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Protecting His Rascals. MoKidiw* Refuooo lo Troos mit Report oo the Cuban Postal 8te*lage. Wsshinftoo, Jan t ?The preai dent today edet a mess go to the tenets deelhiiof to accede to tbe request of tbet body made in a reeo lotion passed too tflh of December ood addreeted to tbo secretary of wer, for too trtmtmitttl of tbe Law too report lo regard to tbo irvegulari tiee in oowoootioo with too poetal mYtirt in Oebt Too deed notion ie eooeldeeed oaoooiloool ood it it pote'ble ft will create more or loee sTmoooeioo Tbo preevdeot'e meeeegessys : MIo reply to o rooolotioo of tbe eenate of Deo 19,190t, directing tbe aeeretary of wer to treases it to tbe eenate tbe report of Abraham L Lawebe firing io detail tbo reeolt of bio ioreetiga tloo eaade ooder tbo direction of tbe wer C portejoot toto tbo reoeipte end expewterte of Oebtt foode, tbe senate lo reformed that for tbe reasons stotod to tbo sooompenyiog oommonioetioe from tbe seoretsry of wer, dated Deo 19, 1990, it io not deemed oowpetibfe with tbo poblic lotereot to treeemit tbo report to tbe senate at tofe fiste99 ROOT'S EXPLANATION Secretary Root's explanation to tbo president wet eoocbed in tbe following loofoofo : "Tbo deeemeet referred to is t oosideotiol report of en ioreetigs tloo modo ooder yoor eotbority for tbo pospoeo os eetbliog yoo, through sbie dsptitseoot.lo properly direct the peoosoolioo of oertolo offtodere wfoioet tbo lows of Uube Too pfoesootiooe ere now pending Wbile tby ere poodieg it ie not, io my jodgteeet, ooo petiole with tbe poblic iotorooto toot ibe report sboold be mode p?bele "I f lomst o oopy of tbe report together wftb tbo rooolotioo for yoor oetioo or iootrootfooe 99 Arribiolng Plutocracy. Hoe Abrom 8. Hewitt, eon in law Of tbe lote Abrom 8 Hewitt, de oooeeed Bryaa. we believe, among other tbiege, for "arraying masses of must o latter " Tbet wee before tbe rltotioe Siooe tbo election, Mt Hewitt st making some public odd r esses, along tbe |Brysn line, end OfJt Bryeeiof Bryan, to our oo ion Hie moot. rooeet* utterance, at a oboreb meeting, ie ee follows : "Sitee 1H40 our oettooal wealth boo iocreeued flee times es fast ss oor popolttton. Who shall say that with tbat wonderful increase In weeltb there ie oot nteaoe in abun doe OS to remoee ell tbe misery end oN tbe rv/t1 conditions among tbe bomble olospre which ot preeeot ere Steina end sores oe oor body politic f Tbo edesece of itduttry which bse brought os this weeltb beyond the wild*? 'dresses of avarice bee also brought'on oooditlons which make it 00 obsolete tea possibility for some people to lite decent, respectable flees. ?< "Tbe rieb have not even begun to do whet tbo/ oogbt to do Men tbat 1 almost wereOip for tbetr generoeity ood solioitede in proportion to their their wealth ibo btlf tbet wee given by families t geeoratioe ago If there torn hie tenomeote, these over crowd od d mi riete, these dark end tool dwelling pleeee, sod ell tbe attending misei>a, meet go with industry then 1 would to Ood tbat every industrial eeotre woold be destroyed, as were Hod oar end Gomorrah of old, end men be driveo boob to tbe lend, where they can et leset hav,. the breezes end the green graee ami tbe aonebine and tbo bloo of heaven to look op to M In tiisokieg plutocracy we do not ree ill any epeeck of Bryan's that wee on i*>rribte as th.a arraignment from Mr Hewitt?* very rich man indict leg and eondouiaing men *( his own eta?? And jet Mr Hewitt, e pre eomptiv* rleenKwst, did whst h eond I set floveaber, to keep in ssot. 