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PHASE II CHARLESTON. NO STRICK FA SECTION AND NO PWORF.D SPOTS. FOih'norw of Hurricane Everywhere Fn?m Battery to Hampton Park and Prom Water Front to Water Front?i?Hnmur on Ring Street Coes?dereble. Newa and Courier. Aug. 2?. Whether or not a*iy one section of the city fared worae in the hurricane of Sunday night than any other sec tlon cannot be determined. itather, it is stated by many who on yester? day took a tour of all the principal streets, both up-town and down? town, that there seem, d to be no stricken section and no favored .spots. The evidences of the storm are everywhere. evidences in the form of fallen trees. demolished fences, levelled poles, broken glass, crumbled slate rootlnf. low hanging wires, great rolls of tw sted tin roof? ing. <narled signs of all descriptions and ) >o.?,? timber of various kinds. Be? low Broad street It appears that the trees have suffered the most damage, and next In order, possibly the roof? ing of different kinds. In no place, however, is there a stretch of wire of any considerable length. Damages on King street consist largely of fallen signs, broken dis? play window glasses and loss of tin rooting. Many of the larger hanging signs wsrs blown from t.ielr fasten? ings and landed In a heap on the streeta some striking windows in their passago. Early In the night, the handsome new electric sign of Ptakuasohn's at the corner of Mar? ket and King streets, waa partially tthrplarwd, it was taken down before any damage to U was done. James Allan s large street sign failed to stand the blow. , The only karre plate glass window broken on Kin,* atreet was one In ths front of the Paragon drug store. However, on Hasell atreet, two of the largeat In the city, at Ker tison a. were smaahed. Meeting atreet appeared to have weathered the atorm aomewhat bet? ter than King. Here a few uprooted trees and a very fsw brok m win? dow glasses constituted the damages, except that St. Michael'! tower and Paed fared poorly, and that the tine plate glass in the doors cf the United 8tates Poet office building were smash ad by the swinging of the doors tn ths atorm. Large portions of the slate roof of St. Michael's were blown sway. The doors at the postoffice, unprotected Sunday nght by the storm doors, were free to awldg back and forth. In consequent* they were broken long before the storm reached Its helirht. The three hotels on Meet? ing street, the Charleston, the St. John snd the Argyle, apparently suf? fered little, except for a few broken wiidcs* panes. The gieaeat loss on Meeitnir street appears t< have been the datdructlon of trees. (?a Rutiedge avenue, the lower section, the water rose to a height of about three feet Sunday night. Con? siderable damage wa* done fences on this street and many residence walla were runlned by rain admitted through broken window panes Water from the Colonial Lake overspread the streets snd covered the recently bellt embankment constructed by the Colonist Lake commission. This, however, escaped hurt. The Anderson Lumber Company's losses lire confined, so far as can be asrerta red. to the less of a new smoke stack, snd the floating away of several thousand feet of lumber. Several resdencee on Calhoun street were unroofed .the tin cover? ing being blown hither and thither J ?n this street also there were many trees uprooted. Part of the Market was flooded with tbe waters from the East Bay, and y?*terday morning several persons re eatved hard falls from the slippery mud that covered the slab pavement. Tbe old eh*?d at the foot of the Mar? ket was completely demolished. On upper Market street the entire front of tbe second atory of a brick build? ing was blown out. end left |fcf bed? room of the oe. upant exposed to view and to the elements. <?n East Bay atreet the igjSjSjgjSjei were possibly more extensive. T Southern Fruit company. Marjen hoff the Weither? Co., and a num? ber of others sustained lese- i i mglng from |M| to $ 7 "<? to their buildings and stock?*. The ol hunt*' Ex? change building on lower East Bay was i-adly damaged, the third floor and the roof < oiupstng. Cp East Hay ;!???:?.? were several trees blown serosa the street tar tracks. The shamrock Terrae,, hotel suffered the h as of its cast porch und portions of the tile roofing and < orniee work. (juttM i number of telegraph and telephone poles were blown across Ear?* Bey. po?v?lblv no atrei t In the city pre? sented n more dilapidated condition yseterd\y morning than did I'.roud -tr. ? ?. Trees wer.. h?T?