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MILLIKEN WINS IN FEDERAL COURT. Judge Brawley Dissolves Injunction Granted by Judge Klugh. Charleston, .Joly 26.-Judge Braw ley, in the United States Court to day, tiled an opinion in which he dis solves the injunction issued by Cir ouit Judge Klugh on May 17 re training the Millikens from voting certain stock in the Laurens Cotton Mill election. The plaintiffs, Wm. E. Lucas and others, aro restrained from disposing of stock in the mill, which was held by the firm of Deer ing, Millikeu & Co., until further order of this court. In effect, the decision is a victory for the Millikens, so far as Judge Brawley's court is concerned, but it is said here to-night that an appeal will be taken. In the meantime Mr. Lucas remains in charge as president, although the next step of the Milli kens is not known. It is believed that another stockholders' meeting will be ordered. Argument in the case brought by Milliken against Luoas was heard re cently in Greenville. The plaintiffs prayed that the injunction issued by the State court be dissolved. In his opinion to-day Judge Brawley re viewed the causes in dispute at great length, and this striking paragraph appears : "But the question of Lucas's merits or demerits as a manager of an individual enterprise which ap parently he had hitherto conduoted with conspicuous success, is not be fore me for decision. That for which he is to be condemned is that, having invited a contest for the con trol of the mill, which all the rules of the game required to be fairly played, he has won by having an injunction up his sleeve." Judge Brawley says : "Beaching the conclusion that this injunction should be dissolved, I have not considered the charges of misconduct set forth in the affidavits as reasons why the defendants, the Millikens, do not regard the plaintiff as a safe man for the presidency of this mill. Stockholders are not re quired to give reasons for a desire for a change of management, nor is it necessary to consider tho charges made by Lucas that the defendants have been receiving exorbitant com missions. Where both parties aro free to choose, the'amount paid for personal service is a matter of bar gain or regulated by the usage of trade and generally beyond tho cognizance of the courts unless the charges are so unconstitutional as to ?hock the conscience." Continuing, the judge says : "If the defendants charge the same commission to this company which they charged to other compa nies for like services and the same that other houses of like standing charged other companies in like plight, it cannot help the plaintiffs' cause to suspend them as extortion ers. On the other hand, the plain tiff was entirely within his right and deserves nothing but commendation if, believing that the rates of com mission were too high, he endeavored to secure a reduction therein and transferred the business to another house. It may be his misfortune and not his fault that ho was unable to persuade a majority of his stock holders of the wisdom of such a change. It is not an uncommon iot of pioneers to bo overtaken by dis aster, and success is not always tho criterion of merit. To have de served is sometimes better than to have attained it." Laurens, July 27.-Plaintiffs1 at torney H made a motion to-day wi the Lucas-iMilliken ease to submit certain issues in the cause to a jnry. The motion was resisted by defendants' attorneys, but was granted by Judge Klugh. Sultan's Narrow Escape. The Sultan of Turkey had a nar row escape from death last Friday at the hands of assassins. He was just leaving the mos.?ne, where he had been to attend worship as usual. A bomb was thrown into the proces sion. It killed twenty-five persons, mostly soldiers ; and injured fifty seven others. Fifty-five horses were injured, Great confusion, of course, followed and many dignitaries rushed up and tried to prevent the sultan from entering his carriage. Tho sultan, however, was very cool about the whole matter. Ho got into his carriage unassisted a-id drove back to his palace. The attempted assas sination is thought to have been tho work of tWO Bulgarians. "Christ and Prohibition." - [Way of Faith.J ID tho July number of The Sunday School Magazine, M. E. Church, South, there is an artiole by W. F. Tillett on the liquor question, under the above heading, which we'earn estly wish we had space to give to our readers in full. It is far and away the best putting of the case that we have seen in a long time. It is clear, brief, comprehensive, definite and strong. We have space only to give the following selection : "This, then, is the bill of indict ment that we have to present against the liquor traffic : (1) A billion and a quarter dollars wasted every year in drink ; (2) it is the chief oause of pauperism ; (3) it makes more crimi nals than all other causes combined ; (4) lt increases immensely the cost of civil government; (5) it