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f ; PALMETTO H y News Noies From All Paris of j 5 Carolinians i Soliders' Home Assailed and Defend . ed. .. Columbia, Special.-Capt. W. D. Starling, the commandant at the Con federate Soldiers' Home has been .communicated with regarding the following dispatch from Anderson: Andersen, jane 7-'' Because, i' he .says, "of layk of discipline among the inmates of the Soldiers' Home at Columbia arid because the inmates are allowed to curse, tell smutty jokes and keep themselves indecent : and because their table manners are horrible^"' Mr. /Riley Rowland, who went to the Home from this county, has returned and says that he will, never enter, the Home again, unless great changes take place. Mr. Row land is one of the few survivors pi the "Crater"" at Petersburg, and there is no man living moje honor able and truthful. He has high ideals and his friends here are distressed to learn that conditions are 'so thst he cannot remain at the Home Where he has been looking forward to spend ing his declining years. Mr. Row land says he stayed at the Home as long as" he could bear it and then left.' His friends will provide a home here for him. ' Capt. Starling indignantly denied the. entire statement. "The .truth of the matter is,: ' said the command ant, "we had to call this Mr. Row land's attention to his unclean habits and his lack of ordinary cleanliness. I did this after sev?raL complaints and Mr. Rowland finally announced tbathe was going to leave and go back home. He said before leaving that he had, nothir g ' to / complain about as to the management of the Home, and that he had already ar ranged for a petition to be prepared oy several ladies that would increase lis pension. '.' Capt. Starling has had several years' of experience in deab"ng with the . arrangements for the. care of veterans and he knows thoroughly every possible complaint that might arise and as. a result he has endeav ored to conduct the Home just as he -, would any place of like .character. The atmosphere of the Home has im pressed all visitors as nearly like a South Carolina home as it could be, ?nd "among those admitted are some men of elegant manners, men of culture and refinement. Father and Son Indicted. Aiken, Special.-The grand jury today returned a true bill against \Morgan E. Boylston and C. TV. Boj Iston, his son, foi- assault and bat tery of a high and aggravated nature. ' This matter was brought before the graad jury Tuesday. It is alleged that the two Boylstons assaulted one James Salley, colored, on May 7, and by severely beating him forced him to say that he had lied at the trial of Morgan E. Boylston, for the as sassination of Chief of Police . Davis at Salley about a year and a half ago. The negro wassail to have been Severely beaten_anH-- ' fer was brought befe jury by some of. the of Salley. Congressman Ellerbe'' ? Leg. "Washington, Special 1nve Ellerbe had an ui .eident Friday night. SI _ glazed tiled floor of th?T?bDy~cf the Metropolitan hotel, he broke his leg just below the knee. He was taken at once to the Providence hospital, where he, is now. Sunday he was re ported getting along very -well, though suffering considerably from the pain. No serious danger is an ticipated. Mr. Ellerbe wrote his wife who is in South Carolina, that it is not wortn while to come up. New Mill Company Formed. Greenville, Special.-The Greer's Manufacturing Company has been formally'organized and the president and treasurer and directors elected for the new mill. The mill will be lo cated at Greer's, and the erection of the building, it is understood, will be started at an early, date. Boy Drowned in Aiken. Aiken, Special.-Coroner Johnson went Tuesday afternoon to Dibble's pond, several miles below the city to ..hold an inquest over the body of a boy, son. of Charley Green, colored, who was drowned in the pond Sunday afternoon. The boy, with several others, was bathing in the pond and Oreen swam a distance from the banks. He vras suddenly heard to ?ry for help, but before it could it could reach him he sank, and up to a late hour his body had not been found. This is the second or third person that has been drowned in this , pond in the last few years. Six Horses Bumed in a Barn. Greenville, Special.-The stable of Dr. J. B. Bruce, living at Sandy Flat, in the upper part of Greenville coun ty, was struck by lightning Wedn?s day afternoon, during an electrical storm* and was burned to the ground. Five of Bruce's horses were tnirned to death, and fhe feed stuft in the barn was destroyed. A horse of Charlie W. Mitchell, of O'Neal, was burned to death also in the bain. Winthrop Conract Let. Bock Hill, Special.