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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.
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Condensed Schedule.
Dated April 8, 1901.
TRAINS GOING S0UT9.
No. 55 No. 36
p. m.
jeavs Wilmington *3 45
Leave Marion .6 40
Arrive Florence [1 25
p. m. a. ?a,
Leave Florence *8 00 *2 50
Arrive Sauter 9 lo 3 58
No. 52
bsave Saji^r 9 15 ?9 23
Arrive C^-tt'oia io 40 10 55
No. 52 rans through from Charleston vt
Jentrai ?. ii , leaving Chariest- 6 25 or.
uacea 8 02 a m. Maonmg 8 50 a m
T?A1N3 GOING HORT ri.
No. 54 No. 53
a. ci. p. m.
.eave Columbi! *3 40 *-i 16
Vrnvo Sumter ?8 05 5 35
Nc. 33
a. m. p. m
[.eave Surc tee 8 06 *6 24
Arrive Florence 9 20 7 35
a. m.
u,esve Florance 10 00
Leave Mar oo 10 35!
Arrive Wilmington 1 2b",
*^ai?j tOailj except Sunda-.
No '<Z rona tbroog? to Charit atoo, S. C
?.'.<;. Central R. R., arriving Manning 6 C4 j.
. .Lanes f>.43 D m, Charleston 8 3^ p -.i
Tra?na on Coow.-iy Branch leaveC^dbou
ll 50 a m, firrive C)o way 1 3) p m, reck?
ing leiv? Conway 3 40 p ci, anive Ci- .
oonra * 20 D rn, leava Chad boam r>.3^ p m,
?rrive Kirod 8.10 D rn, retarnluc le^vt'fiirod
S toa m, ar-.ive Cfiadbo irn ll 2, a m Daily
r-icept Sunda>.
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