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THE OLD BLl'K RIDGE H?HTE. Prospects for Hoad Encouraging, Says Norryee. ( Anderson Intelligencer. ) There lia? been very little printed from this ellice lately concerning tho Blue Ridge railroad, and because of this fact, some are beginning to lose hope as to tho success of the efforts recently made looking to the com pletion of this road. There is absolutely no reason for losing hope and Interest In this latest and greatest enterprise launched by the Anderson ('humber of Commerce. Trospects are far better to-day than when the people, a short time ago, were full of enthusiasm. The only thing tangible then was the necessity of the road from our standpoint. There had not been an expression, even from Southern officials. Condi tions aro now changed. The comple tion of the Hine Ridge is a necessity from the standpoint of the Southern officials. The earnest facts present ed hy tho delegation from Anderson and other points along Hie route, have had the effect to put the South ern officials to thinking, ami the secretary of the Anderson Chamber of Commerce has been given a Upi to the effect that a proposition will most likely soon bo made to the peo ple between and including Walhalla and Charleston that If one million dollars ($1,000,000) be subscribed lo bonds tho completion of the Blue Ridge road will be begun. The main facts that aro pressing upon the Southern officials tho ne cessity for the completion of this road are something like this: Coal and coke has formed up to .lune, 1910, about 33 l-:i per cent of the tonnage haul per annum of the Southern railroad, and these fuel products were obtained in Tennes see. The Southern railroad does not enter any section of the Virginia coal fields. Since 1910 the Norfolk and Western railway has been open ed direct from the Virginia coal fields to Charleston, operating over the South-hound from Wlnston-Salem, N. C., to Wadesboro and over the Atlantic Coast Line from Wadesboro to Charleston. During 1910 tho C. C. & O. railway ha? been completed from Spartanburg through the Ten nessee coal fields into Kentucky. These are competing lines with the Southern in tho haul of coal and coke and with these advantages: ***** '" ' ' machinery, Cr.UK j?.i.!.tg an nniimUpd output ?md un Uh; "< l bi. - : '.j t? grades >i lo? Nojrfolk .ve*--?n . South-bound and Atlantic Coast line are ono per cent, thus reducing op erating expenses to tho minimum and enabling an engine to do four times as much hauling as over such heavy grades as are to bo found on the Southern around Asheville. The C. C. & O. ls well graded and ls a direct and .shorter haul from the coal fields. The coal in Tennesso is mined by hand. The Southern ls forced . to haul lt over steep grades to Ashevlllo and still steelier grades south. The operating expenses over this route form the maximum of operating ex penses. One engine on the Norfolk and Western will pull four times ns many coal cars over its tracks as an engine on the Southern road via Asheville. Resides, tho Southern ir, hampered by the rulings of tho in terstate commerce commission In the matter of long and short hauls. Ab solutely no avenue is left open by which the Southern can meet tho competing lines above referred to, and tho whole thing narrows down to the fact that the Southern ls forced to complete the Blue Ridge In order to maintain its earnings. There is no other con rsc; left open to it, and no one is more fully awake to the fact than President Finley. Tho niuo Ridgo must lie completed, or tho coal Heids of Tennessee forever closed to tho Southern. Cotton and all its products form less than s per cent of tho tonnage haul of tho Southern per annum. Grain, grain produits and bay form bs:; than :. per cent; merchandise, less than !. per cen? ? manufactures and miscellaneous, less than s per cent. So it can be seen at once thal coal and coke, running |-;; per COIlt of tho tonnage annual haul, must be taken care of. The comple tion of tho lUue Itldge gives a direct and sher' haul and a one per cont giade can ho easily established. Tho recent letter from President Flnloy to Cen M. L. Iionhnm, a synopsis of which was given In thc papers al Ibo time, ls s erv encourag ing, from tho fad thal Mr. hMnloj has been severely up against labor troubles with bis engineers, firemen and brakemen, yoi he slops in tho midst of lt to assure Cen. Bonham, who ls tho chairman of tho Ander son Chamber of Commerce commit tee on railroads, that demands of our delegation to Washington sliall he presented to tho board of direc tors to bo hold this month, and all matters presented by our delegation have due consideration. As to tho $ I,ooo.ooo proposition LEXINGTON DOUB?iE TRAGEDY. J. I?. Bouknlght, Whit??, Killed-Al leged Slayer .Missing. Lexington, Juno 7.