-The bids for building a new* dining 'room and kitchen at Winthrop College were opened on the 4th. The contract has been awarded to J. J. Keller & Co., of this eity, at a figure in the .neigh borhood of $32,000. The time which the contractors have in which to finish these, September 10, is very limited, and it is quite possibT* that a night* shift may be necesary in-or der to finish by then.' l?PPENINIGS the State of Interest to South in General Rabid Dog Bites Two Laurens Men. laurens, Special.-Mr. Fred W. Greene of this city left early Monday morning for Atltanta to take thS Pasteur treatment foi a dog bite re ceived last. Tuesday. - Saturday tho, head of the dog was sent to Atlanta to be . analyzed and a t telegram re ceived Monday stated that the dog had rabips. Hence Mr. Green .left at- once .for. treatment. Nothing much was thought of the matter at first, hence the delay. It was on Tuesday of last week- that the dog, a pet, belonging to Mr. J. ?. Copeland, appeared sick. Mi*. Copeland thought it was only some common ailment and called in Mr. Greene, who is quite a dog fancier, to assist him in doctoring the animal. Both Mr. Copeland and Mr. Greene were bitten, the former's hurt, being only the sHghtest scratch, though, while Mr. Greene's right hand was severely lacerated in two places. Mr. Copeland will take treatment at home. There seems to be consider able danger of an epidemic of rabies among the dogs right now, for Mon day night a dog, . certainly ' mad, judging from his actions and the number of fights it precipitated, pass ed through the city.- The negroes state that it passed "Possum Hol low" and bit a number of dogs; it came on the public square and the policemen, while quite sure it was mad, had.no opportunity to shoot it without endangering the large plate glass of the store windows. It went on to the factory hill and bit moro dogs. - / Little Boy Meets Sad End. Denmark, Speciai.-Little Edward Pogle, age seven, son of Mrs. Joanna Fogle, met his death in a most pe culiar manner Monday, due to? an ac cident which, happened to him Sat urday. The laborers were hauling in oats from the field and had stopped the wagon in front of the dwelling to get a drink of water. The little fellow climbed into the wagon, but, by a sudden start, of the mules, lost his balance, fell out of the wagon and the wheels rolled over his thigh. Mrs. Fogle did not think her son was hurt much, as he soon began to play with the other children, appar ently forgetting his fall. Sunday the little fellow had a hemorrhage and, ?upon being examined by the family physician, it was discovered that a blood vessel had been ruptured, and tha* it would be impossible to save his life. The lad died Tuesday morn ing after suffering intensely for many hours. Cleve Fanning Foully Slain, Williston, Special.-Cleve Fanning was slain from ambush Saturday night near the old Phillips mill-site, by a party whose identity is reason ably Well. If???" h"* Edisto. river, about six and. a half miles ii'om the killing. There the dop stopped at a tree on1 the river's brink. f Mr. Fanning was heard to remark just before leaving Williston for his home that'he was "afraid to go." Bad blood has existed between him and s?me parties in the neighborhood and it is thought that he was ex pecting to be assassinated. Shot at Wife Through Door. Columbia, Special.-A race horse man konwn as "Sugar Babe" Court ney, who came here Festival week with the horses that were brought from Jacksonville, shot at his wife in. a local hotel Saturday, after kick ing in the panels of her room door, after she had locked him out. The shot did not take effect. White Woman Murdered. Columbia, Special-With a gash in the top. of-her head and with her throat eui from ear to ear, the body of Victoria Griffin, a married woman of "this city, was found Friday morn ing in a well cn her premises. In the kitchen of the woman's, home were found a bloody axe and razor, with which the murder evidently was com mitted. Three sons of the murdered woman-Walter, Jim and Russell Griffin-Luke Lewis, a friend of the dead woman's daughter, and S. Wash Medlin, a former boarder at the wo man's house, are under arrest in con nection with the murder. Crops Not Ruined in Cherokee. . Gaffney, Special.-In spite of the damage by the recent heavy rains in Cherokee county some good crops of wheat have been harvested. Your correspondent found some crops that will yield from 20 to 30 bushels of wheat pe racre. Everywhere the oat crop is good, and where they were not blown flat by the winds will make good yields. Corn and cotton crops are promising, although some crops are suffering for want of work. Demented Youth Jailed at Gaffney. Gaffney, Special.