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MORE WATSON IMMIGRANTS. Transatlantic Ldner, Nearly Twice trie Size of the lYittekind. With Capac 4ty for 500 Passengers. Will Sail for Charleston in September. ' Columbia, June 17.-Commissioner of Immigration Watson has returned from New York with the announce - ment that he has secured another ship for Charleston, which wilkbe pre? pared to bring 500 immigrants, the ?hip itself being nearly twice the size of the Wittekind. Mr. Watson has for some time been working quietly to this end and has be?.i saying to his friends that he would in a short while announce the result of his labors. The whole story is best told in his own words. When seen today at his of? fice, where as usual he was up to his neck in Work, Mr. Watson gave the following statement: "I have just returned from a hasty trip to New York, where I spent sev? eral hours Saturday. While I am not at liberty to give exact details at this stage, I may say that we are going to make another effort at putting a per? manent trans-Atlantic passenger and freight carrying line into Charleston. The many obstacles that have been encountered since the first attempt in this direction have been most dis? couraging at times, but these very things have made me work all the more energetically to accomplish the desired results. This time, if the con? ditions that have been stipulated can he met-and they are being named in . the light of a full knowledge of the results of the initial efforts-we will place a steamer in Charleston ha-bor of nearly twice the size of the Witte kind, taking her off her run to New York for this purpose. Since Easter no stone has been left unturned to bring about the resumption of the service upon a strictly business basis. "This department cannot hy itsel.' make a line permanent or get those whose capital is invested in steam? ships to do so without a substantial basis. We can place the ship there with the assurance of the owners that if the business is satisfactory and the freight is supplied by the railroads and the business people of the port, they will seriously consider making it a permanent undertaking. I do not take it that it is the province of this department to work up the necessary freight business, but that it is its busi? ness to interest steamship lines in making the necessary experiment and to provide, if it can be done, the nec? essary passenger business. ?"The liner that I have referred to w:"?l &o sent during the first half of September from voe of the leading . continental ports for a direct sailing If the railroads and those interested can provide 'a reasonably good re? turn freight;' if not, she will sail -from her continental port and after . calling at Charleston proceed to New ?Orleans or Galveston for return car >go, upon the condition in either case that the department can have 500 passengers ready for her at the pert of departure or guarantee the equivalent of that number. There is no guarantee as to cargo required. Whether further sailings and the an? nouncement of a regular service by this steamship company would fol? low will depend entirely upon the ex? periment. This is the whole story. The department has endeavored to do its part in securing this ship, which is the third to be obtained in this cause by the department. Every pos? sible effort will be made to have the required number of passengers for the first sailing and this will be no easy task. The railroad lines and others interested will have to look af? ter the cargo feature for the manage? ment is anxious to send the ship back from Charleston direct rather than send her on to New Orleans. "I might say that I have- done my best to have a permanent line an? nounced on the basis of making Char? leston only a por* of cali at first, corking up to a direct permanent business, but I find that every steam? ship company wants and insists upon the direct line business. However, as will be seen from what I have said, we have been successful in so arrang? ing that K a reasonabI> good return cargo cannot be offered the ship at Charleston she can go on to New Or? leans and get it without prejudice to J the ultimate success of the undertak- ! ing. Charleston's lack of export and j import business during the past few years, which has been so ably explain- i e-I time and again by Mayor Rhett, operates in all steamship circles j against her, the steamship managers j locking simply at comparative figures ! without searching for cu uses. "It might be added that the chances are good at this time for Charleston to be made a permanent port of cal! for freight and passengers by another j line whose operation would not inter- j fere in any way with the larger un- . dertaking that has reached the stage ! indicated. I hope to be in a position in a few weeks to announce whether on not this can be accomplished. "The making of this attempt at this time will mean hard and earnest work abroad, for this ship will have to sail after the new United States laws become effective, and it will b^ impossible to make use of prer-^d passages. If failure should foll cuis third attempt to get the port of Charleston open it will not be because of lack of energetic effort.