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GREAT CJ Of Industry are .Accu est ZVLen in Cabinet ve Special to Allan Washington, August TJ.--Thc tru6tB have devised a new means of handicapping President Roosevelt's light against criminal combinations of capital. They are stealing his best men. Just as soon as the chief executive finds an uTieial who has the ability And courage to get the neceisary anti trust information, and haB the cou rage to press for redress in the courts or wherever else to light is to be made, the captains ?of industry do not make the mistake <>f opposing the new man. Instead they convert him from a foe into a friend; better still, they gain him for a hireling. Thus the government service loses a good man, thc trusts gain one, and the battle is postponed, and the more difficult. The process is simple. Money is the bait, not in thc form of a bribe, but as an offer at salary. Some combination of capital quick ly disoovers that it needs as en official the man who possesses thc ability to make trouble for it as an employee of the government. A bait so tempt ing is held up and there is no refus ing ic, and in the twinkling of an eye, Mr. Trust breaker has become Mr Trust Supporter. lu this way within a comparatively short space of time President Roose velt has lost tho service of these men, every one of them directly concerned in efforts to curb the predations of powerful trusts. Philander C. Knox, attorney gener al of the United States. James M. Beck, assistant attorney general. Paul Morton, secretary of the navy. John H. Wallace, chief engineer of the Panama canal. Robert B. Armstrong, assistant treasurer of the United States. William A. Day, assistant attorney It is, of course, too absurd for belief that this is merely an acoidont. It represents a definite polioy to hamper, and it is likely to be oontinued in definitely, for there are limitless good jobs at the disposal of the trusts, and men who have the ability to lead against a centralized wealth are few and far botween. It will he noted that four of the aiz men who have quitted the govern ment employ have found berths with insurance companies, whioh, accord ing to Mr. Thomas Lawson, are but the toys of the great finanoiers, wielded by them as best suits their purpose. The first of Mr. Roosevelt's trust fighters to be stolen from him was Senator Knox. Originally a trust man, Knox when ,he went into the cabinet, had not been expected to make muoh trouble for capitalists, but in a short time it developed that his loyalty to Roose velt was absolute, and that the knowl edge he gained as builder of trusts he was ready to use in the service of his ohief in order to pull them down. This constituted a serious menaoe, and the order went out to remove Knox from the attorney general's office at any ooBt. The death of Senator Quay give the desired opportunity. The man who had given the trusts their most se rious defeat of history in the North ern Securities litigation, was decided on as Senator Quay's auocessor at a meeting held 'in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the represen tatives of the Standard Oil Company, and through Mr. Cassatt, affiliated nearly all the big finanoial institutions of the country that were exposed to the likelihood of an attack from Pres ident Roosevelt. Paul Morton, who knew all ?about rebates, legal and illegal, came into the oabinet, with the expresa idea of advising the president of his flghta against the discrimination by rail roads. Just aa soon as he became dangerous, Thomas F. Ryan, the rail way magnate, who rescued the Equit able Life Aassuranoe Company, picked ont Mr. Morton aa the man to put the company on its feet, and made an offer ao munificent that Mr. Morton forgot all about his antipathy to the trusta and waa promptly made one of them. W. A. Day won a great victory against the beef trust, and gave valu able aid in preparing tho Northern Seouritiea ease, Re% must be got oat of the way.' What oould ba more eaey? A $30,000 job with the Equit able aoon won him away. James M. Beck went into the de partment of justioo specifically to in vestigate and proa ec 12 to tho ca so a against trusts. Ho had a big part io the Northers Seouritiea triumph, and STAINS sed o i' Stealing Strong oi" President Boose lt. ta Constitution. was preparing to carry the campaign still further, when ?the Mutual Insur ance Company discovered that it had need of his services as special counsel, and Kock couldn't turn a deaf car to the $25,000 call, so the president lost another valuable aid. Robert B. Armstrong, thc youngest und abl?st assistant secretary of thc treasury the country has ever had, fought thc tobacco trust