reduces the productiveness of labor on the part of nearly all who use it ; (6) it blights utterly the prospects of suc cess in lifo for all young men who are given to drink, and destroys the professional standing and influence of every mature man who drinks to excess; (7) it ruins the happiness of myriads of homes ; (8) it costs wo manhood, the wives and mothers of our land, untold trouble and anguish of both body and soul ; (9) it robs children of their most sacred rights -to be well born and well reared and well educated-the drunkard must have his drink, come what will and may to wife and children ; (10) it injures the bodies of men and makes physical wrecks of all who persist in using it to excess ; (ll) it injures the minds of those who use it continually, not only turning drunkards into irresponsible and dangerous madmen while under its influence, but robbing them even iu their sober intervals of their best powers of mind and thought; (12) it robs the drinker of hiH will power and self-respect, and tends to blunt his moral sense and lead him into habits of deception and acts of dishonesty and immorality ; (18) it offers the greatest obstacle to the work of the Christian religion in its efforts to save men at home and to evangelize the heathen in other lands-the rumseller making haste, as he ever does, to follow the Chris tian missionary with his rum and opium, thereby degrading and drag ging down to lower depths the heathen whom Christianity seeks to lift up ennoble, and save ; (14) it is the most corrupting and pernicious influence in American politics, and is everywhere associated with bribery and lawlessness, seeking first to have laws enacted that are favorable to the liquor interests, but, if failing in this, conniving at and encouraging the violation of any and all laws as far as may be to the interests of t hose who manufacture, sell, and t m intoxi cating liquors, such a thirg as a mora], high-minded, law-abiding, and law-respecting liquor dealer be ing the exception and not the rule ; (15) it is the unfailing ally of gamb ling and social impurity, and what soever else ministers to the degreda tion of the physical, intellectual and moral man. These are but some of the many evils that can be charged against this monster iniquity, this 'man of sin,' that is the sworn enemy of whatever is working for the moral and social elevation of the race. "This liquor traffic has so fastened itself upon our civil, commercial, in dustrial and social life that it has become perhaps the greatest obstacle to progress in our Anglo-Saxon civilization. There is no depart ment of our manifold national life that is not impeded by its presence, and power. Recognizing liquor dealers and whiskey drinkers every where as united against any and all prohibition movements, it behooves us to inquire who they are whom we may hope to bring together in calm, sane, serious effort to suppresss this corrupting, home-destroying, soul destroying evil. All, we answer, who are not already slaves to the habit of strong drink or making un godly gain of this mammon of un righteousness. Surely every other man dcsirOfl to seo the evil sup pressed. The patriot who loves his country and the philanthropist who lo es his fellowman ; the parent and the teacher, and whosoever loves the young ; the true physician, and all who WOtfld prevent diseases of body and mind, as well as cure them ; those who would make ours tho land of happy homes, where womanhood and childhood are safeguarded from all that robe them of their sacred rights ; the statesman with his broad vision and far-seeing eye, who should rise above sectionalism and take a statesmanlike view of wbatevei m? kes for the highest and best inter ests of his country and his people ; the prophet of God, with his passion for right? usnes? and bis voice up lifted against every moral wrung, and the disciple of the incarnate Son of God, who believes that bis divint Lord has come to redeem the entire race of man from whatever curset the bodies or the minds or the souh of men-these are the men mu: women whom we are bringing to gether in a holy league and solemi covenant to work together for the sup pression and utter destruction of tbit modern monster of all iniquities. 1: this American nation needs an in carnate Lord for anything, it needi him here and now to direct and lear his folio .vers in suppressing this evil Christ does'hie work in this work through men, through men whohav? his spirit, bis love, his zeal, his wis dom, and his patience. But, tre mendoiiH as the evil is, it can be sup pressed. Because he is the Son o God, and because he has become in carnate and has undertaken to re deem mankind from all evil, ind ii gathering under his leadership ar ever-increasing number of men am women who sympathize with his pur pose and mission in this world, wt believe it not only can be suppressed, but will be suppressed. Let no ont who believes that Jesus Christ is thc incarnate Son of God lose heart in presence of any evil. "For right is right, since God is God. And right the day must win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin." Drives Husband as a Horse. Louisville, July '28.