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| VOL XLT NO. 92 ^ NEWBEEET, S. C.. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1908. TWICE A WEEK. SI.50 A YEAR fSCHUMPERT DISMISSES'MILITIA Gov. Ansel Is Non-Cominittal?Gen. ^ J. 0. Boyd Says Hard. I Tilings. J Columbia, November 12.?The at(tion of special Judge Sehumpcrt ai Spartanburg yesterday, in dismissing the company oL soldiet's the governor had sou( to protect the negro prisoners on trial, after delivering to the audience in the court room "an eloquent speech," according to (lie reports in the morning papers, which was greeted with cheers and applause when lie told the soldiers that their presence was "not only unnecessary but shameful," caused much comi 1 i . I ' View of Public Road from Newberry to Steel Bridge at Kinards Ferry. Iment, particularly in official circles, here today. Governor Ansel has beei/ severely criticised on many occasions during his administration, hut he is commended on all sides on the fact - tl,at there has not been ;i lynching in | the State during his administration, , 1,(1 apparently anxious that this \ clean record shall not he spotted so. long as he is in office, but he preserx' ,lis usual non-committal attitude of evading direct answers to questions when the incident was brought to his. nt ten tion today. He merely smiled when he was told what the judge Was reported as say| ing, and said he had not read this re> port. When an attempt was made to draw him out by allusion to the probable inconsistency of Spartanburg people feeling aggrieved over the ^ ptesencc of the soldiers, so soon afj tor the violent attempts of the mob | there to get at the negroes, ho smiled again in the same old way,- but refrained from Comment. , Mil- Gen. Boyd, on th<? ?<her hand,' ! did not hesitate to severely eoildcmu the judge's action, saying many hard things about it and deploring il as : being likely to undermine the work that has been so carefully done in the past few years toward inspiring the South Carolina National Guard with a correct and true idea of discipline ; and duty. I i Lieut. Col. Lindsay, of Yorkville, Who was in the office at the time, re- < (Milled a \ orkville case of several years ago, in which, under very sim- i ilar circumstances to those prevailing t at Spartanburg, failure to send troops to the trial at Yorkville resulted in ( | the mob breaking into the jail and carrying off five negro prisoners against whom true bills had just been found by I lie grand jury, and lynching them on the outskirts of the town. These negroes were charged with a particularly horrible murder of a little while boy. One of Ihe prisoners k i h:?d broken down and confessed, iuiplica I ing the others. According to his confession the negroes had formed an association to steal, entering into a compact to kill the first person who caught Micm at il. This boy surprised these ncroos in a field where they were attempting to stc:il cotton. One held his hand, while another held his ( feet, ii Ihird gagged himandthe fourth .jumped up and down on his stomach until he was dead. Worry, grief and distress drove the father mad, a: lunacy commission being summoned : to piss upon his case the day of the! trial, and by Ihe lime Ihe negroes were called for trial, the man who' liad confessed pretended to-be insane' - and repudiated his confession. t h I MOUNTS STAGE, KISSES AC TRESS Ex-Senator McLaurin's Son, Stud-it At Wofford. Accepts Pretty" Chorus Girl's Daro. Spartanburg, November 13.?Lore! t a Marshall, a pretty young chorus girl of the Wayne Musical Comedy company, which closed an engagement here Wednesday night, was kissed fair and square on her lips by young McLaurin, son ol" (he former United States senator, who is a student at Wofford college. The kissing took place on the stage in full view of the audience, and was one of the hits of the show. Miss Marshall came before the footlights and rendered a kissing song. Pointing to young McLaurin, who occupied an orchestra seal, she dared him to kiss her. The student was game, for as quick as a Hash he jumped on |he stage and gave the pretty little actress several smacks on her ruby lips. Mr. a.nd Mrs. Bryan Going to