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THE SUPREME COURT. Cases Heard on Appeal-Number Ap pealed From Each Circuit Judge and Whether Reversed or Confirmed. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier writes as follows as to the work of the supreme court: From time to time there has been speculation as to the number of cases -heard by the State supreme court, and particularly the number of cases re veiead and the number of opinions by lower courts that are afirmed. It is *ot always safe to attaeh much im portance to this record because the run of cases often varies and in many cases there are no appeals. At all -events there is interest in the showing tha+ is made. The Bureau has had an exact and careful statement made of the records of the supreme court for tie entire year of 1905. It has taken a great deal of study and work to pre pare this record, but it is correct and comes from the very best of authority and is as follows: During the calendar year, 1905, the supreme court handed down 10 opin ions in cases tried in original juris -dietion, 21 opinions -in appeals in -criminal cases and 192 opinions in ap peals in civil cases, making a total of 223 opinions. Of the appeal cases Judge Klugh tried 19. affirmed 8; reversed, 11. gudge Aldrich tried 9; affirmed, 7; reversed, 2. Judge-Watts tried 35; affirmed, 24; reversed, 10; modified, 1. Judge Daintzler tried 23; affirmed, 17; reversed, 5; modified, 1. Judge Townsend tried 32; affirmed, 22; reversed, 7; modified, 3. Judge Gage tried 13;. affirmed, 8: reversed, 8; mod1fied, 2. Judge Gary tried 23; affirmed, 18; Teversed, 5. . Judge Purdy tried 23 affiriined1d reverset., 5. -pecial Judge F. B. Gary tried 5; -affirmed, 3; reversed, 2. Special Judge-Prince tried 3; af firmed, 2; reversed, 1. -Special Judge McCullough tried 4; afifirmed, 2; reversed, 2. . Special Judge McDonald tried 5; agirmed, 3; reversed, 2. *Special Judge Youmans tried 3; af firmied, 1; reversed, 2. Special Judge Benet tried 2; af firijed 1; modified, 1. . Spe.eial Judge Ellis Graydon tried 2; reversed, 2. Special Judge Culbreath tried 1; affrmed, I. Special Judge Buchanan tried 1; affirmed, 1. * pecial- Judge Welch tried 1; af .rmred' 1-. .Special Judge Izlas tried 1; re versed 1.~ Special Judge Ansel tried 1; revers ed, 1 . The records in two'ecases did 'not show what Judge tried them. Mr. Lever's 9airy Bill. News and Courier. We called attention a few days -since to the efforts Representatives Lever and Ellerbe were making to further the agricultural interests of. South Carolina by having established in this State model farms where di versification in drops would be practi ced and taught. We said- then, and repeat nowv, that our Congressmen c3iuld not be better employed than, in such endeavoi-s. It is gratifying there toie, sto commend a bill whieh was in troduced in the House on January 20} by Representative Lever, and refer 9hd 'to the comimittee on agriculture. Tebill is entitled "a bill to '' fur Ther rmt the dairy industry of the United States." and its text is as follows. "~'Be it enacted by the Senate an'd -Hois6 of Representatives of the Uni ted States of America in Congress as sembled. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much as may be necesseary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated.out of any money in the Treasury not' otherwise appro priated, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to further promote the dairy industry of the United States, and that the Secretary of Agriculture be authorized to expend this sum, through the dairy division of the de partment of agriculture, in co-opera tion with individual dairymen and State experimenit stations in such States :as in his discretion are most in need of such help." In advocacy of this measure Repre sentative Lever has said: "The plan ais to have the Department of Agri eulture station one of its dairy experts in each of the Southern States. The duty of this expert will be to furnish individual dairymen with expert in formation as to the best methods of dairying. He will teach the farmer 'row to select his herd with a view to get'g the best results; he will show a how to haul silos nad barns and he will teach him the best methods of crop rotation in order to get the most forage for his Cattle." It is understowl that the expert will also hold farmers' institutes from time to time to eneourage the dairy industry and to spread as wide ly as -possible the information at his disposal. Mr. Lever says his meas ure has been endorsed by "nearly. every leading dairyman in the South," and he feels convinced that if his measure pa.Ases the House and the Senate, this sectibn of the country will derive much benefit from it. This is an opinion in which we heartily concur. It is highly desir able that. some systematie effort shotTld be made to develop the dairy industry in this and other Southern States. Dairy products may become a source of wealth in South Carolina. There is no sufficient reason why every cotton plantation should not have an intelligently conducted dairy attachment. Even should the plan ter not desire to do more than pro duce enough butter and milk for home, consumption, the dairy would edn-. tribute to rendering him independent of cotton. That is the end to which our agricultural efforts should be directed most earnestly just now. As we have said on many occasions, when the Southern planter is absolutely, independent of his cotton crop, cotton will be king in fact as well as in name. Christmas Holiday Act. There is a little two-line act that has gone from the Governor's office to! the official files in the office of the sec retary of state. While there are only two lines in the entire act it repre sents one of the hardest and most peculiar