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A GOOD KIDUAME. Many Sumter People Don't Want Murray Brought Back for Trial. Columoia, November 5:?The "inside facts" regard ?n<;" the movement started in Sumter to prevent the return there of (ieor?e W Murray, former nc?rro Congressman and Sumter's bi?jtrest landowner, for whose re turn from Chicago negotiations are now pending between Governor Ansel and the Governor of Illinois, are unexpectedly laid bare in a petition for pardon which reached the Governor from Sumter today. Murray, it will be recalled, skipped from Sumter just as he was about to begin serving three years on his conviction of forgery in a land deal with negroes. An indictment is also pending against hirp there for perjury on the ground that he swore lalsely at his trial for forgery. He was convicted in the spring of 1904. Sentiment is much divided in Sumter as to the desirability of having him brought back there, and it is probable that a counter petition will be tiled, asking the Governor not to grant a pardon. The Governor will have to act within the next few days, as Murray can be held in Chicago for only a limited time. . The petition for pardon is numerously signed, the largest number of signers living in the Wedgefield section of the county. It is a striking fact about the petition, however, that it does not bear the name of a single county officer, so far as the face of the petition shows. There are, however, about a dozen white signers of property and prominence. Among those is F D Knight, editor of the Sumter Herald. The petition, which asks for a pardon upon condition that Murray remain away from the State, sets forth that ne paid bonds to the county on ac count of the prosecution against him amounting to $2,500 "with the tacit understanding that he would be allowed to remain away from the State." However, accompanying the petition are two affidavits, setting forth that Murray was wrongly convicted on the testimony of two negroes, who have since admitted that they swore falsely, partly because they were bribed and partly because they were, intimidated by Magistrate Richard Folk and his brother Sam Folk. One of the affidavits is from James Chatman, one of the witnesses on whose testimony Murray was convicted. Chatman says his father, Scipio, signed the leases Murray was convicted of forging. Ye Olden Time. Eve stole first, and Adam stole second. St Peter, he umpired the game: Rebecca went to the well with the pitcher, Ruth, in the field, won fame. Goliath was struck out by David, A foul off of Abel by Cain. The prodigal son made a home run, And brother Noah gave out checks for rain. F?rced into Exile. Wm Upchurch of Glen Oak,Okla, was an exile from home. 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The author was traveling in Ireland. I drove down to the station on the faint chance of catching the train to Dublin. When 1 got out of the cab at the station a bright faced boy accosted me. "Ah. sure. sir. you've Just missed the train," he said. 11 was inil*, i UJ.? tnd ascertained when tbe next train would leave. While I Mas waiting tbe lad came up to me and asked me for a tip. "Wbat for':" 1 askixl. "Sure. sir. I told you that you were to? late." be unblusblngly responded. To Be Led by Permanent Ideals. To live in tbe presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent Ideals?that Is what keeps a man patient when tbe world Ignores bim aud calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.?Balzac. A Pretty Broad Hint. ! A popular and good looking bachelor who Is a regular patron of a eircuj latiag library dropped in there tbe j other day. "I am going on a short ! trip. 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Tt is Whitsun Tuesday at 8 in the morning, a late day in spring. The town is gay with wreaths, flags and streamers, the windows t flame with flowers. Twenty thousand people fill the streets and stretch in a double row across the bridge. A sense of.serious waiting fills the air. The procession starts, with its banners, tapers and 300 singers and its clergy. All Pliant the litany of St. Wilhbrod. , Suddenly an electric tremor thrills along the whole cortege of pilgrims, instruments all along the line take up the tune, and 40,000 feet, not all light, but all fantastic, are vibrant in the dance. It is a sort of ^>bered polka, three steps forward and two back. Youth and the old man Tejoice together, the sick and the hale, the bent dotard side bv !?ide with the saucy schoolboy. They dance for health, for the state of their paror,A -fi-ion/io an/i ,?nr th#> ills of cubo auu AAiviiuw M..w ..v. .... ? their beasts. Some very old and infirm dance by deputy, and mary an urchin dances lustily for se>eral invalids. Here a young mother dances with her young child in her arms; here an old man, whistling like a saw, forces to the measure hi* rheumatic bones. The pageant takes five hours to travel three-quarters of a mile. When all is done the tired throng goes home. Home of the Navel Orange. "Bahia, Brazil, the home of the navel orange, from which place the late William G. Saunlers imported the first navel "rai ge tree to the United States, raises large quantities of this luscious fruit, but does not export a single orange," said a man formerly in the diplomatic service in Brazil. "Nearly every family has an orange and a banana tree in the back yard, and some have a number of trees. These are merely for home consumption. "Mr. Saunders, when he began the reproduction and distribution of the navel orange tree, the original of which, I believe, i6 still in the grounds of the department of agriculture, thought he could reproduce the same quality of orange, but I do not think he succeeded, although the American navel orange is a fine fruit. It would be irapossi ble to paoduce in iJania any great quantity of oranges :'or export because there are no facilities for keeping the fruit after it is picked." ?Washington Post. Mason and Dixon's Lino. The "Mason