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~~rat VOL XLV NO, 92 NEWBERRY, S. C.. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1908. TWJOE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR SCHUMPERTI ISMISSESIM MA Gov. Ansel Is Non-Committal-Gen. J. C. Boyd Says Hard. Things. Columbia, November 12.-The ae tion of special Judge Schumpert ot Spartanburg yesterday, in dismissing the company of soldiers the governor had sent to protect the negro prison ers on trial, after delivering to the audience in the court -room "an elo quent speech." according to the re ports in the morning papers, whicn was greeted with cheers and applause when he told the soldiers that their presence was "not only unnecessary but shameful," caused much com View of Public Road from Newberry to Steel Bridge at Kinards Ferry. ment, -particularly in official. circles, here today. Governor Ansel has beei severely criticised on many occasions during his administration, bu.t he is commended on all sides on the fact that there has not been a lynching in the State during his administration, and he is apparently a7xious that this clean recofd shall not be spotted so long as he is in office, but he preserv ed his usual non-eommittal-attitude of evading direct answers to questions when the jncident was brought to hij attention today. -e merly 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 pro bable inconsisteney of Spartanburg people feeling aggrieved over the I presence of the soldiers, so soon af ter the violent attempts of the mob i there to get at the negroes, be smiled again in the same old way,- but re frained from eorument.I Adjt. Gen. Boyd, on the dPhei' hsnd, did not hesitate to severely edtemniI the judge's action, saying many hard ' things about it and deploring it as being likely to undermine the work f that has been so carefully done in the i' past few years toward inspiring the South Carolina National Guard with ' s correct and true idea of discipline and duty. ' Lieut. Col. Lindsay, of Yorkville, I dWo was in the office a.t the time, re- e egli1ed a Yorkville case of several t years ago, in which, under very sim-j. ilar circumxstances to those prevailing t at Spartanburg, failure to send troops '1 to the trial at Yorkville resulted in ( the mob breaking into the jail and r istrying off five negro prisoner.s against whom true bills had just beeni found by the grand jury, and lynch-t ing them on the outskir'ts of the town. These negroes were charged with a< particularly horrible mur-der of a lit-'< tie white boy. One of the prisonerstI hed brokeni down and confessed, im- i1 plicating the others. According to his confession the negroes had formedi an association to steal, entering into 1 a co>mpact to kill the first person whoV eaught t.hemn at it. This boy surprised these neroes in a field where they' were attempting to steal cotton. One held his hand, while another held his feet, a third gagged him and the fourth jumnped up and down on his stomach until he was dead. Worry, grief and distress drove the father mad, a: lunacy commission being. summoned to p-1s upon his case the day of the: trial, and by the time the negroes were called for trial. the man who had con fessed pretended to .be insane ad repudiated his confession. MOUNTS STAGE, KISSES AC TRESS Ex-Senator PrcLaurin's Son, Stud.-It At Wi2fford. Accepts Pretty Chorus Girl's Dare. Spartanburg, November 13.-Lo retta 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 of the 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 be fore the footlights and rendered a kissing song. Pointing to young Me Laurin, who occupied an orchestra seat, she dared him to kiss her. The student was game, for as quick as a flash he jumped on the stage and gave the pretty little actress several smacks on her rub.y lips. Mr. aud 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 and recreation. The itinerarv of the trip has not been an nounced. Mr. Brvan will deliver a commenee ment address in Philadelphia Dee,m ber 23. "To Study Timber Conservation. The future devolpment of the lum ber industry in this country lies in the direction of a closer utilization of forest products. Both foresters and practical lumbermen now agree on this point. Just what can be done in this field is well illustrated in the opera tions at the mill of the great South inr Lumber company, which has just eopened its plant at Bogalusa, Louis ana, in response to the increased de nand for lumber after the recent 4ump in business. This is perhaps he largest sawmill in the United tates. if not.in the world, and is eap ble of turning out the enormous imount of 600,000 feet of sawn luq er board measure per day. A reaj !r can get a fair idea of this quantity )f lumber when he is told that its out ut is enough to build a little town of 0 houses, along with a good-sized ~hurch and a school house every day. This company was quick to grasp he significance of the rapid deple ion of timber resources. Last year t began a cooperative investigation ini ood utilization with the United states Forest Service and arrange nents