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BYSTREET'S WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Good Collections the Rule?Fall Trad8 Retarded by Warm Weather--.-Few Failures in October. New York, Nov. 7.?-Bradstreet's tomorrow will say: Jobbipg trade has continued active, at most markets ex -ceeding last year ; spring sales are cf good volarne, indicating . confidence, and enormous shipments of all classes of merchandise have congested the railroads, already fully occupied 132 trying to move supplies of fuel to consumers and grain crops to market. Warm weather early in the week* re tarded retail trade and slightly affect ed some collections, but cold weather west only stimulated demand for heavy goods and gives promise of bettering final distribution materially. The mild, open fall season, however, has been valuable to the farmer, enabling complete farming preparations and insuring a satisfactory beginning to the wheat crop, besides allowing the late cotton to mature and facilitating outdoor work, such as building, to * progress rapidly. Good collections are the rule, few exceptions to this being noted, anci these only where rapid marketing of grain has been interfered with or re tail demand for heavy goods has been held in abeyance. Failures are fewer t&an last year, and liabilities for Oct ober were less than in all but one of the past ten years. Prices show great steadiness, those increasing or remain ing unchanged far outnumbering those declining. With increasing movement i some weakness in the cereals and cot ton- is noticeable, but this is con strued favorably because being likely to encourage export business which, however, compares quite favorably with last fiscal year, despite pre vai 1 " ing high prices. The labor situation is quiet and a favorable influence for continued peace is the disposition on the part of the railroads to grant wage advances. ? feature of trade is the immense volume of merchandise moving to wes tern consumers! Railroads report cars and locomotives alike scarce. ?t the south warmer weather has allowed continued maturing and picking of the cotton crop, and estimates of the final yield tend upward. Cotton goods re main quiet, active and strong despite the shading in raw cotton. Busines failures for the week num ber 148, as against 191 in this week .last year. CHARLESTON* ELECTION FRAUDS. Another Indictment For Fraud in Primary in Charleston. Charleston, Nov. 7.?The second in dictment for fraud in the primary elec tion of last September was returned to day by the grand jury, when John Ogren was indicted. He is alleged to have personated one W. Williams and voted in his stead. There are several other cases pending which were made out by Solicitor Hildebrand as test cases and these cases will be consider ed by the grand jury tomorrow. The grand jury recommended today that the solicitor endeavor ta find the par ties who paid or otherwise influenced Ogren and others to commit fraud. This recommendation will be generally approved of, as the use of money in elections in Charleston during the "past few years has been very general and flagrant. It is not a difficult mat ter to find unfortunate men who are willing to barter their votes and the feeling of the better class of citizens is that the poli tei ans who manipulate this vote are more serious offenders than the voters themselves. It re mains to be seen what success the solicitor will have in his investigation and now much the politicians and office holders will cooperate with him in putting a stop to fraudulent elec tions. Penitentiary Farms. An inspection of the commissary de partment of the South Carolina peni tentiary just at this time would make the average South Carolinian con gratulate the State upon having Col. IX J. Griffith at the head or the insti tution. The commissary is stacked to its capacity with meal, flour, and sup plies of all kinds. The flour is of the very best quality and is all neatly sacked. There is highland rice in plenty and no end of other provisions for the winter season. All of it is the product of the State farms during the year. Never have the farms netted more handsome results. The actual facts and figures will be set forth in the coming annual report of the opera tions of the institution. In addition to these supplies there are now in the pens of the institution as fine a selec tion of hogs s perhaps can be found in South Carolina and all the stock pre sents a sle?k and attractive appear nace. Sen. Woods Favors the Canteen. New York, November 9.?Gen. Leonard Wood, who went over with Gens. Corbin and Young to represent this country at the German war manoeuvers, arrived today, accom panied by his family. *'I remained after Gens Corbin and Young," said Gen. Wood, J'in order to visit Scotland with my family. The Generals and myself wei-e treated very kindly both in Germany and in England. We were granted every facility