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DIVORCE FACTS.
Some Figures rhat Shows The
Growth of the Evil in
THE UNITED STATES.
South Carolina Stands Alone as the
Only State in the Union that Does
Not Allow Divoces Among Her
People, and She is Proud
Of It.
Some startling figures have recently
been pulshed in reference to the
prevalence of crime in this country.
One of the leading magazines printed
some statistical tables showing the
number of murders and homicides in
the United States from year to year.
They increased from 1,266 in 1881 to
10,652 in 1896. The number of this
class of horrible crimes was nearly
nine times as large in 1896 as it was
fifteen years before There had been
a steady increase year by year. Since
then there has been a small decrease.
There were 8,976 homicides in 1903
seven times as many as twenty years
ago.
With the increase In the number of
murders there has been a correspond
ing increase in the number of suicides
in this country. In 1881, there were
only 605 suicide: in 1903 there were
8,597-more than fourteen times as
many. Every year, with only two or
three exceptions, the number has been
greater than the year before.
There has beer a similar increase in
the number of divorces. Before the
Civil War the number of divorces was
very small. A divorce case was the
occasion for columns in the secular
papers. In some of the States there
was no provision for divorce. In others
it eould be obtained only by applica
tion to the Legislature. But lax laws
have been enacted, and this evil has
been fostered until now there are pro
bably twenty or thirty thousand di
voroes granted every year; that many
families destroyed; that many homes
ruined, under the forms of law every
year, In this country.
During the thirty-two years from
1869 to 1901 less than three hundred
divorces were granted in the Domin
ion of Canada. During the same
period, nearly seven hundred thousand
divorces were granted in the United
States. The population of the United
States is about fifteen times as great
as that of Canada, but the number of
divorces has been not fifteen times as
large, nor a hundred times as large,
but more than two thousand times as
large in the United States as in Can
adal Two thousand times as many
families have been destroyed by this
evil, two thousand times as many
children deprived of the comforts and
blessings of a hcme, in tur country
as In the sister nation on the North.
The evil has been rapidly increasing
for a generation, more rapidly in the
Northern than in the Southern States
but at a rate that gives grave cause
for apprehension. There is not one
of-the Southern States, siith the ex
ception of Virginia and North~ and
South Carolina, but grants more di
vorces every year than Lngland and
Wales united with their thirty-three
million population; and in the North
ern States, Michigan furnishes six
times as many, Ohio eight times as
many, and Indiana ten times as many
divorces In any given period as Eng
land and Wales combined.
The Increase in a few of the States
has been as follows: The number of
divorces granted, Increased In
New Hampshire from 136 in 1867 to
435 In 1899.
Ohio from 901 in 1867 to 3,217 in
1900.
Indiana from 1,098 In 1867 to 4,699
In 1900.
Pennsylvania from 575 in 1867 to
2,889 In 1886.
- Iliinos from 3,071 in 1867 to 2,606
In 1886.
Alabama from 78 in 1867 to 662in~
1886.
Arkansasfrom 121 in 1867 to 646 in~
1888.
Kentucky from 292 in .1887 to 757
In 1886.
Missssppi from 49 In 1867 to 504
In 1886.
North Carolina from 21 In 1867 to
163 in 1886.
Tennessee from 287 in 1887 to 801
In 1888.
Texas from 91 in 1867 to 1,326 In
1888.
Virginia from 90 in 1867 to 238 in
1886.
in eight States reporting statistics,
the proportion of divorces to marriage
In 1902. was as follows:
In Massachusetts 1 dIvorce to 16
marriages.
MichIgan 1 divorce to 11 marri
ages.
Vermont 1 divorce to 10 marri
ages.
Ohio 1 divorce to 8.8 marriages.
New HampshIre 1 divorce to 8 3
arriagos.
Rhode Island 1 divorce to 8 marrl
es..
Indiana 1 divorce to 7.6 marriages.
MaIne 1 divorce to 6 marriages
In these States there has been a
rapid increase In the number of di
vorces during che decade, and this
Is probably true of the country at
large.
South Carolina Is the only State
that does not allow divorces. She
has no divorce law, and will not allow
them for any cause.
Such are some of the facts in refer
ence to the conditIon of our country
-a fearful prevalence of murder,
suicides and divorces-and an in
crease from year to year in the num
ber of each which, If not checked,
will be ruinous In Its effects. The
remedy will come when the cznscien
ces of the people are aroused, and a
public sentiment is created that will
make and enforce better laws than we
now have. There are about twenty
five different grounds upon which a
*divorce Is granted in one or another
ofithe States. In forty-eight out of
the fifty one States and Territories
desertion by one party or the other
for six months or a year or a longer
period Is a good ground for divorce.1
One of our exchanges tells of the fol
lowing incident!
"A member of the Philadelphia Bar
Association was recently consulted by
a woman who asked how long It would
take to obtain a divorce. He informed
her that In the present state of the
calendar he thought that ten months
would be suffcient.
"'Impossible, said she. 'I wish to
be married again tonight.'"
"Becently another lawyer was ask-I
ed If he could not hurry along the
signing of a decree, as preparations
adA haen made by a yong~ woman for .
tier seccnd marriage, and that unless
the decree were signed it would be
very inconvenient for her, as the sup
per for a second wedding had been
ordered."
And such is the state of public
sentiment when these women have ob
tained a legal separation, there are
ministers who will sanction and en
dorse there action as right by marry
ing them again, there are thousands
in and out of the Church who will
recognize them as respectable. Their
social standing in many communities
would not be compromised.
The great truth is lost sight of by
the present age, that marriage is not
an institution created by the State. It
was ordained of God in the Garden of
Eden. The law of its perpetuity was
laid down and enforced by Crist.
