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5r& ’^ , : ,,Bw«aaMiiiwu. V * • • * : - i - , aiNfcf >“N SaPi-SFsS: - •« ’ „ - ^^jPPPSPe^^^^.v * r ' / 0 lartHf OtpwMI For V., His Brother / C! ■: ; /r; ,' ^SSsa. EXCITEMENT ... »'*' 8^5. Lv The Boom of Big Guns Told the ..•.-^-.»»-i- - - r~~ •--•• f ’^T" - People of the Change—The Troop* at Adana Hare Revolted Setaed Fifty of Their Officer* and Hold Them. /' ‘ ^ t- . .... .^ AMxtl R«mM h«« beetr th»po«ed /Iteltan of Turkey and Mehemmed chad Bffendl, hit brother, has been proclaimed his successor. _JCh* deposition was through the regalar form prescribed by the tenets of the Mohammedan faith. It is un derstood .that Sheik U1 Islam, the head of the church, will issue a de cree of deposition. The news of the deposition of Ab dul Hamid and the selection of his brother to succeed him caused great excitement throughout Constantino ple. Crowds at once began to gather In the principal squares and thor oughfares and around the Imperial palce of Yildiz In anticipation of the proclamation of the new sultan. A salute of 101 guns, fired a| 2:3 0 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, apnoune ed to the populace of Constantino ple a change in the sultanate. It Is reported that the sultan has been removed from the imperial palace of Ytldis and conveyed across Hos- phorus to a -point in Asiatic Tur key. Mehemmed Reschad Kffendl was proclaimed sult^ of Turkey at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in suc- cesslon to his brother, Abdul Hamid 11. The sultan was dethroned by the national assembly whose decision on the proposal was unanimous. Fifty Turkish officers have been arrested at Erzeroum by their troops and dispatched under escort to Tre- bizond. The exact significance of this action Is not clear, but It Is feared that It means the beginning of a revolt 6f the provincial troops against the Young Turk officers. —-A at Adana has been received here by telegraph from Rev. Herbert Adams Gibbons, a missionary: "The entire vilayet of Adana has been visited during the past five days by a terrible massacre of Armenians, the worst ever known in the history of the district. Terror has been uni versal and the government has been powerless to check the disorders. Adana, the capital of the province, has been the storm center." He added that the unsettled con ditions and the animosity between the Turks and Armenians resulted from political activity of the latter. An Armenian and a Turk were killed on Wednesday night and their corpsea were paraded through the streets, Inflaming the Inhabitants. • Gibbons then described how the mob assembled and shots were flreu in the air. This was followed by killing. Local authorities feared to got. While Gibbons and Field Secre- Ury Chamber of the Y. M, C. A^ were in the telegraph office, "where they-went to summon aid of the Brit ish consul, the Moslems burst in and killed two Armenians before tfieir eyes. Gibbons and Chambers went Into the next room and made repre sentations to the Vail. Being afraid of his own life, that official made no effort to protect them. The situation, according to /6ib- bons, grew worse. The Armenians, he said, withdrew to their quarter of Adana and converted their houses Into fortresses, where the fighting went on for two days. Gibbons con- ttnuod:• "Adana was a -v* -■ - o SSF hell. The bazaars were looted and set on fire. There was continuous and unceasing shoot ing and killing in etfery part of the town and fires raged in many quar ters. “The Moslems/from the nelghltor- hood began pou/ing into the city and notwithstanding our vehement pro tests. All distributed arms to these fflcn. alleging that they were Turkish reservers."/ The missionary added. "On Thurs day Daniel Miner Rogers and Henry Maurer, American missionaries, were killed under treacherous circum stances. On Friday the Armenians, yielded, and since then there has little murdering ‘Adana is In a pliable condition, town has been pillaged and de- itroyed^and there are thousands of homeless people here without means of livelihood. It is Impossible to estimate the number of killed. Onrpses He scattered through the streets. Friday when I went out I had to pick my way between the dead to avoid stepping on them. “Saturday morning I counted doz ens of cart loads of Armenian bodies In one half hour being car ried to the river and thrown Into the water. In the Turkish ceme teries graves are being dug by the wholesale. The condition of the ■most yttleMb. Not only orphans and widows be- nomber, but a great number of even suffering