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MMOL "HUP IN BOTHAM. Tammany Leader Out for Cleve taad-Bryan Talks-Other Mat? ters of Interest. Special Correspondence to Daily Item. Kew York, March 5.-The open dec? laration of Murphy, the leader of Tammany Hall in favor of Cleveland's nomination for the presidency has Drought a tri fie more clearness into tho political atmosphere, but the final outcome of the complicated situation ,is\Bot by any means removed from tne speculative stage. The friends of Judge Parker are beginning to fear that there is trouble coming their way and it is said that in the honr of need -they have even tried to obtain assist? ance from Wm. Jennings Bryan. Al? though it is quite well known that Mr. Bryan is not an enthusiastic ad? mirer of Judge Parker, so far as his -views on the silver question are con? cerned, but it is believed that his Seeling of opposition to Cleveland will be strong enough in him to induce his to intercede for Parker, although tho latter is not his favorite candi - -date. At the same time there is trou "We brewing in the Republican ranks. For some time there has been friction between Governor Odell and Senator ? and*, although a truce has been patched np for the time being, it is ^"believed that a serious break is sure come. It is stated in well i nf or m circles that Odell is pretty sure of tt least twenty of the forty-seven embers of the State central commit? tee while only fourteen are conceded , to Platt. Always accommodating and obliging to newspapermen, William J. Bryan, upon his return to this city from his last trip through the south allowed "himself to be interviewed upon the subject he likes best to discuss. He was asked how the Cleveland boom -was progressing down south and, an? swered with surprise that he did not know there was such a boom; he sorely had not discovered any evi? dence of it during his southern trip. Ia the same Loerview Mr. Bryan ex? pressed his conviction that the Demo? cratic National convention would re? affirm the Kansas City platform, as it was the only one, according to ?r. Bryan's idea, that could possi .b?y harmonize the different factions of the Democratic party. There seemsJo be a good prospect ' for the rapid development of New York's snbway system. When the Belmont syndicate entered into nego* : tiations with the construction of the .^subway system now' in course of con ^traction, a great many wiseacres -shook their heads and expressed grave fi doubts as to the advisability of in? vesting such enormous sums in an en? terprise the success of which, at least .?from a financial point of view, seemed to them rather precarious. Tim^3 ^ave changed and with them the views of the most conservative capi? talists. It is quite characteristic for Ibis change of opinion., that even be :3ore the completion of the first sub - way system plans have already been j submitted for a second, equally exten- } sive: system, which is tc connect the ??. battery with Harlem by means of a "*ttttme? running mostly West of Broad way. The plan has been suggested by ?the Metropolitan Street Railway 'Company which intends to make a bid -for the construction of the subway, if Ipi* can secure the franchise. Accord? ing to the plans of the company the funnel is to connect with the new ^Pennsylvania Railroid station and with HBhe station of the New York Central. The Metropolitan offers as a special inducement, to give free transfers I ifirom the subway to the crosstown sur? face 2ir.es. I* is understood* that the ? -Belmont syndicate also intends to make a bid for a similar subway sys? tem and there is every reason to be -?eve that it will be possible for the city to obtain, some valuable conces mons from the company that is granted the franchise. -The season of "Parsifal" bas closed .and now, that it is all over but the ^-shouting, it may be said, that it was a SPiest artistic and financial success. The net profits from the season are, ^-conservatively estimated at $100,000, .aa unusually brilliant result in view of the fact that the theatrical season sot only in New York, but practically -all over the country, has been rather -unprofitable this year. -One of the members of New York's Japanese colony, a young clerk of the -same Tei Suzukios, has started a aso ve m eut for the erection of a Buddist temple in this city. At present San /Francisco i* the only American city, which can boast of such a temple, as rfc ia probably the only city in this country with a Buddhistic population large enough to require the erection of a special temple. As to New York, the number of Buddhistic Japanese lend other Easterners is comparatively small and it is doubtful that they would have accomplished their aim, vere it not for the interesting fact that there are a number of wealthy TBociety women in this city who have cither become converted to Buddhism, ^wr pretend to be converts to that reli? gion. These women have contributed liberally to the fund which has passed $20,000 point. The temple will probably be built