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VOLUME XXI. CAMDEN, S. C . FRIDAY, AUGUST 26,1010, NO. 32. DINK OFFERING BRIDE 10 SENATOR OOOE ' *v ?o ?? hi*0.in ? *\r: irfr ' ? 7? ' V HoMttrrajr on tba Stand In In diaik liund Cuse. VICE-PRESIDENT SHERMAN VINpiCATEO. Man Whom Oklahoma Senator Charged With Offering' Him a Bribe, Alao States That Vice-Preai deni and 8enator Curlia Were Not Intereated. Sulphur, Okla. (Special) .?"It has been charged that you, through Jake L. limnon, offered Senator T. I*. Gore $25, 000 or 150,000 as a bribe to influence him In Congress to withdraw opposition^ the approval of your contracts. Did you or did you not offer Senatof Gore such ft bril>oT" -1 rr.. ^ amlird. J.JL to 4bU question when '5F*tne hearing be' fore the congressional coiumitteo investl gating Indian land affairs. Mr. McMurray, who holds contracts with Chickunaw and 'Choctaw Indians for the saio of |30,OOD,T)l)0 worth ot land in this.State on a 10 pgr cent. contingent fco basis, was on the stand all day. The questions wore propounded to him by Cecil H. Smith, his counsi 1. "Did you over tell any one that Vice President Sherman had any interest in your contracts?" "I never did,*' answered McMurray. "Did you authorize llamon to say Mr, Sherman was interested J" "I did not." "Did Senator Charles Curtise, of Kan sas, ever have any interest in the con tracts!" . "He i>c<w did; and I never told any one that ho did." "Did you over tell anyone that Con gressman II. S. McOuire had any interest? in any of your contracts?" "I never did." 1 ' . . "Has any member of Congress of any employe of ahy department1 of the gov ernment any interest in your contracts}" "They have not." Describing his contract* as a plain business proposition, Mr. McMurray told of his relations with the Indians, begun in "1800. In the first contracts for the salo of the laud Cecil' Lyon, - National Republican Committeeman from Texas, waa a par.tasi? ...McM.umvy said. These contracts were disapproved by President Roosevelt in 10and Mr. Lyon erased to.be connected with them. Mr. McMur ray said he then employed as counsel former Senator J; M. Thurston, of Ne braska; former Senator . C. I. Loner, of -trnd Richard O. Adams, of Wash ington. The witness denied that he o\Cr offered $25.OHO as a bribe to D. C. McCur* tairf, a Choctaw lawyer. McCnrta.in had -testified that the offer bad been made to him in connection with the old tHbal - contracts.- *?' , ' Mr. McMurray testified that ho had called twice on Senator Gore after May 0 (the date on which the Senator-said Damon tried to bribe him), and the Sen ator had made jjo reference to the'allegcd offer of l?ibery to him. Jle had not heard of it until Gore's speech in the Senate which was made on June 24. Jacob L. Hnmon, mentioned by Sen ator Gore as the man who offered the bribe in McMurray's behalf, took the stand and denied ho had ever made such an offer. . VIRGINIA'S GIFT ACCEPTED. Statue of Washington Dedicated at Versa!He?. Versailles (Speolal)r?In the Napoleon Hall of tho Chateau of Versailles, in the presence of the Trench Minister qf War, General Brunj tho Frenoh Ambassador to tho United States, M. Jusserand, and his wife, and the Amerloah Ambassador, Robert Bacon, and Mrs. Bacon, the bronze replica of Houdon's Celebrated statue of Washington in the State House at Rich mond, Va., presented by the State of Vir* ginia to tho French Republic, was dedi cated with .appropriate ceremonies. Among others present were the Marquis do Lafayette, the members of the French mission, which presented to America the statuo of Roehambeau, now at Washing ton, and TTnitetTBfafes Senator Nathan B, Scott, of West Virginia. General Brun, who presided, spoke of the statuo as the greatest work of the greatest French sculptor of the Eigh teenth Century. Col, James Mann, chair man of the Virginia Commission, deliver* ed tho spoech of presentation. State Sen ators Don P. Ilalsey and F. W. King, of Virginia, also made addresses on behalf of the State of Virginia. Ambassador Jusserand, in the absence of the French Minister of Foreign Af fairs, M. Pichon, accepted tho statue on behalf of tho. French Government. Ho declared that the friendship of General Washington and of the American people ynstitutcd one of the glories of France^' GOVERNOR VS. EDITOR. Nevada Executive Reaenta Article With Fiats. Beno ^Special).?Governor Dicker son, enraged by a ^tory which appeared in a1 Reno paper on the selection of a now prison site, went into tho office of tho -Garson Now#, which is edited by George A. Mf^nlioso, and demanded to know if Montrose wrote the article. Montrose *aid l?o did not, but that if he had he would not be afraid to ac knowledge it. Dickcjrson is said to have ^dirV^yp.