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. * * 1 ? THE COUNTY RECORD. Publiihed Erery Thursday ?AT? NLING8TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BT? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. 'Add the "golfing spine" to the 'housemaid's knee," the telephone car" ami the "bicycle face." All over the country, in every State and Territory, the terrors of the law should be made more formidable to the kidnapers. The stealers of children and those who go 1:0 further than to threaten parents with the loss of son <: daughter should expect no mercy. Their punishment should be swift and exemplary. The Chief cf the Geological Bureau nt Washington predicts that u.w ^ 1:>?T ? eourccs ui <jh ?v ut ered in abundance frcui time to time. ,TIiis is on the principle that nature seldom does anything on a retail plan. Hence the fever now raging i:: Texas is likely to break cut at any time in some new quarter. The abuses oi so-called "graveyard** Insurances have become so serious in certain States that loud demands for legislative actions are heard. All civilized communities which seek to suppress lotteries and policy gambling should endeavor to root cut the evils of "graveyard*' insurance. They arc intolerable, and not to be endured. 'Are women better than men? This Is a question that E. S. Martin asks and answers in an article entitled. "Women," in McClure's Magazine. No better, only different; or if better, merely in a negative fashion. They idrink less, smoke less ana certain oi their emotions are less strong tHan corresponding emotions in men. Women are what men make them, and while men are still appreciably far from perfection, why. women will be still a little short of the angels they j are sometimes represented, and what , is worse, expected to be. Rag-time music will take a new lease of life if the recent discovery of trim \Thon lin niltQ ii X U119 ucuuot 10 (i v*v. ?f -V- ?x. I the patient under the influence of gas, lie connects his ears at same time with a phonograph discoursing lively music. / This effects his psychic centres so 0 completely that in trying to find out just where the syncopations come in lie forgets the other delusions of the gas, and the tooth is gently released from its cerements of clay without any struggle of the nervous system. The idea has seemed of enough value to be mentioned by an eminent French physician as an agency in the Use of nnnrtpHmtine oml thltC nrAuHntf I'n OV# jcessive application of ether. As might have been expected, the President of Cornell University is net a believer in the theory that a collegiate education is a hindrance in industrial, commercial, or financial careers. In an article which Dr. Schurrnau, himself to no small degree a man of affairs, has contributed to Success, he says that there is a large and Increasing demand in all walks i of life for college-bred men. As an effect of this, he adds, "the prescribed preliminaries to legal and medical education are, step by step, approaching , graduation from college, and have reached it, in some instances, while : these professional courses themselves have been extended and deepened, till they are now nearly or quite on a par with the old liberal training with ?!'ov *Tk-nr<1inntPft in the / .iu.lt. ...1., ...l ? , modern university." Referring to en- : glneers. President Schurmau says that fifteen years ago the manufacturers 1 of machinery had to be coaxed to take ' those pioneers, the Cornell men, into , their shops and give them a chance. But where one went many followed. Last spring when the class of 1900 , came to graduation, every student in i this branch was eagerly bid for two 1 or three times over. One great electrical firm alone asked to be given the 1 entire class. There is observable, too, j a gradual increase iu the call for col- < lege-bred teachers iu the public schools. ; and this demand will grow by what , it feeds upon.'' TURnlGUOLl Tilt CUliMRV. The South. An order has been received for 10).000 tons of Tennessee and Ker.tuckj coal to be shipped to v<n:ce. The Alabama Constitutional Cr.nv nticn voted not to change th_* present jury system. Senator Karon, of Georgia, and a number of members of Congress sailed from Brooklyn for Manila. The North. The portra't of Lady Louisa M :nn r? by Hoppner was sola in Lrnion f.r $70,250 to B. Altmr.n. of New York. EI Reno. Okla.. will b1 unab:e to r.c? commodate the expected army of homeseekers 0:1 the reservation lands. It is said Kev. J hn K-ller, of Arlington. X. J., w 11 s^.'k v n I.canon o.' the charges made by M.s. T. G. isa:kcr. Two persons were killed in a Lakj Shore railroad co .islon naar Cleveland Ohio. Another demonstration was mil! against the ray c'*a rs in Madison Square Park, New Yo:k. Twenty passengers were injured by a shifting engin - ' siiewip ng" a P n 1sylvania express train at Columb s Ohio. ? . 