-Hitched like a horse to a ramshackle buggy, John Wortman is making his way from Franklin county, Kentucky, to Vin cennes, Indiana, where he expects tc find work on a farm. Wortman'* driver is his wife, and they passed through here this evening. They have travelled 70 miles, and have 165 miles ahead of them. Mrs Wortman, who is a young woman ol sickly appearance, dangled her bare feet from the front end of the ve hide, as she crouched under the low top. They left their home three weeks ago, and at that time had t hor.*e, but the beast was struck bj lightning, and, being without money. Wortman dcoided to hitch himsell up und continue the journey to Vin cennes. Rat in Mrs. Chadwick's Cell. Cleveland, July 28.-Pestered foi weeks by deputy sheriffs, attorneyt and creditors, Mrs. Chadwiok now has other troubles. A rat has ap peared in the county jail and it ic making life miserable for her. The rodent generally begins its visiu about 7 in the morning, just when the distinguished prisoner is arising, and chases her on chairs with screams that arouse all her fellow prisoners and bring the jailers to the scene She has appealed to the Sheriff for a .rap and he ha* promised to buy ber one. Lieutenant Newman K. Ferry, ol South Carolina, was one of the vic tims of the Bennington boiler explo sion. The New York Evening Jour nal prints thc following account ol thc young mari's death : "Lieut Newman K. Fe? ry was thc officer ol thc deck at the time of the explosion Ile was found in the wheel house fearfully scalded, but conscious When the rescuing party picked birr up, he raised one blistered hand cooked to the bone, and called out 'Hold on, boys, I cnn help myself. In his awful pain this brave man re membered the wife he left in Ilono^ lulu, anil when he was being trans ferred to the hospital he dictated f telegram ho requested to bc sent al once. This is the message the gal lant offieei dictated between groanf of fearful agony : 'Mrs. Newman K Ferry, Honolulu. Keep a stiff uppoi lip, little girl. Fm all right.' Three hours later the soul had left his tor tured body. America has had roan) a naval hero, but thc name of New man K. Ferry should stand high or the list. He died as a brave mar should die, an honor to his country and his Hag." The friends of Grover Cleveland insist that he resign as trustee ol the Equitable. The S BARGA You are cord stock, and be con We carry a f Notions, Shoes, 1 ceries. First cia Your trade s< CAR w. Bring along 3 will give you ma Revised Crop Report. Washington, July '29.-In an nouncing the revised estimate of cot ton planted this year the agricultu ral department Wednesday after noon made public the following re port made to Secretary Wilson by the board of crop estimators. The report has the endorsement of Sec retary Hays and Secretary Wilson. The crop estimating board of the Department of Agriculture has con sidered the report issued by the bureau of s?atistics June 2, relative to the acreage planted in cotton in 1905, and compared with that planted in 1904 has concluded : First, that a new estimate should be made on acreage planted, and that figures in Hyde's hands, when making his estimate, should be used as a basis. Second, that Hyde, with Holmes at his elbow prompting bim, made the estimate lower than facts at his bands from reports from seven classes of reporters employed by the bureau warranted. Thirdx the board finds that upon consideration of the reports of all classes of correspondents and agents that the acreage planted in cotton this year, including the entire cot ton season, should have been esti mated at 85.1 per cent of that planted last year, equivalent to a reduction in planted acreage, as compared with last year, of 14.9 per cent instead of 11.4 per cent, 4,731,000 acres, esti mate of total acreage this year being 26,999,000 aores. After giving the decreases by States, the report oon oludes : Averages were made for each State by euch of four members of the board, and comparatively small disagreements resulted by av eraging, and the above results are fully agreed to by each and every member of the board. To Provide lor County Court. At the next session of the legis lature a bill will be introduced ask ing for the creation of tho office of county judge, if not in all counties, at least in Richland county. The matter has boen under con sideration for some time and it is practically certain that tho bill will pass, although there will have to be some changes in the present law regulating courts. The idea is to have a county judge or magistrate with the power to hear suits up to ^1,000 and to try all criminal cases outside of those involving capital punishment or over ten years in tho penitentiary. This court would sit almost any time and the county solicitor would take tho place of tho coroner. There will probably be some ob jection to the proposed change, but t is thought that it will finally be come a law.