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VOL XLIV -NO. 950 NEWBERRYT S. C., FRIDA.Y' NOVEMBER iS. 1907.:TIEAWK.$50AYR MAY BE MADE A JUDGE. Mr. John G. Capers Will Probabl Be Given Appointment by President. News and Courier. Washington, November 13.-I would n'ot be a great surprise her were President Roosevelt to nam4 John G. Capers as the successor o' Judge Louis E. McComas. of thl Court of Appeals of the District o: Columbia, who died a few days ago. When Mr. Capers returned t< Washington this morning from Nev York. where he had been on import ant business, lie learned for the firs time that his name was being widel) used in connection with the vacaneyc He stated that he was not an appli cant for that oice, and did not ex pect to be; that he proferred to re turn to the practice of law in Wash ington as soon as he was relieved o the duties -of the office of commission er of internal revenue. Notwithstanding this statement i is believed the.president has him ii mind in connectiortwith the vacancy and the appointment may go to. hin unless a fight should be made b: members of the Washington bar, som4 of whom think that an older resi. dent and one more closely identifiei with the District generally should re ceive the appointment. It is un.derstood Lhat at the tim, Mr. Capers was apointed to the offie< of commissioner of internal revenui he was given to understand by thi president that the bestowing of tho commissionership upon him was part lv 9eause of the fact that hIhad no had a squaie deal when relieved o' the duties of district attorney i. South Carolina. Coming directly afte, his throw-down by the department o: jasticeeit appeared to be a complet vindi ation for Mr. Capers. If th< judgeship goes to him it will be stiL fiirther evidence of the fact that th presiden+ desires to . right wliateve: wrong was inflicted upon him whei he was dislodged from the distric attorney's office, and in recognitioi of his services to the Republican par ty as the national committeemen fron South Carolina. P. H. McG. Lockjaw and Hydrophobia. Dr. Wmn. H. Thomson. in Everybody' Magazine. The fearful tet'anus, or, lockjaw~ was ascribed in all the books when wa:s a student to puncture or tirita tic-n of a nerve, and both hands an' feet were sometiites cut off to sto] the irritation going up the nerve t< the spine. Now we know,that it i: due to a fatal poison in the blood which is produced by a bacillus lodg ed in a punictured wound made b: some stick, nail or pistol wad on whiel the evil bacillus happened to be. I is a soil bacillus and swarms in riel garden earth, particuldarly wher guano or fish manure /is used. Al wounds, therefore, into which eart] has entered should be promptly eau terized. Hydroph.obia also presenits a:iothe illustration of what modern sciene can do. A recent remarkable discov ery by Dr. Ira Van Giesen, of the Lab oratory of the New York Board o Health, makes it possible no'w to de termine in a few minutes what use< to take weeks to decide. As dog: are so generally shot if they bite peo pie in the streets, it then becomes a: anxious question whether the dog wa: mad or not. Formerly, to settle thi: question. rathbits were inoeulated witi the saliva or blood of the suspec'te< dog. to see if it gave them the dis ease. But it mizht be nec.essarv t< wait a month -to be sure on this point Thut Dr. Van Giesen has discovere< that 'a slice of a mad doz's braii sosan appearanAd in the brain cell neve famd exeptin rabies. If thi ifound the serum treatment initiat ed by the illustrious Pasteur shoub' be comm wenced at once, becausei very rarely fails to prevent the de vboutof this dreadful malady i beguu in time. ' The New York Times compares th Wall street muddle to case of meas CROPS NOT SO LARGE. I. r Our Production of Foodstuffs Some-:J what Behind Last Year. Washington, Nov. 1:3.