Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The hills lie black and 1? Far northward stretch Here where Life weary gi And God put all His w .For this the Silence is ?? Was' whispered and1 Ea And Emptiness and Sorr The ghostly cry of asin And through the pallid, J; The plain "that fies so 1 And wide and dark the 1 Eeyond each iron hill t Sf I ? Parrot's ! Fdr His M Which War Put in Je With Which the Bird ] . A friend of mine named Andrews, living a few miles from Eond, Texas, lias a large parrot that's something of a wonder in a way, not exactly as a talker,although Pedro-that's Polly's name-can say things in English, sing in French and curse like a guaucho in Spanish, but. as a fighter, and-Pedro is on record as being the /onljr., repr?sentative of his species ever "joining combat with a rattle snake. Morgan Witherspoon, a cattleman from Western Texas, in the city with a carload of beeves destined for the local slaughter house, sat in front of a saloon, near the New Orleans Batchers' Co-operative Abattoir, sev eral days ago, and, being in the mood for yarn-spinning. Mr. Witherspoon rid himself of a Story out of the or dinary for the benefit of those near Mm. Thc parrot was a young, mean tempered little thing at the time Andrews bought him from a Mexi can," Mr. Witherspoon started his story, "but after a while, when the bird began to know folks about the pb??, he manifested a better disposi tion, didn't squawk outrageously and raffle np' his feathers when any one .approached, and showed no disposi tion to ase that powerful beak of bis. ~Pedro was a wise bird-what par rot isi:*t?-and from the children he readily learned to talk quite a lot. Mrs. Andrews, who was a Creole lady from Louisiana, had a mighty fine voice, and of an evening when the family was gathered in tue sitting room after the day's work was over, she would sit at the plano and sing songs in French.' One of these songs "was aa easy little ditty, and Pedro, sitting on his roost in his big tin cage in the kitchen, instead of going to sleep as orderly parrots should do with the advance of night, put his i faculties to work to master the ditty, and one day he astonished the good people by bawling off .he first line of the opening stanza in a voice that sounded like files grating against each other. "Mrs. Andrews, greatly amused, devoted much of her spare time to teaching Pedro some more ot the song. Pedro's favorite perch during I the day in fair weather was the rail- j ?ng of the side gallery' overlooking ! the poultry yard, and Mrs. Andrews," in her spare moments, would take ?er chair, place it close to the bird, and, seating herself, sing in low; soft voice. - "Pedro seemed to appreciate that &?8 mistress' vocal efforts were being made in his behalf, and, arching his bead to one side, and ruffling his neck feathers-a sign indicating eithor pleasure or anger in one of hfs species -ho would listen attentively, cluck ing to himself the while. "Pedro, in less than a month, learned the whole four lines of the first verse, and he would sing them, too, when Mrs. Andrews would coax bim with a chicken bone, and every body thought Pedro was just too smart for anything. But if Pedro's artistic temperamenti was developed by Mrs. Andrews, all that was bad in him was brought to the surface by Miguel, one of the Mexican hired mex. At lunch hour, when the fam ily was in the dining room at dinner, and Miguel was finished with his, re past, the greaser would go to the yard, stand near the gallery and give vent to the foulest Spanish oaths he could lay tongue to. "Yon can do more swearing and cursing ia Spanish than any other language; it has Billingsgate beaten a mile, and what Miguel said to that j bird wouldn't make nice reading for a Sunday-school paper. Parrots are quick to learn anything, and espe cially attentive are they when bad things are being, ba?? ed them. It vas lucky for Mrs. Andrews'that she hadn't mastered Spanish, for had her education extended that far I reckon she'd have thought that Pedro was only fit for some reform school or a Jail, where obscene and vulgar pris oners are locked up. If the lady couldn't talk Spanish her husband could, and he followed Pedro's dis course