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she usually answers me i'm
nediately and vociferousv
Often when she has been busy with her physical
culture exercises and Delsartean movements on
the horizontal bars trapeZe in the top of her big
cage, have tested her by quietly joining the crowd
of visitors in the center of the room before her
cage, and saying to her. "Pollyl Wah! Wah!
Wahl"
Nearly every time she stops short, gives instant
attention and joyously responds 'Wah! Vail
Wah!" repeating the cry dozen times while she
chambers down to the lower front bars to reach me
with her hands. When particularly excited she
cries "Who-oo! Who-ool Who-oo!" with great
Clearness and vehemence the two syllables pitched
just four tones apart. This cry is uttered as a
joyous greeting, and also at feeding time in ex-
pcctaton of food; but simple as the task seems to
be, really do not know how to translate its mean
ing into English. In one case it appears to mean
How do you dor" and in the other it seems to
stand for Hurry up!"
Polly screams when angry or grieved Just like
naughty child and her face assumes the extreme
of screaming child expression. She whines also
when coaxing, or when only slightly grieved. With
these four manifestations her vocal powers stop
short. Many times | have opened her mouth
widely with my fingers and tried to surprise her into
saying "Ah,' but with result. 1t seems i'm
possible to stamp the vocal-sound idea upon the
mind of orang-utan chimpanzee. Polly
utters two distinct and clearly cut syables and it
seems reasonably certain that her vocal organs could
The cries of the monkeys, balloons and 1emurs are
practically nothing more than squeaks, shrieks or
roars The balloons Several Species at least) bark
roar most eXplosively, using the syllable "Wah!"
1t is only by the liberal Interpretation of terms
that such cries be called language The ma
jority express only two emotions dissatisfaction
and expectation Every primate calls for help in
the same way that human beings do, by shrill
screaming; but of them ever cries "Oh"
All"
The only members of the monkey tribe that ever
spoke to in their native forests the big black
langurs of the Animaai Hills in Southern India.
They used to glare down at us, and horribly
every day Had we been big pythons instead of
they could not have said ''Confound vou!"
any more plainly vehemently than they
did.
1t is true that in those museum-making DAYS our
motto " AIS fish that cometh to tt; and we
killed monkeys for their skins and skeletons the
same other animals. My back-skinned Mucer
hunters said that the bandarlog hated me because
of my white skin but fancied that pure fancy.
AT all events, stalked silently through those
forests, half dozen times day would hear
awful explosion overhead startling to men who were
still-hunting big game, and from the middle branch
of the treetops angry and snarng black faces would
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guage. Through countless ~
generations the nosiest ami &yiS<Sassxxsl.
mails have been sought out
and killed by their enemies,
and only the silent
species have survived. Yet
all the higher animals, n
call the higher vertebrates,
have the ability to exchange
thoughts and convey ideas AB
and that is language
At the threshold of this
subject met by two interesting facts Ex-
ccpting the song-birds the wild creatures of to-day
have learned through instinct and accumulated ex-
perence that silence promotes peace and long life
The bull which bawls through mile of
forest, and the bull elk which bugles not wisely but
too well, find their heads hanging in some
Eastern diningroom while the silent Virginia deer
like the brook goes on forever
Association with through countless genera
tions has taught domestic animals not only the
fact of their immunity in speech, but also that
often there is great virtue in a vigorous cry With
a peculiar staccato neigh the hungry horse jars
the dull brain of its 1aggard master and prompts
him to feed and water the stock" But how
different is the cry of lost horse, which calls for
from afar. 1t cannot be initiated in printed
words but every plansman knows the shrill and
prolonged trumpetcall of distress that be heard
a mile, understandingy
And think of the vocabulary of the chicken
Years of life in nominal security have developed
creditable vocabulary of calls and language cries
The most important, and the best known are the
following
Beware the hawll" -"Coor Coor!"
llurderl Help!" -'Kee-oovki Kee-ozOki Kee-o1ki'
Come on = luckl Cuck Clucki'
Food herel Food" -" Cook-cook-cook-cooki"
Announcement -" Cut-cut-cut-dah-cutl
But does the wild jungle-fow1, the ancestor of
domestic chicken, indulge in all those noisy
expressions of thought and feeling? BY no means
l have lived for months in jungles where my hut
surrounded by jungle-fowl, and shot many of
them for my table, but the only vocal sound | ever
heard from their small throats was the absurdy
shril bantam-like of the cock And even that
led to several fatalities in the ranks of GdAttS
stanieyi
Domestic CATTLE swine and fowls have each a
language of their own, and as far as they 90 they
almost cear-cut and understandable as the
talk of human beings Just how much more is
behind the veil that limits our understanding we
cannot say; but no doubt there is great deal
But it is with the language of wild animals that
most concerned As already pointed out
wild creatures other than song birds do not care
10 say much, because of the danger of attracting
enemies that will externlinate them. Herein lies
the extreme difficulty of ascertaining how wild
beasts communicate. In the Anmallai Hills of
Southern India | hunted constantly for many
weeks through forests actually teening with big
game There herds upon herds of elephants
bison and axis deer, many Sambar deer, monkeys
by the hundred, and good sprinking of bear
wild boar and tiger
We hundreds upon hundreds of animals but
with the exception of the big black monkeys that
used to swear at us, l almost count upon my
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but while she laughs under
her breath and all over her
face until she gasps for
breath, she never yet has re-
warded my efforts with even
one vocal syllable.
Our Polly is the most
affectionate and denonstra-
tive chimpanzee that | have
ever seen, and she has the
greatest vocal powers. She
knows me well, and when |
greet her in her own language
she usually answers me i'm
mediately and vociferously.
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BIsHoPvILLE NEWS ITEMS.
From The Vindica$or.


