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PUBLISH EI> TEGE?E TE BRYAM-ISH?PPj flakes a Very Hamoroos Political Speech About Teddy Rjoscveh's : _; ... ming his pl4tf0rm He Says If You Wont to Find the Smile- That Won't Come Off You tf-iedf'Not.. Rend Breakfast Food ?Advertisements,' HuV Go to See Himi In Ids great speech at Indianapo lis Mr." Bryan- got off' a .good imany. kuBOfOus^ jokes - at the>expense- of Teddy Roosevelt ,and-the Republican, who. (he'-said; had about stolen, ali of the Democratic platform - and now claim it as their own. ru Here axe seme extracts....from, .Mr. Bryan-Is-; speech that will be enjoyed by all. Herald: - nt ^srum i ?? But nobody Is enjoying progres-j sivo Republicanism more than I am. I do not think even the progressive " Republican gets as much satisfaction j out of the endorsement that some j of them are giving at a late day and with some hesitation to the op inions that we have been advocating J all these years. If you want to find | the smile that won't come off you! need not go to the advertisements of breakfast foods; come to Nebraska. T .began to enjoy this spine; years ago when Mr. Roosevelt first c?ui . meaced to make incursions into our platform yard. 1 was in Washington at a Gridiorn club banquet;' he was" the. chief guest and sat on the rigaM of the toast mast er and I sat on tho ether side; and the boys of .the eleu were joking him from the beginning of the banquet to the end about what he was taking from the Demo ? oratio platform, and when it came my 'time 1 joked him too. I men tioned some of the things, hut I as sured him that I did not speak coui plainingly; that, while some of the Democrats objected, 1 did not; that I believed our platform was made for use aud that if we could not gee a chance to use it I was glad to have anybody use it. I told, those banqueters that I felt so good to see the Republicans climbing up on our platform that i was much in the attitude of tin young fellow down in Alabama, 5. bashful youns man, who courted hi3 girl for a year before he had ths courage to propose to her. One ev ening' he told her that he loved her and asked her to marry him. She was a frank, outspoken sort of a girl and she said: "Why, Jim, i have been loving you these many months. I have just been waitiug for you to tell me, so I could ten you." Jim was overcome with de light. He went out and looked up at the stars and said: "Ph, Lord, i hain't got nothin' agin' nobody." That was the way I commenced to feel years ago about this matter. 1 have been feeling better and better ever since, ana I don't know wh-?.t I am going to do if 1 get to feeling much better than I do now. A little while after the banquet the cartoonists began to take it up, and the Collier's Weekly had a car toon that some of you m?y have seen. It represented the president and myself as birds, both of us birds, but he was on the nest, and I was on a limb, and his nest was feather ed with feathers that I had formerly worn, and there I sat on the limb, all bare, with just one feather left, tariff rforms, and I was wondering whether he was tryini to get that. And, sure enough, two years ago they tried to take that feather, but they got to quarreling as to whether the feather ought to turn up or tura down, and it spilt the party. But when 1 found my feathers were gone I proceeded, like any bird ought to, to raise a new crop. I worked dili gently, especially while he was In Africa, and when he came back I had reached about that period of development you notice in a chicken when it runs across the road in frout of the automobiles in the fall. If you will notice, the chicken sometimes has lost its first feathers and its sec ond feathers are net fully developed, I was in about that position, so to speak when he came back, and then he went out to OsawatomJe and tried to get every pin feather that I had. But, my friends, the cartoons are doing him justice now. He is get ting what is corniny to him. A friend of mine sent me a cartoon the other day. I want to keep it in my office. It represents Mr. Roosi velt with a large family of boys? no race suicide; it is a family of good size, and each boy represents a political issue. One of the oldest is Antitrust. He is about 17, and they run from that on down, ani every boy looks like me. Now, friends, if I left this mat ter here I am afraid that you might think that I believed myself worthy of the credit which tfeese cartoon; imply, but it is not that. I recog nize that I am only getting now reac tion from what they did a few