The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 15, 1905, Image 3
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^H^9>wn in the valley ''Well-Enough* mt
They toil and they eat and they love a hi
W Whife off in the hazy distance gleam the
And none that has traveled that ditjtcult
The way is o'er rocks, sharp and jugged
^^^kWhiie the water drips cool, far below in
H^r cursed.
How he longs, all in vain, for :i ir. d!v
I and true;
Hut he may not turn back, so he
And at last, oh, long journej : see lorn h?
with pain!
^KHe stands at the summit of w^eat desire,
^^^AAnd then?ah. the sadne~~ of heart-breal
l or be longs to return to dhe land he lias
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^ UNDECEIVED L1
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r /\>I tired of this delay.
I f Marion. I want the matc
I ^ tor settled detiuitely, and
^ ? Jt at once."
'WWwr "You are very unreason?*
able, aunt," said Miss Deshrugging
her shoulders petu'
l^atiy. "Thiugs of this sort can't be
t?irried up in a moment."
J **A moment!" echoed Mrs. GardiM
ner. "Why. it's full three months since
W <irey Pelham commenced visiting
' you!"
"Set your heart at rest, aunt." said
Marion, with a glance of triumph
X^Bhootiug from. beneath her drooping,
bine-veined eyelids. "If ever a man
was desperately in love, he is?the
lime of his bachelor freedom grows
short."
"But how short?"
"Will you be satisfied if he proposes
Jr - week?"
" es?but he will not."
"Leave him to me!" said the tali
beauty, imperiously. "I am as impa
tiont as you are?but I know very well
it will uot do to show it."
"It is shockingly expensive," sai<i
Mrs. Gardiner, plaintively. "When I
took the furnished house for six
mouths, I supposed you would be off
my hands long before this?and the
servants' bills, and tbe account for the
coupe, with the driver iu white gloves,
and?"
"Spare me the reiteration of household
annoyances, aunt." said Marion.
Impatiently. "You are supposed to be
a wealthy dowager. I. your heiress
niece. What sort of society do you
suppose we could have commanded if
people had known our real status?"
"Well. I suppose you are right," said
Mrs. Gardiner, disconsolately; "but.
dear me. Marion, if this last chance
should fail?"
"It will not fail, aunt. Haven't I
told you to set your heart at rest?"
Thus ended the colloquy between
aunt and niece, and Mrs. Gardiner
left the room to attend the summons
of her cook.
\l*rir?n vaca <e!nwlv w.ilkf* ? with thi>
step of a princess, to the full length
mirror, framed in a net-work of gilt
passion vine leaves, and looked into
its surface.
f What a lovely picture smiled hack
upon her. flushed with the soft wineligbt
of sunset. A tall, flexible figure,
full of unstudied grace; a small head,
royally set upon the slender, snowy
throat, and crowned with braids of
silken black hair, coiled round and
round in glossy profusion. Her com
plexion was rather dark, but line
grained as satin, with a delicate crimson
glow on either cheek, and lips full
and scarlet as newly ripened cherries,
while her lovely black eyes, large and
soft as velvet, gave a tender expression
to the whole countenance.
* "Yes." murmured Marion Delaacy.half
aloud. "I have beauty ? Grey
Pelham lias rank and wealth. Are
we not evenly matched? What right
has he to ask for more?"
The thoughts were yet flitting
through her brain, when a servant entered,
with a sealed missive in her
hand.
Teiegram. miss, jusi ;iru\ tu.
Marion caught it from the servant's
hand and tore it open.
"Miss Delancy." it read, "your father
is much worse and more troublesome
to-day. and I cannot continue to take
charge of him. unless arrears are paid
up at once. If I do not sec you soon,
I skail bring him up to New York,
and return him to your care.
"SARAH DARBY."
Marion flushed scarlet, and bit her
lip until her small, white teeth gleamed
vindictively.
"What a bothei!" she muttered to
herself; "but it is just like that spiteful
old Darby to carry her senseless
threats into execution. I must get ten
dollars from Aunt Gardiner to stop her
mouth with; aud tlie sooner th? better.
Perhaps I had best take the evening
express down to Berksdale at
once."
She glanced at her tiny Geneva
watch.
"Yes. I have time; but I ought not
to waste it now. of all times! Olio
night's delay may cast some chill
across the slow of Grey Pe!ha:n's
love; but there is no alternative left
uie."
