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' TILLMAN TALKS ABOUT SELF. * The Senator's Condition Has Been ] Very Grave?Still Thinks Roosevelt will bo Nominated by Republicans. News-ami Courier. ^ Kdgetield, April 7.?Sunday, for 1 y the ilrsl Jiinc* since his illness, I paid ^ Senator Tillman a visit. After being received with a most gracious hos- i pitality by Airs. Tillman and other ] members of the family, I was usher * ed in the room occupied during the day by the senator. lie sal in a large arm chair gazing in (lie log Tire that ] roared up the chimney, In apparently deep meditation. Whel'lrer his vaSt ? ? intellectual powers wqre pondering . over matters of Statecraft, or a Peeling of meditative regret akin to sadness had possessed him, because of ; ? his physical disability to indulge tire soft side of his nature and be among I Yiis flowers, as is his wont, especially Li on Sunday morning. T cannot say, but np even at rest I was impressed with Fr the force of the man. My entrance I' awoke him from his reverv, strong , nature reasserting itself and for omcthing like an hour lie conversed I'ith much of the Are of his rugged loqucnce. I do not asj>irc to reportorial genus or ability, nor shall I effect to rod nee a stereotyped interview, but fill content myself with giving a ummnry of the most striking things he senator said. Disavowing all nowledge of medical skill, or any inlination to assume to the role of the larmist to which most of us are preisposcd, but seeing what I did see. nd hearing from the senator himself .'hat I did lrear, and applying hard ommon sense to the whole, T am free o say that the senator has been lore seriously affect ed than is goner, lly srpposcd, and the apprehension ^ not without foundation that it will e some time before he is returned to is accustomed health, if indeed, such hoped-for condition is ever reachd. The senator gave minute pariculars of his trouble and diagnosed is ease in the ligh| of a profound ;nowle(Tge of anatomy and physioDgv. lie asked your correspondent f lie had any knowledge of these eienccs and upon his modestly afirming that lie did not. went into a lissertation on the science of tire tructure of the hniflan body that vide need a great profundity of bought and study, and applying this nowledgc to his symptoms and how e was affected, said that he fully ealized that he had narrowly esaped a stroke of paralysis. He realled that in 1804. "wflien a mere lad, re lost his eye and as a consequence uttered such a stroke. "During the onversation. without assistance, he calked across tlve room, but his loomotion was was without a limp. 'As to my future plans," he said, '1 shall remain at the Roberson sanatorium at Atlanta until T get 11 the good there is in it, and if my icalth is sufficiently restored to warant the venture T will, with Airs, 'illman, go to Southern Europe." 'lie trip, if taken, will be one purely or rest and pleasure. Philosophically as the senator tries ii view the situation (here is the apparent struggle between duly Irfhinielf and family and duty to his counry. There arc many questions not illy of parly, but national import, hat should' receive his attention and emand his presence in Washington, ml lu- said, with a si?h of restless egret: "I hale to be compelled al this important juncture of national legislation to be absent from my official duties." And T might add par1 entlrelically that the country at large, rtnd especially the senate, will deplore i (the absence of sucfli a representative, { jwho has "a heart to resolve, a head j ito contrive amT a hand to execute." ) I 1 asked the senator who, in his ion, would receive the Rcpubli(and Democratic nominations for iresidency. In spite of Mr. Rooscs thrice repealed declaration that 'ould not accept a third term the tor is fixed in bis opinion that convention will be stampeded in president's favor, and that such sure wll be brought to bear upon that, already inclining that way, rill be swept by the stream of ic and parly favor into an aeoop3. That it is lo this end that Air. ievelt is playing his political s. As against any man other the president that the Rcpublimay nominate he thinks Air. n the most available candidal? (lie Democrats can put forth, but Id ATr. Roosevelt be nominated it would be fatal for our parly ominate the great Nebraskan. ho not, asked I ho senator, enid practically every public policy e president ? And (lie only come measure or argument Air. 13 rvould use against Afr. Hoosevelt d be the third term. lie thinks MY. Bryan has boon very unwise in I his wholesale endorsement of the | tl president's policies. "What did yon 111i111<. senator, of v Judge Pritohard's attitude in assum- jing jurisdiction in the dispensary ], fund matter," was asked. To this ((ucslion he gave lint one reply: j, 'Will you, sir, kindly inform me