-Preliminary I returns to the .)department of agricul L ture on the production of corn indi- i c cate a total yield of 2,553,732,000 < bushels, an average of 26 bushels to I the acre, as compared with a yield ) of 30.3 bushels per acre in 1906. The general average as to quality is 92.S per cent, as compared with S9.9 per cent last year. It is estimated that albout 4.5 per - cent (130,995,000 bushels) of the corn t of 1906, was still in the hands of farmers ,n Novenber 1, 1907, as com . pared with 4.4 per cent (110.633.000 I unel) of the rop of.1905. in farm - ers' ha'ds Novemoer-l. 1906. and 5.3 per cent, the ten year average for - oil Corn on hand November 1. i The preliminary estimate of the av . erage yield per acre of buckwheat is 17.9 bushels, against 18.6 bushels in 1 t 1906 and a ten year average of 18.1 i bushels. A total produetion' of 13, , 911,000 bushels is thus indicaited, as i compared with 14,642.000 bushels in r 1906. ~The sverage for quality is 87.3 a ainst 90.4 last year. The preliminary estimate of -the av I erage yield per acre of potatoes is - 95.3 hushels, agzainst an average yield of 102.2 bushels in 1906 and a ten 'ear average of S..5 busis. A t: Ital i' odutioll of 292,427.000 bushei I is thus indicated. as comparea with , 308,03S.000 bushels in 1906. The aver 1 age as to quality is SS.3 per cent, as - compared wiht 90.0 one year ago. The preliminary estimate of the average yield' per icre of tobacco is 5 pounds. as compared with . S37.2 pounds in 1906 and an eight , year average of 7853.8 pounds. A to tal production of 645.213,000 is thus indicated, as compared with 682,429, i 000 pounds finaTy estimated in 1906. 3 The averag-e -as to quality is 90, per cent against 84.5 one year ago. The preliminary -estimate of the average yield per acre of flaxseed is 1 9.0 bushels, as compare4 with 10.2 - bushels in 1906 and a five Near aver 1 age of 9.6 bushel. A total production of 25,420.000 1 bushels in 1906. The average as to quality is 89.7 against 92.7 in 1906. The' preliminary estimate of the~ averaze yield per acre of rice trough) i 33.1 bushels as compared with 31.1 ,bushels in 1906. and a four-year aver [ a~re of 31.0 bushels. A total produe - tion of 21.412.000 bushels is thus in I dieated as compared with 17,855,000 > bushels in 1906. s In 1851 pineapples were rare in San Francisco. One day in that year' - one of the passeingrs who had cross ed the isthmus of Darien before leav 1 ing Panama purchased from one of t the natives of that place a dozen pine 1 apples for a quarter of a dollar, and a when he landed in San Francisco he I had six left. He was earrying these 1 from the landing place at the foot of - IVallejo streetf, when there were boat steps at the end of a twenty foot e wharf, which new arrivals approach ed by Whitehall boats from the steamers that in those days anchored -in the stream 300 yards from shore. F The nian was accosted suddenly by a - 'stran2er who asked him what he I wanted "for that lot of pineapples." 3 "They are not for sale." - "But I want them.' said the Cali fornian. - K ' "'l sell you three.'' said the new~ arri'vl, who on the voyage had heard 1 that San Francisco people were liber I al buyers, and he adlded. "bhut they'll - cost ou $5 each.' "Take 'em.' was the curt reply. .and the fruit chang'ed owners, the i resident passing over a Spanish coin known then as a gold '"ounce.'' worth 3$16 in trade. s Bfore tue new~ purchager had mnov - ed aross Battery street, where the I transaction had taken place, he was t Iaeosted, by an neqiuaint-ance, who - akd him to t him have the frit~ A diker followed for two '*a t'? Ithe aequa.intanlOe pain" -i0 adeo for them. La+er in te C (v 0 4 :. e purchaser was boasting ot' the rmp' manner by which he had cleared $3 eand still had a fine pineapple for sup EX-GOV. TAYLOR RETURNS. ugitive Governor of Kentucky to Testify for Powers-Finley also Will Return. eorgetowni. Ky.. Nov. 1.-The hird day of Caleb Powers' trial >Pened with increased attendance and Iterei". The fist move of the de 'ene was the filing of three import 1-tt depositiuns inl support of the ivowal bearing on the validity of WVilliam A. Taylor's claims to the overnorship making good his par lon issued to Powers. One was from ktitorney General Griggs under Presi init McKinley. instructino the post lie:- deartme:.t Io dire'! the post n:ge-.- ( r Frnikfort to deliver the na i: -7,Iate (10iNrIs fl i h s actual , h!line omjee. .