-" A THRIFTY GERMAN FAMILY. In Five Years its Six Workers Saved $10,920 From Their Wages. Five years, ago Joseph Cuinen and *?* ^amily, consisting of a wife, three v .. and a daughter, bade good-bye o their friends in Germany and started for America to make their fortune; today they are back among their friends with a fortune that is sufficient to remove all financial wor? ry, their sojourn in this country hav? ing proved so successful that they accumulated $10,920 during their stay here. Mr. Cuin a said just before his departure for ...s native land that he planned to buy a flour mill and en? gage in business which will give them a social position they little dreamed of when they started out five years ago. It was in May, 1902, that this family of German immigrants arrived in the village of Housatonic and began working in the Monument Mills. They all worked, father, mother and children, who although in their 'teens werex old enough to perform the task to which they were assigned. All the earnings went into the common treas? ury from which all expenses were paid. Of course the lived frugally, a thing they had learned well in the ola country where the "high cost of living" is unheard of by people of their station in life. , It is said that the wages of the daughter which av? eraged about $6 a week was sufficient to pay all the running expenses" and ali the rest went into the steadily grooving fortune. Of course, the fa? ther of the family did not play the stock market when he got his first $100, nor did he consider that having saved the first $1,000 he was on the road to great wealth. He did not buy a house and mortgage it to pay for an automobile in which his wife and daughter could display their style and arouse the envy of the other wo? men of the neighborhood so that they gossiped about how the Cuinens man? aged to make both ends meet. He didn't belong to any club, a pipe so- j laced him more than a 2 5-cent per- J fecto and beer quenched his thirst j better than champagne. Mrs. Cuinen didn't spend her time and her husband's money trying to keep up with the style nor cali on her fashionable neighbors to discuss the servant girl problem. She never dreamed of going to the theatre three nights a week, giving receptions and contributing to the country club. As for the children, they were brought up in the way they should go and they knew better than to go out of the path in which they were to walk. Sister didn't go to a "finishing school," sh* had no time for party cresses, she did not ruin her diges? tion with college ices nor addle her brain with senseless novels. The boys were not "sports" they may not have been good fellows. In fact oro may bc sure of it because to help accu? mulate $10,920 in five years' time they didn't have any spare change to "s.?t 'em up" with; they never got into a dress suit nor spent, the "cid man's cash taking the girls ouc to ride. In truth the whole family was as unsociable a lot as one could find in a day's journey. But they kept their eyes on the main chance and they won. Now with their fortune in their old country they can have all the society they want. How did they do it? Their pay en? velopes weren't marked much over $10 a week but with six working the small wages they could earn totalled a pretty good sized sum. It is said that after the expenses were paid with what the daughter earned they managed to put away $24 every week. They lived economically but were well nourished and were free from sickness and in this way they suc? ceeded. Of course, this isn't the ideal American life, but as Americans as well as-every other nationality are after the money, the success of the Cuinen:-; is a good object lesson. And yet they say that the day when a man can start out with a dollar and make a fortune is passed in this country.-Springfield (Mass.) Union. ? THE BUSINESS SITUATION. New York Banker Tells Only Kern- j edies for Prevention of Serious De? pression. Hotel Frontenace. Thousand Isl? ands, X. Y.. June 2 7.-Thai a per; >d of "moderate park times*' is the only cure of the present business evils and Ls needed to leach tho business men thrift and caution.' is the startling declaration of E. O. MeDougai. of Buffalo, X. Y., president of State Bankers' association, in session here. MeDougal insisted that business is not ! on a sound basis, and the oniy thing to prevent serious depressior is tn get brok on a conservative basis. He sa id : "We cannot hold our present pace. If our depositors don't realize this, cur unpleasant, bist perfectly plain duty !s to curtail their aeeommoda t:- in and foree retrenchment. Busi? ness men should not dread, bat wel? come, the time when a high level of prices has been reached and prices I start to decline. The longer that de? cline is delay? -i. to.