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GRAFTTRIALS " Begins in Columbia With the Case Against James Famum HOW WYLIE WAS CAUGHT * The Cashier of the Chester llank t. tr Marked a One Hundred Bill Ten- ol fl< dered Henry Samuels In Payment of Draft and it Was Returned for ^ b: Deposit by Wylie. The trial of the alleged dispensary 01 in grafters commenced in Columbia ^ Tuesday morning. The first case called was that of James Farnum, which was somewhat ^ensaiionai. Q Declaring that out of idle curiosity he had marked one of the hundrei dollar bills tendered Henry Samuels, ^ in payment of a draft September 13, ? 1906, and that this bill was retu.-ned for deposit by J. B. Wylie, along qJ with bills to the amount of $1,120, t Robert Gage, cashier of the Commer- r( cial Bank, of Chester, witness for w the State in the case, sprang the first ^ sensation of the alleged graft trials in the Court of Sessions. The State ^ announced before calling Mr. Gage to the stand that it would connect this testimony with the accused. .' This transaction is in line with the charge in the indictment that the de- 'J fendant sent Samuels the draft for $1,120 to be paid to J. B. Wylie, who was then a member of the State . ? .. . s< board of control. The testimony or ,v Mr. Gage was the most important ,f' of the opening day's happenings in ' the case of the State against Farnum. Robert Gage, cashier of the Commercial Bank of Chester, was put , on the stand by the State, and made 6 Q | a good witness. He recalled cashing a draft on September 15, 1906. for Henry Samuels. The ledger showing the transaction was produc- ( ed, and after objection by defence that ground had not been laid for introduction of secondary evidence, Mr. Gage was allowed to testify to n< what he knew. He stated that ho ! gave Mr. Samuels $1,125 for the draft. J "What did Mr. Samuels do with f it?" asked Mr. Abney. "He gave part of it to Mr, Wylie.'* "How do you know that?" ( "Out of idle curiosity, I marked a r< $100 bill, the lower hill of the $100 bills I gave him." The package I got from the safe contained ten hundred 1 dollar bills. I had a red pen behind / my ear. I marked the lower bill. ' That afternoon or the following day. Mr. Wvlie deposited $1,020 with 1 me. The marked bill was in the ' number." Mr. Gage was asked what made 1 him take this course, and he replied that he had had an argument about v the matter, and that he thought Mr. v Wylle was getting something, but 11 this testimony was ruled out. 'c A VERY ME AX MAX. 11 Sees His Wife Go to Jail for Want J of a Little Money. It Rather than loan his former wife ^ Id $;?00, which would have kept her ^ from going to prison, Jacob Flckel. a brewer, saw her sentenced to tin ")] riftnitpntiarv for two vears at fllevp land, Ohio, Monday. Sentence was ^ suspended, and Mrs. Fickel's son will attempt to raise the money and save his mother. Mrs. Fickel embezzled $593.76 from the estate of Bertha Rozen- j Bardt. while acting as guardian to }? the woman last winter. She was a convicted, bu( Judge Vickorv told J{l Mrs. Fickel she could go free if she would repay the money. Mrs. Fick- n el's son tried to raise the money but e failed. "Any man who is half a man would 1,1 do as much as is asked of Fickei 'n SI to save the mother of his children even though he has no regard for her as his wife" said the Judge. n( > H < Slain by Fellow Convict. Charlie Lokey, a convict on the Tift County, Georgia, chain gang, was killed with one blow Tuesday morning, while seated at the break- t0 fast table, by Albert White, a fel- H low convict. Humming a tune. ar White had walked quickly up be- 311 hind Lokey. He held behind his back ,)C the hickory cross bar of a wagon. en When he reached his victim he rais- l)C ed the bar, took good aim an1 brought it down with all his might. 