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WILL DRY UP. Why We May All Die for the Want of Water. DEAD FROM THRIST. Astronomers and Geologists Find Evi dences that Ail Water is Rapidly Dissappeatiug from the Face of the Earth, Which Mesns Death to All Life. Is the earth drying up and shall we (meaning by "we" the human race as represented by our descendanth), dis of thirst? A warning that this fate is not Im possible, or even impiobable, seems to be conveyed by some of the older worlds around us. The moon has b: come as dry as a bone, although the dark and empty beds of many seas and oceans are plainly visible upon its sur face, showing that there was once a time when the lunar world possessed plenty of water. The planet Mars is more than half dried up, and now retains so little water that in the Winter ii e it ap pears to be all locked up in the polar snaws and Ice filds, which are so thin that they quickly melt away when the Summersun shines hot upon them. The planet Mercury apparently pus. sesses no water at the present time, althougn, in the nature of tbhgs, siice iV is composed of the same gen eral elements as the other planets, it must have had water upon its surface at some past period in Its history. Some think that even Venus is a dry, hot world, with little or no water available to support inhabit-mts. Tne observations of Prof'essor Liwell at any rate support this conclusion. From these examples we see that there is nothing essentially improtba ble in the iaea that the waters of the earth may eventually disappear, leav Ing it as dry and barren as its near companion, the moon. But there Is more direct and start ling evIdence of the drying up of the earth than any afforded by their anal ogies with other planets. This evi dence is of a scientific nature, and we find it in the known disa; pe rance of many great bodies of water which ex Isted on varicus parts of the globe in former times, and in the gradual, and in some cases, rapid, dessication of vast continental areas. Nothing more ominous could well be found tnan the proof afforded by recent Ecientific ex ploration of Central Asia that a large part of the greatest of the continents, the one which is believed to nave con tained the Garden of Eien and the cradle of mankind,- has bean turned into a waterless desert within the his toric period!:. - East of the Casplan Seaf and north and west of the vast ranges of the Himalayan mountains, within a few years past the remains of large cities have been found, covered with drift lng sands and choking dust which the dry winds whirl up in immense smotL. erng clouds. Some of these vanished towns of Central Asia give evidence in their ruins that they once lay on the shores of lakes and rivers and Other bodies of water which have since completely disappeared. Now they are only the dessicated skeletons of a civil zation wirose founders either per ished of thiret or were driven forth into more favored lands where the ad vancing aridity has not. yet attained a fatal point. Central Asia Is a lofty plateau, and it Is on these higher levels of the earth that the disappearance of the water has everywhere first been mani fested. All the Arian deserts seem to be advancing their sandy frontiers on every side, and invading the sur rounding lands which s Ill retain, though in diminished measure, their supply of life giving water. The green borders are everywhere; recediing be fore tne remorseless yelo w wa-nes. The cootinent of Africa has lan been undergoing a similar drying pre cess. Tnere are in the midst of txe Desert of Sahara plain evidencts the former existence of inhab:2:e oases that were once green and iLaur Ishing with trees and bmaler :vgeta tion, but which are no a swept by sa.d storms and destitute~of the least drop of water. One of the things that most powerfuliy inmpressed the minds of the members of tne British Am.o ciation for the Advan;:ement cf Sci ence during their visit to africa last Summer, was the lack of water ove: vast areas of that conctiaant andi the universal necessity of irrigation to keep alive the lands that are vet in a habitable coniaion. Tae president of the Engmreering Section or the A~s sec:atian uaclared that it is a general condition uf African t gricuhure that the needed water must ce provided og human intervention. Left to nature, many of the now inhabited paits of Africa wcuid q .lcaly be turrned into hifeiess desertb. But the struggle can only be mainta ned successruity as! lorg as the present supply of water capa~ble oi being turred Into irr~gat lng ditches remiain:,' undiminished, a:d the eniap e of tne fate that a part of Central Asia has suffered indibares that the time is sure to come when the supply will be insuf~cIent. Many African lakes have disappea: ed in whole or in part within a fe'r generations. Lake Ng.amni, discovered, by Livingstone, is no longer In xi ence; Lake Tchad, which occupied a conspicuous place on maps of Africa when many <f the older readers of this newspaper were school children, has now half crIed up. Smaller bodies of water have completely vanished. Tae same story ecmes from Aus tralia, from Soruth Ameri; a, and even from parts of our own .Western coun try. The great Salt Lake in Utah Is rapidly receding, lik: a 9 -cdle drying i in the sun, leaving an ever- broaden-. ing marge of wHte salt Waste around Its shrir.king beutes. Some of the arid western lands wnich modern en terprise has begun to cultivate with the aid of irrigation welbs ana ditches, are known to nave been once the bot toms of great lakes and seas. The process whereby these waters have disapperred is a contir u:us one, al though its pregress may be ma-eked for a time by human iffrt. Yet man cannot make a water suoply ; he can only take what nature gives and di-! tribute it in soch a nonuer as mac best sut his needs. But when the supply fails he must give up his effort. Anwrnu~h his own fault he often ac eelertes the