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>? ? ' < v 1 - pf ? * * - <4- ? . % , , . ., T?r ? ? ? > ' \ .s ' - . .. ym?'/??"??. * vr*.* "*:?* Cv f V VOL. VI. NOA 2f >; '?.** ? CAMDEN* 8. O, THURSDAY, HAT 13,1909. Sl.BOPer Year IDOL FfKKDCMC AM9TCY. . icunnn. i* V ^ Continued. '] "Take eare!" he cried. *It la not %tse to Irritate him too farl* "That ought to draw him, it ho hae the spirit ot a *oopbyte," said Cm* plon; "but he bears It, Nebelaen, yo? see-?''smiles aa ho vy wont to stalls' ??and I still Vraathe!" ? t "We chill see," was the Chela's lole obeerratlon. Ho seemed at once disappointed and relieved. "Ah, you're Incorrigible!" said Campion, laughing. . "Merer mind; ' we wont quarrel about It* ; "Ton will not Object U X submit the caseto my Mahdtma tor hla advice?" ?aid Nebelaen. MI will get the broth er who -ls orer bttr to forward a gom munloatlon tor me. And, It It Is not too great an Interference with Karma and it the Mahatma happens in a goot temper to be, I shall perhapa aa an swer which will gonflrm my oblnlon reoelre, and be able then to tell you what you ought next to do." "Do Just as you pl*as* about It, Nebelaen," said Campion. "But I can't promise to follow your dlreo U?ns,V. y i\ ; XAFCTB ? { ' Conviction. \ ? , Campion had quite dismissed the Incident, however, by the following >day when he was able to return to ""the study he waa making (or his next : picture, a scene from "Christabel." The lost sense of power and delight la work came baek to him. His friend Pcrceval, who looked In ahout this time, waa surprised by his >aalmation. * Campion, deserting the classics for ?i romance, had chosen as his subject , ;? the first meeting of the lorcly lady / Christabol and the dangerous Ger ? aldlne ln the Wood. "I remember," said the elder art ? 1st, on being told the subject; "but W M wasn't it a 'midnight wood,' and ^hadn't one of them 'a silken robe of ' white, that shadowy In the moonlight shone,' If I remember my Coleridge T Why bare you made 'em meet at SjunsetT* "You call that sunset! I thought I had caught rather a good moon light effect myself." "Oh, very well; but?crimson moan and scarlet tprf! ..Come, Campion, this Is more eocentric. than cvar.* . ^Crimson? Scarlet? Nonsense! Grays and greens, you mean. Why, where are your eyes, 'making the ' 'green one red' Mke thlsT" ? i *1 -m*y he . rong," said Perceval, ..with a quiet forbearance that pro ' roked Cang>lon. ."May be! My dear fellow,, you arc;" he said. "We'll soon settle It," and he shouted down his tube lor ? Bales, who presently appeared, as usual undei' protest. - "Were you requiring me for any purpose in partickler?* he said. "I ,was Just going stout those frames you ordered; but, of oourse. If I'm wanted here I can stay." "Just come over, here and toll Mr, Perceval and me what strikes you at the ehlef color In this picture.* Bales ooughed behind his hand, and looked from ona man to the other. At last ha said, with a feel lag that It was a case for caution and periphrasis, "Well, If It *ss me I shouldn't leave It about loose where there was a bull!" "Are you going to tall me it's red!" cried Campion. "Pillar, boxes Is fools to It," re turned Bales set# sntlously, and Cam pion dismlsed him impatiently. When they were alone, Perceval said kindly: "Don't let this upset you; It's overwork, that's alL Only, If X were you, 1 should see some one About it, you know.* i Campion turned a ghastly face vpon him. "I see," he said; "1 am color-blind, then?" ?I'm afraid there's some temporary affection?bless you, It's the common* est thing In the world," said Perce val, "nothing tc give way about, man. Just stick to blaclt sad white for a few days and see an oculist, and you'll be all right. I'll make It all right with thoee fellows st the club, so jou needn't worry about that. By the way thore was thst hesd of Cy bete of mine you wanted to make eomo studies of?now's your time. I'll send It over to you, only be careful with It. 1 had the cast taken express ly for me at Athens, snd I don't be lieve 1 could get it replsced." "Thanks," said Campion, "It's very good of you." "Don't talk rubbish! And, see ^iere: I've tsken a houseboat for the summer?it'a at Wsrgrsve Just now ?why not run down for a few daysT ?tome with mo next Saturday." "If this lasts,* .said Campion, "1 sha'n't be able to trust myself near a river." r. cFooh! It won't last. I shall ex pect you, .then, and let me know about the train?that'* sll right; and you shsM. hsve the Cybele this even* lag."' v .. .. ? 