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FROM THE WIRE Montgomery, Ala , April ! Reporte from the country earn ing Montgomery indicate'.ha' a deal of the cotton which was n; been killed by the present weather Washington. April 22-Fig reoeived at the State depart compiled by J. W Stevenson, d tor of the Chinese Inland mis showed that the total numb* foreign missionaries killed in C during the recent disturbance* eluding the children, was 186. theso 28 adults and 8 children Americans. St Mary's, W Va, April 2 A terrific natural explosion occc in the Commercial hotel early morning. The entire buildin large frame, was a mass o? ?i when the startled citizens ru from their homes at the report, building was entirely destroyed today the ruins are being sean for bodies. Four are dead. Cape Town, April 22.-Al Cartwright, editor of The Si African News, who was arreste JFebrnary on a charge of sedit and defamatory libel in having ] iished in his paper a statement Lord Kitchener had secretly instr ed bis troops to take no prison has been convicted and sentence one year's imprisonment Wichita, Kans, April 24 -? Carrie Nation, Mrs. Lucy Wilt Mrs. Juiia Evans and Mrs L] M?ntz appeared before Judge I today in the district court and fa to give bond They were takei the county jail and will remain tl until a bond of $500 each is appro or until their trial at the May ti of court for "joint smashing " Pekin, April 22-Gen Yoyi the commander of the French tro in China bas informed Gen Cha that 10,000 French soldiers will le China next May. Paris, April 24-A dispatch to Figaro from Rome says Mgr ] conio, the papal delegate in Cana will succeed Mgr Martinet!]' as pa delegate in the United States, 5 that Mgr. Zealeski, the papal dt gate in the West Indies, will succ< Mgr Falconio New York, April 24 -It was ported at the navy yard today t Rear Admiral Bowles, chief of i bureau of construction and repair Washington, had beea offered a pl? as the chief executive officer o? new ship yard combination '?hat is be organized in the near future the yard no one would discuss t matter It was reported that Ri Admiral Bowles would receive salary of $50.000 Liston, April 24 -A slight earl quake shock was felt here at 3 this afternoon A violent shock w experienced at 4 30 ibis afterno daring which several persons we thrown down and braised Montgomery, Ala , April 23 -T people of Alabama voted today < the proposition to call a conventi( to assemble in this city May 21 adapt the State constitution to tl needs of the present day. An e: ceedingly light vote was poil through the State, and the retun indicate that perhaps fivesixths of tl counties voted in favor of a convei tion being held The principal r< vforms which the convention has i view are suffrage, the courts, tr. terms of public officers and tfc abolishment of su much local legish tion Albany, N Y . April 24 - Gos Odell today signed tbe bill authori: ing women taxpayers in villages a? towns to vote on propositions to es pend money for public purposes. London, April 24 -A London fir is promoting the old scheme of boy ing up bonds which the souther States issued duriDg the reconstruc tion period and which, later, wer repudiated by the State governments The papers exploit the enterprise orging bondholders to come forward There is considerable local interest ii the repudiated bonds, which an largely held here One bank is re pated to hold a majority of th( Arkansas issue. Union, April 25 -Randall Dunlop a negro, bad two of his mcles ki 1 lee yesterday by the 10 15 ?rain H< was crossing in a cut aud did no bear tbe train One of the muie? was knocked about 50 feet and killed and the otber died while on the waj home San Francisco, April 25 -Edwin H Conger, United States minister to China, accompanied by his wife, daughter and .Miss Pierce, arrived from China this afternoon on the steamer Nippon Maru Atlantic City, N J , April 25 - The three roasted schooner Emma C. Knowles, Capt Rogers from Charles? ton. S C , April 14 for Fall River, with a cargo of ?umber, was sighted six miles off this city today, almost a total wreck There was no life on the vessel, and ?the fate