^Montrose, his fiat grac ing the editor's cheek. Montrose, catch ing the Governor by the throat, bore him .""backward, also teltvcring a stiff body blow. A ffiend separated them. Dicker son refused to leave and Montrose started to eell on officer by telephone. Picker . ?oa"titan rtw^rtedr .2:~ " DEMANDED BABY BOY. Refuted, A bolfe Add SUufo THE TALE OF THE TUB (Copyright. Wio.) 816 FIRE III JERSEY CITY Engines Are Sent Over From New York City. Big Buildings Are Reduced to Ashes With Great Rapidity on Account of the Inflammable Nature of Theiy Contents?Burning Cork Scatters the ^Fire?Tenement Dwellers Are Driven to the Streets. Now York (Special).?Fire in tho warehouse division of Jersey City caused damage cstihiated at $1',000,000. Chief Croker and live engines from New Yorn hurried serosa tl?o Hudson to , the Jersey firemen and dynamite was usciT frequently. 'lbe lire started in the plant of Trus-. "low &. Fulle, manufacturers of cork prod ucts, at Washington and .Mnij-ati sleets The flaming light cork wo3 carried by the wind and ignited the plant of the Riegel Susk Company trereaj tue street, A few minutes later the Independent Baking Powder Works were burning. Then Working up VVushington street, the lire attacked tho W. Amos & Co. spike \yorks and tho Hutler llros. notion ware house. v - The entire Jersey City firo department was on the scene nt this stage, and the baking powder plant was demolished with dynamite. Hut as tho (1 nines continued to spread aid was summoned from Hew York, and the- two departments worked together. The vicinity is fringed with old wood en tenement houses, occupied mainly by Polak dock laborers and their families, and thousands poured into the streets, wailing and drugging their belongings. Tho streets were soon congested with furniture and other household articles, seriously hampering tho firemen and af fording loot for hoodlums. Only on serious accident was reported. The victim was Spencer Habcock, a fire man, who was knocked unconscious by a live wire. NEARLY OVERTHROW MADRIZ. Zelaya's Wife Plotted to Make Dr. Irias President. Ran Jose, Costa Bica (Special).? Quick work oj> the part of President Madriz, of Nicaragua, prevented the over throw of his government. According to information which has reached .here from Man&gua, from an un questionably reliable source, Mme. Ze lava, the wife of the deposed president of Nicaragua, organized a conspiracy to overthrow Madriz and install Dr. Irias. The conspirators had progressed to a point ?where, they were " almost ready to spring the trap, when one of the trusted followers of Mme Zclaj'a got drunk and gave the plot away. President Madriz took summary steps i to prevent the conspirpoy from being car ried out, and the plotters were, frustrated. Mme. Zelaya was ordered to leave the [country forthwith, and Madriz took pains to see that she was placed on board tho steamer San Jose bound from Corinto to | Panama, with a through tioket to Eu rope. ; . . Dr. Trias, who held a plsco in the pMadriit cabinet was invited to resign, and the lesser figures in the conspiracy were thrown into prison. LAV DISEASE ON GNAT. Western Physicians Investigate In fantile Paralysis. ^Council Bluffs, Iowa (Special).? Physicians here are convinced that they have discovered the cause of infantile paralysis that-lias reached the epidemic state in many localities. Now they will search for a remedy for the disease. ? After laboring for weeks they unite in announcing that their oplnion the dis ease is produced by a smitl flying insect known throughout the West as the buf falo gnat, which makes, its appearance during Juno and disappearing with the coming of the first frost in autumn. Head Size *f Hen's Egg. Duquoin, IH. {Special ).