| - Jx. Act&3fcr /Vualatitat Mrfttfca^ XMtfa& ^p^BtataEj^B^OaiiiitapBlaMtawaata | ;?; .< I nv e-ak ly l a n -' a .> i K it j>. u.. M a r c B, 25, 1905 ' kst abl5h HannPnindQ in thp Stflta take udvantai/e of Mr (\ir.i?.?i?'u ?' ** - A : ? am^|/vuiuqvj ill VI1V UiillV# As Chronicled by the Alert Cor- i respondents of The Columbia State and the Charleston News and Courier. i I (Specials to The State ) Two Prisoners Escape and One Has Smallpox. Marion, March 21.?John Bethea of Mullins charged with assault and battery, and .Foe Munoerlyn of Temperance charged ' with burglary and lurceuv, both ' negroes, escaped jail lust night J These tw ) prisoners were arrested about two weeks ago while the other pri otiets in jail lunl smallpox and wore vaccinated and placed in a room, which though not hs secure as tho steel cages .vas thought to tie Hafe enough to hold the ordinary prisoner. But on Monday night they manuged to prize their door open, anil with a piece of iron from tbeir cot found little trouble in petting through the brick wall, nnd let themselves down to the ground by their blankets tied together. This came near being a complete jail delivery, for it bad been planned that on Monday all the prisoners should be tukon from the steel cages and placed in this part of the jail an i kept there during the night that tho cages where they had had the smallpox might be disinfected. The carrying out of this plan was- prevented by the discovery % on Monday that John Bcthtn ifcluai himself taken the smallpox. 'Iho Lexington Chaingang Escaped in a Bunch. Lexington, March 21.?A tele gram to Sheriff Oorley early this morning stated that nine prisoners had escaped from the county chain gang some time during last nightThe gang was located near Mr. Job Swygert's place in Hollow Creek township, not far from Leesville. The total number of prisoners on the gang was 15 or 16. It was rumored about bore that the captaiu of the gang was away at his home being sick. The guard was arid also to have been sick and the gang bad been left under the care of a new man. Mr H Z Adams, who resides near where the escape occurred, captured two ot the prisoners A telegram was received from the uuinoriues hi i?ewnerry sia'ing that they had taken three of the fugitives, thus leaving four still nt large. It is said here that these will hardly be capturod, as tbey are long term prisoners nod one of them came near escaping before his trial, by filing the bars of the jail, Shenff (Jorley was unable to go to the scene of the escape, on account of having received painful injuries in u runaway yesterday, lie was thrown from his buggy and hndly bruised. (Bpecia's to News and Courier ) Carnegie Library For Furman. Greenville, Match 20. ?Furmatt University is to have a Car negie library. President Potest received a communication from Private Secretary Bertram yesterday informing him that all required conditions having been fulfilled by t ie University, Mr. Carnegie was prepaied to follow the usual cus torn and do his thare. The University is enabled to o - - " generosity through 1'io handsome gift of $25,000 ftoin a South Catolinofiieml The name of tins friend has not been disclosed. The endowment is to be used in running the library and was the the condition precednt lo I ho Carnegie bonus. Just how much Mr. Carnegie bus given has not been niadd public, but it is said that Furman *dll have a building and library second to none in the S received from Kdgefield as to whether or not a "cripple is exempt from poll tax. In that county a taxpayer refused to pay his tax, claiming that tie was a cripple. The attorney general holds that do one is exempted unless so maimed that ho cannot support him solf. Yesterday Assistant Attorney Townsond wroto tho following letter to Comptroller General A. W., J ones: 14 Answering the inquiry ot. Mr. J. B. Haltiwanger, auditor of ICdgetield county, referred by yon to this'oftice, I l>eg to say that section 259 of tho code of laws of South Carolina, 1902, volume 1 and the unnnul supply acts, prescribing who aro liable and who exempt from tho payment of poll | tax, does not exempt any one from the payment of the tax merely because ho is maimed, but only those are exempt who are incapable of earuiug a support by reason of their being maimed, or from any other cause. The material fact to be determined in each case is whether tho person claiming the exemption is incapable of earning u support or not. If capable of earning u support and between tboageaof21 and 00, with the exception of those especially ox empled by law, as Confederate vo torans, all male citizens must pay the tax " LIKE FINDING MONEY Finding health is like finding money ?so think those who are sick. When you have a cough, cold, sore throat, or chest irritation better act promptly like VV. C. Barber, of Sandy Level, Va. He says: "lhad a terrible chest trouble, caused by smoke and coal dust on mv lnni?s: but. aftor find,. J D ' ? ing no relief in other remedies, I was cured by Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumptio, Coughs and Colds," Greatest sulo of any cough or lung viediciue in the world. At Crawford Bros., ,1. F. Mackey & Co., and Funderbur't Pharmacy drug stores; 50c and 11.00; guaranteed. Trial bottle free. - ?