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A MAD DASH For Liberty Made by the Con= victs in Yissouri Prison. TWO GUARDS KILU The Prisioners Used Pistols and Ni:ro glycerine to Eifect Their Escape. After an Exching Ranning Bat tte in the Capitol City the Desparodoec Are Recap-ured. At J i !rsoa City, M., in a d sper ate attemot to escce from the Stite prison F:iday ive convics fuu.tI for freedcm with weapons and nitro glycerine at the pris n gaze, killing two prison cfi:ers and wounding De puty Warden See and f.ur men mpade a dash trcu,zth the stree.ts 0: J tfar son Ciy under n 2a, only to be captur ed after two of the escaped men ha,, been wounded. FIve prisoners, tak ing advantage of the ab ence cf War den Hall and six guards, who lef wlth 71 ftderai prisoners f*r Fort Leavenworth. Ki-ns., attempted to es cape, but only four left. the prison after wrecking the gate. Convicts Harry Vavghn, Cbaries Raymond. Etram Bllake, G:o-ge R: a and Ei Z igler, who were working close insiae the priion gate, having se cured pistol; and a bottle of mitro glycerine, ente red D-eputy Warden R. E. See's offce and shot him in the arm and the hip as he sat in a caair. He sank back helpess and the convicts rushed to the gate where they met Gateman John Clay. Befovre Ciav could raise his weapon he was shot dead. E. Allison, commissary ofiier, ran to Clay's assistance and was shot dead. The convicts p'aced nitr-glyaerine under the gate, dragging Clay's b3dy with them. Taey sla:nm-ed the gate close and - fastened it. Z igler was left inside. Toe convicts placed nji troglycerine under the outside gate and blew an opening tbr:ugh the steel doors. Tne fcur men crawled through this rupture and dashed through a numb3r of trusty convicts who were workivg in the street. Almost befure the fcur escaped convicts had covered, a block prison cfieers were in putu t shooting as they ran. The chase kept on for a dozen blocks, the c invicts outranning their pursuers. Near the Missouri Pacific railway depot the convicts came up %ith a wagon driven by Orville Lane. Jumping into this wagon the desper adoes seiz-d Lane and used him as a shield from the bullets of their pir suers. O ie convict lashed the horse into a run and escape seemed ure, when suddenly a , quad of ci, y police men and armed citaz tns appeared and stopped the horse. Shelld~ng them selves as well as possible behind the sides of the vehicle, the four convicas fought the policemen. Volley after volley was tlred in the st-eet by bothsides to the conilit-. The policemen sheltaring themselves behind trees, splintired the wagon, fmnally putting a bullet through Vaiughn and Blake. Biake died of his wounds. Then the cor v'cts sur rended. Lane and his horse and Can victs Ryan and Raymond 'were unin jured. The canyacts were immediate ly taken back to the penitentiary. A BAa ROs0O. Chioago Has More Deserted Wives Than Any O~ber City. The number of arrests for abandon ment brought by 'gives against hus bands is larger In Chicago brnan in any other city uf the United States and larger mn proportion to popu'a - tion than in anry other city 1oo. R c ognition of this has furnished a theme for many persons in recent convzn tions and c~nferences to call attn tion to the probable caust s of such condititions. But it is not only in the number of such desertions that Chicago (which has many ?itles bes towed upon it, but not "thne city of homes" among thert) takes precedence aniong Americar-s caies. It bas teo. the largest number of divorced wc m en, their numbe-r by the last census having been 2486 In New Yotk there were only 2,L 60, of whom 600 were in the city of Brooklyn. San Francisco had 1,010 and Polladelphia 1020, these tigures only including of course, divorced women who baa had not remarried. So. L-iuis had nearly 1,000, and Baltimore and Kansas City the former as aid and the latter a strenuous town, the same number, thcugh the pequlation of B?.ltlmnore is three times as large as that of Kansas City, Boston, a city of 60C,000 had 800; Indianapoie, a city of 175.000 only han 900. Washington and New Orleans, with about the same popula tion, had an e qual number, Denver with less than one-half the popu a tion of Detroit had the same numb~er -600 in each case. TIhe number of divorced women cfiolly described as "conjugal condition unknown." Many of these are, or have been de vorced. In this Cnicago stands at1 the head of American cities, New York folloving, and af ter New York St. Louis. The American city which has the smallest number of divorced women is Bayonne N. J.1 Terri>e Story ot the Sea. Third Mate E. C. Price, of the British steamer Karanna, just arrived at New York fromr C 2cutta, tells of the terrible plight or the crew of the German bark Werra, which the steam er came upon a hutdred miles north east of Cape Verde 1Iands. Seven ofI the bark's crew out of twenty-two, he said, were laid out on below decks about ready to pass over while the rest were so weak they could hardly keep awake- The crew were suff.ring from scurvy and starvation. The Ko ranna supplied Warra with lime juice and provisions. The sickness was caused by her cargo of rfd wvocd fumes which destroyed all fotd cn bcaed with the exception of talt vork anid salt beef, and upon these the crew had been subsisting several days. The ship became calmed. Disastrons Earmnquake. Thirteen monks were killed during an earthq rake at Mount AtEnos by the fall of reck, which crushe-d the~m. Several others wh~o were in a boat were drovined by a big wave whicia crushed the tOat. -The simplest mcther is w-ieer than the brightest childlais w orcan,b-1 cause experience is the only sort of wisdom wrth haing, V 7 LUE OF BIRDS. Eow North Carolina Frotects Her: Fathered Tribes. Give Fubliciy to Movement in Tih State Will CAuSe the Pcople to Think. In vlaw of the fact that an Aulubon society is being form 3d in South Car Klui , It will be interesting to many to know Just how the work of this organization is operated elsewhere and what may be accomplished by the Au dubon society in this State. Mr. T. G. Pears: n, srcre'tary of the National Au dubon s: cieaty. who is in the city, was