for seeing the workings of the military systems, and have seen many things which were not only interesting and instructive, but will be useful if adopted in this country." Gen. Wood was asked whether he is in favor of establishing tie canteen in the army. He replied : "My canteen reports are on file. Gen. Funston bas come out strongly for the canteen, did he not? I think we are all of one opinion on that subject." A German author, Fredrich Kenz, wrote a letter to another author named Carl Hartmann, in which he used ex pressions reflecting on the German em peror. Hartmann made the contents known, and Venz has been condemn- : ed to^two months' imprisonment. HOW TO PLANT WHE&T. Mr. J. J. Bean Gives Some Good Advice?He is a Government Expert Who Has Spent Years Making Experi ments. Mr. J. J. Bean, who had charge of the Government grass exhibit at the Exposition grounds, having received his appointment from the agricultural department at Washington, is pro bably the best informed man on methods of cultivating grasses and forage plants in South Carolina. Mr. Bean is not an agricultural theorist; he is a practical farmer, who does not deem it folly to reject some of the ideas bearing on sowing and reaping which were fostered twenty-five years ago. Mr.? Bean is, in a sense, an ex perimentalist. He does not concede that the farmer of today knows all there is to know about his business. He is ever willing to learn and a very apt pupil in the school of experience he has proved himself to be. So when the agricultural department desired to employ a man to take charge of its grass exhibit at the Exposition, a man who conld be replied on to make the most of the resources at hand and secure the most satisfactory reuslts, Mr. Bean was selected and given the appointment. His work was com mended most highly by the depart ment. He planted and cultivated 17 different kinds of grasses and forage plants, and agriculturists from every section of the country came to Charles ton to see this splendid exhibit. Mr. Bean doesn't think the farmers in South Carolina know how to cul tivate wheat. "Why," he said yetser day to a Reporter for The Sunday News, who had climbed three barbed wire fences to get to his house on the Ashley River, "the South Carolina farmer plants wheat the same way his grandfather did. He ploughs his land, harrows it a little and then sprinkles his wheat over it. A tiny pale-green plant soon peeps from the earth, with nothing to nourish it but a slender air root It is just growing on the surface of the land. And, naturally, the harvest is meagre. I may say at the outset that it is a waste of time *and labor to sow wheat on sandy land. You must have land with a good clay bottom. If South Carolina farmers will take good clay land, cul tivate it thoroughly and cover their wheat to a depth of from three to three and a half inches I will assure them, j if the soil is properly manured, it will yield from thirty-five to forty bushels of wheat per acre. In plant ing wheat it is necessary to plough deep and harrow the land until it is perfectly level. Then sow from one and a half to two bushels of wheat per acre?never less than that. This is what fifty years of experience has taught me. I have cultivated wheat in England, Ireland and Scotland, where it is the chief product of the soil, and I have watched its growth in various sections of this country. "Wheat in this State is frequently attacked by a peculiarly destructive agent which is called fungus. It de stroys the plant Now if farmers would render their wheat immune from the attacks of fungus I would advise them to scatter air-slack lime over their land?from six to eight hun dred pounds of this lime to the acre. They should also mix about two quarts of this lime with every two bushels of seed wheat. That will keep off this fungus growth. "Experimentationhas convinced me that the kind of seed wheat best suited to the vagaries of this climate are the * Dallas rust-Droof,' the 'Valay wheat' the 'Little Club wheat' and the 'Pur ple top stem wheat' But it is well for farmers to keep in mind that scattering wheat over the surface of the earth is absolute folly. The har vest will be scanty indeed unless they sow the seed to a depth of from three to three and a half inches."?News and Courier._ _ The Evacuation of Shanghai. London, Nov. 10.?The Daily Mail and The Daily News this morning throw doubt upon tbe reality of the reported settlement of the evacuation of Shanghai. The former paper hints that Germany has a secret understand ing with China in the matter, while the latter journal declares that Em peror William's visit to King Edward is concerned with the question and with an endeavor on the part of Ger many to secure a quid pro quo for Ger man quiescence while Great Britain completes her arrangements with Portugal with reference to Delagoa Bay. The Daily News further ac cuses the govrenmcnt of imperilling the British position in China in order to secure the barren concession of Delagoa Bay. