Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL) TOOK LONG TRIP From New York to Washingien ia Bis Airship Hide by Atwoei CREATES A SENSATION Atwood, on Boston to Washington Aerial Journey, Creates Excitement Among Throng of Holiday Visitors by Alighting Near Famous Board walk at Atlantic City. Thousands of visitors at Atlantic City Tuesday saw Henry N. Atwood, after fighting heavy winds through out his flight from New York, and tt.e third leg of his proposed journey from Boston to Washington, by land ing in his biplane on the beach front. During his flight Atwood made three landings for gasoline. Atwood said that, judging from the amount of gasoline he had used, he must have travelled at least 250 miles. He was In the air more than five hours. The distance along the coast is about 115 miles. "I hope to start for Washington before ten o'clock in the morning," he said. "The only trouble I had was with my gasoline supply. After I left Governor's Is land I headed along the coast. A ?* .warning whirl of protest from my engine as I neared Asbury Park told roe the gasoline was low. I landed and took on five gallons. "When I rose the wind was strong. So I took a travelling altitude of about 1,500. When I neared Tucker my tank became ? dry again. I bor rowed five gallons from the owner of an automobile and made a good get away. "The wind took" me a hard chase. It had ,been steadily rising. I en countered bums and air bodies that -.made the going difficult To make matters worse, my gasoline ran out again. I came down, narrowly miss ed disaster when a puff of wind caught the plane about a hundred feet from the ground. I was almost thrown from my side, as the wind got under the wings again. When I struck the ground, I felt the shock, but found my machine undamaged and continued, after taking more gas oline, and made a successful landing here." ' Atwood left Governor's Island, In New Y6rk Bay, at 8:49 A. iMl, and landed at Par Place, Atlantic City, at 2:30 P. -M. Atwood's appearance created a sensation, as it was not generally be lieved that he would attempt his flight to the National Capital or that Atlantic City would be on his route. The Boardwalk was crowded with a holiday crowd when he hove In sight and when he alighted he was cheered by thousands of people. His landing place was close to the Boardwalk. His machine was in fine condition when he finished the flight. He left Atlantic City for Washing ton early Wednesday morning, where he was received with enthusiasm. He alighted in the ground immediately behind the White House. Atwood used the Washinggton Monument as a guiding mark, and several dozen square feet of dazzling white canvas was placed on the lawn to mark the landing place. The Comos Club and other scientific cluhs and societies act ed as hosts. GREAT PRESENCE OF MIND. Xiady Saved Herself from Most Terri ble Death. i When the clothing of Mrs. F. K. McCutchen, a prominent and popular 3'oung matron of Dalton, Ga., caught fire from an alcohol lamp Saturday, instead of becoming terrified and los ing her head, she calmly caught up a heavy rug and wrapped it around her. Finding that this did not check the flames, she ran to the bed and got between the mattresses, this smother ing out the flames. It was only this wonderful self-possession while she was suffering severely from the burns that saved her life. An examination of the burns showed that, while they were very painful, they were not of a serious nature, and she will suffer no disfigurement as a result. Fight on Street. At Demopolis, Ala., Congressman George W. Taylor, of the First Ala bama district had a fight on the streets Sunday morning with L. A. George, in which he was struck on the head and Mr. George knocked down. They had just left a meeting of the vestry of Trinity Episcopal church, and it is alleged a remark made by one of them misconstrued and pre cipitated the fight. Tell Tale Thumb Mark. /The print of sweaty fingers on a highball glass may lead to the cap ture of three men who shot Julius Weigel at his road house on Hemp stead turnpike near New York Tues day morning. The murderers had a drink, one leaving a plain thumb mark with an irregular scar on the glass. Deaf and Dumb Meet A political meeting of ah extraor dinary character was held in Berlin last week. Deaf and dumb workers of both sexes assembled in large num bers to air their grievances in public and to devise means of improving their position in the world. ( r. rXB SalTey Jr 16 Aug lOj Vi