> blown in every direction, and In several In gtgatse passage was for a Brno en? tirely blocked by a huge tree that had fallen directly a*-rose the thor? oughfare. Few poles and street signs weathered the storm, and scores of high hoard fence* were levelled. In all probability, the People's building, the skpscraper, sustained the greatest damage among the! Broad street buildings. "While, of course, the building Itself was not damaged, the costly bronze cornices th^t were blown away, the breaking of windows and the damage to the \.any offices In the building consti? tute a heavy loss. There Is but a small section of the cornice work left intact, and through broken windows the rain poured and floodeJ several of the offices, particularly on the eighth floor. The peebles that cover? ed the roof of the People's building we*-** scattered everywhere. It is said by some residents of Logan street that some of them were blown even that far. Near the corner of King and Broad a huge oak was blown across the street bearing down with it all the wires thereabouts. Further up Broad a monster telephone pole was blown across a yard fence barely missing a residence. The Convent of the Sis? ters of Mercy, on Legare street was unroofed. Legare, Logan. News and Savage streets were almost impassable on account of the great number of trees blown across the sidewalks and streets. Tradd suffered likewise. Lamboll. Water, Atlantic, Green hill. Council, Limehouse and Legare streets, in addition to suffering the ill effects of *v terrific winds, were damaged to some extent by the flood tide. In many other streets the wa? ter rose to some height, but those nearest the Battery and the Boule? vard appeared to suffer most. Here vard appeared to suffere most. Here the water swept with considerable f ?rce and worked havoc with many fences and yard articles. Many gar? dens were completely ruined by the salt water. Battery Hani Hit. The Battery was hard hit. While It is not certain whether or not the wall has been damaged to any extent part of the front railing haa been torn away, and the park on South Battery has been well nigh Vuined. Prac? tically all the trees were uprooted and the benches carried away. The mammouth cannor that have pointed so fiercely to sea for these many years are displaced, and the casings are twisted almost beyond repair. It is said that on the pavement of South Battery the water Sunday night was over five feet. In the opinion ot many the Battery presents the most deplorable scene in all the city. SOME PKFVIOL'S STORMS. Gnlra Which Have flatted Charles? ton in the Pastr?Memories of the I earful Havoc of 189:1. On September 7, 1770, Charleston was visited by its first recorded hur n.-ane. Some damage was done by hooding of streets and severul lives were lost, and by the shipwreck of tho Rising Sun. Tho Scotch settlers from I>arien were aboard. All per? ished. A second hurricane occurred Sep? tember 16. 1717. The record of dam? ages are meagre. On the 14th of Sptegibgy, 1728. a hurricane drove th?- pggpls to the upper stories of thei- dwellings. Twenty-three rhlpa were driven ashore and many thous? and trees were levelled. On Septem? ber 16, 1752, there was a disastrous hurricane, following continued warm spells of three month's duration. It came from the northeast nd eontln ued twenty-four hours, stemming the Oulf Stream and turning It on the shore. At 9 o'clock the flood came In with great Impetuosity and In a short time the tide rose ten feet above high water mark. The streets wer. eoVered with boats and wrecks of vessels and houses. A large ship passed over the marsh of Shut's, Fol? ly and hrum Islands. Another ves-J sei iron from White Point through \ inderhorst Creek, carrying away the riouthwest corner of the Baptist i t ureh later the Mariners' church, In church street, and grounded on th.- west s.de of Meeting street. The draft of water was more than ten f t. The pest house, on Sullivan's Island, with fourteen persons, was BWepi SWay, nine of whom were drowned. Many pesgoni were injured ?1 .1 sotie drowned In the city. Og May 1. IT*.*, a whirlwind bored the < bann. I of Ashley river and lnjur eii the slate and tile roofs. In 17H7 ind In l^Ot violent hur? ricanes o. urn i. of which dots 111 ire n< t given. In 1111, ? eomet year, a tornado ( .nmed mu< h loss of property aid d.vttroved many lives. hi August, IUI, there was i h'ir rlcane from *he northesgt (gating iwentj hour* ig Bent sin her '?i. there e as >t vi. leul giUv The gfent fc:?'e tt September. 1954, caused drin.age estimated at 1100,004 lor more. Mb- Battery and nn vt nf the ptefli -vi deinoll h- d. < oi (>< tob. r 'JO. is::;, ;, tornado de? moiished the Northeastern Ralli i "i ibpot. killing se\?r.il person- and causing mu? b damage. ?>n the morning of Septem bei I8( l^ri, another great gib- o ? nrro.l. a large part of th.? Eggt Battery grail was torn to pieces. The bathing hOUSg at White Point Garden waa bad)) wrecked und the wharf front on ?'