seen Wedaesday morning at the d.ie of the State superintendent of educa tion, where he has made his tempor .ry heacquarters, and the following i-atement of the work of the Audubon society in North Carolina was secured irom bim: "During the year 1902, this society was organ-z!d in that State and a general cali was made for all persons inrerejted in the protection of birds and game to became members of the sociery and contrioute faancially to its support. When the legislature met in Janiary following, the organization wh;ch had then grown to several hun ired membere, was incorporated with the po sers of a State gam, commis sion. The society v. as given authori cy to select game wardens who work under the direction of the AuCubon scciety in the enforcement of the bird and game laws. "A law was also passed reqiring non re-ident hunters coming inco the State to secure a hunter's license at a cost of 810. Tae money receivad from this source, togetber with the fees and centributions of the members of the s:ciety and friends of the birds, constituted the income of the society. No State appropriation was asked of the iegisature, but the income from tuts, two sources has amounted to about $10.000 annually. With this fund, the orginizaton has been able to employ 45 game wardens in the deld, some of whom are paid by salary, others per diem. "Large quantities of educational lealsts bearirg on the value of vari ous birds to tne agricultural interests of the State have been distributed among the school children and others. D.gets of the game laws have been printed on cloth notices and tacked up in conspicuous places throughout tue State. As an example of the ex tent to which this educational work as b.en carried forward, it may be statsd that during the past year more uaan 2,500,000 pages of printed infor mation were distributed in the State. This does not include a large number of circulating libraries of bird and na ture study books, which are used and enjoyed by hundreds of teachers and baldren. "Though the activities of the game wardens, many persons guilty -of violating the game laws nave been stc-essfually prosecuted in the ciurts, Since the last annual re port, which was Issued In March, 54 cory'.ctions have been secured. Tne whole idea of tue work is well rec 1'5 ed smong the people generally, and al though the game is not as effee..ually protected as could be done If a larger rund was at the disposal of the at ciety at the same time, it must be borne in mind that what has been and is be ing accomplished does not cast the taxpayers one cent, wita the ex~ep tion i~f those people who voluxtarily subcibe to the support of the o isn iz t.ion. ".f'here is no doubt that the work of the Audubon society Is responsible for saving the lives of countleas tht us ads of birds in all sections of the State, and all reports go to show that not cnly birds but deer and other ame are on the increase, owing to the vigilance of this organization. "About a year ago the members of the society contributed 81,400 for the building of a launch, which is used oy tue game war den locatt d near Cape Hatteras, whose special business in is to guard the breeditng places of he sea birds during the summer months. These valuable and beaurti ful creatures had bsen nearly ex .er minated in North Carolina waters, owing to their whoesale and systema tic slaughter by men who killed the birds to get their feathers for the Ne w York millinery houses. "The fir-st year cf that protection there we ra deposited In the breeding colonies about 1.700 eggs. So greatly did the birds increase from the pro tection Ito.rded them that summer, that the second year about 2,800 eggs were laid, while the vast summer, which is the third year, between 6, 000 and 7.000 eggs are known to have been laid and hatched. "Toe Audubon societies now pro tet the sea blids in their breeding places along theiboast of every Atlan tic State except Scuth Carolina and Georia, ar d it Is very important that m if j rt be made to secure wardens t one for this important region. "By msans of public speaking, by the distribution of literature and the ose of circulating libraries, by con tant recourse to the press and by the vigilance of its game wardens, the a uubon society of North Carolina is coing a tremendous work for the pre servation of birds and game." No Secrets From the People Mayor Tom Johnson, of Cleveland, otounces that one of the polius which he will pursue in the city which .as just accorded him a handsome mdorsement by a re-election will be o keep gopen all doors and books In :he city hall." No secre. s from the eople. Mayor Johnson has been assed as a demagogue, but the peo pe of Cleveland appear to like his Kind f demegegism. His effort to nake the acts of all public servants m open took that all the taxpayers nay know the exact status of their Sno Interests w ill not detract any ro his popularity. The people have 3een getting a --aste of publicity and :hey are now demanding it to the ~ullest extent. Designing politicians may not like the idea of publicity,but ibe people have learned that it Is the proper way to curb the grafter. and :har it is better to prevent the mis 2se of funds than to punish thos who re rec:eant, after the funds have een dispated. Removal of the :emptation for graft and punishment n the fullest e xtent of those who are lalse to their trust ought to bring ~bout a better condit ion of affairs in i di municipalities. - Negro Lyn ched. Dave Sims, tl e negro who shot and ril:ed R. F. Jones, Sunday night, was lyncbed by an armd mob at the c~ne of his crime, near Baugh station, C1a., early Friday. Sims was cap ured last night and brought to this ace. Tne negro is said to have WANT CONSTABLES TO STAY. sentiment in Spartenburg County Overwhelmingly That Wav. The Spartenburg J .urnal says; Now that Governor Heyward has expressed himself with reference to the matter of allowing the state constables to re main in Spartenburg af ter the dispen saries are closed, leaving it for the people to decide wbether they shall remain or not, it is more than like that the prominent citszenis of the city and and county and