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BT IBwMr MH C^C^K>K^040WK>f0^0^ PI EQUAL P I H By KOVVAR B 0* Copyright, 1901, b f "I should think you ousht to be n pretty good business man," said Elmendorf. "I suffer from the same trouble that you have," replied Alden; "I'm too honest." "There's nothing honest about me." protested Elmendorf gloomily. "It's my luck: I never have a chance.- By the way." he added, changing his tone. "Itobinson knew Miss Miller quite well, didu't be?" "Ouly through me," answered Alden. "I used to get him to take messages to her house quite often. It was convenient: he lived near by." "Yes." said Elmendorf. "They told me at the house that he came quite often. Do you remember the first note with her name on it that you ever gave him? Well. I happen to know that he ?*- t I.I n'lll/x*.* TOOK It to JUlll uuukmt|r:i, ?? uiciu, uiiu asked who Miss Miller was. He seemed to be quite interested. Afterward be told Willett that he was mistaken in supposing that he knew Miss Miller. It was another girl of the same name." "If you are trying to work Jack ItobInson into this case." said Aldeu. "you are a long way off the track." ^ Elmendorf protested that he had no A such intention, adding that be had no rational theory of the case and never expected to have one. When they entered St. Winifred's, |^B they met Dr. Kendall, who had just come from a visit to Elsie. He ?ed them into his own room. "I'm sorry to tell you," he said to Alden. "that Miss Miller Is not quite so well just now. I wouldn't advise seeing her. Mr. Robinson delivered your message." "What message? When?" demanded Alden. "He was here about half an hour " en !il TJ"o 11 rr*I h Innroo olnop oaiu &kvuviu*i| n uu luvivuutu^ alarm as be noted the manner of the others. "He said It was something very Important from you, and after consulting with Miss Maclane I let him speak with M ss Miller in private for a few minutes. I thought she seemed somewhat disturbed afterward, but she told us that the matter was of small -consequence." "I know nothing whatever about it," exclaimed Alden. "I did not send him here and had no idea he was coming." He turned to Elmendorf with a sharply questioning glance. "Well, you can search me," said the detective. "You mean that you know nothing about it?" asked Kendall anxiously. "Less than nothing," responded Elmendorf, "and I'm giving you straight goods too." There was a knock at Kendall's door, and he admitted a nurse, who said that Miss Maclane wished to see him. He ^ , did not wait to speak a single word, but hurried away. Alden tried to get I an explanation from the nurse, but she professed to have none. ^ For near!;, an hour the two men W waited with impatience, which finally passed Alden's power of endurance. R "I must get some word from her," he said after much pacing of the floor. B^^^^'There must be serious danger or he ^l^wouid not stay so long." Elmendorf pointed out the obvious possibility that Kendall might long since have answered Miss Maelane's summons and have gone upon any of a hundred other duties, but Aldeu would not be thus quieted. He went out to the office to ask in what way he could communicate with the doctor, and within a minute after his departure Kendall entered the room. He had a large glass Jar in his hand, which seemed to contain milk. This be set down upon the table and tmme <1 lately touched an electric button. "How is she?" asked Elmendorf in a tone betraying the most earnest solicitude. "Better, better," replied Kendall. "1 think there's no longer any danger. Where is Mr. Alden?" , "No longer any danger!" exclaimed Elmendorf, ignoring the question. "Has there been any?" "Well." said Kendall, "she fainted again." "Again!" "The first time was just before you j came up." said Kendall. "Don't say 1 anything about this. We bad just giv-1 k on 'her a little luncheon, and I thought perhaps she might have had some small j^m stomach trouble; oppresses the heart ^B sometimes, you know. But I don't like ^B this second attack Henrt failure after the injury and the nervous exhaustion wouldn't be the most unlikely thing in B the world, you know. Ah! Come here. HBH George." J The last words were addressed to a [ ^ youtli in uniform who had answered i the doctor's ring. Kendall gave him some money and whispered to him near the door. Wheu he turned, as George departed, he saw Elmendorf standing rigid, with his