Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Hi Mi mm ? Published W??kly ABBEVILLE. 6. C. It Is almost time tor the summei sbirtwaisL Tbe annual slaughter of the aviators appears to have begun. The switching off ol blizzards may yet become a piece of high art In tbe wild wesL The sociologist who estimates that the value of a baby Is I2.SU0 clearly never bad a baby. The destruction of tbe peach crop will fakft rilacA next July and many will have a hand In It China's republic Is going through many of the troubles that come to every new-born babe. About once a year the Ohio river proceeds to show that It could float the navies of the world. When one prices handbags he be gins to think a Florida alligator farm would be a good Investment. A Washington woman says hex clothes cost her $49,930 a year. Evl movl/oH dnajn from S50.000. WWiVIJ UiUi BVU Someuody has written a poem about j "The Little Sod Shanty." The little sod shanty Is very poetic?In a poem. ; An f.stronomer tells us that a year on Mars has 730 days, but possibly \ Mars Is married and the year only feels that long. , If there is one thing more than any- ' thing else that kills poetic fancy, it is to Fee a motorcycle plugging along the countryside.' Massachusetts proposes to Impose a tax on bachelors, and some of the bachelors In that state claim the free- I com is wortn it. A Missouri girl wants $2,000 for sev- I en kisses. This Is a case where the j law of supply and demand doesn't ap- I ply In any sense. A Philadelphia official suggests that I all married men be compelled to wear j ' / a label. How would a string, tied I on the linger, doT A European physician Bays he can graft hair on a bald head, but It is better and cheaper to conserve our natural resources. Now It Is learned tnat ttie Kgyp tlans "knew all about" appendicitis 7,009 years ago, and they went light at it with incantations. A dozen young women In a Pennsyl vania town have organized a non swearing club. This is a good Idea IT it's absolutely necessary. "Millions for defense, but not 1 cent lor tribute." American women are protesting against the importation of styles from that dear Paris. While a trial was In progress at Portland, Oregon, one attorney hurled an ink well at another. A strong argument for the fountain pen. A San Francisco woman wants a divorce because her husband talks too j much. Id California the women are ! od an equal tooting .with the men. gp * - A woman physician is telling her sex that big feet mean big brains. But then the average woman doesn't par* tlcularly wish to look intellectual. A Camden, N. J., girl has been sent to jail for 90 days for kicking a police man on the chin, thus furnishing an other argument for tall policemen. Pennsylvania is to build a new peni tentiary with the labor of convicts. That 6eems like adding insult to In jury. i Justices of the peace can no longer perform the marriage service in New Jersey and the clergy are reaping a harvest. A new malady Is attacking the treas- I ur.v clerks who count money In Wash- ! lngton. It will not, however, become epidemic. The day of Bhingles la passing and that of slate, tile or metal is coming. A roof which Are cannot ignite is want ed in all towns. r 1 A California woman who marries an alien loses her right to vote. Cali fornia girls are becoming cautious as well as alert. Not all the violets on the street are real?not all the roses abloom in fair faces are genuine. Tnus the work of Improving on nature moves merrily on. , There are no more poles to be found, and the scientific explorer can now give his undivided attention to the fourth dimension. There were no poles discovered In our early youth, but It gladdens us to reflect that the kids of today nave more geography to study than we did. Now that kisses are being printed on post cards, the government prob ably will have to rescind its order barring the asbestos kind Irom the . malls. Our citizens will be too busy swat ting presidential booms this summer lo pay much attention to the house 1 fly. Massachusetts women are to fight bachelors who aspire to office?that Is. 1 any office other than head of a house hold. A couple have Just been married in Berlin who were engaged for thirty years. There Is much undue haste In marriages, but this seems like going to the other extreme. ROOSEVELT GIVES TAFIHI5 DELEGATES THE COLONEL RENOUNCES CLAIM TO DELEGATES ELECTED FOR HIM IN MASSACHUSETTS. LOST THE PREFERENCE VOTE Roosevelt Says the People Are En titled to Have Exactly What Their Votes Indicate. I ?? Oyster Bay, X. Y.?Colonel Roose velt renounced his claim to the eight delegates at large to the Republican national convention elected for him in Massachusetts. He wired them that he would ex pect them to vote for President