The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 07, 1905, Image 2
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0HE history of "graft"
The first we may cal
cated," and the final
The boss reserve
condition has been
political machinery w
in industrial affairs i
age. Special privileg
iest and most surely
age has its fetish in the "economy of
practical outcomes. A trust desires fi
u-i1 liner to Mi- nmnnr mmnpnsation. E
" """O w
tribute liberally to a campaign fund, or
lay the victorious machine under obligi
A solid justification of its verity is
case of city bosses with otherwise in
Such diversion of public wealth m<
slon of public morals. The very founi
In modern Anglo-Saxondom the church
sequently, there should be ever mainta
the natural exponent of morality and i
ity while this "grafting" process is goi
The church must take its place as
racy, and through pulpit exposition ant
lish strong currents of influence. If gc
it is a "low business," it will always be
seek to foster the proper point o
tion of human affairs in society throuj
with a view of attaining the best good
01 me nignesi 01 uumau preuwupaiivit;
'Cultured people have reached tha
against using superior physical force i
they are not yet to the point where t
achieving substantially the same resu
of Trinity College, Hartford. "I claim
represents another man's loss is a bri
T The Use
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\ By Helen IL
mm lif t NE of the crying sins
? miscuous use .of slan{
X X of both sexes. In fac
x I I I pie alone, but is used
* X better example. Eve
tttllHHt a 8,ang Phrase is an
? ~i is simply disgusting.
? -.T less, and use such la
ers. But. don t use i
sive, but trite, or slang expressions are
nor do they add to the strength of a w
and refinement, such expressions are j
person using them as wanting in goo
slang is an offence against good mann
upon by parents who have the good of
Not long ago I was waiting on a <
young girl stood near me. who attract
In which she was dressed. Her dark !
to match, called for more than one ai
hat, all charming of their kind, also cai
the spell was broken when the pretty
something rotten about the way these
nearly five minutes. Again the speakei
to wait so long," etc., but my interest
At another time I heard a young n
?ery pretty until she opens her mouth."
?o girl as attractive who defiles her m
, t University
V When and How Shal
r His Professic
| By Jfrthur T. Had
IME alone can show t
Tto develop his profes
possible, but por.tpon
narrowing of his sym
of contact with men
Hble one.
While we are wi
? we shall probably se<
different universities,
our large cities, where the work of tt
and the life of the college for less, we
tne college course?a teuaency iu aian
the studies of that course and the prof
and to disregard or undervalue the s
carries with it. In smaller places and
distinctively collegiate atmosphere,'we
reversed?to see an effort to maintain t
elude within it as much as possible of
?in the belief that the gain to Ameri
ship resulting from the contact of differ
be strong enough to resist the tendency
valuable enough to compensate for any
cution of such a plan involves.?The C
nwi/w
.: How the Imi
. -; Laws
By Broughton
GIRL being sent to m;
I I seen or sold by unscr
I I poses as the daughte
#1 I traveling acquaintam
B I to fulfil labor contrac
I V ^ 1 this count;r>' need 01
M f prospect. A cripple
WMFVtfS States, to enter somi
tals, need only give
appearance or fairly well-to-do, a few <
brother, and that he will support him
himself as to his record or political be
whose two children were in her way, g
Ing, and for $5 they represented them
little things in Cincinnati.
Mow as to the plan for the elimi
which I first suggested in 1903. imme
A. 1 A. U
from a tour abroacl as a peasant, iu iu
whether a man, woman or child is fit tt
only in the hom* communities of the i
that truth and keep the inspectors froi
service process native-born Americans
Organize boards o? three, one a doctor,
communes, and hold local examinatioi
with photographic identifications.?Hai
"Freak" Dinners.
Whether Mr. Kessler (the giver of
the rfcent Venetian dinner) has set
an e%mple yvhich wealthy London
will follow remains to be seen. In
contented countries there is no danger
in these displays; but when labor
troubles #re threatening, or Socialism
is making rapid headway, it is doubtful
If they do not increase the danger
by affording texts for demagogues.