in Harlem. The Tama?itos do not expect any trouble on March 29, the day on which -the primaries are to be held. In former years regular battles were fought between. Tamanites and auti Tamanites, especially in some of the tougher wards but as there is nothing present to disturb the peace in ranks of the Democracy of greater ?tew York, it is believed the day will without bloodshed. De very is id to have expressed the intention of rring up a little scrap in the Nine? teenth ward, hut he is not taken ser? iously and it is not believed that lie aad his statelites can raise much dust. Educators all over the country be interested in the discussion of the question who to deal " with the school children how are mentally de? fective and not able to keep pace in ?their studies with other children of the same age. The question is rather important from an educational point ?I view, because these defective chil? dren retard the other, brighter chil? dren, in their progress. It has been suggested, to segregate the defectives sad provide for their education by special teachers and in separate schools, bet objection has been raised to that plan for economic reasons. The New York Tax Reform Associa? tion has prepared tables based upon -^tb?R vear'? assessed valuations of real estate, contain some interesting figures. According to these figures the ! average value of land per acre in Manhattan is $165,563; in the Bronx 85,190 in Brooklyn, $6,617; in Queens $804 and. in Richmond $464. The aver? age value of improvements per acre in Manhattan is $84,644. The present density of population all over the city shows an average of eighteen people to the acre. The health food craze has struck Wall street aud it is estimated that more than one hundred brokers and bankers, many of them millionaires, have given up expensive lunches dur? ing the noon hour and now take health lunches in their offices. It is not because they wish to or have to enconomize that they lunch on whole wheat bread, Grape Nets and similar patent preparations supposed to. be a panacea for all the ills that flesh is heir to. No, they say they like it and insist that it is doing them incalcul? able good. There is even a rumor that the health foods will have a ten? dency to strengthen the market. That there is enough superstition among the big and small speculators on Wall street, has been known to the world for some time. They are all more or less gamblers, and gamblers are proverbially superstitious. The extent of superstition common among the Wall street fraternity may be in? ferred from the fact that in many of the buildings occupied by brokers and other men of finance the number thir? teen is tabooed. There is neither a thirteenth floor nor a number cn any dcor that contains thirteen or any combination of that number. IKE OKLAHOMA PRAIRIE FI3E. Three Lives and Half a Million Dol? lars Worth of Property Lost. Oklahoma City, Okla., March 4. Three persons perished in Wednesday night's prairie fire and the financial loss by the fire and gale is estimated at $500,000. The dead : W. H. Moyer, near Walter ; overcome while fighting fire.. Dr. Harmon, near Lawton, burned to death in his stable. Unknown boy, near Lawton ; body found on prairie burned to a crisp. Further reports of property loss by both fire and wind indicate that the first estimate was too low. The dam? age by wind extends over seven coun? ties in the southwest. The total losses from fire and storm can as yet only be estimated, but it is the general opin? ion that they will reach $500,000. ; Hastings, Olustee, Walter, Leger, Granite, Elk City, Cache, Temple, Snyder, Willow, Bloomington, Sayer and Mountain Park all report damage J both in town and surrounding country ! by wind. Scores of people are suffering from 1 burns and broken limbs. The area from which reports of dam- 1 age by wind come covers 100 miles ' square, and means of communication ! over the district are" meagre. This difficulty is increased by the fact that 1 joles are burned and wires blown 1 down? ! The little town of Francis, west of 1 Mangum, was destroyed by fire, but ! no particulars are obtainable. ? Kansas for Roosevelt. Wichita, Kas., March 8.-The ad- : vance guard of delegates and visitors j to the Republican state convention has i arrived and the hotel registers aie < rapidly filling with the names of the ? party leaders of the Sunflower Stete. ? The convention will be called to order | tomorrow morning. Candidates for the state offices to be filled at the elec- ( tion next fall will be nominated and < de legates- at-large will be chosen to the national convention at Chicago. ; The opponents of the state machine, : so-called, which is headed by Cyrus Leland, are assured of thc complete control of the convention and antici? pate no difficulty in naming E. W. Hoch, of Marion, their candidate for i Governor. Strong resolutions indors? ing President Roosevelt and his ad? ministration will be adopted and the delegation to Chicago will be instruct- ? ed to vote for his renomination. Prospects of a Coal Famine Akoona, Pa., March 6.