blue eyes unusuallywide open. "What do you want of two white mice?" he demanded. "Really, now"? Kendall began. "Look here." interrupted Elmendorf. "If there's anything of that kind going ou. I'm the man you need. Don't bide anything from me; for the little t girl's sake, don't do it. doctor." Kendall bit his lips and hesitated. Then he said suddenly, as steps were heard In the hall: L "Get him out of here and come back." Alden entered and stopped short, In NMO*0*040*0*04000*0*0?0?0* C ARTNERS 00 *, *5 :D FIELDING S$ y Charles W. Hooke. fl C040*<>K>40#040K*e40*040*oS ++o+o*o+o*o+o*o*o+o*o+ofo*o | his own peculiar fashion, with his eyes J on the doctor. "It's all right," said Kendall. "Miss Miller showed some indications ol weakness, but is doing nicely now. 1 should think you might see her about 5 o'clock." "Well, doctor. I'm glad everything's all right." said Elmendorf. "I began to be anxious, you were so long away. But what you've said has made me feel easy again, and so I think the best thing that Mr. Alden and I can do is to try to get some light on Mr. Robinson's strange conduct. The man may have struck some kind of a clew and i have rushed right off to verify it without waiting to consult anybody." "I didn't think of that," responded Alden. "It may be that you've found the explanation." "I would suggest that you go to hit house." said Elmendorf. "Meanwhile I'll telephone to your office and one 01 two other places and see if I can get track of him. But the likeliest place is his house. Wait there for me. I'll join yc/u before 3." This arrangement was agreed upon, and the two men went out together. Elmendorf was busy with the tele! - - U-I* t U..4 #?J1 poone lor DU1L UU uuur, UUL ue iancu / 1 He xit down and retted hit head on hii hands. to extract valuable Information from ! any person with whom he talked, although the chief of the detective bureau was one of them. Returning to the hospital, he went at j once to Kendall's room. In answer to I his rap and the sound of his voice the i door was unlocked and he was admit: ted. In passing he glanced searchingly l ?XT Am/lall'o f o aa tfl? !nh u?Arn o n or. ; pression of extreme anxiety; then he j advanced to the table in the middle of ! the room, from which he lifted a news; paper, thus revealing the bodies of two little white mice. Elmendorf regarded them with a look of horror. "Good Lord!" he gasped. "You don't mean it?" Kendall nodded. Then he sat down and rested his head on his hands for a ! few seconds, while Elmendorf pather1 ed breath and heart for the next quesj tion. I "What was in the jar?milk?" "No." replied Kendall. "It is a kind ; of liquid fowl preparation. The basis of it is milk; but. unfortunately," he added, looking up at the detective, "it will keep." "Been in the room several days, you mean?" said Elmendorf. "If it was ordinary milk that had been dosed, wccould narrow it down to a few hours. But this stuff?why. absolutely everyhnHv f-nnnf?r>tr>U witli th?? <>nso h:is iind a chance at it." "How shall I tell hpr?" muttered Kendall. "Her?" The doctor gave a nervous start. "Miss Maclane," he said. "This will be a hard story for her to hear." "You are right." replied Elmendorf, "after all the care she's taken, the devotion she's shown to that poor child, who was nothing to her?worse than nothing, in fact?an enemy, you might say." "Now. look here"? exclaimed Kendall hoarsely as he got upon his feet "No. no!" cried Elmendorf. "1 don't mean to accuse her. That would be absurd. We mustn't waste time. What was the poison?" "I don't know." replied Kendall. "Of course there was no time for analysis. TLjitV wliv I frWxl it nn cm.oll (in. linals. It's souse kind of a heart deI pressant?the very thing to use in a case of this kind, where the condition is one of weakness and especially where there is an injury in the region of the organ." "But didn't these nsice show any symptoms that you could recognize?" asked Elmendorf. "No; nothing definite I could name several poisons that would answer all the reauirements. It isn't necessary to know Immediately. The treatment would be the same in any case. And the danger is over. I believe." "Unless it's somewhere else," said Elmendorf; "in her medicines, perhaps." "That wouldn't he possible without assuming something that can't be assumed?not in my presence, at any rate." 1 "You mean that Miss Maclane,H? I | "Precisely." snid Kendall. "And as > there can l>e no thought of such a thins we conclude *hat this infernal ? t.hlcsr"?and he tapped the jar with bis J knuckles?"which was handy for evi erybody. wide mouthed and all that? \ Oh. I have been an idiot!" "She's been having tins riprht along," [ said Elnicndorf. "That might indii cate"? "Nothing until we know just what the stuff i< and how much of it we have to deal with." replied Kendall. ' "The effects observed may come from wnat sue ate tins noon or ne tne general result of small, repeated doses." "There's one thing." said Elmendorf ' with decision?"this villainous act must 1 have been done by somebody who knew that the food was there, by some 1 one who had been In the room several times"? "Don't!" groaned Kendall. "By heavens. I can't bear to think of It! I like Alden. I can't believe this of him. ' And?and she loves him; she loves him 1 Just as much now as ever." "Miss Maclane?" said Elmendorf. 1 "My friend, I don't believe it." Kendall looked up at him with a blank stare and shook his head. TO BK CONTJNOKD. 1 REVERIE OF A FALLING MAN. ^ What Anderson Was Thinking of During His 100-Foot Drop. > John Anderson, the former naval Jackie, who while painting ironwork : beneath the high bridge a month ago, > was severely injured by a fall, is lapl idly recovering at the city hospital. T} r?r V* Kic fV?icrV? hnn^c u'Prn hrnkPTl > His left leg was fractured near the ankle, a portion of bone was torn from his right hip. and he was wounded ' about the crown of his head. But he will not be permanently maimed or disfigured. On the afternoon of May 20 he was swinging happily like a bird or a twig, within a sling six ftet below the roadway of the high bridge and about 100 feet above the Mississippi River. The seat of a swing is a short piece of plank. It is attached at each end to ropes, which, passing through a block, return to the. sling as a single rope. By lengthening or shortening this rope the man in the sling can lower or elevate himself. "I was hanging close to one of the steel rods," said he yesterday, "a rod that I was painting. My rope was good and fast. I had no warning of any danger, when the sky and the clouds, and the bottom of the big bridge in the middle of it all dashed past my eyes and the air whistled 1b my ears Eke a typhoon in the China seas. I knew I was going down head first. No, I wasn't frightened. I sa:d t to myself, 'Now I'll strike the river before long, and if I keep going like this I'll strike the water head first, which . will be just as good as diving; and being a good swimmer I can easy gel ashore.' I wondered, too. if I'd beai ; my paint brush down. Funny what i little things a fellow will think about at these times instead of worrying about his own neck. "But about sixty feet down?I didn't measure the distance then?I struck ' one of the cross rods a slanting biovi with my head. But my legs, sort 'c huddled up as I fell probably, came, 1 full force against the rod. I coidd hear the bones crack. They made quite a loud noise like a percussion cap. Still it was the blow on the head that hurt me most. Then, though not before, I thought to myself. 'Well, its your last cruise for sure,' and things got black before me. I guist I fainted. "But the cold water brought me tc 5 bobbed up as natural as a harboi buoy. I soon opened my eyes and I suppose I smiled. I thought, just as if I was sofnebody else. 'Say, mate, you didn't die this watch, did you?' I j know I felt awful good about it. But soon as I made my first kick, or rather tried to make it, I found that both my legs were hanging as heavy and dead as shot in a canvas bag. They didn't pain me, though. And when I found I couldn't swim I felt my gun was spiked for sure. But just then I heard the crew up aloft on the bridge hollering 'Good boy, Sailor! You're all right! Keep it up! Boat's coming! Keep a paddling, Jackie.' It did sound fine and hearty, let me tell you. And so I kept a paddlin' until a man reached me in a boat fifteen minutes after I dropped down. "I was pretty nearly .done up. I knew how my legs would hurt me if he tried to pull me over the gunwale of the boat, and I tried to make him tow me alongside. But he couldn't manage that and he did haul me in, though it was a mighly tough experience. I didn't faint again, and after I was once in the hospital began to feel quite comfortable. I've had very littlo nain: fhov tak-? such fine care of patients here."