They are deliberate attempts
to spend money rather than
efforts a: hospitality.?Vanity Fair.
te?.
id "Graft" T
L L. Gould.
Is marked by three distinct stapes.
1 anarchical. The second was "syndistage
has become imperialized.
s all, or nearly all, for himself. This
made possible by that concentration
hich has developed with concentration J
ind is a striking characteristic of the
:e which needs public sanction is easarranged
betwesn individuals. This
concentration." and here is one of the
anchise privileges for which it is not
ty all means the easiest way is to conwhich
no accounting is had, and thus
it ions to secure what it wants,
the rapid accumulation of wealth in the
significant means of materal support,
eans an insidiofts and effective perverdations
of democracy are undermined,
was the parent of democracy, and, conined
a fostering care. The church, as
right living, cannot escape responsibiling
on.
a correlative part of organized democ1
parochial philanthropy seek to estab>od
people keep out of politics because
mu- cSnnlr)
' a "low business. me VilUlVil OWVU.M
f view, which is, that the direc;h
the various agencies of government
of yourself and your neighbors is one
3.
it degree of civilization when tht^are
n getting the other man's monej^fcut
hey are against using superior skill \r
It," said D. Flavel S. Luther, president
that any man that makes money that
gand." , \
of Slang ?
>atts McVey. ^
of the age is the very general and proa
; words and phrases, by young persocs"
t, the evil is not confined to \pung peoby
their elders also, who should set^a
n when it comes from masculine lips,
ything but elegant. From a woman it
Many times young girls are thoughtng'.iage
because they hear it from otht.
girls. True, it is sometimes expres- I
not in good taste, in any conversation,
rritten article. To a woman of culture
abhorrent, and they at once stamp the
d taste, to say the least. The use of
ers, and should be relentlessly frowned
their daughters at heart.
:oraer for a street car. A very pretty
ed my attention by the excellent taste
skirt, with shirt waist and Eton jacket
dmiring glance, and gloves, shoes and
ne in for their share of admiration. But
' lips opened to say: ' There must be
cars are run." We had been waiting
r asserted that "it was something fierce
in her had vanished,
tan say of just such a girl, "Yes, she is
And this accords with my own ideas;
outh with slang talk.?The Commoner.
Problems \
I the Student Develop ?
mal Activity. r
'ley, * ? of Yale. J
whether the idea of allowing a student
at ne Mrlv a npriflrf as !
31VUU1 nvvmv; mo vm. ... r
ing to as late a period as possible the
pathies and the lessening of his points
outside of his profession, is a practicaaiting
for this question to be decided, i
e two sets of experiments going on in
In those which are connected "with
ie professional school counts for more
are likely to see a tendency to shorten
e a sharp line of demarcation between
essional studies which are to follow it,
ocial adjuncts which a college course
amnne institutions which have a more I
s may expect to find these tendencies
he college course in its integrity and inpreparation
for the actual work of life
can institutions and Amcican citlzenent
types of men with one another will
of such a college to'disintegration and
difficulties and losses which the proseentury.
?
WlrH3
migration |
; are Evaded i
Brandenburg.
irrv a young man whom she has never
upulous relatives for immoral purposes
>r or sister in some family of chance
:es. A half-dozen peasant lads coming
:ts made for them by some relative in
lly deny that they have any work in
desirous of getting into the United
j one of the thousand excellent hospisome
fellow passenger, who is of good
dollars to swear that the cripple is hi*
. A criminal or an anarchist perjures
liefs. A disreptuable woman in Berlin,
ave them to a young couple just departi
as their children, and abandoned the
nation of the undesirable immigrants,
diately on my return as an immigrant
e emigration centres. The truth as to
\ onter the Vniteri States is to be found
immigrants, and the easiest way to get
m being corrupted is to select by civilwho
can sneak the desired languages,
to take over an apportioned number of
ns at stated times, issuing certificates
rper's Weeltly.
His Excuse.