from se- *ere wounds. The situation in Adana la unspeakable. E“ ? ?7r v _T' ' „ j- i DIRECTOR HARPER CALLS AT. , TENTION TO IT And Says It Will Hart the Farmer .If It is Allowed to Stay In the Tariff Rill. Director Harper, of the agricul tural experiment station at Clemson college, has called the attentlon/of and Commissioner Watson to some other work to be done on the Payne tariff bill, there being several paragraphs affecting the Southern farmers. It will bo rssallad that after consider able fighting the Southern farmers were enabled to get on the free list potash salts, which is a basis for all fortillsor products. . ~ Prof Harper/nas learned that the- sulphur Interests of Louisiana and Utah Are attempting to place a. duty of $6 per ton on sulphur. This, of course, means another hardship on the farmer. Commlsioner Watson had copies of the letter made and sent to each of the senators and representatives from the State. The letter says in part. "I understand that the sulphur people of Utah and Louisiana are trying their best to get a tax of |6 per ton on sulphur. This means another hardship on the farmer. Sul phur Is used largely In this country In the manufacture of sulphuric acid. The extent to which sulphuric acid is used is enormous. There are more than 2,000,000 tons of mineral pho- phates dlssovled by sulphuric acid. A duty on sulphur moans higher pric ed acid phosphate. “There Is another matter that 1 would like to call to your attention. Some of the acid phosphate people of this State are using their Influence to prevent basic slag from remaining on the free list. Basic slag is used largely In Europe and the British Isles as a source of phosphorous and where It is ua^d with stable manure In this country It la a valuable source of phosphorous. It is also a.jvaluable source of plant food when used on rich bottom land that con tains large amounts of organic mat ter. The directors of the experiment stations were largely responsible for sulphate of ammonia being put on Disorders at Adana. Tka following aeoeunt of 44«ordera ibe free list. Heretofore the duty on sulphate of ammonia has been $6 per ton and the Payne bill as orig inally framed admitted sulphate of ammonia without duty but the steel trust had Influence enough to place a duty of $4 per ton on this material "I have been conducting experl ments with sulphate of ammonia in comparison with nitrate of soda as a top-dressing for cotton and I find that It Is Just as good as pltrate of soda for this purpose, provided we have favorable seasons. During a wet year sulphate of ammonia is not as available as nltrat^ of soda, but Is Is a splendid source of nitrogen and if It Is admitted duty free It will reduce the- prlce—of nitrate of soda and other ammonlated fertlliz ers. The eottem planters of the South are learning the valu,e of top dressing their cotton and cbm and each year t^e demand for nitrate of soda and other quickly available ,nitrogenoh8 fertilizers Increases We must exert every effort to have snlphafe of ammonia placed on the free list. I understand that basic slag has been eliminated from the maximum tariff In both bills and It Is not likely that a duty will be plac ed upon It, unless great pressure is brought, but there Is considerable doubt about brimstone and sulphate of ammonia. Please continue to flght on this proposition.” Ex-Governor of Oklahoma and Wo man Arrested in St. I^ouis. ■ . / Frank Frantz, former governor of Oklahoma, was arrested In St. Ixiuis a few days ago In Company with a young woman after an automobile ride to a road house in the suburbs, which began Saturday night. The couple was charged with disturbing the peace. They were detained at the police station until 9 o’clock the morning they were arrested when they were released on bonds At 8 o’clock at night an additional entry was made on the police blot ter. It read: “Charges dismissed by order of the chief.” The woman gave her name as Edna Wilson, and said she lived at the Jefferson hotel. Chief Creecy, explained that the charges were dismissed after a per sonal appeal by Frantz., "The facts were that he and the young woman were Just a trifle hila rious,” said the officials. "They had not done any particular harm, and I could not resist the appeal." FELL TO HIS DEATH. ( y*.v *1B* br Tr*l». Evening Post I,?