Legislatures have no power to add to
or modify God's laws. Only on the
ground named in the Bible can the
marriage relation be dissolved with
out violating the laws of God.
Another great truth is that there
is far more involved in the granting
of a divorce than the comfort or hap
piness of the husband and the wife -
The divorce o-f the parents is of ten the
ruin of the children. It deprives tht m
of the father's eare, or of tue motber's
love, and its effect on them is harm
iul. But the evil is greater tr an this.
D.stroy the family, and you sweep
away one of the props on which both
Church and State rest. It is a step,
a long step, in the direction of anar
chy. Society can survive the destruc
tion of the State, but it cannot sur
vive the destruction of the family.
The Church can survive the destruc
tion of the Srate, but it cannot sur
vive the destruction of the family.
The family is the unit, ard it is the
foundation of society, and of the
Church and of the State. D -stroy tli
family. and serious injury is iflicted
on all that is good.
If the Church would refuse to re
cognize as in good standing those who
had been unlawfully divorced-if min
isters of the gospel would refuse to
marry them-if public sentim ni
would emphasize their reproach, this
great evil would be checked.
We call it an evil. Is it not a crime?
And ought not the civil law so to re
gard it? If it be a felony for a burglar
to rob a home of a hundred dollars, is
it not a more serious offense for one of
both of those whose duty it so to pro
tect and guard it, to prove false to
their trust and destroy it? Should
not the civil court take cognizance of
the fact that whenever a family is de
stroyed, somebody has committed a
serious offensd in causing its destruc
tion? Should it not at the time of
granting the divorce, dEcide also who
is the party whose fault makes it
necessary, and inflict a penalty on the
offender commensurate with the of
fense?
We think the tide is turning, and
that there is some improvement in the
morals of the land. There are not
quite as many homicides now as there
were eight years ago. There are som.2
smyptoms of improvement in the mar
ter of divorces in the last five or ten
years. And there is iccreasing spirit
ual power in the churches. With the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit that
many are praying for, will come a
change that will correct many exist
ing evils, and it is trom this source
that the remedy Is to be expected.
A STRAJGE CASX.
A Hardware Store Found in a Young
,Man's Stomach.
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss.,
says four years ago a y oung man, 19
years of age, was sent from Jones
county to the asylum and piaced in
charge of Dr. Buchanan. He seemed
to be broken down and suffering from
some strange malady, a wasting kind
of disease. In course of time the hos
pital authorities began to treat him
for consumption.
It was noticed that he had a mania
for eating plaster off the walls of the
building; wherefore he was confined
in one of the wards. A few nights
since he ate a hearty supper and re
tired, but In a short while called for
water. The water was supplied, and
half an hour later the attendant went
after the bucket and found the man
dead.
An autopsy was held and the physi
cians found:
Six brass wrenches, such as used on
water -faucets; ten brass and iron
screws, eight iron and brass nuts,
eight iron and brass washers, ten
pieces of bent wire, seventy- live iron
and steel nails, some three inches
onsr; lifty-three brass pins, five keys,
forty-nine pieces of tin, one 10 cent
piece, one penny, one glass bottle
stopper, and a miscellaneous collection
of bits of glass, which semned to bave
been chewed up. There were also
enough collar buttons and buttons of
other varieties to have stocked a
haberdasher's store, rocks, petbles,
crockery and other articles too numer
ous to mention, and all of which was
encased in plaster and cement.
The case is the m- St remarkable
that has ever deseloped in the state
of Mlississippi, and the physicians
have preserved the stomach to be ex
hibited at the medical societies. Dur
ing his stay of 4 years at the asylum
the patient did not seem to suffer any
paim.-_________
The Old Battle Flags.
Governor Heyward has received a
letter from a member of the Eleventh
South Carolina volunteers, Hagood's
brigade in ref erence to a captured flag
of the company, which will be among
those to be returned to the state by
the war department. The writer as
a survivor asks that the flag be pre
sented to the remaining survivors of
the company, whtse ranks, he says,
are being rapidly depleted by death.
It has not been decided what will be
done with the state flags when they
are received, but the supposition has
been thalt they would 1e retaine d by
he state as historical relics. Until
their disposition is decided Governor
Eeyward cannot reply definitely to
-everal requests of a similar charac
er he has received.
Murder and Suicide.
Mrs. Isaac Abrams, aged 50 years,
was beaten to death, and Mrs. Sadie
Dhatham, aged 30 years, her daugh
er, was fatally injured 1y the younger
woman's husband, John JE. Chatham,
15 years old, a prominent druggist of
)hester, Pa. After murderously as
;aulting the women, Chathamn at
-mmpted to kill his one year old child,
nd then shot himself in the head
with a revolver, dying later at a hos-1
ital. The baby's head was grazed
y a bullet and one of its ears was
adly lacerated, but the little one is
iot seriously hurt. The weapon used
my Chatham upon his wife and mother
n-law was a hammer.
A Fatal Jump.
Jno. E. McCracken of Conway
jumped from an Atlantic Coast Line
rain near St. Stephens on Monday
ight of last week and was killed. It
Is not lknown why he jumpedl
A BRIWIT OUTLOOK
For the Success of the couthern
Farmers Cotton Association.
President Smith Says the Farmers
and Business Men Gcnerally Will
Stand Loyally to the Movement.
The Co'umbia State says Mr. E. D.
Smith, field ajent of the Soutbern
Cotton association, was in Columbia
Tuesday of last week after a week's
campaigning in Georgia. He visited
Augusta. Columbus and Macon in
Georgia and Opelika, Ala., where he
sooke-to a crowd.
