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YQL. 72. i :?tANT?R#;5 V LOAN AND : ! SAVINGS -RANK, ! \ Augusto, Ga.. ! ! KTESCTTECE?! OTES Sf.OOO.OOO : ! i ri 11 ii i m 11111111111118 EDGEFIELD, S. a, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1907. {THE NATIONAL BANK ? # AUGUSTA, GA- g L. a HAYNE, President FRANK G. FORD, Oashfcr.. Z CAPITAL..4250,000 Surplus and Profits. 150,000 We Aili ba Blessed to hare yan op? ma mot with thu Bank. Conan??mud ootnapem?nm mm- ?> ?ored of erery coartes? ud MCOfiiradii ' ble na dor c-in^rruiTe, modern BaaklAj; **H-?*?M i j 111111111 im-. - ? NO. 29, Veterans of the Lo: Entertained in Ri OLD HAPPY Governor Swansea and. Mayor Mc Carthy Welcome the . Veterans to the State and Richmond, Both Be fog Received v?th Enthusiastic Ap plarasef- Old Soldiers Bise to Their ' Peet bud Greet' General Lee With the Utmost Enthusiasm. Riehmond, Va., Special.-With the largest ?number of Confederate vet erans gathered,, together since the war, and the vast horse show building, in which^t?i?"convention was keid, beau tiful with flags and bunting and por traits of the leaders af the Confeder acy, the twelfth annual reunion of the Confederate veterans began here under the most auspicious conditions. General Bolling introduced Rev. J. William Jones, chaplain general of the grand camp,-who presented Rev. Dr. J. R. Gravatt, of this'city, and the latter offered the opening prayer. Governor Swanson of Virginia, mid. the wildest enthusiasm, wel v corned the veterans' to the Old. Do minion. Mayor McCarthy, of Richmond, welcomed the visitors to the ci*y which 45 years ago they defended against thc armies of Burnside, Pope, McClellan, Sheridan and Grant. B. B. Morgan, of the local camp Sons of Veterans, added the welcome of those he represents to the wel comes, which already had been ex pressed. General Bolling introduced the com mander-in-chief of the Confederate veterans. Gen. Stephen D. Lc :, and the old soldiers rose to their feet and received him- with the utmost enthus iasm. General Lee assumed, the gavel of the presiding officer and delivered his annual address. - He said among other things, that the coming of a Confederate veteran .fo Richmond was like the return of a long-absent child to its mother-that Richmond is tq the Confederacy what ' Calais was to that Freneh Prince, who compelled to live in England, said : "When I die, you will find en graved on my heart the one word 'Calais.' " At noon-the first cession of theoe uniorr adjourned for the veterans tq . take part in the unveiling oi^the mony started at 2 p. jn. and was .a brilliant pageant. The .Weather Jvi^ beautiful, and tho- display was wit nessed;,by., ar vast concourse, estimated to number -75,000 to -80,000. - The people were packed along the whole-course of the parade,- a dis tance of about two miles, on the side walks, on the porches and in . the windows of the buildings on Tbolh sides, of the street. The - whole number in line and on the sidewalks is estimated at from 125,000 to 150,000. There; are about 10,000 actual veterans in the city. Of sons of veterans and other aux iliary bodies, military and so on, there are about 20,000 and in addi tion to these, there are about 20,000 visitors drawn hither by the reunion ceremonies. Monument Unveiled. .The grand serenade at 2 p. m. at the unveiling ceremonies at the Stuart {monument were all that could be desired, both from a scenic view and the: elegant mariner of its being carried-out. Veterans Stirred By Col. Lee. Richmond, Va., Special.-In his speech, which- aroused the Confeder? ate veterans' convention and which proved to ' be the leading feature of the reunion vi:hus far, Col. "Bob5 Lee said in part: " There never has been a more critical period of American history than that which ushered "the year lp60 upon , the world's stage of'act ion. The trouble was of recent or igin, it was not the spasmodic out burst of an hour, nor the stubborn and senseless resistance of a factious maintenance of groundless opinions, but was the result of the existence of antagonizing forces operating for a long time in the country, the seeds being first sown by the forefathers, some in the fertile valley of the James, and some fell down on the rock-bound coast of New England. Sectional differences exhibited them-> Bush Acquitted at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Fred Bush, charged with assault with intent io <H>mmit murder, was acquitted. Bush was charged with sending an infer nal machine to the home of Mrs. Julia MeCarthj-, on May 8th, the opening of which seriously injured Mrs.; McCarthy and wreceked her home and the store over which the lived. Murder iii the First Degree. Roanoke, Va., Special.