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VOL. 72. EDG?FJELD, S. CM WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, K07. THE NATIONAL BANK ff AUGUSTA, GA. L. 0. KAYNE, Prwrideni. FBANK 0. FORD, Casto. CAPITAL.$260,000 Surplus and Profits. 150,000 E We shall tw ?lewd to j na opel? ww*"'1 T witt mil Sante CuiVKD?r??n(l oortW?>?H??? T X ?ured of e??ry courtny Md ?ocomw ?dAlMa pn? m J ble undir censerraUva. moder* ?xmfclof v?im?+* At Wv, ?. 111 m n i ? e 6M M NO. 35 Occurrences ff Interest from All Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wida Bange-What is Going On in Our State. [ Governor Wants Beports. Columbia, Special. - Gov. Ansel is determined tbat a full investigation shall be made of all cases where the registration books have not been re vised or vhere a county supervisor fails to order an election or take act ion when a petition on a dispensary election is presented. Latety he re ceived a telegram from the supervisor of Barnwell county asking if the board of registration could not em ploy some one to do the revision work on the registration lists. The gover nor at once replied that it was thc duty of the board of registration io do the work and therefore the law did not delegate them to confer the power upon some one else. To the county supervisor of Wiliamsburjir j county he wrote that a complaint had been made that no action had been taken in regard to the dispensary pe tition in that county. In thc mean time the Barnwell matter has been turned over to the grand jury for action and something is expected defi nite for the solicitor is expected this week. Special Term For Union. TJnion,Spacial.-Union county is to have a special term of criminal court It will probably begin Monday, July 29, and as there were a large number of important criminal cases carried over, it is possible that the tenn will last two weeks. Among the promin ent cases that were carried over from the June term were those, of Arthur Davis, who shot and killed Clarence C. Gist, at Carlisle, on the nigh* of May 23, James W. Gallaman, charged with the murder of Sims M. Gilmore, at Jonesville, and Will Beaty who shot and killed Frank Rice at Sedalia. It is understood that Solicitor Sense when asked whom he would likely name in his request for a judge t-' hold this special term of court, sa:-! that he did not definitely decided, but as most of the judges will be busy this month on their regular circuits it i? thought that some distinguished ac toruey may he appointed as special judge to try these cases. New Lutheran Hospital. Charleston, Special. - The insta lation of the heating system and the plumbing arrangements have been started at the old Adger {puse on Cal- . houn street almost opposite Rutledge avenue, in the fitttiug up and opening of thc new Lutheran hospital and it is expected that the. doors of the inst tntion will be thrownopenin the early fall for the reception of patients. Thc j charter for the Jiospital has been is ened in the hame of the Evangelical [ Lutheran Charity society, and the spe* ' eial committee which has thc conver sion of thc handsome residence into a modern hospital, consists of Capt. 1 Herman Klatt?, Stephen Thomas and 1 F. Heinz. - Great Gathering of Saluda Farmers. ' Saluda, Special. - Tuesday was a farmers' rally day for Saluda, town and county. There are more farmers according to population and area in Saluda county than in any other in 1 the State and more of them own then j almost unversally, it is no wonder farms. Bein? an agricultural peoph* ] that fully 2,000 turned out to hear ' the representatives of the interests 5 they are most interested in. From ( every nook and coiner of the count} 1 they came and numbers were here 5 from nearby towns and counties. * Proposed New County. Gov. Ansel has appointed J. M. \ Tucker of ?rangeburg, A. M. Reeves J of Dorchester and F. J. Berry of | Collcton as commissioners favoring 1 the proposed new county represented 1 by the above names. The county pro- ? posed has Branchville for its county seat and is the third petition present- ' ed affecting Orangcburg. * A Pardon Refused. Gov. Ansel has refused the petition - presented for the pardon of Jule Gil lespie of Laurens count)', who was sent up for larceny of a mule.tlie sentence being two and ola*, half years. lightning Kills Stock. ; Lynnvillc, Special. - Late Wed- ' nesday afternoon during an clcetri- j eal storm in the Robbiuson Fork sec- ; tion a bolt cf lightning struck and ; instantly killed a fine mare and colt ; owned hy Peter Woods, colored. The sfcjck had taken refuge under a large . tree. Verdict of Manslaughter. Spartanburg, Special. - The jury in the case of Jess Wooten, the wo man thnrtt? with the murder of Na- ? than ltr.rv.ey of Gaffney in