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Senator Hale "Objects" to the Appropriation. VALUABLE LANDS NOT DRAINED More Than 50,000,000 Acres of Lands Will Net he Reclaimed-Delega tions of Farmers Urged the Impor tance of the Amendment-Bat 33,600,090 is Incorporated For the Pleasure of the Residents of Wash ington, D. C. Washington, Special.-An amend ment carrying an appropriation of $150,000 to 3how the people of the South how to drain and reclaim 50, 000,000 acres of the most valuable land in the United States, was kept out of the sundry civil bill by reason of the opposition of Senator Hale, of Maine. The amendment was one introduced in the . Senate by Senator .Foster, of - Louisiana, and endorsed by Southern Senators. With the elimination of the drainage amend ment, there was incorporated in the same bill by the same Senator from Maine an amendment appropriating $3,600,000 for the purchase of eleven city blocks to afford a better view of the new union station from the Capi tol and office building occupied by Senators. The amendment that was eliminated from the bill by the Senator from Maine would have re sulted in the development of 50,000, 000 acres of the richest and most pro ductive land in the entire country, thus adding hundreds of millions in dollars to the, wealth of the nation. The amendment incorporated in the hill at the instance of Senator Hale satisfied the whim of a few Senators. The first amendment is endorsed by the farmers of the country, three large delegations having come to Washington from the South and Southwest and appeared before com mittees of Congress to urge the im 1 portance of the appropriation for a survey with the object of proving how this waste land may be drained for settlers and home-seekers. The sec ond amendment is endorsed largely i by people who live in Washington City. Senator Hale is next to the oldest member of the S?nt.te in point of service, and his viewpoint is largely restricted to New England. He is a product of another day and out of touch with the modern thought for the development of the country. The people of Maine have decided to re tire him to private life after March, and as a result he is not a candidate for re-election. The efforts of Sena tor Hale well entitle him to the re spite from public life that awaits him. Gov. Glenn on Negro Education. Cleveland, Ohio, Special.-A severe arraignment of the Southern States for their failure to properly educate the negro was delivered Wednesday night in an address by former Gov ernor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina. Mr. Glenn declared that in eleven Southern States, where the negroes form 40 per cent of the population, only 15 per cent of the school fund is devoted to their education. He was speaking at the Euclid Avenue Christian Church. 1 'This' leads," he said, "to an in crease in crime and immorality and is especially noted in the illiterate leadership. "There are 30,000 negro preachers, ?who exercise an enormous influence over nine million negroes. About 10 per cent of these have received more than a primary education and the remaining 27,000 are ignorant men, who are framing the destinies of mil lions of their felloivs." Why Not Include Poker? Baton' Rouge, La., Special.-If Rep resentative I)erouen, of Iberia parish, can pass a bill, notice of which he has given in the' lower branch .of the legislature, bridge whist will be tabooed in the State of Louisiana. The bill calls for "the absolute sup pression of the playing of bridge whist." Parr an Honest Man. New York, Special.-Richard Parr, special agent of the Treasury De partment, the man who ferreted out the American Sugar Refining Com pany's frauds, will come into a for tune from the government for his work. He may get $700,000. Marking Graves at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pa., Special.-Fifty nine handsome granite monuments with bronze tablets are being placed on the Confederate avenues to take ithe places of the iron battlefield markers, which have hitherto marked the position of the Southern brigades at Gettysburg. Ont Ont Whiskey for a Year. Charleston W. Va., Special.-By a unanimous vote the county commis sioners of Kanakha County voted tc reject all applications for saloon licenses in Charleston and Kanawaha County for one year, beginning Julj 1st. Following this action 1,500 men. women and children, who had attend ed the session of the Court, march ed from the Court House, singing. "Nearer My God to Thef *" Old Timers Will Fight. St. Louis, Special.