tumorous grpartmrnt. Sifting Ashes.?A family on the North Side have several children, but only one?the oldest?is a boy. The little lad grew used to sisters, but longed for a brother. The boy was twelve recently, and the house was rather upset in anticipation of something or other. The father was busy and the son had to sift the ashes and care for the furnace. At this juncture a nurse appeared on the scene, and two days later the came to the little boy. "What do you think you've got?" she asked him. "A baby brother!" fairly gasped the youngster. "No, dearie?it's a baby sister," re? plied the nurse. VGosh!" groaned the youngster, "must I always sift these ashes?"?National Monthly. And So Trus, Too.?Father was walking to Sunday school with little Johnny and endeavoring to Improve the time by teaching Johnny his Gold ? -a _ J- UUk en xexi, wie wurus ui wmvu nti? "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Johnny repeated It after his father several times and seemed to have mastered the correct wording. As they drew near the Sunday school the father gave Johnny his last rehearsal. "Now son," he said, let's have the Golden Text once more without any help from rne." This is what he got from Johnny: "Whatsoever a man sews always rips."?Harper's Bazar. The Bright Side.?Algernon Dalngerfleld, secretary of the New York Jockey club, went back last summer to his old home in Kentucky on a visit. He had fleshened up considerably. The old negro cook, a family servant of many years' standing, was brought in to see him. "Don't you think Mr. Algy has grown very stout?" asked one of the family. "Wellum," said the old woman, "he is took on a right smart fleshiness, and that's a fact." Then she hastily added: "But a stomach dat sticks out like his do is jess made fur showin' off a watchchain."?Saturday Evening Post. A Successful Interview.?The late Arthur McEwan when he was working on a San fTancisco newspaper was attracted by the activities of a politician who was vulgar, Illiterate and hideously ungrammatlcal in his method of expression. McEwan looked up this man and had a talk with him. Then he went back to the office and wrote the Interview in the most perfect English, brilliant, polished, and crammed the story full of classical allusions, quotations and big words. It was a most scholarly production and McEwan considered the satire great. Next day McEwan had a call from the politician. "I wanter thank yez for that interview," he said. "It's bully. Just what I said. You must be a grand shorthand reporter."?Saturday Evening Post. His Speaking Eyes.?Aunt Caroline and the partner of her woes evidently found connubial bliss a misnomer, for the sounds of war were often heard down in the little cabin in the hollow. Finally the pair were haled into court, and the dusky lady entered a charge of abusive language against her spouse. The Judge, who had known them both all his life, endeavored to pour oil on the troubled waters. "What did he say to you, Caroline ' he asked. "Why, Jedge, I Jes' can't tell yo' all dat man do say to me." "Does he ever use hard language?" "Does yo' mean cussin'? Yassah, not wlf his mouf, but he's always givin* me dem cussory glances."?Llpplncott's. Obedient.?A mother led her six children to the apple tree. It had borne but a single apple?no longer visible to the casual observer. "I told you not to pick that apple!' she said sternly. "We didn't pick it," the children answered in chorus. And the oldest girl added, in an injured tone. "You can see for yourself that it's still on the tree. I?I mean?the core is! We only climbed up an'?an' took a bite once in a while?we didn't pick it!"? Youth's Companion. A Modest Judge.?Alvo Yusuph, chief judge of Bagdad, was remarkable for the modesty which accompanies wisdom. Once after a long Investigation of the facts of a case, he publicly confessed that his knowledge was not sufficient to enable him to decide it. "Pray," said a pert courtier, "do you expect the caliph to pay you for your Ignorance?" "I do not," meekly answered the judge. "The caliph pays me well for what I know. If he were to attempt to pay me for what I do not know the treasures of his empire would not suffice." Har Cowardly Husband.?"Oh, mother," sobbed the young wife, "I've discovered that John doesn't trust me." "Why. my child, what has he done?" "Well, you know, I cooked my first dinner for him today and he invited a friend to dine with him." The sobs broke out afresh. "And, oh, mother, the man he invited was n doctor!"?Fathflnder. ?3T "See here!" cried the boy's father, "If you don't behave I'll whip you." "I wlsht you would." replied the bad boy. "You do, en:" "ies, cause when it's all over ma will gimme some candy."?Exchange. ItST The suffragette lecturer?"The North and South Poles were discovered by men, but let me tell you, fellow club members, that the next pole to be found will be discovered by a woman."?Satire. ItfT'What is this?" "The picture of an automobile going at high speed." "I don't see anything but a cloud of dust." "The automobile's inside the cloud of dust."?Birmingham AgeHerald. iC* Patience?"Did Will write you many letters when you were engaged ?" Patrice?"Why, I got letters to burn." "Well, you're silly if you burned 'em."?Yonkers Statesman. IW Gentleman (engaging groom) ? Are you married? Groom?No, sir. I was thrown agin a barbed wire fence and got my face scratched.?The Tatler. it3T A Boston preacher says that women wear too many clothes at summer resorts. Heavens! This must be a clerical error. RT "I see your wife has her hand in a bandage. What is the matter?" "I set a mousetrap and put it in my coat pocket last night."?Judge. 