this city ', a few weeks- ago returned a verdict 1 of iPaitslaughteri Attorneys for the . woman gave notice of a motion for t n new trial. Harvey was killed while r engaged in a drunken row with sever- t al women in a disreputable section of I the city. : Bank at Little Mountain. Little Mountain, Special. - Thc ( stockholders of thc Farmers' and Merchants' bank met July 10, and organized by electing thc following *Irc?ors: J. B. Derrick, S. J. Der- 1 rick, W. A. Counts, J. H. Wise, D. \ E. Fan', W. P. Counts, M. G. Shealy, > Dr. J. M. Sease. The directors elect- 1 <.:! Dr. J. M. Sease president, J. H. < Wise vice president, aud W. A. ] O ?ii nts cashier. The bank will com- ? monee business as soon as a house ' ?un be erected. 1 GOOD Mr. T. C.Black of Rhode Island State College Will Engage in Highway I Construction in This State. The South Carolina Good Roads as sociation meets this year iu Spar tanburg on August 7 and 8. A lav? attendance than ever is expected and matters of interest and importance to the public of South Carolina will be discussed. The officers of the as sociation urge that not only every su pervisor in the State be present hut that as many of the county commis sioners as possible attend, as well as any who are interested iu thc move ment for improving thc public high ways of thc State.' At thc Spartanburg meeting will be | some prominent and cxperiencedhigh way engineers and the United Stales government will probably have rep resentatives present as well as thc National Good Roads association Mr. Fingal C. Black, a gradual? civil engineer who has made a spec ialty of highway engineering for tho past several years and who was engi neer in charge of the construction ol the vitrified brick paving of Spartan burg's streets which has attracted wide attention will be present at the meeting. Mr. Black has for the past several years occupied (he chair 01 highway engineer of the Rhode Island State College. He has resigned his position there, to take effect Septem ber 1, and will probably locate in Co lumbia and practice in several coun ties of thc State as consulting high way engineer. In the Rhode Island College Mr Black had a large ciass each year who took special instruction under him Once a year a practical demonstration of expert road building was given, a section of improved roadway being built. This was,an important feature of the instructic i at the college and the students wer. benefited more per haps by this thanAy the class studies. South Carolina's Opportunity. Mr. Black is very enthuastic re garding the sand-clay method of con structing public roads and thinks that every county in the State should adopt this method, "There is no rea son," said Mr. Black, "why South Carolina can't build her public roads cheaper than any State in thc Union. She has all the material necessary in constructing up-to-date highways right at hand, in almost every coun ty in the State, and with thepfoper supervision any county that has offi cers who are at all concerned about building a system of good, substan tial roads should within ten years have roads which would be second In none in the country. "In the East more attention is being paid to the construction , of roads ev ery year. Competent engineers are syn ployed by the various counties and fte work of building the roads is pro ceeding along scientific lines. In those States, and in the North and West, where they have nothing but clay they have to rely almost solely on the macadam road when they are afte a firSt class article. Not so in South c Carolina where sand and clay is plea- t tiful in most of the counties and at t jonvenient intervals, necessitating -y /ery little expense in the construe- i ;ion. j "Then again, labor is cheaper in < the South and where they have the t eonvict labor there is absolutely no t excuse for any county in this State c io continue to use the common roads ( vhich are ordinarily seen in this sec- 1 iion. Richland county has demo J i- t strafed the practicability of the sand day process and I hope to see the ivork which was inaugurated here several years ago continued until ev-1 ^ ;ry road in the county is in first class 11 Bamberg Negro Killed. Bamberg, Special.