-r-A baby girl weighing one and one-half pounds and less than 12 inches in length born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wallace, who live on a farm e^st of hero. The infant la ?o tiny that a .match will hide one of her fingers, while her heAd is about the eire^of a hen's Burna Herself to Death. New York (Special). -Mrs, John eggs/ of -Dobbe Penjp, killed lieimlf ty soaking .her tOotheawith keroaoaa hmwI Mill OF CHllI IS DUB Slacken By Heart Fall n re on Arrival at Bremen. Scnor Montt Had Been * Sufferer From Heart Disease and Wai On Hie Way to German Springs far the Curf?Served Several Terms as President of Chili?A Brave Fighter and a Fine Executive?Manjj Yean An Officer In tho Chilean Havy. London (Special). ? President Pedro Montt of Chili arrived at Bremen on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelni tier Grosse Tuesday morning. His death occurred at W;50 o'clock P. M. It wbh due to i recurtoitfce-oj heart failure, following the leowt-- attaok of peettjrijr- trom which he suffered. ? - New York (Special) ?President Montt left, J\Tew^York.. just a week ago after one of theJ most startling experiences' in his career... That satno morning he had seen Mayor Gaynor shot" down on the deck of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, had witnessed the struggle with .lames J. Gallagher, the would be assassin, ami had departed on- the Kaiser feverishly excited over the occurrences, as were most of the other passengers aboard. A sufferer from liearL 1 rouble, it is not im prohabio that his sudden death may in some measure be attributed to the strain of that occurrence. Before the vessel departed President Montt gave out .an interesting review, de scribing the shooting as ho saw it, and later at sea he flashed u wireless mes sage Of sympathy to the Mayor, lie ar rived in Ne(f from South America on August Si, after a stop in the Panama Canal Zone, where he inspected the work on the canal and pronounced it good. Arriving here he was received with tho presidential salute and met by the Fed eral, State and city officials. On the following Friday he left for Boston, whence lie was taken ? on the President's yacht Mayflower to Beverly, where he and Mrs. Montt had luncheon with the President. During his talk with the President the Peru-Ecuador boundurv dispute canto up, and President Taft asked the Chilian executive to use his in fluence in urging" the two countries to accept the good offices of . the United States toward an amleable adjustment. In consequence it is understood that President Montt oabled instruction to Santiago. ? White in this country the ill health of President Montt was apparent. He was easily fatigued, and his old heart trouble bothered him considerably. PENNSY. WAGE SCALE. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Announce the Detail*. Cleveland, 0. (Special).?"President \V. Q, Lee, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, announced the terms of the Pennsylvania Railroad wage scale adjust ment, details of which Anally have been completed. Under the Agreoment the daily and mllongo rates have been raised to tne New York Central and .Baltimore and Ohio schedules, wherever lower than the rate obtainable on those lines, and maintained wherever higher. "The agreement gives the Pennsylvania the highest schedule of any railroad," said Lee. "It increases the road's operat ing expenses a great deal, too, as It ap plies East and West. The trainmen's working conditions are greatly bettered." - HEROES REWARDED. Five Men Showed Nerve and Courage at Big Qun Explosion. Washington, D. C. .