; * {palmetto happenings >* i New* Note* of General Interest "l* 11 From All Parts of tlie State. EX-GOV. M* SWEENEY JEAD. Rose Frcm Newrtcy to Highest OUc in His State. Columbia. Special.?Former Govei nor Miles B. MeSwecney of Soull Carolina, who had been under treat mcnt at Mount Hop-; retreat, in Baltimore, Md., since .July 18 last died at that institution at 1 :.'50 o'eloel Wednesday morning. For the pas week it had been known that the for mer Governor was critically ill am his wife went to Baltimore to he wit! him. She was present at the time of his death, as also was his son, Eugene B. MeSweoney. The body was brought to his ole home at Hampton, Thursday and in terred there. Former Governor McSweeney wa: a native of Charleston, S. C'., wher. he was horn April 18, 18 V). He ros< from a newsboy to he Governor o tho State, and held many politica cilices in South Carolina. He was one of the very few it South Carolina to start out as : strictly poor boy and attain high nnlilionl ?? 1 -? TT ,~..?vui iiuMiiou. lie was left ai orphan in Charleston at tlie age o 4 years, his father dying there ol yellow fever in 1839. At 10 3-oun; Miles sold newspapers, attending nigh school the while. He clerked in a bool store a year or so later. He served ai apprenticeship as a job printer an< later worked 011 newspapers in Charleston and Columbia. He won th< typographical union's scholarship t< Washington and Lee university, bu had to return from there in a shor time 011 account of his money givim out. He established The Ninety Si: Guardian in Abbeville county in 1877 which became the present Hamptoi Guardian in 1S79. He was chairmai of his county Democracy from 188to 1894. when he was elected a mem ber of the Legislature. He served ai Lieutenant Governor from 189t) t< 1899, succeeding to the governor ship 011 the death of Gov. W. H Ellerbe, being elected to a full tern to succeed himself. He was for eigli years nrpswl?c .1-- 11 " ? ..j uic ouuiu varo lina Press Association and lias al ways been popular with the newspaper men throughout the State. Farmers Unite in Union. Union, Special.?Saturday a largi mass meeting attended by represcn tative farmers of Union county wai held in tlv* court house here and re suited in the organization of a Count i Educational and Co-operative union The object of the meeting was pre sented in an interesting speech hi Mr. \Y. L. Mahatfev, the State or ganizer of this union, which ha: similar organizations in almost all tin States in the Union. The followini officers were elected: President, D J. Gregory; vice president, J. B Tinslej'; secretary, J. M. Greer. Tin meeting of tlw* county union will b( held in the court house on each Mon daj', salesday, at 12 o'clock noon. Burnett Released on Bond. Aiken. Special.?Mason Burnet 1 . Vflfl rnl anco.l T. " j. it call ay nigni on PUI bond from the county jail, C. K. Hon derson and I)r. J. H. Burnett, fathei y- of young Burnett, going on his bond Burnett is charged with the allege* shortage in the hank of Granitevilk Burnett having formerly been book keeper. It is rumored here that tin shortage in th? bank is much les< than was at first estimated. An audit ing company has been employed t< check the accounts. Four White Men Jailed. Greenwood, Special.?Four whit* men, Henry R. Williamson, Sloat Williamson, Ashby King and Sam W. Cooper, were arrested and lodge* in jail here Tuesday 011 the charge ol having caused the death of Gus Gil crease, an old negro, by whipping. The crime is alleged to have occur red near Dysons,this county, on Fr day. The men arrested deny th* charge, Negro Killed in Greenwood. Ureenwood, Special.?Ed. Turner, a negro, died here Ttraday an a re' * suit of a pistol shot wound receivec from J. T. McDowell, a young whit< man. The shooting took place Sat fc urday evening in the store of Rautor Bros. here. The verdict of the cor ' oner's jury was that "he came t( his death on September 27, 1909 from the effects of a gunshot woun< inflicted on his body by J. T. Mc Dowell on the evening of September ** 25 in the Stato and county afore said." Fire Near Alcoln. M|, Alcolu, Special.?Mr. James M Montgomery lost his residence witl almost all of its contents by fire Tuesday afternoon. It seems that th< fc fire started from the stove flue of tht cook room, and Voii\g fanned by i pa strong wind, rapidly spread to thi body of the building and before as sistance could reach