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tumorous department. Wa? Telling It.?Garrulous Alary Brown, black and buxom, was on the witness stand in a Louisville court, relates The Courier-Journal. "And when ah sees dat street cyah strike de man, I say, 'Oh, Lawdie, dat motohman suah wuz not watchin, his?" "I object," said the council for the defendant. "Objection sustained," said the court. "Mary, just tell what happened." "And when I sees dat cyah strike de man," says Mary, resuming the thread of her story, "1 sez to mahse'f?" The court rapped with his gavel. "Mary," he said. "I told you to tell just what happened, not what you , said to yourself, or thought. Now, do as I tell you to do." "Judge," bemoaned Mary, "I can't I do what you tell me to do. Ah's done ( swohn to tell de truf." < | | i No Answer,?The Christmas snow ] came down extra wnue ana Deuumui out in the country where small Bettie J lives, says the Washington Star. And Bettie loves snow. Moreover, she is an appreciative little person who believes in giving credit where credit is due. God had sent the snow, therefore: She ran out into the sparkle of all outdoors, looked up to the sky and said in her sweetest and most polite manner?Just as mamma teaches her to do when acknowledging courtesies: "Thank you, God, for sending the snow." Small Bettie waited an expectant instant, but nothing came of it. Then she went indoors to her mother, to say with surprise streaked with criticism : "He didn't even say, 'you're welcome.' " The Likelier One.?The late Admiral Mahan, at the beginning of the ? la/1v Q t Q war, was arguing wim a. io.itj ?> luncheon about the British navy. "But, my dear madam," said the admiral. "it is hard to argue with you because you are so?er, pardon me?so ignorant. "You remind me of the young wife who said to her brother about her vounteer husband: "Isn't Jack Just wounderful? Think ?he's already been promoted to field marshal.' "From private to field marshal in in two months? Impossible,' said the brother. " 'Did I say field marshal " murmured the young wife. 'Well, perhaps \ its court-martial. I knew it's one or the other.'" " c Quick To Act.?"Don't you think > that people are more sympathetic in ] the evening?especially at Christmas ? time?" murmured the young man as t he sat in the dining room with pale i Amelia, relates the Pittsburgh Dispatch. t "Yes, perhaps so," shyly admitted ( the lady, as she yielded her tapering ] fingers to his. i "Such a nttle hand," ventured the j unarmed one as he held it carressing- < ly. 1 "Melia!" sounded a stentorian voice ] at the top of the stairs. "What time i is it?" s "I don't know pa," answered Ame- l lia, a trifle nervously. "The clock isn't going." ] "But I am," said the lover, quietly. 1 1 Out of the Frying Pan.?David Starr .Tnrrtan at a neare meetinc at the Ho- < tel Astor, In New York, said to a re- 1 porter. ' "Half of the world at war, and the counsel we are getting Is that we must arm more heavily. That counsel reminds me of the African king. "An African king feasted a white explorer royally. Then, at the end of the feast. 300 girls were led forward. " 'Choose from among these 300,' said the king, 'a wife.' "But the explorer blushed and stammered: "Oh, but if I took one, then the remaining 299 would be jealous." " That is easily remedied.' the king answered. 'Take all." "?St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Thought He Knew It.?A story of a man from Kansas who, in the old days when Mark Hanna was a prominent political power, went to church, seated himself in a rear pew and shortly afterward fell sound asleep. After a time he awoke with a start, evidently believing himself in a political meeting. The minister had just quoted In thunder tones, the scriptural text: "To him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." "Who said that?" inquired the halfdazed politician who had just awakened. Pausing for an instant and looking sharply at the sleepy interrupter, the minister answered briefly, "Mark." "Well," said the Kansan. "it sounds like Hanna." Big Game, Sure.?A senator from a southern state always has an abundance of good southern tales at his command, says Harper's Magazine. Here is one he tells of some friends of his who were visiting in Savannah, and who had chartered an old brokendown hack driven by a negro. The old fellow was a native and. of course, was on nis jou in punning uui an inc ^ places of interest along the route. As ] they joggi d along out in the subutbs a squirrel appeared in the road. That was sufficient to arouse intense inter- ! est in one of the party, who inquired ( anxiously: 'To you have any big game around here?" "Yes. suh: indeed, suh." replied the . negro, "we has baseball." *" "* f Would Not be Insulted.?Charles ^ Steinheaver stood at the brink of the j falls at Passaic Palls. X. J., Friday. ( melodramatically gesturing his intern to commit suicide. As his swan song he sang "Die Waeht am Rliein." Patrolman John Jorlett saw him, but ( could not urge the would-be-suicide to leave his perilous position. t Jorlett scratched his head and start- 1 d a competitive