-At Abing ton, Va., the jury in the case of -Noah Fulton, charged with killing John Johnson near that place ' last month, brought in a verdiet of mur der in the first degree. Sentence was not passed. Counsel gave notice of | a motion for a new trial. The men quarreled in West Virginia and after returning to their homes in Virginia renewed,-the quarrel which resulted in the killi ig'. st Cause Splendidly edmond, Virginia V* *-. i , v . selves long -be?erV the adpotion of the Federal constitution. "For"-the puTpose-ofrthis occasion we care not how the African slave fin'-placed his? "unhallowed' feet oh Southern, soil. Suffice it to say ithaf although; the.. South" had at one jtime no- inconsiderable career cf rnarrtirae adventure, 'no ship or shipmaster of hers.had ever in a single case Ibeen implicated in! the illicit African slave ' rn?intained slivery to' be the inost dangerous element in the Country. From the beginning the statesman of the South scented danger in the great race problem with which they were being -saddled *and the question- that was uppermost in their., minds was. what s'Ha?r be done" with'the emanci pated serf? The Evils of Slavery: "Much as I deplore slavery,V?aid Patrick-Henry, 'I see that.prudence forbids its abolition'.' Henry Clay, asserted th~at''THe evils of slavery arc absolutely nothing in compari son with "the far greater evils which would* inevitably follow from sud den- emancipation,.' -And again he says: 'If I were to invoke the greatest blessing on earth winch healan, in its mercy, could bestow on this nation, it would he the seo-, aration of the . most 'numerous races of its' population and their comfortable astabli.shment in distant and distinct countries.' Mr. Mason, of Virginia,'went .farther in'declai ing 'The traffic is infernal. To per mit it is against every principle of honor and safety.' Mr. Calhoun was of the opnion that the existing rela tions between master and servant cannot be destroyed without subject ing the two races to tjie greatest ca lamity and the section to poverty, desolation- and wretchedness.' "Virginia in October, 1778, 'and Georgia, in 1798, passed acts pro hibiting the importation of slaves. The former act provided for a pen ury of 1,000 pounds, and also 'every slave imported contrary to the true interest .md meaning of this act shall, upon such importation become free,' thus, to the everlasting credit of the Soiith, upon whose devoted head th? vials of holy. wrath. Jiave been so unjustly and brutally pour ed out for propagating, nourishing and harboring slavery, she leads the world in an earnest attempt to pre vent the* very thing of which she is accused. " 'How can the-Union be saved? thundered Mr. Calhoun^from the floor of'the ?Senate ll years before the be ginning of ' hostilities.' vThereis but one ''way by ~yjfefejjfr'-can be. with by a full and j final settlement on the principles of I justice, of? jill the questions-ac issue 'between' ?b^Hwb^e'etioris.-'-^e South .asks for justice, simple justice.;, and Jess she ought' not' to take! .: Sher has no' compromise to offer" but the Cbn ? siltation.' I "? "T ? ii'Wheri-ithe-. red- curtain of war rolled upon the American stage ?it .revealed the South in .anns ready and willing to defend "?ll that makes life \yorth living, th,e Free dom of "country, the honor,' of ?the peo ple, the sanctity of home.'* To Meet /Next at Birmingham. The Grand' Camp, United Confeder ate Veterans re-electedd its general officers as followins: Commander-in-chief General Steph en D. Lee: - Lieutenant General, Department Army of Nortehrn Virginia," Gen. Ir vine Walker. Lieutenant General Department ot Tennessee, General Clement A. Ev? ans. - Lieutenant General, Trans-Missis sippi. Department, Geri. W: L. Ca bell. """All the'officers were chosen by ac clamation. . . , ; . Birmingham was chosen ' as the city for the next, the. eighteen, an nual reunion of the veterans. Other cities competing were San .Antonio and Nashville. The vote at first stood about 1,000 to 800 in favor of the Alabama town. The report of the committee on resolutions was adopted without de bate. It recommends that the speech es of Gen. S. D. Lee, Senator John W. Daniel and Col. R. E. Lee, Jr., be printed, in pamphlet form for distri bution and endorses the objects and aims of the Arlington Confederate monument in Arlington Nation?l Cemetery. On the correct representation oi the Confederate battle flag the reso lutions committee submitted as a sub stitute "that the action of this as sociation,' at its convention held in Nashhville, Tenn., in 1904, be cn dors?d and reaffirmed. * Negro Tenant Killed by Tanner. Americus, Ga., Special-Charl?s Grant, a prominent farmer of - Sumter county, in an altercation with a ne gro tenant, shot and instantly killed the latter after being struck with a brick. The tenant abused Grant be cause bf being reprimanded for not properly workiug his crop. An Injunction Against the Georgia Railroad Commission. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Judge Don' A. Pardee; of the United Sta'tes Cir cuit Court, issued a temporary re straining order against the Georgia Railroad commission to stop the en forcement of circular 331, dated May 2nd. The effect of the circular"' was to reduce the freight rates o?-i' ihe Georgia Southern ?? Florida rail road from class "C" to class "B." The injunction will be? argued Juh* 20. Funeral of Mrs. McKinley Was Simple But Solemn ASSEMBLAGE OF FAMOUS MEN Funeral at Old-Fashioned Home Ex tremely Simple, Bat Four Songs Being Sung and the Service the Simple Ritual of the Methodist Church, Conducted by Rev. Drs. Buxton r . : Dimes. Canton, 0., Special.---The body of Ida Saxton McKinley rests beside that of her distinguished husband in Woodlawn Cemetery. Her last words, ",0h, God why should I longer wait let me lie beside him," have been answered, The funeral services at the old fashioned McKinley home were e.t tremly simple. Four songs were sung at the funeral of President McKinley -and the services was the simple ritual of the Methodist Episcopal church. The house on its Market aud Louis streets sides was roped off to restrain the crowds which thronged .neigh boring thoroughfares. A broad laven der ribbon fluttered from the door to indicate a house o?' mourning and only a few intimate -friends visited the house during the forenoon. Aside from the ropes strung along Ike streets there was nothing to indicate that a ceremony of unusual import was about to take place. It was not until the funeral services were act ually being performed that thc streets became crowded and the crowds were held under excellent cheek by the lo cal police. 'President Roosevelt arrived at 12:45 p. m. and was driven immed iately to the residence of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Day for luncheon. Amongst others at the table were Secretaries Root, Corlel yon and Wilson, Governor Harris and ex-Governor Herrick, of Ohio. ' Immediately after the luncheon the President and party were driven to the McKinley home on North Marker street. The body in its black casket rested in its flower-embowered place in the so-called eicampaign office'' in the identical sp^t where Presideut McKinley's body lay after the Buffalo tragedy. Flowers in pieces and merely fast ' ened together by ribbon with the roses, which Mrs. McKinley, favored, predominaiing, filled the room, while many more for which there was not room in the house were sent to the Woodlawn Cemetery ahead of the cortege. ? President Roosevelt, Vice President Fairbanks and Cabinet Members Root Wilson and Cartelyou occupied seats in the parlor across the hall. In this room also were Governor Harris and Former Governor Herrick. Relatives^ and immediate friends of the family were seated in the hall and adjoining . rooms. While 'sci vices were being conduct ed, by the Rvv. Dr. Buxton, of the First .Methodist Episcopal church, and the Rev. Dx. Holmes, former pastor of the same church, all busi ness^ and amusement places in Can ton stopped. Thousands of people lined the side walks'and were pressed behind the ropes "along North Market and Louis streets, and all along the route to Woodlawn Cemeterv flae;s were at half mast" and men and women in sombre garb lined the way. The pall-bearers were: Judge Hen ry W. Harter, John Dueber, Joseph Biechele, Robert A. Cassidy and Geo. B. Freas, who were honorary pall bearers at the funeral of President McKinxey and Austin Lynch R. Shields and Judge C. C. Bow. When the services in the cemetery were over, the presidential party re turned immediately to the Baltimore & Ohio depot where the 4:35 train for Indianapolis was taken. An Armed Uprising Reported. Washington, Special-The State Department has received a cable gram from Harry L. Paddock, Amer ican consul at Amboy, China, stating that an armed uprising had been re ported at Joan, 50 miles south of Amoy. Mr. Paddock says that sev eral officials had been killed by a mu tiny of. soldiers, and that the cause of the trouble is unknown. Railroads Asked for Information. Washington, Special.