Monday he spent at Union and twice
addressed crowds which overflowed the
court house-farmers in the morning
and buoiness men at night. They all
tx aressed deep interest and he is sat
istied that Union will contribute
liberally to the support of the move
ment.
In an interview with Mr. Smith, he
said to a reporter of Toe State:
"As a result of my trip I am more
enthusiastic than ever over the pros
pect of success. Every State in the
cotton belt east of the Mississippi
river is hara at work perfecting its
organization, getting the pledges
signed, collecting funds to defray the
expenses of the local and general or
ganizations.
"All classes of business are co-oper
ating entrusastically:
"I find that South Carolina has the
proper spirit, but it Is not general
enough. I want to call upon every
county, where it has not been done,
t call a meeting immediately of the
executive committee and appoint an
organizer for the county at large and
two men from each township as
pledge takers, the organizer to fix
dates at once where he may meet the
people of the towrship to instruct
them as to the general purposes of the
organ'zation; the pledge takers to
visit every farm and secure the pledges
of those who have not yet signed, and
to take the names of those who are
not signing and to push this work
vigorously from now until the time
for planting.
"If time permitted I wculd write a
personal letter to the presidents of the
several c unties in the States, but as
my time Is so taken up and the time
for action is so short, I have to use
the newspapers to reach the people in
tme
"There is a general impression
abroad that the west Is not standing
by the organization, but has turned
its cotton loose. According to infor
mation received from the best sources
avallable to us, these receipts indi
cate cotton shipped to the ports to be
compressed and warehoused and not
for sale.
"There Is a movement in every
State to prepare for taking care of
the cotton locally by building ware
houses according to the standard
warehouse system. These warehouses
will not cost more than $1.250 to
$1,500 if the ware room is suf~ciently
large to hold from 1,000 to 1,200
bales.
"Water by a system of forced
pumps and tanks can be secured, and
the maximum rate of insurance can
be hatd on this cotton so stored at 50
cents per $100 worth. The different
States are taking up this question and
are rapidly perfecting ample room for
taking care of their cotton locally
through this system. This Is our
ultimate salvation.
"The wheat growers of the west
never won their fight until they had
completed their system of organizing,
paced their wheat in them and secur
ed loans to meet their pressing needs,
and sold to the, world at large their
wheat whenever the purchasing world
was forced to give them the price that
they demanded.
"I hope that every county In the
State, and every locality shipping
from 1,000 bales and above, will take
this matter up at once and begin to
place themselves in a position where
they can store their cotton, and rapid
ly borrow money at the lowest rate of
interes; and where they can secure
tue lowest rate of insurance, and
hence make themselves independent
of the fiuctuations of the market and
possibly so to dispose of their cotton
as the world demands it at the price
they demand.
"I1 Wish to state again before clos
ing this interview troat I hope that
all those who feel so disposed as well
as those appointed by the organiza
tion, will take the field, and for the
next 20 days urge upon the farmers
the absolute necessity of reducing
acreage, and curtailing fertilizers.
For their encouragement I will state
that in Alabama a general State or
ganizer has heen appointed at a salary
of $2,500 per year. He is actively
engaged in visiting every county of
his State with the co-operation of the
commissioner of agriculture and the
president of the State asscciation as
well as the county organizer.
"In Mississippi Gov. Vardaman,
Senator Noel and other prominent
men have taken the field and are urg
ing the work forward.
"The newspapers of this State are
rendering valuable assistance, and we
are sure that they will continue to
do so.
"Friday the 'Holding company' will
meet in New Orleans for the purpose
of perfecting the final arrangements
by which the spot cotton of those who
are to contribute can be taken in the
pool; and efforts will be made to con
trol as far as possible the market for
such cotton as cannot be held, ar~d
will not be pooled, but forced upon
the market.
"Everything now depends upon the
rarmers to stand by their pledges; the
merchants, bankers and corporations
re doing their part. It remains alone
ror the farmers to do theirs. If they
rail in this they need not expect nor
will they have ground to ask the assis
~ance of the world at large again to
2elp them in time of need."
Hurled to Death.
While seven men were being koisted
.n the carriage in the Clear Spring
~ollery at west Pittsburg Thursday
he rope broke and the men were
urled to the bottom, a distance of
50 feet. All were killed. Immedi
tely after the accident a rescuing
:arty was organized, with 3. L Coke,
~eneral manager of the Clear Spring
loal company, in charge. The bodies
>f the seven men were found In a heap
Lt the bottom of the shaft horribly
angled.
Hanged for Murdor.
At Rome, Ga , Bob Sutherland and
jourtney Baker, negroes, were hanged
Wednesday for murder. Both negroes
nade lengthy speeches from the scaf
od, admitting their guilt. Suther
.and killed two negroes and wounded
2ree others at a dance last Christ
.GTS A GOOD PLAuE.
President Roosevelt Appoints a Dem
crat District Attorney.
Presid;nt Roosevelt has offered the
place cf district attorney for the
northern district of Georgia to F.
Carter Tate, late Democratic con
gressman from the ninth Georgia dis
trict. The place pays $5,000 a year.
Mr. Tate was in conference with the
oresident. Wedneslay morning and It
is und-rsto;d that he aceepted the
app intment. E A. Angier is dis
trict attornev now, but his term will
soon expire and Mr. Tate will assume
the duties of the c ficle then.
No Southern appointment made
since Riosevelt has been in the white
house will be more surprising to south
ern people than this, unless it is the
appoAntment of Judge Thomas G.
Jones, a staunch Democrat. as feder
al judge for northen district of Ala
bama. The two appointments are very
much on the same order as both the
appointees belong to the Democratic)
p:'rty and the president pursued the
same non-partisan policy in s3lectIng
each.
