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? TO THINE OWN SELF BE TR?B, A SD IT MUST FOLLOW A8 THE NIGHT THE 1>AY7 TBU3U~OAN8T^ J?^T7^1F^?""BE'"FAI<SE~'TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SH Kl.OK & SCHRODER. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY, SEIT. 17, 191?. New Serie? No. HOI.-Volmno LX1V._No. ?8. Our Mr, C. W. Bauknight is in the St. Louis markets this week purchasing a select lot of Mules, Horses and Mares. They will probably reach Walhalla Monday of next week. Call early and look over the bunch and get your pick. Terms and prices to suit. ? C. W. & J. E. Bauknight, ' Walhalla, S. 0. ?TIT PAYS TO BT Y FOR. CASH. ?7 5\ "I WISH" Will only take you to the dividing line between Desire and Attainment. It is thc strong, active horse "I WILL" that takes you over the line and into the realms of Attainment. An active, purposeful "will" is a necessary factor in turning Desire into Actual Accomplishment. The man or woman who says "I will have money to pro tect my family and furnish old agc comforts" and at once begins to systematically save the odds and ends of income-build them into a lump sum-will generally have their desire gratified. The Determination back of thc Desire spurs them on to greater effort. Op portunities to accumulate come to them that never come to the thriftless spender. STOP WISHING. Start to accumulate. If you gc? at it systemat ically it will surprise you how quickly the small sums become worth while. No othct plan is so good, so sure as our Bank Account Plan. Westminster Bank, Westminster, S. C., DOE? NOT BLAME COLEMAN ? Expresa Messenger Accused by Street May Ile Innocent* Charleston, Sept. 13.-There are some Interetsing rumors In connec tion with the hold-up of Express Messenger Coleman on Southern train No. 14, somewhere between Charles ton and Sumemrville. It will be re membered that Coleman was held by the Charleston police, and later a white man by tho name of Street was arrested in connection with the rob bery. Ile admitted it and said that Coleman was in on the deal and as sisted him in the work. Coleman stoutly denied this, and declared that tho story is absolutely false in every particular. lt is reliably stated that the Sou thern Express Company did not or der the arrest of Coleman, and that the Company later went on his bond in order that he might be released from prison, lt is said that a pack \go was gi ven Coleman the night of ne robbery contai.ling $1,000, and tnat the money was in the safe to which he had the combination. Later it ls said that. Coleman, when he reached a station on the Uno where money is placed in a safe for through transportation, and tho combination of which is not known by the express messenger, h<> asked that the $i,ooo be transferred from his safe, and tho amount was thus taken out of his hands and placed where he could not have come into possession of it again because he could not open the through safe. This, it. is thought, points to the innocence of Coleman and shows that If a robbery had been planned he would have left this money where he could have gotten lt easily. Safest Laxativo fo:- Women. Nearly every woman needs a good kixative. Dr. King's New Life Pills are good because they are prompt, safe and do not cause pain. Mrs. M. C. Dunlap, of Leadill, Tenn., says: "Dr. King's New Life Pills helped her troubles greatly." Cet a box to day. Price, 2 fie. Recommended by all druggists. adv. 111(1 TIM SULLIVAN A VICTIM Of N. Y., N. H. & H. Train-Hotly liles Long Unidentified. New York, Sept.. 13.-"Big Tim" Sullivan was killed by being struck by a New York, New Haven & Hart ford train on \ugust 31st. His body was taken to tho morgue at Pelham, where lt was Identified to-day by his brother-in-law. Sullivan was killed shortly after he disappeared from his brother's home. Ho was f>0 years old and left a fortune estimated at two million. Ills mind was failing and he had es caped from his brother's home, where he was kept practically a prisoner. Ile was formerly a powerful Bast Side politician. "Hlg Tim's" Fortune (Jone ? Now York, Sept. 14.-The body of Representative Timothy D. Sullivan, who disappeared recently from his brother's home at Williamsbridge has been lound. Reports that he was in a sanlltarium at Brewster, N. Y., un der the caro of a Now York physi cian, were declared by the physician to 1)0 unfounded. An attorney for tho committee which was put in charge of Mr. Sul livan's estates when he was adjudged incompetent, certified to-day that the former political leader was on tho verge of bankruptcy. Claims against Sullivan, he said, began to accumu late soon after i:^ was placed in the custody of relatives last January. If these claims are allowed and paid, the attorney said, tho value of "Big Tim's" estate would be "doubtful." This statement surprised Mr. Sulli van's friends, most of whom believed that ho was worth at least $1,000, 000. The declaration regarding Sulli van's finances was made when the at torney for his estate apjwared before a Supremo Court Justice to oppose? motion to compel tho payment of a note for $f>,f>00, alleged to have been executed by Sullivan. Fach week patrons pay more than 6,380.000,000 nickels to moving pic lure shows in the United States. DISPENSARY FUND DIVISION. Over $42,000 Now Available for Counties-Statement Issued. Columbia, Sept. 14.