- more severe it j will be." j .Thousands of people are suffering with kidney and bladder troubles - dansr-i"us ailments that should be checked promptly. DeWitt*.- Kidney and Bladder Pills are the best rem? edy for backache, weak kidneys, in? flammation ..-f the bladder. Th'-ir ac- : tion is prompt and sure. A week's treatment for 25c. Sold by all drug? gists. Er^nianuel was -un over and killed by . air! at L-r.?*. ESSENTIAL TO PROSPERITY. Ho\V a Town Failed When the News? papers Stopped. The recent experience in the city of Butte in Montana is of great interest as showing how vital and all-pervad? ing a part in every-day modern life is taken by the newspaper. More than two months ago there was a strike ordered among the news? paper employes in Butte of such a character as to result in the suspen? sion of all the newspapers of the city. Of course, the direct and immediate loss fell first on the newspaper pro? prietors, who suddenly found them? selves burdened with a large, unpro? ductive capital-not only idle, but ab? solutely incapable of being converted into money or anything else. Of course, also, the striking employes had again the pleasant experience of having "bitten off their own noses," in the common phrase, but they had no fixed capital at stake. Most of them probably, simply "tramped" to other localities. The curious feature of the case is that the general public of the city in? sist that the real brunt of the burden o? loss has fallen on the tradesmen of the city, who, there as in all modern cities, were accustomed to advertise their business in the local newspa? pers. It is their testimony that the local trade fell off at once quite one quarter in volume and in very many cases, probably a majority, the loss reached to one-half. Confronted with this absence of their accustomed way of reaching their patrons* they resorted to other devices of attaining the same end. The billboards and dead walls all over the city were covered with posters more variegated than could have been Josph's famous coat. "Dodgers" and handbills and circulars multiplied in? to hundreds of thousands and were sent around? from house to house, the circulars perhaps more especially, but according to the universal testimony without having any appreciable effect. The th??tres, which had been before the strike more in the billboard and dodger way of working than any oth- i er one vocation, multiplied those de? vices many fold, but their business, which had dropped off more than half almost at once, remained at that low ebb and could not be lifted out of it. The job printers who were called on to furnish these devices, vain as they proved. seem to have, been the only people who derived any profit from the situation. Xo doubt people continued to eat and drink and wear clothing, but they seem to have reduced even these to *the lowest terms. There could have been no feeling of resentment toward the tradesmen. They were not the offending parties and . cutting down their trade did not at all reach the real offenders. The whole affair, aside from any other aspect, appears to be a vivid ob? ject lesson illuminating the contro? versy, somewhat active of late, as to the respective worth of different ways of advertising, of "reaching the pub? lic" with information. It all illustraes how corrrpletely the newspaper has grown into the fabric of ordinary town life. The great majority, dwell? ers in towns and cities especially, have learned to look to newspapers for news of where they can buy what they want as spontaneously as for any other news of the world, and. as always, their wants swell or swing in volume according to what they see that they can get. The immense advantage of the newspaper over any other channel of information is two-fold. First, it is universal as to information and news. The reader gets in one sleet the news of the world, the latest happenings in ! all walks of life, in State. church, business and amusement?, as well as | the news about what he can buy and where it can be found. And. second? ly, he does not have to go to it. it comes to Rina and brings its full bur? den of news with it. If he cannot stop to read it at the moment he can pocket it and read it when he has a moment or two on the street, in the car 01 after he gets home. H<- does not have to walk about or stand reading acres of posters about things he does not want in order t<> find the <.::<' thing he wants) and in his swift ry his newspaper.-Ccicago Chronicle. Thc citizens of Gaffney have de? cided to budd another mill. It will have 10.00C spindles and will be op? erated by electricity. ?Do you really enjoy what you eat? Does you*- food taste good? D'? you feel hungry and want m<>re? O. do you have a heavy dud feeling afr.