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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. nkvsnn i i runs n:nM 01:11 si'K CIAL COttR] spi INDENTS Item* of Interest From nil Parts of tfsVBftgf um I Adjoining Count lea. JtfOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mull your letters so that they Will Cewrh thl* office not later than Mon? ti) when Intituled for Wednesday'" paper and not later than Thursday for Saturday'< Issue. This, of course, applies only to regular correspond? ence. In ca.se of Items of unusual ??wi value, send In immediately h| snail, telephone or telegraph. Such ?tories are acceptable up to the hour of g^lng to press. Wednesday'* paper Is printed Tuesday afternoon and Saturday's paper Friday aftcr aooa. CONCORD. Concord, May 27.?Since the recent rains the crop prospects are much better, the little stunted cotton that was early planted is doing nicely now. Ch pping is about done and the stands are very satisfactory. More in? terest s being taken in raising geofi foodstuffs in this locality than has been in years. A great many around here have planted a few acres of wheat which promises a very good yield. Mr. W. J. DuRant has three or four acres of corn which is the best your scribe has seen. He Is a thor? ough believer In the Williamson meth? od and stunts and manures according? ly. With favo able seasons he says he hopes to make around 150 bush? els to the acre. This should be emu? lated by more of us. Less a eres and better tillage and manure. Miss Lula Newman Is spending a while with hei sister, Mra. R. F. Smith of St. Charles, who has been very 11). Your scribe some days ago killed two "Coajh-whlp" snakes at one shot, ?ach m ?aaurlng 7 feet and one Inch. Who can beat this snake story? There Is a man in this commmunlty that Is Ml perplexed about the fu? ture labor problem. He Is still in his forties and has twelve healthy girls and boys, the youngest about two months osf Fishing seems to be a great source of recreation Just now. Recreation being mostly the result. 8ometime ago a foolish young man of this place tried to ride a more fool? ish young mule, which threw him. bruising him considerably. He Is now convalescing from his foolishness, while he seems to think the mule is liable to have a relapse. RAN AFOIT. OF THE POLK E. Spokane. Wash.. May 31.?Nels Ol? son. 27 years of age. until several months ago a resident of St. Paul, who sought to commercialize the art made famous by Dan Cupid under the name of the National Correspondence Club of Spokane, run amuck of the police at his headquarters In a second class hotel her? and was arrested on the ggSSSfJS of vagrancy. His partner, whose name the police will not give out. made his escape. The police found a bushel of letters. Olson's plan was to^supplv lonely bachelors In the Northwest with wives for $2, which charge was also made to find Western husband* for lovelorn maids, spinsters and widows in the East and South. He declined to register minors .without the consent of their parents. He start? ed the matrimonial bureau less than two wei-k* ;m'n, when he advertised In the personal columns of Eastern. Bouthrn and \V< b i n newspapers, us? ing a blind address. Decoy letters wer?? sent by the police and In reply? ing Olson Invited the writers to call at a small hotel. Ills partner handle 1 the correspondence. i on. Pj If on the I'uim. An Instructive bulletin just issued I?) the Department of Agrlcultui o tells how farmers may construe t ?helr OWn felV e posts out of concrete. The bulletin says: "If manufactured as usual and cur? ed for Ihre.? months, concrete posts are as good M the bent wooden poftf of the - mo sl/e. \ft?r Ihr? ?? war-. ggeWtcs s d< n posts possess only from one-third to om-half of their origin il strength. WBSTSai. concre te grows stronger with awe and noils no repairs, for neither weither nor tire Injuns It. I'mbr ordinary clrcum stnees. good eoretsn Is posts will last forever; and even If a few. in the course of years, should be broken by unusual strains, It is ehoapsf 10 re pU< e these than to replace an entire fen-of decayed wooden posts with pouts of mat* rial with the saun |a< k of durability. "c?.n<rcte posti are attractive in appearance because of their uniform? ity of size and color and, because of th? ir durability, I hey effect a saving In ghing greater lift to the fencing Material used, ho that I he perm inenl value of the property Is increased." Full Instructions for making con? crete p..os are given and the bull, tin ran be had from tho department for the asking. 1111 PAT OF MIMSTKHS. The Census Bureau Slums the A\cr age Annual Salary at $?