-Sub Dis- ' trict No. 1, of District No. 2, United \ Mine Workers, of the central Pennsyl? vania bituminous field, has unanimous? ly adopted a resolution insisting on the continuation of 66 cents a ton for pick 1 mining, 59 cents a ton for machine mining, an increase of 40 per cent over the old rate, and au increase for drivers and day laborers. The annual Dis? trict Convention will be held here next week. The delegates have been in? structed to resist any reduction, even to the point of striking. The central Pennsylvania delegates led the fight for no reduction at the Indianapolis Convention. Jackson, Miss., March^2.-An in? junction was granted today in the United States Court here against the State revenue agent, restraining him from taking further steps toward assessing the Union Tank Line and the Kentucky Distilling Company on cars used in this State. The injunc? tion was made returnable May 4. The State agent some weeks ago assessed the leading distilling, brewing, pack? ing and oil companies of the United States on their cars used in this State, which, it was alleged, were not assess? ed by the railroad companies. It is stated that other companies that have been assessed will apply for injunc? tions. HAY0R'S*C0'URT. Ben j. H. Leo, white, who claims to come from Florida, was before the May? or's Court Saturday morning to answer to the charge ot drunk and disorderly conduct. The specifications were that yesterday afternoon while, intoxicated, he went into a number of houses and frightened the inmates by his boister? ous conduct. At one place he torced his way into the parlor and seating himself at the piano proceeder! to give a drunkard's concert. His only defense was that he was drunk and did not know what be was doing. He asked to be permitted to leave town, having been so treated in Darlintgon where he created a similar di>tarbance a few days ago, but the Mayor was not dis - posed to send him on to some other town to repeat his disorderly perfor? mance, so he imposed a sentence of 10 aays on the chain gang. THE MORMON CANCER. Progress of the Mormon Inves tigation in Congress. President Joseph H. Smith, of the Mor? mon Church, Again on the Witness Stand. Washington, March 5.-Admissions drawn from Joseph H. Smith, presi? dent of the Mormon Church respecting his continued violations of the law forbidding polygamous cohabitation, again constituted the feature of the proceedings today before the Senate committee cn privileges and election against Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah. The witness, angered by the persistent efforts of some members of the com? mittee to obtain from him every detail of his remission in obeying the law turned upon Congress and charged that body with interfering without authority in bis private domestic affairs and usurping the powers of the Utah Courts, which alone, he asid possessed the right to hold him to account'for his conduct. While the witness had been taken in hand by the defense for purposes of cross-examination, the members cf the committee in reality consuemd the greater portion nf the time, and matters were brought out along the line*follow? ed by the prosecution in the three first days of the hearing. Some of the testimony proved highly sensational. At the beginning cf today's session Mr. Smith gave figures showing the proportion cf polygamists in the Mor? mon population, saying the number of polygamists originally excluded from voting was 4,000. Mr. Smith said that in 1902 only S97 were still ilving. Referring to Senator Bailey's ques? tions yestreday in regard to the mani? festo, Mr. Worthington read from a sermon of President Woodruff, deliver? ed a year after the manifesto, against plural marriages, in which President Woodruff declared that he was moved, and 10.000 Latter-Day Saints were moved, by the Spirit of God tc aban? don the practice of plural marriage. Senator Bailey contended that it was in obedience to the demands of the law, or fear of the consequences of the law that inspired the revelation. Continuing, he asid: "'For my part I dont' have much faith in a doctrine that doesn't get arevelation command ing a change of conduct until there is a statute competing it." "When the laws were passed which were not in harmony with the teach? ings of our Church," said Mr. Smith, "we held that they were unconstitu? tional. Of course, our own rules com? manded that we obey the Contsitution of the land, but we fought the validity of the new laws from the lowest to the highest Court, and when it was settled by the Supreme Court of the United States that plural marriages could no longer be indulged in, ct course, we were inclined to obey. But we had a revelation on our own statute books in regard to plural marriages, and it was necessary to obey that in order to obtain certain blessings that could not be received without obeying it. Whether we should obey the law of the land or continue to practice the law of the Church was a serious ques? tion. We hold