years ago, when these things were unpop ular, and they called them Bry anism in derision. But now when they have become popular they can't rub the label off. I did not deserve the censure then. I do not deserve the credit now. (Voice, "Yes, you do.") * WMfE SLAVE TRAFFIC GOVERNMENT PLANNING A GI GANTIC BLOW? AT IT. Backed by the Drastic Penalties or the Mann Bill, Department of Jus tice Will End It. The Government of the United States has turned its whole defective machinery toward unearthing and destroying the white slave traffic, as it exists between the states ? or- be tween foreign : countries and the United. States. It is the plan of the Departmenc of .Justice to make one sweey on all the large cities, at once, and strike, if possible, one staggering-, blow, at the traffic, . The..Government's authority comes from the Mann act, imposing upon the. interstate aspects of the ?crime penalties of five years' imprison ment of a fine of ?5,OC0. According to information already ?received at Washington, Pittsburg m the center of the trade, though clews discovered in Chicago make that city an important substation in the circu lation of girls and wqmen througn the country. Tho first swoop, it is Intended, will be started simultaneously in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chic ago and San Francisco. Officers at ports of entry have been asked to increase their vigil ance and to inspect female immi grants with peculiar care. Mean while officers at inland cities wili watch and report the movements 0?. ali suspects. - In New York some months ago District Attorney Whitman made an effort .to trap some of t.ve men back of the trade in that city, but they escaped. The only way to capture I the offenders, according to the agents of the Department of Justice, is to have the authorities of all the large cities act together. The Government agents will not try to "clean up" the various cities. They will simply go after the leaders of the syndicate. In Chicago some arrests have been made, but these are only the bei in ning of the general crusade, it is jsaid. In-several cases it was found that men In that city had brought vomen from France. Some of the lines developed In Chicago by these arrestn-oan be trac ed throughout the country. ? A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. ?rof. Goggans SI. at by Prof. Roun trce While Hunting. The State says that in an effort to save the sight of his right eye, the physicians attending Prof. John 3. Goggans, Jr., of Newberry college, who was accidentally shot while hunting Thursday, removed the in jured left eye Saturday. The opera tion was entirely successful and it is thought probable that the sight of the right eye will not be affected. 'Prof. Goggans was hunting near Kinard'8 with Prof. Rountree, also cf Newberry college, when the acci dent occurred. Prof. Rountree unin tentionally discharged his gun. One of the small shot entered the left eye of Prof. Goggans, who was about 75 yards away. Prof. Goggans was brought to Co lumbia for treatment Friday. Sat urday it was found necessary to re move the injured eye. When heard from Saturday night, Prof, Goggans was resting well. V1CTDI OF QUEER ACCIDENT. Strack by Smokestack Blown Prom a House-top. iMr. J. I. Maynard, of Salisbury, N. C, had a narrow escape from in stant death at noon Friday and is now in a critical condition. He was ip the rear of his place of business when a stiff gust of wind blew the heavy sheet iron smokestack from the kitchen chimney of the Empire hotel, three stories high, to the ground, the same striking Mr. May nard a fearful blow, causing serious injury. It was at first thought his back had been broken but this prov ed not to be the case. The injured man was carried into his storeroom, a cot secured and he was at once given medical attention. His con dition was such that it was late Sun day afternoon before the physicians deemed it advisable to let him be removed to his home. It will be several days before the result of his injuries will be known. * Mysteriously Hurt. Jacob Hendrick, prominent farmer 'iving in Silver Hill township, N. 0., was found Saturday fatally injured in a barn near his home. A neighbor, iVIr. Wylie Kepley, was with him the night before and he was also struck on the head. He claims he and Hen drick were waylaid and attacked from the roadside. Considerable mystery surrounds the whole affair. Mrs. Gould Poisoned. Claiming that three attempts have been made during the last few mon ths to end her life, Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould, former wife of Howard Gould, is in Lynchburg, Va., receiving medical attention for what she thought was poisoning. The phy sician found no need to treat Mrs. Gould ann no evidence of poisoning.