(Special).?For nerve and courage displayed at the tifne of the explosion of a big gun at the recent target practice at Fort Monrfc, V*., resulting in the death of 11 meq, fiTc soldiers w<;re awarded certificates of merit by the War Department. Tliav are Private Charles C. Parka, Cook Wilmer H. Hawk, Private Fred. Faulkner, Cor poral William Bryan and Private D; C. YVigley, all of tho Sixty-ninth Company, Coast Artillery. Faulkner's certificate was awarded for "picking up and carrying away a smol dering sack of powder." The othet* "en tered a clGStf place to remove eaeR* of powder that were in "close proximity- to miming powder and smoldering debris,'' although most of tbe*i were painfully 1?OR PANAMA EXPOSITION. liftftiilifti-Sienate Pa?m. pill Provid ~ ing $6,500,000. . Baton lift. .jSpeaial) passed the special fix and bond is*ur A FIGHTER AS WEll A3 A FLYER John Molsnaiit a Reckless and Koinantic Chiivtder. HE FAILS IN A1TEMPI10 FLY TO LONDON Determined, Upwevcr, to- Complete Hit Remarkable Journey Prom the French to the English Capital?The Young American Aviator Now Recognised at an Agent of General Zelaya. Chatham, EuglanQ (Special)'Two ac cidents to lilt iliOttophuie brought down to earth tho American aviator, John 1). Aloi??ant, who *ho d.iy Wore made a re markable (light across the KngllHh Chan nel, with a |M ??? i. in ii during at tempt to fly from I'arl* to i/nidon. Alois , afHtjtiain' liea |wrtlftHy wrecked in a briek Held near ltainham, Kent, some 30 milus from Londoil. Hy a remarkable stroke of fortune, which seemed to have followed the al most unknown ami Inoxpcricneod aviator on tho flrnt two days t.f his (light. Moia Miftjt and his mechanician, Allwrt Kllmx, escaped unhurt. Hut the niaehine came heavily to the ground, alighting in a nar row *pnoe banked high around ivvlth earth and piles of broken briek. TJicre it in likely to remain until It can be removed piecemeal and refitted with part* now on their wity fwiil l'nrl* to"replace those that were broken hy the fall. Moisftant resumed his (liyht from Til manHtono at 4:55 o'clock A. M. The weather was clour and hardly a breeze stirred the air. Everything seemed most favorable to the accomplishment of his hop- 8, .but at 7 o'clock he was obliged to descend near ttittliiubournf. A Hinall pin had become diVpfaecd, ami almost from tho start it gave the aviator trou ble. After this defect wart repaired Mols sant rcasconded, but before he had gono many mjles a connecting r?'d was broken, which forced him to use the planes to | reach the ground. DERAILED. Twenty-Seven Passengers Injured On s , Southern. Washington, "D." T}.' --(Special).?Tne general Offices* of the Southenf'ituinVtf.v i? imtod tho following statement regarding the wreck of tV<? Florida Limited, north bound, near Hock ton, S. C.: "The engine remained on the track, l?ut the combination express and baggage car and two coaehes were derailed. Three Bleeping ears left the track, but remained upright. The accident occurred about 10 o'clock 1*. M. The cause has not yet been ascertained, as the track in in good con dition at iiie point where the Train wail llrst derailed. A further investigation will bu made. "No persons were killed. ' Twenty-seven passengers?8 white and 10 colored?re port slight injuries, hut were all able to prooecd on their journey, with the excep tion of J. I). Hit don. of Atlanta, Ga., who was injured nbout the head, and who is under the care of a physician at Co lumbia, S. C." Conductor Blnnton and Mail Clerk Thomj>son were the most severely injur ed, it was learned. Over 300 yards of track were torn up and traffic badly de layed. ?.. PHILANTHROPIST DEAD. David Ranken, Jr., Who Gave Away Fortune of $3,000,000. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special).?David Ranken, Jr., a millionaire philanthropist of St. Louis, died here.. Mr. Ranken was the founder of the David Ranken, Jr., School of Mechanical Trades, which ho endowed with $3,000, 000, saying only-$230 a month for him self. He was born at Boyetown, County Londonderry, Ireland, October 3, 1835. He was educated at Belfast Academy. Coming to the United States in 1802 he settled in St. Louis, where he remained a bachelor while amassing a fortune in the real estate and financial business. , lie was a director of tho Louisiana* Purchase Exposition and a member of the Business Men's League. CAN'T SHUT HER MOUTH, Waterbury Girl Yawns and Jawi Rt* fuse to CloM. Waterbury (Special).?Physicians nre nurnled bv the cose of May Fielding, of Cherry itrect, whose Jaw is set ?o tight she cannot clcso it. bne is in a partially comatose state, following hysterio* and severe fainting spells, and it is feared she may not recover. She