beyond the 'Caramba' and the .carrajo' stage with increasing aston ishment. : Andrews knew where to toy the blame, and, hunting up Mig nel, he kicked the Mexican all around the yard, without telling him why. "Miguel, rubbing the sore spots, and mattering maledictions under his breath, saddled bis mule and rode away- from th? Andrews place, but that wasn't the last of him by any manner of means, as the sequel will show. He was to appear in a few days, seeking a desperate vengeance, a fiendish plan which was to be frus trated by Pedro, the parrot. "One afternoon-lt was the third day after Miguel, the Mexican, had been kicked off the place-Mrs. An drews left the sitting room and went to tlie gallery to sing to Pedro. Ly ing in the yard, close to the steps, she noticed a wooden box, about two feet long and a foot deep. A piece of thick wire netting, set in a frame pf wood, which had doubtless been tho cover of the box, was near at bajad. Mrs. Andrews was puzzled at tho presence of the box in the yard, bat ber attention was diverted from farther contemplation of it by the wild screaming of the parrot. The parrot was on his perch on the rail ing, bot be appeared to be %i a state ?.RK_.N GRO?IND?. 5W against the West, the valleys of the dead rew and sighed, for; rest .orn-Qut world to bed. here some last word rth's twilight tale was told, ow only heard sn things and old. ight three deod p r es crown ; ilce a yellowed 'page; [)lcod-red sun burns down hat aches with age. ; * -. , -Arthur Stringer, in Everybody s. 11 ? > M ? * m H Game Fight |fl istress' Life ? JP lopardy by the Facility * fc) learned Mexican Oaths * 11 I 111 I 1 111 I ) I tl i I I tn I M ) I i mini of ?great excitement. His feathers were ruffled, his head was thrust forward on a short neck, his win?s were extended and shrill scream fol lowed" scream frc^i his wide-opened beaked mouth. -?? ' ? "Mrs. Andrews was just in the act of ascending the three steps which led from the yard to the gallery when the door of an unusued room facing the landing was softly opened and the villainous face cf Miguel,xthe Mexic?^, showed, in the aperture. Mrs. Andrews, seeing the man, and reading murder in the expression of his features, rush?d past him on the gallery, screaming for h?lp and in tending to seek refuge behind the barred door of her room, but Miguel was swifter than she, and, overtaking her, seized her by the arm and drew j her toward him. "The Mexican, bragging the screaming woman to the door of the unused room, suddenly threw- her with great violence to the floor, and then, reaching behind him, picked up a sack, beneath the rough folds cf which some object was moving, and, swinging the sack from side to side, shcok out a" three-fojt rattlesnake. Miguel was quick to bound from the! gallery to the yard, and the snake, wriggling two inches frcm Mrs. An drews' feet, in a wild rage threw it self into a coil and thrust forward a flat, ugly head, from the scaly jaws cf which protruded a quivering, split tongue. And while the head de scribed short half-circles, which al ways come before the fatal cast, the pointed tail of the reptile showed from the rear Of the fjlds, an!, vio lently agitated, gave off a peculiar burring nois9 from the rattles. "Mrs. Andrews lost "one of her slip pers in the struggle, and the sole of her foot, covered only by a thin stocking, offered an easy target for those venomous fangs. The lady sat up and gazed at the snake, and, held powerless in the chains of a benumb ing terror, was unable to move. The snake darted its head back and forth, and gradually Its scaly head on an ever-lengthening neck came.closer tJ the foot, until finally lt was only a few inches from it. . The rattler drew back its head, arched its neck to one side, and opening wjd? its jaws, was just in the act of making its terrible casi,' when the unforeseen happened. "Pedro, who had been swaying wildly on his perch,! with 'ruffled leathers ard open beak"' and screech ing the while, flapped his wings, de pressed' his head and. flew lik4 a streak of lightning toward the snake. The parrot landed .cn top of the scaly folds, and instinctively' sought to grab the reptile's neck in his strong bill. The point of