'fi th* very forces he now eie OOSOso In the North \mer1c?n Ke vir * for December. Lord Charles Brr*?ford arraigns K ?gliah society ee o tteo lott^o from top to bottom, beoto*e of plutocracy, which hae oorropted beeety. intellect and com merce It' is) etrenge that eieo who oot long ago nuusf d Bryan for array? ing close egamet else* sre just now engaged io th- same business with much more lurid srticolatien and emphasis ?Augusta Chronicle. mm ??? ? FAILURES LA3T TEAR Now York, Jan 3 ?There wore 9 913 feilerer with liabilities of 1127.184,70ft and aseels of $60,119, 895 reported to Brsdetreets in 1900, e gelo of 2.8 per cent in number over 1349, tod an increase of 6 per cent or about twice tbe former per eetttge ;o liabilities but assets only sqeslUd those of tbe preceding year Ao ineretoed number of ftiluree io noted io tbo middle, western, north western tod oootbern stttee. The iocretee io tbe south is 8 per osot At regards litbilltlet, perhaps the best of tbo statistics, tbe betriest gaio is io tbe northwest, 63 per ceot, while tbo middle ststes gain 45 per cent, tbe southern states 38 per cent tod wsstero only 1.3 per ceot. DISAPPOINTED. WE H?VE BEEN TELLING OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS FOR THE PAST three months that after January 1st, they would find us in our new store, but that date has passed and here we are at the same old stand. We never realized how full of disappointments the world was until we began building? probably some of you who have had similar experiences can sympathize with us. Our original contract provided for the completion of the building by Sept. 1st, and finding that impossible, we determined to move with the opening of the new century, but failure on the part of cdh tractors to deliver necessary material has forced us to defer the matter for nearly thirty days. WE HAVE APPOINTED MONDAY and TUESDAY. January, 28th and 29th, January The days we will move, and as we will be obliged to almost suspend business, we ask our friends to arrange their wants so as not to call on us on these dates We name these two days because they are the first of the week and in our experience the days on which the least busi? ness is done. We see nothing to cause further disappointment except the inclemency of the weather, as all the material necessary to complete the building is on hand, and our contractor assures us he will be ready. We have just completed taking stock and find ourselves with more goods on hand than ever before at this season. This is not due to the fact that our business has been less, but a large percentage of our stock was contracted for in the Summer, when we expected to dispose of it from our new store where we would have had better opportunities for doing so. In order to facilitate our moving and to convert a liberal percentage of our goods into cash which we are very much in need of, we ofler OUR ENTIRE STOCK At Cost At Cost ? ? r ' s ?. FOR THE NEXT 30 DATS. Thi? is the greatest opportunity ever ottered the people of Sumter County To supply their wants, as we have no old or shop worn goods, but good clean stock, bought within the last six months and at prices at which they cannot be duplicated today. O'DONNELL & CO WORRIED ABOUT THE ARMY. Wesiingtoo, Deo 31 ?Seeretery of ; War H Ml b?d a l"c?u e.mfereoco en'h Pre ident MeK'oley Jodey, at Vital ?h<?f t?ew>d in detail th* arm* Miuuion Th? y ?rar* 'Ogoiher over ao boor aod a h ?l( Sn imnortint ?ae ||k< confer ere- that the President eent iu wotd ib*t If eould no* be rlie'urbod ano ?'T?ul Senatora and HeproacntativrH who hat grow ttrrd w%inn[? left When Hforelarj Hont departed be wae eery ono"cnaiunioati?e Beyond saying that tha Prneident aod be bad gone over the eotire actuation not ooty in China and ibe Philippiora, bnt in Cuba and PwvM Kieo, he declined to oaako any ate'eoaenr COTTON 8TATI8TICS. Liverpool. Jan 4 ?Th?? following are the weekly cotton statistics : Total aalea of all kinde 29,000 ; American 25 000 ; English spinners' takinga 57 000 j total exports 8,000 j imports of nil kirds 121.000, Ameri can 111,000 ; stock of nil kinds 682, 000, American 507*000 ; quantily afloat all kinds 263,000. American 230,000 ; total salon on speculation 100 ; total aalea to exporters 100. WWJ ? ? ? ? 