the scene it wa: nothing but a mass of flames. Thi barn and other outbuildings caugh several tirr.es, but, wer* saved. |a , - \ I ] DIFFERENCE EXPLAINED E\ < Confusions as to State School Fonda Da: ? Cleared Away. 1 l Columbia, Special.?There seems to * - be some misundertsamling as to the | funds appropriated by the legisl.iture for the aid to weak schools and W;, 3 the money given to the high schools. .Jus The legislature last year appropria- | ami ted $00,000 for the high schools ol' 'v> li the State and $20,000 for aid to the da\ - weak schools of the State. The funds , |,j| are not connected in any way. n|]j Since the first of the your l2~?ti 1|,e ' schools in .11 counties have been aided I j|le 4 Dozens of applications could not be I tno t honored because the last check was 1 . sent early in September. li?,r I Horry county alone received $4.715.97. This was distributed among rev 1 58 schools in amounts of $100 or less. wa. In several instances the districts have f0|| voted a special school tax in order |,Pr that they may benefit by this appro- ^|e ^ priation. One school in Horry conn- jets ty enrolled 75 pupils, was apportioned SO!1 * $85 from the regular school fund, in and paid the teacher a monthly salary S|K, ; of $40. The patrons subscribed $10. ha, and received $52 from t li.-? Ki.ntn i thereby lengthening the term one |an | month. wit f Bethel in Pickens eonntv enrolled nia 1 18 pupils, was apportion-?*! from the n>0 regular fuml $42.30, anil paiil tlie ne> ^ teacher a salarv of $28 per month. his Patrons subscribe*! $7 anil received am $14. wh Ke*l Hill in Kilgefield county en- we; f rolled GO pupils, was apportioned (-or $340, am! paid tlx? salary of $85 to an* r two teachers. The patrons raised $30 dot ^ and secured $100 from the State. at . I Similar illustrations mipht l)e ed j given from Marlboro, the richest apri- the j cultural county in the State, from bee Spartanburg, a cotton manufacturing eat a centra, from Amlersou, the leailinp I.el * county in Soutli Carolina in t lie pro- of j. duct ion of cotton, as well as front j the less prosperous sections. The Association of County Superinten- . ' ^ dents at its nieetinp in Spartanhurp strongly endorsed this appropriation .al to w<>ak schools. The experiment ot 111 ^ 1909 will probably become a fixed or" ! policy in the next few years. At (':h least $50,000 is needed to supply the demand made durinp the present, ?' * and an appropriation of $100,000 l*'a would not lie too larpe. In the opinion *'y of State Superintendent of Kduca- ni.1' tion Swearinpen, a local tax should ' he made the basis for a distributinp this fund. Subscriptions are uusatisfactory, because they must he solicit- . 'nt ed every year. I wa The High School Law. ,ni The liiph school law was ameneded ?ei by the general assembly last Febru- !uary by adding an amendment requlr- ,nt inp every high school district to lew for school purposes at least a 2 mill wa s tax. This requirement will probably ' " be extended to elementary common ^ schools, for weak schools and hiph per cent limit imposed on Th each county by the high school act. alv More than 75 rural high schools will Na r be in operation this year. It is stat- chi . ed that farmers are beginning to real- Ha ize that it is better to build up their li*' local schools than to move to town Fl< >ii bi-urrn <>i euucnuotiai advantages. ew ! The $20,000 appropriated by the Oar- Sii 1 ris act for weak schools should not ha: be confounded witli the $00,00 appro- is ' priated for tb.? high schools. fen Mulligan Pleads Ouilty. Spartanburg, Special ? "Bud" Mulligan, a former police officer, ^ 1 pleaded guilty to the charge of house- in? breaking and larceny in the court of the ' general sessions Saturday and was to sentenced to a year in the penitentary vol or on the public works of the county, wit Mulligan was caught robbing a cash ass ' drawer in a book store here some Vu 1 weeks ago. At the time the case was der 5 the sensation of the hour. a i Possum Hunter Badly Hurt. Waterloo, Special.?Mr. James M. , Mundy, a prominent farmer living 1 . two miles from Waterloo, was the Fu j victim Friday night of a very |>eculiar and almost fatal accident. Mr. Mun- . 