dessLs'1on of the land, for all over the word it has been de m.onstrated that destruction of f irest brings,about .rid cnditiors. Even if the fortunate presence of mountain r-n ges,tends to keep up the supply of wat :r for certain disktrlcts by cor.dens ing the moisture drifting in from the oceo and storing it up in glaciers and springs, and especially In the porous, spong--llke soil of gr. a,- forests: yet the destruction or te forests, ard the der udation of the hUl. sl'pes defears this kindly purpose c-f nature, c i'sing the water in rainy seasons and during the melting cf the mountain snows to ru-h down in destructive fI os, which swiftly cr-ss t1-e lo ;er lands without staying to moisten their soil, and hur ry to be lost in the sea. Man cannot lift the ocean waters to freshen the continents; only the pow er of the sun can do that, and if. by ma king smooth and clear its road back to the ccean he enpble the water Tbat Ias descenda-I on tle hils in the form of raii to Lurry dovo again to sea level, he lose all the advannages that ,he sun has offred him, and flnds hir. fartcs drying up and bims-if and his caotle v thr with a thirst that Gannol be que:.caed. L:t this process Zo on long enough and the earth will possess no more fresh water, except F: c as pours use 'essly and desttructiv Ay down in the f.rm of cloud-bursts and deluging -ains. Then it will not be po-siblo ,or te great populations of the globe to find sustenance by huging the sa ores, And in the end seas them r.elves will shrink and ultimately dis appear. But what, it may be asked, bscomes of the water that has disappeared when lakes and rivers dry up? Much of it sinks into the eartia's crest. The globe is hot within and is gradually colling. A3 the interior cools cre vices and cavit!es are formd, and the surface Water, seeking the lo-vest level u-der the force of gravitation, pene trates to great deptos Underneath South Dakota and some of the othsr Sates bordering t-he Eocky -Mountain region, it has been demonstrated ohat there is an Im mense sheet of underground water gradually making its way through the sandstones towards the Misasippi and the Gu'f. At present sme of this water can be reached and brougbt to the surface by mebs of artesian wells, but as the globe cntinues to coc the water will sink lower and lower, until it wets too deep to be brought to the surface by human con trivance. And not only does the water of the earth tend to disapprar by sizkirg into the ciust aud forming deep r'c. voirs and vast sneets ztere, but much of it probably enters into onemical combination with the cooling rocks. In the case of the moon, wnere the cooling prcctms, owicrg to the compar atively small dimensions of the lunar globe, has gone on muoh more rapicly tnan in the earth, it is believed by many that the water formerly exlist ing on the surface as lakes, seaa and rivers, has been completely absorbed by oxidation, the oxygen of the water combining with the metalliferous in terior rocks. And the ultimate fate of the waters of the earth may be similar In fact, the whole history of our planet, as geology has disclosed It, is such as to lead to the comclusion that its surface must eventually become a dry and barren waste. At first a mol ten globe, the earth cooled down un til It had a crust of solid rock. On this crust, as Is in turn cooled cif, tue vapors of she atmosphere de. on ded and condensed into oceans. Sone have th ught that in the beginning the entir earth was covrered wia w ter. But as the cooiing of the g~be continued much of t~he water cjssi tuting the primeval onean was a. s ;rbed into the deepening cr ust. Then continents made their apperarance and then gradually became more exrten s&ve. But in the earliest period at which geology has ventured to draw a chart of tue earth, we see that the proportion of land to water ,vas very much less than it Is tcdeay. Gradually the dessicstion has pro ceeded, and apparently It is destined to go until even the Atlantic and tue Pacifiz have disappeared, and all the w.avrrs of the earth are wlihdrawa~ into its Interior or destro: ed by cherm ical dissociation of the liqu d and the recombination or its el e-.ts cit11 solid matter. Long before rtuat stage is attained, however, all animal andi vngetable life will have disappeared :rom the lands, for -they cannot sor ~ive tee withral of the fresh wa er upon which their existene d - *.e.-. The salt ooeans, becomingz .ver more salt as their vo-um shrinks, may at last rescn a point ot c.'ncer. tratlon where even marine life will be destroyed. Thus the last pistura of the earth that geology can form by glancing into the future shows it stripped of it' mbabitants i~nd of alli forms of lif-, and deprived of wa-sr and perhaps also of atmosphere-a. bare wreck of a planet, drifting In the etheral ocean of immensity. G rr- t' P. Servies. The above article in copyrighted by Harper & Brothers and Is published by pernussion of Harper's Weekly. MURDER AT CR.STON. A Negro Boy Kill a Negro Man For His Money. On last Saturday af~ternoon jest be fore dark George Hopkins, a negro boy, shot and killed Joe Brown, a ne gro man, at Crenton on the Atlantic Coai..t Line Railway. Brown was em ployed by the rairoad to attend to the pump, and was in what is known as the pump house when Hopkins shot him. Tue ball passed trough the body 1 of Brown and he died almost Instant ly. Hoipkins when he did the shoot ing was on the outside of the house and shot thrcugh a small opening In the wall. Brown, his victim, not 'o ing aware of his presence. The object cf the murder was robbery, as Brown had- been paid off that day. When killed, however, he only had five cents on his person as he had paid up some debts b;:fore he was shot- Hopkins, I who is about sixteen years of age, is wht may be termed a bad ratcal. h.i i said thatche- had at different times1 threatened. to kill other pe:ople in and arotd'iston. His victim was an hones hardworking