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BUROLAR SiENCE
Described by a Reformed Yegg
man in His Testimony
AGAINST HIS PALEm
He Says that South Carolina is an Easy
.Proposition ior Professional Bur
glars. Says Cracking Safes
in this State IsJust Like
Finding Money.
"South Carolina's tte easiest State
to operate in," said John McCarthy,
alias John 0. Dandrell, the reformed
yeggman, who has been given a short
respite from the Vermont State peni
tentiary to come to Charleston as a
State's witness to testify in the safe
blowirg and postoffice robbery cases
last week in the United States circuit
court, the remark being made in pre
facing a description of the manner in
which the yeggmen do their work.
During the past three or four years
there have been made robberies of
safes and vaults in pos:ottices and
banks in South Carolina, and McCar
thy was probably telling the truth,
when he made the plain and candid
statement, tae corroboration of the
many witnesses to his testimony in
the robbery cases, durir g the past
week, having shown that the reform
ed yeggman can tell the truth and
really seems desirus of making a
clean breast of his past and starting
life anew. McCarthy has operated in
many States in the Union, including
the distant California, Mexico, Ari
zona, as well E s the States along the
Atlantic seaboard, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Virginia, Massachu
setts, Rhode Island and Vermont, his
robbery of a bank at Newfane, in the
last named State a few months ago,
resulting in his conviction and a sen
tence of a term of seven years in the
pentiary at Windsor. His testimony
on this point is certainly competent,
and it m ght be better classed as 'ex
pert" testimony.
The statement that South Carolina
is an easy mark-"lt's just like find
ing money," as McCarthy went on to
explain-is not through any lack of
efficiency in the care of postotlices and
bank vaults in this State, but because
of the sparsely settled conditiun ccm
paratively speakirg, and the "open
character of the couatry," which en
ables the yeggmen to easily make
their escape, after a "j-ob," as the op
eration of breakirg an d robbing safes
is termed. In the more tbickly set
tled communities of the North and
West, the rubbers rat greater chances
of arrests, and when they find an easy
mark they naturally work it, and this
is why there have been so many safes
blown and robbed in South Carolina
during the past few years, and it fur
ther accounts for eleven men nio.
serving terms in the Federal prison a!
Atlanta, sent up by Postffce inspec
tor Gregory and the otther iynx-eyed
detectives of the Postcffilce Depart
ment, with the certainty that the
number 'will be increased by several
more convicts, as a result of the pres
ent term of the circuit court.
"The first thing we do when we
reach our base of operations, " saii
McCarthy, "is to secure a Cram's
map, giving the names and location of
banks in our vicinity, for we always
try to proceed intelligently in our
work, and the banks are more invitn
~ing than postoffices. A job is usually
done by four men, although some
times there may be three, but four at
least is almost necessary for a success
ful operation. When we secure the
map, we study the railroad time ta
bles and the general topograpical tea
tures of the immediate section. We
select the bank and one or more of
the gang will go 'scouting' to see that
the job can be safely pulled off. The
police protection of the town iS inves
tigated, and attention is given to the
movements of trains and general ave
nues of escape, as well as a place
where we may safely meet before be
ginning work. A man will go into
the bank or postcffice to have a bill
changed that he might servey the lo
cation of things and as the 'scouting'
is a most important part of the jrob,
It is always carefully attended to,
some times two or three days being
devoted to this work. The scout re
turns to the base, and acquaints the
party of his investigation, and if his
report is favorable, a time is then
fixed for the job and arrangements
made accordingly.
"The preparations of the nitro
glycerine is a matter of the first con
cern, of course, and let me say r ght
here, it makes a man awf ally sick to
handle it, even carrying it in a grip.
The fumes will turn a man's stomach,
and some times make him sick for
two or three days. On account of its
dangerous nature, we can't buy it,
and we are forced to extract it from
dynamite, which we usually steal from
a quarry or magazine, near the bass
of opeerations. We never start out
on a jb with less than a pint of the
explosive, for we need a least a Quar
ter or a half pint for a job. We take
about ten sticks...six inches long and
a half inch in diameter, crumble it in
a piece of cloth, and then place it sus
pended in a can of warm water. We
keep constantly renew the warm wa
ter. which gives the operation the
name of 'cooking the soup.' As the
gly cerine comes out of tue dynamite.
it being heavier than the watui, it
drops to the bottom of the can, and
when we have suf~ciently extracted
the glycerine, we draw cf the water
from above the expiosive by means of
a syringe. The glycerine is then
strained for we have to get out all
particles of dust, in order to make It
safer in hapdling and alt o f' r better
results, when we use on a safe.
"One man will carry the botrle of
glycerine and the tools, which c'nsist
of a few cakes of soap, drills and im
plements, but generally speaking, we
do not laden ourselves with tools, for
we always find a blacksmith's shop,
or a railroad section house at s me
point c .nvenient to the job, which we
break open and get the brace, sledge
hammer and a few chisels or crow
bars to prize the outside door of the
bank or postf ffice and then to operate
with on the bank or vault.
"In going to the piace we all do n .t
go together. One or two will make
some other point nearby, that the sus
picions of the conductor and tra-n
crew may not be excited. We drop
off the train as near tn gether, how
ever, as we can and then we make the
point of rendezvous, generally in the
woods at some point already agreed
upon. Much of our suecess depends
upon eluding the railroad people and
town authorities and this is not easy,
wrezi a train 14 in charge (,f such a I
man a, C !nduotor Blanc- ard, to whom 1
is more due than ary other person
that t e !aok at S. G -orge was not
rotbed, as was tcstited in court a few
days ago. A wide awake c'ndactor
will come near to putting Lff our job
at auy time.