ILL ?fc IGOVERNMENT ESTIMATES LARG EST EVER MADE. I Bureau Figures Indicate Yield of 14, 425,000 Five Hundred. Found Bales For 1911. Official estimates of the cotton crop report of 1911 indicates that it will be the largest in the history of the country, approximating, according to the present figures, 14,425,000 bales of 500 pounds each, evceeding by al most 1,000,000 bales tht record crop of 1904. Dr. N. A. Murray, acting chief of the crop reporting board the de partment of agriculture, made the following statement subsequent to the issuance of the cotton crop re port: "The report shows the condition of the crop to be higher than on any cor responding date in the la!tt 10 years. A month ago the general condition was 8.5 per cent, above the 10-year average. Today it is 10.13 per cent, above the 10-year average. "The acerage of cotton this year is r.bout 35,C'iO,000. Allowing for the average amount of abandonment? about 1,00.0,000 acres?the indica tions are that approximately 34,000, 000 acres of cotton will be harvested. The condition indicates a probable yield of 202.S pounds per acre, which on 34,000,000 acres, would mean 6,895,000,000 pounds, or about 14,425,000 bales." Comparisons of conditions by States follows: Ten-Year State. June 25. average. Virginia. 98 82 North Carolina .... 89 80 South Carolina .... 84 80 Georgia. 94 80 Florida . 9C 85 Alabama. 98 79 Mississippi. 87 79 Louisiana.88 78 Texas. 8.'; , 80 Arkansas. 89 ? 91 Tennessee. 87 84 Missouri . 90 84 Oklahoma . . .,. 87 81 California ...100 *95 ?1910 condition. MAIL CARRIER SHOT DOWN. Body and Wagon Found Just Off the Public Road. ; The bullet-riddled bod.'- and wagon of Linnle Maury, a rural mail carrier of Edison, Ga., who has been missing since Saturday, have been found in a swamp several miles out of town and just off the public road. With the body was found a note to the dead man's wife in an attempt to make the crime appear i..s suicide. Maury was evidently driving along the public road unsuspicious of dan ger. The wagon bottom was blood stained. The small pouch was found near the body. It to not known whether it had been tampered w*th. Posses are scouring the country with track do,gs In an effort to cap ture the slayer of the carrier. Maury went-out on his route Saturday morn ing as usual. When he failed to re-1 turn a search was instituted. The dead man is a member of a prominent family and is survived '.iy his widow and one child. FIVE KILLED, TWO INJURED. [Electric Train Strikes Wagon Bear ing Picnic Party. Five persons were killed and two injured, In a grade crossing accident near Ozone Park, in the suburbs of New York. The victi'ns were in a horse drawn vehicle, which was struck by a Long Island Railroad train. The crossing where the acci dent occurred is at the bottom of a slight declivity and a clear view in either direction is prevented. In the wagon was a party of five residents of the East Side, who were out pick nicking, and a driver. Of the four women and two men in the vehicle, only one?a woman?it, alive and she probably will die. The other injured person is Richard C. Reed, conductor of the electric train which struck th? vehicle. Queer Place to Fight. Renewing a feud of several years' standing, three Galamores and four Swains began firing at each other in a church yard at Paint Creek, Ky. Albert and Martin Gai.imore are fat ally shot and Wm. Swain is danger ously injured. The members of each family engaged in the pitched battle had attended the services. On com ing from the church they began fir ing-, the members of the two families lining up with their kin. Killed by Trolley. His view cut off by dense bushes growing on both sides of the crossing, Gustav Menzel; of Riverside, near Warmich. R. I., drove his automobile directly in front of a trolley car Tues day afternoon and as a result three of the occupants of the automobile are dead and Menzel and the fifth occupant are madly injured. Lightning Hits Churcn. During a severe electrical storm Monday night the church of England Cathedral, at Fredrick ton, N. B., was struck by lightning and destroyed by the fire which follev/ed. The loss is about $140,000. The church was considered the finest in existence. 