(?:*. Washington, May 30,?The average annual salary of a minister of the gospel Is but |663, in all the denomi nations represented In the compila? tions on this subject in Part I Of a special report on the Census of Relig? ious Rodies for 1906, which is now in press preparatory of Its submission by United States Census director Purand to Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor. The report was compiled under the supervision of Mr. William C. Hunt, chief statin lotaa of population in the Census bu? reau, and the statistics were collected partly by correspondence and partly by special agents. FIRST OFFICIAL STATISTICS CON? CERNING PAY OF MINISTERS. It Is pointed out in the introduction that this Is the first time an attempt has been made In a Cnited States cen? sus to secure official statistics con I ming salaries paid to ministers. It Is stated that tho results of the census are not entirely satisfactory on ac? count of the failure of some minister? to report their salary and of others to report with sufficient clearness. Of the grand total of 186 denomina? tions In continental United States, th report States that 15 have no regular ministry and 69 either pay no stat"d salaries or made returns which were no* sufficiently complete to warrant tabulation. Of the 201.351 organizations com? posing the 102 remaining denomina? tions, there were 164,229, or 81.6 per cent, which made returns to the cen? sus Inquiry, and the report states there Is reason to believe that these are substantially complete and accu? rate, and It Is thought that they em? brace a sufficient number of organi? zations of the respective denomina? tions to be fairly representative of conditions as to the average salaries paid to ministers. The figures in the tables are for continental United States, for each of the four principal classes of cities?that is, those hav? ing a population In 1900 of 25,000 to 50,000, of 50,000 to 100,000, of 100, 000 to 300,000, and of 300,000 and over, and for the area outside of them. UNITARIAN! SHOW HIGHEST AV? ERAGE SALARY. The denomination showing the highest average Is the Unitarian, with $1,653, while the denominations next In order are the Protestant Episcopal Church, $1,242; the Universellst* $1, 238; the General Convention of the New Jerusalem In the United States of America, $1,233; the Jewish con? gregations. $1,222; the Presbyterian Church in the United States of Amer 00, $1,177; the Reformed Church in America. $1.170; the United Presby? terian Church of North Ameriea, $1, 096; the Congregationalists, $1,042; the Christian Catholic Church In Zlon. $1,037; and the Synod of the Reform? ed Presbyterian church of North America. $1,008. Among the denominations showing an average salary considerably lower than the genera! average fof the Unl tod States are the Advent Christian Church; all the Baptist bodies SXcept tie- Northern Baptist Convention; the Christian Union; the Christian* (Christina Connection); the Church of Christ. Scientist; the General Eld? ership of the Churches of God In North America; the Society ol Friends ((trtho los ?, th? colored Meth > isi bodies; the Methodist Protest) i I Wesleyan Methodist, and Free Meth? odist Churches; the Salvation Arm;.; end th.- Volunteer! of America, in the cant of most of these last named bodies ?hown by the report, many of t'.i organisations reporting are outside ni the principal cities, and many of the n are doubtless in rural regions, an! this fact accounts largely for the com? paratively lour average salary. The low average shown for the Church of Christ. Scientist, is said to be due t ? the lad that moat of those who serve as ministen, or readers, are persons having other vocations and not de? pendent on the salaries paid by the churches. In the ease of the Salva? tion Army and the Volunteers oi America the allowance made for the officers serving at the various posts Is usually based upon th? if probable ex p? nsea and Is practically limited t.. these sxpensea The SVeragS salary shown for the large i it?' i i* considerably higher ai r rule than the general average for tie denomlnatloni while for the area out? ride of the principal eitles It Is usually somewhat lesa Moreover, the aver age salary generally corresponds t" the average salary generali) corre Mponds to the grade of the ( It leu, F< i .ill denominations together It rnngev from $1*119 tor cities of the first cuv i to |t. 110 for t hose of the second ?lass; I l.ntn for thosi of the third - lass *'.?7-' for those of the fourth ? lass; and $.