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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-25

pool advancing K to I'd. The wet weather.
Of course, delays the curing and moving OF the
Bought ScS R1oR SOw S 4 r1st Goo S go i Sa.Sssls M q deem.
Der.
out as well as expected. The cash market
at the West was hrm with a fair demand:
chicago got only 100 cars. iPcludinS u O on
bush.
But II soon became apparent that the buying
wheat M@ WeSk tT e4V corn Followed, especially as
the demand to coyer fell on. The short inter:
est Ia belle we'd to be extensive. but, the. size OF
demand deters operations on the long side OF
the account.
TIE OATS POSITION.
Some early advanTe was due partly to tas
larger the offerings were small. CHORD ana
Updike were the largest early, sellers, The
The buying was rather large. Tho bad
weather and the scarcity OF cars seem 60
point to rather small receipts for a time.
in Company ar "a" With the rest Of the list. The
cash demand was quiet and responses TO
requests for n bids sent to E1 n lar, ann fT Susie
ness out Of the question, especially as Canadian
offerings are , cents lower than the Amert:
can; Chicago got 's4 cars, including " OF
wheat on the $40. was dull: Sales.
1000 bush. No. 2 red, .Hc; under December.
intS, SIC. over: No. 3 hard winter. Hc. over.
Futures closed 1c: to nc; lower Sales
Open HIGH Lou CLos- Prev.
RR:;y.ns..:~:"5: q IL Il
Oats were quiet. Sales, $1,000 bush.
Natural white on track. 80 20 10 lbs. asTn
40c.: white clipped. % to IS lbs, SEQ SIC,
mixed. % to 81 lbs, 3sc. Corn vas more active
in elevator BIIsd 55c. Futures closed un-
changed to 70. higher. No sales. Closing
prices a. follows:
Open Rdoh- Lou Clos Prev.
ing. est. est tnd. Cbose.
January -.,...... e, $50. ,..s oU ~
The movement was as follows:
New york, What Corn. Oats. Rive. B1nISD.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-01-17
$4,000 Reward.

OUR NEW DISCOVERY MEDICINE
COMPANY of Laurens. y. O., has mann
factured and sold thousands of bottles of
OUR NEW DISCOVERY within the last
three 60 years with an absolute GUARAN-
TEE with each bottle for all Blood and
skin Diseases, Nervousness, Liver and
Kidney troubles, and offers $4,000 re-
ward 10 any person who will prove that
they have ever failed or refused to comply
with the terms of the Guarantee. Sold by
Crawford Bros.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-01-17
Attacked.

Says Mrs. Nancy Stoddard of Fountain
Inn. s. g.. | was attacked by hat terrible
monster you call Rheumatism. OUR NEW
DISCOVERY was recommended to me by
our druggist, and after taking two bottles,
that great monster of trouble and suffering
was forced to take it's flight. l gladly re.
commend it to any suffering with Rheuma-
ISM. Sold by Crawford Bros.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-01-17
|Brice Law Constitutional.
The Supreme so Declares
Decision Unanimous.

The Supreme Court of the
state has decided that the fam
ous Brice law, under which dis
p]ensaries are being voted out by
counties, is not unconstitutional.
After stating the cases in which
the question was raised, the
Court says:
"On each of these cases
brought in the original jurisdic-
ton of this court the question is
raised as to the constitutionality
of the act, commonly known as
the Brice act approved Decem.
Der IS. 1894, amending section
Z OF the general dispensary law
approved March CISCO. After
careful consideration this court
is of the opinion that said act is
not unconstitutional on any of the
grounds alleged except in so far
as said "Brlce acI' declares that
ANY county voting out a dis
pensary shall not thereafter re
ceive any part Of the surplus
tn at may remain of the dispen
sary school funds after the defici
encies in the various county
school funds have been made up
as provided by law" While the
court considers this provision
unconstitutional the court is OF
the opinion that it is s~eparable
from the remainder of the act
and that said act stands as con.
stitutional with the provision
treated as stricken out. This
conclusion renders it necessary
10 set aside the temporary ia
junction granted in the five above
entitled cases, restraining the
closing of the dispensaries there.
In mentioned, and also that the
temporary injunction granted in
the remaining those above en-.
titled, restraining the comptroller
general from drawing his official
warrant for the several sums
arising from the surplus Of the
dispensary funds as therein
mentioned be dissolved and the
comptroller general left free 10
disburse the SAID fund as il
would have been disbursed be
fore the enactment of the said
Brice act, aud it is so adjudged.
The reason for these conclusions
will be stated in an opinion
hereafter to be filed.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-01-17
Serious Accident to a Child.

