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' l. m. grist s sons. Pabiiihew. j A ^antilj 3flf irspapf r: Jjor the promotion of the political, Social. Agricultural and ffomiiurrial Interests of the ^people. ! tkr,*nolk cJh-'v.Vmk ESTABLISHED 1855. YORK VILLE,S."oT'F RIDAY7 DECEMBER" 18, 1908. NO. 301. Tipwrwwiinimiifw iwiuwiwfwr -Tilt JO By OPI1 Copyrighted 1896, by Wm. I 3y Per'riiesion of La iXmi an m nl m m Ml mmum an B CHAPTER XIV. i I went to town every day, and evI ery night I returned, self-charged with hope; and now the trial was at hand. When the work of impaneling the jury was begun, old Conkwright was there with his challenges. How shrewd he was, how sharp were his eyes. And when night came the panel was far from complete. "It will take a long time at this rate,"I 1 said, as we were leaving the court room. ^ '"I don't care if it takes a thousand years; they sha'n't ring in a stuffed toad on me," replied the ex-judge. "Did you notice that fellow with a long neck? ? They've fixed him all right and I knew b it. I am not altogether easy about that short fellow we've got, but I hope he is man enough to be honest. There is no more trickery anywhere than there is in a murder trial in this country. Well, they've put their worst men forward. niul I think we shall have better material tomorrow." fAnd it appeared that we had. for the jury was sworn in the next afternoon. The testimony was so short and L so direct, the witnesses were so few V that the trial could not last long; and ? when at home I gave this as an opin\ ion. the old people were glad, for they declared that it shortened the time of their son's absence. On the day set for the opening of the argument hundreds of the farmers gave over their work and rode to town, for the southerner loves a passionate speech, and the court house is still his theatre. The old man walked down the road with me. but he stopped before we f reached the place where Stuart had been stretched upon the ground. "Well." he said, turning back, "I reckon today'U finish it. At least they'll give it to the jury and it oughten't to ^ lake 'em long after what the judge says in his charge to "em. I feel that it's goin' to be all right. Don't you?" The truth was that I did not; but kindness is not always the truth; so I said: "Everything looks that way. Conkwright is as sharp as a thorn and he'll be in meir nesn irom me uckinning to the end." k "Hy jings, jest say that again. That ought to settle it right now, hah? y Stay with 'em till they get through, and ? you'll find us waitin' for you when you git back." 1 ' I nodded, waved my hand at him and 1 galloped away, and from a hill-top I looked back and saw him still standing there in the road. Parker caught up with me and we in turn overtook a man whom I did not care to encounter ?Etheredge. I had seen him every day during the trial, had caught his blurred eye as I was giving my testimony on the stand, had heard him tell his damaging story. J "Ho, there." he said, as I was about to pass him. "Haven't forgotten me, have you?" ? "My memory is unfortunately so good f that it retains many objectionable things," I answered. "Olad to hear it; pleased to know that you haven't forgotten our little engagement." He rode along with me. The way was just broad enough for two horses abreast, and the deputy dropped back. "We need not wait for the termination of the trial," I replied. ^ "That so? Strikes me that you are ^ pretty keen, especially as there is an M xfticer tight behind you. Say, you *W seem to blame me for the interest I M am taking in this affair. Have yor ? stonned to think of the interest you are ^ taking1 in it? Jucklin's no relation of yours and probably never will be. Did you hear what I said? Probably novel will be." '"Unfortunately I haven't an apple tree sprout with nie today. Mr. Ethoredge." "And it's a good thing for you that you haven't. Do you reckon I'd let you lash at me while so many people are riding along the road?" ^ "I don't suppose you would let me do so at any time if you could help yourself." "Oh. I don't know. Might let you amuse yourself if there were no one c in sight. But I've got nothing against you. young man. I've lived long enough to forgive an over-grown boy's impulses." He could not have cut me deeper: and his sieepy old eyes saw the blood and he laughed. "Got under your hide a little that time, eh? We've all got a thin place somewhere in our skin, you know. You needn't look back; the officer is right behind us." "I wish he were not in sight," I re( plied. "You don't like him, eh? Why, I al> ways thought he was a pretty good y fellow. But. of course, I am willing A to accept your judgment of him. But ? I- Ill,, 1,1^ ...K., ,1? tvntf U yuu nun i 11rvc mill ? nj uii j w, ' ?.? w for him to come up?" "1 am waiting for you to go on. sir," i replied. "And if you don't I will knock you off that horse." "Very well. I see a man on ahead who is doubtless better company. I trust, though, that I shall have the pleasure of a closer association with you at some future time, flood morning." fl I waited until Parker came up. "Did you get enough of him?" he asked, laughing. "I knew you would?nearly everybody does. I'nder the oircumM stances it was an insult for him to offor to ride with you." "And he and I will have a trouble as soon as this one is settled," I replied. "Oh, I reckon not. I don't see why any man of sense should want to have trouble with you. Just look how they are Mucking to town. Hope they'll turn out this way and vote for ine at the next election for sheriff. Women, too. See them coining out of that gate?" 4 When we rode into the town the 4 streets were thronged and horsemen. wagons and buggies were thick on the public square. The ginger cake and > eider vender was there, with his stand / near the court house steps, and the neigh of the colt and the distressful answer of his mother, tied to the raek. CHINS' 