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- -5 ..4r NEWBERRY, S. C FBID lY' JULY 12. 1907 VL XLV NO.834:. SOLOMONS RXAASED. Prisdner was Charged with Seeking to Influence Beaufort County Dispensary Board Chairman. Beiaufort, July 10.--Magistrate T. G. White this afternoon refused to bind over Mr.- H. L. Solomons, of Co lumbia, the liquor drummer who was arwrested Monday onthe charge of vio lating Siction 46 of the Dispensary Law. Attorney General Lyon appeared - for the state and Mr. Talbird, of Beaufort, for the defence. The hear ing was held in the Court House and lasted five hours. The principal wit ness was Dr. M. G. Elliott, chairman of the Beaufort county disApensary board. Mr. Solomons made a state ment. In prefacing his summing upVf the case the Attorney General said: "I -%ish here -to avow my deliberate in tentin of running every liquor drum mer ont of the State of South Caro lina. I am here in accordance with the wish es of Governor Ansel and state .that it is the policy of the Ad ministr'ation to enforce the anti-graft section of the county dispensary law to the letter. Wherever I hear of its being violated and feel that,I can be of assistance in its enforcement I in tend to go and prosecute the offen ders. Mr. Lyon spoke of the corruption of the state -dispensary system and the efforts of the legislature to guard against some of its evils by forbid ding any liquor drummer living in this state doin business with the county bhoards and outlawing any communi cation .whatever betwee the boards and liquor men except through the formal quarterly bids. In' his opin ion the testimony of the defendant alone was enough to conviet before a petit iury. In giving his dedision the magis trate said that he thought the evi danc-e showed there was no intention to bribe, -and in weighing the evidence he considered the spirit of the law rather than its letter. He did not think that the legislature intended to 'pmt the broad eonstruction on this see tion that th,e Attorney General in sisted on and tthat it did not intend to make such ian act as that of Mr. Solo mon's' an offence. After .the case was over Mr. Lyon said: "Notwithstanding this back set in the enforcement of the law I intend lto use every offort in having it enforced. No enforcement will reist * on other shoulders than mine. Wheth * er Il.e breakers of this praticular la.w are punished h- this instance or not I intiead to make it ;: difficult as pos sih:e to eanyi tu their outlawed busi ness. Dr. M. G. Elliott is a native of Beaufort and stands 'high in the corn mnn'ty. He has been active in at tempting to secure a strict enforce ment of the dispensary law in this couty. His testimony told of- two interviews of Mr. Solomons with him. * The first was before the doetor was commissioned. In it Mr. Solomons discussed the new law and the liquor *business in, general and nothing was said that the witness ,thought was sus picious. Dr. Elliott- was at first some *what doubtful as to wether he had been comnmi.ssioned before the second visit of 'the accussed, but in his state ment Mr. Solomon said that he came up on seeing in t.he papers an adver tisement for bids from the Beaufort board, and Mr. Elliott was recalled and sowre that the advertisement, was not printed unti-l after the board had been commissioned. Coming to the second meeting Dr. Elliott testified: "About two or three weeks la'ter Mr. Solomons called on me again and the liquor question was again brought u,p and discussed be tween us. After a while Mr. Solo mens went out and in a little 'while 'he returned with a bottle of whiskey and suggested 'that we open it and sam .ple it. I told Mr. Solomons that I was no judge of whiskey, and knew nothing about it and wrapped up the bottle, and handed it back to him with out .the cork being drawn. Mr. Solo mons presented .me with a list of li quor houses, which he s'aid that he re p resented. Glancing at the list I read one or two names. only one of which I now reall, that -beino- the Big Springs Distilling Compay, Of Savannah, G'a. I' then handed Mr. Solonmons back the list, telling him that it would be of no use .to me.' Question by Mr. Lyon: ''Was Mr. Solomon's %attitude and bearing to ward you not -that of an agent of a li quor house, offering his goods for sale?" Answer: "Mr. Sdlomon- produced the impression thit he was out seek ing business, but no special kinds ox prices of liquor were suggested be yond the one bottle that he produe ed."1 Cross-examination: /"He did not state that he represented 'any parti cular company, but that he represSted a