man, andl we hope the law wmil avenge his crue-l death by hanging Hopkins. Mr. Mu: ray, ths railroad agent at Crenoo, wired Sheriff Dukes of the muider, ad it was Ire long before he nad Hopkins in the county jail, whers'he will remain until cur~ rmeets in Msy. j Ki.d Hi Brothert. Two neg:-o boys, Babe sad Jelt Ptts, bro2ers, agea 18 and"20, got a Ino a d t&uity in Pickens coubty on E Snday rnight when Babe snot and kaled Jeik with a pistol- Botn were I: unrer thae inaunc-e of hlnquor. WHAT WAS DONE. NEW LAWS OF GENERAL INTER EST TO TEE PUBLIC Passed by the legislature of iouth Carolina at Its I ate Session. As usu.1 the g3nstal assembly did a great deal of local legislasion and themie reta are not of general interest, afftc ting gaenrally only the counties in which they arize. Below will be found a list of the enctmansa in which the entire State is interssed: To esta'lish Chrisimaa holidays in the state colleggs. To inoorporate the Union Carnegie Fre lbary. To change the rare of South Oaro lina college to the University of South Carolina. To zatifv and conurm the c'-artnr Of the C-nrail Carohna Pawer cam. pa."y. To pr!v.de for a monument t mark the grave of Gen. Thomas Sumter. To prevent resturnt and eatirig hos kepers at railroad aid stesm boat stations from furnishing meal to white and colored pasngers to gether. To have applioe.tion fees of cani datos for medioal 1:oentcs to go to the general fund!. Makin;, appropriation for dispenaa ry Investigation. To eistblish a board of pardons. Appoicitmg a bank examiner. Estabiatbing a flah commic'aon. Fitabliiing a fund for daobled fire men by taxing insarasco eompaie. To fix the salaries of bn sirsulit ite nngrhers at $1,500. To establish a ocuoty court In Rica lar d. To celebrate South Carolias day In the public sctools. To buy new flings for the State house. To cbarttr the 4satral Railway company of South Oarolina. To punish the ssairg of e bras ses. To prevent merabants whem In debt from selling their stoak otlhrwise th-- usua'. To require rzilroads at j anetional points through the railroaa sommis ion to erzet depots. To require railroads and other com m.ror, carriers to pravide tilEsts at sta tiors, To give the federal government ontrul over the anarrantine sta ions. To prevent railroad companies from harging extra fare for crosing bridges when entering the State. To give the federal govsrnment contral over certain land on Sullivan', Island. To allow South Carolina eolkge to eloe College streeb betwean Pckens mid Bulh ard eo open Pickens between Green and Pendleton streets. - - To require oommon -carris-r to re wgh freight and to establish scales for that purpose. To require railroad companies to give informan concerning the ship ment oZ live stock. To cut dead trees from near the pub lic roads. To incorporate the Ne-wberry, Whitmire and Augusta Railrod comn prny. To Incorporate the Middlh 0C-.ria anti Western Railway company. To punish indecent exposure. To ciange name of tus Salada Rive-r Power ccomprny to the Green ville Car.ias Pae~r company and allowing the cormpany to buil:1 a da o across the Sauda bdow the present one. To allow cuits agains insurance com panies to be brourib In the oontis where the las occurs. Joint resolution to buy 50 copies of Elsis' "Tne Jewvs of South Car 01lma." To incorporate the Piedmont Power comnpany. To slow an illegitimate child to in herent from its mnothier. Toj amend dspenrary law, making' regulatio:n as to ocher -nnties the same in Ho.rry a-.d Beaufort. Tae gerral bi? on vosing pre The pure food bill. To appropriate *20,000 for the Jamest-iwn rx;oailc. The genmi maierato bill. To estabisho a ianarial scnscl for bys-tne reformatory. -. To make Tnusiy of fair week a lea1 noiidav in Rienland. To establisa a ecanty coni-t in Aiken--also one in Sumter. To puolish the names of benefici aries In Sut insttasios and aie names or tosir parents or gucrdians. To prevent supervisors and commis :ioners from furnishing - ounty sup piles while in office, To maks the solicitors salaries I1, '00. To repeal the law exempting Con ~derae veterans from licse whe2 italing in seed eon. Allowing city cunsils rather than >oards of health to appoint haaltha of lers. Tu require State house elerks to give ond. To re-survey the Iigeild-Aiken L'ie. To have expert chemists examine he bodies of persons aupposed so have yeen poisoned. To prohibat wrong use of bsadges or signia of secret orders by persons tot members. The Morris Iieid.,t At Wasihing'-en Dr. Minor Morris, hose wife somce weeks ago was eject d fr'om the Withe housa, where she tad gone to preesit alleged g rievmnoes o theepresidenat Thursday gave out or publication the correspondence hicn reesatly pssed betwsen him elf and the president regarding the aec. Dr. Morris demanded a public .pology of the piesident "for this utrage on wosmanhood and common Leeney." Soeresary Loeb re-piled to he letter, starting an invesdIgation > toe chief of police shoiwed that the rrest was justiSed, and the kindest ct to Mrs. Morris and her kinsfolk ato ref rain from giving the case ,dditional pu-olicit~y. -' .- ~laya With Snakes. Little ia dye Dilmar, the three cOeruld dangaster of the keeper of the eptile deparunint of th Bzonx z >o In esi' Yoa, derange to say, muc3 pre &r four-foot black snke w- :ha .me alI'Edigo" for a pet ir;.t< ' a oil wiitch s-he kc4eps at Mr.. s acoy a frolho and roerp wit h hs re uliar playmate, sand eaems to h-aven egrd for his snakeeship, for a e pulls im from his bag ttat he siceps ina ny old tim~e, and c->m-pels him to lay with her when sne is done-I ame. S;ne is feariess in fu zu a. esitatin: to attack the~ large~t of t a eptiles, dragging them around bf the. DAUGHT AT LAST. Scion of i Wealthy Family Loot ed Many Homes AND GOT A BIG PILE He Was Aided by His Evening Dress as d Fashionable Demeanor in His Robbing Trip.