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WILLIAMS DECLARED NOMINE Vardaman Concedes Defeat at Poll but Declares He Will Continue to Battle for His Principles. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 8.-The D mocratic state executive committ< met at noon .today and declared Co: gressman John Sharp Williams is t] Demoeratie party :nominee for t1l United States senate. The eanvass of the returns show( a majority of 64S votes for William the total being as follows: Williams 59,496; Vardaman 58,38 There will be no contest over tl result. After a short caucus between ti two factions it was finally agreed abide by semi-official returns as fu nished Secretary of State Powe from the various counties and whi< show that Mr. Williams has a majo ity of 648 votes. This motion to d elare Mr. Williams o.f Gov. Vard man. - The committee then formal] declared Mr. Williams nominated , United States senator. This is coi sidered the final settlement of tl celebrated contest. Gov. Vardaman coneeded the nom nation of Mr. Williams by sendir the following note to -the committee "The Democratic party. throug its executive committee, has declarE Mr.Mr. Williams the nominee and accept the arbitration of that tribun; without a tinge of resentment or ri gret for anything done or said by = friends or me during the campaig "I am for the nominee and hol that he will make the people of Mi sissippi a great United States sen. tor. I have made the campaign upc living; important and pertinent prii ciples and, while I have lost the non ination, I am thoroughly convine that the large majority of the whil man of this state agree with my viev upon public questions, and I shall coi tinue to fight for those principles i earnestly in the future as I have i the past. No man was ever bless by more loyal and faithful friem than those who favored my fortuno in this contest. I want them to fe as I do, that we shave not been d< feated, but that the victory is on1 postponed for a season. I have beE a candidate several times in my li and lost the fight, but never have felt the sting of defeat and am n< defeated today.'' SUPT. MARTIN AND POITICS Charleston Newspaper Has Som - thing to Say About the'\Man Who Criticised Governor Ansel~, News and Courier.. Let us examine the extraordinai outbreak of State Superintendent< Education 0. B. Martin. It is a j< of flame, accompanied by rumiblir and detonation. But let us be calr -* though crags crack and caverns crur ble while we consider it. Mr. Martin 's objection to Ex-Go ernor John C. Sheppard, for a pla< on the State Board of Education ( the ground.that he is a "politician excites curiosity. Though he is doub less a well trained and clever "schoi man,'' it is pretty well understoc that Mr. Martin would not have d feated that rather able "school man, Mr. John J. MeMahan, had he n< been a "politician'' himself-indee he is one of the liveliest that evi "came down the pike.'' Mr. 0. B. Martin objects to "pol ticians?'' By the Lord, Harry. Su ficeit to say, that if there be a po] tician in South Carolina who can gi' Mr. Martin od<ds, he is a wonder th; has not passed within our range< vision. Seriously, Mr. Martin's assault c Governor Ansel is excusable only< the plea that it provids merrimen No tremendous issue'ecan be had o1 of the matter. If the -Governor w: wrong in neglecting to consult tl state superintendent, it was a litt wrong, a wee, small wrong, by i means intentional and not 'deadly its effects. The language of the Si perintendent is intemperate ar therefore absurd. The people wi laugh at the superintendent of Edue tion and they will recall that the pre ent Governor is never "stupid''" "indecent.'' It is quite impossib that the governor would desire to r duce the importance of the superi tendent of education. That would 1 a sin. Meantime, the appointment of M1 John C. Sheppard is wise. The sta will be especially fortunate to ha the services of this accomplished ar successful man of affairs on its Boal of education. Mr. Sheppard happe to be o'ne of the foremost men South Carolina. a lawyer of the wi est culture anid mos( admirable ab itv- and attractive personality. I has had exceptional business expe ence and he has been deeply and a velv interested in schools anid ec ges all his life. Mr. Sheppa uld be a valuable member, even -'medical board'' or a "pharmacee E t1eal board. to rel)Iy to Mr. Ma tils fHin or (f any (altel oard u .s5 ol WIlv Itll e Pr eVl( i f a rea l stnalonV and Ibiu, 111an woluld be (4-:' able. Alt'hough1 the Su1-resti(In W, searcely seep into Mr. Martin's min e- we believe, that Mr. Sheppard wou] e prove an uncommonly efficient sta: a- superintendent of education could I le be prevailed upon to accept that pos ie When a man of his stamp can be ii duced to serve upon a state boar ,d sensible persons will find encourag, s, ment and cause for congratulation i the incident. 