Taft, taking this action, he said, because of the fact that President Taft carried the state on the presidential preferen tial vote. Colonel Roosevelt announced his decision in a statement, copies of which he telegraphed to each of the eight delegates at large elected re cently. The statement follows: "In Massachusetts the ballot con tained the names of eight candidates for delesate-at-large with, printed un der each, the words, 'pledged to vote for Theodore Roosevelt,' and also con tained a column in which the voter was to express his preference as to whether I or Mr. Taft should be nom inated as president. "It would seem unlikely that a ma jority of the voters would both vote for the delegates pledged to me and at the same time express a prefer ence for Mr. Taft, but apparently this is what has happened. "Such being the case and on the as sumption that the preferential vote is for Mr. Taft, I hereby announce that I shall expect these delegates at large to disregard the pledge to support me and support Mr. Taft; and if any one of them hesitates to do so, I shall im mediately write him and urge him with all the emphasis and insistence in my power to take the course in dicated and support Mr. Taft in the convention." LOUISIANA LEVEES BREAK Millions of Acres of Sugar Lands Sub merged as Result of Break. . New Orleans. ? Another serious break occurred in the Mississippi riv-^ er levee at Torras, La., on the west side of the swollen stream, where the flood waters from the disastrous Dog Tail crevasse find re-entry into the big river. Within two hours 300 fet of the 18-foot embankment had been carried away. A large force of workmen and material were immediately ordered to the scene by Capt. C. O. Sherill, the chief of the United States engineers, and an effort is being made^to check the crevasse by "cribbing" the ends. The territory which lies in the path of the Torras crevasse is vastly rich er than the several millions of acreB which were inundated by the Dog Tail crevasse of three weeks ago near Alsatia, La., and is more densely pop ulated. , i i Sea Will Keep Butt. Halifax, N. S.?Thirty embalmers worked in an improvised morgue pre paring for inspection of more of the K-ni/ionHfio/? HpqH in whom r.pnters fragile hope that relatives still search ing for Titanic victims may find their kin. The unidentified list still stood , at sixty when the work was resumed. Maj. Blanton Winship, IT. S. A., said that he had seen the unidentified dead and had given up hope of finding Ma- ( jor Butt's body. , Auto Robbers in Chicago. Chicago. ? Chicago policemen re ceived strict orders to watch for crim inals who utilize automobiles in their attacks. The order was inspired by an assault on Marie Gorocki, a stu dent, who was robbed of her jewelry by men who dragged her into an auto, end by the depredations of a band of three men who robbed the cashier of a banking company. Amelia Nauman, 18 years old, a domestic, says sho was pulled into an automobile, abused and robbed by three men. Taft in Savannah. Savannah, Ga.?For the second t { a >11? ? -w !-? ? t\t?aennf roof Pr/i CI _ I Uiuc UUlIll^ IIIC J K.u.1 , * i V.4J* dent Taft participated in a celebra tion of St. Patrick's day. The presi dent came to Savannah to keep an en gagement made months ago to speak at the centennial banquet of the Hi bernian society. Mr. Taft's first cel ebration was in Boston more than six weeks ago, but even The Hub failed to turn out more enthusiastic crowds than did Savannah. The president was the guest of the Hibernian soci ety and of Savannah. Will Investigate Campaign Funds. Washington.?The senate adopted the Culberson resolution calling for a full report on the contributions made to the national committees of all parties in the presidential and congressional campaigns of 1904 and 3 908. The inquiry is entrusted to the committee on privileges and elections, which is instructed to supply the sen ate with full information as to the amounts, as well as to give the names of contributors. Bogus Bills in South. Washington.?Two extremely decep tive counterfeit $10 and $20 gold cer tificates have been discovered by the secret service. They are being cir culated in the Southern states. The number of all the $10 notes so far seen is B121784D4, while that of the $20 certificate is D468527. Beef Price Sets New High Record. New York.?""he wholesale price of beef advanced here a cent a pound to a higher record than any year since 1881. II MIm Regina Rambo has been ap pointed aa sponsor for the south dur ing the reunion of the United Confed erate Veteran* May 7 at Macon, Qa. Miss Rambo Is known as one of the most beautiful women In Georgia. She is a daring equestrienne, In addition to driving her own motor car. RATIONS ARE ? 