# colored boy six i crashed to death Mon- ; a Southern rall- WSm* mm* Alex- i negro with two or ear which r> and ill A Young Man Was Fatally Hurt In Columbia. The State says William Brewer, a yriung man about 25 years of age. fell from the Seaboard Air Line trestle, near the corner of Lincoln street and Whaley avenue a few afternoons ago, and sustained In juries from which he died last night at 9 o’clock. The fall caused a frac ture of the skull, a fractured and dislocated hip and a broken arm. The Injured man was removed to the Columbia hoapltal at once, but he was found to be fatally hurt, and all efforts to save his life proved of no avail. He was an employe of the Virginia Iron Company and was en gaged with a corps of workmen In replacing the old wooden trestle, where the Seaboard tracks cross the Atlantic Coast Line, with a steel structure. It was In this work that he was engaged when he fell to his death. The dead man Is a native of North Carolina and was unmarried. MISTRIAL FOR JOSH ASHLEY. The Jury Unable to Agree in the Peonage Case. The Jury In the case of John W. Ashley, tried last week In the Fed eral court at Anderson on the charge of peonage reported Monday morn ing to Judge Brawley that It was unable to agree and was discharged. •Yhe\«uf« iWir Hot' coma Tip 'A&Sin fill the fall term at Charleston, Colum bia or Greenville. The trial attract ed wide attention on account of the prominence of the defendant, who is a member of the Leglilatlve del- egffflori frdm AbdeFs6n~*c6unty. * The Jury stood seven to five- for acquit tal, it is currently reported. Slept Long Time. v V- At Kenton, Ohio, Miss Laura Cas per, 20 years old, who had been asleep for one hundred hours, at the of her sister, Mrs.' Knapp, awoke Thursday apparently In good health, although weak. Physicians say her condition 1$ due to a ne^ve- hysterlcal collapse. ( AFTER THE TRIAL OF CALHOUN / • 1 M OVER. /- * Opposing Attorneys 'ht Calhoun Trial Threaten Each Other—Stormy Day In San Francisco Graft Trial. At San Francisco Francis J. Heney and Earl Rogers, opposing counsel in the trial of Patrick Calhoun, agreed that their'private differences arising out of s clash over the ad mission of testimony should be set tled at the first opportunity after the trlaL For the first time, Rogers appear- eiT^to take offense at Heney’s re marks, and said "don’t you talk to me In that manner, Mr. Heney." "ITl meet you at any time you say," answered the_ prosecutor. "ATT right, Mr. Heney,” replied Rogers, "that Is agreed; but we will settle this matter after we have end ed our duties to our respective cli ents.” Mr. Heney departed from the court room under the escort of his custo mary bodyguards, and the adjourn ment marked the end of a stormy ses sion, during which Heney addressed Lewis F, Bylngton of the defense, as a “barking cur,” and Bylngton re torted by addressing Heney as "a trailing dog.” Between quarrels the cross-ex amination of James L. Gallagher, who has occupied the witness stand since last Tuesday, was concluded, and Daniel S. Coleman, a former sup ervisor, was called. THEY WERE RATHER GAY. WITNESSED AN EXECUTION. An American and His Wife Present by Accident. Mrs. N. W. Stowell, of San Fran- er Prlnz Friedrich Wilhelm, of the North German Lloyd, told how she had been compelled to be present at Canton, China, wfyen a man’s head was cut off. "Mr. Stowell and I were taken to the execution grounds In Canton among other sights," said Mrs. Sto well, "and when we were within the enclosure the gates were suddenly closed. To our horror they let out a poor wretch and our guides told us they were going to cut his head off We wanted to get out, but they would not open the gates until the execu tion was over. "Of course I turned my head away and suffered intense emotl tns, but there were no unusual sounds or outcry. Afterwards we were told •ney had given the victim opium. When ’lie gates were opened we hur ried away as quickly as we could.’ HIGH FINANCE j. A Chicago Swlndlor Forced to ^ Cheat Others BY HIS CREDITORS FATAL POLITICAL FRAY. One Dead and Three Wounded in Shooting Scrape. Cornelius Pritchard Is dead and three other persons are wounded as a result of a six-handed shooting affray at Meadville, Miss., Tuesday,’ the outgrowth of a political feud. At a recent election Dr. A. M. New man, formerly sheriff of the county, defeated the father of the young man killed for the office of chancery clerk. Feeling between the two factions be came intense, and when Pritchard met Newman today Weapons were quickly drawn and fireing began. In graham Pritchard came to the aid of his brother and three sons of Dr. Newman came to his assistance. When the firing ended Cornelius Pritchard wag dead, his brother had sustained a bullet wound in his-leg and two bystanders, Herbert Apple- white and Sidney Horton, were less seriously hurt. WILSON MAY KEEP PLACE If Fight on Cassell for Postmaster - Goes On. A dispatch from Washington to the OoHrmfrHi Rekrtmf (ia-ys 'there Is little chance of the appointment of any Democrat to the Florence post- mastership. Unless the South Caro lina senators stop fighting the Re publican, Cassell, U Is likely tb# ne-' gro “Wilson will keep the plach. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the poatoffice commit tee, fa willing to see Wilson ousted, hut is unwilling, to see Cassell, the son of a friend, the former represen tative from Pennsylvania, lose the Job. He> thinks the removal of the negro ought to satisfy the Csro- lintans and make them leave the road open to a white Republican, es pecially as no Democrat's name has been presented In opposition. He Says Two Men Whom He Had Swindled Hounded Him to Dnpe Othere go aa They Could Get the Money He Swindled Them Ont of Back. Feter Van Vilasingefl, who last winter confessed that he had forged mortgages to the extent of 11,000,- 000, thereby causing a great sensa- trotrTh Chicago, where he had been known for 20 years as a leading real estate man, exploded a bomb-shell In the bankruptcy court at Chicago Tuesday when he stated that his con fession a few months ago was ante dated by four years by a confession made privately to men who held $400,000 of his spurious papers. Van VUsslngen was brought back to Chicago from prison to testify before Referee in Bankruptcy Frank L. Wean, who is attempting to locate th«? valid assets of the prisoner. Van VUsslngen declared that In 1904 he Was compelled to confess to Maurice Rosenfeld, at that time a director of the now defunct Chicago National bank, and Bernhard Rosenburg, a real estate dealer, that the mortgage held by them and valued at $400,- 000 had been forged. "They discovered some Irregulari ties in the paper in that year,” said the witness, "and came to my offiee for a conference. I admitted the forgeries and said, ‘I would go before the State’s attorney, tell him jus» what 1 have related to you gentle- mien about these wholesale forger •es, plead guilty and go to prison like a man.’ / “ ‘We want our money,’, they said. " ‘I can get it,’ I told them, 'but I must dupe others as I have duped you.’ “We had another conference soon after," continued the witness, proposed to settle with them, promised to pay them from “$1,000 to $5,000 a week. Altogether I paid them approximately $250,000.” Further conferences were held from time to time. At one of these, Van VUsslngen said, they said, “We want our money." He replied he was getting it as fast as he could raise It. “ ‘We don’t want to know how you get the money,’ they told me at one conference, held in December 1904.” Bernhardt Rosenberg had been prominent In real estate business and in Jewish social circles for many years. Van Vlissingen's face was pale and his hands trembled as he told his story. His eyes were bloodshot and his lips twitched as he faced counsel and recognized former friends among the spectators. The witness stated that his forg eries had continued for 30 years but that he did not know the exact ex tent of them. “Will they aggregate $1,000,000? "Surely.” "And may be more?” "Yes.” ~ "Have you any property or other assets not accounted for at present?' Van VUsslngen was asked. "No, except my clothing, I had al)out $150 when 1 reached the pris on at Joliet, but I sent that hack to my wife.” "I told Rosenfeld at least 25 times and Rosenburg half as often” said Van Vlissingen, "that I could reim burse them only through illegal busi ness operations. "I told them further,” the witness continued, "that I was rapidly be coming deeper involved, that the number of illegal fransactians was multiplying and that my legal trans actions were falling off and almost ceased to be profitable." Van VUsslngen said he transferred life Insurance policies aggregating $40,000 to Rosenfeld, delivering them to him, and further stated that since turning them over to Rosen feld he paid the premiums on the policies. "Rosenfeld and Rosenberg, partic ularly the former." the witness stat- -ed , “kept crowding me for money until I feared the situation would kill «nc. Finally 1 warned Rosenfeld that if he did not cease I would not duplicate more notes and that I then could not make money to pay him. "I said 1 feared the end was near, that I did not Intend to go to pris on. and—well, he knew what I meant.” Here the witness wept, but when the referee suggested that the hear ing be adjourned, Van Vlissingen protested: “I want to get through. I can