-r meals, sour stomach, belching, gas on the stomach, bad breath, indigestion and dyspepsia? li so, you should t.-tk?- :< litt!?' Kodol after ea.di meal. Kodol will nourish and strengthen your di? gestive ??rgans andi furnish the natu? ral digestive juices for your stomach. lt will make you well. It will make your food do you good. Turn your ft od into good, rich blood. Kodol di? gests what you <-at. Sold by ali drug? gists. The manager of the Olympia Cot? ton Mill in Columbia had to call on the police for protection on account of a hostile demonstration of loom fixers and weavers who went on a strike. STUDY OF ORCHARD. Itlaho Witness Analyzed at Close Range by Magazine Writer. The first emotion on seeing Harrv i Orchard is invariably astonishment. This is the confessed assassin of 18 men. In appearance he is like noth? ing so much as your milkman-the round-head.ruddy-faced. candy mus? tached milkman, with his good na? tured diffidence, breaking easily into an ingenuous smile. A year and a ?alf ago when he was first arrested, this man was clearly one of the most dangerous characters our civilizations can produce. His face showed this more accurately tban words. It possessed the charac? teristics of a clearly developed type -the nervous eyes, the compressed lips, and the hardened face muscles of the hunted beast we call the crimi? nal. Immediately after his arrest Harry Orchard reached the great de? termination of his life. It is no permanent amusement to be a hunted beast, whatever may be the individual theory concerning the criminal. His face showed that. There was more than defiance and cunning about the muscles of that mouth; there was pain. On his arrest for the murder of Governor Steunen berg Orchard believed that if he would keep silence he could never be convicted. But his career bad come to a culmination. Under the suggestion of the master detective. McParland, he eased his tortured mind by confession, fell over from sheer weakness and staggered back to his cell for his first sleep in more than a week. Under the sympathy of Dean Hinks, of Boise a man's man and one of the noblest and most devouted Christain charac? ters alive-he returned to the simple faith of his childhood. In 18 months the deep marks cut in his face by the last decade of his life have gone like an evil mask. It is difficult to believe in a trans? formation of this kind. The men who saw Orchard most-professional handlers of criminals-declined at first to do so. Gradually they have been convicted. Xo promises of clemency have been made to the man. Ho-has turned to the task of assist? ing the State witb the same unhesi? tating directness which made him the surest murderer of a generation. .And everyone who has seen him closely is now absolutely convinced of his sincerity. He has impressed me. as he' has practically every one who has ob? served him, with three things-his absolute and level sanity., his extra? ordinary and detailed candor and his utter vacancy of fear. The man is about 5 feet 7-wide forehead, short nose, bright blue eyes that kindle quickly into a smile and a mouth with possibilities of both humor and tenderness-though when closed in the pictures of the time be? fore he put on his mustache, it lies across his face like the straight gash of a knife. It is wanton waste of good American time to discuss the ques? tion of Orchard's sanity-whoever or whatever was responsible for raising it. He is sane to the point of bleak? ness. It is a mind direct, practical, concrete, absolutely devoid of imagi nrition. It is this last quality which accounts for the man's utter lack of fear. This man was from the first from his varied and resourceful ven? tures in business and his burning of his factory, down to his readiness in exploding mines and transforming hu? man beings into a pile of bleeding jelly-shrewd, self reliant, direct. He is without the timid imagination of the ordinary man: these matters sim? ply do not present themselves to him in terms of horror. He discusses his own death and preparations for it as impersonally as he would a problem .of arithmetic. Karry Orchard is an uneducated man. He has small power of gener? alization. But for the concrete he ha? a mind that is a marvel ot ac ! curacy. His memory has the sensi? tiv.-ness and retentiveness of a child. ?? is a camera which catche? and holds every detail of the actual some with all the fidelity of the instanta? neous photograph. There is no question with those who arr the intimate associates of Harry Orchard of the sincerity of his change of purpose and of character. They believe unreservedly that this man. under the influence of a simple and unqestioning faith. has turned fi -m a carder of hideous crime to an unqualified devotion to truth: and upon this faith iv. his sincerity has been plac? i. first of all. the carrying foundation for the weight of one of the greatest criminal eases ever tried in th?