And the evening express carried Miss
Delancy down to the obscure little village
where her poor, crazed, old father
was farmed out. at the least possible
rates of compensation, to a hard faced
widow with a heart like adamant
Meanwhile. Grey Pelham. Esquire, in
liis elegant bachelor sanctum, was preparing
himself elaborately for an eveuing
call on his fair goddess. It was a
' room whose adornment and decoration
Jjespoke not only wealth without stint
limit, but refined taste and highly
k cultured appreciation. Exquisite lit
r lie Droiize giuuiis ^iniiua-u-u v.i uincu
brackets; statuettes of ahibaster leaned
from backgrounds of ruby velvet:
paintings tbat an amateur would have
valued at their weight in gold opened
the glow of Neapolitan skies and misty
Swiss valleys to the eye, aud cabinets
of rare cameos and antique coius fiHed
the recesses.
But the student and philosopher were
now merged in the enthusiastic lover.
Grey Pelbam had lost his heart to the
mystic sparkles of Marion Deiancy's
marvelous, black eyes, and
of all/^c
SNOUGH. J
?n are careless and joyons and free; j
it, and they grow old happily;
peaks of the unknown: 'Fame."
steep can enter the valley again. 1
i
and cruel; through fierce heat, with a dead- i
the depths of the way that to him is ac- 1
handclasp, for the smiles that were ready
s dong. with the joy of achievement in view. ^ !
in>Is and feet, and lace drawn and wrinkled -j
to dwell on his priceless gain. I I
c! was not that a man's cry of woe? | {
lost?to the "Well-Enough'' valley below, j
race G. Bostwick, in New York Tribune. J '
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f9*"'* By Helen !
Forrest Graves. r
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hazel eyes, and features, which if not 1
strictly regular, were sufficiently well *
moulded, and possessed the rare merit *
of expression.
The last sunset rays were just touch- *
ing the stone cornices of the elegant
' mansion that Mrs. Gardiner called
j "her ancestral inheritance"?not deeming
it worth while to mention the ,!
trifling fact that it was rented from a
I Jewish stock broker at a thousand dol- x
lars a month?when Mr. Pelhaui rang ^
i the doorbell.
**/\n+ of tA?*n Iia vai -\o tn.l o ftne ^
the servant. "How unfortunate! j'
| Where lias-she gone, anil when did she
Ig0''" i
j Now, .Margery being a new servant, j
i had not yet learned the crooked ways ^
and wiles of the Gardiner household,
and unwittingly answ*ed the truth. Q
"She's gone to Berksdale, sir, and ^
maybe she'll be obliged to stay two .
or three days, I heard her tell the
missus. It's at Mrs. Darby's, sir,
where?''
o
"Berksdale, eh?" s
Mr. Felham knew that another train j,
left within the next hour or so?the v
last train that night, and he resolved ^
to follow his bright beacon star forthj
with. Poor fellow, he had reached that ^
' desperate stage in love in which all j
j spots where the beloved one is not are j
howling wildernesses. t
He slipped a bank bill into Margery's v
?iot unwilling lingers, and hurried down,
the street. v
"I will seek her out. and let her 0
sweet lips decide my fate at once." lie tl
thought. "Marion! How appropriate f
is the sweet Scottish name to her pure t
and gentle womanliness! All the Marions
in poetry and romance are models X]
of grace and gentleness, and she is no
exception." t
(You see that Mr. Telham was very
much in love.) a
| Berksdale was soon reached by the ,
iron feet of steam, hut, rapid as the j
progress was, it failed to keep pact t(
with the young man's feverish iuipa- t]
tience. ^
It was eight o'clock, with a full moon ,,
shining upon the fresh spring foliage. ,,
when, after having been duly directed 1
to Mrs. Darby's, he set forth on his ^
walk to the secluded village nook. .,
"Darby?Mrs. Darby? She do be the
one who keeps the old. crazy gentleman.
and a rare uu she is to thump
him round! Oh, yes. sir. Ain't more'u
a mile beyant the big church?a red
house, with a big poplar tree in front."
Thus instructed with regard to the
locality. Grey Pelham felt that he
could not well go wrong.
The red house, with a big poplar tree
in front, presented no very inviting d
aspect as he strode up to the wide- a
open door. The blinds hung on one r
hinge, creeking dolefully in the breeze; e
the gate was tied up with loeps of a
rusty rope, where nails should have o
been; and broken crockery, invalided ii
tinware and heaps of oyster shells u
adorned the dooryard in lieu of velvety
grass and borders of flowers.
Grey Pelham, wondering a little as p
to what business could possibly bring ,,
Marion Delancy to such a spot as this. ^
knocked at the open door, but 1:0 one 0
responded to the summons. t
lie knocked again, and yet a third e
| time, with no better success, and tin- a
; ally walked boldly into a little sitting a
1 room, where yawning portals seemed v
: to invite entrance. A single oil lamp
burned on the table, by whose light ho
could just find his way to a chair.
