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; ' JT*iT/' GAVE IT AWAY. How Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Distributed the Bennett Fund. GIVEN TO COLLEGES. The Sooth Carolina College Qot Four Hundred Dollars of the Fond. Other Colleges in the South Were Also Given a Share of the Fund. Now that the ttennett estate j? Anally settled Mr. Bryan submits the following statement to the public: In tbe spring of 1900 Mr. Phllo S. Bennett,giving at New Haven, Conn., and engaged In the mercantile business In the city of New York, visited Nebraska and asked Mr. Bryan to assist him in preparing oertaln paragraphs of his will (all the other provisions be ing copied from a former will) The paragraphs referred to were: First, for a library at Salem, 111. (It provided for * bequest of 81,500 to which Mr. Bryan was to add SI,500 ) Second 10,0G0 to establish a fund at twentyAve oolleges, to be selected by Mr. Bryan, the annual proceeds to be used for a prize to encourage a study of the principles of free government. Third, 10,000 to be distributed among colleges, to be seleoted .by Mr. Bryan, the annual lnoome to be used to aid poor boys to obtain an education. Fourth, 110,000 do De oisixidumju among collages, to be selected by Mrs. Bryan, "the annual inocme to be used to awlsti poor .girls and obtain an education. Fifth, 950,000 to Mrs. Bennett, la trust tor a purpose set forth In a sealed letter deposited with the win. This sealed letter direoted Mrs. Bennett to pay the amcunt to Mr. Bryan (Mr. Bennett proposed It as a direct bequest but at the request of Mr. Bryan It was given to Mrs. Bennett in trust, because Its acceptance was conditional.) The sealed letter direoted Mr. Bryap to distribute the $60,000 among edufcalional and charitable institutions in case he refused to accept it tor himjeir ana lamiiy. me residuary legatee contested the three 10,000 Items and the t50,000 Item. The eourt confirmed the 910.000 Items bub oil technical grounds held that the 160,000 bequest was inoperative. The readers of The Commoner have already been informed of the main facts, namely, that the widow and other relatives were bountifully provided for; that the testator's intention was never questioned and that the oharge of undue Influence was with drawn; and that Mr. Bryan announced la the beginning that he would not acoept the bequest without the consent of the widow, but that he felt in honor bound to insist upon the dis tribution of the <50,000 as directed by Mr. Bennett Mr. Bryan was thus drawn into a contest In whioh he had but a remote and contingent pecuniary interest, ii v in fact he had any at all, but which ne 00illu nut in cjuauieiiuu buouuuu. The oontest cost blm a little more than fifteen hundred dollars for attorney's fees and court oosts, beside* travelling expenses and loss of time. Ip submitting his report as ezecu tor he claimed tne customary fee 92, 500, explaining that the amount would ' not bo used by him for himself, but would be spent in completing the plan* made by Mr, Bannett. Tbe fee was allowedLby the probate oourt and wat used as follows: Fourteen hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-three cents was used to pay that part of the inheritance tai which was not covered by Interest, sc that the 11,500 library fund, and the three $10,000 funds might be used is full. Three hundred and fifty dollar* was given to the city of Salem as an endownment for the library (Mr. Bryan besides giving SI, 500 to the Salem library gives the site, worth considerably more than $350 ) Two hundred dollars has been deposited with Mr. Sloan, Mr. Bennet's surviving partner. W> pay ior a euro 01 air. jwjunebt 101 the Salem library. The balance, 1460,67 1ms the cost of filing reports, will he paid to Eev. Alexander Irvine, Mr. Bennett's pastor, to be used by him in the edueatlon of his sons. The three $10,000 funds have been distributed as follows: BJENNETT PRIZE FUND. Four hundred dollars eaoh to the following colleges: Delaware College, Newark, Del. Bowdoln College, Brunswick Me. A. and M. College of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. University of Tennessee, Knox vl lie Tton. St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. University of Montana, Missoula; Mont. University of Utah, Salt Like City, Utah. University of Washington, Seattle, TT Ull University of South Dakota, Yernullion, S. D. University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Nevada State University, Reno Nev. University of Colorado, Boulder, ri Colo, South Carolina College, Columbia, 8. 0. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. Yale Unlterslty, New Haven, Conn. Brown University, Providence, R. I. University of North Dakota, Grand ForkB, N. D. * University of Pennsylvania, PhilaIdelphia, Pa. Prinoeton University, Princeton, N. J. Each college is to invest the amount recei fed and use the annual income for a prize for the best essay discussing the principles of free government. 11 Mr. Bryan had already established similar prizes in nineteen states acd the twenty-five colleges selected fir the Bennett prize were selected rrom Tl other states so that every state but one now contains a college giving such 1 a prize. MR. BRYAN'S FUND FOR BOYS. The fund for the aid or poor boys desiring a college education was distribute.! by Mr. Bryan as follows: qu One thousand dollars to Illinois t0 College, Jacksonville, 111., and 9750 . each to Park College, Parkville, Mo., f1 and College of William & Mary, Wil? liamsburg, Ya. Also $500 to each of the following colleges: Doane College, Crete, Neb. Howard College, East Lake, (Near Birmingham, Ala) _ Hendrix College, Conway, Ark Tuskegee Normal and Industrial . ^ Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. tVl ? ^ ?? ui.. r\ Kenyon uoiifge, uamuier, v/- j MusklDgun College, New Cjncord, Ohio. b, St. O.af College, Northfield, Minn. Hillsdale College, Conway, Ark. Univeraltyof the South, Sewanee Tenn. J?1 Trinity University, Waxahachie, L Twaa. B'pon College, Bipon, Wis. ,. Nazareth College, Muskogee, I. T. fh Hope College, Holland, Mloh. . Butler College, Indianapolis, Ind. Sutherland College, Sutherland,Fla. dQ M R8_ BRYAN'S FUND FOB GIBLS ge The fund for the aid of poor gins desiring to obtain a college education th was distributed by Mrs. Bryan as fol- W lows: $500 to each of the following lii colleges: It Georgia' Normal and Industrial Col pe lege, Milledgeville, Ga. ho Eureka College, Eureka, 111. fu Hastings College, Hastings, Neb. ra Wesleyan University, Buohannon, Yl W. Va. th Henry Kendall College, Muskogee, I. T. bt Williamsburg Institute, Williams- M burg, Ky. , tu Wesleyan University, University th Place, Neb. to Baylor University, Waco, Ter. hi Iowa College, Grlnnell, la. bl Talane University of Loulsana, New Orleans, La. er State Normal and Industrial Col- W lege, wreensDoro, ?>. u. a* Hiram College, Hiram, O. ac Kingfisher College Kingfisher,O. T. B: Academy of the Visitation, Duba- es i que, la. 40 Williams Industrial College, Little iei i Bock, Ark. ar Ering College, Ewing, III. ni Bethany College, Llndsborg, Kan. er i University cf Arizona,Tucson, Ariz. University of New Mexico, Albu- m querque, N. M. pr The Mississippi Industrial Institute se i and College, Columbus, Miss. , ar i As the boys who are helped by the ac fund are to return the money to the or . college as soon after leaving college cli , as they can convlently do so and as 50 the money when so returned is to be th advanced to others the aid extended tr will oorstantly increase. The girls tb ' aided are asked to do the same, but It tb not. required of them. B' In distributing the prize fund pre- oc 1 fere nee was given to state universities tr : c xoept where the state contained some bi 1 college of greater Importance. tu In distributing the funds for the hi 1 aid of poor boys and girls preference was generally given to the smaller 0f 1 colleges?the same amount of money gn going father among these colleges. gi All the principal denominations ar were recognized in the distribution? it I a little partiality being shown the tli ; Congregational colleges because Mr. qi i Bennett attended the Congregational er i ohorch. te i Two colored schools were included t and one of the other colleges has a & ) considerable number of Indians en- er [ rolled among its students. The var- tr : ious funds were so distributed that in qi ) at least one college in every state and ei > territory between the two oceans a w i permanent Bennett fund will perpet- es i uate the name and recall the gene, rosity of Philo Sherman Bennett. Ve Mr. and Mrs. Bryan of course re fx L ceived no compensation for distribu ting these funds but they are richly 1 rewarded for the little they have been able to do by the consciousness ta that they have aided a friend to make x a valuable contribution to his own ti and subsequent generat'ons. The ca [ Bennett case has given Mr. Bryan a e great deal of artaoyanoe and some of b< , the republican papers have maliolouB- he ly misrepresented the facts but It is ci l over and the money seoured for ediica- re tional purposes will prove a oontinu- ^ ing blessing to thousands of boys and girls, while tbe annoyance will soon Wl 1 be forgotten. D Fireman Killed. ta Seeking to escape death from soald 1( ing steam p During from a bursted ( arch pipe, Frank Dix, a negro fire- . man on engine No. 212, jumped or fell