2 READ. 4. Lee?All Right* Reserved. ird & Lee, Publishers. j echoed throughout the town. Dogs, meeting one another for the first time, decided in their knowing way that they were enemies, but suddenly became allies in a yelping chase after one of their kind that came down the street with a tin can tied to his tail. I went at once to Conkwright's office and found him with his feet on a table, contentedly smoking a cob pipe. "I was just thinking over some points that I want to make," he remarked as I entered. " A tia 1 hrvno air that von are in the proper humor to make them." "Can't tell about that. Oratory is as stealthy and as Illusive as a weazel at night. You never know when he's coming." "But do you feel well?" I anxiously inquired. "Oh, feel first-rate, but that doesn't make any particular difference. Sometimes a man may think that he feels well, but when he gets up to speak he finds that he is simply sluggish. Reckon I'll get through all right. Do the best I can, any way, and if I fail It can't be helped. Guess we'd better go over." An anxious day that was for me. I looked at Alf, now beginning to grow pale under his imprisonment, and I saw his resentment rise and fall as the state's attorney pictured him, waiting, listening with eagerness for the sound of a horse's hoofs. I was to be a lawyer. to defend men and to prosecute them for money, and yet I wondered how that bright young fellow, with the seeming passion of an honest outcry, could stand there and tell the jury that my friend had committed the foulest murder that had ever reddened the criminal annals of his state. Old man Conkwright sat, twirling his thumbs, and occasionally he would nod at the juryman as if to call their attention to a rank absurdity. But I did not see how he could offset the evidence and the blazing sentences of that impassioned prosecutor. At last Conkwlight's time had come, and when he arose and uttered his first word I felt the chill of a disappointment creeping over me. He was slow and his utterance was as cold as if it had issued from a frost-bitten mouth. I went out and walked round the town, to the liverv stable, where a negro was hum ming a tune as he washed a horse's back; to the drug store, where a doctor was dressing a brick-bat wound in a drunken man's scalp?I walked out to the edge of the town, where the farming land lay, and then I turned back. I was thinking of my return home, of the sorrow that I should take with me, of those old people?of Guinea. Some one called me, and facing about I recognized the telegraph operator coming across a lot. "Glad to see you," lie said, coming up and holding out his hand. "Didn't hear about her, did you?" "Hear about whom?" I asked, not pleased that he should have broken in upon my sorrowful meditation. "Mrs. McHenry." "No, I've heard nothing. What about hei ?" "Why, there's everything about her. She's my wife?married night before last. Know that piece of calico I pointed out that day. the time I said I had to be mighty careful? Well, she's it. I'll walk on up with you. Run it down?run in panting, you might say. Said I had to have her and she shied at first, but that didn't make any difference, for I was there three times a day till she saw it wasn't any use to shy any longer; so she gave in and I caught the first preacher that happened to be hanging around and he soon pronounced us one and the same kind?something of the same sort. Go right down that street and you'll see calico on my clothes line most any time. Say, it will be a pity if they hang that young fellow. And I'll tell you what I'll do. If they send anything off to any of the newspapers I'll spell his name wrong. Get even with them some way, won't we? Yonder comes my boy and I reckon there's a call for me at the office. They are rushing me now ?seems to be the busy season. I've been to the office twice already today." Long before I reached the court house I heard old Conkwright bellowing at the jury. The windows were full of people and outside were standing upon boxes, straining to see the old fellow in his mighty tirade. I could not get into the room, but I squeezed my way to the door and stood there, with my blood leaping. Now I could see why they had called him powerful. His face was aglow, his gray hair was upon end and his eyes were shooting darts at the jury. I know not how long he spoke, but I know that suddenly he was silent, looking upward, and then, spreading his hands over the jury, said: "May God in his infinite mercy influence your decision." He sat down, and I noticed then that the air was cooler with a breeze that sprang up when the sun had set. The state's attorney made a few remarks, and then the judge delivered his charge to the jury, an address short, but earnest. Now there was a shoving and a crush ?the jurymen were filing out. I saw them leading Alf back to the jail, but I did not go to him. so pulled and hauled I was by hope and fear. But I made my way to the old lawyer, and asked him what he thought. "I don't know," lie answered. "Don't you see the disposition there is to rush everything? I don't think they will be out long." "You made a great speech, sir." "Wasn't bad. considering the material. We were at a disadvantage. He stood there in the road, you know, and that is a hard thing to get round." "But the judge must have felt your speech." "Why, my son. I don't suppose he heard it." I went away and again I walked about the town. It was dusk and the tavern bell was ringing. On the court house steps and on the public square men were discussing the trial and ven turing their opinions as to the result. I heard one man say: "The old soldier made a great fight. but the odds were against. Met ten dollars they find him guilty." "There's his fuend over there," another man spoke up. "Don't talk so loud." j "Can't help who's listening: money's here talkin'. Any takers?" Not far away there was a wooden bridge over