3. But aagin, we would rebuke an ie intimation from any source reflectir upon)l Or belittlina 3Mr. M1art in's rP enown as a "4poitician.'' : Politics is his long suit and ma r- make him governor some day. Not] es ing else will. -h r- LIGHTNING AND ITS DANGERI e I- Loss of Life Greater Than is Con Ly monly Supposed. - London Chronicle. ie In this e.untry we have no meai of ascertaining precisely what is til i- amount of mischief done by ligh [ ning. In France and Germany stati: tics on the subject are systematical] -h tabulated by the government evei d year. If complete statistics were a, T cessible there can be little doubt thE would show that the annual loss < - life and property is far grea-er tha y is commonly supposel. In one ri a. spect the damage is often great( >e than it need be, even apart from ai 5- consideration of lightning conductbr - During five or six days in the sun >n mer of 18S4 it was estimated by i- competent authority that besides oiL a- er mischief not less than 600 anima d of one sort and another in Englar e were killed by lightning, most of the: s being sheep and cattle in the field. I -- all such casualties it is usual to ri ts gard the carcases as unfit for huma n foot, and they are ordinarily buriei d Mr. Attfield, professor of chemisti Is to the pharmaceutiacl society, hi s pointed out that this is often an m el necessary waste. 2- The carcasses are not in the sligh y est degree affected as regards the n wholesomeness as food by the ele e, trie discharge, and if within a shoi I time after being struck down thE >twere treated as in the ordinary pr< cess of slaughtering and the veins an arteries drained before the blood ha -coagulated there could be no reaso1 able objection to their being eate> This summer has been especial] disastrous. In various parts of ti country thunderstorms have been fri quent, and searcely a week has past ed of late in wvhich the newspapei 7 have not recorded the destruction < >f sheep and cattle. at But besides t.he killing of sheep an Lg attle there have been several disa: f, ters fatal to human life, to say not] a- ing of a great, deal of mischief to prm perty of various kinds. Here, agai - the mischief is often quite easy avoi< e able. It is of course,7very well know n that a good lightning conductor' pr ''perly fixed is an absolutely, reliab t- safeguard against all injury; but l fact which is not so well known d that an efficient lightning conduet< e- might often be set up at the cost of 'few shillings by taking advantage< >the conducting power of trees. 3, Everybody should be aware by th r time that trees are a source of per in times of thunderstorm, thoug i- from accidents .which every now an f- again occur it would seem that thel i- is still a great amount of ignorance c re the subject. On-ly a few days ago t lightning flash struck a poplar tr< >near Winchester and killed a me who had taken shelter at the foot< n it, 110 doubt in ignorance of his dai >n ger. Such fatalities are exceeding] t. common, and it has not infrequent: it occurred that eottages and other builb is ings have been st-ruck by lightnir e in consequence of the vicinity of son le tall tree. to The casualties to animals are ofte [ due to the fact that with the con .1- mienenment. of a thunder shower thE Ld are apt to gather for s;helter beneal .11 the branches of some isolated tre a- The explanation of tle mischief s- very well known. A tree is a com yr ductor of lightning, but not a vel le good one. In the absence of a bett< e- channel the lightning will flas a- through it. but, thtre is always >e chance of its glancing aside to ar medium that affords a readier pa r. sage. Now tihe body of a man or a te animal constitutes a much better co: re dueton than a tree does, and cons l quently the electricity whenever :d has an opportunity of doing so w: as leave the tree and flash through ti [n animal body. The same thing wj i- often occur when the lightning, pas 1- ing downward through the tre le rehes a point at which a readia -passage is presented by\ some adj; e-ent building. The full volley is d -flected from the tree into tihe buil< e'd ing. >f It has been suggested that in a -- fr. ,m the ea 1 1b to r a slirt d isl aice - I te I rev there \o(ll he IIo Stich II dth e ti;dV ., a 1 al In t r of a house, and the tree, which other d wise is a source of danger, becames :e ana obsolute protection, even to e persons or animals sheltering beneath t. it. Of course nobody would suggest i- tha.t all trees should be thus dealt 1, with, but it often happens that from a- its special positioin a tree during a n thunderstorm is not only a source of: some peril but is the ocoasion of much , uneasiness and anviety. 