-Bill Clark, "the Belfast Chicken" of other fight ing days, has received an offer from Billy Delaney of San Francisco tc box a preliminary of four rounds ai the Jeff-Johnson fight. Clark is 84 years old. His opponent is to bi Jem Mace, 70 years old. Delanej wrote .he is now awaiting on M;ice 's answer.' He offers each of the forme, pugilists their expenses to San Fran cisco and $500. THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD The Heart of Happenings Cami From the Whole Country. Gov. N. P. Broward defeated IL S. Senator James P. Taliaferro for the Senate in Florida: Forty-two additional officers in the army are provided for in a bill pass ed by the Senate. Mr. Cullom, cf Illinois, is the sec ond man in age in the Senate. If he lives until November 12 next, he will be 81. The most aged man now in the Senate is Mr. Stephenson, of Wis consin. On June 29 he will be 81 years old. Andy Craig, a well-known Chicago sport, placed $10,0^0 on Jeffries against $6,000, wagered by Edward Dickson, broker, on Johnson. Four people were killed and one seriously injured at Haverstraw, N. Y., when a locomotive struck a coach returning from a- funeral. Mrs. Helen Stittz, of Toledo, O., when informed that her daughter, Helen, aged 14, had been killed by an auto, lost her power of speech. Collector Loeb has completed ar rangements with the Treasury De partment for the loan of three rev enue cutters for June 18 to meet Col. Roosevelt, Senator Frye is an enthusiastic and successful angler, and spends the greater part of his vacation on the beautiful lakes of his native State indulging in his favorite sport. Jules A. Silon, or Simon, stated to be a resident of San Francisco, as cended to the crater of Vesuvius, which is again becoming active, and was killed by inhaling the fumes. The President hopes that the Sen ate will accept the postal savings bank bill as it passes the House, and if this can be brought about speedy adjournment is said to be assured. There will be no report at this session of? Congress from the special committee of whicn Representative Olcott, o? New York, is chairman, which has been investigating the ship subsidv scandal. Charles Warner, at one time a pros perous manufacturer of canned goods, died in a Brooklyn hospital from a razor cut, which he inflicted upon himself shortly after his arrest on a charge of forgery. When President Taft nominated "Col." Thomas D. Murphy to be postmaster at Augusta, Ga., he nam ed the champion poker player of Mr. Taft's trip to Panama just before the President's term began. Five men were killed in the Rich ard Mine near Dover, N. J., by the overturning of a car, in which they were being drawn to the mouth of the mine. The miners fell a distance of 700 feet down the shaft. "My feet hurt and nobody cares for me. May God have mercy on my soul," was the suicide note left by Joseph Kress, a rural mail carrier whose body was found hanging in a barn at Bennettstown, Ky. At, London Col. Theodore Roose velt declared that he had neittier asked for nor would he accept any favors from the New York Custom House upon his return to America on June 18. He will pay all duties on his goods. .i The Georgia Bankers Association adopted resolutions emphatically en dorsing New Orleans as the city fitted in every particular for the holding of the World's Panama Exposition .in celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal in 1915. Vital statistics made public show a decrease in the birth rate in France. The births in 1909 were 770,000, against 792,000 in the preceding year. Since 1851 the population of the re public has been increased by 3,000, 000 only, while the population of Germany in the same period has been increased by 30,000,000. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has received notice that the rail roads, on June 1 increased their rates on wool approximated 20 per cent, will reduce them again on July 7. A resolution condemning the plac ing of a statue of Robert E. Lee in the National Capitol was tabled at at the closing session of the 44th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Encampment of the G. A. R., at Harrisonburg. The Methodist ministers of Greater New York have adopted resolutions calling upon voters to support Gov ernor Hughes in his fight for direct primaries. At St. Louis Dr. John B. Murphy of Chicago was elected president of the American Medical association and Dr. Geo. H. Simmons of Chicago, secretar}'. Los Angeles was selected as the next meeting place. Characterizing the river and harbor bill as a "pork barrel," Senators Burton, of Ohio, and Newlands, of Nevada, severely criticized the con ference report on that measure, which was called up in the Senate by Sen ator Nelson. . Cotton seed bread may be adopted as a ration for the United States army. The "airship glide" is the latest thing in the waltz and two-step line, introduced at the Chicago convention of the United Professional Teachers of Dancing. The seven members of the Inter state Commerce Commission Thurs day began to roll up their sleeves for a long tussle with the rate increases proposed by the railroads throughout the country. Plans for the erection of a 30-story hotel in Chicago have been announc ed. According to the plans the hotel will contain 1,400 rooms and will cost $5,000,000. At Cleveland two thousand Masons from all parts of the country par ticipated in the 21st annual session of the Supreme Council of the Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophets of the. Enchanted Realm. The Union Pacific Railroad Com pany is conducting extensive experi ments with the hope of making wire less .telegraphy available for the oper ation of trains. * HONOR MEMORY BILL NYE North Carolina Editors Think of Monument for Grave. Wrightsville Beach, N. C., Special -One of the features of the opening session of the annual convention o? the North Carolina Press Association, which convened here Wednesday, was the launching of a movement to erect a substantial memorial to the late "Bill" Nye, the humorist, whose death occurred at his home in this, State in 1896, and whose unmarked grave in Henderson county^ is the mecca for many tourists. The movement, which was introduc ed iu the course of an essay OD journalistic problems by R. W. Vin cent, of the Charlotte Observer, was eloquently seconded by James H Caine, of the Asheville Citizen, in an enthusiastic speech. Mr. Vincent said, in part: "Up yonder in the mountain fast nesses of Henderson, in a grave un marked save by a rough stone bould er, uninscribed, which by his wish is the only monument ht desired, lies all that is mortal of an adopted son whose memory this State has neglect-, ed to honor-one we are proud to claim as of our craft-the lamented Bill Nye. It was his misfortune not to have been born in North Carolina Maine claims that distinction-but the best years of his life were spent at beautiful Buck Shoals and the best work of his career was done there. It was in the Carolina foothills that tie gave up the unequal struggle, and it is there that he is buried. "We cannot more ornately mark his last resting place if we respect his wishes, but we can erect in Hen dersonville or Asheville, or, if you will, in the shade of the Capitol at Raleigh, a suitable and substantial memorial to show to the world that we know our duty and have perform ed it." Customs Court's First Case. Washington, Special.-The new United States Customs Court, sitting as a final court of appeals, in cus toms cases only, Thursday took up its first case, the determination as to whether certains paints be assess ed at 5 cents a pound, or 30 per cent, ad valorem by the customs au thorities. Dr. Cram, of S. C., Lands Again. Washington, Special. -President Taft has nominated William D. Cram, of South Carolina!, to be ministei resident and consul general at Mon rovia, Liberia- Cram is the negro whose appointment by Mr. Roosevelt as collector of the port at Charleston. S. C., raised such a storm of protest in the South. Cannot Float in Pollnted Water. Washington, Special.-In a decision issued by the Department of Agri culture, it was announced that the floating of oysters would be permitted by the department if thc water in which the floating was done was of the same saline content as the watej in which the 0}-sters were grown. Wheat Crop Very Good. Washington, Special.-The govern ment crop report shows the area sown to spring wheat is about 19, 742,000 acres or 1,349,000 acres (7.3 per cent) more than last year; the condition on June 1 was 92.8 as com pared with 95.2 on June 1, 1909. The condition of winter wheat was. 80.? compared with 82.1 on May 1, 1910. 