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I VOL. 4. NO. 58. SEMI-WJ \ RURAL NAIL BdXES AND ROADS. .important instructions issued by the National Postoffice & . Department. ) Postmaster Hunter nag re :eived the following letter from the 4th asoistant postmaster general, which we commeud to the careful consideration of patrons of rural free delivery routes, who will find it to their i I , interest to observe the regulations therein contained : In order to expedite the delivery, collection, and diepatch *i { of rural mail, enable rural car. iiers to cover their routes with celerity, and give the earliest possible service to patrons residing on the far ends of routes, ^ the department will insist that I all rural mail boxes be so located as to be served with the greatest expedition. You are, therefore, directed to require each rural carrier at tf your office to submit to you ! without delay, for transmission to the department, the names ol all patrons whose boxes can not be served without leaviug the road, dismounting, driving in4 deep ditches or on steep inclines, or on or across railway tracks in^ volviug danger, or the approaches to whose boxes are obstructed. It is not required that boxes shall be erected beside the wheel tracks, nor on any particular - corner of the crop-roads; but ... i they must be erected within the confines of the road, an 1 accessible, on any corner. It is not desirable that boxes \ * be attached to telegraph. telephone, or electric-ligh? poles, or 1/1 10 fence? or building?, but boxes ahoujd be securely fastened to ieat and strong pes'? lirmlv >et at the side of the roads, at a ?ufticient height to be r^ei'ved by :arriers without rising ?r.?m their ? teats or reaching through wheel spoxes. Alter boxes have been proper- i Jy relocated, an 1 it i? practicaole to curtail carrier-' ne.hAdiilAn. post masters will advise this office, f so that changes in schedules may be considered. When roads are in bad condition, postmasters are directed to V make report thereof to the de \ partment. and to the pr> per local f * road officials an i cooperate with them and pa'ronn to the! tullest extent, consistent with position and duty, to secure the mprovement of the roals. The - ' 1 manifestation of interest and properly dire deci efl irt.? by prst' masters in the ^oud-roads 4110stion will in many instances be productive of excellent results. \ Tragedy in Virginia. Bristol, Tenn., April 21. ? A r special from Gate Oity, Va., says Isaac Fulk, 22 years old. was shot and killed early today by ' Garland Compton, near Owens J Chapel. The Phooting followed a fight betweeo the tneu. (Jomp * ton shot Fulk four time? wilh a ( shotgun and escaped, bur was pursued by Sherifi Broadwaters and a posse. I?o you have that dark t>rcwn taste id vour month every morning when you wake? 4 if ho, jod are bi)ions and hould take two or three of those little ltJLOODlNE LIVElt Fli.JJti, easy to take, never nieken. weaken or gripe. '45c mailed by The JB^oodine Co.. Inc , Boaton, Mksh. Crawford Broe., .*fpecial Agents. 49-74 EEKLY. 1 THE DEADLY TORNADO. A U1 TS~ -11 < O i- ?? x- uur jvuicu, ocores 01 i-'er- y ori sons Injured and Property! N Damaged to Extent of is Hundreds of Thousands of M Dollars by Storm in Ohio. W Cleveland, O., April 21.?; ^( Probably lour deaths, scores ol persons injured and hundreds of a ?'?l who thousands of dollars worth of ^ damage marked the path of the oi S] : tornado which passed across the! pj northern part of Ohio at noon to, . mers day. j The storm consumed oniy five ? . . of Til [ uiiinMCf in pnsnui: h given pome, ^ but during that brief period it s Dare was as dark as night, hail batter- . ed in windows lightning set lire |^ to hundreds ot buildings, one fifth of an inch ol rain fell, and ' '' D L the wiud, which reached a velocitv of 66 miles an hour, razed *'10 buildings and chimneys, tore oil M,l*? roofs, laid low many telegraph K? and telephone lines and demora> a CH' lized traffic upon steam and elec- (l?tfe trie railways. credi In neighboring towns consider- acc?l able damage was done. Ten e'^ Pr dwellings were reported to have ^is '1 been blo*ti to the ground in the southwestern part of the city. Up Many homes were burned a6 the the li (ire department could not attend opiuj to all of the calls. thrift An unidentified young woman years is reported to have been thrown eggs into a pond