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WILLIAMS DECLARED NOMINEE t Vardaman Concedes Defeat at Polls, c but Deolaros He will Continue to ' s Battle for His Principles. a " "" I s Jackson, Miss., Aug. 8.?The De- v mocratic state executive committee ji met at noon today and declared Con- s pressman John Sharp Williams is the h Democratic .party [nominee for t'liie \ United States senate. I he canvass ot the returns showed s a majority of 048 votes for Williams, ? the lotal being as follows: t Williams 59,49(5; Vardaman 58,383. 1 here will be no contest over the i' result. ii After a short caucus between iho " two factions it was finally agreed to abide by semi-official returns as fur- 11 nished Secretary of State Powers from the various counties and which show that Mr. \\ illiams lias a major- I ity of (118 votes. This motion to declare Mr. Williams of Gov. Varda- I man. The committee then formally declared Mr. Williams nominated as United Statos senator. This is con- 1 sidercd the final settlement of the celebrated contest. o Gov. Vardaman conceded the nomi- a nation of Mr. Williams by sending 11 the following note to'the committee: I "The Democratic party, through t its executive committee, has declared ,v Mr.Mr. Williams the nominee and I c accept the arbitration of that tribunal v without a tinge of resentment or re- li gret for anything done or said by my i: friends or me during the campaign, s "I am for the nominee and hope t that he will make the people of Mis- e sissippi a great United States senator. I have made the campaign upon n living; important and pertinent prin- c ciples and, while I have lost the nom- e ination, I am thoroughly convinced o t <bat the large majority of the white v men of this state agree with my views b upon public, questions, and T shall con- a r J tinue to tight for those principles as i> I earnestly in the future as T have in f K the past. No man was ever blessed It by more loyal and faithful friends [< than those who favored my fortunes p in this contest. T want them to feel n as T do, that we have not been defeated, but that the victory is only t, postponed for a season. T have been a candidate several times in my life. (l and lost the tight, but never have I j fell the sting of defeat and am not defeated tod a v." CI SUPT. MARTIN AND POLITICS. j!, Charleston Newspaper Has Some- " thing to Say About the^Man Who (\ Criticised Governor Anseh C * 1 News and Courier. J Let us examine the extraordinary |, outbreak of State Superintendent of si Education O. B. Martin. It is a jet of flame, accompanied by rumbling 0: and detonation. But let us be calm, t< though crags crack and caverns erinn^ hie while we consider it. p Mr. Martin's objection to Kx-Gov- |] ernor John C. Sheppard, for a place on the State hoard of (education on (] fit the ground that he is a "politician" p jjf excites curiosity. Though he is doubt- s: less a well trained and clever "school f; r man," it is pretty well understood f] that Mr. Martin would not have de- .? feated that rather able "school man," f, Mr. John J. McMahan, had lie not I tl been a "politician" himself?indeed, he is one of the liveliest that ever (j "came down the pike." i, Mr. G. B. Martin objects to "poli- t'i ticians?" By the Lord, Ilarry. Suf- a '? say, that if there be a poli- if r i* tieian in South Carolina who can give (] /.\) Mr. Martin odds, he is a wonder that li has not passed within our range of n vision. xv Seriously, Air. Martin's assault on ii Governor Ansel is excusable only on <* , I the plea that il provides merriment, c, No tremendous issue'ean be had out oi of the matter. If the Governor was ii wrong in neglecting to consult the it state superintendent, it was a little t; wrong, a wee, small wrong, by no means intentional and not 'deadly in d f/ its effects. The language of the Su- in perintendenl is intemperate and a |Lj' therefore absurd. The people will tl H x laugh at the superintendent, of TCduca- T tion and they will recall that the pros- vi W ent Governor is never "stupid" or <1 f', "indecent." It is quite impossible g II that the governor would desire to re- el ' duce the importance of the supcrin- tl J tendent of education. That, would bo cl j, a sin. ,l; Meantime, the appointment of Air. si | John C. Sheppard is wise. The slate ai )i will ho especially fortunate lo have d the services of this accomplished and <j wti successful man of affairs on its Board In I of education. Mr. Sheppard happens l< Ijj to be one of the foremost men in a W? South Carolina, a lawyer of the wid- o est culture and most^ admirable abil- ii . ity and attractive personality. TTe n has had exceptional business experi- p; '}.,vieiice and he has been deeply and ac- c< II jBvf'lv interested in schools and col- fl H ?k-es all his life. Mr. Sheppard in IL"-Jffi"1!'