0 According to the lihtning rod con ?- fereice appointed a few years ago by the Meteorological SocietV of Ljoon v to inquire into the subject and report on the best form of the thing-there is nothing much better than a solid iron rod. On the ne.west of our public buildings. such as the new Law Courts, where it may be assumed they . would act on the best professional ad vice, they have adopted flat bands of copper. These are made in sizes varving from a sixteenth to an eighth s of an inch thick and from three quar e ters of an inch to two or three inches t- wide. The copper is a somewhat bet-! ter conductor than iron, and the flat v bands adapt themselves more easily v to the 'Walls of a building than a thiek rod. But the iron makes a very satiS v factory lightning rod. and provided! f it is quite continuous and embedded n well into the earth, going down, if - possible, into a moist stratum of soil, r it affords perfect security. y The cost of such a rod up a house s. or the main trunk of a tree to heilght y a little 'beyond that of surrounding a obje?ts is really very trifling. I- Many persons who are well aware Is of the protective power of a good d lightning rod are not perhaps equally n' well aware that it may serve not only n to direct harmlessly to earth an actu 3- al discharge of lightning, but may al n so prevent the occurrence of the flash 1. by conducting the electricity in a sil y ent stream so to speak. For this pur Ls pose electricians now recognize the i- fact that it is important that the con ductor shall terminate in a sharp t- point, indeed the most approved form r of lightning rod now has a corona of points. and a practical difficulty is to t keep these terminals sufficiently v poinited by preventing corrosion. > When it is practicable to do so. they d should be periodically examined, and d should be repointed when they are t found to have rusted away. 1. The notion prevalent at one time y that a conductor should terminate in .e a ball is quite abandoned, and so also 3- is the idea that a tube is bettejr than s- a solid rod. It use~d to be thought - that electricity passed only by the af surface of the conductor,, and as a tube presented more surface than a d solid rod the tube was for a while ;- the favorite form. This is now known 1- to have been a mistake. >- It is true that electricity at rest 1, distributes itself over the surface of l-a conductor, but when in motion it n passes through the whole mass, and - the efficiency of a metal rod of any te given kind is. to be gauged by its sec a tional area, only, as it has been said; ~s that sectional area must terminate iin r a point, the finer the better. a 'Without the point it will carry the ~fmost violent discharge to earth-or as, of course, it sometimes happens, ifrom the earth to the clouds-if the il rod or band be sufficiently thick, but~ h with the point it may act as a sort of d spout or pipe th'rough which the elee e tricity may rush without any violent n explosion at all. a The Meteorological .Journal for e 1875 relates a very curious illustra n tion of this action of conductors. A f party of tourists in the Engadine had 1- attained a height of about 11.000 feet y above the level of the sea when they *y found themselves enveloped in mist 1 and falling snow and in silence brok . en only by a eurious intermitte-nt t noise which they; presently traced to a flags'taff on the mountain peak. The n noise resembled the rattling of hail 1 stones on a window, and close scru tiny convinced them that it was due h to the passage of a current of electri e eity through the pointed flag staff. i At one moment the rattling was at 1- the top of the staff, at another at y the bot'tom auC at other times is r quivered seemingly all through it, but Snever for a moment ceased. The par a tv ventured to hold up their iron y pointed alpenstocks and they all in -stantly experienced the familiar U tine'ling of an electrie eurcent through 1- their bodies. 