cflials Will ask him not to remove the constabu Lary force. "When the dispeneary was voted out the question of the disposition of the c' rstabulary force at once bscam! a matter of interess. In all other counties that voted out the d!spersa ry the state constables were removed, though they were reinstated on ac count of violations rf the dispensary law. It was b el.ived that G-vernor Heyward would pursue that pol'cy in this county, though the Ot z A s of the county hoped that the constables would be retained. Governor Hey ward bas expressed a willingness to allow the constables to remain in Spartenburg County, provided it is the wish of the people. Now that the matter has been brought i q iarEly before the cit z ins of the city and county it will noo be difcalt to d cide, for the sentiment is overwhelming in favor of retaining the constables. It is expect d that within the next few days some form offizial rcquest wll be made to G vt - nor Heyward to allow the constabula ry to remain in force in this county. The desire for the constabulary to rtE main is very teen In various sections of the county, for the citizens In the country as in the city as they w. 11 not be as easy to enforce the law in the cuntry as in the city, the fomer is not prc(v.ded with police protect ion. In some sections of the country a disposition has been shown already to violate the law and when the dispen saries are c'oscd there is every reason to believe that there will be much whiskey in circulation and without a oonstabulary force the conditions will soon became intolerable. WANT SAM JONEs SEOPPED. Cincinnati Police Atkid to Muzz'e the Noted Pseacher. Cincinnati don't want to hear Sam hones. In a lever received by Chief )f Police Muilliken, signed by five prominent clt'z ns, protest is m),de 3gainst the Rev. Sam Jones, the Geor. gia evangelist, who is in the third week of a revival meeting at Music ball conducted under the auspices of the Evangelical Alliance. The protest. is against what is term d"improper language" and "the slurs )n the community" said to have been perpetrated by the Bev. Sam Jones. "How're you going to do it?" asked Jones when seen regarding the prop: s tiu to mtzz'e him. "Yu can't do it the mila co.udn't; you wculd have to call out the regular army, and how' would tbey do it? There were only five pr minent citizens on the peti ion to suppress me. If there are oa ly live who want me suppressed, I'm doing fie. "The generous chie f of police says be cant suppress me because he says I ain't violating the law. What you want to do is to suppress the newspa pers. They carry the report of my re ches out to the world or they carry a part of them. "They dont report my speeches at all. You might as well take a picture of the end of my nose and the tip of my ear and my knee and say this is a picture of Sam Jones, as to say that one of the newspaper reports is one of my sermons. They ain't. "I could take the Bible and mike extracs from it the way the neW~pa pers do with my sermons and prove that every man hero must go cut and narg himself before breakfast. Teen he read from the Bible in front of him: "And Judas I cariot went ut and hanged him self." "Go thou and do likewise," "And what thiou doest do quickly. Female Anarchists. While engaged in searching for a mssr g ic'ioolgli, the police at Jassy Romnma, has discovered an anarchist lub c .mposed of girls from fourteen to twenty years of age. Anneta Van escue, the sixteen-year-old daughter af a local talor, was pres'dng over the deliberations of the club, which was held in a disused wine cellar, on the walls of which were painted in red various revolutiouary mott es about thirty girls were present, and pon the arrival of the police all be an to sing the anarchist hymn, the Inteitionale." When the police inounced that the members of the lub were under arrest, the girl Van escu rushed at one of the constables a.d stabbed him with a dagger, In lctng i j tries from which he died ~hortly atterwards. Meanwhile the ur other policemen arrested the rest f the girls, who fought desperately crac ting and biting the men. A arge quantity of anarchist literature >rinteu in Romainian and French was disccvered In the c llar. Died Ti gother. At Florence IDaly, on a flower strewn couth,, between burning wax lapers, were found the dead bodies of 1 young girl and her lover, ut ited in iheir last sleep. On the table was this letter to the authorities. "We lie because our parents, .orbld ir g our marriage, deny us the right. so live In purity and innocence. We iave loved and suffered for two long rears, and cannot endure the strain any longer. Because our love is pure Lnd shall remain so, we will die to ~ether." There were two revolvers. Lt the given moment, each had fired bullet into the brain of the other. oth the boy and the girl died, it eems, without a struggle. There vas a happy smile on their faces. Lhe ioung man is a medical student xamt d Colucci, the gil was Gabrielle Jonti. Both came from excellent amilkcs and led exemplary lives. rhe suicIds created an immense sen ation, and all praised the lofty prin :ples of the lovers. W a -son tionored. The Association o* Southern States lommisicners of Agriculture in an-1 iual session at Richmond V a., Friday lectd the following flihers: W. W. )glvie, Nashville, Tenn., president; 1 S J. Watson, Columbia, S. C,, first ic' p-eslidn'; T. G Hadson, Atlan a, G'.., rEcond V'Ice president; B. W. I-I1ore, Raleigh, N. C., sscetary and reasuer; Ei W. Magruder, Richmond ia., assistant secetary an d treasurer. rhe commisssons a- j u-ned Friday iter choosing Jacksonville, Fla., as WORTH SEELMt. The Clemson College Car Is row On Its Tour. A Means Of Exbibiting the Work and Value or he College to the Farmers. The Clemson c->llege exten Ion cm1 Ii now making its initial tcur cf South Carolina. I t left Clemson on Monday. ]Nlov'mber 20, mtking its first stop at Lexington, where it was viewed by a large number of interest! d pe-spie and on Tuosday it reached Batesburg where it remained daring the day. I is estimated that duriag these two days at least 750 people visited the car, which ,-as in many ways a revela