concert. He sang It's a Long Way to Tipperary." t Steinheaver got mad and came t down to f.ght. He rests in jail, instead f of the riv-r. ' 1 * 1 c Properly Greeted.?"Did your play- t mate enjoy her visit?" said a mother i to her small daughter who had just ' bidden adieu to a little friend. , "Why. yes. mother. I think she did." r replied ine cnna. i canea ner my ; dear' very often in that dressy tone ; you use when you have company." i FIGHTING THE WAREHOUSE (Continued From Page One.) for him to have appointed politicians to these positions? What finer opportunity would he have had to have played politics than in the appointment of these two officials, men who go to every section of South Carolina, thereby having the opportunity of publishing his peculiar views on political questions? Mr. President and Gentlemen or tne Senate, let us be fair with McLaurin. Let us accord to him that which is the truth?that he is more concerned about bettering the financial condi-1 tions than he is interested in politics ?about this warehouse system, which is the creature of his own intellect, and which means so much, not only for the agricultural interests of South Carolina, but for every other class in the state, all of which prosper or suffer in proportion as cotton advances or declines. Let us remember the struggle which he has had in his effort to inaugurate this system. Let us remember the opposition of those opposed to him and to the measure. When, in obedience to the comptroller general's construction of the law, that official held up the appropriation made for the conduct of the state warehouse system, McLaurin found himself absolutely without the means of naying running expenses. Did he faL.r? Did he act niggardly and whimper and whine because of lack of means to carry on the work which le had undertaken? No, indeed. He ;arried on the work by paying the expenses of the system out of his own pocket, and has continued to do that lp to the present time? "Well do I remember his coming nto my room during this period and landing me a check for one hundred lollars. signed by Wade Hampton ]libbes, ex-mayor of the city of Columbia, and telling me of the circumstances of its having been offered to aim by Mr. Gibbes to assist him in his great work which meant so much o the people of the state, and how le said that 'This check shall never >e cashed, but shall be handed down is an heirloom to my children in renembrance of the generous sympathy ind support in a time of need by the Tiends of my young manhood, with vhom I spent four years of college ife.' Surely this friend knew him >etter than those who are undertakng to discredit him today. "I protest against the charge that Tohn L. McLaurin has not the confilence of the people of South Caroina, and challenge the senator who nakes it to his specifications and >roof." After Senator Banks completed his emarks, the debate was adjourned xntil 8.30 p. m. The speech of Senitor Banks took all the stiffening out >f the opponents of both McLaurin tnd the bill, and on a vote upon the imendment by Senator Lee to devolve he duties of the state warehouse ommissioner upon the commissioner )f agriculture, the amendment was tilled by a vote of 27 to 13, the state varehouse system as now managed eceiving a majority of 14 votes out >f a total of 40 members present. QUICK CHANGE ARTIST N. N. Graydon of Abbeville, Gets on Both Sides of Warehouse. The new member from Marion :ounty, Ben Sellers, is a comer. He vill be heard from in South Carolina jolitics. He is rapidly developing in influence in the lower house that vill be felt: yea is even now being 'elt. In the discussion for the repeal of ;he "warehouse bill" Mr. W. N. 5raydon of this county, vied with Mr. Warren in "out Heroding Herod" n voicing his opposition to the bill md the commissioner. He started >ut as fierce as a Cape Horn blizzard, rle romped all over John L. McLaurin. Attacked his former "Comnercial Democracy" and otherwise showed his animus toward the warehouse commissioner. Delighted were the standard warehouse grafters, to see the Abbeville lion shake his tosled mane, and ?ive his terrible roar. He come to the rescue of the flound?ring Warren who tripped over a foolish "wheelbarrow" story and lost his equilibrium. These two threw the whole matter into politics and lost out?their star has quickly set. And why? Because he mighty Ben from cat-fish swamp, had dangerous fins to slash with and promptly threw the hooks into Mr. Sraydon. "I'll show you what sort of a man that is over there" pointing to Mr. Graydon. Then stepping over to his desk, he came back with a book tnd said. "Have vou ever heard of the Freedman's Bureau, where Scott ind the infamous Moses organinzed a scheme to plunder the white people of their land? Much of the land now owned by negroes was through that nefarious scheme." He then read the "Scott Moses bill" ind said, "Now listen: here is a bill trying to appropriate $500,000 introJuced by that man, and copied word for word from the 'Scott-Moses' bill. Vet with the other little lawyers he objects to a farmer's warehouse bill." The house sat up and took notice: fou