! be a valuable member even of 'ro^medical board" or a "pharmaceu- si ieal board," to reply to Mr. Marin's fling- or of any other board up>n which the presence of a really Ironi? and big man would be desirble. Alt hough the suggestion will carcely seep into Mr. Martin's mind, k'c believe, that Mr. Sheppard would >rove an uncommonly efficient state uperintendent of education could lie >e prevailed upon to accept that post. VUien a man of his stamp can be inluced to serve upon a state board, ensible persons will find encouragement and cause for congratulation in he incident. Hut a agin, we would rebuke any ntimation from any source reflect im? pon or belittling* Mr. Martin's reown as a "politician." Politics is his long suit and may ial<e him governor some day. Not ling else will. iIGHTNING AND ITS DANGERS loss of Life Greater Than is Commonly Supposed. jondou Chronicle. In this country we have no means f ascertaining precisely what is the mount of -mischief done by lighting. In France and Germany stalisies on the subject are systematically abulated by the government every 'ear. | r complete statistics were acessible there can be little doubt they ir'ould show that the annual loss of ile and property is far greater than s commonly supposed. In one repect the damage is often greater ban it need be, even apart from any onsideration of lightning* conductors. During .five or six days in the slimier of 1884 it was estimated by a ompetcnt authority that besides othr mischief not less than (500 animals I one sort and another in England *ere killed by lightning*, most of tlieni eing sheep and cattle in the field. In II such casualties it is usual to reard the carcases as unlit for human nod, and tliev are ordinarily buried, fr. A It Held, professor of chemistry i> the pharinaceutiacl society, has ointed out that this is often an unecessary waste. The carcasses are not in the slightst degree affected as regards their liolesomenoss as food by the eleci'ic discharge, and if within a short ime after being* struck down they ere treated as in the ordinary proi?ss of slaughtering and the veins and rleries drained before the blood had imgulatcd there could be no reasonble objection to their being eaten. This summer has been especially isastrons. In various parts of the minirv thunderstorms have been freuent, and scarcely a week has pass(1 of bite in which the newspapers ave not recorded the destruction of lieep and cattle. But besides the killing of sheep and utile there have been several disas-i's fatal to human life, to say nothlg of a great, deal of mischief to proerty of various kinds. Here, again, K* mischief is often quite easy avoidble. It is of course,"very well known lat a good lightning conductor proerly fixed is an absolutely, reliable lifeguard against all injury; but a net which is not so well known is liat an ellicient lightning conductor light often be set up at (lie cost of a lmv shillings by taking* advantage of ic conducting power of trees. Everybody should be aware by this ime that trees are a source of peril i times of thunderstorm, though I'om accidents which every now and gain occur it would seem that there i still a great amount of ignorance on ic subject. Only a few days ago a ghtning flash struck a poplar tree ear Winchester and killed a man ho had taken shelter at I ho foot of . no doubt in ignorance of his danor. Such fatalities are exceedingly mnnon, and it has not infrequently ['ciirred thai cottages and other buildlgs have been struck bv lightning l consequence of the vicinity of some ill tree. The casualties to animals are often ue lo the fad that with the comlencement of a thunder shower they re apt to gather for shelter beneath ic branches ol some isolated tree, he explanation of the mischief is fry well known. A tree is a coniictor of lightning, but not a very nod one. In the absence of a better lannel the lightning will flash irough it. bul? there is always a lance ol its glancing aside to any iediun) that affords a readier pa.-*ige. Now Hie body of a man or an nimal constitutes a much better coniieloij than a tree does, and conseuently the electricity whenever it as an opportunity of doing so will ave the tree and flash through the nimal body. The same thing will ften occur when the lightning, passm* downward thron ii I lie I roe aches a point at which a readier nssage is presented bv some adja lit building. The full volley is deeded from the tree into the build i"'. It lias been suggested thai in al' tcli cases if a metal uod were carried f HL.l\r\UU r\ 1\ irom (lie earth for a short distance! up the tree there would he no such Collection. 