0 IJttstfUancouiS grading. WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES Note* and Comment* About Matter* of Local Interest. Gastonia Gazette, July 16: Just as we go to press word has come that Rev. J. J. Kennedy died at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The death of this good man was not unexpected, for his life has been hanging by a thread for the past several weeks and he has been kept alive mainly by the force of his iron will and the use of stimulants. Chaster Reporter, July 16: Chester "whitewashed" Yorkville Thursday afternoon in the game on the local grounds for the benefit of the Patterson Library, but unfortunately threatening weather kept the receipts and attendance down. John Harvey Hardin was in the box for Cheater and pitched a masterly game. Slaughter, of Hickory Grove, pitched for Yorkville and with a catcher able to hold him would have been invincible. He is easily one of the best pitchers thee ever performed on the local grounds, and the attendance was greatly Impressed witfi his work. The game was without feature except the general excellence of the locals' field play. The score was 4 to 0, and the batteries were: Chester, t ii_ J V/XkvilU Qloncrh. nmuiu auu uicuu, luinnuvi k;>uu0.. ter, Plaxco, and Smith Mr. Albert Hamilton, of R. F. D. 1, who clerks in the store of his brother, Mr. W. H. Hamilton, at Edgmoor, had a narrow escape from drowning Friday afternoon when he drove into a stream near Lando that had been badly swollen from a recent rain, and as it was Mr. Hamilton was powerless to save the mule he was driving, the animal being drowned. Mr. Hamilton had driven home and was returning to Edgmoor when the accident occurred. The stream in question is usually not dangerous, but recent rains had caused it to rise. THE FRAME-UP AT THE FINCH (Continued from First page.) done," and it would be done, all right Cole wouldn't refuse you. I could get those petitions out this afternoon and send them out and have them back here signed Wednesday. Cole is one of these high-toned fellows that believes in standing by his friends, if we go and show him a thing's right that's all he wants. Can you make your trip down here by Saturday? I think we could get him out by that time. Mr. Nichols: I don't know; I might get drunk up there and stay up there a week or two. Mr. Sims: I can get the petitions all out and have them signed, and he can get him out and when he gets back without any trouble, all right. Mr. Nichols: * It's all a question of fees, that's all. I told Mr. Porter this, and I think I'm right, we might go up there and charge those people a reasonable fee and they might kick on It now, if those people kick, you tell them to get somebody else to get the pardon fpr them, and see if he don't have to stay in there. Mr. Sims: Now, If you think you can arrange that fee, I'll go to work this afternoon?I know Just exactly who to get, who to put to work, and by the time Sam gets back here, we'll have the petitions ready and get the pardon. If we don't get the pardon we don't want any money. Mr. Nichols: If you think those people are willing to pay that fee Mr. Porter: Oh, they'll have to. Well, we'll stand by that proposition. Mr. Nichols: I'll go up there and support you, and if they don't come across, it'll be just simply a matter of him staying there. That's because I'll be damned if anybody else can get me to go into it with him; and there's one thing certain, if I don't go into it, he'll sure stay there, because I know Cole will refer it to me, if anybody else <4 If T #1/ ??>* n/lt'Ion Vlim pi rscilia 11, U11U u X UV'II u au?mv ...... to do it, he won't do it, that's all there is to it. Mr. Sims: That's exactly right? there's no doubt about Sam getting him out all right. If they'll pay the fee, we'll get him out all right. Mr. Nichols: Mr. Porter is a very busy man, and he goes almost to every ! country in the world, you know. He's going to the old country and he won't be back for about two or three years; he don't need his money, but with us it's different, we want our money, we want our fee.. Here's what I think about it, I'll charge Mr. Porter a reasonable fee for going to Chicago, and a reasonable fee for drawing the petitions and getting them signed up Mr. Sims: I wouldn't charge anything for drawing the petitions, because if the pardon isn't granted we don't want any money. Mr. Nichols goes to Chicago and he has a reason- 1 able fee for that; we don't charge you anything unless we get him out; if we do, we get $20,000 for that. Mr. Nichols: Here's the whole thing; ; if they're willing to pay that price, we can fix it; if they're not willing to pay j that price, by God he's got to serve that ten years, for they can't get him out, that's an absolute certainty. If : they make this move while Blease is governor?they might play me for a fool but I ain't?if they make this move while Blease is governor they'll not get it. If they make it while Jones is governor they won't get it. If Jones is , elected governor, whatever the old man says goes; if Blease is elected governor whatever I say goes; so we have got it all our own way . ( ABOUT THE HOGAN PAROLE. Col. Stubbs Explains His Connection ! With the Matter. Sumter Item. Mr. Editor: Will you please allow i me space in your paper to reply to I your editorial on the Hogan parole of j July 9. Below will be a true state- l ment of the whole affair. 1 On or about April 8. 