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain is determined, according to The Daily News, to obtain a work ing agreement with regard to Delagoa Bay at whatever cost._ "Duke of Dead?own" Stricken. Louisville, Ky., November 6.?Capt. W. F. Norton, Jr., one of the richest and most eccentric men in Louisville, is suffering from a stroke of paralysis, and owing to his greatly debilitated condition lie may not recover the use of his right arm and leg. Capt. Nor ton is 60 years of age and a bachelor. He is a non-churchman and has many peculiarities. He always insists Louis ville is the deadest town on earth, and has been dubbed the "Duke of Dead town." Capt. Norton opened .Iiis theatre for prize fights. He earned the enmity of the clergy by proposing that the clergy should be taxed. Last month he erected over the grave of the Rev. John A. Broadus a noted monu ment with an inscription saying that the church people had permitted the grave to remain unmarked for more than seven years.?Chicago Tribune. The cost of the temporary work of the twelfth census, according to the director's annual report was$U,854, 818 an average cost of 15. cents per capita of the population of the United States. The total cost of field work in connection with the twelfth census was $4,35$, 670, or an average cost of 5.7 cents per capita. A total of 50,373 persons were emplyed in tho census and 3,910,000 bulletins were issued. The director reports that he will later submit a more effective plan for secur ing the original information upon which rests the whole structure of statistical work at each census. PLAIN TALK BY A PUBLIC OFFICER. Commissioner Ware a Terror to Shyster Pension Attorneys. From the New York Evening Post. ) Washington, November 3.?If the shyster attorneys who are engaged in fraudulent pension practice fancied that they were making any gain in ex changing Evans for Ware in the com missionership t?ey have probably awakenec] from the delusive dream before this. Mr. Ware has the credit for more "bluff and Jhearty" ways than his predecessor, but he is in no sense behind him in vigor of speech. Some of his expletives would hardly answer in a metropolitan drawing room. They slip out with such case when his indignation is excited, how ever, that to most ears they seem merely to add spice to his comment aries. The other day a ? Michigan lawyer, who had been ordered to show cause why he should not be disbarred for malpractices in the department, came on to plead his case in person. The commissioner gave the fellow a hearing in his private office. Then he was heard to say, as be opened the door at the clcse of the conversation : "No, you've been robbing the sol diers. I've had all I want of you. Now, you had better go. " With this he emerged ? from the pri vate office and seated himself at his desk in the ante-room, where he began to address his attention to some ac cumulated mail. The attorney follow ed him, apparently much crestfallen, and, approaching him once more, set up a low, whining protest : "Mr. Commissioner, I think you're hardly fair. I think?" He got no further. Mr. Ware, who had whirled around in his chair and risen, and was confronting him with the face of a thunder-cloud, interrupt ed him witty : "And I'll tell you what I think ! I think you are a ? thief, and ought to be in prison. I told you to go. Now get out!" And he seized the astounded lawyer by the arm and thrust hi m into the corridor. Another specimen of the same class, a gray-haired old scamp, who had long been disbarred, but "had contriv ed to keep up his trade by working through other lawyers not yet under the ban, came on to see whether he could not make his way back into good standing. He, too, was granted a pri vate interview and was deceived by his own glib speech into imagining that he had made a pretty fair impres sion. When they were about to part the lawyer paused, waiting for a last word from- the commissioner, who seemed to be in a brown study. Presently Mr. Ware spoke : "I'll think your case over," said he. The attorney bowed, all smiles, but the commissioner went on without changing his tone : "I'll think it over. You are one of these ? reprobates who bring reproach on the good name of the old soldier. I don't know yet just what I'll do in your case. I'm not quite sure whether I ought not to put you into the pententiary. As it looks to me, now, I'm inclined to think I will. Y'es I'll think it over." Outrages in Porto Rico. Madison, Wis, November 9.?Sena tor John C. Spooner has decided to call President Roosevelt's attention to the reports of political irregularities or outrages in the island of Porto Rico, and probably will ask that an official investigation be made. Sena tor Spooner left for'Washington last night, having been called there by the President for a conference on the com ing message