who v was the author of that remarkable f piece of legislation that authorized ? the commission to place the fund in e private banks instead of depositing it (, with the State treasurer? Had the latter course been pursued Judge Prit chard would not and could not *' have interefered." ? The senator declined, or at least v did not express himself upon the le- ' iral aspect of the question. T asked him what had become of J. his l?i11 subjecting the Inter-State \ shipments of lirpior to tiro police re- ' ^illations of the State law as soon as ii entered the Stale line. i1 "Buried in the committee room." 1 11 was Ih." reply: "Just before I left I ^ Washington 1 requested of the chair- 1 man uf the committee that it be re- v ported, and served them with notice | v that if il was not done 1 was going to v raise h 1 about il some morning. T s had to leave too soon to fulfil my 1 promise." The conversation then assume 1 that of a general nature, others having called to pay their respects. After being presented with a beautiful r bunch of roses, the product of t'lre senator's horticultural skill, T de- ^ parted with the hope that Mr. Tillman might be spared many years yet to come to represent a people who, in j spite of; past differences, now recognize his great ability and appreciate his manly service and broad slates- J manship, and who now dare do him ( justice. "Bandits" Tried. Manchostor Chronicle. A remarkable murder trial is in i ( progress at Bordeaux, the sequel to j 1 a murder that occurred almost 'exact- ] Iv a year ago. On February (i, 1007, < an insurance agenl named Mongct disappeared, on .October 2(i last his body was recovered from the river ' Garonne, at Bordeaux. The prisoners are an innkeeper named dean Kugone Brancherv. aged d7. his wife Lucia. 23, the waiter and ' assistant at the inn. Ilenri Parrot, and a fourth man named Joseph Gazol. The Cafe do la Gare. kept by Ihe Brancherys, ha da very unsavory reputation, and the Brancherys and their acolytes were known as the "Bandits of Langdon." On the fatal (ith of February, Mongol stopped at the inn, and leaving his bicycle there, said he would return when he obtained the money that was Ihe objective of his journey. At the appointed time lie returned?never to come out again alive. The Brancherys were suspected, but had no? the servant given them away it m .uld have boon very difficult to bring the crime home to them, so careful had they been to conceal every trace. It was, according to the prosecution, the wife of Ihe ruffianly innkeeper prompted by the prospect of obtaining money of which they were in urgent need, who devised Ihe scheme. When the agent returned to the inn Lucia spied on his movements, and when ho took out a number of notes from his pocket she went into Ihe garden and told her husband and Parrot that Ihe lime had come. While Mongol was standing over the lire Ihe pair entered the room. Parrot being armed with a coal hammer, with which he struck (lie unsuspecting vielim a blow on lite head. Mongol fell, but had not altogether lost consciousness and tried to rise. Brancherv then seized Ihe weapon and finished the dreadful work. Then he passed a wet and twisted serviette round Ihe neck of the victim hoisted him on his shoulders. and carried him, still not quite dead, to Ihe cellar, where Ihe servielle was pulled tight till life was extinct. Their booty amounted to about 100 lbs, as well as a gold watch. Brancherv and Parrot then washed their hands and faces and changed their dollies, while Lucia Brancherv. claiming her share of the spoils, loft at once for Bordeaux, whore, among other things, she bought an astradian jacket. This fact, in view of their straitened circumstances, was one of Ihe things that aroused suspicion. Up lo this point the fourth prisoner. Gazol, Ihe lover of Henrietta Conrroges, had taken no part in the proceedings, 1ml ho arrived at the inn when Mongol had hocn killed and robbed, and he was let into the secret and called upon lo help in concealing every trace of the crime. They did the work protlv thoroughly, and the victim's body was thrown into the Garonne. i NTo( (ill Hourly nine months late id the river ?ive up its dead. llranchery's attitude at the triii as one of sell' confidence and sanj raid, lie is a jjood looking man, o creulean stature. 11c is. in fact, otirod wrestler. 11 is wife is in np oarance the reverse of what oil rouUr expect after hearing the eas or the prosecution. A round face, ai jrreeable expression, and velvet, yes irive her an appearance of ex optional irentleness. The -most remarkable evideijei nionjr all the 70 witnesses, was tha f a deaf mule named LacampauiK rliose story leaves little doubt as |, lio jruilt of the lirancherys and thei iceompliccs. I/aca-mpaune was em ?loyed to do odd jobs at the inn Summed up. his evidence was as fo] D\vs: "On February 0. 