An election for beard of trustees
for the Graded School will take place
on the second Tuesday in April.
Mr.. Brainard Gregg, of Marion,
brother of Rev. ". A Gregg, was
over on visit to relatives here last
week. It has been many years since
he has been in this section.
Mr.. ". D. Carnes has bought the
right annex to the BishoIville hotel
and will move it on his lot at the cor
ner of Church and Dennis streets and
will convert it into model cottage.
At a meeting of the town council
held last week, Mr. W. e. Rogers
was reelected chief-of-police and
Messrs. Groom, R. A. King and E..
W. Woodbam were elected policemen.
Mr. j. g. Rhame was reelected clerk.
The physicians of Lee county met in
the Office of Dr.. L. Fl. Jennings last
Friday, March 24th, and with the
assistance of DR.. Walter Cheyne, or
ganized County Medical Society
with the following officers: President,
Dr.. r. Y. Mcleod, Vice President
DR.. A. G. Baskin, Secretary and
Treasurer, DR.. L. H. jennings, dele
gate to State Medical Association,
DR.. J. B. Bulluck.
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CAMDEN NEWS NOTES.

Camden, April 2.-We attended the
second quarterly conference of the
Rembert and ST. John Circuit at ST..
Johns LAST Monday March o. Rev.
q. B. Browne, Presiding Elder
of Sumter was at his best, and preach
ed one Of his best sermons. Rev S.
Fl. Booth, pastor of this work, made
good reports. The circuit is building
a parsonage, at SmitbvilIe.
We note in travelling that farmers
are pushing their work, for all it is
worth" There is not class Of peo-
pie on the earth wi th morepush and
vim than farmers. The hardest class
to discourage. They plant aud work
not knowing what the result will be.
If they make good crop, and prices
are good, they will rejoice, if not
they live anyway, and do the best
they can. They are, in sense, more
to blame for their present condition
than the cry of overproduction, or
speculation. If they would learn to
slive at home" as far as possible, and
not owe their crop. before it is plant
ed, they would find in the fall that it
would not make much difference what
cotton was selling for. Just as long
as they buy corn and bacon, they will
live from "hand to mouth We
have always said that no good farm
er will bay corn.
We are having delightful weather
some will commence planting cotton
is week.
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SWORE away A MANS LIFE.
Evidence Manufactured to Con-
vict r. A. Adams of the Murder
of Henry Jacques in Collie
ton County.