10 Lokey was killed instantly. White fo had no chance to escape afterward* 50 Woman Brutally Treated. Attacked in the yard at her farm home near Marlton, N. J., and beaten into insensibility, carried to the Rl house, gagged, bound hand and foot 1,1 and then placed between two beds ^ on the second floor, Mrs. William H. Mortland, thirty years old, was thus ^1 brutally treated a few days ago by P? Samuel Lay field, a negro employee af of the farm. s'f ____________ er A Woman Farmer. ^ bo Mrs. Mary Crowell farms several ju hundred acres near Byron, 111., and makes a specialty of hogs. For six years she has carricd off first prizes with her hogs in the State Agricultural Fair, and there are maav od pood judges who fay she raises the at best hogs in Illinois. The other day j Bi she sold a drove of fifty porkers to of a Chicago parking house. Ea ? in Went up With Wright. Mrs. Von Hildebrand, wife of Capt. Von Hildebrand, of Berlin, wont up with Orville Wright the other dav in his aoroplane. Crown da r?rinc<? Frederick anl the Crown ra| were present, and Mrs. V ?n Hllil*-- 'a ' brcrnd was loudly applauded after the ' an flight, which lasted eleven aud outhalf miautet. ahi ? LOOKS LIKE MURDER CASE OF A TOURISTS BODY POUND IX SAMP1T. ispccted Tarty, Former Barbor nt Knsomary, Has Escaped?Police Are Exercised Over the Mystery. A dispatch from Georgetown say? le mystery concerning the identity : the white man who was found jating in the Sampit River some iree weeks ago, has had some light irown upon it by a letter received y Capt. Hale, of the Clyde Steamlip Navahoe, from a Mrs. Morrison f Newark, N. J., who states that 2 an answering the description of th< ian who was found, had accompa ied herself and companion fron 'ilmington, N\ C., to Georgetown a the steamer. Her coninanion was a veteran o le civil war, a member of the crew f the Harvest Moon, of Farragut': pet, which was blown np by a tor ?do and sunk In Winyah Bay. Th< Id soldier made the trip to George >wn for the purpose of viewing th< >mains of the old ship, a portion o: hich is still above water, a monu lent to the failure of the Federa unboats to enter Georgetown har or. The party went to Georgetown jent the while the ship was in por i viewing the sights, and togethei ipected to return North, Th< ranger did not rhow tip aboarc ie steamer when she sailed, but J lan named Hiram Newman, wh< :ated that he had formerly been i arber at Rosemary, took passag< )r New York, telling the captaii hat the missing man had spen; \e previous night with him, an< ?nt word that he was not ready t< ;ave: that he would join the shi] I Wilmington. It is reported now that there wen Dme suspicious circumstances at mding the case. The neck of th rowned man was swollen abnor tally, and there were purple mark bout the throat that might denot ossible strangulation. On board th lip it was noticed that the man car ed a small wallet with money ii He was known to have had a >ast $60 upon his person. Onl; few pennies were found upon thi arson of the wronged man; there )re. it is possible that the man wa jbbed and murdered, and the bod: irown overboard. At the coroner's inquest a thor ugh examination was not made t< ) whether death occurred by drown i ? or not, fci?t the verdict was tLri ie decease 1 came to hip deith t' rowning. It is furta-T stated ! : ie captain of the steamer, Utir >ughs. that on the Wednesday nigh receding the departure of the Clvd< earner he heard loud voices am jrsing from a row boat in the river Hh sonnHc of an evident xLmereli mong the occupants. He pupposec to be a midnight revel of a boat ad of sailors, and paid no pari'.cula rtention. The satchell belonging to the miss ig man is in possession of the Clyd< ine officials. There is nothing ir to assist in the identification o le party except a memorandum boo! iscribed as follows: "From Agnei >'. Johnson. 23C Thirty-ninth street > my Uncle Albert." A prograiT f some celebration in Philadelphia as also found therein. The nam< ' the missing man was not mention 1 in Mrs. Morrison's letter. Woman Dies of Pellagra. Mrs. ltuena Dinkins died at Chartto, N. C., Monday morning of pelgra, the eighth victim of the disise since its presence was announc1 in that community. The woman as taken ill a year ago, with what emed to be diarrohea. Later erupons appeared on arms, hands, feet id ankles, then followed internal flammation and swollen toncue ie suffered no pain, but was emacied and very weak. Physicians are jnplussed. Seven other cases art jw under treatment. Mystery of Triple Crime. Although a reward has been ofred for information that shall lead the arrest of the murderer of heresa Prooepio, seven years old, id Ferdinando Infusino, aged two id one-half years, the Utica, N. Y., dice are still without a clue. Florice Infusino, sister of the little ?y, who was shot in the arm, is so ?ak that it has been Impossible question her closely. The motive r the triple crime Remains unIved. Saw Steamer on Fire. The British steamer Harlow, Capt. uce, from Newport News on June for Port Natal and Manila, reports at on July 7, while 