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.. v f The Aiken Recorder. Democratic Newspaper, PUBLISHCn EVERY THURSDAY. By ARTHUR P. FORD. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. NO CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT ES TIMATES. # One year in advance 8 x montns in advance .. Three ruonths in advance $1.50 .75c .40c A DYE TISINQ PATES. One square, first insertion $1.00 Each subsequent insertion, 50c Special rates by contract, for three months or more. Changes of advertisements must be sent in at least three days before change is made. Changes made only where contracts are made to that effect. AIKEN, S. C.: THURSDAY. AUGUST 3. 1905. Lord keep us good, and give usstrenglh To cultivate the ground, And don’t let cotton get below Eleven cents a pound. Farmer’s prayer. O.ve of the most shocking and de moralizing incidents of the dispensary discussion occurred on Sunday at Red Top church in Edgefield county, where, during the regular services of a union meeting, the pulpit was occupied by politicians; and where the liquor traf fic by the State was advocated by Hon. J. W. Thurmond, on account of the profit it brought and the pecuniary ad vantages that accrued to the school children by the sale of liquor. The yellow fever continues to in crease in New Orleans. Up to yester day there had been 346 cases, and 68 deaths. One case has appeared in Shreveport, and one in Montgomery, Ala.; and several cases have appeared in the country districts below New Or leans. Every effort is being made to stamp out the disease, but under the high temperature this is practically im possible, and with at least two months of summer weather ahead, the pros pects are not encouraging. At Valdosta, Ga., a white man and his two sons and a negro have been con victed of murder for slaying a girl and her brother. Another son of the head murderer will go to the penitentiary for life. The testimony must have been very strong to bring about this verdict, and there were evidently no extenuating circumstances at all. New trials will be asked for, and while noth ing less than death appears to be the just punishment, a shrewd lawyer can find so many avenues of escape it is by no means certain that the penalty will be paid.—Columbia Record. It is stated by scientists that it is only the Stegomyia Fasciata brand of mosquito that is dangerous. Then we are told that the only kind that carry H»r'oe_j\lmjLty}ve a habit of standing on their front feet and ele vating the hind feet in the air, some thing like a mule, and either the males or females, we forget which, wear two plumes on their heads. All observant persons who have lived on the coast will recognize the pest. So, whenever you see a Stegomyia, smash him, with anything handy, and also smash his cousins, the little fellow's that infest the few w'ells and cisterns in Aiken. flew York Time*. It was of course illogical that the price of cotton should fall upon the an- ! nouncement that the Agricultural De- | partment had reduced its^stimate of acreage under cultiv tionWlf the de partment’s estimates had retained their authority the expectation of ai yield reduced by the crop on over one ; million acres would have caused the | price to rise. As it is, the acreage is anybody’s guess, there being estimates t to suit every taste, and the depart- i ment’s merely one among them. It is only apparently ’llogical that the es- j timate is almost certainly wrong if is- ! sued as received, that is, without cor-’ rection for pessimism, Statistician [ Hyde was not the only one to make this j correction from the reports sent in by j the guileless planters. One of the most | successful unofficial estimater began by allowing 7 per cent as a factor for this correction. He increased this succes sively to 12 per cent and IS per cent. I Finally he did what the department] ought to do—issue the facts as they are j received and allow everybody to do his j own guessing. The reduction of acreage planted to 26,999,000 makes it seem small as com pared with last year, but it has been exceeded by the final acreage only in two other years, 27,220 414 being the next largest, in 1901-2. Over 11,000,0001 bales were raised on 2,000,000 fewer acres in 1899, with an October eondi-I tion of 62. The condition on July 3 this year was 77 Under these condi tions the Cotton Exchange is likely to ! have what the stock speculators call a “fine trading market,” that is, one open ! to sharp fluctuations upon every rumor. \ Besides the size of the crop there is i one other interesting conundrum—how nearly right is the estimate of tin SPECIAL SALE. It s getting to the time rf year when every thing in MEN’S JMMECE SI MM Kit SUITS must he put on the “retired list” —so far as this store is concerned: yet, (wo full wearing months are ahead. A BETTER CHANCE to buy Men's, Boy’s and ( hildren’s Clothing for less than actual value NEVER PRESENTED ITSELF. Can you afford to miss a