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BRYAN SPECKS In London on the White Man's Duty to Others TO LAT G AU * ~NCY. Says Am:rica Has Been Moving Along Remarkably W~dI Bobbling Along on One Leg, and Wonders What It Wouid have Done on Two. William J. Bra an w.s the centra figure at the annu.l Independerc Day dinner of the American Scciety of London, Engl.nd, at tte Hotel Ecil Wednesday night. Nearly 50) members and guests surrcunded the society's toard and cheered patriotic sentiments with the peculiar zest borne of exile. Asmbaador White law Reid and Mr. B. an engaged is some sharpe but goxd humored rail lery and banter over political differ ences, the crowd evincing its erjoy ment of the sport with cheers ano shouts of laugeter. Mr. Reid, in responding to Sir W. B. Richmond's graceful proposal of his health, said with reference to Mr. BryaL: "At home, as a citaen, I have openly and squarely opposed him at every stage of his conspicuous career. I am reasonably sure that when I re turn home I shall continue to do the sams. I believe he tonight is as well satisfied as I am, though by different reasoning, that the country we both love and try to serve has not been ruined by its gold. Abicad as the official representative of the Ameri can people, witLout distinction as to party, 1 am glad to welcome here as a typical American whose wncle life has been lived in the daylight and one whom such a great host of my coun trymen have icng trusted and honor -ed." Mr. Bryan, rising amid laughter and cheers, said: "The temptation to make a politi cal speech is strong within me. I have not had a chance to do so for ten months. However, I will restrain myself. V. ith reference to the am bassador's remarks on gold, I wish to say that *Ln I see the progress my country has made walkmg on one leg I wonder what it wcula have dLnd walking cn two legs. It is pleasing to testify that the ambassador not only has fought me, but that he has done it well. No American rejoices more than I that he is three tunous and miles from his base. Whiie abroad I have met many good Re publican;-Lolding c tfie-and I only wish there were enctgn ctfices abroad to take all.tne RepuhLcans cut of the country." Chairman F. W. Jones proposed the health oa Ku~g E..wa.d, -ad Hayward Greenwooc, pasioenL or the Canadian society Lfna r~eber of pariatment for the city or Yoitk, pxcptae-z the health of President Ros.s.velt. Wnen they arose to drink tr-e toasts the crowd aiscovered Mrs. Keholas Longswortnr in the gahery atd c..ered arnd drank her health. Ftoi,'wng the passage between An.bassador Reid and Mr. Bryan, the imLer reaai his lormal speech. The readrng of the speech proved a disapponatment- to the crowd, as they we~i~ea to bear Bry an speak, wno is a grea actor, unham pered by ma .ct;.pt. Tire subject of Mr. Bryan's .odress was "Tne White Man's Burden." The follow ing opening pangra pas of his speech 'wl give azn ioea ui how he treatea his subject: The memocry cf tho evening spent with the A-n.exican S.aciety, Taiks giving day tw~oond a half years ago, is such a pleasant one tnat I esteem myself fortun-ate to be abie to accept *the invitation so k'nely extended by our distngurshed ambassacor, Hon Whitelaw Rddi-,to be your guest on this occasion. Our Eagihan friends, under whose flag 'we meet. tonight, recalling -that this is the a.niversary Cf our na tion's birth, iwculd doubtless pardon us If our rejdig centained some thing of seli-Ceniatmtioni, for it is at such times as this that we are want to review those national achieve ments 'which have given to the United States its prommnence among the nation. But I hope I shall not be thought lacking in patriotic spirit if instead of drawing a picture of the past, bright 'with heroic deeds and un parallelled in progress, I summon you rather to a serious consideration of the responsibility resting upon those * nations whIch aspire to premiership. This line of thought is suggested by a sense of prcpriety as well as by re cent experiences--by a sense of pro priety because such a sutject 'will in terest the Briton as well as the American, and by recent experiences because they have impressed me not less with our national duty than with the superioity of Wcstern over East ern civilization. Asking your attention to such a theme it is not unditting to adopt a phrase coined by a poet to whom America as well as England can lay some claim, and take for my text "The White Man's Burden," "Take up the White Man's Burden, In patience to abide. *To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride. By open speech and simple, An hunored-times made plain, To seek another's prolit, And work another's gain." Thus sings Kiing and with the exception of tne third line (of the meanIng of which I am not quite sure) the starnza embodies the thought 'which is uppermest in my mind to night. lho one can travel an.:ong the dark-skinned rects ot the Orient with out feeling~that the white man occu pies an Espciatiy favored position among the children of men and the reccgnition of this f act is accomepani ed by the conviction that there is a duty insepara bly connected with the advantages enjed. T here is a white man's burden-a burcen which the 'white man shoul not stirk even it he could, a burom wh oh he could not shirk eveD if e K '-iLTht no one liveth us,.c nre-; or dictautohim sel -.a a e. -i a ~ua an h. are so in~i ve LLut ec.ch exerts an intluence clrectly or inurectly upon all othe:s. MAE Wood declares that Senator Platt married her and if this is true it partly explains why the Republican Senators hate to vote on the alormnon *question. There may, be others in -the sa me fY as SeaaLfr Platt UNUSUAL OPERATION. A Cadet's Leg Made it Over Three SO 1rches Longer. 