have just been completed foi Srenewal of the experiments. The o'k will be along practical lines and 'ill be aimed to secure *a closer utihi ation of the products of the southern mber niills and at the same time roduce a rmargin of profit in excess f that obtained by the methods ~hieh are rice~ practiced. The field for work along this line is road. It is well know~n That the perior grades of humbe'r are obtain d from old mature trees, provided hey are not weakened by decay o1 ther influences. In other words, a hosand feet board nieasure of Ium er, sawed from a tree two feet in iameter, costs less and is worth ore than a thousand feet sawed from tree only eight inches in diametet. foreover, timber cut from young rees usua,lly contains a large amount f sapwood. If ties, poles, etc., are ut from such material, they will de ay far more rapidly than if cut from :ertwood. It is not good businese niy, however, in a great many cas s to saw the most valuable timbei nto com-'nodities which are relative y low in cost, such as ties and poles. t is the intention, therefore of the ~opany to find out j:ist wVhat size :d el:'s'es of timber can be best uti ied for the cheaper commrodities hen given a preservative treatment. To this end a enreful study will be mvde to aseertain the amount an(a clue of the products sawed frmr~ rees of different sizes anid just no0w ahcan be best utilized so as to se *.re greatest economy and profit. Fr,u example, e:m a tree eight inches n di.ameter be best utilized for ties a for* flooring: and howv will the pro sold untreated? It seems reasonable to suppose that the profits derived from the sale of treated timber will exceed those from untreated timber. Moreover, the greater use of chemi eally preserved wood will undoubted ly result in that wood giving a greatei life in service. Hence, the amount ot timber eut annually in the United States, simply to replace that which has decayed, will be materially de creased, and a further conservation of forest resources will result. Re cent estimates by the Forest Service place this reduction at 10 per cent of the total timber cut. The practical benefits of these experiments and of the investigations for the utilizaG:on of sawmill waste are at once appar ent. HE DID WHAT HE COULD. The Early Efforts of Theatrical Stars Are Fraught with Diffi culties. Wilton Lackaye in the December Designer tells the following story of his early efforts: Lawrence Barrett had engaged me to play "another,'" one of his friends, in "Francesca da Dimini." I was -eIgaged' to play at twenty-five dol lars a. week, and provide my own cos tumes. That seemed easy enough, but after we ha.d been out six weeks Mr. Barrett began putting on other plays of his repertoire, and I had to play several parts in each, and that meant as many changes of costume. I bought what I could and borrowed the others. It was about this time that he played "Julius Caesar." I appeared in four roles and got on very well by borrowing, till the last act. Then all the other members of the company iwere on the stage and needed their costumes as Roman soldiers. I did the best I could. I put on a pair of ragged *pink tights and an old white tunic that Otis Skinne1 had outgrown and discarded--he was about a head shorter than I am. I knew I was not looking my best in them, for I was as tall as I aM now nd weighed one hundred and twen ty pounds. But I was not prepared for what Mr. Barrett said to me. When the ourtain fell he beckoned to me. I approached. "What do yoi think you are impersonating?'' he asked. "Iam trying to impersonate a camp-follower, one who skulks afte1 the army and robs the dead,'' I an swered. Mr. Barrett took another -lone suir vey of my unattractive person before he replied: "You looked like~a sore finger.'' Flies and Disease. To verify his theory that flies and not hot weather are chieflyrepni ble for the prevalence of intestinal diseases, Dr. Daniel D. Jackson of' the Merchants' Association Commit tee on Water Pollution, has beena trapping flies all summer at a station near Prospect Park, Brooklyn, says the New York Times, and comparing the reco dofhiseap utrHRDNUPN the record of his captures with that of last year and with the health de partment mortality figures. The doctor says he found the rela - tion between the number of flies caps tured and the number of deathi re ported substantially the same as last year. The fly sesaon opened earliet this year than last, but reached its height in July, as it did last yea1, and the largest weekly number of deaths from such disorders reported last year coincided exactly with the week ended August 3. This summei the highest weekly death record was 448, made for the week ended JulN 18: but it followed two weeks in which the catches of flies were 2.00 each-nearly as high as the maxi mum. A noticeable decrease in the num ber of deaths corresponded with a catch of a much smaller number of flies. Dr. Jackson thinks 'that the education which the people have had in the last year in regard to the dis semination of disease,germs by flies has probably had a share in