1911, Mr. M. B. Handle came to my store and said , he wanted me to go to Columbia ] with him to see if he could not get 1 his daughter's husband pardoned or , Daroled. I told Mr. Randle I could ( not get off and furthermore did not 1 have much influence with Gov. Blease ' notwithstanding we had been friends , for a number of years. Mr. Randle 1 stated that the lawyers wanted to charge Mr. Hogan 5500 to intercede for him. Mr. Randle said if I would 1 go with him he would give me 5100. ! Mr. Randle said that his daughter \ had become very nervous, she was al- i most worried sick for fear some one ' would capture Eugene Hogan, Jr. I Anally consented to go. On or about ] April 10 Mr. Randle and I went to have a conference and present our pe- J tition to Gov. Blease. Mr. Randle , got Gov. Blease to parole his son-in- ; law, Eugene Hogan, Jr. out of the ' state. The governor then said to Mr. ( Randle was that satifactory. Mr. Randle spoke up and said he would like to have him come back to South ] Carolina. Then Gov. Blease said, j "You are trying to take the ad van- ] tage of me. so I will not parole him I at all." So there was nothing for Mr. | Handle and I to do but to leave the i governor's office. After dinner I told 1 Mr. Rundle I was not satlsOed with i our visit, so I would go up to the gov- < ernor's mansion to see him again and ( see if he would not reconsider and I parole Hogan out of the state, as he i had told Mr. Randle before noon he would do. I I went to the governor's mansion. ] I told Gov. Blease that Mr. Randle i did not mean to take the advantage i of him in any way and I wanted him to reconsider and parole Hogan out i of the state, as he said he would do i before noon. Gov. Blease then told 1 me to tell Mr. Randle to have the i young man return and give up to the i sheriff and he. Gov. Blease, would ] parole him. I then returned to the ' hotel and told Mr. Randle what I had I done, which made him very happy, i On or about April 19, 1911, Mr. M. B. Handle came to me again and said that Hogan was not able to come back to South Carolina and he wanted me to go back to Columbia and state the condition of Eugene Hogan. Jr. to the governor and see If he would not parole him out of the state. 1 promised Mr. Handle I would take the matter up with Gov. Blease again. I paid the governor another visit. The governor took the petition and Zelgler's letter, which was nothing more* than blackmail, and then told me he would parole Eugene Hogan, Jr. M. B. Randle gave me the >100, said he got the money from Eugene Hogan, Sr. 1 never tried to keep it a secret, as 1 am not ashamed of my action in the least. If I had not been on the governor's staff nothing would have been mentioned about Hogan at this time. It is done for nothing in the world but to try to hurt Blease's chance for re-election. I have heard that some of the cheap skates around Sumter think, or have stated that I gave Gov. Blease the >100. Gov. Blease don't even know that Mr. Randle gave me the >100 for my expenses. If any man says W. G. Stubbs gave Gov. Blease any part of the money that I received from M. B. Randle he is a dirty coward and a liar. I would like to state that I am not quite so cheap as some cheap skates think. I did not take Mr. Hogan's check for the reason it might have been turned down. I would have taken Mr. Randle's. Hogan lays great stress on the fact that I would not take his check. I beg to say I had no dealings with Mr. Hogan previous to his leaving Sumter some years ago. This is all I know of the Hogan parole. Yours truly, W. G. Stubbs. Greenville, July 11. The above communication from Col. Walter G. Stubbs of Greenville, which was received today, with the request to publish, is self-explanatory and also interesting, since it rounds out the story of his connection with the successful efTort made to induce Gov. Blease to parole Eugene Hogan, Jr. He fills in some of the details not heretofore generally known, but in no particular does his statement conflict with or contradict, the statement made to members of the grand Jury by Eugene Hogan. Col. Stubbs Is perfectly safe in setting up a man of straw to be denounced as a coward and liar for charging that he had divided the JXOO with Gov. Blease, since that charge has never been made in the paper, nor do we believe any reasonable man would make the charge, without convincing proof of its truth, a thing, in the circumstances, impossible to obtain even though It were a fact. Another matter that calls for brief comment: Col. Stubbs asserts that this Hogan matter was started to injure Blease. We do not know the motive Inspiring those who first began talking it on the streets, but the publication in this paper was made solely for the reason stated in the article. Had we had .the remotest idea that the publication of the Hogan-Stubbs story would help defeat Gov. Blease, a consummation most devoutly to be prayed for, it would have been printed as soon as we had the facts; but we did not believe the story would hurt Blease, since there was no possible way of connecting him with the transaction. We are against Blease and will do all that is within our power to open the eyes of the people to the true character of the man to the end that they may recognize his unfitness for the office he now holds and to which he aspires to be re-elected, but we have treated Blease and all other candidates fairly in the matter of presenting, without bias, all the facts that come out in the campaign. We do not ask any man to vote against Blease just because we do not like him?we are not asking anybody to vote for or against any of the candidates?we are giving the facts ,as we know them, and the people who read this paper can draw their own conclusions and vote as they see fit. Blease we believe, is unfit to be governor of South Carolina, but if he should be re-elected, he will be but a temporary nuisance, and the injury that he may do will be repaired in the years to come. South Carolina is too good a state to be ruined or even permanently injured by the temporary ascendency of a demagogue. In politics, as in most all other matters, it is all a matter of taste. If the Blease type of demagogue is the ideal statesman of a majority of the votes of South Carolina, the balance of us who think otherwise will have to grin and bear it with fortitude?