the beak instead caught the snake on the head and the lower structure of the mouth sunk with crushing force inti the Side of the rattler's neck. The snake, in a paroxysm of pain, wriggled and twisted, and Pedro was thrown some feet away, but the, bird, with a squawk of anger, quickly recovered himself, and, with wings extended ant} beak jpen, he hcbbled on -his uncertain legs toward the writhing terror. "The-diversion created by the par rot's attack had given Mrs. Andrews opportunity to regain her presence of mind, and the lady, springing to her feet, seized a handy broom and smashed and battered the snake with lt and brushed the belligerent Pedro back, to keep the parrot from coming into proximity of the deadly fangs. The snake was soon out of the fight ing, the broom having broken his back in several places, and Mrs. An drews swept the still wriggling form from the gallery to the yard. Pedro showed an inclination to follow the snake, but Mrs. Andrews stooped, and, gathering her brave champion into the folds of her apron, fled with him into the he use. "Miguel, during the strange and thrilling scene, had stood in the yard close to where the box in which he brought the snake lay, contemplat ing, with devilish satisfaction, the peril of his enemy's wife, but when his vengeance was balked by the par rot and the rattler was subsequently routed, with an oath he fled, and, leaping onto the back of his mule, which was hidden in a copse of trees a short distance from the house, gal loped away, "Th? terror of these awful mo ments had so unnerved Mrs. An drews that she went into hysterics, ? ?HpTTHE MAN V BfyL of being a ? never com] ity of his I gratitude c the ?nappreciation o These things ar great game of life, and not go down b couragement and < proof of power.?EL * ? ? * ? .* ********* and later fell into a dead faint. Whsn Andrews came in ?an hour or so later he'found his wife lying senseless on the floor near the bed, with the par rot, still showing excitement, perched on a stool at her side. Andrews, thoroughly alarmed, knelt by his wife, raised her In his arms and called to her, but, although she an swered not, Pedro screeched and squawked, cursed, flapped his wings and cried, 'Mamma! Mamma! Mam ma!' several times. Mr. Andrews, laying his wife on tho bed, ran to the yard to get some water from the well, and at the foot of the gallery steps he saw the dead' rattlesnake. He at once came to the conclusion that the reptile had bitten his wiie and that she was dying from the effects of the poison. Returning to the house, be secured a big bottle of whisky, and, going to the bed, tried tb" force some of the liquor down his wife's throat. The smell of tho whisky and the tire in the few drops that had passed her lips revived Mrs. Andrews, and, chok ing and spluttering, she sat up on the bed and vented a scream of fear, her disturbed mind still the prey of phantoms. Andrews quieted her as best he could, and a few . minutes later, the wife becoming calm, told her story. "In a few hours the whole country side was mounted and on a mad chase after the Mexican. They over took the greaser, who was riding a very slow mule, and bang! bang! bang!."there was one sctundrel less in the world. "This is a strange story, but- it Is true; nevertheless, and those of you gentlemen who are acquainted with parrots and appreciate their natural pugnacity, will not be surprised that Pedro, divining that his mistress was in danger, flew to her assistance." New Orleans Picayunes A German statistician has calcu lated that the steam power in present use on this globe is equal to 120, 000,000 horse power. The coal need ed to supply this steam fer a year would make a freight train exceeding ten times around the earth. According to a German scientist, the centre of the earth is a core, of ircn or similar material, nearly G?00 miles in diameter, separated from the outer^stony crust, 1000 miles thick, by a layer of some plastic material. That rainy winds have a marked effect in consumption has been proved by twenty years of observation in Dartmoor and North Devon, England. The death rate from ,this disease is much less in"the sheltered places than in exposed localities. Recent balloon