that the president of the Church is entitled to receive reve? lations inspired by the Almighty God. "President Woodruff sought guidance from the Lord, and the Lord made it manifest to him that it was his duty to stop plural marriages. He pro? claimed that re vea lt i on, and ' it was submitted to the entire Church and accepted by the Church, and thus it became binding, and from that day to this the law of the land Las been kept 30 far as plural marriages are concern? ed. But there is a great difference between taking a plural wife contrary to law and in taking care of the wives taken before it was a violation of the law. I would not desert my wives. I would not abandon my children. I will run my risks before the law. President Smith's voice shook with emotion. He showed more feeling than he ha any previous time exhibited as he leaned forward and said: "Butit is to the laws of Utah that I am answer? able, it is.the law of my State that has tho right to punish me. The Courts of Utah are of competent jurisdiction. Congress has no business to interfere with my private affairs. If the Courts of my State do not see fit to call me to account for my conduct I cannot help it. Congress bas no right to interfere -it has no right to pry into my mar? riage relations and call me to ac? count" EDWARD ?NIHTW?R. An Alleged interview Expressing His Views. Paris, March 7.-The Matins' Lou? don correspondent sends to his paper the report of a conversation had last evening with a personage intimate with King Edward who had jost left the palace. This personage said the king spoke upon the subject of the war in the far east and he repeated his majesty's words as follows: "I am much distressed at the Russo-Japa? nese war, which I consider a most de? plorable event. On the other hand I consider that our good understanding with France has never been more use? ful than it is at present and believe that it is likely to become more and more useful, not only in the interest of France and Great Britain, but in the higher interest of general peace. Should complications arise despite all efforts to prevent them the union be? tween France and Kngland will render the greatest service. That union must be closely maintained for the good of all whatever may happen. 1 hope the press of all conntries, the Knglish in? cluded, will strive to attenuate diffi? culties rather than to aggravate them. ' ' Tho correspondent adds that the in? terlocutor not only authorized a repe tion of the king's words, but read from the correspondent's dispatch affirming that his majesty's remarks were correctly rendered. Strike on the Coast Line Ended. Wilmington, X. C., March 4.-In a circular issued March 3rd, President John T. Wilson of the International Brotherhood Maintenance of Way calls off the strike of the Atlantic Coast Line railway, the men attributing the failure of the strike to a majority of the employes who disregarded the orders of their leaders and returned to work. MAD DOG SCARE IN CHARLESTON. The Situation Such That the Mayor Issues a Proclamation-Vigor? ous Steps Being Taken. Charleston, March 4.-The mad dog which bit Dr. Edward Rutledge on Wednesday afternoon was killed last night, not, however until it had bitten a number of persons and dogs and as a result, there is a great mad dog scare in Charleston. 'Major Rhett issued a proclamation this afternoon, forbidding dogs on the streets without a muzzle for the next ten days, and all dogs which are found on thc streets will be arrested and impounded and after 3 days will be executed unless reclaimed and a tine paid. Women are especially fearful of the dogs and there is a marked diminution in the number of children to be seen on the streets and parks as a result of the scare. The dogs which are known to have been bitten by the mad canine will be shot by order of the mayor without regard to the wish of the owners, and every possible safeguard will be put into practice according to the city official for the protection of the public. One dog was shot this morning in a Battery borne and this afternoon a large New Foundland dog which was bitten yesterday, atlhough the owners deny that it was. was taken up and the order will doubtless be given to kill it. The public approves of the vigorous measures for abating the dog nuisance. HESTER'S COTTON STATEMENT. New Orleans, March 4.-Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statement issued today shows for the four days of March a decrease under last year of 24,000 and a decrease under the same period year before last of 4,000. Of the 186 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate is behind the same days of last year 16G,C00, and behind the same davs vear before last 92,000. The amount brought into sight du? ring the past week has been 137,197 bales, against 176.9S9 for the samejsev en days ending this date last year, 156,121 year before last. The movement since Sept. I shows receipts at all United States ports to eb 6,476,881 against 6,626,518 last year. Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 756,212 against 865,595last year ; interior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year, 296,115 against 225,742 last year; southern mills' takings 1,244,000 against 1,221,358 last year. The total movement since Sept. 1 is 8,773,208 against 8,939,213 last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 101,301 against 161,434 last year, making the total thus far for the sea? son 4,994,514 against 5,213,951 last year. The total takings of American mills, north and south aud Canada, thus far for the season have been 3,014,480 against 2,884,788 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 southern interior centres have decreas ed during the week 75,295 bales against a decrease during the corres? ponding period last season of 48, SOO. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far from the new crop, the supply to date is 8,941,007 against 9, 154,287 for the same period last year. Dunn's Trade Review. New York, March 4.-R. G. Dun & Co's Weekly Review of Trade to? morrow will say : Business continues to improve despite the difficulty of low temperature and high prices. Weather conditions have been singularly unpro? pitious, deep snow retarding distribu? tion of merchandise and excessive cold delaying the opening of the spring trade and structural work. Yet re? tailers are making extensive prepara? tions and plans are submitting for numerous building operations. Pros? pects have improved on tte Pacific coast, where mach needed rain has fallen and reports from the south indi? cate exceptional prosperity. Buyers continue to arrive at the leading mar? kets, but the volume of trade is re? stricted to high prices, praticularly for cotton goods. Railway earnings for February were ,22erp cent less than last year, bad weather restricting traffic. An abundance of buyers in the dry goods market failed to produce any large volume of business,, although there is a disposition to advance bids. Recovery in the raw material cor? rected whatever tendency there was last week to make concessions on for? ward business and the average of cot? ton goods is at the highest point of the season. This naturally checks operations for the future, particularly iu export trade, which is very dull. Failures this week in the United States are 236, against 229 the corres? ponding weke last year. Destructive Earthquake in Peru. Lima, Peru, March 4.-A tremen? dous earthquake which did much dam? age occurred here at 5.20 this morning. Nothing comparable with it has been experienced during the last 30 years. New York, March 4.-Advices to local houses having connections with Lima state that though the earthquake was the severest, in many years, no lives are reported to have been lost The principal damage was caused by the cracking of the walls of? business and residential structures. Letter to E. T. Windham. Sn tnt ff. S. C Dear Sir: The cheap paint to buy is the one that covers more than you think ; the cht*apone to wear is the one that is young when old. Mrs. Moore of Kelsey, N. Y,, bought 16 gallons Devoe to paint her house two coats; her painters said it would take that. Had 0 gallons left. Mr. James Ackley's house, in Cairo, (Catskill Mountains), N. Y, was paint? ed Devoe; it wore 14 years: and the paint was in good condition then. Be was going to paint, the last we knew, though. That's the way to preserve a house: repaint when there's no occasion. Yours trulv U F W Devoe & Co P. S.-L. B. Durant sells our paint. HANNA'S ROMANCE. Young Crocer Aspired to Hand of Coal Magnate's Daughter and Won Out. Nearly thirty-eight years ago Mark Hanna was just strating on his busi? ness career as a grocer in Cleveland. He was poor, plodding and to the casual observer a very every-day sort of young man. Daniel Rhodes was one of the rich coal owners of the State. He had one daughter, Gussie, the very idol of his soul. Around this lively girl the busque old father had wreathed all the sentiment, all the hopes of his future existence. Everything was to be done for Gussie. Mrs. Rhodes, her fond mother, was a joint idolator at the daughter's shrine, and the doting parents had dreams of a rich, influential suitor, a splendid marriage and a brilliant so? cial career for Gussie, when, as us? ual, the unexpected happened. Gus? sie Rhodes met and loved the ob? scure, poor young man, Mark Banna. Mr. Rhodes was astonished when the daring young grocer called upon Jiim and asked for the hand of his daughter. He refused absolutely to grant the young suitor even time enough to beg. He said "no" curtly and sharply, and when he saw his daughter he tried to scold her, but instead he took her in his honest arms and begged her not to think of *" this unknown man, Han? na." He said he never, never could consent to such a choice for his child. Gussie Rhodes told lier father, with many a reassuring embrace, that she would never marry without his con? sent, and she added: "But, papa, dear, I shall never marry anv man but Mark Hanna. " Then she promised her father not to see her