0RANGEB1 VERY STRANGE CASE YOUNG WOMAN TRIES TO LEAVE BABY ON A TRAIN. She Was Required to Resume Posses sion of the Child, "Which She Gave to a Man. The Augusta Chronicle says a sen sational story was told in Augusta Monday of a mysterious attempt of an unknown young woman to desert an infant on the Atlantic Coast Line train, from Savannah, upon its arrival at Yemasse and .being prevented from doing so by the passengers, carried it with her on the C. & W. C. train from Charleston to Augusta, where she is said to have presented the baby to a gentleman from Augusta who to hlsid?kg'FFd.dh. .etaoinshrdlucm brought the new member of his fam ily to his home in this city. Neither the name of the supposed mother or the present possessor of the child co^ld be learned. Accord ing to the story as related here by excursionists from Charleston Sunday night, the unknown woman arrived at Yamesse on the train from Savannah. A number of the men who were on the train, and whdse attention had been attracted to the child, noticed that the lady had got off the train and changed to the C. & W. C. train, bound for Augusta. She left the infant on the train and as she evinced no attention of re turning for it, they sent to her and required her to take the baby with her. After the Augusta train had left Yamesse and the unaccountable conduct of the woman had been cir culated among the passengers, the man from Augusta became a charac ter in the story, by offering to take the child and provide a home for it. His offer was accepted, the baby was placed in his charge and he brought it on to Augusta with him. The lady, who was young and good looking, left the train at Varnville, a station in Hampton County, South Carolina, between Yamesse end Hampton, without any one, so far as can be learned, having ascertained her identity. She spoke to no one except as related and offered no ex planation of her strange and myster ious conduct. t , t_I WAS SHOT BY HIS SON. Man KUIed For Threatening Treat ment nf His "Wife. McRay Kirkland, aged about 65, was shot and killed early Monday morning by Willie Kirkland, his son, aged 25. The killing occurred at the home of a farmer in Kershaw county, 20 miles from Columbia. The younger Kirkland, It is said, killed his father to save his mother. McRay Kirkland, it seems, drove his wife out of doors last night. She too refuge at the house of a neigh bor. This morning McRay Kirk land drove to the neighbor's house and called the occupants out. He Beized his wife and threw her into his bu^gy, menacing the bystanders with a knife. Willie Kirkland de manded that his father release the woman. The elder man paid no at tention to his son and the latter fir ed once the bullet taking effect in the fathers' head. SCALES OUT OF PLUMB, Short Weights Were Always in Favor of the Seller. Mayor Rhett of Charleston has re ceived from the bureau of statistics at Washington a report on the scales and weights in Charleston. The re port shows a general shortage of weights and measures in use in Charleston. The report criticizes the retention in office of John Duncan, clerk of weights and measures, who it states is 70 years old and who it says, has not inspected the weights and measures, the merchants report in 10 years. The ordinance providing for correct weights and measures are not being enforced, the report states. The butter scales are especially al luded to as being short and the re port concludes with the usual recom mendation for accurate weights. Will Pay Indemnity. The pose office Department has is sued an order, giving notice that an indemnity not exceeding $25 will be paid to the owners or senders of the third and fourth class domestic reg istered matter, lost in the mail, be ginning on July 1. The payment of j an indemnity for the loss of mail is an extension of the service, which will popularize the mail since it in demnifies the owners and senders of < packages from loss. Oil Tank Exploded. j Tim Carroll, Frank Bla'ise andi .Michael Leonard, a negro, all host-j i lers, were killed by an explosion shortly before midnight Monday at I j New Orleans, when Carroll stuck a lighted torch into the crude oil tank of a Southern Pacific locomotive, to ascertain how much oil it containod. The explosion also resulted in doing $1,400 damage to the locomotive. Divorced Couple Remarry. At Pittsfield, Mass., Geo. Gray, 63 years old, and his former wife, Mary Long Gray, 54 years old, who were divorced 20 years ago have been re married by the Rev. Charles P. Magregor of the First Baptist Church. i URG, S. C, THURSDAY, JUI BOOM FOR JOHN News and Courier Wants Swearingeo for Governor or the State. WIDE PRESS COMMENT The Charleston Paper Sayn Swearin gen May be the Strongest Man When the Campaign Opens up Next Year Because of His Stand in Book Matter. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle says the action of the State Board of Education in plac ing an unnecessary tax of $400,000 on the people, while working under the chairmanship of the governor, has aroused general indignation through out the State and the latest develop ment is the proposal, editorially, by the News and Courier, of Charleston, that John E. Swearir.gen, of Edge field county and State Superintendent of education offer for the governor ship because of his courageous stand against the action of the state board of education in taxing the farmers of the State unecesarrily. Under the caption "Swearingen for Governor" the News and Courier,has the following to say: " 'Swearingen,, observes the York ville Enquirer, 'could get a good vote for governor if he would run, and if elected he would make a good gover nor, too.' "Right on both counts. The En quirer knows less about meteorology, It's name, but it is is a rule vemark ably keen in sizing up a political situ ation. "It is at least not unlikely that con ditions may be stich when the next gubernatorial campaign opens thai the present state superintendent of education may be the strongest man around whom the decent people of the state could rally. It would be) possible to make a very strong argu ment In favor of his availability as a candidate in certain cirsumstances. I "The thiought so tersely expressed by the Enquirer has occurred, prob ably to many others. It Is the habit of the American electorate as soon as a man shows abilityln one public po sition to consider transferring him to another. "We wish to suggest, therefore, | that in the office ..hich he now occu pies, Mr. Swearingen has an oppor tunity for useful service to his State as large as any which should come to him were he. State's chief executive. We are glad to believe that Mr. Swearingen realizes this. He has a man's-slze task before him right where he Is, and if he doesn't accom plish it we shall be surprised as well as disappointed. "He has courage, ability and con science. He is not a demogogue and he does not play to the galleries. The people of South Carolina already have reason to be grateful that he fills his preeent position. Signs are mislead ing if this obligation is not to be en larged. "Mr. Swearingen at present is not running for office. He has more Im portant matters to thin about." The people of South Carolina, and /especially those in the rural districts, are aroused over the action of the hoard and there may be further de velopments. The Darlington News and Press says: "While it is not known why the change was made, It is known by all school men who are familiar with ru ral conditions, now that it was use less?a reckless waste of the people's money." The Allendale Herald says that "the parents will realize next fall when they are required to purchase new boom that the charge is well founded." This is with reference to the statement of J. E. Swearingen. The Edgefield Advertiser says that "the sweeping change can accomplish b enotu thing, as wetaoinestaoine but one thing, as we see it, and that is to take money out of the pockets of the parents and put It into the treas ury of the book publishers. The Florence Times says that Mr. Swearingen is right and "the gover-| ,nor seems to be assuming responsi bility for the mater." The Union Times says that thel whole thing looks "fishy" and con-' demns the board for the "star cham-| ,ber act." The Greenwood Index says that there ought to be some way to find out who voted so much money out of the pockets of the people. The state board of education meet ing eliminated about 80 per cent of the text books now used by the schools. The new books adopted are much higher In price than the old ones, and it is estimated that the board placed an unnecessary tax of $400,000 on the people of the State. The legislature may take a hand, but that will avail little as the. real truth' about the matter will never be known.1 There was certainly a trick turned somewhere, but who turned it will never ;be known. Have Hard Time. A Greensboro. Ga., dispatch says the oil niills through that section seem to have made a failure as to | the financial end of the business dur-: ing the past season. It is said that none of the independent mills have made money, and very few of the mills operated by the Southern Oil Co. ,Y 6, 1911. CAUSE MANY DEATHS HEAT RECORDS OP YEAR SMASH ED EVERYWHERE. fatalities from the Torrid Weather j Are