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TlE PICKENS Entered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, S. C. a 39th Year PICKENS. State News ] Ill the Lit! News from Zvoi The summer school for teach ers at Wofford College opened M)nday. A charter has been granted the Citizen's Exchange Bank of Denmark. Capital $25,030. A commision has been issued to the Georgetown Erle com pany, at Georgetown. Capital, $10,000. Sam Long, a young fa-merof Westminister. committed sui cide Lv shooting himself with a shot gun. Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Trabert of Minneapolis. Minn.. have donat el a physical laboratory to New berry College. The secretary of state granted the IssvItio-i i Mills of Cental, the right to int,rease its capital stock from 20,00 to i"4100,000. Mrs. E. 0. Singletary, an aged lidy, died on a train while on her route to her hoie at Florence from a visit to relatives at Lake City. Monroe Mills. entered the dwelling of a white family at Chester Sunday night and hid under a bed. Pron- Aiovement of the inm1 ea caused the scoun drel to '4u ,irriedly. He was pt and landed in pursued , cau l. e jail. The war department has not' fled the milita authorities that Cap. Thoma- Q. Donaldson, Jr., will be detailed as instructor of the National Guard of South Carolina, at the encanm ment at Greenville, beginning Jaly 5. Capt. Donaldson is well known throughout the state and is a son of Mir. T. Q. )onaldson of Greenville. In the court of sessions at Lau rens Will Goodman. a white man. pleaded guilty of man slaughter and was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary or on the countv works. John Woody, a negro, pleaded guilty of housebreaking and larceny and was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary or on the county works. Goodman killed a negro in a crap game. A. HI. Page & Son oif Cheraw have tran!sferredl to the Seaboard Air Line railway the controlling inyterest in the Chestesfield and Lancaster Railroad company. The purchase price of the stock was not annonnleed. The Ches terfield and Lancaster railroad which wa- built in 19)01 is about 40 miles in lenigthi running from Cheraw to Cro)wbur~g, about 30 miles from Charlotte, N. C. Attorney GJeneral Lyon has received from County Treasurer Langford of Hampton at request for some infor-mationI as to the books of that office, a shortage of about ~.(h,0 being alleged. TneI books have ieen examined by an expert fromi the auditing c<mpany hlaving the matter in charge and within the next fewv days an (xperVt fromll the ofiice of Conmptroller GJeneral Jones will go over the books. Until then the records oif the oftice will re main under lock and key. Heroic efforts on the par-t of John Swvitzer' savedl Miss M1ae SLowe~ from death hv dr-owning in Lawson's Fork, near the home - of E. L. Archer in Spartanburg cotinty, Mfonday afternoon. Miss Lowe attempted to walk a foot log across5 the stream and fell in. MIr. Switzer saw the young lady when she fell and he plunged into the stream and r-es cued her- after hard work.' He made for the bank with the young lady but the embankment was so high that he could not climb out. He called for help and a niegro ma:n hearing his calls foir aid rushed to his assist ance. Th'. y ung lady- was un conscious and( 31r. Swvitze'r w~as completely exhausted when tak en from the streami. 3aragraphed. Five prisoners attempted to break jail at Yorkville. A. A. Barron, a well known citizen of Rock Hill is dead at his home. A terrapin, said to be 68 years old, was captured near Cross Hill several days ago. Revenue officers destroyed an illicit still in the Dark Corner of Greenyille county. Capt. J. S. Bowman, a well known citizen of Rowesville, S. C., is dead at his home. William James Rivers, aged 87, formerly a resident of Char leston, died in, Baltimore. The annual convention of the postmasters of South Carolina will be held in Columbia this week. Dr. C. H. Shattuck, professor of botany of Clemson College has resigned his position to ac cept a position at the University of Idaho. S. J. P. Alston of Charleston, was drowned off Young's island, near Charleston, while rescuing a party of ladies from a launch that was filling with water. The secretary of state has is sued a certificate of incorpora tion to the country club of Spar tanburg, which is the first step towards securing a commission. Just as soon as the commision is received the board of manageis will meet and decide on a loca tion for the club. Several sites are being considered. In Greenville a complaint was registered by a well-to do negro of the county, Fred Nance, against a