-J. E. Swear ingen, State Superintendent of Edu cation; State Treasurer Carter and Comptroller General Jones have dis tributed among the 4 4 counties the remaining balance ot' tho State dis pensary fund, arising from sundry sources since 1912. In accordance with law, $99,195.GO from this source was paid out on March 30, 1912. The sum now available for distribution is $42,060.43. '. his fund is to be expended in the discretion of each county board of educ ition for the best interests of the free public schools. In counties where Che general school fund had to be supplemented with bon- wed money during the scholastic yea?' just closed, all receipts from this source may be legally expended for past in debtedness. "Only a few counties in the State." said Superintendent Swearlngen, "arc compelled to borrow money Tor edu cational purposes, it is the policy of educational authorities not only to repay this borrowed money, hut to seek to place each county on a cash basis. This end may be readily ac complished if each district board of trustees can be induced to close each scholastic year with a cash balance of 20 percent In the county treasury. Collections from taxes seldom suffice to run the schools before December 1st. Repairs during vacation months must be paid for in July and August, j Where tho schools open in Septem- j ber, teachers' salaries become duo In October and November, before taxes are collected. Counties failing to ? carry forward an adequate cash bal ance for school purposes are com pelled under these circumstances to borrow money to meet running ex penses. Districts closing the year in debt are in a worse condition, and must sooner or later either close their schools or levy additional taxes. It, therefore, behooves every board of trustees to consult with the Coun ty Superintendent of Education, and to make a careful estimate of re ceipts for the current year. Neither contracts nor actual expenditures should bo allowed to exceed this es timate. The dispensary apportion ment at this season is opportune, and will help to save many teachers and school officers from embarrassment. "Further distributions from this source may bo made from time to time. The purchase price of tho old State dispensary building on Gervais street in Columbia is to be paid in animal installments, and the money will bo apportioned to the schools whenever the fund becomes availa ble. The amount to be received from this osurce is Inconsiderable, and fu ture distributions will be insignifi cant." l und hy Counties. Following is a list of the distribu tions by counties: Abbeville.$ 1,08 1 . 53 Aiken. 1.220.22 Anderson . 2,085.05 Bamberg . 482.60 Barnwell . 856.35 Beaufort. 580 . 33 Berkeley . 046.03 Calhoun . 415.31 Charleston. 1,548.64 Cherokee . 771.22 Chester . 906.07 Chesterfield. 590.4 8 Clarendon . 590.48 Colleton . 662.15 Darlington. 910.89 Dillon. 576.27 Dorchester . 550.01 Edgefleld . 837.81 Fairfield. 852 . 42 Florence . 1,103.9 4 Georgetown. 617.75 Greenville . 2,020.61 Greenwood . 1,071 . 85 Hampton . 509.94 Morry . 810.30 Jasper . 202.98 Kershaw . 738.12 Lancaster. 892.62 Laurens .1,256 . 02 I>ee.. 638.68 Lexington. 1,015.40 Marion . 585.15 Marlboro . 665.95 Newberry. 1,013.25 I nonce. 875.87 Orangeburg. 1,535.82 Pickens . 775.79 Richland . 1,452.62 Saluda . 720.1 1 3partanburg. 2,606. :'.t; Sumter. 1,132.35 Union . 1.101 .02 Williamsburg . 824.50 Vork . 1,471.14 Total.$42.000 . 43 The following letter was addressed >y Superintendent Swearlngen to the bounty Superintendents of Education if the State: "This payment ls made under the tct of 1912, a copy of which is Indos id for your examination. Three ourths of this amount may be ex )onded during the scholastic year 19 13-14, representing the scholastic ears 1911-12, 1912-13 and 1913-14. recommend that this expenditure )o made so as to prevent the accumu ation of a large unused county board und." Driving Goat? to 'Frisco. Darlington, Sept. 14.-A man from Uaska. driving eight goats, passed brough Darlington this evening nt ?.30 on his way to California. He eft Alaska somo months ago and ox .ects to mako the trip to California Irivlng the goat team. PRIEST CONFESSES BUTCHERY. Tho Mystery Sm -rounding Ikxly Found in Hudson IN 1'Ienred. New York, Sept. 14.