could have heard a pin drop tvhen Ben Sellers threw his dart. Notwithstanding Mr. Graydon's bitter speech against McLaurin and the state warehouse, the vote shows that he back-tracked on the whole proposition and voted to sustain the .VHrphouse bill. We don't know why Mr. Graydon changed his mind so suddenly, but ive suppose he does, and at any rate it is fair to presume that he will be more lenient with others now for a ike performance. Thanks, Mr. Grayion. for your timely aid in killing the Warren inquity?through the influence of Ben Sellers, who will yet "inluence" others also. We take this opportunity to commend Mr. Seller's sagacity as a first;lass fox hunter. It reminds us of a log we owned when a boy. The log's name was Trueman. Old Trueman was the most successful fox lunter in all the country round ibout. He relied upon his brains nstead of his legs for success, and >nly counted results as worth while. Instead of following the pack in :he chase, when a fox was "jumped" >ld Trueman well-knowing the dect p ve ways of Reynard, would take his dand near the lair, and when the old 'ox returned on the back-track, promptly grab him and shake the ife out of him, before he realized his larger.?The Scimitar. ? i*resiaeni ?nson ueciureu j t-sici * lay, according to a Washington disjatch. that he believed an erroneous mpression had grown up concerning he food supply in the United States, n a letter to Mayor Mitchell of Newfork. replying to a suggestion that a Federal embargo he placed on wheat, he president wrote that in the near uture the administration would give ?ut a stati inent showing the exact situation. "The matter is one to .vhich the administration has, of course from the first given the most houghtful and careful attention," .vrote the president. "The agriculural department is in possession of ill the facts. About these facts some rery erroneous impressions obtain ind it is our purpose in the immediate future to remove these misunderstandngs by a very full and clear stute-nent of all tlie facts. They will I think, re-assure the country." TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONUENStD FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lan caster ana onester. Gaffney Ledger, Feb. 16: Special services Sunday marked the fourth anniversary of the pastorate of Dr. J. S. Dill, at the First Baptist church in this city. Music at both the morning and evening services was unusually excellent, and the pastor's sermons were masterpieces. Large congregations attended each service Trustees of school district No. 10, held a meeting Friday night with a view of putting into operation some plan whereby the litigation in regard to the selection of a site for a new school building might be ended, but after long discussion and deliberation the meeting adjourned without any action having been taken. The board of trustees made the people of West End a proposition, wnich, if accepted, would have settled the case, but no agreement could be reached The arnrmative side won the decision in a debate on the question of "compulsory education" at the Central school hriday. The affirmative side was represented by Marion Kiser, Rex TindaJl and Walter Smith; the negative side was represented by Montgomery Wilkins, Ouida Lipscomb and Jack Pittman. Dr. J. S. Dill, Rev. G. C. Leonard and Mrs. E. B. Taylor were the judges A report from the examination of a dog's head sent to Columbia last week by Policeman C. M. Painter, stated that the animal was afflicted with the rabies. Mr. Painter, his wife and six children and four of Mr. and Mrs. John White's children were bitten by the puppy before it was Killed. Medical treatment was sent from Columbia and is being administered to the injured people by Dr. S. B. Sherard The Cherokee County Teachers' association will hold its next meeting at the Blacksburg High school on March 6th. A number of prominent educators have been invited to address the association at that time. Among these is Mr. John E. Carroll, county superintendent of education of York county, who has accepted the invitation. An interesting programme is being prepared for the occasion As a result of a stroke of paralysis, suffered several days before, Mr. Jasper Pinson, a Confederate veteran and well known in Cherokee, died Friday evening at the city hospital, where he had been carried for treatment. He was more than 70 years of age. Mr. Pinson came to this county from Rome, Ga., about thirty years ago. His relatives in this section of the country who survive him are Mrs. Martin Pinson of Cowpens, a sister, and Mr. Jesse Pinson of Thickety, a nephew. The burial took place Sunday afternoon in the cemetery near Beaverdam Baptist church More than a hundred earnest Cherokee county farmers gathered at the court house Saturday, which had been set aside as "Fertilizer and Economy" day, to hear a discussion of these subjects. Gastonia Gazette, Feb. 16: His hosts of friends will regret exceedingly to learn that Sheriff W. N. Davis is ill at his home on South York street. He became suddenly ill Sunday afternoon and has been confined to his bed since, though he is reported