lover or write to him for a year at least. She kept heT promise, and in the course of a* few weeks, al? though she never audibly murmured, and was sweetly gentle and loving to all about her, she grew pale and wan. She neither ate not slept. The old father was at his wits' end. Someone proposed a foreign tour for that change of scene which is supposed to work wonders in heart affections, and, presto ! at a few hours' notice, father, mother and daughter were on board an Atlantic liner. For nearly a year the "change of? scene" prescription was faithfully pursued, and the . patient, always cheerfully submissive, gentle ano charming, obviously grew frailer day by day. Almost in despair the old man brought his child home again, and ene morniong he gathered the courage to ask her if she still cared for Mark Hanna. "Why, father," she replied, "I shall always love Mark. I told you that, you know, a year ago.-" Poor old "Uncle Dan" Rhodes! That was a bitter day for him, but he was equal to the occasion. Sending for the obscure young man, he said to him : "Mr. Hanna, Gussie loves you, that is my only reason for accepting you as her future husband. You are poor I'll fix it so Gussie can live as she has been accustomed to, and I suppose I must see yon marry he'." Now the coming young man cast ever so slight a shadow of his future greatness on the opportunity of the present. "Mr. Rhodes," said be, "I most gratefully accept the gift of your daughter's love. To marry her is for this world to become a paradise for me, but I cannot make her my wife unless she will be content to live as my means will enable ns. I can neither accept aid nor permit my wife to accept it from any one. I' So Mark Hanna and Gussie Rhodes were married, and the bride went from her father's big house to live in a tiny little cottage, where, with one "iaid of-all-work, she was as happy as.a queen for some years.-Pittsburg Dispatch. An American Nils Valley. The Imperial Valley in southeastern California, up to the summer of 1900, was as true to its name of desert as any stretch of rainless, sun-dried land on the face of the globe. During the year of 1902, crops were produced in this valley that averaged from sixty to eighty dollars for each cf the one hundred and sixty-five thousand acres irrigated. This result was obtained, and this unparalleled transformation effected, by running a sixty-mile canal from the Colorado River and distribut? ing its silt-laden waters over the gently sloping valley-floor, where once was the bottom of a great inland sea. The land was settled, as fast as water was available, by farmers from all parts of the country, and in less than two years from the time that water first began to flow upon the land the population of the valley was in excess of ten thousand. Half a dozen pros? perous towns sprang at once into existence, several of which now have banks, refrigerating and electrical plants, and all the other conveniences and comforts of old communities. The great yields in this new desert garden have been obtained from fields of barley, wheat, alfalfa, sorghum, milo maize, and Kaffir and Egyptian corn, bu? experimental plats of rice, sugar beets, cotton, vegetables, melons, and many other sub-tropical products have proved each well suited to the conditions there prevailing. In fact, the whole Imperial enterprise will be of inestimable value to the Government in furnishing a parallel by which to direct its own vaster work of reclama? tion and colonization.-L. R. Free? man, in Review of Reviews for March. . -BM9 > ?~ -- Opelika, Ala., Mardi 5.-C. H. Sparks, a negro murderer, was hanged hore todav under exciting circumstan? ces. Before being taken from his cell Sparks assaulted and severely wound? ed one of the guards with a knife. Sparks was then pinned to the wall with pitchforks and the sheriff and deputies overpowered and handcuffed him, after which he was led to the scaffold. The first drop was unsuccess? ful on account of the rope being too lon}?, and it was necessary for the min? derer to mount the scaffold again. The rope was shortened and this time his neck WTS broken. This is expressing it teisely, but there is a heap of truth in its sugges? tions. The Pey Dee Educator, a negro paper, says: "The negro question j will never be settled as long as the ? north wants him to vote, but won't let him work, and the south wants him to work, but won't let him vote. "-Flor? ence Times. 