85,000 GOVERNMENT IS FEEDING EVERY ONE IN THE FLOODED DIS TRICT OF THE DELTA. Thousands Have Been Made Home less by Breaking of Levees Along Mississippi. New Orleans, La.?All high water records for the Torras district were broken there, according to reports re ceived from that district. The Red river landing gauge registered 50.6 feet, four-tenths above the record. A rise of sixteen inches in 48 hours was reported at Fish Pond, 32 miles north of Torras. No new weak places were reported in the Torras levees. Hundreds have been made home less in the northeastern portion of Avoyelles parish by the overflow, as a large portion of that parish is un protected by leveee and the great vol ume of crevasse waters poured out by Black river is sweeping across Red river, driving the inhabitants to high er ground. \ There are 85,000 persons getting government rations in the Vicksburg section. The steamer Alice B. Miller left Vicksburg for the Sunflower riv er, with 100,000 rations and four car loads of hay and grain for live stock. Other vessels will leave W'ith provis ions and supplies for outlying sections under water. A corps of Red Cross nurses was sent to Milliken's Bend and Wilton from Vicksburg. The United States army officers of the subsistence department have es tablished headquarters of the fifth re lief district at Baton Rouge. ZIONITES WERE MOBBED Serious Riot Breaks Out in Zion City, .. Illinois. Zion City, 111.?Rioting started here when employees of independent man ufacturing concerns attacked a group of two hundred Zion men and women at a prayer meeting. Both men and women were beaten with clubs and blackjacks, and a number were seri ously injured. The fight came as the climax of a week of trouble between employees of the independent concerns which re cently began operations here and the church people, formerly followers of John Alexander Dowie. As a protest against the use of to bacco by the employees of the manu facturing companies, followers of Wil bur Glenn Voliva, successor to Dowie, have been holding prayer meetings in front of one of the plants twice each day. Elder I. M. Royal " had just called eonnnd TrKseHnz. when several score of men rushed out of the plant, torn down or leaped over barriers which had been erected around the prayer platform and drove the Zion ists from that part of town. Surgery by Wireless. New Orleans.?Surgery by wireless Is the innovation under discussion in local medical circles. It was learned that a laborer at Swan Island, a Unit ed Fruit company wireless station on a lonely gulf island, sustained a crushed foot in a recent tram car accident. The Swan Island operator communicated with the surgeon of one of the company's ships. 420 miles away. The operation of amputating the toes, tying the arteries and dress ing the foot was directed by wireless in detail. Trying to Dissolve Harvester Trust. Washington.?A civil anti-trust suit aiming at the dissolution of the In ternational Harvester company will be filed in St. Paul. Attorney General Wickersham and counsel for the cor poration have tried to agree upon a plan of distintegration which would meet the ends of the law. Their en deavors were futile. The one insuper erable obstacle was the refusal of the Harvester company to separate the McCormick and Peering Harvest ing Machine companies. Butt Memorial at Sewanee. Sewanee, Tenn.?Memorial services for the late Maj. Archibald Butt were hoi,i in the university chapel here. Major Butt was an alumnus of the university, and, together with Mr. Taft, was a guest here only a few months ago. Major Butt's fraternity, the Delta Tau Delta, has instituted a movement to place a tablet in the university chapel to the memory of the officer who conducted' himself with such gallantry. Special resolu tions were adopted. CABLE VESSEL ARRIVED IN PORT WITH THE BODIES OF Tl TANIC VICTIMS. SOMEBODIES BURIED AT SEA Mackay-Bennett Brought One Hun dred and Ninety Bodies Into Halifax. Halifax, Nova Scotia.?The cable ship Mackay-Bennett, which came with 190 of the White Star liner Ti tani's dead into Halifax, first cast gloom over the city by her mere presr ence as a funeral ship, then sent a shock through those waiting here fo: bodies with the announcement of her commander-in-chief that fifty-seven of those reported by wireless as identi fied had of necessity been cast again intn the sea. Yec none, not even the few here whose friends or relatives had thus been recommitted to the Atlantic, ex pressed any criticism of Captain Lam der's action, believing him sincere in his explanation that lack of space on board, shortage of embalming mate rial and tW mutilation of bodies was solely responsible for his course. That there was no favoritism in the reburial; that the bodies of prom