as somewhat improved today. His friends hope for him a speedy recovery. In his absence from his office, Mr. Henry Craig is making his tax collecting rounds as advertised in the Gazette Mr. S. J. Durham of the local bar, had a very narrow escape from serious injury last night. He was sitting by an open window in train No. 30, as it was leaving Spartanburg, when a rock, hurled by some one, struck him on the head, inflicting a painful but not serious wound. Mr. Durham was stunned for a moment by the blow. Had the windown been closed he would doubtless have sustained even more serious injury from flying glass At a mass meeting held In the city hall last night the Associated Charities of Gastonia was organized and plans formulated for a systematic investigation and relief of all worthy cases of distress in the city in the future. The organization will have the support of the city, the churches and the various organizations which have been handling charity cases in the past, will eliminate the possibility of imposition upon the citizens by unworthy appeals and will endeavor to assist In finding employment for the unemployed of the city Nettie Louise, aged three months and 26 days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hardin, died at their home at the Arlington mill, Sunday night, and will be buried today at Patterson Springs, Cleveland county. There are twelve children in the family and this is the first death. Company B, the Gaston Guards will undergo its regular inspection on March 9th. Captain Russell C. Langdon, U. S. A., inspector instructor for North Carolina, and Col. Thos. Stringfield of Waynesville, inspector general of the North Carolina national guards, will conduct the inspection. The present requirements call for 65 men in m pnmnanv RplntpH npu*? hac reached Gastonia of the death at Alta Vista, Va., of Mr. A. K. Loftin, a former Gastonian, and at one time sheriff of this county. No particulars are known except that he died two or three weeks ago and his body was buried at Alta Vista, where he had made his home for the past two or three years. Mr. Loftin was a native of Lincoln county and spent most of his life in Lincoln and Gaston counties. He was ahout 60 years old. In 1894, he was elected sheriff of Gaston county under the Fusion regime and served in that office for two years, going out in 1896. After going out of office he went into the contracting business and built many structures in this and surrounding counties, giving particular attention to mill construction. * ? Lancaster News, Feb. 16: An interesting occasion was the housewarming at the beautiful new Baptist parsonage last Thursday evening. A representative number of the congregation gathered early at the church where organ music was enjoyed until the appointed hour. At 8 o'clock they proceeded to the parsonage and took Dr. and Mrs. Thayer entirely by surprise. Many of Lancaster's most talented musicians took part in a programme varied and interesting. During the evening, hot chocolate and crackers were served by several young ladies of the church At a negro hot supper, or "festibule" on Mr. R. J. Flynn's plantation in the New Cut section of the county, Friday night, in a general mix-up in wnicn razors,.pisiois, shotguns and doubtless mean whisky, played a principal part, Walter Lane.v was shot by a pistol ball fired in the head near the right temple, yet Laney lingered till the next night when he died. Another negro. Jim Bell, had his arm broken in two places and received a ball in the cheek, which passed on through the other. Two or three other negroes were wounded. Sheriff Hunter, as usual, was soon on the ground investigating the matter. None of the negroes were disposed at first to give any information, but by the use of some good detective work. Walter Massey, finding that the sheriff was weaving a web of facts around him. finally acknowledged that he knew the man who fired the fatal shot, but of course it was all done in selfdefense. Massey surrendered to the sheriff ard is now in jail. Coroner M. X. Johnson held the inquest Saturdav and the verdict was that the decease 1 came to his death at the hands cf Walter Massey Mrs. H. M. Williams of Sanford. N. C.. died a' th-< lace last Tuesday morning after a long illness. She was a daughter of the late David M. Crockett, and was veers of acre In her girlhood days, ...... .1 ii*i* ii lit" r i (i iiimiii iitauriin, th?n taught by Thomas Stamps. She ws a sister of Mr. R. C. Crockett n' "iverside. t Rock Hill Record, Feb. 15: Miss Marie Steele had the misfortune to break her left wrist while skating on the cement in front of her home on Saluda street Saturday morning. Miss Steele is getting along nicely. Mr. Samuel Boykin died Friday morning at 5 o'clock at his home at Boykin. He was the father of Mrs. T. Fred Bell and Mrs. J. G. Barnwell, both of this city, and these ladies were present when the end came. The funeral was held Saturday a Camden, and Mr. Bell went over there to attend it Miss Addie Matthews, who has been in the Fennell infirmary for treatment, returned to her home in Clover Saturday. Miss Matthews will be