to a stand still on the question of its importa tion, and was recently made president of the Casualty Company of Ameri ca. The retirement of John P. Wallace 1 as chief engineer of the Panama canal, is of too recent occurrence to need much comment. Wallace was, pre-eminently, the mau to build that canal. But the transcontinental railroads mean to fight the canal project to the bitterest end. Ergo. Mr. Wallace' suddenly received an offer of a muni ficent salary. He could not resist the temptation, and the work of building theaanal mu?t be undertaken by a lesa able man. Day's retirement, coming soon af ter that, Mr. Morton, Armstrong and Wallace, has caused wide discussion of tho apparent determination of the trusts to combat thc administration in every manner conceivable, and especially by robbing it of its most efficient workers; and the question ?B being asked: "Where will President Roosevelt lind men to stand by him in his battle for tho people, when the trustB arc so eagerly baiting his as sistants with enormous salaries?'' ? Shocking Confession. Benedict is a New Haven man who has been eight times the father of a bouncing bounder. In the outskirts of the university city is a little town j among thc hills named Prospect, and 1 .?st year four of the children were Rent there for the summer. One day Benedict and his wife entertained at dinner a new ac quaintance, Professor B. The Pro fessor is a bachelor, and like maoy scholarly men, rather ill at eaBe in sooiety. "What a fine little family of chil dren you have." he began with an admiring glanoe at the four stay-at homes. "Yes, indeed," replied Benediot proudly, "and we have four more in Prospect." The Professor blushed his astonish ment-August Lippincott'a. llupld Fire Justice. Yankee dispatch characterizes the court rulings of a Toronto magistrate, of whom John Foster Fraser tells in his book, "Canada as It Is." The magistrate, who is reported to have got through with forty esses in forty minutes, was once asked how he managed it. "You must have some system," was the suggestion. "I never allow a point of law to be raised," was the magistrate's prompt reply. "TV.o is a oourt of justice, not a oourt of law." "Not so very long ago a young at torney wanted to quote law against my sending his man down for six months. ; He wanted to quote Math ews' I think. "'Well,1 said I, 'Mathews may be a great authority on law, but I guess he hasn't as much authority as I have in this oourt. Your mangoes down for six months.'" The Limit. A Scotch minister instructed his derk, who sat among the congrega tion during servioe, to give a low whistle if anything in his sermon appeared to be exaggerated. Gu hearing the minister say, "In those days thoo were snakes fifty feet long,'* the derk gave a subdued whistle. "Iehould have said thirty feet," added the minister. Another whistle from the el er k. "On consulting Thomson's Con cor dan co," said the minister, in con fusion, I see the length is twenty feet." Still another whistle; whereon the preacher leaned over and said in a stage whisper: "Ye cnn whistle as much as ye like, MoPheson* but I'll no take anither foot off for anybody !" -Harper* sleekly. m -' - There would be fewer divorces in this vale of tears if there were more good cooks. -.'Just before the mosquito season women begin to make open work I clothes so they oan bite through. A NATURAL DIKE. T??e Volcanic Formation Alone tb? Coarse of Pall Uiver. Nature is full of strange freak?, and her ugeuts-raina, storms, winds and even ?dust-prod um? results that might often bc mistaken for the works of human hands, though frequently on a colossal scale. Volcanic activities are mighty fac tors, and tl rough them some wonder ful phenomena aw? wrought. One of these may he seen along the course of Fall river, in northern California. This stream ls of considerable size, and the work of nature's gigantic forces may be seen between the upper and lower cascades of the river. It is what might properly be called a "volcanic dike." This dike extends for some distance along Fall river, near Its banks sad nearly parallel to the course. It bears close resemblance to a roughly constructed wall. Tho top of tills dike is very ragged and the height of varying altitudes. In some places it ls twenty feet high and several feet In thickness, and again may be easily clambered over. The rock of which this wall of nature ls com posed is of a very porous character, bearing some resemblance to pumice stone, though much more solid and of greater specific gravity. That entire region 1B of volcanic ori gin and evidently was once the sceao of great eruptive uctlvlty. Scoria and lava abound, though the face of the country