Recorded. Over the Entire Country, This Week. A dispatch from Washington says I the country over Monday early re ports to the weather bureau indi-l cated that hot weather records might be broken In many sections and later reports verified the early indications. At Philadelphia the government thermometer on the top of the post office building registered 99 at one o'clock. The hottest day since July 24, 1901 when 103 was recorded. There were nine deaths and scores of, prostrations. At Pittsburg at 2 o'clock the tem perature here hovered around the 100 degree mark. During the forenoon four persons droppd dead, one com mitted suicide and two were drown ed in the river while bathing. The prostrations run into the scores. At Baltimore the hot weather took heavy toll Monday, although the of ficial maximum temperature of 95 degrees was two degress lower than that of Tuesday. Four deaths, one of them a suicide, two attempts at sui cide and twelve prostrations were re ported as a result of the heat. Chicago sweltered and suffered as the torrid wave, which held the city i in its grasp, continued. One death and half a dozen prostrations are re ported. The death rate among the' babies is extremelf high since the be-j ginning of the hot waves. At Newark, N.J., the thermometer I registered 100 degress in the shade at ten o'clock that morning. There' was one death and numerous prostra-j tlons. At St. Louis the heat wave con tinued over eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. The temperature is 94 and rising. The two men died from heat. ! At Milwaukee there were two pros trations and one death from heat. The hot wave prevails through out the state. The thermometer record between 90 and 95 dgrees. Five deaths from the heat and numerous prostrations were reported in KansaB City Tuesday. A tempera ture of 103 in the afternoon estab lished a new record for the year. One death from heat occurred at Atchi son, Kan., where the mercury regis tered 108, the hottest July 4th on record. A dispatch from New York says the cumulative effect of three days of the hottest weather that city has ex perienced in years manifested itself Tuesday in a list of twenty deaths at tributed to the heat. Prostrations were counted by the score and nine drownings were reported. Philadelphia dispatches under date says nine additional deaths from the hot weather were reported that night, making a total of 34 deaths within the pas, three days. The mercuxR recorded 9 4 degrees at 3 o'clock. BLEASE APPOINTEES ENJOINED. Judge Cage Issues Order in Beaufort County Case. Through a temporary injunction is sued Monday at Walterboro by his Honor, Judge George W. Gage, the township commissioners appointed Dy Governor Blease for Sheldon, Bluff ton and Yemassee townships, in Beau fort county, are restrained from ex ercising the authority of their office until a hearing is had and either a permanent injunction granted or the order of Tuesday dissolved. The re straining order was issued in response to a petition presented through the attorney , J. S. Griffin, of Walterboro, by the rnen whom the Beaufort dele gation in the General Assembly re commended. The hearing on this matter will likely be held September 4, the order requiring the commis sioners to appear and show cause why they should not be permantely enjoined at the September session of Court for Beaufort. Three Killed at Dance. A Fourili of July dance, at Cupp, Campbell County, Tennessee, was the scene of a bloody tragedy Tuesda> afternoon. Deputy Sheriff W. C. Clymer was instantly killed, his 18 year-o;d daughter was shot through and through and cannot live, and the man who did the shooting met death at the hands of the deputy sheriff's son. The dance was being given by Clymer. The trouble is supposed to have started over Clymer's objection to his daughter dancing with the stranger, who has not been identified. They Drank Poison. At Wesson, Miss., after drinking poison for what they thought was whiskey, two young men named Brow.i and Allen are out of danger, due to the heroic efforts of physi cians. They went to a party Sat urday night and hid their private flask before joining friends. When they went out to take a "nip" they found the wrong bottle. Set Off By the Sun. At Washington, Pa., rays of the sun focused on the fuse of a package of firecrackers through a bubble in a window pane Saturday caused the explosion of the entire window of fireworks were destroyed and the store was ruined. KILIEU HIS FRIEND A DISPUTE