"Ah-hah, Squire!" cackled Hi Spry,
the village wag and cut-up, upon encountering
the Old Codger, next morning
after the date of the Greatest
Show on Earth. "Ketched ve in a
yarn! Told me ve was goln' to take
boy to the circus, and I seen ye right
smack up on the tip-top seat last
night, without a single boy with yel"
"Took the boy I used to be, years
and years ago!" returned the veteran,
crabbedly. "I'm in my second childhood."??Puck.
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SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN
Weather Conditions Given Out by the
Department Observer.
The South Carolina section of the
I climate anil crop service ol' the I)ei
partment of Agriculture issues the
j following official bulletin of weather
I and crop conditions lor the past
! week:
The first of the wee!; ending Monday,
August 2Sth. was hotter than
usual a'.id tin latter part was unseasonably
cooi. \vi?h the minimum
temperature at ( olumbia th" second
lowest ever recorded in August, it
having been one decree lower in 1S!)(>.
The averairo for the week ranged
from four depress, m the upper portion.
to one decree, in the lower portions.
below the normal. The air was
generally humid during the hot period
and very dry at the close of the
week
Excessive rains oecurred in Saluda,
j Laurens. Newberry, Greenville, CherI
okee and York counties, washing
lands and Hooding bottom lands 10
tlu' further injury to crops on such
lands: the oilier portions of the State
had moderately heavy rains that were
generally beneficial although not
needed m many localities. The soil
is now well supplied with moisture
over the entire State. The frequent
sW^yrs during the middle of the
uVi ,. retarded farm work and spoiled
considerable ljik"- that had been
pulled, ami considerable rotting
of rinv bolls, and of late
l'ruit, be e beneficial to late
corn, i>r covert potatoes, pastures,,
l Ta.rdens and to recently planted seeds
for fall truck crops.
From many localities come reports
I that the cotton crops has deteriorated
rapidly during the week due to continued
rust, and shedding and that
praelically all of the top crop had
fallen off ami that 0:1 early cotton
fruiting had ceased: a few reports
of improvement were received, ami
that the plants continued preen and
growing rapidly and fruiting satisfactorily.
while most of the reports indicate
that there has been uo material
change in conditions during the week
except that on sandy lands the plants
were not fruiting and that the top
crop would he light. Bolls opened
rapidly over the eastern half and
slowly over the western. Picking
made slow progress hut will soon be
active over the entire State.* Caterpillars
infest sea-island cotton and
some rust has apj>eared, but the crop
generally is in pood condition.
Tobacco curing will be finished hv
the lirst of Septembei: some of the
cured tobacco lacks brightness due to
I too much rain. Ear^y rice harvest
mule favorable progress. Turnips
re re planted extensively and caine up
to fair stands. Pastures are tine.
Late corn generally promising, ex-*
cept were damaged by Hoods and ex-1
cessive rains.
Work on the Congaree and Available
Funds.
Congressman Lever has received
from Cen. MacKenzie the following
letter in regard to the work 011 the
Congaree and the money appropriated
an available for that purpose:
War Department,
OiVice of the Chief Engineers,
An sr. 21. 1905.
Hon. Asbury F. Lever. I*. S. House
of Kepiesantatives,
Sir: In rcpiv to your oral request
made this morning1, I liave the honor
to furnish the following information
in regard to work 011 the Congaree
river, asked for in letter to you, dated
Aug. 1"). 190i), from Mr. I. L. Withers,
general manager ?>t" the New York,
Columbia and Georgetown Steamship
company.
! The amount now available for Congaree
river is divided into two parts.
On the first day of August, there was
$17,4t)d..">2 available for the purpose
of clearing the channel and excavating
the rock between Gervais street
Kvwlvo 1 vdimihifl. 31 nd the dam at
Gran by; and $25,000 available for
clearing- the channel of snags and obstructions
between the dam at Granby
and the mouth of the river, the
latter sum being alloted in accordance
with the terms of the river and
harbor act of March 3, 1005. which
made permissable tb?e use on the Santee,
Watcrce and Congaree rivers, and
the Estherville-Min'm creek canal,
of the unexpended balance of appropriation
therefore made for a lock
and dam in the Congaree river. The
anexpended balance of this appropriation
at that time was sufficient to
allot $25,000 to tiie Congaree below
the dam. and to lea"? a sufficient sum
to complete the excavation and clearing
of the river above the dam.