and Dixon's line," the name given to the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, was run, with the eiception of some twenty-two milc6, by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English mathematicians and surveyors, between November, 1763, and December, 1767. During the excited debate in congress in 1820 on the exclusion of slavery from Missouri Jolin Randolph made great use of the phrase, which was caught up by all the newspapers of the country and thus gained the celebrity it still holds. Tho Persii.ru. Every traveler from Morier onward has descanted cn the physical cowardice of the Persians. But there are mysteries about the valor of Asiatics which no European historian has yet set hinself to solve. It was currently said in the e*rly eighties among Englishmen that the Egyptians were cowards, yet. under Mehemet Ali they defeated Turkish armies and Wahabi fanatics and would have overthrown the Turkish empire if Europe had not intervened. There are similar passages in Persian history.?Ixmdon Nation. Mad* All the Difference. , "Henry asked me to he his wife j last night/' she told her chum. "Oh, I'm so delighted, Gertrude. And how did it happen?" "Well, he just asked me, and I said, Te8,' and then he jnst stood > up and folded his arms." "What! He was no more interested than that ?" "Oh, hut, yon see, I was in them when he fcMed then* MUST HAVE A TROUSSEAU. ! An English Maiden Who Lost Her Betrothed by Waiting. A few veaiv ago in England I had a little maid, aged twenty-nine : years, who had hc-en emraced to he married many years. "Are you encroor?/-l V J r.cj-0,1 ]lf.r when sllO f-ainO ' ' to seek the situation I had advertised. for if -lie was shortly to leave me to he married I decided that I would prefer an unengaged maid. ? "Yes. madam.*' ?-lio answered respectfully. "I have been engaged eight years." Somehow I never feel afraid of any outcome but a weariness to both parties when 1 hear of an eight year engagement, so I took the little maid on. One day I found ] her crying over the blacking of my walking hoots. Inquiring the cause of her distress, she sobbed: "Oh. madam. I never can save the ! $350. no matter 'ow 'ard I trv!" ; "What $350?" I asked. "The $350 to get married with! I've tried eight years tov^^^nomieal. I 'ave to *elp my mother, and I've only $95 in the postoffice savings bank!" "And whv must you have $350?" I asked kindlv. I 'Tor clothes and linen, madam/' she said. "It is not necessary," I said. "I can tell you how to buy all you 1 need for $50, and that will leave ' you $45 to lay aside for use after . marriage or on a rainy day." "No, madam. I 'ope I know what is proper and becoming in a ; 1 bride!" she said, almost freezingly. A few months later I found her , weeping again. " 'E's broke it j : hoff!" she said. "'E wouldn't wait. | I Tv8 going to marry another girl, | and I 'ad five tablecloths ready i 'emmed and six pillowcases, all 'em- . J 6titched." It was pathetic, but who could 1 blame the man, now thirty-five I years old, who had by that time ( 1 waited nearly ten years for her to | save enough money for Ifer trous- , seau? He could well have provided I all that was needed for their station ' 1 in life, and he wanted a home?and, { I besides, the little maid at thirty ( was looking old and worn with j | much self denial and trouble over i the saving of the coveted $350.? Rehoboth Sunday Herald. Monster Netts. i In Australia are to be found the largest, heaviest and most peculiar nests in the world. These are the nests of the jungle fowl, so called, and are built in the form of great mounds, thr average measurement in heightening fifteen feet and the circumfe?nce 150 feet, The nests ' ; are erecred in secluded, sheltered } spots, and, as in the case -of the : j small nests of birds, they are skillj fully interwoven with leaves, grass and twigs and such other suitable material as the fowl may be able to ! procure. A similar system in the , construction of ncsrts is followed by the bush turkey, whose home is, however, more comprehensive in design. Its shape is pyramidal. It [ has been asserted by Australian nat| uralists that the nests of.Jhe bush j turkeys, which live in colonies, are i so large that to move them requires a# bit at cotTfin rr?ATl _ I '.lit; BCltKCD VI DIA VI CVIVU uivu. Chicago Record-Herald. I | The City of lepahan. No city has a happier name than ' Ispahan?the "rendezvous." When I visited by the traveler CJbardin in j the early part of the eighteenth | century it contained 173 mosques, ( | 48 colleges, 1,800 caravansaries and 1 i 27.3 public baths. But the Afghans, I the local vandals, who did not care for bathing, destroyed the- aqueducts and slaughtered the bathers. In the matter of great public squares Ispahan can easily outrival any European city. The Meydan, or great square, is a third of a mile in length and about half that in breadth. It was once encircled by a canal, bordered by fine plane trees, but these have long since vanished alongiwith the canal. How Long Tree Lfvea. Inquiry as to the general age of trees being put to an authority of the forestry service at Washington, ! it was said that the pine tree attain- 1 ed 700 years as a maximum length < of life. Four hundred and twenty- , " iV | nve years was ine aiiotiea span ui j the silver fir. The larch lived 275 j years, the red beech 245;. the.aapen 210, the birch 200, the ash!.l70]fthe elder 145 and the elm 130.-" -"She . heart of the oak begins td^rot at about the age of 300 yeara Of the holly it is said that there is a specimen $10 years old near Aschaffenburg, Germany. ? Chicago RecordITerald. Her Compliments. Dean Ramsay tells of an old lady of Edinburgh who ordered her maid to call upon the doctor every morning and report the latest particulars as to her mistress' health, always carefully adding her compliments. At last one the girl arrived J with "Miss 8/a compliments, and hedeedlut night at aicH o'clock." 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