5 dy was possum hunting and while one l8! - of the hunters was cutting a tree, Mr. an< i Monday was on the ground nearby noi holding a dog. The axe left the handie, striking Mr. Munday in the neck, the blades penetrating deeply, inflict? ing an ugly wound! The large ves- j t i seis in the neck were not severed, . Mr. Mundy was prostrated by tlie loss r of blood and bv shock. His condition . is still serious, but it is thought that j Ive will recover. Mistrial in Black Case. Columbia, Special.?Judge R. W. ' > Meminger Fridny dismissed the jury '',c i in the ease of John Bluck, accused of Ins ? accepting bribes while a member of Ayj a the old Stato dispensary hoard of i directors, and ordered a new trial, the B The ground for this action was that noi . the jurors-had seen a copy of a local a < n paper, which contained an account of ?vi 0 the first day of the trial, and a num- Fr t ber of extracts from other papers ?ni condemning action of Faroum jury. ret * ' , - 1DENCE AGAINST LIT1 maging Testimony of His 1 Vill Convict Him of His WhcL tfurder. Urn-field. \V. Va., Sj?ocial. It of Howard Little. who was ted about a week asjo Hut It lho murder of "Aunty Bet tire. (Jeorjie A. Meadows and I tbeir three children, seems no established beyond a reason ibt. Little's wife confessed S;i to havinjr washed his bb (hint? after the murder and in davit she says also that be ir home about dark on the niirl murdor ami returned the ruins with his clothes all bb 1 torn ami said that he would if site told anything about dition. He borrowed a d2-ea! olver a few days before the ei < committed and returned it on lowinjr Wednesday with two el s empty. The body of He ndows was exhumed and two i taken from it by Doctors Hielt i and White, were almost idett weiirhl with the balls taken 1 Us belonjiinir to the weapon L 1 borrowed. attic's wife also turned over tern that he had bnnnrht h h him that nii:lit when showed rks as if some one had tried t< ve stains, llo was seen in the ;t morninsr folding papers at knee apparentIv counting m I be jrave $20 to a woman ' oin lie had planned to start foi st a few days after tlv? murder nmitted with which to buy clot I prepare for the train. Ha te this she returned $1.80 to 1 which time she swears It" threi her life if she revealed any j>a ir secret. Reipiisition papers 'n applid for and as soon as i he secured I.idle will lie tak? lianon to await Ids trial. Tin lynching are freely made. Fatal Mine Explosion. Roslyn, Wash.. Special.?At lit men were killed and three I?s fatally injured in a iras expli eolwers. The Flowers hoys are i s while Williams married a n ice Nathan Flowers' death t 5 been a wrangle over the estal alleged, and trouble has ired. Professor Harris Guilty. iVarrenton, Va., Special.?Fo : closely the verdict Saturda 1 jury sentencing Prof. J. I). H four years in the penitentiary untary manslaughter in oonnei h the ki.lici* of W. A. Thim| ociate editor of The Wani r^inian on April 24 last, tlie < lied the motion of the defense new trial, Second Week of Celebration. **ew York, Special.?The Hu< lton celebration, after a weefc up and pageantry in New ^ i moved up the Hudson and ither week the cities lying te th will vie with each other in ; honor to the memory of Hu i Fulton. The Half Moon and srmont with the naval escort, anchor at 1'oughkeepsie, will uc their voyage northward, ig at Kingston, Catskill, 11m liany and Troy, where elabt al celebrations have been plain Wright Breaks Record. Potsdam, By Cable?Orville \V ! American aviator. Saturday 1 own and all other records for ing. He reached the unpreeedi ight of more than l.tiOO feet lugh an otlicial measurcnient I taken. lie had a rid letter d louhle sense in his experience j iator, taking up Crown I1 ederick William as a passi d more than doubling the alt ;ord which he made recently. Jt t k rLE SNAPPY AND BRIEF RTife .sale jtems Gathered and Told While T. You hold Your Breath. i ne ria SOME EVERY~DAYlHAPPENING3 sy" wife vv lo Lively and Crisp as They Are Garable nercd From the Fields of Action uur- at Home and Abroad. ) mly . ''J^r At Jersey City, X. J., black hand I t 0j< stories had gotten the children in a next parochial school in nervous condition. >ody Some fire works were put ??1T Monkill lay near the Imildimr in celebration li'ler swu,e ovou' whereupon 1.000 <-11i 1 rime ,'rPM stampeded for the doors and i tlie fourteen were seriously hurt. nun- Rain seriously interfered with the orixi? Hudson-Fulton celebration Monday at ard- ^'w York. tieal The Federal government will aid ittl"' l'le s'orm strieken |x-o|?le on the (iulf j coasts with the loan of tents, and j fllO with provisions ailll means ??f saniln-l oine tion whore decomposed animals I tilo threaten the health of the survivors, barn Minnesota's lat." (Sovernor. John A. ross Johnson, left his entire estate of oney 000 to his widow, with President Taft seems to have ac' 1complished the feat of so adjustin;.