pleasantly remembered here, having been a resident of Rock Hill for several years while she was in training at the infirmary, some time afterwards graduating as nurse J. W. Tutt, who, for the past several months, Hoe q pacnnriaihlo nnoitinn with R. B. Waters, has accepted a position as special agent for R. H. Ferguson, a prominent insurance man of Spartanburg. Mr. Tutt for the present will make his headquarters at Rock Hill, but later will possibly make them in Greenville The Rock Hill Safety and Efficiency club, an organization of the railway men in the city, held an interesting meeting yesterday afternoon. A number of railway officials were present, as were about fifty or seventy-five employees. Among the officials present were: C. P. King, superintendent, Charleston; J. R. Vaughn, train master, Charleston; N. J. Hammond. road master, Charleston, and G. C. Dedmondt, inspector of agencies, Shelby La than Roddey, who for several years has been connected with the Equitable life insurance office under W. J. Roddey, here and in Charlotte, has been appointed manager of the Equitable office in Sumter, and will assume his new duties the first of next week Prof. W. H. Hand, state High school inspector and professor of secondary education in the University of South Carolina, spent Friday at Winthrop college. He gave the students at the college a most delightful talk. Cheater Reporter. Feb. 15: A mar riage license was issued Thursday by Judge of Probate Wise to Mr. William L. Hinson and Miss Mattie Gaston, both of Bascomvllle Mr. W. A. Overcash, who resigned his position Friday as head of the clothing department of the S. M. Jones Co., has offers at Fayetteville, Kannapolis and other points, and will accept one of these positions The annual meeting of the Mutual Hail Insurance association of Chester county, was held in the office of J. M. Wise, Esq., at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, with President J. S. McKeown, Attorney J. M. Wise and a quorum of the directors present. Reports showed the association to be in a very prosperous and healthy condition with an increasing business on the books... .Officer Peter Hardin shot a supposed mad dog on Saluda street, this morning The fire department was called out Friday morning to extinguish a slight blaze in the roof of Mr. W. E. Sanders' residence on Center street. The damage was inconsiderable Chester and Fort Lawn users of light current from the Southern Public Utilities Co., are to get the benefit of the substantial reduction in rate announced at the company's headquarters in Charlotte last week, Mr. Z. V. Taylor, president of the Southern Public Utilities Co., having announced Saturday that the reductions agreed upon for Charlotte shall apply to all points lighted by the Southern Public Utilities Co. April 1st, is the date when the changes in the rate will become effective. HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE Items of Interest from All Sections of South Carolina. The Clemson college students will very likely hold their spring encampment in Greenville. Clarence M. Babb was on Tuesday re-elected mayor of Laurens, defeating Allison Lee 420 to 178. The directors of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce have passed a resolution condemning the Graydon fifty-car bill. James H. Burdine, a prominent cltlr zen of Anderson and a veteran of the civil war, died at his home in Anderson, Monday, aged 72 years. W. W. Baker has resigned as deputy sheriff at the Wylie cotton mills in Chester. He has been succeeded by W. H. Bigham. Revenue officers destroyed two large illicit distilleries in Pickens county last week. Two men who were operating the plants., were captured. The city of Spartanburg is to build a new school building in the northern part of the city right away. The building will cost about $35,000. Sam and S. J. Wessinger, father and son, of Anderson, cut Lawson Meredith, a one-armed man, severely in an affray at the Riverside mill in Anderson last Sunday. Governor Manning has accepted an invitation to address the South Carolina firemen at their annual tournament. which will be held in Greenwood in May. The Richland county bond issue bill providing for the issuance of $1,250,000 bonds for road purposes, has been passed to a third reading in the legislature. During the first fifteen days of February, twenty-one men enlisted for service in the United States army through the Greenville recruiting station. The Sixteenth company of coast artillery, U. S. A., which has been stationed at Fort Moultrie near Charleston, left that city this week for the Panama canal zone, where they will be stationed in the future. Walter P. Powell, a young machinist, who was badly injured when he was caught in a gin at the plant of the Southern Cotton Oil Co., in Florence several days ago, died Monday of his wounds. The Bailey Military institute of ifreenwooa, nas receiveu zu.uuu rnunas of ammunition from the United States war department, the ammunition to he used by the cadets in target practice during the spring. Dr. Harvey W. Wylic, the pure food expert who has a national reputation, has