1 - >. ?T.iJr- r. ih.->re r or me wt*cA niU'U9 nui; ^ IMw. v were hs? deaths in Greater New York due to Jieat. Stockholder.! of the Cm.bridze Steel Company voted r.aeu taously to sell their property an J ass.ts to the Sonematish Steel Company. Attorney. Frederick D. White, son o'. Ambassador to Germany Andrey D. White, committed suicide at S. rac'use, N. Y. Secretary of the Treasury Gage last week bought ?2S9,C30 short-term bonda Secretary of State Hay returned to Washington. 1). C.. for a brief stay. Massachusetts Republicans will rc? nominate Governor Crane for a third term. Presbyterian in Mexico have organized independently of the Caurch in the United States. The Pardon Board Oi Minnesota will act on the cases of Cole and Jamts Younger. Retail grocers of New York Stn'9 are in session at Buffalo to crganizj a protective assnc'ation. An exploding tank at the Williamsburg. X. Y.. branch of the Standard Oil Company injuied five max Importations of precious s.onrs far the past year at New York amounted to $21.1)19.053, over $ J,(.03,010 more than in any other year. Foreign. A hot wave has been prevailing In London. Prominent English Liberals at a conference voted to sustain S r Henry Campbell-Baniieiman as leader. Prince Christian of D< nmark will visit the United States in the coming spring. The Duke of Tetaan stated in the Senate at Madrid that Spa n had refused several times to soil Cuba to the United States. Riots at Seville, Sp3ln, were suppressed by cavalry. The Argentine Government has requested the Chamber of Deputies to reject the debt unification scheme. The storms in Haiti have ruined crops in the southern part of the isiand. It is rumored at S.n Juan that Dr. J. H .Hollander, secretary of Porto Kico, will resign. The Cuban Constitutional Convention rejected the prelimina:y draft o.' an election law for the is.and. A Cape Town dispatch sta-cs that Beers have burned the public buildings at Murraysburg. Cape Colc.n. Fire at the Glasgow Exhibition destroyed a block of tea rooms. A special embassy f.om Morocco has arrived in Berlin. Count Stanislaus de Castellan?, brother of (rant B;n: de Caste:laue, was married in Par.s to Miss Terry. Plague in virulent form has broken out at Amoy .China. Rear-Admiral Crowninshield comes forward with the claim that he wrote the order to Dew \ to capture or Uc- . stroy the Spanish i^eet at Manila. I niscellaneous. I Andrew D. White. United States Amoassauor to Germany, w.ll resign ne:.t j rear. t Messrs. Hudson & Awtrey cf La Grange. Ga.. have received contact ?o guild the forty-four ftve-room cotta:es announced last week as to be erected ' by the Unity Cotton Mills. < Messrs. J. A. Yates. Louis Minor ? and J. H. Fowle. mentioned last we k : is organizing knitting mill in Bir- t mlnghaci. Ala., have asked for cha-- t ter for the Birmingham Hosiery Mills. ; The La Grange (Texas) Cotton an 1 > 311 Manufacturing Company has b"e:i J incorporated, with capital stock o: c 150,000. for the manufacture of cotton, c cottonseed oil. flax, flaxseed, soap and t soap stock. The incorporators are ( Messrs. John Schumacher, Henry C. Schumacher, C. J. von Rosenberg. H. ^ Ambcrg and F. J. Reynolds. 1 EPWORTIi LEAGUERS Holding a Great Meeting on the P* cific Coast, iUA.M UAIlltK AI MA fKAAUilU Congratulatory Messages Read From 1 he President, the Vice President and Many Governors. San Francisco, Cal., Special.?The Citii inte:cat;onal convention of the Epwonh League was Cyeued Thai sday under the most auspicious conditions. The weather was ideal and the attendance equalled the most sanguine expectations 01' all. The scene at the Mechanics' Pavilion, where the principal exercises ot the day were held, was one not soon to be forgotten. Never in its history has the spacious interior of the pavilion presented a more impressive spectacle, livery unsightly inch or wall was hidden by tastcfui decorations. Great volumes ct music from human t^uoats and thu accompaniment ot the