tion to them. It. Is a vivid illust'atioE of the work, done at Clem-on college. As one enters the car he first passe: the ki, chen and commissary depart meat, where dusky Sam holds forth tc feed the hungry prz fessers. This de partment was organ'zid by Mr. A. Scil 1 :tter, the stewald of the college, who accompanied the car for the first few dais. Next comes an array of the wheats that are grown in thE State, tastefully arranged in festoons against the wall. Tnere are about 3E sorts of wheat on exhibition, besides a large number of kinds of corn. Then come displays or the work donE by the boys at Clemson. There is sup erbly ex; cuted iron and steel work, castings, tL raed and milled picc:s, all as well execu:.ed as c uild be done in the best machine shops of the lard. Next come speciiens of the student woodworking, showing exquisite j An ery and turnings. Spe.Imea s of biack smithing are Interesting as well. FA 'wlng this Is a part of the dairy dis play, the Babcock testing machine, which shows how to ascertain the rich ness of a cow's milk, and which ir practical use in the United States ha! sent millions of wcrthless c >ws to the butcher, replacing them with animalE more worthy. This bit of machiner5 greatly interests the people. Over nead are large photographs showing the exterior snd interior of the build ings of Clemson college. Following is an exhibit of the cow peas grown in the State 45 speciEi embracing the principal varieties. P:of. C. L. Newman is responsiblE ror this fine exhibit. Next comes a display of pecan, grown by C. C. Newman. This is interesting, show ing the dilversity of types that may bt obtained by planting seeds all fro: one tree, as all the specimens arn from cne planting of the same seed yet no two re u ts are the st me, tv range beingfrom 65 uts to a pcund to 176. There is tnus shown vividly the need of budding or grafting to in sure good pecans. Above the pecans are shown samples o1 cottons of super ior sorts: Next is the textile end of the car, prPsided cver by Prof. C. S. Doggett. This exhibiz-is of wonderful interEst, embracing as it does very wide range of samples of fabrics from the stur diest ticking or denims to the modq wonderful mercerized cottons, s ime seemin~g impesdible to destinguisb from silks. Tnere are also all in sner of printings sn:1 weavings, aith fig ures and col. rs so delicate and beautiful that it seems as if naturE herself was taught a lesson. ToerE are also shown books of desigrns and~ cards on which the designs made by the students are e xbbted. It is very interesting to see what the students themselves have first designed or paper the figures, then add. d the col ors and afterward made the the goods in actual fabric. Now that South Osrclina Is leading all the Southiern States In the produc tion of catton this department of tex tiles is of great value to the State. Prof. Daggett, who pres:s over this display, is a man of wide and valuable experiences, having had charge of im. portant mills in Messachusetts and other Northern States b sies having had valuable experience fr.'m observa ton and direction in E agland and the continent. It is a decided gr~a t~o the State of South C0srolina to secure Prof. D >ggett to instruct her boys, not in the rudiments of a crude art of weaving fabrics, but i the finer and nicer departments of . the art sc that they may inaugurate a day of better and more remunerative endeav or in the State. Tnis exhibit of fabrics attracts much attention, not only becau ;e of the ex quilsite beauty of some of it, but be. cause of the interest to young men who may be seeking a remunerativa field for their labor. It Is interesting to see some of the more amnbitious and Intelligent young mill mer- come in to see this exhibit and go away resolved to save their earnings and take the textile ccurse so that they may fit themselves for better and more remunerative work than they ire now doing. Crossing ovar, for you hava seen but one sideof the car, is seen Prof. C. 0. Newman's exhibit of grape vines and nrery stock. There are full grown ad bearing grape vines, showing ex a~ctly how they are pi uined and train E d Also ycucg orchard trees pruin ed for transpatation. There is also a :lsplay of the Implements needed for orticultural endeavor. Passing alorg we and Prof. F. H. . Calhoun's display of the minerals >f South Carolina, embracing a wide range from the primitive granites to gold, lead and copper ores, with a rethysts, topazes, casiderite, rubies. nagnetite, mica and black dianmonds. 'his is one of the best colhetion of ninerals in the South and is beutiful .y displayed. Among the so called precious ores there are displays of hosphatic rock, more precious really ahan all else because of the phosphor 2s that they carry, invaluable agent )f life and bearing potentialities for -edemption of Citrojina fields. There is near by a crea~m seperator, where on several occasions ladies have >rought the milk from their favojrite ~ows to have the cream separated, ~hough it is rumored that Hay wood, he cook, sometimes manages to ab tract a trilla ef the resulant creamy uid for the professors' ecffe..! This art of the display attracts large at ~ention as all the visitors are inter ~sted directly or indirect-ly, in agri ulture. It Is the purpose of this exte's~on ork of Clemson college to reach es ecially the farming classes, sirac3 it s felt that it there can be added to be fertility of their fields and the >roductiveness of them, all the State ill share greatly In the blessings hat will follow. Therefore the car s in onarge of Prof. J. N. Harper, lirector of the experiment station and lean of the agricultural C .llege. As. istng hIm are Prof. W. S Morrison ., Jos. E Wing, a farmer fron Ohio. Icetings are held each day in the owns where the trains stays and it endeavored to meet as many farm a a possble. T*ACIZ SUICIDE IDIZA. Posscsses the County, but the South Still Loves hildren. In its Nrember issue the National GeographIcal Mag!zine presents some interesting facts, camputed from the census, respecting the proportion of children of the United States. The cfficiA d .ta show that there has