"Tee time of operating is between
midwvht and 2 o'cl :ck in the morn
ir g. We time ourselves to begin work
about 12 o'clock. Well, the first thing
we do, upon coming from under cover
-and by the way, we don't bother to
d;guise ourselvcs with false beards and
all that sort of thing, usually held in
tIe public mind-is to take a stroll
through the streets about the bank or
postolfice. We look carefully. It may
be necessary to catch a watchman, gag
him and tie him up, but wa chmau
like to sleep when everything gets
quiet, and things are quiet in tbe aver
age country town at midnight. We get
the tools, and if our keys d.) not fit
the locks we then break open the door
and reach the safe or vault. Two men
stay on the outside to watch, while
the other two, with an electric flash
light, or dark lantern, get to work on
the safe. The importance of the men
on the outside is shown by the break
ers waiting on their signal for the
blowing of the safe. When the holes
have been drilied and prepared for
blowing it is the men on the outside
who give the signol for the act,
on the principal that if any sus
picious movement of an officer or
neighbor has been noted, the noise of
the explosion may be deferred until
things again become quiet. The report
of glycerine is sharp and quick noise
which especially commends its use,
for hardly does it take place than it is
all over and if it should be heard by
anybody in the neighborhood, they
soon turn over in their beds and go
back to sleep, believing that they
dreamt of the report.
"A safe is a 'pete' in the parlance
of yeggman. The two men on the in
ide get down on their knees before it
and begin work. They thoroughly soap
the crevices of the outside door, and
then begin to drill the hole for the
cotton, saturated with the glycerine.
Tae hole is drilled between the com
bination and the bandle, close to the
combination, first with a quarter-inch
drill, then, with a five-eight and next
with a half-inch drill. Into this hole,
is placed the saturated cotton, con
nected with a cap and fuse, which are
held in place with soap which also
deadens the sound. Then, everything
is ready for the signal from the out
side. It is given and the explosion
takes piace in the lock box on the in
side, breaking the lock and sometimes
forcing the coor off the hinges. The
operation of blowing the safe reqires
just a certain amount, for a too beav
ier charge of glycerine might knock
of the handle and jam the door and
give trouble. Once the outside door
is (if then the yeggman turn their at
tention to the inside sheet do'.;r, wbich
is called the 'keister' in the language
of the safe bowers. This is the hard
est door to open, and the blowers are
some times at their wits ends to get
on the inside. A hole is drilled and
the explosive is inserted. Another ex
plosion takes plaae, and probably only
one sheet oX. metal comes of. A bolt
is loosened or knocked out of place.
and into this opening another charge
of glycerine is inserted, and this op
eration is continued until the door Is
firnally down and the cash drawer is
rieli d.
"The work of blowing a safe re
quires abcut an hour and a half, and
immediately at its conclusion the gang
makes off es soon as possible. We
'strike across country' unless a con
venient freight train passes, never,
however, dividing the booty until day
light on the next morning. Some times
we have to bury the treasure, or a
part of it, and the tools having to be
hidden some times, too. When we
take the train we never ride more
than about twenty-five miies, when we
then strike across country, putting
further distance between us and our
pursuers. In burrying the tool bag or
treasure, we always carefully select
the place, making it easy of finding
upon our return.
"Dodging bloodhounds is done by
attaching a small piece of cloth, sat
urated with the oil of mustard to the
heels of our shoes. We used to use
vaseline with icdoform, but the trouble
about this drug is that we could not
get the smell off our clothes when
we wanted to do so, so the oil of
mustard is now used to advantage. In
dodging officers we have a merry time
of it some times being often forned to
face the music. It all depends upon
the character of the man or men at
the head of the posse."
McCarthy could not help but smile
as he thought of some town marshals
who have stood in doorways when
fired upon, and unon the yeggmen get
ting out of the way of harm, then
firing their guns in the air, making
great profession of earnestness and
vigilance to hold their jobs. McCar
thy can tell some interesting things
of what town officers have failed to
do, but this is not his business, or in
clination at this time.
There are many other Interesting
things that McCarthy can tell and did
tell to a reporter of Toe Even'ng Post,
which would make good newspaper
stories, but he Is now trying to live
down his past and the story of his
adventures in many States, with their
thrilling episodes and such sidelights
as he can cast upon them, are left un
repor ed at this time. McCarthy has
reformed. He has hopes of making a
useful citizen out of flimself one of
tnese days. He has been assigned to
the sboe manufactory departmr-nt of
his prison, a trade which he may fol
low when he bids farewell to the pris
on walls.
McCarthy will spend a part of his
time in prison, writing a story of his
ad ventures, which will be printed in
book form, and from the public in
terest which attaches to the bus ness
of blowing and robbing safes, the book
ought ti take well in -South Carolina
The term of seven years is a good long
while to spend behind walls of gran
ite, but McCarthy seems perfectly re
sign- d to his fate. He is determined
to be a better man in tha future, and
having broken off with his associates
he is certain to amount to some thinrg
in his re-oainirg days. He is a strong,
well built man of twenty five years
of age, and ~he will leave the prison
at an age when his faculties ought
to be well devalope d, and ready to en
gm:ge in an ii nest and bonorable vo
c-tion, as his whole purpose shows it
self now. His first ro-ibery was at
Norfolk, in July, 2898, and his last
has been committed.
McCarthy is a native of Philadel
phia. The names by which he is
known are his hobo names. He can
cot say now where he will finally start
hfP' anew, but he is bent upon de iog
better, and he bas no fears or doubts
that be will succeed in his purpose.