Columbia, April 4.-The affidavit
Of Mrs. Mary r. Adams, the 20-year-
old wife of R. A. Adams brother and
daughter of Henry Jacques, Tor whose
murder r. A. Adams mad been sem
fenced to hang but who has new been
granted a new trial on after discover
ed evidence alleged to be revealed in
shis affidavit, uncovers 6 remarkable
condition down in Colleton. Mrs.
Adams swears that when she came to
her fathers house Immediately after
the shooting she exclaimed that she
expected the tragedy, as Adams had
been carrying a gun for Jacques who
had shot him some time before. The
following morning Martin Jacques
and Hogan Dodd called her in room
andEtold her that she was to swear
against Adams. "That on the follow
ing morning. the affidavit, says,
"Mr. Martin Jacques and Hogan
Dodd called her in the room and Mar
tin Jacques told her that they had
heard that she had said that she heard
Adams say that he intended to kill
her father; deponent replied that
she had heard Adams say no such
thing, but stated that she expected
it. I was then told by Martin Jac-
ques that I must swear to certain
things against Allie, that if I did not
40 so he (Adams) would kill all Of the
family, my mother and brothers.
They also told me that my husband
had said that he intended to kill me
for going over to my mothers house.
All of this scared me and told them
would swear to what thew said.
They told me what to say before the
Coroner's jury and I did so. [ was
told by my mother that should not
60 back to my husband, and from that
day until long after the trial of
Adams I had no conversation with my
husband, although be asked to see
me. I was not allowed to see him
unless, someone was present. Every
thing said before the corGper's jury
against Allie, saying that he intended
to kill or whip my father, was IN
true.'' The affidavit goes on to re-
late how she swore falsely also at
the preliminary, being prompted by
Martin Jacques who stood in front
of her and made signs which were
arranged before band. In the circuit
court John 0. Jacques made signs
for her until the lawyers objected
and he was removed by the court. In
view of the woman's startling ah-
daeit statement, from John o., and
Martin Jacques, from the girls moth
er and from her husband would prove
very entertaining reading, but these
don't seem to be talking for publica-
tion just now.
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MAN.

Max. April 3.-Mr. j. Thos. Kirby
and daughter, Miss Maud, Of Coium-
bia, are visiting his sister, Mrs. >.
"a. M. Carroway. Mr.. kirby came
down by private conveyance and will
visit relatives and friends In Sumter,
Clarendon, Williamsburg and Flor
enee counties before returning to Co
Jumbia. Miss Maud came by rail
and giu spend sometime with hei
aunt.
4 few folks have enjoyed eating
shad recently.
Mr, Hoyt Tomlinson and Misses
Hettie Temiinson and Eva Moore,
went to Timmonsyills Wednesday.
Mr. S. G. Carraway. Of Timmons-
vile, visited his parents at Max Sun
Mrs Will Langston and Mrs. K.
Lanpston, of Florence county, visited
4he formers sister, Mrs. W E. Nc
Bride Friday
A number Of strangers and visitors
@sre seen and welcomed at Bethe.
Saturday and Sunday. =,
Rev. 4. G. Bailey, OF Iimmonsv!lie
preached at Beulah Presbyterian
chnrch Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Lucille Brockington is yer!
s Mrs. S. r. Chandler is with he1
am Sam, who is very sick at Alcot u
One grandmother was pleased q
haln dinner plates yesterday for elgh'
grand children.
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PRIVATEER.

Privateer, April 4.-Corn planting
is over and some of the early planters
are planting cotton.
Miss Talulah Ramsey spent last
week with relatives in Wedge6eld
and Stateburg.
/: Mrs. E. W. Rivers, Miss Minnie
Rivers and Miss Elma Geddings visit.
ed relatives in Pinewood last week.
Mrs. DR.. Parlor, of Wedge6eld, spent
Saturday at Rev. T. P. Lides.
Miss Elma Geddings, Miss Edna
Ramsey and Mr.. NJ. E. Rivers spent
Sunday in Sumter.
Mr.. G. H. Miller, the popular
Southern Railroad Agent, at Tourney IS
has accepted position in Columbia
and the vacancy has been admiralty
filed with Mr.. Mack Jackson.
Mrs. L. B. Jenkins, and little
daughter Marie, are visiting relatives
in Sumter.
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PIsGAH.

Pisagh, April 1.-This is not in
tended for an April fool" but in the
regular line of the old work.
I Contrary to expectations March
went out like lamb, the most quiet
month we ever experienced. There
has been only about two OF three
windy days. and they not hard ones.
More work was done in March, On
the farm, than I ever saw, for none
was done scarcely in January and
February owing to the cold and wet.
Corn planting is over and cotton
planting will commence next week.
This shows what rapid progress has
been made.
I notice where corn is planted,
guano sacks are scattered. This shows
when the fertilizers have beeen put
and not all fol cotton as generally be-
lieved. Oats, will get some too.
The finest oats I have seen are those
Of. Mr.. E. E. Rembert. He top
dressed with common fertilizer.
A disastrous forest fire ragged here
Thursday and Friday this week. It
started in the woods of Mr.. T, P.
Sanders by some one putting it ont
carelessly He had his entire woods
burnt over and his loss in timber is
heavy. Mr.. B. II. Boykin also lost
heavily and came near being burnt
out. J. E. D1Pre, lost rails, straw
and timber, and came near, with
his neigbbors, of meeting more severe
losses. So great was the fire that it
burnt through wide branches just like
dry land. The flames in some places
running to the tops Of the trees.
This is the most severe fire we have
had since February 1897 fire day, ;"
all over the state.
Grippe has played havoc with this
section, but as yet no fatal cases.
/ hear of smallpox scattered around,
but it will be closely guarded. If
general vaccination takes place, Who
is to do the work on the farms! Peo-
pie can't work with sCre arms, and
cotton will go up sure enough. 1t
will not be good policy to attempt
general vaccination now There is
not as much danger of spreading in
the country as in the towns and cities.
The land is getting in places, very
hard and good rain is needed es-
pecially on oats, and gardens. a 10:
of land was broken up with big plows,
and this was packed by the big rain
sometime ago, until it is as hard as
unbroken land.
Early cabbage look fine, and the
prospect for fruit, is very good. The
trees are covered with young leaves.
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sTATEBURG.

