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CAXXABALSIX DESERT. A Few of Them Still Left in Australia. If you have a mind to visit Australia it might be just as well to keep away from the centre of the continent, according to D. C. Came ron, a Scotchman who has lived out there for twenty years and who is ' now at the Imperial. Especially would Mr. Cameron be disposed to recommend that you refrain from traveling alone. Why? Cannibals. Not that many visitors to Australia are tempted to penetrate the centre of the country. Everybody says it's a vast unexplored region, a desert. But sometimes a man goes out prospecting and is never heard of again, and then down to civilization come tales *of how the bones of what had apparently been a white man had been found bleaching about the remains of a camp fire, and then bit by bit the fact comes out that the solitary seeker for gold had fallen into the hands of some of the first families ? " - ? ?J 1- - v... OI me country aiiu rnaue a tuumuution to the aboriginal table d'hote. It wasn't to tell about this that Mr. Cameron came to New York. He is a sober, practical business man, and he is in the United States to see how milk is manufactured here. Not the calcerous beverage by treatment ?^v. of disaphanizomenated aqua crotona that used to find a ready market here before some New Yorkers had | 1 heard about cows, but powdered milk. They are going to start a new manu| ' facturing industry in Australia and Mr. Cameron is the general manager of the company and he is traveling to get points. "Our factory is being built at a place about 125 miles from Melbourne," said Mr. Cameron yesterday. "Within a radius of four miles of it there are yielded every m rning from 160,000 to 170,000 pounds of milk. That of course, is a great cattle country; and there are a lot of butter factories. Of course a great part of the milk produced is consumed by the butter factories; in the spring the j?\ supply is such that the waste cannot be consumed by the calves and pigs In the neighborhood, to which it is gSl < fed. We are building a plant to cost $75,000 and an English engineer is j|- , installing machinery. I have been ' visiting factories in Canada and Syp recuse and am now going over to England to study the process there. We shall begin on a small scale, but we expect the far east to furnish a r great market. "Big holdings of land in Victoria are rapidly going out, the big estates being rapidly divided into smaller properties and sold ofT. Just a month before I left an estate of 12,000 acres was divided up and sold and a great deal of it realized $400 an acre. This was not for city lots, mind you, or orchard land, but ? *' fm* whflt had been dairv land for ?|V some years. A curious thing about [t-f-; the sale was that the people who 4-' bought were all residents of the dism trict"What we call the bush is not so far from Melbourne on one side," ' said Mr. Cameron in answer to a quesiton. "In fact, it lies only about 30 ||b miles to the west. The aboriginal in? habitants are very few now and most of them are kept in colonies by the government, corresponding somewhat jp, - to your Indian reservations. In parts jt^ of Western Australia, I should say pT near the centre of the continent, the blacks are savages, and like their bit of human flesh at times. They are V. not a fighting lot and I don't believe they kill and eat one another to any extent, but an occasional prospector gets in among them and realizes his mistake too late. "They are very fond of Chinamen ; | too, and if a celestial gets up among them they are apt to literally devour him. There used to be a lot more of Chinese disappearing by this means some years ago than is the case now, because our immigration laws prohibit them from coming into Australia, and those that were already in the country have grown cautious about leaving the thickly settled parts of the country. The aborigines have acquired many of the evils and ap? parently none of the virtues of civilization." $,/ XEGRO PAROLED. y, Perk Copeland Serving a Sentence of Two Years. Gov. Ansel last Thursday paroled Perk Copeland, a Bamberg county negro, who is serving a sentence of two years on the chain gang on the charge of manslaughter. He was convicted in the fall of 1907. The parole was recommended by Solicitor Byrnes and Judge Watts. In the petition it is stated Copeland committed the deed under great provocation in that the deceased, another negro, came to the house of