"I suppose I may as well sit down 0
here and wait until some one comes," 0
he said, resignedly to himself. ^
As he did so, he became aware of a
voices in the adjoining apartment, s
raised high in altercation, and of a
name spoken in shrill tones?a name 1
dear and precious in his ears. 11
"I tell you. Miss Delancy, 'tain't ?
enough! Two dollars in a week won't '
pay his board, let alone the clothes and 0
the lodging!" 0
And Marion's accents, silvery sweet, 1
answered in low. measured tones: ^
"Two dollars a week is a great deal
of money for an old man who can chop
wood, and dig garden, and help you so ^
much about the house." I
"But he won't help. Miss Delancy? ^
; he just sits and mopes the whole time. 1
The doctor says he ought to have 0
wine." 0
"Oh. nonsense! I can't afford to bny v
him wine! That's all an absurd no- c
tion!" 1
"Well, lie is your own father. Miss 7
Delancv: fix it any way you please. 1
and it ain't hardly decent to let him t
starve." t
"Yon are too extravagant in yonr fi
ideas. Mrs. Darby. What can an old i
man like that want of new clothes and I
dainty fare? I tell you. I can't afford
to pay you more than two dollars a
week; my expenses in New York are r
ruinous, and?" i
"Then you may as well send lilm to s
the poorhouse at once. Miss Delancy. t
I won't undertake to keep hint short ^
of three dollars, at the very least." (
"I don't like to do that," Marion an- r
swered. hesitatingly, as if the idea t
commended itself to her as not imprac- c
ticable in some respects. "People will \
talk." 1
"They'll talk just the same if yon j
let him starve to death here, aui> a i
good deal worse." t
"It's a great nuisance-" said MarJ|p, t
impatiently. "Well, I suppose I will t
have t)o pay you two dollar* and^|g
Lalf.' \
"See him? Oh, 60, not for the world1 <
[t always racks my nerves. You
leedn't tell him I've been here!"
"Well!" ejaculated the other; "if yon
lin't the coolest one. Miss Delancy! 1 1
lon't set up to he the most devoted '
laughter in existence, hut if my father
vas like your'n, I'd want at least to
iee him once in a while."
"What wnuM he the us?? Here's
he quarter's money in advance; and |
f he gets violent or troublesome again,
ust lock him upon bread and water!
sow, show me to my room, please, for I
*ve got to get hack in the early train
o-morrow morning, before my de oted
cavalier misses me!"
"Then it's true that you are going
o marry a rich man down in New
fork, Miss Delar.oy! Squire Frolhingt;iin
said you was, but. la! there's
leaps o' reports that haven't no more
oundation than a whiff of smoke."
.Miss Deianey iau^heil triumphantly.
"You will see. throe months from
low. Mrs. Parby. That's right; get
he candle, for there is nothing that
poils my complexion like want of
ieep.'"
(irev IYlnani had sat as motionless
luring this conversation as if he had
teen turned to stone! Honorable genleman
that he was. he would have
corned the idea of eavesdropping; but
io had been spellbound?thundertruck.
Was this cold hearted, cruel
vorlding. whose very natural affecion
seemed frozen in her veins, the
larion lie had worshiped with such
bind. unquestioning idolatry? Was it
lossjble tlujt he had been deceived all
hese months?
Like the downfall of some superb oblige.
undermined at once and entirely,
lis dream of love crashed to the earth!
le buried his face in his hands, with
low. bitter groan, given to the memry
of the Marion whom he now knew
ind never existed, save in his own
magination.
Then he rose and went out in the
ool. clear moonlight, staggering like
no just risen from a hed of serious
ickncss. lie was thankful now that
ie had encountered 110 one?that Inrns
free to depart without question or
loubt.
Disenchanted ? undeceived! The
ilow had been a cruel one. but Grey
'olhara recognized the kindness of the
land that had struck it. and returned
o New York, resolved to bear it with
rhat equanimity he could.
Miss Delancy waited, but waited in
ain, for Mr. Pelham's anticipated
all: and finally at the end of three
lays dispatched a little pink note, perumed
with the ottar of roses, to ask
ho reason of his unwonted absence.
The servant brought back the note
tnopened.
"Please, miss, he sailed for Havana
his morning!"
A month subsequently the cxasperted
creditors of Mrs. Percy Gardiner
net in the elegantly furnished house,
ust in time to deplore their own dilioriness,
for that smiling matron had
ecamped. leaving an array of debts
iehind her that might have awed the
lotorious Mrs. Chad wick, the Ohio ^
risoner. j
And that was the disastrous end of ;
larion Delancy's matrimonial cam- ]
laigu!?>*?w York Weekly. I
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OTNClppS!