-With the ar rest early to-day ot Rev. Hana Schmidt, assistant rector of St. Jo seph's Roman Catholic church, charg ed with tho murder of Anna Aumul ler, a domestic, tho story surround ing the finding of parts of the dis membered body of a girl in tho Hud son river was solved. Schmidt, ac cording to tho police reports, con fessed, and at tho time of his arrest attempted to commit suicide by cut ting his throat with a safety razor blade. "I killed her because 1 loved her so much," Schmidt is alleged to have told hi* captors, but the police ver sion of the motive for the crime is that the young woman was about te become a motlier. He had married her through a ceremony of Iiis awn performing, without witnesses. According to tho police and the district attorney's office, Schmidt's confession was full and absolute. In it he is unoled as saying that he killed his companion with a butcher's knife and cut up the body with the knife and a saw. The deed was com mitted, the police say, shortly after midnight on September 2, in an apartment on Broadhurst avenue, where the priest had placed her five days before. Body Cut to Pieces. When her heart had ceased beat in, according to the alleged confes sion. Schmidt carried the body from the bed to the hath room, and plac ing it in tho tub began immediately his gory task of cutting it up. With the keen knife and the saw he cut off the head, arms and legs. Still afraid of detection he then cut the body in two. Five bundles, wrapped in bed clothes and papers, were made of the six parts. Five times Schmidt left tho apartment house with a bundle to cross the Hudson river to the Jer sey Shore. Five times he leaned over the stern of the ferryboat in mid stream and gently gave the river Iiis burden. Then ho returned to his chu rch. The stains of the girl's blood dis colored tho bath tub when detectives searched the apartment to-day. Schmidt told tho police he had taken ino mattress on which she lay when he dealt the death blow under cover of darkness to a vacant lot nearby and burned lt. in the apartment, among other things, the police found a marriage license issued in New York last Feb ruary, bearing i lie names of the priest and the murdered woman. Ac cording to Schmidt's confession he went through a mar ringo ceremony with-tho girl. In this ceremony Schmidt was both priest, and bride groom; there were no witnesses. Pillow Slip thc Clue. A gayly colored pillow slip of unu sual pattern led to Schmidt's appre hension. This pillow, stained with blood and soiled with the filth of the river, was wrapped around a portion of the torso. Tho detectives carried the pillow slip to its manufacturer. Tho manufacturer traced it to the dealer, and ho to -Schmidt. And the police, tracing Schmidt and the girl, knew all about both of them hqurs beforo they arrested him. Schmidt was arrested by Inspector Faurot, In charge of the detective bureau. The priest was dressed in full clerical garb when the detectives entered his rooms in the parish house of his church, in West 125th street. The inspector produced a photograph of ?Miss Aumuller and asked Schmidt if he knew the girl. The priest, after a moment of hes itation, inquired whether his visitors were police officers. His actions in dicated that he was expecting arrest. He then asked permission to change Iiis clothes, and it was when he left tho room Inspector Faurot declared that he attempted to cut his throat with a safety razor blade. A Coincident. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 14.- 'Rev. Hans Schmidt, who was arrested in New York for tho murder of Anna Aumuller, was in Louisville from August, 1909, until March. 1910. He was not connected officially with any church here, but was a visitor at the home of Rev. Henry H. Westermann, pastor of the Church of the Immacu late Conception, where he was re ceived at the request of tho late Bishop William McCloskey, of the diocese of Louisville. According to Father Westermann, his visitor kept his own counsel and Iiis own company having littlo to do with others In tho house or, so far as lie knew, with outsiders. Ho per sonally cared for his own room, deny ing to admit a servant. He held the legree of doctor of philosophy from Ihe University of Munich and spent much of ?his time In the study of jclence. D'.iring the ixuiod of Schmidt's lirlef stay in Louisville this city was dal lied by the murder of 8-year-old \lma Kellner, whose mutilated body kvas found In Quick limo in the base ment of St. John's Catholic, church, nearly five months after her myste ions disappearance, on December 8, 1909. Because tho manner in which :he child's body was carefully cut nto pieces and disposed of, bore tome resemblance to the method em iloyed in the murder of Aura Annuli er In New York, Interest, in the Hell ier case was revived to-night 00 re :elpt of the news of Schmidt', arrest. Joseph Wendling, Janitor at St. BIJECTKIC LIGHTS AND POWKK. Oharter for Electric Power Company ID Pet!