80.7 on June 1, 1909. Did Spaniards Blow Up Maine? Indianapolis, Ind., Special.-In an interview Thursday John E. Lamb, who served in Congress with the .late Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House, says that Reed always be lieved that the blowing- up of the M_aine in Havana harbor was the re sult of an accident and no waj chargeable to the Spaniards. Fruit Shortage $40,000,000. Richmond, Va., Special.-William H. Murray, fruit expert and corre spondent of national repute for the California Fruit Growers and Ship pers' Journal, estimates the fruit shortage in the United States this year as from forty to fifty million Killed Patient With Germs. .St. Petersburg, Special.-Dr. Pat schenko, who, with Count de Lassy. was arrested here about a week agc on suspicion of poisoning Count Boutoulin, heir io a fortune of $3, 500,000, has confessed that he killed Count Boutoulin by injecting cholera germs. Taft Will Be There hy Proxy. Washington, Special. - President Taft has asked Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, both of whom were in the Roosevelt Cabinet,- to go to New York on June 18 to meet Col. Roosevelt on his return from Africa. Thc President will also send a letter to Col. Roosevelt by Capt. Archie Butt, his military aide. Public Sentiment Rules. Milwaukee, Special.-"Any Legis lature that establishes police regula tions in defiance of public sentiment must suffer humiliation of seeing its mandate disregarded," said United States Judge J. V. Quarles, in setting forth the grounds for his ruling that keeping a saloon open on Sunday did not vitiate a man's application for citizenship. Taft, $75,000-Kaiser, $4,875,000. Berlin. By Cable.-In the face of a violent attack by the Socialist mem bers, the Prussion Diet passed on first reading the Government bill to increase the Kaiser's yearly allow ance from $4,000,000 to $4,875,000. Only the six Socialist members voted against the measure. Prohibit Commercial Use Red Cros3. Washington, Special.-A Senate bill prohibiting the use of the insignia of the Red Cross by unauthorized per I sons was passed by the Senate. CAPITAL FACTS Interesting News Gathered in the District of Columbia. THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. Personal Incidents and Important Happenings of National Import Published for the Pleasure and In formation of Newspaper Readers. Hard on o?d Employees. Retrenchment is a governmental watchword today and many veteran employes in the departments are reaching the end of their official ten ure. The only conclusion possible for them, ' according to departmental heads, is thirty days' notice, with the customary leave of absence. Grown gray in the service and too old to secure employment in other spheres, the cases of many of the discharged clerks, . men and women, are pathetic and pitiable in the ex treme. Soldiers anet widows and children of soldiers are among those who are feeling: the fall of the of ficial ax. Two hundred more dismissals are impending in the Treasury, but most of this number, it is said, will be provided for by transfer. Moved by the distress occasioned by this retrenchmentipolicy, the force of the administration promises to be behind the bill for a civil service retirement fund onjthe contributory basis. * Secretary Ma'cVeagh favors it earnestly and President Taft may urge its passage in a special message to Congress. Much depends upon the attitude of the great army of government clerks. If they give such aibill their united support, it can be fpassed-possibly at this session. There is absolutely no chance of Congress creating a?crvil pension list. It will be a contributory retirement fund, which will in'the end entail no expense on the (government, or nothing-. Our Washerwoman Can Clean Ours. Secretary MacVeagh has given an erder for the purchase of a machine to laundry United States' notes, which it is estimated when put into use at all the Subtreasurijes, will save the government $1,000,000 a year. Ex periments in washing and ironing notes have been conducted for some time at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. These convinced the officials that the method wa3: a practical one, the estimate being made that 80 per cent of the issues could be retained and the life of a bpi doubled. All germs have been destroyed by anti septic solutions. The