Mexico. Lincoln, Neb., November 13.?Mr. and Mrs. Win. J. Bryan will leave Sunday for a trip to Mexico. They will seek rest ami recreation. The itinerary of (he trip has not been announced. Mr. iiryan will deliver a commencement address in Philadelphia December 23. r To Study Timber Conservation. I he future devolpmcnl of the lumber industry in this country lies in the direction of a closer utilization of rest products. Roll, foresters and practical lumbermen now agree on this point. Just what can be done in this field is well illustrated in the operalions at (lie mill of the great Southern Lumber company, which has just, reopened ils plan! at Bogalnsa. Louisinna, in response to the increased demand for lumber after the recent slump in business. This is perhaps the largest sawmill in (he United Stales, if not.in the world, and is capable of turning out the enormous amount of (>00.000 feel of sawn lunV ber board measure per day. A reader can get a fair idea of this quantity of lumber when he is told that its output is enough lo build a little town of 40. houses, along with a good-sized church and a school house every day. This company was quick to grasp the significance of the rapid depletion of timber resources. Last year it began a cooperative investigation in wood utilization with the United Slates Forost Service and arrangements hove just been completed foi a renewal of the experiments. The work will be along practical lines and wi.ll be aimed lo secure a closer utilisation ol I he products of (lie southern lumber mills and a( (lie same time produce a margin of profit in excess r>f thai obtained by the methods which are now practiced. The field for work akvng this line is ''road. It is well known that the mperior grades of lumber are obtained from old mature trees, provided Ihev are not weakened by decay oi nlher influences. Tn other words, u thousand fool board measure of lumber, sawed from a tree two feet in diameter, costs less and is worth more than a thousand feet sawed front tree only eight inches in diamctet. Moreover, timber cut from young trees usually contains a large amount >f sapwood. If lies, poles, etc., are cut from such material, they will decay far more rapidly than if cut from her rt wood. I| is not good husincs* i> >liey, however, in a great many cases lo saw the most valuable timbei into com nodi ties which are relatively low in cost, such as lies and poles. It is the intention, therefore of llicl company to find out just what size and classes of timber can be best utili/.ed for the cheaper commodities when given a preservative treatment. lo this end a careful study will be made to ascertain the amount a no vine of the products sawed from trees of different sizes and just now each can bp best utilized so as to so- j core greatest cconomv and profit.! T'\>r example, can a tree eight inches' in diameter be best utilized for ties or for flooring: and how will (he profits compare if treated with those WONDERFUL MIRAGES. alse Poak of Tenerifc and Illui in the Dardanelles. ' lie peak of Tenerife is ki nong deep sea sailors as (he " ??k. ' Owing (0 SOUJ(, peculijirit e atmosphere it is always seei "'age in exactly the opposite ,1 '?> ti-o.n which it lios, and 011]V . llial :l" eaptains know that iiago appears long before the iak is visible through the most i Jul glass prevents many a ship ] 'liiijr many miles out of her coi is hard for a geenhorn to he ,iU .llu' l,,!'.i(>stie purple mom wenng astern or on the port 1 iparenlly only a short distance in reality miles away in e.\actl\ iposite direction and the seemi "arl'; 1,1 !'< is Kai-.il, ! . a l?-'?*tion on the clear mi the air. Many weird tales are shipwrecked men who have ste y the false peak it, the expecln finding land have perished of 'i' and thirst while pursuing lanlom niounlain. Sometimes the passengers ow n' a vessel on the lookout e ,also see a much rarer ??'