(soned For. John I. Linier, of Walhalla, anil 'Marcellus B. Thornton, of Hickory, N. <\, are the petitioners for a char ter for the Linier Power Company, with a capital stock of $40,000. The l?e\ltlon as flied with tho Secretary cf State recites that the principal place of business of the proposed corporation is to be at Walhalla, S. C., and Its purpose that of generating electricity for illuminating and power purposes. The petition also requests, the granting of rights to acquire and sell lands, to erect dams, to build power houses, to acquire rights of way, and to construct transmission lines to various towns in thc State of South Carolina: also to engage in manufacturing with I electricity. The capital stock ol' the proposed corporation, as stated, is to be $40. 000, the stock to be divided into 1 PO shares preferred stock of the par value of $100 per share, and I'.OO shares common stink of tho par value of 1 00 each. Mr. Linier luis for some time been working on the proposition, and tile Application for a ( harter for his com pany is the result of the final sails factory arrangement of all details pertaining to the preliminary work. His associate, Mr. Thornton, of'Hick ory, N. C.. is expected to arrive in Walhalla this week, and ?ill matters of detail will be worked out. The site of Ibo dam and power house will be on the old Mauldin Mill shoals, which are located 7 Vu miles from Walhalla. The blue prints for the dam. bul.dings and machinery aro all in hand, and con tracts for the electrical machinery will be placed within the next ten days. Mr. Linter's company already has a contract with tho town of Wal halla for lighting and also for power. His contract calls for transmission of power into the town on the com pany's transmission lines, the town to furnish its own wires, lamps, etc., and the citizens will purchase lights or power from the municipal authori ties, except in cases whore power io to be delivered In excess of 10 horse power, in which case the Linier com pany viii deal direct with the con sumer. The current furnished will bc on a day and night basis, thus in suring both to the town and the in dividual user lights and power con tinuously if dv'sired. Mr. Linier states? that his company ? ill be ready for business between the first day of March and the first day of June. Hil l, the date of readi ness for turning on the current be ing dependent upon the weather con ditions, which will, of course, mnte rlally affect the progress of the work. Tho contract entered into with thc town of Walhalla is for a period of five years, at thc expiration of that time the town having the option of renewing the contract or turning the matter of furnishing light and power to the individual consumers over to tho Linier Company. Mr. Linier states that every piece of machinery lins been selected nec essary for the erection and comple tion of the plant, and that In doing so the most modern electrical appli ances have been chosen. As tending to show the modern plan of the pro posed plant ho stated that the con trol of the whole supply of electrclty will be centered in the olllce building by means of a switchboard, from which the current can be turned on to its full capacity, or diminished at will, ?ind maintained at a given point of efficiency. This comparatively new device does away with the necessity of operating gates at the dani by some one stationed there, who would increase or diminish the water flow on signals from the power house. John's Catholic church, was arrested in California three months after the discovery of the body of the child and was brought back to Louisville, convicted of the murder and sen tenced to life Imprisonment at Frank fort. Wendling stoutly denied l. s guilt, and the evidence was not. con sidered sufficiently conclusive to warrant the jury in bringing in a death verdict against Wendling. The detectives who were in charge of the Investigation of the child's death stated to-night that Schmidt's name was never mentioned in connec tion with the crime. In an interview to-night at the Frankfort peniten tiary. Wendling stated that ho had never heard of Schmidt. Schmidt Insane ? New York, Sept. 16-Schmidt, who confessed that he killed Anna Au muller with a butcher's knife as a "sacrifice to be consummated in blood," is at the observai ion ward of the Tombs to-night under the watch ful eye of Dr. McGuire, the prison physician. Warden Felton, of the Tombs, declares tho man ls Insane, one of the most dangerous men ever confined in the prison, and in this view he was upheld by Deputy Com missioner of Corrections Wright. From far-off Mainz, Cermany, there came to-day to Monsigner Joseph F. Money, Vicar General of tho Arch Diocese c." New York, a cablegram from tho secretary of tho Bishop, which said that Schmidt had been declared insane there and suspended by the Bishop. The message read: "Schmidt born at Aschaffenburg. Priest of Diocese Mainz. Ran away from Mainz because of attempted frauds', arrested by police; declared Insane by court and discharged." V JURY CONVICTS MRS. GODBKH, Georgia Woman to Spend Lifo in Pe* for Murder of Two. Millen. Cn., Sept. 13.