BETWEEN RAILWAY MEN ENDS FATALLY. Lawrence Wise, Made Crazy With Whiskey, Literally Shot John Dun can to Pieces. A dispatch to The News and Cour ier from Aiken says one of the most deplorable killings which ever occur red in that county happened in the sub-station of the Aiken-Augusta Railway Company, near Graniteville, about nine o'clock on Saturday night. Lawrence Wise, made crazy by whis key, according to testimony, walkeu into the sub-station and literally shot John Duncan to pieces. There were no eye-witnesses to the killing, but the cause of the fuss was over the report which was to be sent in to the manager of the sub station. Both Wise and Duncan wen. employed in the station, one being the night man, while the other was the day man. They were the best of friends, and after the killing Wise iremarked that he had killed the best friend he had. From the inquest it seems that Duncan was substituting for Wise, who h; gotten off to go to Aiken, and tlu he should have reported foi work at 6:30 in the afternoon. He did not show up until about nine o'clock, and parties heard the men fussing over the report which was to go in. Duncan was trying to get Wise to go home, and finally Invited him inside, and there the shooting took place. Wise shot at Duncan six times and hit him six times. Three bullets passed entirely through the dead man's body, one through his hip, ranging upward; one passed through his hat. Duncan tried to escape and he was found leaning half way out of a win dow with his head in the sand. Rur al Policeman Holley was on the car which passed, the sub-station about the time of the killing and he placed Wise under arrest and brought him to Aiken and lodged him In jail. An inquest was held on Sunday morning, and the usual verdict was rendered that Duncan came to his death at the hands of Wise. The affair is greatly regretted, ab both men are well thought of, and both have families. Duncan has six children and Wise has three. HOT TIME AT AUGUSTA. Glorious Fourth With Its Usual Ac cidents and Fights.. Augusta's record for July 4th is perhaps the darkest, numerically, on the police blotter, it has been in any year's celebration. One killing, two stabbings, two rendered unconscious from brickbats, one chopped in the head with an axe and 34 cases of drunk and disorderly. The jail was filled. Wm. A Lauder, aged 24 years, was disembowelled with a pocket knife late in the afternoon by W. S. Hall, Jr., of about the same age, in the western section of the city. Both young men are fairly well connected. It is learned that the two were in love with the same young lady and quarreled over her. Lauder died im mediately after being placed in an ambulance. Two negro women were knocked in the head with bricKs and rendered unconscious; both of them being tak en to the negro hospital. Neither will die. Tuesday night two Slabbing cases demanded the attention of the police, in which the victims are in the hospital but will recover. John Cook, a negro, was chopped in the head with an axe and may die. BLACK HANI) FAILS. Negro is Caught and Stolen Jewelry Recovered by Owner. H. T. Bledsoe. a prominent citizen of Greensboro, Ala., received a "black hand" note Tuesday demanding $250 and that night recovered jewelry val ued at $500 that had been stolen from his wife last winter. The note was signed with the name of a well known white man and threatened death to Mr. B.ledsoe if he refused to hide the $250 in a certain plac?. and return later to get his wife's jewelry. Going to the place that night he left a bobus package and on retiring ran U]>on a negro, who had brought him the original note. Seizing the r.egro. he searched him and found the package of lost jewelry. It is believed the negro used the white 'man's name to the note. Ferris Wheel Falls. With every seat occupied a ferris wheel, operated by a carnival com pany at Booneville, iMiss., collapsed and a boy on the ground was the only person killed. Nine persons were badly injured and several others less seriously hurt. Frank Mahaffy, aged 7, was killed. Mrs. Mahaffy ran toward the machine to catch her lit tle daughter falling from one of the seats. Her son ran after her and was struck by one of the iron girders. Loses 31.000 Per Week. Speaker Champ Clark is losing a thousand dollars a week, it is said, because Congress is remaining in ses sion at a time when he had expected it to have adjourned. The Speaker had a contract with a Chicago lecture bureau to take *he platform on July 1. 