first machine will cost -$1,000 and will be installed in the Treasury Department building. Jobs for Any V. S. Citizen. JCin.cle_S.am is lodking_for"a _few "swift?es" in'the:departmental ser vice. Circulars for an eVamination for .'messenger boys, departmental ser vice," have been issued. The ex amination will be held jTuly 12, 1910. Applicants must be [between the ages. of sixteen and e^hteen years. They will be given three hours to show how well- they have mastered spelling, arithmetic, letter-writing, penmanship, and copy work. All applications must ?be made out on the required form and filed before July ll at the Civil Service Com mission office. Valuable Porous Plaster. The Treasury Department officials will receive from Middletown, N. Y., a porous plaster, fer which they will be asked to issue a $50 bill. It is probably the most valuable porous plaster in existence today, for stuck fast to the business side of it is a $50 bill. . - ' -; Gets Off "Third Degree' Committee. At his own request Senator Curtis was relieved from service as chairman of the special comjmittee recently ap pointed to investigate the practice of the police known as the " third de gree." Senator Brandegee was desig nated to fill tte vacancy. In an nouncing the clange the vice-Presi dent spoke of ';he third degree as "the thirty-third degree" and raised a lau?h at his ovn expense. Laundry Business in the District. Washington's annual laundry bill amounts to $796000.' , Director Duran! of the Census Bu reau, has compied figures to show that seventeen laindries of the Dis trict take in mort than three-quarters of a million yeaiy for cleaning col lars, shirts, cuffs,dresses and sundry other wearing aparel. Thc figures, wheh show that $756, 000 LB invested ii the laundry busi ness and more tha $500,000 paid out annually by the fiins for salaries and other expenses. The statistics were gathered from th] first laundry cen sus, taken last yar, and just com pleted. Machinery Knock Out Employees. Machines are beng installed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which eliminates ..te need of sending paper money to te Treasury Bulb ing to receive the^overnment s< Director Ralph gently per jd a machine which sirplifies tr. nting process. Fifteen .of V achines were ordered, an: will .olve the transfer to otherposiLons of more than a hundred eiployes. Why, Certainly Nt. A decision of te treasury depart ment that the grernment has no rig:ht to pay navabflicers or attaches mileage when thc come home on leave of absence, lis aroused a storm of disapproval iniaval circles. Negroes as CensmTakers. Of the 55,000 eiimerators employ ed in gathering jjpulation statistics for the thirteentheensus, 1,605 were negroes. Of thes^l,295 were in the j h Southern States.! Secretary Nagel ; 1! says he has not?2?rd a complaint n about their work. ! ii INTERESTING STATE NEWS ! Column of Current; Eventa Caught in Every County From Coast to Mountain Cap. Larger Revenue for Clemson. The fact that Clemson College is this year to receive a larger revenue on the fertilizer tax, amounting .to about $50,000, has caused speculation tn some quarters as to the disposi tion of this fund. According to present plans, the money "will in all likelihood be spent somewhat in the folowing manner: For an additional tract of land just purchased from ?he Lewis estate, $18,000; for the founding of a de partment of animal industry, about $19,000, and for the erection of a dairy building, about $20,000. . Governor Investigating Two Murders. Two cases of almost like nature have come officially before Gorvernor Ansel recently, and are now being in vestigated, in part, by the prosecu tion. The first in Lexington County is the case where a magistrate is charg sd with not holding an inquest over the body of a negro alleged to have beei? killed by a white man. The other is a case in Edgefield, where a coroner apparently did not do his duty with regard to an inquest over a negro, also said to have been killed by a white man. "Holding Up" of Candidates. It is probable that the candidates for Governor this year will put a ban on contributing anything in the way of funds to churches and other religious organizations. It was sug gested at the meeting held in Sum merland, that resolutions to this ef fect be passed by the candidates. It will probably be adopted by the can didates. A Town That is