\noter was from ravlor himself asserting his ri'h:t as rovernvr. Attached to Taylor's de mosition was a copy of his commission is governor. The third was from Jnited States District Attorney W. q. Smith, bearing on the same point. The defense was assured by the ourt that compulsory process, would >e used to compel the attendance of my absent witnesses. The -ast of the lefense's witnesses showed the facL hat Former Gov. Taylor and Former) eretsary of State Charles Finley. oth now in Indiana. will he brouzht 'ak to Ke:neky to testify in favor f Powers. The prosecution askedl ermission to file a eotinter avow , to thet filed by the defense's coun el earlier in the day. It will be pre ared tomorrow. Judge Morris decided this after 1on that the jury shall be drawn rom Harrison county. Sheriff War -en X%as instructed to summon 200 nen from tha.t eounty to report next Fridav. Harrison is a large Demo ratie county. Pessibilities in Alfalfa. 'the marvelous devolpment of American a2wiculture during the. last m.o decades and the volume of the iinanial returns it pours into the It iffers of the countrv read, in some Ineefs. like a leaf from the "Ara ian Nifllts.'' The following extract from The Baltimore News toue-hing a relatigIv ew nhase o'f a2riculture is, indoed. haraterized by a sort of practical tagie which the lay reader may fini 1:most ineredible: A Texas la'wyer who took up farm - r sa side issue is aid. to be mak~ nto $100.000 a year on 1.400 acres of lfalfa. He cuts his erops four times i year', ets a. ton an acre, and sells it t $15'a ton on an average. Part of The seedi is also harvested, and that ields $1 an aere, the total revenue reeived in one year beino $109.200. 'his dpes not take into account the nc-me derived from the sale af hun Ireds of bad of hAIs. cattle and ather live st-'ok wiich are fatteneAd en the alfa'lfa fields. Throughout the wee: the cron has been foun d very vainnl'le to farmers. as it is easy ho raise. f1onrhi:- in different soils ~na climntes, and is excellent food For triek. It re4tnires no cultivation, n-wn rardlyv after o'etting started. There is no reason why the suse-. snof the Texan. notoa. in the fore v&oo. Thon1a not he dndicated. pro "ogione1l. in Geor?ia and every! f ote of the south. As a matter of fact. t"he northern eetions of the state which have been VCrenanneed' as i'nadarted to th1e culti 1'1cr :i1f.1l as a continnously profit hide rooo. Tral1 a portimi 'of (Georoin but is ft9d. to w.ve Eosten'. fer its nrodue -Ion, and f p'ors with aOfrm acreaoe eonli not- little heftter than to de rote it to the cnltivation of this self erEtuaf1ie: erVopY. ThroP''l2b idiiffere:ace, or concentra i(n e co! ton, as the ene money erop f tfbe Sec'tion. the south 's ar mial hi!lI - crt :-reedi nr '1redu has no ~ o .r' He nr1'IC 1oportionls. -:. a of aliflf'offer's a way e f the : s'perfh'i us exr'se, as well as a ne~w souree oif revenue to the southern farmer.-Atlanta Con d itntion. THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Many People Going and Coming-U. D. C. Officers-Good Farming Telephone Moved. Prosperity, Nov. 14.-Miss Isola Bede;rbaugh, of Newberry, is ex peeted this week to visit Mrs. Jas. M. Werts. Jas. Calmes has returned to the Porter Military acadeny, Charleston, to resume his studies in that institu tion. Miss Ruth Perry, o.f Newberry, and Miss Eula Ray Sligh, who is attend ing school in Newberry, will visit Miss Mary Willis Friday. Miss Emma Bell has returned from her viil to Alanta. Mr. 8. L. Whecler spent a couple has in t,:w: the past week. The U. D). (.s will give an oyster supper on Friday. November 29. An address will be made by the celebrat ed orator, W. W. Lumkin, of Colum bia. Miss Della Bowers is visiting in Newberry. Capt. H. S. Boozer spent a couple days in Prosperity the past week. Miss Kate Thompson having recov ered, Miss Joe has returned home. Mr. Olin Lane, of Columbia, was in town Wednesday. Miss Alma Hartman has been vis iting Mrs. Joe B. Hartman. Mrs. Browne. of Georgia. who has been visiting her sister. Mrs. J. B. Fellers, has returned hme. Mr. Jas. D. Quattlebaum was call ed to Bamb:rg last week by- the death of his brother. Mr. Ed. Mathis, of Whitmire, is visiting the home folks. .Uncle Charlie Stoudemayer was in town on Monday and says that there will be 3,000 bushels of corn and over 60 bales of cotton made on the Klondike this year.' This is farming some. -The iggregate would amount to at least $5,000 with corn at 90 ents and cotton 4 11c. Why go west or any where else when such farming and such lands are to be found right here in Newberry coun ty.. Mesdames Naiinie Lake, of Laur ens,. and Harriett Lane, of Newberry, are visiting Mesdames 'Lane . and Hawkins, this week. s Miss Nannie I4unter, of St. Lukes. s visiting her sister. Mrs. A. HI. Haw kins. ir:. H. W. Peak, of Roc'ky Mount. Va.. after a pleasant visit to Mrs. Z. W. Bedeabaii' h, has -returned home.: 'Mrs. B. B.