Stanford organ iaspii ed a feeling cf reverential actum aucn and homage. The railroads had virtually fulfilled their promises and ianaed the last ot the Eastern deiegut.es here in time for the introductory services. The great army cf invasion of bo.UoO men and women in the rank and tile had been provided for in a manner most gratifying to all. The entire city is taking an active interest in securing the success ot the gathering. The first services in connection with the convention were held this morning in the First Congregational.the Central Methodist and tne Howard Street churches, in each of which communion was celebrated. Bishop Joyce, president of the League, conducted the ser'. ivos in the First Congregational , \ ..../-.v, At -li.i fonrrnl Mpfhnriisf church. Rev. John J. Tigert, of Nash- I v'lie, Tenn., presided, and Rev. A. C.' Crowe, of Toronto Canada, led the congregation at the Howard Street church. By noon the vast interior of the Mechanics' Pavilion, capable of containing ever 15,000 people, was Itlled v. itn a mass uf humanity. When the convention proper was called to order at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. Thomas Filben, of Pacific Grove, not a vacant place was to be seen from the grand organ to the farthest gallery of chairs. After a service of song, led by Robert Husband and participated in by the chorus of the 2,u00 voices, the geneial secretary. Rev. Jos. F. Berry, read a number of congratulatory messages from prominent men throughout the Union. President McKinley, in his message, said: "I have much pleasure in sending to the International Epworth League Convention, assembled at San Francisco, my hearty congratulations upon the good work the great body or Chris- | tiau men and women, which it repre- j suits, has accomplished in the past, any my earnest wish that even greater success wiil crown the future efforts of the League." Vice President Roosevelt worded his message as follows: "My heartiest greetings, and may good luck attend the Epworth League in its efforts for social and civic righteousness." Other communications were from Governors Mc...illin, of Tennessee; Shaw, of Iowa; Durbin. of Indiana; Pates, of Illinois; Bliss, of Michigan; Dockery, of Missouri; Stanley, of Kansas, and Van Sant, of Minnesota. All were received with cheers, those fiom the President arm Vice President arousing the audience to great enthusiasm. The c*.i-.iit:g exercises at the Mechanics 'Pavilion were presided over l.y Hollo Watt. The first address was by Rev. Onus, la.'aid Mitchell, who upuke on "The Y ung People's Movement in the Nineteenth Century." "The Young People's Movement id the Twentieth Century" was discussed by Rev. G. \V. Kirby. of Montreal, Canada. T. B. Hutchison, of Napa. Cal.. spoke on "Methodism in the Twentieth Century." At the Alhambra Theatre tonight. Rev. A. C. Crews, of Toronto. Canada, presided. The young people's movement was discuj-ted i>> Rev. Alonzo Monk, cf Knoxvjiie. Tenn., and Rev. M. S. Hushes, of Kansas City. Rev. E. E. Scott, of Vancouver, B. C., spoke on "The Methodist in the Twentieth Century." Rev. T. N. Ivey, of Raleigh. N. C.. was chairman 01 the Metropolitan IV tuple meeting. Addresses were delivered by Rev. W. C. Millard, of leakers, N. Y.; Rev. John H. Ciernan. >: Glen Falls, N. Y., and Prof. Collins L/t-niiy. of Nashville. Tenn. There will ic moinmg, afternoon and evening gatherings to morrow at each of the our meeting places of the League. Slate flust Pay Liquor Tax. Philadelphia, Special.?A Washing:nn special to The Record says: The rommissioner of Internal Revenue is ixpected to decide that the State of outh Carolina is wrong in its conttnion against the right of the Federal government to tax South Carolina state liquor dispensary, wommisaiuuer t'erkers will hold, it is understood, ifter several conferences with Attorley General Knox, that South Carolina ias no power under the constitution to ixempt dispensaries from the operaion of the Federal internal revenue aw. - _ ? SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL j Southern Furnl'ure Manufacturing:. A recent paper on the furniture manufacturing in the South, by Mr. E. M. Armstrong, of High Point, N. C., furnishes the following interesting information: "Pormlt me to eive a few fac s in re gard to the manufacture of furniturt in High Point, N. C., as I am mot? familir* with the factoii.s of that place, and as it is a