at Wade I'ark by the to hi ! force of the wiud and drowned, and Three men are reported to have eggs been killed by falling walls in verte the flats. St. S'anislaus Catho- mom ic church was demolished T'\a it ura loss there was upwards of $100, lie 000. tares On Little Boy Kidnaped lul (,( 1 a cal Cmoinuiti, April 22.?Leo , eel th Mutheru, the 12-year-old sou ot |( ( Mrs. John Mufhern, is missing ,, * ,i , f 8?ltl following the receipt oy Ins 1 J not (j mother of two letters threatening p li rc to kidnap the boy. 1 hie after ' J ot pij. noon Mrs. Mulher received a ? j . . . , all o third letter saying that the boy j j f had been kidnaped and that he . ,,^ u ? . , . fat he would not be returned to his , with home until she deposited the , the o 1 money a* the place designated v. in the torm?r letters. boug tor $ Bad Storm Damage in Iowa, anott l>es Moines, Iowa, April 21.? ' ,r' A terrific hail and wind storm crea struck J)es Moines nnd central rnenl Iowa today, doing heavy damage to budding iruit tree*. Folk ^1,1W county court house was struck ^eil * eBf a by lightning and slightly dam- ' aged. Flute glass windows in 01 ( v downtown stores were blown in)0' % and cellars were flooded. At Stuart hailstones weighing or 1' halt a pound fell. The stables ' of Harvey Jewell, ol Cedar stoclc Falls, were struck by lightning, trL trit liner O.-i V?r?rc?o oml 'U /?r>?ro '"L ' Jewell's lo^s i* $7,000 a*e' ' the M Drought Kills Cattle. Fort Worth, Tex , April 21.? iv ai Owing to the long drought in the while ilar western parts of Texas re i ports are reaching here to the Vou effect that hundreds of cattle are [r^bi< dying on the ranches. The grass has all been eaten and the Pills. bftckttt' plains for many miles appear ^ rheum a barren waste, no rain bavii.e r* ^'1 o sure yt fallen for five months in son]* Aoospt 1 * i * * / 8 OM rijj j localities j ! < ts 1 - JB' .LlAINUASTHiK, S. C., APRIL 24, 19C REMARKABLE LAB. > THE S. S. CONVEN <. County Boy Under ^ Clear exposition ol ( ine Years of Agh Who' and p,|rposes of the Destined to make his! *eet'nK .s""Jav r . , -d Workers in Lancaster. Lark in the Business Mr. Editor: l'ieast me a short space in vo rkville Knquiret: It is ?b|e eolumns to speak ,r a" unusual thine to tind 0l ?,e tug man under twenty-one | Schoo, CoDveution t,)b( thinks more about making L?noaster on May 14th e aving money than he does Let every Sunday Schoo uending it; but Mr. C. J. and pa6tnr remember I tes, local agent of (he Far- cu?ve?tiou wi? be ut ' Co-operative Demontra- auspice8 0, the 8tate work, has called atleution , Dominatjonal Slm(Iav ,e Knquirer to the case of a A8aoci,Uon_let thera under nine, who il he is ber tba| it ig ioterde?on >d and keeps on the way he al alld nct antj n(m ( inc. will make Ins mark in | nominil,ion8l. No Sunda usineee world some day. 3,lperi?iendenl who de e little fellow is Master 8ee Sunday School work rt, son >t Mr. J. W. Belts, jn Lancaster county lives about three miles jtaiito have several goi i ol ^ orkvitle. gates from his school p bert has among other things, the convention. Entert f, eight guineas, a Wyou- will be lree, and ev cool: and titteen hens, and a knows that the hospita tot t41.15 in his savings pie ol Lancaster, the int in bank, all accumulat- Red IIo6e city of South ( incipally as the result ol always have a royal irift, economy and business awaitiug you. >ment. It is not neccessary ion inquiry it develops that belore an intelligent pt ittle fellow has been devel- benefits ol orgauizatic I liabits of economy and are too obvious in ever ; since he was about three human endeavor. In i old. He began by saving the there is strength, an I n of a hen that was assigned great or good things ha m by his father as his own, been accomplished wit when there were enough ganization. 