Copeland in an intoxicated condition and started a quarrel. There was a letter to Gov. Ansel stating that Copeland has made a model prisoner and that on one occasion he led a posse and captured a desperate convict who had escaped. r SAW HIMSELF ON FILMS. Therefore Hotel Clerk Repented of $500 Theft. Charles G. Mayer, 17 years old, former night clerk in the Hotel Vic- 1 toria, entered police headquarters in Pittsburg last week and told the chief he had stolen $500 from the hotel and wanted to be sent back to New York to stand trial, says the NewYork Sun. The sceptical chief wired the Victoria and found that the story was true. Mayer and $500 had disappeared on August 2 last. "I saw the $500 put into an envelope by a guest," said Mayer in Jef- ' ferson market court yesterday. "I had no reason for stealing the money, 1 and if I had wanted to clear out with ? 1 ' -- nlfinfv in f VlO a lut ui Citsu inert; w as picm-j iu mv. clerk's desk I might have taken. "I don't remember much what I ' did after that. I was in Youngstown and Alliance and finally landed in ! Pittsburg. I drank a good deal, a 1 thing I never did before, and I guess I must have been out of my head. ! One day I went to a moving picture ] show and saw a film about a bank 1 clerk who got awawy with a big roll 1 and how bad his mother felt about 1 it. 'That's me,' I said to myself. Later I thought how bad my mother would 1 feel and I wrote to my brother. He J sent word that mother's heart was broken. Then I decided to give my- ( self up. "The Pittsburg police chief treated 1 me fine. 'They won't give you more ( than two years,' he said, 'and when you get out if you don't find a job come to me and I'l get you one.' , "All I want judge is a quick trial and a chance to pay back the money." The complainant against Mayer was Angus Gordon of the hotel. He said Mayer had worked for hotels in * Denver and for one at Atlantic City J and had come to the Victoria with * excellent references. Magistrate Cor- 1 rigan held the boy in $1,000 bail for ] trial. , i A Poser for the Preacher. ( A clergyman who enjoyed the subtantial benefits of a fine farm, was slightly taken down on one occasion by his Irish plowman, who was sitting on his plow in the wheat field. The reverend gentleman, being an economist, said, with great seriousness: "John, wouldn't it be a good plan for you to have a pair of pruning shears here and be cutting a few brushes along the fence while the horses are resting a short time?" John considered a moment, and then said: "Look here! ' Wouldn't it be well, sir, for you to have a tub of potatoes in the pulpit and while they were singing to peel 'em a while to be ready for the pot?"?San Francisco Chronicle. . t Xegijo Desperado Killed. } Huntington, W. Va., Oct. 14.? j Two persons were killed, two fatally ] nHofl onH five eprfnnslv wnimded , nvuuuvu w"u " * V ~ " t in a fight for the capture of George, ] alias "Red" Johnson, a fugitive negro. He shot' and probably fatally ] wounded Detective George Lentz, i when the latter attempted to place ] him under arrest, and shot seven members of the posse before being taken dead. The dead: George Bias, railroad brakeman, j member of posse. George Johnson, negro fugitive. After fatally shooting Detective Lentz, the negro escaped into the ] hills back of the city, and barricad- . ed himself in a cliff where he defied , arrest. A posse led by bloodhounds soon trailed the negro to the cliff. ( When he saw the posse approaching, | the negro, who was heavily armed, j opened fire and Charles Hale, who was following the bloodhounds, was , shot. A moment later George Bias fell with a bullet through his head. , He died a short time later. } The posse retreated to await rein- . forcements. When it advanced the , second time Johnson opened fire. . During the battle Chief of Police , Clingenpeel climbed to the top of j the cliff where the negro was barri- , caded and, getting the drop on him, j shot him dead. The body rolled out j into view and a mob dragged it down the hill to the city limits. Chief Clingenpeel addressed the crowd, which apparently was bent on mu- j tilating the body, and succeeded in . getting it to the morgue, where it , was later viewed by several thousand persons. ] An examination showed that the . negro had been shot nine times. Lit- . tie is known here of his identity. He is said to be from Virginia, and to have had a brother killed by officers at Williamston, Va., last January. Accepts Position at Georgia Tech. Branchville, Oct. 11.?Prof. P. S. ; Conner left Sunday for Atlanta, Ga., : where he has accepted a position with the Georgia Tech Institution as teacher of mathematics. He will al- < havp char?p nf the freshman class. 