of her crew is unknown tonight Athens. Tenn, April 26 -As the outcome of a recent temperance crusade the office of tbe McMinn Citizen was raided during the night The presses were overturned and the type was dumped into a stream nearby. The Citizen published tem perar.ee editorials during a recent election This is supposed to have caused the raid Apportionment of Dispensary Funds. SHARE EACH COUNTY GETS FROM THE SCHOOL FUND MONEY. Colombia, April 26 -Tbe comptrol? ler han ai last received all the reports from tbe varions coaoties as to the amcuods needed from the dispeoeary faed to make np tbe per capita sobool allowance as requireo by the constitu? tion, and yesterday proceeded to make tbe apportionment of the sobool fund derived from tbs profits cf tbe dispen? sary. Of the total amount cf ?100, OOO paid into the school food by tbe State board, $5,000 bad to so for cum mer schools, and it took ?15 3c"6 15 to make op the deficiencies Tbis left ?79,613 85 to be apportioned among tbe several couotie3 upon tbe basis of total enrollment to the schools Tbis was yesterday done as follows, and yesterday afternoon the warrants were beieg sent io tbs several counties for the amouots indicated : Q iota Enrollment based on Pupils. Eorollm'nt. j 8 187 $2 312 25 8 280 2 338 50 ! 12 293 3 471 88 j 3,734 1 054 59 7,311 2,064 82 6.891 1,946 21 5,050 1.426 25 12 511 3,533 35 4.599 1.298 90 6,254 I 766 31 4 319 1 219 80 6,408 1 8?9 80 5,550 1 567 50 6 665 1.882 40 3 070 867 05 6 136 1.732 97 6 469 1 827 02 6 040 1 705 86 4.561 1,288 15 12 752 ' 3 601 51 6,415 1,81177 4 763 1,345 20 ? 5.123 1 446 87 ! 5,382 1,520 02 6 394 1.805 85 8 141 2,299 25 5.741 1.62142 7,901 2 231 46 5,327 1,504 50 5 230 1 477 10 8.119 2 293 03 14 115 3,986 46 4,799 1.355 40 7,025 1.984 05 5.152 1,455 06 13 367 3 775 21 10.082 2 847 43 5.192 1,466 36 6 498 1 835 21 10,045 2,836 98 Abbeville, Aiken, Andersen, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Cherokee, Chewer. Chesterfield, C areodoo, Colleton, Dariingroo, Dorchester, Edgefield, Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville. Greenwood, Hampton, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Liureos, L?X2figtOU, Marion, Marlboro, Oeooee, N3wberry, Orangeburg, Ptckens, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Sumter, Uoioo, Williamsburg, Fork. Total, 281 891 ?79,613 8; Deficiency fund. Summer schools. ?15.386 15 5 000 00 ?100.000 00 THE KING OF HANDCUFFS. How Harry Houdini. American. Sur? prised the British. When Harry Houdini, the American king of handcuffs, arrived in England, he tried to arrange for an exhibit or' his skill at Scotland Yard, but the authorities refused to allow him' an opportunity of putting on or taking ott official handcuffs, says London M. A. P. So. accompanied by a skeptical London manager, he paid an ordinary <-*all as an American visitor to the police headquarters. Mr. Houdini, after making the usual remarks on everything he saw and heard, casually asked a question about a pair of band? en H's. The guide took them down and answered: "Oh. these are handcuffs impossible to remove." Houdini was greatly interested, nnd the incident closed by the American visitor requesting his guide to look the handcuffs on bis wrisis. Then he turned his back and succeeded in get? ting them off in a couple of minutes. One of Houdini's strangest adven? tures happened at a big hotel in St. Paul. Minn., where he was very well knowu. To his surprise, ho found that a couple of men occupying the rooms on either side of his own appeared u be mounting guard over him. At first he only suspected this, but after a few days no was perfectly sure that ono or the other of his neighbors shadowed his every movement. One afternoon, when Houdini was sitting in his own room, he hoard tho sound of scuffling outside tfie door. Flinging it open, he discovered his two unknown friends grasping a third man. who had evi? dently boen wearing a long dark cape that was dragged on one side, showing that he was heavily handcuffed. "We're a couple of detectives. Mr Houdini." panted one of the mon. "This fellow made his escape from jail some days ago. We knew that ?ie wouldn't dare to go to a locksmith to get his handcuffs removed, ami we suspected tl?at he might come te you.' Bicycles are generally considered very modern inventions, but some of the Egyptian obelisks bear figures mounted on two wheeled vehicles re? sembling the old velocipedes. Silk goods are said to take dyes more readily -han any other fabric. A fool forms an alliance with the straws driven by the wind: a wise man forms ari alliance with the wind.