Booming. I At Ruby, an up-to-date drug'store is being discussed which means that one will be erected at an early date. Another enterprise is that of the lo cation of the gigantic lumber plant : of the well know firm of Godfrey- j Maynard company of Cheraw, which means an up-lift to the town in many ways. I Kew Instructor Ancient Languages. Succeeding Dr. C. W. Bain, who ?oes to the University of North Caro lina, Dr. L. P. Chamberlyne will be professor of ancient languages at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Chamberlyne is from Amherst, but graduated at the University of Vir ginia. _ Candidates in Lexington County. Informally marking the opening of the State campaign, the six candidates for Governor, two candidates for Congress and one candidate for Ad jutant General addressed voters of Lexington County, at Summerfield Thursday, the occasion being a church barbecue. Two White Men in Trobnle. The arrest Friday of two young white men, John M. Wise and M. C. Tidwell, both of Watts mills, Laurens county, on a warrant charging them with the murder, five months ago, of Clarence L. White, caused quite a sensation. Three Killed by Lightning. Three negroes were killed Friday by a bolt of lightning, near the town of Creston, Orangeburg. Five ne groes were the victims of the bolt, two of whom have recovered, though badly bruised, while three were killed intsantly. Mr. Thurmond Special Judge. J. William Thurmond of Edgefield, bas been appointed by Governor Ansel is special judge to hold the summer term of court for Aiken and Hamp ton counties. These counties are a part of the second judicial district. Found the Still, But Revenue officers accompanied by special constables, left Spartanburg Priday to make a raid on a moon shine distillery 20 miles above the :ity on the line of the Carolina, riinchfield & Ohio. They found an 35-gallon still in operation. "The pot vas boiling" but the moonshiners lad gone off to a cabin to get meal o make mash. Palmetto Leaves. The money is in sight with which ;o erect a splendid hotel for Gaffney. The building will cost something over 325,000. A movement has been started for he organization of a new county, to ie carved from the territory of Lex ngton and Richland counties. The following is the programme of he agricultural campaign as an ?ounced so far: Darlington. July 13; iishopville, July 14; Georgetown, July .8; Inman, July 22; Conway, July !5; Marion, July 26; Dillon, July < !7; Florence, July 28; Statesburg, August 13. A damage suit has been talked tbout against Mr. B. R. Tillman, Jr. Attorney DePass states the case is imply one of differences in the mat er of land rents and such, between ' ?oung Mrs. Tillman and her husband. \ Vhether the case will ever get into 'ourt cannot be stated now. The House committee on merchant 1 nd marine and fishries has made a , avorable report on the bill of Rep- j esentative Patterson, to authorize the stablishment ' of a fish hatchery in ? he 2d district. i Congressman Ellerbe has been in ited to make an address at St. 'aul, Minn., on July 13, at the meet lg of the Upper Mississippi River j Lssociation, to be held there. . With the conferring of degrees ? pon the 71 graduates in the different i epartments, the 104th session of the ? 'niversity of South Carolina, the 1 est in its history, came lo a close. I Mr. John Wilkinson, a Veteran of ivo wax's, and until his death ono of ie few survivors cf the famous Pal ?etto regiment, is dead at his home | i Abbaville county. ( IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA Cream of the News Gathered From All Sections of the Commonwealth For Om Many Beaders. Many Happy Postmasters. Forty-three postmasters in South Carolina will have their salaries in creased on July 1, tho increased be ing based upon the growth of the postal receipts. In all of the towns ?xcept Bennettsville, Blacksburg, Ninety-Six and Union, whose in ircases are $200, the increase? are $100 a year. In two tOWbB Jhere will be decreases in salary, the postmaster at Ferguson being from $1^00 to $1, 200' a year, and Prosperity from $1, 200 to $1,100. Increases. Postoffice I From To Abbeville.. . Aiken. Allendale.. . Bamberg.. .. Beaufort.. Bennettsville. Bishopville.. Blacksburg.. Blackville.. . Camden.. .. Charleston.. , Clio., Darlington.. Dillon. Easley. Edgefield.. . Florence.. .. Fountain Inn. Qaffney. Georgetown.. Greenville.. . Grafenwood.. Greer. Hampton.. . Hartsville.