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BR&yAN LANDSLIDE. Confidently Claimed That Democratic Nominee Will Get 301 Electoral Votes-Sure of Doubtful . V States. New York, Oct. 24.-National Chairman Mack authorized a state ment today in which he claimed the election of Wm. J. Bryan by a land slide. Mr. Mack announced that his reports showed that Mr. Bryan would receive at least 301 electoral votes or 59 more than is necessary for a choice, Mr. Mack's forecast of the election follows: "The rumblings and thunder of the Bryan landslide in the West are al ready heard in the Eastern States. and today I can confidently predict the election of Mr. Bryan. The laind slide in the west will extend to the shores of the Atlantic. It means the Democratic national tickets will carry every doubtful State in this sectioi, and in rockribbed Republican dis tricts, the majorities of that party in recent years will bo reduced to a minimum. Basing my forecast on the most conservative lines in view of the optimistic reports I have received from all sections of the country. .I figure that Mr. Bryan will have at least 301 electoral votes, or 59 more han is necessary for choice. This omfortable majority will be increas rathcr than decreased when the e is counted. "In addition to the 166 votes of Solid South-and in this I in e Maryland-I am confident that Bryan will carry New York, New ., Connecticut, Idaho. Montana, orado, Nebraska, Nevada, Indiana, , Delaware, Kansas and South ta-a total of 301 votes. All the country there is a change of o 50 per cent. from the Roosevelt Vte of 1904 to Mr. Bryan. . "The result is no longer in doubt in New York. The 39 votes of the State are assured for Mr. Bryan. He will win by a substantial plurality. The epmpire State can no longer be included in that territory called the enemy's country. I speak from in formation gained from a thorough canvass and reports from every coun tv in the State. "From Connecticut I have received very encouraging reports. Judge Robertson, the Democratic candidate for governor, will carry the State by about 20,000.plurality and the nation al ticket, backed by a united party, has the best chance in years for win ning, the seven electoral votes. "Mr. Bryan's tour of the State on Friday last and the ovation he re eived spelled victory to my mind. The in,ternal dissension in .the J1epub lian party in West Virginia and the swing of the. labor vote in that State to Mr. Bryan are powerful factors fcr his success. "Pelaware we exmpeot to win. The people are hot with resentment against a party branded with DuPont ism. Thousands of Republicans there will either vote for Bryan or not vote at all "In Ohio and Indiana every ele ment is working for our success and espite the great Republican majori ies of previous years, I am confident hat bothi States will be in the Demo ratie column. They are for Bryan oday and there is no reason for'be eving that the next w'eek will wit ess a change of sentiment. Eighty r eent. of the labor vote in both tates and fully 'as large a percen as of the German population are for .Bryan. "Illinois is doubtful with the chan in favoi- of Mr. Taft, but if he s.'it will be by a greatly reduced urality. "The Pae.ific coast States all show Bryan -trend and a disgust of the ravagant, destructive policies of .Roosevelt. In each, particularly Oregon, State issues are an im ant factor. he mountain States, from infor n I :have received within 48 .will. I am confident, be count the Democratic column. fine. I figure at the present e. Mr. Bryan will have at least ree hundred electoral votes. I in ude in my estimate the following States: Solid South .. .......166 Idaho .. ........... ...3 Montana .... ... ... ....3 Nebraska ... ..... 8 Colorado ... .... ... ..5 Neada .... ....... .,. ndiana .... ... ... ....5 10....................23 laware ... ... .......3 sas..... ... .... ...0 Tori ......... ..9 Jersey ...... .....2 ecticut .... ... ....7 uh Dakota .........4 Total .... ..... ....301 THE BOY AND THE BIRD. he bird at which the boy had fired rus dow it legs-nd wabbled as if about to fail; then recovered itself I and flew on, its legs dangling. A 1 chance shot had apparently broken I its back, paralyzing its legs, but leav ing it still strength enough to fly a certain distance. Trained hunter as 1 he was, the boy watched the wounded bird, and marked the exact spot I where it finally dropped just at the I edge of a cornfield a half mile away. "I think I'll go after it," said the youth. "Nonsense.' said Luther. "It's a half-mile away. and you have all you want without it." "But the bird is wounded. I hate to have it lie out there and suffer." "Oh. it's probably dead; or if it isn't. some