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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. LETTERS FROM OUR SPE CTAI, (X)RHK8l?OM)EXT8. mm of Interest From nil Parts of Huintrr ami Adjoining CouiiIIi-h. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Vail your Utters so that they will h this office not la,ter than Tues rnornlng When the letters are ?Ived Wednesday It Is almost an igosslbilUy to have them appear In paper Issued that day. PI8GAH. I'tsgah. Feb. 16.?Farm work Is going forward In a very satisfactory wanner. Oats look badly from the ?aid, but they will come out all right. Plum tress are fast budding and in % tier days will be In bloom. I observe la 'the swamps that the canes are all mm d to the roots. This Is the result of IHIr blooming some time ago. News, like money. Is awful tuftfts. About all the nolae I hear is the farm twite. Potatoes are generally totting, ?nine have lost all they made*. As yet very little guano Is being bailed The leglslture of this Stab* Is a Covkl. representative body in point of ?ft. Old. middle and younf are IJwsre. In the senate, the old heads dominate. In the house, the middle ?lias take the most active part. Speak? er Whs ley seems to be a goo 1 all round speaker, not brilliant and quick, like Irby. nor accurate, as F**rimons. but generally fair in his decisions. A few men In both houses are overrated In ability, as is plain to be aeen when speaking. Last Friday ?tfht when the prohibition bill came ?I* on second reading, the opponents ?I the bill commenced to flibuster ?gainst the bill and literally wore the ?lerk out and tired the speaker for two hrurs killings time on roll calls, aw motions to adjourn, demanding tkw ayee and nay?, on all matters, and ?banging votes before the vote was ?announced. It equaled what John Sharp Williams practiced In Congress last spring. This was kept up until It o'clock, the hour set for memorial services on the death of Representa? tive Clark of Florence county. JBeautlful addresses were delivered ?ft his life snd character by C. A. Smith, Col. J. R. Harrison. Ayer aad others, after which the leglsla? tare adjourned out of respect to his saemory. Without one sld? breaks down, or ? compromise Is agreed on, a dead? lock Is sure on prohibition. The meas ?re has some strong friends In the house C. A. and M L. Smith stand tn the front rank. In the senate Col. Alan Johnson of Newberr> Is a strong sdvocste of It. Our delega? tion stands on what they advocated ?ti the ?lump "Josh " Is siso an ad? ds of prohibition. Josh Is a ?nger man than he gets credit for gets a lot of attention. He has t. common sense, and Is well up legislative work, even If he Is not cultivated as some who are al trying to make a display of their profound knowledge. It don't ie much to see that our law male body could be vastly Improved In ly ways. A legislator should give beet services to his State and dy. and not fool his time away ?miking to lobbyists. I notice that the who do the work of the body are watchful of the State's Inter Oov. Ansel Is growing stouter. Says i enjoys fine health. McCown keeps the secretary of e's office In fine style. Treasurer Jennings looks feeble. He ys, though, his genersl health Is good, but still suffers from the ration he underwent some time Comptroller Oeneral Jones Is al? ways busy about tax problems. The State house grounds look very mm\ The old soldiers' home Is finished, ? short distance from the city proper. It la a low building, painted white, hut the State has made no provision *o maintain the old men. Another piece of unwise legislation. The asylum Is as neat as a new pin. The unfortunates are well cared for. The pavement of Main street, by tho new process. Is a fine piece of work, beautllul and substantial. The process Is as follows: First the street W leveled In proper shape. then tssmshed rock Is spread over It; then ?onI tar on thin. S/hen It !?? rolled by S heavy steam roll. r. then a mixture of fine HOPS, cement and coal tar is spread, and t rolled by a heavy roll ?r, then fine stone la spread, and it rolled, which leaves Iht HfSSt hard and smooth. If \ ibl only get our roada In fine sapo llko those In Rtchland county It would be the best empendlture of money the county could make and I am sure the tax? payers would meet the cost with pleasure, for nothing adds to a count) wore than good roads. WHACKY. Wlaacky. Feb. 19.?Tour scribe has hoen providentially hindered from writing sooner, not for want of good weather, for we have been blessed with charming weather, and It still continues. I saw lots of plum blooms today and I fear ail the fruit will be killed this year. Won't that be un? fortunate. The farmers In this sec? tion are making rapid progress will, t iclr farm work. Clearing new land und clearing the old land of stumps. One farmer In our midst has had 2, 000 stumps tuken up this winter and U still digging. He had half that many dug before and still has many more to dig. He has his entire farm nearly rid of this nuisance. The farmers around here are very pro? gressive, Improving their lands, homes Investing in better stock and improved farm Implements, adopting new meth? ods of planting and cultivation and above all are striving to live within themselves. One farmer near here has sold $1.200 worth of hay, fodder and corn, off his farm, and left enough to supply said farm abund? antly