*.7". I"i the Bfeu outside of ttic prln< lp t1 cities. in individual denominations the conditions \ nrj, in the Northern Baptist convention the average for i ities of the first class Is $1,880; Of the Sec ond claSS, $ I . IL''?: of the- third class, $1,881 ; Of the fourth claas, $1,84)8; and for the ores outside of the principal cities, $683. The figures for the Dliclplea of Christ mow ? regular gradation from $1, 326 per minister f<>r cities of the tirst .?hiss to $1,250 for those of the fourth (1mm; for the Methodist Episcopal Church, from $1,122 for cities of the rtrsl ? lass to ^ l.ls7 for those of the fourth class; and for the Presbyterian Church In the Cnited States of Amer? ica, from $2,169 for those of the first ? lass to $1,524 for those of the fourth class. in the Southern Baptist convention, the average salary ranges from $1, 79:; for ciii.-s of the first class to fl, 35S for those of the fourth class, and among the Congregational 1st? from $1,938 for cities of the first class to $1,512 f<>r those of the fourth class but in the case of both these denom? inations the average for cities of the third class is a little larger than for those of the second class. Among the Lutheran bodies there is considerable difference; some, as the General Council, show a regular gradation; others, as the United Nor? wegian, show larger averages for cities of the third and fourth classes. L'NSALARED MINISTRY IN MIS? SION CHURCHES. The lower average salary shown by some denominations for a higher class of cities than for a lower is in most 0S4M s due to the existence in the high? er class of cities of an unusually large number of weak or mission churches. For example, in the case of the Southern Baptist Convention, which shows an average salary per minister of $1.505 for cities of the third class and only $1,490 for cities of the sec? ond class, the churches in the third class have an average membership of 472, and in the second class of only 362, indicating that the churches in the third class are also financially stronger on the average than those in the second class. In the Protestant Episcopal Church the average is from $1,873 in cities of the first class to $1,517 in those of the fourth, there being but little differ? ence in the figures for the second, third, and fourth classes of cities. ROMAN CATHOLIC DENOMINA? TION PAY LIKE SALARIES FOR CITIES AND RURAL DIS? TRICTS. In the case of the Roman Catholic Church, the figures show but little difference between the general aver? age and that for the various classes of cities or for the area outside of the principal cities, the reason being that in this denomination the salaries are fixed for the diocese, being in general the same for the rural districts as for the large critics. Of the 24 ministers reported by the four organizations of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, for the area outside the principal cities, 21 are reporied at Zion City, and are prob? ably connected with the headepuarters of the denomination at that place. Among the denominations included in the report with those not paying regular salaries to their ministers, and hence not represented in the table on the subject, there are several, as, for example, the Freewill Baptists and the German Baptist Brethren Church (Conservative), in which a consider? able number of the organizations pay stated salaries, although it is not a general custom. Some of these de? nominations, among which are the ? tics mentioned, appear to be in the transitional state from the unsalariel to the salaried ministry basi3. COL ROBERT C, McIXTYRE DEAD. Prominent Marlboro Cltlxen Passer! .\\vn> Yesterday In Columbia, Bennettsvllle, May 2 s.?The news of the sudden death of Col, Robert Charles Mclntyre, in Columbia thli morning, was a shock to everyone her?. lie was one of the county's best known citizens and the owner 3? "Beauty Spot." one of the finest plan? tations In Marlboro. He leaves sev? eral sons and daughters. He was a Confederate veteran and took a keen Interest In all things pe rtaining to til" Lost Cause. Taft and the Insurgents. ( From the New York World.) ' Mr. Douglas,*' said President Buch? anan, "1 desire you to remember that no Democrat ever yet differed from an administration of his choice with? out being crushed, Beware of the fate of Talmadge and Rives!" "Mr. Pr< ddent," replied the Senator from Illinois, "l wish you to remem? ber that Gen. Jackson is dead." ' Ii yon meet the tariff on the high? way, knock ii down," says the Atlan? ta Constitution, Well, tie tariff Is on the highway, all right. ?Washing? ton ilerald. Borne of the fences to be mended by statesmen this summer will require tlx care ful discretion that should at? tend the handling of barbed wire.-? Washington Star. A suit to oust the I '?