9Mm The first oergo of Aineno o coal for Russian warehtp* v?ai *rnr.pcd from Norfolk Va , let Port Arthur oo Th?rs* FAMINE IN RUSSIA St Petersburg. Jan 1 ?A dispatch received here today from Vladivos took reports that famine threstens the Amur and Maritime provinces The cn pa there are bad, aud the railways, being almost wholly en gaged for war purposes, cannot be used for the transportation of food to the inhabitants In addition the prohibition of foreign coastwise trade has prevented importations into the threatened provinces The situation is deplorable and becoming worse. First Governor of Australia. Sydney. N S W . Jan 1 ?TL titrl of II"pftnun was today tworn in as the 6-Ri governor of the Federated Australian eolooiet?, amidst soeoes uf psgesntry auch so never before bsd heoo attempted in the sntipodos, 8eoren of t bouMMn: n of peoplo partic? ipated tn the denionHtramu and gen eral joy marked the oscasioo. The re f>'Olti<< of the eommontvcalth tsaR in ISStit'd by th?> Sisssege which Qietl VlflOrtS pent through the solosjial neoretsry, Jos Obambsrlaio, sud rend hy I he K%r\ ftfl Hopetoon: ?SB> ^mmwm~ Mr G B Allen, division freight! and peeeenger agent of the Southern My. at Ulltrloston haa been Hppointed i aVtMista> i general psseenger sgent of (that rued veith besdqoarters at St liOois Negro Lynched In Wilson ville, Ala. Birmingham, AU, Jan 1.?A speoial la The Age Herald froa> Wilsooftlle, Ala, ?aye : Lmie MnAdame, a negro, who oat and eor-oualy injured J M. Kay at tbie plaoe Christmae iff, aod who wts ?rroeted in Childereburg yesterday, wae liken from officers by a mob of 100 men tbia afternoon nod banged foar mi lei from this plaoe The mob quietly diverted, and as every man wore a maok tbore ie oo clue 10 the ideotity of any of the lynoher*. Dr Hermann Baer Dead. Charleatno, Jao 2.?Hermann Baer, M. D., of this oity, died of apoplexy tooigbt. He wan in tbe Tint year of his age Dr Baer wan a oative of Ger many, ooming to thin oountry in 1848 In bin youtb he was a eobool leaober, having taught in both tho Preeloo aod Hampton families Though a Hebrew by birth ho wae ono of ihr motu prom Hit tit laymen of (bo Methodist Church of mit? State He wag for eoveral years ohaliman of (he ways and means oom mittoe of tbe oity oounoil - mm - The qualified voters of Coogaree township, L'lingmn eouoty, deoided by n vote of 35 to 0 igainst annexation to jiioblana oouoty, at a speoial eleotioo held yenterday. Anti-Kissing Crusade. Atlanta Joaroal. The kissing girl bat* dow aa aotive and deelared foe in the Demoreit braoeb of the W C T. ?. By formal vote, after au exhaustive disooesion pro aod ooo, the ladies ol tbat sooiety adopted a radioal aoti kt?8 iog polioy, pledging themselves to put a stop to promiouous osculation among young women aod young men, calling in a policeman if neoessary N >t even an engaged couple are 10 be cxeapt "No kissing (eioapt of babies or kin* folks) for the unmarried" ie tne bard and last law laid down by theo? foes of oewwla'iow. The dieoussion preoeding (be vote on the question was most illuminating not to say instructive The question dis? placed a live discussion on tbe 9allo. Mrs Aona Hat field, a lady of apparent? ly wide observation, dealer* d that ' oootar quaffed from red lips was more fruitful ot oonsequeooe^ than any alco? holic bevorage ever distilled " She declared that the young womeo of today induigtd in a tremendous amount of kissing und bugging and added with doep conviction : ''And tboy like it, too M "Tbe amount of hugging and kifsiog that some girls?of our very bot families, too,??ubtrir to is literally a menaoe to ur morality,, - i know a >oung man very w?ll*"vrhi> h) rarely leaves a girl without kissing her good nigbt. He say* they not only f eagerly aoeede to hit request, bit several have insisted od being kissed. Tkso earns the discussion Ooe hope ful woman aprang to tho .'ore with a suggestion for a tare preventive "Let us," the said eloqueotly, "io struct the yoang mee in the evils ef kissing." Bat her bearera bad little faith la male hamanity. A chorea of voists cried : "In-'irco' young men ! Why ihey like it \" No specho method was agreed es, bat it was decided that ail shoald do 'heir utmost to hrcsk ap the kirsiag habit wherever found. They wtot away frcm the meeting feeling a profound tense of their doty toward misguided escalators and resolved to be start sod ioesorable in their warfare. A POETIC VIEW OP IT. Joftb Wiok, in Baltimore American. (The Demoren W. C. T. U. of New York has instituted kao aoti-kissiog eru8sde as an adjunct to its temper? as oe work.) Ob, 8bnu the ruby-tinted lips With piquant pucker pouted. B; tbem your best interns are mcit incontinently routed. Beware the coy, uplifted cbio, Wiio dicDple in the center, unless, wbeo 'tis ?00 late, you'd be A cooecieDce-struck repenter. WbeD hluebirxr cbeeks are close to yours, Beed not their near location, And manfully cor duct yourself, Avoidir>g osculation. 