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PUBLISHED KV CRY WCONKSDAY MORN I NO -BY J A YNES, SHE LOR. SMITH * 8TBOK B. T. JAYNK8, I- ip,T- D. A. SMITH. J. W. 8HJ6LOR. \ mv*- ? Pu"-' J. A. 8TBOK. SUBSCRIPTION. . 1.00 pen ANNUS*. ADVCRTIS1N& RATES) REASONABLE. ??ry Communications of a personal character ouarged for as advertisements. Obituary notions and tribute? of respect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of 01 argo. AU over that number must bo paid for at the rate of one oent a word. Cv sh to Accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, &, C. t WBDNIIBAf. PK?. 1ft 1U03. Honer Roll Westminster Graded School. The following are the names of all pupils that reade a minimum of 95 per oent for the month of January, 1905, in the Weatminster Graded Sohoola : First Grade-Bertha Waldrip, Panlic? Miller, Annie B. Watkins, O.T. Mitchell, Jessie Oliver, Bessie Hall, Basil Phillips, Luoius England, Andrew Holley, Julia Dickerson. Arthur Fortune, Paul Ballenger. Seoond Grade- Osoar Smith. Third (trade-William Anderson, Alioe St?il ing, Robbie Simpson. Fourth Grade-Grace Stripling, Gladys Carter, Will Dillard. Sixth Grade-Frank Anderson, Rena Harrell, Kietner Tannery. Seventh Grade - Lila Reeder, Mary Reeder, Gussie Martin, Ploma Tannery. Eighth Grade-Sarah Auderson, Daisy Foster, Mary Carter. T. M. Holland, Superintendent. Make your druggist give you Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar. Cures your oough. 2Ce. a bottle. Newt from Connoross. Conneross, February ll.-On ac count of the inclemency of the weather the Sunday school at thia plaoe was a complete failure last Sun day. Rev. J. H. Ayers, of Mt. Airy, Ga., has boen unanimously eleoted pastor of Conneross Baptist oburoh and for his oonvenienoe the services have been ohanged from the third to the second Saturday at 8 o'clock p. m. and Sunday at ll a. m. Many of the fruit trees are being broken by the weight of the heavy ioiles. It baa been remarked by the oldest people of this community that they had never witnessed suoh weather. The prospect is that it will continue several days. The twenty-five or thirty two horse loads of wood chopped by the good neighbors and relatives were highly appreciated by Mrs. Hun eingerand family this sevore weather. Our faithful mail carrier, O. K. Breazeale, on Westminster route R. F. D. No. 4, failed to make his "ound Wednesday and Thursday, the 8th and 9th, owing to tho bad weather. Miss Ethel Loathers, of West minster, has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Jafforson. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bearden, of Oakway, visited the family of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Dilworth rooently. Clinton Barker and sister, Miss Lizzie, attended tho union meeting at New Hopo the fifth Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Davis, of Westminster, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hesse. Haskell Abbott, of Walhalla, spent tho fifth Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Abbott. A. K. II. For Coughs - Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar. 25o. for largo bottle. Long Creek Items. Long Creek, February 7.-As wo have not seen anything from our midst in some time I thought I would give you a few lines. The woather has been cloudy for the laat week, and we have had some snow and sleet with it. Mrs. J. C. Lee is sick at this writing. Miles L. Shed and Miss Fannie Pitts woro happily married on last Sunday night, Magistrate George Matheson officiating. There is still a good many apples in this seetion. Blue Eyes. Methodism ?n a Teapot. [Rhett Doyle \n Son thora Christian Ad vocate.] How many readers ot the Advo cate have read the following beauti tifnl acrostic? How few Methodists have ever read it 1 Yet it contains the very key- note of onr glorious re ligion : "Jehovah reigns, let saint?, let men adore. Obey, ye sinners, and proclaim His power, Ho, each desponding, thirsty so ni draw near, Nor money bring nor doubt nor fear. Wide aa oreation, deep as sin's recess Kxtoi,dr: the merit* of redeeming grace; . 