-*Schumpert has return edl from a pleasant visit to Mrs. Lee Singley of Gary's. Miss Gussie Nunna'maker, of Co luibia, is visiting Mrs. A. A. Sing iey. Miss- Mamie Counts spent Satur day and Sunday at home with her parents. Miss Mamie teaches the Budriek school in No. 11 township. Mrs. M. H. Boozer has sold the old Philip Sligh place to Messrs. P. H. and R. D. Kinard. Miss. Lula Moseley is visiting in Newberry. Mr. Bushnell Bowers attended the marriage of Miss Neville Pope. Mr. Jas. D. Luther, of Columbia, made a flying trip to Prosperity Sunday. The central office of the telephone Co. is being moveh1 into the Wise buildin e on Main street, over the hardware store. Mr. F. Bobb is moving into the store vacated by Mr. Craig~ and will he there during the erection of his new briek store on the site of t-he pesent one. This is the last of the Old frame buildings. HIon. K. Baker, of Greemvwood, made a hurried trip to Prosperity last Tuesday. Mr. Clarence Bundrick andi family visitd ip town the past week. Mrs. W. G. Houseal has been on a visit to Mrs. Z. W. Bedenbaugh. The U. D. C. at their last meeting ekered the following officers for the eflug year: Prei(dent, Mrs. G. Y. Huniter. Viceo-president, Mr-s. E. WX. Werts. Recording Secore tary, Mrs. S. D. Duncan. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Lu i Moseley. Treasurer. irs. F. E. Selumpert. Historian, Miss Narrine Simpson. Re,istrar. Miss Lucy Fellers. \\e note the correspondent of th News and Courier ends his report o the court pIroceedings, etc., in New berry, as follows: "There are still quite a number o cases on the criminal docket, and thi is a prohibit-i-i county, too.'' We think this a gratuitous fling a the prohibitionists. We could j sa; that the decalogue prohibits quite good many things of which no doub this correspondent is guilty and w could add and he is a member of th church. See. Shall These Orphans Have a Thanks giving? Dr. .Tacob,s of the Thronwell Or phanage. Clinton, S. C., writes: "A little child alone in the work its bright black eyes filled with tears came to me held by the hand of good woman. Only five years ol fatherless, motherdess, she finds hei self after a long ride on the ears, un der the care of a friendly traveler, a the door of the .Orphanage. But poo little thing, she knows nothing o where she is, does n'ot even know th place from which she came; she ha her name written on -a slip of pape as an introduction to the kind friend who are hereafter to care for her. S41 brings a little package under he arms. it is her all of worldly good, '-o it was. only a few weeks ago, bu I HO m iioxv dififeren't. Tears are driec She is. opening her bright eyes to ti lesso:s that come to her daily. Fallin into the routine of chapel and schoc and dinner and play', she is wakin, up, her young soul is speakin through lips and fingers and feet an: dimpled cheek. "Someone now loves the little gir Someone puts her to sleep at nigh after her lips have whispered "Ou Father.'" She i finding a home, sla is finding herself. she will some da find God. This little child was welcomed t the loving care of the Thornwell 01 phanage. Every oxie of the -250 chi dren in the school of that in,titutio have had more or less of the sam experience. It is true that betwee I them and grim necessity, there is tc day a strng wall of defenee. But th people who love Godi and little chil dren are that wall. The Orphanagei under Presbyterian control but iti for all orphans. It turns none awa because of its father's faith. Ther are 15S ornhans from South Carolin Tinder its care. 62 from Georgia, 2 from Florida and the rest from te other Southern states. Not.one has living father. Send gifts of provisions or mone to ThronwvelI Orphanage Clinton, E C.. making checks payable to D. Jaco'bs. PRIVILEGE TAX FALLS BEHIN] Colletions This Year Will Probabi Be $15,000 Less Than Amount -Realized Last Year. The State. .The privilege tax derived from th fertilizer industry by the state wi prbably fall $15.000 short of th amount collected last year. Tb amount