0 TWO CENTS PER COPY. WORK OUT WELL Commission Government Has Help? dl Co lumbia Wonderfnliy. MUCH MONEY IS SAVED "In Thirteen Months," Says Copt. W. E. Gonzales, "Floating Debt of $75,000 Wiped Out?No Debts and no Overdrawn Appropriations. Mon* ey Saved From Income. The commission form of govern ment has proved a splendid! success in Columbia. Where deficits were shown under the old council rule a surplus is now found and tho capital city of South Carolina will this year spend more t'jan $100,000 on permanent improve ments?a condition heretofore un known. Next year the city will ap propriate $150,000 for such purposes. There are five men in Columbia who make it their regular business to look after affairs of the city. There are four cour-cllmen and the mayor. The councilman receive $2.000 a year, and the mayor $2.500. Here is the way the city's buslnesa is apportioned: W. H. Gibbes?Officers, accounts and accounting. Police and record er's court. Taxation and civil ser vice. 11 J. Blalock?Licences. Sanitv tion and health Insurance and build ing permits. R. C. Keenan?Fire department. Street department. Market and. light ing. R W. Shand?Law and finance. Schools. Parks and trees. W. F. Stieglitz?Water works and sewerage. Public buildings, chari ties and city jail. Up in Trenton, N. J., the citizens are making a fight for clean govern ment. The Trenton Evening Times asked Capt. W. E. Ganzales, editor of The State, for a statement as to the results obtained in Columbia and he has'the following to Scy which is to the point: Thirteen months ago a mayor and four councilmen t^ok over the man agement of the municipal affairs from a mayor and 15 alderman. Formerly, the mayor got a salary of #1,500, the alderm nothing. Now the mayor gets $2,560, and each of the councilmen $2,000. We have the Des Moine? plan with several improvements. There is civil service for police, fire and health de partments; initiative, recall and re ferendum. None of these privileges has been invoked. Ward lines are obliterated, council men being elected, as the mayor, at large. The ward boss is dethroned. In the old system there was little or no grafting, lack of definite respon sibility; the unbusiness-like system resulted in waste; a thousand little leaks. There were jealousies and .bickerings among aldermen. All that is changed. For four years before its adoption an earnest advocate of commission government, the results exceed my expectations. There is more in the system than in the individuals. Thirteen months ago the new sys tem found a floating debt of about $75,000?they always had floating debts, the aldermen. TwontyTftve thousand a year was all that could be given by aldermen for street care and improvement. In ten months, for the first time in many years, the city got on a cash basis. No debts. No appro priations overdrawn. Every council man publicly known to be responsible for the counduct of a certain depart-* ment. The water works, instead of showing it deficit of $18,000 to be paid out of general tares, is payinjg expenses and beginning to show a cash balance. Resides $25,000 for street cleaning and re/pairs, $100,000 was appropriat j ed for expenditure this year for per inature improvements, tho citizen a>',r:g another $100,00) 'o jt ? all out of current receipts. Next year the city v> ill appropriate $150,000 for such improvements. Council meets often; the citizens can have hearings at any time and they are in direct touch with the business managers of this affair. Ordered business supersedes a muddle. From the vergj of bank ruptcy we step to a 20 per cent, divi dend proposition. There are more policemen, with three, instead of two, reliefs. The fire department is more efficient, power oars have supplanted horses in several instances. a wonderful change, and a splen jrlid success. 1 Carolina Pardon Record. I The Governor has been in office (since Januasy 17, and since that tftno j he has granted executive clemency In 171 cases. Paroles, 98; pardons, 73. During the four years of the admin istration of Governor Ansel 8? pa roles were granted and the records show that he granted 38 pardon9 dur ing the last two years of bis office. m ? m ?_ I Flesh Torn From Finger. While MY. Guy Tltts was talhlng over the telephone at his ice plant at Clinton Tuesday lightning strue? the wiie and gave bim a very se vere shock. The flesh on one finger was torn and his arm badly burnt. The shock knocked him to the floo? and rendered him unconsicoua for a few minutes.