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DIED ON THEIR POLAR TRIP. Lieut. Ninnis and Dr. Merz Latent Victima in Antarctic. Sydney, New Sout^ Wales, Feb, 27.-Another was added to the Hst of antarctic tragedies by the news received here of the death of two members of the expedition com manded by Dr. Douglas Mawson. The party left Tasmania In 1911, accom panied by a large body of scientific men, to explore thoroughly the re gions around the southern magnetic polo. According to wireless dispatches received hero from Adelle Land, via MacQuarie Island, tho two dead ex plorers are Lieut. B. E. S. Ninnis, an Englishman, and Dr. Merz, a Swiss. Lieut. Ninnis belonged to tho fa nions royal fusllllers regiment. He was a close friend of Capt. Lawrence Oates, of the Inniskilllng Dragoons, who perished while returning from the South Pole with Scott. Lieut. Ninnis was killed by falling into a crevasse nearly a year ago. Ho was the expert of the expedition on sur veying and sledging. Champion Ski Jumper Dead. Dr. Merz was a prominent scientist and sportsman. After winning the ski jumping championship in Switz erland in loos, he offered his ser vices to Dr. Mawson. The causo of his death was not stated in the wire less message. Tile expedition started out not with any idea of rushing to the South Pole, but with the intention of ex ploring and naming the unknown lands of the antarctic and making numerous observations around the magnetic pole. According to the wireless reports received from Dr. .Mawson, the prin cipal objects of the expedition were attained. Unfortunately Dr. Mawson and six of his companions, after they bad been picked up by the expedition's ship Aurora, undertook another ex pedition, and were unable to rejoin tho ship, which was compelled to leave them or spend another year in tho antarctic. The surviving mem bers of the expedition are all well. To Name I>aud Af ncr King. Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 27. Lord Denman, Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia, re ceived a wireless message from Dr. Mawson to-day, in which he says: "Our sledging season has been very successful. We have opened up a large area of now land, both east and west of Commonwealth Bay. We have obtained important new data from numbers of stations in close proximity of thc magnetic pole." The new hind discovered by Dh Mawson in tho South polar regions will be named King George V Land. The explorer to-day sent a message to the King, through Lord Den ?nan, asking his majesty's permission to so name the land. Tho territory Hes between Victoria Land and Adelle Land. ATLANTA'S SECOND GRACE CASK Insanity Will Re Defense in Apple ban in Mystery Murder. Atlanta, Feb. 28.-it is intimated this morning that Injan'ty will be the defense in the Applebaum mur der case. In the event it ls admitted that Mrs. Applebaum, who is sus pected of having shot her husband, fired the fatal shot. The eity detec tives are of the opinion that this lat ter admission will bs Inevitable. The woman ls said to be half crazy now in the hospital ward at the jail. She moans and shrieks and tosses in her bed, and during a great part of the time ls kept under the Influence of narcotics. Physicians and citizens who know something of her former life have said that she was subject to temporary lapses of reason, dur ing which time she would be violent and wild. Further information Is that she has fired pistols at people two or three other times in her ca reer, while she was in that condition. WHY IS WALHALLA FIRM? Because Its Citizens Have Learned the Truth. After reading this generous and encouraging report from Mrs. Dris coll those who have tho misfortune to suffer, as she did. will naturally long to get similar relief. But to get the samo good as Mrs. Driscoll had you should get the same remedy. There are, of course, other kidney ;:i!!s, bul there are no other kidney pills the same as Dean's. That ls why Walhalla people demand tho genu ine. Mrs. Martha Driscoll. 9 Factory Hill, Walhalla. S. C., says: "1 took Moan's Kidney Pills with highly sat isfactory results when I was suffei lng from kidney trouble. My kid neys wero in bad shane, and'I had seVero attacks of backache and pains in my sides. I was also subject to dizzy and nervous 8|>ells. Seeing Doan's Pills advertised, I got a sup ply at Dr. Hell's ding store, and they restored me to good health." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York? sole agents for the United States. Refne'mb?r the name .