party of automobilists who ran into his buggy on Sun day night. The car hit the bug gy and demolished it, and then the occup-ts gave the negro five dollal and sped away. There is no clue as to the identi ty of the autoists, but the author ities are working on the case. The farmers of Greenville coun ty are much worried over the fast driving of the autoists. Mr. F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, the sculptor, will shortly sail for Florence, Italy, .there to finish two important commissions he has from South Carolina, the statue of Calhoun, wvhich will adorn Statuary hall in Washing ton and the monument to the South Carolina Women of the Confederacy, which is to be erected on the state house1 grounds in Coluibia. The Cal houn statue will be in a position for unveiling, Mr. .Ruckstuhl hopes, shortly after congress meets in December. Queer Ad. "An Italian with a piano organ was turning the handle ot his machine rapidly, but not a note was to be heard. I stopped at once. What on earth could be the matter?" The speaker, an advertising agent, smiled. "Finally," he said, "I went up close to the man. 'A breakdown?' I asked. "He pointed to a small placard on the organ's front, and I read: 'The interior of the instrument has been removed. The relief that in con sequence you experience is as nothing compared with that which Immediately follows a dose of Surecure Cough Mix ture.' "It was an original ad.," the expert ended, "and I followed it up. From what the Surecure people told me, I found that the same ingenuity and money put in legitimate newspaper ad vertising would have brought 50 per, cent. more returns."--Exchange. Getting His Own Back. An Ironworker, having had the worst of an argument with a friend, decided to get even with him. Waiting, therefore, until his enemy had retired to rest one night, he ap proached his street door, and knocked loudly In order to wake him. Open ing the bedroom window, the other hurriedly inquired what the noise was all about. "Why," replied the outside one. "one of your windows is wide open." "which one?" "Why, the one you have your head through," chuckled the other, as he went away satisfied with the success or M.u pot.-IlltrZated Bits. STAMP SALE YIELDS SOME RETURNS. Year's Supply Cost Only $465,585, Though They Are "Plate Printed," Which Is Most Expensive Pro cess of Taking Impressions. Washington.-Out of the $165,742, 693 of revenue received by the post office department during the last fiscal year from the sale of stamps stamped envelopes, newspaper wrap pers and postal cards, only $1,634,554 was expended in their manufacture, and of this total the postage stamps, which brought in the largest return by far, cost the government only $465,585.36 for a year's supply. Stamped envelopes made up $1,041, 068.80 of the total cost of manufactur ing and postal cards $164,900.32. The United States is one of the few large countries which has not fallen back on the cheaper processes of printing for the manufacture of its postage stamps. The stamps supplied by Uncle Sam are printed by the "plate printing" process, which is the most costly as well as the most perfect of all processes of taking a printed im pression. Like all of our paper money and the bonds and stocks certificates admitted to trading on the New York stock exchange the postage stamps are printed from steel engravings. An engraved plate differs radically from. the printing surfaces used in the or-! dinary typographical processes, in that the lines which carry the ink are sunk below the surface of the plate and the pigment which remains on the pa per after it has been run through the printing press is taken, not from the surface of the plate, as is the case in typographic printing, but from the sunken lines. By this process it. is possible to make a much finer design than it would be possible to print from a typographic "cut," as may be seen by comparing under a reading glass any postage stamp or piece of paper currency with the finest wood cut or other example of typographic art. The cost of manufacturing postage stamps is further increased by the necessity of gumming the backs; but the perfection of the machinery which carries out this process, together with the small size of the stamps, makes the total cost inconsiderable when compared with the selling price. The printed sheets of stamps pr-s into the gumming machines as soon as they are dried and passed by the examiners. These machines are marvels of in genuity. An even flow is spread on the back of the stamps with wonderful accuracy by a revolving drum whose slightly rough surface carries the nec essary amount of