In Charlottenburg, Germany, a novel 1
levice to protect firemen from smoke <
nd flames while lighting a Are was
rmhlinlv tpsfcd. The invention '
'
onsists of au iron shield, perforated, .
nd affixed a little behind the nozzle j
f a tire hose. It is capable of form- ,
ng in front of the man holding the \
iozzIc a circular screen of water. i
IYofessor Itedard, of Geneva, who apilied
music as a tranquiliziug influnce
on persons under anaesthetics,
las discovered that blue light falling ]
n the eyes, even when closed, affects
he nerve centres and produces sleep, (
ither by a hypnotic or anaesthetic j
ction. Violet and green, hut not red ]
nd yellow, rays have a similar, but
reaker effect.?London IGobe.
In the eastern part of the great forst
region of Central Africa, where the
kapi was discovered, Mr. It. Meiuertzingen
has recently killed specimens of
hitherto unclassified species of wilfa
wine, for which the popular name
forest liog" has been suggested. It
ears much resemblance to the wartlog,
but is less hideous in the shape
>[ its skull and the arrangement, of
ts teeth. It is also more abundantly
lothed with black hair. As in the case
f the okapi, the late Sir H. M. Stanley
ienrd of the existence of this hog, but
lid not see specimens of it.
In reporting the results of tli? recent
isit of the British Institution of Civil
Engineers to America, Sir William
Yhite said that four new instalments i
tow under way on the Canadian side
f Niagara Falls will give an aggregate ,
f 440.000 liorsc-power. When these
vorks are completed the grand total
if power derived from Niagara on
>oth sides of the river will be about
00,000 horse-power, which, of course,
s but a fraction of the whole power of
he falls. The visitors were informed
hat within a radius of about fortyIve
miles from Ottawa sufficient watertower
exists to furnish uea-Iy 1,000.000
lorse-power for driving machinery.
The final report of the Royal Comnission
on Coal Supplies presents some
nteresting facts. Assuming 4000 feet
is the limit of depth and one foot as
he minimum thickness of seam at
vhlch coal mining is practicable, the
ommission estimates that the availtble
quantity of coal yet untouched on
he British Isles amounts to a little
>ver one hundred thousand million
ons. This is about ten thousand milion
tons greater than the estimate
nade by the Coal Commission of 1871,
jotwithstanding tlig fact that more
ban five a?d a, half thousand million
ons of coal hive been raised in the
neantiaie. The difference is accounted
'or by more accurate knowledge of
^ coal, seams. -The consumption of
coal in 100.1 is estim:|^^nt
T?" . - > -V' v, "... .
TWO STRIKE VICTIMS f
l!
Utile Abatement in Trouble Between
Teamsters and Employers
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RIOTING IS RENEWED IN CHICAGO '
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Union Teamsters Gashes a Negro .
Driver's Head With an Axe, Cutting
Off Several Fingers With a Second I
Stroke, and an Excited Negro Po- :
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liceman Shoots Into a Crowd With
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Fatal Result.
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Chicago, Special.?No proposals for '
peace came from either side to the ;
teamsters' strike Saturday, and for the
present the strike has settled down 1
to a matter of cvluranee. John J. <
Farwell, Jr., iii whose hands the employers
have placed their case, as far i
is peace negotiations are concerned, :
said Saturday afternoon that no over- i
tures would be made to the teamsters |
it any time hereafter. The employers
ire willing, he said, to meet the men
it any time, but no more proposals will
be made to them.
The Teamsters' Joint Council held a |
short meeting, at which terms of set- (
tlement were considered, but nothing
ivas done. 1 '
John C. Driscoll. formerly se^etary
pf the Team Owners' AssoeiationiV'ho j
has been anxiously sought in conlection
with the suits brought against
President Shea, of the Teamsters' Cn- '
ion. by George R. Thorne. who alleges !
criminal libel, has returned. President |
Shea declared that he was offered $10,- (
)00 by Thorne. through Driscoll. to call ,
i strike on Sears. Roebuck & Co. Dris- .
'oil denied positively that he nad any
knowledge of the affair. He will appear
before the grand jury Monday.
Secretary Sincere, of the Employers'
Association, declared that as far as doing
business was concerned, the strike
is over. The employers have 2.COO J
teams in service and are doing almost
i normal amount of traffic. ,
Saturday evening, while Frederick |
Jones, a colored teamster, who was un- ,
loading some lumber at an uncompleted
building at West Eighteenth and j
Sangamon streets, a mob numbering
1,000 men. women and children, gathered
around him and commenced to ,
throw stones and other missiles. Po- |
licemen Benson and Schempster, who ,
were guarding the wagon, drew clubs (
and attempted to drive back the mob,
both officers being struck several times
with stones. While the trouble was at
Its height, John Hinee. a union teamster,
forced his way through the crowd
and coming up to Jones when he was j
stooping over throwing off some lumber,
struck Jones o^er the head with
an axe, cutting a gash in his scalp
three inches long. A second stroke
finished him. One other non-unton
workman was killed. "
Thanks the President.