The project adopted by congress, in
accordance with which the money
must be spent, is quite general in its
nature, involving securing a clear
four-foot navigation over the lower
47 miles at all stage* from the month
to Gran by. and cleared channel 100
feet wide from Grandby to Gervais
street bridge.
The local officer in charge, Capt. G.
P. Howell, corns of engineers, has
submitted a project for expending the
available lands in accordance with
this plan.
1 have no doubt that the wishes of
those interested in the navigation will
receive careful consideration by Capt.
Howell in the expenditure of the
funds at his disposal, and would suggest
that Mr. Withers confer with
him driectly in the manner indicated
in his letter.
I assume above that Mr. Withers
; inquiry referred to the present funds,
i but if he desires to know the total
amounts that have ever been appropriated
for the Congaree river, 1 may
say that there has been appropriated
for a lock and dam at Granby a total
of $250,000 and the expenditures
there from up to the end of the last
tiscal year were $204, 253.94. Of the
remaining flnlance $25,000 was assigned
to^mc lower Congaree, in accordance
ith the river and harbor
net of 3, 1005. In addition to
this reallottcd balance, the total appropriations
for the lower Congaree
have been $.30,000, of which there had
been expended up to July 1, 1905, the
sum of $35,S7">.49.
Very respectfully,
A. MACKENZIE,
Brig. Gen., Chief of Engineers, U.S.A.
,.y?
iWoiiM'
Many Newsy Items Gathered From
all Sections.
UNDEVELOPED WATER POWER.
Which Are Susceptible of Producing
Vast Store of Motive Power.
It is staid iliat the United States
preoloirical survey is soon to have prepared
a map shoving the extent to
which the water powers of this State
are susceptible of development. The
work will show tin water powers on
the Broad river north of Alston and
onthe Catawba river between Camden
and the North CaCrolina line.
On the Catawba river (also known
below the Great Falls as the Wateree)
in the SO miles between Cam
uen and me oiaie une me ism
about 580 feet. Tbe greatest fall occurs
at the head of navigation, tive
miles above Camden where the drop
is 52 feet in live miles; at Rocky
Mount where the fall is 172 feet in
eight miles, and at Landsford, where
the fall is 40 feet in two miles. At
each of these points small navigation
canals were constructed about
75 years ago by the State.
Very little power is now being used
at these shoals. The principal developed
water power on the river is
the new plant at Rock Hill, where
the dain and working head are about
3? feet.
M On Rrond river tbe fail is about 520
fleet in the 75 mil"* between Alston
and the State line. The principal
shoals are the Lock hart shoals, where
the fall is 4.8 feet on one and a half
miles and a series of shoals, including
Cherokee shoals, near Gaffney where
the fall is 104 fet in six miles. An examination
and report on this river
was made in 1S70 and 18S0 by the
corps of engineers of the United
States army.
Palmetto News Items.
The Carolina Mutual Insurance company
with headquarters at Columbia,
has beeu chartered. Mr. S. L. Miller
for a number of years field agent in
South Carolina for tne Equitable and
subsequently general ageiit for the
Mutual, and now for the Home Life,
is president and treasurer. The directors
are T. K. Elliott, president of
the bank of Winnskoro and of the
Fairfield Cotton Mills; E. H. Sparkman,
vice-president of the Merchants
and Planters Bank of Union; J. W.
Simpson, cashier of the First National
Bank of Spartanburg; Wilie Jones,
vice-president Carolina National
Bank of Columbia; and Dr. W. M.
Lester of Columbia, medical director.
Congressman George S. Legare
has gone to Washington, where he
will meet a number of other representatives,
forming a party who will be
the guests of Congressman Wilson of
North Dakota on a hunt :.n that State.
Mr. Thomas J. McCrarv, president
and treasurer of the Newberry Cotton
Mills, died suddenly Wednesday
morning shortly after 11 o'clock, during
an attack of acute indigestion.
The illness seized him at about midnight,
and was utterly unlooked-for,
as Mr. McCrary had been apparently
in good health. Mr. McCrary's
death is viewed by the community as
a great calamity.