-Thursday mora ng just as twp laborers who work for \lr. D. R. Mathcny on his plantation, ibot two miles from town started out 'or .he field to do the day'swork,they )cgan quarreling and in a few nomcnts th' rc was a dead negro. It ieems that Jim Washington and the >ther negro, whose name was Chisolm lave been working together for some ime und have usually gotten on well ogether, but Thursday a few voids enraged Washington and he wiled out a cheap knife and slashed ^hisohn's throat the wound causbig :nmodi?te death. State's Banks Prosperous. Columbia, Special. - Mr. Lee 0. lolleman. State bank examiner, had sued a statement showing thc condi d-m of thc 215 State, savings and pri >anks in South Carolina for the quar er, ending June 14 The statement is interesting in that it shows thc de eosits amount to over $14,000,000 and hat the savings deposits are over .12,000,000, which indicates a most >rosper?us condition of affairs. Big Tobacco Sales. Darlington. Special. -Darlington's arge ^ tobacco sales warehouses, tfessrs. Snydor, Stem & Co., Milling fc Williams, Gravely & DcWltt, pro erietors, opened their doors for busi ?ess last week ard celebrated what s known on the opening day as the obacco "break." Something like ?0,000 pounds were sold at good nices. Farmers were herc from all .ver the county and several thousand [ollars was put into circulition. condition. \1 Election of Delegates. 'Each county in tho State is entit led to as many members in the State association as it has representatives m the general assembly, and it is pro dded that the county supervisor of ?ach county shall be one of the rep resentatives. The delegates, with the exception of the county supervisor, ire to be named by thc good roads as sociation of each county. Si?S ORCHARD L?E Haywood Testifies in His Own Behalf in Idaho Murder Case IMPEACHES MUCH OF EVIDENCE Labor Leader Charged With Murder of Former Governor Stuenenbera Approaches Stand Pale and Trem bling, Bnt Gains Composure and Relates in Strong Tones the Story of His Life. Boise, Idaho, Special.-William D. Haywood, took oath as a witnesss in his owu defense, and in a lengthy narrative of his life and work as a leader of his fellow miners. denied guilt of the murder of Frank Stuen enberg and thc manifold eximes charged him by Harry Orchard. Haywood was pale and trembled nervously when he walked around ti the elevated witness stand where he faced thc judge and the jury. When he began to respond to Clarence Dar row's questions his voice was low and somewhat uncertain, but within 10 minutes he had regained his compos ure and for the rest of the after noon Haywood was master of his feelings. As he told of his boyhood that began with toil at the age of 0 and gave the history of his family, his invalid wife, who sat just to the left of the" witness stand began sob bing. His mother-in-law soon com forted the wife, however, and there after: she anil the rest of Haywood's kinfolk remained quiet, but deeply concerned auditors. Haywood's testimony was chiefly characterized by positive denials of allegations made against him by thc prosecution. He denied that he met Orchard until some time after thc Vindicator explosion, denied that lie sent Orchard back to Cripple Creek to blow up the Independence station. Ho denied participation in thc Lyte Breg ory murder, and denied suggesting or ?iscussing thc Stuencnberg murder. He swore that he never gave Or ?hard money at any time or any place for any purpose He declared that i:e never made a threat against Steucn ?nberg, whom he regarded only as he lid any politician swayed hy capital istic influences . He told of occasions ivhen he met Orchard in Denv(-x . the ordinary course of his relations ivith the federation and George A. Pettibone, and said he saw Orchard for the last time in August, 1905. ivhen Orchard told him he was going to Alaska. Haywood said he then mided Orchard for deserting his ivife at Cripple Creek. Thc direct examination had not reached the connection of Jack Simp kins and the action of the federation liter Stuenenberg was murdered when adjournment came. The State completed the cros?.-ex ?mination of Charles H. Moyer at loon and in dealing with his testi nony directed its strongest attack igainst thc circumstances under which ;he federation at the suggestion of Tack Simpkins carno to the relief of Orchard when arrested for killing Stuenenberg. Senator Borah, who conducted the ixamination, emphasized the conucc ion of Jack Simpkins and the federa ron and the fact that the federation vithout inquiry as to the guilt or in ?ocence of Orchard, gave $1,500 :rom its treasury to provide for his lefense. He also developed the fact hat the fedration is providing for he defense of Steve Adams, who I? iharged with killing two claim jump !rs at the instigation of Jack Simp kins. Moyer denied knowing any hing about the $100 that Haywood lent to Jack Simpkins a few days be fore Stuenenberg was assassinated md which is traced to Orchard by an msigned note he got at Caldwell jail md a coincident of data. Much Wanted Prisoner Escapes. Denver, Col., Special.-John T. Thompson, a prisoner in custody of Detective Joseph Jay, of thc Porl and. Ore., police department, leaped 'rom a car window while thc train was .imping 40 miles an hour near this :ity and escaped. Thompson is want id nt Portland, Ore, lo answer a ?barge of stealing $3,000,- and was laptured in London, Ting., after a :hasc around the worjd. Ehe 2-Cent Passenger Rate Effective Des Moines, Iowa, Special.