sale, where the nrices touch your purse so liglil.y > SOUTHERN RAILWAY. The Sonli’s Greatest System ITU) El New York, Charleston & Flouia STEA.HSHIP LINES. FROM CHARLESTON FOR NEW YORK. The steamships of this company are appointed to sail from East Shore Ter- Unexcelled Dining Car Service*, minal Co.’s wharves, foot of Queen st.. as follows: Through Pullman Sleeping Cars (All dates subject to change without on all Through Trains. notice.) Steamers Arapahoe, Apache, toman- Convenient Schedules on all Local ! che and Iroquois carry no second class Trnin« j passengers; only first-class and steer l rains. age. These splendid passenger steam- WINTER TOL RI.ST RATES are now ers form an unequaled tri-weekly line in effect to all Florida points. t 0 New York, with state rooms all on For full information as to rates,! deck, thoroughly ventilated and sepa- routes, etc., consult nearest Southern j rated from the dining saloon. THREE GALLONS FOR ONLY ALL EXP UPSS CHARGES RAID. for the next sixty elebrated YADKIN 7^0 BROAD ST BEET, S. AUGUSTA, GA. Railway Ticket Agent, or R. \V. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. Hotel Virginia, Broad St., Augusta. I. HAROLD COUGHLAN, Proprietor F There is no more pleasant traveling on the Atlantic Coast. For treigkt and passage apply to M B. HUTCHINSON, Div.Ft. «& P.Agt., A. E. GAETJENS, M. B. PAINE, Asst. Supt. Supt. Charleston, S. C. \VM. P. CLYDE & CO., Gen’l Agts., 19 State st.. New York. THEO. G. EGER, Gen. Manager, 19 State st.. New York In order to introduce our goods, we ar> days going to deliver three gallons of the VALLEY CORN WHISKEY, five years old. for only $5. Every package guaranteed to give thorough satisfaction or I your money will be cheerfully refunded. Cash money order or check must accompany order. Give us a trial order and be con vinced that we sell only the best at the lowest prices. Address all orders to YADKIN VALLEY DISTILLING C0„ Donnaha, N U. CONTEMPT FOR LAW STEALING. ENCOURAGES STONEWALL JACKSON’S WAY. John Williamson Palmer was born in Maryland. April 4 1825, was graduated The State. 1 at the university of Maryland in 1847, County Treasurer Southern of Green- studied medicine in Baltimore, was the ville testified before the investigating : first city physician of San Francisco, Southern 'Cotton Growers’ Association ! committee that when he remonstrated ! was surgeon of an East India company Of a reduction of acreage of 18*.. per I with Supervisor Speigle for the viola-; steamer during the Burmese war, Con cent? The association’s prestige is tion of the statutes governing Ids ac-i federate war correspondent of the New IRST CLASS accommodations for permanent or transient boarders. HAVE YOUK EYES Thoroughly renovated and newly fur- . ,, , , -.tt-.i /-u nished under new management. | ^ roperly lilted >\ 1th Glasses at Table supplied with all the delicacies 1 __ _ of the seMon. WESSELS BROS. Convenient sample room attached, i ] FREE EYE TEST L. & AI. IP-AUnTT Made to Last. CHILD LABOR LAW AGAIH. Issonii-iiiixpd, and this is the way it compares with mixed paint prestige great just now, but there are other ex cellent authorities which have not cor rected estimates nearer the depart ment’s than the association’s. It would be a curious result if the department should finally appear to have corrected its estimates in the wrong direction. DISPENSARY DISCUSSION IN CHURCH. lions, the supervisor exclaimed. “Damn ] York Tribune 1863-64. The following the law!” And the supei^isorevident-j ballad was written at Oakland, Md., ly suited the action to the word. The | Sept. 17. 1862, while the battle of An- full story of the stealing from the pub- tietam was in progress. 11 1 — — One of the liveliest and most inter esting discussions of the dispensary is to be held in the town of Edgefield on Saturday next. A call signed by over 300 citizens of that county has been deliverances before South Carolina At a union meeting in Red Hill Bap tist church, Edgefield county, on Sun day,the dispensary was freely discussed, the speakers, Col. Talbert and Dr I). A. J. Bell, were on the programme to speak upon the subject: “Is it an op- portune time for the Christians of South Carolina to make a decided stand against strong drink as a beverage?” Both gentlemen were uncompromising in condemning the dispensary. The assembly was large and the speakers stood in the pulpit. At the close of Dr. Bell’s address, Mr. Thur mond advanced and delivered a very earnest speech, advocating the dispen sary. He said that he recognized the great evil in whiskey, but that men might honestly differ as to the best means of reducing the evil. Does the present mode of selling li quor produce more evil than other ways? Some evils must be prohibited outright; others are best prohibited by control ling them. This is the case with whis key. Prohibition in Edgefield county for merly was a comple e failure. One of the worst things a State can do is to put a law