He f ars no assault by the men upon
-hom he has voluntarily turned
Sate's evidence, and mn this he prob
)utti ngz his former accomplices be2ind
:ie prison walls, and trusting that
:hey too might make a similar deter
rination to lead a better life a-d be
,ome u.eful citizens upon being again
;iven their liberty.-Charleston Post.
THE SADDEST WORDS.
Rev. Dr. Hillis' Opinion of Remarks
Of Young Rockefeller.
In the course of his sermon in Ply -
mouth church, Brooklyn, recently,
the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis
referred to the gift of $100,000 made
by John D. R'ckefeller to the Ameri
can Board of Foreign Missions, and to
Mr. R-.;ckefeller's son. He said in
part:
"The saddest words that have been
written in this generation were spoken
before Brown university by a young
man who is to inherit one of the
areatest fortunes in this country.
They were spoken in defense of the
trusts. Listen to them: 'The Am.r
can Beauty rose can be produced in all
its splendor only by sacrificing the
early buds that grow up around it.'
The rose has 1,000 buds and in order
to produce the American Beauty the
gardener goes around It with a knife
and snips 999 in order that all the
strength of the beauty may be forced
into one bloom. In his ec.nomic
argument this young man tells the
working classrs brutally that 999
small business men must hW snuffed
out of existence in order that his
American beauty, the trust, may be
produced. Listen to Christ: 'Let the
strong bear the burdens of the weak;'
and again: 'Give and it shall be
given unto you.'
'These words in defense of the
trusts are the most heartbreaking
things in the literature to those who
know what is g ling to come in the
fiture. Can you wonder that after
that, when a man gives gifts, we have
no gratitude to return?"
HUNDRED YEARS O WZATHEB.
Cold Days in Georgia and South Car
olina For a Century Past.
The following interesting clipping
frcm an old file of the Augusta Chron
icle si o is the cold days in Georgia
and South Carolina for the past one
rundred years. It will be read with
interest:
1804-Cotton killed in May.
1816-The cold summer.
18 18-Great drought, cotton 32 ots.
per p>und.
1827-28-Mild winter. Leaves and
co-tn w,. k1 e-.
1830-Great drought.
1835-February 7, the cold Satur
day.
1840-"Harrison freshet" in May.
3844-Another cold sit-unrer.
1849-Great sleet April 15th, kills
cotton and corn.
1851-January 21, second coldest
day known in the south.
1855-F:ne crop year. Hot summer.
1860-Largest cotton crop to that
date. Hot summer.
1862-Great fruit crop.
1864-Cold summer, no fruits.
186-Hot summer, no fruit.
1867-Great crop and great decline
in p-ic's.
1875--March 20, great cyclone.
1880-December 30, temperature at
zaro In Middle Georgia.
1882-Largest oat crop ever miade
in Ge rgia; corn and cotton crop
1884--Long fall drought, nearly
three monibhs.
1886-January 8 14, Intetise cold;
Savannah river at Augusta soldly
frozen.
1887--Hot summer; temperature at
1.00 in June and July and heavy rains.
1888-Wet summer; poorest crop
year ia many years; no fruit; great
freshest in Augusta; September 10th,
higher than ever known.
1889-Frost In upper Georgia, June
1st, and abnormally cool in southern
parts; drought in May greatly retards
crops; much cotton not up June 1C;
great peach crop, first in several
years.
Reilections Of A Bachelor.
A girl never underestimates the
Importance to the world of titles,
matinees and bonbons.
When a man retires from business
to take life easy, he has to get up all
the earlier to pull his son out of bedl.
There is something about a wo
man's hat that makes a man feel sym
pathy for the inventor of flying ma
chines.
You can always convince a woman
that it is more becoming for her to
wear her hair the way she does than
it would be for anybody else.
When you hear a man praising his
neighbors it's doughnuts to sfudge he
wants to sell his house.
Nothing gives a womans religion
such a jolt as the suggestion that she
got the husband heaven really intend
ed for her.
Now the summer girl will soon be
gin to freeze on to the reckless youth
who has a mania for squandering his
coin for Ice c-eam.
Kus~ed the Sheriff.
Sheriff J. M. Paag of Tate county,
Miss., was shot and killed Wednesday
by eight maske d men, names unknown,
who entered the jail and made an in
effectual attempt to lioerate James
White, a white prisoner who is to be
placed on trial on a charge of murder.
Oae of the invaders was wounded.
They gained an entrance to the jail
before Sheriff Poag was aware of it.
Poag (ordered them to leave; when
they refused to do so he fired, wound
ing one man. The others fired on the
seriff, two bullets taking effect, one
pasing the left lung. Tne men then
left, taking their wounded c mpanlon
with them. Sheriff Poag died an hour
later. Four of the men were arrested
later.
Died- Whbile Speaking.
At Atlanta, Ga., Washington
D.ssau of Macon, one of the most pro
minent members of the Georgia bar,
died Wednesday while addressing the
supreme court of the State. The cause
of the death was ap'plexy, which re
sulted fatally wirbia 10 minut-es after
he was attacke~d. Mr. Dessau was
born in Macon In July, 1852. He was
graduated fro'n the University of
Georga in 1870 and began at once the
,tudy of his professios. He was presi
:ent of toe Georgia Bar association
in 1892. a member of the electoral
aollecton in 1883, and was a delegate
as large from Georgia to the national
Dmocratic conven'rion in 1888.
Two Miners Found Dead.
A special from Gadsden, Ala , says
rwo miners, Bob Heald and Horace
Williams, were found dead In a coal
mine near Atalla Wednesday. Fifteen
miners lef t the mine Tuesday night on
account of bad air, but the two went
ack to inves: igate and did not re
urn. It is not known whether they
lied from. black damp or because hot
di was pumnprd intn the mine.