a small stream and thither I went and leaned upon the rail, listening to the murmur of the water. I thought that this must be the brook that rippled past our house, and I went down to the water's edge and bathed my aching head. Then I remembered that I had eaten nothing since early morning, and I thought that I would better go to the tavern, and was turning away when I heard some one cry: "The jury is in and court has met again!" I scrambled up and hastened toward the court house, and at the steps I met a number of men coming jut. "It's all over," one of them said to me. "Imprisonment for life. Conkwright has moved for a new trial and the judge has granted it." I hastened to the jail, whither they had taken Alf. I found him seated on his bed. He got up wnen ne saw me. "Bill," he said, in a voice low and steady, "I am not going to the penitentiary if you are my friend." "And you know that I am, Alf." "Then you will lend me your knife." "No, Alf, I can't do that?not now. Remember that we have another chance." "I don't mean now?I mean if that last chance fails. Now I want you to do something for me. You tell father that he must sell his farm immediately and leave here. Tell him that I'll hate him if he doesn't do as I say. You can stay here and write to him, and if I don't come out at the next trial, all right, and if I do, I can go to him. It may seem hard, but he's got to do it. He wouldn't live here, any way. Will you do It?" "I will, for I don't know but it is a good plan. No, he wouldn't live here. He will do as you request." "Well, go on home now and rest. Hanged if you don't look as if you've been on trial for your life," he added, laughing. "Tell him that I'm not crushed?that it has come out better than I expected." The night was dark, the road was desolate, and I heard the lonesome lowing of the cattle. And now and then a horseman passed me, for I was not eager to get home. At a gate near the road-side some one was standing with a lantern, and just behind me came the rattle of an old vehicle. I turned aside to let it pass, and as I did the light of the lantern fell upon me and a voice asked: "That you, Mr. Hawes?" "Yes," I answered, turning back into the road and following a buggy. "I 'lowed so," said a man in the buggy, "for we don't grow many of your size about here. I haver heard that they used to, but they don't now. Good many things have happened since that day you come over to see me about the school. I'm Perdue. And by the way, there's a hundred dollars at my house waitin' for you and if you don't come after it I'll send it over." "But you don't owe me anything yet," I replied. "Yes, the money's there and it's yourn. You couldn't help not bein' in a fix to teach. As I say, it's there for you, and you might as well have it. Sorry for the old folks, tell 'em. but it can't be helped." On he drove, shouting back that he could send the money the next day, and my protest, if. indeed, I entered one. was weak and faltering, for of all men in that neighborhood I thought that I stood most in need of a hundred dollars. Now I was nearing the house. The| hour was late, but a light was burning In the sitting room. No one came out, though my horse's hoot's fell hard enough upon the stones to tell them of my coming; and when I got down at the gate I found a horse tied to the fence. Some person, eager to bear evil tidings, had forestalled me. I led my horse to the stable, went to the house, and had just stepped into the passage when Parker, the deputy sheriff, came out of the sitting room. "I thought you'd go on back to the jail to stay a while, so 1 came on over to tell them. No trouble, you know?only a short distance out of my way." All within was silent. I stepped inside. The old man was standing with his back to the fire-place; the old woman sat with her book in her lap and Guinea stood at the window, looking into the darkness. I sat down in silence, for I knew not what to say, and in silence for a time we remained. The old woman sobbed, clutching more tightly her book, and the old man looked at her sharply and then almost Hung himself out of the room. And a few moments later I heard him shouting: "Hike, there, Sam! Hike, there Bob! There's plenty of light! you've got three lanterns. Hike, there! To a finish. to a finish!" "Mrs. Jucklin, it is no time for despair." I said, and Guinea turned from the window. "We have already secured a new trial, and the next time it will surely go in our favor. That is the history of nearly all such cases. Be strong just a little while longer. You have been our prop, and now you must not let us fall." She arose and with an old-time courtesy bowed to me, and Guinea came forward and held out her hand, and she must have seen a sudden light leap Into my eyes, for she said: "I am Alfs sister and yours, too." This came as a repulse to my heart's | eager yearning: n<? sister's confidences could answer the call that my nature was shouting to her. But I gulped down a rising soreness of the heart and I said: "I thank you." The old man, with heavy tread, strode into the room. "It was to a finish," he whispered. His hands were covered with blood. "It was to a finish, and they are both dead." There was a sharp rap at the door. Guinea opened it and in came the old general. "Mr. Jucklin, can I speak'to you in private?" he asked, bowing to the women. "No. What you've got to say, out with It here." "I would rather say it in private. Why, what's the matter with your hands?" "It was to a finish, sir. and let what you say be to a,finish, even if it is three times as bloody." "Oh, I have come out of no hard feelings, sir. Ladies, would you and our friend. Mr. Hawes, mind retiring?" "They are goin' to stay here, sir," j the old man replied, rolling up his sleeves. "All right, just as you will, sir. Mr. J Jucklin, years ago we entered into an arrangement " "And I have cursed myself ever since!" the old man exclaimed. "Just wait until I get through, if you please. We entered into an ar- j rangement prompted by a boy's fancy and warmed by a father's over indulgence. 