number of. liquor 0onzerns. He told me that, the object of 'bis visit was tc find oat our methods of carrying on business. He led me to believe that he represented the houses on the lisi that he showed me. He said that thE bottle of whiskey he 'had to offer m( was from a bonded warehouse, and his object was to shorw what bonded ware house lwhiskey was. He did noi make a direct request that we bu3 from any of the houses named. I can not say that Mr. Solomons intended to bribe me, but I am reasonably cer tain that Mr. Solomons did it for th< purpose of gaining business in the fu ture for the trust that he represented Dr. Elliott was recalled. "Mr. Solo mens handed me 'a list with a lot oi names of whiskey houses written or a letter head of the Sea Island Hotel I handed it back to him, *and he re handed it to me to keep, and I refus ed to take it, and declining said il could only be for the purpose of .in. fluencing me, and it will be of no us( to me. I was favorably .impressed with Mr. Solomons in his first visit and saw nothing in his condi'et to fee' that anythng was intended to influ. ence, but in the second visit his hand. ing me the list and the bottle, pul me on my gurd, and Jended the mat ter as soon as I could." After detailing the interview on thi first visit Mr. Solomons took up th second, saying: "I saw an advertise ment in some paper for furnishing whiskey -to this county. I noticed tha1 they called for a class of whiskey no' known to -the trade. Wanting to fini out what it 'meant. and wanting t( (ive the board the information the desired about whiskey, I came bacd and .went to Dr. Elliott's office. He was busy and told me to come bael in an hour's .time, which I did. I ask ed him .to explain his invitation foi bids to me, which he id,.and the ques tion of pure whiskeys in bulk eame ul again. - He asked me where purn whiskeys in bond could be obtained I think that he tho.ught thiait 'they would have to be obtained direct fron the Govern*mentfl I then said' to him 'You can obtain 'that whiskey fron any one from .a list of twenty names : have, who hlave this class of whiskey. I 'then handed Dr. Eliiott the list. Hi (id not take it. saying 'Mr. 'Solo mons: It might be construed 'as in flueneing me.' He then asked me 11 they bought blended whiskey; wha kind of license they would 'have 't< have 'to blend the whiskey. I told bin to get 'the members of the board to g< to Savannah; that 'there was 'a larg< blending house here by the name o: Big Springs Distilling Company, an< that they would take pleasure 'ii showing them about; that it was per fectly immate'rial to me who he bough his whiskey from, provided thea bought Go.vernmnent bonded whiskey and that I 'had a sample at the hote in my grip. I then went to 'the hete and get the bottle and came back t< Dr. Elliott's offiee, handed the bottli to him and showed him the Govern ment stamp aeross the cork and thi date it was made, and asked him t< sample the whiskey and have it ana lyzed and use that as a guide in pur elosing. I bought that rwhiskey on t'h< road and do not know who made o: sold it'' After a lengthy statement, the sub stance of which h'as been giveni, thi magistrate announced: "I dismiss thi complaint for deficiency of sufficien' testimony to hold the defendant fo: trial." Fourth of July is getting to be 'al mIst as much of an institution i1 Lndon and Paris as it is in thi: contry. THE COTTON ASSOCIATION. President Harvey Jordan Will Ad dress Mass Meeting in The Two Carolinas. Atlanta, Ga., July ll.-President Harvey Jordan, of the Southern Cot ton association, annonced today that, beginning. the -latter part of July he would address mass meetings in ev ery state of the eotton' belt. Presi dent Jordah will discuss his investi glations in Europe in regard to the baling, bandling and marketing of Ameriean cotton. He will urge on the farmers the necessity of as slow a movement of cot.ton as possible in order to main itain a high level of prices. In this connection, Mr. Jordan declared t.blat the price of cotton next fall, he be lieved, would be the highest in twen .ty years. The frst of the mass meetings will be held in North and South Carolin. On July 19 he will speak at Garner, Wake county, N. C., and at Raleigh on July 20. Meetings will be teld at Spaxtanhurg, S. C., on July 30, Un ion on Ju'ly 29, and Gaffney on Ju iv 31. Leaving these two states, Mr. Jor dan will go to Texas, and in that state he will speak at ten of the larg est cotton concentrating points in the stlate. Leaving Texas he will go to Arknsas, thence to Louisiana, then to Mississippi