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tXVOS 0 A S VOL XuIV N.8.N RYS,TE1A SPTBR31 SPECIAL JUDGE NAMED. Geo. Johnstone Appointed on Recoi mendation of .Chief Justice Pope. The State, 29th. Gov. Ansel yesterday appointed Mi Geo. Johnstone of Newberry to b special judge for the coming term o a6sions court in Richland count3 which begins Tuesday. The appointment is from Septen ber 2 until the first Monday in De cember and for the entire fifth ci cuit and is made on account of th illness of Judge Aldrich, who has ask ed to be excused for that length o time. The appointment was made upo: recommendation of Chief Justic Pope, father-in-law of Mr. Johnston The latter is well known here wher he has had a nimber of cases ii court. He is one of the leading at torneys of the Southern . Railwa, company. IS IT THE BOLL WEEVIL? Dangerous Insect Attacks Cotton i Laurens-Young Bls Die In a Day. The State. Waterloo, Aug. 31.-Farmer through this section are very mucl concerned about the appearance oi their eotton of a small insect resemb ling in many respects the Texas bol weevil. It stings the cotton bolls an< they die in a very short time. Ver; young bolLs die in a day. wither ani drop off. The insect is small and looks to b, harmless and innocent. but it ha been caught on the bolls getting ii .ts deadly work. yome farmers say their crop wil b cut off considerably on account o: the ravages of this insect. Persons here who have seea th Texas boll weevil declare this insec resembles it closely and that they ar -. and the same. SOME NOTABLE RETORTS. Two Stories of Ante-Bellum Tennes seeans-Browlow and Henry. Tennessee bred two great orator in the olden days-Andrew Johnson a Democrat, once president of thi United States, and Gustavus A. Hen ry, -a Whig, known as the "Eagli Orator of the south.'' They rai against each other for governor, an< ign long series of joint debate byl regeched its close, Johnson ad ~d the Whigs in the audience 'Ih&e spoken with the. boast-eagli orator from the Mississippi to th< Unaka mountains, and as yet I se no flesh in his talons nor blood 01 his beak.'' Quick as a flash Henr: 'was on his feet, saying: "The Amer iean eagle is a proud bird and feed not on carrion." One of the best retorts in histor; occurred when Parson Brownlow wa war gocvernor of Tennes'see. On on of hisr journeys he attended servic at a small Methodist church in th upper part of the state. The parso1 was a devout Methodist, and seldor allowed his political rancor to inter fere with the charity of his religiou faith. On this occasion, being a vis iting clergyman, hew as placed il the "Amen Corner,'' near the pulpit The local minister was as ardentl; Democratic in his views as Governo Brownlow was Republican. In th prayer which followed the /length;, sermon the minister negan to call o the Lord for grace for his favorites "God bless Felix Grundy,' he begat Parson Brownlo>v moved unieasily il his seat, but responded with a cot: scientious "amen.'' "God bless Rob -ert E. Lee,'' continued the speakei A fainter "amen from Parson Brown low. "God bless the whole Democrat ic party,'' cried the preacher, wvaxin; in fervor as he progressed. This wa too much for the governor. With b,und he was on his feet and shout ing : vod forbid! It would bank rupt divine grace and exhaust th whole plan of salvation." VON PIUS AT CHARLOTTE. The Visit to Charlotte of Much In terest to Business Men of that City. Charlotte, N. C., August 29.-The conference between Baron von Pilis, e Vice President J. M. Culp, of the f Southern Railway, Ex-Governor Hey , ward, Count Wedel and President Gadsden, of the Commercial Club, of Charleston, held in the vice presi . dent's private car this afternoon, resulted satisfactorily to all concern D ed. Although this was only a prelimin F ary discussion of the question of making Charleston a great port for i sea-going traffic to Europe, it is be e lieved that Baron von Pilis and the . Southern Railway will come to a mu a tually agreeable compact. I Baron von Pilis and Count Wedel . left tonight for Washington to have a talk with members of the immigra tion bureau, while the other menbers of the party returned to their homes in South Carolina. Count Wedel declared that the trip i through the Piedmont region was a revelation to himself and the Baron. Their visit was an event of much local interest and Charlotte business men especially have displayed a live s interest in the issues at stake-im i migration and the establishment of i the new steamship line of the North - German Lloyds with Charleston as I the terminal port. The Pledge of Baron von Pilis. Washington. August 30. Mayor Rhet.t. Charleston, S. C.: 2 Here, on the line between South and s North. I feel the necessity of express ing my deep feeling of sincere grati tude for the typical Southern hospi 1 tality and the splendid reception E which I enjoyed in your city. I want you to feel sure that I shall devote all my influence and time for helping the Port of Charleston to prosperous Ievelopment. Frederick von Pilis. STEAMSHIP LINE WILL. OPEN IN DECEMBER. The State. Charleston, Aug. 31.