fights of the recent session ofdhe general assembly. Even after the bill had passed both houses there was an effort made to have the bill vptoed, but this was refused. The bill as adopted reads: An act to set apart and establish Christmas holidays for the state in stitutions of higher learning in the. state of South Carolina: Section 1, Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the state of South Carolina, That all- state colleges shall suspengd exercises for a period not ex eeeding ten days, including the time reaquired for going from and return-: ing to said colleges, said period to in lude Christmas day and New Year's day. Approved the 17th day of February, A. D. 1906. While the bill applies to all state colleges, it was intended to reach the? Winthrop situation.. All ef the other state- colleges have .been. giving Christmas holidays along the lines in dicated in the act just adopted. The Woman 's Home Companion for~ March contains in addition to such interesting fiction as Seumas Mc-; Manuis' "Donal 0O'Donnell 's Standing Army," "Alcibiades," "Affairs of State," "The Mountains of Peace," and "Mr. McCoggin-Country Tour ist," three timeTy articles on garden-: ing, including " The Children 's .Gar den," by Samuel Armstrong Hamil .on; Miss Gould 's Fashion Pages, an article by Helen Marvin on "Crochet ing,''' Fannie Merritt Farmer's in structions in Breadmaking, Evelyn Parson''s "New Ideas in Neckwear and Belts," Samuel -Hove 's direc tions.for.-building "A Cement Rough Cast.*House Costing $4,000," and An na S.: Rieliardson 's practical talks on "'Kindergartening." In "The Ro mance of an American Princess," Henry Harrison Lewis tells of Alice Roosevelt's courtship and marriage; Carleton Max describes a few"Sm ple Experiments in Chemistry" (or boys, and the Carnival at Nice is por trayed in excellent photographs. Pub lished by the Crowell Publishing Coin pany, Springfield, Ohio; one dollar a year; ten cents a copy. Pointed Paragraphs. 'Themanwho doesn 't want what he hasn 't got has all he wants and is happy. IMost people would far rather listen to undeserved praise than to merited criticism.. It is far easier to find fault at a boarding-house than it is to find a' satisfactory meal. Our idea of'a pestiferous man is oe who waits until Saturday night to get his hair amputated. There is nothing calculated so com pletely to take the humility out of a man who blames himself as agreeing with him. Chummy Customer-You hope to be the proprietor of this establish-1 ment some day, I suppose ? Elevator Boy (in department store) -Huh ! Be a little, dried-up, old man, wit' watery eyes an' a thin voice like you've got de azmy? Not by a dog gone sight ! I'm laying fur de floor walker' . -C .hicao Tribne. HALF A MILION HELP UP. Dispensary's Creditors will not be Paid Until they Show Their Books-They Employ Mr. T. Moultric Mordecai to Ar range the Matter for Them. Columbia, February 22.---There is t very large sum of money being held Lup by the investigating committee on bills due to liquor houses for supplies bought prior to the passage of the recent Act. The committee . wants to examine books of the houses holding claims against the dispensary to see what -ort of prices the dispensary paid for its liquor and so forth. The liquor-houses have sat still in the boat and waited, anA the dispen sary committee has heAd on~ to the monev. Mr. T. Moultrie Mordecai, of Char leston. who- represents most of the large creditors of the dispensary. has arranged to have a conference here with the sub-committee to figure out exactly what the committee wants., and how to have his clients comply with the wishes of the committee if they can do so. More than half a mil lion is involved in this procedure awaiting the ''0. K.'' of the dispen arv committee and there are likely to be some interesting developments. At all events a preliminary confer Enee will be held here next week be tween Messrs. Hay. Lyon and Chris tensen and Mr. T. Moultric Mordecai. A. K. WEST INDIAN TRADE. Being More and More Deverted From Europe to This Country. London Pall Mall Gazette. The United States, alike 'rom strategical and commercial stand points, h. of hitE years ac(odired 1 commanding influence in the Carrib bean. The mteria. ults of ibe Spanish-Anie,q:i war -nd th - proaching c1n-1net i* of the Ianama Canal are cone:h. i.e. n--?ies of .Amer ican expansion Criin 't is that nee the canal is cut Am'eri;s,n infhwno.e must reccive a powerful impetus. and that with the growth of that inf'iaenee will- come the deterttdnation to e m serve it. So much, indee:i, is contend ed by Capt Mahan in his famovs work of ''The interest of .\mnerica %in ea Power.'' Assniming that the T.sthmus of Panama is the pre-.lominant inter est, commercial ar.dl mi;itary; in the Caribbean, . possessing peculiar co ern for those naions whose terri tories lie on both the A tlantic and Pacific oceans, "of[ which the United States is the most pr'omi;ent,'' Capt. Mahan argues that en;trance to the Caribbean and fransit aeross the Car ibbean to the Isthmus are two .prime essentialss to the en.joyment of the advantages of the latt'w, and that in time of war "(ont rai *)1f~ these two things becom'es a nubliary obj..