'After fie had gone Chmpton gsve himself .hp to the glooraly realisation of his .future. Color-blind, why it was only A. degree better than total bltfidfteds. Henceforth he could yust no tints, no hue thst might for the moment delight his eye, and, If he tried to place them on canvas, his palstte, too, would lie to him. It was the end of his career as a colorlpt, sals- he could unlearn all h# kw. kmB paint, iaa?aa with bow _ pewerlsee eithtr to correct or obJoy hto own performance. As he sat with his (so* burled la his hands, crushed by this last Mow. a hand was laid on his shoulder, and ho turned to" And the Chela. ?Ha, Nebelsen!" ho said, wildly, "yon come In tine to congratulate n??I've Just discovered I'm color blind. Pleasant that for a painter, "And now at lsst yon beleaf?* cried Nebelsen. "Believe? In whstT Oh, I see what yon mean;" and Campion Blancod at the smeared face of the Idol, which was almost pathetic In Its sentle resignation. "Nebelsen, It's too ridiculous?I won't believe ltt" "Here yon the head eo hard?" said the Chela. "The teat was yours." "I tell you this Is serious; for Heaven's sake don't drag that foolish idol Into It. Cant yon let me for get! " And Campion, anxious to re move all traces of an act which. In this lsst affliction, seemed so frivol ous and puerile, caught up a piece of old Venetian embroidery, which hap pened to come first to hand, and hastily wiped the Idol's downcast eyee. ?'Now, that's done with," he said. "It I could clear my own eyes as easily?but. oh. If I could have thought all that!" He had come back to the Chrlstsbel again. "Green! I must be a hopeless case. No one can cure me. By Jove, though. If?if I see it as It really is now, I must be cured ! But why? how?" And he sat down, trembling vio lently. "Good God! Nebelsen," he said,* hoarsely, "you were right, sfter all?It's too horrible." "Never mindt," said the Chela en couragingly. "now that the spell is reversed. Besides, I bring you a goot tiding. 1 haf a gommunlcation from my revered Mahatma received. Tito brother through whom it came found it this morning breclpltated In blue bencil upon this blottlng-bad, and sent it on at once to me. It points out the only wsy for you to remove out of all your troubles, but the way Is luckily quite simple. I tolt you my Mahatma wss a clever man." Campldn gave a little groan; but after swallowing the Idol, he could hardly strain at a Mahatma. "Well, what doee he say?" he ssked. "I sm going to read. I must tell you at beginning, his English is very fonny. Listen! " 'Quite true,' he begins, 'the Idol Is the mechanism of most of your friend's sea of troubles, though your theory to account for it is the feeblest fiddle-faddle and stuff of a fat-witted beetle-head.' (There is nodlng stiff at all about my dear old Mahatma.) 'ahly one who was a nlni\yhammer and a goose-cap would suppose that an image could possibly be charged with electro-magnetism. As you have chosen to worry me about It, I tell you plainly tbat the only way out of the Gordlan. knot with which your friend Is stuck in the mud'?(I oan* not think where he gets all his words and phrases?nor can the brother who sets them down)?'is at once to return the idol to the hand from which It came. As for your Idlotio 1 ' (and then he writes some more in a frlently way.) "You see. It Is simple and quite ?My," he concluded; "only return the Idol to the place you bought It at? you can do that perfectly well." "It happens to be a present," said Campion. "To the giver, then that Is bedder still!" "It's Impossible, I tell you, Nebel. sen. If that's the best suggestion your Mahatma can make, he might as well have left it alone." "But whyT Tell me why?" "Isn't It obvious? How can I, If I believe?and, heaven help me, I do believes?this cursed thing is able to Injure those who cross Its path, In some unacountable way?how can I send It back to some one who thought sh-he was doing me a kindness In giv ing it?" "But If the Mahatma says It Is the only way," put in the Chela. "If It was the only way to save my soul, I hope I shouldn't do It. Just ask yourself, Nebelsen. How can I toll what Infernal trick It may play If I do send It back? I couldn't bo such a scoundrel to send it without a word of warning, and If I warn, would any one In hlt? senses take It in at all? No, your Mahatma may be a very learned person?but