Kershaw special in Sundays
State:
A little child of Mr.. r. r.
Williams, who recently came in
from Nova Scotia, fell and broke
It's leg one day this week. DR..
w. q. Twitty was summend and
reports the child is getting on
very we'll.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-01-17
e e n Gents Fixed, by
Unanimous Vote, as Price
of Balance Cotton Crops
Acreage to be Reduced by
Diversihcaton in G p
Bank e S and Merchants
Stand by the Farmers.

declaration for Is cents cotton
with production in the form OF
diyersitication, was practically
settled at the afternoon session
81 the convention, when Chair
Eaan Daucey, OF The committee,
on holding, in advance of the
presentation of its report, an
Dounced that the committee had
unanimously decided favorably
Oh that proposition. The an
DOancement provoked the con-
yention to a whirlwind of cheer
ing. The premature announce
Nent Of the conclusions of the
committee was forced by advice
from New York to the effect that
newspaper dispatches and Wall
street reports printed and circu.
lated there indicated a lack OF
harmony among the elements
making up the convention and
aissensions over the 15.cent
proposition.
SUPPORTED BY BANKERS AND MER-
CHANTS.
President Jordan brought the
matter before the convention
He referred to the reports which.
he said he was informed appear
ed today in all the New York
papers as "bear DOPE" evident
~ manufactured by agents of the
specalators, who we're sent to
Hingle with the delegates of the
convention.
The report that the convention
did not have in its purposes
plans and WORK, the hearty sup.
port, sympathy AID cooperation
OF every bank and merchant
present, he declared to be abso
a0tely without fouuiation.
Alexander II. Smith, of Green
county, Georgia, Urged the send
Dg Of a telegram announcing
shat the South neeaed no money
rom Wall street. Dut had it to
lend. He said the five banks in
his county were pledged to abso.
lutte support of tn, farmers and
shat not anotheI bale there
would be sold under Is cents a
pound.
7. E. MassengaI., of Georgia,
moved that the pr -ident be in
NFucted to send "a statement
Iough the Asso. lated Press
J. the bankers, y rchants and
fers yer in pesrect unison OF
ut and that ID correct the
nents to the contrary circu-
ny Wall stree. bear operat-
"ho were dom all in their
20 break 10 he Cotton
s. organizaIon.
g resolution VS. adopted.
GCH TRADE WITH THE ORIENT.
= Mr. Goodwin, 0. Georgia, said
IL was evident tn. New York
vas beginning to al ticipate from
she construction Of he Panama
canal, the transfer TO New Or
leans, Galveston ao1 Mobile Of
supremacy in the r,cn trade with
'he Orient. "Wh-u these PEG
pie find they can no longer con.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1906-01-17