?St. Paul Pioneer Press. What Results frcm Electricity. Although the predictions freely made a few years ago that the development of electric traction would quickly drive horses from the field of labor have not been fulfilled, yet the Electrical Review cites statistics to prove that the disappearance of the horse is actually taKing place, although so slowly as not to attract much attention. In Paris the number of horses fell off about G per cent between 1901 and 1902. In London the decrease in the same time was 10 per cent. In Berlin. Vienna and St. Petersburg a similar falling off is shown by the census of hordes. In New York It is estimated that the number of horses has decreased 33 per cent in the last twenty years. \ X . 4.^:. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL i I Southern Railways. As part of the work done by great railroad systems in developing the I South in strengthening their positions i there and extending their facilities. ] The Manufacturers' Record in this ] weens issue sumiuiu mc ?.i,I ditures for extensions. et,c., of several typical lines as follows: "The Illinois Central Railroad, for instance, notes the disbursement of $8,097,b*6 for betterments during the year. Nearly 200 additional miles of second main track were put in service, making a total of 533 miles of second and third track now in use on the system, which since last year has added 61 miles to its extent, making a total of 4,283 mileage. The Southern Railway Company expended in the same period for maintenance of way and structures, improvements and extensions, $6,630,721, the improvements includi lg the reductions of curves and grades on the St. Louis division, the building of new shops at Sheffield, Ala., the making of an extension from Littleton, Ala., to the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company's mines and the purchase of real estate at Birmingham, Louisville and other points. The. Norfolk & Western Railway also spent largely, and reports a total of $2,S99,457 for new branches and extensions, for improving bridges and trestles, for second track and for additional rolling stock. The Chesapeake & Ohio was not far behind its neighbor, having paid out o 099 fnr hoftprmpnts inelurina: I the station at Richmond. It has be- 1 gun several projects for the current year which will entail an expenditure of more than $4,000,000, and is also continuing its work of substituting heavy steel bridges or niasonary and permanent embankments for light iron bridges and wooden trestles. Another liberal spender is the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, which put the sum of $2,083,901 in betterments in purchasing new equipment, erecting new bridges and buildings, filling in trestles, etc. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway has also put out $423,731 for betterments, and the Central of Georgia, $259,390 for improvements, including the filling in I of 86 trestles. These seven railroad I companies report a combined total of j $23,218,301 spent last year for improvements and extensions and it is particularly gratifying that much of this large distribution of money was made out of the earnings of the prop- * erties." These expenditures made largely in ' the South are but a part of the work for the South done by these roads, a majority of which have for several ' years exerted themselves particularly f in building up industries and attract- J ing settlers to their respective terri- 5 tories. Thfe effects of their exertions ? are marked especially in the portion j of the South east of the Mississippi. ^ Now ten or twelve railroad systems J operating in the territory west of the t Mississippi which has come to be ? known as the great Southwest, have \ united in a plan for systematic settle- " ment of new lands. Commenting upon t this project a special correspondent ? at St. Louis of The Manufacturers' Record, says: R * "The Northwest became famous for 1 the wheat fields developed and the R cattle raised there. Now Kansas and n Oklahoma wheat beats anything in the g world, and wheat-growing in all the j* Southwest is on the increase. The Southwest is full of cattle, horses, f1 hogs, sheep and goats. Cotton i3 11 grown almost as far North as the s ! Kansas line and the cotton crop of the Southwest is already nearly one-half j of the entire product of the United i States. The rice fields of Louisiana f ; and Texas have revolutionized the rice t; j culture of the United States and have f' 1 made fortunes for the Northern men c who largely own them, while rice o lands have increased in price from h 25.cents an acre to $35 and $60. There a is almost nothing that grows that will y not tbr:ve in the Southwest. C "In horticulture hardly a beginning A has been made and yet. Missouri and F Arkansas and Oklahoma apples now g lead the world. Peacheq of wonderful b coloring and flavor are also raised in. o Missouri. Arkansas, Indian Territory* e and Oklahoma, and pears and plums li and strawberries and grapes and all F the small fruits grow to perfection all over the Southwest. Truck farming is making many farmers rich. Of the vast forests of hardwood and pine, of the zinc, lead and other valuable ores, g of the natural gas and the great quan- C( titles of splendid coal, of the oil and t. all that, the world probably knows something. But no idea of their enor- " mous value in the development of an b Industrial, as well as an agricultural c section, can be formed without a j, careful and exhaustive examination _ on the ground." Textile Notes. E Work is proceeding with the de- c elopments of the Ware Shoals Manu- J facturing Co. at Ware Shoals, near v Laurens, S. C. The water-power will. L it Is now estimated, give a minimum horse-power of 3,000, with 5.000 prac- F tically available at all times. Work- v men are now engaged on the construe- a tion of the dam, canal and powerhouse. This dam will be twenty-four j, foot hrnail nt Itc bflRO nnrl twontv-fiix !, 4VVV V-?V?V? Mb *VW k/MWW ****** *" II feet In height, equipped with gates. r The canal leading to the power-house, 7 where the electric dynamos will be j placed, will be half a mile long aud eighty-five feet wide. The cotton mill that is to be located after the power is ready will be. as previously announced. a 25.009 spindle plant. The Loray Mills of Gastonia. N. C., has shipped about $250,000 worth of b coarse heavy goods to China during 0 the past six months, and has sufficient orders on file to keep its plant ^ busy until Jaftuary. This mill ob- E tained its first order, amounting to $100,000. about six months ago. It has n 50,224 ring spindles and 1.6fi0 looms, t and is capitalized at $1,000,000. Messrs. T. D. Kemp and B. M. Lide r of Marion. Ala., are organizing a com 8 pany for the establishment of a cotton ^ mill. They propose installing a small * plant to spin y?rns. 1 7 . BUILDING AT AIKEN. r Evidences of Progress In This Livi Little City. Aiken, Special.?There has been extensive building operations going on n Aiken during the summer just past. A rough estimate shows that at least $140,000 worth of new buildings and improvements have been done. Although one of the smallest, the most money has been spent on the Whitney iouble squash court. Next to the covjred tennis court of the Aiken club :his is the most costly building in \iken, fully 120,000 having been spent >n it. It is now in the hands of decorttors and will be finished this week, squash is an indoors game something like tennis, only the ball is struck up igainst a dead wall before which in heir respective courts the players itand. The Whitney squash court is situated near Joye cottage and has a central reception room with courts opening off at the right and left. The courts are the full height of the building and lighted by skylights and a row )f high windows. The centre room upstairs serves as a gallery from which to watch the play. The building is leated by steam and beautifully decorated. The plans were drawn by Warden. Wetmore ? Morgan of New York, ind Mr. E. C. Tritten is the supervisng architect. J. H. Hines is the canractor and the decorating was done )jfc a Charleston artist, M. E. E. Melfl. iVork on the addition to Joye cottage, Mr. Whitney's winter home, is progressing rapidly. More attention is jeing paid to landscape gardening and >ne of the features of the improvenents is a Roman garden and centre fountain. Two large wings are being milt to the house, to contain two nipsta' rhambers and louneine and lath rooms and servants' rooms overlead. These wings are connected with :he nfain building by a covered passage, and the Roman gardemis be:ween them. Senator Geo. F. Ednunds' residence on Aiken heights is ipproaching completion. It is a very :omfortable house of 20 rooms, with ill the-modern conveniences. W. F. Dobey is