accepted an invitation to address the South Carolina Dental association when that body meets in Columbia April 27 to 30. The colored Methodist church and parsonage at Mullius was burned on last Sunday. The buildings which were erected two years ago at a cost of several thousand dollars, were not insured. The Federal commission to study the economic value of convicts for highway construction, is spending the week in South Carolina. The commission will study conditions in Richland, Marion. Saluda, Charleston and Berkeley counties. K. E. Hall, demonstration agent of Richland county, this week, received 7 000 peach trees which will be distributed among farmers of that county. The sprouts were purchased from a Tennessee nursery and the price paid was about 2 1-2 cents each. Both the senate and house have passed the bill introduced by Representative Rogers of Spartanburg which reciuires all cotton mills in the state to pay off their employees weekly instead of bi-weekly as is now the case. The bill further provides that ..mi.lnvoo hn ttnl/1 off in mnnr?v rathpr than orders on mill stores. Thirteen owners of launches plying on South Carolina waters were fined by Judge H. A. M. Smith in the I'nited States district court at Charleston Monday, for failure to comply with the act of congress requiring that fire extinguishers to fight fire of gasoline origin be kept on board. The fines ranged from $1 to $15. W. E. Bush killed his brother-inlaw Eugene Thurmond in a pistol duel on a public road in Edgefield county Tuesday morning. The men had not been friends for several years and when they met in the road both drew their pistols and began firing. Bush surrendered to the sheriff after the shooting. George Wilson, a negro was shot while attempting to break into a grocery store in Sumter early Sunday morning. When arrested the negro said that since he had been unable to secure work he attempted the robbery of the store in order to secure bread for his family. He was not seriously wounded. C. R. Alexander, employed in the weave shop of the Pelzer mills, is in Jail at Anderson, charged with killing his wife* Monday night. He cut his wife's throat after she admitted unfaithfulness to him and then tried to kill himself. His eight year-old son was a witness to the tragedy. Alexander's wound will very likely prove fatal. Dr. H. R. Carter, a senior surgeon of the United States public health service, and J. W. LePrince, a sanitary engineer of the United States health bureau have been sent to South Carolina by the department to act as advisers to the Parr Shoals company in a campaign to drive mos- ( quitoes away from the big pond of , that company. j Labor troubles broke out afresh in the Equinox mills at Anderson \ Tuesday afternoon when the weavers i again went on strike. About two i weeks ago the mill operatives walked I out of the mill when their wages < were reduced, but returned when as- i sured that they would make at least i $1.50 per day. Declaring that their i wages did not come up to these fig- ( ures they again walked out Tuesday. < Miss Rocksie Steadman, eighteen ( years old, was shot and killed by Jean ' McElroy, aged twenty-one in the t Beaumont mill village of Spartan- * burg, Monday. Miss Steadman had ( rejected McElroy's attentions and ! when the young man met the girl on * the village street Monday, he drew a ' pistol, shot her through the head and 1 then tried to commit suicide. His at- ( tempt to kill himself was unsuccess- 1 ful and he is now in the Spartanburg * county Jail. ( A quintette of bills from the committee on flsh, game and forestry were passed to third reading last Monday night in the house. Two of them provide for a license for non-resident hunters and place a penalty upon making a false statement to secure a hunter's license. The third bill makes J a close season ror squirrels Between March 1 and November 15. The fourth bill provides that all money collected from the sale of hunting and fishing licenses and all fines for violation of game and fish laws shall be credited to the game protection fund. The fifth law fixes the punishment for game wardens who fail to perform their duties. The police of Greenville have arrested some seven or eight negroes during the past few days, who, they claim, belong to a gang who have been systematically robbing large department stores of that city for some time past. The gang was discovered when a negro woman named Viola j Campbell was arrested in Greenville , Monday morning as she was prepar- ( ing to leave .the city for Spartanburg. Two large trunks which she had checked as her baggage were found to contain numerous men and women's , dres? goods, trousers, neckties, etc., j identified as the property of the Mey- , ers-Arnold Co., a large Greenville department store. The whole was valued at several hundred dollars. As the result of confessions made by some of the negroes, other arrests will likely follow. W. M. Moody of Ashevllle, was arrested in that city last Wednesday, charged with forging a check on a Spartanburg bank for $300. The check was signed by W. D. McLean, a traveling salesman of