..ope* River damaged a quarter of a million dollars. The new the? atre which had been commenced in Meeting street was blown down. The storm of August 28. 1881. be gan on Friday and blew all day Sat urdav, the greatest velocity being 0 4 , j miles an hour at 2 o'clock r*. m. Many Wallt were damaged in the eastern and southern quarters of the city. A dozen squares between laurel.s and Celhoun streets, in East Bay and the Battery, were damaged. The dam? age on the island alone was estimated at 130,000. Mr. Thomas T. Lessene, i the youngest son of Chancellor Lew sene, was drowned. The cyclone of 188 5 began In earnest between 1 and 2 o'clock a. m. of August 25, culminated in violence about 7 o'clock with a passage over the centre of the city and was en? tirely gone by 2 o'clock p. m., the whole time of Its transit being about twelve hours. It wrought great ruin and peril, the damage done being es? timated at more than a million dol? lars. The most recent of tho great storms, that of 1893, was the most terrible of them all. The storm sig? nals were first hoisted on Saturday morning, August 26. The storm It? self did not make its appearance in Charleston until Sunday morning. o'clock Sunday afternoon. August 27, the city was in the full centre of the cycb?ne. I* tasted until after mid? day of Monday, Augut 28. The wind attained a maximum velocity at 12:30 o'clock a. m., of Monday of 120 miles an hour. Three persons were killed In the city and three on the island. The property loss in the city was enormous. Crops all along the coast suffered fearful damage. The most frightful effects from the storm, however, were felt on the coast near Beaufort, where hundreds of people were killed, the crops were completely destroyed, homes were wiped out of existence, and thousands of people were left utterly destitute and were threatened with starvation. The memory of the fearful experiences which were suffered on the islands near Beaufort are still fresh, as is also that of many deeds of herlosm which were recorded and of the great out? pouring of charity with which South Carolina and the nation instantly re? sponded to the needs of the situation. ?News and Courier. SHOOTING IN BISHOPVILLE. J. W. Walters Kills Lot Mutuso Main Street of the Town. on Bishopville. August 29.?In a shoot? ing affray in this city about 9:30 last night. J. W. Walters, of this place, shot and killed Lot Mat use. The trouble between the two men start id over a beating which Matuce had Inflicted upon K. W. Walters, a son of J. W. Walters. It seems that there had been some difficulty between U. W. Waltere and Matuse about a set of harness, and when Matuse and another man met Walters in the road several miles out from Blehopville yeeterday afternoon, they jumped on him and beat him unmercifully. It was thought that they would have killed him had they not seen some one coming down the road- when they went on off. Help arrived and Walters was carried on home. About 9:30 In the evening whon Matuse was returning from a show which he had attended he met J. W. Walters on the street and commenc? ed shootnlg at hm. Walters then drew his gun and shot and killed Matuse. The trouble between the two men was the beating which Matuse had given Walter's son earlier in the day. Matuse and the two Walters are both well known about Blehopville, where much sympathy Is expressed for the elder Walters, who was ar? rested and placed in jail immediately after the shooting. Matuse Is about 22 years of ago and J. W. Walters is about 60 years old. while his son is about 30. K. W. Walters was report? ed to lie In a serous condition, but It Is thought that he will recover from tbe beating he received. To Kill Cockroaches. A powder made by thoroughly mixing sweet chocolate and borax is ?aid to be very effective against cock roaehea The powder If simply ipread over the pantry shelves, the roaches ?ire attracted by the sweet chocolate, hut in ssting they gel the borax also, and soon die. An even more effective roach food It made by mixing i to 2 pel cenl of phosphorus with Hour pasts snd spreading the resulting pete on loft bread. The bread Is scattered near where the roschei are thickets, attracts them and kills all thai eat thereof. Another remedy i to burn pyrsthrum powder in Infi st ed looms. The vapor Is fatal t< cockroai hes ?Wallace's Farmer Cicero was ths Oral to be name the "Father <?f His Country ' Whs he overthrew the conspiracy of Cai aline, the Roman senate confer] ? Ih it title upon him. The Lorimer Case to Date. Boston Transcript. The soecial committ ee ol the Uni? ted States senate which has