'Waiter Wilde, the West Point Th fourth cla~snan who last fall had his right leg so badly crushed that when it mended it was three inches short er than the other, will re-eL ter Wen Pint this fail. To get back to he r ncademy the cadet has sffbred agon nea ies, allowing the doctors to rebreak cer his leg in several places in order that %e' by weighting it it might be restored of to its normal c .ndition. cor Young Wuae, who is one of Presi art gent R osrvelt's perscnal app-lntees entered West Point in the Fall of ad 1904. In S'ptember, last he was th ho;rseback riding when the horse fell, rolled over him, crushing him and St breakirg in several places the banes em of his right leg. Realizicg that it would be impossi- R bie to continue his military education with such a handicap, Wilde consul- su ted with anumter of eminent surge ong who finally told him that if he would ga submit to a very painful and unuual 0 operation his leg might possibly be re stored to its proper length. Wilde immediately conseated to undergo the operation. Accordingly the young man went to the Pilyclynic Hospital, in Pila- ua delphia, where the operation was per formed. The bones in the short leg were broken and.immediately reset. This done, the surgeons attached a very heavy weight to the leg, by na means of a rope and pulley. The limb was then drawn out from the ab cot a1.d Wilds was informed that it -al would have to remain in that posi- to tion until the bones had reknit. For two months Wilde lay upon a his cot in the P lyclinic with the Iu weight attacbea to his leg. N -ver once did he complain and his fortit.ude m excited the wonder and admiration of the surgeons and nurses. A few days pr ago the surgeons examined the leg wi and told Wilde that his suffering was y at an end. Tie weight was removed N and Wilde stood up for the first time ar in over eight weeks. His legs en were the same length. Next fall he t will reenter the academy without no any physical defects. idi ml THRER KILLINGS tb is Two Whites and One Negro Shot to du Death. in A dispatch from Beaufort to The na State says a white man, a white boy p and a negro man were killed by ne- wi groes near Hardeevilla between eun- - set of the tyird and sunset of the m fcurth. With one ex3eption this " in is the first time for over 30 years that a negro has killed a white man in o this srction. Mr. Hugo Schlegelmilch of Hardes- P vile was killed by a negro field hand re at his plantation 17 miles from Hardeeville at sundown on the fourth. Mr. A. Schelgelmich was walking through his field with two compan- su ions and met two negroes who worked an on the place. Without warning one cf them shot Mr. Schlegelmilch n" through the breast with a shotgun.di Death was instantaneous. Mr. Schlegellch had never had any le trouble with the negro, but one of his en and had not been caught up to S Wednesday afternoon. u. Mr. H. G. Heyward, magistrate atH Hardeeville, received the news Thurs. day morning and went at once to the scene with a posse. Mr. Schlegel- or milch was an exemplary young man ha about 25 years of age and a general va favorite. He was a graduate of Ciem- fai son and penu several yeom on ranch 1o1 es in the West. li Charles Simmons, the 13 year old an son of Mack Harrison of Pritchard- if ville, was woundedhin the stomach by Te a negro boy on tUie afternoon of the he; fourth. The wounded lad was car- act ried to the hospital in Savannah, and ma is reported to be dying. The shoot- gel ing occurred about five miles from nn where Schlegelmllch was killed a me |little later. The shooting was done ins with agun and is said to have been dli intentional. The negro escaped. yoi On the eve of the fourth, a negro yeo carpenter was killed by a negro team- sic ster at Purysburg, atout two miles ani from Hardeevilie. There was a quar- Tz rel over whiskey at a' gathering, re- ife sulting in a fatal knife wdund in the of neck. The same night a negro was hui shot in the shoulder at a negro club aft hcuse on the outskirts of the town, yol but not fatally injured."y Tribute to Dr. Carlisle. Hon. M. L. Smith, who delivered the Literary .address before the gradu- hai ating class at the commencement ox- me ercises of the South Carolina Military ant Academy paid a high tribute to Dr. hai J. H. Carlisle of Spartanburg. The in Charleston Evening Post in speaking anc of the address says. Mr. Smith's ad- say dress was appropri- 'e to the occasion, for and when near the ,..ose of his speech ren he declared that in the great "want sat column" of the world the most imn- not portant "ad," was; "wanted-a man," We he touched the keynote of the har- hos monious language in which his brill- in iant thoughts were sounded, and on brought at once to the csanter of at- ma tention the necessity which faced thc de young men in the graduating class to we; prove themselves men in the battle of life life. He showed them that the trend wh toward materialistic Ideas, which was wa: now so evident In this country, was dangerous, and he besought them to make a stand against the condition, e which threateneci ruin to the country.qu In closing his address Mr. Smith com pared the characters of Napoleon and Dr. 3. H. Carlisle. He outlined clear- ho ly the achievements of the man of warSi and eulogized those of the man oftu peace, giving the palm to the Chris- . tian knight. Thunderous applsuse ~ was accorded Mr. Smith's maguiiicent Cu address.bu Death of a Young Wire. i The Columbia State say "the death alc ot Mrs. Emma Gardner, a young wo- anc man aged 25 years, and The wife of mg W. H. Gardner, an electrical lineman, a ocurred Thursday evening at about m B o'clock at her late residence, No. n14 Emwcod avenue. Mrs. Gardner aCt eaves, besides her husoand, a mother,Ci widow of Rev. John Berry of Reeves-ag vile, and four sisters and four broth-~ ers. The remains were taken toig Reevesville Wednesday at 3 p. mn.; and was interred there Saturday ver morning, the funeral being held at 10 e o'cleck at the Reeveaville Baptist church." Dealmy Lihning-. the Thursday afterimoon during a severe 500 thunderstorm the three little girls of Ma; H. P. Humphrey of Mayfield, Ga., joul were in the yard under a tree. Light- nigi ning struck the tree, killilng two of no the