< i ! Trust from New Jersey was brought yesterday In Trenton. And when a trust is so bad that it Isn't tob iatcd in New Jersey it must be very bad, Indeed.?-Kansas City Star. BASE BALL FOR SUMTER. Amateur Team Organized For Games During Bummer Months?The Line? up?Prospects of tlie Team. The long felt need of a base ball team in Sumter is about to be sup? plied by the organization of an ama? teur tram, com posed entirely of col? lege players, who will furnish amuse? ment for the local fans during the summer months. A glance at the line-up will be sufficient to assure the local patrons of the game that this team will furnish ball of giltedge type, and will be able tu make it more than interesting for any am; teur team in the State. The prime reason for the organiza? tion of the team was brought about by the receipt of a number of chal langes for games from teams in near? by towns and cities. It seemed a shame that there was no possibility of even answering these challenges, not to mention the inability of having a team to represent the Game Cock City on the diamond, so a lew enthu? siasts got together for the purpose of putting an aggregation of ball play? ers in the held who could hold up Sumter's end of the line. While the positions on the team are open to all who wish to try-out, the present prospects indicate that these boys will likely occupy stations in the line-up: Duffle, first base; Phelps, sec? ond base; W. Jones, short stop; Mon aghan, third base; Jones, W. and Mar? shall, catchers; Dick, Hayns worth, outfielders; Levi, Chandler and Sand? ers, pitchers and outfielders. The boys mentioned above are giv? ing their time to the same without the hope of any compensation, and all they look to the public for is to put them in playing condition by subscrib? ing sufficient funds with vvhich to pur? chase uniforms, balls and other sup? plies. After the team is equipped they will look to the gate receipts for the necessary funds to carrj the team during the remainder of the season. It is asking very little of the public, and they should respond In such a manner as to insure the greatest of all amusements, base ball, for the long and tiresome summer afternoons. It is likely that the first games of importance will be played with the Charleston collegians, a team com? posed of ball players of the Citadel and College of Charleston teams, and it is the expectation of the locals to have them here during the three days of the firemen's tournament. Colum? bia, Georgetown, Florence, Darling? ton, Chert, w and a number of cities having amateur teams will be taken on. A meeting of the team will be held this afternoon for the purpose of electing officers and naming a board of directors. The organization will be perfected in a business-like manner, and will be * mposed of gentlemen who will warrant the public all that is promised. It is hoped that with this small beginning, Sumter can look forward to better things in the base ball line. Watch the Game Cock crow! The Annual Fourth of July Killing. It may surprise many a citizen to know that a very rational and earn? est movement against the use of fire? works on Independence Day is now in its seventh year; nor is it univer sally realized among us how many of our children have, by reason of these yearly celebrations, suffered the most cruel death known to medical science. Were any such emotion possible In the English breast, that of satisfac? tion for the losses and humiliations endured by England in the war for Independence?at least so far as hu? man life is concerned?could hardly be more thoroughly justified; for, tak? ing no account whatever of our na? tional losses of many decades past, but only of those Incurred in the last three yearly celebrations and in the metropolis alone, we find that 1339 have been killed and injured?more than the casualties in the Revolution? ary battles of Eexington, Dunker Hill, Fort MouUrie, White Plains, Fort Washington, Monmouth, and Cowpens combined. Nor have these losses been among lighting men, but rather among little children; and of the lat? ter wounded on Independence Day many that have not died have never? theless been dreadfully maimed ami disfigured for life.?From "Independ? ence Day?The Modern Moloch," by ? .John B. Hub. r. M. D? in the Ameri? can Review of Reviews for June. Circumstances are things round about; we are in them, not under them.? Lander. Mr. Poss woo denounces the Payne Aldrlch law as "deliberate bunko" evidently believes in calling a spade a spade and a burglar a burglar.? i touls> die ('ourler-Journal. It doesn't make any difference what kind of polities it la?American Egyp? tian or Norwegian -the Colonel Is promptly in it with