reached. Envoys Badly Treated. Bk>e.:r.'.*ont<?in, Bj- Cable.?A.n influential burgher gives some details regarding the treatment of the peace envoys who went to General J>ewei 3 iaager. It seems that they were ordered to remain with a cart until the mules arrived. As the Boers were breaking laager in the expectation of a British attack one morning. Commandant Froneioan came up and asked them why they bad not inspianned. I Morgendael replied that thev had been ; ordered to wait for mules, wneretrpon > the Poer commander immediately j Jamboked Morgendael on the head and ; face, and said he felt inclined to shoot him. General Dewet coming up at the moment, said: "Why don't you shoo: him?" and at this Froneman fired at the envoy, who died o? the wound. Mueller, another envoy, was jamboked also. Great Naptha Fire. St. Petersburg. Py Cable.?Advices from Baku Friday e\ening announce that the naptha fire has been extin| guished. Ten factories and five d-a' pots were burred, containing alto- j gether tlo.COO.OOO poods of raiptha and naptha refuse. The losses will exceed : fi.000,000 roubles. Nline charred cor- ' pscs have been recovered. One hun- j drcd and sixty persons were injured ' ' by burning. 41 cf tbefe severely, and | six have succumbed to their injuries. Many victims are still under the ruins, j and the search is proceeding. A hundred homeless families are being distributed and housed in the neighborhood: bread is doled to the employes i o.* the factories at the expense of the j authorities and the public is sub| scribing generously to the relief fund. To Purchase Northern Railways. I.ondon. By Table.?Dr. Morrison, i wiring :o The Times, from Pekin, Thursday, says: "Russia through the Chinese mini-ter in St. Petersburg has offered to purchase the Northern Railways from Shan Hai Kwan to New Chwang an:'. Sim M'in Ting, the purchase money to be deduc ted from the i indemnity. Such a transfer would , violate the understanding China gave \ England in October, 1SDS. neverto ' alienate these railways to any power, i The foreign envoys are hopeful that China will accept the note regarding punishments." More Vessels Than Ev*r Before. W. s ; ngt n, D C., Spec'al.?John \V. Bryant trs.ified before the industrial | commission upon th? commerce of the ' Mississippi river. The annual reports oi the United States <2u per vising in-! j specters, the witness said, shew more ( steam vessel on the M^slssippi and its | tributaries to-day han ever before. In hi.s opinion the struggle cf the steamboat is no; to much against the railrcad as against lh<? impediment of navigation. He stated that II ere is much business carried by rail which | preference and convenience would go by the river but for uncertainties of navigation. I Peaceful in Venczuelc. Washington, D. C., Special.?Minister Loomis, at Caracas, has telegraphed the Sta'e Department that it has been reported to bim that the government of Venezuela has just suppressed a revolutionary uprising 'in the island of j Marjarita; that the leader of the rev-1 olution in eaa.ern Venezuela has been captured and that his followers either j were taken or dispersed. The whole country Is reported peaceful. "crusade continues Mrs. Nation Goes For More Kansas i Saloons. < HAS THE PROTECTION OF POLICE. After She Had Destroyed the Finest < Saloon in the City She Was Arrest* J I n..A it? r-% _ ? j cu, DUI v* as Kfica^cu. . i j Topeka, Kan.. Special.?Mrs. Carrie ! Nation an 1 three followers Tuesday wrough t damage to the extent of $1.- (, SCO in the Senate, the finest equipped. ( "joint" in Tcpefca. She also gained her first police promo tion. The podce followed up her taid anil arres.ed the 3 proprietor of the Senate anil two men < who were guarding the place, and the ' stork of liquor the saloon secured to 11 sell the crowd that flocked" to view the wreckage. Mrs. Nation was arrested i but promptly released. ] Mrs. Nation and her wreckers, each j armed with a hatchet, sallied forth at dajibrcak. They forced their way past < a negro who guarded the dcor of the j Senate, and in less than ton minutes , had otrewn the floor with broken mirrors. bottles, slot machines and splintered bar fixtures. The negro fired a * shot of warniug into the ceil.ng. but It ? had no effect. Presently a poiioeraan i ? cralked leisurely into the room and ; 1 sadd: I s "Well, Sister Nation. I gurss we'll ; * have to arre6t you again." Mna. Nation had just smashed the | 1 last "pottle and was ready to go. Th? | c police judge was glad to release her * when she appeared for trial ami ad- \ 1 ministered a rebuke to that official. 