from the cab Thursday morning at fC 3:20 a. m. about fourteen miles out of y. Charleston on the Atlantio Coast Line ! i railroad, and was dashed to hip ^ath 0 at the side of the track. The *nest * of the fireman was crushed and his w ribs smashed by tne impact 01 nis do; dy striking tbe ditch bottom from the flying engine. Engineer Meyers saved himself from injury by leaping j through a window of the cab onto the boiler of the engine. f2 to Work of a Fiend. Mrs. G. W. Moore, wife of a well known and prosperous mechant on trt Peach tree road, near Atlanta, was as- w saulted by a negro Thursday morning. u 1 The track bounds have been following tbe negro all day, but at a late hour Thursday night he bad not been cap- tt tured. The county polioe continue the uj oonrn.h ftnrj a. larcrft nnsfip. and all mem- H, bers of the county police foroe will ^ take up the hunt. There Is consider m able excitement In the community, m where the crime occurred, and It Is m feared the negro will be lynched If caught. Mr. Moore has offered t200 er reward for the capture of the negro. pe Killed by a Train. At Phlladelphin Pa. Frank Clyde head of the shipping firm of William P. Clyde and Co., was killed by a rail- P1 road train at 52nd street Station on I the Pennsylvania railroad. Clyde ^ was seen standing on the platform ap- 811 parently waiting for a train, FABMERS FJRIEND. ie Partridge Testroyes Many Noxious Weeds and Insects. iey Should Be Protected by I he Parmers, as They Destroy Many Things Injurious to Crops. The department of Agriculture has lued an interesting bulletin on the ails of the United States thattenfs correct some popular errors regardg "Bob White," and is a strong plea r his preservation as an alley of the rmer. There are half a dozen varl les of quail In tbe United States, e handsomest being those of the uthwest and the Pacific slope, where ey are slate blue in color and handmely crested. But the principal inrest lo this best known of all game rds is that It is a valuable asset of e farmer and helpful rather than structive to the growing crops. A thorough study of the bird has en made by the department without idlng any evidence that it is harm1 to orops. It eats principally noxlis weed seeds and bups injurious to e crops. It does not trouble either e sprouting grain, as do the orows id blackbirds, and does not feed on e standing crops or forage among p. Rfcar.ks. When it does eat grain it only what Is gleans from the harsted fields. It prefers weeds and es not eat wheat and corn if It can t sumach, ragweed and bay berries. A close calculation was made by e department of the number of Bob hltes In Virginia and North Care* ta, the total approximating 354,820. Is known from a long series of exriments that the craw of the bird ilds about half an ounoe, of which lly 50 per cent is weed seed. At this te from September I to April 30 In Irglnla and North Carolina alone, e birds eat 3,341 tons of weed seeds. Among the inseots on which the rds hat dually feed arc the Bock ountain locust, In Colorado potato i?, the boll weevil, the cut worm, e army worm and two sorts of cot n worms. Tne chicks are even more ghly insectivorous than the old rd3. The department urges all land owns to realize the value of the Bob hite. It says that with proper manement some farms of 500 to 1,000 res would yield more revenue from >b Whites than from poultry. It is tlmated that between 300,000 and 0,000 sportsmen go out from the citi every fall to huat the Bob White, id this, of oourse, means a big revele, most of which goes to the farms. Paradoxical as It may seem, sportsen exercise a powerful Influence in otectlng the birds. Many big prerves are maintained where the quail e used only for field trials for dogs id are either not shot at all or shot ider very close restrictions. Some Qbs maintain preserves of 20,000 to 1,000 acres, and many sportsmen have lairnisn nronarvAfl ptcIuhI vpl v for doc ials. The demand for live quill for is purpose Is steadily Increasing, and lere would be a good revenue if the 3b White could be bred in captivity t any extensive scale. This has been led and has proved difficult, but the rds can be protected from their na iral enemies, snakes, skunks, owls, iwks and cats, and they can be fed. Eyery fews years, on the recurrencc unusually severe winters with heavy iOws which cover the food supply, eat numbers of Bob Whites perlsb, id sometimes in the northern part oi s range the bird becomes almost exact. This unnecessary loss of life iuld be largely prevented if land own s and others Interested would scatr a little grain In suitable places, bis is done In some localities, as at indy Spring, Md., where H. H. Milldrives over the snow covered