80 Wesley speaks, so wondering angels taught; Love, peace, good-will to all in Christ are brought, Enamored thousands heard the joyful word, Yioldod to conviction and confessed their Lord." Thia acrostic waa engraved upon a teapot, whioh waa preaented to John Wesley himself, aa a token of love and appreciation on the part of his followers. How dear that name is to every Methodist heart-the name that is so inseparably connected with this great Church ! Let every Meth odist learn to repeat it from memory, and perhaps we will understand and, consequently, appreciate more fully what the ohuroh representa. Letter to Phil Chambers, Catechee. Dear Sir; Here's something every painter and builder ought to know: J. J. Hall, Sheffield, Pa., painted two houses 5 years ago, lead-and-oil; took 40 gallons. Lact year, he painted Devoe; bought 40 galls ; had 10 left. Ho is one of thousands. The knowl edge is getting about pretty generally, that Devoe goes further than anything else. Have you found it out in your own ex perience? How muoh further? Suppose a job amounts to 10,000 square feet; how muoh less Devoe could you buy? Is it as easy to paint? Does it cost any more or less to put-on by the gallon than j anything else? How muoh? J Mt cost s no more to put on Devoe by the gallon, it costa less by the foot, yon know; for the gallon does more feet. How muoh leas, do you And it, for wages? Last?, say, twice aa long; that is the owner's gain; but perhaps you reckon it yours; some do. The time, when that cuines-in, is when he givea-o ut the next job. Who gets it? Yours truly, 68 F. W. Devoe A Co. P. S.-J. W. Bell, Walhalla; G. W. Gignilliat, Seueca, and Matheson Hard ware Co., Westminster, sell our paint. For What He ls Worth. A traveler in Tennessee, upon no ticing a large number of people fol lowing a wagon, rode up to an old fellow, who sat on the fence, and asked the cause of such a large pro cession. "Wy, they air takin' Sam Bates out to the graveyard." "He must have been a very popu lar man." "Wall, I should reckon ho was." "Held a high position, I suppose?" "Stood at the top." "What was his business?" "Chopped oo'd wood fur a liviu', I believe." "What, do people in this seotion pay so rauch attention to wood-chop pers?" "Look yare, my friend, Sam was| the handiest man with a fiddle there was in this neighborhood. He could jost naohully make a fiddle cluck like a hen. I don't know how it is whar| you come from ; but in this here com munity we don't p?y no attention ter j a what a man dv.es fur 'or livin'; but | we measure him fur whut, he is wuth ter society." ?, Take Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar and stop coughing. 25o. tor I large bottle. Your druggist or Murray) Drug Co., Columbia, S. C. Boy Kills His Father. John Atkinson was shot and killed at Goldville. Laurens county, on February 4th by his son, John Atkin son, Jr. Both were operatives of the Goldville Cotton Mill and the affair ooourred at their home. It appoars that young Atkinson shot in defence of his mother, the father being drunk. The young man went I to Laurens and surrendered to tue sherill of that county. The dead man formerly lived in Newberry. ' OASTOniA Bean UM _/) II? Kind You Haw Always Bought Bifaataw LYING WITNESSES. Lawyer* Who Know ?heir Busines* Can Catch Thom. How does a lawyer know when a wuuetKj ia lyingr And when he know'H a witness ia lying* how does ho go about it to expose the perjury ? If all lawyers knew these two things there would no longer be good lawyers and poor lawyers, for all lawyers would be good. Sometimes lawyers take a long chanco and "guess" that a witness ia deliberately lying. A story is told of Jeremiah Mason, the famous New England lawyer of Daniel Webster's day. Mason was cross-examining a witness whose testimony could not be shaken. Time and again the wit-1 ness repeated his statement, and it never varied. Suddenly Mason, pointing his fin ger straight at the witness, said in his high, impassioned voice : : "Let's see that paper you've got in your waistcoat pocket." Taken completely by surprise, the witness mechanically drew a paper from the pocket indioated and handed it to Ivf aaon. The lawyer slowly read the exact words of tho witness and oalled attention to the faot that they were in the handwriting of the lawyer on the other side. "Mason, how under the sun did you know that paper was there?" asked a brother lawyer. "Well," replied Mason, "I thou^bt he gave that part of his testimony just as if he'd heard it, and I noticed every time he repeated it he put his hand to his waistcoat pocket and then let it fall again when he got through." It is a startling faot that perjury in American courts is on the increase. Francis L. Wellman, of the New York bar, iu a book on "The Act of .Cross Examination," declares that at the present time soaroely a trial is con ducted in whioh it does not appear in a more or less flagrant form. It seldom happens that a witness' entire testimony