adhesive fluid. As sheet after sheet passes face down un der this roller it throws a parting glimmer of its newly-gummed surface in a mirror directly in front of the young woman operator. By this means she can tell whether or not the gum is being applied. After its farewell gleam the sheet is carried automatically through a dry ing chest, where an even temperature of 135 degrees is maintained. It is now dry and ready to be trimmed, numbered and perforated. Finally, hydraulic presses remove the burring left by the perforating ma chines, and the finished stamps, exam ined, counted, packed and sealed, are ready for shipment. NEW VERSES FOR GOSPELS. Result of Recent Discovery of Biblical ManuscrIpts. Chicago.-Several new verses to one of the Gospels will be given to the world soon when the Archaelogical Institute of America will meet at the University of Chicago and make known the existence in America of certain Biblical manuscripts which have recently been discovered. The announcement will be made by Prof. H. A. Sanders of the University of Michigan. The manuscripts were brought to America recently from Egypt by Charles L. Freer. The manu scripts bear on the text not only of the four Gospels, but of the ancient Greek version of Psalms and Deuteron omy as well. A joint session of the American Philological association, the Archaeo logical Institute, the Council of the In stitute, the managing committee of the American School of. Classical Studies in Rome and the managing committee of the American School of Oriental Study and Research in Pales tine will be held at the time. Thaw Trial Breaks School. New York.-A voluntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Mrs. Ma. thilda Beatrice De Mille, who formerly conducted the fashionable school, "Pamlico," at Pompton Lake, N. J. It was at this school that the diary of Evelyn Thaw, then a student there, was written and which subsequently figured in the trial of her husband. Harry K. Thaw, for the murder of Stanford White. It is understood the notoriety caused by the Thaw trial was the undoing of the school. Coat of Ministetr Explodes. Wooster, 0.-Rev. William H. Hub-' bel, mayor-elect of Dalton, was the vic tim of a peculiar explosion. His coat suddenly burst into a blaze and was ruined, though he was not injured. He had no matches or explosives in his pocket. He thinks that the ex plosive was sewed in the lining of his coat, which came from a Pittsbur'g de nartment store, SISTER NOT WANTED THERE. Washington Boy Satisfied with the Present Arrangement. 'Tve got three brothers and my self," said a six-year-old boy one day last week to a male caller at his home in Washington, during a little talk about playmates, toys and boon com pions. The caller was a bosom friend of the youngster's father and was waiting for the latter to join him on a trip downtown. "Four boys, eh?" commented the fa. ther's friend. "Yes, Tom, that's me. Jim an' Free an' Lou. Girls might be all right; I like 'em, too, most of the time, but they're sassy and always afraid ol getting hurt. Can't play hall, noi shoot marbles, and the only thin-; some of 'enm can do is skate," prat tied the boy. "So you don't think you'd like tc have a sister?" "Nope," replied Tom after a pause. "But suppose the Lord gave you a sister, you would have to hav,- her, wouldn't you?" Tom looked about the room for sev eral moments and the casting his big eyes on his inquisitor in a frightened sort of way, suddenly darted out of the room and made for the stairway. "Where are you going, boy?" called the man. "To the nursery," came the reply as Toni's legs carried him as fast as they could up the stairs. In about ten min utes he returned to the room again perfectly placid, and, placing himself squarely before the man, hesitated a moment. "Mr. Smith. me and the boys don't want a sister," he said. "But, suppose God had just left one here for you, what then?" "Well, I wouldn't a-been her, Fred wouldn't a-been her, Lou wouldn't a been her and Jim wouldn't a-been her. Now, who'd a-been her?" FROCK COATS IN CONGRESS. Garment Going Out of Fashion Among Modern Statesmen. Congress is eliminating the frock coat habit. More than half the mem bers of the new congress have shown their disapproval of the time-honored costume by appearing on the floor of, the house in the regulation business suit of tweed. Red and lavender neck ties can poll a larger vote than the somber black string tie, and old mem bers, loyal to the frock coat and its accessories, are discussing with de spair the future of congressional tan shoes. These sartorial belligerents declare that the revolt against the unwritten law