been a steady decline in the relative num ber ci children during the past hun dred years. At the begInnir g of th last century the cild:en under ten years cf age n.mbard one third of the populaticn; at the end of the century they unmbered less than one fourth. While the decr; aie was constant, it was at varying rates during successive decades. This of Itself, however, is held not to be proof conclusive of a declining birth rate. a3 the decrease of the num ber of children in proportion to popu lation might be accounted for by an increase in the average durati'n of life ard the large ir.flux of adult im migrants wi-hcut cuildren. However it was deemed a fair test to calcu!ate the proportionate number of children in the county 5 years old to each 1, 000 womea between the ages of fifteen and forty nine, the period of potential motherhood. Applying this test it is turd that the number of children per 1,000 %o.nen in 186 ) (the fltt 3 eir for which such data were availabl-) was 631. In 1930 the proportion other words the number of children to po tential mothers in 1800 was ocly about three fourth as much as in 1860. This Is beld to show the persistent decline in birth rate during the forty years. The greatest decline has been in the north ard west. Table shows rhat in New E .gland and New York the birth rate per year in forty years has bien Icss than 400 children to 1, 000 women at d in the middle states the rate has not gone above 500 per 1,000. In the &uthern states how sver, the rate has averaged bet seen 60 and 700 per 1,000 during the per iod under c nsiderati-n. Tae zone of greatest fecundity seems to hav3 be zun at North Caroliua and extended through the sc u -h the New Mexico, with the single e xception of Florida, Louisiana showed a decline in the rate according to tl e latest census. The dc'ine is not confined to any single race, but is sbared by all the races, and was heaviest euring the decades of greatest immigration. That the dropping off in the south was not as great as in the north is believed to be accounted for by the fact that the south has received less immigration than the other sections. In the last twenty years it appears, the decrease in the birth rate of negro children has been especially rapid. Without ex ception the proportion of children to popu'ation is greiter in the country districts than in the c ties. In the North Atlantic c untry districts, how ever, the properclon is almost as great in the cities as in the cc u-try, while in the South Atlantic divi-ion there are atout tw.ca as many children, in proporion, in the c untry as is the cities. WALXLIM B LIiNi ? nGE. ANegro Woman Arre sted With Much Bx z an i cr Ciothes IThe Greenville correspondent of The State says o.: all t!' female tig ers arrested thcreaborts, Cora Hil, arrested Friday morning by tilsers La Far and Hatcher, takes the 'sim mons by long od ds- A poor, weekly looking, mIddle-aged negro is Cira but she was able to carry in h.er cloth ing and on her person nine full q-1art bottles, a gallon demljohn artd a gal Ion jug, all of which contaiced can traband l'qur, fresh from some block ade distille'ry. The quart bottles were arranged In a sack like contrivance especially made for the business out of white canvass cloth an I was worn about the waist, the bat-'l. s serving to help make up her form according to the latest modes of d .me fashlon. With a form up t' dste, she dispensed her gojids to her customers a-nd walked gaily along the s'reets, the envy of all the cnc c late d -ops on account of her good clothes which fitted s> well and looked so fashkostale. The cifcers got wind of Cora's ac tions and set out Friday morning to see what could be done. Very Eoon they crossed a fresh trail and the game was bagged at 9 o'clozk. After a big buciness Thursday night, Cora was asleep in her house near the Southern depot when discovered by the of~eers, and her whole "make- up" was living In various heaps round about. The liquor and the female tiger were immediately sent to police head quarters, and Ben Holloway, .who happened to be at C.ra's house, was sent along for keeping company with the she tiger. The l'q ior found was of the very meanest aind of illicit goods, and had been colored with some substance to make it resemble rye whiskey. T ie contrivance, which was made to it the body by being fastened about the waist, was the leverest outfit ever dIscovered by the ficers The Hill woman is a member of the lass of blind tigers most diffic-ilt to atch and to manage. Culef Consta21e Hall has more trouble with negro wo men than all other classes of unlaw ful dealers pat together. Tae city is said to be full of this class of tri1f11l ers just now, and some big hauls are ooked for soon. The consta1 utary and the police department are work ing with special diligence to stamo ut this tratlia among the rnegro wo men. Georgetown's Centenial. The people of Georgetow'n are mak ng elaborate prepara:ions for the en :ertainment of many thousanls of isitors at the Cententiial c lbbrat!oo whice will take place on Decemb.r L9th. The r..ilroads base granted a loei ate and many from a i parts of the Sate will no doubt avail themselves f the opoortunity to see the "awak eing." Many pleasing and attractive features have been prcovided for the ay. The marine narade will be espec ally attractivae. Tao Third RegimentI1 ill attend in a body and many divar ions are promised. Iu~smt c as this ,' s the event of Georgetown's lifetime, t is likely that the event will oe made otable. They Comnekiigh- tI The ecst of sea coast defenses come igh but we must have them. The( ngineers want $16,000,000 more to omplete the fortifications of the sea a oasts of the United States. There as already been appropriated for a his purpose 528,693,434. Permanent rojects at 31 dIfl'erent points have j een adopted and most are well un- I A BIG CATISE. Yields $1,600 Worth of Ambergris to a School Bay. G ttieb O'Brien, of Mentonne, Mich, made a big strike this week be cause of his knowledge of natural history, which he learned In the grad ed school in his village. In the process of excavating a county ditch a large sl ugh, not