that l will live long enough tt
help whip them back into IT,"
This sentiment provoked the
convention TO amusement and
cheers.
Mr., r. Dancey, chairman Of
he holding committee then said
hat in view of the reports which
had been circulated in the East
of dissensiOn in the convention,
he desired to announce III adj
vance of its report, that the com
mittee was unanimous in its de.
cision to ask the convention tt
stand by the proposition that the
Southern farmers hold their cot.
ton for Is cents. Further, he
said, it was 10 ask the committee
on acreage to join it in another
plan for 10 per cent reduction il
acreage in the form of diverifica-
ton and a 10 per cent reduction
Of fertilizers in the old states.
The enthusiasm with which
the announcement was received.
left little doubt OF the sentiment
of the convention.
BANKERS RESOLUTION.
Chairman Walker, OF Sparta,
Ga, who presided over the
meeting of the bankers today.
then announced that the bankers
had enthusiastically adopted the
following resolutions
"The Southern bankers, in con
vention, congratulate the South
ern Cotton Association on the
success which it has already at
tanned in it's efforts to maintain
a fair and equitable price for the
South's staple crop, and, recog.
nizing that the interests of the
farmers, bankers and business
men of the South are in epar
able, therefore, be it
"Reso. ed, First, That we,
the repre- natives of Southern
bankers, herehv renew our ledge
of moral and financial support to
the Southern Cotton Association.
in their efforts to carry out this
purpose and
Second, we urge the lmportan
ce of a better and more complete
system of warehousing and car.
ing for cotton.
President w. P. @. Harding,
of the First National Bank Of
Birmingham, Ala, spoke on the
Farmer, Bankers warehouse.
man."
An address on THE Newspa
per and It's Relation to the
Southern Cotton Association"
was made by MIR. H.. Y. Brooke,
of Luverne, Ala, and then
Chairman White presented the
report of the committee on fore.
ign trade relations. 1t Endorsed
that made by the standing CON
mittee.
FOREIGN COMMISSION.
The latter, signed by ex-Sena-
tor McLaurin, as chairman, said
the committee met President
Roosevelt and cabinet officers in
Waehinofnn after tho Loaf
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
New Chinese Methods.

Chan Chun Man, head of Canton
firm employing over ten thousand hands,
has been studying American industries.
In Philadelphia, apropos of the Chinese
awakening, he said: China has for
thousands of years been highly enough
civilized to despise war. Her newborn
respect for war is not an unmixed good.
There is, perhaps, little of degenera-
ton, of barbarism, in it. But at least
China will no longer be the laughing
stock of nations more warlike than her.
self. 1t will no longer be possible to say
of her, as a Chinese general once ex-
planned defeat with the following re-
port: The ignorant enemy, unaware
that guns could not be fired against an
object behind them, came upon us from
the rear and thus rendered all our can
non useless"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
Re.Using Old Shoes.

Janitors collect the shoes cast away
by tenants and send them to auction
rooms, where they are sorted into piles
marked Men," women" children"
In a recent sale in one of the big
cities, says the "Shoe Retailer" several
poor people made fair bids, but the
auctioneer did not seem eager to sell
Finally, a red-faced man pushed bis
way through the crowd and offered 10
cents apiece for the whole lot. His bid
was successful
II was killing time with talk waiting
for that fellow" said the auctioneer
afterward. "He always pays high for
these shoes and he does not want them
for wearing, either. He wants to beat
them out for the leather in them. He
gets what material there is, puts il
through process and makes stamped
frames, bags, pocketbooks, penl1nife
holders, and even chair backs and seats.
He finds a ready sale for these novel
ties and gets good price for them"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
MRS. THEODoSIA BEACHAM.
A Manager of Men.

hills, filling gulches, setting and lamp
ing ties and laying rails. The work
demands that she be skillful man
ager of men. She knows man as few
women do-she directs their energies,
gets out of them the most work pos
sible, pays their wages, employs or dis
charges them. Men, mules, steam
shOvels and dynamite are her Obedient
agents. Necessarily she is a financier,
talks and figures in the hundred thou
sands and the millions as readily as
most men talk of dollars. In the par
lance of the street she long ago made
her stake and today is accounted the
richest woman in Michigan and one of
the very rich women of the world.
She has made estimates and carried
out contracts on some of the longest
and heaviest pieces of railroad con-
struction in the country. Though her
occupation is strenuous it would do
Mrs. Beacham rank injustice to say
that it has roughened her. There is
certain set of determination and firm
ness about her features, but her man.
ner is feminine, and so are her tastes.
She is such a good judge of men that
she rarely has any trouble with them
and it is not often that an employer
is so genuinely popular with employees
as Mrs. Beacham.
Mrs. Beacham has been making and
executing railroad contracts for TWEEN
ty years. She has two sons Claud and
Erwin and her husband, though living
is an invalid.
Much of this remarkable woman's
work has been done in the southern
states where railroad building has gone
forward with Titantic strides in the
last two decades and where a vast
amount of building is now under way.
On one contract with the Tennessee
Central railroad, Mrs. Beacham's profit
was $4,000, and it is calculated that
her average annual earnings are about
$4,000. The contract which she Is
now engaged in executing is the con-
struction of five miles Of railroad from
Kirby Station, Virginia, westward. 1t
is part OF a contract for one hundred
miles of the coal mine to sea rail-
road which was secured by Sands and
oliver of Richmond. These contrac-
tors sublet a short stretch Of the work
to Mrs. Beacham.
At present she is employing only
about one hundred and fifty men but
the proper control of this force and
the purchase of the necessary supplies
calls for the exercise Of no little ex-
ecutiye ability.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
Wild Geese Killed in Flight.