concerning the frock coat habit is chiefly in the interest of comfort. Whether the regulation statesman's garb would be a matter of pride with them in questionin.: whether they would appear to better personal ad vantage in solemn black or most be coming blue, they insist. is a matter of secondary consideration. Fear expressed by members of the house for the doom of the frock coat has already distur-bed the equanimity of the senate by the appearance of a couple of belligerents in the ranks of this black-coated body. Allie James of Kentucky, the heavy weight of the house, who weighs near ly 300 pounds. says the habit of a ear ing light tan and gray sack coat suits is not a mattcr of choice. It is a neces sity, he says, because he nevor found a tailor who had cloth enougl of one kind to make him a frock coat suit. One Use for Billboards. "Billboards may be a horrible blot on civic beauty," said a well-known Washington business man the other day, "but they have their uses." "Impossible!" said a disgusted art ist. "Impiiossible'!" "But I tell you they have their ben efits," insisted the man." "I know it." "Oh, I don't see how," said the dis gruntled artist, recalling memories of many wars waged by his colleagues and civic improvement societies on the billboard. "I got my elementary education from them." said thme business man. "I learned the alphabet from them." "WXell, of all things." said th.e artist. "Yes, when I was a small tad I used to drive about the city a good deal with my father, who was a physician. I used to love to follow the sign boards, especially the illustrated ones. By studying them closely I learned my letters and would spell out the words. "One evening father said Bob must begin to think about going to school. I said: 'Why. father-, why should I go to school? I can read.' I ran and got a newspaper and read one of the long stories before receiving any comments. Of course my pronuncia tion would never hav'e won me a blue ribbon in a reading match; in fact, I guess, fromi all I can learn since, it was pretty awful. But I could read, and that's why I say I got my first start in education from the bill b o a rd s .''" _________________________________________________ Pleased the Newspaper Men. Mr. Bonaparte was explaining that he had two good reasons whly lhe could not give his caller the information te had asked for. "One is that I have not yet got the information myself," he said in his characteristic way, "and the other way Is that when I do get it I will try to keep it away from the eagles of the press." "' Eagles of the press '-4hat's very handsome of you, Mr. bonaparte," said his call er, who was a newspaper man. "There are those who have another name," said the a.ttor'ney general. "'Vultures,' I thinik I have heard them say. But my expeience with the newapaper men haa always be of the pleasant est kind, agd I prefer to think of them as aarlas. not vul1ture." 44tuld become Mrs. sym. "Indeed, I do, Miss Flypp." assev-r ated the young man. "I say it again you are the best girl in the world." "And the loveliest, I think you Baid?" "The loveliest, without doubt." "I think you said something about my accomplishments, tou?" "I did. I said they excelled those of any other girl." "I believe you called me sweet?" "'A sweeter woman ne'er drew breath,'" quoted the ardent lover. "You used the word 'perfect,' too, did you not?" "I did. I also pronounce you the pink of perfection, propriety and modesty, the empress of my heart, the peerless one among the beauteous creatures of your sex, a maiden ador able, enchanting and worthy of the hand of the best man on earth. Say the word that will make me the happi. Bst man, my own Dora!" "Before I give you an answer, Mr. Spooner, I should like to ask you one Question." "A dozen if you like." "One will be enough. Don't yo.u think you have -a good deal of assur ance to expect a woman with all those excellent qualities to marry you?" Then Mr. Spooner went home. FORGOT AN IMPORTANT POINT. Boston Carpenter Overlooked Davy Crockett's Immortal Advice. Apropos of the fat man who built his wife a table in the cellar too big to go through the door, a reader de clares that he knows of a man who did very much the same trick. The man in question, a Boston carpenter, was having a dull season, and as spring was coming on he decided to build himself a boat for use in his toric Boston bay. After due considera tion the carpenter decided to use his own cellar as a workshop, as he had plenty of room and all materials were handy. He did not once think of get ting the boat out until after weeks of hard work he had finished a fine 18 toot vessel. Of