upon the statute books which cannot be enforced ; and the prohibi tion of liquor cannot be enforced. You teach people perjury by bringing them up before grand juries under circum stances which experience has shown will make them lie. If you will take your present law and 1 V • •• jjr- W it 1—1,1 IBI f <t f the question II you vote prohibition you'vvill not have it hut a year or two, The leaders of this anti-dispensary movement in Columbia are working to ward high license, and p/ohibition is hut a step on their way to that end To-day this county gets from the dis pensary about $6000 for education. The county also gets $3300 for roads and the towns $3300. The speaker advocated educating the rising generation on money secured from whiskey taxation. He said to kill the dispensary is to take one-third from the schools of the coun ty, and prac ically pull down the school houses. Mr. Thurmond went on to show the union meeting attendants how it would touch their pockethooks if they voted out whiskey His views are unique in lie treasury has not been told, but enough is revealed to show that the law of the land and the law of morals were alike regarded with contempt. The treasury was raided as systemati cally and relentlessly as was ever done in the “days of good stealing,” when, too, the slogan of the office holder was “Damn the law.” It has been asserted and with a show of reason, that property was more sa cred in this section than human life. We have with somewhat boastful pride He has writ ten several poems collected folksongs, written a treatise on cholera, and a hook on the beauties and curiosities of engraving. He lives in Baltimore. General Jackson, the subject of this ballad, was called “Stonewall” because General Bee at the battle of Bull Run said, pointing lo Jackson, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall.” He was graduated from West Point in 1846, an.! had for one of his classmates Gen eral 'icClellan. In the Mexican war he became religious, and had many pointed to the integrity of our civil ] long talks with the Roman Catholic officers and the absence of municipal ] archbishop of Mexico. He did not boodling. But can we hope that men drink intoxicating liquors, saying he will remain honest in financial matters was more afraid of the wine cup than when they put pistols in their pockets j he was of Federal bullets. According and go forth to kill, saying in their se- to his widow his feelings were strongly curity, “Damn the law!” Assuredly for the Union, hut at the same time not. The law, like an anchor chain, is was a firm states-rights man. He was no stronger than it’s weakest link. It; accidently killed by his own men at must command respect, it must enforce j the battle of Chancellorsville. Asa respect, or fall into contempt every-! soldier his skill and daring both in of- vvhere. ! fensive and defens, ve warfare can hard- Pistols are carried in the hip pockets j ly he over praised, and men are shot on slight provocation, I . , the men who shoot having no regard , Come stack arms, men. pile on the for the law. And now the natural evo- „ ... lution of the lawless; they have gone | Stir up the camp-fire bright! to stealing the people’s money. And ; No growling if the canteen fails: the stealing is not in Greenville alone, j We’ll make a roaring night. The spirit of graft is reaching out like | Here Shenandoah brawls along, the tentacles from some horrible mon-| There burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, ster because the sentiment is, "Damn ; To swell the Brigade’s rousing song, the law ” And where has the law been disre garded with more brazen tiagrancy than Of Stonewall Jackson’s Way. -the queer slouched in the dispensaries? What has been the reply of its advocates for a decade to every c mdemnation or violation of the acts of the legislature, hut “Damn the law?” The institution inaugurated under the cloak of morality has exer cised a more demoralizing influence on ;inv nn> rooms. J he luspensai ics pensarres'nfC viciotts in j their influence because if there is one j motto by which they have been uni-1 formly guided it is, “Damn the law.” Every person who purchases a half a pint of whiskey from a dispensary, every person who orders a case of beer delivered at his residence from a “beer privilege” establishment may read as fie runs, “Damn the law.” Its viola tion is continuous : the demoralization of the people is incalculable. THE FALSE ALARM BRiCE LAW. re- i art published as an extra of the Edgefield us assemblies. Chronicle Calling the meeting and re-' l’ 1 l” 8 speech Col. Talbert declared questing Senator Tillman, ex-Governor lhat t,,e "^^re of the nat ion depends • ” ’ ■ more upon the character of us citizens Sheppard and ex-( ongressman Talbert, ; than the strength of its army and navy : the legislative delegation and any oth- ! that total abstinence is the only logical ers who wish to do so to speak. Sena- ; }in( l sa ^ e