and Albaima, and will finish his camp-ain in Georgia in the liatiber part of August. .Mr. Jordan will be aceompanied on his tour by General Organizer E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, eoinnonly known as the "Cyclone :Orator" -of the Southern Cotton association. Mr. and Mr. Smith have the, eo opratfion of all the state presidents and 'of the association. A sked what he thought of the pros pqct f"r cotton next season, Presi dent Jordan s'aid: "It is fine. I believe we sb-all rea lize r:'*es 'Ii2her than we have re eIive! for twen-tv yeairs. Every indi cati'r. -'t to that fact, and I shall e-pc fly urge o4 the farmers in my sper ' is the necessity of a slow mve mer 3o as to ma.intain as high a lev el ' prices a5 possible.'' Presidenit -Tordan said that he e Tec.ted ooo ;ttend.anees at the meet ines. He asks the general cooperation of the press in 'this great farmers' movement. President Jordan's observations on his European: trip will be of more thamn usua.l interest to cotton growers. Wh'il'e a.broad he took particular pains to study cotton condikions there as they -affected the buying ad manu facetutre of the staple. He sgw and compared he foreign eetton with American, and compared their methods 'of ba:ling. He talked with m,anrfacturers, 'and learned their needs. He also noted interesting things about Enropean business mieth odes 'as compared with American. ;These observations he will embody in the se'ries of speeelhes he proposes to make th'rough 'the cotton belt. He will also observe crop conditions in The 'belt. POSED AS TTLT'S WIPE. Girl of Dreamy Eyes, in New York, Secures Jewelry Valued at Large Sum. Atlanta Constitution. New York, July 10.-Representin~ herself .as 'the wife of 'United States Senator Benjamin Tillna.n, of South Carolina, Mrs. Isabella Loomis, of No. S West Tenths stmeet, a woman of striking beauty, wearing jewels of val ue and handsomely gowned, was ar rested by Lieutenant Andrew NTugent, of -the central 'office, late today, as she was leaving a Maiden Lane jewelry ~tore. She is charged with ordering jeely and goods of high value from Midlen Lane stores, having -them sent to prominent 'hotels and then disap pearina with the articles forwa-rded Struck Herself Several Times. W'hen arresited Mrs. Loomis became deeply ag'itatd gud struck herself severs! -times, but rapidly regai:ned her coumposure. and proceeded quiet ly with Nugent to the Tombs police cout. She was there arraigned be fore Maoos.tre Terna.annd held as a suspiemous person. While in court Mrs. Loonis de6lined to make aMy tatement ,and failed sto engage coun cil. Her evident refinement and sty lish elothing aittraeted unusual atten tio. While the police were reticent in disenssing the case, it is known that she made 'attempts ait several large Maiden Lane jewelry houses .to blave articles of. great value forwarded to her at -the Hotel Knickerboeker and the Waldorf Astoria. Girl With Dreamy Dyes. The central office was unable to give any definite estimite as to the value of the aiticles whiich the woman had been able to secure prior to her rrest. but Lieutenant Nugent said tha.t the amount was aarge. At her*me, Mrs. Loomis was kaown as the giol with the dreamy eyes. Considerable iiystery ataches .to her life. She kept much to her self batt!nformed the janitTmre of the apaTtment 'house where she resided, that she was 'a trained nurse by oc cupation, and that she had come from a fwmily in Elmira prominent social ly. Beeause of the unusual method -adopted by the womn in ordering jewels .the police are making -n in vestigation to discover whether she. .has been afflicted with any me4tal disorder. WOMEN CARRY TEE MAILS. Three Now Engaged in the Work in South Carlina-Aln Interesting Interview. News and Courier. Most readers of The News and Cou rier will probably be surprised -at the statement that one of the best rural free delivery mail carriers in the em ploy of Uncle Sam is a woman, Miss L. Hicks, of .Spartanburg coun ty, who carries the mail each day 'from Cherokee Springs, in that coun ty, to -Hicksville, N. C.. a distance of 27 1-2 miles. . The statement as to ,the competency of, Miss, Hicks, is made upon good authority. She has been en gaged in the work for a little more than two and a half years. She 'took the required examination October 1.'. ln%, which shp np-sed successfully. bheembr 1-. 1904, she received her appoin'r P-t and was as igned to Rural Free Delivery No.