c^uny scattering grain for the starving lail. The practice is worthy of gen al adoption. It Is necessary only hile the ground is snow-bound and peclally after sleet storm. The game laws In the several States try greatly, and in some States vary om county to oounty; but the detriment advises all States to limit leir open season to one month. The Department of Agrioulture obJned three pairs of Bob Whites from lasas, which after five month's oap< vlty are almost as wild as when first ged, and show no signs of mating xperi meats in the domestioation oi ob Whites are well worth trying, jwever, because of the demand from ubs and Individuals for live birds tc stock their grounds. So great has :come the demand in recent years tat it is estimated that 200,000 birds ould be required annually to fill it. urlng the spring of 1903 the demand x exceeded the supply, even at 85 a z n, and sometimes at twice that ?ure. The bulletin gives an interesting ,ble of the birds' food made from the rerage of many analyses. It' shows tat the chief part of the Bjb Whites' et is animal and vegetable mattei ' which the farmsr is glad to be rid, bile the damage that can be traced i him is absolutely negligible. Trolley Accident. A dispatch from New York says a maway street oar on the new Wilimburg suspension bridge across the ast river Tnursday caused injury tc venty-five persons, two probably faLily. For a thousand feet down the dine on the Manhattan approach oi ie bridge a Christopher street car ran ith brakes out of order until It hit id demolished a standing Fourteenth reet car, in which were seventy-five issengers. In the latter car most of ie Injuries occurred. It was ten minxes before the broked roof, sides and )or of this car could be taken off from ie last passenger, who was burled irier t.hft wreckage. John Holden, otorman of the Christopher street ,r, and George Bryld, an employee of le Western E'ectric Company, sufled fractured skulls and are not txicted to live. Will Visit Us. Secretary of War Bonaparte has omlsed to visit Charleston seme me In November or Decjmber, on ie cc?aslon of the presentation of a [ver servioe to the cruiser "Charlesn" by the city of Charleston! CLOSE GALL. I President Roosevelt in Danger by the Collision of His 1 i 1 SHIP WITH ANOTHEB I 1 _ - 5 Although Inconvenienced by the Acci* j dent and Delay the President was Unmoved by the Mishap, and Rerumed His Voyage Aboard Another Vessel. A dispatch from New Orleans says 1 at* 11 o'clock Tburday evening,through < confusion of signals, the fruit steam < er Esparta collided with the light- 1 house tender Magnolia, which was conveying the President, Secretary Loeb and Dr. Rlxey to the cruiser, * West Virgioia. The rail aid port 1 bow of the Magnolia were damaged . and two or three holes made In the hull below the water line. N) one 1 was hurt. The magnolia Immediately on being struck was beached, her ' bow being high and dry. After a i careful examination of the damage to the vessel, it was evident there was 1 no danger and the president and his party went to bed. I Maj Oraighill of the United States engineers-was aboard the Magnolia. TUo aViln t.ho Too ft oiat'.ar shin nf f.hft JUL A O (JJ-fclf) HUW J.* / I w M>?> r w* ?.? ~ Magnolia, had proceeded the Magnol- < 1& and was some distance abead. A i boat was immediately put t ff for the 1 nearest telephone, about a mile and a 1 half away, and the order given to head the Iyy cff at Pilot station and have her return for the president and bis party. The transfer was made at 3 o'clock Friday morning. The vessel got under way Immediately and tbe West Virginia was boarded on schedule time. The first news of the accident reached New Orleans by telephone early Friday morning In an appeal for help from Capt. Base of the United Fruit 1 company's steamer Esparta, wblch came from Nairn, La., near where the accident occurred, tils report gave no details. The Magnolia left New Or leans at 6 so Tnursa&y mgnc ana me Fiparta was due to arrive Friday at Ohalmette. The weather was fine, with comparatively little wind on the river. Immediately upon the receipt of the news communication was open ed with tug owners here and the powerful tugs R. Wilmot and B. D. Wood 1 left New Orleans shortly after 4 o'clock Friday morniDg with orders to go at full speed to the soene of th accident. ! Meantime, however, the president's 1 party bad managed to get in common icatlon with the lower part of the 1 river where It was known that the | lighthouse tender Ivy way lying. At 1 o'clock the operator at Pilot Town was rung up by Maj. Cralorblll, the government engineer, with orders that 1 the Ivy should be sent to 60-mile point with all possible speed. The Ivy lm1 