practice lor the religious man. . ,pi Some men remain moderate drinkers tor Tillman has accepted the .nv.ta urn ; without ruin but their Hxample is dt ,_ and declares that he will he at Edge- leterious to others who are not strong field on August 5th and will haw* some- 1 enough to keep from excess. He am us thing mighty interesting to tell the The dispensaryites are industrously trying to create the impression that there is something wrong about the Brice Act, under which many counties seeking to hold elections on the dis pensary question. The law affects a vital question in this State, and it is being discussed and weighed as few other laws have been. There is nothing wrong about the stat ute itself, at least no one who has the legal right to say so has so announced, and it is mere talk that is undertaken to bar the opponents of the dispensary. The talk about the law being unconsti tutional is not different to what is said people. Bv the cotton-leak scandal and the Government’s reluctance to cl ave the situation and lay open the whole scheme of crookedness the people ar * shown again convincingly the essenli 1 char acter of an administration which rates party above the public interest. The effort is manifestly to draw the whole ingly characterized whiskey drinking about most important laws, and it is as having four degrees: The sheep, i certainly not so near the line of uncon- inonkey, lion, and hog degrees. We ! stitutionality as the dispensary law it- have graduates enough from the school, j self, because that law in its early his- “There is no impropriety in speaking | tory was specfically declared to he in- of the dispensary in the church. I be- i valid. lieve in fighting the devil anywhere. ] ; Persons who are avowedly apt osed to shall attack the dispensary anywhere j the prohibition movement are the lead- and everywhere. I am against it in any 1 ers in the suggestions of trouble with form If a man thinks he can reform ! the Brice Act. All sorts of suggestions an ancient egg, let him reform the dis- j have been made to avoid the proposed saw’ a rotten egg pensary. I never made fresh. To say prohibition does not prohibit fire of public attention to one or two is silly. The laws against stealing, mur offenders and protect the Agricultural elections. One of the pet schemes is to urge that there is no money with which to provide for these elections. The same We see him now hat. Cocked o’er his ej'e askew ; The shrewd dry smile; the speech so pat, ] So calm so blunt, so true. The “Blue-light Elder” knows ’em well- Says he, “That’s Banks; he’s fo rid of Lord saVe'his souTT^vve li giv Well, That’s Stonewall Jackson’s Silence! Ground arms! Kn^| all! Caps off! Old Marster’s going to pray. Strangle the fool that dare’s to'S;® Attention ! its his way. Appealing from his native sod. In forma pauperis to God, “Lay bare Thine arm! Stretch ^fcrth Thy rod ; Amen !”—That’s Stonewall’s \\ He’s in the saddle now Fall i Steady ! the whole Brigade. Hill’s at the ford, cut off; we’fT^yin His way out. hall and blade. What matter if our shoes are worfn*’ What matter if our feet are torn? Quick-step! we’re with him Ipefore morn. That’s Stonewall Jackson’s W; The sun’s bright lances rout^ the mists Of morning, and—by Georg Here’s Longstreet, slruggliiq^^n the lists, Hemmed in an ugly Pope and his Dutchmen I—'AM^B?d be fore “Bayonets and grape!” hear Stoitewall roar ; Charge, Stuart! Pay of Ashby’s score, In Stonewall Jackson’s way. Ah, Maiden ! wait and watch and yearn For news of Stonewall’s band. Ah, widow! read with eyes that burn, That ring upon thy hand. Ah, wife ! sew on, pray on, hope on ! Thy life shall not he all forlorn. The foe had be’ter ne’e’ been born, That gets in Stonewall’s way. Columbia Itecord. W.QUITMAN DAVIS HERBERT E. ROBT. I. GYT.ES. Punter, | if y OUr i 1()US 0 takes 21 gallons of ready mixed paint at :$1.50 per gallon, you must pay It has been published that a Fresby- MVIS, GUNTER & UK LEU j The fame work is done with L. & M. as follows,-12 gal- illed with dignity and success der, arson and rape do not prohibit. ! condition exists as to an election on a j ® ar ° n ^ omura as l a P an 5 P eace Negotiator, t-o11r,,-.i,» hut they restrain. I do not think there new county project or for a member of Baron Jutaro Komura is one of the 1 j- ^ i ^ ‘ , can be more blind tigers under prohibi- the General Assembly, or a State Sen- 'nost remarkable of the younger states- tack or disturbance; whereas indica-{ tion than under the dispensary as now ator or any other office should there he j Japan.. He comes from the tions are strong, and have been for sev- conducted ” a vacancy by death or otherwise. j ministry of foreign affairs, a post which oral months, that the whole depart- ' Col. Talbert declared that “Fust X”j The expenses for such an election I he ha s fi ....rcT.