% Which Has Been Going for a Yea or More. The police of Br.ooklyn were a3 tounded Thursday by the revela 'i'ns f'llowing the diszovery that in Her man Jensen, a young man who fo7 three days had been a prisoner at the Raymond street j.il, they baye a fash ionable ro' bar who has, within the past twelve months, during which the authorities tried in vain to ca.tch him. looted no less than one hundred homes in MYanittan and Brooklyn and whose pIf:-rings are alIrged to aggregate 815,000 i- jewelry alone. Letbern ound in Jensen'strunk :ur nished evidence that the young man la the scion o! a wealthy and well known family-x COnpen hagen, Dan mark, from where he has been recdv ing an annuity. Ds.cuments showed that ie was highly eucatad and had moved in the beat society. The pc lice also found seventy pawn-tickets for stcln sruff aggregating $3,000, several ruit cia i, haIt a room full f bom-shold goods, trinkets, j ewelry and a great q iantiby of the fiast kind -of men's ul..thes. Jensan't specialty was rebbing fash lonable boaraing and exciusive apart meat houses, in whicn his cultured air had made him a favorite and where he won his victims by his many accon plishments. The evidence was foutno in a room at No. 210 Seventh strmet, Brooklyn, to wuinc he was trackEd by the shrewdness of a n--gro m-id o: Mies Frances Adrain, of N>. 105 Elli ott place, Brooklyn, whose home was robbed two months ago. Jensen secured rooms at Miss Ae nan's home through his line air and smooth conversation. A few days le wer he dlsapp: -red, and with him sev eral hundred dollars worth of j -welr, and household sLL ff. Mi.as Adrian's maid saw him getting uff a car at Third avenue and Tenth street, and told the police. Detectives Gomeringer, O Connor and Delaney made a search of the neighborhood and finally inquired Thursday at the house of Mrs. Mary Fleming, In Seventh street. The de tectives were convinc-cd when they opened the trunk and were surprisec to fiad be was alrea.dy in prisn or. another charge. His picture was also. in the Rogud.s G'a.llery. The polico say t sey have seventy complaints agalcat Jensen, many of whom have identified his picturo. AUl the victims declare the fshionable robber rented rooms, displaying cre dentials, stayed cne or two days, and then disappeared along with hdreds of dollare worrtn of loot. BiAV.RS IN STRIPES. A For-m-r H;ri ?ostoffic Offcial in the Pen. Geo. W. Beavers, former chief of the division of salararies and allow aners of the postoifice, who began a term of imprienment in the Mounds ville, W. Vt., penitentiary last week, was the guest of nonor of the Wai Ingtonl cOley in that Institution at b. etkfast after his arriva~l. Upo:n his arrival In the penitentiary Beavers was treatod as the other pris:.nars Irom Wasuington who c:;mo with him; that is, he was sripped of the clothes he wore and, after a t, which, by the way, he seemed very muon to '.njoy, he wvas .uniformed in prison eTripe. When thin as done ie was tknto the m~ i hll. whoe he was cordially gresd by Machen, Laren~z and the Greffs, all of whom sad g..ne bef zre, for c. eises similar to that which caused Beavers' dowr. fall. While the new mamber of the--Wash ingtozn colony made a strong efiort to bear up, Is wras pla to be seen that e was auiffring deep humiliation, and try as no would could not shake off the signs of his disgrate. George W. Beavers, who pleaded guilty 1n stiinal court No. 1 to defraudingu the United Sr..tes, n sentenct. by Jn~oa Q->uid to imprisonment in:the penitentiary for a period cf two ver.rs. 12.s term of service io begin upon his arrival In prison. Beavers was indicted jointl7 with Stae Senator George E. Graon, of Bgan, N. Y., of defranding the govrnment in cennection with the sale of Bundy time recorders for use by the potfce deparment.. When senteneed, Esavers expresd a dosire to go to the pa:citentiary as soon as possible to begin his term of 1:rpris nment. Accoidingly, Warden Hiar ris, of the district j&il, sent him to oundsville in comnpany with fourte-n ther persons who were convieted in he local courts within the past month. Before leaving the jail the eenvicts were had-n2= and chained together . the usual nay. Amtong the prisou ra were three white men besices Beavrs. When the gang was liined p, Beavsrs was the odd man and was he last one to be slipped on the com non chain to which they were all Inkd by the handcuffs whizh they hd upon their wrists. The prisoners were condsted into a coach of a Baltimore an d Onio tran hained together, Boavers being the ast of the batch to enter the err. He conaquntly was given a seat in thi rear end cf the car, and while he eee ble to view the .humliha:ion whict. the others felt. r:one w.z3 ate to -e ow he bore his'tisgrace. .int to da~ys. The boy who saves hli mney some ay OWns a fatm of his or hacomes a anker, the merctant9 the profession 1l manf. Toe boy who never s:=v.sa ent makes the man who "earn; hi I' ore-i.d by the sweat of his bro s;" wh.o 2ever owns a b me or efliO3s the lux iries of 1:fe. He always has a kickt emng, and ne-ver Let; a chance toe *ick: go by. Everything go~es wrong!a Aith an-when be s a man. Parents.a - -t use eye-y poSible means to t ik. irduatcs Of Lconom] of the :oe ad girls. C 4LED HM DOWN. -1 FULL ACC OUNT OF R. ZACK McGHEE'S Defenc) of South Carolina in the Sc C-lled Divorce Corgress in Wasbinaton. A hough S :uth Carolina has n ei'~C'ilaws. of its own and does n t give le~n.1 rea.cti- t dliorce pr .cs.ed irgs, the P1mefto SYe tgu -d in an rn"res.rg sc-ue that occurred Thur ds.y in the Cogireas on a Un:i form Dvzc: Lzw, now in session in Wa..iJjng o... s--.is "R. M. L." th-. cor rrpeovdcnt of :.he Nws and C-urier. Slulth Crc.n- did not think it necs sry to send a dilegite to the Con gcss, but she was ably championed . y Mr Z n- Mah., of Colum-la, wbo was p'Eent as a specator. One of thedg.tes from New York, Mr. L a, 11 d I N.