children instantly and the other afte Is so seriously injmred that there is I forc THE CATTLE TICK. Some Facts About It Not Generally Known to All. The common cattle tick is a famil. lar sight to all our people but very few outside of thcse engaged in the cattle business realize the Important part it plays injhindering the develop ment of the cattle industry in the state. The cattle tick carries the "germ" that causes Texas fever, a disease very fatal to grown cattle. Cattle that are raised on land infest ed with ticks are inoculated with the germ by becoming infested with ticks immediately after birth. At this age they suffer a very mild attack of the disease with no visible external symp tomu and after they have passed through it they are then proof against the infection and can be exposed to ticks later in life without harm. But if cattle are raised on land on which there are no ticks and are afterwards moved to tick-infested lands, they will become infected with the disease. They will also suffer from the disease if they remain on the land on which they were raised and tick-infested cat tle are introduced among them. Because of these facts the Federal Government has established a quaran tine line across the country dividing the regions infested with tacks from these in which there are no ticks N cattle can be moved from the tick in fested regions across this quarantine line except when they are being ship ped for butchering to a slaughter house which has direct railroad con nection. South Carolina is placed be low this quarantine line among the tick-infested regions. Hence, cattle cannot be shipped from this state t0 points above the quarantine line ex cent for immediate slaughter. Cattle for dairy purposes, or for feeding or breeding are barred. Thus, the market for the cattle produced in the state is considerably restricted. Some of the states include within the tick-infested area, notably Vir ginia, North Carolina, Texas and Ok lahoma, which had within their boun daries an area in which ticks exists d only on a few farms or ranches, have succeeded in having such areas placed above the quarantine line, thus open ing new markets for the cattle raised therin. This was acco mplished by the passage of a law by the legislature es tablishing a state quarantine dividing the slightly infested area from the other part of the state and the eradi cation of the ticks from the infected places in the slightly infested area. When these conditions were brought about the state quarantine line was then adopted by the Federal Govern ment and made a part of the national quarantine line. This plan is just as feasable in South Carolina as in any of the states mentioned. In a great part of the state since the passage of the stock law the estale tick has be come almost extinct and exists only on a place here and there. The first step in the matter, however, must be taken by the legislature. How to ba' Happy. "We are a restless people," says the editor of a Kansas exchiange, "Every thin woman longs to be fat. Every fat woman wants to grow thin. Every town man longs for the time when he can retire in the quiet of the country, and every farmer hopes to come day quit work and move to town, when he can take life easy. Country newspaper men would like to try their hand on a city daily. The fellows on the big dailies dream of a time when thiey can own a paper of their own. In youth we long for ma turity, in age we yearn for the happy days of childhood. There is no ex cuse for It other than that we seem to be built that way. The grass seems to be jest a little bit greener and thriftier most any direction from the place you occupy right now. Con tentment is as Dear to happiness as you can get In this world." Benson iBolen Dead. The Columbia State says Benson Bolen, who was shot at Livingston sometime ago died Wednesday night of last week at the Columbia hospital as a result of a wound in the skull. Bolin was brought to Columbia the Monday night before and although two operations were performed on him It was realized Wednesday -that nothing could be done to better his condition. His brother, William Bolin, was present at the time of his death and arrangements were made to send the body to the home of the de ceased. The funeral arrangements will be announced from that place. Bolin, it will be remembered was shot by James Wilimsn and others as a result of a row at a church Sunday morning week ago. All of those im plicated are In the Orangeburg jail. Killed by Live Wire. The machinery of the Clover Cotton Manufacturing Company at Clover, in Yo k county, is operated by electrici ty, furnished by the Catawba Power Company. James A. Hedgepath, en ginee and general overseer at the mill, was' killed by an electrical current. Superintendent Thomas B. Williams, Boss Machinist H. B. Max well and Mr. Hedgepath were engan d in cleaning the lightning arrester in the transformer house at the time, the current having been cut off from the arrester by means of a switch, when. without warning, Wr. Hedge path tell dead. He is supposed to have unthoughtfully touched an unin sulated live wire ebove the switch. Broke His Leg. While playing in a game of base bal at Saluda Thursday afternoon Mr. Smith White, a young man of that town had his left leg broken about hall way between the knee and ankle. The larger bone was broken squarely off and the smaller slightly shattered. He was making a run from first to sscond base and just as he was In the act of touching second the ball from the field was delivered to second baseman and White to avoid being put cut attempted to slide in feet foremost but coming in contact with second baseman had his left leg doubled under him. The break was distinctly heard by the umpire and sev eral of the players. F'irst Bale.C A dispatch from New Orleans says the first bale of cotton to be shipped from the 1908 crop in the United States was Wednesday night reported on its way there from Brownsville, a Tex. It was consigned