Spartanburg. Woody, posing.as R. W. Johnson, a prosperous merchant of Biltmore, N. C., came to Spartanburg and gave a large order for merchandise to three Spartanburg salesmen. He requested that McLean endorse his check for $300, which the drummer agreed to do, Woody securing the money under the name of R. W. Johnson, who is really a merchant of Biltmore, N. C. The check was turned down at an Asheville, N. C.. bank on the ground of forgery and McLean had to make good the check with the bank at Spartanburg. He immediately swore out a warrant for Woody alias Johnson, and accompanied the officers to Asheville to serve the warrant. Woody was seen out driving with his wife, a bride of a few , days. The man was arrested on the identification of McLean and taken back to Spartanburg to await trial on the charge of forgery. McLean recovered $129 of the $300 that Woody secured through his (McLean's) endorsement. GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENTS Automobile Driver Cannot See or Hear a Train. Charlotte Observer. Newton. Feb. 14?Whv in n i*rncle crossing accident? Given a railroad crossing in plain view, and an intelligent human being in an automobile or other vehicle, with full knowledge of what happens when a train and a vehicle meet, why is it that people continue to get themselves hurt or killed on grade crossings? Years of railroad experience, a wide knowledge of men and of things, and even psychology were brought to bear on the subject recently by L. T. Nichols, general manager of the Caro- , lina & Xorth-Western railroad, with headquarters at Chester, S. C. Mr. Nichols was in Newton attend- ( ing superior court in connection with , a damage suit against his road on ac count of the death last August of Karl Taylor, of South Carolina, who ] drove n closed automobile on a rainy day, u|> a steep grade to a crossing on ] the railroad mentioned, just below Newton, and was struck by a north- J bound passenger train, never knowing, perhaps, what hit him. This case was the text of a conversation between Mr. Nichols and the writer. The apparent absence of all precaution in such cases, on the part ! of the people hurt or killed, was re- ' marked upon. Mr. Nichols declared that in the case of automobilists, there were two causes of grade crossing , tragedies. In the tlrst place, he de- | clared, a man in an automobile could ( not hear a train running or hear an h engine whistle. He had demonstrated this to his own satisfaction time and again, and had induced others to test it. l^ast summer in the outskirts of Chester, S. C., he came within an ace of getting himself killed by one of his own trains while riding with a party j of prominent gentlemen in a car that ( does not make much noise. Again, i besides being physically unable to hear a train while in a running motor car, a driver is ODsessea witn operating his machine, and even where he can see a train coming, he often does not look out for danger. The other cause of accidents, he continued, was the feeling of a man in a high-powered car that he could "beat the train to it," when he did see danger ahead. He miscalculated space and speed, or doesn't figure on the train moving at all, forgetting that, however speedy his own car is, and however short the distance to be traversed may be, the train is moving at the rate of 100 feet a second if it is running 60 miles an hour or 60 feet a second if running 30 miles an hour, or 25 feet a second if operating at the comparatively slow rate of 15 miles an hour. Mr. Nichols figures that many an accident happens because the automobile driver, confident in the prowess of his car, attempts to get across before the train can reach the crossing ?and is caught. This would have been his fate, he said, in his near-accident at Chester last summer, if the driver of the car had attempted to shoot his machine over the railroad. In company with a supreme court justice, a real estate man, an insurance man and a banker ?all Intelligent people, capable of taking care of themselves in any situation, he was speeding along at a rate of about 35 miles an hour. Emerg ing- from a wood that screened a view / af the railroad track, the car was in " in open space olf probably 1,000 feet, 1 svith a view of the railroad for a mile ind a half, straight up the track. Not * )ne of his party looked for a train. Not >ne of the party heard a whistle. It was )nly when the car had approached the :rack near enough for Mr. Nichols to glimpse the rails, sitting slightly bowHl to the rush of air, that he thought >f a train. Then he looked up. The southbound passenger train on the Carolina & North-Western was comng into Chester. Mr. Nichols shouted :o the driver, who instantly slapped >n his emergency brake, and the next hing they knew they had come to a stop jam up against the railroad and Did Man Bob Smyre, the engineer, was ooking down at them through his roggles. Instant investigation proved that he engineer had given the crossing signal long and loud, yet nobody in ;he car had heard it or the noise of :he train. A negro standing at the crossing had heard it distinctly and lad seen the steam rise with