1 Mrs. Nation soon went down Kansas c a/venue, free again. Later Chief of 1 Police Stahl in an interview with ai>- : t porter said: "I do not care if Mrs. Na.tion sma-A - I i er every joint in Topeka. I sympa- j s thize with her. I hope she will close t up the saloons of the city. As an offiocr ot the law. though. It is my duty to arrest her every time she creates a disturbance or destroys property. If we haej, the right kind of State ofllcera < it would not be necessary for Mrs. Na- t tion to do what, she Is doing." s There are reports of p~ts to hurt i Mrs. Nation. It was said that several saloon men have charged thick glass j bottles with tremendous pressure so , that an explosion will lollow their be- j ^ ing broken. She lis not at all distur- I t bed by ...ese stories. . Mrs. Nation has dictated an appeal ' ? "to the children of the high schools ! "T cr the United Si xtts." in which she { u.gC'S the children to smash salocu windows with rocks. When Mrs. Nation appeared in court T to answer the cuargas of "disturbing * the peace," and smashing a joint," the * llrst charg8 was dismissed, notwltti- " standing the crusader demanded a trial and a hearing on the second | charge was sat for Thursday, the pris- , t oner being released Without bail. The t charge of disturbing the peace is (lis- . < nuisscd, said Judge MaGraw, as the j crusader stood at the railing. The jcharge followed her arrest yesterday c rfPte-r her fruitless a:tempt to wreck j i the Unique Restaurant. I object to the dismissal." exclaimed i Mrs. Nation. I was arrested wrong- ^ fully and deprived cf my liberty. To j the charge o! smashing a joint, Mrs. j Nation repued: 1 plead guilty to that; j I rather think I did smash it. j MARDI GRAS CELEBRATIONS. I New Orleans, La., riobile, Ala., and j Pensacola, Fla., February S i^tli-io'.li, 1901. s For these occasions, tickets will ha ^ sold February 12th to ISth inclusive, from Washington. I). C\. and all point3 t on the Seaboard Air Line Railway, at ' rate of one fare for the round trip, 0 tickets good returning until March 7th, 1901, inclusive. "With itsne w passen- C ger service inaugurated January 27th, t the Seaboard Air Line Railway is now d operating the linest and fasf st trains ? in the South, and a trip to the Mardi s Grr.s on one of these magnificent fains via any of their many attractive routes c will certainly prove the quickest and 0 most enjoyable. See that your ticket n read via Seaboard Air Line Railway. r $118,000,000 For the Army. "Washington, D. C? Special.?The \ p.rmv appropriation bill making provis- C ion for the army under the plan of r.> ^ organization recently enacreJ, was rc- C ported to the House by the committee d on military affairs. It carries approxi- j. rnatcly $118,000,000. as against esti- s mates of about $11:0,000 made by the 0 War Department officials. Chairman Hull says the present bill will be ample v and will not entail a deficiency measure p Q later. The contingency appropriation of $1,000,000 to * meet emergencies c.n- t stantly arising" was struck out by the j | committee. g Adams Express Car Robbed. t Philadelphia, Pa., Special.?A car o! c the Adams Express Company attached to a train which left this city. a* mid- d night, Saturday, for New York, was c rifled by robbers en route. About $4.- * 000 of stuff was taken. It is believed that the robbers boarded the train during the ten miinutes stop at Trenton. T | It is thought they possessed a key. r THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. Th; South. There is a strong movement afoot igain.st the removal of the Tort Etoyal naval station to Charleston, S. 2. The fight at first will be along the 'or the improvement of the designated iito at Charleston. A Tampa, Kla.. despatch says that he schooner Lilly White and Dr. Lyke3 x>und over in S3.000 ea^h until the ipening of the lln'.ted States Court in day. The crews of the schooner have )een placed under $300 bonds. The Tallapoosa Cold Mining Company, with a capital of $3,000,000, s empowered to operate gold mines n Haralsj-. county, Georgia. The