_ It is too late to congratulate some people after they have been married as long as a week*. I'oiey's Honey and Tar is best tor eioup and whooping cough, contains no opiates,and cures quickly Careful mothers keep it in the bouse. Sold by Funderburk Pharmacy. The more law in a laud the fewer the laws. % Keep lip the tight and ; ! Victory is Won. ! President E D Smith Urges the i Farmers io Stand Together J ( t in! Sale of Fertilizer lugs.? i Amount of Purchases Muy Not J Indicate the Cotton Acrougo 1 -Tags Can be Returned. t The State, 22d inst. 1 | Mr K D Smith, president of the South Cmolma division, Southern Cotton association, was in the city yctterday and at work dining tho day at the offices of the association in the Loan and Exchange Batik building. Mr Smith had attended at <1 addressed a meeting in Lancaster the day before, and when seen at tho oflico he said: "I have just returned from Luncaste'* where wo had a very enthusiuslie meeting. i'oople f i'i ?nt t Itn ?> >?! ..VIII IIIU I u ll II HUM VJUIIIIl I V IIIU L 111 I the court house, some 500 or 600 i strong They report in Lancaster j h perfect organization, acreago j being reduced and fertilizers according to the New Orleans plan. 4 On the 23rd wo go to Bamberg at the request of the peoplo of Bamberg county. 4 There must bo some mixtake us to tin- amount of fertilizer sold in this State. Tho people are und r the impression that the salo of a^s means the sain of guano. Kit her the tag people are wrong or the fai mors of this State are wrong. Lancaster, Gieenville, Spartanburg, Marion, Dillon, Latta, Lynchburg- places that 1 have visited personally ? report about 60 per cent, talcs as com. pared with last year. Kepoits sent to the otlice from tho variovs counties coulirm my own observation; therefore it must he that the guauo people have bought these tags in order that they may not tie delayed in case they do get orders for shipments. As unused tags are returnable, it will cost them nothing to get these tags, and in case they do not ship guano tliev return then, to tho State two have their money refnn/ln.l ll/in/in O miimvm , aavuu") it 19 an uitsy n>altor for the impression to bo bo made that the State is using as much guano uh formerly. "As said before, the reports from the ditTerent counties and shipping points in these ditTerent counties do not bear out this assertion. "At Saluda Saturday it was reported to mo that Saluda county would probably not use over CO t? 75 per cent, of last's year's fertilizer. The impression has gono abroad as far ?ost as Texas that South Carolina is not keeping her pledge to reduco acreage and fertilizers. 1 wish to take this occasion to say that in my tours through the south and we?t 1 find that no Stato is more enthusiastic, more determined, and is standing .. t I? 1 -1 * uy mi! pieuges inane ootier than South Carol inn. "Let no one bo discomnged or disheartened by any of theoa signs or reporth, for in tho fuco of what is 8ai11 to ho the largest cotton crop ever made in the history of the south, the fanners are standing pat and have forced cotton from G oonts per pound to eight cents per pound; and it is only the question of a few weeks ! with the sumo tactics adhered to I when 10 cents will be reached. ! "The nulls of Enropo and nuivi icii, uha rule, imve not more limn a six weeks' supply of cotton. Our old friends are back in the maikct The foreign crop is ? comparative failure. The unprecedented demand for cotton gets a tidal wave of proa perity, seeming to sweep over the sntire world, and our position is assured if we can just hold out , for 30 days longer and keop our pledges to reduce acreage. ( "Reports from President .lor- ( dan received this day from Mis- , sissippi, Louisiana ai.d Texas are ( to be the effect that these Stutes aro standing rigidly by the pledges made. ( %t^or the tirst lime in the his tory of the south the cotton ? i grower is dictating to the world the mice of his cotton. May the , time never come when he will falter or retreat from this glorious and righteous position. It is a glorious victory even now. Chronic Bronchitis Cured. 4iFor ton years I had chronic bronchitis so bad that at times 1 could not speak above a whisper," writes Mr. Joseph Coffman, of Montmoreoci, Ind. 1 tried all remedies available, but with no success. Fortunately my employer suggested that 1 try Foley's Honey and Tar, Its effect was almost miraculous, and 1 am now cured of the disease. On my recommendation many people have used Foley's Honey and Tar and always with satisfaction." Sold by Funderburk Pharmacy. I Mi of Rockefeller's Gold. Church People Say Standard Oil , is Under Indictment. Boston, March 21.--Congregational Church members representing Boston and various sections of New England have protested to the American board of commis sionei s for foreign mission against ' the acceptance by the board of a gift of $100,000 from John D. 1 Rockefeller, on tho ground that 1 the Standard Oil Company Btands before the public under repeated and lecent formidable indictments in specific terms for methods which are morally iniquitous and socially destructive, and that "ac ccplanceof ?uch a gift involves iho constituents of the board in a relation implying honor towards the donor and subjects the board to thecharge of ignoring the morals involved." No man was ever pulled down by lifting another up. A good many sins walk under the name of "Circumstances." Fostering passion is feeding the soul on poison. Judged by some families the world would not be much better if all men were brothers. ? For letterheads, noteheads, billheads, circulars and all kinds of printing neatly and quickly printed, send your work to this ottice. Roy S 8trait. I UTTnnn . wia inntr I munnivii o inun MIX1UPE No is the time to take a spring Ionic. By far the best thing to take is Murray's Iron Mixture. It makes pure blood and gels rid of that tired feeling. At all drug store-. SOe A