-.Doan's--1 and take other. adv. NIGHT ON WAR WOMAN CREEK. Story of a Raid by An Old-Timer tn Revenue Service. (Anderson Mall, Feb. 27.) The recent raids made in Oconee county by the revenue officers recalls a story related to the editor of the Daily Mall by a former revenue offi cer,' who later became one of the Capitol police In Washington and is now a detective for a railroad line in the South. Tbl? law agent gives his "sig" as "J. Q. C." as the telegraph operators say. He was talking of the raids made by Tom Vandiford, a famous revenue agent, who is now located-or was until recently, and may be yet-at Greensboro, N. C. "I shall never forget one experi ence I had while connected with Un cle Sam's revenue department hack In the oighties," said the revenue agent who was relating the occur rences which he considered unique. "I was pulled into one raid In Moonshine Haven, along the line of Georgia and South Carolina, Avhere Oconee county, South Carolina, and Rabun county, Georgia, lie side by side. It was all planned for Christ mas Eve that the South Carolina and Georgia officers were to meet at a point on the Chattooga river, and if possible dean up a nest of moonshine stills that had been reported as running over-time to supply the Christmas trade. "We met a.s agreed, and after a three-mile climb and crawl we sur rounded thc largest plant I had eyer seen in operation without lucie Sam's sign over the door. In front, near the creek, wen1 two big bon fires burning. Men. old and young, wore present. A game of 'Old ?dge' was in full blast by four young bucks. "Smoko was boiling out of three stills In a pole pen distillery nearby, and three or four men. with their sleeves rolled up, were passing in and out of this distillery, busy as bees in June. Hy agreement we were to crawl up as close as we could from four sides, and at a given signal were to rise and rush in on them. "I could see a lot of old-time shot guns and rifles all stacked around a stump in the ynrd near ono of the tires, and I told my partner when the water got hot to bolt straight for these guns and cut them ort* from thia 'Old Sledge' gang, for I recog nized one of them as a bad gun ar tist, and even thon dodging from a sealed sentence in the United States Courts. "We were lying there watching ono of the stillers scraping out what appeared to be a tin bucket, but in reality was a still cap. and kicking at some pigs that insisted on reliev ing him of this task, when all at once the bugle notes of an old deer hound sounded long and clear on the frosty air. 'How-oo-ee-o' came from across the creek. 1 knew at once what lt meant, and was up a-hot footing it for those guns in short order, and just did beat them into their arsenal by a small margin, too." "Pandemonium reigned for a mo ment, but not one sbot was fired. 1 was told later that some one, in crawling up to the creek, had crawl ed on to this old deer hound that was 'quirled up' in the leaves fast asleep beside a log, and it was he that bellowed out the warning, as a moonshiner's dog hates the smell of the 'revenoo' as bad as bis master hates the sight of one-and that is true. We rounded up only seven men and one boy; the rest melted in mid air. "Among the captured was one mere boy, not over 14 years, who no doubt lived nearby and dropped In like others to spend the evening, never dreaming the hated revenue officer was so near at hand. My heart went out to this poor, mis guided and simple-minded lad. His mouth and chin were in a tremble, i said to our leader, a man from Kentucky, 'You do. not propose to take this boy to Atlanta I hope?* Ho whispered back, 'No; drop him when you set a chance to do so.' "So I kept him with me, and as the procession filed out up a dark ravine 1 managed to bring up the rear. I whispered to him, 'Son, can you run fast?' He said, 'Yesser,' as he nulled his old hat down over his eyes and gave me a side glance. 1 said, 'Now, look here, son; when we come to a good ??lace f want to see just how quick you can get out of sight of those torches. Do you un derstand?' 