stand the strain. Go on.” A recess, however, was ordered. Rosenberg and Rosenfeld have en gaged an attorney and refused to discuss they sensational testimon All inquiries they referred to their counsel, Lessing Rosenthal. GETS MS REWARDS ANOTHER “TAFT DEMOCRAT” IS > ^ REMEMBERED FOR His Good Work In Behnlf of the Republican Party During the I^ast Election. , Zack McGee, writing to The State from Washington says James T. Wil liams, Jr., of Greenville, was named Monday by the President to be one of the three civil service commis sioners. He puts dowh his residence at "Lincolnton.” The salary Is IQfflTi. -: Here is the story: "Jimmie” Williams hit this-iown some seven or eight years ago as a typewriter and assistant to one of the Wash ington correspondents. Being a bright young man and alive to his opportunities he has steadily risen ever since. From one suit of clothes with the vanishing point of the "breeches” somewhere in the vicini ty of the ankles and a string tie hanging down on his bosom, he has steadily advanced in the satorial scale, till the "breeches” have been converted into “trousers” and his haberdashery has become one of the fashionable institutions of Washing ton. It takes four valets. It ds said, to keep his wardrobe. He soon got a position with the Associated Press and being assigned to the State, war and navy depart ments it soon developed that he could shake hands high In klr and how down before “your excellency” most efficiently. Having a fairly good head for news and being able to write well, he became a valued reporter of the Associated Press. Three years ago ho was made the Washington cor respondent of the Boston Transcript. Jimmie kept growing, and the hand-shake went steadily up with him. By the time I arrived here, three years after him, he was saying “parst" and "arfter,” for “past” and "after” and when I asked him one day how to spell "collards" he said he had never heard of such things In due season he became a Re publican and last year was made one of the secretaries to the Taft propa gandlst bureau, prior to the Chlca go convention. After Taft's nomina tion he stayed with the Republican campaign, committee and is said to have done valuable service for the Republicans. Any way, Mr. Taft felt under obligations to him and has giv en him a job In the administration SouTHEfiN States Supply I BUY FROM US MachliTe^^SuppHes PIumbtitg Sur>r>ii< . "V KILLED BY BURGLAR. Assistant Postmaster of Lenox, Gn. Shot Down. While searching for two neg.-o men who had in succession robbed the postofflee, a bank, a dry good:- store and a drug store at I enox, G i.. Monday morning, Assistant? Post master Clifford Rutherford of thr place was shot twice through tl-* head and was Instantly killed bv Marshal T.ewis, one of the negrorj who had tak r n refuge In the railwcy station. Lewis’ accomplice was caught, hut Lewis escaped and was later trailed down hy dogs at Adel, and was tak en toward the Nashville, Oa., jail The negro confessed and begg°d not to he taken back to Lenox. A hun dred friends of Rutherford went to Adel late Mondav afternoon with the intention of intercepting the sheriff It Is admitted that a lynching Is imminent. Indignation over the murder Is deep and if the sheriff falls to reach a substantial jail the proba bilities are that his prisoner will be hanged. Rutherford, while seeking the rob bers. put his head in the door of the depot room and struck a match. At that Instant two shots rang out and he dropped to the floor. COLUMBIA. S. C. NORTH MUST GO to bo Oustod For Allogod Scandalous ~ CONDUCT IN OFFICE Fired EXCITEMENT AT MAYESVILl.E FELL FROM THE TOP Of High Skyscraper and Was In stantly Killed. Falling 425 feet from the thirty- fourth story of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's skyscrap er, on Madison Square, New York, Monday. Thos. Mortimer, 42 years of age, was instantly killed. Mor timer, who was foreman of the rig gers at work on the building, was superintending the erection of a scaffold four floors above the big clock,, on the 24th street side of the tower. Hundreds of people in Madi son Square were watching him at work and saw him fall to the balus trade of the balcony above the clock. Her' the body poised for a moment and dropped to the street. ATTACKED RY RATS. Fierce Onsalught Upon Men Fight ing Flames. TROLLEY STRIKES AUTO. Society Woman Fatally Hurt in an Accident. At~Pensacola. Fla., four promi nent society women were Injured Monday, one fatally, when the auto mobile In which they were riding was struck by an electric car. Mrs. Gonzales, of Pensacola, was fatally Injured. The others hurt were Mrs. J. M.