180 miles from irban, she passed a steamer afire, ie vessel whose name it was imssible to make out. was shortly terward destroyed by an explo>n. It is supposed that this steamwas the missing British steamer aratah. which with 300 persons on ard has not been heard from 6ince ly 26. T\am f U rtf Utrkftn IT aui i/i ai ui Bishop Seth Ward, of the M''fhist Episocpa] Church, South, died Tokia. Japan, on Monday. The shop was on a tour of inspe:ti-?n the missions of his church in the ist. He was taken sick at. Kooe August. Bishop Ward is a na> e of Texas, ahd was an able mau. Fatal Fight In a row at Williamston -a few ys ago Frank Young hit Hub'Dun11 in the head with a brirk. Ak result. Duncan's skull is fractured d it is possible that lie will die. ung was arrested at WilJJmston out to leave oa a train, w ^ JEFFERSON DAVIS ( A JUST TRIBUTE PAID HIM BY A NORTHERN PAPER. Comment ou the New Haven Regis1 ter's Generous Reply to Tlio News J und Courier's Challenge. 1 A short time ago it was announc- ^ ( ed that the State of Mississippi was , preparing to present a statute of JeTt ferson Davis to the Statuary Hall in I Washington as one of the great Mississippians entitled to a place in that | Temple of Fame, says the New Or; leans States. Some of the news papers of the South, however, ex- < 1 pressed the opinion that this step 1 , should come from Kentucky, the ' native State of both Jefferson and 1 f Abraham Lincoln, which, it was said, ' r contemplated presenting together I > the statutes of her two most illus- ' - trious sons. In commenting on the i i project to give thi? President of the - Southern Confederacy a place in Stat3 uary Hall. The Charleston News and i f Courier took occasion to express sur- ' - prise at the silence of the Rochester, 1 N. Y., Democrat and Chronicle and - also the fact that it had failed to say something very ugly about the . . matter. t The remarks of The News and r Courier were in the nature of a chal ? lenge, which has been accepted by 1 tVia Vow Uavpn Rprristpr with the ? declaration that there is something > to say about Jefferson Davis and his ? admission to the National Temple ? of Fame, and it should be said. )t i is high time, the Re?ist?.r asserts, t that "the mist which for half a cer.1 tury has distorted the North's view i of this son of the South should be ? beared away," and that the man who in his day suffered more than *ny e other Southerner for the cause in - which he believed, should "cease to e be reckoned a coward and a traitor - and esteemed for what he was?a s brave, true Southern gentleman." e To this statement the New Haven e Register adds the following eloquent - tribute to Mr. Davis: ^ "But the South will never cease t to admire and honor the man of f iron nerve, of dauntless courage, of 5 ceaseless loyalty, of unsullied honor, - of tireless energy, of peerless chiv5 airy, who suffered and dared and F all but died for the cause he loved and lost. Of that host of true men - who gave their best and their all s for the Confederacy because in their - deepest hearts they believed they f were UlJIUg llglll, nunc Iiric 1U?|? sincere than ho. Of that multitude who lined up for the struggle against - their brothers of the North, none f was braver and none was nobler, e His sacrifice was as extreme as it 1 waa sincere, and his treatment by . the victors after the crash came was p sore medicine for a heart that was 1 breaking. "It is a century and a year since i" Jeffer*on Davis w-as born. It 'is near to half a century since his cause - was lost. It is twenty years since a his death. What better time could 1 there be to signify, by the placing f of his statute in the Nation's Capitol. * that in the blood of brothers shed * the Union is forever cemented on . a foundation that standeth sure. 1 There let his presentment stand, 1 erect, noble, commanding, impres? give, as he stood in the -days when * he was master of the destinies of. ' half a nation. Let it there remind the South that it was mistaken and the North that It misunderstood. Let - it picture a martyr to a cause thai i - though lost, was not wholly in vain, uinon If ?3ncht hrnthprs to annfecl- i ate a relationship they were in dangi er of forgetting." Twenty-five years ago it would . have been dangerous for a New t England newrpaper to pay such a I tribute to the memory of the great , martyr of the Lost Cause, and it indicates what tremendous strides ? have been taken toward a complete! ly