- Judge McPherson, of thc Federal Court, de ned the application of two stockhold irs of the Iowa Central and tim Min ?eapolis & St. Louis for an order re fraining thc directors of thc roads 'rom putting into effect thc 2-cent. )assengcr rate enacted by the Iowa 'legislature. Thc judge ba?cd his ac ion on thc ground that no injury to he roads war; shown, that tho com )laint that thc new rate would cul [own dividends was not proven, that ncrcased passenger travel might in :rease r?crtdpts. Leach Director of Mint. Oyster Bay, Special. - President Roosevelt has appointed Frank A. jeach, of Oakland, Cal., director of he Mint, to succeed George E. Rob srts, who resigend to accapt the pres dency of the Commen?ai National Sank of Chicago, made vacant hy thc loath of James H. Eckles. Mr. Leach s nt present superintendent of the San Francisco mint. Court Sustains Indictments. Chicago, Special.-Judge Kavanagh las sustained indictments against dormer Chief of Police Collins, and frank D. Comerford, former police ittorney, charging conspiracy to de prive the city of police services. Thc ndictments against Collins and Com ?rford grew out of the late municipal ;ampaign in this city, it being claim id that the defendants used thc po ico force to aid thc candidacy of tfayor Dunne. ! UNWRITTEN LAW AGAIN Mother and Son Acquitted of Charge of Murdering Man Who Ruined Their Daughter and Sister-Ver dict of Jury Announced to Judge While They Were at Dinner Dur ing Recess Just After They Had Eeen Sent From Court Room to Consider Decision. Laplata, Md., Special.-It took thc jury, in the Bowie murder trial but five minutes to decide that in South em Maryland at least, the "unwrit ten law" is tlie law to which the se <lifcer must hold himself answerable. And while there was no m. -ked de monstration when the verdict became known, there was sufficient evidence that the verdict of the jury was the verdict of the people of this section of thc country. Both jury and people acpuit Mrs. Mary E. Bowie and her son, Henry, of all blame for their acknowledged slaying last January of Hubert Posey, the seducer of their daughter and sister, Priscilla Bowie, who with her child, has made a pa thetic picture in the court roora. That there was no demonstration was doubtless due to the fact that the.ver dict of the jury was announced to the judges while they were at dinner during a recess, just prior to which the jury had been sent out of the court room to consider their decision. State Attorney Wilmer's request to thc jury that they bring in a verdict of manslaughter, was not more note worthy than the frankness with which Congressman Sidney E. Mudd, cf counsel for the defense, appealed to thc "unwritten law," in behalf ot! his clients. Throughout his address, which evidently voiced the senti ments of most of his hearers, Mrs. Bowie and her son sat in stolid com posure, while Pricilla Bowie wept continuously. "Gentlemen," said Congressman Mudd, "we shall claim that these defendants were justified, by what thc newspapers have called the 'un written law." He then cited many cases in which thc avengers of wrong ed daughters, sisters and wives have been acquitted, and continued: "Never since the formation of this government has there been tried before a jury of American citizens a single case of murder following wan ton seduction in which the verdict has been other than instant acquit tal." He argued for the "supre macy of the law indelibly written on thc quick-beating human heart, over thc cold type of thc statute books," and said: "The family in this land of ours is the nuclueus and the nursery of the Commonwealth. The protection of the sanctity of the family ties,, the chastity of women, the development and maintenance of a salutary and exalted respect for the honor of the mother, the sister and the daughter become a natural and essential feu-' ' ture of the law in this land. In < nearly every State of this country i there wijl be found an exemplifier- ? tion and recognition of this fact and 1 an adoption of this doctrine. "It is in this sense that I confi dently claim the protection of what I have called and claim the 'unwrit ten law' as an adequate defense for these defendants." State Attorney Wilmer argued 1 against the "unwritten law," but urged thc jury to give the defendants thc benefit of every possible doubt 1 and repeated that lie did not ask for a verdict of murder, but for one cf ^ manslaughter. The jury, however, -, evidently took Mr. Mudd's view of thc case and when they Tiled into . court it was to declare that the kill- , ing of Hubert Posey was justified. Indicted For Assault. Washington,, Special.