-Chi? cago News. The first savings bank In the United States was established in 1S1G. A LIGHT TS THE YAED MRS. GALLUP RECOGNIZES IN IT HER SUMMONS TO HEAVEN. But She Fails to Get Any Informa? tion From Her Hnsband as to the Manner IP Which She Should Act When She Enters lier Home Among the Angels. [Copyright, WOO, by C. B. Lewis.] When Mr. Gallup sat down for the even in sr. he had his newspaper on his knee and Mrs. Gallup was singing "Rock of Ages" and clearing away the supper table. He had been reading for a quarter of an hour when she quietly entered and sat down and said: "Samuel, I don't want to disturb you nor make you feel bad, but I feel oblig? edlo ask you a few questions. Last night at midnight Mrs. Watkins saw a light moving around in our back yard. It was a light which bobbed up and bobbed down and dodged this way and that and when it finally went out it gave a great wink and a splutter. It was what they call a ghost lantern. Samuel, and it meant that there would be death in this house within a week. It'll be my death, of course. I've got 27 different ailments, with heart dis? ease throwed in, while you are as healthy as a cornfield. Yes; it'll be me, but I'm not weepin over it I'm sittin right here as calm as catnip, but I want to know some few things." Mr. Gallup must have known of her presence, but he was too deeply inter? ested in his paper to recognize it. He had found an article which said that a bedbug could be boiled in water for four hours and then come out with his ambition undaunted. "I shall go to heaven when I die. of course." continued Mrs. Gallup as her 'voice broke a little. "1 orter go there. Any woman who has whitewashed the cellar every spring for 27 years, be- ? sides makin soft soap, cuttin carpet rags, dyein over old clothes and makin one corset last her for 13 years, will go to heaven on the jump. What bothers "I'M SITTTX RIGHT HERE AS CALM AS CATNIP. " me, however, is how I'm goin to act arter I git there. You know how com? pany allus flustrates me. If three or four of the neighbors come in. I'm al? most sure to fall off my cheer or knock over suBthin. How's it goin to be when I git up there and meet a hull pasture full of angels? There'll be millions ?f 'em, Samuel, and they'll all be lookin at me and wonderin who I am. and I'll be so upsot that I'll fall over my own feet." She paused to wipe the tears from her eyes with the palm of her hand, but as she had asked no direct ques? tions Mr. Gallup finished the bug arti? cle and turned to one on the care of clotheslines. "I don't want to be looked at and p'inted out and made fun of up there." said Mrs. Gallup as she sat with her ! eyes on the carpet "All night long last night 1 couldn't sleep for thinkin that some of the angels would turn up their noses at me and want to know what on airth I was doin there. You remember Sarah Jane Bixby, who died two years ago? Sarah was snippy and sassy. If she went to beaven, it would be jest her way to want to know why I'd come fiyin up there, with my rheumatiz and back aches. I'd have to sass her back, and then what would happen? Angels do sass each other sometimes, don't they. Samuel?" If Mr. Gallup had ever given the mat? ter a thought he was too busy to dis? cuss it The statement was right be? fore his eyes that 1.OU0.0?? miles of clothesline went to destruction every year for want of being bung up in the wood shed when not in use. and he was refipcting on tbe carelessness of hu? manity in general. "1 may git up to heaver In the night when nil the angels are asleep, and so I'll slip in all right I hope that'll be the way. because it'll give me a chance to kind o' git used to the place before daylight. Do you think