keeping the death rate down. WONDERPUL MIRAGES. False Peak of Tenerife and Illusic in the Dardaielles. The peak of Tenerife is kno, among deep sea sailors as the "fa: peak." Owing to some peculiarity the atmosphere i: is always seen mirage in exactly the opposite dir tion from which it lies, and only t fact that all captains know that t mirage appears long before the tr peak is visible through the most po erful glass prevents many a ship fr< sailing many miles out of her cour It is hard for a geenhorn to belie that the majestic pirple -mountz towering astern or on the port bef apparently only a short distance c is in reality miles away in exactly t opposite direction and the seemine solid earth at which he is gazing only a reflection on the clear mirr of the air. Many weird tales are tc of shipwrecked men who have steer for the false peak in the expectati of finding land have perished of hu 1,ger and thirst while pursuing -C phantom mountain. Sometimes the passengers a: crew of a vessel on the lookout f the false peak see a much rarer a i.vre beautiful mirage, that of a sh in the sky. It usually appears abo 10 o'cloek in the morning, about t degrees above the horizon and und full sa.il, every delicate spar and ta ering mast clearly visible against t blue ether and even the play light and shadow in the bellyi canvas plainly discernible to the na ed eye. It generally remains in sig half an hour or more before grac fully fading away. The oldest mp iner can never remember having se the mirage of a steamer in that la tude, but always that of a full ri ged ship, and this peculi-ar fact h given birth to many romantic I gends about the ship in the sky, connecting it in some way with t false peak. The vicinit of the Dardanelles the real home of mirages, and it seldom that any vessel sails aloi the Syrian coast without seeing oi or more. Oddly enough, the mirag, of the Dardanelles are always the r flections of objects that can be se( with the naked eye and are inva iably distorted in grotesque and faA tastic caricatures of the things d flected. - It is' certainly startling1 see a steamer bearing down with he masts where her water line shoul be and the water line where the to1 of the masts and funnel ought show, while her decks are in the rig] place, thus adding to her uncant appearance, but this is a frequel sight near the Dardaneles. There one peculiar feature of the mirag which hover near the false peak the real objeets of which they are r flections are so far away that vei often they are never sighted unt long after the feflection has vanisi ed, and' some times not 'at aII.-Ne York Press. It Happened in Church, Lippincott 's. A Southern clergyman tells the fe lowing amusing. story: After the morning sermon one Sul day he had read the notices for ti week, and then announced the closir hymn-Number so-and-so. At *h moment one of the deacons can down the aisle, and the minist paused to hear what he had to sa which was that the pastor had fo gotten to give notice of a meeting the ladies of the congregation. Accordingly the divine save the n tiee, apologized to t'he congregatic for his forgetfulness, and then aga announced the number of the hym and proceeded to read it. His fee ings and those of the congregati may be imagined when he began: "Lord, what a thoughtless wret< was I.'' Making a Star. "'I can whistle through my teeth, pointed Gout the comedian. ''And I made you~ a leading muan< eminent mner. ''Now if rou~ le-irn to. wigdze your ears I'll mal 1k S. ,vn AM L Ise otj w~\ bv b, he & p he ly """""""""" f0 ye 0 1 .101 is View of New Steel Bridge (Lind- A z 01 sav) over Bush River on road Id from Newberry to Dead Fall. ed~~~~~~ _______X______ 3e 011 GETS DOUBLE BLESSING. h IMI - Mr. Glimby Satisfied With Return onf - Small Investment. ad Newerr a 01 Detroit Free Press. ad "I confess," said Mr. Glimby, ip "that I never can tell whether a beg Ut gar is what you call worthy or not. I U en am likely to give because I don't like ei to take even a chance of missing P- somebody. that is rcally hungry. it he is not exactly a comic situation for of one to be in, being hungry. ag "So, when a rather stockily built, k- man, with clothes originally not ex- a ht pensive and with a pretty wholesome ti e- sort of countenance, ranged along - side of me in Broadway this after en 'oon, and started off with 'God bless A1- :>u!' I wa's inclined to listen, and g- when h went on to say that he was t s hungry and would I give him nickel; e- which wouldn't get him much in a Li siderable food in some places that he ie lobsterpalace, but wolud get him con and I knew farther downtown. is "And he didn't look at this coin is the instant I gave it to hitrg to throw ig off the mask, when he had got the le money. In fact, he didn't look at it sp s at all, and that impressed me favor e. ably; he simply closed his hand over m it so that it wouldn't get. away, and r he smiled a little and said thank you, 01 meaning it, as it seemed, and thea hi e. I movcd on I heard him coming after o me with another 'God bless you! t r Or the artistic finish of a beggar