-Charles A. Edwards, secretary of the Democratic congressional campaign committee, was indicted by the grand jury for an asault with a dangerous weapon on ( Alejandro Garland, an attache of thc . Peruvian legation in this city. The alleged assault occurred shortly after ! midnight on the morning of May 16th ] last. , Eight Killed by White Damp. Hazelton, Pa., Special.-Eight Ital ian minc porkers were killed by white . damp in an abandoned slope of the ^ Lehigh & Wilkcsbarre Coal Company at Honey Brook. Two of thc men '. were sent into the minc to measure . the water. Then two more went in to assist them. It was believed that J thc force was inadequate and the oth- ( ers were ordered to help them. When ( the men did not return after a reason- ] able time an investigation was made j and the presence of the deadly white 1 uauji) w:>? discovered. < First Death From Sunstroke. Norfolk, Special.-A fatal case of sunstroke, thc first of the season, was ( -, y recorded in Norfolk Friday, the vie- j tim, Julian Clem, aged 56 years, fore man of tiie Samls-Key-Ruth Company paving firm dying before reaching fl ( hospital. He was superintending a paving gang in Huntersville. Clem was from Louisville, Ky., and his 1 family still reside there. The mur- < cury registered Vi degrees. ' Body Found by Fisherman. Tampa, Fla., Special.-Thc body of . Ed. Bancroft, former captain of the ] government dredge boat, was washed : ashore at Hooker's Point and was i fond by a fisherman and brought to ' the city. Bancroft went fishing in a small boat alone Tuesday. Wednes-1. ] day the boat was picked up in the 11 bay with a portion of his clothing, j : Dr. William E. Pittman died at his J1 Jhome in Lynohburg. '1 /, ' - Fast Passenger Train Collides With light Engine NO REASON F(? THE ACCIDENT All of Dead Negroes of Party of 20 Being Brought from Alabama to This State-aplite Labor Agent in Charge Probably Fatally Injured. Knoxville, Tenn. Special.-A long distance telephone message to The Journal and Tribune from Johnson City, says: Six persons met instant death and 20 were injured When eastbound ves tibule train Noli ,'42 on the Southern Railway collider!' with a switch en gine one mile west of Johnson City at 7:30 o'clock (Sunday night. The switch engine was in charge of a hostler, who/ when he saw the fast passenger comi?& toward him, revers ed his engine ??d jumped to safety. Scarcely had -hj^done so when thc passenger crashed into the light en gine with feafai^force. The engine of the passenger,-Jb^ggage, mail car and second-class coa^b were derailed and overturned, buti'the switch engine was not lifted from|b'e rails and with full head of steam shirted on a wild run which was not :'p'nded until ,a switch was thrown forjjt and it was ditched at Carnegie. . The lives of thc mail clerks were saved because j?| the fact that their car was of hca^y steel construction This heavy car,3bowever, played hav oc with the Jigit second-class coach behind, which.*$s. entirely telescoped The second-clasjf coach was occupied by George Moore, white, a labor agent for the Virg&a & Southwestern Railroad, who w?B conducting a party of 20 negroes.1 fffim Alabajna to North Carolina Mooiift' was perhaps fatally hurt, and of |he ? negroes six were killed outright <?nd all others maim ed and injured.*!' Six Unidtotified Negroes. The injured are: Engineer Sam Bush, of Knoxville,-slight injuries; F. 0. Snipe, Knoxville, mail clerk, seri ously injured'; iArcheola Moore, mail clerk, one legAsIighty hurt; George Moore, labor 'agent, bady crushed, perhaps fatally hurt. Phv^icians from the National Sol diers" Home, ax'Johnson City were first upon fheiscenc. Relief trains were s'mt to the wre*^ from both Knoxville and BristoL "Iv Appeal for Protea n. Loraine, 0.-.The American Ship buiding company bas appealed to the federal circuit tirari for protection against arpossible, damage to property and violence against employes, as a result Of ?he seeohd^strike. This week the shipbuilders; walked put again ui, accouirt of not'desiring;fo work witliv former strikehraeksrs. .: ' Injunctions were issued by the -United States court in Cleveland. Separate injunction against each striker were served. There were 125 orders for bidding the strikers from interferring with the company or its employes. Conductor Shot to Death. Augusta, Ga., Special.