A LAST APPEAL P
To Cottoa Farmers to Reduce Their 0
Cotton Acreage,
And Save Themselves and All Other
0,
Business Men from Rank
ruptcy Next Fall. 6
t
The recent government report esti- q
mating the total cotton yield of last b
season at 13,597,782 bales should for- 0
ever dissipate any furtive delusions
on part of large or small planters t
that they can play fast andloose with t
their restriction determination and v
depend on fate and Sully or any other 5
factor to beat off a return of the low n
price era next fall, says the Atlanta s
Onstitution. Unless we are greatly r
mistaken in its gauging of the situa- c
tion, the agricultural interests of the s
south will grasp the full meaning of' i
this ominous report and cling to the
programme outlined by their state y
and general organizations as the one I
sure rock of safety for the coming t
season.
It is extremely probable that the i
total crop of 1904 05 will touch four c
teen million bales, with all of the cot- f
ton not yet in slight or otherwise un
accouated for. Of this sum a large I
proportion will be c nsumed, part of 1
it at fair prices and part at prices I
compelled by the bears in the time of
market distress. A large percentage
of the current crop will likewise be
held over and added to next year's
yield, if the present tenacity of the
farmers continues. 1
If, therefore, the south duplicates
this spring the acreage of last spring, 1
little imagination is required to fore- i
see that calamitous conse'uence. To
a degree, of course, the bumper crop
of last -ear was due to abnormal cli
matic conditions, which will hardly be
repeated in their entirety during the
impending season. It is a matter of
plain logic, however, to anticipate an
other overwhelming yield, should
there be no restriction in the 1904
acreage, even though the meteorolog
ical c-n'iitions of the two seasons
were at radical variance.
For the southern farmers t:) g- to
market next fall with a tirtee.z or
even a twelve million-bale crop, to
which must be aided the one or two
millions admittedly to be carried over,
will b- to precipitate, at the very be
ginning of the mark--ting season, the
disastrous prices which prevailed last I
Dece-mber. Indeed, with unm.crupulous
speculators armed by the middle of
June with the knowledge twat there
has been no perceptible decrease in
acreage, and with the anticicated glut
in the market from the present hold
ing movement, it would be by no
means surprising or unnatural if they
were able to tammer down prices to
anew low-water mark. Itis nec dess
to enlarge on the meaning of suca a
cattstrophe to every state in the
south.
Right now in the thick of the plant
ing season, when they have it in their
power to dictate the autumn prices for
their product more surely than the
most ingenious clique of speculators,
thaey must divest themselves of the fa
tal delusiorn that smehow, by scm3
unfathomable, mysterious necroman
cy, they can produce an overwhelm
ing crop and obtain for It the prices
paid for a smaller one.
The case is one of plain self-prc ser
vation, the confronting of a proven
candition, not a casuistic theory.
Whether from speculative jugglery,
the bona ide laws of supply and de
mand or any other agency, the pertin
ent, inescapable fact stands out that
a crop even approaching the dimen
sions of the cne of last year means
low prices and consequent disaster to
the farmers and the cotton states gen
erally. This being the case, it is not
only the duty, but the interest, of
every cotton farmer to reduce his acre
age radically, flinging finally from him
the temptation to do otherwise, Low
prices for one planter mean low prices
for all, a fact that should secure the
universal observation Of the restric
tion propaganda.
We have no intention of assuming
the hysterical pose of the alarmist.
But, in common with the most ob
scure farmer, we cannot view with re
lish the possibility of a repetition of
the old, haggard, low-price years. with
private and public crediit prostrate in
many localities, business stagnant and
development at a standstill. Yet, In
our sincere judgment, that is one of
the risks contingent on the produc
tion of another record-breaking crop
next year. We cannot believe that the
southern farmers, bearing In mind
these nightmare possibilities, will de
liberately elect to exchange for them
the comparative ease and affluence of
the last three years.
Fatal Saloon Brawl
Roy Joyce, a bartender, was killed
and John Doyle, one of the proprie
tors and a waiter, named Weston,
were injured seriously Thursday In a
saloon brawl, on West Tnlrty-first
street, New York. A party of meni
and women became disorderly and I
were ref used service. They refused
to leave and the waiter removed the
table. One of the men drew a knief
and began cutting right and left I
Joyce received injuries, which q aick
ly proved mortal. Seventy-five per- C
sons were in the place. Among those
who escxped was the man who did the C
cutting. William F. Quiney, one of t
the proprietors, and four waiters werec
arrested. All declare they used no
weapons, and acted in self-defence. c
The p3,rty causing the trouble was r
composed of eight women and two r
men who drank champagne freely. p
Race War in Kansas.
A dispatch from Offeyville, Kan-a
says a race war has been narrowly;
averted here as the result of an as e
sa't by a negro upon Mrs. John'Grif- s
fth (white), wife of a machinist. In d
anticipation of a clash the Mayor is
sued a prcclamation ordering all citi
izenis to disarm. and many special of
ficers were sworn In. Negroes have
been arming to prevent the lynching a
of any Innocent negro. Wednesday I
an attempt to daarm a number of fi
blacks resulted in a dozen revolyer, t
being leveled.at Chief of Police Smith's C
head. Other negroes rushed to the i
scene, but a body of whites stopped o
them with leveled rifies. Tnere were c
many arrests. Tue negro who as
saulted Mrs. Griffith Is still at large.
Killed in a Riot.