wiflh. re a some pride in his profession, or s which may have meant what it said. o "Really, I don't know. but any khow, I got two 'God bless, you's for ya nickel." i iThe Human Dray. iThe Constantinople corresporident la - of' the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna, si 3 says that among the first of the b~ *y many organizations that marched to ac i the Yildiz Kiosk to express thanks i for the constitutional decree were the w burden bearers or hamalis. These A powerful athletic Turks, for the most part beautiful men, despite their dir- A ty garb, have a well organized so ciety which lays down the laws by Iwh.ieh they are guided in their voc a-1 1 tion. They come from Asiatic Tur- -tl key, where they leave their wives a whiIe they work industriously and ehonestly for a fwyears, sv hi earnings and then return to then homes. The bad pavements and the S' e narrow, winding streets preclude the rdray in Constantinople, and these men -take the place of the dray horse. t< Onilon g poles they may be seen car- Il ~rying great bales of goods, pianos, ol safes and all sorts of heavy proper- z< tv. They are fanatical in their rehi 'ion an<d thoroughly Turkish, but it of jseems that they appreciate the ad- n m vance toward liberalism, and showea fe their ability to live up to European p 'methods on the day after the demon-. a ;stration, when they struck for high- hi Iher wages. Whn T grow up and marry, mother, ox will I have a husband like papa?" et I hope so, dear.''ai mother. t ''And if? I don 't marry, will I beii olike A!int Sue?' n. "I hope so."'a 'l1 "Groeions." said Mary, as she turn- se c ed aw'n, ''whit a fix I'm in!"'-The mn December Deiineator. a1 WAS JESUS A JEW BY RACE? trange Theory of an American Pro fessor-"Born at Nazareth." ondon Express. Was Jesus a Jew by race I This as the remarkable question raised y Prof. Paul Haupt of .the Johns :opkins university, Baltimore, in a aper read at the International Con -ess on the History of Religions at xford. Briefly statea, Prof. Haupt's the y is that Jesus was a Galilean, that e was born at Nazareth, and not in ethlehem, and that the Galileans ere not Jews by race, but had been >reed to become Jews by religion. 'The founders of' Christianity ere Galileans," he said. "Jesus' rst disciples, Peter and his brother, ndrew as well as the two sons of ebedee, James and John, were Gali an fishermen. "Canon Cheyne has remarked in is 'Eoneyelopedia Biblica' that Prof. Percy Gardiner has well said, According to all historical proba ility, Jesus of Zazareth was born t Nazareth." "The tradition that Jeseus was a eseendant of David and was born at ethlehem was not original," contin ed Prof. Haupt. "The census refer id to in the second chanter of the iird Gospel took place .n the year A. -D., that is at least 11 years Af r the Nativity. There wAs no in. rial assessment till Judea had been ade an imperial province, nor would ie people have been assessed at their aestral homes, as is suggested in te words 'And all went to be taxed ev one into his own city.' "Moreover, Mary would not have ,en required to -accompany Tose*p sus Himself referred to the belief at the Messiah was to be a son of avid as an opinion of the Pharisees. The Cannon Roared. access Magazine. While campaigning in his home tate Speaker Cannon was once in igled into visiting the publie schools a town where he -was billed to eak. In one ofi -the lower grades -an abitious,.:teacher. ealled-vpon & iuthful.Demosthenes. to,:entertain. e distinguished,visitor.with an tion of aateur oratoryr The se stioni attemptetiwas. Byron?s-".Bata. sof Waterloo,!?andjust,as the.boys ached :the .end .ofe the- first apara aph~ Speaker 'annondsaddenly gave, nt to aiviolent snieeze. 2ma .. "But, hush e.harkh"-eelaimed thef ungster-"a deep sound strikes ~e a rising kne1li!iDid'dy&.ear;it?)' The visitors Miniled ; 4d&a'ionient; ter the second 'sneezevhieht the eaker was vjtinly 'ti'ing to hold ek-camd with increased violenee. But, hark !" (bawled the boy) "that heavy sound breaks in once more, ad nearer, clearer, deadlier than be - fore! rm! arm! it is the cannon's opening roar!" This was too much, and tJe laugh at broke from the party swelled to roar when "Uncle Joe " chuckled: Put uip your weapons, children; I yn 't shoot any more." [TLL TALK OF CHAFIN HERO ISM. The Philadelphia Record says edi rially: "T.he riot in Springfield, [., has brought into the white light publie 2ttention.the figures of Eu ne W. Chafin, the prohibitionist ndidate for t.he presidency. While her men were infected by mob mad ss; and others were cringing in ar. he was facing the mob and ap aled for order. While so engaged pursued negro took refuge behind m, with an armed throng at his els, clamoring for his life. 'Stand ek, gentlemen, or I'll shoot every e of you who touches this man,' ed Mr. Chifin. Some one in the ~ar hurled a brick, which struck e defender of law. But the negro's ewas saved. "The occurrence marks Mr. Chafin a man for an emergency. He de rves honor for his courage, his hu anity, and his adherence to the vital inil that the law mue.t rule."