1 know that this is a sore time to come to you, and I don't want to appear unkind, for my aim is tenaer, though my determination is just Young hearts may whisper to each other, and that whispering may be music, sir; but in this life there are duties too stern to be melted and turned aside by a melody. And, sir, one of the most sacred duties that can fall to the trust of a man is to see that the family name, which Is to survive after he has folded his hands in eternal stillness? pardon my devious methods, for I assure you that my windings proceed from a kindness of heart?I say that my duty now is to those who may bear my name in the future. I trust that I am now sufficiently started to speak plainly. I doubt the real worth and sterling integrity of your stock, Mr. Jucklin, but un agreement that we once made must be set aside." He stood with his broad hat in his hand and out of it he grabbed a handkerchief and wiped his face. Old Lim gazed steadily at him. "My words sound cold and formal," the general continued, "and I wish that they might be wanner and more at ease, but in vain have I tempered with them. The short of it all is, and I have striven not to say it bluntly?is that the engagement which has held us in prospective relationship is hereby broken; but by this I do not mean that your son is guilty of murder, for in his heart he may see himself justified, but a decision of c"jrt has?and I wish I could find a softer means of saying it?court has pronounced him guilty, and that places the marriage out of the question. Bear with me just a moment more, for I assure you that I am suffering keenly with you, that my heart is in sorrowful unison with your own. Family pride may be regarded a hobby in this day when refinement and respectability are sneered at, but it is a virtuous hobby, and I have held it so long that I cannot put it down. And now, in so far as there is any question of a financial obligation, we will turn our backs upon it and forget that it ever existed." He put his handkerchief into his hat, changed his hat to his other hand and stood looking at Jucklin; and I had expected to see the old man leap off the floor In a rage, but I cannot recall ever having seen a cooler show of Indifference. "I put gaffs on 'em early this mornin' an' kept 'em waitin' for the finish, and when it come It come soon," he said. "Mr. Jucklin, I had hoped to make myself sufficiently clear. I have come, sir, to break the engagement that was foolishly arranged by us to bind your daughter and my son." "Bob died first, but Sam could jest stagger, and he fluttered against me and covered my hands with his blood; and I must apologize for not washin' 'em, but it is not too late to make some sort of amends. I will wipe 'em on your jaws, sir!" He sprang forward, but I caught him. "You must be perfectly cool and perfectly sensible, Mr. Jucklin," I said, as quickly as I could, holding him. "Remember that he is in your house." And this quieted him. Even the most pronounced backwoodsman in the south is sometimes graced with a sudden and almost marvelous courtesy, the unconscious revival of a long lost dignity; and this came upon tne oia man, and, bowing low, he said: "I humbly beg your pardon, sir." "And I should be a brute not to grant it," the general replied, bowing in turn. "But I hope that reason rather than the fact of my being under your roof will govern your conduct." During this time, and, indeed, from the moment when the general had entered the room, Guinea stood beside the rocking chair in which her mother was seated; no change had come over her countenance, but with one hand resting on the back of the chair she had remained motionless, with the exception that she placed her hand on her mother's head at the moment when I caught the old man in my arms. I saw this, though her motion was swift, for 1 was looking at her rather than at her father. And now the general turned to the girl. "My dear," he said. She frowned slightly, but her lips parted with a oold smile that came out of her heart. "My dear child, it is hard for me to say tlds to you. for I feel that you can but regard me a feelingless monster that would rend an innocent and loving heart, and God knows that I now beg your forgiveness, but in this life cruel tilings must be done, done that those who come after us may feel no sting of reproach cast by an exacting society. I am an old man, my dear, and shall soon be taken to the burial ground where my father sleeps in honor. They left me a proud name and I must not soil it. The oldest stone there is above a breast that braved old Cromwell's pikemen?the noble heart of a cavalier beat in that bosom?and can you ask " "I haw asked nothing. general." "Yon are a noble young woman." "But your son will come to me and kneel at my feet." A Hush flew over the general's face. "No. it is with his full consent that 1 have come. Indeed, I would have put off my coming until a more befitting day. but he knew his duty and bade me do mine." "He will kneel at my feet." she said: and he had riot replied when he heard footsteps in the passage?wild footsteps. There was a moment of sharp clicking at the door latch, as if a nervous hand had touched it, and then Millie broke into the room. Her face was white, her hair hung about her shoulders. "You have kept me away!" she cried, stamping her feet and frowning at her father. "You. you have kept me away, but I have come and I hate you." The old general was stupefied. "You may tell your cold-blooded son what to do," she went on, "but my heart Is my own. He asked me to marry him and 1 will?I will break into the pen tentiary and marry him. And you would have had me marry Dan Stuart. Just before he was killed he told me he would kill Alf If I said I loved him. I will go to the jail and marry him there." She ran to Guinea, and they put their ^rms about each other and wept; and the old woman pressed her book to her bosom and sobbed over it Through old Lim's wire-like beaii a smile, hard and cynical, was creep'ng out, and the general was fiercely struggling with himself. He had bitten jus up untu his mouth was reddening with blood. "Come, you are going- home with me," he said. "I am not!" his daughter cried, with her arms tight about Guinea. "I am not; I am going to the jail." "Then I will take you home." ?