-Thirteen; boura after it waa given the case, thc Jury this morning returned a verdict, of guilty against Mrs. Edna Perkin* Qodbee, charged with tho murder ol Mrs. Florence Godbeo, tho wifo of her divorced husband. She was rec ommended to morey. 'Mrs. Godbeo killed her former husband and his wife nt tho Millen post otllce August 18, when .Tud?e Qodbee and his wife went, to get their mall. She snatched a revolver from her handbag and shot the judge, who fell mortally wounded. Then she turned the smoking revolver on his wife, and shot her three ti mts. Mrs. God bee was indicted for the murder o? both. She was (ried first for kiUiAA his wile. The case has excited the keon esl interest throughout the Stale. Mr?, Qodbee, as the defense claimed, wa? mistreated by her husband induro and since her divorce. She claimed he applied a vile epithet to her as h.? (Mitered the post, office thal morniisr lier excuse for killing tho woman was that she was so excited that she didn't know what she was doing alter she shot the man. The dead woman' was from Williamsport, Pa. ARREST IN l'A RR SHOALS CASE.. Prisoner, So. Ry. Conductor, Dcnj/n Any Connection With Robbery. Grenville. Sept. I -I.--Suspected of being implicated in the Parr Shoals robbery, which occurred September 6th, .las. B. Tipton, a freight conduc tor on the Southern, whoso home it in Greenville, was arrested Friday af ternoon by D?tective Stevens, of Co lumbia, and Detective W. R, Adams, of the Atlanta branch of tho Bu rm Agency. Tipton ts a man of a fam ily, having a wife and four ch lld nea.. He has resided In Greenville for four years. Apparently be is about years of age. When seen by a newspaper ma? the prisoner denied all eonncotlon with tho affair, and gave an account of himself on tho day of the robbery, in the morning, according to Wa statement, he left Spartanburg on ac run to Columbia; reaching the latter City shortly before 1 o'clock. He 'then went to his boarding house, and claims that, his first knowledge of the robbery was when he read an ac count In the afternoon paper in (Vi lumhia. Friday night, he sass, he left Columbia for Greenville, c.otnin.? via Spartanburg. Local officials did not know that, ht was suspected of any connection with the robbery, their first intimation of his alleged complicity bel?g his ar rest by the two detectives, who cam?' here with a warrant for ulm. The prisoner was turned over lo Sheriff Rector and kept in the county jail until this afternoon, when an off cer from Columbia and other ofllclalx. took him to the latter city The. warrant for the arrest of Tip ton was sworn out before Magistrate C. B. Douglass, at Parr Shoals, OB September ll, by J. T. McLellen, anp perintendent of the J. B. White Con struction Company. Th? warrant charges Tipton with the theft of $ 1 ?.00 8.1 1 on tho iith of September CREW CHARGED WITH ROBRERF Trial Will Be in Federal Court-AV leged Thefts nt Littleton. (Columbia Record, 1 nth.) B. S. RIack, Hall Odom and Perri Latlmer, members of a Southern rail way crew, will be tried at the De cember term of Federal Court In Charleston for breaking into an in ter-State shipment of freight at Lit tleton. Some shoes and shirt:; were stolen from Southern railway car 30308 at Littleton some time ago a part of a shipment from Cincin nati to Belton, S. C. Deputy Marsha? Chas. T. Sena arrested Black on tho. charge of breaking Into the car, ? violation of an act of Congress, ap proved February l.'Uh of the pres ent year. He was given a prelim nary hearing before K. Beverly Sloan, United States Commissioner, Sep tember 6th, and was bound over itj federal Court under a $1100 ))tttv?U Odom surrendered himself Saturday t ) Commissioner Sloan and wan als? "put under a $300 'bond until his pre liminary hearing, which was set for September 27. Perry Latlmer wa? arrested at Belton, and was given s preliminary trial in Anderson county The term ol* court at which the case will be heard convenes at Charlestor the first Tuesday in December. Enraged Husband kills Three. Mem plus. Tenn., Sept. 15. Charged with murdering his wife'r father, mother and 16-year-old bro ther early to-day. edward Baxter, 35 years old, a telephone lineman, is being sought by the police of this city. Baxter and his wife had been sep rated several mouths. Early tb?*i morning, lt is alleged, Baxter went to the homo of his wifo's father. Henry Smith, where Mrs. Baxter hatf been staying, and opened fire on th? family with a revolver. Smith, hlr wife and son Oscar were killed al most instantly, but Mrs. Baxter suc ceeded in eluding her husband %m? cscaoed from the house. After the shooting Baxter is af elged (o have reloaded his revolver and walked leisurely away.