(Editor The Daily Item.) The Real Gus DeFord.?Some misunderstanding has arisen over the similiarity of the names of Gus DeFord, the safe cracker who escaped from the United States secret service men several years ago, and James Johnson, alias Gus DeFord, alias Edward Murphy, alias "Portland Ned," alias, etc., the convict at the state penitentiary whom Henry N. Porter, one of Burns' detectives, beguiled Sam J. Nichols of Spartanburg into believing was the heir to a large fortune which he could not inherit unless he were pardoned. DeFord was only one of James Johnson's numerous aliases. He admitted last Sunday to a representative of The State that Henry N. Porter, the Chicago lawyer, had visited him twice, but was reticent about the nature of their conversations. The Gus DeFord who escaped from the secret service men near Florence a few years ago is possibly the most notorious cracksman and "knight of the jimmy" in the world. He was captured by Uncle Sam after a long chase only to escape by leaping from a swiftly moving train near Florence. DeFord has never been apprehended, although the secret service men have not given up the search for him. DeFord has four small moles on his right cheek, a hooked nose and prominent jawbones. James Johnson, alias Gus DeFord, the convict whom Burns used for establishing his dictagraph evidence against Sam Nichols, was sent to the penitentiary from Spartanburg in August, 1911, for cracking the safe of the Enoree Manufacturing company. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Johnson, alias DeFord, is a man of medium height with brown hair, yellowish eyes, and a bullet shaped head. Judging from his demeanor when told that Henry N. Porter, the Chicago lawyer, who visited him with a promise of getting a pardon, was one of William J. Burns' detectives, Johnson or DeFord really beleived the yarn as did the attorney associated with Porter.?Columbia State. Heckling Governor Wilson.?Time honored party tactics were pursued by an old Republican warhorse, EbeEbenezer J. Hill of Connecticut, in the house, when he raked up some of Gov. Wilson's casual remarks out of the past. The chief thing presented was an attack upon labor unions. The object of the employee is "to give as little as he may for his wages," Gov. Wilson was quoted as declaring in an old sermon, "Labor is standardized by the trade union and this is the standard to which it is made to conform." Mr. Hill, of course, went on to glorify the "great, selfrespectlng labor organizations" and to turn them against Sov. Wilson so far as his Republican voice could do so. There will doubtless be plenty of this anti-Wilson campaigning before November. The speeches and writings of the Democratic candidate are legion and the possibilities for criticism endless. But we do not believe that the bulk of such talk will have tny influence, whatever. It raises, to be sure, the old political question of the "safe" candidate versus the outspoken candidate with a candid record. Politicians always cling to the Former. But the voters are very apt to prefer the latter in ths days. The real hesitation in the minds of the many voters anxious to cast a Democratic ballot next November is [>f quite another character. It relates not so much to Gov. Wilson's past words as to his prsent convictions, their nature and their stability. His parlier opinions are of interest only In the few Instances where they can throw light upon this question. And ror the best evidence on this vital point the voters are looking to Gov. Wilson's own words now to be spoken In exposition of his views upon the pressing national questions of the hour. ?New York Sun. IN DEFENSE OF NICHOL8 Wm. M. Jones Discusses Other Side of the Dictagraph Matter. The Columbia State of yesterday contains the following from W. M. Jones, an uncle of Mr. Sam J. Nichols, touching the other side of the effort to trap Governor Blease into the sale of a pardon: To the Editor of the State: In your Sunday issue you published many columns of alleged dictagraph testimony tending to prove that Samuel J. Nichols of the Spartanburg bar was a bribe-giver, and that Gov. Blease was a bribe-taker. You did not publish all the dictagrams. You made voluminous selections, but you left out smaller but important sentences here and there in Mr. Nlchol's favor. Is the conscience of your telegraph editor clear that in these eliminations he did not purposely suppress the truth and distort the facts and do a grave wrong, unworthy of a great paper? From the record prepared by the paid enemies of Gov. Blease, and published in the Augusta Chronicle as it urn a nrpapntpil tn thn pnmmloalnn ft in shown that A. S. Reed, a hired emissary of T. B. Felder, came to Mr. Nichols, falsely representing that he was an attorney from Chicago, that a large fortune (amounting to $600,000) had been left to a man In the South Carolina penitentiary, on condition that he could secure a pardon; that he had been twice convicted and punished for the same act, once by the United States court, and then In the state court, and also served a five years' sentence in the penitentiary; that he was sick?had appendicitis, and was a proper object for executive clemency. Mr. Nichols is recorded as saying: "The only way I would take this case is with ypu as associate attorney." "You are much more familiar with the case than I am." "The only thing I know about the case Is what you tell me." The dictagraph records Mr. Nichols as saying further: "It Isn't pleasant. I'll tell you why I hate to take hold of it. I have refused at least seventy-five petitions that have come to me to try to get pardons. Now here In Spartanburg, they give me the very devil for supporting Blease, because all my affiliations are the other way, you know, and all my kin people. Now, I say I hate to take hold of those matters, because they have always been against him, and I have always supported him, and they say these corporations that I represent employ me on account of my influence with the governor, and the same way with these pardons?they say, 'Oh, It's nothing but graft; he's making money out of it.' But that's all a damn lie. For that reason I have refused numbers and numbers of them." And he goes on to cite case after case where he could have gotten large fees, but refused to ask for the pardons because he did not believe