- Yo!k ,naj Calny ca~ n'ue' f r ioc, and obj et. d to any r on adopted t.Lct:nIrg a di-ioLal ce. He aode; hat StueL Ca.reli a had no divorce lw and then-ftr- At would not be pr per to .iu~ggst Any causes for a di vorce law in that State. Mr Richbug, of Chicago, in an im pssi ned spe ch, declared that on the s tatu,.e bo ks of South Carolina was a .aw providing how much money a man nay will to his concublae. He st.rongly asserzed that the stata of morali:y obtaining in S.iuth Crolina was, therefore, not a fii cxtmple for other Srates. Mr. McGhee, a spectator, sitting ne15 to M1. Logan, ~ciputed the slur thus cast upoln his native State. AZ: the suggestion of Mr. L-)gan Mr. Mc Gh-Lee was recogn z d to make a stat - meet in d-eferce of Soueh 'Carolina. He sald he believed Scush Carolina was not represented, probably beoau'e Governor Heyward did not feel that South Carolina had any part in the divorce conference. 'Being present he added, and being given the privi lege cf the fleor, he wished merely tc correct soy impression that might b madLe by the Improper slur upon South Carolina. Governor Pennypacker, presIding, interrupted to state that, so far sv South Carolina was concerned, he b. - iieved the Congres rather held up that State as a mcdal. Mr. M G iee said he had noted that. and did not believe those present, s ?, rule, wcud stand for the alandei egainst the morality of his State. He acded that he was not in a posi t' n to deny that 4here might be on tho s41tutes some such law, but if s& t was an old freak law. He had lived in South Carolina some thirt; odd years and could deny that, as t. laws in force, as a matber of fac bera was no such law, and that th charge that there was recognizd cor - ubiarge was a sland.r beneath thi Congress. While 1'e was speaking the genti - ran who had made tue charge stat ed that he knew there was suce-a a'. A-other gentleman. sitting near the font caused prolonged laughter anc applause by callirug ont: "There is n' :imet to the amount in other States.' Mr. McGhee also said that, in h~o 'pinion, while South Carclina did no n thie andja-::ver ha-l in anything tries to force her peculiar views, customs. nsti'u'ions or lana on any other Set rSection, whatever resolutions this c. any ether Congcess might pass wcul not ndfact his State, as he did not be dve S .nth Carolina would for mans gnerations, if ever, pass a divorca lw.. The unexpected def-:ndsr of Souti Carolina was loudly applauded wher be resumsd his rteat and thanked tro Congress for thier courtesy and pa tience in granting him a hearing. Revolutionizing Corn Growing. The metoods by which Mr. E. Mc Iver W-liiamson makes on average yild of from lift' -two to tith5)-fint u, hels of corn to the acre, acsordng to the seasons, are detailed in anothe; part of this paper. The average S id of corn in South Carolina is lein tr an ten bushels to the acre and as a consequence much money made or te "maney cr. ps" so called is sen: outor ti~e Stata to buy corn. Tre S:ate says "every farmer knows or siuid ka w McI.r- Wli.mson He is abs:lutely rehable and we art autoriz .dl y Mr. D .R. Coker, editor oftre Hertsville Messenger, to sai hat Messr--. John T.. .Thgers, R. H Rogers. T. F. Wallacia, James McIn Losh and many other progressive fai mers of Darlh gtrnf county have ad p tcd Mr. Williasons method and prc ~ted grealy- thereby. Several of Mr Wilamson's neigb rs,., who, like him, sused to buy corn, now sell it. te is only utter much persuasion tha Mr. Williamson has presented hi method to the public; he is .inspired trmly established the pitcticabilits o his theories as to mike results ap par to him a c-rtaicy, it is a parri Qtic duty for him to give the South. em peepse the benefit of his investi gations. We bope evary paper in tbe South will giva publicity to Mr. WI - liamsons methon of growirg corn, so chat experiments wisl be ma~de in every community this spring" W.. nope some of toe farmer's in this : unty who, we feel sure, will try Mr. Williamson's plan, will give the public the benefi a of the result of the experiment through these columns this fail. Banged Himselt. A special from Monticello, Ill., says that the dead bcdy of William De Grof, an aged directer of the First Gational Bank of Mansfield, was .und hanging in his home at Mans field, today, he having oommit ed suicide. The reason assigned for the deed is that the grand jury is n the eve of an examination of the menditon of the bank on report tbat 7,00 has bien embezzled. W. O. Miranks, president, and L. M. Fair eanks, another director of the bank, rre brothers of Vice President Fair arks of the United States. will kiave to stand. The Minneapolis Journal says thatt ue microue br eds 140,000,000 in a by. Thais seems Incre-lible. but theJ u of it Is we can't d sputa it. Wet vnn't caunted them, and until weC n ta.ke a day oti from businers mat- I 'rs to do th.:s bio of census work the o roural's count will have to stand. b IT is rumamd that great pressured sberg brought to bear upon a co m distinguished lavyer of the up. un try to get him t> enter. the race niut Seuator Tillan.n on an anti- I pesary pl eform. Should he e:. er te rea we will have the novel ti etce of a U.:ii ed States Scoator eln, e le on the whisker questin. I , THE TWO PI DEPOCKET3 GET TEN YE )RS APIECE. Echul:z and Neckwith .ouvicted -and Eent to the PenitentiAry f >r a Decade. Tle St'ae of Tbuwdy -ays J.osepa Sohul z .nd A. J. B3ck:vit.], alUiss A. J. Kavstaigh, L-to of the pickpockets rmo6*ed a the fAir grounds on Wed nedPy of fiIr c,-k, were convicted n We-'nts..