Five hundred shots were fired and a b
nuniber of men were wounded in a f
riot, which resulted in the death of a
t wo miners, Eliias Haukinen and John y
Eckdahi. at Hibbing, Minn., Wed- ji
nesday. The riot followed a strike of
miners at the Hull and Rust mines,
who were refused an advance of 25c a n
day. When the night crew went to d
work a body' of strikers armed with I
rifles fired. The miners returned the si
fire. This surprised the strikers who t
led, leaving Hankinen and Eekdahlj f<
dead on the gond.r I
RESIDENTS IN RETIRMEIT.
nly Ten Lived Longer Than Mr.
Cleveland After Leaving Office.
Only ten men who have held the
5ce of president reached or sur
assed Mr. Cleveland's present age of
8; only six exceeded it by so much as
!n years, and none exceeded it by
ulte 20 years. Only ten presidents
ave survived their retirement from
ce longer than Mr. Cleveland, and
)ur of these ived to a great age.
Washinr ', who survived his re
irement ,s than three years,
bought himself an old man when he
ras first made president at the age of
7. John Adams survived his retire
2ent a quarter of a century, and his
on, John Quincy, who outlived his
etirement nearly 20 years, was the
nly president who had nearly as con
picucus a public career after occupy
og the presidency as before.
Monroe's six years after his retire
2ent from office were passed in com
arative obscurity as a resident of
his city, and his dying hours were
mbittered by scandalous accusations
n connection with Jackson's seizure
f Spanish forts in Florida during the
irst Seminole war.
Polk outlived his retirement less
han a year, and there is every reason
o suppose that had Arthur compassed
its ambition of an election to the
>residency in 1884 he wouldhave died
arly In his term, for he outlived hi,
etirement less than two years.
Tyler, who outlived his retirement
0 years, emerged from obscurity nea
he end of his life to preside over the
rain peace convention on the eve ol
he Civil war. He afterward servec
n the congress of the Confederate
states.
Bucianan lived more than sever
ears after his retirement and tco
he opportunity to write what was it
ffect a defense of his administration.
Jefferson and Jackson were the onl3
>residents who exercised a really pow
rful influence over party councils af
er their permanent retirement from
uhlic office, though Van Buren wa
n active politician as lorg as he hac
iope of renomination at tae hands 0o
myi party.
Johnson was the only retired prest
lent to enter the United States sen
Lt>, and the younger Adams was the
)nly one to serve in the house of rep
esentatives.
Cleveland and Harrison have beet
he only retired presiden:s to be con.
icuou-;y successful in private busi
ess. It is not generally known ta
Ar. Cleveland still serves as consult
ng counsel in law cases, in wulch hi:
-xperience in the office of presidenl
nay be supposed to have given him
peial qualifications as an adviser.
Eis fees in such cases are large, a.
ere tnose of Mr. Harrison as a legal
Ldviser and a lecturer on constitu
ional law -Nw York Sun.
WH ,T ULLY SAYS.
Vhe Cotton King Gives Wise Advice
to Son.hern Planters.
'To the uotton Growers of the South
"If you wish to win your battli
mnd obtain a fair price for your cot
on you must reduce your acreagE
very considerably.
"You have surprised the world bl
~he manner in which you have hele
our cotton.
"Surprise it again by cutting dowz
tour cotton acreage.
"Do not be led astray by the pres
mt steadiress of prices.
"Three causes have contributed ti
aring about this rise of more than oni
3ent a pound.
"First: The urgent demand aris
ng from an unprecedented consump
3on.
"Second: Your courage and wis,
loin making the buyer meet you)
~erms.
"Third: The belief that you woule
mt your acreage to such an exten1
~hat the supplies from this crop ani
~he growth of 1905-06 would make
~ommercial crop no larger than thi
orld needs.
"The first two causes lose thel
orce the moment it is known thai
~here is a prospect for a moderatel3
arge crop next year.
"Even if the mills to~e 12,000,00(
ales during the current season, thiF
would leave a carry-over-of 1,500,00(
ales. Hence the necessity of a
imaller crop this year.
'Do not let any rise in prices be
sween now and the end of the plant
ng season deter you from reducing
your acreage.
"Such an advance would be merely
anticipating that you were making
ihe decrease which your friends have
6dvsed you to make.
"If the June report of the govern.
nent shows that you have failed te
nae sufficient reduction the only
ersons who would be gainers by the
,dvance would be the speculators who
ell out their futures at a profit.
"The price of the cotton you pro
luce will be regulated by the actual,
tt the expected, recuction.
"Don't depend on your neighbor to
1 the reducing.
"In this matter of acreage reduc
ion bear* in mind three saggestions:
"Don't rely on bid weather to cut
own tbe size of the crop.
"Don't put a large acreage Into
otton simply because it is too late
o plant corn or other diversified
rops
"It would be far better to let part
f ycur land lie idle than to run the
is of raising a crop so large as to
ake possible another period of low
riced cotton.
"am making this appeal to you
ecause I regard the next few weeks
a critcal to the south and because I
eleve that every man who is inter
ited in the welfare of the south
ould urge the importance of a re
uced acreage.
"DAsmIL J. StrLy."
Woman a Suicide.
The body of Mrs. Grace L-yomis,
rho claimed to be tbe wife of Charles
comis, said to be a millionaire, was
>und Thursday in a half-fiilled bath
ab n a fashionable boarding house in
icago. Frequent threats that she
itended to kill herself leave no doubt
suicide. Domestic trouble was the
inse.
Rattler Showed Fight.
An apparently dead four foot rat
esnake which Joshua Butler of Pitts
urg, Pa., brought to his home here
r its skin and rattles thawed out and
itacked his child. Miner John Mc
[ahon killed the snake with a club
ist in time.