they ought to be granted. Was It Corrupt? According to this man's own confession, he represented to Mr. Nichols that this was a meritorious case for executive clemency. Relying upon these representations, was there anything unprofessional or corrupt in assisting this attorney to lay the matter before the governor for his action? It was strictly professional work, and so regarded by the bar. It shows that Mr. Nichols was unnecessarily careful in the pardons sought and would ask for none which he did not believe the facts would justify. Yet you cut all this out of the record, and inserted instead the ex parte statement of this man, made in Mr. Nichol's absence and unknown to him, that the convict was the worst in the penitentiary. Why did you do this thing? Did you wish to mislead the public into believing that Mr. Nichols had corruptly sold his influence with the governor to secure the release of such a convict, knowing him to be such? The record was full of the proof that Mr. Nichols acted in perfect good faith, relying on the statement of one whom he had every reason to believe was reputable attorney. And that even ..hen he would not assume responsibility for the case, but refused to go into It except as A ~ nil .I go down there with this petition, I will tell him the facts and circumstances . . . They think Blease is taking graft. That's a damned lie. Blease has never received a cent since he has been governor." He told Porter: "You can do absolutely nothing in the matter by paying." "He wouldn't do anything that wasn't right and I wouldn't do anything that wasn't right." "Wild Words." All this appears in the official record. but you cut it out wherever it appeared, and instead you published all the wild words alleged to have been uttered by Mr. Nichols after he had been made drunk by Porter for a purpose: and that, too, when yoij knew that he was drunk, for Porter had confessed in these records that he had plied him with a quart of Scotch whisky. Why did you suppress that part of the record made when he was sober? Was this not a suppression of facts and a perversion of the truth? Was this right and just and fair and in accordance with the high iueals of honorable Journalism? When this man Porter found that Mr. Nichols was incorruptible, and that Mr. Nichols regarded the gov CI inn <10 IIU 1 ujniuiv, Iiif, **U Porter did, the confidential position of a brother attorney associated in a common cause, and while Mr. Nichols was in his room he deliberately went to work to make Mr. Nichols drunk in order ta take advantage of him. Porter confesses that he plied Mr. Nichols with a quart of Scotch whisky before he left Porter's room, so that when they started to th-* train to go to Paltimore he hardiy knew where he was going. When Mr. Nichols reached Baltimore Porter still posing as a reputable attorney, had laid his trap in a private room at the hotel whither he lured Mr. Nichols. Mr. Nichols tells me that he had given up drinking and he and his friends assure me that he had not taken a drink for some time. But this fellow, under the guise of friendship and hospitality, indu< ed him to break his resolution, and when he arrived in Baltimore and went to his room he was still under the spell of the liquor with which Porter had plied him. This last fact Is shown by the wild record of the dictagraph. This record shows that he could not remember what had occurred at Spartanburg a few days before: that he claimed without fact or reason that he was a delegate to the national convention instructed for Harmon and could carry the South Carolina delegation with him. It is further shown by the, fact that when he was talking of the division of the fee between himself and Mr. Sims he allowed Porter adroitly to Interject repeatedly the name of the governor, so as to make it appear that tile governor and not Mr. Sims was to get a share of it If any further evidence is needed that he was intoxicated at this interview it will be furnished by Mr. Pasley, the judge of the city court of Spartanburg, when he went to Porter's room. Mr. Pasley is not a Blease supporter. There Mr. Pasley left him, and Porter seated Mr. Nichols In front of the dictagraph. The trap was ready and there was Porter, "squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, essaying by his devilish arts to instill his poison." Unfortunately Mr. Nichols remembers very little of what passed?none of the vile suggestions made by Porter. Porter swears that the dictagraph can not falsify, and yet this record is full of the mistakes of names of wellknown persons here contained in it, and hence other errors may have occurred elsewhere where the change of a word or a punctuation point makes a vital difference. I presume that the stenographer copied the notes as accurately as he could. But is there nothing in the record that the stenographer did not put there? Most of the vile suggestions made by Porter are on the last pages of the record, and we have only his word for it that he did not add these pages to it after the typewritten copy was turned over to him. He could easily have done so. When it is remembered that this Porter had found Mr. Nichols incorruptible when at himself, and had deliberately made him drunk in order to take advantage of him, he appears none too good to do that thing. A man who would deliberately make a guest drunk in order to instigate him in the condition to do wrong, and while still in that condition take from him $16 which Porter confesses he did and never return i, sitoenn ?fon did and never return it, is none too good to manufacture testimony when he could secure it in no other way and finds it necessary in order to make out his case and make his pay. Knows Nichols. Mr. Nichols' only fault In this matter, as shown by .the records, is that he associated with this fellow Porter, alias Reed, believing that he was an honest man and a gentleman, when he was not, and drank with him when he