St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Paris is
Russia's choice as the place for opening
peace negotiations. If Japan insists
upon Manchuria or Washington,
Russia doubtless will agree, but Paris
is preferred and the Emperor already
is prepared to issue instructions to
M. Nelidoff, the ambassador to France,
to act as plenipotentiary to receive the
Japanese conditions.
The Russian government has com- |
municated to the administration at
Washington its consent to puublication
of Russia's reply to President Rooserelt's
appeal, at the same time thanking
the President warmly for the
friendly and lofty spirit in which it was
conceived.
It is now possible to give some additional
interesting details of the extraordinary
council presided over by the
Emperor, which met recently at Tsarkoe-Selo,
and at which the practical,
although not the final decision was
taken to terminate the war if the conditions
were not too onerous.
Gen. Boyton's Successor.
Washington. Special. ? Secretary
Taft has appointed Gen. Ezra A. Carman
as chairman of the Chlckamauga
Military Park Association to succeed
the late Gen. H. V. Boynton. General
Carman was colonel of a New Jersey
regiment during the civil war, and was
breveted a brigadier general.
I ntn River.
MUIO nuiiyva .....
Chicago. Special.?Three persons
were drowned and two others escaped
narrowly a like fate Saturday night
when an automobile in which the live
were riding plunged into the Chicago
river through the open draw of the
Rush street bridge. ,
The drowned: Jerome G. Kurtzman,
manager for a chemical company;
Mrs. Jerome Kurtzman; W. A. Hartley,
manager for an automobile house.
The rescued were: W. H. Hoops, Jr.,
manager for an automobile company
and Mrs. Jeremiah Runyon, of New
York City. /
Foreign Consul Murdered.
Tangier. By Cable.?Moorish robbers
entered the Austrian vice consulate at
Maagan. on June 6 and murdered Vice
Consul Madden, a British subject, who
also represented Denmark, and who
had been established there for many
years. They also fired at and wounded
his wife. The assassins escaped. The
Austrian and British authorieties have
sent energetic protests to the Sultan's
Foreign Minister.
Fatal Pistol Duel.
Knoxville, Tenn., Special.?Charles
Reed is dead and Alia Blakmore is
mortally wounded as the result of a
pistol duel at Pleasant View. Ky.. Sunday.
The cause of the affray is not
known. Both are young men and
foremen of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad construction gangs. A quarrel
at Reed's camp caused Reed to
begin shooting, and Blakmore responded.
Each was shot four times. Blakmore
was brought here to the hospital
and will die. His home is in Alabama.
Reed lived at Saxton, Ky.
Secret Service Agent Wounded.
London, By Cable.?A dispatch to a
news agency from Kieff, Russia, says
an attempt was made Sunday afternoon
to assassinate Lieutenant Colonel SpirldoYitch,
of the secret service -police.
The polonet^aa j^aiking in the. main
afjg^t o? the clty> wi|?tf?n unknown
IHfired twicfc at hJ^B^a revolver.
were effe^^^B SpiridovaertDuslyji^^HBis
assail
SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN !
Conditions For Past Week ag Given
Out by the Department.
The first of the week ending Monlay,
June 5th, was warm, the middle !
aortion cool, and the close had normal :
:emperature. There was widespread i
romplaint that cool nights were un- ;
'avorable on cotton. There was more I
.han the usual amount of sunshine j
)ver the western and central part? :
ind less than usual over the eastern j
jarts. There were local high, damag ,
ug winds in the northeastern coun- |
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ies on lilt: oviu ouu oioi, ?j
ng thunderstorms.
A large portions of the State had
io rain during the week, but there
vere heavy rains in the east central,
eastern and southern counties on the
50th and 31st, further delaying farm
work and increasing the foulness ot
:orn and cotton.
Farm work made rapid progress ov?r
the larger portion of the State, but
mltivation is difficult owing to the
ank growth of grass and weeds and
he rapid diying of ihe soil which renters
it baken and crusted. The wrath- j
;r was generally favorable for growth
if crops, and there rs a marked im[movement
noted where they have
seen cultivated, but the general condi:ion
of all field crops is still poor. J
There is a marked improvement \rm
cotton which looks well where worl^
?d, especially on clay soils, but is
itill poor, yellow and small on sandy
ind gray soils, with less complaint of
plants dying than last week. Lice
ire prevalent in the central and eastern
counties. There yet remains a
small portion of the crop to chop to
stands. Favorable progress was made
in cleaning fields of grass and weeds.
Put much remains foul, and some will
Pe abandqned owing to the rank
growth of grass and the scarcity of
' -1? ?~ w-e* oniifli*oa horn
lauurcrs. x-11 oc o^uatvd
aoted in many parts of the State.