for the rest of the year. Besides be sold 35 bales of cotton and killed enough meat to supply his family with meat and lard. All this from a three horse farm, which goes to dis? prove the argument, that there is no money in farming and I trust will en? courage some who are ready to give up their farms and go to town to educate their children. Bosh! On the same princlole that they go to the circuses. But so many contend, Mr. Editor, that the world is growing bet? ter, I had better desist for fear of getting into trouble. Our lawmakers are very busy try? ing to make new laws, killing time and spending the people's money. It Is quite a reflection on our fair State to have to appoint so many investi? gating committees to investigate the management of our State institutions, especially when it is- required to be done behind closed doors. It is time to have another reform movement, 1 think. But when the reform begins let it not be convened to officials and lawmakers. It needs to go further than that. Mr. H. W. Scott has been quite sick for two weeks with bronchitis, but is able to be up again. Mr. W. A. Qreen has been a great sufferer from a strain of some kind. He doee not know, himself, what caused It. Mr. Robt. Cooper is at home for a rest after passing through examina? tion. No doubt he will make a cred? itable mark for himself. Mr. W. H. Scott of your town spent most of last week In our midst among his relatives and friends. Rev. J. W. W?lling. D. D.. paid our town a visit last week, to the delight of his many friends. He preached at St. Lukes church on Sunday. Bro. W?lling is always a welcome visitor among us. He carries cheer and sun? shine wherever he goes and leaves an impression behind him. Very little fertilizers have been hauled in so far, compared with oth? er seasons, but no doubt it will come. Six or seven hundred tons of cot? ton seed have been shipped from this place in the last month. Most of it will return In the shape of meal or some other fertilizer, I hope so. Our little railroad is doing a fine business. Four trains run each way every day except Sunday. The freight trains carry heavy loads north, eac'a time. The St. Lukes' congregation gave their pastor. Rev. J. H. Ueasley a good pounding, which he deserved, but which he appreciated thoroughly. With the exceptions mentioned, the health of the community Is very good. ANTIOC1I. Antloch, Feb. 14.?Messrs. L. A. and A. B. White and W. T. McLeod have gone to Camden today. Owing to the recent, rains farm work is at a stand still. Mrs. J. W. Weldon and Miss Leila Fowler spent Friday and Saturday at Wlsacky. Messrs. Lawrence White and Harry McLeod spent yesterday at this place. Rev. T. L. Cole preached at Mizpah Baptist church Sunday afternoon. Messrs. John McCutchen and Olin White attended services at Bethesda Sunday afternoon. No sickness to report. Lecture at Statehurg. Dr. Green of the University of South Carolina ivlll deliver a lecture in the hall of Gen. Sumter Memorial Academy on Tuesday evening, Feb. 23rd. at 8:30 o'clock. The subject will be "On the Countries of the Med? iterranean," where he was recently been on a visit. Admission 16 04 til Tiie Boston Globe cheerfully re? marks: "if prohibition ?uooeeds hi the South and West to such an <?< lOQt tbat distilling Is materially |e I. the demand for grain will grow si ?aller, the price will sink, and the ei.Ht of eggs come down." And then a little later we will see the distilleries til inw.rles dotting the landscape in dear Old Hew England and tithe will flow In copious sluices the BIODO] of the thirsty denizens of the west? ern and southern arid reaches; and ever after happiness and peace will reign.?Chattanooga Times. Madrid has the highest altitude of any city in Europe. I NO STATE-WIDE LAW. ITLIIUSTF.R HAS KILLED HOPE OF ENACTMENT. The Opponents of the State-Wide Bill Almost Assured of Victory as There Is Now little Hope of Forcing the Passage of the State-Wide Hill at Tills Session. Columbia. Feb. 15.?The filibuster against prohibition is still on In the house, which accomplished practical? ly nothing today. Only a few third reading bills got through. All hope of passing the State-wide prohibition bill or making any change in the present local option scheme is prctically over, the filibuster con? tinued today making it impossible for the bill to get through In time. The house killed the freight rate bill suggested by Manager Campbell of the Columbia freight bureau. DH. BABOOCK EXONERATED Senator Chrl.stensen Asserts That Charges Refer Only to Mistreat? ment of Male Patients. Sepcial to The Daily Item: Columbia, Feb. 15.?In speaking on the Asylum investigation bill, which has now passed both houses Senator Christensen made a statement today in which he expressed the highest re? gard for Dr. Babcock, the superinten? dent, and said that the charges of mistreatment refer only to "subordi? nates in the white male department." None of the affidavits make any charges against the financial manage? ment and none relate to the female wards or their patients. $50,000 FOR TEXT ROOKS. Mr. Roar's Hill Provides for Large Appropriation In Interest of Public Schools. Columbia, Feb. 15.?The following is the text of Mr. Doar's proposition as to free text books: That the sum of fifty thousand dol? lars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of providing free schdol books to the deserving