both feet.?In? dianapolis NeWS. DENOUNCES ACCUSERS BEFORE N ATIONAL SENATE. Illinois Senator Charged With Obtain? ing Scan by Corrupt 1st? of Money Bitterly Assails Governor Deneen And Mecllll MeCormick, of Chicago Tribune, Whom Etc Holds Respon? sible For Publication ol Charges. Washington, May L'X.?Strenuous denial of the charges that he had ob? tained his scat in the United States j senate through bribery and corrup? tion was made before that body to? day by William Lorimer, of Illinois. Mr. Lorimer arose to a question of personal privilege, and made his re? ply to the corruption charges. After concluding his address, Mr. Lorimer offered a resolution for senatorial in? vestigate it ol the charges against him. In opening, Mr. Lorimer detailed the fac t of the Chicago Tribune's pub? lication, on April 1 last, of a story over the signature of Charles A. White, a member of the Illinois leg? islature, in which it was alleged he had procured his seat in the senate through bribery and corruption. MI have been compelled," he went on, "to defer my return to the senate ow irg to the fact that the story was tim? ed and published with a del. .ate purpose to destroy a new banking as? sociation in Chicago, which I have been organizing with some of my friends. The assault was made to prevent the bank from opening. It utterly failed of its purpose, but it re? quired my constant attention to build an impregnable bulwark around the bank to safeguard the interests of those who hive entrusted their funds to the care of my associates and my? self against any malicious or vicious assault that may be made against it by the Tribun. ." Relating that it had been charged that the bribe had been paid through Leonard Bi _?wne, the Democratic leader of the Illinois House of Repre? sentatives, he defended Mr. Browne as entirely above participation in such a proceeding lie declared that Med ill MeCormick, of the Tribune, had threatened that the bank never should open, and also asserted that White did not write the story, as had been claimed, but that it was "the work ot a trained newspaper hand, skilled in the art of creating scandal out of lies, when it is thought necessary to blacK en the character of one whom the newspaper cannot control. "It is also plain to be seen," he went on, "that every word was passed upon by a lawyer before it was signed by that poor, low creature, White, who does not hesitate to commit forgery for a few dollars, and to whom per? jury is no crime, who is a part of the lowest fringes of depravity, and who, to secure money to sattsfy his instinct for debauchery, 3old what little was left of his manhood and became the pliant tool of the Tribune in this timed and malicious attack. Defending Charles Luke, a deceased member of the legislature, against a charge that he had been a beneficiary of his (Lorimer's) bribery, the Sena? tor told h-.w Mr. Luke, a Democrat, has risen from practically his death bed to vote for him, a Republican, but without other motive than friend? ship. "Standing in this historic chamber, in a pla o of high honor to which my departed friend did all in his power to asa'st me, 1 would," he said, "be untrue to our friendship and my re? gard ior him if I did not hurl this malicious, btrrtless, satar.ic lie back Into the foul mouth that uttered it." "There is no language to character? ize such despicable conduc t." Senator Lorimer then proceeded with unmeasured words of bitter in? vective and epithet an attack upon Medill MeCormick personally. He asserted that Representatives Link and Boekmeyer had not made confessions, as has been charged, but, on the contrary, said that the charges stand as they stood on April 30, the uncorroborated lies of the Tribune, supported only by the bought signa? ture of their weak tool, White. Senator Lorimer went on with vehe? mence to assert that the Chicago pa? per "lied, and knew it lied," in charg? ing that money was us? d t<> purchase Iiis election. "Not one dollar was paid to a sin? gle member of the General Assembly lor his vote for me." the Senator de? clared, and he add* <l that when the truth w.ts known everybody would understand that the publication of the article by White was "a part of a pol? itical conspiracy to drive me out of public life, to ruin me financially, be? cause l ..Ill nol do as other Repub? licans in Illinois have done?place myself trider the absolute control and dictatorship of the Tribune. He declared that by subservency he could at any time have made his peace with the newspaper. Senator Lorimer gave his version ot his senatorial campaign and election, lie declared that it was upon the sug? gestion of Governor Deneen