relieved Porter was actuated by friendship and hospitality, when he was Instigated by treachery. One of Mr. Nichols' most intimate associates tells me thafhe never before saw Mr. Nichols in such a condition as he was with Porter, and it is more than probable that this man had drugged the whisky he gave his guest. But whether all the alleged conversation was taken by the dictagraph or not, this much is certain: When Mr. Nichols became sober and clothed In his right mind he had forgotten it all, if it ever occurred. When subsequently he went to the governor to present the matter in a legal way he lound him too busy to take it up, as he had repeatedly told Mr. Porter, according to the dictagraph records, that he feared it would be. He did not bring the matter up before the governor. This is stated to be a fact, both by the governor and Mr. Nichols, and if Mr. Nichols says so, it is true. I am his uncle and have known him from infancy, and I know, as others know, that he is Incapable of dishonor as the hireling of Felder is incapable of honorable action. It is also certain that the conspirators waited in vain for the telegram announcing that the plot had gone through. It had failed ignominiously. It is so stated in the records of the proceeding before the commission that the expected telegram had not been received. Either Mr. Nichols never offered the governor the bribe which the conspirators had planned, or the governor refused to accept It ancUto sign this pardon, even for $10,000 as a contribution to his campaign fund. After the admission in tne records of the committee that no such telegram had been received, T. B. Felder announces that he has received a telegram announcing that Blease had accepted the bribe of $15,000. Now we are on solid ground again. Reed has been summoned before the commission. If they have received that telegram, they must have it. Mr. Nichols denies it. Let them produce it, or stand convicted by their own words of one of the vilest conspiracies known to the history of this country. That issue is sharp and clear-cut. Let them meet it. People who fake telegrams would not hesitate to take datagrams. It is fortunate for these criminal conspirators that they failed. Some detectives think it no dishonor to get a man drunk in order to worm from him a confession of past crimes; but such practice is regarded by the court as so indecent that no respectable court would allow it to be sufficient evidence for conviction. It is entirely different when a private detective becomes the instigator of crime for his personal ends, whether those ends be to blight a reputation or to secure the escape of a convict. Had they succeeded in bribing the governor, either directly or indirectly, they might have ruined him, but would have ruined themselves with him, for it is as great a crime to give a bribe as to take it, and the fact that they hatched the plot to further the revenge of Felder or to gratify his malice would be no excuse in morals or justification in law. Private detectives are not officers of the land. They have no rights, differing from the I rights of other citizens. They make their living by selling their peculiar services to private parties. It is a profession in which deception, fraud land lying is a fine art, and this fellow [ Reed admits that he has had 22 years' experience in it. There are doubtless honorable detectives, but I am prepared to prove that this fellow Reed is not one of them. If he gets on the stand again as he promised to do ?the only place we can reach him in this proceeding?I am prepared to prove that he is a thing without a shred of honor or decency, a creature who willingly sells his truth and honor for a daily wage, an embryo criminal who, by no merit of his own, barely escapes being a fugitive from justice or a convict in felon stripes in a common cell. This is not mere 1 other time, the very 1 that stove-artists can do?is a It Burns Oil ?j[j | ?No Ashes r* It Concen- . . . tratesHeat JlZTZI ?No WdStt ateadier ana Kane It la Handy m, ?No Dlft lurquo?e-bk>e chim in nickel with ca It is Ready rncb.etc. Made a -No Delay given to anyone tenc STANDARD C (Incorporated 1 NEWARK, N. J. invective or Idle boasting. I am prepared to prove it by documentary evidence. either before the commission, or if he will dare to sue me for slander or indict me for libel, I will prove it before the courts. I am not a supporter of Governor Blease. I am supporting Justice Jones. I do not believe that he is a party to this conspiracy or desires to profit by such corrupt practices. I trust both for himself and the caus-e we both stand for that he will publicly say so, and repudiate such practices and refuse as far as he is able to profit by benefits which are intended for him by such people. Wm. M. Jones. Spartanburg. The Cigarette Habit The Alcohol Habit The Tobacco Habit The Gossip Habit ARE ALL BAn HABITS. * It appears that every man must have a habit. Why not have a GOOD HABIT? Get the Banking Habit. It only takes a dollar to start a bank account with us. The Bank of Clover, ODOVHR. a. o. This is The Place TO BUY YOUR QROCERIE8. See us for FLOUR, MEAL, CORN and OATS, and all kinds of COW and HORSE FEED. See us for MEAT, LARD, and the best quality of HAMS. See us for SUGAR, COFFEE, TEAS and EXTRACTS. See us for IRISH POTATOES, CABBAGE. Etc. We are selling for CASH. Yours for business, 9 Yorkvllle Banking t Mercantile Co. Call on me for CHASE &8ANBORN COFFEES TEAS AND SPICE8 HAM, BACON AND BREAKFAST 8TRIP8 SNOW WHITE 8NOW DRIFT AND PURE LARDCIGARS AND CHEWING T0BACC08. /. W. JOHNSON TOILET ARTICLES When your Toilet Table needs additional Toilet Article and you desire Toilet Articles of the BEST qualities, come and let us serve you. Our stock of Toilet Articles includes everything needful and desirable, Including Extracts, Colognes, Soaps, Talcum Powders, Face Powders, Nail Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Hair Brushes and