* tu f CKRANGrEBURGr, mim CORN RECORD BEATEN BY 17-YEAR-OLD FLOR ENCE FARMER. The Records as Submitted by Boy Indicates That the Drake Yield Has Been Exceeded. Tv.-^ hundred and fifty-eight bush els of corn to an acre. Has a South Carolina boy smashed the world's re cord for corn production? asks the Columbia State, which goes on to say: i This question will be decided by Ira W. Williams, State agent of the United State farm demonstration work, who went to Bennettsville to examine the records of a boy of 17 years old. This is not official, but the records as kept by the boy, and sworn to Indicate that he has beaten the Drake yield of 255 bushsls by three bushels. , Last week the announcement was made that a Florence county boy had produced 228 bushels of corn on one acre of land. This was counted as a record. Last year the name of A. Bas combe Usher, the 17-year-old-boy of Marlboro county, was sent broadcast through the press of the country he cause he produces 152 1-2 bushels of corn on one acre of land. Now his younger brother has beaten that record and has produced 188 bushels on one acre of land. This is official information and was announced by Ira W. Williams. That the Pee Dee section of the State is one of the most productive sections in the world is shown by the large yields of corn that are being secured. There will be more than a score of South Carolina farmers to pro duce more than 150 bushels of corn on one acre of land and many of these are members of the boys' corn clubs. Spartanburg county has re ported a yield of 152 bushels on one acre. Never before has there been so much Interest In corn production in South Carolina. The estimated yield for the State Is given at 50,000,000 bushels. The average yield per acre has been increased during the year by over five bushels. .The announcement made several days ago that a boy of 15 years of age had produced 258 bushels of corn on one aero of land has caused much discussion in South Carolina and the farmers of the State are very much interested in how the great yield was produced. A young boy whose name has no' been announced by the United States farm demonstration workers is from Florence county and is the son of a minister, the marvelous yield being secured on the parsonage land. It is estimated that there will be more than 100 boys in South Caro lina to produce more than 100 bush els of corn on an acre of land. T'lcre will be several to produce more than 150 bushels. The exhibit from the large yield by the Pee Dee county boy attracted a great deal of attention at the State fa'r. It is not known how the entry was listed as no name was given. * ENDS HIS OWN LU E. Shoots Himslf Dead Seated Beside His Fiance. Unable to find employment which would enable him to support a wife, LaFayette Maddox, aged 25, Sunday shot and killed himself while seated in a street car in Philadelphia be side hist lSyear-old fiance. He had fixed the 26th of this month as the date for the wedding, but grew despondent at his continu ed failure to find remunerative em ployment. While on a surburban trolley car with Miss Nellie Callahan, to whom he had been engaged for nearly a year, Maddox, it is said, en deavored to induce the girl to ante: a suicide pact she refused to con sider such a proposition and did not believe he was serious until Mad dox pulled a revolver from his pock et and sent a bullet through his head. The girl fainted and the oth er passengers were panic stricken. The motorman hastened to a physi cian's residence, but the doctor saia death had been instantaneous. BLINDED BY CUCUMBER. Glass iTar in Which It Grew Burst When Handled. As an experiment K. Nakayama, a Japanese gardener of Seattla, Wash., placed a small cucumber m a half gallon glass fruit jar in such a position that as the cucumber grew larger it would soon fill the jar. This week he escorted a number of friends to his truck garden to see the cucumber, which had enlarged so much that it was impossible to remove it from the jar. He was about to stoop to lift it up when there was an explosion and apiece of glass struck the Japanese in the left eye, destroying the sight. The cucumber's growing power had burst the jar into pieces. * Sentence Almost Out, Dead. ?Within a few weeks of liberty, af ter serving more than four years of a five-year sentence in the Federal