that he had entered the field, and then only after he and the Governor had be? sought others to make the race. The Senator went clear back to the Blaine campaign of 1884 and to a A ward contest in Chicago for the alleg? ed genesis of this disagreement with the Chicago newspaper. At very great length Senator Lori iner described Chicago political devel? opment 5. In 1992, he said Governor Deneen, then county attorney, and other friends urged him to make his i peace with the Tribune. ? When they were poor and in need of help," he said, "they were anxious and pleased to work with the organ? isation even against the constant as? sault :>f the newspaper trust; but af? ter they had become prosperous and atlluent they felt they could stand the lashing no longer and ran to the * licwape per cover and have been sub? set vienl since that time." Coming down to modern times he declared that "ail of the power of the city, county, State and Federal admin? istrations, und^r the leadership of i Senator Hopkins, Governor Deneen and Mayor Euesse assembled into a misfit organization," combined to de? stroy the organization controlled by Lorimer, with intent to give control to the Tribune. He traced his breach with Gover- ^ nor Deneen largely to a difference of opinion between the two as to the wisdom of spending independently of action by the national authorities, the $20,000,000 pledged by the State to? wards the deep waterway to the Gulf project, which the Governor favored H and he opposed. He asserted that the Governor per? sonally advised in the preparation of the White story in the Tribune. He went on to say "the Governor joined this campaign of slander because he saw an opportunity to throw dust in j the eyes of the people, use the coTf^""* spiracy to defeat those who stood for Federal co-operation in expending the $20,000,000, and secure control of the next legislature. "Why he persists in his efforts to a get control of the twenty million dol? lars when he well knows that it in it? self is not sufficient to construct a wa? terway Is a mystery I cannot fathom.'* Senator Lorimer further attacked* the Chicago Tribune?Voolicy in oppo? sition to the Payne-Aldrich tariff, ^ which he attributed to its failure to put in the free list wood pulp, which would have saved the Tribune $40,000 a year. "This," he said, "is the only tax we have any record of in which the Tribune pays its just share." He also charged the Tribune establish- { ment with being the beneficiary of th,e Chicago Educational Board by col? lecting extra rental of $17,500 a year for its quarters in the Tribune build? ing and $94,999 through alleged under valuation of its site, owned by the city. 4 "The purpose of these charges," he declared, "was to disgrace and destroy my friends and myself whom they (the Tribune) cannot control and to come into absolute control ot tlK Re? publican party In Illinois and to se- . cure themselves in continued plunder- I ing of the public treasury." In case of a favorable report on Senator Lorimer's resolution from that committee, of which there is no doubt, the resolution will go to the committee on elections for consider? ation of the merits of the matter. Up- I on report of that committee the sen? ate's action will largely depend. TAG TAX RECEIPTS INCREASE. Decided Gala Over Last Year's Fig? ures is Anticipated. Columbia, May 28.?The fertilizer movement, as shown by the tag tax receipts, will aggregate $2">0.000 in receipts at the Treasurer's office, or - about $43,000 more than last year's I receipts, on the basis of 25 cents per ton. The tag tax received to date is $212,050.03, which is $41,545.91 more than to the corresponding date last year. The figures for last year to March 29 were $170,504.12. The total for the last fiscal year (110$) in tag tax receipts was $202, 741.31. From May 2S last year to the end of the fiscal year the receipts were, therefore, $3 2.237.11. It Is considered very probable that this year's receipts, from now until the end of the fiscal year, will equal, it" not exceed, last year's receipts for the corresponding period. By adding last year's after May receipts it will i o seen that this year's receipts will probably reach the $2.".0.000 mark. As the tag tax is 25 cents per ton, the amount turned Into the Treasur? es office represents nearly 850,000 terns. "in my opinion, said today Judge J. Fuller I.von, who handles the fer? tiliser sales, as shown by the tag tax, is that the farmer in South Carolina is now usin^ more f? rtlllser for the small crops, that is the grain crops, corn and so forth. 1 have noted a general disposition to increase the fer? tilizer used on the early fall crops.'*