is false from begin ning to end. Perhaps the greatest part of it is true, and that only the oruoial part-the point, however, on which the whole oase may turn-is wilfully false. Then again there is the witness who is deliberately lying to shield himself from the consequences of his own crime. This is the ugliest form of perjury. There is one great his toric ease of the exposure of this form of perjury, and the lawyer who exposed it was none other than Abra ham Lincoln-in the days when he was only a struggling young lawyer, lal), gaunt and uncouth. The story ?B related in Judge J. W. I hmo van's '.Tact in Court," and ia doub'y interesting because it was Abraham Lincoln's first effort to defend a man acoused of murder. A man named Grayson was accused of killing a man named Lockwood at a oamp meeting. A man named bovine claimed to have witnessed the murder. Sovino's story was so cir cumstantial that Grayson was in dicted and narrowly escaped being lynched. Abraham Lincoln was employed by Grayson's mother to. defend her son. The case came to trial. Ile cross uocarained none of the witnesses, save the last-the man Sovine, who swore that he knew the parties, saw Gray son fire the fatal shot, and saw him run away. Tho evidence of guilt and identity was morally certain. When So vine was turned over to him for cross-ex amination Lincoln stood up and eyed the witness in silence, without book or notes, and began the defense I v these questions : "And you were with Lockwood just before ano saw tho shooting?" "Yes." "And you stood very near to them ?" "No! about twenty feet away." "May it not have been ten feet ?" "No, it was twenty feet, or more." "In tho open field ?" "No ; in th? timber." "What kiud of timber?" "Beech timber." "Leaves on it are rather thiok in August?" "Rather." "And you think this pistol was the one us-)d?" "It looks like it." "You could see the defendant shoot-seo how the barrel hung, and all about it ?" "Yes." "How near was this to the oamp meeting?" _ "Throe-quarters of A milo away." "Witera were the light*?" "Up by the minister*? stand." "Tbree-quarWi's of a mile away ?" "Yee-I answered ye twiot." "Did you not see a oandle there with Lockwood or Grayson ?" "No. What would we want a oan dle for?" "How, then, did you see the shoot ing?? "By moonlight 1" (Defiautly.) "You saw this shooting at 10 o'clock at night-in beech timber, three-quarters of a mile from the lights-saw the pistol barrel-saw the man fire-saw it twenty feet away-saw it all by moonlight ? Saw it nearly a mile from the oamp lights?" "Yee, I told you so before." Then Abraham Lincoln drew from the side pocket of his ooat a blue covered almanac, opened it slowly, offered it in evidenoe, showed it to thu,jury and tbe court, read from a page with oareful deliberation that the moon on that night WSB unseen, and only arose at 1 o'clock the next morning. Fellowing tue climax, Linooln moved th9 arrer.t of the perjury wit ness as the real murderer, declaring that nothing but a motive to oleai himself could have induoed him tc swear away so falsely the life ol another man. Bovine afterward! confessed to the murder. There have been instances in whiot men high in the medical professioi have been oaugbt in the aot of giving expert testimony by a lawyer wb< knew bow to oonduot a clever oross examination. One instance of perjured medica expert testimony was a dootor win had been the medical expert for th New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad for thirty-five years, fo the New York Central railroai twenty years and for the Erie railroa* fifteen years. Ho was so expert tha lawyers finally became afraid t cross-examine him. There was one lawyer, howevei who was not afraid. The oase we one in whioh a woman had sued tb city for $50,000 damages, claimin sh? had been permanently injured b tripping over a street obstructioi Her counsel was ex-Chief Justic Noah Davis. Dr. Ranney, tb famous expert, had been in daily a tendance upon the woman for tim years and testified he had examine her minutely two hundred time Tho city's medical experts declare the woman was only hysterical, bi the jury evidently believed Dr. Rai ney. The cross-examination was I follows : Counsel (quietly)-"Are you ab Ito give un, dootor, the name of at medical authority that agrees wit you when you say that the particuli ' group of symptoms existing in tb case points to one disease and on! ono ?" Dootor-"O, yes, Dr. Erskii agrees with me." "Who is Dr. Erskino, if y< please?" "Well," said the witness, with patronizing