A special from Orangeburg says:
FT \Y. Bonzard. former disDenser at
Fort Motte, who was arrested charged
with a defalcation amounting to
$2,271.81, and who was delivered into
the custody of the sheriff in default
of bail, was released, the necessary
bond having been secured. Bond was
fixed m the sum of $2,000 and the
bondsmen are W. G. Peterkin and
Martin Keller of Fort Motte and M.
C. Edwins of Orangeburg. Bouzard
waived a preliminary hearing and,
while the case will be called during
the court of general sessions which
convenes here Monday, the defence
may require more time and ask for a *
postponment until January.
Gen. M. L. Bonham has been confined
to his room for the past week,
suffering with an intestinal abscess.
As soon as he is able his physicians
will take him to a hospital to have
an operation performed.
County Supervisor McBride of
Florence ordered an election to be
held on October 3rd for the purpose
of voting on the question of dispensary*
or no dispensary under the Brice
law, the requisite number of names
having been secured.
Several merchants from other
places are going to locate in SumchaAber
of commerce to secure stores
for them. Houses and stores are in
great demand and are being built
very rapidly. The city of Sumter is
stretching out and where a few years
ago were waste lands or lands planted
are now line res'denees. Another
evidence of the business growth of
the city is the bui'ding o ftsores in
various sections of the citv heretofore
of an exclusive residential section.
The outlook for a tine fall trade
is said to be bettev than for years.
Wise Sister Mary.
Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece
was white as snow; it strayed away
one summer day where lambs should
never go. Then Mary sat her down
and tears streamed slowly from her
eyes; she never found the lamb because
she did not advertise. And
Mary had a brother John, who kept a
riling store: he sat down and smoked
his pipe and watched the open door.
And as the people passed along and
did not stop to buy, John still sat
down and smoked his pipe and blinked
his sleepy eye.
And so the brokers seized his stock,
but still he lingered near, and Mary
came to drop with him a sympathetic
tear.
"How is it, sister, can you tell why
other shoppers here sell all their
good's so quickly and thrive from year
to year?"
Remembering now her own bad lack,
the little maid replies, "These either
fellows fatten, John, because they ad'
vertise."?London Tit Bit*, I
TEXTILE U Of llil
* Great
Activity Shown in New Enterprises
and Enlargements.
Columbia, S. C.?The fourth presscloth
mill in the United States will
be established here. Press cloth is
manufactured from camel's hair and
mohair, and the woven cloth is used
in cotton-seed oil mills, linseed oil
mills, in wine factories and other
plants where the products must be
strained by pressure through fabric.
This new enterprise will be :.:i imjHtrtaut
addition to Columbia's industries
as well as to the textile interests
of the South, with whieh it may
be classed . The plant at Columbia
will be built by tlie American rress
Cloth Co., which is now being organized
by Messi-s. Benj. F. Taylor, John
Jacob Seibels, E. (J. Seibels, Thomas
Tayolr, Jr., and A. S. Guignard, the
capital stock to be >50,000 to begin
with. Contract lias been awarded to
Messrs. Waring & Co., for the erection
of t lie necessary buildings to
have a floor space of 5,000 square
feet, and Messrs. Benj. F. Taylor and
A. F. I'arker are now in New York
arranging for the purchase of the machinery
and other mechanical equipment
that will be required. Mr. Parker
will be superintendent of the
plant. He setablished the press-cloth
mill at Houston, Texas, that being
one of the three now in operation in
this country. The other two are at
Brooklyn, X. Y., and North Chelmsford,
Mass.
Magnolia, Miss.?Some months ago
the Magnolia Cotton Mills announced
certains enlagements arranged for it's
plant, and details were made public.
The work has progressed steadily,
and recently the addition was complted.
It is of interest to note briefly
what was done to affect the betterments.
There has been built an addition
which makes the company's
main building 78 feet wide by 292
feet long, and the new machinery was
installed. This gives the mill an
qquipment of 10,000 spindles and 204
looms, with necessary accompanying
marchinery, for manufacturing sheeeings.