mediately got under way and covered the 40 miles In rapid time. President Roossv^t, Secretary Lo b md Surgeon Rlxey, witl their bag( h ?. we e at onoe transferred and the Ivy proceed1 ed down the river. At 8.15 the Ivy passed Pilot Town on her way down, signalling that the president and party , were on board and that all were well. Tte Ivy reached the West Virginia at 9 40 and the president at once ' went aboard. The lighthouse tender Ivy returned from sea after putting President Boosevolt on board and stopped at Pilot Town. Those aboard 1 reported tbat the West Virginia bad sailed at 10.05. They said that the president was in exc.'llant spirits and unshaken by the accident. At the time of the accident at 11 o'clock the president, absolutely worn out by ' his strenuous experience in New Orleans, was fast asleep. He had ' turned in shortly after the vessel left New Orleans. The two ships were near the west shore when they came ' in contact in an effort to avoid run ning Into each otber. The prow of the Esparta struck the Magnolia on the 1 port bow. It was not known to wbat extent ' the Magnolia might have bten injured , and there was great naste in pushing her ashore. Both vessels grounded but the Esparta got off under her o*n steam and was found not to have su'? 1 fered any damage. The president 1 showed no excitement when Informed 1 of the extent of the disaster, though 1 he was somewhat annoyed by the probability of a delay because It was eviI dent that the Magnolia could not pro1 ceed on the way. He dressed immedi' ately and thcss of bis party hurriedly made arrangements for his transfer to ' the Ivy, which was Interc it .d and 1 brought back to the scene of the acci1 dent. Except for the loss of some sleep, the president suffered nothlDg by the collision. With the whole party transferred to the Ivy, that ves1 sel was speeded down the river, meeting. with' no further mishap. Drunken Conductor. , At Savannah Ga., E. A. Moore, a street car conductor Thursday after! r.nnn In an alternation with & Dassen ? ger, drew a heavy revolver and fired three shots, the first shot weot wild \ the second struok and kil'ed Mrs. F. ! F. Wheeler, and third went through i the thigh of 0. It. Seckinger, the , passenger involved in the altercation, t Mrs. Wheeler was sitting on her front i steps. The bullet severed her jugu' lar vein. Mrs. Jane E. Falrchilds jumped from the car, as did the other 1 passengers when the shooting began, i Mrs. Fiirchilds sustained a broken I shoulder from her fall. Moore was arrested. It is alleged he was drink- { i Ing. Died Playing Cbess. News has been received from the Philippines of the death of Thomas E Moss at Manila, a veteran of the civil war and at one time attorney general of Kentucky. He died playing chess with his son-in-law, captain Wheat, who is chief of the telegraph , division of the Philippine constabulary, Moss was born at Greensboro, N. C., in 1839. S A SLICE THICK Said to Have Been Work:d on a Farmer in Union. A dispatch from Union to the Char eston Post says is current here about i well known farmer of Burnt Facto ry, a remote scctionof this country, now having 1,086 more acres of latd jn Ms hands than he wants, and for which he paid a fancy pr;c>, all cn iccount of a slick talking min, who said he represented the Standard Oil Company, of Chicago. The story is that the straDger came to Union the first of the month, when financiers and mill men were meeting here, and registered at the Hotel Union. He was a man of rather nice appearance, clean shaven and about twenty-five years old. In s- ma way tie became acq minted with the farmer, who is about fifty years of age and all his life has been a bard working and frugal farmer, haying now ac quired considerable means. The stranger told the farmer he was in search of mineral lands for hie company, and after going over the farmer's land, said he wanted the adjoining place also. He asked the At! f < f f.K(a Kfl LiklUiCl uu uuu uut ia tuna wuiu kj\> bought and at what price, though not 60 mention him in it, as the owner might wish too muob, if he thought Ein outside man wanted It. Some days afterward, as the story continues, the farmer claims to have reported to his client that he could get all the land at $10.50 an acre, which is considerably more than it is worth, though he did not say so. The price seemed satisfactory to the stranger and he told the farmer to go ahead and buy the place, pay for it, md he would take the two properties off his hands, making payment for both at one time. It seems that the farmer then went to Spartanburg, where he had some hard earned savings amouating to, with interest, over 12,000. Thi3 he drew out, and, it is said, arranged