ini a tri11>hr.rri Chir'i's r. Flanders and Walter A. Rigg, cf Camden. Jefferson Long. a negro, who thirty ears ago reprtseuted the Macon. Ga., listri t in congress, died Monday at Macon. II? s-tcod well with the white >ojp!e of the community. At Montgomery. Ala.. Monday, in the "nited States Court, an eulogy on John Marshall was read and the court adourned. Two young men. George and Tobe ?;.roud. have been murdered at Sab.n Iver, near Many, l^a. It is not known ivho did the killing. A decree was entered in the United >caies court at Harrisonburg, Va.. unwinding Cornelius Shields, of Bristol, ind Henry K. McHorg, cf New York, cceivers for the Virginia Iron, Coal md Coke Company, with headquarters it Bristol. Wright Harbor and Wallace Reed, jrothers-in-law. became engaged in a Lifficulty at Collinsville. Ala., over personal matters. Nick Petty, an oncoker, interferred. Harbor turned on 3etty and asked what business it wa^ - 11 ' *-? J? J -U/v* >r n.:s. puueu nis aim suvn. ioij, tilling him instantly. No arrests havu >een made. Two hundred leather workers In the 3ona Allen factory, at Buford, Ga., itruck Saturday. They ask a reeognk ion of the leather Workers Union. The North. Typographical Union No. 6 ham deeded by a formal vote to wiu.uraw he boycott against the New York Sun liri 10 take no further hostile step6 igainst that paper. A judgment by consent was entered n the supreme court In New York igainst Countess Anna De Castellane ind her husband. Count Bonl De Casellane, for $10,296, iu a suit brought igainst them by Eugene Fischef. The ,uit was brought to recover on three lotes which were executed yb the deendant jointly on February 6. 1900. G. E. Jones, until last Wednesday a nember of the Chicago Stock Exchange, failed Friday, with liabilities omewhere between $50,000 and $100,>00. The losers are people who trade n the socalled bucket shops. Chas. B. Powers, of Pittsburg. Pa., las accepted the presidency Qf the Lmerican Association of Base Ball Hubs. Major General Otis was the guest of lonor at the annual dinner or rne ou'iety of the Genesee, at the WaldorfLFioria, in New York. A Pittsburg dispatch says that an ?ffi.*ial of the National Tube Company las received a telegram from President 2. C. Converse, which stated that the tapers for the purchase of stock of tr.drew Carnegie had been signed, but he*deal was not closed. The Denver. Cel., News has a special rom Chihuahua, Mexico, which says hat several tons of dynamite stored 11 an underground chamber of the ian Andres mine exploded. Eightyeven men, women and children were illed and many others badly injured. At Ft. Cloud. Minn., fire desstroyed he West IIot?l and several smaller uildings adjoining. Total lass $130.-1 00, partially insured. ! The Guggenheim block, in Pueblo, vu a two-story building, occupied by ho Crws-Beggs Dry Goods Company's lepartmeri! store, was gutted by fire laturduy. Estimated loas $130,000; inurance $100,000. The Bath, Me., Iron Works has reeived the contract for the construction if a I'nited States be tile-hip to be aired the Georgia, from the Navy De? lartment at Washington. Foreign. The Copenhagen correspondent of 'he London Daily Telegraph, says the trown Prince of Sweden and Norway earned while in Copenhagen the gravst news regarding h's mother, the )ueen. and titnt it is feared her early ieath is inevitable. Emperor William has bestowed on ! )r. Von Hollcb n, the German ambasador at Washington, the Crown Order ft he first class. ? Prince Carles De Bourbon, who will red the princess of the A-turins, was roclaimed a son of Spain and took the orstitutlcnal orth. YVJM'om his mrii'ejrrfd' noon r.iuj.'t-ivu > iii.ui- . Carl Roberts the Order of the Black lagle, the higest German decoration. The Queen of Sweden and Norway is uTe. :ng from a dangles affection of be throat and her condition is very erious. "Plague prevails in every part of Inlia," says the Bombay correspondent f the London Daily Express, "except I he central province?. In Bengal the eeskly mortality is 2.500." At Friday's session of the conptituional convention in Havana General tivera tendered hi? rcs'gn^tioa, basing t on the demands of his private busi1-CfcS. / . v ) 9 A BIO COMBINATION o Tremendous Welding of Steel Interests. HARMONY BETWEEN BIG CONCERNS The Sale cf Carnegie's Interests to theP. florgon