prison at Atlanta. Henry H. Davis, of Kentucky, was killed Saturday by a fall from a scaffold around the now administration building at the prison. ? S. Cm TUESDAY, iTOVE rae? TARIFF How the Farmer is fleeced by it With out Getting any Benefit HERE ARE SOME FACTS The Farmer Sells His Staples at Prices Fixed by World Wide Com petitions And Then Buys the Things He Needs in a Market from Wldch Competition is Barred. One day last week Benjamin F. Shively, Democratic Senator .from Indiana, made some telling remarks in a speech on the tariff as it relates to the farmer. He made it just be fore the close of the campaign but It reads just as well now, whatever the result of the election. Here !a his remarks on the tariff, which ev ery farmer should read: In these closing days of the cam paign Republican leaders are mak ing frantic appeals to the farmers to come to the assistance of the Repub lican ticket against the rising tide oi revolt in the cities. Why should the farmer vote to vindicate the Payne Aldrich tariff? Or why should no give countenance to that cunning dii ference-in-cost, plus-a-profit evangei in which panic-stricken statesmen are seeking, shelter? Government has no fund out of which to guar antee profits. It can legislate profiL to one man only as it legislates losses to another. American agriculture is a nonpro tected and nonprotectable industry. The genius of man can not devise a system of import duties that cou.d protect the farmer. Every year mil lions of bushels of bis wheat aud corn and millions of pounds of his hogs, cattle and cotton go out to the great surplus markets of wes tern Europe. Would a single bushel or pound go there but for the fact that it brings a higher price there than at home? Duties of $100 per bushel of $10 per pound could not help the far mer to the extent of a single penny. He stands between two markets, neithtij of which he controls. He makes his sales at prices fixed by others. He makes his purchases at prices fixed by others. He sells his staples at prices fixed by world-wide competition and tlvki- buys the things he needs for self and family, under -what conditions? Under the same conditions on which he selis his products? No. He buys in a market from which foreign compe tition is barred by prohibitive tariff schedules, and from which domestic competition is removed by domestic combinations organized under the shelter of such schedules. A protective tariff protects the woolen and cotton goods the farmer must buy, but can not protect the cotton, corn and wheat which he hay to sell. .It protects the farm machin ery, the furniture, the ironware, woodenware, glass and glassware, carpets, paints and dozens of other things which he must buy, but can not protect the oats, rye, cattle or ho?s he has to 3ell. It protects the things he must buy by enabling the trusts controlling them to write up artificial prices on them. Thus the farmer sells at normal, competing prices' and buys at hign ly abnormal and ficticious prices written up by greed without refer ence to cost. So situated, the far mer for 40 years has been the spe cial vistim of the sfstem. All this time he has been exchanging a part of his annual output for watered prires instead of for the goods. For 40 years the farmers have been making millionaires by the thousands. But how many on the farm? By the medium of watered prices the locusts of monopoly have eaten away the natural rewards of agruculture and fattened into enor mous wealth the interests thus pen sioned on this oldest occupation of history. The Payne-Aldrich act, as have all kindred acts before it, helps the farmer just as does the Qy in his wheat, the smut in his corn, the rue* in his oats, the weevil in his cotton, and the bots in his horses; save only that it loses him more than all these combined. The duties on his farm products are worthless to him. They are pur? ly political duties which can not protect and were intended only lo hoodwink, decieve and cajole him into voting for other duties that roo him on all he brings on to the farm or into the home. No, the farmer is the choice victim of the system and always has been. At every turn I he has been handed the rerlhot end hog never becomes 35-cent bacon nn hog never becomes 3g-cent bacon un til after it leaves the farm. I confess to not a little feeling and sentiment on whatever effects the farm. The farm was my birth place, and all my years to my major ity were spent on the farm. I know the conditions that attend agricul ture. The father, mother, sons aud daugthers all