representative Southern manufacturing town. The first factor>- there the High Point Furniture Company, began work in USD. They first made cheap chamber suits. Now there ere 33 factories, one foi every 150 people. Thoma-ville, seven miles from High Point, has 12, which manufacture every article of furniture which man needs from the.time he 11 s in his cradle until he sleeps at last m his coffin within his windowless palace. It would be tedious to mention the name of the diifercnt factories and their managers and the various 1 articles of furniture manufactured, which include everything that is needed for use and ornament in a modern dwelling, business hou3o or office. These goods are shipped t> every State of the I'nion and to some foreign countries. "The factories have been uniformly and remarkably successful. Regular dividends ranging from 10 to 2> per . cent, per annum have been paid in ! nearly all cases. Stock sells at a ?0 :d ! premium without exception. Not $10,- j 000 worth of stock is owned out of i town and none outside of the *tate. I Many stockholders are young mea and ; boys now at work a: the benches. All ! labor employed is white with the ex- j ception of a few negroes who drive , arays ana nanuie lumoer dujui me i yards. An air of thrift, cleanliness ; and prosperity pervades the entire town. There is nothing about the work that is degrading mentally, morally or physically. It Is no uncommon thing for the sons of the richest men in the town to begin by turning a lathe by the side of men who support their families on $1 a day or less. The furniture factory has made High Point what it is to-day, and already it ; widely known as a furniture manufacturing town. Limestone Hosiery Mill. The Limestone Hosiery Mills is the cerrect title of the new knitting plant announced last week as contracted for at Athens. Ala. This company has efi fected permanent organization with J. ' W. Frost, president: Robert L. Henj dricks. secretary-treasurer, and P. W. I Hendricks, manager. The building | j contracted for will be 30x60 feet in I size, of brick, two stories high. and will cost about $2500. The daily capacity of the plant will be 200 dozen pairs of children's and misses' hose, employes will number fifty, and the i investment of capital will be $15,0*-0. Oil Mill For Jacksonville. Plan3 are on foot to have a cotton oil mill running in tkte city by about October 15. The mill, which is to ha built by Tennessee capitalists, will be known as the Florida Cotton Oil Mill. It will be a very large plant, with the capacity of crushing 100 tons, of seed a day. It will give employment to between 75 and 100 heads of families. ! Later on cottages for these mill hands | will probably be built. The stock is $100,000.?Jacksavillc Metropolis. Industrial Miscellany. I It is stated that a paper mill for I utilizing the fiber from cottonseed , hulls is about to be located at Houston, Texas. Panics from Mississippi have visited that city, and are looking over the ground, and are well pleased with the situation for such an ent* prise. A plant with capac:? T-'Xy tons a day may be established at a cost of $35,000. rvn thp fthittAhooche? and tribtitarv i rivers during the year ending June "1 steamboats carried ll'O/OO ton-; of freight, an increase of f.0,000 tons compared with the preceding year. Textile Notes. The first bale of Texas cotton was sold in New York at nine cents a pound. Col. J. L. Power is endeavoring to organize a $100,000 cotton factory company at Jackson. Miss. The Itasca (Texas) Cottoh Manufacturing Co.. now building mill, ha^ in- ' creased capital frcm $100,0- 0 to $150,- : 000. i It is reported that the Woodstock ; Cotton Mills. Anni-ton, Ala., has pia- ; ced orders for additional machinery. {1 This plant was completed recently. b> i lr.a built for 5.