-A tele- "i phone message to the Chronicle fr JIU r Sanderville says Conductor J. M. Ma- v son of the Central railroad was shot p to death by an unknown negro two s miles from Sanderville. The negro C escaped and is being chased by a b posse. The negro attempted to ride y jn a note and was put off. Ile got on h the rear car and when put off again s Irew a pistol and fired three times on q the conductor. The shots were re- s turned, but it is not known whether r jr not any were effective. Fugitive Ex-Convict Wounded hy Virginia Officer. Bristol, Va., Special-Joe Farns worth, 23 years old, and for seevral lays a fugitive from justice, was shot ind perhaps fatally wounded by Po liceman A. L. Hill, in thc mountains acar Bristol. Thc officer was attempt ing to arrest Farnsworth, who is wanted on a chage of shotting "Wil lam Kirk in Bristol July 4tl Floors of Bidding FalL Philadelphia, Special.- Fortunate Lagando and Francisco Brunco were drilled, two other men fatally and six severely hurt by the collapse of floors n a building on Water street abovt harket, which was being razed AJbout 8,000 brick were piled on one jf the upper floors, when the stud ling gave way and the floor went lown, carrying with it the /loora be low. Lagando was dug out dea?. Eu jene Scutter and Isreal Jones weer juried under bricks and heavy stud ling and badly crushed. News Notes. Governor Hughes is meeting with jpposition on nominations by direct rote at the special session of the Lcg slature. Archbishop Messmer and others ad dressed the Catholic Education Soci ?ty in session at Milwaukee. Clarence Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company lenied thc existence of a telegraph jombine. Cloudburst at Vicksburg. Vicksburg, Special. -This city and surrounding country suffered greatly by a cloudburst which struck here Sunday. Nearly every bridge in thc city and country was washed away, rhe flood carried away one house fhe Yazoo and Mississippi railroad reports 3,400 feet of track washed [v.vay a few miles below Vicksbnrg ind traffic over this line is at a stand still. Outside of the cost to the rail road, the storm damage in this city md country is at least $150,000. IN CLOSE (PRIERS Hie Tobacco I rust Overhauled By the Government COURT MAY AFF0?NT RECEIVER highly Probable That Government Will Bring Criminal Action Against Some of Defendants Named in Complaint Filed by Special Assist ant Attorney General Against tho Corporation. New York, Special-James C. Me ?eynolds, the Special Assistant At orney General appointed to prose lute the so-called tobacco trust, de bared Wednesday after filing the lomplaint in the case that the qnes ion whether he would urge the court o appoint a receiver for the various ompanics would depend entirely up m the evidence secured from the wit lesscs summoned upon his complaint, ?e said also that criminal prosecu ion of some of the defendants he lamed in the complaint is highly ?robable and that thc Sherman law, indcr which this action is brought, aakes a conspiracy in restraint of rade a criminal offense. A signifi ant feature of thc complaint filed iv Mr. McRcynolds is the waiver by lim of thc right of demanding an ders under oath from corporations nd individuals named as defendants n his complaint, as the making of uch answer under oath might con er immunity from prosecution. The individuals named as defen ants and named as witnesses are ames B. Duke, president of thc Ara rican Tobacco Company; John B. Jobb, president of the American Ci ar Company, William K. Harris, hairman of the board of managers f the British-American Tobacco Co.; )alcb C. Tuela, vice president of the American Tobacco Company, and t irector of thc American Snuff Com pany; Percival "S. Hill, rice pres ent of the American Tobacco Com >any; W. C. I?ced agent in the Unit d States for the Imperial Tobacco ,'ompany of Great Britain; Thomas \ Byan, Pierre Lori Hard, Peter A. B. Videner, Anthony N. Brady, and tactically all of the other directors f the American Tobacco Compairy. Mr. McReynolds appeared before he clerk of the court alone to file he complaint, but the- petition is igned by Attorney General Charles . Bonaparte, Milton D. Pary and Ed in P. Grosvenor and James C. Mc ?eynolds, assistants to the Attorney fencral. Jap Admiral in New York. New York, Special-"I think the riendly relations of long standing be ween the United States and Japan hould be preserved and ~the passing torin disappear in the waters of the 'acific ocean I firmly believe that Iiis one incident cannot be thrown in he way of the present relations be ween the two countries which began t the time of my birth." Thus spoke Admiral Baron Gombel 'amamoto, Japanese minister of Ma ine, during the Japanese-Russian rar, as a greeting to the American eople on his arrival here with his iiite on board the Cunard steamship Jarmania. Admiral Yamamoto bas cen inspecting the gunships and ship ards of Europe, and while here c will visit our navy yards and liip-bnilding plants. He was met at uarantine by Lieut. W. H. Render on, representing Rear Admiral Good ish, commander of thc New York lavy Yard. News in Erief. Raisuli, the bandit, made Ka id ?cneral MacLean a prisoner and will mid him until granted immunity by he Sultan. Approving me report of thc Naval 'ersonnel Board, thc President or lered the retirement of 15 naval ofli e.s, including 5 captains. Sir Chentting Liang-Cheng, who leparted for China, declared that his ountry will firmly uphold the "open :oor" policy. College Destroyed By Fire. New Orlons, La., Special.