&y of is.t , ek and seu ':ce.d Lo ten year.' penal servituda. Tne jury rezcaed a verdic. In about 15 minut4. Thfe mao were returned to Qi-l T..ursday n:gbt and so far as iuo-.L. no further efftr. -vill be made to delsy the execution of their qen tence. A great deal t f iaterest was mani jes'-ed in this trial and the verdict of tihe jury and the seatence of tue court met witb an expressed approval whert ever it wes announccd. Shui z and Kavanaugh were arra-gaed anda jury oravn jui before the adjnurnmiub cf ucuit of Tuasdas, afternoon. W. dn& dzy morning the cas* was cilied as noon as court conv3ned id tie entire forenoon was devoted to hearing t16 testimony. Tee testimony was practically the ame which was brougua out at the oreliminary hearing a ew days aftei their arrest in O. o )r. Neither of !ne defendants was put upon the -itand, nor was any other evidenc: off ered by the dfense. T-ie attorneye 'or the de'ense had little upon which to bsse tneir arguments and the con viction of the men seamed to be a forgone coJLclusion. Ta. teatimony showed that there was. a gang of nine of these pickpock ets operating together at she fair grounds and the detecaives on duty there watched them operating in the crowds at the street car exits and when boarding the cars. They were surroanded by a number of cfflers rf ter all of them had been spotted and four were arrested and taken to the Noe of Magistrate Riley at the fair grounds. While the pickpockets were in the ufflce a disturbance was created >y a drunken outsider and one of the 'our d:ved through an open window and r.,de his eacape. An old negro man In charge of an ->utbuilding called the attention of the ietectlv!s to the fact that several of these men, two of whom he later .dentifted as Sauitz and Beckwith, -ad enbered the house and buried sev iral pocketbooks. A search showed nat the men bad dug a hoie, placed the pocket'books in it aud cdvered them Ath dirz. A faw minutes later they -er- unearthed and nine purses, from vtie i. the money ha d been taken, were f jund. Tne case upon which the men were :led was for robbing D. J. Gault of 'Jiion. There are four other cases gainst Sbulez and fire against Beck ith. After sentence had been pr( .. ur-ccd the solicitor moved tha~t sne Lher cases against the prisoners be *aced on the con'-.nued docket. Neither Schuli z nor Beckwith would inve any thiing to say after their oon *iction, but were in a surly mood and niy asked how soon they would be sent to begin their sentence. After *rriving at the jsil they talked much n whispers, but we-uld not allow any .ne else to hea.r their cor~versation S-atemen vs. Generals. Sir Ian Hamilton, one of the mos:. p-cminent an-i competent of the gen ral ofmlcrs of nie BrIiah arm;, has i, passage in his recontly puolished ook on the Rus~so Japanese war that ia of particu'ar initerest to Ls in ~merica. Referring to the coatly in erfence of the statesman i I h gen :ral commanders In tene field he ayE: "A statesman has nothing In his .if a but disazster as soon as he leaves als own business of creating or obvl .ting wars and endeavors to cunduct hem. Taie American war, for In stance, was a war where the feebly imjrous civilian strategy or the Fed erals was a perpetual and nevor-fail ing standby to its weaker adversary, while the greatest victory the NErth iver sdcre-i was when Je fferson Davis ;ock a l'eaf cut of Lincoln's book anc 2ad the Ineptitude to replace that E;mpetant, sagacious, careful comn man-ier, ,Toseph' E. Johnston, by a eere thrusting divisional general, In dn tely his in'erior in all the higher attritutes of generalship "1 ~Tie: te sitys Gen.. Hamilton is doubt~ess of the opinion with many of the ablest military critins, that Johnston 1:ad he been retained in comnand of the army at Atlanta, .vouldeventually have rolled Sherman back, -routed, if not annihilated. To.ere Ij-go doubt about this. Gen. Johnstdf was slowly but surely get ing Sherman farther and fa.rtner sway from his base of supplies, and when he got the Federal army where e wanted it Gen. Johnston intendedt to destroy Gen. Sherman's line of1 comunication and thus force him to retreat back into Tennessee or toward the sea coast. Ii can easily be imag-. ied what~apredicament this would 1 ave putten. Snerman In. Instead of condadring an unmolested marcht to the sea ss he was allowed to do 1 oe would flae- conducted a disastrous re reat withidhe CJonfedierates closeon his heeles. t . .. c Gen. H amltIs riot thsdonly Brit- t: shi tll:er that his c inmmented &n tee a iiterference of statesmen in the men-. t: 3gement of our ei~vil war. 0ol. Hen-- t: erson in his ;inmirable "Life of c Stoewall JacksoW- giv a Presidevt Davis cre d ; for saving .Gen. Burn ~ide's army from annihilation after be battle of Fredericksburg.; He ays it was the intention of Lee and fackson to drw r Burnsideaay- from St >is fortified position on thi opposite ni ;ids of the river at Fredericksburg to m ;he South Anna some twenty miles hb .nd there defeat him and destroy his be emy before it could reach its forti- ti led position on the North bank of A he R.ppahanncck river. Pre::iden't a )vis overrated Lee and Jackson and A ..e battle was fought near Fredericks- w: urg instead of twenty miles away t uere it should have b:en fought at That Burosida's army would have w een destroyed there is now no doubt. hi 01. Hendmo~n also says that Gens. aco anid Jackson so played cn the fears f President Lincoln that they made .im put the Fed ral armies in poSi- t ions where they could be defeated in vi] etail, instead of ailowing him to con antrate their. To their crediir be it said that thA an saeii.:an an;d Brtis' delnates to tr: .lgeciras didi rt attend the bull fight! tb 2at -as held Surnday in honor of thew )ein amobassa~dors in attendance ti' pn the MLrcccan conference. die ODD WAYS OF WALL STREET. 