-. . Kershaw.. .. Kingstree.. . Lake City.. . Lancaster.. . Latta. Leesville.. .. McColl. Ninety-Six.. , Piedmont.. . Pickens.. .. St. George.. , St. Matthews. Spartanburg.. Summerville.. Timmonsville. Union. Walhalla.'. ., Williamston.. |$1,900 2,200 1,300 1^00 1,700 2,000 1,500 1,100 1,400 2,100 3,400 1,300 2,000 1,700 1.500 1,500 2,300 1,200 2,000 2,200 3,000 2,400 1,500 1,100 1,700 1,300 1,400 1,300 1,800 1,200 1,300 1,300 1,100 1,100 sl,300 1,200 1,400 3,000 1,700 1,500 2,000 1,400 1,100 I $2,000 2,300 1,400 1,600 1,800 2,200 1,600 1,300 1,500 2,200 3,500 1,400 2,100 1,800 1,600 1,600 2,400 1,300 2,100 2,300 3,100 2,500 1,600 imp 1,800 1,400 1,500 1,400 1,900 1,300 1,400 1,400 1,300 1,200 1,400 1,300 1,500 3,100 1,800 1,600 2.200 1,500 1,200 "When to Wean the Pigs." Senator Tillman attended the re cent agricultural meeeting at Clem son College. He was making a speech on hog raising. His talk was given the closest attention; everybody was interested, and the Senator was en couraged to dissertate at length on the subject. He told all about the business, so he thought. But there was one unsatisfied fel low in the audience; he craved more knowledge. So when Senator Till man threw down the gap, inviting any questions from his audience, this man, from 'way back in the hall arose and inquired : "Now, Senator, you have told us all about selecting the right kinds of stock, all about breeding, all about the best pasturage for hogs; and the proper care of them, but there*s one thing I want to know, and that is, when to wean the pigs?" The Senator, with characteristic deliberation, turned upon his in quirer, and in that well-known drawl, replied: "Well, Mr. Damnfool, I guess the sow will attend to that." Brains Beat Out Against Bocks. . An unknown white man, in trying to jump from Southern train No. 30 north of Toccoa, Ga., was killed. His brains were beaten out by the rocks in a cut as the porter held his legs to keep him from jumping out of the train window. Boyd-Brock Decision June 17. At the conclusion of an executive session of the Boyd-Brock court of inquiry, which lasted for several hours in Columbia Thursday, it was announced that no decision had been reached because of the fact that all of the testimony had not been tran scribed. It was decided to meet again on the morning of June 17 at 9 o'clock. All members of the court were present. Candidates Take Notice! Pledges for state offices and con gress must be filed with the state chairman by noon of June 21. The assessments for candidates for con gress axe $125 each ; for governor $75; for other state offi-jos, $50. The first primary will be held on Tuesday, August 30, and the second on Tuesday, September 13. Cupid Kidnaps Corps of Teachers. The only case on record where Cupid invaded a school and captured the entire teaching force with the exception of the superintendent, who is already married, occurred at Westminster. Deaf Mute Killed by Train. Mr. J. T. Carter, the deaf and dumb bookkeeper for the Kennedy Mercan tile Company at Blackstock, met a terrible death on the Southern Rail way tracks one-half mile below Black stock, when he was knocked from the track by train No. 36. receiving in juries from which he died a few miu ites later. Tigers Die Hard in Sumter. A white tiger has received a gang sentence without alternative. W. W. Dutton, he who had used liquor as i trade inducement, was sentenced to i fine of $50 or 15 days on each of four counts, and to 30 days without llternative on the fifth count. So ie will serve at least one month, with ;he probability of thre months. Monster Rally For Woodmen. The "Woodmen of Cherokee are pre paring to have a molter rally at jaffney on July 4. HAPPY ON TI WT Roosevelt Bounding O'er Ithe Ocean Wave. NATIONAL WELCOME SATURDAY Forty to Fifty Thousand Members ttf. Organizations Will be in Line in Addition to Thousands of Visitors Spanish War Veterans, Govern ors, and Other High Stalle Omi?als to Join in the Warm Welcome Homo to the "First Citizen of the Land." New York, Special.