The appointment of Mr. Tate, like
that of Judge Jones, shows the presi
dent in a favorable attitude towards
the south, since the selection un
doubtedly will meet with the cordial
approval of those whom it affects.
In the fitness of Mr. Tate for the
position and in the non- party spirit in
which the appointments is made the
president has struck a cord that will
mest assuredly find a hearty reception
in the whole south as well as in the
state of Georgia. It has been known
in otficial circles, here for some time
that the president desired to have the
government in some way retain the
services of Mr. Tate whom he regards
as one of the ablest rublic servants in
Washington life. Is has been the
R josevelt policy to keep an eve out
for good men retireing from congress
and as soon as it became known last
I year that Mr. Tate had been defeat
ed by Mr. Bell for renomination in his
district, the president took up the
matter of seh eting a place which
might prove accept-able to him.
Stealin, Pare and Simple.
By a vote of ninety to eighty the
National House of Representatives on
Friday voted itself and the senate
$190,000 mileage for the extra session
of congress held in November, 1903,
and perpetrated what is described by
leading members of congress as "petty
theft," but what is stealing, pure and
simple. Mileage is allowed to mem
bers of congres at the rate of twenty
cents a mile going to Washington and
returning home. They are supoosed
t-o get this mileage for each session.
The extra session of congress, held in
1903, ended the same moment the reg
gular session begun. There was no
interim and none of the members who
voted himself mileage actually took
the journey. The members did not
even ieave their seats.
When an effort was made to put an
extra mileage bill through at the first
regular session, the newspapers dis
cu.sed the matter so severely that
the movement became unpopular, and
when the bill was called up a mem
ber called for the yeas and nays, and
there was a stampede to the cloak
room. Practically no member was
willing to step into the open and vote
for the grab. When Mr. Sherman
offered his amendment to the general
deficiency bill in committee of the
whole, it was opposed by Mr. Under
wo: d, of Alab3ama. who was mainly
r: sponsible for defeating it a year
ago. He was assisted by Mr. Little
field, of Maine; Mr. Dearmond, of
Missouri, and Mr. Baker, of New
York.
Mr. Underwood said that if this
am~ndment passed the members
wo;uld be collecting twenty cen's a
mile for a trip they had never takt n.
They had not left the capital city and
not even the fLor of the house. Mr.
Baker denounced the amendment as a
"grab," and taunted the Republicans
by declaring no RBspublican would dare
to defend the steal. This brought
1[r. Sherman to his feet, with the
declaration that the amendment had
been adjudged right and proper by
two eminent members of the hou;se,
acting as speaker, on previous occa
sions. A vote was taken by tellerN
and the amend ment ,was passed by 69
to 49. Mr. Underwood called for the
ayes and noes when the bill was re
ported to the house, and the amend
ment was sustained by a vote of 90 to
80." We have not seen the vote on
the steal, but we feel satisfied that
no member from this State voted
for it.
Cotton Estimates.
The idea of issuing semi-monthly
cotton estimates, instead of monthly
esti mates, by the agricultural depart
ment, has agaia been rejected by the
Republican majority in the national
house of representatives. The senate
committee wzs favorable to the
change, but the house members, at
the instance chiefly of Statistician
Hyde, of the agricultural department,
worked its death.
Mr. Hyde's chief objection to the
issuance of semi-monthly cotton estI
mates, it appears, is the fact that
they wili cost the government some
money, wherets the data upon which
the present guesses are based is ob
tained free from volunteers. That,
If he has not been misquoted, is his
professed reason for not wishing for a
change. The A tlanta Journal voices
the sentiments of every right think
ing man when it says:
"But suppose it does cost the gov
ernment money to maintain a depend
able system of collecting information.
Everything tssful must be paid for.
We don't exactly follow the argument
of the statistician to the effect that
the present system cosbs nothing, for
certainly it takes up the time of the
lepartment clerks even to make
gut sses at the crop. But even if it
costs the government nothing, it has
proved itself to be a mighty expensive
system to the planters on numerous
ccasions, and an exceedingly unreli
able system always.
"If the department cannot get the
ecessary money to maintain a sysi
Lem that is worth something, It wouldi
ao better not to Issue estimates at all.
ertainly in that manner the inter-1
asts of the cotton planters would not
be injured, and the department otil- I
ials would not have to suffer under I
~he general belief that they Insist on I
Ghe retention or the system of month
y estimates in the interests of the
market gamblers."
Cortelyou Resigns Chairmanship. 1
George B. Cortelyou -Wednesday
book the oath of cffice as postmaster]
general. At the conclusion of the cere
nony he announced that in a few days I
ne will retire from the chairmanship 1
>f the Republican national commit- I
ee. He will be succeeded by Vice
hairman Harry S. New, of Indiana-(
polIs, who will become the acting
%hnlrman of the committee.e
COTTON W AREHOUSES
Recommended to He Erected in All
Communities.
Fire Proof Houses Will Enable the
Farmers to Place Cotton in
Negotiable Form.
At a nreeting of the committee on
war-houses of the South Carolina dl
vislon of the S 'athern Cotton associa
tion held in Columbia .Tuesday, the
following resolut:on was adopted
unanimously, on motion of Capt. W.
E. Burnett of Spartanburg:
"That it is the sense of this com
mittee that we recommend to every
cormunity in South Carolina where
the nece-sity for warebouses exist to
build these warehouses through their
own efforts or by outside asIstance it
preferred, or if possible to attain
them at a cost of from $800 to 81,200
with a storage canacity, respective'y
of from 500 to 1,000 bales of ctton."