*3, from Cherokee to Hieksville. Through the winter's cold and summer's heat Mss Hieks ']as tmnade her trips through the country regularly, braving all conditions of weather and facing many hardships at times. ' In the face of 'hard raine and bitter cold weather, which kept most people in doors, Miss Hicks has always been faithful to hE duty, courageous, and at all times has dischargedl ier wo)rk eih abi'iv She' leaves Ch1er'ni-2 Spring~ at 9 a. m. daily an I dehve'r, mail along her route to Hicksville. Re turning. from Hicksville she aIrries'3 at Cherokee Spring at 6 p. mi She travels 145 miles during the week. Wh eseen recentyy and asked for i ~tatemegt .in reference to her work knd how she likes the service, Miss Hicks 'replied that she -iked the work very much. "I have been in the service more than two years,'' she said. "The work is hard and the road long and rough, but I think I have managed.. to get al.ugt with my duties very well. I1 first had to travel 29 1-2 miles, but,~ In spctor Robert cut off nearly two miles." "Do you furnish your own equip ment?' "Oh, yes, I have my own mail wag on and keep two horses. When one horse -becomes tired or needs a little rest I press the other into service. I never overwork my horses. "I have over 86 mail boxes 'to col le from and over 100 houses along the route, .and I handle more than 4,000 pieces of mail per month. In covering my route I cross one river twice and seven creeks and one branch. "There are two churehes and one school house on the route, six cotton gins, five saw mills, six small stores and three grist mills, so you see I have quite an important route. - "I have become very much attach ed to the people on my route, for they are good and kind to me. and I am sc,e no rur1 rute carrier has a bet ter set of patrons than I. They are the best sort of people and I love .them all. Almost every day I am remem bered in a nice little way by my peo ple, for they are constantly sending me some little present. Then, too, I receive so many beautiful flolers from my patrons during the spring season and the nicest sort of frt,ts the season affords. But, listen, flow ers and fruits are not all that I re eeive, for I get many good things to eat from the table, and even the pro verbial cup of cold water, whieh is most refreshing when it is handed to you on a hot, sultry day by kind and loving 'hands. In the winter season cups of steaming hot coffee are brought out many times by the good housewives of the farmers alon-g the route, all of which goes to smooth the otherwise rugged places in the rur al free delivery carrier's life.' "Have you ever had any accidents or thrilling experiences while mik ing your trips?" "'No., I have not -met with any ser ious accident, though several times I have had some pretty narrow escapes, but a kind Providence took care of mae. You see, the road I travel is hilly and rough and several times I have met with slight accidents. "I wish to epress my appreeiaion to all those who worked so .faithfully in securing for us the fifteen days' holiday allowed by Congress, and al so the mu-h needer raise in salary With the increase in salary we can now afford better equipments with which to serve the people in the coun try." Two Other Women Carriers. Miss Hicks is not the only%young woman engaged ip this work in South Carolina. Orangeburg county is rep resented by Miss Florence E. Living stone, whose route begins at North, -and Greeuvills by Xiss Bernice E. Greer, the initial point of whose'route is Simpsonville, Up in Anderson last spring Miss -GeraIdine: Z. Power deliy ered the mails for several *ee on Route 4. during the absence gf her brother, the re,. carrier. Route 4 is a long drive About -thirty miles, but she made th trip every day, ac cording to sched. 14in or shine. South Carolina.is. not the only state in which there are women rural mail carriers. The '-Sunday .News piinted not long ago a pi-Aure of one of the women carriers, of Connecti cut, in her own special conveyance, and in the Northwester1 states they are qjuite numerous. This part of the .ountry has experieneed''an extraor dinary growth during the l'ast few years and not only have thousa'nds of 1ren gone. there to seek their fortunes but many of the gentler sex have mi .vrated westward in search of wealth in the niew landis. Many of them are (conon faborers in the field like .,the men who make the erops and others are found merehandising, . drivng teams, and engaged in .other occupa tions more generally reseTved to the Wy Denartmenlt Prefers Men. The posto$ee department prefers men to women, however. The Wash ington correspondent of The News ad Couri6r recently had a talk with Fourth Assistant Postmaster De Graw on the