each alast. Since then Mr. Nichols has tried t several times and said that while he could see the steam rise from each alast of the whistle, he could not hear i train, even when he sees it. It is i scientific fact that trains approaching each other on a double track railroad, ipproach without sound to the occupants of either. The idea is that the lir is compressed between the two, md that the sound only comes when Lhey rush past each other and the compression is relieved. In the case of drivers of vehicles other than automobiles, Mr. Nichols me lasi train roau wouiu iwii. rw pie, he said, would get the habit of thinking In crossing the slow road, that, "Oh, well, these slow trains won't catch anybody"?or something like that. But at crossings on the fast road, he said, people would be wary and careful because they would know that its trains went by at a rapid rate and to monkey with those crossings was tempting fate. He said for years his road had kept a watchman in the yards at Chester. There was continual trouble. Tight times came on and in cutting expenses, they fired the watchman. Thereafter trouble ceased, because it was argued that with no watchman about, there was no telling when disaster would light. Concluding his observations, Mr. Nichols remarked upon an expression he had read in the papers about a warning a street car company had issued to the public In a northern city where snow and ice pave fine opportunity for coasting. The company told the boys not to coast toward the car tracks, "because the street cars can't lodge." He thought that a fine thing for the public to absorb. Trains, he said, "can't dodge," but must run straight along their rails, and as long is there are grade crossings, the public should look on every one as a ieath trap to investigate well before It was crossed. Xy Railroads in southern Russia are preserving their ties by soaking them in a strong solution of crude sea salt. .* From France comes a two pronged hat pin, the prongs being so shaped is to act as springs to hold It In r?ln r?o 5wish! Corns Gone! We Use "GETS-IT!" <i 2 Seconds, 2 Drops ? Corns Vanish For everybody with corns, there is f n every drug store in the land one of E the real wonders of the world, and _ that's "GETS-IT" for corns! It's the ( irst and only corn cure ever known * **3o?no Foxy Trot, M'amjell#, What? Carm ? Cone ? Ye?, I U?ed ,CETS-^ .", h 0 that removes any and every corn or j 'alius without fall, without fussing j .vith thick bandages, toe harnesses, g :orn-swelling salves, irritating ointments. It's applied In 2 seconds? fi bing, bing?2 drops, the work is done, ? the corn shrivels up, your corn agony ? ?nds and the corn leaves forever! All 0 the limping, the pains that dart to 0 four heart's core, the crucifixion of having to wear shoes over screaming o ?orns, the danger of blood poison 1 'rom making them bleed by using r <nives, razors and scissors?are gone ii it last! "GETS-IT* is the new way, e the sure, simple, painless way. Try it t 'or corns, calluses, warts and bunions. I "GETS-IT" is sold by druggists ev- a ;rywhere, 25c a bottle, or sent direct t>y E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. 3 a e SUBSCRIBERS ? A declared that people habitually drive | aver railroads without so much as a I look, a halt or any sign of consciousness whatever that they are about to cross a danger point. He has had I this demonstrated to him time after I time since he purchased an automobile to run over his railroad on inspection tours?a machine that enables him to cover his road in three days from Chester to Edgemont, whereas ordinary inspection trips take ten days. Often, he said, he had come on a string of wagons or buggies, or on single vehicles, moving toward a crossing without any precaution whatever, and had allowed his machine to run along, under control for fear he would hit somebody, until the drivers had just cleared the track, and then had sounded his horn vigorously, and had scared the drivers out of their seats. They would jump as if from profound meditation or from slumber itself. This experience, repeated many times, has convinced the railroader that people generally take no thought of the dangers of crossing a railroad. Long familiarity, perhaps, has dulled their apprehension. "Stop! Look! Listen!" those three words which, tradition says, some smart lawyer got $15,000 for writing as a suitable railroad crossing sign, and which, if heeded, would prevent grade crossing horrors rureverrnurtf, irnvt; iusi oisiuucciaivc. Dipping into psychology, Mr. Nichols noted the curious effect on the human mind of speed regulations. Illustrating, he said that If a road in one part of a town was forbidden to operate trains at more than 10 miles an hour, for instance, and a road in another part was allowed to run its trains regardless?lickity-split, the slow train road would kill ten people to every one * - - * * a i ? !j 1.111 N my Club are respectfully re- . J 'quested to pay up on or before { dajChSTANHOPE LOVE, Clubmaker. Beautiful PRESE1 SAVE THE COUI OUR FAMOUS Luziannt WRITE P. 0. 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