The conditions of corn is variable,
ranging from good to very poor, and
much of the crop is suffering for want
of cultivation. In many places it is
yellow and undersized. Where proper*
ly cultivated it is fine. Bottom land3
were prepared and planted during the
week. Worms continue destructive in
the southern counties. Rice looks
fairly well. A large acreage of June
rice will be planted in the Georgetown
district. Melons are late. Wheat is
being harvested and the yields are
poor, owing to rust and too much
rain. Oats are ripe and being generally
harvested, with yields ranging
rrom excellent to poor. Spring oats
continue promising. Peaches are being
shipped the quality is good, but
the fruit is small. In places peaches
are rotting badly. Gardens are doing
well but need rain in the west. Pas- i
tures good. Minor crops generally j
promising.?J. W. Bauer, Section Di- J
rector.
W.
F. Klumpp & Co.'s Cotton Crop
Letter.
The following cotton crop letter is
furnished by Messrs. W. F. Klumpp &
Co.: r
The weather conditions the past
fortnight have continued unfavorable,
and private advices with few exceptions
report the crop to be very backward,
compared with last season, farmers
being unable to work the fields
on account of the protracted rains. In
the eastern belt, the plant is making
better progress than in the central and
western belt, but as a rule over the
entire region the crop i3 doing poorly,
especially in Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, where the plant is badly in
the gras3, and in Texas and Arkansas,
where the outlook in many sections
is very discouraging, fanners having
been unable to finish planting, and
some fields being abandoned on account
of wet weather.
The crop is about two weeks later
than usual, and considering the reduction
in acreage, of about 15., as per
our crop letter of the thirteenth ult.,
the weather conditions of the next
thirty days are of greatest Importance,
as they will throw more light on the
chances for a crop in keeping with
consumption.
Weather conditions will continue to
govern prices for some time to come.;
Riot in Aiken County.
Columbia, Special.?A race riot is in
progress at Bush, in Aiken county, the
scene of the old Elleuton riots of the
reconstruction period. So far a white |
man named Burwell McClain is dead,
and his son mortally wounded and two
negroes are dangerously wounded.
These were fired upon from the house
of a negro named Gordon High. McClain
had been deputized to go and
bring a negro child to a magistrate, the
child being in dispute in a case to be
tried before the magistrate. High defled
McClain, who was re-enforced by
his son, and two negroes and High and
his friends fired upon the approaching
party, with the result that Burwell
was killed and the others wounded.
High then made his escape into the
forest. Other negroes have armed
themselves with Winchesters and shot
guns and declared that they will protect
High, after whom a large and wellarmed
posse has started. High will be
lynched when he is caught. A long distance
'phone message from Aiken says
further bloodshed is expected.
Battleships Go South.
Norfolk, Va., Special.?The first division
of the battleship squadron, under
command of Rear Admiral R. D.
Evans, composed of the flagship
Maine, Kearsarge, Kentucky and Missouri,
sailed from Hampton Roads for
the Southern drill grounds. After two
days' evolutions at sea the squadron
will sail for New York, and tne snips
will then disperse for repairs at the
northern navy yards.*
Constable Shoo^Negro.
Columbia, S. C., Specil^? Dispensary
Constable John R. Isom ?rly Monday
afternoon shot and kill^pa young negro
named Jim Lone^fno had broken
away from Policeman Keith. Long
had been under arrest for snatching a
valise from a negro excursionist who
had just arrived over the Seaboard
from Savannah. Isoip daha^^c his
revolvefrfirdd nccidentl&i^^^^Buck
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NORMAL COLLEGE REPORT ;|
rhe Stat? Industrial and Normal Col* 'j:
lege For Girls is Expandirfg its Uso*
fulness.
The following leading facts are (^
.leaned from President Johnson's anmal
report of the work of Wlnthrop
College: ijM
"Winthrop College closes Its 10th
ear in Rock Hill with these com- j
nencement exercises tonight. It wlH
>e interesting to this large and repre- . ?
entative audience, I know, to have
omc account at this time of the work
nd growth of the college.
"Up to 1895 the institution was conlucted
in Columbia, from 1886 to 1892r
rent or aire- ana inserting in lieu thereof
the words, 'and all Individuals, firms
or corporations engaged in furnishing
or providing for rent or hire power derived
from canals, water powers, rivers
and streams in the State, so that
all individuals, firms or corporations
engaged in furnishing power for rent
or hire derived from water power in
this State shall be assessed and taxed
upon the same basis.
May Die From Horse's Kicks.
Chester, Special.?A fearful, horrible
and possib'y fatal accident occurred
here Thursday afternoon about 7:00
o'clock. Mr. P. G. McCorkle was driving
with his wife and little boy out
near the park and the horse very suddenly
became frightened and got beyond
control. He ran from the street
across the hills near the park and threw
the occupants out of the buggy. Mrs.