he doesn't seem to understand European no tions. " When Nebelsen had gone, Campion sat and starod at that uncanny Idol of his with growing dismay; he did not know what to think about It. He was ashamed of believing that It could harm him, and yet his experi ments had given him a sharp lesson. It was an ugly thought, but he could not rid of it; he was afraid at last to be alone in the studio with the idol, and went out for a restless stroll. On his war buck he passed a flor ist's, where he bought the most ex pensive flowers he could see in the window, and arranged them after his return In his rarest piece of pottery. He called Hales, and told him to take them Into the palntlng-room. "Anywhere In particular?" Bales asked. # "No," said Campion, with affected 0?rtles?ness, "It's of. n$ c?a?*awce. ?*W r (MM to think of *? MI tt OH the <tmd oMoat, Just la front of that Mtaa MoL put II Aid I shall 4tM oat tkto ?Mala*1' He ?m Mt Sato. KM <nw to Mi?If would ha MkamMn that ho had Jotonrtaod tosolgasr his Idol. If It was possible to do ao ud pro aerva aay wit mpset at an. *1 may try my haad it painting those Sow er* to-morrow," ho had told him?If. though htf waa not believed, "and -la tho meanwhile-?why the deuce ehouldat th?y bo oa that cfblnetT" Bat aomehow, before ha want to hla bad room ho took a light into his atadlo. to amnra himself that Bales hod made no mistake about tha flow era. The flowers had evidently been plaeed.oa the cabinet; bnt now the: lay scattered aad crashed at Ita foot, and the pottery which had held then was broken Into a hundred pieces while the idol kept Its osual plact above, with something now, to Cam pion's excited fancy, of deadly and Implacable .hostility upon its glisten ing countenance. Am ha stood there In the palnting rOom, where all but that particular corner waa lost in gloom, his flesh crept at the thought that thie thing waa not to be cajoled nor appeaaed by anything he could do?his offer* lng waa rejected with ecorn. And then, In the dead silence, with the shadowa shooting and contract ing about him as the light shook la his trembling hand. Campion, from some Impulse he could not resist, spoke to this lmsge. "What do you want?" he said la a course whisper. "Only tell me that. Whatever you are?be reaaonable." But the ugly thing gave no reply, no sign of relenting; and dlagusted with his own superstition. Campion went to bed In a state ot stony de spajr, CHAPTER XL Mystifications. After one or two postponements, Mrs. Stanlland's. projected esoteric evening waa actually about to come off. She had often exerted heraelf before for the benefit of struggling geniuses, to whom she nad been ?* real aaalstance. Ill-natured people were apt to compare her benevolence to that of the fabled snark, which "collects though It does not sub scribe," and It was perhaps true that her heart opened more readily than her purse. After all, money la not the only or the most valuable contri bution In all cases, and even of money Mra. Stanlland could be liberal when ?he saw occasion. But It was quite a new sensation to her to figure as the protectress of a rlalng faith, which might with a little timely aaslstance regenerate so ciety, and she received her friends with Jeep satisfaction. "I do think," she assured several of them, "that we are going to have a most Interest-( ing evening?dear Mr. Nebelsen hopes to be allowed to go quite be yond the usual phenomena." The rooms filled, and as the char iot-wheels which bore the hero of the evening still tarried, there waa little to distinguish the gathering from an ordinary evpnlng party. Young men stood talking, with the usual convio tlon tMr it was uncommonly good of them to talk at all, down to the eager girl faces upturned to catch their utterances; here and there some one, with an evident pride in his soelal dexterity, would pick hla tortuous way through the groups until he dropped into the oonvarsa tlonal opening he desired, much as the uarble In the game of nursery billiards slgiags down a mace of pins. Nebelsen was feeling a supreme ex* altatlon at the prospect of being at last allowed to unveil some of the mysteries of occultism to a larger as sembly than he had ever yet ad dressed; the brotherhood, through their representative, had withdrawn their opposition; he felt himself In so highly electrical a condition as to be capable of producing phenomena far more startling than any he had hitherto ventursd