Stateburg, April miss Valee
Mazyck. of Charleston is the guest
of Miss Helen Frierson.
Mr.. E. R. Murray, of Sumter is
visiting at Mr.. W. L. Saunders.
Miss Matte Gibson spent Saturday
and Sunday at home.
Messrs. Tom Richardson and
Singleton Moore, of Sumter spent
Sunday with Mrs. James Pinckney.
Miss jamie Nelson returned on Sat-
urday from Fort Motto, where she
has been visiting relatives.
TaaMr. f. P. Burgess is spending a
few days at home.
Mrs. S. E. Nelson leaves on We'd
aesday to visit her daughter Mrs. F.
b. Mcleod, of Florence.
Mr.. S. b. Ramsey spent Saturday
and Sunday with his daughter, MRS.
S. R. Cain, of Pinewood. Mr. Ram
sey was accompanied by his sons,
Masters Hall and Sam Ramsey.
Mr.. Matt Moore is at home from
the Medical College, OF Charleston
Miss A. M Barnwell, spent Sunday
at home.
Mr.. Early Mellette spent Saturday
and Sunday at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ Dick, of Sumter
spent Sunday with friends here.
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MANCHESTER.

Dark Corner, April 3.-Corn plant.
ing is about done. Some say theJ
want to plant some cotton next week,
but it is too soon for this scribe, fol
think cold weather is not DONE
The prospect for a fruit crop is fine,
so far. !,
Mr.. j. E. Johnston has been quite
sick with pain at his heart, but is
getting better.
We have had a great deal ofSick-
ness. such as grippe, but all are bet
ter.
Mrs. Joe L. Bartlett of PineWood,
visited her brother Joe Johnston last
Wednesday. g
. Mrs. Joe q. Geddings. Of same
place visited here yesterday.
s. Mr.. Lee Geddings, of PineWood was
to see Joe Johnston last Thursday.
attended the funeral of my old
friend r. q. Griffin last Sunday at
Pinewood. The interment was at the
EPfnewood Cemetary. The funeral
services we're conducted by Rev. T..
Il. Beadenb bough. Dir. Griffin was an
old Confedreate solder, about Ga
years old. He served through the
whole war, FIRST In Col. Brown Man
nings Company, Hampton Legion
then in Co.5 23d (Benbows) regi-
ment, S. G.. Volunteers. a young
wife, who was a Miss BWarwck,
sister of C.. r. Barwick, formerly Of
Sumter, and FIVE small children sur
viYe him. He was twice married, his
first wife was Miss Julia a. Childers.
= ~.
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though by taking chattle mortgages
on everything in sight.
It is pity such grafters couldn't
be run out Of the county.
EDWARDS.

EDWARDS.
Edwards, April 4.--Messrs. Frank
and Arthur Stafford, of Dalzell were
in the community last Sunday.
The farmers we4s busy planting
corn last week.
The White Oak school at this place
which was taught by Nh. T.. W. Mum
nerlyn closed yesterday. Mr.. Nun
nerlyn is an efficient teacher and was
much liked by all the scholars.
E Mr.. and Mrs. George Livingston, OF
Saluda have moved into our commun-
ity. Mr.. Livingston is foreman of the
work on parsonage which is being
constructed at Smithyille. The
health Of the community is very
good.
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WEDGEELEID.