*o beautiful mirage, that of a the sky. ]| usually appears a I <> <*lo<-k in | he morning, about 'grees above the horizon and u II sail, every delicate spar and iu? in,ist clearly visible against ne ether and even the phu rht and shadow in the bell" uvas plainly discernible to the i eye. It generally remains in s a" 1hour or more before gr v rnding away. The oldest it pi- can never remember having : <' mirage of n steamer in that 1 do, but always that of a full <1 ship, and this peculiar fact V('" ,)1nl1' lo romantic mls a,)0"? ship J,, ||,e skv iniecling i| in somc way witj; Ise peak. Tlu' of the Dardanelle, L' ,ea' home of mirages and i Hial any v,ss(.| s?||s p Syrian coast without seem* moi'e Oddly enough, the mirn the Dardanelles are always (lie 'chons of objects that can be s tli fhe naked eye and are iin > y distorted in grotesque and f <'<n-ieatures of the things cted. It is certainly startling a steamer bearing down with" ists where her water line sho and the water line where the ( (he masts and funnel ought. >?', while her decks are in the ri thus adding to her uneai Ibut this is a fremi lil near fhe Dardaneles. Tliert '! l>(,''nl|J'i' feature of fhe mirn ich hover near the false pea ' ':oal "bjecta of which they are ct 10us are so far away that v en 'hey are never sighted ui g lifter the inflection has vani and some times not at all. IS rk Press. It Happened In Church, ipineof t's. \ Southern clergyman tells tlie I'ing amusing story: \fter the morning sermon one S v lie had read I lie notices for ek, and then announced the e.los run Number so-and-so. AI t '""lit one of the deacons cr 1V" "isle, and the mini* used lo hear what he had to < ich was that the pastor li.nl I Hen to give notice of a meeting ladies of fjie congregation. Accordingly the divine crave the e. apologized to the eoneregat ' ''is forge I fulness, and Iheit^ag uounced the number of the hvi d proceeded to rend it. His f ami those of fhe cougregat |.v be imagined when he began: Lord, what a thoughtless wrc s T." Making a Star. ;M can whistle through m.v teet inted out the comedian, "And I made von a leading man ' i-'trcMgth of |i?at," resp;nd"d linen! m-Mi-.o-er. "Now if . ? irn to wiggle your ears I'll m ii a star." sold untreated? Il seems reasonable to suppose Mini the profits derived from the sale of treated timber will F; exceed those from untreated timber. Moreover, the greater use of chemically preserved wood will undoubtedly result in that wood giving a greatei ai life in service. Hence, the amount ot pi timber cut annually in the United Hi j States, simply to replace that which m has decayed, will be materially de- ti< creased, and a further conservation fii of forest resources will result. Re- m cent estimates by the Vorcsf Service p< place this reduction at 10 per cent of cr tl'e total timber cut. The practical sa benefits of these experiments and of It the investigations for the utili/.at'.on tl of sawmill waste are at once appar- to cut. HF. DID WHAT HE COULD. "J The Early Efforts of Theatrical Stars Are Fraught with Dim- o)i culties. j.() . \\ llton Lack aye in the December ,r<; Designer tells the following story oflpj his early efforts: Lawrence Barrett had engaged me (.p to play "another," one of his friends, j ], in "Francesca da Dimini." I was m engaged to play at twenty-five dol-ji? ilars a week, and provide my own cos-J |(] tunics. 1 hat seemed easy enough, I dc but after we had been out six weeks I fu Mr. Barrett began putting on other er plays of his repertoire, and I had to ]>i play several parts in each, and that li< meant as many changes of costume, ea I T bought what T could and borrowed ed the others. It was about this time hji that he played "Julius Caesar." I f? appeared in four roles and got on in very well by borrowing, till the last tii act. Then all the other members of |u I lie company .were on the stage and gc needed their costumes as Roman ?rj soldiers. 1 did the bcs| I could. 