to Congress. The Senator will bring the Porto Rican subjcet to the attention of the President early this week. Col. George Bird, of this city, father of Hobart S. Bird, publisher and editor of the San Juan News, persuaded the Senator to take the mat ter up with the President. He laid be fore the Senator evidence tending to prove that certain prominent mem bers of what is known as the Federal party of the island, were being mali ciously persecuted and prosecuted for their political activity. It is alleged that during the cam paign that ended last Tuesday, a cer tain element of the party that opposed the Federalists, resorted to every means of intimidation, and in some cases even physical violence, to break, up their political meetings and sup press their political activity. It is also alleged that threats were freely made against the lives of the Federalists, should they have the temerity to go to the polls and at tempt to vote. Railroads in the Philippines. Manila, November 9.?The English syndicate which operates the Manila Dagupan Railroad has applied for a franchise to construct a railroad from Guiguinto, province of Bulacan, to Cabanatuan, province of Nueva Foi ja. The syndicate contemplates later th? extension of the road from Cabanatuan to Aparri, on the north coast of Luzon. It wants the Government to grant a right of way and to make cer tain tariff taxes and concesions for a term of years. The commission is preparing to en act a railroad tariff, but will not grant the franchise applied for by the English syndicate until Americans have had a chance to examine the line of the projected road and submit pro posals. The railroad line to Aparri will be part of the future Luzon Trunk Lino and the granting of a franchise for its construction is there fore a matter of importance. Spanish Cabinet Shaky. Madrid, November 9.?As a result of a prolonged Cabinet council, which was held to discuss the recent attacks made upon the Government by the leaders of the Opposition, an annual note issued today says the ministers are ready to place their portfolios at the disposal of Premier Sagasta, if this step be necessary, and that they have unanimously decided to give, the premier full powers to net as he con siders the best in the interest of the country and his party. Premier Sagasta is to have an audi ence with King Alfonso at noon to morrow. It is believed a crisis and the reconstruction of the ministry are imminent. COLOMBIAN REVOLUTION. Gen. Vargas Santos Again Lets Loose the Dogs of War. San Jose, Costa Rica, November 9. ?The reason why Gen. Vargas Santos, military director of the Colombian re volution, did not got to Panama to at tend the conference arranged to take place today on board the United States battleship Wisconsin in Panama nar bor between representatives of the Colombian Government and of the re volutionists is because the Govern ment of Colombia, according to ad vices received here, intended to limit the subject of the conference to the acceptance of the decree of amnesty recently promulgated by the President of Colombia, Senr Marroquin. Gen. Santo Domingo arrived here last month bearing peace proposals from the Colombian Government to Gen. Vargas Santos. He said the purpose of his Government in calling the peace conference was to establish an effective and lasting peace which would harmonize the interests of the several political parties concerned in the revolution. The matter was dis cussed between Gen. Varga Santos and the Colombian representative, who exchanged a number of cabelgrams with the Colombian authorities at Panama, with the results that Gen. Vargas Santos accepted the proposals made by Gen. Santo Domingo and promised to attend the conference at Panama with Gens. Perdomo and Salazar, of the Colombian Government, and Gen. Herrera, of the revolu tionists. At this point of the negotiation Gen. Vargas Santos received advices to the effect that, notwithstanding the pro posal of the Colombian - Government made through their representative, Colombia proposed limiting the con ferees to the acceptance of the de cree of amnesty. Gen. Vargas Santos thereapon refused to accept such a proposition and decided to withdraw from the conference, which he says he considers futile. At the same time the military director of the Co lombian revolution learned that the Colombian Government had issued or ders to Gen. Toyar to imprison the re volutionary general, Uribe-Uribe, and sentence him to death without mercy. This order was given in spite of Gen. Uribe-Uribe's capitulation to the Government forces, which occurred at Rio Fr?o, Colombia, last month. The receipt of this news, which is considered in Colombian revolution ary circles here to be a shameful violation of public faith, further decided Gen. Vargas Santos not to attend the peace conference at Pan ama, and he issued orders to the Co lombian revolutionary army to con tinue its warfare. Gen. Vargas