with a bank for tbe balance, mortgaging his property to secure it. He then paid, so it is alleged, his neighbor for the land, got the title and c ime to Union to turn It over to the Chicago an, but he failed to. find his man. After two days he returned. Tbe flhlnacoan was still absent. Attain last Friday he came, but his would be representative of the Standard Oil Company bad entirely disappeared. Now the farmer Is anxiously looking and waiting for news of bim, and in the meantime is the possessor of $11,403 worth of land tbat he does not want. As to the Chioagoan, it is currently bslleved that he got a good rake off for making the sale, and will never be heard of again, as a telegram to a local newspaper, from the Standard Oil Company, of Chicago, says that he is neither now nor has been in their employ. Miss Alice's Ullts. If the president's daughter desires to keep all the co&tly presents presentted to her trip abroad she will likely have to have the help of congress. In do other way will she be able to get them in duty free, unless she will donate them to some national institution. The law makes no exceptions in favor of the president or members of his family; conscqiently when Miss Roosevelt ariivea at San Francisoo she will have to the custom officials the value of ail the articles she brings with her. If they are really worth as much as reported, $400,000, Miss Roosevelt could not afford to pay the duty, which amcuat to as much as her fathers salary for one year. At Mercy or Robbors. Burglars early Wednesday morning blew open the safe in the bank of Ridgevllle, ard stole $6,000, and after a running battle with a posse of citzens in which the cashier and two cltzsns were wounded tne ourgiars escipeu. For more than an hour the town was practically at the mercy of the robbers, who openly walked the streets shooting at everything, apparently taking their time In leaving town. Two c .arges of dynamite were exploded before the safe gave way. A second blast) aroused Cashier R. R. Ran som, who ran into the street. As soon as he appeared the robbers opened fire. This aroused other citizens. There were seven in tbe cracksmen's party. Five Deer Foaad Deed Sportsmen abjut Charleston are concerned over the number of dead deer found in the woods, five beiDg disco ved in tbe past week lying dead apparently without any reason for their deaths. Some of the hunters sav that paris green used on cotton plants to kill caterpillers is responsible for the killiDg of the deer, which have eaten the poison aud died from its effects. N me of the deer had "black tongue." A Feat in Wireless. The Cape Henry naval wireless station established a record Thursday night in taKing a message irum uie steamship Grown Prince, 450 miles from the cape. The ship was off Boone Island on the coast of Maine when the message was sent. The operator at Fort Henry could hear distinctly every dash and dot. A Dead Town. Wadsworth, Nev., was once a lively railroad town with abcufc 4,000 inhabitants, but now it is only a collection of deserted shacks. These houses are overrun with wild cats, for when the town was deserted about 400 cats were left behind, and they have increased raplciy and heeded the call of the wild. Used man bars. The Belgian government discovered some time ago that the leather bags used for the mails In the CjDgo Free State were often stolen. Investigation proved tbat natives Id the postal service took them, cut the bottoms and gave them to their wives to be worn as clothing. Supertendent of Edu)ationO. B Martin is trying to get all the schools of the state to observe November 3 as "Arbor Day" by planting trees on the school grounds and other public places. \ -$ O R S BO AUGUS1 Bookkeeping," Shorthand, Type-1 guaranteed course 20 weeks. Single hand, 3 mos. 12 calls for graduates h mand. Write. "'"'in'thousane Golden Eagle Buggies cannot 1 e sold for les are sold at the same figures. You can buy Go' can buy them. This buggy, strictly high grade, Souihdin made, for ?4!) direct to the consumer, may be purchased with each Golden Eagle Bug chase $23.60. It you buy at home the $'23 GO gc describing this great ^rgain. We are the only ?65 buggy direct to consumer at wholesale prici advertising. You savQ the local dealers profit GOLDEN COTTON GINNER SAND M Write for Prices on 1 Babbit Couplings* Guages Drills Guage Cocks Oil Cups Hack Saws Oil Cans Belt, leath Fittings Injectors Pipe Lace Leather, Packing all kinds, Shaftir else in machine Columbia Supply Co.. 5 The Guinard ] ! COLUMB] 1 Manufacturers Brick, Fire Proof' 2 Flue linings and Drain Tile. Pre] t or millions. ATTEMPTED ASSAULT. J1 Hen Who ittrmptcd A^mdKou Lady May Be Hold-Upe. Dan Slooura, the member of the Rang of feather renovators arrested for attempting to assault a Miss Padgott near Columbia recently, waived preliminary before a magistrate, and Slocum was sent to j ill in default of bail. He has employed no attorney so far. No evidenc?