*Don't touch me!" she cried, shrinking back into a corner. "Don't touch me, for I am almost mad. What do I care for your pride? What do I care for the old graveyard? You have tried to break my heart, but I will marry him. He is worth ten thousand such ^Aien as your coldblooded son. Don't tou touch me, father. Mr. Hawes!" 4he screamed, "don't let him touch rite." The old general had stepped forward as If to lay hands upon her, but he itepped back, bowed and said; "You are a lady and I am a gentleman, and these facts protect you from violence at my hands, but I here denounce you ?no, I don't, my daughter. I cannot J enounce my own flesh and blood. I ill leave you here tonight, hoping that when this fit of passion is over reason fill lend you home. Good night." To be Continued. AFRICAN GAME. The Forests Still Abound With Many Wild Animals. I would like to see the president's face when the train pulls out of Mombaea, and when, after a ride of an hour, he sees the dainty paa, tiniest of deer, no larger man a smuu come uoB, ?? the big, lumbering kongoni, or the sprightly Chandler's reedbuck, or the herds of Grant's gazelle (white and black streaks on a roan skin), or the sweet little Thomson's gazelle, called by sportsmen the "Tommy;" or the shaggy', gnu, or the rough wart-hogs, or the sly jacki.l, or the white and black of the. zebra herds. For I cotihted in one brief day 959 head of game. They grazed as quietly near our camp as domestic animals at home, and there are as many of them as there are of cattle on the farms of our richest western states. Between Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, 12,000 feet, there Is a thick forest for ninety miles, abounding in elephants. When I was there nine of these animals were shot in one week. The Boer Van Roy ancl the" brothers Trichard, also Boers, got three elephants between them in as many days. Monchardi, a young Italian, shot two lions one morning before breakfast, at a settlement called Marangu. Fleischer a famous Hungarian hunter, bagged a couple of elephants in an afternoon near Moschi. Several fine young rhinoceros cubs were caught and sent to Bostock's in Hamburg by Max Klein. Sultan Suilma of the Wachagga tribe, there awaits the president. Of course in British East Africa there are the biggest herds of game in the world. The British government has three game reserves in East Africa, aggregating nearly 50,000 square miles. The whole East African Protectorate is only 240,000 square miles, so that the white settlers complain that there are too many reserves. Lord Delamere and Mr. Bailey, two of the council at Nairobi, have been expelled by Gov. Sadler for insisting on the reduction of the game reserves and also of the reserves set aside by the Gritlsh government for the natives. Nevertheless, outside of the reserves, there are sufficient game herds to draw thp most famous hunters of the world. And this year the licenses will yield the government more than $50,000. On one license you may kill two elephants, two rhinoceri. two hippopotami, two zebras, six rare antelopes and gazelles; also two of the rare colobus monkeys and two smaller ones, two male ostriches, two marabous, two aigrets, common antelopes and gazelles to the number of ten. ten wildcats, ten jackals, ten wild pigs, two wolves, and two cheetahs. As to lions, leopards and crocodiles, you can shoot as many of them as you can get, and that without a license.?I^eslie's Weekly. THE NORMAN "UYEZ." A Legacy of William the Conqueror to the Courts. Everybody who has even been in a United States courtroom knows that when the judge walks out of his chambers and ascends the bench the court crier drones out: "Oyez, oyez, oyez, the honorable court [ of the (whatever district it may be) is now in session." Not many persons, however, realize that the crier says "oyez. oyez, oyez," instead of "barken, harken. barken," because of a chance visit that William the Conqueror made to an English court almost 900 years ago. William had overrun England, seized the government and placed himself at its head. Happening to enter a courtroom, he heard the crier call the assemblage to order in Knglish. William rebuked him and on the spot decreed that the business of all Knglish courts should be transacted in Norman French, his native tongue. Afterward the courts went back to Knglish, but to this day "oyez, oyez, oyez," clings to court customs wherever the Knglish language is spoken as a reminder of the great Norman who whipped King Harold in the battle of Hastings.? Scrap Hook. Xt" It is just about two years since the outbreak of the insurrection in German Southwest Africa. The campaign has cost Germany 2.000 men and $175,000,000 in money. * ' The deepest lake in the world is believed to be Lake Baikal, in Siberia. Nine thousand square miles in area, or nearly as large as Lake Erie, it is 4,000 to 5,000 feet deep, so that it contains nearly as much water as I^ake Superior. ittisccllancous iUatliup. CATTLE TICK ERADICATION. Interesting Report Filed By State Veterinarian. That South Carolina loses each year at least $900,000 by reason of the Texas fever tick among the cattle and that the great obstacles to be overcome in the eradication of the tick is the indifference and ignorance of the cattle owners, are the two most striking statements in the report of Dr. M. Ray Powers, state