4 CORNER IN QUININE. According to Dutch Indies Papers the Intention of the Prospec: tive Trust is to Erect More Quinine Factories in Java. Probably no drug is SJ universally used for medicine a quinine, and therefore it is not surprising to hear that a movement is on foot to form a Quinine Trost. It is more surprising, in these days of great combinations, that such a trust has not been created before. Nevertheless, the forming of a monopoly on such a household remedy as quinine is an unfavorable sign of the times. With the control of this drug in the hands of a single corpora? tion, it can be imagined that the price, now so moderate, might be put np to such a figure as to make it practically prohibitive to the poor, just as the Anti-Toxin Trust boosted the price of that remedy. The greater part of the world's quinine comes from Java. It has been estimated that 75 per cent, of the Peruvian bark used is secured on that island. Only eighty planners are en? gaged in cultivating trees, and, according tc Dutch Indies papers, the intention of the prospective trust is to erect more quinine factories in Java, and it is believed chat at least one half the yearly output of bark will be manufactured into the d::c*g at the Java plants. It is planned, according to these 'same reports, to interest the owners of other quinine factories throughout Europe in the new com? bination, so that it will be in position to dictate the price to the world. Whatever the ultimate injurious effect of quinine may be, there can be no doubt tbat, in the present stage of medical science, it forms one of the mest valuable and necessary, articles in the pharmacopoeia. Many doctors pronounce it a most harmful thing to take into the system, but the multi? tude of sufferers from that commonest of maladies, a cold, would find it quite as difficult to give up as tobaoco or coffee. Yet it may be that the Qui? nine Tust will have the effect of great? ly reducing the consumption of the remedy, and it may be that the strut, in curbing the excessive use of quinine, will confer something of a favor on the world, besides filling its own pocket. -Chicago Journal. BLOSSOMING OF KORT PUNTS. Or. de Saussure Records an In? stance After a Charleston Cyclone. The recent report in these paget-, says The Literary Digest, of observa? tions by a French botanist, M. E. Apert, going to show that trees that have already blossomed and have grown buds ready for the next season, may be caused to blossom again in the autumn by removing the leaves or otherwise wounding them, has elicited confirmatory testimony frcm several correspondents. Dr. P. G. de Saussure, of Charleston, S. C., writes : "In August, 1893, a fearful cyclone visited Charleston. The force of the wind was such as to blow nearly every leaf off of two peach-trees in my yard. Now, these trees had borne fruit-one in June, the other-in July (1893).. In October the trees both went into blossom again, not one or two flowers, but whole branch? es, and in a few days afterward fresh green leaves appeared. In other words, the trees behaved just as if it were spring; the fruit was apparently maturing, when frost came in No? vember or the earlv part of Decem? ber." A similar experience is related by Mr. G. Treanor, of Savannah, Ga., who writes : "In August, 1881, twenty-seventh day, on the coast of Georgia, we had one of the severest storms known here. I was then trucking on an island ten miles below Savannah. On the night of the 27th the storm swept most everything standing, also every leaf and twig from trees which did not go down before its fury to such an ex? tent that next day the woods looked like midwinter, so completely were they denuded of their foliage. In about two weeks they commenced to bud forth afresh, and in a month's time 'were in full bloom again. In the case of mulberry-trees they put on a second crop and were ripe before frost, which usually comes in this latitude about November 14. Mul? berry-trees in this section usually ripen their fruit about the last week in March or the first of April. Wild plums and peaches also bloomed and put on fruit, but did not ripen, as frost caught tho second crop. Tte effect on most of the trees noted was disastrous, as the strain seemed to te most too much for their vitality. The next spring many of tbem did net put forth any sign of life, being dead: others showed no bad effect from their unusual exertion of two crops in one season. ' ' Sam Jones of Georgia, who was a warm advocate of the dispensary, has returned to his home after visiting Charleston and other South Carolina towns. He advises his people to stick to saloons in preference to the South Carolina method and says: "It will take South Carolina a hundred years to recover from the effects of the dis? pensary : for dispensary liquor not onhy debauches the poor devils that drink it, but the dispensary will debauch the whole State in its poiltics and morals. 1 am as much against the open ?-aloon as I ever was. ? am as much against the dispensary as I am against the saloon, and for the same reasons." All of which is instructive. -The State. M ll - Georgetown. March A.- The boilers in tb,e power house of Fitzgibbons & Co., oar manufacturers, exploded this morning, completely wrecking the plant, and killing one man and injur? ing a few others. The estimated dam? age is about $2,000. - ?????!!>- . O -CT ? ? i - Laurens, March <>.-Mr. John L. Pitts, a young farmer of Tumbling Shoals, Sullivan township, was in? stantly killed yesterday alternoon by a falling tree which crushed his he<.d into an unrecognizable mass and pin? ioned his lifeless body to the ground.