Santos declares he is willing to make peace providing that the Colombian Government will re cognize the civil and political rights of which the Liberal party has been deprived forth least seventeen years, but not otherwise. The Negro North and South. A negro man while riding a bicycle in the streets of New York the other day ran over a woman. She was knock ed down and rendered unconscious. A crowd of men and women who wit nessed the act attacked the negro and he was violently beaten, being knock ed down several times and kicked while upon the ground. He was final ly rescued by two policemen. The negro's conduct was outrageous. He seems to have made no effort to avoid the accident. But why should he h?ve been attacked in this brutal manner by a crowd of white men and white women. Persons of both sexes attack ed him. We are told that "women shouted in glee or rage as they saw the man being maltreated." Why did not his thing happen in some southern state where the white jnan is supposed to hold the negro in" mortal enmity and to be always scheming his destruc tion? What a howl our northern friends would have raised had it been so and what a sweet morse to roll un der their tongues would have been the statement that southern white women "shouted with glee as they saw the man being maltreated." Washington, Nov. 8.?An investiga tion that has been made by the war department into the allegation by the anti-imperialistic committee, deliver ed at'the Lake George Conference, to the effect that Father Augustine, a Catholic priest, was killed by the water cure in the Philippines, has ap parently confirmed the main fact, that the man died as the result cf the ad ministration of the cure, but it also has been found that the persons who administered the cure to secure in surgent funds, of which he was the custodian, were volunteers from Ver mont, and are now beyond the reach of military justice, having been mus tered out of the service. Manila, November 9.?The cholera continues to be intermittent in differ-* ent parts of the archipelago. The re corded total of cases is 105,000 and of deaths 67,000. It is believed that the actual number of cases exceeds the re corded number by 20 per cent. The Medical Society of Paris has expressed the opinion that it is neces sary to adopt some measures against the alarming spread cf petroleum drinking. At first it was thought that the habit had sprung up from the in creased taxation on alchohol imposed by the French government, but an in vestigation showed that .this was not the case. The habit had been pre valent some time previous in certain districts and had spread with great rapidity. The victim of the petroleum habit does not become brutal, only morose. Opinions differ among physicians as regards the effects of petroleum drinking on the human system, but all agreo on its harmful ness. The experiment of treating roads with oil instead of water as a means of preventing the clouds of dust raised by motor cars and other vehicles was carri e out recently on a mile of the London and Southampton highway between Farnfcorough and Aldershot, Crude petroleum was laid by a staff of men with watering cans. The road absorbed it very quickly, leaving the surface like wet sand, which, as the trafiic passed over it, became hard and well knit. The quantity of oil used was about 1,000 gallons to a quarter of a mile. THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION. While the Rebels Were Being Pur sued Some of Them Got in the Rear of Their Pursuers. Washington, November 8.?A tele gram from Minister Bowen, at Cara cas, dated yesterday, conveys the in formation that shortly after the battle at Victoria the Government learned that the revolutionary a<:my was short of ammunition, and the Government forces were urged forward in pursuit of the revolutionists as they withdrew, in the skirmishes that followed several battalions of the revolutionists suc ceeded in getting in the rear of the Government trops, cutting off all communication between Victoria and Caracas. At this juncture the revolu tionists attempted to enter Los Teques, near Caracas, but they werve defeated by the Government troops, who con tinued the pursuit and scattered the revolutionary forces. The minister states that it is his understanding that the President will undertake a movement for the recapture of Coro, Barcelona, Cumana and Ciudad, Bo livar, and there by re-estabiish peae. TAXES MUST BE PAID ON TIME. No Extension Will be Granted by the State This Year. Columbia, Nov. 8.?