observations have, says the University Correspondent, ?hown that bacteria are not absent [rom the upper air, as has often been supposed. At three miles exposed gelatine plates caught abundant germs, mostly pigmented, the pig ment probably forming a protection against ultra-vi<-.let rays and cold. Up to about lfjOO'ieskthere was; little Talling off in the humber of bacteria -about 400 per cubic foot of air. , An English inventor has devised i process by which it is. possible to purify rock salt direct, and on a basis which is not commercially prohibit ive, declares Popular Mechanics. Hitherto, ia preparing white table salt from reek it has been necesssary to d&pend upon the evaporation of brine. The new process consists ot melting the rock salt through the molten. mass. Impurities are separ ited and deposited, and the salt is left white and pure. The purified ?alt is found to be exceptionally fine, ind, being anhydrous, does not cake lfter the fashion of brine salt. The value of electricity for heating purposes, says the Scientific Ameri :an, is illustrated in a new electric Slue pot, which has recently been placed on the market. The economy of the device lies in the fact that the maximum amount of heat may be sp oiled instantly when needed, while :he glue may be kept warm at all :imes by a reduced fiow of current :hrough the heating cells. The glue pot consists of a cup in which the ;lue is placed, and which is set in a :asing filled with water. The electric neater is attacned to the pot immedi itely below the water. A hot water receptacle is provided in which the brushes may be kept. Some Business With Japan. The Japanese ministry of finance publishes in English and French an edition of its annual financial report tor 1907, indicating which countries ire the best clients of the empire. First comes the United States, with 131,101,015 yen; then China, with 35,619,233 yen. These two countries ilone represent almost one-half of :he total exports of Japan in a year generally unfavorable, since the de preciation of silver and the monetary ;risis have sensibly affected the com mercial and industrial circles. The :otal imports were nearly 500,000, 300 and exports a little more than 132,000,000.-New York Tribune. r******** VHO IS WORTHY leader of men will alain of the stupid helpers, of the in >f mankind, nor of f the public, e all a part of the and to meet them efore them in dis iefeat is the final BERT HUBBARD. ******** THE PASSING OP -Cartoon by Ti j "Billy Possum" to I ? SGeorgians Preparing: to (Special Dispatch to the Atlanta, Ga.-All doubt has I 1 has permanently dethroned "Tedd * gia and adjacent commonwealths a * visit of President-elect William H. I dus try, and; to-day a factory iii tha I opossums of the sizes and variety < I extended period have held infantile .J "opossum gin" is now-a term as wi I smile." j Min)))i)i))i|iM(inim.?MI SECRET J?ST OUT ABOIH FRATERNITY WH ___________ Organization Never Before Many? Cities and Origin; bers Give Bodies to Sci * Chicago.^ - A strange secret of thirty-one /years' standing was re-, vealed when more than a score of prominent' Chicago physicians and Burgeons adrditted that they were members of the Usti?n Fraternity, a society, having for its object the dis section of die bodies of its members after death and cremation of the re mains. This weird fraternity, to which only members of the .medical profes sion are admitted, is of national scope. Its headquarters are in a well furnisied clubhouse .at 3232 Lake Park avenue. Chapters ?xist in New York, Phila delphia, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and other cties. Its membership is ? taken from the ranks of the most ' prominent jractitioners in different parts of the United States. Each charter Is known as a verte- j bra. The Cllcago chapter, being the first organized, is called the "Prime Vertebra." [ts high officer is known i as the "enephalon," and its next ] highest offic?r is the "medulla." Its ' 'other off!cen are named for other ' parts of the. turnan, body. The mem?ers of ti-.e fraternity . .must underra a preparation or. ap- ' prenticeshipjjj??our. years before they . ere admitteu^rTuTI knowledge or .tir 3 weird rituals. . During this period 1 e?ch must stuiy some physiological or medical prb'H?m entirely original ; in hrs - own mild. If his faith and persevernace'inthe ironclad rules of ' the society are deemed doubtful he 1 does not becomea partof the "body." ? If the showing fe complimentary the 1 fantastic ceremmlals are adminis tered. The sodety is divided into ] three "degrees,' through which Its members must sass. They are fra- ] ternity. autopsy and cremation. ? Dr. P. M. Cl?rer, who lives in this < city, is the supreme encenhalon or J national head of the Ustionians. WHERE TIE BIG BASEBALL TEA! New York" Qty.