-President P. H. Gadsden of the chamber of com merce returned to Charleston today from Charlotte, where he was a party to the conference with Baron von Pilis regarding the establishment of the im migrant line of steamers to Charles ton. Mr. Gadsden said today that the railroad have pursued a policy of friendliness to the project and he saw -no reason why it should not be car ried out suceessfully. He tbeught that. the .first steamer shou riv here in Decemiier as'a sort of Ohiist-. mas present. SThe baron sails for Bremen next Tuesday but before dofig so he will write Mr. Gadsden on details in re gard to the actual operation of the line of steamers and of the conditions required of Chiarleston. S A Tart Old Lady. ~In Indiana. a good many years ago a certain oldl lady, summoned as a witness, came into court wearing a large poke bonnet, such as was then much affected by rural folks. Her answers to the questions put to her being rather indistinct, the court re quested her to speak louder, though without much success. "Tihe court cannot hear a word you say, my good woman," said the judge. ''Please take off that huge bonnet of yours."' "Sir."' she said composedly and distinctlyv enough 'his time, "'the court has a perfect right to bida (entlemfan t.ake off his hat, but it has no right to make a lady remove her bonnet." ''Madcam,'' replied tihe judge, "you seem so well acquainted with the law that I think you had better come up and take a seat with us on tile bench.'' a"I thank your honor kindly," she responded, dropping~ a low courtesy - to the court, "but there are old wo ,men enough there already. "-Law TO SAVE CHILD THREW IT IN WATER. When Horse Made Wild Dash Mrs. Moore Threw Infant from Car riage Into Ditch-Nobody Injured. Augusta Chronicle. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31.-The Hor ry Herald tells of a thrilling escape I from death Miss Mary T. Nance, s pre.ident of the school improvement n asociation, had this week while out v on an expedition preaching the doe- i tr'ne of country school improvement. g Miss Nan'ce had just spoken to a large Y gathering at Conway and was on her way to another point in a . carriage with County Superintendent W. A., Prinee, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Moore, y and Mrs. Moore's infant, when the 0 horses got beyond control of Mr. a Moore and made a wild dash, threat- r ening a smashup every minute. As the vehicle was passing a ditch full of t muddy water, Mrs. Moore threw her i infant into the Water and plunged a out of the cafriagd after it, Miss Nance diving in after her. The plunge it into the water, however, proved un- h necessary, although it was the wisest r thing apparently to be done at the time. A few carriage lengths fur ther on Mr. Moore brought the horses o to a standstill and thn three helpless y ones were rescued from the water be- d fore any great damage was done to y, them. THE CADI'S JUSTICE. How He Taught His Sovereign a Val uable and Lasting Les son. The following story is told of one of the Arabian caliphs of Cordova: r El Hacehem, the son and sccessor of 1 Abderahman III., desiring to enlarge t his palace, proposed to purchase -from r a poor woman a piece of ground that I I" p lay contiguous to it, and when she could not be prevailed on to part with the inheritance of her ancestors the r caliph's officers took by force what t they could not otherwise obtain. I The poor woman applied to Ibu Beehin, the cadi, or chief magistrate' t of Cordova, for justice. The case was e a delicate and dangerous one to mcd- c r dle with, but the cadi resolved, even at the sacrifice of his life, to recall to 0 his master's recollection a truth that the best of rulers will sometimes for-r get. He mounted his' ass and, taking a large sack with him, rode to the palace of the, caliph. The prinice hap.. r pened to be sitting in a pavilion that ~ had been erected in. the poor women's e garden.- . .S "Prince of the faithfiil' said Be- 0 ehin, prostryting dlam1f, "I ' haye come to ask permissi'on-of~ thee to 'fill C this sack with the earth up~on which t thou standest.' Hacchem, although eonsiderably su>prised at such a reliuest, cheerful s ly allowed him to fill his sack. When r this was done the cadi besought his sovereign to crown his goodness by ~ aiding him to loading his ass with the burden. This extraordinary re-t quest surprised the caliph still more', . "a to the cadi 's entreaty jt and attempted to raise the sack. It was so heavy, however, that he could searcely lift it. "How thinkest thou that I can lift such a burden'?'' asked Hacehem, laughing. 1 "Prince of believers,'' replied Be- f chin, with impressive gravi ty, ''this y sack, which thou findest so heavy to t bear, contains but a small part of the a grund that you took by violence v from the rightful owner. How, then, shall you be able at the day of judg mt to support the weight of the whole?'' The calih struck with his address, embraced the cadi, thanked him, ac- s knowledged his fault and immediate- ; ly rest ored to the poor woman thei (field of which she had been despoiled. torether with the p)avilionl and every thinr it contained. The praise duec to a despotic sover-4 (-r21ui aple of such action is infer ir onlv to that which should be ac corded to the cadi who induced him 1; IS COMING HOME. enator Latimer Will Arrive Soon and Make Tour of the South Studying Immigration. The State Bureau, 1417 G Street, N. W., Washington, Aug. 31. Senator Latimer is coming home. 