The Columbia State says this Is
practically a "call to arms." for with
out warehouses it will be welitigh
Imp siible for the farmers to win,
and to kiep won, the fizht which
they now have well in hand. The
maiket is now showing the effect of
the tight the farmers have been mak
ing to hold tb ir cotton for better
prices. Ad' from Liverpool are
to the effect -at Eaglish manufac
turers are organizing to protect them
selves against 15 cent cotton, for they
confidently expect the market t - go to
that figure. At very generous esti
mates there were 12,000,000 bales
raised In the south last year, and not
withsthanding the cry of "overpro
duction" this is said to be 1,000.000
bales short of what the demand will
be. for the Egyptian crop is reported
a failure and the India crop will be
little better. If such is the case,
and these are the advices which the
cotton association has received from
authentic sources, all the cotton
farmers of the southern States must
do Is to hold what they have.
It was developed at the meeting
that if the farmers in different com
munities in the State will take the
proper amount of interest in building
warebouses, It will be possible to make
arrangements whereby the funds sub
scribed locally will be augmented by
the same amount by capitalists who
are interested in this great move
ment. The entire committee was
present, M, ssrs. E. W. Robertson,
Columbia; Leroy Springs, Lancaster;
W. E. Burnett, Spartanburg; B. Har
ris, Pendleton; T. B. Stackbouse, Dil
lon: L. W. Youmans, Fairfax.
Mr. Stackhouse and others of the
committee expressed the belief that
there would be many warehoussa
buit, and that the movement should
be started at once in order to get the
buildings ready for occupancy by the
time the new crop comes in. Archi
tects and contractors were consulted
as to the cost of erecting warehouses
and the information received was
very satisfactory, for it showed that
the cost is not prohibitive, and that
almost any community which has the
progressive spirit can raise enougb
money to build a warehouse which
will accommodate all the cotton
raised In thast neighborhood, or at
least all of the surplus cotton.
On motion cf Col. Leroy Springs of
Lancaster, the following was adapt
ed unanitously:
"That we urge upon the farmers
the importance of storing their cotton
promptly on being ginned in the stan
dard warebouses where they can get
negotiable warehouse receipts, thus
saviog it from loss in weight and
damage and putting it in negotiatle
shape so that they will not be forced
to sell only at their own pleasure, as
It has been demonst'-ated by the ac
tion of tbe New Orleans convention
that reasocable prices can be main
tained Irrespective of the size of
the crop by the judicious mar
keting of the cotion, which can only
be accomplished by the 'effective
warehouse system."
Mr. E. D. Smith, president of the
State division of the cotton assocIa
tion, was present by . Invitation and
offered the following suggestion, which
was adopted in the form of a resolu
tion: "Toat any information as to
construction or outside assistance can
be obtained by communicating with
the Columbia office of the Southern
Cotton association. That a copy of
these resolutions be filed in this oife
and that a copy be given to the press
with the request that all county pa
-pers publish them."
Mr. E G. Seibels, as an insurance
expert, told the committee, by invita
tion, what requiremen's will be nec
essary to make a warehouse wellnigh
fireproof and an acceptable risk. Mr.
C. C. Wilson stated, as an architect
called in by invitation, that these
warehouses could be built 40 by 10C
feet with gravel roof and best pattern
for $1,200, the sprinkler system to
cost about 25 per cent. more. Such a
house would have a capacIty of 1,000
bales. A 500-bale capacity ware
house could be built for $800. If
storage f'or any more than 1.000 bales
is required separate warehow~es should
be built.
Mr. E. W. Robertson was elected
chairmlan of the committee and Mr.
F. H. Weston secretary.
Monazlte in Greenville County,
Monazite in large quantities has
been discovered in the creeks and
branches around Lennerman in Grove
township, Greenville county, and tons
>f the mineral is being taken out and
tested. The anal) ses by reliable min
Iralogists show a very large per cent.
pure monazite in the samples sent
~or analytical purposes, and a trace of
old is found in every sample. A
New York concern has secured r'ghts
~rom most of tile land owners in that
2elghborhood to mine the mineral
wherever traces are found, and the
and owners get $15 a ton for the
:rude ore when taken from the mine.
Qais royalty is paid for unmined ore.
Lnd it will thus be seen the land
>wner where any quantity Is secured
s extremely fortunate, as he is pvt to
1o expense whatever, and the mineral
s found only in branches and marshes
where the land is unfit for cultiva
ion. Mouazite is worth in a refined
ate about $1,000 a ton, and is large
y used in the manufacture of arc
ights, in combination with carbons
or wicks.
Four Killed.
By the breaking of a cable in the1
hrewsburg coal mine, near Charles- 1
on, W. Va., Wednesday, four miners
were killed and ten seriously hurt. 1
?our of the Injured will probably die.
rnree cars were conveying miners
rom work when a cable parted and
he cars were precipitated to thee
ase of the mount-ain, sixteen hun-t
[red feet, with lightning rapidity.5
Jars and tipple were badly wrecked 3
,nd a number of miners frightfullyt
INTEESTILG DATA.
Population of Each State When ad
mitted to the Union.
Does population make a state?
What are the great es3entials of state
hood? These are the questions,
which, according to the Washington
correspondent for the St. Louis Post
Dispatch, are being discussed in the
senate. This correspondent says that
the population of each of the original
thirteen colonies when the union was
formed was as follows: Connecticut,
237,946; Delaware, 59 096; Georgia,
82,548; Maryland, 319.728; Massachu.
setTs, 378.787; New Hampshire, 141,
845; New Jersey, 184.139; New York,
340,120; North Carolina, 393,751;
Pennsylvania, 434,373; Rhode Island,
68,825; South Carolina, 24,073; Vir
ginia, 747,610.