to the New a rleans Charity hospital. Deadly BoL' During a thunder storm at Mar- a un, Fla., lightning struck a tree a nder which three men had taken f shelter and Thomas Ward was in- b stantly killed. Samuel Green was J fatally injured and George Cave was t eft nnsncious for some imen. e BRYAN VIEWS. Does Not Regard Actions of Va rious States as Binding. te th AS TO NOMINATION. ch be co He Is Averse to "flome.Coming" Recep- pr Li tion Being Regarded as an Endorse ment for the Nomination. A Thinks Others Should A Have a Chance. P3 Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan arrived in London from Nor way one day last week, and was given t' a big reception by the Americans liv- ra ing or visiting in England. -They landed at Newcastle and re- at mained there over the day. Mr. Bryan st desiring a chance to quietly complete t some writing. Arriving here, Mr. Bryan went to the Hotel Cecil, where di he soon was besieged by callers. John p1 Burns, William T. Stead and M:s. ai Stead came early in the evening and 2 paid an-extended visit. Messrs. Bry an, Burns and Stead engaged in an an imated discussion of economics and of t the social and labor questions. Mr. ti Bryan received a great mass of Amer. can mail. When he had finished read- a ing his letters he received a deputa- hi tion of newspaper correspondents and p( dictated the following statement. hi "The first suggestion of a reception for me at New York came prior to the I action of any of the State conventions cc and before there was any discussion u of the next campaign. It came from a] the Commercial Travelers' league, of which Mr. Hoge is president. I assur ed him I should be pleased to meet the members of the league, suggesting . that the reception be characterisad by e simplicity. "Now that the actions of some of 9x the State conventions have raised a e1 question as to the politicalsignificance in of the reception, I am glad to say that h it must not be regarded in the light gi of an endorsement for the presidental nomination. While I appreciate the h; compliment paid by the various State a conventions, I do not regard their ex- a pressions as binding upon them or up- sc on the party of their State. I shall i not prosecute them for breach of promise if they transfer their aff c- ta tions to another; I will not even pub P1 lish their letters. To allow the recep is ion to be regarded as an endorsement s would in the first place be unjust tc others who may be candidates. "I have seen the names of several mentioned as possible candidates, A among them Congressman Hearst, Senator Bailey and Governor Folk, who have all rendered conspicuous ir service to the party and the country, C8 and their claims should be considered. The party is entitled to its most avail e able man, and the question of availa- 9 bility cannot be determined so far in ~ advance. Circumstances and issues a may strengthen the claims of some dl one of the gentleman mentioned and i9 the list should be an open one until the time comes to choose. "I may add that It woaldi not be as just to me to be put in the attitude ci of annoning my candidacy or ad. *. mitting the certainty of my being a p1 candidate. It is two years before the :a convention meets, and I am not will :-i ing to sit on a stool and look pretty IE that long. I prefer to be in a positioi! to say what I think ought to be said. og write what I thin~k ought to be writ- se ten and do whatlIthink ought to be be ~one. 1 am advancing in years and gj cannot spare two years out of my life of just at this time. p "I shall be glad to return to Amer ica, although every day of my trip at has been enjoyable. I shall be glad at to meet my friends in Amdrica, and a after I have met them they will be i-, just as free as before to do what they a think best on issues and candidates." at Died in Tool Chest. Little "Jimmie" McCallum, 6 yeara tl old, after playing with his spade. in sa the back yard of his grandfather's ac home at 354 West 44th street, New ei York, rummaging among some old ly boxes and barrels in a corner of the lIs yard. Finally.he pulled out a big tool er chest that was empty. It was just so big enough for a little playhouse. The th: boy climbed inside and sat down. In moving about he shook the box and the lid fell. The hasp dropped over the staple and when "Jimmie" tried to raise the lid he found it was fast. dc The child struggled to raise the lid, y but could not and af ter a while he was stified. "Jimmie" was not miss e1 for two hours. Then his grandma started to search for him. He wrs not in the house and she went to his parents' home at 500 West 55th tree;, thinking he had gone there. Tle neighborhood was searched in en vain. Fmnaily an aunt, quite by acci- in :lent, lifted the lid of the tool chest. cl1 here she found "Jimmie," dead. TI rhe child had been dead only a short sic while. Several physicians from Boose- ob velt Hospital worked over him for an se. aour, but it was in vain. sa: An Eloper Killed. At Bristol, Va., as a train was pull- to ng out from the union passenger sta- gia ion bearing Mrs. Nita Orr, wife of rui rohn W. Orr of Bristol, and George i. Jones, who were about to elope, she husband appeared upon the scene Ld with deadly aim deliberately shot ye Fones in the back three times, all tol ihots taking effect, from which hesa lied some hours later. The tragedy Cul reated considerable sensation and C vas directly due to the alleged Inti- of nacy between Jones and the pretty m roung wife of Orr. Tne Orrs former- at y resided at Johnson City, Tenn., so and Jones is from Greenville, and a ma tone mason. Orr was arrested andda s in j il in Bristol, Va. To a cor-ho espondent of the Associated Press, sui Le told the story of his wife's past',t ,d said that Jones hati robbed him if his wife's love, and ruimied his thl ime, and he had killed him in conse- e uence. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Four Drowned. A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla., HIE ays four men were drowned in St. Th on's river at a late hour Thursday but Ight in attempting to cross the riv in a small rowboat. The dead re: James Robinson, Charles Rich- ]! rdson, Adam Hill and Shed Greer, sale 11 employes or the Armour fertilizer Chi Lctory. There were six men in the for oat overloading it, and it ca~psized. tic, on Ha'l and Babe Sargent clung cut1 >the overturned Doat and were sav- bod SHORT ITIMS nLed Together for the Benefit of Busy Readers. We are told by the bug men that ,re are 200,000 different kinds of in; ts. We believe it. Some brands of coffee are now adul rated with sawdust. Let us, hope e sawdust is clean. No man has any right to stay in the urch baby carriage when he might pushing its bread wagon. When a man takes pride in being nsidered a rough diamond it is etty certain that he would not be rt by a little polish. Mary had a little lamb, ad when she saw it sicken She shipped it off to Packingtown, ad now it's labeled chicken. Little Boo Peep has lost her sheep, id don't know wher filn] 'em; 'obsbly up to the packing house, th some dirty cuss to grind 'em. N1xt we will be hearing about the vernment prowling around trying fnd out what the cheap restan nts have been putting in the hash. A man in Pallidelphia allowed 100 kgry bees to sting him to prove the ings cured rheumatism. At least it iculd prove a man can forget rheu atism. it is hard for a married man t.) un ;rstand how his wife can find any easure in watching another womar she enters into the bonds of matri .ony. Science informs us that it is the male mosquito that does the sing .g. It has been observed, also, that te singers are quite expert with heir stingers. Steve Elkins notes that poor men histle more than rich men do; nce they are happier. But the for man frequently pays dearly for a whisale. It must not be supposed that the anufacturers of black pepper are infined to the use of lampblack and ,pioca. They can make an excellent tile cut of ground cocoanut shells. As soon as it grows easy for a man p get along without friends he be us to find that their numbers in. ease without any effirt on his part. A New Jersey girl weighing 260 funds in her hurry to greet her by ,tripped and fell on his neck, break g it. Seven doctors could not save a life. Baware of the heavr-weight ris. The cost of ifving cannot be fixed r any standard. It varies from $300 year for some preachers to $300,000 year for some stock gamblers; but me happiness is not in proportion to ,come. There are no orphanages in Aus alia. Every child not supported b; gents becomes a ward of the state, placed in a private family and pro dad with board and clothes until e fourteenth birthday. Dr. E -asmus H ,lt of Maine says the gaest possible value of any human ang.is exactly 830.344 68. The doc r is not optimistic enough, regard g the human family, to make a suc ssfal life insurance agent. The publisher of several agricultur papers advertises the rural field as e "only one unspoiled left for the lvertiser." The country press might e notice of the fact and impress >on advertisers that the local home ~per Is the best medium for this ~ld. Hasten the day when'our intellect 1 life has so far developed that a an paper will be in greater demand ian a sensational one, when the iblic shall eat of the meat cf knowl ge, rather than feed on the aroma t husks that excite the passions and ater a national life. Here Is where Cupid Is put out of siness. Tne little god is no audi r of accounts. When he draws his iwstring he shuts his eyes and If e loosened shaft lodge In the heart a plutocrat or the breast of a asant It Is all one to bim. Tue world is full of wiat, but of tual starvation there is little. Want id need are by no means synony os. It is a nice q'aestion whether' ere are not more peo3ple who have ore than is really good for them an people who have not enough. It is estimated by Darwin that ee are one hundred thousand rthworms quietly at work for the~ vantage of the upper six feet of ery acre of earth. They continual. turn over the soil and drag down ves and grass, and thus they loose the soil and fertilize the ground, that the necessary air can reach e roots that spread and grow. The meaning of the wor d luck may fully explained in the following: auck means rising not later than 6' sock In the morning, living on a lar a day If you earn two, minding ur own business and not meddling th other people's. -Luck means the potments you have never failed to ep, the trains you have never failed catch. Luck means trusting in God d your own resources. The Standara Ol Co., has discover a way to avoid building sidewalks front of their business building In ,ies and towns all over the country. ey simply deed the land allowed for Lewaks and the cities and towns are liged to build the sidewalks them yes. The Waterloo Reporter, (Iowa,) s that Is what they are doing there 6 other places also. Bockefeller id give the Devil pointers on how run the infernal regions and then re some advice how to keep them ming. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Young Man Drowned. L dispatch from Greenville says n Cureton, aged 22 years, proprie of a soft drink and quick lunch oon and son of Mr. Thomas reton, a well known police officer the city, was drowned Thursday rning while In bathing at the lake aick Spring, the fashionable re- C t near Greenville. The young n drove out to the springs Thutrs n orning and registered at the el. L'ster he rented a bathing b and went swimming by himself. isers-by noticed clothes in one of ~ dressing rooms and no bather in water which led to the organiza of a searching party, which drag t the lake for the body and found Cureton is thonght to have been 3d with cramps while in deep water. body was brought to the city e arsday afternoon and prepared for ~ ial.a Cat His Throat. '.IN. Woodruff, aged 36, traveling c sman for Marshall Field & Co., of 81 cago, who sailed from Liverpool s New York on the steamer Majes- 'E committed suicide on ,Tuly 2 by