1 he organi to warrant their being con- day School movement a: <1 into cash, he kept the 1. To increase inlet >y against future needs, and efficiency in Bible Study s not a great while before 2. To secure the bes ;gan to drift, into other ven ods of S. S. raauagem Bible teaching. ie of Robert's most success- ' lo perfect S. S. 1 ?als was in the purchase of an^ equipment. I lor $2. His uncle paslur ' lo ,lflK more clo e call lor the manure-, and 'mine v\iih the church, grown animal was finally Jo increase the ati for $25. A deal that was ?u all church services, uite s<> lucky involved the To extend the be iHse of a sow with a litter the Sunday School to ev tR for $11. The sow and woman, and child, f the pigs but two died. To secure the c< ave one of the pig- to his o! scholars and develc r for trouble in connection for Christian service, the raising and finally sold No one can deny th ther tor $9. are all desirable things >t long ago, young Robert Sunday Schools, and i lit a Wyandotte cockerel be present some of the 1 2.45, and later he bought day School workers in ier call and a pig, and ie to tell how to ?ccom| Lilly looking after the in- best work in our Sunday e of iiiS different invest- bet every delegate I s. and anxious to come on me of the neighbors who f?r he can be assured been watching the little will get something deti v's deals with much inter- tangible to take back to ay that he knows the crow Sunday School, and we ery rooster and the cackle such a revival in S. S. ery hen on the place, and Lancaster county as in tell tr >m the ^i/.e, shape never h id be'ore. be >1 /VI* /># n rk Ai?/f U I aI, 1. A Al\ A I . a* *\ ra It A I /\ i\/Vf\lv m 'jv.m ui in r-tit. wniu'i lieu uuii" n mj'e ulm>k l i?. lie ha? a surprising cil with him for 'here u of information about poul- thai has so good a men ire stock anil irener.il farm- note book. S. K. especially lor a boy of his State Executive Coi and there is no doubt of man for Lancaster couni ict. thai.it he keeps on in lirection lie baa been going No Compulsory Ec ( cumulation, will eventual. {m Tennessee mount to something worth ). Nashville lenn., Ap - - The compulsory educa should not delay under any cir- was defeated in the low incoii in cases of Kidney and Bladder ... . ). You should take something State legislature t tly that yon know in reliable, somelike DeWttt's Kidney and Bladder 1 hey are ftneqnaled for weak back, | BE KB DIUNKKBS and otbu be, inflammation of the bladder, er with Bright n Disease, Dial atic pains, etc. When yon ask for Ache, or any Kidney* or ltladi t's Kidney and Bladder Pills, be ' can be cured it ibey will take 1 [?u get theiu They are antiseptic. BLOOI) AND KIDNEY TAliL no substitutes insist upon getting txl*. mailed by Tbe Bloodin ;ht k)u.l. Sont by J*1 Vlackey . o. Boston, iWa-s. t.'rawford Br w-g Agents. !. . ' t % jr 2 9. HON. THE PENSION MONEY. he Aim8 State Board Completes Its < online 'Work of Distributing the 1 Appropriation and Sends Out Vouchers to the Va3 allow . /-% .. nous Counties. ur valua word Columbia special in the News Sunday ani* Courier, 22nd inst : The 3 held in ?tate pension board lias coniLiidlbth P^ete(^ and the vouchers 1 worker are ^eing seut 0,11 to various ;hat the c^erhs Courts for settlement ider the in the counties. This year there luterde* are 9,504 pensions, an increase School over ^08 of 188. The total r erne in , am<>u?t to be paid out this vear iinntinn is $247,702.50, out of an apprc" "nde- of $250,000. t. will v School he recahed that at the last ses? c * r ?: sires to UI 'ue J^iMdiure mere were advanc- a nuinV>er resolutions relative shoul(i toertirical limbs, these being od dele- Pa*d out ?* l'ie I'nab fund, which resent at 's turned ba<*l< to tlie pension ainment >und when nof U6ed UPery one t-"e pensioners there ble peo- are 1^ '*,J C-'a-s each reeeivbeautiful hig $0<> ; in Class B, there are 'arolina, 171, each receiving $72: iu No. 1, welcome nt C, there 690, each receiving -"if 4'S; in No. 2. of Class C, to argue there are 4,044, each receiving jople the $1^.75; in Class C, No 3, there ., are 710. each receiving 148; in * ie* Class C. No 4, there are 3,738, y *lne each re<%eivieg $19.75. union PENSIONS BY COI NTIES. ot many lhe f illowing is a list of the i v ? ? v t* r number and amount ol tne penbout or 8ious j,, t-,ie counties, Spartanzed Sun- burg lea ling, as usual : ime: County Number Amount rest and Abi?e\ ill* i ;.t * 1.421 oo Aiken ... . .?>* 9.21H AO Anderson >.'tI 1.1.002 AO it metii- t v) 2,283 25 ent ami Barnwell 171 4,199 25 Beaufort 50 1.015 75 Berkeley . 157 8,321 50 Uerature ^ W.,B) C'harleMon 230 5,014 25 sely tiie n>?'ster 4,590 ?n < 'Inst. rr>l<l .... 257 0,030 75 Clarendon 122 3,316 25 tendance coiieion . . 159 9,504 50 l)arlinj.Mon .... . . 218 5.712 25 nelits ?.| Dorobeatw . 121 2,886 00 Kdtreiield 129 3,007 <H > epy man, Fairfield 128 1,548 50 Klorem-e 207 1,804 25 inversion 1,309 75 4. < ireon >59 14,314 25 >J> them Greenwood 1 :;i 1,676 25 I lampion .... 