- United States. MORE TROUBLE FOR FRANCE. Ul Labor Unions Are on the Verge of a Strike \<nv. So it i- Said. Paris. Jane 2S.--France is facing a ?trike of all laboring men in addition :.. the revolt of the wine growers in the southern departments, which is sri vi ii g the government so much con cern. Steps to add t li is burden to the pr< sein trouble of the ministry ire now fc?-ing taken by the general Labor Federation. The last effort to call a strike failed, but the labor lead? ers now believe that under the exist? ing disturbances the present effort will succeed. ( ubaii Revolutionist Says He Will Set Fire to the Island Unless Troops are Withdrawn. Havana. June 2S.-"Unless th?* American troops are withdrawn soon. ? will set the island afire from ocean to ocean." is the wild threat of Gen. Lionas Ltd Castille. one of the revo? lutionary leaders. His threat has stirred some parts of the island. A FEARLESS WOMAN DETECTIVE Sleuth With Many Disguises; She Has Pew Rivals. Should you meet a good looking sailor boy, with a complexen some? thing too good for one who follows the sea, take a second look at him. Ii may be Ethel King, the woman de? tective, of Philadelphia, in one of her many disguises. Take a searching glance at the messenger boy as he runs, with head down, to deliver a missive. It is pos? sible that the female sleuth may be hiding her identity within that blue suit. Look around you in opium scented Chinatown. The deeper woman who trips past the lookout at the gam? bling joint, with a side glance at the closed door, may be pretty Ethel King, in the costume of her sex, but sent on a mission that is very unusual to a woman. At home Miss King lives a quiet and secluded life. Few of her asso? ciates in the boarding house at which sh? has her rooms know what a dis? tinguished personage is the dark eyed girl who is so frequently away on mysterious trips. Absolutely without fear Miss King has accepted any dangerous work that has come to her in the line of duty. She has donned the uniform of a United States sailor and haunted the docks and navy yard vicinity looking for information regarding sailor criminals. Being a small woman and looking rather diminutive in boys' clothes Miss King had no difficulty in as? suming the character of a district messenger Mercury. She readily as? sumed the jargon of the corps, as well as the uniform of the messen? ger boy, and did valuable work in breaking up a series of pilferings and clever swindles that the youngsters had carried on for years at the ex? pense of the company and its cus? tomers. She learned that the boys were in the habit of meeting in the s'reer and exchanging caps so that should a complaint be made of money col? lected on unpaid messages, or of cash missing from envelopes entrust? ed to the boys for deliver?-, it would be easy to establish an alibi. Miss King astounded the management of the company by her revelations con? cerning the tricks of the messenger boys and enabled the regular sleuths of the concern to checkmate the sys? tematic stealings and guard against a repetition of them. As a scullery girl Miss King assist? ed the arrest of a notorious woman thief who had been in the habit of hiring out as a domestic for the pur? pose of allowing her criminal friends io enter and rob the house at night. The woman sleuth washed dishes and watched the other woman, and when the critical time came, and the house was raided in the dead of night, the wouid-be thieves were caught in a trap. Miss King has assisted in the sup? pression of the opium traffic and of the gambling dens in Chinatown. She has made friends with the yellow man and in due time betrayed him to the police. She has been threat? ened time and again, but has not so far been attacked. Threats she ignores, and any one who has talked with her for any time is impressed with the idea that in a tight corner she could well take care of herself, j for, as she says: "A woman is as good as a man in a gun fight, and I am always ready." -Cincinnati Inquirer. HURRICANE ON THE CAROLINES Reported That Over Two Hundred Deaths Have Resulted. Sidney. X. S. W., June 27.-The j new? of a hurricane, accompanied by a tremendous tidal wave, ove~ the Caroline Islands was received today. Over two hundred deaths are report? ed. A similar disaster occurred about Easter time, when several hundred deaths resulted. THE JURY DISAGREED. In Standard Oil Case, as Might Bc Expected, and Was Discharged. . Findlay. Ohio. June 2S.-The jury in th'- Standard Oil case reported their inability to agree today. The jury was discharged. The next case will probably be called late in the fall. The case tried was for restraint of trade, a conspiracy being charged. THREE HANGED AT ONE TIME. Missouri Convicts Pay Penalty for Killing Guards in an Effort to Es? cape. Jefferson City, Mo., June 27.