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CLERK OP COURT'S OFFICE. A Cltlten 'Vaut s to Know Some Facts About lt. To the Tax-Payers of Oeonee County: I ask the tax-payers and voters of Oeonee county to consider the following, which embodies my views in regard to the pa,y in the Clerk of Court's office in our county: The people are taxed to buy books, typewriter and all offlce supplies for the Clerk of Court. The books come at a higher rate to us than they did a few years ago, for they are now printed in blank form and are nec essarily more expensive. Thes?i con veniences do not help the tax-payer; they only cost the county more, and help only the Clerk by keeping him from paying out his money for clerks to record, and the same price is charged for all recording. The people are taxed for the sup plies in the Clerk's office and to pay the Clerk $300 per year for doing the county's work, aud in addition the Clerk receives all the fees. 1 believe thc Income in this offlce ls over $3,000 a year. I am so sat isfied tbat ls the eas? that I am will ing to pay my part, with any fifty goud men in the county, toward hav ing the Clerk's books audited. Put ting the Income of this offlce on this basis, it pays nearly three times more than any other office in the county. There are a few counties in the State where the Clerks of Court are paid a salary, and the income of the office is turned into the treasury, which gives the county a good sur plus after the Clerk's salary is paid. We have plenty of good, compe tent men in this county who can run this office and are willing to do so for $1,500 each year, and then make more thau they are making now. How many men in Oeonee county are furnished everything free of charge and assured of $1,500 each year, to say nothing of having a contract for four years-$6,000? I think the Clerk is getting too much and the tax-payer getting noth ing. We can find some one to run it for $1,500, and turu the office fees into the county treasury. When 1 say some one 1 mean a competent man. I believe the tax-payers will save from $1,500 to $2,000 each year if the offlce of Clerk of Court is put on a salary basis. A nice sum we would have, if we can do this, by the time our $45,000 bond debt ls due. Be sides, we would be able to do away with the present levy for bonds and levy for the payment of the Interest thereon, thus reducing the taxes considerably at this one point. What I say is not intended as a criticism of the present Clerk of Court, nor of any of the candidates for the offlce. lt is the offlce itself, and neither the holder nor the Keeker, I criticise. No man can be blamed for getting as much as pos sible for his services. The compen sation of this offlce is, In my judg ment, out of proportion with the work, and out of proportion with the smarles of other county offices. I think I am right in what I say, but 1 may be wrong. 1 may be tho only one In the county who sees it as I do, and I want to know bow some of the best and most conser vative men in the county feel about it, and I ask the following well known gentlemen to comment on what I have said: W. O. Hamilton, F. M. Carv. of Seneca; J. J. Ballen gor, J. P. Stribling, Richland; M. A. Terrell, W. P. Anderson, Westmin ster; P. P. Sullivan, A. Cook, Mad ison, and any others. Respectfully, C. G. Jaynes. Walhalla, .lune 2. Moved to tlie South. The executive offices of the Noah Remedy Co., makers of the celebrat ed Noah's LJInment, the great pain remedy, advertised extensively In this paper, have been moved to Richmond, where they are nicely located at 610 East Cary street, occupying the en tire third floor of a large building. They still maintain an office in Bos ton, and will open a branch at At lanta, Ga., in the fall. Noah's Lini ment ls highly recommended as an absolutely pure remedy for all Inter nal and external aches s nd pains. It ls sold under a positive guarantee, ns the Noah people refund full purchase price if lt falls to do all claimed. Noah's Liniment is now sold In nearly all cities and towns In Cds State. Being new, it is not yet on sale everywhere, but any painstaking dealer would gladly get lt for you. If he Will not, a generous sample will be malled free by giving his name on a postal card. Noah's Liniment has had a remarkable sale in the South, and is now ha ml led hy upwards of fifty wholesale houses and several bund rod retail dealers. Condition of Cotton Crop. At a meeting of the State presi dents of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union, held in Memphis, Tenn., last week, the total acreage of cotton planted was esti mated at 28,832,000 acres, ss com pared with 31,311,000 acres In 1907 (government estimate.) The reports show the growing crop, generally, to be In an unsatisfactory condition. Lands suffering from overflow, It shows to be among the most product ive, and it Is considered that hun dreds of thousands of bales have been lost to tho planters. Replanting Is not considered practicable. According to reports the season ls on an average fifteen days, late, and less area is chopped and worked to day than In 1907. The weather con ditions have retarded the growth. Constipation causes headache, nau sea, dizziness, languor, heart palpi tation. Drastic physics gripe, sicken and weaken the bowels, and don't cure. Donn's Regulets act gently and cur,? constipation. 