-Thc St. Jharles College at Grand Coteau, La., ras destroyed by fire Monday, de pite the efforts of the able bodied men ri town who for hours fought the lames with buckets. When tclc raph communication with Grand totean dosed for the night, thc popu ace was still fighting fire, hoping to ave at least thc church. Telephone ?essages from near Grand Coteau ay thc fire was brought under con rol saving thc church. College Struck by Lightning. Knoxville, Tenn., Special-Herper tollege, a four-story brick building ii North Athens, Tenn., owned by U. !. Grant University of Athens., was truck by lightning and totally de troyed by fire which followed./ The .uilding was built some 10 years ago t a cost of $00,000, and was for ome time as an industrial depart aent of the University. Of recent ears it has been used as an apart aent house. The university carried, illy $10,000 insurance and tho loss rill be a serious one. ?nglish Commoner's Death Sudden. London, By Cable.-During a divis an "iu the House of Commons Wed icsday evening, Sir Alfred Billson, acmber for the northwest division of Staffordshire, died suddenly from ap plexy. The House immediately ad ouraed. A pathetic feature of the ncident was that Sir Alfred's daugh er was in the ladies gallery at the of her death. THE OLD MOWING LAND. One of our most serious problems Is the best treatment to give to old fields and (pastures which have for years been producing more or less igrass, usually less, and wiere condi tions at the present time are not sat isfactory. If these lands can possibly be put under tillage for a year or two, there ls no other treatment which would .prove of greater benefit. Tho soil is packed and needs ventilation, and tho plant food which it contains has become inert, and it needs the re viving influence of sunlight and air to sweeten it and bring it into proper condltioE again. But many of our New England fields are so rocky and rough that to bring them under tillage cannot be consid ered. There are a few things which can be done, even under these condi tions. A test tshould be made to de termine If the soil is acid. This te3t is very simple and consists in press ing a blt of blue litmus paper against the moist soil, being careful not to press the fingers against the paper. If the paper turns red, it indicates that the soil is acid. Such soil should receive a topdressing of lime; about forty bushels per acre, distributed evenly over the ?soil, either in the fall cr eariy opring, will tend to remove these aoid conditions.-Prof. L. A. Clinton, Connecticut Experiment Sta tion. I American Slang in Rome. The universal spread of American slang is amazing, and the globe trot, ter meets with it in the most unex pected places. Last October twu Americans wandering about the Plazt za d'Espagna, in Rome, were accost? ed by one of the Innumerable small boys who sell postal card pictures of the Ho>/ City. He held out a sheaf of postal cards and offered them foi salo, stating the price in Italian. Tho Americans did net care to buy, and, like his guil.ii the continent over, he followed them, and became a blt ol a nuisance. But he was such a merry* eyed little chap they had not thc heart to speak harshly to him. At last however .they felt obliged to say "no* ratter decidedly. It was then that he surprised them and gave them a queer little pull at their American heartstrings by saying, his black eyes ? snapping with fun and the magnitude of the achievement. "Skoedo! Ske*> do! Twanty-thr-r-r-rec!" Then hu vanished with a burst of laughter.-? New York Times. THE OTHER END Or' IT. Customer: "Who ls that lady your clerks are treating with so much def erence." Bookseller: 'That? Oh, that's Mrs. Laytest. She ia one of our six best buyers."-Puck. THE RUSE. "How was it Dr. Knowit got such & big fee from Talkative?" "Because when he was called to at tend to Mrs. Talkative for a slight nervous trouble he told her she had an acute inflammatory verbosity." "Well?" "And recommended absolute quiet as the only means of averting parox ysms of cacaoethes loquendi. Sbe*? scared dumb."-Baltimore American. Spring; Oixtfit HMJ-HM-I iiiirHrrTtfT^*TTr^*B~*rtf**Tr I? Ready. 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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. GEO. I*. COBB Johnston, South Carolina,