-Chief of Police Coke Duncan, of Blacksburg, brought Victor Westbrook to Gaffney Tues day morning and committed him to the county jail Young Westbrook has been demented to a certain ex tent -for some time; and. recently has become dangerous, so much so that his father deemed it best to have him confined. His father, Mr. R. A. West brooks is one of Cherokee's best citi zens, and his friends hope for his son a speedy recovery. yiStilNGTOW NOTES j 'The most important happenings in the national capital Monday were rs follows: . . *. ~ Whiskey, in the legal meaning! of the word, is whiskey even when col ored, or ilavoring matter is ?dded, ac cording to an opinion rendered to President Taft hy Lloyd M. Bowers, solicitor general of the United States. He holds that' as snch coloring and flavoring have been used in all the history ol whiskey, such addition can not be illegal or. incompatible with the narre whiskey. ' The Porto Rican bill, unamended, was passed by the House. It provides that wh?n the Porto'Rican Legisla ture fails to pass ah apropriation bill the same apropriations shall hold as provided in the last, bill passed. In connection with . the discussion Tuesday in the Senate , of \the woolan schedule of the tariff bill, ?? Senator Carter, of Montana, with .a large box bf various grades of wool by his side, gave.a lesture on the woolen industry l'rom beginning to end. Many Sena tors flocked about him to examine the samples. Most of the day was occu pied by Senator Dolliver, who propos ed, among other things, an amend ment to assess duties on woolens on. an ad valorem basis according to the shrinkage of the wool. Senator Smoot and. Warren upheld ike: finance committee's recommendations on the schedule. . A proposed amendment to the in terstate commerce law to give ship pers the same right of appeal to the courts now enjoyed by the railroads, was presented to President Taft by a delegation of citizens'from Spokane, Wash.. \ *, . . . The tariff bill reached an eventful stage in the Senate Saturday. A num ber of items in.- the free list were disposed of. Works of art over twenty years old were placed on the fre list by a vote of 53 to 15. The starch industry re ceived protection by. a r?visai of the committee's . recommendations by which tapiloca and sago flour will be subject to a duty of one cent a pound when not imported for food. Crude potash, potash carbonated, caustic potash and radium were placed on the free list. / The latest innovation in the United States navy was the decision to equip the battleships Florida, Utah, Dele ware and North Dekota with auto matic electric elevators for the use of officers. Beyond the statement that the De partment of Justice has assigned two agents to duty in New York under in structions to examine into the condi tions under which the recent compro mise was affected by the American Sugar Refining Company and th? Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Com pany, no officiai information can be obtained here regarding the purpose of the administration. It is, of course, understood that the special agents are looking into the allegations that tht compromise disnl^oo^ -->--?^ non. uut omciais ol tlie Department of Justice, when pressed for a state ment of its intentions, declared that the proceedings in their present stage must be regarded as confidential. . . . . In the Senate where the woolen schedule of the tariff biil was under discussion Friday, Senator LaFol lette declared that Senator Aldrich had forfeited the confidence cf other Kepublican Senators and had stated "half truths, which have discredited his leadership before this body and before this country." When the chair called Mr. LaFollette to order because cf his personal allusion, the latter said he- had not noticed that the rule forbidding personal allusions had been applied equally to all Sena tors. Twenty-four amendments to the wool schedule offered by Mr. La Follette and voted on en block were voted down, as also several amend ments by Senator Bacon and one by_ Senatore Gore. Consideration on the income ques tion was postponed by the Senate un til June 18. Department of Agriculture decided to investigate charges made by J. F. Harms against the meat inspection system at the National Yards East St. Louis. Secretary .Ballinger eliminated the common carrier and the so-called confiscatory clauses of the old oil and gas pipe line regulations in opera tion in Oklahoma. The American National Red Cross Society sent $5,000 for reliof work in Asia Mince . . . . In the consideration of the woden schedule of the tariff bill by the Sea ate Wednesday, the finance commit tee won several victories, three of its amendments to increase the rates by the House on wool top and oth^r wastes, on shoddy and on tops being adopted. The increase was from 20 cents to 30 cents per pound. Senator Dolliver, declared that he had dis covered a rag trust, whih was denied by Senator .Warren. Senators Warren and LaFollette were the principal speakers, the former speaking in favor of increased and the latter in favor of Ibwer duties. John