inent persons were riot kept aboard to the exclusion of the more humble/is indicated by the White Star line's an nouncement that among the bodies sunk again was that of George W. Widener, the Philadelphia capitalist. A majority of those cast again into the sea were members of the Titan* ic's crew and second and third class passengers. Perhaps never was an occasion so fraught with gruesome aspects, mark ing a closing chapter in the greatest sea disaster in history, attended with ? dilAnrtfl on/1 lonlr ftf mure icdjjcv/hui oncuot ?uu i?vn w? morbid curiosity than was the dock ing of the Mackay-Bennett. Not half a dozen of those actually concerned visited the pier proper, and the gen eral* public contributed not more than 200. They stood in silence overlook ing the terrace in the navy dock yard 300 yards away. They' could see nothing but the upper structure of the Mackay-Bennett, tents housing the coffins and a canvas lane under which the dead were being carried Nicholas Biddle ol Philadelphia, who accompanied Vincent Astor here in a private car, went alone to identi fy the body of Colonel Astor, and it was the first prepared for removal to New York. The body of Isidor Straus a few mo ments later was turned over to Mau rice Rothschild of New York and in quick succession, with little or no ceremony, the bodies of Frank D. Millett, the artist; H. J. Allison of Montreal and many others were giv en in charge of friends. There are only five women's bodies among the unidentified, and as one of these appears to be that of a Swe dish woman and the other four those of Italians, there is little hope appar ent of recovering the body of Mrs. Isidor Straus, who stayed by the ship with her husband. One little child, a baby girl of about two years, lies among the un claimed, nameless, and without a sug gestion of who her parents were or are. Of all the bodies picked up, here was the only one that the waves bore without the aid of a life belt. She was found floating serenely, looking very much like a big doll. Despite predictions to the contrary, nearly all of the bodies bore indica tions that the victims had died swiftly if not almost painlessly. In many cases their features were calm and, with the exception of those who had been severely injured, they were re markably free from the stamp of hor ror or suffering. All were in a re makable state of preservation. Samuel Wallach, who inspected part of the unidentified, said that he had but faint hope of finding the body of his brother-in-law, Henry B. Harris, the theatrical man. Cash found in the clothing of the victims amounted approximately to $13,000. Jewelry worth perhaps a great deal more, but which it is im possible to appraise now, also was recovered. No Dividends by Steel Trust. New York.?That the United States Steel corporation failed to earn its dividends on the preferred and com mon shares for the first three months of this year by more than $6,000 was disclosed at the regular quarterly meeting of the directors. Earnings, af ter charging interest on subsidiary companies' bonds, together with in terest on outstanding subsidiary bonds, amounted to only {17.826,978. After making the usual allowance for fixed charges, net earnings were reduced to $12,108,415. Publicity Asked of Newspapers. Washington.?The perfected postof fice appropriation bill, as agreed upon, contained several new features of leg is)ation advocated by the Democrats. The bill contains a provision which would compel newspapers, magazines and other periodicals to publish the names 0/ their managing editors and stockholders who own stock valued at more than $30. The Barnhart bill also provides that all editorial or reading matter paid for must be labeled "ad vertisement." 140 Drown When Ship Sinks. Smyrna.?The steamer Texas, be longing to the Archipelago-American Steamship company, struck a mine at the entrance to the Gulf of Smyrna and sank. One hundred and forty persons on board were drowned. The Texas was flying the Turkish flag and was engaged in carrying mails from Constantoinople to the Levant. The entrance to the gulf was mined by Turkish authorities to protect t^e port against an attack by th<* Italian | fleet. J f Mr. Carpenter la the manager of Colonel Roosevelt's New York polit ical headquarters. He is a New York lawyer who served under Roosevelt in the past. He was an assistant to George B. Cortelyou In the campaign of 1904. AUTO BANDITS IE KILLED I FRENCH POLICE AND MILITIA USED TO CONQUER MEN WH6 TERRORIZED STATE. The Motor Car Terrors Baricadeo Themselves in Garage and De fied Police and Soldiers. Paris, France.?Bonnot, leader of an organized gang of automobile bandits, who have been terrorizing Paris and the surrounding district for months past, and Dubois, a