-Letters have been sent by the inter-state commerce commission to thc officials of all the railroads in the country doing an In ter-State business requesting infor mation as to the commission's order on bonuses paid to those who solicit or route freight or passenger business -The commission is engaged in com piling information respecting these matters so that it may issue a ruling covering the entire subject. It is desired that the information be in the hands of the commission by the 15th bf June. Atlanta's May Festival Opens. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-The May Musical Festival began, here to close Saturday and includes four concerts. The soloist include Madame Schu mann-Heink, Claude Cunningham, baritone, Madam Dei Kendell-Werth ner, Guiseppe ?ampanari, Miss Bessie Abott, Thomas Evans Greene, vocal ists, and Madame Wunlerile. harpist. A large chorus and orchestra will sup port the. artists. The conductor is Dr. J. Lewis Browne. Lads Meet Tragic Death. 'Asheville, N. C., Special.-Stanley Ferris, a lad probably 14 years of age, was run over and killed on the local yards of the Southern Railway The boy's home was in Bridgewater and it is. said that he was in some manner identified with one of the crews of the division. At the time the lad met his tragic death he was on" one engine and, in attempting to. jump from that engine to another, fell and was mn over and killed. The remains will be sent to the for tier home. RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS raids on Japanese restaurants-ill Sail $.000,000 in Valuation at Meeting Last Week? Columbia, Special - The State board of railroad assessors]'decided at a meeting to place the' Valuation of all railroad property in South Car olina on a basis of 100 per cent, or at its true merket value. This means that the valuation^ upon which oil i assessments upon railroad/ property; are made by county and. State will be over $62,000,000 as against $32,-^ 000,000 last year. ?j The board consisting of? Comptrol? 1er General Jones, chairman fex offlco; Secretary'of State McCowan, State Treasurer Jennings and Attorney General Lyon, were in session two days and went over all of . the re turns and figures for previous years. Attorney General Lyon ?moved that the iaw, as expressed on the statute books, be carried out. This law calls for all assessments at a, true valua tion of property. The motion was unanimously adopted and the board proceeded to consider the value of all railroad property m this State. The results are as follows: Comparative Figures. Alcolu railroads, valuation last year $1,500 per mile; this year .$2, 500 per mile. Total, valuation $62, 500. Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, value last ycafj p?r^ihile, $19,800: this year $50.000 per nlil?. Total valuation $6,249,500. Atlantic Coast Line system, value per mile last year $11,095;'this year 25,000. Total* value in South Caro lina, $19,747,750. .Bennettsville and;?heraw, value per mile last year $1,500; this y?ar $3,500. Total valuation $50,750. Blue Ridge railroad, value per mile last vear $3,850; this year $13,000. Totaf in State $572,000. Branchville and Bowman, per mile last year $1,500; .this" y??r $2,800; total $30,800. Carolina and Nor estera, last year, $5,000 per mile; s year $15, 000; total $444,000. Carolina and Weste value per mile last year $1,800; ; year $3, 000; total $21,000. Charleston and ; We^rc a Carolina, value per mile last lear $7,679; this year $12,800; total $388,750. Chesterfield ?iid Lancaster, value per mile last year $2,500; this year $6,000.- Total valuation $108,000: Conway Coast and Western, val?o per mile last year $1,500; this year $3,500. Total valuation $106,960. Columbia, Newberry and Laurens, valuation per mile last, year $6,000; this year $10,000. Total in State .$825,000. \\ Georgetown ai??? .Western, per mile last year $4,OO0?:'this year $8,500. Total valuation.^360,000, Glenn Springs, value per mile last year $2,000 ; ihir, year $3,500. Total - .i $35;oiJ?. '- .' . . < Hampton and Branchville value per mile last year $1,200 ; this year :$3,000. Total for State $63,000. \ Lancaster and Chester, value per mile last yeau?