The southern migration of wild fowl
this winter was unusually late and re-
suited in many disasters. The wild
geese are reported from the northwest
to have been especially severe sufferers.
The large black-headed goose is a
strong, hardy bird, generally remaining
on its own native water until the ice
forms firmly: In the South it is only
a visitor for the winter months. Born
on some lake beyond the northern wa
tershed, or perhaps on some inlet in
Hudson Bay or the Arctic Ocean, its
heart is ever loyal to the land of its
birth.
Sometimes, when the cold weather
sets in late up North, as in all proba-
bility it has this year, the wild geese
suffer from their devotion to their ma
tive place. They may at this late season
fly right into streak of real winter,
with driving snow to blind their vision
and bitter frost to halt their flight.
If there is storm, their way leads
right through it, until the leaders eyes
are closed by the freezing of the snow
about it's head or its feathers become
too heavy weighted. When the sight
has gone and the birds are wearied, it
is easy to see how misleading is much
of the talk about the leadings of an
extra sense. Like ship without a
rudder, the V-shaped flock will make
for any low places.
Once flock came tumbling into the
street of an Eastern townships village,
where the half-blinded things became
the easy prey of the boys and the dogs.
In another place a farmer Glanced
one spring to find the frozen carcasses
of more than thirty fine geese in a drift
in one of the fence corners The birds
had evidently come to earth in some
binding storm, and, imagining they
were nearing water, found instead the
hard, snow-covered ground.
There are several instances recorded
Of focks of geese in storm running
full tilt into the ends or sides of farm
buildings. A large brood flew at full
speed against the rigging of the whal-
ing steamer Dart this month off the
Newfoundland coast A damp, snow
laden wind was blowing at the time,
and eleven dead or dying geese hut-
tered on to the deck, the others alight-
ing in half-dead condition upon the
waves
A more pleasing story is of domestic
geese in large, well-appointed farm
yard hailing with their hearty honks,
a short time ago, passing drove of
twenty-five black bills. The strangers
came down and followed their tame re-
lations into the stable, where they have
since stayed.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

look her in the face, but began to walk
at her side, forgetting to offer to take
her books as usual, until they had gone
some distance and ne made an awkward
attempt to relieve her, dropping half
of them on the ground in his confusion.
AS he stopped to gather them up the
fateful letter rolled out from between
the pages of one of the books, and
there was nothing for him to do but to
pick it up and hand it to her. "A
shamed, side-long glance at her lace
told him that his doom was to be set
tied. He walked along, waiting Tor the
verdict like a hero.
"Did you tell Jack Crawford to put
that letter on my desk?" the school
teacher asked, at last.
eyes, Miss Elmira," was all he could
say.
"Then I presume that you want my
answer?" was the next question deliv-
cred in a suppressed tone.
"I-I-come here to git it," Wesley
stammered.
"Then I'll give it to you now, and
it's just mop she said bluntly, not
slackening her pace and looking straight
ahead of her.
1t came like thunderbolt, even though
he was in measure prepared.
"Miss Elmira, I'm sorry, but"
81 hate Silas Mansur, and he had no
business writing that letter." she in
terrupted.
Wesley hung his head, his face
flushed to the roots of his hair.
Il didn't know you'd be able to tell
by the writin', deed / didn't; reckn
it warn't actin square, but Silas kin
write an"
Il don't care if he can WRITE" she in
terrupted again. do you suppose I'm
going to marry a man just because he
can write; and after all, I'd rather mar
ny the man / loved if he couldn't write
his own name than one / don't care a
straw about, even if you are so anxious
to make the match for Silas Mansur.
and thought you'd be the last one to
She broke off with a sob, turning to
dash away the tears that sprang to her
eyes.
Wesley felt the earth slipping under
his feet, the sky seemed a dazzling
crimson vortex whirling above him
through the dark tree tops.
''Miss Elmirap he cried at last, edo
you think that was Silass own letter
for it warr't, deed it warn't" he pant
ed. 1T was my letter, Miss Elmira
every word of it, only I got Silas tt
write it fer me, 'cause-'cause,-we
amt shamed fer you to know now,
can't write my own name"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