the contractor and the house vill cost $12,000. The new golf fclub louse at the Palmetto golf links is ilso nearly done. John Laird is the* .'ontractor, and the building alone ?st $8,000. It in one of the finest in he country and is admirably situated >n a brow of a hill which commands i view of the links. Government Appeals. Charleston, Special.?The United States engineers and attorneys are >usy preparing the government's side n the appeal which has been carried o the supreme court in the' case of irthur Lvnah against the United States, for damages done to a rice dantation by the jetty construction at iavannah. The plaintiff was awarded 10,000 some months ago, but the govrnment is not prepared to accept as inal the verdict of the lower court nd the case will be reviewed by the ilo-Viact Tha nlninHff'o nlflntft ion is on tho Back river, a tributary f the Savannah river, and his petlion alleges that the jetty work to eepen the river at the port has caused he water to rise in the Back river, verflowing his land and ruining it or the cultivation of rice. There are everal similar suits pending, and If he Lynah case decision is allowed to tand there will doubtless be many aore suits of the kind filed against the overnment. The engineers and attoreys are consequently giving much atention to the case, in hopes of being ble to reverse the decision of the ewer court and stop a multiplicity of uits. Saluda's New Senator. Saluda. Special.?The second primary or a State senator from Saluda couny was held last week. The returns rom all but three small precincts indiQfo irvn nf Tampc HT Ti'nrrPSf ver his competitor, E. S. Bleaso. by a nndsome majority. Saluda's new sentor was born in 1847 and is now 55 ears old. During the war he served in 'o. I, Second South Carolina cavalry, .t the close of the bloody conflict Mr. 'orrest, like thousands of others, bean the struggle of life penniless, but y hard work and the practice of econmy is today among the largest proprty owners in our county. His whole fe has been spent on the farm. Mr. 'orrest never offered for office before. New Enterprises. The secretary of state last week ranted a charter to the Gonzales Book ampany which is to deal In books, staionery. etc., conduct a publishing busless and run a general store in Columia for the sale of such goods. The apital stock is $7,500. A. E. Gonzales s -president and treasurer and Herjan Badek is secretary. A charter was granted the Bruce & ioster Drug company of Greenville, apitalized at $15,000. The officers are ^ "* > -? a. A T nA?4Aa . w. eruce, president; \j. u. uumci, ice president and W. A. Morrill secreiry an -' treasurer. A commission was issued the- First 'resbyterian church of Eutawville of rhich the Rev. R. W. Holman is pastor nd R. M. Goodman secretary. A commission was issued to the Milcm Rice company of Milton Plantation n Georgetown county, on the Pee Dee lver. The capital stock is to be $8,000. 'lie corporators are G. E. Herriot and . A. Baxter. News By Wire. Many prominent Irishmen are atending the meeting of the United Irish .eague, at Boston, very Kev. P. R. Mayer, an Aruertcan. as been elected general of the Order f Carmelities. A St. Louis man has left $"0,000 to liss Eva Martin, a Chicago mime, who lurscd him through a serious illness. Col. Edward Butler, the St. Louis nillionaire politician, was indicted by he grand jury on a charge of bribery. The national convention o? the Woaan's Christian Temperance Union, in ession at Portland. Maine, began a cruade against the display of offensive dctures on billboards and m advertisenents. m * .> SOUTft CAROLINA SYNOD. Meeting of a Great Religious Body in Columbia. Columbia, Special.?The South Carolina Presbyterian Synod has been in session here this week. The synod of South Carolina is composed of six presbyteries: Bethel, covering the counties of York, Loncasfcr, Chester, Fairfield, the part of Cherokee east of the Eroad river, Chesterfield, excepting the section about Cheraw, and one church in Kershaw. it has on Its roll 37 ministers, 56 churches, and reported to the last general assembly 5.G01 communicants. Enoree, covering the counties of Spartanburg, Greenville, Laurens, Union and the portion of Cherokee next to Broad river. It has on its roll 31 ministers and 58 churches and reported last April 4,194 communicants. South Carolina, covering the counties of Pickens, Oconee, Anderson, Abbeville, Greenwood, Newberry, Saluda