* Mulcoon, of Pentteola, and Ifra: .Lnee and Mm. Clark, of Mo bile. - 'The automobile was struck by a Bay Shore car running about forty miles an hour. Mrs. Gonzales later dlad of her Injuries. Firemen who were called to fight a halze in a Junk shop In East Eleventh street, New York, Monday night, were attacked hy hundreds of large rats. So a vicious was the on- sTaughf of the rodents "as they climb ed the legs of the firemen and bit their hands and ran over their shoul ders and helmets that the firemen turned the streams of water from the fire on to the rats. After the jat?^ had been washed away by the ter rific force of the water, the Are was extinguished. He Wrote the Iniquitous Wool Schedule In the Present Dlngley Tariff Iaw, But That Is Thing for Which He is to by Taft. Zach McGee, the-^Washington cor respondent of The State, says the real reason Mr. S. N. D. North, di rector qf the census, Is about to be flred.-'from his job is scandalous and lurfrultable. But the reason why he should never have been appointed to this job, and why since recent ex posures it is a public disgrace to have him holding any position of honor or responsibility In the gov ernment should be known to men and women. Mr. North is the man who wrote the present wool schedule In the Dln gley tariff law. This he did at the direction and as the agent of the Wool Manuafcturers’ association, from whom he claimed his reward and got It in cold cash. He was ap pointed hy Senator Aldrich as clerk to the finance committee. In that capacity he wrote the iniquitous and pillaging wool schedule. For this he was paid by the Wool Manufac turers' Association. \1 hether Mr. Roosevelt knew this when he appointed Mr. North direc tor of the census I do not know. But. Mr. Roosevelt did know it last November when it came out in cer tain letters Champ Clark submitted to the ways and means committee, which letters Mr. North came before the committee and admitted he had written. Mr. North admitted that he had written the wool schedule and that he had been paid for It by the Wool Manufacturers' Association. The letters were there, It was no use to deny them, so Mr. North admit ted it. What happened? Did he lose his job? Did Mr. Roosevelt spurn him from his "righteous” administration and denounce him as a traitor and a hired thief? Not at all. Mr. North holds his position until this day. Mr. Taft was apparently going to keep him, but that a lesser of fense is charged against him. Mind you, the offense now charged is more scandalous; hut that is because pub lic thievery is so common that it does not excite scandal. The other charge against Mr. North Is. in brief, arid without the details, that whenever a member of congress or another high official of the government has a pretty young lady friend to supply with a remu nerative job In Washington all he has to do Is to go to Mr. North and apprise him of the fact and the di rector will provide for her. When ever later the congressman finding himself under further obligations to his young lady^ friend wishes her promoted to a better paying position, why he goes to Mr. North and tells him, and Mr. North promotes her. The young lady may he the daugh ter of the congressman or his niece or his brother-in-law’s stepmother. It is all the same to Mr. North; the congressman wants her promoted and it Is done, regardless of the pub lic service, regardless of the Individ ual merits of the other young fadles or young men in the office, who have to stand on their own merits and records without any influential sen ators or "congressmen” to intercede for them. I say this, as bad aa It Is, Is not worse than Mr. North’s thievery In connection with the wool schedule In the tariff hill, because some members of congress are now at bottom equal ly with North the real offenders. Some time ago a high official In the congress, who Is also a member, went to Mr. North. “Mr. North.” he said. “I want this young lady promoted to a $1,800 job.” _“Why. just at present, Mr. ,” replied the director, “I have no such positions vacant.” “Well, replied the high and In fluential congressman, “yon heard what I said. T want her promoted to a $1,800 Job at once.” The young lady got her promo tion. And, you may recall, that the census bill was passed by both hous es of congress with a provision that appointments in that branch of the service should be made without the assistance of the civil service com mission but practically by the di rector, upon the recommendation of Caused by the