1 could feel his little heart going pit-a-pat against my hand as I held his arm, and could only guess what was then revolving through his mind, and whoa we came to a spot darker, If possible, than the reat, the laurel looming up in a solid wall on either side, I whisper ed to him, 'Now, good-bye, son; good luck to you-and go,' as I gently pushed him toward it, indi cating the way he should go, and he was off like a flash, too, and must have got some hard bumps from thc noise he made In going down that m/Mintqln fjf fhf ml 1.hfrl. ed t<> send a load ol buckshot (tfts? TWO MORE FOR GOVERNOR. Richard I. Manning, of Sumter, and Ix>vrades J, Browning, of Union. In an interview with a reporter for the Sumter Item R. I. Manning, of that city, announced his intention of being in the race for Governor in 1914. Mr. Manning said: "Yes, I have decided to announce my candidacy. I reached this con clusion several months ago, but did not wish to be premature in my an nouncement. Since, however, seve ral have announced their candidacy, and fearing my further silence may be misunderstood and may embarrass my friends, I have decided to let it be authoritatively and, definitely un derstood that I shall run." Browning Not Certain. . Union, Feb. 27.-Hon. Lowndes J. Browning, of Sedalia, this county, may be in the race for Governor next year. For some time rumors to this effect have been afloat, but nothing definite could be secured, and ac cording to Mr. Browning, when spo ken to over long distance phone to day, it even yet depends on circum stances as to his being a Gubernato rial candidate. ?J? ? J? ?J-. ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?|? ?J? .J. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. 4. .J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J. ?J? ?J? ?J? .J. ?|? F. M. Davis. Whereas our Heavenly Father saw tit, on the 2'.U\ day of September, 10 12, to remove from us our be loved deacon and brother, F. M. Da vis, from the toils and sufferings of time to the rest and joys of eternity; an d Whereas, our church mourns the loss of one of its most loyal mem bers, therefore be it resolved: 1. That we cherish his memory in our hearts and we bow in humble submission to His will, commending the soul of our brother t > lhe God who gave it, knowing that He is too wise to err, too ?.-ierciful to be un kind. 2. Wo shall sadly miss him and his ever reliable assistance and co operation in all our undertakings for the Lord. In his death we lose a dear friend, a useful member and an exemplary officer, who was always ready for the discharge of his duty as he saw it. But when we think of the reward to which he has gone we cannot but exclaim, "Blessed a.'e 'he dead who die in the Lord." 3. That a page in our minute book be set apart to his memory and these resolutions be inscribed thereon, and that a copy be sent to The Keowee Courier for publication. A. R. Marett, R. H. Marett, W. H. Leathers, Committee. The unpleasant word "gent" is short for gentleman, but the average gentleman prefers not to be short. him, but I knocked the gun up in time to prevent the deadly messen gers from passing near my little friend in homespun. "I had nearly forgotten this Christmas Eve raid back there six teen years ago in one corner of my memory, but while at court in Greenville a tall, dark-skinned, typi cal son of the mountains came up to me and asked my name. He seemed to be looking me over for some cause, then he remarked, 'I suppose you have forgotten me by now?' I con fessed I had, and he said, 'You re member about sixteen years ago, one Christmas Eve, up on War Woman Creek, in the big raid, you asked a kid picked up with the rest could he run? Well, I am the kid, and I'm powerful glad to see you, too.' "It all came back to me like a flash, and I took his hand gladly. He hung around me all the court and insisted on me coming to see him and spend a month, and I fully believe this honest hearted, simple son of the hills would have treated me as a brother if I should have gone to see him. He said he was there on a 'little whiskey scrape,' showing he had not forgotten bis early training. "Ile pointed me out to many of his old friends from the hills across the Chattooga as a 'living curiosity,' I suppose. From the way they star ed at me they seemed to doubt Its being possible for a 'blankety reve nue officer' to turn even a boy loose when caught in the act of loafiing round a wildcat distillery. "I will add this, and I am done with the yarn. You can't find truer, bettor friends or braver hearts than beat in the breasts of some of those mountain people. If they ?ike you they will die for you; if t!iey don't 'then you will die for him' if you rub his hair the wrong way one too many times. "I have l?ad many queer experi ences In the woods since 1882, but my mind wanders back most to this pole-pen distillery, and the big fires in front, and that old stump all bristling with guns of all kinds and makes, and most of all to the poor mountain lad and his terriflod look that night on War Woman Creek, back Iii the dghtles, when he was scooped in, as the natives call it, during 'tho big raid' 29 years ago, which that faithful old deer hound, by sounding his 'bow-oo-ee-o' ahead of schedule time saved eight to ten nntive* a trip to Atlanta at Uncle Sam's :\p< i? e." * 4. + + * * .? * * * * .