The making of shoes for dogs has
ow leveloped into quite a big in
iastry and Is especially flourishing in
abrador. The dogs attached to
edges travel at a great speed over
2e rough ice and some protection
r the feet is necessary. The shoes
~e madea of seailrin.
ORANGIBURG BANK
Have Millions of Dollars on Deposit
in their Vaults.
The County Has Ten Banks, All ot
Which Are Doing Well and
Making Money.
The quarterly statesments of the
various banks of the city and county
of Orangeburg for the quarter ending
March 31, showing the quarter of
business on that day, gives an inter.
esting insight Into the financial condi
tion of Orangeburg County.
There are four banks in the city o*
Orangeburg as follows: Bank of Or
angeburg, Elisto Savings Bank, Peo
ple's Bank and Farmers' and Mer
chants' Bank. These four banks have a
combined capital of $210,000, and a
combined surplus of net earnings of
about $125,000 additional, which may
be classed as a. part of the captal.
These four banks had on deposit on
March 31, in r-und figures, three
qarters of a million d-Alars. To.
gether the combined capital surplus
and deposits of the banks of the city
aggregate considerably more than a
million dollars.
There are six other banks in the
smaller towns of the county, ten
banks in all in Orangeburg County,
and independent of capital and sur
plus there was about a quarter of a
million dollars on deposit in these
outside banks of the county on the
date of the statement. The aggre
gate amount on deposit in the various
ten banks of O:angeburg County now
foots up very close to a million dol
lars.
All of the banks of the county show
a steady ice:eaie in amount of de
posits, earnings and volume of busi
ness. The greater number of these
banks have teen organized within the
past few years, ani all are prosperous
and successful. In business circles it
is recognized that the business and
conditions of the banksof a cm muni
ty reflect cbe general - welfare and
business conditions of that c mmuni
ty. The showing above is taken at a
season of the year when there is gen
erallv a minimum rather than a maxi
mum amount of money in the c unty.
The best showing tinancially, as ,is
well known, can be made durng the
fall and winter months. Ten years
ago or evn five years ago nothing lime
the above showing could be made
from the s.atements of the .anks of
the county.
The business growth of Orangeburg
city, as well as its growth in building,
and population, during recent years
have been enormous, and the busi
ness conditions of the city, which L%
the c)unty seat and business centre ol
this large and fertile county, ri fl cs
a general advancement and prosperi
ty for the entire county that is noth
ing less than remarkable. Orange
burg County has had little outside
capital to come in to build up its
towns and communities is the work oJ
the native citizens and home capLa
almost entirely.
Orangeburg County is almost ex
clusively an agricultural section anc
the towns are almost entirely depen
dent rpon agriculture for their sup.
port. This fact is worthy of consid,
eration, and there are few large man
ufacturing establishments in the
county to accomplish big things or
-handle large sums of money. It ii
true that there are a few sucoessfu]
factories In the county, two success
ful cotton mills in the city, hat the
number Is exceedingly small for a
couty of the size and wealth of Or
angeburg County.
This county is a fair illustration o1
what is being done all over the South,
and the North and East may wel]
keep their eyes on the South for the
next decade. Greater things are yet
in the making all over the South, and
there is no finer field in the entire
Southern country for the investment
of capital and launching of business
enterprises than the county of Orang~r
burg and the city of Orangeburg.
A Brilliant and Darable Whitewash
This is kznown as the governments
whitewash, and no matter how often
it appears in print, there is always a
call for its reappearing. As it must
be applied hot to any surface, .it shouid
be made or kept in a large kettle or
portable furnace, in order to heat as
wanted. It is claimed that about a
pint of the mixture will cover a square
yard upon the outside of a house, if
properly applied and that It is suit
able for wood, brick or stone, answer
ing as well as oil paints, and being
much cheaper, and will retain its
brilliancy for years. Brushes larga or
small are to be used, according to the
neatness of the job required. Coloring
matter may be used, varying the tint
ings to suit the taste. N') matter
what quantity is desired, these are
the prop'ertions in which the ingred
lents are to be used. Half a bushel of
go'td, unslacked lime; slack with boil
ing water, cover during sne process to
keep the steam in; strain the liquid
through a sieve fine en->ugh to retain
all unslacked lumps. Dissolve a peck
of clean barrel salt in a little water
and add to the solution; boil to a thin
paste 3 pounds of rice (r ib flour would
be better) anod stir into this boiling
hot; one pound of nice glue, previous
ly dissolved (to dis'olve the glue, first
soak until sft, then put into a vesses;
immerse this vessel in another one
larger and full of boiling water, and
boil until liquid) in water, and half
pound of whiting. To this mixture
add five gallons of hot water, stirring
wel'; cover closely and let stand sev
eral days. When so good a whitewash
as this Is claimed to be can be so
chealy made, it is strange that any
farm-holder will live or let his stock
live In dark dingy quarters. Na w is the
time to begin in eairnest to improve
the home.
McLaurin Hit Hard.
In the Unilted States Circuit Court
at Charleston on Wednesday a verdict
for $41,639.28 was found against ex
Senator John L. McLaurin In the suit
of the International Trust company,
of Baltimore, on a promissory note,
the verdict being found by the jury
upon the Instructions of the court.
The suit grows out of the industrial
ventures in which the er-senator
engaged, upon the termination of his
career In congress. As president of
the Brunswick and Birmingham rail
road and vice president of the Bruns
wick and Wlestern Construction com
pany, Mr. McL-aurin gave his personal
notes to the trust company, being In
dorsed, however, by Frank A. Uim
stedt, who appears to have been one
of the promoters of the project, in
which the er-senator was connected.