3- It was evident to them that the it louds over' and about them were in 11 what electricians nowadays call a ie condition of high potentiality and 1 that there was a sort of an electrical s- downpour through the flagstaff, e which constituted an outlet for a rforce which but for some such pas sage would prob)ably have flashed out - in lightning. Posted In Spite of the Rule. !' Ohio State Journal. Jd Colletor-I am afrairl to present tils iluin in persim tv Mr. Crumip. flad we i1oi better forw-ard it by miail 31anIa2er-Yes]t, but remember tl!i is Iie only instance where we wil vioat our mniott. Post No Bills. Neighbors Got Fooled. "I was literally coughing myself tc death, and had become too weak to leave my bed; and neighbors predicted that ] would never leave it alive; but they gol fooled, for thanks be to God, I was iu duced to try Dr King's New Discovery. It took just four one dollar bottles tc completely cure the cough and restore me to good sound health," writes Mrs. Eva Uncapher, of Grovertown, Stark Co. Ind. This King of cough and cold cures, and healer of throat and lungs, is guarar teed by Wm. E. Pelham & Son, Drug gists, 5oc and $r.oo. Trial bottle free. A safety match factory in Cantii is to be estal)lished at an early dat( on the eastern end of the new bund. Rising From the Grave. A prominent manufacturer, Wm A Fertwell, of Lucama, N. C , relates a most remarkable experience. He says. "After taking less than three bottles of Electric Bitters, I feel like one rising from the grave. My trouble is Bright's disease in the' Diabetes stage. I fully believe Electric Bitters will cure me permanently, for it has already stopped the liver and bladder complications which have troubled me for years." Guearan teed by Wi. E. Pelham & Son, drug gists. Price only 50C. Be sure that the honors you arE striving for are not only dishonors. Hunting for Trouble. "I've lived in California 20 years, and am still hunting for trouble in the way of burns, sores, vfounds, boils, cuts, sprains, or a case of piles that Bucklen's Arnica Salve won't quickly cure." writes Charles Walters, of Alleghany, Sierra Co. No use bunting Mr. Walters, it cures oi money refunded at Wm. E. Pelham & Son's drug store. 25c. Genius is inspiration. Talent is per spiration. A ValuaMe Lesson. "Six years ago I learned a valuable lesson," writes John Pleasant, of Mag nolia, Ind. "I then began taking Dr. King's New Life Pills, and the longer take them the better I find them " They please everybody. Guaranteed at Wm. E. Pelham & Son, druggists. 25c. . CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAR OLINA BY. Schedule in effect June 9th, 1907. Lv. Newberry(C N & L.) 12:46 p. m Ar. Laurens 1:52 p. ni Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m Ar. Greenville 3:40 p. m Lv. Laurens 1:58 p. m Ar. Spartanburg 3:30 p. m Lv. Spartanburg (So. Ry.) 3 :*0 p. m Ar. Hendersonville 6:25 p. m Ar. Asheville 7:30 p. m Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m Ar. Greenwood 2:56 p. m Ar. McCormick 3:55 p. m Ar. Au.gusta 5:40 p. m Pullman Chair .Cars between Au gust, Laurens and Asheville, tri weekly. Leave Augusta Tuesdays Thursday and Saturdays ;leave Ashe. vile Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days. Not'o: The above arrivals and de partures, as well as connections witi other companies, are given as infor mation, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Cen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, Greenville, S. C. Gen. Agt., CHEAP RATES Via Southern Railway. Jamestowr Ter-Centennial Exposition, Norfolk Va. On account of the above occasior the following instructions will gov ern the sale of round trip tickets t< Norfolk, Va. from Ntwberry, S. C. Season ticket-$19,55. This tickel will be sold daily April 19th to ani including November 30th, 1907, fina: date to leave Norflok returning De ember 15th, 1907. 60 day ticket-$16.30. This tickel will be sold daily April 19th to ani including November 30th, 1907, final date to leave Norfolk returning six ty (60) days from aete of sale ani not lated than december 15th, 1907. Fifteen day ticket-$14.30. This ticket iwll be sold daily April 19t1 to and including November 30th 1907, final date to leave Norfolk me turning fifteen (15) days from dat< of sale. Coach Excusion ticket-$.55. This ticket is not god in sleeping, Pull man, or Parlor cars, and will be solc on Tuesday of each week during per id of the exposition, final date tt leave Norfolk returning ten (10) days from date of sale. 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S 25 and 50c. cans. 0 'IONIA-3 Bot -Our storck of the most corn varyingmi price pound. Young Hyson, Lto 8Oc. per lb.S d Fruits, Canned feats and Pickles st complete ever rices are as low lity can' be sold. and fancy Gro cordially invite spect same. oceru, O]d stand.