notorious Anar chist, were shot to death in the most thrilling encounter in the annnls of frencn crime. A garage at ChoIsy-le-Roi, six miles south of Parte, in which the bandits had taken refuge, was blown up by dynamite, after these two men had kept at bay for five hours#a large part of the police force of Paris, a contingent of gendarmes, two com panies of republican guards and a company of engineers. Ten thousand spectators viewed the battle from points of vantage. The engagement equaled in dra matic circumstances the encounter in January, 1911, described as "the bat tle of London," when desperadoes suspected of being the murderers of police in Hounds Ditch, were trapped in a house in the White Chapel dis trict, and went to their death battling against hundreds of London police and soldiers. Bonnot and Dubois, after wounding two policemen, took refuge in the earaee. They were trapped in the building, which was at once surround ed. Reinforcements were dispatched A battery of artillery was on the way from Versailles when a small de tachment of soldiers placed dynamite against the structure and blew out the front wall. Bonnot was captured alive. He was riddled with bullets and died on the way to the hospital. The great crowd tbsft had gathered with cries of "death to Itonnot" almost tore the bandit from the soldiers, several or whom were injured. 41 DEAD" IN STORM'S WAKE Terrific Rain and Windstorm Sweeps Over Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla. ? Approxi mately forty-one lives were lost in the storm which swept northward from Childress, Texas, into Oklaho ma and over a portion of the south western and central part of this state, according to reliable reports. There \ are reports of other fatalities, but these cannot be verified. The lists of | injured totals more than one hundred, j Fully twenty towns were embraced I in the storm-swept area. The heavy wind was accompanied ( by a terrific downpour of rain and , in many instances hail. Laborers Dig Up $1,000. Plainfleld, N. J.?It became known that two laborers employed in cutting { a street through the farm of United j States Senator Martine, known as th* Cedar Brook farm, near here, found a i tin can containing $1,000 in green- j backs. The finders were William Myers, a negro, and Pasquale Delato, J who equally divided the money be- I tween them. The money was discol- J ored with age and the can looked as though it had been buried for years. ; There was nothing to show who bur ied the money. Conference on Titanic Disaster. Washington.?An international con-! A- vno-nlo t innc tn /I i_ I rerence to wriuuiaw i>.hu,ui,u.,u lv/ . ininish the likelihood of the repeti- I tlon of the Titanic disaster was rec ommended in resolutions adopted by ! the American Society of International i Law. Senator Root was authorized to j bring to the attention of the govern ment the action of the organization ; "as to the ?reat desirability of such j an international conference and of the adoption of such rules as may be j formed to increase the safety of trav- I el by sea." Woman'9 Tribute to Heroic Mankind. Washington. ? Mrs. Williams H. Taft has given the first dollar to a woman's Titanic memorial, which it is proposed shall be erected in Wash ington to commemorate all who went down with the ship. A committee of 100 women from all states has been named and no contributions will be accepted from men. It is planned to reach the 28,000 women's clubs with an appeal j.for the memorial. It Js planned to make It "woman's tribute to heroic mankind." COTTON SEED HEAL IN PLAGE OF CORN ! ? MAY BE FED TO HOKSES AND ' MUII.BS UP TO TWO OF? THREE POUNDS A DAY., ' AN KXA'ERT OPINION GIVEN ? > ' A Letter Wat Sent Out by Animal HuUbandity' of Clem6oni College Ex plaining What a Saving It Would be to the Farn%er?. "There is no danger in feeding cot ton seed meal to mules ajid horses up to two. or thisee pounds |per day." This statement whk\h is of tgreat in1 tere$t to the fardeefrs of t\ie state is contained in a letter from the de partment of animal husbandry of Clepson college to T; O. Mabry of Rodfe Hill., Mr. Mabrjl is professor. ' ! < vV-:??