far from Mystie River, was dained out alm,-st entirely, so much so that a number of very large catfish, which had lived for many years in the centre of the lake, were alrost uncovered in the shallow water, and an easy prey to any one that wanted them. But when a few of them were taken out they were seen to be thin, scrawny and unhealthy looking, so that no one cared to take them awayr. Now, there are no other flih in fresh water that look so much like whales as catfisa do, and it struck ycung O'Brien that rules and regula tions applying to sick whales might also apply to sick catfish, and he asked 'the owner of the land if he cculd have the fish Thae owner was glad to get rid cf them, and told O'Brien he could have them and welcome if he would take them away before they died and spoil ed. The boy waded out into the mud and mire and cap'ured the fi b, which wsre of great siz3, many of nem a much as 6) poun4s in weig.t, and, carrying them cfE to a secluded spft, he cut them up and found, as he had hoped, that nearly eveIy one of them was ii tted out, as sick whales often are, with a goodly amount of that valuable article, ambergris, which i: sometimes found floatiig on the sur face of the ocean. The boy found in the fi h 40 pouads of ambargris, and so:d it to a chemist for $40 a pound, or a total of $1,600, which was mere than the tract of land where tbe swamp liy was w.rth altogether. The man who gave O'Brien the firh wa, Inclined to make trouble about the matter, bat his lawyers told him he nad no cte whatever and ne dropped it. Wisl Take Courage. In a brief autoprophical sketch, Am s Luck, who represented a New Hampshire distrist in congress some Efty years ago, describes the growth of the cause with which he identified himself and the succe s of those who espoused that cause. The Commoner says in the curse of his coMm3nts be gives expression to a sentiment which deserves to be emphasizsd at this time. He said that these men had "some title to be considered far sighted," he adds, "they simply had faith in the wisdom of doing righc." This has been expressed before, but it is doubtful whether it has ever been ex pressed as consisely, as simply and as forcibly. The dieionaries ought to defi-ie political foresight as "faith in the wisdom of doing right " What a contrast between this can did recognition of the triumph of the truth and the miserable. shoat sight ed dccarine of exedienc3! There is no basis upon which on. can ca'culate ex p -dlency, there is a stat~dard of mo a' itv and conscience by which one can measure eveey publi3 q2estion. Ole seeks for expediency as the hunter searches for g im e, uucsrtain where he will fi id It and fearful that van when discovered it may yet es cape him, but as the farmer follows the plow canuddent that sun and soil w~ll rewari his industry and that in spite of local food or drouth the ear~h will yelld its increase, so he who at taches himself to a truth kno *s that be works in hainny with immutab~e an0 irresistable laws. L t the democracy take c~urage form the recent elections; let the democracy of all the states and the dmoaracy of the nation, like the democcacy of Ohio and the democra cy of P innsylvania, appeal to the honest and the conscientiou;, even if in doing so they risk the alienatio2 .,f the selfish ard the sordid. Let them put their trust not in corruption or de'eption, but In that sense of j istice which is at once the son-ca and ,the guarantee of good government. Life's Greatest Reward. Mrs. ,Tulia Ward Howe utters this great truta: ''The rearing of a fami ly of children is full of toil and heavy repnibility. Yet the steps of this great progress are all set to the divin est irusic. -With every new care comes a new reward. Tae result once achievad, what j y and pride can- ex cell those of parents who see around them a group of sons and daughters who are true and loving comnpanions and helpers, who will one day stand in their places, to hand down to pos teity the high inheritance of charac ter, enriched by the anded wisdom of the latter exp erlence?' We have great sympathy for a married couple into whose home no little ones have come. Such a couple does not know what real true happiness is. As Mrs. Howe says, children are a great deal of trouble and expernse, but the rais ing of a family of chi:dren is the grandest work that can engage the attention of a father or mother. God bless all the little ones. Toe Educatec Woman. The time has come when the edu cated wi m to can no longer regarded as a freak. If according to Credict ons, domestic happiness is to fall a vhti to the monster, ''higher edu cation," it is aime to prepaae iBr the funeralh Tae old fallacy that girls are n:-t a'd to mentally cope with b ays in the qursuit of classic s'-udies tas reesived its death blow. Of hon r credentials Issued through the year the larger number has been received by girls and more wcm in are seeking admission to thae c;>ieges than the olleges have room for. Toe old clty mat women have no use for the high: 3r branches, because she will get -arried does not disprove the fact mat her trained intellect renders her ll the more capable of carrying on to tsatisfa::tory temliihus the manifold uties allotted her in her capacity of vife mcther and hctu;ekeeper. For be information of men who are con: drng the talking of illerate women Ls wives for the sole purpose of insum; r g domestic peace, we c.s,11 attention o the fact that the div.>rce courts do ot seem to be crowded with educated voman. 