'Tib better to avert yoor face From all tbe lotely mieres Than to contract the habit of Acquiring Taried kieees. No wine has sparkle onto Tbe eyes tbat cause us trouble, And dimple* have aliortroeols which Ouobunble any buofcie Intemperance is c>ad enough? A very frightful spectre? Bat shun, ob, ebon tbe puckered lips With their delusive oecrar. Duo & Co.'s Weekly Report. New York, Jan 4 ?R 6 Dun k Co 's Weekly Review of Trade to? morrow will say: In spite of tbe intetruptions of tbe holidays end of tbe unusually heavy annual settlements in all lines of busi ness, the New Year opens with indi cation* <tf further progress There is no Isck of contracts offered at steady prfces in tbe country's leading indes try; snd in some deportments of cotton gocds there is better move? ment, though speculstioo has depress? ed the price of the -aw material Otherwise s decline in wheat is tbe only noteworthy movement in staples. It is explained by a reduction in tbe flour output at Minneapolis, some mills shutting down, while the foreign demand at Atlantic seaboard cities ie not brisk Tbe ordinsry measures of business continue to make gratify? ing exhibits. No alteratioo hae yet occurred in quotations of iron and steel products, sod this industry on such e firm fooo dation tbat most large concerns hare maintained wages at the old scale, in? stead of making the reductions anti? cipated Iron ore prices ere also un? changed, and no action is now ex? pected until March, although a lower rate was looked for early in Jenuery. Coke is firmly held st Connellsville. and there ere fewer idle ovens, while the much diecueeed fell in prices ap? pears confined to inferior qualities at outside furnsces Pig irons seile freely for delivery up to April, snd there is no indication of weakness An American company is the low? est bidder for tbe large bridge et Sydney harbor, Australia. Tbe pur? chase of 700 acres near Pittsborg by a leading steel company indicates great enlargement of its plsnt Aside from one redoctio.n of wages at blest furnsces in tbe M shooing and Shenan doah valleys, the week's news ie most enooursging in this, the gresteet of Americsn industries The market for textiles has been featureless, as the holidays, and stock? taking reduced business to limited dimensions. Wool has sgsio declin? ed, making the average of 100 quota? tions. 19 28 cente Sales st tbe three chief eastern msrkets amounted to only 3,121,000 pounds for tbe week, and there is much unessiness over the statements of large atocka at the end of the year, while recent failures have not tended to improve the tone. Cotton gooda have not the eame difficultits to contend with, but en abnormally <h price for raw mate? rial acts as . heck on this industry. Local jobbiu? and retail trade is brisk iu boots snd shoes, snd many manufacturers are behind with orders, yet uneven distribution of business has left some shops ready to make concessions. Shipments from Bos? ton for the week were 8*2,443 esses, against 91,665 a year ago Sole leather is purchased freely, but lees activity in uppers tends to weaken prices Exports of sole from this city were heavier in December thtn in sny previous month lsst year, but the totsl tor 1900 fell 306,935 sides bei w 1899. For the first time ie many weeks there wss some recovery io hides st Chicsgo - ?-^?"^^^ Powder Mill l-'xploftloit Removes everything in rigrht; se is diastio BSiasrsI pills, tut both are mighty dangerous. Don't dynamite the IstieatS machinery ot* yoar body with eatomel, erotoa oil at aloes pllla when '.!r. Klag'? New Life Pills, wh'ch are gentle :?? a tummcr breeze, ?lo the work See lastly. Cures, headaches, con>tipation. Only las, at J K W DeLormc's drug store. 2 ????- ???? ^sss? Yale's football team paid out nearly $1 300 for medical attendance.