reunited country in little more than a couple of decades. We are in perfect agreement with the statement of The News and Courier that "nothing finer than that has been ione on either side of the old line , of sectional feeling and sectional distrust." It will be vastly pleasing to the people of the South, because it was so unexpected and so magnificently generous and patriotic. But there is a lesson to be learned from the tribute, and that is the honesthearted people of New England are tonay appreciating me nooie cuaicti;- i ter and great worth of Jefferson da- 1 vis, and they have the manly cour- ( age to do him the justice which h<is i been so long denied him by those 1 who possess neither the sense of rig'u* 1 nor the sense of Justice. i MACON MERCHANT MURDERED, r c Blood-Stained Room of Aged Man ^ Telia of Struggle. a c At Macon. Ga., Nicholas Carshell. j an agsd Italian merchant, was dls- t covered by officers Sunday morning njorfally wounded in a little room in the rear of his 4th street establishment. A bloody hatchet and a blood-spattered floor and walls told a story of an awful struggle. The ,, old man was frightfully wounded about the head and arras. He was hlng on the floor unconscious. The disorder of the room bore evidence that the room had been ransacked, and officers are Of the opinion that robbery followed the assault. Overwhelmed by Tidal Ware. Fort of Mulege. on the east coast of Lower California, was overwhelmed by a tidal wave on September 4. There were several fatalities. Con-1 siderable property was destroyed. . The tidal wave flooded the inland j ( districts for a distance of about two , jb* ... I 3VENBK SCARE' aonch With Pleasure Party Breaks Down and Day and Night S SPENT ON THE WATER. The Steamer Ethel Went to the Res( cue, and the Party of Twenty, Mostly Women and Children, Are Safely Landed, Quieting the Fears | of Relatives and Friends. The arrival of a launch in tow of the 6teamer Ethel at the custom house pier in Charleston Monday with a party of twenty people, mostly ladies and children, ended the tear9 of a number of relatives and friend* of the occupants of the boat who had left Charleston Sunday morning on a pleasure trip about the harbor, had been lost in the bad weather of Sunday afternoon and night. The following account of the trip is taken from the Charleston Eveaing Post: The launch was In charge of Capt. M. S. Sullivan, and Lieut, of Police John Steencken was the orgaaizer of the party on the trip. The occupants of the cutter launch were as glad to tic up at the wharf as were their relatives and friends who had grown fearful and anxious for their safety. Once the Ethel had made past the tow line Monday morning to the launch, stuck in the marsh of Morris Island, the occupants of the boat felt better and saw that it was only a matter of time when they would be safely landed, but still having been out all night without food and water, tired and sick, without having slept and wtih the nerves of the women badly strained by the adventures of the night, only the actual docking of the launch satisfied the majority of the party and the sigh of relief could almost be heard for a block when the party alighted on the pier. Leaving the custom house wharf Sunday morning about 10 o'clock it was the intention of the party to spend the day in a picnic on the waters of the harbor, returning during the afternoon hours. The trip had passed enjoyable, although the water was a little rough. During the afternoon, however, the wind freshened and the water became choppy, the rain set in and every indication was given of worse conditions to (follow. Capt. Sullivan saw that he must beat It to the channel and the boat was turned from the sound between Morris Island and lames Island for Coming's Point. The weather thickened and to add to the troubles, Capt. Sullivan found that one of the pistons was out of order, and he had to work along with the other. It was not long before both were in trouble, and Capt. Sullivan found himself in the onen sea which was running high, with th? boat showing a tendency to drift upon the walls of the channel and perhaps go to pieces. The anchor was dropped for a time, and Capt. Sullivan endeavored to repair the trouble. He thought that he had it corrected, and when he attempted to run the machinery, be found that it was still disabled. The sea was running gu nigh that he could do little in his present position, and he endeavored with the