veterinarian, prepared for the department of agriculture of this state. Last year the four counties bordering on the national quarantine line, Oconee, Pickens, Greenville and Anderson, were placed under quarantine and the Inspectors proceeded to get rid of the ticks. The DeoDle call the Inspectors "tick-pickers," though Dr. Powers does not say so in his report. The work is being carried on through the co-operation of the state and Federal authorities, the state veterinarian being in charge of the work. In 1907 there were four inspectors and two veterinarians 'from the Federal bureau of animal industry at work in these four counties. "These inspectors," says Dr. Powers, "were instructed to make farm-to-farin Inspections, examine all cattle and quarantine those premises found infested with fever ticks. They were also Instructed to explain to the owners of all infested cattle the object of the work, the law under which the work was being conducted, the method of tick eradication most applicable to their individual premises and to give the owners all possible assistance in the work." Daily reports were received from these inspectors, giving names of owners of premises inspected, the number of cattle on each farm and their condition, Infested or free. The inspectors reinspect the farms every three weeks, and all reports are kept on file, so there is a complete record preserved. If from the reports the attitude of a cattle owner is seen to be neglectful, a letter is sent him and if necessary a veterinarian is sent to explain the work more fully. When these methods fall the cattle owner is prosecuted if he moves the quarantined cattle. In Oconee during 1907 there were 7,500 cattle inspected and 569 quarantined; in Pickens 7,988 inspected and 791 quarantined; In Greenville 12,236 inspected and 1,173 quarantined; in Anderson 12,845 inspected and 1,581 quarantined. On many of these premises the ticks were eradicated during the fall of 1907, but they were not released from quarantine until spring. Then the four counties were released from quarantine provisionally, the owners beinc thus enabled to shiD cattle any where in the United States after inspection by a Federal inspector. "Many have taken advantage of this," says Dr. Powers, "and are now shipping their cattle to tb^ northern markets without restrictions and thus receiving a bettor price for their stock than heretofore." In June of this year eight additional counties were placed in quarantine: Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens, Union, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Chester and York. Fourteen inspectors in the employ of the Federal bureau and five in the employ of Clemson were at work during the summer in this territory, following the same methods used last | year In the first four counties. "Many premises now in quarantine," says Dr. Powers, "are free from ticks, but must be held until the advent of warm weather to ascertain this positively." In Abbeville 9,873 cattle were inspected and 2,647 quarantined; in Greenwood 6,993 inspected and 1,491 quarantined; In Laurens 8,408 Inspected and 708 quarantined; in Union 4,187 inspected and 223 quarantined; In Spartanburg 6,093 Inspected and 1,454 quarantined; In Cherokee 3,173 inspected and 517 quarantined; in York 6,276 inspected and 2,255 quarantined; in Chester 5,3<u inspected ana 1,100 quarantined. In addition considerable work has also been done this year in the territory covered last year. Twelve Inspectors and on'e Federal veterinarian, as well as the state veterinarian and his assistant, will be employed in the counties named throughout the winter. . rom July 1, 1907, to July 1, 1908, there was expended in this work the [sum of $3,882 appropriated by the Clemson college trustees and $12,000 by the bureau of animal industry; from July 1, 1908, to July I. 1909, there has been appropriated $6,900 by the Clem|son trustees and $24,000 by the bureau. "The great obstacle to be overcome," concludes Dr. Powers, "is the indlfferI euro and ignorance of the cattle ownI ers." ? OVER AT NINETY-NINE. Active Work Being Recommenced on a Large Scale. A few days ago, your correspondent in company with the Hon. J. Q. Little, visited the Ninety-Nine Islands on Broad river, where the Southern Power company is preparing to harness that stream for the purpose of supplying power to the numerous industrial enterprises in this vicinity. The spring Hoods which prevailed in this neighborhood did quite a lot of damage to the preliminary work, which had been done prior to the suspension of operations there last fall, coffer dams have been washed away and the line of railroad from the works to the quarry has been badly damaged. The railroad to the station at King's Creek is in good condition. however, and is ready for use in bringing the heavy material which will be necessary for the development of the stupendous work. The Southern Power company commenced work at this place about two years ago, and after expending a great deal of money, suspended in order as they say to give all of their time to the completing of the big power dam on Catawba river, which was also in process of construction. Knowing ones say, however, that the reason the company ceased work was I for the lack of the sinews of war, as the suspension was in the midst of the financial panic which prevailed last year. There is an immense amount of heavy machinery and material on the ground and it gives one a pretty good idea of the immensity of the undertaking, and the enormous expense connected therewith when he sees how much Is involved In Just the preliminary work. Upon a commanding eminence: stands a splendid building: containing: thirty rooms which was constructed for a hotel. The building: has all modern I conveniences and would do credit to a large town. Just above the hotel are two modern cottages of six rooms each which were erected for the accommodation