4
Wedegfeid, April 4.-Some of our
planters went over to your city yester-
day to hear the politicians speak, and
those that were cussing out Johnnie
when he was our Republican Senator,
were whooping for him yesterday.
If this organization doesn't accom-
plish anything more it will help these
politicians to pull themselves out
of the mire..
Well, somebody has to take the
lead and make an effort towards ac-
com plishing the purposes of the or
ganization, though vide publicity is
given the opinion of some farmer
down in Bamberg county. 81 remem-
Der now'' his name is Brabham, can
some one tell US something of this
Olar prophet, a man who told the
world few years ago, cotton would
be higher. Why he should have had
seat in the New York cotton ex-
change long ago, else he should be
employed by the governments as a
cotton expert. -:
What an imaginative mind he must
have. I guess in his dreams he can
see thousands of mules in the Atlanta
and St. Louis markets being driven
to the cars for rush shipment to
southern farms.
He says, 81 am afraid that the
Southern Cotton Association will
do more harm than good"
This much of his saylng's might
come true if the opinions of such as to
be given the prominence as bas beer
given his. What right has he to
iudge, the South by Bamberg county?
If the whole county was planSe1
! in cotton and there was new bought
mule to every five acres, would that
necessarily mean a 100000 bale
crop.
Granting there is a mere possibility
of his guess coming true, do We want
to publish it to the world. I don't
think such statement are required by
the bylaws of the Southern Cotton
Growers Association.
Some of the planters around here
have reduced the acreage planted last
war and some have not.
The large land owners and Planters
are obliged to plant certain amount
| of cotton in order to have work for
the day laborers, and the smaller
planters who rent are obliged to do
likewise in order to pay rent liens,
etc, and what right have we to ex-
pect such seasons as we had last year.
Last year was the first year since
1897 chat Middleton township made
anything like an average crop of cot
ton.
Miss Annie Dwight went to Colum-
bia on Monay for two weeks stay
| with relatives. e-.. @.
After pleasant visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Single
ton, at DR.. F. NJ Dwight's, Mrs. W.
R. Rhodes left for Chattanooga,
Tenn, on Monday, accompanied by
MI. W. R. Rhodes who stopped over
on Sunday.
Miss Fanny Sumter, of Sumter,
spent Saturday and Sunday at Dr. F.
NJ. Dwigft's.
Mr.. j. G. Troutman now of Flor
ence, is at home for few days stay.
The jewellers in town had better or
der supply of material for repairing
watches, for two agents have just
taken their departure after spending
two weeks in our midst letting out
is-z. Thorn
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. LIFE INSURANCE FIGHT
James H. Hyde Determined to Fight
to Bitter End to Control Equitable.

New York, April 1.-James H.
Hyde, vice president of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, who must de-
eide today whether the internal war
in the company's affairs shall cease
or continue, met a group of reporters
this morning upon arriving at his Of
fee. In reply to the question as to
what he intended to do, he said may
be he would issue a statement regard
ing the affair later. From friends Of
the young man it is learned that the
fight will go on to the bitter end.
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IONA.

Iona, April Mrs. Patience At
kinson died here yesterday and will be
buried at Antioch church this after
noon at 4 o'clock Mrs. Atkinson
was "a years old, she lad been sick
only few days with grippe.
Mr.. j. D. Galloway, of Bishop
vile is on visit here for ii few days.
Mrs. JAW. Davis, is very sick with
grippe.
Corn planting is the order of the
day here now.
The farmers are letting their cot
ton 60 on the market from here.
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Toxic, March 2s.-Twenty thousand
Russian prisoners of war taken in the
fighting about Mukden have already
arrived in Japan. Unofficial revised
estimates Of the japanese casualties
in the battle Of Mukden Telling place
number $1,000. General Mayeda, who
wa wounded at Mukden, is dead.
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The Right Name is Dewitt.

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salye cools,
eoothes and heals cuts, burns, boils, bruises,
piles and all skin diseases. X. L. Zlcke-
foose, Adolph, W. Va. says: MY little
daughter had wtite swelling so bad that
pieces of bone worked out Of her leg. De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve cured her." 1t is
the most wonderful healing saive In the
world. Beware of counterfeits. Sold by all
druggists.
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For a Weak Digestion.

No medicine can replace food but.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
will help you to digest your food. It is not
the quantity of food taken that gives
strenth and v1gor to the system, buf ;the
amount digested and assimilated. If .rou-
bled with weak digestion, don't fail to
give these Tablets trial. Thousands
have been benefited by their use. They
only cost quarter. For sale BIZ ell drug
gists.
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A Tried and True Friend.

One Minute Cough Cure contains not an
atom of any harmful drug. and it has been
curing Coughs, Colds, Group and Whooping
Cough go long that it has p. oven itself to
be tried and true friend to the many who
use it. Sold by all druggists.