skunk or weasel will kill i it tonight. Come along." It was nearly sunset. and the youth was tired after the long tramp of the day. It would be a long trip over to the cornfield for weary legs-and then perhaps to find the bir~' dead. Already it was supper time at home, and he had a hunter's appetite. So he allowed himself to be over per suaded and the two tramped home ward. But the grouse that had fallen over in the cornfield was not dead. Nor, as it chanced. was its wound of a kind to produce speedy death. The injury did, however, render the bird utterly helpless. Once it had dropped to the earth. it could not rise gain. Nor could it move abom: on the ground for its legs were p tralyzed complete ly. It lay on the bare earth, shelter ed by the cornstalks fi-om the eyes of hawks, and where there was not much danger that a marauding beast would find it. But there was no food at hand. It was doubtful even wheth er the bird would b able to sip a few drops of dew from a cornstalk to quench the thirst that its wound must develop. Quite obviously fate had marked the grouse for a lingering dea-th of torture. Its wound, already painful, must become more so with the lapse of time. Insects would come in phalanxes to pester it. Hunger and thirst would add their modicum of agony. The greatest mercy it could hope for would be the coming of some skunk or weasel. as the hunter had suggested. to put it out of mis ery. But no such messenger of speedy death chanced to come that way. Dr. Williams describes the church service the following Sunday morning, and the awakening of the boy's mind to fear that the wounded grouse might not have died all these days, and he goes on: "The youth 's soul was undergoing development in .that half hour.' He was making one of those short cuts from point of view to point of view. He was passing (little as he realized it) from the barbarian-hunter stage to a plane of broader sympathies. "All through the lesson he sat brooding the same thoughts, and as1 he left the church the idea of the wounded bird had taken full posses sion of his mind. Instead of going home, he set out for the field where he had shot the grouse. He believed he might find the bird even yet. At least he would .try. "A good memory and a keen eye en abled him to go about the point of the field from which the grouse had flushed; and over by the cornfield he noted the exact point (merked by a peculiar fence post) where the wounded bird had gone down. lie went directly to it, and had scarcely entered the cornfield when his dog came to a point. There ahead on the ground lay the bird stretched at full length. It made no ceort to es ape as he came up. It was too near death to fear him or anything, its eyes half closed, its bill agape, as it feebly gasped for breath. "In an instant the youth was on his knees beside the bird, a great lump in his throat, his eyes staring as if they would start from their sockets. The meaning of it all came to him with the force of a blow. Mechanically he brushed away the in-* sets that gathered about the wound in the bird 's back. He stroked the soiled plumage tenderly. He found himself calculating the hours that the grouse had lain there suffering. It happened Wednesday and this was Su nd;ay---twenty-four, forty-eight, seven ty-two. about ninety hours; yes, fully ninetv. What a cruel stretch of torture! The youth recalled an oc casion when he had had a toothache for two hours that had seemed inter minable: but the meaning of that ninety hours of pain came home to him yet more vividly. In an agony of remorse he knelt there, thinking. thinking. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them. a few mi?nutes later, the grouse had ceased to breathe. ''The youith roseC su(ddely and walked to the verge of the cornfield. He selected a spot in a fence corner, and began to dig a hole. The ground inife adn a piece of stick to aid him; >ut he persevered the more stubborn y as his fingers became sore from ligging. When the grava was deep mough, the youth went .after the )ody of the grouse and took it up -ery tenderly, as if so much of suf ering had given it sacredness. He aid the poor thing carefully in the ,round, smoothing its every feather. Phen he resolutely scooped in the [irt till the grave was filled. "It was a thoughtful vouth who L.ked slowly homeward across the ields that autumn day. He was ask ng himself what right he had to in lict such suffering as that. What nanner of friend to the birds was e that could wish only to kill them? Vhat pleasure could he get in future n shooting always with the possibil ty of re-enacting the tragedy of the ornfield? "Long before he reached home the outh had made up his mind. He Enew that