of the engineers in charge of the work. The store house and machine shops for the men in charge are built of the very best material and shows that the company spared no expense in providing for the comfort of Its employes. Mr. J. G. Scott of Petersburg, Va., Is on the ground now as resident engineer, and people are coming in every day for the purpose of getting employment on the work. Active operations on a large scale will commence In a few days, and Mr. Scott says "that all arrangements have been made to push the work to a speedy completion. Mr. B. H. Hardaway of Columbus, Ga., who Is one of the largest and most reliable contractors In the south, will complete the work, and this of Itself is enough to insure that the work will be com pleted in a satisfactory manner. Mr. Scott says that the dam will be one thousand thousand feet In length, and eighty-five feet in height. The company p-~oposes to develop about twenty thousand horsepower at this p'lant, and this will give the Southern Power company about one hundred and twelve thousand horsepower on the Broad and Catawba rivers. From eight hundred to one thousand hands will be employed in this work and all through the winter the hundreds of people In this vicinity who would otherwise have nothing to do, may find employment at the works. It is said that the completion of the work at this place will cost the Southern Power company more than six hundred thousand dollars and if this is a fact, the work here will have cost, when finished, considerably more than a million as the preliminary work, including the railroad to King's Creek station, must have cost in the neighborhood of half a million dollars. The Southern Power company heretofore has pursued the policy of constructing Its own plants; but the demand for power has become so insistent, since the development of Its other plants, that the company decided to let this contract to an outside party in order to ensure its completion at the earliest possible moment. The Ninety-Nine islands, so called for the reason that they are situated just ninety-nine miles from Columbia, are ten miles east of Gaffney, and are reached by a good road which runs v through a good farming section. A ferry is maintained by the county of Cherokee by which the river may be crossed within a half mile of the works, which are on the opposite side from Gaffney. All the buildings are on the side of the river next to King's Creek station, the terminus of the company's line of track. The people who live in the neighborhood of the works expressed themselves as being much gratified that the work will be resumed .for the reason that it will give them a good market for farm products. The section of country immediately around the Ninety-Nines, as they used to be called, was a few years ago very rough. It was the home of the moonshiner; here he distilled the juice of the corn and of the apple and peach, and among the fastnesses of the everlasting hills he was almost immune from molestation by the minions of the law. While rumor says that a few of the more daring ones still continue to defy Uncle Sam and the state of South Carolina, conditions have vastly improved with-, in the last few years in this neighbo) hood and soon the song of the moonshiner will be heard no more in the land.?Gaffney correspondence Spar tanourg neraia. * 1 ? THE POPULAR VOTE. Taft Gets Majority over All, But Bryan Shows Gains.. The total popular vote of the various presidential candidates at the last national election was made known in New York last Tuesday, in an official form by the filing of the last of the official vote, that of Michigan. The total shows the following votes cast: Taft (Republican), 7,637,676. Bryan (Democratic), 6,393,182. Debs (Socialist), 447,651. Chafln (Prohibition), 421,252. Hlsgen (Independence), 83,186. Watson (Populist), 33,871. Gilhaus (Social Labor), 15,421. Total for all candidates, 14,852,239. This grand total exceeds by 1,341,531 the total number of votes cast in the presidential election of 1904, when t the grand total was 13,510,708. r Compared with that election the candidates of the Republican, Demo- r cratic and Socialist parties increased j their vote this year. The reverse is ^ true of the candidates of the Prohibi- ) tion. Populist and Socialist Labor par- s ties. The Independence party did not 8 figure in the presidential election of j four years ago. j. The biggest difference in a party is % shown in an increase for Bryan of 1,- c 315.211 over the total vote cast In 1904 for Alton B. Parker, the Democratic j, candidate. Taft received 14.190 votes j; more than were polled for President v Roosevelt in 1904, and Debs ran 45,368 ahead of his predecessor on the So- r clallst ticket. The heaviest loss is shown by the jj Populists who, with the same can- p didate. registered S3.312 votes less this ^ year than in 1904, when their total was 0 117.183. The Prohibitionist candidate, v Chafln, ran 17,284 votes behind the 1904 j, mark of his party, and Gilhaus, the So- t cialist Labor candidate, received only g about 50 per cent of the vote given to Corrigan, which was 31,249 in the pre- a vious presidential race. r Taft Bryan Debs f State Rep. Dem. Soc. t Alabama 25.308 74.374 Arkansas .... 56,967 87.043 5,000 a Florida 10.654 31.104 3.747 1 Georgia 41,692 72,350 584 ^ Kentuckv 235.711 244.092 4,060 Louisiana 9.589 63,008 2,538 f Marvland 111.253 111,117 2,500 c Mississippi ... 4,463 64,250 1,408 I Missouri 346,915 345.884 15,398 X. Carolina ..114,887 136,928 345 . Oklahoma ...110,550 123,907 21,752 1 S. Carolina .. 