was employed bv tho Waterbury Clock Company, and all last week looked forward to the picnic. .At the outing she' was the merriest of the crowd. Return ing to her home, she sat in a rocking chair and yawned several times in suc cession. Finally her jaws refused .to close. ' CRACK POSTOFFICE SAFE. BurglaraTn Auto Pay Viait to Grove land, N. J. Aubnrn, N. Y. (Special).?Safeblow ers, supposedly the gang who operated on the safe at Groveland, near Rochester, some nltfhts agcyand escaped in an aO&H mobile, imrFmr the villnrf nf Cayuga hj auto at 2 o'clock A. M. First they broke into the barn of the Mansfield Hotel and took rugs and blankets. They next raid ed a blacksmith shop and obfained tsols. Finally they gained access to the post office and wrapping, the safe in the robe* obtained itom the hotel barn, thoy dyna mited it. Thcv got away with a large quantity of stamps and. moncyv.J.'S.-. ETHEL TURNS EXPLORER. Rooeevelfa Dapghter With Expedition to Glaciers. THE PESI CAUSES ? PANIC III H Thousands of I'eop'o Wooing From f|io Cholera. CURRYING THE DRcALED GLRfS The Pope Orders That tho La*aretto of Santa Marta, Built Inside the Vatican By Pope Leo, Be Prepared for Emergency?Priests Instructed to Aid Civil Authorities. , Barl, Italy (Speeial).?-The epidemic of oliolera) whl<*)) lms broken out in Southern 11ulv, U steadily allowing an in crease iu tin* diatricta uHVoted, particular* ly lu tlio! town of Trunl, whore tlia num ber of deaths already j* more than 30. The latfHt ollioial report gave 20 death* lit .Tratii, nhowing t!i? rapidity vviih which tliu dine am* U i|ierefL?jng there. Tho npidemio ih of a virulent (type and tho dentil into is high/ Kven graver Utilizer in nutici|>uti*<l front the HyiiiK population of the infected din trlcU, wijo- may bear the germs of tho dinenfln to TCtflOlfti not yet iiivulved, Ti ani t-fiii' .I III". .I ilfHfl fl'd H? IV ll'BUlt of tlui panic, 20,000 of the jr?j}I.dQlitlt J.uUy one naif of the population, having Ih-d tho town. Fully rnt many have cm-aped from the island town of liar let la. Hume (Special )<?-Humors thai the epi demic of etudem, which has broken out in Apuliu, had spread to Homo ure em phatically denied, There have been no cftHPi) hvre and (ho Ke.nerdtl health condi tions in Home aic t, bettor tlit)It ' at any time during the past 10 yeatl. Although the danger of infection in not felt here, the I'ope ordered?the lazaretto of Santa Malta, built inside the Vatican by Pope I.eo in 1885, during the great cholera epidemic at Naples, but never used because of the absence of cholera patients, made ready for any emergency. The bospiti^, instead, has been employed to shelter pilgrims from alt oouiitries, in cluding parties Of Ameiil'an sailors who have visited Home from American war ships lying in Italian ports. , The intiuence of the church is to bo used to assist, the civil authorities in lighting the epidemic, the,clergy having been instructed to use all means to en force compliance with the sanitary regu lations 011 the part of their parishioners. No filial decision has been takrn regard ing the iiroposcd departure of King Vic J^?r for tlio cholera region. The King, it is saicl-v.'^s determined to proceed person ally tb tW-aeW^" ,if condition.'i become more serious, in whlch'TNi?1' Queen Helena, it Is said, will insist upoiPaWUL,'l,;ul) i''H blm. '? BACK FROM MT. McKINLEY. Prof. Parker Say# Cook Was Ten Miles From Summit.' Seward, Alaska (Spccial).?The l'or kcr-Iirowne Mount MeKinley exjx'ilition passed through here ami sailed for .Scat tip. The party failed to climb Mount Mc* Kinlfey, and members declare that tliey have conclusive proof that Dr.'Coflk never reached the summit and that the peak which ho reported as the summit is fully 10 miles from the real summit. Prof. llirscJiell I'arker took photos of this peak* which lie says can easily b?? identified as pictures df the peak that Cook give.) in his bonk. Among the party were Professor Par-' ker, of Columbia; Professor Cuntz, of Stevens Institute, lloKokcn; Herman 8. Stuckens, o'f Newton, Mass., and Wrtldc mar Grasnee, of Columbia University. Professor Parker doubts the claims made by Tom Lloyd, of Fairbanks, that ho and his companions climbed McKin ley from the Fairbanks side. $7.50 To Dine With Roosevelt. Chicago (Special).?It will cost $7.50 to dine with Colonel Roosevelt at the Congress Hotel on the night of Septem ber 8. Besides, one must first have an Invitation from the Hamilton Club, whose guest he will be, and then draw for a chance to be a favored one. Engraved in vitations with cards setting fdrth that the drawing for tickets will take place at 2 o'clock, August 21), have been issued. V ? ? . 