-With the an nouncement'by; Manager Billy Mur- i ray, o' the Philadelphia Club, -hat ! the Phillies viii do their spring ?-aining at Southern Pines, N. C., it has been definitely settled where all Natioial Lea gae. New York.Marlin. Tex. Chicago.j.Shreveport, La. Cincinnati._.Augusta, Ga. Pittsburg.Hot Springs, Ark. Rt. Louis.....'.-.....Little Rock. Ark. Boston.Augusta, Ga. Brooklyn.,.Jacksonville, Fin. Philadelphia.Southern Pines, N. C. Facts About Suffi Four States give equal suffrag Utah and Idaho. Rhode Iiland, by legislative v have refusedjto adopt equal suffrag In Kansas' women have educati EIghtee?' States have school s. Montana? and Iowa permit woi sues. Louisiank gives women tai pay tiona submitted to the taxpayers. New Yorjc allows women taxpa In Great (Britain women who p can vote for all officials except mei Australia and New Zealand giv Isle of Man, Iceland and Finland. In Cape Colony, Canada and S eh vote under, various conditions fe Last year the English Pari lara there was a riot in the House, woi grille-work of; the gallery of the Ho "Votes for women!" The grilles hi There is a National American headquarters at WarreD, .0. The WHAT NEW YORK SPENDS At FOR G ARI Passengers annually carried on Ne\ Carried by steam railroads in Unit? Money spent by New Yorkers for si Population of New York City. Outlay for car fare per capita....... Number of rides per capita. Amount of gas sold in cubic feet... Cost at $1 per.1000 cubic feet. Outlay for gas per capita. Amount of electricity sold. Outlay of electricity per capita Halls of Congress. Senators Elkins and Hepburn spoke i against a change in the tariff sched ules. Services in memory of William Pinkney Whyte, of Maryland, were held. Mr. Foraker spoke on the use of detectives in investigating the Brownsville affair and Mr. Lodge re plied. In a special message to Congress vetoing a bill to dam a river in Mis souri President Roosevelt pointed out the danger of a gigantic water power trust. rS-SE TEDDY BEAR \ A. Rogers, in the New York Herald. Oust "Teddy Bear." ? Put Ont Little Animals. : New York Herald.) >een dispelled that "Billy 'Possum" j Bear" so far as the State of Geor re concerned. Already the Atlanta Taft has stimulated Southern in t city began the manufacture of toy if the "Teddy Bears" that for an affection and adult interest. The Idely used In this State as thc "Tait r A DOCTORS' WEIRD 'H A FANTASTIC RITUAL Heard of Mas Chapters in ated In Chicago-Merg ence, Then to Flames. This strange fraternity had its in ception at Hahnemann College, in this city, in 1878. During the thirty one years of its existence its weird teachings and practices have been a profound secret. Its members at the end of their probationary period take an oath that silences their tongues forever. The life on this earth is enjoyed to its utmost by them. At the end their colleagues, attired in long white sur gical gowns, gather aboutthe bier on which lie the earthly remains of their friend. The spirit they know has de parted, and the clay that is left is given over entirely to science. Their theories are augmented by this grew 5ome gift. When they havo finished the rites are said. At a crematory all that remains is given over to the flames, The doctor that was is re ?uced to a handful of dust. Dr. Fred W. Wood, former su preme encephalon, acknowledged that the fraternity was for the pur pose of autopsy and cremation. "We believe in three degrees," said Dr. Wood. "They are fraternity, which means the real fellowship on this earth; autopsy after death, which helps all mankind, and cremation, which puts an en:l to che earthly snell' tnut remains after the spirit aas flown." "What is done at tho autopsy?" ivas asked. "I cannot say," replied Dr. Wood. 