a hng his throat with. a razor. The n y was buried at sea. The reasonb t knon.n _j THE ART OF ACTING. What Amateurs Who Would Become Sters Must Learn. It is surprising to discover how ver differently people who have player parts all their lives deport themselve before the footlights. I was acquain1 ed with a la dy in London who ha been the wife of a peer of the realm who had been ambassadress at foreig courts, who at the time had been reigning beauty and who came to m longing for a new experience and in ploring me to give her an opportunit to appear upon the stage. In a weak moment I consented, ant as I was producing a play, I cast he for a part which I thought she woul admirably suit-that of a society w, man. What that woman did and didn do on the stage passes all belief. Si became entangled in her train, si could neither sit down nor stand u] she shouted, she could not be persua< ed to remain at a respectful distanC but insisted upon shrieking into ti actor's ears, and she committed all ti gaucheries you would expect from a untrained country wench. But because everybody is acting I private life every one thinks he ca act upon the stage, and there is no pr fession that has so many critics. Evei individual in the audience is a crit and known all about the art of actin But acting is a gift. It cannot I taught You can teach people how to act ac ing, but you cannot teach them to at Acting is as much an inspiration as tl making of great poetry and great pt tures. What is commonly called actin is acting acting.-Richard Mansfield: Atlantic. OLD ROMAN BATHS. They Held Theaters, Temples, Feasw ing Halls and Libraries. The ancient Romans were extrav: gantly fond of bathing. They got the notions about the bath as a luxua from the Greeks, and at one time the: were nearly 900 public bathing .esta lishments in Rome, some of w . the most beautiful and elaborS i tures in the world. The baths of the Emperor Diocletis covered more than half a square mi and contained, besides immense basil and thousands of marble recesses, th aters, temples, halls for feasting, prof enades planted with trees, librarle schools for youth and academies fi the discussions of the learned. TI bathers sat on marble benches belo the surface of the water, around ti edge of the basins, scraping ther selves with dull knives .of metal ax ivory and taking occasional plunges I to the water. Dissipated Romans would sper whole days in the bath, seeking reli< from overindulgence in- eating at drinking the night before.- Everybod even the emperor, used these bath which 'were open to every one wi chose to pay the price of admission. It was not usual for the old Romai to have baths in their houses, thous at a date 1,500 years before that, o 3,500 years ago, the noblemen of a dent Greece had their dwellings u: plied with baths of terra cotta. Blood From a Stone. The open terrace in front of the D wan-i-Khas consists of two throne the black one of which, facing the ri er, was cut out of a single slab 4 stone in 1603. This black throne, whi< is about eleven feet long and suppox ed by octagonal pedestals, was 'bui by Akbar in recognition of his son title to the empire. Here Jehang used to sit occasionally and see ti fight of wild anials arranged for h amusement The crack on the throz is believed to have been caused I Lord Lake's bullet falling upon it du ing the attack of 1803. According1 tradition, however, it- cracked whe the Jat king of Bharatpur sat on ti thrne. for it was meant to be used 1 none but the real descendants -of ti great moguL. Then. again, when Lox Ellenborough sat on it durIng the K bul war in1S42 blood is supposed 1 have come out of it - East Indis World. Fish For the Brain. Replying to a "Young Author," Mar Twain wrote: "Yes, Agassiz does re ommend authors to eat fish, becaum the phosphorus in it makes brains. E far yoare correct. ButlIcannot he] you to a decision about the amount yc need to eat-at least not with certali ty. If the specimen composition ye sent is about your fair usual averag I should Judge that a couple of whalh would be all you would want for ti present-not the largest kind, but sin ply good, middle sized whales." The Kitehen Autocrat. "Yes, mna'am, an' now that I'm go3 to take hold here I'll settle th' perm busness firstof all. You see, IcarZ me own fountain pen. There, take thi an' don't lose it" "What is this'?' "That's a permit, ma'am, for you 1 visit th' kitchen. It entitles you to or visit a week. If you come oftener ti permit will be taken up, an' don't 30 forget it."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Where the Rub Comes. "Well," said the good natured boarl er, "there's one thing about our boari g houseyou can eat all you ik there." "Of course; same as ours," replie the grouchy one. "You can 'eat all 7o like, but there's never anything yo could possibly like."' - Philadelphi Depends on the Man. "Wat good is experIence?" walle the man who was looking for a jol "You can't cash it." "Some people can,"~ said his frieni "I bought some experience once the tst me $3,000."-Detroit Free Press. Quits she Race. Col. W. W. Lumkln has withdraw rom the race for the United State enate, as will be seen from the fol owing statement which he gave on u Wednesday: "On account of the change of con Itons surrounding the senatoria ace, I deem it best to withdraw from be contest. I have endeavored ti onduct my campaign in a manly traightforward way up to this tims nd retire feeling that I have not in entionally wronged any one. (Slgnd) "W. W. Lumpkin." A Peculiar Suit. One of the most novel law suits wi ver heard of has been recentl1 rought n Atlanta. Mrs, Bale Yar, orough is suing the Georgia Balway nd Elecric Company for $20,000 fox ie loss of her appendix resulting shE ams from a jar she received In a reet car accident. In her petition me states that in this accident she as so shocked that an operation fox ppendicts and several other surg 1 operations resulted. Her bus md also sues for $5 000 on account Blind