-Tho body of J. i'ink Bouknlght, n prominent far mer of tho Shady Grove suction of tho Dutch Fork, who, it IB thought, was shot and killed at an early hour yesterday morning while heading a posse of "white caps," hy Will Col lins, a negro, was laid to rest at Shady Grove church this afternoon at Ii o'clock, in the presenco of a large congregation of friends and relatives. Will Collins, who did the shooting, has either been killed and his body thrown into I)road river, or ho has succeeded in making good his escape, according to the most relia ble Information obtainable from that section to-day. The first news of the death of Bouknlght reached Lexington yester day morning, when Coroner Clark received a telephone message stat ing, in effect, that J. P. Bouknlght was dead, and requesting officers to come over and hold an Inquest. No particulars as to how he caine to his death were given, and attaching but little importance to tho message on account of the meagreness of tho In formation given, the coroner ordered Magistrate L?rick, of Inno, who lives not far from the scene, to hold the inquest. Negro Suspected of Arson. After milking rigid investigation Do pu ty Sheriff Miller was not able to give any real particulars of the tragedy further than that it was re ported that Bouknlght had been shot in the stomach with a shotgun while making an effort to enter the borne of Will Collins through a window. It seems, however, from what can he gathered from those who will have anything to say, that Will Collins had been accused of huming the barn and stables of Joel Kui mer, a prominent young farmer of thc Im mediate section, and that suspicion as to his guilt was strong. On Monday night, it ls said, a party, variously estimated to number all the way from 25 to 50 armed men, went to the home of Collins and demanded that he come out, and af ter being repeatedly requested to snow himself, and refusing to uo so, it was decided to break In the house, and J. P. Bouknlght headed the way. When he bad gotten into the win dow, according to the story, he was ht? Upon by Collins, fehe < ?Un load j j al; in it it ' in the stoma* ls? Ti..- gro ri -I ?ti for V .. Nit) dbw ' l aud foll nve. n IM of the mau lil darkness, with nothing but his night clothes to protect his body, he was fired upon by the crowd. The depu ty sheriff traced the negro, or a flee ing man at least, for a distance of about throe hundred yards to the edge of the woods, where all traces were lost. Opinion ls divided ns to the where abouts of the negro, but the majority believe that he was killed and hts body thrown into the river to hide the crime. Others declare that the groans of the dying man no frustrat ed tho party that their attention was diverted from the nogro and that he made his escape. Ono of Collin's children received a wound in the hack. , The wife of Collins, it is said, makes the statement that she told her husband to shoot, believing that she, together with ber two children, would all be killed. She gathered her two children in her arms and managed to make her escape In the darkness. Hy "Parties I'nkonwn." The verdict of the jury of inquest was In effect that the deceased, J. P. Bouknlght, came lo his death hy a gunshot wound in the bands of par ties unknown to tho jury. For a mild easy action of tho bow els, a singh; dose of Loan's Reglllets is enough. Treatment euros habit ual constipation. cents a box. Ask your druggist for them. Four I/ost Attempting Rescue. Hattlcsburg, Miss., June 8.-Four persons lost their lives to-day in an effort lo save the lifo of a flvo-ycav old ghi, who had ventured out too for while wnding in Bowie, river, t wo miles north of here. The dead are Mrs. ii. C. Tanner, Urnest Tanner, aged 12; Henry Tanner, nged lf>, -ons of Mrs. Tanner, mid Annie Cou rosey, aged T. They wore mom born ol a Sunday sc hoi party. lo bo submitted lo tho people from Walhalla lo Charleston, (ho socro lary can only sny nt present that ho b;ts ample reason to believe that this bo Ihc proposition, and it is hoped thal when lt conns Anderson ronni y will do her part liberal ly and promptly. L. BJ. Norryce, Secretary Chamber of Commerce. Foley's Kidney Remedy ls particularly recommended for chronic caaes of kidney and bladder trouble. lt. tends to regulate and control the kidney and bladder ac tion and is healing, strengthening and bracing, Hinton's Pharmacy; .Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. KILLED WITH KNIFE AND GAO. North Carolina Woman Found Wit li Cloth Stuffed Down Throat, Charlotte, N. C., .lune 8-A shock ing murder and burglary has Just been reported from Jamestown, N. C., occurring early this morning. Tho mutilated body of Mrs. Dr. Hill, of Lexington, N. C., was found in an upstairs room at her mother's home at Jamestown. Mrs. Kagsdalo, tho mother, on arising, found a buudlc of valuables in the dining room, and becoming suspicious, searched the home. Upstairs she found her daugh ter's bo.lv stained In blood and cold in death. Burglars had tied a stocking about her neck and stuffed cloth down her throat. Mrs. HUI ls a sister of a promi nent cotton manufacturer of James town, and ls well known. Posses are scouring the woods for the mur derers.. The house bad been ran sacked. Woman Attacked at Burnes ville, (ia. Bnrnesville, Ca., June 8.-Un known parties arc said to have broken into the home of J. M. Sims, a well known traveling man, living on Greenwood street, in ono of the best and most thickly settled por tions of the city, Tuesday night, about il o'clock, and choked Mrs. Sims into* unconsciousness, leaving her prostrate on the floor, ransack ing furniture and trunks with the evident purpose of finding money. This was the condition which, lt is said, Mr. Sims and his children found the home when they returned from an entertainment at Gordon in-, stitute at 9.3? o'clock. Mrs. Sinis's condition since has been such that she bas beon able to give but little Information on which to make an intelligent effort to run down the alleged perpetrators of the crime, and considerable mystery sur rounds the affair. Mrs. Sims, how ever, gave a description of a masked white man, and further assortsJhat ho had companion"; with him In the house. There has been considerable excitement over the matter. Says He Has Killed 57 Persons. St. Petersburg, June 9-Startling revelations were made to-day by a criminal who murdered an army of ficer and the officer's wife at Sebas tapol. Tho man was arreste^ at Ti ?.. iii and ->:?/.. be ? ?>. lp the courue of his careel killed rivtyi'pven perso as, Including ?jv. P?'-b?? a snr.-" .in Of ii-, A >?. V ?SJ - of his death, and being convicted they are now serving terms of Im prison incut. I* IBxm Q?jm SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS ON THE REV. DR. LINSCOTT FOR PRESS BIBLE The object of the International promote, by questions, through the the teaching of Scripture In connec School Lessons. (Copyright 1910 by Rev. JUNE 18TH, 1011. The Downfall of Samaria. 2 Kings xvii: 1-18. Golden Text: He, that 1M lng often reproved hardened his neek, shall suddenly foe destroyed, and that with out remedy. Prov, xxlx: l. ( I.) Verses 1-6-Who was the last klug that reigned over the kingdom of Israel? (2.) What was the character of IIoshea? C5.) Who did Hoshea succeed as king, and how did he come lo the throne? (2 Kings xv::'0.) (4.) What became of Hoshea? (v. 4.) (.">.) By whoip was Samaria taken and the kingdom Of Israel blotted ont ? (6.) Verses 7-8 What was the real first cause of the blotting out of tho kingdom of tho ten tribes? iv: 20. ) (7.) What were the secondary causes of tho overthrow of tho ten tribes? (S.? How much luis God to do di rect with our national prosperity or with our national suffering? (9.) Whert we suffer from epi demic disease that WO can trace to had sanitation, or to any oilier cause over which we have no control, why ls lt either right or wrong to say that God ii.dieted the suffering? (10.) How much lins God to do with ibo sinking of a ship that was allowed to leave port in an unseawor thy condition? (ll.) What were the general habits ol' "the heathen" that Israel had imitated? (12.) Verses 9-12 -What specified sins ls Israel here accused of, and what relation did they have to tho blotting out of tho nation? MILLIONAIRES NOW NUMBER 4. Week'? Work Brings Another Int?) the Ranks with Seven Figures. As we predicted last week, there is another ''millionaire*' in the C. W. Pitchford lipton Plano Contest this week. The work of vote getting still goes on, and while thero is no great prospect for a fifth "million aire" for the coining week, still there are going to be others before the contest is over. Watch! The votes cast up to Wednesday, June 7th. aro registered as follows: Contest ant No. No. Votes. Contest ant No. No. Votes. 1.1,317,620 2. 2,286 is. 6,320 4.10,470 6. 51,205 6. 14,965 0. 5,070 11. 20.830 12. 12,550 14. 1,004,280 15. 25,125 20. 2,100 24. 6,320 26. 0,515 27. 15,035 28. 420,666 36. 2.605 87. 4,417 38. 5,230 30. 100.215 65. 01,095 60. 22,005 OK. 71. 75. 77. 83. 85. 87. 92. 215,110 3,230 4.370 3, ISO 5,270 54.. 170.480 55. 19,405 58. 4.280 04. 88,205 40. . . 46... 48... 40... 50. 21,170 2,440 47.000 4,005 7,435 0,015 14,300 3,035 07. 111,000 08. 34,800 104. 55,750 108. 17,500 109. 380,000 110. 17,255 112... 1.304,830 114. ,00,580 115. 0,005 110. 11,303 117.1,215.025 118. 541,780 121. 124. 131. 132. 133. 134. 