subject, and while ac knowledging the fime work whieh has been done in many instances by wo men carriers, Mr. DeGraw admitted that there were a number of reasons hy eThe department would rather employ men. "The latter are natur ally hardier and more able to stand the wear and tear of the life than wo men,' he said, "and are im many cases to be chosen in preference to the latter. Another reason why the department prefers men to women is that the latter, although in many in stances making capable, honest, and fficienL carriers, are liable to resign their psoitions with undue haste and hus leave thie route in an awkward sstuation until relid can be provided. A s in many oiher callings, marriage n+er~ 'Ihe equation with considerable ffrce. Were .it not for this feature th th prospect might hold out allurmng temptations, for 'the department to make better inducements to women to enter the service as rural carriers, but those who have spent many years studying out the question have long zo made 'up their minds that matri nv s one of the great obstacles that ...ll pnmbhly prevent women from eaiLerijag t#=i %;vvrL""&,Au"u very large numbers as rural delivery carriers. Then, too, the life is a hard one. USED BIBLE AS CIPHER. Verse from Solomon Told of Mar riags Engagemenut. New York Press. When she left her home in the A small town to come to.'New Y4k to take up a special course of study, hei.,. pet sister was fast reaching the ers is of a love affair. The pet sister was a most winsome young lady, and hia long kept a goodly train of suitors a-sighing. Was this affair to be the grand affair? The old sister hoped -, for she liked the young man eorKI&L ly-thought ihe Was just the sort make a proper brother-in-law. But the weeks passed and not a of defnite news about the progrs of the afair did tbe older sister'e ceive in her city boarding house.i W"O beeahne anxious. Louise, she must not go on reeeklessly triflin such important matters. Then one night about 10 o1 jnst as she was about going to b came a teleegram. The servant b it up The older sister 'was to girl enough to be thoroughly ed by the pale manila - envelope. How ominous it looke length she gathered courage to op it. This is a she read "Solomon six three. Li Solomon six three! Wteve the world! Oh, why, yes, stupid, course meant, the Song of Slo0ik sixth" ehapter, third verse. -;B her cheeks flushed with shame h had no Bible!., There was a great seurrying.,rabou. the hoarding hous to find a cop the sacred Book. The girls were ed out in vain. On All sides the arose, "Who's got a Bible think of the sister tryingdo ep gi4ht witijt knviM vee was!it wold hav e like a womDftolie down. to dreams, ccntent. to know th could satisfy her eariosity in The landlady, od so am the'resee. S.he was no/hen. had a Bible. Up to her room with flew. the ,sisten and shut the Such a turning over of pages b er, nervous fingeri. Solomon sihr She found iit. and then shee' "Hurrah!'' and laughed otho v isewas: I I'am my beloved's, and my be ed is inine." Separate Wraps for Summer The authority on fashions OL New Idea Womian's Magazine sa#'2t her articile in the.August issue"ta~~ is a well recognized falet in the. ish world t-hat some onearil dress always smonopolizes the. place of interest and importanlce -D the wardrobe. This year it is'tY separate wilp, from the bewthf~ Sl airy and fetching little so scarf of silk .and chiffon, to~ h loak and capes of eloth, lace'al pongee. This sdason~ every nau f'ok should have its separate jee tailored 'with the same care as i,''loth suits, and even over e4. waists are worn faseinatin boleros of exqusite handkerclebie r en and l&ce. These are described m, detail, and graceful dra.wmngsh the use -of .appropraite patterne i variety of attractive materials. The Dqniger of Food- AdultertOU The dime has came when ever~ housekeeper 'who' regards the heat? of 'her family must know~ where he stands on the question of food .eduI t eration..-- einfe knowledgeQ" and unsrupulous 'greed have joined hands to pollute human food for the s ke of money making. To underaf4 the situation, its extent and its da~ 1gers, is the right and the duty 'of'ev ery intelligent housekeeper. 'To this end, an analytical chemist, who is well known as an investigator of'au" tera-ted foods' and a lecturer to Amer ian -housewiveS, Dr. J. C. Olsen, has, ganted an. interview to a represent ~ tie of The New Idea Woman's Maga. zne. which appears in the August is-' se. He exlains the existing cond1- " tons, indates their peril and gives\ soe valuable information on the de tetion of impurities in food.