course it would not go through a mere door, and as there was no double door entrance the car penter was up against it. He was de termined to have his boat, though, %nd le tore out the entire end of his house to get it out of his cellar. He got his boat, and also had more hard work to do in his dull season, for it was several weeks before he finished repairing the house. Deadly Insult. A New York youngster was caught literally wiping up the street with Mother boy with whom he was sup posed to be on especially friendly :erms. The detector of his pugilistic ancounter was his mother, who, after she had yanked him'into the house, proceeded to deliver a lecture on the sin of fighting. The boy listened for m while in silence. "That's all right," lhe broke out at ast in uncontrollable indignation. "It's il right for you to talk, but if you ust knew what he said about you-" The pause was significant. The nother took alarm. "Arbout me?" she said. "Why, what n earth did he say about me?" "He said," blubbered the small boy n impotent wrath, "that you-wear petticoats." When Learning Is Jocular. The Y&le students' attitude toward the faculty, though jocular, is not an tagonistic, and as a rule the Record laughs with the professor at his un fortunate pupil, as instance: Dycut Funker-But I do not think I deserve an absolute zero. Professor--Neither do I, but that is the lowest mark I am allowed to give. Among the stage settings of the campus the lunch-rooms, called "dog wagons," because of their renmarkable output of bologna sandwiches, or "hot dogs," are wvell p)atr-onized and con tribute their share of fun. "Shay, Jack, comze on over and have a dog." "Nop, I just had a rabbit." "Well, shen, come on over and have a dog for a chaser."-The Itohemian. Too Much Idealiz3d. "He was at one time the leading photographer, wasn't he?" "Yes. But after lBella's experience his business dropped off." "Tell me about it." "Bella had some~ pictures taken there and they certainly were swell. A multimillionaire from Pittsburg saw one in the showcase andl ft-Il in love at first sight." "With Bella?" "With Bella's picture. Of course, he was wild to be introduced. Then he saw the actual Bella." "And then?" "And then he took the first train back to Pittsburg." A Poor Scholar. The other day a professor leaving the university was approached by a seedy individual, who pjathetically asked: "Won't you help a poor scholar with a dime?" The coin bestowed, the learned inan said: "You tell me you are a poor mcholar?" "Sure," answered the other. "I never went to school in me life, So Innr.-..-Philadelphia Ledger 1F. ej U3 0 and China 0 plorable Results - Bis. Brent's Work. -: - 0 00000*00000000000000000000 T HIE recent passage by congress of a bill prohibiting the in portation of opium into the United States, except for me dicinal purposes, and the anli-opium conference held during February in Shanghai, China, form two -notable events in the worldwide crusadel against the opium evil. The history of the opium evil Is an :stonishing one. Some striking facts under this head have been gathered by the international reform bureau in cofinection with the conference at Shanghai. This bureau has hid a strong hand in carryling forwa-d the nant pium crusade. At its head is the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Ph. D., and the secretary for China, Rev. E. W. Thwing, has greatly aided Pre.ident Crafts in the work of the bureau In the movement against opium. Opium eating prevailed in India as far back as the seventeenth century, before British occupation, and this habit of the native troops conduced to their easy conquest by the British. British traders and oficials aided In introducing opium into China, where it had previously been used but little and generally as a medicine. The evil hd Zrown bAg enough by 1729 for the Chinese government, in alarm at the deinoralization of its subjects, to issue a decree against both the selling and the sinuking of opium. but so great was the fear of the white man's gun boats that smuggling went on almost unehi(Cked until a new and more se vere devree was issued in 1840 and committed to the hand of a poet of the' Li family for enforcement. With sonmethin.; of - :- 'n71" he gave an Improved rendition of the Boston tea party by seizing $7.000.000 / M, mIei n/me sia es m m BROKEN OPIUTM TRAYS OF FORMIER VICTIMS OF HiABIT-BURNING OPIUM PIPES. worth of opium, throwing it into trenehe&s and then letting the salt sea w:ves in upon It to utterly destroy It, whereuponi the British ships came to the defense of the beaten smugglers iad oni various trumped up) charges made war on the