The popu!ation of other territories
at the time they became states and
the dates of their admission to the
union was as fo'lbws: "Vermont,
March 4, 1791, 85,425; Kentucky,
March 4, 1794, 73.677; Tennessee,
May, 1796, 60.000; Onio, November,
29, 1802, 42 366, L..uisiana, April 12,
1812, 76 506; Indiana, Dec. 11, 1816
24 520; Mississippi, Dec. 10, 1817, 75.
448; Illinois, Dec. 3, 1818, 53,211;
Alabama, Dec. 14. 1819. 127,901;
Maine, March 15, 1820. 298,335; Mis.
souri, August 10, 1821, 66,586; Ar
kansas, June 15, 1830, 52 240: Michi
gan, Jan. 26, 1837, 160,000; Florida,
March 3, 1845, 72,000; Iowa, Dec. 28,
1846, 153,000; Wis.onsin, March 3,
1848, 300 000; California, Sept. 9,
1850. 92 527; Minnesota, May 11, 1858,
172,053; Texas, March 1, 1845, 150,
000; Oiegon, Feb. 12, 1859, 52,465
Kansas, April 13, 1859, 107,206; West
Virginia, Jan. 19, 1863, 440,000;
Nevada, Oct. 31, 1864, 42 491; Ne
breska, March 1, 1867, 123 993; Coo
rado, July 4, 1876, 135,000; North
Dakota, June 2, 1889, 182.719; S-uth
Dakota, June 2, 1889. 328 808; Mon
tana, Nov. 8, 1889, %32,159; Washing
ton, Nov. 11, 1889, 340,390; Idaho,
July 3, 1890, 82,385; Wyoming, July
11, 1890, 60,703; Utah, July 4, 1896,
276,# X6."
Help the Tenants,
The Southern Cotton association of
Georgia passed a resAution in their
convention last week in which all
landlords are "earnestly requested t.
contract with their tenants for a re
duction of 25 per cent in the amount
of lint cotton charged as rent, per
plow, and agree to take the difference
in rent between reduction in lint cot
ton and total amount charged in corn,
peas, wheat, oats or other farm pro
ducts; provided said tenants sign the
pledge to reduce acreage and guano
25 per cent for 1905." In commenting
on this resolution the Atlanta Jour
nal very truly says "it is more to the
advantage of the owner to get a smal
er quantity of cotton, as rent, for
which he can get good prices, than a
larger quantity which will bring
scarcely anything in the market. If
this resolution is religiously ac:ed upon
throughout the cotton country, it
will also result in that other great de
sideratum, a diversity of crops. In a
great degree the succEss of the pro
gram mapped out by the cotton aso
ciation depends upon the co-operation
of the landlords. They can not only
use their infiuence toward obtaining
a reduction of the crop, but they can
also make it possible for the renters
to hold their cotton for good prices,
thereby contributing to their own
prosperity quite as much as to that
of their renters." We c )mmend the
action of the Georgia convention to
all landlords. Tne plan suggested Is
the only one on which the renters can
assist in the great fight to maintain a
living price for cotton.
The Baby Is Doomed.
Dispatches from St. Petersburg con
vey the information that the revolu
tionary element of the socialist party
in Russia has decreed the death of
four more members of the royal fam
ily, including tlie baby boy who, if he
lives, will some day be czar of all the
Russias. Sergins was a known tryant
and a prover theif. He used his high
office to filch money from the pocketb
of the people. He solicited contribu
tions to add to the scanty comforts of
the Russian sdldiers in Manchuria and
turned the funds t2 his personal ac
count. He plotted and schemed
against men anid women of his own
blood for the sake of his personal ad
vancement. "But the baby," says
the Atlanta Jonrnal, "he has done
nothing to merit punishment. lHe is
interested in no greater problem than
the task of getting a chubby big tpe
into his rosy mouth. He has never
harmed anybody. Unfortunately for
him the accident of birth made him
the son of the czar of Russia. In the
name of common sense, his future is
unwelcome enough if he is let alone.
He will never know the democracy of
childhood. He cannot go about the
streets like most boys. He will never
know the delight of going to a 'kid'
party, where he could play 'King
William' and kiss the prettiest girl in
the room. Not for him is the demo
cratic pleasure of wooing and winning
a wife. The pleasure of planning and
toiling for a home will not be his.
When he is of a marriageable age a
solemn council of state will select a
wife for him. And he will live through
all his years in daily dread of the Knife
of the nihilist, the boom of the assas
sin. His lot will be a hard and unen
viable one at the best. Pity, and not'
hatred, should be his portion."
Destroyed Cloth.
A dispatch from Greenville says
harlie Crane, Tom Rigdon and a
man named Duncan, m111 operatives,
were arrested Wednesday morning by
heriff Gilreath and placed In the
sounty jail, charged with having bro- I
n~n into the cloth room at Monaghan 4
mtils, In the suburbs of that city, and
estroying nearly 81,000 worth of1
sljth, stealing .t pistol and also seve
:al pieces of cloth. The priscners(
ifirm their innocence. The cloth 4
2ad been baled for shipment, and in
,his condition it was an easy matter
o slash it with a knife to such an ex-(
lent as to render it unfit for sale.
sheriff Gilreath said that he thought 1
t least $1,000 damage had been done
o the property.
Three Drowned.