The daily output of these goods
is 15,000 yards. The textile machinery
was furnished by the Whitin
Machine Works, of Whitinsville,.
Mass.. and the Woonsoekct Machine
and Press Co., of Woonsocket, R. I.
The Magnolia oCtton Mills corporation
increased its capital stock from
$100,000 to $200,000 in making these
improvements.
Durham, N. C.?Notwithstanding
the reports that continue of a boycott
on American-made goods by Chinese
buyers, the Southern cotton mills continue
to make shipments of their products
to the Far East. This is indicated
by a dispatch from Dunn, N.
C., which refers to the shipment of
500.000 veards of cloth to Shanghai
by the No. 2 mill of the Erwin Cotton
Mills Co., of this place. The No. 2
mill is located at Duke, near Dunn.
It was planned for 70,000 spindles
and 2,000 looms, but only half that
equipment is in position at present,
and the product is denim cloths. This
is one of several recent instances of
big foreign order for 'Southern mills.
Emporia, Va.?Recent reports that
the Ashby Cotton Mill Co. intends to
double its 5000-spindle plant have
been verified by the company. "While
this is the company's intention, yet
contracts for the machinery, etc., will
not be awarded for some time, as
a water power is to be developed first.
This development will consist of obtaining
400-horsc power from the Meherrin
river, to be transmitted by
electricity. It will develop the entire
power available, and plans are now
being prepared. T. Ashby Blythe of
114 Chestuut street, Philadelphia, is
president of the mill company.
Textile Notes.
The Cabarrus Cotton Mills of Concord,
N. C., contemplates building a
large addition to its plant; present
pnninmpnt. SJ500 snindles and 542
looms.
The Union Bleaching: and Finishing
Co., of Greenville, S. C., has awarded
contracts for the installation-of new
machiiiery to increase the capacity of
its plant. A reservoir will also be
built.
The Nantucket Cotton Mills will,
during the coming fall, install 5.000
additonal spindles of the Saco & Pettee
make. This plant is under the
management of Mr. J. S. McAlister.
A movement is on foot for the organization
of a company with capital
stock of $200,000 or $300,000 for the
purpose of building a cotton mill between
Hagan and Claxton, Ga. R. A.
Scott of Hagan is interested in the
enterprise, and invites correspondence
for information to be addressed
to him.
T. W. Brame, of Macon, Miss., is
interested in plans being formulated
for the erection of a cotton mill in
that town.
Lexington, .N. C.?The Nokomis
Cotton Mills is now receiving 3000
spindles and 45 looms, recently contracted
for, and the new machinery is
being installed in the company's
buildings. It was announced last fall
that the management had decided upon
this enlargement, and about $20,000
has been cxi>ended for then ew
equipment. There have been 12.4S0
swindles and 320 looms in position.
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Attorney General Sues Roads.
Atlanta, Ga., Special.?AttorneyGeneral
Hart, for the State of Georgia,
today filed suits against the Southern
Railroad Company, the Central of
Georgia Railway Company, the Georgia
Railroad Company, and the Atlanta
& West Point Railroad Company,
and the Seaboard Air Line, for refusal
to accept for shipment stoves and hollow
v/are under a circular of rates^ssued
by the Georgia Railroad comipssion,
which reduced rates on those
commodities.
NEW SOl'THEItNRdAD
Prospect Good For Opening a Great
Trunk Line
FROM CHICAGO TO CIIARLBS10S
Cincinnati, Hamilton ft Dayton Management
Announces Contemplated
Great Undertaking-Rich Kentucky
Coal Fields to be Traversed.
New York, Special.?The Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton system is to have
a through line from Chicago to Charleston.
S. C.j traversing rich coal fields
in Kentucky and making the Cincinnati,
Hamilton, Dayton and Pierre
Marquette system a coal and iron orecarrying
road.
rresiutini Zimmerman siuu:
"Work has been undertaken on the
construction of a bridge from Asheland
to Ironton. We propose building
a railroad 125 miles long into Kentucky,
where we have acquired 350,000
acres of coal lands and will build coke
ovens and other development work.