11 Prof. Conner is a graduate of the Citadel. , "YOU'RE A DIRTY DOG!" Remark of Judge to Coward Wh Used Boy as Bullet Shield. New York, Oct. 13.?"You are iirty dog, the best thing that can ha] pen to you is to get justice and get quick." In these words Coroner Feinbur to-day expressed his abhorrence fc Adolph Berb, who was arraigned bi fore him as the man who last nigl used Charles Fischer, a 12-vear-ol boy as a shield against the bullei fired at him by Harry Greenwald, a ex-prize fighter. The boy was kille and Greenwald committed suicide. Berb was held without bail on eharge of homicide. A Happy Compromise. Senator Crane, at a luncheon i Dalton, praised compromise. "Compromise is a good thing," h said. "Take the case of a young Da ton builder. He got married about rear ago, and after the marriage h md his wife had an interminable dif pute as to whether they should bu two motorcycles or a five horsepowe runabout suitable to their needs. H said the other day: " 'My wife and I wrangled fc months and months, but, than goodness, we compromised at last.' " 'What have you compromise pn?' I asked. ?? ' A narriacrp ' bp nnSTl'PrP w?uj vuai*M0^| w.. w <. ?vith a proud, glad smile."?St. Loui jlobe-Democrat. JERKY MOORE'S CORN PATCH. foung Florentine Will Make Abot 250 Bushels on Acre. Florence, Oct. 11.?There has bee i great deal said about yuong Jerr Moore's corn patch in Florence coui :y, but when the real facts as to th lumber of bushels is handed out, 20 jushels will not be in it. In fact, ; s authentically stated that it is g( ng to nearer 250 than 200 bushe] in this little one acre corn patch. The committee in charge of meas iring are to act officially soon ah .i j-t- _ ??r,,ni v .UeU LUC CActtl llicaouitujtui. n m u given out. Jerry Moore is only fifteen yeai Did, and is the son of the Rev^ M: Moore, pastor of Liberty chapel, be :er known hereabouts as the "brie jhurch," of the Methodist Episcopj ihurch, south, and located two mile south of Winona, in the eastern pai Df Florence county, near the famot Pee-Dee river swamp. The "patch" is on the parsonag lands of the Liberty chapel churcl ind it is all upland ground. Jerry 1 i hustler and is going to capture som good prizes for growing corn. Clerical Retort. , In a certain church if is the cui torn at the marriage for the clerg: man to kiss the bride after the cer< mony. A young lady who was aboi to be married in the church did nc relish the prospect and instructed h( prospective husband to tell the cle gyman that she did not wish him 1 kiss her. The groom did as directe "Well, George," said the your lady when he appeared, "did you te the clergyman I did not wish him 1 kiss me?" "Oh, yes." . "And what did he say?" "He said that in that case 1 would only charge half the usui fee." Famous Pianist in Aiken. Aiken, S. C., Oct. 14.?Josef Hof man, the famous pianist ana music 3tn, arrived in the city to-day for tb season, with his household. M Hoffman owns one of the most beat t'iful estates in Aiken, and comes 1 the city every winter. During tb past summer he made a tour of Ei rope, arriving in America only short time since. Last winter Mr. Hoffman built a automobile in Aiken, just for tb amusement of the thing, a machinii and himself modeling and manufai turing nearly every part of bot wood work and iron work at h shops at his residence. The auto w? finally completed and put into con mission, being pronounced by au<t< Ists as being the equal of any of th aner touring cars. Waived Preliminary. Hampton, Oct. 14.?Harold Ho ton, former bookkeeper of the Ham] ton Loan and Exchange bank, waive the preliminary before Judge J. ( Murdaugh, magistrate, her. this afte: uoon on a charge of breach of trus with fraudulent intent in appropria ing $55 deposited by a customer i May of this year. The warrant was sworn out by ' H. Tuten, president of the Ham] ton Loan and Exchange bank, on 0* tober 10. Horton was arrested o the 11th, waived preliminary to-da and was placed under $1,000 bom signed by his uncle, O. P. Mixen, an his grandfather, R. S. Horton. The case has gained a great d& of notoriety on account of the claii of Horton that a confession was o! tained from him by the cashier of tt bank at the point of a pistol. "OUR" SHIPS WIN TROPHIES. ,o Both