While boat riding on Lake Monroe
iear Smndford, Fla., Sunday night
dIiss Maggie Looney, of Thomasville,
la., Otto McElroy and Reese Boyd,
if Sand ford, were drowned. The
oung people left the dock at 10.30 e
. m. in a small row boat. Screams t
rere heard on the lake soon after but a
heir friends on the dock supposed the 3
'oung men were simply trying to
righten rhe young lady and never
[reamed of the true c~nditien.
larmed by the long absence of the d
arty a boat was secured and search- I
r went out bus found nothing. At C
ayligt Monday mnorning the boat e
ras found upturned not a hundred 1
ards from shallow water and the i
ree dead bodies were dragged from I
eanath the boat. r
SHOT DEAD IN ROME.
A Denver Teamster Killed a Man ad
Woman and Himself.
Chief of Police and Police Surgeon
Dangerously Wounded in Trying
to Capture Infuriated Man.
At Denver, Col., mad with rage be
causa of his defeat in a lawsuit In
which K. Fill, the man whom he pro
nounced his bitterest enemy, had been
victorious and ~swearing vengeance
against him and his family, George
Schistler. a teamster, armed himself
with a r:fle Sunday and started out to
do murder. As a result of the affray
three persons are dead, one Is missing
and three others are wounded,.two at
least dangerously.
The dead:
K. Fill.
Mrs. K Fill.
George Schlistler.
Missing:
A child of the Fills.
Wounded:
Dr. Frank Dulin, poii~c surgeon;
Capt. Win. Bohanna, chief of police,
wounded in leg; Mike Kelly, slightly.
The wi te of GeorgeSchistler is pros
trated ove: the affair and may die
from the shock.
Schistler had brooded over his
troubles with the Fill family, who
were Immediate neighbors, and an
nounced -that he would even up
matte's. Taking a rifle of improved
pattern, and buckling on a balt of
smokeless cartridges, he started for
the Fill home. Fl saw-Schistler ap
pro-caing and making threats. He
tried to avoid him by entering the
house, but Schistler sent a bullet into
his brain and Fill fell dead.
Mrs. Fill rushed to her husband's
side and received a bullet from Schist
ler's rifle, she too fell dead beside the
lifeless body of her husband. Schist
ler then set fire to the Fill home,
which was destroyed.
A son of the Fills Is missing and is
believed to have perished in the flames.
Satisfying himself that the flames
would perform their mission, Schist
ler returned to his home and barri
caded himself. In the meantime the
neighbors appeared on the scene, but
quickly retreated when bullets from
Schistler's rifle began. falling near
them. A telephone message was sent
to police headquarteis and an ambu
1 nce with Police Surgeon Dulin,
Capt. Bohanna and three officers hur
ried to the scene.
Upon the arrival of the officers and
before they could leave the ambulance
a rain of bullets tell about them Dd
lin and Bohanna fell to the floor of
the ambulance wounded. The condi
tion of the former is critical. The
driver reined his horses when another
shot from Schistler dropped one of
the animals to the ground. With the
assistance of spectators the wounded
men were removed from the scene.
A strong array of police officers was
then sent to the house and after a
furious exchage of shots the place was
entered and Schistler was found in a
dying condition. He died soon after
wards.
GONE BACK TO EATEENISX.
Returns to His Old Tribe and Be
comes Its Chief.
A dispatch from Huntington, Ind.,
says: The exr cutive committee of
the missionary board of the United
Brethren in Christ has dropped from
the rolls of the chruch Daniel Flick
inger Wilberforce, a native African,
who was brought to this country as a
caild and, after being educated, was
returned by the board to his old tribe
as a missionary. It is charged by the
board-that after a service of 25 years
as a missionary the negro minister has
been lured back to heathenism, has
become chief of his old tribe of devil.
vorshippers and has contracted plural
marriages In the wilds of Africa.
Neariy 50 years ago Daniel Kumier
Flick-inger, then secretary of tne mis
sionary ooard of the chuch, was in
west Africa on mission work. While
visiting a Congregational missionary,
announcement was made that a male
child had been born In the negro vil
lage. The host of Dr. Flickinger
chrnstened the baby Daniel Plickinger
Wilberf*"rce. T welve years later the
boy had been brought to America by
a returning missionary. Dr. FAck
inger accidentally discovered his
namesake at work at the missionary
house in New York. Dr. Flickinger
took the lad to Dayton, 0. The boy
was sent to school, then through high
shool and later to a medical college at
Cleveland. He married a negress at
Dayton. Later the two went to Af
rica to do missionary work among the
old tribes from which Wilberforce
came. Later the missionary and
f-mily returned to this country and
Wilberforce lectured throughout the
central States. His four children, two
daughters and two sins attended
Central college there.
Two sons are still in this country,
one at Otterbein college and the other
in the Dayton High school Wilber
force returned to Africa. The board
has been informed of his relapse to
heathenism, of accompanying plural
marriages and of his becoming chief
of the tribe. The venerable Dr.
Flickinger is much depressed over theI
backsliding of his protege, but sanc
Dions the action of the board.
Takes the Ceinesery.
Resident of Wh ting, Ind., are In
I gnant because John D. ?.uckefeller
ias bougut the village cemetery, east
>f the town, as an annex to the Sean
lardl Oil refinery. He needs the ground
'or his pipe lines from the east and
he cemetery will soon be honeycomb
d with ol pipes. What is to become
if the bodies has not been determin
d. The cemetery is well Improved
.nd there are m~ny beautiful monu
nents wmecn will have to be removed.1
itizens declare the Standard Oil comn
any could build Its pipe lines around
he cemetery and let the dead rest in
>eace.
Killed a Policeman.1
At Colon an American negro named
ohn Wells, from South Carolina, on
eing refused e d 'miteance to a dance
~nursday n:ght, shot and killed a
oliceman and wounded two ottier
'ersons. The murderer was arrested 1
.d probalely wini be sentenced to a E
erm of imprisonment in Chnrque jail ~
s there is no capital punishment in
~anama.