Pnmhs and evervthins: else that is desirable for the Toilet Table. TOILET SOAPS. We especially want to call attention to our large line of Toilet Soaps, which includes the Best Soaps from the best American and foreign soap makers at prices to please all comers. YORK DRUG STORE THE REXALL 8TORE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF ; | SOUTH CAROLINA j | CHARLESTON, 8. C. MEDICINE AND PHARMACY. Session opens Oct. Int. 1>1X, ends June 2d, IMS. Dnaurpaaaed clinical advantage* offered by the new Roper Hospital, one of the largest and best equipped hospitals in the South. Extensive outdoor and Dispensary Service under control of the Faculty. Nine appointments each year for graduates In medicine for Hospital and Dispensary services. Medical and Pharmaceutical Laboratories recently enlarged and fully eaulpped. Department of Physiology and Embryology In affiliation with the Charleston Museum. Practical work for medical and pharmaceutical students a special feature. For Catalogue, Address ROBERT WILSON, JR., M. D.. Cor. Queen and Franklin Sta, Charleston, S. C. 1 k ^he Latest g in Stoves r, as for any other meal at any latest Aing in stoves?the best zw Vtrfection rj i a m umAtttm >il Cook-stove the heat when you want it /ant it Itiaajauick aaoaa, MMW lief than coal, cheaper than Wj?PS| ctioo Store baa loog, enameled. ^w-wr- * ?3r neya. It il handaonv y finuhed KLLrLK* binet top, drop ihelrea, towel 9fJU Mf ritb I. Zoc 3 burner*. T tbe New Perfection Saore. J I U \ th arerjr rtore. Gxilt-Book aUo f I e ling 5 caeia to cover mailing coaL I )IL COMPANY n New Jersey) BALTIMORE. MP. If Yoa Are Particular About the Furniture that goes into your home, we want you to come and see the new lines of House Furnishings that we are now showing. Within the past few days we have received large shipments of iron beds? Which everywhere are rapidly pushing the wooden bedsteads off the map. The Iron Beds are neater and are more easily taken care of. We have an elegant line of Iron and Metal Beds In the newest styles and would be pleased to show you what a good bed you can buy for just a little money. 8ide boards? Among our new arrivals Is a new assortment of Side Boards. Every home needs a Side Board and If you want the beet in style and quality for your money, we have It. Come and let us show you. extension tablesno dining room is quite complete unless it has an Extension Table. We are showing a new line of these?a variety of styles and at pleasing prices. Come and let us show you how a little money will buy an elegant Extension Table If you buy It here. YORK FURNITURE CO. * why not pollock? Do Yoa Suffer? With Kidney, Bladder and Liver Troubles? If so, blame only yourself. NYAL'8 STONE ROOT CO. will certainly relieve all inflammatory, irritated and weakened conditions of the kidneys and bladder; will purify the blood and aid greatly in Rheumatism, Scrofula and Skin Diseases. Try a 60c or $1.00 bottle, and praise Nyal's Stone Root Co., wherever you go, as Mr. R. L. Williams of Route No. 6, does Nyal's Dyspepsia Tablets. Ask him about Nyal Remedies. Shieder Drag Store THE NYAL STORE. My Restaurant WILL BE OPEN NEXT WEEK (COURT)? AND ALL 8UMMER, FOR THAT MATTER. LOUIS ROTH SHINGLES WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CARLOAD OF SHINGLES THAT WE WILL MAKE CLOSE PRICES ON. DON'T YOU NEED A NEW BUGGY? We have something new in Mohair Top. Sold on easy terms. WE HAVE FLOUR? Bought before the advance and are in position to make close prices. See us for your next sack. FOR BEST GROCERIES? See us. We have the quality and we make the prices right CARROLL BROS. WATERMAN "IDEAL" FOUNTAIN PENS If you would like to see the most elaborate display of FOUNTAIN PENS ever made in Yorkville, call and let me show you the Waterman line. If you would spend your money for a Fountain Pen, spend It for a WATERMAN "IDEAL" PEN I have them at all prices, $250 and Up., In all sizes and can Just exactly "fit" your hand. T. W. SPECK. The Jeweler. WHY NOT POLLOCK? professional Cards. D. E. Flnley J. A. Marlon Finley & Marion ATTORNEYS AT LAW Opposite Court IIouso Yorkville, S. C. J.HARRY FOSTER ATTORNEY AT LAW, Yorkville. South Carolina. W Office in McNeel Building. Dr. B.C. BLACK Surgeon Dentist. Office second floor of the New McNeel building. At Clover Tuesday and Friday of each week. Geo. W. S. Hart. Jos. E Hart. HART & HART ATTORNEYS AT LAW Yorkville ----- S. C. No. 1, Law Range. 'Phone (Office) 58. JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AT LAW No. 3 Law Rang#. YORKVILLE, 8. C. J. S. BllICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business of whatever nature. FOR SALE 130 Acres?5 miles west of the city of ? Rock Hill. Joining farms of A. EL Willis, John Mcllw&ine and W. L. Plexico. Thla is one of the best producing farms per acre in Ebenezer township; good pasture, hog wire; 3 horse farm open; dwelling has 5 rooms; good tenant house with 3 rooms. Property of Johnson Cameron. For prices apply to J. C. Wilborn, Yorkville, S. C. *116 Acres?The Holmes Place; Joining Holbrooke Good, Ed Thomas and others; a nice new cottage, 6 rooms, good barn; also a nice 6 room house and store room, barn, etc. Located at cross roads. Good land at the low price of *4,200. + 177 Acres Property of Marlon B. Love, three miles from Sharon station and six miles from Yorkville; 20 acres in cultivation, balance in timber. Some of the finest oak timber in York county on this place. Price $17.00 per ^ acre. ** 951-2 Acres?Joins J. B. Scott, Ed Sandlfer and depot grounds at Philadelphia; 76 acres in cultivation; 1 dwelling house, 4 rooms; 2 tenant houses. Property of J. P. Barnes. A great bargain. 