1<)07. I was wash nirup at the cafe, about .'{ in f|, I'tcrnoon, when a yen!!cmi.;ii arrive "Mi a bicycle. If,. Icfi the macJun " a passage. and entered I he parloi Hieiy Mm. P?rancliery served hn drink. She then o;,ve nie a noti "Hi instructions to ?ro to draper' hop and fetch some rihhon. On ni cturn r found the door locked: bu STAT THE COMMERCIAL BA Under call of State Bank ] inerc Mar RES -oans and discounts 3verdrafts "urniture and Fixtures... Dash LI A I: Capital Stock Undivided profits (less expens Dividends (unpaid) Cashier's Checks l.'I. Deposits, Banks Deposits, Individual ZZ JNO. M. KINARD, Pres. J. Y. McF 4 per i^|^t|-a|i||^[terest Paid Newbe In looking for a Ban vou want to find a Si Bank, an Accommoch to consider this Bank come in and open an We Pay Interest J. D. Davenport. President. Edw, R, Hipp, V, President. G. B. Cr Mij&rtzr.uttK3sx**rxfiri .g ^ 9 Buy I We provide easy tei We enable borrowo in Monthly Installmer allowed to meet obiig It is cheaper than pz to save money to buy Contract. If you want to save take a Security Contn Call on A. J. Gibson, Treasurer, at office, c streets, next doo^to t 0KJ3&J r j?ettin?- in by a lit tie back door, 1 saw Lucia taking down a l>nsin of water I , ami a to the cellar. A little later sire brought one of Branchery's j", garments, which he at once pnt on. Miv euriosuv aroused, 1 went down to the cellar, and saw there the body of a man. When I came up ajrain t 1 sav li'anchery and his wife. Tlrey > were both en^aired in cleaninjr the h floor, which was stahied with blood, h I interrogated them, by sijjfns, and f they jrave ine to utulorsland that they * had quarrelled, and that liranehery ' had struck his wife on the nose. She ' had stains on her apron, and took > it oft and throw it into the lire. As * my curiosity was not satisfied and r | I showed it. liranchery jrot anirry, and " drove me off the premises. [ returnod ' about (? and knocked, but thev. would not lei me in. so 1 passed the nijrht j in a barn, from where T saw, durimr v - the niiiht. tirst (Jozal arrive and then ^ e come out ayain with Parrot, the two I il of them li'.ihtinir the way for Branch- 1 e j erv who was wheelimr a barrow an ". I that 1 could not distinguish." 0 ! The man's testimony, delivered by 1 ?, Hie weirdest y'estieulntions ami pan s loniime ami interpreted by three exy peris, created a deep impression on t the court. ? ?? ? J EMENT j OK . NK OF NEWBERRY, S. C. Examiner at the close of bus- i ch 9th, 1908. OURCES $335,541 29 9,713 06 3,1 16 93 52,708 19 401,079 47 ULITIES. $ 50,000 00 \es paid) 48,958 32 1,247 00 1,236 24 $ 1,202 71 298,435 20-299,637 91 $401,079 47 O. B. MAYER, Vice-Pres. ALL, Cashier. in Our Savings Department. irry, S. C. k to receive your money, afe Bank, a Convenient uting Bank* we want you and satisfy yourself arid account with us. 1 on Time Deposits. M. L. Spearman, Cashier. W. B. 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Hunter. j" THREE I Excellent Reasons why YOU Should t I! open an account with a Bank. h First: Because your money is safer in a Hank than anywhere else. Second: Because paying hills by check is the simplest, most convenient and best method. | Your check is always the best recept in the world. i Third: Because it guvs you better standing in the community, especially among business 1 men, to pay by check rather than cash. Think J it over. \Ye will appre<'iate youi openiti^ a : ; savings account. ; j We pay 4 pr. ct. on Savings Deposits, j n The Bonk of Prosperity, | Pi osperity, S. C. 1 DR. Gl.CO. Y. 1IUNTICR, DR. J. S. W1I1CICUCR, ' j ! President. Y. i'resident. ! J. 1?\ BROWN 1C, J. A. COUNTS, | J Cashier. Assistant Cashier. ^ TXrJUtttJK n YOUR BANKING! THE NEWBERRY SAVINGS BANK, Capital $50,000 - Surplus $30,000 No Mailer How Small, f^n Matter How Large, The Newherrv Savings Bank vili p;'vo it careful attention. This message \p plies to the :.ien the women alike. ias. Mcintosh. j. e. Norwood, I resident, Ca. '.i'er. 3STo. 699<h The People's National Bonk Prosperity, H. C. Paid Up Capita! - $25,000 OO Surplus and Individual Pvofits $6,000 00 Stockholders'" Liabilities . . $25,000 OO For protection of depo'-i'ors. H. C, Moseley President. , M. A. Carlisle, Vice-President W. W, Wheeler, Cashier. Geo. Johnstone, Attorney. Better a conservative Interest 01 yotir deposit with Its safe return when wanted, than a high rate and a ieeling of doubt about the principal. A National Bank Is a safe Deposit. Government supervision makes it so. Likewise our Board of Directors Is a guarantee of prudent conservative management. DIRECTORS: G. W. Bowers. V/. P. Pugh. J. A. C. Klbler. Jno, B. ellers. R. L. Luther W. A. Moseley. M. A. Carlisle. Geo. Johnstone. J. H. Hunter. H. C. Moseley. J. P Bowers. We allow 4 per cent. p?r annum in our Savings Department, interest payable semi-annually"