use of a pole, the running of the tide and a piece of sail to get into a more favorable position for repair work. He got into a better position, and an investigation disclosed the fact that the head of one of he piftons had cracked and the letting in of water was the cause of the trouble. [Ie again tried to remedy it, the l>est that he could, and he decided to make another try for the channel, rhe anchor was not raised quick ?noueh. the boat dragged it. and before she could be stopped, the launch tvas carried into the marsh hard iground, and with the falling of the ide. the boat was left high and dry. When the tide suited Monday, the joat was hauled off and towed up ;o Charleston. The party with the execption of " ant Sullivan T.ipnt Stppnolrnpr anrl t little girl were sick. The men had ill that they could attend to i* ;rying to save the boat from loss md he women had to look out for hemselves. They had to hold on o the seats, sick as they were, for lours-, to prevent themselves being ifted out into the heavy sea, and ?apt. Sullivan declared Monday that t was the worst experience that he las ever gone through, made all the larder by the responsibility of havng the care of the women. Lieut. Steenckner had a similar ex>erience some time back in being nit with a party and having the boat :o aground, spending the night on he water, but this was a far worse ind more trying experience on acount of its perilous character, it ooked for some time as if the party vere doomed to loss. Killed by Auto. i Onfe man was fatally Injured, mother probably so and twelve othr persons, several of whom wero ' oung women, received painful in- , uries Tuesday when a large auto aobile crashed into a farm wagoD I ontaining a straw-ride party from | he Windsor Terrace Methodist j hurch. Brooklyn, at Avenue D and J )rean Parkway. Brooklyn. John M. I Andrews, the chauffeur, of Ridge- ' i'ood. died at the hospital; Charles }ook and Edward Sullivan, policeaen, were badly injured. Sand the rack track man: "Of he making of many hooks there is 10 end." When tbe lawyer in bathing has :lothes stolen would you say he is ion-suited? SMALL COTTON CROi 3IVE8 THE FARMER A CH/1 FOR (JOOI) TROFITS. VV. D. Thompson, Pres. of the Orleans Cotton Exchange, cusses tlie Outlook Intcrestii Mr. VV. B. Thompson, pres of the New Orleans Cotton Exch has sent out a most interestin, ter on the cotton outlook. He the record of the 1909 crop wil stitute an important chapter ii ton history. A moderate croi tainly, a dangerously short crop ably, and a wholly inadequate possibly, is coming to meet a de which could be satisfied only 1 greatest crop that was ever g This conjunction of an overwhe need with insufficient supplie fraught with tremendous pos ties for profit or loss of pro the producer and of menace t cotton industry. Whether the issue from this shall be fortunate or unforti whether the producer shall r his rightful profit, or shall f use or misuse his present a tage, and whether the spinnii dustry shall go through this y< shortage with the minimum i convenience or the mnximi demoralization, will depend upc important particular, namely distribution of the crop, wit producer and those who helj abides the power to regulate tt trlbution and to shape the i It is a large advantage thu sessed and a grave re?pons thus entailed. If the power I ployed unwisely, or wasted In modic efforts to "squeeze" th< ?rs no to a predetermined pric only will the producor fall to i the maximum of the present h but be will help to cripple the ufacturing industry and curt? capacity for future consumpti If the power is left unusec the producer, dazzled hy the p unexpectedly high prices, rush rotton to market, he will inaui a movement which sunsequen duce can not arrest, and w neat the time-old mistakes o Ing the bulk of his crop at th< when the price Is at the low the year. If the power is env wisely, the producer will dist the supply of cotton as evei nofsihle over the year, and thi: lize for his entire crop the n price that, an eager demand ca and at the same time keep tl mand presently active and kei future supplier. In other and more fruitful when the yield has been gres ithe demand .relatively email farmer has been compelled to for his crop whatever he coul even though the freturn wai than the cost of production, he complained at his lot, h been reminded by opulent pi nhers, that price is regulated 1 law of supply and demand, an if he made more cotton