Norris, chairman of the com mittee o? paper of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, addressed the finance committee in a plea for free wood pulp and lower duty on -print paper. t The Interstate Commerce Commis sion an dthe shippers and railroads interested in the Spokane rate case agreed to postpone until fall the phases of tho case still in contro versy. . -Cartoon NEW WOMAN A FREAK One Who Strives For Man's Work "a \ dares-Sees Suffragists' Doom-T! !jy Howling-Dervish Suffragett Albany, N. Y. - Bishop William Croswell Doano, in his address to the graduating: class bf St. Agnes' Scho*l bitterly attacked the new woman in her. efforts to ..do man's work, and de nounced the woman suffrage cam paign as a "hysterical clamor em-| ployed in.'the pursuit of this chi mera." ? ? "Your womanhood is your especial gift, of gr?ce and honor equal to, but different from, the glory of man hood," he said, to the young women students. ; j "Nothing but mischief and misery and confusion worse confound ed'can -come from the attempt to make the'vtwo the same. The mascu line woman, the effeminate man, like bearded women or a long haired man, is a lususinaturae, a monstrum hor rendum..informe. So, first, you are to keep and guard as a .sabred trust your womanhood, your femineness. "In thei-.stress and strain, in the crush and*, pressure of our modern life, woman has elbowed herself into certain kinds of work in which she resembles.. and rivals man. How much humanity, how much society, has' gained by it, if employed women are to m?k?-,unemployed men, it ls difficult, if not impossible, to say. And yet. I believe things will right themselves in time. But this deep line of distinctive difference remains unch?nered. "There are still a'multitude of oc cupation^-i-n which 'neither can sup plant the other. And in our huge country,- with its growing demands, the bal?nce will sooner or later be struck. While each ses must confixe itself to certain sorts of occupation, men being unable tb do much of women's work, as women are unable to 'do much of men's, where there is -^"?"linn c T> rm ni-Ljve--??-.I FARMERS MIGHT RULE So Secretary Wilson JD eel LL.D. Prom M Montreal, Canada.--At the special convocation ot the governors of Mc Gill University, at Macdonald College, its new school of agriculture, the de gree of doctor of laws was conferred ,'upon James Wilson, the United States Secretary of Agriculture; Dr. James Ear! Russell, .Dean of the Teachers' College of Columbia University, and several Canadians. In an/ address Secretary Wilson said: ". ". "Half the people under your flag and our?, till the soil for a livelihood. They are, not the sroverning class in either country, while they hold the balance'of power at the ballot box. "It is their duty to prepare to use WEAT AEROPJ Not Only End War But I \ tional Rc: London.-It is not easy to explain how grave a factor in modern civili zation the aeroplane has become in the estimation of all European gov ernments. The Question seriously discussed ir. all the?chancelleries is: Will the aeroplane end war or will it first destroy the present system of international relationship? ; . It Is now freely admitted by many high ?uthorities that within perhaps three or four years airships will dom inate all navies and all armies. . Such alarmists as Captain Bulloch affirm -- - - - ~ -i a Faculty Says Moonlight Excursions Are "Spooning and Silliness." Springfield, Mass.-rOn the ground .hat the last annual moonlight excur sion of the Technical High School pu pils was an occasion characterized chiefly by "spooning and? silliness," the faculty of the school bas ordered arrangements for a "moonlight" next week cancelled. The faculty announces that instead there will be a "sunlight" from 1 to 6 p. m., with a basket lunch and a ball game. Many pupils decided to cut the "Sunday-school" picnic. The Labor World. Red Lodee. Mont., will have a labor temple witnin a few months. All municipal printing in Onedia, N. Y., must bear the union label. Canadian civil servants have or ganized a civil service federation. The . Kansas Legislature passed eleven laws advocated by union labor. In 1866 the first National. Labor Congress was held at Baltimore Au gust 20. The hew union of women employes of the bureau of engraving and print ing at Washington, D. C., has upward of 300 members. E. BRIDE. rr . g ,; by Berryman, in the Washington Star. , SAYS BISHOP DOANE lorrible, Misshapen Monster," He De leir "Quiet Appeal Will Be Drowned es"-Talks to Girl Graduates. every duty done, or every service ren dered! or every position faithfully filled. "I believe myself that the vocation' of a trained nurse is as honorable and as valuable as the calling of a physician, and to my old-fashioned notion is more suitable and more be coming. In spite of the fair figure and