Chinese. In 1842, when many towns had been devastated. China was compelled to nmKe peace and to pay the British for the destroyed opium and their war expenses. But even in abject defeat ie inoble ChInese emperor persistently declared In spite of strong financial temptation to the contrary, "I will not license what represents the vice and riisfortune of my subjects." However, lie was not able to resist the smug gling thant went on increasingly until it beenmen the chief cause of a second opi war In 1858, in which France andu England united. China was speed ily enquered, but it was not until the rhlust of a third opium war in 1861 that helpless China relue tantly consented to allow the importation of opium at several p.orts and to fix a certain tax er iirense upon it, which. was not to Oe inc"reased or changed, nor was! op1ium to. be excluded except by cor. sent of the British government. Thiis forcing of opium upon China was n(.t by any means approved by alL the* British people, and in 1874 the British A uti-opium society was estab lished r,nder the presidency of the Earl of Shaf'esbiury. It has persistently la b)ored sincie theni to constrain the gov ernment to release China from this treaty complhUsioni to tolerate an evil traffie which It had always plrohibited when free to do so. The' first officiail encouragement Be cured by the British anti-opium agita tion was a resolution In 1891 by parlia ment that "the Indo-Chinese opium traffile ii morally indefensible." The~ next encouragement came from the aVtioni of progressive New Zealand in prohibitin-I the importation of opium in 1901. Australia followed with a ulmilare Inw in 104t and sortly the afterward South Canada was swept into tr- - wave. But in the meantimLe a er impulse came from a great Ai can victory In the Philippines, whi was still more Influential, as subse quent events show, upbn the British government. In 1903, when an opium monopoly had been agreed upon In BISHOP CHARLES H. BRENT. a second reading of the Philippine American government, Philippine mis sionaries appealed to the internation al reform bureau, as the only Amerl can society that had given special study to this subject and also wits equipped with the means of arousing the people, to save them from this oplm monopoly by an appeal to the public to petition le 1'ir- nt tol overrule the act of his subordinates. He .was influenced to order the war! department to reverse itself and cable the Philippine government, "Hold opium monopoly bill; further investi-. gation; many protests." . This was on June 4, 1903. In consequence of the veto of the opium monopoly the Philippine gov ernment sent out an opium committee to investigate the opium tratie all through the orient. This committee included, as chairman, Major Carter, the health commissioner of the Is. lands, with whom were associated Bishop C. H. Brent and Dr. Jose Al bert, a prominent Philippine physi clan. The commission visited Japan, Formosa, China. Hongkong. the Straits Settlements, Burma and Java and made an elaborate and very valuable report, which has been of great use In the crusade. The main point in the report wras that wherever an attempt was made to make revenue out of opium there was no real restraint. The only effective law was that of Japan, in which revenue was entirely eliminated. Opium prohibition was not enacted for the P)hilippines5 until 1905, in connection with the taritY bill, into which it was projected through the efforts of the reform agency pre viously mentioned. Recently the British parliament has taken steps looking to the suppression of the Indo-Chinese opium trade. This encouraged the Chinese government to issue edicts ordering the closing of the opium dens in six months and the discontinuance of the opium habIt in that or a shorter period by all offcials. and other provisions of the edi r''vo vided for the gradual reduction or - poppy cultivation with a view to total discontinuance of opium farming ex: eept for medicinal purposes. In 1908 the national feeling a:ainst opium had reached such a p~oint in China that the burning of opium pipes 3EV. DR. WILBUR F. OBAFT'S. became a national passion, in which great multitudes participaied with the jubilation of a triumphal procession. The climax of the anti..opium wave was the act of President Roosevelt. at the suggestion of Bishop Brent. in call- --.. jug the Shanghai conference of twelve nations in order to help China and the Philippines to c'ompilete success in their opium l-roposals and at the same time to dle:al such blows as might be possible to the opium traffic in these nat ions themselves and in the world at large.