Syndicate Con? firmed. New York, Special.?The Mail and [ Express and The Evening Fost an- ^ nounced the sale cf the Carnegie srtock "T* to the J. P. Morgan syndicate ai an accomplished fact. The Mall and Express says: ' The only hitch that occurred in the negotiations leading up to the transfer of the control of the Carnegie Company was in relation to the control of the. bends held by Mr. Carnegie. The Morgan syndicate agreed y ester .'lay to take the $86,379,000 stock ait something atxne its market value, but Mr. Carnegie held out his usual tenacity of pur;c-.e for a guarantee of the 5 per cent, income on his frSS.OOO.GOO of 30-year bonds. This was also conceded at a meeting held to-<lay, it is un- * ... / derstcod. There will be ?o consolidation, but harmony through community c:f in.tc;e -ts and ownership will be applied in the manufacture of steel produces of all kinds. "The Oamegie Company, with its vast supplies of coal and iron close at ! hand, will be the parent company to ; produce the raw material for the various corporations manufacturing finished products, and the economies that can be introduced through co-operation and harmony will make it possible for the corporations to manufacture so cheap as to drive small competitors out of business and to give the American manufacturers a very large ' place in the markets of the world. The companies included in this system of harmonious steel industries, besides ' *L - r%- ?1?. rVwrmrvanv am fhp fol f IIIC I IK'gIC V/Viuf ? lowing: i "Federal Steel Company, $100,000,000 common stock ar.d $100,000,000^preferred (of this $16,484,300 common and $53,260,900 preferred stock are outstanding); American Steel and Wire * Company, $50,000,000 common and ! $40,000,000 preferred stock, all outstanding; National Tube Company $40.CCO,C00 each of common and preferred stock, all issued and ihe American Bridge Company $35,000,000 each pi common and preferred stock, which I $30,527,800 of each has been issued, "The Moore group includes the National Steel Company, with $32,000,000 cf common s'tock and $27,000,000 preferred, all issued; the American Tin ' Plate Company $30^00.000 common and $20,000,000 preferred stock, with $2S.cOO.OOO common and $18,325,000 . preferred stock Issued; the American ! Steel 11 cop Company, $19,000,000 cornmen and $14,000,000 preferred stock, all issued, and the American Sheet ftcel Company, $26,000,000 common and $26,000,000 preferred stock, with *24.500.000 of each Issued." Philippine Bill Passed. Manila, By Cable.?The amended provisional government bill has been passed and the conrmiswion will leave here Tuesday to organize governments in the provinces of Pampanga. Pan^ I ga;.inan and Tarlac. "After the cimmissioners return from their tour they will organize Zam,bales, Bataan, Bulacan, Xueva Bc-ijas and Cagayan. The latter, a northern province1, is added by General MacArthur to the list of those regarded as ready for provincial government. The commission has i been visited oy six ceau-ituuwn6 isw ro:es from the province of Eontoo. They were immensely entertained by the sights cf Manila and expressed a ! liking for Ameiic-aia?. The generals have been much congratulated on President McKirler's nominations. Three flore Submarine Boats. Washington, D. C? Special.?The Senate coir.ar.ittred on naval affairs lias concluded its consideration of the naval appropriation bill. The committee amends the bill <?o as to provide for the purchase of three Holland , torr-'lo boats and instead of authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to contract for the new vessel} as provided ^ in the bill a it passed the house, he is required to furnish plans for four vessels, the plans to be completed by the hogincing cf 'the frst session of the next Congress. The committee d-eclir.ed to reccnsvc'w its former decision to remove the Port Royal navaj station to Charleston. S. C. Affairs In th P il opines. Manila. By Cable.?Natives have re- * ported at Bntang-s thPia week ago the natives cf the island of Mindoro rose against the insurgents and killed the troc-rs at Mindoro . The Federal party of Bataan province, including the president of each pueblo, held a big meeting at Oram yesterday, and resolved to no Jfy the irsurgents of Bra'an that | they must cease one' anions within a Americans to capture them.