McCorkle escaped with slight injur}',
but was fearfully shocked; little Billy
was unhurt, but Mr. McCorkle sustained
several kicks in the face that
the doctors think will prove fatal. He
held to the lines an(^ the horse kicked
him twice, the blows landing just under
the left eye, breaking the eye lid and
cheek bone, and directly in the mouth
and nose. He is terribly mangled and
at this hour is unconscious. Drs. Cox
and McConnell are attending him and
everything in their power will be done
to save the patient.
$500 For Howard College.
Birmingham, Special. ? President
Montague, of Howard College, at East
| Lake, has just been notified by Wil- ^
liam J. Bryan that Howard College '
will be given a fund of J500, the in- t
come of which is to provide an an- <
nual prize for the best essay on some <
economic subject. The money is to be f
taken from the Philo S. Bennett fund, t
of which Mr. Bryan is trustee. 3
Want Southern Railway Enjoined.
Charle^on, Special.?Suit was
j filed in the United States Circuit c
Court on behalf of H. H. Cummings, 1
j of Augusta, asking that the Southern j
Railway be restrained from operating
the South Carolina and Georgia railroad,
and that a receiver for the latter c
property be appointed, and the road 1
sold at public auction. The suit is i
based upon the alleged conflict of the 1
Southern Railway's operation of the i
South Carolina and Georgia with the t
anti-trust laws of the United States, it 1
being held that the operation of the t
road is in restraint of trade. The b
case will be heard before Judge Pritch- s
ard at Asheville June 26. c
Mrs. Roosevelt Visits the Wilmers InVirginia.
Washington, Special?Mrs. Roose- ?
( velt will be entertained for several i ?
days by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilmer 1
at their old Virginia home at Rapi- ,
| dan. She left Washington for her <
| outing unaccompanied by any of her f
i children. The visit is a repetition of 1
one several years ago when the Presi j
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt spent several (
days at the Wilmer home. I
May Import Cigarettes.
Indianapolis. Ind., Special.?judge
James Leathers, of the Marion county
Superior Court, decided in the case of J
the State against W. W.'Lowry, in- (
dieted for smoking a cigarette, that
the anti-cigarette law passed' by the J
last legislature is constitutional, ex- <
cept wherein it may conflVt with the <
inter-State commerce l^fT Smokers 5
may import cigarettes from other States <
and smoke than, but jt is held un- j
Mr* 1
PALMETTO AFFAIRS"
1
Occurrences of Interest in Various
Parte of the State.
Geneal Cotton Market. 8
Middling r
Galveston, firm 8% *
New Orleans, firm 8 5-16
Mobile, steady k....8M? y
Savannah, steady 8 3-16
Charleston, quiet 8.00 E
Wilmington, steady 8.00 t
Norfolk, steady 8% s
Baltimore, nominal 8% s
Now York, quiet 8.55
Boston, quiet 8.55 a
Philadelphia, steady 8.80
Houston, steady 8 7-16 ^
Augusta, quiet 8V4
Memphis, steady 8%
St. Louis, quiet.. 8% ^
Louisville, firm 8^ 1
Charlotte Cotton Market. a
These figures represent prices paid 0
to wagons:
Good middling 8^ ?
Strict middling 8*4
Middling 8*4 I
Tinges 7 to 7%
Stains 6 to 7V> 1
a
t
State Board of Equilization. f
The State Eoard of Equalization ad- c
journed Thursday night. Thursday the 1
board listened to extended arguments ?
on the matter of assessing the Colum- v
cana. and upon raising the assess- f
moms or tnemuis in unester. ?
Mr. J. L. G. White, of Chester, fought
for a dollar for dollar valuation on the
mills there, but Mr. T. K. Elliott, of
Winnsboro and Mr. A. G .Brice. of
Chester, argued in behalf of the mills,
and the assessments were reduced.
In regard to the assessment of the
Columbia canal, the following resolution
was passed:
I "Whereas, article 7, chapter 14. of
the code of laws of South Carolina,
1902, providing for the assessment for
the purpose of taxation by the State
Board of Equalization of canals providing
power for rent or hire
is not sufficiently broad to provide for
the assessment by said board of individuals,
firms or corporations providing
power for rent or hire directly
from the natural water powers, rivers
and streams in the State; and, whereas.
such individuals, firms or corporations
so engaged should be taxed upon
the same basis as corporations furnishing
like power from canals:
"Be it resolved by the State Board
of equalization, That the General Assembly
be memorialized to amend section
309 of the code of laws of South
Carolina, 1902, by striking out the j
words 'and canals providing power for j
s the Winthrop Training scnooi ior
teachers, and from 1892 to 1895 as ^
Vinthrop Normal College, under the
et creating the institution as now
organized. %
"At the time of the establishment "j
if the Winthrop Training School for
he training of women as teachers in
886 nothing was being done by South
Carolina for the higher education and
raining of her daughters, although
mnual appropriations had been made
>y the Legislature for some 80 years
or the higher education of her sons, J<
ior was there an institution for the
raining of white teachers in North
Carolina, Georgia or Florida. The '*i
ounding of the schoool at that time ">!