-t' n.'t second to the Isthmus itself." The trade rebo-ams of the principal colonies also fum:in e riking n si mony to the position whrich America has attained in West India commerce. Taking the case of Barbados, which may be doscribed as the "Cla pham Junction'' of the tropie.s, we find that in 1903 out of a total export of 552, 891 4 per cent only came to this coun try as against 46 per cent tak:en by the Unitsd States. The figures ap pea still more remirkable when we cotrast them with the returns fo;r 1863. In that year when thie exports were valued at close upon a million sterling, Great Britain took 64 per cent asnd the United States 7 per cent. Thenceforward exports to America steadly advanced, while those of the United Kingdom just as steadily de. elined. As regards imports, this countr.y has been well to the fore throughout the period under notice. Examining the returns of Jamaica, we find the same American predom'.n ance in the matter of exports. in 1903-04 the United States took 50 per cent, as against 18 per cent. received by this country. In imporis the LUnit ed Kingdom led with 47 per cent., the American percentage being only 42. The firm hold.upon the West Indian exports trade which the United States has thus secured is maintained by the many steamship lines which ply be tween New York and the islands. That hold has been strengthened-un consciously, no doubt-by our colonial office within the last few months, as it was close upon the laspse of the mail contrast that the Royal Mail Steam Packet company initiated their present service to New York via Jamaica. What is the result? A further link connecting America and the Carribean has been forged, while te tie between England an'i the, (ol onies of -',e reznl-ir mail servi.-e has been severed. That result probably was not foreseen at Downing street when the unfortu3Ate ~eCisi#~ C*R A continuance of the present policy must have a proindicial effect upon 3ritish influence. Already the ineon venience of an irre-.r.ar ser-we is felt in this c An. It is, however, a matter for congratu lation among. the h-end- of the Ve-t Indies that one of Mr. llalfour's 1ast acts, prior to relinquishing offie. was to receive the deputation from)L the West India committee. The deuta tion, it is stated was enjoined to sil ence regarding what occurred. Yet, while a public declaration of policy on the part of the outgoing govern ment would perhaps have afforded deeper satisfaction to our distant colonists, the result of the interview may be found none the less effica cious in mitigating, if not in wholly reImOving the grievances complained of. That Mr. Balfour should have received the duputation even in private' after Mr. Lyttleton had de elined to do so is regarded as a hope ful feature of the situation. Lyman Abbott on the Bible. From a Young Men's Christian As sociation- Address. The Bible as a book does not have the authority now that it did in the days of Jonathan Edwards. Present day people are looking for proofs. But you cannot prove to an ur musical man that music is beautiful. If a man says that- he doesn't believe in honesty you don't try to argue with him, but keep your hand on your pocketbook. If a man prefers the character of Aaron Burr to that of Lincoln, it is needless to argue; the man is morally idiotic. The religious truth is like the aesthetic of the ethi cal: it must be felt rather than dem-. onstrated. How do I know there 's a God ? How do you know you had a mother? You haven't seen her. The eyes, the brow you have se-n, but it is the love, the patience, the tenderness that makes not see- vou feel them. We cannot define God. A little while ago I had nothing but ridioiude for the impressionistic school ot until I met a man who knew more of art than I do and lie taught me to look at- objects in nature through the personal atmosphere. The Bible is a book written by men who had the religious genius. It con tains the Raphaels and MJozarts of spiritual duty. EXCURSION RATES Via Seaboard Air Line Railway. Account Mardi Gras New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola the Seaboard. Air Line will on February 21 to 26, inclusive, sell tickets to these points at rate of one first class fare plus 25 cents for the round trip; final lim it March 3rd, 1906. Extenision until March 17th can be secured upon pay ment of fee of fifty cents. Liberal stop-over allowed in both directions. - Louisville, Ky., account Depart ment of Superintendence. National Association, tickets on sale February 24 to 27 inclusive, final limit March 4. 1906, rate one f,are plus 25 cents for round trip). Nashville, Tenn.. account Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. tick ets on sale February 26 to 28, inclu sive, final limit March 10, rate one first class fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Seaboard offers attractive service to all of above points. For full in formation, reservations an'd etc., write W. L. Burroughs, T. P. A., 1323 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. State of South Carolina, County of Newberrl. Court of Ccummon Pleas. Caroline Jones, Plaintiff, Against Jason Jones, et al., Defendants. Complaint for Partition. By virtue of an order of Court herein, I will sell at public auction before the Court House at Newberry. S. C.. on Salesday in March, 1900, all that lot or parcel of land, of which the late Joseph Jones died seized and possessed, lying and being in that part of the Town of Newberry, S. C., known as "Gravel Town,'' andN bounded by lands of Guilford Snow den, Dr. James McIntosh and the Southern Railway Co., fronting 63 feet on-Street a plat of which wil be exhibited on day of sale. Terms of sale: One half cash and one half on a eredit of twelve months, with interest from diy of sale with a bond of the purchaser and a mortgage Iof the premises; with leave to pur chaser to anticipate the payment of the credit portion in whole or in part. The building on said lot to be insured and the policy assigned to the Mas ter. The purchaser to~ pay for pa pers and recordin . -. .R fikard , -2na me e.12. ? I r0. Maat.r 's O&.e, Feb. 12, I~6. SAVE EVE Among the various RJESOLUTION S for) the year 1906 don't forget to resolve to Save Every Penny that you can. There fore You Must Buy Good Goods CHEAP. 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