$3;025; this year $5, 000; total in State $143,000. Northwestern Railroad of South Carolina, value per mile last year $3,000; this year $5,000; totaP$457, 100. Pickens railroad value per mile last year $1,500; this year $3,500 > total for the State $31,500. Seaboard Air Line system, value per mile last year $11,595; this year $20,000; total for State $6,835,700. Southern railway, value per mile last year $11,548; this year $22,500; total for State $10,246,500. Southern railway, operating the Carolina division, value per mile last year $11,626; this year $25,000; to tal for State $12,987,250. Union and Glenn Springs, value per mile last year $1,500; this year $3,500; total for State $66,500. Charleston Terminal company, val ue, last year per mile $11,000; this year $30,000; total $158,400. Raleigh and Charleston, value per mile last year $1,500; this year $3,500 total for State $58,440. Seivern and Knoxville, value per mile last year $1,500; this year $2, 500j total for State $52,320. Union sation, Columbia, last vear $66,000; this year $100,000. The total assessed value of prop erty of the railroads for this year will amount to $63,500,000 in round fig ures, against $32,040,319 'for 1906. The board in anticipation of any pro tests made by the roads, had fixed June 19 as the day for a hearing in the meantime another meeting will held to consider the assessments of express companies, telephone and telegraph companies, street railway companies and the Pullman Car Com pany. The action of the board is consid ered of the greatest importance be cause of the anticipated protests on the part of the railroads and the hearing on June 19 will probably be largely attended. A Big Mill for Fayetteville. Fayetteville, Special. - The Mc Neill Manufacturing Company has been organized here, W. D. McNeill, president and C. L. McGough, vice president and C. L. Penderton, sec retary and treasurer, to erect a 10, 000 spindle weave mill at a cost of $200,000 on Little river, ten miles west of the city. The company has a water power of 700 horse, 300 of which will be used at the start. To Fight Bag Trust. Chattanooga, Special.-A company composed of J. S. Bowen, D. A. Jewel T. G. Montague, John S. Marr, W. F. Hutchinson, L. L. Peak and J. L. Hutchinson, of this city, and J. S. Read, of Morristown, have purchased property at Chickamauga, .Ga., just south of Chattanooga, for the pur pose of erecting a bleachery to cost over $100,000. In addition a largo bag plant will be erected by the com pany, which will be capitalized at $400,000. President Makes a Memorial Day Address TALKS OF INDIANA SOLDIERS The Executive Paya Warm Tribute to Oliver Morton, the War Govern or of Indiana. . Indianapolis, Ind., Special. -Presi dent Roosevelt delivered the principal address here at the unveiling of a monument to Gen. Henry W. Law ton. He discussed railway problems and incidently paid a warm tribute to Oliver Morton, th? war Governor of Indiana. \ At the conclusion of the address the President and Vice President were driven to Grove Hill Cemetery, wheer the President placed a wreath On the grave former President Ben jamin Harrison. The programme ol exercises in cluded an invocation by Rev. D. R. Lewis an address by Gov. J. Frank Hanly, music by the Seventh Regi ment Band, the reading of a poem dedicated to General Lawton by James Whitcomb Riley, the introduc tion of the President by Governo? Hanly and President Roosevelt's al press. The President said in part: THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. '.'For more than one reason I am pecularliarly glad that this year I speak on Memorial Day in the State of Indiana. There is no other class of our citizens to whom WO owe so much as to the veterans of the great war. To them it was given to per form the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for lo them it was given to preserve the Union. Moreover, you men who wore the blue, blessed beyond the victors in any other war of recent times, have left to your countrymen more thaii tte material (results of the triumph, more even than the achiev ing the triumph itself. You have left a country So genuinely reunited that all of us now, in Whatever part of -this Union we live, have a right to feel the keenest pride, not only in the/'.yalor add self-devotion of you, the" gallant men who wo?? the blue, hue also in the valor and self-devo tion of, your gallant opponent who wore the gray. The hero whose mon ument we to-day unveil, by his life bore singular testimony to the com pleteness of the reunion. General Lawton in his youth fought gallantly in the civil war. Thirty-three years afterward he again marched to war, this tithe against a foreign foe, and served with distinguished ability and success as general officer, both ill Cuba and in the Philippines. When he thus served it was in an army whose generals included not only many of his old comrades in arras, but some of his old opponents also, as General Wheeler and General Fitz hugh Lee. Under