work, and usually on the eight-hour plan?eight hours be fore noon and eight hours after. What, with flood and drouth and frost and pest, the struggle and th=! sacrifice are sufficient without com pulsory contribution to the fat bene ficiaries of tariff schedules. The farm home has ever been the nursery of patriotism, the school of rugged scn^e and soli<i virtues, a pledge to the reign of the law, an MBEK 8 1910. HOUSE WRECKED AND BOATS LOST IN STRANGE ST,ORM IN ALASKA. Hundreds of People Are Homeless And i\re Being Taken Care of by Friends and Relatives. A dispatch from Nome, Alaska, says a terrific surf, unaccompanied by wind or disturbance in the air, swept the beach and across the Nome Bandpit Friday, destroying two houses and fifteen cabins and doiag great damage to shipping. Several schooners were wrecked. No lives were lost but many persons had nar rdw escapes. The water swept fa.* up the streets, those near the shore being completely inundated. On Fri day night the surf began to subside. No one is able to account for the phenomenon which some attribute to submarine volcanic action and others to the recent eclipse. The water rose to the heighest point eyir seen, reaching far above the marks made when Behring, sea and Norton sound are lashed into a fury by ue Arctic storms. During the storm the schooner Marcy Sachs was picKed up from her mcorings by the mighty rush of wa rer and deposited in a pit dweller's yard. All the other boats laii un Lu the winter were swept far up on t\o beach by +.he waves. Cellars in stores on Front street are full of water and the stocks soak ed. It was only by piling sand bags about the warehouse of the Pi'dli Cold Storage Company tha' the me?; were able to prevent the buidln< frjm being carried away. The homeeao are being cared for by their frian is. For several months Mount Bogos tov and Mount Shishaldin, near Uni mak Pass have been sprouting fire and lava at short intervals and the Bogostov Islands have been undergo ing peculiar contortions Reports are anxiously awaited from otnei ^olntF along the coast. * A. WEEPING .MAPLE. Drips Drops of Water All Through the Day Long. (Athens, Ga., has added another of the trees that have gained notj iety all over the country, in the shape of a tree that drips drops or water all through the day, no mat ter how dry the weather may b?. Heretofore the tree that owns it self, the double tree?an oak grow ing from a china-berry?and the Toomb's oak have been the botani cal curiosities of the city, but this is a new one, and is puzzling obser vers and scientists. The tree, which is a Carolina ma ple, stands in the frone yard of Mr. H. C. Conway, on Prince avenue, and the curious phenomenon has been noticed for som"1 time, and ev en after the leaves nave fallen, it continues, and drops of water slow ly fall from the bare twigs, even in the middle of the day. * TRIED TO TAKE HER PURSE. Negro Attacks a Young Lady While on the Street. Friday evening shortly after dark as Miss Mary Porter, stenographer at the office of the Salisbury Realty & Guaranty Company was going, un accompanied to her home on North Main street in Salisbury, N. C, she was attacked by an unknown negro man when at a point between the store of Mr. J. W. Surratt and Frank lin street in one of the mcst thick ly settled neighborhoods and upon one of the most public thoroughfares in the city. The attack was for the purpose of robbery. The man came suddenly up behind Miss Porter and after taking hold of her made a grab for her hand-satchel. She screamed and held on to the satchel and the negro released his hold and ran. The satchel contained $15. There is no clue whatever to the culprit. ? LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED. Dallas Sergeant Stabbed Man During President Taffs Visit. Sergt. J. D. Manley, of the Texa3 National Guard, who stabbed with his bayonet and killed Louis Dienen stein, a spectator, during the visit of President Taft to Dallas a year ago. was given a life-sentence in the penitentiary Friday morning by -t jury in the criminal court. Manley has always claimed that the killing was accidental. The defendant shov ed signs of temporary insanity a: the close of the trial, and as the jury filed out he shook their hands and thanked them for the life sentence. * Atlanta Man Kills Himself. jSbortly after his return from a successful fishing trip Friday after noon, Frank A. Hilburn, an cxmeni ber of the city council and a promi nent Confederate Veteran commit ted suicide at Atlanta by shooting himself through the head. Relatives