'Our oathG are solemn. What we do to the body is all in the interest of science. It does no harm and it ad vances our knowledge." "What is the fraternity's belief In regard to cr?mation?" was asked. "We believe that cremation is pro per. The body is but clay, and soon ?r or later becomes but a handful of lust. When it Is given over to the fire all is ended. The translation of Usti?n' means fire." - IS WILL DO THEIR TRAINING. the National and American Leagu? teans will prepare for the champion ship season. Following is a list of the training camps of the big league baseball team3 during the coming spring: American League. New 'fork.Macon, Ga. Boston.....San Antonio, Tex. Philadenhia.New OrleaDS, La. Wanhiruion.Galveston. Tex. Chicago..California Detroit.Hot Springs St. Louis.._Houston, Tex. Cleveland.Mobile and New Orleans .age for Woman. e to women-^Wyoming, .Colorado, ote, and Oregon, by popular vote, e for women. onal and mudclpal suffrage. [ffrage for woiien. nen to vote ot municipal bond is ers the right ti vote on all ques yers to vote on Ullage taxation, ossess the necessary qualifications mbers of Parliament, e women full sufrage, as do the weden, as in parttfpf india, wom ir-school and munlipal oClcorF lent refused votes ^ women, and nen chaining thenielves to the use of Commons, wfye they cried id to be removed to fet them out. Woman Suffra^ ^pp^iation. with Rev. Anna H. Shaw ispresident. . INUALLY FARE, GAS AND ELECTRICITY A. v York railways. >d States l.??.OOO.OGO 7.flt000,000 :reet car fare. 9C?OO0.0OO ?iono.ooo . ',516.2') . \ .?25 .32,000 >00,OOO . ?32,00.000 . ;SS.OO . $20,Of).000 . 55.00 Women In the Hay's N?B. Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay rode her debut as a speaker la an adttess in favor of equal suffrage, in Ne>y0rk City. Miss Ethel Dickens, a grandd>lgh- > ter o? Charles Diekens, is the hed of a large typewriting bureau in Loa,0n, and is described as a keen busiSS8 woman. In iour States of the Union, Wyen ing, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, wo" en possess the same political rlgh, as men, voting at all elections o. the same conditions. In Wyoming the right has been exercised for forty years. VETOES STATE WIDE BILL Tennessee Senate Hears the Chief Execeutive's Official Disapproval of the State-Wide Prohibition Bill -Opponents of the Bill See a Ray of Hope-Governor Patterson States His Reas jua. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Gover nor Patterson Tuesday afternoon filed with the clerk of the Senate a message vetoing thc State-wide pro hibition bill which last week passed by both houses of the Legislature. The Governor's action followed ad journment of the Senate, after it had passed, on third reading by a vote of 20 to 13, the bill prohibiting the manufacture in Tennessee of intoxi cating liquors. On original passage the vote was 20 to 13. In his veto message Governor Pat terson charges that such legislation is against the Democratic platform and the doctrine of self-government; t?at it sets aside the recorded will of the people ; that experience ? has taught that no arbitrary prohibition law was ever obeyed and its enact ment brings no settlement of the question; that it destroys property, reduces State revenues, increases taxation, takes money from the peo ple to send it elsewhere, forment? discord, impairs the dignity of the Commonwealth, forsters hypocrisy and invites evasion and deceit in the people. Dr. Woodrow Wilson's Address at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, N, C., Special.