him, both among the commissioned officers and in the ranks, were many men whose fathers had worn the blue serving side by side with others whose fathers had worn the gray; b?t all Americans now, and nothing but Americans, all united in their fealty and devotion to their common flag, and their com mon country, and each knowing only the generous rivalry with his fellows as to who could best serve the cause for which each was ready to lay down life itself. To General Lawton it be fell actually to lay down his life; a tragedy, but one of those noble trage dies where our pride rises above our sorrow. For he died in the fullness cf time, serving his country with en tire devotion -a death that every man may well envy." At Other Points. National Memorial day was gener ally obse&ved throughout the country. In the principal cities, both Non h and South, the graves of the dead were srown with flowers, and all the public addresses breathed of patriot ism and with kindly references to the fallen heroes who fell upon both sides of the memoriable struggle. Seaboard Takes Initial Step. Norfolk, Special. - At the office of President Garrett, of the Seaboard Air Line Railway it was stated that the Seaboard has officially announced its willingness to comply with the re quest of Gen. Stephen D. Lee, com manding the Confederate veterans of the South, that all trains on Sou thern roads be stopped for five minu tes at 2 p. m. June 3d, the birthday anniversary of Jefferson Davis, aud the hour of the unveiling of the Davis monument at Richmond providing other roads will join in and comply with General Lee's request. Prominent Railroad Man Dead. Atlanta, Ga., Special. - A dis patch from El Paso, Tex., announced the death there of P. J. McGovern, of Atlanta, chairman of the Southern classification committee one of f.j best known railroad men in the South eoitern territory. Death resulted from pulmonary trouble, for the >c: lief of which Mr. McGowcm went to Texas several months ago. He was born in Cincinnati 51 years ago. Found Guilty on Circumstantial Evi dence. Buchanan, Ga., Special. - After deliberatign all night, the jury in the case of Ben Adams, white, and Milliard Lee, colored, charged with the murder of Reese Jones, a white man, February ll last, returned w verdict of guilty and recommended life imprisonment for both men. The evidence against the def enden ts was entrely circumstantial. Motions for a n\iw trial were made for holli prisoners. ? , ' - ; : ! Laie JVetvf ! I In 'Brief ?A I I MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST I Secretary Metcalf demands of Governor Swanson and President Tucker that the exclusion of sailors from pleasure resorts near the James town Exposition he ended at once. AdmiraJ Evans threatened to with draw the fleet. The Cabinet discussed the recent raids on Japanese restaurant in San Francisco and the protest of Ambas sador Aoki. President Roosevelt and party left an the trip to Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. The Democrats carried the muni cipal election in Martinsburg for the fourth consecutive time. A poposition was made to the Nat ional Lumber Manufacturers' Asso ciation at Jamestown by Treasurer Freeman that the association open its books to the National Bureau ot Corporations. Henry Wright and his nephew. Claude Newman, were mortally wounded by Gell Perkins and Thomas Lyons, trespassers, near Huntingdon, W. Va. The People's National Bank was organized at Strasburg, Va., with $25,000 capital. Commander-in-Chief Stephen D. Lee, of the United Confederate Vet erans, arrived in Richmond to attend the big reunion. x Thonsnnds of persons passed by the coffin of Mrs. McKinley. Dr. William J. Long, the writer Dn animals called on President Roose velt for a retraction. A continuation of abnormal weath er conditions is predicted by the offi* eial forecaster. Mayor McClellan, of New York, vetoed the utilities bill which was advocated by Governor Hughes, and admits that he did so mainly for po litical reasons. The assembly bill providing for a recount of the votes cast at the Me Clellan-Hearst election was passed b\ the New York State Senate. Joseph L. Stickney, the war cor respondent who was with Dewey on the bridge of the Olympia at the battle of Manila bay is dead. Four rich Guatemalans committed suicide when about to be arrested charged with complicity in a plot against President Cabrera. An attempt will be made to settle, the strike at Santiago, Cuba, by ar bitration. General Methuen has been appoint ed to command the British forces in South Africa. Complete accord has