-Secretary Cosby of the Roosevelt reception com mittee estimated that 40,000 to 50,000 persons comprising .local and visiting organizations will be in line along; Fifth avenue next Saturday afternoon, at the time of the parade in honor of Theodore Roosevelt's return. R. A. C. Smith, chairman of the harbor display committee, places the esti mate of-boats at something ov er two hundred. Many of the organizations1 will bein, uniform or wear some insignia of their order and nearly all will have bands. To each organization com prizing more than 100 persons a block has been assigned on Fifth avenue. Many will carry Roosevelt flags and other society flags and the national emblem. They will not march, but will stand in their places as Colonel Roosevelt, the Rough Riders and other Spanish war veterans go past. The, Hamilton Club of Chicago, under the leadership of John H. Bat ten, will send 100 members who will go down the bay on the steamship Com modore and later have a stand oil Fifth avenue. The Pittsburg Business Men's Association will send 500, mar shaled by Col. A. P. Moore. Omaha will send a delegation and Philadel phia, Cincinnati and other cities will add to the numbers. The Army and Navy Union has asked for a place for between 200 and 300, the Spanish war veterans, who are to march, will turn out about 2,000 locally and the Roosevelt Neighs hors Association of Oyster Bay, to gether with a delegation from tho Nassau county board of supervisors will have 600 men. Points From Oxford Address of Roosevelt. London, By Cable.-"To be opulent and unarmed is to secure ease in the present at almost certain cost of dis aster in the future." "Rome fell by attack from without, only because' the ills within her own borders had grown incurable." ; "The only elective way to help any man is to help him to help himself. ** "No doctrinaire theories of vested rights or freedom of contract can stand in the way of our cutting ont abuses from the body politic." "In the long run, there can be no justification for one race managing or Controlling another, unless the ma nar me nt and control are exercised in the interest and for the benefit of thfct other race." "Some of you think me a very radical democrat; as, for the1 matter of fact, I am; and my theory of im perialism would probably suit the anti-imperialist as little as it would suit a certain type of forcible-feeble imperialist." "Dryness is not in itself a measure of value. A book which is written to be read should be readable. This rather obvious fact seems to have been forgotten by t%e more zealous scientific historians." "Loan Sharks" Prosecuted. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-As a result of a campaign waged by newspapers and cine associations against "loan sharks," the Fulton county grand jury has returned forty-five indict ments against local money-lenders, charging usury. President Will Get Money. Washington, Special.-Democratic members of the House, who on May 26 prevented the $25,000 appropria tion for President Taft's traveling ex penses for the fiscal year of 1911, being made available for use for the closing months of the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1910, will not oppose the appropriation as arranged by the Senate in the sundry civil appropria tion hill. Fake Cnre Specialist Punished. New Orleans, Special.-Dr. Roland Register of this, city was found guilty in the United States district court here of the charge of using the mails to defraud and was sentenced to 13 months in the federal peniten tiary at Atlanta. It was alleged that he sent out circulars making false claims and guarantees of cures. Drs. A. S. Dyer and H. W. Hale, who were found guilty on a similar charge sev eral days ago, were also sentenced, the former to a term of 13 months in the Atlanta prison and a fine of $1,000 and the latter to 18 months and a fine of $5,000. Murdered American Woman. Como, Italy, By Cable.-The police are bending all their energy to solve the mysterious murder of an Ameri can woman, believed to be Mrs. Por ter Charlton, of New York, formerly Mary Crittenden Scott, of San Fran cisco, whose body was found tied in a trunk at the bottom of Lake Como. To Extend Second-Class Privilege. Washington, Special. - Periodicals Df benevolent or fraternal societies and institutions of learning, support ed in whole or in part by public tax ation, trades unions, and professional, literary, historical /on scientific so cieties, are to be admitted to the mails as second-class matter aceordiug to the terms of a biil passed by the House._ Listen For Cannon. Washington, Special.-Joseph G. Cannon has decided to make ai ex tensive speaking tour in the campaign.