3,847 62,289 101 I Tenneseee ...iis.zsi xoo.oou 1,010 j Texas 69,299 227.264 8,524 r V frvinia 52,572 82,946 255 c _ ,c >X'' A man's hair turns pray about five years earlier than a woman's. .tirin Iceland men and women are c in every respect political equals. The ( nation, which numbers over 70,000 t people, is governed by representatives 1 elected by both men and women. t THE PRESIDENT AND I nt wuni_u Remarkable Controversy Over the Panama Canal Deal. President Roosevelt on last Tueslay sent to congress tt special message m the subject of the charges that have seen made against him and his adnlnlstration in connection with the Panama canal deal. The principal responsibility for the charges, is on the Mew York World, and a large portion )f the message is devoted to that pajer, which the president denounced in :he most bitter and intemperate lanruage. The message is probably the nost remarkable of the many remarkible papers the president has sent to jongress. The World is denounced as i most unscrupulous liar and the presient recommends that Mr. Pulitzer, the >roprietor, be prosecuted and imprison:d for criminal libel. With the mesiage the president sends most of the ecords in connection with the Panama leal; but does not give the names of any Americans who received any portion of he $40,000,000 that was paid over on iccount of the same. There was l muse men t in both the house ana senite over the reading of the message, lenators and representatives on both sides of both houses, laughing in de-islon at the intemperate language used jy the president. It is said the language was the most intemperate and jnseemly that has ever been used In :he history- of the country, and that lever has a message been received with so much disrespect The New York World, Wednesday, nakes an extended reply to the presilent's message, and in the course of ts reply says: "Mr. Roosevelt is mistaken. He :annot muzzle the World. "While no amount of billingsgate >n his part can alter our determina:ion to treat him with judicial impar:iality an* scrupulous fairness, we repeat what we have already said, that :he congress of the United States should make a thorough investigation >f the whole Panama transaction, that :he full truth may be known to the \merican people. "The World fully appreciates the wmpliment paid to it by Mr. Roose,-elt in making jjt the subject of a spe ;ial message to the congress of the LTnlted States. "The Work! likewise appreciates the mportance of Mr. Roosevelt's state nent when he declares to congress that he proprietor of the World should be >rosecuted for libel by the governmentil authorities, and that 'the attorney general has under consideration the 'orm under which the proceedings igainst Mr. Pulitzer shall be brought.' "This is the first tijne a president sver asserted that doctrine of lese najeste, or proposed, in the absence of ipeclflc legislation, the criminal prosejution by the government of citizens vho criticised the conduct of the gov>rnment or the conduct of individuals vho may have had business dealings 14th the government: Neither the king >f Great Britait or the German emjeror would venture to arrogate such >ower to himself. John Adams' atempt to enforce the sedition law de itroyed the Federalist party in Amerca. Yet Mr. Roosevelt in the absence >f law officially proposes to use all the jower of the greatest government on iarth to cripple the freedom of the >ress on the pretext that the governnent Itself has been libeled?and he is . I he government. j "It is true that the World printed he public reports concerning the Pan- I ima canal affair which resulted from iVllllam Nelson Cromwell's appeal to m he district attorney's office during the J ecent campaign to prevent the publl- ^ :ation of a story which was said to be n the hands of the Democratic nation il committee. It was Mr. Cromwell's >wn action which raised the issue in he campaign. "It is true also that when Mr. Roosevelt made his attack upon Delavan Smith, the World called attention to :ertain statements which Mr. Roosevelt nust have known to be false or mlseading and appealed to congress to rnd all scandal by a full and impartial nvestigation. If this be treason, let Hr. Roosevelt make the most of it. "Mr. Roosevelt's lamentable habit of naccurate statements make it imposdble to accept either his judgments or lis conclusions. In his message he loes not state correctly even so simple i matter as the pretended causes of his rrievance. The World has never said hat Charles P. Taft, or Douglas Robnson made any profits whatever. Mr. Taft denied that he was concerned in he transaction in any way, which delial the World published and accept;d. It would have been equally glad to mint Mr. Robinson's denial could it lave succeeded in obtaining one from lim, as it frequently attempted. The ,Vorld has no evidence that he was asociated with Mr. Cromwell, and would tccept his word to that effect; for Mr. loblnson is an estimable gentleman of ligh character, whose reputation for 'eracity is infinitely better than that if his distinguished brother-in-law. "If the World has libeled anybody we lope it will be punished, but we no not ntond to be intimidated by Mr. Roose eit's threats or by Mr. Roosevelt's lenunciation, or by Mr. Roosevelt's lower. "No other living man ever so grossly ibeled the United States as does this resident who besmirches congress, tulldozes judges, assails the integrity f courts, slanders private citizens, and rho has snown nimsen me most recaess, unscrupulous demagogue whom he American people ever trusted with ;reat power and authority. "We say this not in anger but in Incere sorrow. The World has imneasurably more respect for the ofIce of president of the United States han Theodore Roosevelt has even hown during the years in which he las maintained a reign of terror and illifled the honor and honesty of both mblic officials and private citizens, who ipposed his policies or thwarted him n his purpose. "So far as the World is concerned ts proprietor may go to Jail, if Mr. Roosevelt succeeds, as he threatens; >ut even in jail the World will not ;ease to be a fearless champion of free :peeeh, a free press and a free people." 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