}jr' of chemistry and geology of Win thxep college. The following letter has been, sent out by Mr. Mabry: "I am enclosing copy of a letter from myself and the pjrtrfessou of animal husbandry of Clertsan College which explains themselves. "It seems to me that thi> subject matter of this correspondence is of paramount importance to ev4ry farm er in the cotton belt, not onljr at this time, when stock feed is so ^ igh, but also as opening new markets, and necessarilly enhancing permafitly the value of an important product of the cotton belt, namely cotton seid meal. "If, as Professor Archibald Smith says, one pound of cotton seod meal is equal in food value to two pounds of corn; and with corn selling here at $1.20 per bushel, cash, equivalent to $2.14 per 100 pounds; and with cot ton seed meal gelling at $1.25 per 100 pounds, it will take 2GD pounds of corn costing, $4.28, to furnish the same quantity of nutrients for horses and mules which can foe obtained from 100 pounds' of cottota seed meal, costing, $1.25. | "wny, ioea, snouia qur ouuiuai* farmers not curtail the uae of the high priced Northern cord and utilise aa far as practicable, thie cheaper, home raised cotton seed ;meal? This question will be answers satisfac torily when they are informed as to the facts. Church Was Built in One )Day. Spartanburg's Methodidt church was built between sunrise and dusk. In a handsome building at tthe corner of South Church street and Crescent Avenue, not - a stick of tfhich had been standing 14 hours btfore, 800 people worshipped while three times that many stood outside, vainly seek ing to enter. Although bufclt in a single day, El-Bethel churah is as sob ctanti&l - a structure, the carpenters agreed, as if six months bad been de voted to the job. It is a far hand somer building, according to Major 'Augustas H. Kirby, 83 years old, than the first Methodist church erected in this city, which was dedicated in 1836 and took a year to build. Efforts to Reestablish Dispensary. Efforts to have an election ordered pupon the question of reestablishing the ^dispensary in Edgefield ihave rauea. jOnly 283 naxaee were signed to the etltions. The required number un der the law, one fourth of the legal [voters of the county, would be about 1460. The wonderfully Improved con ditions under the paBt six years of {prohibition has made the anti-whiskey Sentiment in the county very strong. Two Get Executive Clemency. The governor has granted a parole to John W. Hafner, who was convict ed in York county last year on the charge of housebreaking and larceny and sentenced to two years' imprison ment A parole has been granted to Trossi Sutherland who was convicted in Anderson county in 1910 on the charge of seduction and sentenced to one year. Hookworm in Colleton County. The treatment of hookworm diset.ee in Colleton county is meeting with mo?t enoouraging success, according i to report made by Dr. F. M. Routh i ofi the first week's work in the county, : for the first five days, 322 cases were examined. Of these, 238 were found 1 to be infected, 84 not infected, which i places the percentage at about 74. i Dr. Routh is very much encouraged i * * " i!-- I ?v> 4m Kio 1 wun in? recepnon given , work in Colleton county. He expect-s i to be In the county from six to eight i weeks. 1 Some Important Developments. I From indications at this point, it looks as if the Coast Line has in 1 view some important developments on ] her Sumter-Fayettevilie branch of its < line. A contract has been let for a < new heavy steel bridge over Pee Dee < river, and larger engines have been i ordered to work on that line. It is re- i ported that a much faster and bet- < ter freight and passenger service is I to be given the people along that line. 1 It has been suggested that the coun- I ties of Florence, Marion and Dillon, i are anxious ior a Driage. A Brutal Murder Committed. I A hrutal murder was committed on the plantation of Lee Adams a few I miles from McColl. Lige Guick had 1 been living apart from his wife, Car- i rier Guick, for some time and had ' been heard to threaten her if she did . not return to him. This she refused to < do and be went to where she was ' staying antf shot her twice. The first ! time the bullet went through her i hand and while pleading with him to < desist he shot her the second time through the heart, death resulted Instantly. TELL WORLD OF CORN SHOW Special -Stamps For All Letters iLeav. ing Columbia.?Matter Was'f'alaen Up With National Postofrtce." > ' i Columbia.?Every letter leaving the Columbia postoffice during .the year will bear two stamps, postage stamp, and a special cancellation ptarnp till ing of the Fifth National Corn exposi tion to be held in Columbia duriOg . January and February of next year. This will give the corn show the wid est kind of publicity as several hun dred thousand letters are sent out from Columbia to all parts of the country each year. . Announcement was made from i Washington that Congressman Lbver had taken the matter up with the post offlce department and had perfected arrangements for the use of the stamp by George H. Hugging, postmaster. Mr. Lever was informed that the ile- .' /i partment had no objection to the uue of the Btamp, which would be of the same kind used to advertise the Pan ama-Pacific exposition at San Fran. cisco. except for the fact that the bill