1% hat B came or it. Milton M. Madison, bookkeeper for he New York Life, today testifi~d hat in 19024 he received a check for 400 ):as the proifton a loin of $920, 00 to Kiddler, Peabody & Co., of oston. He got the check cashed and ave the money to George W. Perkins, ice president of the New York Life, r and a member of J. P. Morgan & Co.j e did not know what Perkins did1 rih the money, because no account the transaction appeared on the I nalrs of the cmpany.. JOURNALIM IN WA TwES When Balls are Flying Thickest Columns are Brightest. A SCARCITY OF PAPER American Civil War Especially Rich in Journalist-c Enterprise-Dur ing Franco-Prussian War Besieg ed Towns Kept Their Presses Merri!y Going. Theer are few things more eloquent of the dauntless spirit of the Russians of Port Arthur than the fact that through all the horrors and sufferings of the siege they not only contrived to publish their newspaper, but to make its columns brighter than in days of peace. This is in splendid Ieeping with the traditions of war and sieges; for, al though circled by death, somehow or other the buoyancy and vitality of the press suffer no diminution. Why, even when Lucknow, defended by a hand ful of troops, was almost at its last gasp and expecting all the indescrib able horrors of capture every hour, it kept its newspaper going, although it was no larger than a sheet of note paper; and every line had to be writ ten laboriously by hand, principally by the brave wife of V-:e chaplain. - Again, when Kandahar was besieg ed by the fierce Afghans the garrison, amid all its anxieties and dangers, found time to produce a newspaper only a small single sheet, it is true, but well and brightly edited-which did well in keeping up the spirits of our gallant soldiers. It was a beauti fully lithographed sheet, full of in formation, from the list of services in camp and fort to the "latest intel ligence" of doings in Europe. '.,-ring the Franco-Prussian war every besieged town kept its presses merrily going, though the shells were shrieking around the editorial offices and occasionally bursting uncomfort ably near the editorial chair. Paris, Metz, Sedan and other be leaguered towns had their special siege journals, and when the supply of pa per ran short, paper of all descrip tions was enlisted in their service Packing paper, paper used for wrap ping groceries in, wall paper-papers of all colors and kinds were utilized, and one journal actually made its ap pearance printed- on wash leather. And while the presses of the be sieged Parisians were thus kept busy, the Germans outside their walls were no less enthusiastic. In the German army were many clever young artists, who volunteered their services, with the result that the papers were full of beautiful and often most diverting pictures. The American Civil War was espe cially rich in journalistic enterprise in fact, the newspaper seems to have flourished most where the bullets and cannon balls were thickest. In Amer ica, as in France, the oddest materials were used in producing the papers. During the siege of Richmond sheets and tablecloths were cut up and fed the printing presses; one enterpris ing journal which app3ared in the use ful form of handkerchiefs contained a spirited address to the "Women of the South," in which this bloodthirsti' passage occurs: "If each handkerchief were boundless as ~the globe's ex panse, it would not serve to stanch the Federal mud-blood yet to be shed.' In fact, most of these journals of the American Civil War breathed a sim ilar spirit of vindictiveness. During the siege of Charleston th-E "Blockade Number of the Charleston Caurier," which consisted of sheets o4 canvas fastened at one corner by red ribbon, had on its front page the fi ure of a sheeted skeleton holding c scythe and pointing with fleshless hand to the words, "War to the Death." Happily all war journals are not o' the grewsome, sanguinary type; ir fact, their usual tone is one of the cheeriest optimism and bright humor A splendid sample of this cheerfu' kind of battlefield journal is that pub lished by Wellington's soldiers during the Peninsular campaign, which i: full of jokes and gayety, and even to day makes more entertaining reading than many professedly comic papers During the worst . horrors of thE Crimea, when our men were dying b3 tousands in the trenches and so called hospitals, and when the icy clutch of a terrible Winter was at every man's throat, one of the very brighest of all these war journals made its appearance as regularly as if it issued from Fleet street, Lon don. And an equally bright jourria' was that produced by the small band of Britisb soldiers shut in- within th' walls of Jellalabad sixty-three years ago, one of the gayest and most pre quent contributors being the great soldier who, some years later, as Sir Henry Havelock, was destined to lose his life in the Indian mutiny.-New ork News. Japanese War Spoils. It is stated that the Japanese ex pect to recover fifty vesels as the re sut of the salvage operations at Port Arthur. They are employing 1,200 workmen in repairing ships and are storing coal. The captured artillery, vehicles, locomotives, cars and other trophies havbe been collected ready for shipment The Sword Doomed in War. Military critics claim that the sword as a part of the field equipment of officers of the infantry is doomed. Its uselessness in this connection has been realized for many years and a proposition that it be done away with is understood to have the approval of the authorities of 'he United States war department Girl Caused Tra.gedy. At Nyach, N'. Y. the body of Will lam JTones who Wednesday night shot and killed Harry Britton and wouni ded Frank Britton, was found Thurs day morning near the scene of the urder. Jones had shot himself hrough the heart. The murrder and suicide followed an attempt cf Jones to see Jessie Britton with whom he was infatuate d. Her brothers refus d him admittance to the house, whereupon he drew a revolver Land began firing. Harry Britton was tled instantly and his brother Frank was severly wcuuded. Jones was a lecorator of about thirty-five years nd claimed to be a Cuban. Wrecked By A Wreck. Obe man killed, five injure1, twen y five freight cars, two postal cars, )D baggage car and a Pullman car :otally wrecked is the result of a reaf nd collision of two westbound ~reigts and a subsequent collislen of passenger train into the wreck on he Pennslyvania railroad Friday norning at Thombsontown, Pa. ). E. Hunesbee, a brakeman, of hathnyug was killed. WORK OF AMERICAN ENGINEER$. Hold the Palm for Daring Feats In Cor.struction. Although there are many smart en-. gineers in Europe, there is no country where they achieve the heights of fame they do in the United States. 