-People who keep up with such things report that all over the State there is much slowness shown by taxpayers in settling up their taxes, and it is said that a great many of them are holding back in the ex pectation that the usual extension .will be made. It is somewhat early to be talking about such a course, but as it has become as regular as the time comes it is, perhaps, natural for taxpayers to expect a continuance of the custom. It is sometimes the case that auditors and treasurers ask for such extensions, often not be cause of the inability o? the people to pay, but because it staves off a lot of work on their part at a very busy time, the first two months of the year. All those persons who are hold ing back for an extension are destined to be disappointed so far as the Governor and Comptroller General are concerned. They are unalterably op posed to extension and tlaey are most positive in their objections to such a plan. The people of the State are bet ter able now to pay" taxes than they will be later on, and their financial condition is no worse now than it has been in former years. It would most seriously embarass the State Govern ment for any delay in the collecting of taxes to occur, and there will be no ex tension unless the Legislature provides for one. Small Fire in Camden. Camden, November 10.?Last night for a few minutes Camden was on the verge of a conflagration, which was only averted by the faithful work of the firemen. Betewen 8 and 9 o'clock the warehouse, used jointly by Messrs. Hirsch Brothers & Co. ano Messrs. Whittaker & Burnet, was found to be on fire. It was consumed, together with a lot of heavy groceries. Mr. G. T. Little's livery stable was nearby and caught several times, but fortunately the fire was extinguished. Had the fire not been confined to the warehouse the loss would have been a very heavy one. The little hand engine, which for the present is Camden's only protec tion, was promptly brought into ser vice and did effective work. The loss amounts to several hundred dollars, which is partially covered by insurance Washington, November 8.?Minister Wu has finally served official notice on this Government of the change to be made in the Chinese legation here. Today he called at the White House, accompanied by Mr. Tung, his first secretary of legation, and presented to President Roosevelt his letter of recall. Mr. Wu acting under instruc tions from his Government, which is anxious that he shall return speedily to China, to carry forward the work of preparing the commercial treaties, will return to his home immediately and without waiting the arrival here of Liang Cheng, who is to succeed him as minister to Washington ?nd is still in China. Panama, November 9.?The Colom bian gunboats Bogota and Chucuito left here yesterday on a trip along the coast in search of the revolutionary fleet. It is reported that Capt. Mar maduke, of the Bogota has received instructions to engage the revolution ists in a decisive battle if he finds it possible to do so. * A dispatch from Brussels notes the fact that Thomas J. Mi nick, an English newspaper man, sought to make a sensation in that town by hav ing himself locked up in a mad house. The physicians found out what Min nick was after and resolved that they would teach him a lesson. They dosed him with vomiting powders, and the next day put him on a diet of sour herrings and no water, and at night, when he was not allowed to sleep and complained about it, he was told be had a tumor in his brain and was imagining ill treatment, and finally af ter all this punishment and when the doctors got ready to chloroform him to operate on him, the impostor dis closed his identity. Even then the doctors would not let him off, but sent him to a police station, wherp he was booked as an impostor, and for obtaining the county's charity under false pretences. This Minnick is said to have been the same who made a stir in New York about a year ago in discovering alleged abuses at the Bellevue Hospital. The Belgian way of dealing with such cases is far bet ter than the New York way. The Honea Path Chronicle of last week has the following: "During the campaign last summer "Mr. J. D. Lomax of Abbeville county was a rip roaring Jim Ti Umanite, and was al most prostrated when the genial colo nel was defeated. He was in town Sat urday and asked us to say that he was standing flat footed for Jim, and that he never intended to have his hair cut until the colonel was elected governor of South Carolina. We will pass around the hat soon and take up a collection to buy hair pins for Mr. Lomax, for we fear his hair will worry him very mtfch if be waits until Jim Tillman is elected before he has it cut." TO SUPPRESS THE LADRONES. The Government Adopting Vigor ous Measures in Cavite, Rizal and Bulacan. Manila, November 9.?The Govern ment is adopting vigorous measures to suppress ladronism in the provinces of Cavite, Riza and Bulacan. A zone embracing these provinces and sur rounding Manila is the scene of con stant petty and sometimes serious dis order. Several armed bands, some of them numbering two or three hun dred^men, are operating in the describ ed districts and have committed vari ous depredations. They find a safe refuge in the muntains. The plan cf the Government contemplates securing the ?ssistance of the military, which has been inactive since the end of the insurrection. The extent of the army's participation in the work of suppres sion depends upon developments. It is probable that the military authorities will request .the garrisons to protect the more important towns, while the constabulary conduct the field opera tions. It is thought that martial law, in a modified form, will be declared and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus suspended in Cavite province, which has been the home of the la drones for ages. Military control of Cavite province is not contemplated. It is intended that the military and civil authorities sball work in con junction. Advantage has been taken in some parts of the islands of the complete inactivity of the soldiers, and it is thought that the use of the army by the civil authorities will have a beneficial effect. The vigorous campaign against the ladrones which has been conducted by volunteers in Bulacan province has resulted|in]driving?nany refugee bandit bands into Rizal, where the campaign is now pending. Gen. Davis is operating with Gov ernor Taft. He has strengthened the garrison Jin Rizal and is supporting and assisting the native constabulary, which is now afield. The operations in Cavite province will commence shortly. B0R6LARS AT CAMERON. People Aroused by the Explosion of Dynamite. Columbia, Nov. 8.?Last night at 12.20, at Cameron, on the Coast Line, between Orangeburg and Sumter, the store of Bull & Taylor was entered by safe blowers and between 8800 and $1,000 was secured. The robbers used dynamite and the explosion aroused some people in'the vicinity. With guns and pistols they went to the rear of the store while the rob bers escaped from the front, having had ample time to secure the contents of the safe. Several shots were fired at them, but without effect. The penitentiary bloodhounds were sent there this morning, but failed to accomplish anything in the way of tracing or .locating the robbers. The safe was said to have been large and up-to-date, and was thought to.be the must secure one in that part of the State. Mr. Rickenbacker had got ten money from Orangeburg to buy cotton and had deposited it m the safe. His loss is S 00. The postoffice lost $100 and Bull & Taylor"are not posi tive how much they lost, but with the two sums the total was about 81,000. GOTTON-OROWING?N AFRICA. Satisfactory Result in British West Coast Colonies. Liverpool, November 10.?Alfred Jones, president of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, has just re cieved reports regarding the cotton growing experiment in West Africa. He said to a representative of the As sociated Press : "We sent out a hundred tons of American seed and divided it among all the British west coast colonies. The results have been most satisfac tory. The crop matured in ninety days, and in quality and quantity were quite equal to those of the parent stock. Nest season we. shall send Egyptian seed and we hope for equally good results. The only question is whether we can make the natives work so as to put big plantations on a com mercial basis. The native wages are four cents a day. But I am per sonally afraid that a number of years will elapse before we can make the west coast of Africa a serious competi tor of the American Southern States. If we could transport the negro pop ulation of the Southern States to the west coast there would not be any ques tion of making Great Brtiain inde pendent of the rest of the world for raw cotton. But I have had no ex perience with American negro coloni zation, and I do not believe it is possi ble to secure American negroes for the new cotton belt. We are sending out Americans to teach the natives cotton growing and must wait and see how the experiment turns out. The question of freight does not yet enter into the problem. The railroads and steamships have agreed to transport African cotton free." Mother Eddy's greatest triumph in the way of a conversion is that of an old soldier in Kansas, who writes to the penison office: "I herewith voluntarily surrender all claim to the pension which I have been drawing for the last twelve years. My pension was allowed on account of alleged rheumatism and alleged stomach trouble, contracted during my service in the civil war, and the mortal error which made me think I had them also made the doctors who examined me think the same. But I am now con vinced that there is no such thing as rheumatism or stomach trouble : that, by the blessing of God, I am free of error, and that I have no right to take money from the Government on account of' a cause which does not exist." An attempt was made Sunday night to break open and rob the safe in the county treasurer's office, but either the job was too tough or the burgars were frightened away, for they failed in their' attempt and left their tools be hind them as souvenirs.?Florence Times.' _,_.