JuutJCe So-Called. Freedom for a man who pleaded guilty to selling merchandise valued at nearly $100,000, which did not be long to him and appropriating the I money and six years in prison for 3 another who stole 25 cents, were the portions meted out to two prisoners in a New York court a short time ago. Henry Hirschman was a member of the firm of Hirschman Brothers, Job e bers in men's furnishings, in 1903 and 1904. It is alleged that by deceit the y firm obtained a high commericial rat ing on the strength of which they bought *100,000 worth of goods on r credit, disposed of them at a-forced d sale for cash and invested the proceeds , in real estate. .e Then they sailed for Europe. Ac e tion taken by the creditors forced , the firm into bankruptcy and last - year the brothers were indicted for . grand larceny. When Henry was ar e raigned and entered a plea of guilty, a e representative of the creditors appear ed, in court and asked that sentence n be suspended, as the pri oner and his n brother had made partial payment - and promised to make complete satis y faction. Henry's brother, Joseph, e probably will not be brought-to trial. The man who went to prison was John Clark, who has no home. He is 45 years old and had served two pre t vious sentences in Sing Sing. Clark e was walking up the Bowery a week - ago when he saw a barber standing in g front of his shop , flipping a- silver n quarter in the air. Clark sprang upon him seizing the coin and started to run away. He had gone but a few steps when he ran into the arms of , a policeman. "I had to do this or starve," Clark told the -judge, when L- he was arraigned for sentence. r "Whenever I try to get honest work 7 the cops knock me out. Trust Busting Pastime. e All that has so far been done against L- trust plundering is merely scratching - the surface. Not a trust has been a forced to reduce its enormous profits e and indeed the cost of living has " greatly increased since the so-called trust- busting began. fDoes not this , show that the Repablican politicians, >r although making faces at the tist in to public, are secretly allowing them. to W continue their predatory warfx on * the people. If the. Republican party : really wished to prevent the- trusts - 'selling their products cheaper abroad than here, the leaders in Congress d would have allowed some sort of tar f if revision bill to .pass. But all the d bills for that purpose have been voted . down in committee by a party vote 5, even the bill to reduce the tariff to 1O 100 per cent on those articies that are taxed over that enormous percentage. h The fact is the trust bustingcampaig >r is intended to just scare the'trusts i- and combines enough so they will r 'come down with the dust". The campaign fund in that way is replen ished and the corporations.and the Republican leidfrs are combinedfora new lease of lifeZ"That pleasantpas . time is rather expensive for the pe. f ple for all they buy baas adymce& or a an average 47 per cent sinc e pres t- ent tariff law was enacted. AThe Big Plah E!scape. A dispatch from Kansas, City an e nounces that four big paocing compa Ls nies, one railroad company and two e individuals have been found guilty of Yrebating and duly punished. !.Swift & Co , $15,000; Cudahy Pack Sing Company, $15,000; Armour Pack iing Company, $15,000; Nelson, Morris eQuincy Railway, $15,00. The maxi d mum fine was 220,000. t- George L. Thomas, of New York, a was fined $6,000 and sentenced to tour a months in the penitentiara . L. B Taggart, of New York,'was fined $4,000 and sentenced to three k months in the penitentiary. The corporations, that Is,.the inm ' e who compose the corporations, wr o just as guilty as the little fellow P who went to the- penitentiary.~ U They are criminals of the very worst ' stamp, and yet, under the law n-ade U by a Rpblican C n , they keep "out ofjailand run ltical partieis as e usual. Judges adjuries may do e their duty faithfully, but Republican : politicians ire Congress make It im possible to jail the big criminals. Jim Oullespie Dead. ,The Spartanburg ,Tournal says; "Jim Gillespie, colored, who Is known y to hundreds of former Wofford- Col t legs students throughon~ the se died Friday in Grenvillea~he hoine of a relative with whom he resided * since leaving Spartanbuzrg where'Fie e lived for many years.' The announce (ment will cause sincee regret on tae I parbof many, especially those -men of South Carolina, who have attended Wofford College during the' past quarter of a century. Gillespie for 1- 30 or more years held the position as t- caterer at the well known Methodist e institution and In that capacity cams in daily contact with the student i body. He was an upright, honorable a colored man and was well liked by al a the college boys and thefaculty. He % was about 57 years of' ags.4 long Lawsuit Enji The two villages Lucerauind Lin. a conque, in the-Alpes Maritimes, have . just held a-celebration In honor of the ending of a great lawsuit which has L kept the two villages divided 'ever t since November 14, 1462. The ques tion In dispute was the prminof-a piece of land at Lava, which each vil lage claimed. A .foe days agc the 1 court at N:c, definitely settled th'e a matter by dividing the land equally -between the villages. I'e total cost Sof the lawsuit during the 444 years amounts to about 8150.000, while the value of the land in dispute was about 82,000. -T?ue legal documents which bad accumulated mn the course of the centuries were docketed in 1,856 par cels, which weighed 16 tons, and were stored in a large disused church. Weevil Spreading. Professor Hunter, the government entomologist, has issned a special re port on the boll weevil in Texas, in which he states that the weevil is numerous over the whole of the cot ton territory: and that much. damage Is sure to be done In eastern Te-xas. With wet weather there will be cor. siderable lr jary over the whole belt, while with dry, hot weather there will be a minimum of damage. "I have done the state some ser vice," the politician began, "and I-" "Yes shouted one of the dekcgates, "and you charged the state abont sev enteen times as much as it was worth." P.EPL WARNED. 