upon. Conversation, after two or three rebellious outbursts, was finally quelled. The Chela took up a posi tion on the hearthrug, from whloh he contemplated his audience through mooney spectacles with a gate of dreamy emotion. The Chala had already started with a rapid and enthusiastic, though slightly Incoherent harangue, on the stupendous powers which were to be attained by the human w)U when guided and fortified by occult train ing. He discoursed upon these at such lengths that his hearers showed slight but unmistakable signs that their attention was wandering, though It took Nebelsen some time longer to discover that he was ex pected to "cut the dialect and come to the 'osses." Then, by way of Introduction to the more rccondlto mysteries, he ob tained sharp double raps and silvery tinkles from unexpected quarters. It Is quite possible, however, to overdo bell-sounds, and It must be owned that the Chela, In his artless pleasure at his own performances, produced them In profusion long after they had lost their first fresh ness; but the flagging Interest waa revived when he announced: "Do not be frightened, anybody, but there Is one dt the broderhood hler In astral form upon the balgony. Now we shall bo able to have a very gurlous anil beautiful manifestation! Perhaps this lady who Is opposite* (and he bowed to Mrs. POOtlfex) "will be so gracious to think torn thlng she has long ago lost and would be Joyful to see again?" To be Continued. . KtKfWOH % - lUll^XSSdLwmPr* mth ynmr ** n?xu?nw? tte liatalali HMMir aal jbfiyim" Ban** Cbnataotinopte, By i CablM-the amnant is taking hold of tkt re lief vor^ in Adut piw*|u<f with tif or. II tu announced that $150,000 had been Mat then. Th? Grand Visier and Ferid Pasha, tho Minister of tip Interior, received a deputation of" Armjwiian etaify and laity Saturday, headed by Ar a?k a rani, provisional representative of tha patriarchate, who waa assur ed the government would inquica thoroughly into the Adaaa massacres, and severely punish those guilty inciting them. * ' A number of notablS Armenian* met here Sunday and submitted to the government the following re quests: ? First, that the murderera of Chns tisns be punished; second; that stolen property he returned, and ijtdemni tica be paid for property destroyed; third, that the women and giris who were stolen be returned, and also that men and women who werg com pelled forcibly to adopt Mohammad ism be allowed to resunfe their origi nal faith: fourth, that"the investiga tion conducted under the ehsirnian ahip of the governor general be sus pended and that a new investigation of the disorders frota their com mencement be msde by a military, commission; fifth, thst Christians bo permitted to participate in the local police establishment, and sixth, that Armenians be allowed to participate in defraying the cost of erecting a monument to those who have fallen in the srmy of liberty. '* The agricultural bank hu arranged to losn $75,000 without interest to the farmers of Adana province, to aid them in planting new crops. Practically all tha refugees at Lata ks, Syria, have retained to their homes or are ready to go. The weath er in fine and warm and .crops are ripe. John 0. Davis Arrested. Washington, Special.^There we're sensstional developments .Saturday in the case of John C. Davis, a member of the local bar, who was arrested Friday on the charge of having ob tained money under false prtenses. The amount, which Davis is alleged to have misappropriated in transactions with" his clients, mostly women, wss thought at flrat to have been smsll, but Saturday notes, aggregating $50, 000, said to have been given by Davis, wars exhibited to Uniteft States Dis trict Attorney Baker, and it ia ru mored that the amount finally may reach $100,000. Martin C. Davis, a brother of John and secretary of a local building and loan association, wgs arrested Saturday on a charge of conspiracy. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., say8: Davis created a sensation in this State in the early ninties, result ing in his incarceration in the State insane asylum here from Msy 24, 1892, to November 30, 1897. He wss a lawyer in Wilmington, and a promi nent and a zealous member of the Methodist church. He furnished the money to build a Methodist church and placed in it costly chimes. He spent money freely. Then earns pom plainta from clienta involving money mattera, said to aggregate about $30,. 