been in? vest .gating the election of William Lor inier has Just concluded taking tes? timony for a season. Later, in the fall, the hearings will begin once more and the case ended as far as the committee is concerned. The Burrows committee, which white? washed l.orimer, produced some sev? en hundred pages of printed testi? mony; the Helm committee of the Springfield Leguslature some two hundred and fifty: the evidence be? fore the present committee occupies nearly three thousand pages of the same size. The record is encyclope? dic and the story which it tells is marvelously intricate and contradic? tory. What will be the end of the mess? Will it be happy for Lorimer, or happy for the honor of the Uni? ted States senate? In spite of the involutions of the Lo? rimer case, in spite of the flat contra? dictions, and in spite of the tremen? dous influences working for Lori mer's retention in the senate, there Is no doubt in the minds of most of the unprejudiced men in Washington who have been following the hearings that Lorimer will be ousted. He can? not stay. It will make no difference v hich way the committee reports, for the senate is already anti-Lori m.T. and the people of the country, whose will the senate is more accu? rately expressing today than is its wont, are also vigorously antl-Lori tner, Lorimer will go. Lorimer threatens that he will stand for re? election if he is unseated. If he does, and if he is again returned .and if it shall appear.that he Is returned dis I honestly, Lorimer will in a sense, be ! vindicated. But only technically so for if there is one cortain thing it is j that rigntly or wrongly, the general i belef is that Lorimer is not a proper [ United States Senator by proper moans. If Lorimer were being tried before a court of law, irstead of before a body of investigators, charged not with the onus of proving this or that, but with the duty of investigating, discovering, ascertaining by any le- j gltimate means all the facts bearing on the case, the committee could not run down channels of evidence, which would not be admitted in a court, but which are exceedingly instructive to the ordinary human being. For Instance, probably no judge would have allowed Senator Kenyon to ques? tion the son of Holstlaw, the bribe? taker, as to the impression on the family of the senior of llolstlaw's con? fession. The Witness frankly told his questioner exactly how the family felt about it. and the conversation thus read into the record served as a I very human and enlightening side glimpse into the dark corners of the imbroglio. This method of course has grave faults, the chief one being I that, when every nook .may be pried , into, much time is wasted i*i prying ! into nooks where nothing but inno i cent dust lurks. On the whole, how? ever, the freedom of the Inquiry from artificial regulations has tended to make it fair and just to both sides. The testimony so far taken may be divided Into two parts, in fact, the I ..rimer case as reopened thli sum? mer Is Composed of two fairly dis? trict chapters of the Hines section and the Illinois legislature section. Each has Its enormous ramifications, sometles, it Is true, overlapping; but I In the main the two parts are quite I separate. The Hines story is tho new part. It is, briefly, that Hines Wfts the chief manipulator of the election of Wil? liam Lorimer from the Washington end of things, and that. after the election, he or his Immediate cronies carelessly told several people of the amounts of money used In putting tho senator "across." Testifying to this are Funk of the International Harvester Company; Wirt Cook, a lumberman, and several other men who heard or overheard the talks re? ferred to. Testifying against this is Hines hmself and several witnesses brought to Washington by Hines, ma? ny of them financially Interested with him. It is one set of men's words agalnal those of another. There are contradictions on both sides the most glaring probably being on Hines'. No casual spectat-.r, however, <?f the trial, would hesitate tor a moment between if aaked to choose which crowd he preferred to believe, the Mines crowd looks shifty and crooked, the other appears to be composed of plain and disinterested men. if the Lorimer case is to be Judgt o ?as 11 will be judged by the human equation, Hines is a factor thai ought never ? from 1...rimer's point of view? -to have lie* n Intoroduced. Not onlj his unsavory reputation among reputable business men. but also his unpleasant personality are decidedly against him. The other soctlon of the case, the briber) soctlon, is not now. Neither has mui h of Importance been brou i;i -tit in the present hearing thai had not air. -?iy beert