declare they know of no motives for the deed. * anchor to the peace and order of society in times of stress and storm. It rests wit,h the man on the farm to say whether the burden of tarilT confiscations shall be lifted from the farm and the old farm home restor ed to its rightfully commanding po sition in the structure of society. ? PEOPLE TO REJOICE PRESIDENT TAFT CALLS ON PEO PLE TO GIVE THANKS. The President Points Out Particulars in Which the Cnrrent Year Has Blessed the United States. The vigorous growth and progress of the country is reflected by the re cords of population and harvests, and the general conditions of Inter national peace are things for which thanksgiving is especially due for the year 1910, according to the an nual Thanksgiving Day proclamation issued by President Taft Saturday. The proclamation Is as follows: "This ? ar of 1910 is drawing to a close. The records of population and harvests, which are the index of progress and the health and prosper ous well being of our communities throughout this land and In our pos sessions beyond the seas. These blessingB have not descended upon us in restricted measure but over flow and abound. They are the blessings and bounty of God. "We continue to be at peace with the rest of the world. In all es sential matters our relations with other peoples are harmonious, with an evergrowing reality of friendli ness and depth of recognition of mu tual dependence. It is especially to be noted that during the past year great progress has been achieved in the cause of arbitration and peace ful settlement of international dis putes. "Now, therefore, I, William How ard Taft, president of the United States of America, in accordance with the wise custom of the civil magistrate since the first settlements in this land and with the rule es tablished from the foundation of this government, do appoint Thursday, November 24th, 1910, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, en joining the people upon that day to meet in their churches for the praise of Almighty God and to return heart felt thanks to Him for all His good ness and loving kindness. "In witness thereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done in the city of Washington, this 5th day of November, In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the inde t endence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-fifth. ?"William Howard Taft. "By the President: Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of State." * FATAL LAMP EXPLOSION. Three Are Dead from Effort to Start Fire With Coal Oil. An attempt to start the kitchen fire with kerosene Friday, cost the lives of Mrs. Mary Novosel and her three children, twins aged 5 years and a 5-months-old baby, at Pekil, Ills. Mrs. Novolsel was trying to pour kerosene from a lamp, which ignited and an explosion followed. With hev clothing ablaze, she ran into the bedroom where her hus band and three children were asleep. Her husband made frantic efforts to smother the flames, but the bed clothing caught fire and mother and children were burned to death. * FIVE ARE KILLED. Fifth Accident in Same Mine in Last Few Years. A gas explosion occurred In the mines of the Yolande Coal and Coke company shortly after midnight Fri day night and five men were killed. The mines are located in Tuscaloosa county, 30 miles south of Birming ham, Ala. Chief State Mine Inspector Jas. Hillhouse and two assisstanU are on the scene. The bodies of the victims have been taken out of the mine. This is not the first explosion of gas in these mines, 05 men being killed there once before, three oth ers a few months ago and two bad ly burned recently. ? BANK CAS HI Kit A SUICIDE. Looting of Institution Causes Offi cial's Rash Act. Edward Henninger, cashier of the Seaside National Bank of Seaside. Oregon, commirted suicide there Fri day, as a sequel to the alleged loot ing of the bank of all its deposits. It is said that when the bank doors opened it was unable to meet demands for money. When Waller lleuninger, a brother, who had gone East to negotiate a loan, failed to telegraph funds, Edward Henningci went home and took his life. * Child Shot Playmate. Tom .Monroe, aged 16, returning from a hunr at Wilkesbarre, Pa., pointed his gun In fun at Simon H'ggins. aged 12, a playmate. The latter bled to death from a guL not wound in the neck. The Monroe lad was arrested, but was released be cause the shooting was accidental. * Victim of Auto Accident. The remains of E. S. Lewis, of Atlanta, who was injured in an au tomobile accident