000. He was arrested and the eaae waa a noted one in the judicial an nals of the State. Hia counsel set up the plea of insanity. The jury found the accnsed inaane. He was then sent to the insane asylum here. Upon his release some yeara later he went to Washington and in many ways aince tried to make a reparation in soms of those from whom he wss charged with fraudulently obtaining money. During the past two years he has been send ing occasional remittances tp those with who he had dealings in Wilming ton. His defense will be insanity in tha present trouble. Mrs. Boyle Convicted. Mercer, Pa., Special.?Mm. Jamei H. Boyle, formerly Helen Anna Mc Dermott, of Chicago, waa convicted Saturday on a charge of aiding, aa ?isting and abetting in the abduction of Willie Wl.itla, of Sharon, P>. Two ballota were taken by the jury in the case of the woman.' The second bal lot was unanimous for the conviction of the woman on the seond connt charging her with being an accessory. Demurrers Are Overruled. Muskogee, Okla., Special.?Federal Judge Campbell Saturday overruled tho demurrer of the defendants in the so-called Mott civil Creek Indian land suits, brought by the government against Governor Cbarlos Haskill and other prominent Oklahomans. The decision involving aa it does the legal ity of millions of dollars' worth of lots, created great consternation here. Not only is Governor Haskell and as sociates involved in the charge of fraud, but about 1,500 subsequent purchasers of lots are vitally interest ed. Newborn Paper Mill in roll Blaat. Newbern, N. C., Special. ? Saturday's iesue of the morn ing paper, The Newbern Jour nal, is printed on paiper manu factured at the plant of the Car olina 1'aper & Pulp Mills, located at Newbern. The paper is about the usu al grade of newspaper and shows up very well for the new plant. The ca pacity of the idant when in fall oper ation will be from 76 to 100 tons per d*7. HE NEWS M HOT By Wire ?d Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY 10 DAY M*i nan Ooverin# BmU of Hoi* ' IT Lta* I at Horn* aai Siaon Bibtein celebrated his 100th aaniversary in St. Louis, Mo., Sun day. He worries shout nothing* drinks a gallon of whiskey a week, with sever a drunk snd smokes snd chews tobaeeo. In the storm along the upper waters of Long Island Sound and along the Connecticut shore Monday night, four men were drowned, four barges went to the bottom and three barges were piled up ashore. At Birmingham, Ala., early Sun day morning Mrs. W. E. Leodford was instantly killed and her daugh ter fatally hurt V,y a runaway team, which veered and threw them just in front of an approaching car. Twenty-five men narrowly escaped and 25 mules were burned to death in a coal mine at Smithdale, Pa., last Sunday. The principal feature of the Con federate veteran reunion in Memphis will be the unveiling of the statute of Gep. Stephen D. Lee. Cripninsl proceedings are to be in stituted against the Sugfar Trust. It is estimsted thst 250 people were killed in laA week's storm with doable, that number injured. The property loss can hardly be even ap proximated. Mrs. Eugenia Greenbaldt, of De troit, is suing for a divorce on the ground of desertion. She -says her husband continuslly cried for his mother till he finally returned to the mother and stsyed. Former Governor J. C. Beckham has become editor of the Kentucky State Journal, published at Frank fort. Foreign Affair*. Castro now seeks to get damage! from the French Government, not for expelling him from Martinique (for it has a right to do that) but. for taking him to France, without consulting his wishes as to where he would go. Dr. Manuel Amador, first president of the Republie of Panama, died last Sunday at the age of 75. It now seems certain that the new turn of affaire in Constantinople was hastened to avert a plot to massacre all foreigners on Saturday, May 1st. Ex-President Roosevelt killed tbreo lions with three shots and his son Kermit killed one with three shots last Friday. lie has killed several since and will probably be called the lion killer. The Emperor of China died last November. On May 1st his body was started on the 80-mile journey to the western tombs. The body of tho Dowager Empress will remain in Peking until fall. The portrait of Christian 14 of Denmark was sold in London last week for $330,000. It is understood that ths purchase was made for an American. It was painted 372 years ago by Holbein. Under the Dingley