(00 spindles. j It Is. said Andrew Carn?E'e still has ,l {280,000.000 to give away in public ben- ' efactions. The National Council of Educators adopted the report of the National University Committee that 110 bill yet of; fered in Congress is practicable. Carl Jansen. supposed to bo Ir.s^no, murdered a woman a::d is said to have horribly mutilated a little girl in Don ver. Col. What is believed to have be^n Father Marquette's crucifix was ur. r.rrheJ at Frankfort, Mich. President T. J. Sitaer. of the Ama'ga- < mated Association of Ircn. S:c i and i Tin Workers, says the strikers a. the j j trust mills will accept n*) compromise j , j. MINISTERS TO AGREE Upon the Lisposition of the Province of Manchuria. SETTLING CHINESE QUESTIONS, The Part Which Russia Claims Now Open?Complications Are Lik-Jy to Result. Washington, D. C., Specil.?It is un- ^ derstood to be the desire of some ct the great powers that the disposition of Manchuria should go before the nvaisteis at Pckiu and be finally determined by a joint agreement among the powers. Although no definite srep Lns boon tuber, in that direction, it is bfh g dim sped by f oreign representatives stationed here, who fully expect that the plan will ha adopted. Russia, it is expected, will be reluctant to agree to it. Attention has been directed to the matter by reports that Russia had resumed direct negotiations with China concerning Manchuria, and also by yesterday's cablegram stacing that a Russian proclamation wa:; about to is sue establishing Nu Chvang as a Russian port. As to the i?*ro:t that Russia will proclaim Nu Chvang to be a Russian port, it is icin-ed out in official diplomatic quarters that Nu Chwang i3 a treaty port end as such is open to the commerce cf the world, under the existing tan'i'f regulations with China, and foreign merchants have the right to trade aud to conduct estAbP&linteri * there These rights of trade could not be divested, in the opinion of diplomatic officials, by a Russian proclamation unless the powers had previously given assent. Thus far there has been no request from Russia or China for any change In the status of Nu Chwang as one of the fflatv nnrfo v? yys* w In a spirit which has aroused the keenest admiration of the State Department, the Japanese government has met the difficulty growing out of the preference of her request for an increase of her indemnity, owing to depreciation in selling prices of Japanese bonds, by withdrawing that request The result is ? substantial loss to Japan. She asked originally for $23,000,000. This figure was more moderate than any of the powers which took any prominent part in the Chinese campaign and represented the barest expense of the undertaking. It was fixed upon the idea that the payment was to be made in cash > by China, Confederated with the bend payment the Japanese asked that tho allowance be increased to $27,000,000 in bonds to make good the loss she would suffer through the sale of the bonds. As soon as seme of the other nations found that the allotment as ? originally fixed was in danger of being UiSturbed they came in with increased demands and thus it is that Japan, finding that insistence upon her demand would blockade the negotiations at tliis phase, ha3 withdrawn her request for the present at least It is safe to assume that the United States government will dc what it can to secure compensation for Japan. Mr. Rockbill, our special commissioner at Pekin. has been instructed to give the assent of the United States to the proposition to increase the Chinese customs dues Ir- order to provide means for the payment of the international indemnity. Our government is still opposed to this project and the instruction is sent only in deference lo the universal wish for a speedy conclusion of the negotiations at Pekin. It is learned that the hitch in these negotiations, the most bafhing that has yet occurred, is due cr?irr.i,r t.-, t|)p ispuo raised as to tk? Increase of customs Diseasp Killing Georgia Cotton. Vaiiosta, Ga., Special.?V/. A. Or :on, an assistant patrot ci me oepanaent of Agriculture, at Washington, ?vho has been here for r. v. cek investigating a disease which has been killng cotton, says the disease is caused jy fungus in the soil which clogs the ^ ,easels in the stalk and causes the )L::t to wilt. He says when the fungus >uce gets into the soil it will live as org as cotton is planted upon that toil. A Bottle Truss. Wheeling. W. Va., Spec*;n 1 ?The lat /? ? f-? Kti f irnic.l ic r\f fl nf >t tvy iwi ti<Mv jia.:?. 'i or tie-makers. Ti:<-. e are about ?0 nuikirs of class battl in the Unlt1 States. and every nr.- vis brought nto the combination hel l a: a meeting n Chicago. July li. Ti e v a *>. tali sat ion s 0).0?j0. The oT.c : i . 'e.-t-J are: t-\ G. Park, c! this cay; G. Vast, of "Jci'.a.re; F. \V. Brrcn. of Indiana, reosurer; J. G. II. Port1 r. of Chicago, secretary. The far: of the combination <-. "r-\ y.er: a profound secret. The ij;i.!.c'j ;tte effect of the combination ivas an advance of prices.