The industrial concerns seem to have
been more on paper than in fact, but
the notes of Mr. McLaurin were valid,
even if the industrial projects were a
JAPS FOOLED.
The Russian Baltic Fleet Steam
Into the Chibla Sea.
AJOMIRAL PRAISED.
ie Planned His Voyage Well, and Not
only Fooled the Japanese, But Sure
prised the Russian Admiralty.
The Course of the Fleet
Was One of Daring.
A dispatch from St. Petersburi
says there was great rejoicing Sunda3
night at the admiralty, yacht anc
other naval clubs over Vice Admira
Rojestvensy's having successfully nay
igated the g teway of the China se
without encountering the Japanse
The danger of the fleet being beset b3
the wasps of the deep in the narro
waters which divide the breastwork 0
islands of the Malay archipelago aUn
the possible damage to the big ships
so precious in the coming encountei
with Vice Admiral Togo's fleet wa
so great Obat some of the naval ex
perts actually favored a route aroun
A ustralia. -The cradit for the strate
gem by which the feat was accom
plished, the Associated Press learns
belongs solely to Vice Admiral Rjes&
vensky, who accurately judged that a,
the Malacca straits were the mOs1
practicable as well as the most direc1
route, the Japanese would calculat,
that he would not dare try to force 9
passage there.
Besides this, Rojestvensky plannet
a strategem to deceive the Japanese
with the secret of which only two mei
in qt Petersburg were entrusted, b,
directing the Russian admiralty t
order the colliers which were to follov
bim to rendezvous in Sqnda straits
500 miles southward of Singapore
feeling sure that the Japanese intelli
zence department would be equal, a,
it probably was to the task of ascer
taining the destination of Rojestven
-ky, and thereby not only throw th,
Japanese off the scent but officiall
deceived his own admiralty, wheri
the news of the fleet having passe
Singapore probably created quite a
much surprise as it did the marin
department at Tokio.
Several colliers were actually dis
patched to the rendezvous and alread;
had fallen into the hands of the Jap
anese; but lBojesventsky deliberatel;
sacrificed them as pawns in a bigge
game. That the ruse worked is ap
pirent from the fact that Rojestver
sky did not meet a single Japanes
ship in the passage of the straits 0
Malacca, while dispatches from Bata
via tell of Sunda, Bali, Lonbo3
Flores and other straits to the souti:
ward being crowded with Japanes
toi pedo boats guarding the passages
The belief of the admiralty Is tha
Togo is waiting near the island C
Formosa, 1900 miles northward c
Singapore. At the rate the Russstal
squadron steamed from Madagascar
which averaged eight knots an hour
the greatest naval battle since Nel
son's victory at Trafalgar should oc
car in about ten days.
THE RURAL FR2EE DELIVERY.
How It a Developed Since the Sys
tern Was Started.
So successfully has the rural free de
livery system operated in the Unite<
States, and so indispensable has th
service become, that it has long ag
passed the experimental stage, and
new one of the every day business fac
tors of the country.
Probably the next unusual step I:
this regard will be the extension c
the service to Hawaii, Porta Rico, an<
the Pfilippine Islands. No route
hate as yet been established in th
Insular possessions, although one pe
tition from Honolulu, asking for th
establishment of a route from tha
city Into Waihal, was received ani
reported on adversely.
Following are some facts In regar<
to this poupular service, made publil
a few days ago, which are very Iiter
esting:
More than 5,000-new rural route
were established In the various state
and territories during the ten month
ended April 1, -and over 1,000 addi
tional routes were authorized and wi]
be put into operation within the ner
sixty days. At this rate, it will bi
but a comparatively brief time before
every rural cr'mmunity In the conntr3
sufcently populous to justify the
service will bave rural free delivery
Postmaster General Cortelyou said re
cntly that the present policy of ox
tension would be continued, and thal
there would be no change save that ai
effort toward economy would be mad'
wherever possible without curtailing
the service.
Oa April 1 there were 29, 996 rural
routes in operation as against 24,562
n June 30, 1904. Petitions for addi
onal routes to the number of 4 52:
are pending, and of these, 1,016 have
been authorized and will be startet
within sixty days.
Illinois still leads in the number of
routes, having 2,450, as against 2,1l25
at the last report. Ohio has moved
up into second place, with 2,161, as
against 1,816. Iowa held second place
ten montbs ago with 1,863, and now~
has 2,054. Indiana comes fourth,
with 1,894, as against 1,658. The
other states having a large number of
routes are as follows: Pennsylvania,
1.679; New York, 1,611; Michigan,
1.594; Missouri, 1,544; Kansas, 1,367;
Wisconsin, 1,203; Tennessee, 1,231:
Texas, 1,181, Minnesota, 1,141. Ne
vada has but 1 route, New Mexico but
3, and Wyoming but 5.
The Ninth Indiana district bas
more rural routes than any other Con.
gressfonal district, having a total of
201. The Eighth Indiana district
comes second, with 189.
Killied by Gas.
At New York four persons were
killed by illuminating gas Thursday
in a tenant house In the upper East
Side. They were Marry Rogers, 75
years old; Helen Clark, 12; Kate Clark,
10; and Elizabeth Clark, 7. Their
bodies were found by the father of the
three children, Samuel Clark, a truck
driver, who with his wife and young
son, occupied an adj Aning room.
When Clark awoke he smelled gas and
traced it to the next room, where he
found his three children and the wo
man, a friend of the family, dead.
The gas had escaped !rom a defective
CARE FOR NOT2E
Boys and Girle, In Her Old Age,
Don't Neglect Her.
What can possibly be sadder than
a mother neglected in her old age ?