> I 4. COMPULSORY EDUCATION. 4. .I- ^ 4* 4* .!* "I* * *ir * 4* *p (Charleston News and Courier.) The passage hy the House of Re resentatives almost unanimously the compulsory .education bill is on< of the most hopeful signs of the awakening of the white people of South Carolina to the fact that they are falling behind the negroes of the State in the educational race. Let us all consider the following facts from the advance bulletins of the thir teenth census, taken In 1910: There were the following number of white voters In this State in that year. Whites, born in America, 159,009. Foreign born, 3,555. Total white, 162,564. Of these there were no less than the following who could not write: Native white, 17,599. Foreign born, 206. Total Illiterates, 17,805. Rather more than one white voter In every ten In South Carolina, born in the United States, two years ago could not wt ito and only In every 16 born outside. This is a decrease among the whites of not 2 per cent in the last ten yet? rs, while the ne groes ha vu decreased their illiteracy itv 11 per cent. Where is this illiteracy to be found? Look at these figures. I give percentages only of white voters: Aiken.12.4 Anderson .12.3 Berkeley .10.7 Cherokee.17.6 Chesterfield .19.5 Darlington.17.9 Dillon .16.6 Florence .11.2 Georgetown . . . .12 Greenville .11.4 Dorry.18.5 Lancaster .12.9 Lee.11.1 Marion.12.2 Marlboro.18.4 Oconee.17.4 Pickens.15.1 Spartanburg .15 Union.12 Williamsburg .15 York .10.6 The other 23 counties all have less than 10 per cent, Charleston county having only 1.7 per cent who cannot write among native whites, or 221 whi'.a i?ivcrates among 9,888 native and foreign voters. Among all the voters in Charleston county, white and colored, 23,519 in number, only 20 per cent white and colored, can not write, which is not much greater than tho illiteracy of Chesterfield among the whites alone. Shall we walt until 60 years ex pire to have this reproach removed? By that time, at the rate prevailing for the last 10 years, the negro Illit eracy will have disappeared mor oughly. The negro illiteracy is now 38.7 per cent and the whites 10.8 per cent. The white Illiteracy in 60 years in the whole State will be about what it is among the whites of Charleston county now if it decreases not 2 per cent every 10 years, and the negroes would have reached that rate fully 25 years before. The optional law will allow those counties to adopt it which feel that the children are not sent to school because the parents refuse to send them, when opportunities are offered for their education, and will allow other counties "where the law ls not needed, or where there are no facili ties, not to put it In force. Joseph W. Barnwell. Charleston, Feb. 26, 1913. Dallas ( for lillie Ridge. (Anderson Mall, Feb. 28.) The Blue Ridge Railway ls doing a lot of ballasting in a quiet way. Capt. John R. Anderson, superintend ent, stated to-day that he hopes in the future to open quarries at two or three points along the line of the Blue Ridge, but at present most of the ballast conies from the quarries at Williamston. The ballast work has commenced on both ends and is being pushed slowly but surely. At present there aie about ten cars a week being hauled, hut Capt Anderson proposes to Increase this to five cars per day. Hope Across Road Proved Costly, A dispatch from Anderson sajs: For bodily injuries received when an automobile in which she was rid ing laU summer ran Into a rope stretched across a public road, Miss Virginia Latimer has been awarded a verdict of $1,000 against Anderson county in the Common Pleas Court. The chauffeur failed to see the? rope, which had been placed to warn driv ers of road repair work ahead and to detour them around the work. The rope caught the chauffeur under the chin, Jerked him from his seat and hurled him against Miss Lati mer, who was sitting on the rear seat. The blow knocked Miss Lati mer unconscious and she waa in a precarious condition for many weeks. The snit was for $.",000 dameges. mi -r j Low I TO Fertile N - \ ONE-WAY SPRING COLO DAILY MARCH 1? TO AP Western Montana, Idaho, V Columbia. ROUND-TRIP HOMESEEK 1st and 3d TUESDAYS EA< in tho Northwest United Stai and stop-overs. Travel Northern and connect! MINNESOTA, NORTH DAI WASHINGTON, OREGON, ICATCH EWA N, ALBERTA, Will send free Illustrated 1 west United States and ful ern Pacific rates of fare an< quest. It costs you nothing W. W. NEAL, Traveling Pnss'r Ag J. C. EATON. Traveling Immlg. A AND L I WL*W ^L. HIGHES! IV ? U mm m?t F0R RAW \ . > I w?01 ?n Comn T '^?