quick cleverness of Shakespeare's Portia, I think the place for the wom en pleading is with Mrs. Ballington Booth in the cells and corridors of jails rather than in the courtroom be fore a jury and a judge. And I am absolutely sure that the admission or the intrusion of women into the min istry is not only against the teaching of Scripture and the tradition of cen turies, but is the spoiling of their great power and teaching and influ encing in schools and classes a ftw at a time those whom the very closeness and quietness and privacy influence and effect. "Deep in the very roots of nature and character the cleavage of this difference lies. Guard it and humor it as the choice and special gift to you of power, as the intimation and indication to you of the lines by which to shape your lives. Truly as the boy is father of the man. so truly the girl is mother of the woman. And I have hope and confidence to think that some such shaping and setting as your womanhood has taken on her I will make and mold your womanhood when you get out into the world. "' cannot count it necessary and perhaps it ls not wise for me to cau tion you. against the loudly shrieked call to give women the right to vote and to bf voted for. I am disposed to think that the quiet and decent ap peal of a if?w A1--" I IF THEY ONLY WOULD arcs on Getting Degree of cGr.ll University. power with conservatism and intelli gence. . ' "Many new things are proposed with regard to government nowadays that require cool heads to consider, to adopt or to reject. The street cor ner and the saloon are not as safe forums as the farmer's fireside when public questions are acute. "The coming millions that will find homes on this hemisphere will look to agriculture to feed and clothe them. Manufacturing industries will esoect to be fed cheady. Commerce will look to the soil for trafic. The banker will,look to the fields to give I life to enterprise and maintain the j balance of trade, and the educated farmer will be the wellspring of all these movements." .ANES MAY DO. icstroy All Present Interna lationsliips. ' that half a dozen aeroplanes in evil hands could destroy London. England has at last an aeroplane that can fly, but it is a mystery that has set the whole country wondering. It flies only at night and it has been seen at widely different places in the vicinity of Peterborough. Nobody kuows from whence it comes. Stead has a sensational article in the Mail affirming that in a short time airships will destroy the cus toms systems of Europe and obliter ate the frontiers. Remarkable Order Just Issued by the British Army Council, London.-The Army Council' issues a- remarkable instruction concerning tb.9 use of the white flag in future campaigns in the nev? field service regulations Just published for the guidance of British officers. It ii, stated that the recognition ot a white flag'in an enemy's position or lines ls L a obligatory on a command er. It should be disregarded in cases where movements of troops or mate rial are carried out under its protec tion. About Noted People. Castro' ls called upon to pay six years' back rent for the palace that he occupied in Caracas. At Geneva, Switzerland, Jules Er nest Navllle, philosopher and educa tor, died at the age of ninety-three. Governor Hughes,. of New York, has arranged to pass the summer at Saranac Inn, fifteen miles from Sara nac Lake. Baron Alverstone, in an address before a section of the Chemistry Congress, strongly opposed the re voking clause in the British patent law. . "Raisin Day." Out in the San Joaquin Valiey th raisin growers are not riven to des pair. But with a new crop of flam ing tokays ripening, and with im mense stores of last year's fruitage unconsumed, some of thew have been forced to feed raisins to their cat tle. They have accordingly set apart April 30 as "raisin day." and pub lished an appeal to the American people that their raisins be made part ,of the dishes on the breakfast, lunch and dinner tables o' thc nation on that day. If each family lu the Unit ed States sbali consur.ve a pound of .raisins in this way. rhe remainder, as they estimate, mny bc easily disposed of before harvest We suggest that every housewife might w'th advantage not only observe "ralsiu day," but make this inexpensive luxury a more regular part of the family dietary. Philadelphia Ledger. |^..MllillIl.I.,i.,i..H"H"l"H"I- I"H"? THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA. GA. L. C. ELAYNE, CHAS. R. CLARK,. President. Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.09. Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. The business of ocr out-of-town friends , .receives the same careful attention as tbut of our local depositors. Trie Accounts .of careful conger uti ve people solicited. 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