children of the State attending free public schools. That the question of who are "deserv? ing children" in each instance shall be determined by said trustees of each school district, and their de? cision shall be final. That the sum shall be apportioned among the coun? ties of this State according to the en? rolment ? of children In free public schools. That the State Superintendent of Education, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Statj fchall constitute a board, also shall advertise for bids for the various school books needed in the public schools of this State, and shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. The State Superintendent of Edu? cation shall make and promulgate rules and regulations governing the use of free books in each county. The county superintendent of educa? tion shall require the teachers and trustees of each school to make quar? terly reports to them of the disposi? tion of said books, and It Is hereby made their duty to do so. The coun? ty superintendent of education shall make quarterly reports to the State Superintendent of Education of all ooks. The county superintendent of edu? cation shall draw his warrant on the Comptroller General for the amounts due each county In a separate fund known as the "free book fund" and shall be paid out only for school books on warrant of the county su? perintendent of education. HOLE IN FENCE, GIRL GONE. _i_ Result of Father's Objection to Daughter's Reau. A good joke Is told on one of our cver-the-rlver neighbors, who neveral years ago had a family of good loo'. - Iltg daughters, who were smart and good workers. They, of course, giew up and the boys, as Is natural, took a fancy for them and wanti d to marry them, but the old gentleman fur some reason (perhaps best known to him? self i cblected and used every precau? tion to prevent any of them from marrying, and especially one young fellow, who was distasteful to the old man. As time passed on this youn^ fellow and his girl went on with their oourtlng "unbsknowlng" to the old man, The obi man bad the house ii rounded with a strong paling fence and there was no means of Ingress or egress, except through the gate, which lie kept pretty well guarded both night and day, They knew they would have to run away if they got married. So one morning he awoke to find a hole in an unguarded part of the fsnes and his girl was gone?gone to get married against his will or wish He was at his wit's end. None of the family claimed any knowledge of the elopment, but the old man thought differently. Turning to his other girls, whom he suspected would soon follow suit, he said: "If you want to go, go now while the wfty fin " CANADIANS HATE JAPS. FEELING STRONGER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA THAN IN UNITED STATES. Even tlic Chinese Abhor Them And Have Risen in Public Estimation From This Fact. Vancouver, B. C, Feb. 9.?Com? pleting here a tour of investigation extending throughout the Pacific coast from Prince Rupert, the ter? minal of the new Grand Trunk Pa? cific railway, in the Xorth to Los An? geles In the South, a Xew York Herald correspondent has found evi? dence that the anti-Jap' ese senti? ment is stronger in British Columbia than it is in Washington, Oregon and California. Careful Inquiry has shown that among the Britishers who have ar? rived in the Canadian Pacific prov? ince within recent years the dislike to the Japanese amounts to a positive frenzy of hatred that only waits upon occasion to find vent in action that may strain diplomatic relations be? tween Great Britain, Canada and Japan to the utmost. The anti-Japanese riot that took place at Vancouver two years ago was spontaneous and not premeditat? ed. It arose in the first instance from a trifling street brawl. Thera was no malice aforethought. If there hould be another anti-Japanese riot in any coast city it will be impossible to say the same thing, for there will be malice aforethought. The newly arrived Britishers who have gone to British Columbia find themselves In competition of a de? grading nature with the service labor of the Orient, and more so with the Japanese than with the Chinaman. They are also well aware of what is being done in other parts of the Brit? ish empire. They know that no Asi? atic or no African can enter any port of the Australian commonwealth or of New Zealand. These countries legislated for themselves and the Erltish government was powerless to stop them. Why, ask the newly ar? rived Eritishers in British Columbia, can Canada not do the same? At the time of the Civil war the bittter cry of the people of the South was that the people of the Xorth and the Eastern States did not under? stand them. History repeating itself, the complaint of people west of the Rockies today is that the people east of the great mountain range do not understand and appreciate the situa? tion. And truly there Is ground for the complaint, for the burden im? posed upon the white man of the Pa? cific Slope and his family by the Asi? atic invasion is getting too grievous to be borne. The patient, nonassertive China? man could be tolerated, but the saucy, self-asrertive Jap of the twen? tieth century, on terms of equality or superiority, is too much for self-r/ specting white wage-earners. It is this feeling that is really at the root of the whole of the present trouble on the Pacific