-Columbia Record. Children's Day at Black Jack. Children's day will he obsorvod by the Hlack Jack Sunday school, near Retreat, on Saturday before the socond Sunday in August. Rev. W. J. Spearman is tho Superintendent. INS ! BAR< ially invited to call Lvinced that we can ull and complete lin ?ats, Clothing, Har iss goods and rock h alicited and apprecij Respectfully, .TER & ALHALLA, S, rour Cross Ties an< ,rket price. Fer th? Newspapers. [Baptist Courier.] Dr. J. B. Gambrell bas an excellent article in a recent number of the Baptist Standard, of Texas, in behalf of the newspapers. He touches up the non-paying subscribers, and says that the papers are wrong in their leniency towards those who do not pay up their subsciptions, and oalls it " bad education, and religious papers ought to educate properly." He is , right about this and the newspapers I ought to open up a regular campaign on the obligations of subscribers to pay for their papers. There is no I excuse for a subscriber who allows I his paper to run on several years and . then have it discontinued without I paying up the past indebtedness. If the subscriber does not intend to pay, or if he is un able to pay, he should notify the editors and have the paper discontinued before there is a deftt of several years standing. Dr. Gambrell adds : "Now, all this is said because we are going ont on the catnpain in the associations, in which we have great ! opportunities to educate. Why can't the papers and all tho mission aries and pastors educate right, and thus help the papers, and help the moral tone of ibe brotherhood, and amazingly help the cause for which the papers stand ? "Of course, if this kind of a cam paign gets pretty vigorous, somebody will get mad. Well, if they do, and pay up, they will feel better after getting mad, and after getting right. If a brother owes a subscription to a paper, he ought to pay it, and if he neglects it until he is dunned for it, he ought to pay up, then send an apology with a good promise to do ! better, or instead of the promise, j pay ahead a good while, which would Say Plainly t< That you want LION being a square man, will thing else. You may nc What About the Unlit of housekeepers who ha for over a quarter Is there any stronger / Lion-head on Save these Lion-heads SOLD BY GROCE1 jAINS ! ' and examine our save you money, e of Dry Goods, dware and Gro ?ottom prices, ated. CO PP C. i Shingles. We be better. We need a real shaking up on debt paying, any way. Why not all the papers make a campaign for the betterment of our papers ? We are in for it." Negro Attempts Rape in Charlotte. Charlotte, July 26.-Ed. Hall, a young negro attempted criminal as sault upon Mrs. Mack Auten, at the home of her husband, four miles east of the city on the Dilworth road, this morning, but was foiled in his pur pose. The outrage was eonn??itted about 9:30 o'clock. The nogro, who is employed in the city as driver at Austin's meat market, was sent to Auten's home after some meat. He was half drunk. I'pon some slight pretext, he went into the house and asked Mrs. Auten to 'phone to town for him. As she complied and turned I ber face to the 'phone, thc negro I threw bis arms around her from be I hind and attempted to drag her into an adjoining room. The woman screamed loudly and put fourth efforts to free herself, buj. the negro did not desist in his crimi nal purpose. Mrs. Auten continued her cries for help and was heard by a Mr. lieatty, who was working nearby. As Mr. Heatly started toward the house the negro broke ind ran. Mrs. Auten was found on the floor in a fainting condition. Her clothes were badly ' torn, and an examinatio^j^ showed several bruises on her arm and body. Where the negro had clutched her arm there was a great red ring. Hall was captured this af ternoon at Pineville, N. C. Murdered Wife While He Slept. Chicago, July '29.-John Mueller, who recently killed his wife and babv by shooting them, and then hacked their bodies to pieces with an ax, has made the plea that he committed the crime while asleep. ) Your Grocer COFFEE always, and he, not try to seil you any ?t care for our opinion, but >d Judgment of Millions ve used LION COFFEE of a century ? >roof of merit, than tba Confidence of the People 1 ever Increasing popularity ? .N COFFEE fat carefully se? ted at the plantation, shipped ect to our various factories, ere lt ls skillfully roasted and efully packed In sealed pack Es-unlike loose coffee, which exposed to germs, dust, ta its, etc. LION COFFEE reashes i as pure and clean as when eft the factory. Sold only ta ?. packages. every package, for valuable premiums. IS EVERYWHERE V00L80N SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio, fl