1 put Jc on a pair of ragged pink tights and co an old white tunic that Otis Skinnci fa had outgrown and discarded?die was about a head shorter than I am. 1 jj1( knew I was not looking my best in K(> them, for T was as tall as T am now m,, Siid weighed one hundred and t.wen- 0|. i}' pounds. But T was not prepared ()jfor what Mr. Barrett said to me. flo When the curtain fell he beckoned wi to me. I approached. "What do yon jal think you are impersonating?" he tai asked. j>j(1 "I am trying to impersonate ft set camp-follower, one who skulks aftei urn the army and robs the dead," T an- be swered. of Mr. Barrett took another lonir survey of my unattractive person before '* *' he replied: "You looked like a sore "V* finger." Sl" urn ( ~ wh Flies and Disease. ",f fie To verify his theory that flies and 0f( not hot weather are chiefly responsi- jon hie for the prevalence of intestinal (>(j diseases, Dr. Daniel D. Jackson of y ' the Merchants' Association Comniittce on Water Pollution, has been trapping flies all summer at a station near Prospect Park, Brooklyn, savs the New York Times, and comparing '' the reco dofhiscap utrllRDNTTPN the record of his captures with that <>V of last year and with the health de- \ partmenf mortality figures. \vu The doctor says he found the rein- ] tion between tTie number of flies cap- '' tared and the number of deaths reported substantially the same as last year. The fly scsaon opened earliei wj this year than last, but reached its height in July, as it did last yeai, |j)( and the largest weekly number of deaths from such disorders reported lost year coincided exactly with the. j1"' week ended August. This summei 1,1 the highest week I v death record an 118, made for the week ended Julv 18: but it followed two weeks in ,ni which the catches of flies were 2,000 mn each?nearly as high as the maximum. wn A noticeable decrease in the number of deaths corresponded with a catch of a much smaller number of ' flies. Dr. Jackson thinks that the p<> education which the people have had i 1 in the last ve:ir in regard to the dis- ! t!?i semination of disease .germs by flies ! em has probably had a share in keeping , lc:i the death rate down. yo IS View of Now Steel Bridge (Litid'r<" ?ay) over Bush River on road from Newherrv to Dead Fall. crcd \[iotl GETS DOUBLE BLESSING. Mill Mr. Glimby Satisfied With Return on Small Investment. iind foi Detroit Free Press. "I confess,'' said Mr. Climby, ship '4that I never can toll whether a bogbout gar is what yon call worthy <>r not. 1 1?'' am likely to give because I don't like inlei to take even a chance of missing lap- somebody that is really hungry. 11 is ""I exactly a comic situation for f of one to be in, being hungry. yi?f{ "So, when a rather stockily built nak- man, with clothes originally not exiffht pensive and with a pretty wholesome ace- sort o! countenance, ranged alongnar side of me in Broadway this aftorweti 'mm, and started off with 'Cod bless iX}I was inclined t listen, and 1 "* wl:en h.? went on to say t hat he was l>as hungry and would 1 give him nickel; le- which wouldn I get him much in a alt siderablc food in some places that he the lohst orpalacc, but wolud get him couand I knew farther downtown. ; is ''And he didn't look at this coin ( i;, j the instant I gave it to hin*| to throw onfi j 'df the mask, when he had got the one 'uoney. In fact, he didn't look at it iges :t' and that impressed me favorre ably; he simply closed his hand over ;oen it s" that it wouldn't get away, and i'ar- he smiled a little and said thank you, 'an- meaning it, as it seemed, and then as de- 1 moved on I heard him coming after to !no another 'God bless you!' bet ?r the artistic finish of a beggar with uld some pride in his profession, or ops which may have meant, what it said. to ''Really, I don't know, but anygilt how, I trot two Tlod bless you's for my a niekol." en t > is The Human Dray. ges The Constantinople correspondent |{? of the None Freie Presse of Vienna, re- says that among the first of the cry many organizations that marched to itil the Yildiz Kiosk to express thanks ish- for the constitutional decree were the Tew burden bearers or hamalis. These powerful athletic Turks, for the most part beautiful men, despite their dirty garb, have a well organized society \. ilich lays down the laws b.v which they arc guided in their vocafol tion. They come from Asiatic TutI key, where they leave their wives nn. I while they work industriously and fho I honestly for a few years, save theii ing | earnings and then return to theii hat homes. The bad pavements and Ultimo "arrow, winding streets preclude the .jpr dray in Constantinople, and these ;av? men take the plaec of the drav horse. >or- On long poles they may be seen earof 'Ting great bales of goods, pianos, safes and all sorts of heavy propeitv. They are fanatical in their reliion I a 11 f' thoroughly Turkish, but it ajn|sopms that they appreciate the artI vance toward liberalism, and showed i' ; Iheir ability to live up to Kiiropean 0n [ methods on the day after the demonI st rat ion. when they struck for hightch!pr ***** j When T grow up and marry, mofhet, i will I have a husband like papa?" j j??ked Mary. h,'' i "1 hope so, dear." said mother. | "And if I don't marry, will I he on J like A out Sue'?1' t In | "I hope so.'' n'lt "Or-??iou?," said Mary, as she turnake ed aw?'