they have any breakfast up there? Mrs. Watkins says they c"on't but I don't really see how they git along without it I know ! should feel n goneness all day without breakfast And ' want you to look at me. Samuel, and see if I'm the bum blyest woman ever born. I have read that when we die we are changed as in the twinklin of an eye. I hope it's so. j K it ain't, then 1 can't expect no good times up there. Them angels will be I p'infin out my lop shoulder, my big feet and my wabbly knees and whis perin to each other that I'd better staid down on airth among the cabbages. Nobody as knows me can call me obsti? nate or SOL but I'll be sn um med If I propose to die and become an angel to be made fun of. You'll be on my side about that, won't you?" Mr. Gallup heaved a long sigh and seemed about to speak, but no word caine. Il** had finished with the clothes? line arel struck an article about the -easoniny powers of the crow, and the ruo?: r>i.-*-?-t question from Mrs Gallup would have passed uuheeded. Her trars fe i i for two or three minutes, and tuen SI?H ?jsked : "Ami now ? DOM* UIH Oeds up ther??* You know we've slept on a feather b??d ! ever since we was married, and I've J al.!us bin particular to smooth it <i"\\ !> ' rrci?? bcv<) to foot Tve- ?rot used to fea th ere. ard if I changed off I'd jest lay there md kick around all night long. I>o they hov beds. Samuel, or do they ?a op on fly in around all night long and singin "I've Reached My Home at Last?" Scorns to me that Hy in and singin all day would he enough unless I fed stronger than 1 do now. You orter know these things. Samuel, and yon orter tell me so I'll know what to deptnd on. I might stand sass from a thousand angels, hut I do want my own hod vhen night comes, and if one of my headaches conies on unexpected? ly I warn to know that I kin. hev a cup of tea. Mrs. Watkins says they don't drink tea in heaven, but 1 don't see how she kin know." Mr. Gallup was not directly appealed to. and as he was reading that a crow had been known to feign death to avoid having a crowbar thrown at him he made no sien. "Waal. I've made up my mind to a few things." said Mrs. Gallup as the si? lence grew painful. "I'm groin up to heaven to do the best I kin. I'll be nayburly with all the angels I meet and let 'em understand that I don't want no more'n my share of harps and wings and things. If I don't find any thin to eat or any beds to sleep on. I shan't rais.? no fuss nor go into hyster? ics, the wry Mrs. Taylor did ot camp meetin last year. Yes; I'll put up with things as I rind 'em and make the best of it. and I won't be jealous if a few of 'em hev better clothes on or kin sing better'n me. That's how I'll act. Sam? uel, and then if they pick on me they'll git as good as they give. I kin be sassed and picked on jest so fur, but arter thar they want to look out Would it put you out any, Samuel, if I died at night instead of in the daytime? As I said, if I died at night I could slip into heaven without any fuss, but if it's goin tc make you any extra trouble I'll perish by daylight What will be the most convenient hour fur you?" There was deep silence. Mrs. Gal? lup's tears made no thud as they fell upon the ?arpet. and Mr. Gallup was reading with bated breath that an os? trich covens 13 feet of ground at every stride when in full flight The clock ticked, the silence grew deeper, and the cricket on the hearth fell into a doze. Th?n Mr. Gallup suddenly laid aside his paper, stretched his arms and legs, with a "Ho-hum!" and looked around to find Mrs. Gallup asleep in her chair. She hadn't gone to join the angels-not yet M. QUAD. JAPANESE TOTT T? PTT'B 17 JrxJUJCi uujftxt A new aad complete treatment consisting o Suppositories, Capsules of Giotmeat aod two Boxes of Ootmeut A never-failing cure for Piles of every oature and degree It makes an op?ration with tbe knife, which is painful, and of;eo results in death, unnecessary Whj endure this terrible disease? We pack a writ? ten guarantee in each $1 box. No Core, No Bay. ?0: and $1 a box, 6 for $5. Se-t bj mail. Samples free. OINTMENT, 25c and 50c. 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