BOTTLE Or Direct From Thd Murray Drug Co, (l Colombia, 8 C \ v i " The War News From Tokio Russians to Hold the Lino From Changchun to Kirin?Jap Losh e? Estimated at 50,000 and Russians at 175,000. Tokio, March 21 ?3 pm.?No reports of the Russian retreat or Japanese pursuit were receivad today, which is strengthening the belief that the Russian plan to hold the line from Changchun to Kirin The Japanese continue to closely follow Gen Linevitch's rear guard, hut the damaged bridgos impeded their progress, and will possibly create sufficient delays to permit the Russians to roconcentrate, reinforce, partially reorganize and construct works at Changchun and Kirin. It is reported that a portion of cne v lauivostoa squadron has been withdrawn and hurried to Harbin, but no confirmation of the rumcr is obtainable. The first Mukden prisoners are arriving in Japan. The Govern mont has chartered and fitted out forty steamers to assist the transports in carrying prisoners and wounded. Revised tigurers of the Japanese losses at the battle of Mukden place the number at 50,000 and revised estimates of the Russian losses from the commencement of Lhe battle of Mukden and ending with the fighting at Tie Pass, place the total at 175,000 killed, wounded or captured. Geo. Linevitch's Headquarters. His Plans for the Salvation of the Army und to Elude Oyama. St Petersburg, March 21.? 1.15, P. M. Gen Linevitch's beadquarters have been established for the present at Chenchiawstzu, situated at the crossing of the Sungari Rivor, whence he is directing"the retreat of the three armies and disposing of the fresh troops of the fourth corps just arriving from European Russia The protection of the Sungari Bridgis vital to the sal nation of the army and the river is not for dable below Kirin, and once the line of the river is passed und the bridge blown up the Japanese pursuit will be effectually checked. At the same time the second army is falling back of the line of the railroad, while the first and third, with the transport, are retreating along Mandarin Koad to Kirin, both destroying bridges and roads and denuding the country behind them and making it im possible for the Japanese to live in the immediate wake of the re. treat without their own commissariat. The Japanese are advancing over the grand trade 'route twenty miles west of the railroad. No information is available regarding the strength of the Japanese column, but the war office saya it is hardly large enough to constitute a menace, with the dispositions Gen Linovitch Is able to make of fresh troops. Nothing enters the mind with:* out leaving its mark. Sometimes one sandwich is worth many a sermon. It takes the living Christ to make the live Christian. Liking is the effect and not the cause of loving. aiurue?er Trapped io Cave. Special to The Observer. Asheville, March 22.? Deputy Marshal Ben Barnes returned to Asheville yesterday afternoon from Marshall. Mr Barnes last week, in company with other gentlemen, effected the arrest of the Madison county murderer, John Paie, and landed their man in jail at Marshall. Speaking of the capture of Pate, the deputy marshal said. 44Pate was located just across the border in Tonnes, see and was captured in what is known as the Holland Higgin's wolf den. We learned that the man was hidiug in some place in Bald Mountain, but could not for u time locate his hiding place. Finally we tracked the wife to the den, after laying in wait in the open for more than 24 hours, and reaching the place knew that the man was ours. The 4den' is a place iu the side of a mountain, with an opening scarcely large enough for a man to crawl through. It is about a milefrom the road, and one might pass by a hundred times and never for a moment think that a cave existed there. After passing through the opening, there is a small room or hollow, and then another small opening. Through this one enters a room about seven feet high, 14 feet long and 12 feet wide. That is where Pate has spent the lime since committing the murder last year. Patejhad almost closed up the second opening with stones, and left only a small crevice through which to peep out. After we had reached the opening of the cave and knowing that Pate, a desperate man, was inside, one of the men in the party asked me if i intended going inside. L knew that Pate could hear every word that was said, and 1 made this re* ply: 4No, 1 am not going inside. I am going to throw this piece of dynamite in the hole and blow the cave up.' 1 didn't have any dynamite but the ruse worked; from inside tbo cave Pate cried out: "For God's sake don't do that. I'll come out.'* We told him to come on, and in a few seconds the form of a man crawled through the opening. It was Pate, but those who had known him for years would not have recognized him. He had not had a shave since entering the place, neither had his hair been cut, and both hait^ and beard presented a great shaggy mass. Inside the cave or den, Pate had fixed up a bunk, and water and food was brought to him by his wife. Had he not come out, we would have starved him into submission. He had scaicely a day's supply of food and water in the plate." .Notice to the Public. 1 will bold all inquests in the county. Phone to my residence at Pleasant Hill for me when needed. J. Montgomery Caskey, ept. 20?tf Coroner L. C. OVERWORKED KIDNEYS -Murrray's Buchu, Gin and Jun iper in presort bed and endorsed by eminent physicians. It euree wnen an ?ise laiia rr?v?nu Kidney diseases,Dropey,brigbta disease, etc. At all druggists $1 OO A BOTTLE Or Direot From Murray Drug Co, Columbia, S C