brought out. Lori* gter's lawyer has failed to prove that the bribe-takers did no! receive the bribes which they have confessed to, and for the reason which they adduce, nor is it probable that such can be proved to be the fact. Of course, it is difficult to prove a negative, es? pecially when the affirmative is so plausible and so comports with the rest of the case. But Judge liancey, the attorney for the defence, has not made any material progress towards his goal. The other side is quite con? fident that he never will. What, anyway, is the Lorimer de? fense? As near as can be made out the senator's friends aim to show: That the Chicago Tribune has long been trying to drive Lorimer out of political life in Illinois, that the Mc Cormick family has joined with thec.i in this attempt and has invented the Funk story to further that end; that the wtness who supports independ? ently the Funk story have been con? sciously engaged in this conspiracy; that, granting that money wa3 used in a jack-pot in Springfield, it was nevertheless a long custom, and that it was not specifically used for Lori? mer; that the bribe-takers who have confessed did so either for the pur? pose of blackmail or else to make money and gain immunity; that, in short, the attempt to deprive Lori? mer of his chair in the senate is a dastardly and maliciously contrived device of his personal enemies. This theory, like almost any theory, has some facts contradicting it thit we must term it just what it appears to be, namely, the last straw of a drowning man. The committee, which is made up of four Lorimerte3 and of four Anti-Lorimerites, does not seem inclined to believe this high? ly ingenious hypothesis. ORIGIN OF CORN. Experiments Have Developed It Back to the Condition of Grass. ' A few years ago, says an Atchison, Kan., letter to the St. Louis Globe Democrat, private experimenters succeeded in developing corn back? ward, until all the ears were on the top of the stalk and growing so small that the stalks could carry them in that position. Selecting the smallest kernels of the smallest ears, the corn gradually was led backward through its history until it became not much larger than a good-sized head of timo? thy or orchard grass. It is thought the plant was brought from the south by the* migrating tribes, finally being adopted by the Indians of Florida, and by them and by other Indians was developed through long periods of years, until it was becoming the one staple article of food all over the territory now oc? cupied by the United States. When the English and French en? tered their great struggle for the pos? session of what is now America, im? mense cornfields were found as far j north as New York and Massachu? setts. Massasoit fed his white friends with corn, and at a later date sweet corn was found, grown by the Indians in Massachusets. When Sul? livan was sent against the Iroquois during our revolution he destroyed large acreages of corn. De Soto reports I cornfields in southern Florida, where he is said to have marched through "growing corn and beans clear across the State to Tallahassee." The French? men who setled in the St. Johns river valley were fed with corn and taught I how to cook it. Capt. Smith tells of ! five varieties of bread that were made i from corn by the Indians of Virgin? ia The pioneer colonists soon learn? ed how to prepare this new grain for food, and without it they could never I had made their passage westward I through the wilderness. The In? dians were more advanced in agri? culture than is generally supposed. The industrious, intelligent Indians probably raised good crops of corn; ths loafers raised very small crops. Among the earliest men there were a few industrious ones and great j numbers of sh if ties ?ones. The pro? portion of shiftless men constantly is being lowered since it Is becoming j more certain every day that shiftless* ness doe.- not pay In any walk of life; that the man who practice! indus? try and good conduct, and learns as much as possible) lives an easier and more comfortable life than the idler. a few years ago the yield of corn to the acre in s.?uth Carolina w ia eight bushels to the acre; last year this average had Increased to eight? een bushels. The average for the country is twenty-six bushels. Last year Jerry Moore a 16-year-old South Carolina boy, raised bushels of corn on a single acre. Hut in order to do H be spenl $90 on fertilisers and haul ed 700 loads of rich earth on his prize acre. Bui the ? rop paid him a net profit of $130. 