Fatal Hotei Fire.
At Island Fals, Me., fire late Fri- r
ay night destroyed Lhe Woocsmen's j
otel. The three-year-old daughter,
f Luther Hall, proprilor, was burn- C
d to death and three othe-s are be- I
eyed to be lost. Hall, tae father a
ras so badly burned in trying to save4
is child that he Is noc expected ta
Wants Cheap Cotton.
Many cotton merchants in different
cities of the &uth received letters
Saturday from Theodore Price, the
great New York bear, asking for
prices on cotton for immediate deliver.
les in New York. At present the stock
of spot cotton in New York is lower
than for' some months. This in the
face of the fact that the New England
mills are clamoring for the staple and
are unable to secure.it at the present
prices. The letter of Mr. Price is con
strued as ample evidence that ths act
ton mercbants of New York and other
northern cities are being pushed by
the mills, and as it is a matter of 1m;.
possibility to Induce the farmers to
sell, the conditions border-on the
acute. The answers that were for.
warded to Mr. Price were of such a.
nature as to impress him of the deter
mination of the farmers to hold their -
cotton wih even a tighter grasp than
ever. It is understood that the object
of Mr. Pnce's Injuries is to secure
enough spot cotton in New York In
order to continue the "bear" a..ove
ment, which the well known bear
leader is said to have very near to his
heart. The farmers are showing a
determination that is worthy of suc
cess. They are holding their cotton
with a grip of iror, and are not mak
ing much preparations for a crop the
coming season. Mr. Price was inform
ed of these conditions, and the letters
he received in answer to his inquiries
were couched in language that cannot
be misunderstood. Stand to your col
ors farners, and you will whip the
fight.
Allied With the Farmers.
The liberal contributions by the fer
tilizer companies to the Cotton Grow
ers Asstciation appeals remarkable,
at first blush. One of this assocIation's
avowed objects is to cause a reduction
in the amount of fertilizers used b
southern cotton planters. The News
and Courier says "the fertilizer comp
anies, however, take a broader and
wiser view. The southern farmers are
their chkf customers, not only .thIs
year, but in all years. Unless they
have ability to buy, the fertiliwme
cannot expect to sell. The farmrs
are striving to gain the position wbere.
they will have a voice in fixing the
price of their commodity. Other pro-'
ducers occupy such a -position no4 and
the farmers believe that as a cond
tion precedent to reaching it, Intelli
gent restriction must be placed abouti
production. The logic in thisisirres- -
tible. The fertilizer companies undet.
stand further that the reduction
movement Implies no fight upon them.
Curtailing fertilizers has no other ob
ject than to curtail the cotton crop of
1905. There is no disposition to lee- -
sen the amount df fertllzars used for2
wheat, potatoes and other crops.n
While the fertilizer comparties have
exhibited good busines judgement In
thus co-operating with the farmers,
they show a liberal spirit. They make.
it clear that they keep In mind their
mutuility of Interests with southern
farmers and give to the latter assur,
ance that they may be depended upon
as allies when the southern farming
Industry is menaced."
Rediuciog the &ereage.
We learn from papers of large cir
culation, like the Atlanta Journal,
which are in a position to know, that
reports from various sections of the
country Indicate that the saleof fer
tilizers throughout the cotton belt will
average at least 25 per cent less then
the uin i amount. In many sections,:
it appears, the reduction In lthe
amoun; of fertilizers bought by the
farmers is even greater than the. re
duction ia acreage, so that not only7
will the area of land planted in cotton
be considerably curtailed, but the pro
ductiveness of it will likewise be ap
preciably reduced. These reports from.
the manufacturers and dealers In fer
tilizers as well as from the transpor
tation companies, show that the farm
ers are following the program laid
down by the Southern Cotton associ
ation to the letter. In many sections
c f the south there ca'n be little doubt
that the 1905 crop will fall short at
least 30 per cent, and the 25 per cent
reduction will be very general. The
Journal says "from no county In nay
one of the cotton states have we heard
a discouraging note. It Is difficult to
believe that there are so many las a
hundred planters In the whole south
who are not thoroughly aware of- the
intents and purposes of the associa-.
tion. We, do not believe that so many
as a half of one per cent of all the
thousands of planters will do other
wise than govern themselves absolute
ly by the program which they have
idopted. The whole country, for once,
Ippears to be acting with unanimity.
And united action of this sort spells
meccess. When the cotton men of~ the
:otton-raising section make up their
minds to stick together, and wo work
bogether for a definite purpose, the
secomplishment of that purpose is In
;ight." __________
TE wildest fool proposition yet
made Is that which Is being sent out
in circular letters to the effect that
'a number of men shall travel through
Pexas at the proper time and collect
L great supply of the boll weevil;
;hen they will ride through all the
~otton states liberating the weevil
1ere and there for the purpose of
preading this cotton plague with a
new of insuring short yields without
egard to acreage or fertilizers."
The President has signed the joint
esolution of Congress authorizing the
eturn of the ciptured battle-flags,
~oth Union and Confederate, which
~re now in the War Department at
ashington. There are said to be
bout 500 of these flags, the most of
hich are Southern banners taken In
attle from troops of the different
tates. Under the resolution or Con
ress, they will be returned to the
tate from which the troops came.
TWENTIETH century physicians are
ather slow-going plodders, after all.
dingalese medical books of the sixth
entury are stated by Sir Henry A.
ilake, Governor of Ceylon, to have de
:r'bed 67 varieties of mosquitoes and
24 kinds of malarial fever caused by