0.040 8.216 2,230 7,7301 15,01: 16.410 1 Heavy, impure blood makes a mud dy, pimply complexion, headaches, nausea, indigestion. Thin blood makes you weak, pale, sickly. Bur dock Blood Pitters makes the blood rich, red, pure-rectores perfect health. A Tonst for All. A speaker at a meeting of British j engineers recently said: "Gentlemen, 1 congratulate you , upon your work in uniting the re mote portions of the British King dom and bringing together its di ? verse peoples-the Englishman who loves his beer and his Bible, the Welshman who prays on his knees on Sunday and on his neighbors the rest of the week, the Scotchman who takes communion and everything else he can lay his hands on, and the Irishman who doesn't know what ho wants aud won't bc ?a ll a Med ui . i' hf jgtiS it." j Fo!e> Kid- ey Flits cont'Aixi ; . (h ingredlen."i" '.ocoflary ?.? regulato & <*. strengthen the action ol thc iey? and bladder. Try them yourself. Barton's Pharmacy, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. BUNBAY SCHOOL LESSON BY , THE INTERNATIONAL QUESTION CLUB. Press Bible Question Club is to press, thought and investigation on Hon with the International Sunday T. S. Llnscott, D. D.) (13.) Is a "secret" sin as certain to work evil results as ono commit ted In the open? (14.) In what way do religious sins, such as idolatry, have an evil material effect upon the individual and the nation? (15.) Verse 13-In how many ways had Cod "testified" or warned them of the evil results that would follow their sin? (16.) How does Cod warn us of the evil consequences of sin? (17.) How may we learn of the sad and certain results of sin, short of actual experience? (I.S.) Verses 14-1 5-What reason ls there to think that they persisted in sin, after knowing the punishment that would surely follow? (IO.) How is i4 that Individualb and communities to-day persist in doing those things which they know will be disastrous? (20.) What would you say to the proposition thal sin first produces partial insanity, and then its victims keep on in sin knowing, but not real izing, hs awful consequences? (21.) What steps would you take to arouse si:" rs to the realization of thc awful consequences of sin? (.??1.) ls li possible to have sin ners for boon companions, and to bo Christians ourselves" (23.) Verses 10-18-What, If any, are the exceptions to the rule, that sinners get. worse and worse? (24.) When sinners train their children to do what they know will result In Injury, how do you explain lt? (This ls one of the questions which may he answered in writing by members of the club.) Lesson for Sunday, June 2tf, 1011: Review, CLEMSON COLLEGE MATTERS. Important ?h^ngCS in til? l?mvs (?ov crnlng Scholarships. (Correspondance Florence Timos.) Clemson College, June 8.-At tho recent meeting of the Legislature several important chang?s were mado in the laws governing tho Clemson BCholaishtps, with a view to secur ing the fairest possible method of awarding these scholarships. Among tho most Important provis ions of the new law ls that appli cants who have boen in attendance at Clemson College, or "any other Institution of higher learning known as a college or university," are de barred from rocelvlng scholarship appointments If there aro any eligi ble applicants from their respectivo counties. Such a person ls, however, allowed to stand the competitivo ex amination, but, no matter how good an average he may make on it, bis application will not 'be considered unless tho number of other appli cants making the required grados ls not sufficient to take up the scholar ships vacant. This ls done In order that the applicants who have had tho greater opportunities may not have an unfair advantage over a less for tunate, but equally worthy, com petitor. One who has forfeited a scholar ship at Clemson College or any other j State Institution by reason of failing to maintain his class standing is en tirely debarred from appointment on the very fair and reasonable sugges tion that ho is not the "most needy and worthy young man" for which the scholarship is provided; nor is a person eligible who, during the cur rent year has won, or holds, a schol arship at both tho Citadel and Clem son, and about the time for Clemson to open decides to go to the Citadel. This would cause a vacancy at Clem son which pei haps could not be prop erly filled, because of the most wor thy, or even all of the other appli cants having made other arrange ments. Heretofore some confusion bas been created by applications for scholarships having to be filled prior to the examination, lt is now pro vided that no applicant shall bo do barred from standing the examina tion because he has failed to fill out the necessary certlflcato of formal ability as required by tho law, but this certificate must ho in tho bands of the president of Clemson College before' tbe applicant cu be copald ' ered eligible i ir a s?hol?tv?hip or I ort'l lai-" Hut?, noon Au.?vu . . ?lat. Th . blank certificate ??