coast. The employers of the Japanese do not see it, for to them* the Jap is deferential and com? plaisant, but to the white man who has to work on anything like terms of equality with a Jap his eternal "cocki? ness" is a bitter pill?a constant thorn in the flesh. Curiously enough, the Chinese on the coast hate the Japs even more cordially than do the American wage earners, and there have been many instances in which this has been brought out, some of them rather amusing. A Jap entered a Chinese laundry one day In San Jose and de? posited a bundle of solledMinen on the counter. The Chinaman did not touch it with his hands, but shoved it off the counter with a stick, and then kicked it into the street, being much applaud? ed by his colleagues. Stories of this sort could be told by the hundred and are a common topic of conversation wherever white workingmen congre? gate in their idle hours. As a consequence, the patient non assertive Chinaman has gone up many degrees In popular favor and, Instead of being the despised and rejected in? dividual of a few years ago, he is now treated with a certain amount of re? spectful consideration, under which he is beginning to show a more cheer? ful exterior than Is habitual with him. For the present strained relations with the Japanese many of the large employer* of labor are much to blame. They are never tired of ex? tolling the virtues of a little brown man and holding him Up as a model for Imitation, Of course, they have not g?>t to work alongside htm, and only know him in his Invariably def? erential attitude toward his employ* er and paymaster. When 1.pie. are living from day t<> day with this rancorous tooling deep down In their hearts it only wants .some trilling incident to occur that 'will In a moment transform it Into overt action that would have far reaching and very deplorable con? sequences. Of course there Is a large and highly respectable and Influential 'class of people who come little in con? tact with the Japanese except in the , capacity of servants, in which walk of life they ire admirable. This class of people a-e largely tolerant of the iittle brown men, and in many cases enthusiastic about them. This enthu? siasm, injudiciously displayed, is oft? n the means of adding fuel to the exist? ing fires of hatred. The Native Sons of the Golden West, not to mention the Native Daughters, have taken the anti-Jap? anese fever and taken it badly. Ani? mated and inspired by the doings of their fathers in earlier days, time and again there is talk which does not find Its way Into newspapers about resur? recting the old association of the Vig? ilantes and clearing out Japanese from certain districts, in much the same way as objectionable "greasers" were dealt with in the 50's of the last century. The contagion has spread to the very school children, who object quite as strongly to Japanese as fellow scholars as do their parents on their behalf. What respectable American father or mother In the East would allow his little girl or boy to associate on terms of school familiarity with grown up Japanese? ^or it is not only over the question of Japanese children that the segregation of schools has become a necessity on the Pacific coast; it is the grown up Jap? anese scholars that is the main diffi? culty. This is not the place to enter upon the Japanese practice and be? liefs in regard to morality, religion and social ties. It is sufficient to say that they are utterly repugnant to every cherished Ideal of a Christian home, and this fact is thoroughly rec? ognized on the coast. ?ANS WOMEN FROM CHOIKS. Official Text Separates Them, at Least, From Men. The official text of a decree in re? gard to women singing in Catholic churches has Just been received in New York from the Sacred Congrega? tion of Rites at Rome. It Is a refusal to exempt the churches of this coun? try from the operations of the letter of Pope Pius, except as an expedient, where conscientiously deemed neces? sary. It is said that a test question for? warded to Rome brought the reply i framed in Latin. Explaining it in English, the editor of the Ecclesiastical Review makes clear that the decree enacted these regulations: "1. Choirs, commonly so called, as we have them in the United States, where a select group of men and wo? men gather for the purpose of sing? ing during the solemn services of the church, are not permitted by the 'Motu Proprio,' or Papal letter. "2. The answer given in a certain case regarding the singing of women at divine services is not to be constru? ed as sanctioning the commingling of men and women in the choirs as we have them In the United States. "3. While the Sacred Congrega? tion prohibits the arrangements of mixed choirs of male and female voices by answering the proposed 'luestion as to its lawfulness by the simple negative, yet when there is a dearth of male singers, and when it is necessary for the solemnity of the service that men and women Join in the singing, even then the men and women are to be absolutely separated, and It becomes the duty of the bishop to see that this is done." As this decision has Just been pro? mulgated no definite directions have as yet been made by the bishops as to how the choir lofts must be arranged so as to separate the sexes. COOPER JURY COMPLETE. However Premptory Challenges May Deplete It. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 12.?Hardly had the Jury been completed today In the case against Col. Duncan B. Cooper, Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharp, than the State served notice that it might seek to again deplete the box. This Incident followed a wearisome day. Nearly two hundred talesmen had been called without se? curing the twelfth juror, when sud? denly and unexpectedly both sides ac? cepted William Hows, a German farmer fifty-five years of age. With alacrity, Judge Hart ordered the sher? iff to bring the complete jury Into Court to be sworn In. Then it was that Attorney General McCarn inter? posed. He said he had information tending to show that two of the men in the box were Incompetent. This information, he explained, came too late for use before. He asked until Saturday morning to produce proof, if such proof existed. Judge Hart consented to the de? lay, and tlie case will be resumed at 9 a. if. tomorrow. A wise man should not trust him? self too near the precipice.?Cicero. Mr. Bryan declares that, after one more defeat, he will retire from poli? tics and enter the ministry. But has he not heard of the "ministerial dead? line," beyond which he will have pass? ed If he delays four years? "Wby do you wait, dear brother?"?New York Post. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SENATE AT WORK ON UBN LAW REPORT. Some Work Accomplished in Hie Sen? ate Hut House Spends Day Filihus toring?Bill to Change Railroad Mileage Regulations Killed?Re? quirements for Registration for City Elections Made More String? ent. Special to The Daily Item: Columbia. Feb. 16.?Without diver? sion the Senate passed Mauldin s bill requiring State registration certifi? cate and city tax recfipts as condi? tion precedent to registration for cfty registration. By a majority of one, the Senate refused to take up Senator Graydon's bill doing away with the present rail? road milage regulations. This is the same as the bill recently passed the House by a vote of 91 to 5. The bill now has no chance to pass. By a majority of two, the Senate took up the Richards Lien Law re? peal bill and was debating this at the time the joint assembly convened. FILIBUSTERING KEEPS UP. Columbia, Feb. 16.?Filibuster still held up the proceedings in the House today until the morning session ended with joint assembly for the elections. Columbia, Feb. 16.?The only thing accomplished by the House to? day was the passage of one third reading bill that incorporated the Marlboro and Southern Railroad. SEASE WINS OUT. Columbia, Feb. 16.?Solicitor Sease \\a> today elected Judge of the Sev? enth Circuit to succeed Judge Hy drick without opposition. He was elected for both the unexpired term of Judge Hydrick and for the full term, beginning next December. Circuit Judges Re-elected. Columbia, Feb. 16.?Circuit Judges Ernest Gary, Geo. E. Prince and R. W. Memminger were re-elected in the joint assembly today without opposi? tion, after which the house adjourned until afternoon, leaving the prohibi? tion bill still in air. CAPTURED IA VIA :;~)A. Desperate Robber, Caught In Act of Blowing Safe, Admits Being Com? rade of Charley Silas, Who Slew Officer Stone and Was Killed. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 14.?A pro? fessional safeblower, giving his namo as John Siihpscn of Curtain Bay, Bal? timore, was arrested this morning at 3 o'clock, while In the act of blowing the safe in the store of Charles. H. Burnett, in the heart of the business district. Policeman Ammons, in walking his beat, heard a noise in the store and finding the door unlocked crept in and was directly over the safeblower before the latter was aware of his presence. Scattered about the yeggman on the floor were nitroglycerine, saws, chisels, fuses, a revolver and all Implements carried by professional burglars. The man of? fered no reslsiance. Simpson made a confession at po? lice headquarters, saying that he had been operating for some time in Jack? sonville, and was a pal of Charley Silas, the yeggman who jpas killed by the policeman at Laurens, s C Simpson said he would have killed the policeman this morning, but he thought there was more than one of them. THE CONFEDERATE INFIRMARY. Effort Will be Made in the Senate to Insert Appropriation Killed by the House. When the appropriation bill comes up in the senate an effort will be made to insert the item for the sup? port of the Confederate infirmary* amounting to $12.000. The appro? priation was proposed by the com? mittee of the house but after some discussion on the floor it was killed. The friends of the institution in the senate and h >use say that it will be put bck on the free conference com? mittee, before which the bill goes ev? ery year. The infirmary building i? located on the lands of the State Hos? pital for the Insane and may be seen from either of two car lines. the Hyatt Park or the Colonial Heights. The building was erected last year but was not equipped.?State. CANNON FOR DECORATION. Senate Pa?Ca Bill Giving Ornaments To This State. Washington. Feb. 11.?Senator Till man today got through the senate a bill authorizing and directing the ssO> rotary of war tO furnish to South Car? olina four brass or bronze field guns with carriages, cannon balls, etc.. to be used for ornamental purposes. Rainey in the house and Hale in the senate are doing most of the con? gressional storming.?Kansas City Star.