-Con? victs Harry Vaughn, George Ryan and Edwary Raymond were hanged here today at the same moment. The trio killed two guards in the Jeffer? son City prison. October. 1905, in an eflort to escape, but wer?. captured within half an hour after getting out. Thc Usc of Slang. As we see it the one valid objec? tion to slang is its use by persons who are slangy and nothing more. In such a case it ceases to be expressive. Pepper and salt crudely applied do not season but sicken. As a condi? ment to written speech, especially it calls for the educated taste of the ex? pert. Th-> writer who would use it effectively must make it plain that his stock of English is pure and abund? ant. Its s tillfu? employment on the editorial page of the Sun is a joy to the jaded reader: in the hands of the gentlemen who provide the "yellow*' press with soteric essay? on ?port {? apt to be a weariness : Life. A Game Played in Boston. Future historians of Boston will devote appropriate space, I trust, to the following- incident related to me, says the "Clerk of the Day" in the Boston Transcript, by one who vouches for its truth. At a certain gilded bar there ar? rived the other morning a dignitary from rural glades. "Glass of cider," said, and then, having swallowed the same, "what time is it?" "Ten minutes of 9." "All right; another glass of cider. Say, seen a man looking for me? I'm Jenkins. Anybody asked for me?" "No, nobody. Why?" "Well, yesterday, a man came up to me. Never seen him before, so fur's I knew; but he had my name right-knew my old folks, too, back home. Borrowed $50. Said he'd meet me here at 9 o'colck an' pay up. I'll have another glass of cider." "Sorry, old man, but I guess you're stuck. That man don't come around. He's a bunco steerer.'* "Bet you $10 he'll be here by 9 o'clock." "I'll go you." "Here's the money. Give me an? other glass of cider." And then, to the barkeeper's hor? ror and consternation, in walked a stranger, who exclaimed: "Hello, Mr. Jenkins! Good as my word, ain't it? Here.s the fifty you lent me. Thanks for the favor." Thus was an innocent barkeeper done out of $10 by a pair of ingenious operators. Police, take notice. Harvard Defeats Yale. New London, Conn., June 28.-Har? vard won the freshman eight oared race today, getting off clear, with three-quarters of a length to the good. Yale ll:' 19 seconds. The Yale fresh? man won the four oared race. Time, Yale 12: 23, Harvard 13: 15 seconds. Long Live the King! * Is the popular cry throughout Eu? ropean countries; while in America, the cry of the present day is "Long live Dr. King's New Discovery, king of throat and lung remedies!" of which Mrs. Julia Ryder Paine, Turo, Mass., says: "It never fails to give immediate relief and to quickly cure a cough or cold." Mrs. Paine's opin? ion is shared by a majority of the in? habitants of this country. New Dis? covery cures weak lungs and sore throats after all other remedies have failed: and for coughs and colds it's the proven remedy. Guaranteed by Sibert's Dru^* Store. 50c and $1. Trial bottle free. Blew Himself Into Fragments. ? v Monroe, Mich., June 28.-After his wife had refused to come back and live with him because of his drink? ing habits. George Kummer, a qar ryman, walked to the barn at the rear of his wife's house, lay down on the floor and blew himself to pieces with a stick of dynamite. He had carried the dynamite in his hand from the quarry where he was employed and evidently had planned the suicide if his wife persisted in refusing to live with him. Ali that was left of him after the explosion was his legs. The Wealth of Butte. The mines of the Butte district in a period of 25 years have yielded about $500,000,000 in gold, silver and copper. This marvelous* mineral wealth has all come from a mountain covering an area of less than one half mile in extent. Under this sur? face there are fully 50 miles of levels, known as underground workings, from which a vast tonnage of copper ore is raised daily to the surface. Successful American. is a soothing, healing balm containing no drugs having a narcotic effect. It RELIEVES quickly and soothes the congested membranes and thoroughly heals and cleanses. Valuable not on?v for CATARRH but relieves colds, throat troubles, hay fever, "stopped-up'' nose, etc We Guarantee Satisfaction. Buy a 50 cent tube of NOSENA from MULDROW'S DRUG SI URE. and get your money back if not satisfied. Sample tube and Booklet by mail 10c. BROWN MF G CO., St. Lovus, Mo. Creerxeviile.Tenn._ A"BiHoas Attack." i ! Symptoms . Sour stomach, nasty taste in mouth. sick headache, sallow complex? ion, the world your enemy. CailSC? Constipation, inact? ive liver, overflow of bile into the system. Relief. Treatment for two nights before retiring with AND TONIC PELLETS One a night, don't worry, sleep i wrll and Nature'll do the rest. Htttirc Treatment ??J* Ct?.