thai needed, he must bear the b In this suggestion there is Rut a good rule must work ways. The law of supply and d< must be permitted to work f< farmer as well as against hit he has to accept a low price he makes too much, he shou celve a correspondingly high a'hnn hp ninVps too little. consumer profits by over-prod the farmer should profit by iemand. There is no divine ri the consumer to always mak profit, nnr is there any justice apparently spncrally entertain' pertation that the producer mi ways sustain the loss. If it should so fall out th; spinner has 'to pay fpr th< material a price eo high thf soasou will be unprofitable, it be regretted, hut the misforti no greater than that of the f who has to sell for the cost o duction. If such loss is to b tained this year it should no upon the farmer; nor will it i if he will but exercise the sami dence in selling his crop that h in buying his clothes. He bu; clothes when he needs them ai the price; he should sell his i when the other man needs it has the price. Efforts have been made t vance prices by covenants to hold cotton from the market an agreed figure should be rei These efforts have not been su ful, although they have had t: feet at time of restricting offi and to some extent relievini pressure. But there are in this two fundamental defects. Tin is, that it can not be fully a plished, and the second Is, tl it could be fully accomplish* would automatically defeat Its purpose. The farmer ran not hold a cotton from the s'art; but rould and prices were forced t stipulated figure, at that ir there would be such an aval of ontton for sale, that the rei would be ai swift as th^ advanc tedious. Hiir mere is a wa which the desired result may 1 It was in this very< from Birmingham, i died of Fever. They son's Tonic cured th The two physicians here had 3 ver were ItaUans and lived on a creel months standing, their temperature thing In vain. I persuaded them tc ed matter and let the medicine go oi feet tn all three caitea was immedtat< I was no recurrence oi the Fever. | Write to THE JOHNSON'S C P Southern States ? #BUT FROM Machinery ! am ii ?ni Plumblnfl ! New am DJs. COLUMBI ' ' . 'tM/ complished. There is a system of i :ident marketing the crop which is not ' ange, only feasible, but which would ac- ~ g ]et_ complish its equitable purpose un- F< , gayg erringly and without fail. 1 con- By this system of marketing, the i cot_ law of supply and demand would, ) cer- ln unhampered operation, fix the ? prob- Prlce- The spinner would pay, and B crop? the farmer would receive, the natsmand ural va,ue of the cr?P- 11 *s ??od y the not only for this year- hut for all rown year8- Plans based upon general 5 Iming aSreements have failed because, in ,s -s the first place, it has not been pos- \\ sibili- sluit; 1-0 srcuic me cuutnimii, VJI ail tQ planters, and, in the second place, o the l,ecaU8e self-interests placed a preI niium upon the breaking of the crisis aSreer"e?t. The plan in view is not _ unate dependent upon covenant or agree- p ealize menti ^ut ls self-executory, the mainail to spring of its operation being selftdvan lnterestin-1 will profit the men who use it, ear of even though otters do not use it. of in- simple, but effective, and is this: _ Let the producer of cotton market t lrD i j. c , 1 one per 0 ? crop e month the for tcu months- Aa instant of reh the ^ect'on convince any thoughtful ) him ,man, luai wneiner me uiuij ?u mar- i (p keted be large or small, and whether result a hundred planters or a hundred s "cos- thousand employ the method,' the juii* . result will be better than if the crop ibility was sold at once, or toe attempt made ^spas- t0 a'l- If P'an i0 &??d ? buv- for one Planter- 11 19 ??0(i for a11- \ e not d>d if a"' or aBy great number -ealize P'anlers adopt It, the problem eneflt ?