15-Passenger Dirigible. San Franoisoo, Cal. (Special).?On funds supplied by leading business and firofesstonal men, a 15-passenger dlrlglblo ? being secrctly constructed hero and will soon be completed. It is said to bo of a new type ^vhioh, It is hoped, will intro duce^radical changes Into air craft gen erally. Robbed of $45,000 in Jewels. St. Moritz, Switzerland (Special).? Mrs. Daniel Bacon, of New York, who is touring in Switzerland with her sister. Lady Gilbert Parker, - and Sir Gilbert Parker, was robbed her-e of $45,000 worth of jewelry. The theft was carried out in a most daring and skillful manner and no oluc has been obtained to the robbers. Arctic* Ship Sunk, Copenhagen (Special).?The Alabama, the vessel of the Danish Arctic expedi tion, sank last winter off Eastern Gren land. News of the disaster was received here. Captain MlkK$l?on and the other members of the expedition were able to reach Shannon TslAnd, whenee they have just been rescued. Cover Defaulter's Shortage. Louisville, Ky. (Special).?Steps to In ercafte the capital of the Fidelity Trust Company from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 wero taken at a special meeting of tb* stockholders. The new stock issue is In tended to cover the shortaffo caused by the *peeul*ti<HHi?of August Ropke, the treasurer, who is now In loll. " ? ' a Jilted, End* Her Life. Hoboken, N. J. (Special).?Arrested on eoroplaint nl a tormar aweet Anton Kit noying him, Minnie JCrii shot and killed &L COLUMBIA AND CAROLINA Affairs of tho State and Important Now* of the D*y Secured and Con densed For Profit and Convenience. Prosecution Under Inspection Act. An ? >11 u-i.11 notification from the of ficial notification from tho olUcaf of (I^miiiliwioiify \YfitiWft J&W Friday mar Us tho be^iiuunj? of t bo first pros ecution under tho Federal inspection net, A, M. Hayes, u prominent mer chant of Oreenville, was notified that for nn alleged assault upon Inspec tor J. S. Spi^oner of tho Federal in spection depaitment, Solicitor IJon ham woultl bl> railed upon to prose* eut? hi in under tho net. There are ? four separate coiiirts, under each of >ytweh the penalty ranges from #50 to $200. The aOhlaviis h.ayc bcim for waasled to Koliyitor I'ooham, who, under the law, I,as thirty days it) which to hrtn.4 tlia prosecution. The ussjtukt upon the1 inspector is alleged to have beon unprovoked and to have occurred Tuesday. Man Sun aiders in' Edgefield. Joseph L. CrafTtou, who h!i?1 1', 0. Thtunioiul in the public road in the lower 'part of Fl'tdleld iou:ity. Inst Satnnl.iy, death resulting after at) operation at thy AuKiwta hospital on Monday, has surrendered to the shoiifT. II? has enjoyed eounccl and will apply for bail. Both parties are connected with prominent' families. Candy PJant For Spartanburg. Antony: the now enterprises that are soon to he added l<> Sparliihlmri?*!; many industries is the orj*ani/.at'on.. and incorporation of a candy factory. This new conrern.\^|44?manufacture a line of rheniK>r grades of candies and will also ho jobber* for several con cerns wih"h bundle a lino .of hij?h pri'ce goods. Cotton Mills Complaint on Coal Rate youih Carolina cotton mills arc complainiiV of the rates . on steam coal from flie various fields which sSo>^>]Jy . 