^ T "T ^BBW mt mentioning J?HN WHITE & CO. ? NEW PARCEL POST FEATURES. "Collect on Delivery" and "Special Delivery" aro Added. Washington, Feb. 27.-On July 1 next the collection delivery feature will be added to the parcel post ser vice. An order putting this into ef fect was to-day signed by Postmas ter Goneral Hitchcock. Under the approved regulations a parcel bearing the required amount of parcel. ,, )st stamps may be sent anywhere In the country and tho amount due from the purch iser col lected and remitted by the post office department. The regulations pro vide that the parcels must bear the amount from the addressee and the collection will be made provided the amount lu not in excess of $100. The fee will be 10 cents to be affixed by the sender in parcel post stamps. This also will insure the parcel to an amount not to exceed $50. Extension of the special delivery system to apply to all parcel post mail was ordered yesterday by Post master General Hitchcock, effective March 1. The regular fee of 10 cents In special delivery or regular stamps will be charged. - I>eafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There ts only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafnesg is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mu cous lining of the Eustachian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hear ing, and when it ls entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal con dition, hearing will be destroyed for ever; nine cases put of ten are caused by catarrh, which ls nothing but an inflamed condition of the mu cous surfaces. We will give ono hundred dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir culars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. adv. The Keowee Courier and the Pro gressive Farmer one year for $1.50. Ex-Governor Martin F. Ansel is being urged for appointment as Uni ted States Circuit Judge, vice Judge Goff, elected to the United States Senate from West Virginia. Wliy Save " This Is the reason why women have 1 cloudy and uncertain, impulses lag and t like flying messages throughout limbs am woman will lay the cause of the trouble t< felt it. Is it a headache, a backache, a uncontrollable nervousness, something n woman naturally says, but all the time tl womanly organs. In nine cases out of t woman should take rational treatment foi motion of the delicate spcoial organs c systematically. Dr. Pierce, during a long period of from medicinal extracts of native roots,wi per cent of such eases. After using this i tice he put k up in form of Dr. Pierce's 1 easily procurable, and it can be had at an MRS. Lrr.A B. 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A verdict of guilty was returned against 18 of the prison ers on counts Including murder, ar son and robbery. Four of the ac cused, including three women accom plices, were found not guilty. A nong the indictments were no fewer than 22 murders, the victims being motor drivers, bank messen gers, freight agents and policemen. The gang held up p. number of sub urban banks, broke into residences of prominent people, killed tho chief of the Paris detectives, set fire to buildings, and finally, when their two leaders, Bonnet and Gamier, were In danger .of arrest, underwent two sieges in the environs of Paris. In the course of these sieges it was found necessary to call hun dreds of troops, wiioie squadrons of militia, mounted police and practi cally tho entire force of patrolmen, who bombarded the bandits for many hours in their sanctuaries, and then found several of the leading spirits of the gang lying dead, riddled with bullets, , Even the conclusion nf their trial ( was accompanied by tragedy, for ICarouy, the "anarchist bandit," when he heard that he was condemn I ed to imprisonment for life, commit ted suicide in his cell by taking poi son, which, presumably, was passed to him as he left the court room. Tho trial was attended by all sorts ] of dramatic Incidents. The jurors were threatened time and again with assassination by accomplices of the j accused. Many of the 304 witnesses were menaced. Tho Jury remained out from 3 o'clock yesterday after noon until 7 o'clock this morning, i They bad to cons'..er nearly 400 questions submitted to them. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cures Colds. 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