* marlietinS the crop is solved. man] But it will be objected to by some U jts that the farmers' needs are too pressI ' ing and that he cannot meet his ob1 and ,igatl?n by selling ten per cent of resent his crop ,n September, ten per cent es his October and ?0 on* Alone and .p unaided he can come nearer doing t Dro- th'3 now than he cou,d heretofore, " ill re- because has made this crop on r fle]1 a more economical basis than ever ; tjme before and owes less. After this est of year wil1 130 easier because nloved he ^as h'mse" largely made his rjb'ute stapIe supplies for another year and ily as because *n *he n-ear future he will ea_jhave a great central public ware. . house in which ho will be able t? c lgnesn , - . n Dav ' ^orrow money at a very low rate of 1 be de- Intere9t en for But even noV farraer iB not 1 alone in the fight. Every banker li vears and mprc^ant and landowner In the it and South is, or should be, with him. c I (the tlie cotton cr?P C0llld be market- a accept ed evenIy through ten months, in- s d get stead unevenly in three or four, 5 lets ^ank stocks would enhance in value, When the nierchants business would ex- . e has pan(* and become more profitable; tiiloso- 'ands wo,1ld yield more in rental ^ bv thp and *n sales> an(* the South would j d that rece,ve each year the addition of f ? manv millions of dollars to its ? W3S wealth a urden. weaun- v tlb0th DAX<2ERS OF WESTERN CORN. 1 f amand Its Use May be the Cause of Pella- ir the ? jf gra in the South. ld^e" Aususta Hera,<* very wisely a price 3Ums up matter ?f Western corn J If the anii *ts results as a food for man ? uctlon and beast. The Herald says it is a oyer- no^ jn corn tbat longer lurks, but, .] e in Western corn. The reason for ^ e the in the ^is is clear. Western corn does E>d ex- not fully mature before the season jst al- ends. Frost falls upon it. before ^ the kernels are hardened and the ,, >' the cob Is dry. t ' In thin condition it is gathered q ' and boused or stacked. It then goes through a process of fermentation 1 e E which produces the chemical chang- f armer * Li ^ ro es that convert a healthy food for c pro" man or bea.st into a subtle poison. P S11Rt fajj Fed to horses it gives them blind f( fall sfaSRHrs anc* thousands of horses nd mules are killed by it every if C uses venr- J'-idieu UJ uicu it iiiuuuw ys his |,el^sra' , id ha? Fortunately a simple preventative ? cotton wl" avoi(^ a" risks in this matter, g: and ^hat is to nsp onl-v Southern grown corn either for making corn bread ^ o ad- or t0 feefi t0 the Worses. And an w wlth_ Atlanta case may show that grits until ?ronnd in the North should also be ^ iched. excluded. Let our farmers ponder n ccesp- "letter, and raise corn enough he ef- for all,our nreds. Pellagra is be- a erings coming entirely too frequent in the t< ? the South. * 5 plau b ; first Budding genius is seldom found ccom- be hind a l,!.:ss<>ming nose. ltim-iUilat if ',<>r this, >>o/s. vi ?d, it - - The American AJI-Wrought Xlip Pj ii Split St?'??? Pulleys. ' "I? ' I 11,0 ^ y by KTAM>AKJ? l?KK|(}> ^OU te ac:ottage in Brookside, 15 miles lia fhflf threA Italians nearly had been sick 3 months. Johnem quickly?read letter hefow: Brookside, Ala., May 4.190CI y obstinate eases of continued Malarial Kercr. All i 50 yards from ray store. These cases were of throe ranging from 100 to 104. The doctors had tried every> let me try Johnson's Tonic. I removed all the prlntjt in a plain bottle as a regular prescription. Iheef3 and permanent. Tliey recovered rapidly und there S. R. SH1KLETT. HILL A FEVER TONIC CO., Savannah, Ca. Supply Company , dA Supplies IM liimrn iiirifcfili'iW I A. S. o. CLASSIFIED COLUMN i>r Sale, cheap?One 31-2 h. p. Erie Motor Cycle, 1909 model. For particulars write B No. 1, R. F. D. No. 6, Honea Path, S. C. per Tablets, Malt and Hops?Ona makes a pint of sparkling tonic beer, 25 for 25c. William A. Goldsmith, Grand Crossing, Chicago. 'anted?Men, women, boys and girls if you are not making a good salary write us at once. We will put you to work. C. C. Laundry, Columbia, S. 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The frugal and ecolomio housewife can now purchase his household necessity at $2,000.00 an ounce. J ne newspaper reporter may eally be looking for a good story to ake Lome to his wife as au ex use. Sometimes it is the strapping big ellows who get strapped. The "young blade" of a fellow } not always sharp enough to make utting remarks. In her outfit the average summer irl likes to have a manly looking uitor two. The Whirling Dervish doesn't ave to have his wheel when he rants to go out for a little spin. The baker says when a man is rell bred you can tell when he was aised right. Speaking of table manners, it it lways considered tne proper iumg ) turn the tables? Even the true tenor may be a ase deceiver. Easy money is the hardest to keop. It is all right to be selfish with 5i'r troubles. ailey That AH Want. CARRY A LARGE STOCK. a large stock of Wood Pulleva ^ancriTs ftplf-.mc and anvlhint? eta wish iu this line. When you are ket, write us JM3IA SUPPLY COMPANY. Columbia. S.