3E EACTS ABOUr THE COTTON STALKS PAPER COMPANY. e Tradesman Cautica Intending Investors to Look Carefully into the Business. ['he Chattanooga Tradesman in its t issue will call attention to a re :tly organi.d company that has n heralded by its promoters as one great value to the South, in that it averts a hitherto waste product into cles of daily consumption and gat commercial importance thereby ling many millions of dollars to a productive wealth of the South. Phis company is styled the Cotton Liks Products company, and was in rporated under the laws of Maine h a capitaiz :lion of $15,000,000 as 6ted in the original announcements .de concerning it, although another tement from one of the promoters ve the information that this capi ziion was on the basis of $3,000, 3 of 7 p--r cent. preferred stock and 1,000,000 of common stock. [n reply to a letter from The Trades in to Mr. W. P. G. Harding, of Btr ngham, president of the First lNS inal bank of that city, and who was med as one cf the directors cf this npany, Mr. Harding makes the fol ing statement: "The understanding, however, upon ich I authorz :d the use of my me as a director, is distinctly that ly so much of the stock, probably out $300,000, shall be offered for e at present, as may be necessary build, eqrp and finance one mill, be locawd at some eligible point, d that future stock cff frings to the ,lic are to be based entirely upon e actual results obtained by this i." n the announcement made of the )motion of this company, together th an explanation of its plans, and ich appeared exclusively in the w York Commercial, such details a given as would indicate that the terprise had passed the experimen stage, for in the body of that an uncement, Harvie Jordan, its pres ant, is quoted as saying: ' Paper mnufac.ured from cotton stalks is of e strongest texture and softest fin 1. Several plants will be erected ring the next few monthsia certain ,ons of the South, which will be full operation by January 1, 1907." F:om this statement one would turally infer that the company was ssessed of abundant capital already tb which to inaugurate its plans, Mr. Jordan distinctly says "seve plants" are to be erected in the xt few months, and yet Mr. Hard x says in effect that the company is thout money and will rely on sales stock to secure funds to erect an ex rimental plant and on the practical ults of which all future sales of :ck are to depend. From these co.filcting -statements :e Tradesman feels warranted in gestirg to the cotton producers d people of the South that they de .nd frcm the officers of this compa the fullest explanation of its plans d how Its capital stock has been triuted and for what an iquIya r ; and we re quest the press of the utth to a'd us in this matter to the d that no stock cf this company all be sold or offered for sale save der the conditions set forth by Mr. 1rding. A Word to Wives. Yen are a wife The whole making mrring of your husband Is In your nds. A woman can seldom be ele ttd by a mau, but a man seldomx is to rise -or fail to the woman he res. Home springs up at your feel e fio.wers at the footsteps of rain d sunshine In the Spring--that is, you are the right kind of a wife. n thousand men, however brave of art, noble of purpose, true of char .er, and genercus of soul, could not .ke one home. But one pure, loving, ercus, tachiul and industrious. wo a can make a home for a thousand n. Home making Is husband mak Sand child blessing and this is the oe distinction that opens before as wife and mother. But have i entered into the spirit of this isi n with all the depths of your soul all the enthusiasm of your heart? is is the "holy of holies" of married . You are to lose the consciousness your own existence apart from your sband-you and he are one. Never, er the day of your marriage ought i to think or speak of "mine" and ours"-all Is now ours. mlake Home HapDy. dany a time a cheerful home and ppy faces do more to make good and women than all the learning elcquence that can be used. It been said that the sweetest words our language are "Mother, Home I Heaven," and one might almost the word home includes them all, who can think of home without embering the gentle mother who .ctfied It by her presence. And is home the dearest name In heaven? think of the better land as the ne where brightness will never end ight. Oh, then, may our homes earth be the centers of all our joys; y they be as green spots in the ert, to which we can retire when ry of the cares and perplexities of ,and drink the clear water of love, ler we know to be sincere and al vs unfailing. Alcohol rrom (iarbage. Lt a meeting of the city council re t1y a resolution was carried re sting City Chemist W. Lee Lewis make an investigation into the sibility of making denatured alco from the garbage collected In u City, the alcohol to be used as I to operate light engines, in tbe rbuildings. Alderman Exiener sequently declared that with mIst W. Lee Lewis he tcok two kets of garbage from his bakery hen, and they made a Quantity of >hol fully equal and to all appear es as good alcohol as was ever e from any kind of "wood." As i inmventions are ::ompleted to te it possible to use alcohol to run Jight plant in the city building library building, the city of Sioux y proposes to dispose of the garb of the entire city by converting to fuel fluid. The potato peel and biscuits, chicken bones and le cores, old rags and cherry seeds all be boiled up together and con ed into power for thousands of Chxicago's Curse. t Chicago an ordinance limiting~ umber of saloons to one for every persons became a law without for Dunne's signature at the ad nment of City Council Wednesday it. By the terms of the measure, new saloon licenses will be Issued r July 31. LIcenses which are In e on t hata may be renewed or