ls now thickly clad with timber and brush. The dike begins and ends abruptly. The wall of the dike is evidently the result of volcanic forces, and has no doubt stood for many centuries. It stands clear from clinging rocks, bas a narrow foundation, with vertical walls, and is very straight. The mys tery ls what forces of nature could have plied up or left standing this rock formation so uniform. This dike has puzzled not a few geologists who have visited and examined lt--Ameri can Inventor. A FIERCE MERMAN. Brand of Marine Monster Vlrfflcln Sported in 2670. B. II. Blackwell of Oxford has pub lished a careful reprint of "An Account of Virginia; Its Situation, Tempera ture, Productions, Inhabitants and Their Manner of Planting and Order ing Tobacco." It ls, in brief, a pam phlet communicated to the Royal so ciety In 1670 by one Thomas Glover, "an Ingenious Chlrurglon," who had lived for some years in the province. Mr. Glover would seem to have reckon ed the sea serpent among the inhabit ants of the colony to Judge from the minute accuracy of the following de scription: "A most prodigious Creature, much resembling u man. only somewhat lar ger, standing right up In the water with his head, neck, shoulders, breast and wast, to the cubits of bis arms, above water; his skin was tawny, much like that of an Inaian; the figure of his head was pyramidal, and slick, without hair, hlB eyes large and black, and so were his eyebrows; bis mouth very wide, with a broad, black streak on the upper lip, which turned upward at each end like mous tn eh oes; bis coun tenance was grim and terrible; bis neck, shoulders, arms, breast and wast were like unto the neck, arms, shoul ders, breast and was. of a man; bis hands, If he bad any, were under wa ter. He seemed to stand with bis eyes fixed on me for some time, and after ward dived down, and a little after ris ett? at somewhat a farther distance and turned bis head toward me again, and then immediately falleth a little under water and swim me th away BO near the top of the water that I could discern him throw out his arms and gather them in as a man doth when he swim meth. At last he shoots with bis herd downward, by which means be cast tayl above the water, which exactly re sembled the tayl of a fish, with a broad fane at the end of lt" - No woman ever reads anybody's will in a newspaper without hoping her name got ia somehow. - Tho man who has more than he needs never had more than he wants. * - One time rn man bad a son who was graduated from college and was not supported by his father beoause he married a rioh wife. - When the long distanoe telephone calls a woman is sure that either her husband has made a million dollars or been killed in a railroad acoidtat. - When a man is married he oan't afford to spend what money he has in his pocket, and he can't afford not to beoautie his wife will take it away from him. - Every man takes his turn at act? ing foolish. - Love is a disease of the head that affectB the heart. - A statement isn't necessarily false beoause you disbelieve it. - Dollars are more plentiful with some men than common sense. - What an admirable voice- the av erage woman has for destroying ti lenoe. - The average wife believei any thing her husband says-exoept his explanation of a long hair on his coat o ollar. - A man is always io a bigg sr hur ry to get married than he is afterword to let people know he is. - It ?B a shame to end a good ser mon GO soos, when a man is in the middle of a fine asp and it wakes him up. , - The way people tell about what fan they had camping out/after it i? over, they almost eonvinee themselves they had a good time. - What a woman is afraid of when sha is making a railway journey is that maybe the road doesn't go where the timetable says it does. - Yon can make people b~?ie?e yon have a very fine judgment by always ?tking theirs. A Young Chesterfield in R age. A email Ea6t Side urchin in New York found a cigar butt in the gutter, ami lacking a match to set it going, went into a tobacco shop to beg for one. "Say, mister,, will you give me a match?" "No, I won't. We don't give matches away here, we sell em." "Yer don't Bay so-weil, wat's de damage?" "Cent a box." "Chuck one over." The kid felt round in his pockets, finally locating a single copper down deep in his pocket. He took a match, lit his inch of Ha vana, and after getting it going in good shape, handed the match box across the counter, and administered this lordly rebuke to the astonished pro prietor: "3ay, mister, put that box up there on yer shelf, an' if anuther gentl'mun comes in here an' strikes yer fer er match, just give hi JI one out'en my box, see. So lo.ig." - V- ? li The Habit of