>.h bo obtained i i o... ... ' p : i < county superintendent of education, on the day of examinations. Hereafter the Clemson faculty, in stead of the county superintendent of education, will mako the award of the li'iholarshtps. If a scholarship vacancy shall occur and the county to which it belongs has no eligible applicant, the Clemson faculty mny lill the vacancy by awarding the scholarship to some eligible appli cant from another county, or, if the vacancy occurs after tho opening of the session, to a student of the col lege. However, any such appoint ment, shall not last longer than the current session. The competitive examinations, cov ering the common school branches of study, will he held by tho county superintendent of education at tho county seats on the second Friday In duly from 9.30 a. m. to 4 p. m. No entrance examination will bo required of students who have satis factorily completed the second year's work in the high school, or, In other words, the ninth grade, as shown by a certlflcato. This is a new rule which will prove more convenient to many. This docs not, however, apply to the applicants for scholarships. Tho equipment of the college ls being Improved In every way. Prom inent among these Improvements is the new building with additional ap paratus, new barns and Improvement of tho cadet barracks, all of which will be completed by next September. Provision is being made for 200 ad ditional students, increasing the ca pacity to soo. MIND BLANK HINCH 1??0. Lost Memory of Fifteen Year*, Now Living in Pant. (Atlanta Journal. Otb. ) A man whoso mind has hoon a blank tor fifteen years, who ls lite rally living in the past, who cannot ho made to realize that this is June, 1911, instead of June, 1890, 1? tho Striking phenomenon which Associ ated Charity workers believe they have in the person ol' Ralph \V. Thompson. On June 2d a well educated, well dressed man, apparently 00 years of ago, suffering from a stroke of pa ralysis, wandered into the Associated Charity offices in the Goul building. From whence he came or where he was going cannot be learned. Repeated questions put to the man during tho past six days are responsible .for the theory that lie ls living in the past; that in some phe nomenal manner the happenings of the past llfteen years have been torn from his brain, leaving Di? memory of things prior to that intact. This strange phenomenon ls a former newspaper tuan, according to his own statement, and has worked for the Associated Dress, tho Savan nah Morning News, the Washington Post and other papers. LettorB to tho Associated Press and td the pa pers named failed to show that Ralph W. Thompson was ever connected with them. However, this does not shake the raith of the charity work ers, who believe that Thompson worked with the publications named, but that he has forgotten tho dates or even the approximate dates of the time when he was employed by them. Ile stated that he was with tho Savannah Morning News just five years ago, and that his daughter then married a prominent Savannah man. The Associated Charities communi cated with Savannah and found that the man named by Thomson, who ls now deceased, did marry a Miss Thompson some 20 yearB ago. He gives the names of many peo ple well konwn in the newspaper world with whom he says * e worked. Investigation developed that all were dead. He gave the names of two well known business men, one of whom is now the president of a big New York insurance company, as Inti mate friends. The liiBuranco man ls now traveling across tho European rnntlp*??>t ?nn1 cannot, he located by ibo charities Thompson, w\to MA.'. peculiarly <?r, the poi pt, says thai this mn wlV) honor .?ny draft vhich he presents. Tho ether biisine&i man niimeu io nibo ,ii Europe and Ue can? not be locnted. Tho Associated Charities ls-- very much Interested In the peculiar case, and Thompson will remain tn their care until they can find ont tho truth of his case. How's This ? We offer Ono Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 1G years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan cially able to carry nut any obliga tions made by his firm. Waldlng, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure ls taken in ternally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 7 5 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. Halse for Postmaster?* The salaries of upwards of a thou sand postmasters in offices in every State and Territory will be increased on July 1 next, as tho result of the annual adjustment, of compensation announced last week hy tho United States post office department. The increases are mostly $100 a year, a few running to $300, while In occasional cases reductions aro made because of diminished busi ness. The adjustment is based on the gross receipts of the olflcoH.