We expect the output of these mines
to be from two and a half to three
million tons a year.
"Work on improving the coal and
ore docks at Toledo is under way, and
we are building a fleet for carrying coal
and ore on the Great Lakes."
Mr. Zimmerman said the plans for
financing the project had been completed.
Birthplace of Lincoln.
New York, Special.?Abraham Lincoln's
birthplace in Kentucky, which
was purchased at public auction by
Robert J. Collier, of this city, is to be
restored and preserved. Mr. Collier
said recently that he had not decided
exactly what course to pursue with
regard to the estate. It could be, he
said, turned over to the national government
and the farm counld be maintained
as a park. The surrounding
country is beautiful and the place is
not far from a railroad. Perhaps one
of the patriotic societies may be interested
enough in. the property to assume
the care of it, in which case I
would make it over to such an organization
.The cost of maintaining the
place should not be large.
For Eateras Lighthouse.
Washington, Special.? Specifications
and drawings for the light house and
sation which Congress authorized Albert
Eels and associates, of Boston,
Mass., to construct at Diamond Shoals,
off Cape Hatteras, N. C., were filed
at the office of the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor. Under the act of Congress
authorizing the construction of
the light house the engineers had six
months in wh'"h to file plans. The time
would have ^pired on September 3.
The plans were referred to the government
light house board for approval.
Fire at Eflard
Efland, Special.?A saw mill located
about three miles north of here, belonging
to G. W. Albright, was destroyed
by Are at an early hoar this
morning. A large lot of Ane oak lumber.
belonging to J. H. Slippen, of
Southerlin, Va.. was also destroyed.
The Are was Arst seen by Rudie Holly,
a young man who was up during
the night looking after a barn of tobacco.
He aroused his neighbors but
the Are was beyond control when they
reached it. The Ices will probably be
between $3,000 and $4,000.
Georgia Railroad Project.
Beaumont, Tex., Special.?The
Bainbridge & Gulf Railroad Company
received a charter. The company proposes
constmcting a railroad 52 miles
long from this pice, where it will connect
with the Atlantic Coast Line at
Bainbridge to Fairchilds, Ga., the
Chattahoochee river. Ultimately, it is
said, the road will be extended to some
point on the Gulf coast. J. L. Hand, J.
W. Everett and D. C. Barrow, of this
city, are prominent among the incorporators.
They propose beginning construction
at an early date.
Boycott Exhausted.
Washington, Special.?Consul General
Rogers, at Shanghai, cabled the
State Department that the position
there as to the anti-American boycott
was improving. The officials of the
State Department have come to the
conclusion that the boycott has prac
tically exhausted itself, the Chinese
merchants finding that they themselves
were the principal losers. *
Korean Officer Dismissed.
Seoul, By Cable.?John McL.
Brown, who for 12 years past has been
at the head of the Korean customs, is
to be dismissed. This is probably due
to the fact that the customs administration
has been undertaken by M.
Megata, the Japanese advisor of the
Korean government, and is part of his
general plan to reorganize Korean finance.
Under the new arrangement
the customs service will cease to exist
as a separate organization but will be
arranged on a plan similar to that of
the Chinese mairitime customs. Director
Brown improved the harbors
during his long service in the department
which was the only honestly
administered in the governmep*.
Advance Announced.
Beaumont, Tes., Special.?The
Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Association
has announced a general advance
of one dollar per thousand feet
on pine. Statistical information shows
a decrease in stocks during July of
26,000,000 and an involuntary curtailment
in the same month of 86,000,000
feet among 149 mills. Demand is so
brisk that more of the mills throughfVm
torrftnrv .ir<i wnrkinff double
shifts.
Brenham, Texas. ?The Brenham
Cotton Mills expects to double the capacity
of its plant in the near future
owing to the steadily increasing demand
for its product. There are at
present some 5,000 spindles and 100
looms in position, to which $10,000
worth of machinery will be added at
once, filling up all the vacant space
available at present.
Machinery' has been installed in the
addition of the Ellawhite Cotton
Mills, Uniontown, Ala., and the mill
will begin operation September 1,
with 10,000 spindles.