Observation, "Be observing, my son," said Wil lie's father, according to the Newark News. "Cultivate the habit of see ing and you will be a successful man." "Yes," answered Willie's uoole. "Don't go through the world blindly. Learn to use your eyes." "Little boys who are observing know a great deal more than those who are not." Willie's aunt put in. Willie took th&ir advice to heart A day passed, and once more he stood before the family council. "Well, Willie," said his father, "have you been using your eyes?" The boy nodded. "Tell us what you have learned." "Uncle Jim's got a bottle of whis kep hid behind his trunk," Baid Wil lie. "Aunt Jennie's got an extra set of teeth in her dresser, and pa's got a deck of cards and a box of chips be hind the books in the secretary." "The little sneak!" exclaimed the family._ _ _ John Aam's Toast to his Friend. When John Adams was a young man he was invited to dine with the court and bar at tho home of Judge Paine, an eminent loyalist, at Wor cester. Judge Paine gave as a toast, "The King." 8.'me of the Whigs were about to refuse to drink it. Mr. Adams whispered to them to comply, saying "We shall have an opportunity to re turn the compliment." At length, when John Adams was desired to give a toast, he gave, "The Devil." His hoBt was about to resent the supposed indignity, but his wife calmed him, and turned the laugh up on Mr. Adamo by immediately saying, "My dear, as the gentleman has seen fit po drink to our friend, let us by no means refuse to drink to his." Huggsd Till Ribs Cracked. Beaver Falls, Pa., Aug. 10.-Ste phen Polaski attended the wedding ceremonies of Viona Tuterioh, his former sweetheart, who had jilted him, and seising-upon an opportunity for revenge in the Hungarian custom of hugging and kissing the bride, he squeezed her so hard that he broke three of her ribs and caused her to faint. The woman was being married to Michael Petosk, Polaski's rival in love. Acoording to tradition, the guests are allowed to embrace the bride, after throwing a dollar into a hat, the money beiog used to' set the young couple up in housekeeping. The disoarded lover fondled the bride so roughly that she was unable to take part in the remainder of the marriage feast. Couldn't Ask Questions. "Io thc old days io Texas and other arts of the southwest people were ever inquisitive about a newcomer's decedents," said T. R. Stringfellow f Paris, Tex., at the Arlington. "It was not deemed polite to ask uestioos regarding a man's past, and j when a stranger arrived he was ilten on faith, and if he proved to e a decent man the community co opted him. Nobody brought letters f introduction in those days, and so man established his own status. An ther reason why questions were not sked was because too many of those rho might ask them had records of heir own that wouldn't bear close in pection. A man who had run away rom Georgia or Alabama to the Rio rraude for some infraction of the law nd who had beoome a respectable and rosperous citizen in his adopted home rould resent beiug interrogated him elf, and so he extended the some im 'l un i ty to others. "I knew lots of men in those days tho came West with the sole purpose if blotting out the errors of the past .nd of turning over a new leaf. In nany instances they took new names deo, in order to completely sever the inks which bound them to their for ner lives. Nearly always these men rere genuinely reformed. In their lew homes they ranged themselves nth the law-abiding and honest class is and set their faces against the evil loers and toughs, who were numerous inough a third of a century ago in nany parts of Arkansas, Louisiana and rezas. "Some of the best people in these States today are the descendants of nen who in their youth had been con sidered candidates for the penitentiary >r the gallows." Collie Recovers The Cat. A family living in Vermont remov al from their long-time residence to mother village, some forty miles away. Fhey took with them a Scotch oollie 3f unusual intelligence, but left be. hind tho family cat. The collie and the eat had been warm friends for several years and had fought each other's battles with courage and im partiality. j After the family reached their new home the oollie was evidently lone some. One evening as the family was gathered about the open fire some re marks were made about this and the man of the house, patting the collie on the head, Baid: "I am sorry that we did not bring George with us. You miss your old playmate, don't you?" The next morning the the oollie had disappeared. Three days afterward he oame into the yard in a great state of enjoyment, indicated in the usual dog way, followed by George, the oat. Both