/as made possible by an appropriation
rom the Peabody board, made through
he interest and sympathy of its chairnan,
the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop,
he orator and statesman, after whom
he school was named in grateful reoignition
cf the great services of him*
elf and the Peabody board rendered
o education in the South, sympathetic
ally, unselfishly and unremittingly Jl
luring all the dark years after the p
;iv!l war, when the needs of our desoated,
impoverished, prostrate South- \
and ^ere great and urgent.
"The gchool had a small beginning
n 1886. It opened with two teachers
Jid 19 3tudcnts in one room, and that
ras a borrowed room. Today it has
6 officers, teaciiers and assistants,
:81 students, not including the pupils
n the practice school, and a plant *
:osting over $300,000.
"The college closes this 10 years of
ts life at Rock Hill with much protress
made and with a bright outlook or
the future. Its material equipnent,
including buildings, grounds,
urniture, machinery and apparatus,
las been added to and greatly imiroved;
the courses of study have
>een developed and enriched; the
icholarship standards raised; the facilty
increased from 23 officers and
eachers to 46; the number of students
ncreased from 325 to 481, the utmost
apaeity of the dormitory accommodaions;
very many communities in this
State have been reached and benefited
n their schools and homes; and the
trhole organization better adjusted to
he work to be done and greatly im?
>roved in many particulars. Few in- >
ititutions have enjoyed greater pros>erity
and growth in the same time.
"The number of students applying
or admission to the college has steadly
increased each year. This last
rear the total number applying was
137?the greatest in the history of the
.ollege. The enrollment in the school '
ias been thoroughly representative of
he people of South Carolina. A num>er
of the students have always paid
heir own expenses. Over half of
he students each year have stated
hat they would not have attended any
tther college than Wlnthrop.
"The total number of matriculates
n the college from the beginning,
ncluding the new students of this
rear, is about 2,500. The total enollment,
including the full enrollment
;ach year, is 4,437.
"The college has emphasized more
itrongly each year teacher training
ind industrial work in accordance
vith its charter. There are 396 in
he normal department this session?
in increase of 25 over last session.
"The total enrollment in the difTermt
departments from the beginning,
ncluding this session, is:
formal ; 2,891
Jterary 581
Stenography and typewriting .. 389
dressmaking, millinery and sewing
1,094 .
booking 669 j
floriculture 243
bookkeeping 143
Drawing and designing 1,665 /
"Many of these young women,
hough not completing the course here,
ire yet doing acceptable work in
caching and in other lines of employnent
open to women in this State.
We estimate that over 1,900 or 2,000
roung women have been helped by
he college to become better teachers,
- ^ . ~ ft larze Der
IDG lOttl Uicj arc w _ w
:entage of the white children in the
,'ommon schools of the State. It la
{ratifying to note that the demand for
eachers trained here increases every
rear."
Two Boya Cremated.
Atlantic City, Special.?The bodies
>f two boys who met a horrible death
)y cremation on the beach have been
dentifled as those of Ordner J.' Delan;y
and William Jeffries, both of this
:ity, aged 7 and 5 years respectively.
The two boys were inseparable com*
>anions. They had gone to a brush
ieap of pine trees on the beach front
it New Hampshire avenue, which
rees were to be used to build a jetty,
."hey dug a hole beneath the pile and
irawled under. It is Denevea mey
iad matches, for soon the brush was
iblaze and before the boys could
:rawl out they were cremated.
Editor's Convention Elects.
Guthrie, Okla., Special.?The annual
lessfon of the National Editorial As
" J
iOCiauon aajouroea sun cictuue
these officers: President, John Dynond,
New Orleans; first vice presilent,
John E. Junkin, Sterling, Kan.;
second vice president, Henry B. Varler,
Lexington, N. C.; corresponding
jecretary, W. A. Ashbrook, Johns:own,
Ohio; recording secretary, J. W.
Cockrum, Oakland, Ind.; treasurer, J.
[rvin Steel, Ashland, Pa.
Gen. A. P. Stewart Scric^ly III.
Chattanooga, Special.?General A. P.
Stewart, ranking living officer of the
Confederate army, is seriously ill at
3orden Springs. Ala. H% i3 the resl- 3
lent member of the Chicamauga Park ?
commission and has had many honors jJH
shown him. He made a' brilliant record
during the civil war. Ha is over j||H
jv years of age. It is feared thatb-h^^^H
will not recover.
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