* hi,',., matters in tlx- department that Mr. viuij Ballinfrer and Mr. Pinchot will both .ittie remain in the serviee though still uniten friendly, lie emphasizes his aillier? once to the Roosevelt poliev on the have 1 thev conservation of resourees. n to A disturhanee oeeurred last Saturreats day morning that interfered with all telegraph lines over the world. The' prenonienon is said to he due to the least same cause as that of the aurora. fi !\1M~ Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Child, of is ,s!"!1 Baltimore, celebrated their li'itli year of wedded life last Saturday. ,'ed ;l President Taft, on last Monday at ' Ireds Helena, Montana, went 1?2<>() feet I 0 drift down a Clipper mine therein heating c' nder previous presidential reorils in Cl lhled America. ?1| A Kriru'iurion * ? ... o,..,. 1uuuubu i Harts near the Winter Quarter lightship out | The I'rotn New York Sunday and 12 out j li the of a crew of 18 were drowned. I . men'. Canada will place no duty on wood 1 eigh- pulp shipped to the United States but ning will charge for pulp wood shipped out. j hoot- Her principal is, ''All timber to be; ? feet manufactured in Canada." mips ,Jud.ire Campbell, in tlie Federal 1 "j with court at McAlister, Monday issued :i | (jl *r in temporary order restraining the State j officials from interfering with the pip- b was j s ouj ((j- 0ii|ai,O|nn< I , light . , i m i An explosion occurred Monday in Pittsburg, Pa., in tlie Columbian film a] exchange by which fifty or more per1 ?hl sons were more or less seriously inflow jured and a loss of .f200,000 was sufinty, fered. ~ G. W. Goethals, chirman of tlia Isthmian Canal Commission, says the l" work on the canal is progressing sat V'0 sifactorilv. 'Inch . , , " - , , , Fiovd seven years is to be tried i the ^or murdpr a< Spartanburg, S. C. S( sons Five white men and ten Negroes iting expiated crimes of larceny at Wil- tl ined. mington, Deleware, last Saturday at H spate the whipping post. The fifteen men c of received the aggregate of 190 strokes ni g no of the lush. John Judge W. A. Poo and Banker Rob- t? been ert II. Brown, at Macon, (la.. Wed- ti Mrs. nesdav, were discussing the comparaicpii tive merits of Cook and Peary as to lieee. polar honors, till they engaged in a I hero fight. At Montgomery. Ala., a fire prac- w been tieally destroyed 500 bales of cotton p, Wednesday. Wilbur Wright (low . round the j>j How- Statue of Liberty on Bedloc Island, ni ^ ()j> Wednesday, as a part of the program |j) orris for live day in the Hudson-Fulton eel* for ebration. js clion Ex-Governor MeSweeny, of South er isos , Carolina, died Wednesday at Mount nt.in Hope Retreat Hospital, Baltimore. ol-,rl. The estimate of Gov. Johnson's estate grows. At last reckoning it ^ was $37,000. A boiler at a saw mill near Caney. ville, Ky., exploded Tuesday killing ^ lson- ^wo an"> ani* w'hen /11 fjA not painful was so weak it felt as if bror^' ken. A friend urged V , ' fl me to try Dean's ? - ' Kidney Pills, which I did. and they helped ie from the? start. It made me feel ke a new woman, and soon I was oing my work the same as ever.' Remember the name?Doan's. Sold y all dealers. 50 cents a box. Fosir-Milburn Co., nuffalo, N. Y. nere tlie will is ready the feel re light.?lbinish. Rough on iuto. unu?*?utuitasnn of sorrow.?Lurk Beaconsfk'hl. Be just to yourself and keep well. Cheek tat cough v.-ith Alter's Lung Balsam, armless and efficient. S . 50c. and $1.00. Three women ami a goose make a arket.?German. [rs. Winalow*s Soothing Syrup for Children sething. softens the gums, reduces inflammaon, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c. a bolt!