seemed somewhat exoited, and the oollie showed marks of battle. Each seemed greatly delighted in tho company of the other, and the old time status quo was,an onoe resumed. Out of curiosity inquiry was made by the family, both at their old resi dence and along the line of the main highway between the two places, whioh developed the fact that the dog ap peared at the old home, very deliberate ly and very distinctly induced the oat to start os the journey with him and had protected him en route, with a clash of arms for nearly every mile. Of course, the question arose as to the laogusge by which he told George his wan tn and what inducements were offered to go. wi th him on the hasard ons journey.--Ne? York Times. - It hurts a girl awfully to get o unburned through her openwork stockings. - A great deal of money can bo made by not having a private vege table pardon. Ml IS Ht UK TB (El ?ll. Nature Helps Mi-o-na Cure Stomach Troubles in Short Order. The summer months are (he beat ia the whole year for the treatment and eure of stomach troubles. The out-door life, with natural exercise, the fruit sad berries which are, so freely eaten, all help to restore healthy sotion to the digestive or gans. Now when nature will aid Mi-o-na in curing indigestion and giving strength to the stomach and whole digestive system, is the beat time to use this remarkable remedy. . If you suffer with headaches, indi gestion, flatulency, specks before the eyes, fermentation, heart boro, dlisl* ness, or have a variable appetite, and a general feeling of despondency or weakness, it shows clearly that the stomach is not digesting the food as it should. Just ene tittie tab?et' oui of m. 50 cent box of Mi-o-na for a few days, and all this will be changed for the better, and health .restored. Ask S vans Pharmacy rio show you the Mi-o-na guarantee. ? Buggies and Harness ! How iee good time to buy ariew Buggy and Harness, and we want yon to look at our lari o steak of the latest and best up-to-date styles, and it will be no trouble for you to make a selection. Our work is all sold nader guarantee We haVe extra bargains to offer, Give no a trial. Our prices are low and terms to suit i?|? TEE J. s. BOWLER COMPANY. * P. 8.-We have a few last Fall's Jobs to go at Cost, 1 CASTOR IA The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been, in use for over SO year?, has borne the signature off and has bsen made under his pear- ' ?ffi-/ f?},, sonal H'uiver? isic:i since its imancy*. (-o&ccfUwZ AUOT/ no ona to deceive you in this All Counterfeits, Imitations and s? Just-as-good" are but? Impertinents that trifle with r*nd endanger the health off Infants and Children-Expedience against Experiment* What is CASTO RIA ?astoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil? Fore" goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It* contains neither Opium? 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This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and last ing, and we caa say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the confi dence of the people of this section. We have a larger Stock of Goods this> season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our v**rd th'.t we have never sold Furniture at as dose a margin of profit as we are dor og now. Thia is proven by the fact that we are selling Furniture not only a?! over Anderson County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come an? ?oe us. xour parents saved money by baying from us, and you and your obildren oan save money by buying here tao. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line?. CU F. TOLLY & BOW, Depot Streak The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers ? LONG LOOK AHEAD A man thinks it is when the matter of life insurance suggests itself-but circumstan ces of late have shown how life hangs by s thread when war, flood, hurricane and firs suddenly overtakes you, and the only way to be sure that your family is protected in case, of cala* *?ty overtaking yon is to in* sure in a solid Company like-". The Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Go. Drop in and see us about it X?. B?t. MATTISOW, STATE AGENT* Peoples' Bank Building, ANDERBON, O Bi ARMOUR'S GUANO AND ACID ALSO, COTTON SEED IVS EAL. If you want High Grade Goode we will be glad to sell you?. Splendid line of- x 98f LOUR, COFFEE, TOBACCO,, OATS AND CORN. We want your trade. ! VANDIVER BROS.. TURNIP SEED. Fresh Shipment jost in-all the Varieties hit grow well in this section. Fruit Jars, IMi Jar Tops and Fruit Jar lubbers. . ev . ? ., . 4& Fh?no 182. Sf A* ?; STBIGKLAI?1), ? DENTIST. Offley over Farmers and Mor?haats.?i???*, Anderson, S. O. ?HnsSfiBU