\was given, and it is difficult to get at the details of the -.11 aiiU^OU HMUlll. It appears from what o&n be learn ed of the affair that Slocum and tbree of his companions found Miss Padgett alone at her father's home, and that Slocum grabbed her, when she screamed. The strangers vanished and the neighborhood was soon out searching for them but it was a sheriff's officer who caught them. Slocum's pals are being held as suspeots. They all claim to be wording for the National Renovator Company of Chic; go, and cannot be run in for vagrancy. But it is thought that some light might be thrown on the series of hold ups the city has witnessed the past few weeks by holding them. Tuesday night A. F. Funderburk, a well known furniture dealer, saw a mVtUA man ofo n/3 4 ry r* WC11 Ul&WCU nutuc iiiau otauuiii^ uuuji some trees near Trinity church, ap parently waiting for him as he approached. He oalled to the man, who gave no answer. He asked a negro nearby for a revolver and the man under the trees taking fl gbt Mr. Fun derburk and the negro gave chase. In a short time half a dczan pollca cfficere had arrived, but the fug.tive bad es oaped through a vacant lot. But this j Is not an unusual incident, some prominent Columbians have been buhjec- ' ted to this sort of thing almost every , nlgbt for tbe past three weeks. There are many wild stories going ] over the town about these hold-ups : One is that a few nights ago a well j known Columbian being held up shot i the hold up man severely, and that the supposed thug has turned out to \ be himself a prominent Columbian, and that his wounds are being oared < for In secret, the matter being hushed J up on account of his name. Of course, J j there Is nothing In the story but wind, < but in the nature of it It will not ] down. Another, in whloh there Is ju t . about as much truth, carries the men: - j ory of graft and hold-up. This story i is to the effect that the hold-up genius ' operating about Columbia has gotten j hold of Digenese and taken his lantern i away from him the hold-up ocouiing ' n the shadow of the state dispensary j walls. i A Dynamite Outrage. A charge of dynamite, exploded in the doorway. of the grocery store of < O Oi A adc0d10 U-aiDaiVO, a& 10 ouunuu street, on the Eist Side, New York, early Wednesday morning, wrecked the lower half of the front of the building, shattered windows in the tenements above and threw into a panic hundreds of tenants In the neighborhood. No one was seriously Id jired. Toe cubage is believed to have been directed againsa Garbal vo, who with his two sisters, occupies living rooms at the rear of the store. Garbalvo a week ago re calved a Black Hand letter demanding $1,000Guests Lett. The appearence of a negro football player at a table in a Obicagc hotel , caused the hotel to lose eight families who were boarding there. The management of the hotel exercised fche Horhti nf fihoosincr their eruests and the boarders everclsed the right of 1 ohooslng their associates, - < Steamer Lost. ] A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, ' says all hope for steamer Kalyuga has 1 been given up by the owners. It Is ] supposed to have goue down with the I orew of seventeen Id the recent storm. ' It Is hard to believe that a sixty-five ' dollar buggy can be bought for $49.00 ( and with it a set of SI2 50 harness at $4.90. Yet it is tru3. See Golden Eagle Buggy Co., advertisement in this pa- ' per. Proof: Your money back If every statement we make is not absolutely true. G. E. Buggy Co. ( The dispensrry at St. Stephens has ( been closed because the inspector re- 1 ported Dispenser H. H. Lorenz $466. 1 6$ short. i RN E'Sjt- II \2^G\a.. writing, Erglish branches, Full i course of either B asiness orShort11 about 20 days. Can't supply de- - -r^S wwwwwwwwwwvww\ I JOB LOTS. t I 9 than $49.00 each. 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At Ashtabula, Ohio, the Pittsburg party will se joined by the officers of the Ohio ind Pennsylvania Ship canal Compiny, of which Joseph H. Cassidy, of Cleveland, is president, and the two jrganizitions will continue the trip together. One of the two routes is from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Pittsburg, the jther from Erie to Pittsburg. Eaoh route is about 105 miles long, and the vist of either would be about 130,000, )00. President Shaw is of the opinion ;hat the work could be completed and she canal opened to traffio in the sumHer of 1911. . zrieii