'he palm for colossal daring in construe Lion, whther it be in tme line of sky scrapers, bridges or tunnels, certainly belongs here. It is only in the United States that one can see huge rafts going down stream carrying complete houses of brick and stone which are to be dumped down in some spot more fa vorable than that from which they had been removed. But the removal of or dinary awellings of five, six and even seven stories is so usual a sight that no one save a visitor to America would now be surprised to meet a mansion, with gardens and a nice bit of shoot ing attached, on its way to some dis . tant part of the country. It Pittsburg. the city of steel, it was found necessary to remove the Grand Opera House a distance of 20 feet in oiuer to admit the widening. of'Dia mond street. Engineers came and had a look at the structure and unanImOus ly agreed that it would be quite feasi ble to move it intact. The builing is not small, measuring 128xS0 feet, and weighing about 3,000 tons. Progress was necessarily slow, some times not more than an inch an hour, and the work, which was begun on Sat urday, was not completed until the fol lowing Tuesday. Forty-seven men were engaged on the job night ,ad day, and the cost of removal was $150,000. For the purpose of transit a foundation was erected beneath the building and the house was then placed on rollers. On the spot where it was intended to erect the opera house another toundation, of course, had been built, and here the. big building was successfully placed. Not a crack in any of the walls *as visible, and as an example of "house: moving" it is unique. At the Columbus Railway Company's works, at Columbus, 0., there are no fewer than 160 smoke stacks of vary ing heights. These answered all prac tical purposes until the time came when, on account of the introduction. of mechanical stokers and economizers, a greater amount of draught was found to be necessary, and It was decided-to add 50 feet to some of the stacks. The fact that the work was accomplished without in any way interfering with the duties of the chimneys renders it somewhat remarkable. The first stock was heightened and completed. within a few days, the furnaces being kept going all the time. The cast iron cap; which surmounts each of the stacks was removed, the brickwork.-cleaned, and on it built a new single shell of brick 50 feet high, which was support ed entirely on the old outer shell. The biggest water pipe in the world,.capa ble, It is said, of holding an average river, was laid by the Ontario Power Company on the Canadiafiside of NI agara Falls. - The gigantic -pipe, which is made of steel throughout, is a mile and a quarter in length and sixty feet in circumference. The steel plates have a thickness of half an inch, and in put-' ting them together 200 tons of rivets were required. Philadelphia is noted for many dar ing engineering feats. One of the mos~t daring, .perhaps, was when a four foot. water pipe was moved a distance of 12 - feet without interfering in any way with the water service. It is said that no other country offers an exact par allel to this int'eresting and great un dertaing. To realize the remarkable nature of this feat -it must be under stood that 1,200 feet of pipe, weighing, with the water, about 60,000 tons, was moved out of line 11 feet and then lowered 12 feet. Rice Industry of the South. I 1904 the United States changed from -a rice importing to a rice export-~ ing country. In 1893 we imported 178, 000,000 pounds of rice and exported 92,000,000. In 1904 our erports of rice increased 50 per cent., our imports de cined 20 per enl., and the figures were: Exports, 138,000,000 pounds; im - ports, 137,000,000. For 1905 the flgurels will be even better... The encouraging feature is the find g of a foreign market for our rice. There is no limit to the amount we can raise if there is a market for it, but the price is unsatisfactory if we overpro duce, for the home market is very lim ited. If we can arrange to ship any considerable portion of our - crop abroad the rice growers of Louisiana and Texas will have nothing to fear in the way of low prices.-,New Orleans Times-Democrat. His Majesty's Saddle Room. The roys.l saddle room at Sandring ham is a veritable sporting museum. In addition to a magnificent assort ment of curious saddles from all parts of the world, many of them being elab orate presentation saddles of great value, there are the gold and silver mounted hoofs of favorite racers, more than fifty sets of richly ornamented harness and a valuable cbllection of sporting pictures. These include paint ings of dogs and horses by Turner and Herring, the famous animal painters. Punch and Vanity Fair turf cartoons of his majesty (when Prince of Wales) ang on the walls. When these were published the king enjoyed the carica :ures imimensely. Luminous Shrimps. Luminous shrimps have been discov ered by the Prince of Monaco in the course of his deep se'a fishing in the Mediterranean. They live at a depth of 1,100. to 1,600 fathoms and are stud ded with small phosporescent spots, which light their way through the gloomy depths. In a chicken fight men are often ac cused of foul play. Arrested in Columma. The Columbia State says: "A negro, James Chapman, was arrested heie Wednesday night cl a-g d with hav ing stolen several articles :f ci tbirg from the negro with whom he boarded while In Orangeburg attending the rcent festival He was taken to Orangeburg by Deputy Sheriff Frank Dukes Thursday afternoon on a war rant issued by magistrate C. P. Brun son, charged with petit larceny. The arrest was made by Detec~1ve Broom In a resort on Senate street. Chap man at first stoutly denied any know ledge of why he was arrested, but fin ally said that he was probably held on suspicion." Chapman was tried and convicted before Magistrate Brun son in two csses. He wai giventtirty days on the chain gang in each case. Wants TJhem Seperated. "I do not believe 91i sandwiching courtship withi religion," said the sec reary of the Y. M. C. A. In New York recently. ''No man can hold a hymn bcok with a charming young woman and pay attention to what the minister is saying." He advocates