on the automobile track at Savannah on Tuesday las' and who died at midnight, was seal to Atlanta Friday morning. Tae others injured iu the accident are 1 improving. * WO CENTS PER COPY SCORES TEDDY Got. Barman, of Ohio, Uses Plain Talk in Denying Charges of the RECKLESS ROOSEVELT Says His Reputation is So Bad Hn Word Is Not Good and Declare* That His Toledo Speech Contain* Downright Lies Concocted by a Statellite of Boss Cox. Gov. Harmon, of Ohio, devoted nearly the whole of a talk at San dusky, Ohio, Saturday night in re plying to the attacks made upon hixa in Toledo and Cleveland by Former President Roosevelt. It will be seen from the extract below that Gov. Harmon did not mince his words in speaking of Teddy's speeches. He said in part: "With his usual recklessness, ae (Roosevelt) talks about a matter of which he has not the slightest know ledge and makes what can only be misstate.-ients in matters with whica he had nothing to do. I have pub licly r.ald again and again that a dol lar of taxes was evaded nor a sin gle rebate In any form paid while I was receiver of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad and my statement is corroborated by Mr. Thomas, the gcenral traffic manager, Capt. Rifenbrick, the officer in charge of the tax department, and Morrison R. Waite, the solicitor of the road.- * "The statements to the contrary ? are downright lies, concoted-by a: legal satellite of George B. Cos far the purpose of repetition by .ny op ponent, who has fully obeyed his master by retailing them on the stump. . He is quite willing to get votes by false pretenses. "IMY. Roosevelt's word is not good enough to add anything but wider circulation to these lies and he ought to be ashamed to do that. ?"The colonel is concerned about my salary as receiver during the short time the court Insisted on my serving after I became governor. What does he think I should hare done? "At any rate I have not charges! personal bills as state expenses as he repeatedly did, which was one of the reasons why he was one of the costliest, as he was the noisest man which ever held the office he held. "The colonel evidently thinks he can deceive the people by making reckless statements as he passes through the State at the end of th? campaign, but he can not, for the people of Ohio know their own bus iness, about which they are fully in formed and about which he knowe nothing at all. ? SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Ranger on Biltniore Estate Killed by Supposed Poacher. A dispatch from Asheville says on Friday Clayton Davis, a forest ranger in the employ of the Riitmore estate., who was shot by a person or persons unknown last Wednesday morning while searching for poachers, died early that morning and T. C. Keams. a mountaineer of Mil! River, Hender son county is now in custody, char ged with the shooting. The deceas ed was walking near the boundary line of the estate near State Rock creek when a shot from amhuek struck him in the abdomen. The wounded man was found by forestry hands some hours later, after he had crawled and walked a distance of nearly three miles in the direction ol his home, to which he was carried. ? LOSES LIKE AT ROAD CROSSING. Vance Fanner Killed When Tiai* Strikes Team. A fearful accident occurred on tht outskirts of Henderson. N. C, Fri day afternoon about 3:30 o'clock in the death of Mr. Will Puckett, and painfully Injuring his brother and destroying the wagon and team. At the testimony deducted at the coron er's inquest held at D. W. Hardee's undertaking rooms it appears that while the train on the Southern on its way to Oxford was turing the .?.tr ve near .1. H. Parham's residence be fore the brakes could be applied the engine struck the wagon and team with the result above stated. The mule and body of Mr. Puckett were dragged 15 feet from the crossing, while the ho.se was thrown 20 feet from the railroad. Dr. Thompson Convicted. Dr. Robert Thompson, charged with the murder of Eva Swan, was found guilty Saturday night in San Francisco of murder in the Becond degree. The body of Miss Swan, wh? died as the result of an operation, was found two mouths ago buried under the basement door of a de serted cottage. 0 Professor Accidentally Shot. John C. Goggans, Jr., professor ?a the department of technoiogy ai Newberry College and former captala of the Ciemson College football team, was shot in te face acci-l-'nt allhy Friday while hunting with a brother proressor in Newberry county. Ilia injuries are such that it is not known whether he can recover. *