213 5,105 0C at these Horry . 277 ..,881 75 tor our!^er"haw 148 *J8in lam-ast-r 24s 0.381 ini here will l.auren> 271 7,897 iciest Sun. I*?e 127 3.402 21 l he State r'oxin-,on -82 Marion 200 0,505 75 "ton the Marlboro 151 1,72871 ScllOOl 9, Newberr. 184 1.581 71 he rend\* , , . MraiigeliMrir 1!*J? 4,?43 5(] i Way J 4, ,>ickMlfe o49 ?,.{13 2." hat lie Kichlmid . :* ! '.1,945 7." nite and s?1u<1r tr?k 4,544 25 his home "? -" -ST? Sumter 15*; 4.(173 7.r> cao have work lit W'illisnivi ursr 1M 4,899 OC we have York ;i*> 8,182 6(1 1 'lit*r?>k . .'17 *;.(l*>4 r.11 t every llitl pen- 'I'oifji ,*)4 $247,70-.' .->< - nothing lory as a Married Three Girls in Just I>-?i! e-. Three Years mnittee- '?.i> - j /1,?. Ohio., Ap"i< 22. William Parsons married his wife, Lizzie. in tin* town in 1904. In 11*07 he married another girl, lucation ^?JH T Tipson, in Huntington, \V. Ya. ast September under the nan;* or Smith, he married rjl .j) the third whose name is Pearl, lion bill *n Mansfield. Ohio, without any wuaiu? <?: ununjc? in ins laillliy ?r home llia,OI.y ,odiiy. Wile No, I compUiued again* hi him. Wife No. 3 produced rs who sun her marnage oertilieate before betes. l$Hch the may r yesterday. I'arsone ;lc)odink 8i,'(l he did not know whether he ?ETs, 50c h was married to No. - or not, ?f osC?Si?!m;ii w*e drinkinjr. The m*yoi ^ 4i? 74 boon i !V,"?oi>k over to court. I / i . ...q PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY COOPER CASE AiiAIN. Motion tor New Trial Argued?-Defendants Claim Many Errors in Judge's Charge. t Nashville, Tenu., April 21.? Arguments for a new trial in the Cooper ease began today before Judge William H Hart. The f defendants, Col. 1J. B. Cooper and hip son, Kobin j. Cooper, who who were found guilty cf the murder of Former United States Senator K. W. Carmack and were given 20 years imprisonment, ! were in excellent spirits and held an impromptu reception before the sheriir opened court. The defendants were represent, ed by Judge Anderson, den. Washington, A. G. Kwing, Jr., and Gen. Meeks. Attorney General McCai n, Capt. Kitzhugh and Gen. Garner appeared for th< State. Judge Anderson added a new assignment in error to the 40 included in the motion?that the court erred in refusing an instruction on self.defense, request? i .. i- _ J < cu uv iup ueiense. Gen. Washington opened for the defense. lie argued at length that Ho bin Cooper could uot have been guilty of murder as he had not been in consultation with his father, had not read the offending editorials, had not even lived with his father for years and went along that day merely to protect the parent. Washington then announced the State's attorney's arguments. He maintained that the jury 'should have been instructed that if Robin's intentions in crossing the street were peaceful he had a right to defend himself when attacked and made the declaration uthat even if Col. Cooper went across the street to kill Carmack, as the State contended he did, there was no evidence to show that Robin knew anything of such a purpose." Gen. Washington was followed by Attorney General Garner, who cpoke hrielly for the State. .Judge Anderson then took up the argument for the defense. That the court, by its instructions, practically commanded the jury , to convict Col. Cooper was the Contention of Judge Anderson. The State will make brief arguments tomorrow and Judge Hart will then take the motion under advisement. Child Drank Carbolic Acid. 1 Columbus, Cla., special in At1 lanta Constitution: Mary Henderson, the --year old daughter of W. I?. Henderson, while playi ing on the floor of their home today secured a bottle of carbolic 1 acid from the medicine chest un| dor the bed, drank a part of the | contents and died shortly aiterwards. Only Woman on Federal Pension Roll Fatally Hurt, Uashington, April 21.?Mrs, Sai-iili K. Thompson, aged 71. who served as a spy during the civil war, and is said to be the only , woman carried on the pension roll* as a soldier, was so severely ; .. : ,1 i - - - ' ? i ii |urf*u nere toaay ny being knocked down by ft street car near the Capitol that she may die. She rendered conspicuous service to the Union cause during the civ'l war by the discovery of the whereabouts of the noted , Confederate general, John T. > Morgan. Mrs. Thopripson, who i was a native of Tennessee, was ' employed in the Postofflce I)eI partment. / -ir