25 cents. Ask your druggist. COLUMBIA'S SENSATIONAL. CASE. May End lu Disbarring of Lawyer of that City. Columbia, June 4.-The Supreme Court yesterday afternoon Issued per curlam order against Attorney John T. Duncan, of the Columbia bar, re quiring him to enow cause Monday morning why he shoald not be at tached for contempt or disbarred for submitting false an?, fictitious affi davits in a case bofore the court to secure n new trial for a negro named Jesse Hunter, charged with assault. The order grows out of sensa tional charges and counter charges between affidavits which Duncan sub mitted. The other side claims these were fictitious, while Mr. Duncan claims that the real affidavits were stolen. He Involves several Columbia attorneys in his charge of conspiracy. After hearing the case the court dis missed the motion for a new trial on after-discovered evidence. Mr. Duncan presented a lengthy af fidavit from himself in which he set forth the progress of the case, and charged that certain attorneys of Co lumbia and others are in conspiracy to injure him professionally and that certain records in this and other cases, In which he was attorney, have been lost or stolen from the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Clerk of the Supreme Court. One of the principal affidavits in the case was that of a negro. Jeff Taylor, who stated that lt was himself and not Jesse Hunter, who did the shooting, for which Hunter was convicted, and that he had feared to testify to the truth of this matter on the trial by reason of Intimidation.. This affida vit was probated by Washington Clark, an attorney of this city. So licitor Benet presented an affidavit from Mr. Clark stating that he had one day been called into the office of Mr. Duncan and asked to probate a paper signed by a negro and that the negro who rfterwards owned to the name of Jeff Taylor T\aB not the ne gro he saw in the office of Duncan, but was of entirely different appear ance. Solicitor Tlmmerman also de nied that he had receiver the paper said to have been served on him hy Mr. Duncan, but on the other hand Mr. Duncan presented affidavits to show that he had been at the Drafts hotel in Lexington and seen Mr. Tim merman on a certain date. To his own affidavit Mr. Duncan denounces Mr. Tlmmerman as a coward as well as a liar and filed with the court a note addressed to Mr. Timmerman containing these epithets. Mr. Dun can also charges the new solicitor, Christie Benet, with being In the con spiracy against him and denounces him. He names D. W. Robinson, an attorney of this bar, and Mr. Robin son's father-in-law, W. G. Childs, president of the Bank of Columbia, as among the chief conspirators, and declares he might name many others to the court. Mr. Duncan made the race for the United States Senate In 1896, and on the stump made grave charges against then Governor John Gary Evans, and in his lengthy affidavit he refers to this fact and to Gover nor Evans. He presents an affidavit from his former stenographer, new married, which contradicts that of Mr. Clark In regard to the description of the negro who gave the affidavit signed by Jeff Taylor. The two negroes, whose escapade brought about this sensational state of affairs, Jesse and Frances Hunter, were convicted of assault and batter; with intent to kill in June, 1906, and Jesse was given five years and Fran ces was given twelve monibR. The shooting for which they were tried occurred In January, 1906. They lived In the lower portion of Rich land county and it was asserted that Jesse Hunter had put his aged moth er out of the house where she had lived for years and which was said to be her own property. Her other children remonstrated and the *offi cers of the la*v were called In. Mag istrate Lykes, with a posse, wont to the house and they were fired on by some one. Jesse Hunter and his wife were arrested. Indicted, tried and convicted for shooting the officers and at the trial Jeff Taylor was a witness for the prosecution, hut since that time lt has been stated that Taylor was the man who fired the shots, and it was on this after-discovered evi dence that Mr. Duncan asked for a new trial for his client, which motion was to-day refused. fetntU st "M KM Vg Haw Always Boqfll --^?^ Another Mine Official Missing . Bristol. Va., June 4.-Thomas F. Kelley, superintendent of a coal min ing company in Wiso county, Vir ginia, ls missing, and ls tho fifth per son to disappear mysteriously near Big Stone Gap, In the Black Moun tains of that county, since Edward T. WentZ, the young Philadelphia millionaire, more than four years ?go. A MILL GIRL'S ROMANCE. Pulled Millionaire Out of River-Will Wed-Veins Fitting Herself. New York, June 4.