he should never shoot his un again. He had entered a new )hase of life. The desire to kill was o longer strong in him. The instinct f the hunter had left him forever.'' -Appleton's Magazine. THE STATE FAIR. Lhe Southern Railway Will Run Spe cial Trains on Wednesday and Thursday Fair Week. The State Fair will be held in Co umbia beginning on Monday, Octob r 26th, and will continue through he week. The Southern Railway will run spe ial trains into Columbia from almost 1ll points in the State during October 8th and 29th. These trains will be -un in addition to the regular sche luled trains operated by the South ,rn. The special on the Columbia Ld Greenville division will run from inderson including Abbeville, and as itated will be run on Wednesday and husday. The following schedule vill be operated on these two days )etween Anderson and Columbia: Leave Inderson 5.30 a. m. 3elton 6.00 a. m. Ionea Path 6.17 a. m. )onalds 6.30 a. m. bbeville 6.20 a. m. "odges 6.52 a. m. h-eenwood 7.15 a. m. Kinety Six 7.38 a. m. happells 8.10. a. m. .elena 9.00 a. mn. \Tewbrry 9.0.5 a. m. rosperity 9.20a. m. ?eak 9.55 a. m. .lston 10.00 a. m. ttleton 10.18 a. mn. ~iontgomery 10.29 a. mn. rost 10.40 a. m. r. Columbia 11.00 a. m. Retorning special train will leave lolumnbia 7.00 p. mn., arrive Belton welve midnight, Anderson 12.30 a. m. Round trip tickets to Columbia will e on sale October 24th. to 29th in lusive, and for trains scheduled to rrive Columbia before noon of Oc :ober '30th, 1908, limited for return itil hovember 2nd, 1908. Tickets ~vill be good on regular trains on ~bove mentioned dates, also trains as ~bove advertised. For furthcr details, rates, etc., ap yly to Southern Railway agents or Lddress, J. C. Lask, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. ohn L. Meek, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga. HAK' VRANT M~O ThPE boANDY-Trhi year PEACH BRANDY-Made e1 "nAD We prepay express Charge Crosses of Honor. The crosses of honor applied for to be bestowed June 3rd, 1908, failed to come in view of the fact that the supply in the hands of the custodian Lad been exhausted. The president of Drayton Rutherford chapter takes pleasure in stating that the belated mrosses have arrived and are now ready for bestowal upon the follow ing veterans. Bruce, J. D. Caldwell, J. C. Dennis, D. L. Goggans. B. F. Griffin, George P. Hawkins, J..M. Haltiwanger, D. J. Keitt. E. S. Livingston, George S. McCullum, John. Shealy, Jas. E. Smith. G. M. Ward, D. M. Wheeler, L. G. In calling for the above crosses the veterans must each bring a voucher of identity, from Col. 0. L. Schum pert. adjutant. Jas. D. Nance Camp, as the rules governing such bestowals require. Mrs. J. A. Burton, President. 1938 Harrington St., Newberry. Why James Lee Got Well. Everybody in Zanesville, 0., knows Mrs. Mary Lee, of rural route 8. She writes: '"My husband, James Lee, firmly believes he owes his life to the use of Dr. King's New Discov ery. His lungs were so severely af fected that consumption seemed in ?vitable, when a friend recommended New Discovery. We tried it and its use has restored him to perfect health." Dr. King's New Discov ery is the King of throat and lung remedies. For coughs and colds it has no equal. The first dose gives re lief. Try it! Sold under guarantee at W. E. Pelham & Son's durg store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. For Sore Feet. "I have found Bucklen's Arnica Salve to be the proper thing to use for sore feet, as well as for healing burns. sores, cuts, and all manner of abrasions." writes Mr. W. Stone, of East Poland, Maine. It is the pro p'er thing too for piles. Try it! Sold uader guarantee sat W. E. Peiham & Son's drug store. 25c. Trespass Notice. All persons are hereby warned not to trespess upon the lands of the un dersigned by thunting, :fishing, or in any manner whatsoever, -and those violating this notice will be dealt with according to law. J. A. C. Kibler. D. B. Cook. Rufus J. Crumpton. H. S. B. Kibler. S. J. Kinard. J. D. H. Kibler. C. L. Wilson. Excellent Health Advice. Mrs. M. M. Davison, of No. 3'79 Gifford Ave., San Jose, Cal., says: ''The worth of Electric Bitters as a general family remedy, for headache, biliousness and torpor of t.he liver and bowels is so pronounced that I am prompted to say a word in its favor, for the benefit of those seek ing relief from such afflictions. There is mo're health for the digestive organDs in a bottle of Electric Bitter? than in any other remedy I know of." Sold under guarantee at W. E. Pel ham & Son's drug store. 50e. ~MD 1867 *III luLl DISTILLERS ANDOSH rEE rE WMOEEL E~ house where we have been doing busine es. 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