'he good ship Cedric will bring the ix members of the immigration com lission, including Senator Latimer, ith several members of their famil 3s and sundry secretaries, steno raphers, et al., into thc port of New ork next Thursday. After having seen every important ight 'in Europe, these three months ast, hobnobbed with princes and aupers and collected a large number f souvenirs these six who %went broad will meet the three who went (it abroad and talk over the situa "'i: tren they %T 1-i another trip lirougl the Sothern states, where sv-. i' pursue their studie. in im agra.ti.i. shake hands . the.peo 4 and '41! them about Europe. When is all wer they will proceed to their >mes and the secretaries and stenog iphers will proceed to write the re >rts. It is expected that some members the commission, if not all of them, 'ill make the trip through the South ring the months of October and No omber. THE Gj)RAY ~ IS. agaries of the Streams T--t Begin and End In the Sea. There are as many vagaries in the -ater as in the wind. Why, for in- I Lance, should three great ocean cur ants send their warm waters across ie wide Paciic, Atlantic and across .ie Cape of Good Hope? Many theo ies have been advanced to solve the r0blem of their origin, but all have roved fallacious. - 1 Other and equally mysterious cur- 1 mnts eixst in well night all parts of I ie world. The tides are so erratic i different parts of the world that I ne hesitates to accept thp ':1ry 1 aat the moon co::rr,r'M in all I ses, says Wisen i.:- 2le. It is on i seord that the sea has run for weeks t. of the Java sea through the strait Cunda and thence back again for a ke period without any perceptible. se or fall during those times. Then there is the equatorial cur nt that flows into the Caribbean a, the overflowing current to the stard around Cape Horn, the cold1 ream flowing from t'he icy regions fthe north past Ne'wfoundlan4 and rova Scotia an<i along. the American ast to t;he extreme end of Florida, e continual current running with a loity of from 'four to five knots1 hour through the strait of Gibral r into the Mediterranean sea, the wift current running across the >ks and shoals of the end of 'Bil-f ton island, wvhich apparently gtarts rom nowhere and ends somewhere' the vicinity of the same place, and ie current which, starting halfway p the China sea, runs from two to1 ree knots an hour to the north and inally ends abruptly at the north of Then we have those tidal vagaries 1 nown the world over as bores. Res lents along the North sea are famil4 r with them and can see them run1 rom side to side in a zigzag shape .ntil they reach their limit, often earing the ships from their anchor ge. They originate nobody knows here. The rushi of waters in the bay of 'undy is nothing but a huge bore veeing all before it up to the head the bay until the western waters ave i-isen to the height of fifty or Lxty feet. Off Southampton, in Eng-I ud. there are the double tides, while iSingapore, it has been observed r1 day.v at a inne that there has ee hat one rise and fall in the unty -four hotrs. The tides may. e and very often ap)pear as thiough 10 were * inoonstruck'' but they 'e certail not controlled with :ord anid fast rules by that or any Farmer s Union Bureau of Information -Condueted by the south Carolina Farmers' Educa tional and Co-Operation Union. WCommunications intended for this tepartment should be addressed to J. C tribling, Pendleton, S. C. Eush! Be Still and Listen for the Minimum Prices set by the Far mers Union September 3rd to 6th. When the wires begin to ring out he Farmers' Union minimum prices or cotton let everybody join in a egular swan song to stand for the ninimum price and all will be -wall or the good of the whole south. Before you offer a resolution that is likely to revolutionize things to my considerable extent ask yourself if it is right. And then the second :hought-can it be done? Just so sure as there is a good ime and place to begin, there is a ,ood time -and place to stop in every ;hing. It is stated that the good wife >f a South Carolina Farmers' Union nan gave birth to three sons in one lay. At the next meeting of his local inion a committee was appointed to mquire of the brother if he meant to o out and possess the earth for him elf and family, or did he intend this hree at a time act as a mild protest tgainst the importation of foreign mmigrants? At last account the com nittee was not in shape to make re )ort. Oh, no! When your local was or ranized the thing was not finished. You were not organized for the >urpose of passing a few strong reso utions to bluff the other fellow! But :o cooporate with each other for the Sfod of all. Organization without cooperation s something like spending a lot of ime pulting on style, and losing lots )f sleep and other things too tedious :o mention to win your position, and :hen for the lack of grit and pluck, et some other fellow take the prize. "Eternal vigilance is the price of ibertv." You need not fool yurself >y thinking that since you have mnocked out the Bucket Shops, bully aagged the cotton speculator, bluffed :he New