-Laud ing Robert E. Lee as the imperson ation of power, puissant but ut?per verted to a selfish end, held under absolute control by the genius in whom it slumbered, loosed only at the call of exigency and then but for the service of the whole of society, Dr. Woodrow Wilson Tuesday night defined the crucial need of the twen* tieth century in America as a general living forth of sound principles of sociology and governmental science interpreted according to the lights and the life of to-day. "The whole face of our national life has changed,' ' declared the speaker. In the economic field the old order of work ?and enterprise has passed utterly away- . We must make use of combinations and of organiza tion upon a great scale such as a past generation had not dreamed of, and because new organization is vast and complicated we can neither express it nor control it by means of the isolated individual endeavor which used to be sufficient for carrying our material enterprises forward. In a return to the principle of individual responsibility in person and fortune for acts of violence to the rights of the people, in the enactment and en forcement of laws regulating giant; combinations of capital whose penal ties shall be visited on the indivi duals who are responsible for the acts, Dr. Wilson found what he con sidered the keynote to remedial meas ures. Centennial of Poe's Birth Celebrated at Home and Elsewhere. Charlottesville, Va., Special.-The Edgar Allan Poe centenary celebra tion reached its climax Tuesday night when able addresses were delivered by Prof. Bartlett Wendell, of Har vard, on "The Nationalism of Poe," and by Charles Alphonse Smith, of the University of North Carolina, or "Poe's Influence on Soutl ?rn Lit ;rature." Sa A cablegram was read from tho v author's Club of London, and poems j by Arthur Christopher Benson, of I England, Prof. Edward Dowden, of ' Ireland, and John Boyd, of Canada, j (vere read. There wa6 also many tributes from distinguished foreign ers. Dr. Charles W. Kent presided it the exercises. The 19th being the centennial an aiversay of Poe's birth New York ind many other places celebated the Jvent, Governor Chamberlain Elected Sen ator in Oregon. Salem, Ore., Special.-Gov. George 3. Chamberlain, a Democrat, was o/i ruesday elected United States Seua or to succeed C. W. Fulton, receiving i majority of each House of the Leg Blature, which voted in separate ses i?n. " verman Succe-ds Himself as United , Stetes Senator. Raleigh. N. C., Special.-The elec on of Senator Lee S. Overman to iccecd himself for a second terra in ie Senate cf the United States was ie feature in both ??ranches of the enerol Assembly. The vole in the cnatc was 30 to fi and in thc House ) to 26. Juclgc Spencer B. Adams ;ing honored by the minority with ie complimentary nomination. The ?eeches in nomination were made in e Senate by Senator Klnttz and enator Britt, respectively, and in e Ilouse by Representatives Julian id Grant. . f sorfM Lumber Con-pr-vy Gets Big Veridict Against Sci:'hern. Macon, Ga., Special.-The Srvtkri umber Company ?as Tuesday carded a yerdiot of $9.444.43 rainst the Southern Railway et al. bis suit was instituted in ronnoc m with tho famous Tift Lubber )mparty suit versus the Southern lilw.ty et al., allceinir. overttj?? rires ?ocisl Master in Chancery Tali ry bwitted thc report Opposes Increase in Navy. Boston, Special.-A remonstrance ;ainst a further increase of thc nitcd States navy, signed by 224 ;rgyracn of various denominations Boston and vicinity was sent to mgress Monday. It is the belief ot e ministers that naval preparation? ve grown so enormously as to be rne a di-trcssing burden on thc ihest nations and an actual menaco tho peace o? thc world. di: at ve 17 nc th fo Ci tt< Sa I ELIHU ROOTJESTIFiES Tells the Grand Jury What He Knows About the Purchase of the Canal, But Refuses to Give Out Anything. Washington, Special.-"I simply brought my subpoena and conscience wies me," jocularly remarked Secre-. tary of State Elihu Boot, who Fri day was one of the chief witnesses before the United States grand jury in its investigation of the alleged libel in connection with the purchase of the Panama canal. The Secretary made the remark to newspaper men who sought to interview lum a few minutes before he went into the grand jury room. Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, and Assistant Attor ney General Charles W. Russell, also gave testimony. All declined to throw any light upon the nature of their testimony. William Nelson Cromwell may be one of the witnesses Saturday. "Well," said Secretary Root as he emerged from the grand jury room, "I cannot tell you boys, of course, how I testified. But I will say this-, it is the first time I have ever been in this building since the trial of Charles J. Guitteau for the assassina tion of President Garfield, in 1882. I was then here as a spectator onlyr" COOPiai-SHAPE TRIAL DRAGS. Third Bay's Session of the Cooper Sharps Trial Closes Without the Addition of . a Single Juror and the List Remains at Six. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-The third day of the Copper-Sharpe mur der trial passed not only without se curing another juror, but if the mo tion of the State is sustained, one of the six already chosen will be eli minated because he was intoxicated when he reported for service and was ehosea. The State claims it secured knowledge of Juror Leigh's condition after it had accepted him. The summoning of 500 additional talesmen began Into Thursday after aoon to appear" Monday to complete toe jury to try the alleged slayers of 3x-Senator Edgard W. Carmack. When the six selected jurors were brought into court Friday morning, me of them, J. Whiteworth, called Judge Hart and said? "Judge, I've been used to my norning toddy for a good many years Hid I missed it powerfully this mora ng. Can't I get one-just one, every norning?" "The constitution prohibits unusu al or rruel punishments," remarked the court judicially. "Mr. Officer, see that those gentlemen who are [vont to have a toddy get their toddy hereafter." FLOODS SWEEP TRANSVAAL. Snrsting Dam Floods Gold Mine, Drowning 160 Laborers. Johannesburg, By able.-One hun Ired and seventy-three persons aro mown to have lost their lives Friday is a result of the floods which are general throughout the Transvaal ;olony and northern. Natal. ? Great lamage also bas been done to )roperty. By the bursting of __*_ight'3 lam, the Witwatersrand ,ex)ld mine in he southwestern part :of the Trans raal"was flooded and ten white men ind 150 natives were drowned. The rater from this dam also flooded the ower section of the Town of Elsburg rh ere a number of houses were swept iway and 13 persons perished. A ;old dredger valued at $60,000 broke drift on the Kaap river and was ?recked. Saves Woman But Loses His Life. . Scranton, Pa., Special:-M. J. Duf y, station master of the Delaware, lackawanna & Western Railroad! at lallstead, wns run down and killed y the New York flyer just in front f the station Sunday afternoon. >uffy ran out on the tracks to rescue woman who was in danger of being an down by another train going in n opposite direction. Three Killed in Explosion. Johnstown, Pa., Special. - Three hildren between three and four years Id were killed, another, aged five, 'as severely burned, and two women, ?others of the little ones, were pain ully injured at Stoughton, Somer ?t county, when the children touched match to a keg of powder to see it laze. All the dead and injured are oreigners. Their home was almost emolished by the explosion. Jones Elected Chief Justice. Columbia, Special.-Associate Jus :ce Ira B. Jones, of Lancaster, was lect'ed Chief Justice of the Supreme, ourt of South Carolina for the un fired term of Chief Justice Pope, hose resignation has been .accepted, ir. Jone6 has served on the Supreme ourt Bench since January, 1896, ith conspicuous ability. He is rec jnized as a man of unusual ability, id his written opinions as a mem ?r of the Supreme Court have been liversally commended and favor fly received. Mr. Jones has been in ctive public life for many years. Boy Shoots Bis Father. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.-Wil am O. Bethea, a young white man, lot and instantly killed his father, eorge Bethea, late Friday afternoon i the old man was entering the home ! his daughter in the western see on of the city. There had been td blood between father and son for me time, which terminated in a larrel, which caused the old man's ;ath. Bethea is under ay__st. Charleston Dispensary Profits. The total net profits of the county .pensary for Charleston county iring the months of October, No mber and December were $30, 1.07, the amount in legal dispute t being included. The division of e prc fits, under the law, is as Hows : ty of Charleston.$14,492.35 aunt Pleasant. 593.18 nitary and drainage com mission. 6.034.21 ty Schools. 6.034.21 neral county fund.3,017.12