providing for the corn exposition haa not yet been signed by President Taft v hence has not yet become a law. That, ' .3 however, is a mere formality. According to the dispatch Mr. Lever 1 explained to the officials that the ' ' f, coming exposition is deserving of wide notice and that the federal ' government will make an exhibit and that the state agricultural colleges and experiment stations of the Uni ted States will practically all be rep resented. .Postmaster Huggins has been ad viaed of these facts and he will pre pare the stamps to be used Just aa soon as President Taft signs the bill. South' Carolina New Enterprises. A qharter was issued by the secre tary df state to the Enola Ginning Co. of En4>la, with a capital of ?4,60Q, to ' do a general ginning business. The- i officers are J. H. Sprouse, president; J. J. Collins, secretary; A. L. Kenne dy, president. A commission was is sued to> W. T. Harper Lumber Com- i, pany, with a capital of $6,000, to do ~'.j a general lumber business at Darling ton. Tibe petitioners are W. T. Har per and J. P Hennelly. A commission ' was isstfed to the Newberry county hospital, with a capital of $15,000, to' r, bi^fid a hospital. The petltipners are : Jolin M. Kinard, L. H. Hunt, W, G Houseal, George B. Cromer, J. M. Kib ler, E M. Duncan, W. E. Pelhaml Jr., C. 1\ Summer, J. B. Setzler, John B. May^es, P. D. Mower, all of Newberry. The Florence Civic Improvement sp siety of Florence, an eleemosynary m- ' % stitutifbn, has been chartered. The petitioners are Mrs. Mary ^T. Howell Mrs. Catherine Wfuncaster, Miss Louise Hoffmeiyer, Mrs. Harriet Anne Mc Cown. ? 1 Many To Attend l^atfonal Congress. Letters from well known physicians from all sections ol the United States have been received by Dr. J. W. Bab cock announcing that they will attend the National Congreas for the Study oj Pellagra tD he hold in Columbia on. October 3 and 4. This will be the second triennial meeting of the. con- 1 gleBS. Them were over 600 phyti citing to attepd the las?, congress here,' ; and this number will b{\ increased. Dr. * N. M. Moore, of August.t, Ga.( writing to :Dr. Babcock, states that Columbia is Hhe logical plage for th e conference. Letters from physicians have been re* ceiv^ad from Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennesree, Kansas and the District of Columbia. Letters have-' -J: also been received from tho surgeons onj now ar?nr?iiioc t-hat Ul' IHC aiuij auu u?fcr J ?uuwuwviM0 < thley will attend. Fayrtiers Far Behind in Their Work. lYarmers are further behind with their work than they have ever been at :fiis season of the year in a long timel But little cotton \has been plant ed a fcd comparatively liltle corn. The cond.ttion of the land iff such that It is irrtpossible to make any headway in tb e way of planting. The heavy rains "of early spring mad'w it impos sible tt> turn the soil, and now it is so hard iit places that it all tunas cloddy,: making harrowing necessary before the ground can be prepared lor plant ing- . ; Electrical Storm Does Much Damage. A tierrific electrical storm struck the Wellfidgo section of Chester county dowig damage to property and tire early mm crop. Proceedings' Tb Oust Officii Is. T'le quo warranto proceedings to test the right of the governor to make appointments wKthput the ad\vice and consent of the' senate and the recom mendation of ilhe county delegations were argued before the supreme court by Attorney General Lyon represent ing the state o.l South Carolina and several attornejls defending the va rious officials. 'The proceedings were brought by Attorney General Lyon several weeks aito. The petition ire luested that the officials named by the governor be 'Dusted from office. Charged With Atrpciouis Murder. From out of the -vttilds of Green ville county's notorious "Dark Cor aer," long the piradise of moonshin jrs find tne Dauiegroun? u?i?ccu m ?nue officers and the fiercer mountain chieftains. Coroner Blon se returned several days ago bringing with him :wo prisoners and news of an atro cious murder they are charged with laving committed ten dayi; ago, but ivhicb was discovered wheii the vic tim'} body was pulled from beneath i rock overhanging a ^mountain stream. Locomotive Goes Through Wal'l. ? Some person or persons, whoqe iden tity is unknown, evidently btint on mischief, forced an entrance inUo the round house of the Blue Ridg*1 rail way situated on the railnoad yards at Anderson and threw open the throt tle of one of the "mogtlls." Because the switch leading out on the main line was thrown It is pnesumed \fhat the person intended to rttn the engine out of the round house on the muin line. The engine wa sraversed, atud instead of going forward, it plungtd backward smashing into the walL t