collected to date is $145,918 71. Up to the same~date last year th collections amounted to $157,371.6( more than $11,000 in excess of thi year's receipts. While the privilege tax is collecte by the state treasurer. not one een of it goes into the general fund bu all is applied to the maintenance o Clemson colleze. While the collet tions will undoubtedly fall short o those of last year no fears are enter taini' i.hat Clemson will suffer o: this aevonint as this c.ollege is wel provided for in the amount thus fa reei ved. The gr -nd total collected in 190 M::re r an't necessarily a failur ut it is seldom what it is styose to be. Skilful men should know how t dniss their skill. THINKS DEMOCRATS CAN WIN. -Congressman Aiken also Believes that Bryan Will be Nominee. The Newz and Courier printed last Friday the views of Representatives Ellerbe, Finley Johnson, Lever and Legare. The tollowing statement in answer to the same questions has just been received from Congressman 7 Wyatt Aiken of Abbeville, Mr. Aik.en stating that he was absent from Ab t beville when the request for - his views reached his home: 1. Who is your choice for Demo cratic nominee for President and why do you favor him'" . My belief is that Bryan will be nominated. A southern man would Snot stand as good chance of election as Parker did. One of the Johnsons might be worth considering. 2. "What should be the paramount e issue or issues of the next eam ,Paigni' 'The -paramount issue of the next . campaign should be and must be to t lower the tariff. The tgusts are fost r ered and protected by the robber tariff which, of course, excludes foreign competition, and the president, in S pretending to ,fight the trusts without r lowering the tariff, knows beiter than S anybody else in this country that he e is ndt sincere. but is only making a great noise t' keep' himself "n the centre of the 'spot light." No man t iA America. today is more ---esponsible for the failure to make an- honest and e real fight on the trusts than Presi r dent Roozevelt. He is responsible for ,I the panic. on Wall street. 3. '.'Do you believe in Government ownership of railroads?" i I do n6t believe in government ownership of railroads, but I do. be lieve in strict governmental control t of railroads, expr'ess companies, sleep in ear comranies and telegraph and lepiwne systems. -4. ",Cani th-e Demoeratic party win?" i a strong, red-hot a-td aggressive fight is made on a tariff reforn;t pla't form the De-mocratic party will 4ta:nd a rcod fighting chance to win. 1 TIGHT MONEY AND COTTON. Are "Bear'' Speculators Responsi ble for Present Financial 5'. Situation. News and Courier. Suniter. November 13.--A travel ing man. who has lAtely been in dif ferenit parts of this sta'te and of 1 North Carolina, in a eonversation here today concerning 'the money sit nation, said he had heard ofsvea yinstances (in one case getiting it from the buyer himself) where the large. export business had sent theit repres entatives i;nto tiis territory, giving them instruetions to buy the cotton and furnishing them with government currency to pay cashi for same. Assuming that this 'report is found ed on facets, this condition of affairs may be but one oZ~the legitimate exi genoies of trade brought about by the present stringency of the money mar ket; and yet it seems somewhat strang~e that if the money is to be ihad at all it is not furnished to their representatives by the export houses. trogh the usual channels of the banks. SWhile there may be nothing to it, still the reports may be taken as con firmatory evidence of the e:vistence of a real foundation. for a suspicion that has entered the minds of not a few hat the present condition of the money market is part and parcel of a movement on the part of -cotton spe enlators to bear the market for that taple. SIf such a conjecture should prove to be true, the confidence in the south n the New York banks would ba rudely shaken, if not disrupted, and Sthe representatives in this territory of the concerns thus taking advan tage of the situation to buy on the enforced bear market would in all eproaility ineet with a warm, not to say a hot, reception.-' The report is given for what it is worth. It should be i-emembered,, >1 however, that ,in times of stress re I t., runus k.nd suspicions are rife.