tariff it would cost $66,000 to ome it into port. It will probably come in free. Several dump cars loaded with earth fell from the Culebra track at Panama last Saturday and resulted in 9 deaths of alborers. The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, have sailed from F.rance where they have been displaying their aeroplanes to return to their home in America. The Shah of Persia has announced the grant of a constitution for Per sia and steps are being taken for elections of delegates for the forma tion of the instrument that he thinks will restore order in the empire. The Germfi government has gone to employing feminine sleuths. It is thought that woman's intuitive qual ities will serve her well in the detec tive sphere. Washington Affairs. Miss Mary Thomus, 65 years old, who was for many years au employo in the department of Justice was dismissed from the servico to take effect March 3rd. She died last Fri day night, her friends say of a brok en heart. Unskilled laborers were called for last Saturday to supply about 2o0 places. There were aoont 4,000 ap plications for positions ranging from 1260 a year to $650. General staff officers and 100 sol diers left Monday to study the ssience of War from tho battloflelds of Virginia. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS News of Interest Gleaned from Afl Sections of the State and Arranged For Busy Readers Watch tki Fad Grow. i Columbia, Special.?The State in its issue of the 7th Rives the followT' ing amounts contributed by counties to the Woman's Monument fund: Abbeville $184.75 Aiken 321.75 Anderson 428.55 Bamberg 32.23 Barnwell 91.30 Beaufort 10.00 Berkley Calhoun 00.02 Charleston 10.00 Cherokee 73.25 Chester 110.00 Chest orlield 107.00 Clarendon 26.50 Colleton 32.00 Darlingtou 2S5.25 Dorchester 10.50 Edgefield 88.50 Fairfield 100.75 Florence 53.00 Georgetown 25.00 Greenville " 152.05 Greenwood 183.74 Hampton 10.00 Horry 40.00 Kershaw 1T12.25 I^aneaster 121.25 Laurens 40.00 Lee 104.25 Lexington 143.08 Marion 403.25 Marlboro 443.43 Newberry 210.20 Oconee 20.00 Orangeburg 36.00 Pickens 1.00 Hicliland 581.00 Saluda 18.00 Spartanburg 240.00 Sumter 300.75 Union 37.00 Williamsburg 26.50 York 60.85 Wlnthi'op Gets Gift From the Iron Master. Rock Hill, Special.?Dr. Johnson of Winthrop lias received a letter from Andrew Carnegie's secretary stating that Mr. Carnegie would do nate $15,000 to the building of Win throp'g model school. It will be re membered that this State appropriat ed $20,000 for this purpose with the understanding that President John Ron should raise $25,000 more. Mr. Johnson has raised $65,000 more in stead. It is his intention to get $100,000 for this school, which he proposes to make a model school, second to none anywhere. It will be remembered that Mr. Carnegie gave $.'{0,000 for the library several years ago and this last gift brings his do nations to Winthrop to the generous sum of $45,000. Meat Rained at Greenville. Greenville, Special.?The local au thorities have receivod instruction)* from State health officers giving them power to act for the State board in regard to the meat which was put under water in the waro house of Swift & Co., by the heavy rain of Friday night. City Meat Inspector Smith condemned the meat,and rumor had it that meat would be shipped from this city to other parts of the State for use, but the Swift Com pany, it is not thought locally, has that in mind. It is understood that after a thorough invesifjation, if the meat is pronounced unfit for use, it will be properly disposed of by the meat company. About four thousand dollars was the valne of the meat covered by water rising in a nearby stream andbneking into the basement of the waro house. Good Thing For Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Spccial.?The South ern Power Company will make Spar tanburg a distributing point, and will open offices here some time in the fu ture. A statement to this effect was made to a committee of the charrober of commerce, which went to Char lotte to confer with J. B. Puke, W. S. Lee and Junius Parker. ? Work on Power Plant. Oaffney. Special.?Work on the Southern Power company's big plant at t lie Ninety-Nine Islands is making splendid progress under the man agement of Mr. Jamison, who is in chaigo of the works. Oaffney peo ple who have visited the plant recent ly say that a force of about 350 hands is at work, and this force will be angumcntcd just as soon