-.wr I whiskey, freely imbibed, would kill a would he met just exactly as they ^ l 8 £ ‘ man a hundred yards off behind a tree, would he for an election for a county Although no amount of whitewash a i )d gave the test of a citizen for the officer or on a new county proposition, could make the bureau Imik clean to j “Fust X.” It was to give it freely to a j The county supervisor and county the public, the ad mi u is t ra tion is nppa- : rabbit; put the rabbit in a pen with a com m issione rs have ample authority to , . ’ . „ . . , _ . . bulldog, and if the rabbit does not whin r i he necessary tickets and sta- rently determined to forestall anything the b * lldog it is „ ot chemically purl tionery ami tl... hill for tm- ad v which could bring out the whole truth. “Fust X.” 1 .... i - The inference is compelling that the i The prohibition movement is not whole truth must be much worse than failure; to it is due the credit for tin anything the public now’ suspects teriau minister of North Augusts the head of a movement which has for its object to increase the age limit of the child labor law. After much dis cussion and the creation of some feel ing this State finally adopted a law which was satisfactory to operatives and mill owners alike. The subject was thoroughly threshed and the agree ment reached as to what ought to he the age limit was based upon the best judgment of those who had carefully studied conditions as they applied U* the cotton mill business in this State. The demands of humanity and justice to all concerned were the leading mo tives of those who endeavored to settle the question satisfactorily, ft has thus been adjusted in so far as operatives, owners and the people generally are concerned, hut there will always he theoretical agitators ever ready to en ter upon a crusade to apply wholly im practicable and often very unjust meas ures in the settlement of questions in volving moials or humanity. We do not believe that the people will consent to have this question reopened, unless conditions have changed and the pres ent law has not been enforced. General Organizer Leonard, of the American Federation of Labor, has re cently been in this State for the our- jtose of unionizing unorganizedhranclies of labor, and while in Columbia he was interviewed by a correspondent, and amongst other things he said the “spirit and letter of the law is being violated throughout the State.” The Anderson Mail says this statement is absolutely untrue as to Anderson, and it might have added as to anywhere else in the State. We will make that statement, and it is founded upon the fact that only two or three eases have been brought to the attention of the gov ernor and these were promptly correc ted. If the law were so widely violated certainly complaints would have been more general. The law, it was said, was demanded by the operatives. If tha is true they would report viola tions, and if it is not true then the ag itators are guilty of falsehood. Even if the operators do not favor the law and deceive mill owners as to the ages of children, it appears that those pco- pr«5 WHO nini «.ul.j ,T tho wrongs and hardships of the opera tives are very strangely quiet if the law is being so generally violated. Pardon Asked for Murderer. Governor Heyward received a peti tion for the pardon of Richard Bland, sent up from Aiken in 1902 for a life term for the murder of Solomon James whom he shot to death in the Odd Fel lows’hall at Aiken after the two had i had a fight outside, the occasion being ] a a dance given in the hall. The petition is accompanied by a re markable affidavit from Mary Wayne, who makes a statement to the effect that she was induced to testify against Bland at the trial because of threats against her life on the part of James’ relatives, who told her how to swear when she went upon the stand and by threats against her life kept her from seeing Bland’s lawyers. She was one of only two eye-witnesses to the shoot ing, the other being a relative of James. She says that a f ter the two men had engaged in a fist-fight outside the hali James came into the hall where Bland was and advanced upon with his hand to his hip pocket. The petition for pardon is signed by all but two of the jurors, and these two did not answer the letter written them to get their signatures. A. TTORNEYS AT LAW, AIKEN, S. C. Chatfield Building. & M. at $1.05 per gallon mixed with 9 gallons linseed oil at 00 cents per gallon makes 21 gallons of SMI. 50 $25.20 paint for SI.20 per gallon. You only pay SAYUS 25 VEll ('ENT. OR $(> HO Your house won’t need painting more than once in 10 to 15 years, JOHN AND NATURAL HISTORY ! because L. & M. Zinc hardens the L. & M. White Lead, and gives the paint extraordinary life, and makes it cover an enormous sur- INDUSTRIAL LUMBER CO. Yellow Pine Lumber, Doors, Stish, Blinds, Etc. Office find Worlds INorth Aciifustt*, CJ. Estimates cheerfully furnished on application on every class of work. Your orders solicited, large or small. POST OFFICE. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Moveme*t»^of jiird^Ton^FaBt, j S() that four gallons L. & M.. and three gallons of linseed oil will He was leaning against the fence k ! Pff’hf il moderate sized house. For sale by Powell Hdw. Co., Aiken. A half hearted way, nibbling at t'ne 1 —i end of a straw. There were patches on his trousers, and the hat he wore | had not improved with n^e. “So you're out studyin' natural hlr»- MANUFACTURERS OF iory, be you?” he asked the man from town. “Well, I’m kinda Interested in that myself. You see, my hoy’s got it. lie never liked fnrmwork, bein’ of a retirin’ disposition, so he went to col lege up to the State university for sev eral years, and when he come.out he said natural history was the thing for him. I hadn’t ever thought much about natural history before that, be in' busy pretty much of the time with the crops and the calves and the mort gage and things, but he cracked it up pretty well, so I says to him one day: “ ‘John,’ says I, ‘where are you go!n’ to do your studyin’?’ “ ‘Well,’ he told me, ‘I think I’ll stay here and study. Some folks seem to have the opinion that a person must go away off somewhere and associate with wild animals several years before they can make much headway in nat ural history, but there’s plenty of chance right here at home. I’ll stay here and study the birds.’ “It run along for awhile, and John Aldn’t seem to be doin’ much. He said the birds were too swift for him, and I could see that they w’ere plain enough. By the time John would get ready to begin studyin’ ’em the birds would always get tired bangin’ around and fly away. John wasn’t gettiu’ ahead a bit. He’d set In some fence corner all forenoon while I was doin’ lariuwOi'a. ’ond when cue dinner horn blew he’d get up slow, all tired out, and I’d say: “ ‘Well, John, how’s the natural his tory today?’ “ ‘I ain’t been able to do anything yet,* he’d always answer. ‘The trouble with these birds around here is they don’t want to get on friendly terms with j'ou. They’re too lively.’ “But,” the old man went on, with gleam of satisfaction in his eyes, “he’s all riglrt now. He’s give up the birds. They’re too blame quick, and he ain’t goin’ to study ’em any more. He’s on the right track at last.” “And what is he studying now?” “Snails.”—Chicago Record-Herald. ! present activity. I love every ineii oi i my State and 1 am honest in my rea 1- By each scandal—and the series of jness to fight whiskey. Whenever tin* scandals which have been running in ] church membership in this country qu t lo inn i<>r i.it* advertising and managers of election would have to he submitted to the General Assembly for autliority to pay unless other ar rangements are made. various branches of the Federal service for several years have been impressive —the public is brought nearer to the determination that Republican admin istration has become saturated with graft. At present we find a leading in dustry of the country sorely inconven ienced by the rascality which falsified statistics and sold advance information to gamblers. The effect is not upon the cotton industry alone. It extends to every associated business. General Crop Conditions, drinking liquor, determine to wash their hands of complaisance with those who deal in it for selfish gain and go to work against whiskey, we will have the ! prohibition which we need in South Carolina.” —* Divorce Legislation. , Governor Heyward lias received a ! letter from Governor IVnnypaeker of j Pennsylvania, asking him to.named* 1- 1 egates from this Stare to the annua! i meeting of the National * onferenee for Uniformity of Legislation, wh cii is to he heid at Narraganset Pit-r. on the 21st of next month, with the principal ob ject in view of recommending to the j Crop conditions are summarized as j various legislatures of the states agen- follows in the weekly bulletin issued j eral divorce law. Governor Penny- hy the Government weather bureau : packer is moving by direction of ar Rains interfered with farm work in act passed by the legislature of hi> the east gulf coast districts, while rain state last March. The object of those is needed in Georgia, portions of Flor- back of the scheme is to secure the pas- ida and northern Mississippi. Exce,.t sage of a law by all of the leg.slatures. some damage to harvested oats in Mis- i or many of them, of a divorce law in souri, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, j order to secure as nearly as possible the oat crop reports are highly favor- uniformity in this regard, able | Governor Heyward sees no necessity In Alabama the cotton crop has gen- for appointing such a delegation, lie erally deteriorated; in Georgia it is knows that this state is in love with its fruiting rapidly wdiere sufticieir rains unique position in having no divorce have occurred, but in other localities of law. South Carolina is about as ready that state rain is badly needed, and and willing to change her law which shedding, rust, and black root are prev- grants divorce for no cause, as she is to alent. Too rank growth and shedding declare thedecaiogue uneonst tutiotial. ] are also reported from Tennessee, the null and void. This slate wiii fall in Is Qargan Alive! (iIr.