-Living in a prominent hotel in this city, prepara tory to marrying a young millionaire, whose life she saved two years ago in the Lehigh River, at Allentown, Pa., ls Miss Jennie Clausen, who, when she met the man she ls to marry, worked ns a mill hand at $8 a week in the Pennsylvania town. That she might be fitted for the life and social position to which her husband's fortune would call her, the young woman for two years 4llved In a house on Fifth avenue owned by tho young millionaire. She bad 1250,000 a year and a retinue of servants. It is said that she has taken such good caro of the money that she has doubled it. By reading, association, observa tion and education, the former mill hand fitted herself for ber future life, and is ready to take her place at her husband's side, his social and intel lectual equal. The man, whose name is withheld until the marriage, which is expected this month, Is a member of one of New York's wealthiest and most exclusive families. A few days ago the mansion was closed for tho summer, and the young woman moved to a fashionable hotel, where she ls known under another name than that of the factory girl who wo* Ked for several years for $8 a weeg. The meeting between the factory girl and the young millionaire was the result of a chain of accidents. On his way to take part In a polo game In another city the young man was halted by a wreck near Allentown. He remembered that his family had Interests In a certain cement business in that city, and looked up the manager. He could not find the man he sought, and wandered about the city In an effort to kill time. On the hanks of the Lehigh River he watched at play a score of factory girls, led by Miss Clausen, and in bis interest in their game ho made a mis step. With a cry he fell into the river, and would have drowned had not Jennie Clausen pulled him out. The young man at once became greatly Interested in his pretty res cuer and remained In the city until he had learned her name. He called at her home several times. Then freqeunt visits to this city followed. When he proposed marriage she told him she was not certain that she would be happy as his wife, ou ac count of his wealth and social posi tion. She feared he would tire of her. When she stated the conditions under which she would listenfto his proposal, they were gladly accepted. Never can tell, when you'll mash a finger or suffer a cut, bruise, burn or scald. Be prepared. Dr. Thomas' 'Eclectrlc Oil Instantly relieves the iVVin-quickly cures the wound. Supreme Court. Columbia, June 4.-The Supreme Court has made the formal order fix ing the dates of the circuits for the November term. The Tenth Circuit (Anderson, Greenville, Oconee and Pickens), will begin on Thursday, the 14th day of January, and will be allowed four days. This woman says Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound saved her life. Read lier letter. Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, of Manning, Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: " I can truly say that Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound saved my life, and I cannot express my gratitude to you in words. For years I suffered with the worst forms of female com plaints, continually doctoring and spending lots of money for medicine without help. I wrote you for advice, followed lt as directed, and took Lydia E. Pinkhnra's Vegetable Compound and it has restored me to perfect health. Had it not'been for you I should have been In my grave to-day. I wish every suffering woman would try it." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. I*ink ham's Vegetable Compound, mad? from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has posit ive ly cured thousands ol women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that t>ear ?ng-down feeling, flatulency, faidiges? tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it ? Mrs. Pinkham Invites all sick women to write her for udvico. Hhe has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. SIR HENRY BULLER DEAD. Noted English Warior at Last Lays Down Ills A rms. London, June 2.-Gen. Slr Red vers Henry Buller, who had been ill for some weeks past, is dead. He was born in 1839. Gen. Buller entered the army in 1858 and in 1891 he had risen to the rank of lieutenant general. He/serv ed In China in I860, in the Ashanti war In 1874, In the Kaffir war and the Zulu war in 1878-79. He was in South Africa in 1881, and iu Egypt in 1882, and was present at the bat tle of Tel-El-Kebir; he also fought in the Soudan war in 1884, and was under spc-etary for Ireland in 1888. H?j went to South Africa during the Boer war in 1899, first as gene ral commanding the forces in Routh Africa, and afterwards as general offi cer, commanding in Natal. He con ducted the operations for the relief of Ladysmith, which was successfully accomplished after an investment of 118 days, and subsequently he con ducted the operations that resulted In the expulsion of the Boer army from Natal. If one feels dull and spiritless in the spring or early summer they call it "Spring Fever." But there is no fever-usually. It is the after effect of our winter habits. The nerves are mostly at fault. Tired, wom-out nerves leave us languid, '.'eless, and without spirit or ambition. A few doses of Dr. Shoop's Restorative will absolutely and quickly change all of these depressing symptoms. The Re storative, of course, won't bring you back to full health in a day or two, but it will do enough in 48 hours to satisfy you that the remedy Is reach ing thart "tired spot." Druggists everywhere are advising its use as a splendid aud prompt general tonic. It gives more vim and more spirit to the spoonful than any other known nerve or constitutional tonic. It sharpens a failing appetite, aids di gestion, frees sluggish livers and kidneys, and brings new life, strength and ambition. Test it a few days and be convinced. J. W. Bell. Stung to Death by Bees. Florence, June 3.