with half of his muscular power to re-
place a deficiency that he feared would
be an unsurnlountable barrier between
him and the young school marin.
1t was a common enough failing in
The neighborhood in which Wesley lived,
and six months before, the fact that he
could not write his own name, would
not have embarrassed him a great deal.
Since the school teacher had come into
his life, however, it had become real
thorn in the flesh. Vainly he struggled
with the little imps of the alphabet in
MS room by candle light when all the
other members of the household were
wrapped in slumber; but the goal OF his
ambition measured a distance that was
beyond the feverish impatience that pos
sessed him.
Wesley had been trembling on the
verge of a proposal many times and
would have committed himself long ago
but for this barrier. For the idea OF
addressing the school teacher in writing
seemed to have fixed itself in his mind
as being the only method of procedure
through which he could hope for re-
ciprocation. So il was an overwhelming
desire to settle his fate, coupled with a
hopelessness of attaining the educational
qualification of being able to pen his
own epistle, that led him to procure the
agency of another party, upon which
GRAND he was bound this afternoon.
The party he had decided to utilize
was one Silas Mansur. postmaster and
general groceryman combined; and as
Silas was under obligation to him foi
. small loan, Wesley thought he might
be glad TO have ii Cancelled IN this way
He had chosen a time of the day when
ne would run the least chance of en-.
countering loungers about the store, and
sure enough the coast was clear and
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
Royal QuarreLs Oyer Chess.

King Edward, we are told, is devel-
oplng an enthusiasm for chess. In that
case, according to a writer in Tid-Bits,
he is only following in the steps of
many of his predecessors on the throne,
including his namesake, the first Ed
ward. Says the writer:
Whether or not players were more
irascible in those old days than now, it
is curious fact that chess was often
more stimulating to the royal tempers
than is golf in these latter days, and
many game peacefully begun ended
in broken heads. When Prince Henry
-afterward Henry I-once paid a Wis
it to the court of France, she wan so
much at cheese of Louis, the kings
eldest some, as he, growing into chol-
Ter, called him Ga naughty name) and
threw the cheese in his face. Henry
takes up the chesseboard, and strake
Louis with that force as drew blood,
and had killed him had not his brother
Robert come in the meantime and In
terposed himselfe, whereupon they sud-
denly took horse and gat away"
King John in his younger days had a
similar experience; for game of chess
in which his opponent was one Fulk
Warine ended in a royal row, during
which Fulk gave the prince $50 grew
Gus a blowe as almost to slaie him on
the spot" John never forgot the blow
nor forgave his iracible opponent, and
punished him, when later he came to
the throne, by Withholding his heri-
tage-Whittingt castle--from him.
William the Conqueror more than
once lost his temper over the game,
and on at least one occasion with SER
ious consequences. He was playing
with the son of the king of France
when a dispute led to hot words, and
eliminated in William bringing down
the board SO heavily on his opponents
head as to render him unconscious.
Louis KILL of France was so infatu-
ated with the game that wherever he
went he was accompanied by his chess
board and men and invariably played it
in his coach when ne took drives
abroad. Charles 1. found. IL so fascin-
afing that ne almost literally played it
to the foot of the scaffeld; and when
once his game was interrupted by news
| that the Scots had decided to sefi him to
the parliament he proceeded with mis-