\ "what a fix I'm in!"?TinDecember Delineator. r WAS JESUS A JEW BY RACE? Strange Theory of an American Professor?"Born at Naaaroth." London Kx press. Was Jesus a Jew by race? This 1 was the remarkable question raised by Profc. Paul Haupt of (he Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, in a paper read al (he international Congress on the History of Religions at Oxford. Briefly stated. Prof, llaupl's theory is that Jesus was a Galilean, that lie was born al Nazareth, and not in Bethlehem, and that the Galileans were not Jews h\ race, but had been forced I<? become .lews by religion. '' fhe 1 outiders of Christianity were Galileans," he said. " Jesus' first disciples, Peter and his brother, Andrew as well as (he two sons ot! Zebedec, .lames and John, were (Jalilean fishermen. "Canon Cheyne has remarked in his ' Konc.vclopedia Bibliea' (hat ' Prof. Perey Gardiner lias well said, '4 According lo all historical probability. .lesus of Zazareth was born al Nazarelh." ' " I he tradition (hat .leseus was a descendant of David and was born at Bethlehem was not original," continued Prof, llaupl. "The census referred lo iii Hie second chapter of the third Gospel took place in the year 7 A. I)., that is at least II years after the Nativity. There was no imperial assessment till Judea had been made an imperial province, nor would the people have been assessed at their ancestral homes, as is surestod in I he words 'And all went to be taxed every one into his own city.' "Moreover, Mary would not have been required to accompany JosepH, Jesus Himself referred to the belief that the Messiah was to be a son of David as an opinion of the Pharisees. The Cannon Roared. Success Magazine. While campaigning in his home State Speaker Cannon was once inveigled into visit inn- the public schools of a town where he was billed to speak. In one of the lower grades an ambitious teacher called upon a youthtnl Demosthenes to entertain the distinguished visitor with nn exhibition of amateur oratory. The selection attempted was Byron's "Battle of Waterloo," and just as fhe boy reached the end of (he first paragraph Speaker Cannon suddenly gave I vent to a violent sneeze. "Bui, hush! hark!" declaimed I he youngster?"a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye hear it?" The visitors smiled, and n moment later I he second sneeze - which the speaker was \/inlv Irvine lo hold hack?came with increased violence. "But, hark!" (bawled the boy) ? "that heavy sound breaks in once more, And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is the cannon's o|vening roar!" This was loo much, and (#.? laugh thai broke from the parlv swelled lo a roar when "Cnclc Joe" chuckled: "Put up your weapons, children; \ won't shoot any more." STILL TALK OF CHAFIN HEROISM. The Philadelphia Record says editorially: "The riot in Springfield, fl!., has brought into the whito light of public attention the figures of Kunene W. ('hafln, the prohibitionist candidate for the presidency. While oilier men were infected by mob madness: and others were cringing in fear, he was facing the mob aiwl appealed for order. While so engaged a pursued negro look refuge behind him, with an armed throng at his heels, clamoring for his life. 'Stand back, irenllemen, or I'll shoot every one of you who touches this man,' cried Mr. Oliifln. Some one in the rear hurled a brick, which struck the defender of law. But the negro's life was saved. "The occurrence marks Mr. Chafin as a man for an emergency. lie deserves honor for his courage, his humanity, and his adherence to the vital principle that the law must rule."