Properly Seasoned.
It made the young recruit hot;
No wonder he was flustered.
The foeraan peppered kim with shot
Eight after he was mustered.
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A Woman's Privilege.
Nordy?"I never fight with my wife." \ .
Butts^?"It doesn't pay, eh?" ^
Nordy?"No; win or lose, she alwaya
gets an indemnity."
The Umat Exception.
George?"For a society woman, she
is very high minded. She is steadfast- |
ly opposed to everything low."
Gerald?"Except gowns."
Freeh Gnns.
Reporter (to the zoo superintendent) $
?"Any fresh news this morning?"
Superintendent ? "Oh. yes, indeed! "j
The horned horse's wife had twins last ':j
night." $
Taking So Chancea*
Mrs. Nordy?"So you're not going a
away and leave your husband this summer?
'Fraid he'll be lonesome, eh?" *
Mrs. Butts?"No: on the contrary,
I'm afraid he won't be."
Undoubtedly.
"You shouldn't treat your boy so
bars. 'y. you'll break his spirit."
"Wc'l, he'll probabiy get married M
some lay, and he might as well have -;';H
it broken now."?Houston Post.. -.jj
Almost Hainan.
McFlub?"Do you think that domes- *1
tic animals have any intelligence?"
Sleeth ? "Undoubtedly. I've got a
flock of hens that never think of laying
an egg except when the egg market
is glutted." S
A Home Parallel. 1
Blinker?"How would you like to be
In Warsaw and be mixed up in those
terrible mobs of infuriated citizens?' yh]
Clinker?"Tut, tut! Don't I cross the
Brooklyn Bridge every evening during .$9
the rush hour?" , J
Hit Benevolent Aim. HSBMft
"Would you lend money to a per^^^H
in rbal need of it?" WH
. "Certainly," answered Mr. Pincht^HH
"The more a person needs money
bigger tbe rate of interest be is wl^NM
ing tfc-pay."?Washington Star. wBfl
Perfectly NatnraJ, I
Tired Tiffin?"It's queer dey can't gitu.^
nobody to accep' de throne of Nor-^Sfl
Dusty Rhodes?"Ain't nuthln' queer ,1 j
about it. Everybody knows dat a klnft |5 i
is de hardest worked of men."
Definition a.
The Simple Life-"Doing your own J
work." * /I
The Strenuous Life ? "Doing some i
other fellow's work." 1
The Modern Life ? "Getting some
other fellow to do your work."?Smart ^
Poor Han.
Cooper?"Did you ever travel on ft
personally conducted tour?"
Hooper?"I've traveled on one ever J|
since my honeymoon."?New York.
Evening Mail.
Getting Wise.
Yeast?"Do you believe retiring early
makes a man healthy, wealthy and J
wise?" . , 1
Crimsonbeak?"Well, I'm sure if I had
always retired early there are certain
thincs I'd never cot wise to."?Yonk
ers Statesman. f
His Method.
Penner?"What, then, do you consider
the best method of keeping books?" ^
Burroughs ? "There's only one sure
way." ^
Penner?"What's that?"
Burroughs?"Forget to return them."
?Philadelphia Press.
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The Fltrtatiou* One.
"That man is trying to flirt with me,"
she exclaimed indignantly.
"There is no use of getting angry,"
said one of the other girls.
"I can't help it. He has evidently |
mistaken me for the chaperon of the !
party."?Washington Star.
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Hid Last Wish.
"What are you doing with th^t $beet
of paper, Orville?" sharply usked hia
wife.
"I am making ii wish," answered Mr. {
Meekun.
"A wish?" -*j
"Yes, my dear. In ypur presence I . j
shall not presume to call it a will."? ^
Chicago Tribune.
Modern Habit. \
Plato had just given an example o?jM|
his wonderful wisdom. pm
"If you lived ages hence," said an-' h
ardent admirer, "ttoe people oould not t;.f
help but call you a wise man."
"I am afraid not," replied Plato, "3
"Then what would they call you?" -9
"A wise guy." '
Which goes to show that Plato knew
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