'i bis record has never been equaled, although this year the boy i-.; trying to surpass It. Jerry Moore, because of Iiis aecom? pllshmont, has become a hero throughout tin- country, aj Colum bus, 1 >hlo. a banquet was given lu his honor, but when he was called On to teil how he did it. he hid his face In his arm in boyish confusion. One-Third arc Clothed. "To cloth the whole of humanity would require 4 2,000,000 bales of cot? ton each year." This statement was made by Pres? ident Hobbs of the National associa? tion Ol Cotton Manufacturers, at its recent annual meeting in Boston, Mass. Mr. Hobbs said that, of the 1,500,000,000 inhabitants of the world only 50.000,000,000 are only comple? tely clothed, while 750,000,000 are partially clothed and 250,000,000 are practically not clothed at all. As civilization advances, the proportion of the partialy clothed and the un? clothed will decrease, and thi3 with the increase of population in civili? zed counties, will call for an increas? ed supply of cotton. The cotton belt of the United States now furnishes fully two-thirds of the world's sup? ply of cotton, and, as the demand in? creases, will be called upon greatly I to increase its annual production. It is a clear understanding of this condition that has led the Southern Railway company to organize a Cot? ton Cu'ture department, to work in cc-op-ration with the United States agricultural department and the ag? ricultural authorities of the Southern States, to keep the cotton production of the sotuh abreast of the demand by bringing about the adoption of those cultural methods which will re? sult in larger average yields per acre, thus increasing the profitableness of cotton growing and leaving surplus lands to be devoted to other crops, and the growing of live stock. It is clearly more profitable to a farmer to produce fifty bales of cotton on fifty acres than to produce the s'ne amount on one hundred acres, for he will receive the same amount for his cotton and will have fifty acres for other uses. Under ordinary circum? stances, every increase in the average yield of cotton per acre reduces the cost of production per pound and yields the farmer a larger margin of profit between the cost of growing his crop and the selling price.?Ex? change. The Girls a* They Were. Sterling Kansas Journal. Backward, turn backward O Time in your flight, and give us & maiden dressed proper and right. We are so weary of switches and rats, Billie Burke clusters and peach basket hats. Wads of jute hair in a horrible pile, s'acked on their heads to the height of a mile. Something is wrong with the maidens, we fear. Give us th ; girls as they used to appear. Give us the girls we once knew of yore, w hose curl's didn't come from a hair dressing store. Maidens who dressed with a sensible view. And just as Dame Nature intended them to go. Give us a girl with a figure of her own and fashioned divinely by Na I ture alone. Feminine style's getting I fiercer each year?oh give ust the girls as they used to appear. - jj I Hold Your Cotton. Twelve million bale? at fifteen I cents the pound is better than fifteen I million baits at ten cents the pound. Better from the financial viewgSJgg for every farmer to burn one-tng/g I Of his crop than to sell It at ten centa? Better to store the entire crop, or half of it, than to sell on a market that is low only because the Govern? ment has been guessing, and the speculators too, and all guessing on I a bumper crop in order to depress prices. Better to hold the entire I crop over to next year and not plant an acre next season than to be frightened into giving away the staple because this year's crop may possibly make up the deficiencies of I previous years. The Sumter County Farmers* Union Is right, there is no reason why farmers should be stampeded out of their profits. If the prosperity of the last few years has not left enough money in the South to finance holding a large part of the crop over that prosperity has been of little vatuo. I Every farmer owes a duty to every I other farmer in this matter. If the market is to fluctuate heeause of I arbitrary Influences, lei the farm? ers by united action give the bulls an irresistible argument. No cotton should be sold on a falling market j ami none at ten c nts the pounds News and Courier. Warning. Th.' Catholic Standard and Times. "Jimmy," said Tommy. "what's the matter with you? You don't never t:.. in for any fun nowadays?" "No; I'm beln' good because I'm goin' to have a birthday soon, an' I want to git a present." replied Jim? my. "B? tter not be too good, or mob he they won't give >?r nothln' but a Bible. Because a Pennsylvania mob burn? ed n negro at the stake Is no excuse , tor an Oklahoma n eb doing the same thing. The youngest State in tiie Union need no! be led to emulate j the barbarity of one of the oldest of the commonwealths, ? Charleston Post.