smile, "Erskine probab was one of the most famous surgco that England has eve? producer There was a titter in tho audience the expense of the lawyer. "What book has he writteu ?" "He has written a book call 'Erskine on the Spine,' which is ah gethcr the best known work on t subject." Tho titter around t court room was becoming louder. "When was the book published asked the lawyer, quietly. "About ten years ago." "Well, how is it that a man wh< l vm is so much occupied as you ht U 1 us yours ts has leisure enough 1< ok up medical authorities to set tl ej agree with him ?" ? ' ? ell, Mr. --, to tell you i truth ' K ?id the doctor, fairly boa ing o tte lawyer, "I have oil heard t ) \ and I half suspooi you won. I a^ me some such fcc! question ; t ' . morning, after breakfast, I ,. ' down from library my copy of Erskine's bo and found that he agreed with entirely." This answer provoked a loud lat at the expense of the lawyer. J the lawyer reached under the ts and pieked up his own copy "Erskine on the Spine," and, wi ing deliberately up to the witn said : "Won't you be good enough point out to me where Erskino adc your view of the oase ?" CABBAGE PLANTS fl! SI Cabbage Plants fur sale and now ready for do ton Larne Type Wakefield," two earliest H?mrp-l "8uocesalou,rt "Augusta Truck V and "Short st ties and hnd In rot?' lou as namuu. Prlooa : Bin 10,000 and jver, fl i^r 1 OOO. Terms : Gash with . return charges on money. Our plant bods occuu understand growing thom In the open air: tougl lnlury. Plants orated for shipment vrelgh ?O poi prompt transportation by Southern Express Co. than mino. I *ell good plant*. Mo oheap "ou tn1 those that I ship to be true to typo and name, am two or thu most reliablo seed houses in the Unite Hatlsfted customer at tho end of the season. OUR COTTON 8KKD. Lint of our Long Sta Charleston on December 2 at 92o. per pound. 8e< per bushel. My specialty : Prompt Shipment. True Varlet plant business thirty-five yeats. Wm. C. Qeraty/p?? HA?R YOUR HOME Cabbage Plant Prices : 1,000 @ $1.60; 5,000 @ ?i.: Shipped C. O. D. if desired. Office in got WRITE FOR MEI ' Cabbage, Beans, Sweet Potatoes ai mont of Tomato Plants, Sea Island C should be booked in advance. JAS. RAY GERATY, Snterp The famous doctor was visibly em? barraged. "O, I can't do it now ; it's a thick book," he said. "But you forget, doctor, that think? ing I might ask you some suoh fool ish question, you examined your vol ume of Erskine this morning after breakfast and before ooming to oourt." , The doctor showed his embarrass ment plainly. Refusing to take the book, he said : "I have not time to do it now." "Time!" thundered the lawyer. "Why, there is all the time in the world." The doctor gave no answer. "I am sure the oourt will allow me to suspend my examination until you shall have time to turn to the placo you read this morning in that book, and can reread it aloud to the jury." There waa absolute silenoe in the oourt roora for three minutes. The dootor wouldn't say anything, and the lawyor for the city didn't want to say anything. He saw that he had caught the famous witness in a manifest falsehood and that the doc tor's whole testimony was discred ited. After a few minutes moro of this distressing silence Presiding Judge Justice Barrett dismissed the witness and the whole case col lapsed.-Jonas Howard, in Chicago Tribune. Mr. Kirksoy's Recommendation. Mr. Kirksey writes: I give a positive guarautee with every box of Ry dale's Stomach Tablets and Livor Tableta I sell, aud have never boon asked to refund the money in a single inst ?ince. I have used these tablets in my family with best re sults, W. L. Kirksey, Morganton, N. C. Rydale's Tablets ure prepared by the Radical Remedy Company, Hickory, N. C., who authorize every dealer in their Ereparations to guarautee ovory box or ottle of their medicine they sell. Wal halla Drug Company. Round Trip Ticket for a Corpse. A Virginia member was telling some of his constituents io the Demo oratio cloak room about a circum stance that came under his notice the other day, and which he thought was worth repeating: "One of my constit uents, a colored man, who held office here in Washington as a messenger, lost his aged father after a long ill ness. The rest of tho family lived down in old Virginia and wore anx ious to see their dead relative before he was laid to rest. The colore^ messenger thought for a long time what to do in the matter, aud then went to the railroad station, and going np to the ticket office, inquired the price of a ticket