Attack of a Negro on a White Man. Wednesday night a serious ,<f«sh between white and colored people of Mayesville over in Syunter coun-^ TSTTwar narrowly biir t6<F~ counsel of the cooler heads prevail ed, and quiet was restored. Mr. John Cdnningham, who is em ployed by tie Llnson Lumber Com pany, reprimanded one of the negro handSf Lindsay Conyers, fof care- IqSs work, and hot words followed. As Mr. Cunningham turned away, the negro struck him, a blow on the head with a scantling, laying open the scalp to the bone, and render ing hlnywnconsclous. The hegro then took refuge In a nearby cabin, and when ati officer attempted to arrest him, resisted, and drew a Colt’s automatic pistol. Fortunately he did not undesstand the safety catch, and he was over powered and taken to the guard house. Considerable excitement pre vailed, and there was talk of lynch- Ing. , This, however, quieted dpwn, and Sheriff Epperson was notified. Dep uty Sheriff Sykes went to Mayssville immediately and brought the pris oner to jail without tronble. PLEADER GUILTY. George Barton, the Yeggban, Con fesses Crime. George Barton, the escaped 'yeg man, was arraigned In the feder court at Greeifville Tuesday mornln on the charge of robbing the post- office at Pelzer In December last, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve five years In a federal prison, and pay a fine of $1,000. He will he taken to the prison near Atlanta. Barton declared that h!s escape from the Greenville county jail was ef fected by blowing a hole through the two-foot stone floor of his cell with collodion. “ • ■ . i A.,.. - ■ As a rule, the man who boasts that he has never made an enemy doesn't amount to much. It Is just as well to put off till tomorrow the worries of today. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Why don’t you work for Uncle 8am? Civil Service Manual, which pre pares you ,|>r the examination. Three volumes (with maps), $3. express prepaid. Sims’ Book Store, Orangeburg. S. G. Telegraph easily learned at home, by mail, easy work, good wages; write today; A particulars free. Bagwell Telegraph College, At lanta, Ga. ORIENTAL RUG COMPANY. 1101 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md. We make you handsome and dur able Rugs from your old wornout carpet, any size to fit a room or hall. Let us send you a price list; Just write for one. We sell your property—no matter where located. It cost you noth ing If we do not make sale. P. O. Box I, Orangeburg, S. C. Teachers and school officials can get on request, our 1909 booklet ex plaining our methods of assisting teachers to secure positions and supplying schools with teachers. Interstate Teachers' Bureau, At lanta, Ga. Wanted—City school principal at $75 and several grade teachers at $40. Other urgent calls for experienced teachers. Address South Carolina Teachers’ Agency, Heath Springs, S. C. 50c for a pair of self-sharpening, 7-inch, tension steel spring shears. Cut anything from tissue paper to tough blanket with ease. Cooper Novelty Cow Box 54, Orangeburg, S. C. # For Sale—One Am. 15-horsepower steam engine; practically good aa new; can be seen running. Ad dress J. E Johnson, Supt. Neely Mfg. Co., Ydrkvllle, S. C. Clay Peas for Sale—$1.25 per bush el. Raeford Hardware Co., Rae- ford, N. C. WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT MUSIC? IKm’t say, “Can’t afford an Organ or Piano. We will make you able, granting from one to three years to pay for one. „ We supply the Sweet .Toned, Dorr niemT>erfl*“17f congress. “’"T’here la "s 1 'able“Organs llanos, at the low- reason why, as the old song used to he. President Roosevelt vetoed this Mil, and congress Is now wrestling with the problem of another which will save their faces—anfljthglr.fayp- rites’ jobs. est prices consistent with quality. Write at once for Catalogue, Prices an<J Terms, to the Old Es tablished MALONE MUSIC HOUSE; - Colombia, 8. C. Professor Dies Suddenly. A dispatch from Greenville says Prof. Harold N. Clare, musical di rector of the Greenville Female Col lege, and director of the musical 1 festival to be held mext month, died suddenly this morning. He was from Ohio and was a brilliant mu sician and composer. The American All* Wrought Split Steel Pulleys. STANDARD DE81GA The Pulley That All Want. ( WE CARRY A LARGE STOCK. * Also carry a large stock of Wood Pulleys, Shafting Hangers, Belting and anything eU you might wish in this line. When you are' in the market, write us ■ COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY. / - Columbia, S. . -• ;■ .... - ir .-77- . -> - ■ ■ ”