1 In'iii with -fuel, Tho Victor Manufacturing Company, of Grecrs, and other largo ootVoTT? Cj)Vfitt or* in . il?e Htivte have instituted a complaurt bofore (lie Interstate Commorco Com mission against tho Southern Hail, way Company and other carriers, urging that tho prosent rates on coal from the Coal,Creek region in Ten nessee a 1x5 unjust and unprccendeutcd and tlin-t the recent advances made in those laws are unlawful and discrim inating. The old rate from the Coal Creek fleltt" to South. Carolina points is $1.80 a ton. The* advanced rate is $1.95 a'ton to basing points in South Carolina. R. F. D. Carrier in Trouble. Former Mail Carrier W. G. Dick ens was arrested last Thursday at Latta by Po&tofflce Inspector Buck as a culmination of charges of misappro priation of postal funds whidi have been brought against him. He was wnmcdiately taken before Federal Commissioner StackhOuse, at Marine, and then released on bond. ' ' . Dickens has for nearly four years rural ni^if carrier on;,tho one route from Mall^p?,j?at<?flke until a few weeks ay;<?, f^st-master l'or ham suswnded <bmiv pending an inves tigation qf the "charges against trim. Immediately following his suspension ins?forwarded "tris resignaiion to the postofllce department at Washington. Baggage Master Minter Improving. The condition of J. B. Minter, ~vt Spartanburg:, who was cut and ser iously wounded tho other day by Davis ProMiro of Aiken, is most en couraging. His physicians say that unless complications set in he will be able to lea re the hospital in a few <*a.ys. Minter is from North Carolina and had been in Spartantmrg a short while. Now Colombia Enterprise. An enterprise" packed .by some of the leading men of tho Piedmont bos been chartered at Columbia. The Iiotne I.iv'.:! and Power Company, capita'iired at $100,000, received its official in*u^uraik>iv from the Secre tary of Stats. Tiio officers are: T, T.. Arnold, presidents John (Jeer, vice president; J. T. Arnold* secre tary and t-reasureifrffirffli' believed ^ that this corn pan!. wi$| take over -.thai old lighting company of Creenville. ff First C;*s~t Tie ijj||[f -the < NOTED FOR UYING^IWUTIES Beautiful La Breeee Not Only Produce Many Eafls, but Are Ono off Doot Table Uirda. I v'? ? ? \*T ? . *. V;r . v 771 . .. *, <By IE. # TONURIDOE.) The beautiful breed of La Brest* chickens are not only a dainty looking fowl, but thoy are quite the arletocruta of the poultry World. They nro not ohly beautiful to look at, hut are cele brated in France for their.laying <Juull-, ties, and uleo for being ono of tho hej^/t of table birds. "Ponlardo la Urease!' Is thero u houBehohl word, And It Is well deacrvrd, l'or their 'flesh Is cx trymoly white and <h ll< ;U??. Tho linntf lay a wonderfully large egg, well overt two ounces, und tholr avorago Is ahouf ono hundred and sovonty to one hunJ drod and eighty In tho your. A pen of seven black pullets, luntoi to tho cook shown in the Illustration, ldld be tween August 12 last and the end of February an average of about on<j hundred (or hen. Since tho OUa of FeWuury eight of theao pullets havo laid throo hundred and seventy six eggs, au avorago per hcu ot ouo An Aristocrat. hundred and forty-flvo eggs up to May'. 1. This "result/ acolng thutthqyhavo' ?9q.u out In nil klndB of weatbor,! speaks* v^kxynca In their favor. They] oro on nbBolut6Fm?Vgy)gi^tttlaXa^\_ which hag existed In tho province orr**"" Aisne for centuries past.' v My record! of eggs was ns follows (tho pulletftj. ; were hatched about March and began; to lay on Auguut 12): August, flft) six; September, ninety-eight; October,! ninety j) I lie; November, one hundred! and six; December, one-hundred and! fteven; January, ono hundred and/ U Br.... H* m ASSM total, ono thousand and ninety-five. [ # ?'??,.! - PROPER FEEDING OF PIGEONS Twice a D?y la Sufficient at All Tlme9 of Year?Many Changes Can Be Made In Menu. ? . feeding pigeons twice a tosHe suffi cient at nil times of the year. Wo often road of tho importance of early morning feeding, hut thla Is purely a notion; eight o'clock la a good tlmo for tho brcnfcfast hour. Tlio proper method of feeding is to have a board about 24 inches loug and eight inchcs wide, with strips nailed around tho four uldes ono Inch high, in which ia placed grit, covering tho bottom about half an inch deep, with good, sharp mixture. At tho preeent Vj tlmo tharo aro voiry inauy fine com- r, filiations on tho market. Upon thia grit can bo apread Canada peas,,wheat and canary sood in the morning, and in tho evcuing small round corn, r oata and Canada peae; n? ? i%a criv^n nit IhA-hird w 5ivt.11 no ttlv tMIU There are many et mado?ia - "