Charleston and South Carolina Carry Off Honors. a Washing ton, Oct. 12.?Scores for o- elementary firing during spring pracit tice of the ships of the United States navy announced to-day show that the g new battleship South Carolina was )r the trophy winner in her class, with 3- the Mississippi, Michigan and Idaho it so close in order as to be called star d ships. The results given are not a ts comparison of the gunnery efficiency n of vessels, which is brought out in ^d battle practice, but they show the relatively efficiency in methods of a training for the development of gun pointers under short range conditions and when firing guns singly. Charleston won the cruiser trophy, n the Mayflower that for gun boats and the Reid "that for torpedo boats. e ? 1_ Man Finds Xew House Built on His a Property. ie 3- Thomas Brush, of Cheyene, Wyo., y thinks he is a lucky man. Suppose >r you had a city lot and insufficient .e funds to complete a house you had started to build on it, and some ir stranger came along and completed it k in your absence, wouldn't you be happy? Well, that is what happened d to Brush. Recently he bought a lot in Park d addition and started to build a house is on it, but finding that his funds were insufficient to complete tlie house, and having a good position offered him in the country, he left his house and went to work. After several days he reteurned, and when he went out to continue operations on his house he found that the work was n nearly completed. At first Brush bey gan to doubt that he owned the lot, i- but atfer looking up his deed and con-j e ferring with an attorney, he found 0 that, the lot wasi still his. and there it fore the house. > He notified the new occupant of his is land to discontinue work, and said that he would put on the finishing 3- touches himself. Perhaps he was d afraid his magnanimous friend might not put on the right color of paint. Just what induced the stranger to '8 build on Brush's lot is not known. t Never Talked to the Boys. k il Chicago, 111., Oct. 13.?Chicago is ? to have an unusual debutante next rt month. Miss Marguerite Sherlock, is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Sherlock,, who in her tweny years of ;e life has never been permitted to go to a party, never has had any young [s man caller and has never ventured ie from her home unless under the eyes of a careful chaperon, according to her mother, is to be presented to society in a "coming out" party at a a. Michigan avenue hotel on November 19. e_ A dinner will be given and will be followed by a theater party. After rt that Miss Sherlock wil be free to foliT low her own inclination in accepting r_ or refusing invitations. 0 "All of Marguerite's studies have j been under women instructors," said lg Mrs. Sherlock this afternoon. "They U have taught her Latin, French and 0 Italian. I assure you that it has been a most difficult task to bring a girl through twenty years of life as Marguerite has been brought. She is bubie bling over with spirits and has often ai wept bitterly at not being allowed to enjoy the privileges according to oth er girls. "My idea is that the girls of this age are permitted to become blase bei_ fore they reach the years in which ie they should properly enjoy the pleasr ures of society. Howeyer, this is not !_ true in Marguerite's case. She was 0 even attended at boarding school by ie a chaperon." 1 Taking Steps to Form New County. A Batesburg, Oct. 14.?The new u county movement in this section of ie the State has taken definite form, a mass meeting having been called to p. meet at Summerland springs, to conL, I b sider the necessity for a new county, is formed out of the corners of Lexingls ton, Aiken and Saluda. The meeting j. was presided over by Mr. J. R. Bouky. night, the merchant prince of Leesie ville, and the situation was fully discussed and by a unanimous vote a committee of five was apointed to take up the matter in regular form r_ and push it to a sucessful conclusion. There is every reason to hope for the !(j formation of the new county. There j is no court house between Columbia r_ and Augusta on the main line of the Southern railway, and to get to those t_ that exist is through much difficulty, n Reaching the Top in any calling of life, demands a vigorous body and a keen brain. ?- Without health there is no success, e- But Electric Bitters is the greatest n health builder the world has ever known. 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