as the work makes a little more progress. The buildings arc situated ou the north bank of the river and have the appearance of quite a large town from a distance, and at night, when the electric lights are turned on, it reminds one of a city. Ftghtinf' "Whit# Plague. Saluda, Spceial.?The Saluda Cownty Auti-tubercuty^is association bold a brief session bore Tuesday with Dr. Kirkscyr the eounty chair man, presidios., The following con stitute the executive committee at large to cooi>erntc with the ccnny officers in tho distribution of litera ture and such other matter as will subserve the intciost of the associa tion: Mrs. W. S. Crouch, Mrs. E. E. If user, Miss Mary Lester, \V. II. Ilure, W. K. Shcalr, Miss Elsie Car wile, Mrs. Elizabeth Kemp, W. F. Whittle, F. P. Johnson, Mrs. J. O. Mayron, Mrs. II. II. Ellis, Mrs. Dora Mickler, Mrs. C. T. Carson and Mixs Ola Derrick. About 40 new members were en rolled. The executive committe will hold a business meeting hero on the first Saturday in June. The asso eiation adjourned to moot at the eall of the county chapman. Considerable interest is being mani fested in the work of tii^litint? the "white plague" and with the ap pointment of the executive committee from all sections of tho county new life will be in.jectcd into the work of the association. Bluff Failed to Work. Columbia, Special.?Pope Howard, a Saluda farmer who appealed to tho Governor last week to send blood hounds to his place near Harvards ville, to hunt down the person or persons who a few days before in attempting to assassinate him, shot and killed his mule while he was plowing in the Held, has gotten un expected results. The Saluda sheriff plaeed Howard in juil to await trial at Edgefield next month for a par ticularly atrocious murder of a negro named Tom Scurry about ten years ago. The sheriff says it is believed in Howard's neighborhood that thero is nothing in the alleged attempt at assassination of Howard, that How ard shot his own mule to create sym pathy for himself and to divert at tention from eharges brought against him. Fruit and Grain Damaged. Gaffney, Spccial.?It has just been learned here that on Friday night the northwestern section of tins coun ty was visited by a very destructive hail storm. Fidl particulars could not be learned, but tlie* vegetation which was growing on quite a largo area of fanning lands was totully destroyed. As very little corn and no cotton at all was growing, the damage was confined to the small grain and fruit crops. The same section was visited two years ago by a storm which destroyed large crops of both cotton ami corn, several farmers losing their entire crops of cotton, and their crops of corn being badly damaged. Florence "Drys" on War Path. Florence, Special.?The Prohibi tionists in Florenco County are be gining to align their forces and nro mapping out a number of campaign meetings for the weeks ahead and be foro the election in August. It is stated that Governor Glenn, or North Carolina, and other fine speakers are b"ing engaged to do some "hot shot" work down here, and, once the work is opened, there will be no let up. It is stated that every Christian voter the county will be accounted for when the day of election rolls around and he will be "marked" should ho fail to stand by the "I'rohibs." Mistrial in Harrison Case.. Greenvillo, Special.?A mistrial was the result of the trial of Jcsso Harrison, charged with murder. Ho was accused of killing Fred Rubie, an Englishman who was mi attacho of the Jones carnival, which was hero on October 15 last. The j)\yy. was Seven for acquittal and five for mgn sluughter. ? V? To Improve Roada. . ; Gaffney, Special.?The people of Gaffney are becoming very much in terested in the proposed automobile route from New York to Atlanta, and as Gaffney is on the direct line be tween the two points, a special ef fort will Imj made to put Cherokee's roads in the best conditio!! possible by next November. Supervisor Lip scomb has been having some flno work done on the roads of the county since lie assumed tin1 duties of ofTleo, and it is probable that lie will be will ing to have some special work done on the road through the county which is on the proposed automobilo route. SURE CURE For AO Pimm of STOMACH, Uvn * Kidneys LECTRW DITTOS uick R?ll?f*nd C?n for H??d< Th? beat tonic. Curittr* ?chr. BtokacLa, DIczlntM, KM M?dlcln? for theae'dU* Indication, Malaria* ?to. ?*???. 50o. OuartotteA