'J'he metal conductor would afford a readier passaue than I the body ol a man or the materials , of a house, and the tree, which otherwise is a source of danger, becaniesi s an ohsolute protection, even to! ' persons or animals sheltering beneath if. 01 course nobody would surest tha.t all trees should be thus dealt with, but it often happens that from its special positioin a tree during a thunderstorm is not only a source of some peril but is the occasion of miu'h uneasiness and nnviety. According to tin? liiihtniniv rod conference appointed a few years ai?o by i (he Meteorological socii'ty ol' London (o inquire into the subject and report on the best form of the thinjr there is nothing much better (ban a solid iron rod. On (lie newest of our public buildings, such as (lie new Law Courts, where il may be assumed they would act on the best professional advice, (hey have adopted flat bands of copper. These are made in sizes' varying from a sixteenth to an eighth ol an inch (hick and from three quarters ol an inch to two or three inches wide. The copper is a somewhat better conductor than iron, and the flat j bands adapt themselves more easily to the walls of a buildinir than a thick i rod. Hut the iron makes a very satisfactory 1 i??h( ninir rod, and provided it is quite continuous and embedded well iifto the earth, ?ioinj?" down, if possible, into a moist stratum of soil, it affords perfect security. The cost of such a rod up a house or the main trunk of a tree lo hciljrhl a. little beyond that of surrounding objects is really very trifling. Many persons who are well aware of the protective power of a -rood li-rhtninir rod are not perhaps equally well aware that it may serve not only! lo direct harmlessly to earth an actual discharge of 1 iuhtnin<r, but may also prevent the occurrence of the flash by conduction the electricity in a silent stream so lo speak. For this purpose electricians now recognize the fact that it is important that the conductor shall terminate in a sharp point, indeed the most approved form of liiih'tninev rod now has a corona of points, and a practical difficulty is to keep t hose terminals sufficiently pointed by preventing corrosion. When it is practicable to do so. they should be periodically examined, and should he repointed when they are found (o have rusted away. The notion prevalent al one lime that a conductor should terminate in a ball is quite abandoned, and so also is the idea that a tube is better than a solid rod. 11 used to be thought thai electricity passed only by the surinee of (lie conductor, and as a tube presented more surface than a' solid rod the tube was for a. while the favorite form. This is now known to have been a mistake. It is true that electricity al rest distributes itself over the surface of a conductor, but when in motion it passes (hrouirh the whole mass, and the efficiency of a metal rod of any piven kind is to be jrautrcd by its scctiona1 area, only, as it has been said, that Seconal area must terminate in a point, (lie finer the better. Without the point it will carry the most violent discharge to earth?or as, of course, it sometimes happens, from the earth (o the clouds?if (he rod or band be sufficiently thick, but with (he point it may act as a sort of spoMt or pipe t hrouirh which the electricity may rush without any violent explosion at all. The Meteorological Journal for 1S75 relates a very curious illuslraI tion of this action of conductors. A j parly of tourists in the Kmradine had attained a height of about 11.(100 feet I above the level of the sea when they ! tound themselves enveloped in mist j and fallinjr snow and in silence broken only by a curious intermittent | noise which they presently traced to a j flairslaff on the mountain peak. The noise resembled the rattling of bails'! ones on a window, and close scrutiny convinced them thai il was due to the passave of ;? current of electricity t hrouirh the pointed flair staff. At one moment the rattlin.tr was al the top of the staff, at another all the bottom ami at other times is | quivered soeminirly all through il, but ' never for a moment ceased. The par-' t.v ventured to hold up their iron-l pointed alpenstocks and they all in-J stantly experienced (lie familiar tin'rlimr of an electric current I hrouirh ! I heir bodies. II was evident to them that the clouds over and about them were in what electricians nowadays call a) condition of Inch potentiality and ' that I here was a sort of an electrical j downpour llirouyh the fln.trsfafl', which constituted an outlet for a; force which but for some such pas- ! sa'ro would probably have flashed out j in lii?htnimr. Posted In Spile of the Rule. Ohio State Journal. Collector?I am afraid to present ' tins dun mi person to Mr. Crump, llad wo ii(i| better torward it by mail ' I. Manager?Yes, but remember I his j is tlio only instance \vlu?re we will i violate our motto. 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"I then began taking Dr. Cing's New Life Pills, and the longer I ake them the better I find them " They lease everybody. Guaranteed at Win". ! Pelham & Son, druggists. 25c. JHARLESTON & WESTERN CA.R- ^ OLINA RY. S Schedule in effect June 9th, 1907. c) j\\ Newberry(C N & L.) 12:40 p. 111. ir. Laurens 1:52 p. m. .v. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m. """ Vr. Greenville 3:40 p. in. d ;v. Laurens 1:58 p. m. ^ Vr. Spartanburg 3:30 p. 111. j\. Spartanburg (So. Ry.) 3:40 p. m. ^ Vr. Ilendersonville G:25 p. m. % Vr. Asheville 7:30 p. in. 4 -v. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. in. ? Vr. Greenwood 2:56 p. in. Vr. MeCoi-mick 3:55 p. in. ^ Vr. Augusta 5:40 p. in. f Pullman Chair Cars between An- ^ jnsta, Laurens and Asheville, tri- g veekly. 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