166 Acres?In Ebenezer township; 1 + mile of Newport, 1 mile of Tirzah church. A nice 2-story, 7-room dwelling; several good tenant houses. High state of cultivation. Wilson Huey. 101 2-3 Aores?Joining McGill store at Bethany, fronting King's Mountain . road; 1 dwelling, 6 rooms; barn, cot- A ton house and crib; property of Char- * lie Douglass. This is a cheap bargain and can be bought at once. 331-2 Acres?On King's Mountain rood, one mile from Bethany High School; land lies level; 17 acres in cultivation, balance in timber. A part of the Douglass tract 68 Aores?More or less, joining C. M. Inman, Norman Black and others. One mile from the Incorporate limits of York villa About 26 acres clear, balance in timber. One S-room house. good barn, ate. 159 Acres?1 dwelling, 5 rooms; 70 M acres In cultivation; 50 acres in tim- ~ ber; 2 1-2 miles of Smyrna; 1 tenant house, new, with 4 rooms; good barn, crib, lumber and buggy house. Property of H. M. Bradley. Price, $8,000.00. 160 Acres?Joining Mrs. Mattle Nichols, T. J. Nichols and others. The ^ property of L. R. Williams. Price, ^ $21.00 an,Acre. 210 Acres?2| miles of Sharon; 1 dwelling house, 2 tenant house* good barn; half mile of Sutton Springs school. Splendid Farm. A Nice Cottage Home?In the town of Smyrna; 5 rooms, situated near the Graded school building. One of the best cottages in tpwn. Pr&oe, $654. 300 Acres?Tom Gwln home, three miles of Sharon; S tenant houses; a large brick residence, worth twothirds of the whole price of the farm, for $3,900. 319 Acres?Joins R. B. Hartness, M. B. Love and others. 1 House, 1-story, 6 rooms; 6 tenant houses, all well flnished; 1 6-room, 4 J-room; good barn, double crib; hydraulic ram running water to house; 2 good pastures; 111 acres under cultivation; IKS in Umber. Prioe upen application. Property of John T. Feemster. 20 Acres?At Filbert. One-story house, 4 rooms; one-half red sad other sandy. Price, $1,00040. 11 Aorse Joins L. Ferguson. Frank Smith, J. W. Dobson. l house, 1-story, f room* Price, $1,300.00. 220 Acres?Near King's Mountain Battleground; 1 house, 1-story, seven rooms, New; 25 acres under cultivation, balance In Umber; < miles from King's CTeek. Good new barn, dressed * lumber; 2 tenant houses; 8 rooms each. Price, $15.75 per Acre, 200 Acres?Fronflhg public road, 1story 4-room house; 4 horse farm open; 76 acres In timber; 2 miles from Roddey. Price, $3000 per Aore. A Residence of J. J. Smith, deceased. In Clover, on King's Mountain street; 2 stories, 7 rooms; wood house; barn, cow stable; good garden; well for stock near barn. 75 Aores?Level land, Si miles from Sharon: 1 house; 40 acres in cultivation. Pries, $2000 per Acre. Walter G. Hayes. 67 Acres?2 miles of Hickory Grove; 4 on public highway: fronting Southern railway. Price, $20.00 an Acre. 153 Acree?Joins T. W. Jackson, L. T. Wood and others; 1 2-story l-room house; 1 tenant house, 4 rooms; I miles of Newport. Price, $21.00 Acre. A beautiful lot and residence of lira . Ada E. Faulconer. On East Liberty A street, 100 feet front, about 400 feet deep; Joins Rev. E. E. Gillespie and Hon. G. W. 8. Hart Pries on Application. 369 Acres In Bamberg Co.?Joining lands of D. O. Hunter and B. P. Smoak; 126 acres In cultivation, balance In timber; at one of the finest schools In the county; 1-4 mile of church. Much ^ of the land In this neighborhood produced 1 bale of cotton to the acre. Any one wishing a fine bargain will do well to Investigate It 102 Acres, Fairfield Co^^oinlng * lands of R. S. Dunbar, 4 miles of Woodward station. On Little river; 40 acres In cultivation. Price, $850.00. A Do you want Bargains in Moore Co., N. C.? See me ana talk it over. J. C. WILBORN. Geo. W. Knox J. L. 8taoy, President Sec. and Mgr. CLOVER REAL ESTATE CO. CLOVER, 8. C. 1. One 6-room House and Lot situated in Clover on R.R. St; good well and barn; large lot; line situation. 8ee us for prico. 2. Large Lot on King's Mountain St. 171 feet front 310 feet deep; 6 good M tenant houses, one 4-rooms; two 8rooms, and two 2-rooms; paying 2 per cent on $2,000. A good Investment 4. Five beautifully located Lots, neai High School. See us quick for these. They will not last long. Two sold; they are going fast, as we expected. 8ee them quick if you ex- . pect to buy. They will not be- any cheaper. 6. 44 Acree?1 mile Clover; 7-room house, barn, well, etc. $42?0 per Acre. 7. 96 Acree?3 miles Clover; plenty of timber; 10 acres line sure crop bottom land; line pasture; new, 3-room house. ^ 8. 3 Lots on Bethel road, for quick V sale; 300 feet deep; nice location. 9. 5 Room House?80 ft front; located on one of the beet residence streets in Yorkville. A bargain. Now, or never, is your chance. See us for price. 10. 30J Acree?4 miles west of Yorkville; large orchard of young fruit trees beginning to bear; 6 acres bottom land; joins Elmore Stephenson. $17.50 per Acre. Good terms on this. 11. 100 Aores?Lying If miles noith of Battleground; 100,000 feet of saw timber. If you need timber now Is the time to buy. Lumber Is going up; owner will cut in July if not sold. Tim- ? bar worth price asked. 8ee us for a price. 12. 6 Lots, nicely located, on New Brooklyn street. Good terms on these. 13. Six Lots, fronting on Falres St.; also 11-3 Acres fine pasture, immediately in rear of lots. Will sell as a whole or cut to suit your taste. Property of Ralph N. Adams. 14. One 16 h.-p. Tolbort Tngine, 60 saw Eagle Gin, one Pin Centennial Cotton Press, and one 36-inch Corn Mill, and Belt, In good condition. A _ Bargain. $400.00. 4% 16. One complete Brick Mill Outfit? w Engine, Brick Mill, Trucks, Racks, Sugar Cloth and Fixtures for 10,000 per day capacity?At a Bargain, and on good terms. 16. Two 100-acre tracts of land In Moore, county, N. C.; Joins J. E. Jackson. For quick sale, $9.00 per acre. Come to Clover and buy property and help a live town grow. CLOVER REAL ESTATE CO. J. L. Stacy, 8ec. and Manager. BRATTON FARM. Phono No. 1S2. Two fine bred Bull Calves for sale at reasonable figures?Right blood to head a herd; also two full bred Guernseys and several Grade Cows. We want more customers for Cream and Milk. ?< Stove Wood, split and sawed to length, delivered on short notice. J. MEEK BURNS, Manager. EGGS FOR HATCHING til* I FOR 11 Indian Runner Duck