-A horse belong, lng to Stewart Gregg, at Claussen, was stung to death Sunday by a swarm of bees. The horse was pass ing a hive and a bee stung him. He kicked and over went the hive. In stantly the whole swarm fell upon him and covered him, as though wrapped with a blanket. The horse suffered agonies for a while and final ly died from th? poison. FOR jV Attractive Hats and Cai Hats from $J to $4. Men's Caps from I Oe. to $1. Men's Fancy Vests, pre Best 50c. and $1 Shirts, Hosiery, Suspenders am Best $10, $12.50 and $1 Try buying your goods We sell everything in ] correct prices, with an iron c . THPOWINS WK ?AT RUSKII C0RT1 .MEI I SHIN are just the covering needed i they're fire-proof, storm-proo long as the building itself-cc COTTON co\(;ai:ss If A fl KNI>MI>. Associations in Various Cninitrlcs ar? Invited to Join. Puris, Juno 3.-The International Cotton Congress finished its labor? to-<lay and adjourned to meet in Italy | in 1909, either at Milan or Rome, the place and day to be decided later. The most important resolution, ad opted", by the congress was the one which' invited all confederated asso ciations in various countries inter ested' in cotton to join in the harmo nious curtailment during the periods of distress arising from over or under production. Another resolution instructs the cotton contract commission to place before exchanges of europe a recom menadtion for the substitution of a net weight basis of purchase for tho present franchise basis, which allows a shrinkage of thirty pounds In a bale of 500 pounds. The introduction into Europe of the mutual mill insurance system, now in vogue in America, ls the- sub stance'of another resolution adopted. The American delegates think that the congress will be generally .help ful, and the foreign delegates recog nize that there ts little hope of breaking the American monopoly. The congress agreed to authorize the committee to study the American proposition 'or the establishment in the Southern StateB of a cotton ex periment station, founded and man aged under the auspices of foreign industry, for the purpose of ascer taining the real cost ol the produc tion, and suggesting methods of low ering thi? cost. f?LEYSnONEMAR Cures Cafrfsi Prevents Pas?rnosla ngam I EN AND E Ds for Men and Boys in all style Straws and Panamas, from J tty lot to select from; prices $1 cut full and roomy, pretty patt( i Underwear, correct styles and 5 Men's Suits, in many styles, here and you are guaranteed a Mien's and Ladies' wear and H lad guarantee to please every ct RESOLVED "1 THEY ALU/AYS TVlRoW! ?TSATTHOSE'WHO JEU- DRE5^E"D. WELL DRESSED GO IE PLACE* WHERE KNOW HOW.To" DPjfeSCYOU WELL. BU5TE*, :NECA, S. ( for country buildings, becau f, easy to put on, and last ai >me in. and iee them. ARE COMPANY, tL"?^_ _.r<_ . WI LIJA M J. BRYAN NEEDS FEW. Nebraskan Already Has Almost Enough Pledged Votes to Win. New" York, June 4.-The Herald Says: "William J. Bryan bas made a olean sweep of all the delegates to the Democratic National Convention at' Denver elected fiiet week. He now hhs ?u overwhjBlmnig' preponderance of the delegates elected to date, a id for the first time in several weeks the allied forces of Johnson and Gray are at a standstill." In making the unbiased summary from week to week, the Herald seeks 'to be fair to both sides, and while it endeavors to avoid, unduly swelling Mr. Brayn'8 strength, all the reports would seem to indicate that Mr. Bryan's strength in the convention will be at least 770. He is now within 89 delegates of having the necessary two-thirds of the conven tion. A Lesson fil Health. Healthy kidneys filter the impuri ties from the blood,, and unless they do tlri? goo'd' health is impossible. Foley's Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys' and will positively cure all forms of kidney and bladder disease. It strengthens the whole system. Sold by all druggists. No More "Presiding Elders." In the Methodist Episcopal Con ference in Baltimore last week the time-honored title "presiding elder" was abolished hy the adoption of the minority report of the revision committee, recommending that the name be changed to "district super intendent," by a vote of 322 ayes to 210 noes. This radical change of terms is the outgrowth of a desire to denote the office more correctly. 30YS. s, best values. Men's Felt 0c. to $5. Boys' Hats and .CO, $2 and $2.50. ?rns and good values, attractive prices. gainst disappointments, ouse Furnishing Goods at istomer or money back. May is upon us. Have you lot already waited too long to prepare for Spring and Sum ner. You have seen the srowds in our store, does not ?hat tell you that tho choice things for tho season are fast lisappearing, Remember, the sooner yv i get your new things the longer you will lave to enjoy them, and can mything give you more joy ?han wearing attractive ap parel .