To think of all the pain, sorrow,
trouble and anxiety she en(.-!ed for
us, her many sleepless nights and
burdened days when she held in her
arms the little feverish, fretful body
who would allow no one else to hold
It to relieve her own -weariness I
Then when health again returned it
was still a continual cry for "mama I
mama !" the livelong day! And then
to think that as the years paw -the
growing children will depend less and
less on "mother" till finally they
cease a'together to go to her for her
counsel and care, and think because
she is growing old, fade d and wrinkled
that she goes not care for love and
tenderness as all other human beings
do. They neglect to show her tbhe
small courtesies we :feel due our
younger friends, "because she will'
not notice them" or she is "too old-.
fashioned to understand" the up-to
date politeness. To us at least iti a
heartebreaking spectacle to behold, -.
for as "mother". grows older we
should give her more Instead of less
of our love and tender care, aid
should honor her years and expe
ience by asking her advice even on
trivial subj cts, for she will then feel
that she is still necessary to us
can have a share 'in cur daily trials
and joys as of yore, when she was al
in all to us.
Take my withered hands in yours,
Children of my soul.
Mother's heart is craving love,
Mother's growing old.
See the snows of many years
Crown my furrowed brow.
As I've loved and pet ed you,
Love and pet me now.
Lay your hands upon my head,
Smooth my whitened hair,
I've been growing old the while
You've been growing fair.yo
I have toiled and prayed for you
Ask not why or how
As I've loved ana petted you,
Love and pet me now.
7 Take my withered hands in yous,
Cnildren of my heart,
Mother's growing old, your love
Makes of life sweet part.
Touch with love my faded chee
Kiss my anxious brow.
As I've loved and p'etted you,
Love and pet me now.
Take my withered hands in yours,
Hold them close and strong.
Cheer me with a fond caress,
'Twill not be for long.
Youth immortal soon will crown
With its wreath my brow.
As I loved and petted you,
Love and pet me now.
Take my withered hands in yours,
This your heart will prove;
If you owe me anything,
r Pay the debt in love. -
- Prees me in your strong young arms,
Breathe a loving vow
B That as I loved and petted you
You'll love and pet me now.
Figures for the Farmers.
"A few of our contempararl
Ssays the Columbia State, 'are cn
tending that it.ls unfair'trquror
expect the snfall farmer to redc-i
Salready small acreage. We can show
that it is fair. moreover, as the grea
ter portion of the cotton crop Is prof
~duced by the small farmers, the sue
,cess of an organization of farmers for
crop reduction is dependent on their
co-operation. Another I3.000,000 bale
'crop this year will certainly ran prices
down to six cents. "Such a surplus
cannot be warehoused; the expansion
of foreign markets cannot be secured
by next winter. So, after cultivating'
and picking the crop It will sell for
not more than $30 a bale or $390iO00,
000. On the other hand a 10,000,,
000 bale crop will, In all probability,.
Sbe marketed for $50 a bate or $500,
e000,000. The expense of cultivatfonf
and picking will be much less than the2
cost of producing the larger cropM
and the actual sale price of the ten
million bale crop will be $11000,O0W
greater. N~ow if 13 bales represn'ted
Sthe full crop of a small farmer plais.'ie
SIng to provide his quota of a 13,000,$
000 bale crop, and the price was sfla
Scents per pcund, he would sell fer
$390. If, however, he reduced ar~.
age and planted to produce ten a $
or his quota of a ten millionba&
crop, his return at ten cents apon "
Swould $500. So by reducing his o.2
acreage, the smal' farmer would s~e~
the exiense of prcduclng threbl
Sof cotton and would make $110 moreL
than if he had grown the full crop.a
And if he planted in supply crops'C9
Sthat acreage representing his cotton
Sreduction, his profits would be even
Sgreaser. This is dependent, of coure,
on the farmers standing together and
1taking advantage of their opportunil
Sties. If they view the matter In the
Slight of a cut throat game, every mair
Sfor himself and poverty for-all, there
is nothing In the calculations."
The Thin Grey Line.
The forti.th anniversary of Appo.
mattox finds twenty-six veterans of
the confedierate army In congress.
An analysis of this representation is~
icteresting at this time when what ,
the Scuth calls its "old guard" is
gradually growing less. Out of the
eleven states of the confederacyseven -
are represented In the house and in
the senate by old Confederate soldiers.
South Catrolina and N1orth Carolina do
not appear In the list, but Kentucky,-S
which did not join the confederacy,
has two c.,nfederate veterans In the
'senate. Alabama, Florida and Mils
sippi each has two senators who
fought for the South, and Arkransas,
Louisiana, Georgia and Virginia each .
one ex-confederate in the senate. Five
of the twelve senators served In the
ranks. In the house the "old guard"
contingent Includes three from Ala
bama, three from Georgia, two from
Virginia, one each from Louislana and
Mississippi and two each from Texas
and Tennessee. Five states are repre
sented in both houses by confederate
veterans-namely, Alabama, L'ouisia
na, Georgia; Mississippi and Virginia.
The percentage is most noteworthy.
The eleven states of the confederacy
have twenty-two senators, and ten of
these fought for the cause which went
down at Appomattox. It will not be
many more years before the remnant
of the grandest armies that ever went
to battle will have joined their com
rades on the other sid3. Thinner and
thinner grows the ranks of the gal
lant men who followed Lee and Jack
son. Let us remember this and never
fail to honor the old heroes.
Too True.
The Spartanbuirg yournal says: "It
is noticeable that after all the talk
and protestations about "dirty mon
ey, " "ill gotten gains," etc. made In
co-nection with proposed gifts of
mi hionaires to religious and educa
tionial funds, the gifts are always ao.c
cepted. A refusal to accept one for