and Edgefield. It has on its roll 27 ministers, 63 churches and reported ? last spring 4,260 communicants. Charleston, covering the counties of f \ H Richland, Lexington, Orangeburg, Barnwell, Aiken, Hampton, Beaufort, Colleton, Dorchester, Charleston juid Berkeley. It has on its roil 22 ministers last assembly 2,579 communicants. Harmony, covering Kershaw, Sumter, Clarendon, Williamsburg and Georgetown counties, has on its roll 17 ministers and 34 churches, and reports 2,363 communicants. . Pee Dee, covering Darlington, Florence, Marion, Horry and Marlboro counties and the Cheraw section of Chesterfield, has 12 ministers and 2V churches, and reports 1,570 communicants. The synod meets annually and in its organization consists of all the ministers and elders representing each church. So there might be 336 ministers and 276 elders present, 412 in all. But th eaverage attendance for the last four meetings has been 120 members. Last year, when the body convened in Charleston, 130 were enrolled, the largest number for mar.y years. The body, in organizing for business,, selects from the members present ita own moderator each year. The Rev. Dr. Jas. Woodrow of this city was chosen last year, and as moderator preaches the opening sermon this year ^-Aal/lna O now mnHflPfltAP 111 a LIU yi COIUCO ULUl a awn iuwv>\<?.?v* elected. The one permanent officer of the body is the stated clerk, who continues at the will of the synod. The Rev. Thos . . H. Law, D. D., of Spartanburg, has filled this office in the synod for 27 years, having been elected In 1875 to succeed the Rev. William Banks, who had died during the preceding year. The synod, in the Presbyterian, system of church courts, looks after those ttings which are common to the presbyteries in its bounds, and receives appeals and complaints which come up from the* presbyteries. The South Carolina synod has a number of permanent committees which attend to the several departments of church work arid report to it every year. These cover home missions, foreign missions, education, publication, colored evangelization and the Bible cause. It has aluo at present a permanent committee on the Twentieth Century fund for education. THE SEMINARY. In connection with the synod r.pnre-ia Alahama and Florida, this synod controls the teolcgical seminary in this city, whose interests? and welfare usually claim the very special consideration of the body. There has been of late some talk of a plan to remove this cherished Institution to Atlanta and consolidate it with the Southwestern Presbyterian University of Ciarlcsville. Tenn., in Atlanta. Should this matter come up at the approaching synod, it will proabbly be the most interesting question before the body. But many doubt whether any definite proposition which really means business will come from Atlanta now, as Clarksville cannot possibly be removed. t A Suicide. Spartanburg, Special.?Mrs. A. D. Switzer committed suicide Sunday morning at her home near Roebuck. Her tragic death is a shock to the entire neighborhood. She was apparently in the best cf health and spirits this morning. She dressed her children and sent them to Sunday school. Her husband was lying on the bed in the bed chamber asleep or reading the paper. She entered this room about 10 o'clock, left a note on the bureau and without his observing it, took a razor from the bureau drawer. Mrs. Switzer then went to a dilapidated dwelling near their new home, and severed a main artery of one leg with the razor. It was several hours after this before her lifeless body was found. Her husband aroused from bed and missed his wife. He could not find her, and sub sequently found the note on the bureau. The contents of the note, according to one who read it today, were to this effect: "Life is a failure to me. Take my children, Dave, and do the best you can for them. I wll! take my life today." Mr. Switzer then searched everywhere. anb about noou found the body of his wife lying in the old house. Mrs. Switzer's maiden name was Ola Lambright. She came of excellent family and is related to a number of prom-, inent people here. She was a niece of Col. H. D. Floyd of this city. She was 35 years of age. of stout, robust, fine personal appearance. She left seven* cheldren. Her domestic life was, to all appearances ,happy and contented. Her husband is a successful planter of Roe' buck. ' '' >