(hx The reported suicide of R. K. Dar; he h 'since 1900. He conducted the Man- Jchurian negotiations which led up to | the war in a manner highly satisfac- I tory to the Emperor and the entire peo ple. Baron Komuraisa Harvard man, | and speaks English with a strong Bos ton accent. He won his spurs in Korea, ! in 1904, when Japanese diplomacy was 'so discredited. Five years later, he went to Peking, and participated in the | . eace conference there, as a result of | the Boxer rebellion and lhe expedition i of the allied powers. During his stay j | at the Chinese capital he won the eon- j ; fidonet* of China so largely that there has existed an unpublished hut effec- I live alliance between Japan and China, i which has been very helpful lo the for- , mer during the war with Russia. Baron Komura was Japanese minister toWash- ! ington preceding Mr. Takahira. His greatest triumph may he said to be the will admit tiiat th and even a pmbab Carolinas and Florida, w'here no im- £ rovement is indicated, except on clay mds in South Carolina, while on sandy lands in that State the crop has deteri orated. line with no movement to secure uni formity of legislation regardingdiv.uc -. unless it is a movement to write all an at Darlington has been succeeded by a number of different rumors—as far varied as sensational. The facts of the ease—provided Dargan is yet alivt — present one of the most dime-noveliy incidents we have yet .heard of: and „ t . _ J until the certainty o! the death of Dar- long and delicate negotiations which gun is vouched lor, the public will re- he, as foreign minister, conducted with main restless. Baron Rosen, then Russian minister. The report says that he is y<*t alive; which culminated in the great struggle that the supposed dead body was only between the two powers.—From “The a dummy. and that Dariran has escaped Peace Negotiators at Washington,” in u itii a large amount of money. We the American Monthly Review of Re- re is a possibility— ity—of Dargan be ing alive to-day : hut, in ail the hounds ] of reason, in ad the light of high intel ligence and modern knowledge of the subtlety of the mind, we are constrain ed to believe that in this humble com m mwealth. in fibs stale of South Car olina, can no such scheme as reported he perpetrated on the people of South i Carolina. True, the coroner, nor the j undertaker can testify as to the actual , corpse, nor lias there been shown any j positive and unequivocal proof of the I death of Dargan. The brother—who has played such a strange part in the utYiir—refuses to make a state.nent. j file subject adm.ts of investigation, | and as we ha ve said, tiie peo le of Dar lington and me State will not he satis- ; li -d until die rave :s <* cued and the body idem died i.osit ively as that of Roberi Keith Dargan. views for August. Governor Heyward has been asked to a point delegates to the Farmers' Na tional congress which meets in Rich mond in September. The letter comes from Harvie Jordan and one hundred delegates are wanted. When soiuj men have no better j divorce laws off the statute books of ail : occupation they hunt up something for the states. ^for their w.ves to do. j Hump Back SCOTT’S EMULSION won’t nuke a hump back straight, neither will it nuke a short leg long, but it feeds *oft bone and heals diseased bone and is among tr.e few genuine means of recovery j n rickets and bone consumption. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemist*, 409-415 Pearl Street, New ^ 50c. and >1,00; all < BILIOUSNESS ‘'CONSTIPATION CURED BY THEDFORDS BLACK-DRAUGHT Because the liver is neglected people auffer with constipation, biliousness, headaches and fevers. Colds attack 1 the lunns and contagious diseases take hold of the system. It is safe to say that if the liver were always kept in proper working order, illness would be almost unknown. Thedford’s Black-Draught is so successful in curing such sickness because it is without a rival as a liver regulator. This great family medicine is not a strong and drastic drug, but a mild and healthful laxative that cures con stipation and may be taken by a mere child without possible harm. The healthful action on the liver cures biliousness. It has an in vigorating effect on the kidneys. Because the liver and kidneys do ! not work regularly, the poisonous ; acids along with the waste from the bowels get back into the blood and virulent contagion results. Timely treatment with Thed- ford’s Black-Draught removes the dangers which lurk in constipation, liver and kidney troubles, and will E ^eltively forestall the inroads of right's disease, for which dis ease in advanced stages there is no cure. Ask your dealer for a 25c. package of Thedford’s Black- Draught. me "W’' In Writers* *amea. Beginning with William Shakespeare, we remember instantly Sir Walter Ra lelgta. Sir Walter Scott. William Words worth. Washington Irving. William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry W. Longfellow. John G. Whittier. William j Cullen Bryant. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Walt Whitman. Others whose names occur almost simultaneously are William Cowper. Isaac Watts. Henry Ward Beecher, Daniel Webster, Wendell Phillips, George William Curtis, Rich ard Grant White, Julia Ward Howe, George W. Cable, William I). How ells, Charles Dudley Warner and Richard Watson Gilder. To these are easily added Sir Walter Blackstone. John Wesley, Edmund Waller. 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Our Guarantee: If our goods are not all that we represent them to be, return them to us at our expense, and we will refund your money. = SPECIAL OFFER =■ In order to introduce our new brand “WHITE RAVEN” Corn Whisky we have cut prices, and quotexyou as follows for the noxt i>avs, prices subject to change without notice alter thirty day^fTom date of this advertisement: ——-—- Please note the following low prices, viz: 1 gallon “White Raven” Corn Whiskey $1.50 2 gallons “ 0 (< (< << (( (( 4^ 44 4 4 4 4 44 When ordering please say that you in the Aiken Recorder. Another point in your favor, we make no charge for jugs nor kegs, but buy them back from you at their, full market value. Very truly, THE JOHN W. SOWERS DISTILLING CO., MILTON, N. 0. As TO OUR REI.IABTI.TTY : We refer you to the Merchants & Planters Bank,or any merchant of the city of Milton, N.C. 2./.* -i.00 r ( ;) saw our advertisement 4Js3-« ACLC o irs SICILIAN ill cliff 3 Kenewer Makes the hair grow long and I 'ivy, and keeps it soft and glossy. Stops falling hair and cures ci r!7. And it always restores color to gray hair. Sold for fifty 1 ^ 0 me mgs Country Inns In England. A noted traveler says he has sam pled a large number of hotels In his time—even in Greece—but for hare- faced dishonesty In the making of bills the bluff British landlord takes flrst place. “After charging twice ! what bis food and rooms are worth he tacks on a further charge for service another for lights, another for hath, another for fire. In short, my experi ence of country inns in England—and I can speak with some authority-'a that I pay as much a day at a shabby little country Inn of England. wWre the food is poor and 111 cooked, t) • at tendance Inferior and the beds poor, as | I would at a good hotel in such town# 1 as Springfield. Mass., or the very Lesi ■ In Switzerland or Germany. Indeed. ' must have struck the average Ameri ! can that the incomparable Baedek**t hardly ever finds it possible to recoin mend an English hotel.” Long or Short Lravrd W A^N TEI ) 12 to 20 ft. Long---Loacled anywhere within [00 miles of Aiken—Wanted in carload lots " AIKEN LUMBER CO. FOR SUPPLIES fc&y \ \ » v f c U ..IN.. Fthcv Grorprirs UonlVrtioimi i<»*, ( iinilics. Unrip, • Tobacco* ( rs. Ac Tin Pefccb Crop. The peach crop is row beginning to (’raw to a close. The fruit is still | leariful on the market, hut it is not of s fine quality as recently, showing hat the best of the crop is in, and it will not b»* long before the fruit will h - ve disu|>pear< d. The crop was a large one this year, hut ssill short of the yield last year, in IhuIi South Carolina and Georgia. The transpor ation facilities were bet- ler this year, prtbably for the rea son that' 1 he railroads did not have as heavy business. The prices of the I' fruit have also held up well this season. The OrlKlncl Si’Iionelle. The name silhouette was derived from Etienne de Silhouette, a French ministei of finance in 1759. who intro duced several parsimonious fashions during his administration called a la Silhouette, a name which continued to he applied to the black profile portraits. Silhouettes were executed in various ways. One of the simple* t Is that of tracing the outlines of a shadow’s profile thrown on a sheet of paper and then reducing them to the required size ei ther by the eye or by means of a pan tograph. The camera obscura and cam era lucida are also cccasiouaiiy used for the purpose Baked In a Qna/ry. Bhlney Catches—What sort of cake la this that the lady gave yec* > Weary Willie—She said that It wae marble cuke. Sijiney Patcbes—Marble nothing! It*» granite—***** Yarlt Heruid. A STRONG is always sent forth if ehetricity is the votive power. We do nisi ailing of electrical plants for the home and office, and alwajs as-ure our patroioof . the right kind of light and service. WE CARRY in stock a full line‘of electrical sup- pkes, and can give you exactly what you need >'n th'> line at the right pri-e Whenever in need of anything “eh c- incal’' jn<? bear us in mind, and w» il fill your needs t* SCHOOL LOOKS HLAMk HOOKS AM) VI L KINDS OFSTATIOXHUY CONSULT G. W. tz. 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