*. Kissing. (New York Sun.) To steal a kiss is natural. To buy te is stupid. Two girls kissing is n aste of time. To kiss one's sister is oper. To kiss one's wife is an oblittion. To kiss and ugly woman is illantry. To kiss on aid, faded wood is devotion. To kiss a young, ashing girl is quite a different tiling, a kiss one's rich aunt is hypocrisy, issinj; three jjirls on the same day extravagance. To kiss one's motli'-in-law is a liolv sacrifice. So. 41-'09 lUNYON'S EMINENT IKK TORS AT YOUR SERVICE FREE. ot a Penny to Pay For the Full eat Medical Examination. If you are In doubt as to the cause [ your disease raall us a postal renesting a medical examination blank, hlch you will All out and return to 9. Our doctors will carefully dtagose your case, and if you can be ired you will be told so; if you canot be cured you will be told so. You re not obligated to us in any way; lis advice is absolutely free; you are t liberty to take our advice or not as 3u see fit. Send to-day for a mediil examination blank. All out and ; ?turn to us as promptly as possible, | ad our eminentdoctors will dlagnoso i ?ur case thoroughly absolutely free. | Munyon's, T?3d and Jefferson Sts., hiladelphla. Pa. Advice to Amateurs. Scott spent it purl of one summer in te country, and hence was an authory on agricultural matters. "In lilking a cow," he wrote his friends, always sit oh the si furtherst om the critter, and nearest the soft ot in the pasture." As many servants, so many mas-1 rs.?Seneca. Wine washes off the daub.?French. ife Can Save -to-Family Dealing i clothe yourself out of the sarr.e ipplies: Coffer, Tcas.Spicc*, Extract*, I, the Larkin Products number over .he manufacturers, you pay prices save the expenses and profits of the irh you hay^ m- PARLOR ROCKER No. IMS. Given with *10 00 ? orth of l.irtin rrrxluctt. e form of a Premium. you can have them in I have$i0.00 worth of Larkin Products of your Without the Premium, for SIO.OO you can .00 worth for $10.00. I al?Pay If Pleased xlucts and any $10.00 Premium offered by us, satisfied ; if not, we will remove the ifoodn at trite you nolhinit for a nanon&ble amount of + uarantee satisfaction to every customer, turers in the world selling direct to the f I 4.1..HOT Lnirtynnir ytrsrs aim over two < I inji their household-supplies from us. 41 I ilog Free ?in? offer*. It tella you all c+<" / r Dealins: give* the entire ^ ^ / 1; illustrate* and describe* 5" c,* / I of the 1600 Larkin ^ / a copy before you yjT ^o- ^ /' fa Co. 4- 1 i>ltia>aiit to take acts uninnUlat.nlv Ti? It la. ?'... -- ^ - * ?. *?V . -V/V-. ami .IW. at uruf liOitft. Mystery of Cliff-Dweilers. lty pioeinir mil and studying disinterred relicts and frairmentarv traditions nf the Pueblo Indians. Professor Kdirar 1.. Hewitt. president of the School of .\iiieriean Archeology, who | spent several years /'Xcavaliiijr near Santa Fe, X. M.. believes lie has obtained clues through which scientific investidr homes, leavins; so few traces 11 at their life history became a invsierv for modern science. Wattderiuz afar. Profossoi Hewitt believes they mixed with a lower order of savasres nearer the coast and lost tb-ir identity. Tinn ntK PHYSICIAN ADVISED Taking Lydia E. PinkhanTs Vegetable Compound Columbus. Ohio. ? " 1 have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable ComM r i 11 8 was good, and since ' better I ian ('?ai! U!'V v - 'O'^ia E. 1'inkh;. m's - Vegetable Com | . lpound a tine remedy all woman's troubles. and I BHHHIHneTer forget to tell my frieuds what it has done for me." ?Mrs. E. Hanson, 304 East Long St., Columbus. Ohio. Another Woman Helped. Granlteville, Vt. ? "I was passing through the Change of Life and suffered from nervousness and other annoying symptoms. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored myhealthand strength, and proved worth mountains of gold to me. For the sake of other suffering women I am willing vou jhould publish my letter." ? Mrs. Charles Barclay, R.F.D., Granlteville, Vt. Women who are passing through this critical period or who are suffering frnm a n *r af IKnoo /liafeoaoinn 111? ai vku tmiMj VIIV/O^ UlOVICnOlllg 1110 J1Ccuiiar to their sex should not lose sight of the fact that for thirty years Lydia E. Piukham's Vegetable Compound, which is made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills. In almost every community you will find women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. iOlllB! V^\ hritiM. ? auunpa wa Mad a 1?J 1 f e^ua. BOOK giTing t*eexperleeee I I A ui a practical foullry HAMar?am 1 f / \ *u aiuaivW, t-ui a nuui wurtuM U \/ 1 lor dollar. and taala utnitj 1 r Vifar*. tl laaoOaa uow Ui na?l V land Cm* Hiiuimi road lor ittfi 'I. I alao lor rauaula?; wUM iuvlau 11 ba?a lor Uraatllaa; ?rary.aiu? rot I 1 qtufui lor MoOlaSla Poultry rala , II lac. 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