York Ctotton Exchange and ~ly-blown the Government Cotton re ~orts; that you can now retire to our homes in peace and plenty; "you nust keep at it all t'he while looking >t for the same old enemies to, poke >ut their heads-in a new place. Keep -our organizations strong and ready o deal a deadly blow to these snake iadi ever,y time they peep out of ie b'oy below. Ever Hear Anything Like This? ''No! I won't join an organization ;hat has a man in it like old Dave ! [f I was in it and such men as him md old Tom got in, right there is here I would drap out." Now let's carry this resQhition out md see if this man can live in the ame school district, church, town ;hip, county or state with such men s old Dave and Tom? All these are 0thing less than organizati'ons for he purpose of protecting the peace md dignity of the country, whilst the armers organizations are formed to rotect our common farming interest. if you can't stay in anything for :he good of yourself and all your fel ow farmers, because you don't love ~very man, you know, you had better et up a trot on youri old selfish car ass and keep it up until you land in ;ome country where you know no one md no one knows you. elling Cotton Before it is Made is Taking Chances at the Other Fellow's Gamne. When you sell your cotton crop be :ore it is made at the other fellow's 3rice it is selling your gun and am nunition to your enemies that will erei v be used on your fellow cotton rowers .this year and( on you next This eation you have sold has been muht to keel) the mills going while tton bears hammer down the prices 1 your poor neighbors' cotton that . a y te m neto take care of themselves; it will -also cause the faithful to hold their cotton longer to get their prices, but all holders of cotton can even matters up by adding the cost of storage to the minimum price. Some who have sold cotton before it was made have got caught already and are now trying to make the bales as small as possble to count out, and get out as little loss as possible. This will play into the hand of cotton bears again by increasing the number of bales in a deceptive way. A good rule in warfare is to never do the things that your enemies want you to do. Apply the Test to Yourself. Have you ever applied the test to yourself to see -if you are good Far mers .Union member or not? If you have not, better start out on a test by first sticking a pin in your own hide just to see if you are at lme or not, and then apply all .the stirring test that you have accused the other fel low with to your own case* and - if none of these or others as bad sting, you, then go out among your breth ren and see if you can't find some good in them and be sure to tell them about the good you see in. them; then you will be on the winning side for better things. If you go about looking for bad things and bad people all the while you are sure to find what you are looking for according to your opin ion. Then why not go out after the good things and good people?-Lopk and work for good in mankind and smile as you go after these and be ,happy. If all the good people tell the far mers that they have .something to stick to this time and that they are going to stick then they will stiek. ME. ALAN JOHNSTONE~ WILL NOT PZTIRi Sees No Conflict in Being President of Board and Member of Legis lature. The State. -Mr. Alan Johnstone, who was here yesterday a-ttending a special meet in, of a committee of the board of trustees of Clemson college, stated that he will not resign his seat as a member of the general assembly from Newberry county, on account of his having been'eleoted president of the board olA trustees of Clemson. A Newberry paper, as reported in the State Friday, in commenting up on the faet that Mr. Johnstone had been eleeted president of the board, declared that this would remove Mr. Johnstone from the legislative delega-. tion. Mr. Johnstone. is no -lawyer, but is a very practical man' and cank construe the constitution of the state quite well himself. He annonced Friday to a reporter of the State that he has no intention to resign. He is not one of the trustees elect ed by* the legislature, but one of the anajority trustees representing the le gacy of Mr. Clemson. His election as president adds no new office to him, any more than electing a speak er of the house of representatives re moves that man from his office as representative because of his official connection with the house. Mr. Johnstone stated furthermore that he did not seek to be elected to the legislature, but his friends brought him out and as.he was elect ed by such a complimentary vote he feels that the people of Newberry are entitled to his services and there is I nothing to disqualify him from serv ig. The committee which met here yes terday was the fertilizer boarJ, which consists of Mr. Johnstonle, Mr. G. Duncan Bellinger, Mr. J. E. Wan namaker and Mr. W. Dewitt Evans. The committee discussed the callee Ition of some guano tax which has not been paid and decided upon the ma chinery for inspecting cotton seed meal as provided by the act of 1906. This committee usually meets in Co lumbia as it is more convenient for the members. The collection of the tax c,laims was left to the board's at trneys.