5cme Lucky One Have Won in the "Street"-Thousands Have Lost. "The Winning Ways of Wall 3treet." This is a subject which has ,othered men in generauons past, is iow a potent source of worry and bids air to affect master minds of future ,enerations seriously. Much more easily might one write ibout the losing ways of Wall street. ilany people have come to realize the act that the stock exchange is not Ait for charity; that it is a business p)roposition, and some even go so far as Lo say it is a game of chance. Few men in their lives have not )c'en tempted to contribute a few dol tars in order to either "bull" or "bear" be market. It is safe to say that a majority of these have been bitten. A man who, probably toiling early md late, has managed to accumulate a few dollars, thinks perhaps there ia a chance for him to become rich. He takes his money, goes down to a broker's ofice, and in 99 cases out .r one hundred he finds that his money bas been swallowed through manipu lation of the market, or maybe tarough a legitimate rise 'or fall in stock values. But the man has a chance with his few dollars. He has a tip, probably, that his stock is go. irg up, and, perchance, he may put ais dollars on some particular stock that he has some information about. He buys because the stock has lumped 10 points and is in a fair way to go higher. "With a small sum of money the best way to do is to play the 'pyra mid game,"' said a well known broker to a News reporter. This In horse racing circles is similar to "par lbying a bet," he explained. "Pyramiding" on the stock ex change, just like "parlaying" at the race tracks, would mean to the busi ness man the investing of money at compound interest. The reader will understand that it is a case where both money and winnings are rein vested in a new venture. There was a case just recen+ly where a tip was received from C -I cago that a certain stock would go to 45, and it might be well to buy. Late the same afternoon an order was received and the one man who took advantage of the cue walked away with a small fortune, and the traders are now expecting to see him appear as one of the leaders on the exchange. This man was of the smal! Investor class and had pooled a ten dollar bill with friends, who could risk but simi lar amounts. He won. He had been led along by the "Winning Ways of Wall Street," but, unlike many other "little plungers,"he walked away with goldbacks. There is no authentic record of the disgrace or unhappiness, the wealth and happiness brought to thousands who have "taken a chance" with Dame Fortune with small amounts, either to end their careers as great financiers, crimiials or suicides. For yeats bankers have employed private diedtIves to watch their em ployes, not especially doubting their honesty, but to prevent their becom ing inoculated with the Wall street "get-rich-quick" dlse'se. From a telegraph operator the writer learned that $14.000 had been taken by a small speculator on a sin gle deal. This happened within six months, when the investor put $10 on one stock. He permnited the surplus to grow and finally invested in another stock. This went from i8 to 32. He was ad "im ed to close out at that point, but suggested that it might be well to let it go to 35. He finally took the ad vice of those to whom he had en trustedl his money and thereby saved the whole amount. From this one deal a "tlpster" earned $4,500. The "tipster" is one of the requisites in dealing on the 'change. He is as common as is his counterpart, the tout, at the race track, although at times it happens that even' the "tipster" may be wrong. He is no oracle. He simply follows the market as does the race track tout and gives expression to his opin Ions, whIch are generally subsidized. Though the path of the "small in estor" is beset by such obstacles as the unscrupulous "tlpster" acting In leerae with irresponsible brokers, it does not follow that the small Invest or s wholly without blame. The quick accumulation of wealth is the ambition of so many that there must necessarily be a "moth and ame" story often. "Small speculators," said the old imer on the street, do not compre hend the conditions of tre market in rost cases. "hey buy without study ng the previous status of their stock, and they cannot understand 'why it should drop when It started to rise, m d they care nothing for national or ,tate legislation ai'ecting quasi-public oporations, which Is a vitally Imn ortant factor in the stock market. "There are secure and insecure stocks," he continued, "and I must 'ay that our small investor is more tt to place his money on 'wildcat' ichmes promising big and quick re :ns than in stable investments, hich give slow but sure results. "Oh." sighed the old-timer, "as he valked away, "I've been watching his game for thirty years; I'm nearly brough. but I'm not rich yet. "And I've sent some ten-dollar bills o the bad at that," he added, as he assed into the Broad Exchange. Chinese newspapers, owing to the heap quality of paper used and to he low price of labor, both literary nd mechanical, are issued at an ex remely small figure. The price of he ordinary Shanghai journal is four ash, or about one-fifth. of a cent -'Killed on Road. Mystery surrounds the death of :aek Minor, a 'well known citizen of ott (county who was found dead ar Clinchpoit, Va., Wednesday ornigg, with a bullet hole through Shead. The body had apparently ~en dr~kged some distance and rown into a ditch near the roadside. t 2 o'clock Tuesddy Minor went, to store and prcecded some cartridges. n hou~r. later omen living near bere ta body was found, testify at thefbad shots fired. There is1 rong evidence that the murderer1 a In wait for Minor and fired 'upon an as he passed. Wanted to Die. Mara Brower, a negro woman, at mpted to commit suicide at Green- C le by pouring a gallon of kerosene ~ tover herself and applying a match ~ hen fcund she was without clothing d her body a man of burns. Before ing the oil method, the woman s rew herself In front of a train, but s driven away before the locomo c re reached her. She Is a cocaine k REVIVAL OF THE HORS For Years the Trolley and Automobile Lessened the Demand. Fifteen years ago the bottom very suddenly diropped out of the business. The street car system in the cii.ies. changed with slight warniing from horse power to cable* and electricity, and not only threw uron the market thousands of horses that had been in use upon street car lines, but deprived of value many thousands of other three, four and five-yea:-olds that were upon the breeding tarms in readiness for