been reached by France and Japan on the proposed treaty. Father James Hayes, assistant gen eral of the Jesuits, died in Rome. The trial of Judge W. G. Loving for killing Theodore Estes will be held at special term of court at Hous ton, Halifax countj-, June 24, Judge Barksdale granting a change of venue from Lovingston. Edward Pendleton was elected a member of the Virginia Library Board to succeed Charles V. Mere dith. This is said to foreshadow the early removal from office of Libra rian Kennedy. The Virginia Supreme Court re fused to grant a new trial to the ne gro John Hardy who murdered a Ro anoke policeman, and his death sen tence stands. The rumor that the brother of Mc Kinley's assasin was in Canton, Ohio, caused a ?ftrict guard to be kept over the President at the funeral of Mrs. McKinley. Queen Maud of Norway and Mme. Fallieres .narrowly escaped being dragged into a lake at Versailles by fractious horses. The Protestant Episcopal Council of the Diocese of Southern Virginia; met at Staunton. At E. H. Harriman's request his secretary F. W. Hill, Avho hade pub lic a letter involving President Roose velt in a campaign scandal, was re leeasd under a suspension of sentence Quick trial at Marlinton, W. Va., is promised for the men accused of assaulting Miss Ona Bird, a lG-year old girl, who was torn from her sweei,' heart, with whom she was attempting to elope. Father Kasper Vartarian's mur-: derers are believed to be in hiding in New York. Judge Judson made a plea for tariff revision "by the friends of the people." Ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert praises the New Jersey veterans who erected a battle moument not only lo their own regiment, but to the Ala bamans who fought them. The Birmingham, the navy's first scout crusier, was successfully laun ched. An effort will be made to have Dowie 's Zion City estate sold and the city 's affairs reorganized. The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, after spending a night stuck in the mud backed off apparently un damaged. Chinese rebels compelled a gener al's family lo drown themselves in a well. A general strike order issued to thc Louisville and Nashville Railroad's machinists resulted in less than half of them going out. What might have been a lynching on Long Island was prevented by a policeman with a gun after an attack on a little girl. The text of the treaty Amapalar shows that all thc Central American' States have agreed upon the Presi-.. dents of the United States and Mex ico as permanent arbitrators. Warlike preparations on the part 9f Gautemala are rumored. CARE OP THE EYES. In reading or writing, in ^ either standing or sitting, the head and body .hould be erect. The act of bending constricts the neck veins, hindering the return of the blood from the head. This is one of the common causes of short-sight edness. Do not work by flickering light. .Fine needlework, particularly color ed embroidery, should be worked only in a good light. Be careful not to read lying down, as there ia then too much blood pres sure in the eyes and the external mus cles soon become very tired. When a man thinks he is beating tho devil hollow, he find! he Eas a hoi low beat. Zinc Coffin for a Dog. There is mourning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Isenman, 583 North Paca street, over the death of Jack, a large setter dog. He was suffering from a tumor and underwent an oper ation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. A zinc-lined and air-proof coffin was made, and in this the body of the dog was sent to Columbus. Pa., the homo of Mrs. Isenman's relatives. There it will be carefully placed In the fam ily vault. Jack was twelve years old and the Isenmans had had him since he waa a .puppy. For years prior to his death he slept in the bath room on a couch, on which were a hair mattress and a white sheet.-Baltimore Dispatch, ' It is estimated that Great Britain spends $150,000 a day on theatres. IF Your Spring Outfit Ie Ready. 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It trill be a pleasure to serve you at all times and your business will be heartily appreciated. II j g ? i ? ?aaa-i Wagons Buggies FURNITURE. Large Shipments of the best makes of wagons and buggies ju?t received. Our stock of furniture and house furnishing! is complete. A Large ?tock. COFFINS and CASKETS. always on hand. All calls for our Hearse prompt?? ly responded to. All goods sold on a small mar? gin of profit. Call to see me, I will save you money. rr y t E5355?551 . . * \ * | j ^ ? . . . * m 4 . . m GEO. r\ COBB. Johnston, South Carolina.