for a eorpse to his old home in Virginia. The clerk told him that the tioket would bo $8 for a corpse, the same as a live man. After thinking for a while, tho darkey inquired, 'I low much will it be for a a round trip .ticket for a oorpse ?' The ticket agent, in surprise, said, 'Why, we never sell round trip tick ets for corpses, but if we did it would be the same as a live man, $5.50.' The colored man put his hand down in his pooket, drew out his wallet and laid down $5.50, and said : 'Give mo a round trip tioket, I say, boss, it will bo choaper for me to let my rela tives and friends look at it and then bring it baok here and bury it than to havo them all come up here and live off mo for a week."*-Washing ton Correspondent of the Baltimore American. Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar will oure your cough. Largo bottle for 25c. livor y. "Kwiv, crecy Wakefield" and "Charles lead varlotlo? *ud head tn rotation aa named, om Flat Dutch," tho thred Ix?? liut-m-au TUN? igle thousand, ?1.00; 0,000 and ovor ?1.lift per l.OOOj order; or plants ?ont O. O. N., purchaser paving y 35 acics on Hcuth Caroll. Bea Coast, and ws ? and hardy, they will slam, evere cold without inds per 1,000 and we have -? iclul low rate? for I know of other plants > i can buy cheaper tte" plants shlppnd t rom my rm. I guaran?es :l grown from high grado s?flds purchased from il 8tai.CB? I will refund purchase price to any Ato pie Variety of Hiv. Itlrnd Cotton aold last year la >d ?1.25 pen bushel; lots of 10 bushels and over 91 les and SaUsflod Customers. I have been tn th? MS ?\8& Youngs Island,S.C. MOIN CABBAGE. s, All Varieties. ?5 pur 1,000; 10,000 @ ?1 per 1,000. Plants arrive at your Express xl oondition. tCHANTS' PRICES. id Turnips in Season. Orders for ship otton Seed and Sweet Potato Draws 2-0 pinn Q fl Express Office, ilou, U. 0., You HRS Island, S. C. CURE FOR SMALLPOX. Mayor Mahon, of Greenville, hat a Remedy Which is Said to be Excellent. [Greenville Newe.] From tho Waldorff Astoria, io New York, Muyor Mahon has sent the Greenville News what is jonsid ered an excellent preventive and cure for smallpox. The remedy waa given the mayor by L. N. Cox, who is residing at present at 608 Wash ington street, and bas been used with great suooess in Pennsylvania and other States. Just now the spread of smallpox in all seotions ia giving the authorities much alarm, and while vaccination is not always desired the remedy offered by Mr. Cox might serve as a fine substitute. lt is as follows : One gr. solid ext. digitalis. One gr. sulphate zinc One-half teaspoonful sugar. Four oz. water. Dissolve ingredients separately in a little warm water, then compound prescription. Dose-One teaspoon ful every hour for twelve hours. A Twice Told Tale. We wish to repeat what wo have said once before in these oolumns, that El liott's Emulsified Oil Liniment is tho best Liniment ever pvoduoed for use in the family and on animals. Best for rheumatism, lameness, stiffness and sore ness of joints or rauBoles. Boat for bruises, contusions, sprains and swell ings. You got a full half plut for 26o., and got your money back if it does not do all it is recommended to do. Wal halla Drug Company. Unlucky. "No," she was saying, ua man who stands back and asks a girl to let bim kiss her isn't likely to get what be wants. Hardly any girl would think of telling a fellow she was willing, but only one in a thousand would be really angry if be just caught her in his arras and pressed his lips to hera without asking for her permission." "I s'pose," he answered, "it's as you say, but I'm such a blamed un lucky chap that thu girl I tried it on would be sure to he the wrong one jo a thousand." After he had gone she sat musing for a while, and at last wearily said to herself : "Ob, fudge, I don't be lieve I'll have anything more to do with bim. I read somewhere the other day that it was always an unwise plan to tio up to people who thought they were unlucky."-Chi cago Record. . Wood's Seeds, Burty or Ninety-Day Oats* The earliest, most prolific and surest cropping of spring oats; far superior to tho ordinary spring or rust proof oat? for spring seeding. Wood's Quarter Century Seed Book gives full information about this valuable new oat, and all seeds for the Farm and uarden. It's mailed free for the asking. Write for it and Sneeial Price List of Farm 8e?d<*. T.W, Wood & Sons, Seedsmen, j RICHMOND . VIRIIMTA. L WOOD ? SUDS ???? Awatied ' ' GRAND PRIZE - ST. LOUIS, 1904. GOLD MEDAL - PARIS, 1S00. Iii WK if MfjWiifawBHB