the succeeding yeais' derand. Most of 'these auim-uls were sacri ficed. In Philadelphia, New York and Chicago they were scid at about $1o or $12, their actu-.l value for rendering purposes. Following this came the panic, and in addition to the disappear ance of the market for hoizes for gen eral purposes there was no longer any demand for carriage or saddle horses, which are always the first to be cut off in the days of adversity. Hundreds of- breeders went out of business, but the pluckier ones sent agerts to Europe to see if a market could not be secured. They found the European tramways still using horses, and in a short time American animals were supplanting the scrawny stock in use abroad. Later many horses were disposed of to European armies, %nd when still later came a few wars the business was again upon its feet. Thousands of animals were sent to Cuba sobn after the American occupa tion. There is still a good demand there for the lighter animals, which are used for gardeaig, truck raising-and small farming. The south also was in duced-by the low price of horses and the high price of mules some years ago to buy many of the lightweights for use in the cotton field. The Boar war created a demand for nearly a hundred thousand animals. Eighty thousand were shlpped. in one year by the English, and -the western bronco became a familiar sight as an English cavalry horse. Business men no longer buy the streeters for their own use. A streeter is a norse that once was popular for light wagons, cars and general use. These have been supplanted in most of the cities by the sleek, heavy draft horses, products of the breeding of Im ported stallions and native mares. Not the least interesting ieature of the horse business is the annual visit of buyers to France and Belgium, where pure bred stallions, raised by experts under gcernment supervision, are yearly purchased by thousands. These are later resold to western farmers and breeders, who thing nothing of paying from $1,000 to $4,000 for.a pure breed. From seven to eight thousand coach and draft horses are yearly imported. from Europe. These animals are' brought over in bunches of from 25 to 150, and they are all being absorbed by-. the breeders. As many as 1,500 horses a day are dispcsed of at -the larger marketing points in this country. Dealers declare it to be a fact that the price of horses has increased in the past fire years at the rate of $10, a year. While the standard car horse pric'. in New York, before cables and tro*eys came in, was from $110 to $125, hr-ses of the same grade now sell at .om $150 to $200, and are scarce at the new figure The outlaw horse, the backing bron :0, 'is becoming scarcer each year. -Ten ears ago such horses were as pientiful is jack rabbius, but they will soon join he buffaloes in retirement. The outlaw comes from the poorest olood on the range. He is said by cow aoys to be a horse degenerate, a crim nal by nature, just as men go wrong vho have poor blood in their veins. His parents are in nearly every case mustangs, and the stock is the same as the wild horse of early plain days. Cowboys say that nearly every horse vil buck if turned lcose in a pasture or several months, but he will soon .uet down. The outlaw will buck no natter how long or how often he has been successfully ridden. -FamouE tuckers are rare now. The bettering af the blood sounded the death knell of the outlaw.-New York Sun. Education In China. Education in China is free to all males. Hundreds of thousands com pete for the honor of being a manda rin, as from that order alone the high est civil office'rs are chosen, such as viceroys or governors of the eighteen orovinces. These men have almost unlimited power, but every three years they are called upon to make an exact report of -all the affairs of their provincc, includ ig in that report a truthful account of their own faults. If this is omitted a committee of investigation at once Looks into It and the viceroy, if found guilty of -hiding anything he should have confessed, suffers degradation, and sometimes death, if his offense is a grave one. Censors also. at any time and always unannounced, arcrive and examine the affairs of each province. If, under this examination, anything is unearthed c.:trary to the approved staniiard, the offender is at once punished. There fore, as you see, a good education ac cording to Chinese ideas is the open door to the highest official places in the land. Nothing more is required.--Sun set Magazine. Belgium's 190,000 Saloons. Belgium, where public libraries are almost unknown, has 190.000 public drinking houses. That means one pub lic house for 36 inhabitants, or one public house fc3 twelve men above 17 years of age. the publican included. In' the last fifty years the population has increased 50 per cent, the number of public houses 258 per cent. The ILondon police have a collection of more than seventy thousand sets of flger prints of criminals. Preacber Killed. At Knoxville, Tenn., on Friday ight, the Rev. G. H. Wells, colored rashot and instantly killed by .Tames oram colored, at the hcme of a negro oman, where the prescher had been lled to perform a weddir~g ceremony. ll were at supper. before the wed Iog, when a dispute arose over a rival matter, Coram pulled his pis ol and firing once at the preacher, who fell dead, the bullet having en ered near his bvoart. Coram escapic. 'o hwipng the it quiest by the cororter, - i couple hunted up another minis. r and were married. - Lighat Ship Lost. The Unittd States revenue cutter, emnole. and the steamer Compton vent in Wilmington, N. 0., Wednes ty night fro'm a fruitless search all ay for the Fcying Pan Shoals light ip which was torn adrifb from her acoring in W M-" " " +-'o qtorm. f.ke a Day, Off. Wives and busbar ds should take me pleasur" as they ito aloing, and t dege-~wato into nere tolling ma ine. E-scretoin -s necessary to eep the br-art in its 'lace, and to gsb