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THE DEPOT AT SLIGHS. Supreme Court Sustains Decision of The Railroad Commission. Columbia. April 13.-The Colum bia. Newberry and Laurens Railroad, In demurring to the petition of the railroad comlinission of South Caro lina in a writ of mandamus to compel the road to erect additional tracks at Slighs, characterized the statute under which the commission acts as "null and void and of no effect,': upon the. grounds t'hat the statute is unconstitutional, and in violation of the Constitution in that "it attempts to take the whole and entire manage men of the railroads of this State out of th hands of their owners and place it in the hands of the rail-road commission," but the Supreme Court in an opinion handed down to-day by C. A. Woods, A. J., overruled the de murrer and ordered that the defend ant have twenty days from the filing of the decree to answer the petition. Ill the meantime the improvements at Slighs have been made, in fact, as stated by members of the commis sion this morning, more than was asked by the commission. This case is an especially interesting one touching an apparent conflict be tween the Constitution and the stat ute which created the railroad com massion. The facts in the ease are: The railroad commissioners by their peti tion ask the Supreme Court to en force a mandamus, an order issued by them as railroad commissioners requiring that the Columbia Newberry and Laurens Railroad Company should provide addlitional sidetrack at Slighs and build a better depot at this point. A full rehearing was granted in the matter and the com mission decided that the order should remain in force. The railroad com pany demurred to the petition on the grounds: "That the said statute creating the commission violates and is repugnant to the 14th amendment of the Consti tution of the United States, Section 1,~Article 1, Section 5 of the Consti tution of the State of South Caro lina, in that it deprives your respon dent of its liberty and property with out due process of law, in that the statnite makes no provisions for no tice to the railroads of the hearing before the railroad commissioners, from whieh the said orders of the commissioners are to result, and in sno way require. that an opportunity to be heard be given the railroads be fore or after the passage of said or ders. "That the said statute violates and is repugnant to the aforesaid sec tions of the Constitution of the Unit ed States and of this State, in that they attempt to take the whole and entire management of the railroads of this State from the hands of their owners and putting it in the hands of the board of .railroad commission ers, thus placing upon your respond rent and other railroads of this State burdens beyond the duties they owe the public and depriving your re spondent of its liberty and property without due process of law.'' The Supreme Court, after explain ing all the statutes and constitutional sections tonehing this matter, says that the railroad commissioners are under two laws, namely: Tihe statute laws of the State, which confers upon them certain powers over railroads, and the constitutional law of the State and the United States, whieh .requuires that they shall exercise the power, conferred by statute only by due process of law that .is after giving the railroad company due notice and opportunity to be 'heard. "A statute is invalid which requires something to be done which is forbidden by the Constitution, but it cannot be essen tial, to the validity of a statute that it shall enjoin obedience to the Con stitution." *The Supreme Court 's opinion de cides: "'The gre at weight of authority is to the effect that, while notice of a special burden or duty, which a board su ch as this purposes to impose, must beextended an opportunity to be heard <ni the rightfulness of the exe t-tioni must be given, it is not neces sary for the statute under which the board acts to egpressly -provide no tice. "The second grant of the demur rer has no' foundation. No attempt is made by t'he statute to take the management of the railroad property of the State away from the owners Not Much. ''Don't you.'' queried the youth "'ihink a little of me?'' "Yes, indeed. Mr. Sapleigh, Very little.'' said she. -Illustrated Bits. Can social wine-drinking-a snare to many-be practiced in the name of NATIONAL HOLOCAUST. Our Fires Cost Millions Mc-:e Than Germany's Army. We hear much in i e; >ceful country. says a writer i. &>rvbody's about Ge::art's burden f militar ism. Well, our national bonire would pay for the Kaiser's wx!e army miainteiianee adii leave a surnlis an inally of .$20.000.000 for j tire:etks fund wherewith t() appea-e wie pyn) :una1e appetite. If Germany is ap peased by w-ars 'and rumors of wars, 'how much more sorely is the United States oppressed by fire and the evils that attend it! And the worst of it is that his loss, in great part, is needless and superfluous; incredibly and idiotically stupid and short sighted. Europe proves so much. No nation there but would be appalled at such a fire bill as ours. If the forty-nine principal cities of Europe there is less than one fire annually (86, to be exact) to every thousand inhabitants. In this eountry we maintain a gener al average of four and a half fires per thousand persons. The per capita loss by flames in Italy is 12 cents yearly; in Germany, 49 cents; in thirty of the largest European cities, 61 cents, and in. 252 American cities the per capita destruction averages $3.10. Boston, in may respects the most scientifically administered and municipally progressive city in this country, has a yearly bill of a million a-ud a half dollars from loss by burn ing. The European city of equal size gets along with one-tenth of that sac rifice. Our debit side of the fire led ger sums losses of any other six civ ilized nations in the world. Nothing this side of the sun equals us for combustion. Wise William. When Justice Buffum opened court in a small town in southern Georgia, one morning last week, he called loud ly, "Jones against Johnson." A dignified gentleman. came to the bar and said: "I am Dr. Jones, your honor, the complaining witness. My chickens were stolen and found in the possession of-" "One moment, docto!r," the judge interruptied. "We must have the de fendant at the bar. Jones against Johnson! Jones against Johnson! Is the defendant presenit? is Wia ohinson in; court?"' A tall and shambling negro shuf fled to the bar, ducked his ]iead, pull ed his woolly forelock in token of re spect, and grinned a propitia t: y grin. "Ah 's Willyum . Johns 'n, please suh, jedge,'' he said. "Ah doan' know nuffin' 'bout no 'fendant, suh. Ah'm jes' de man wot took de chick 'ns." ''Don't talk like t-hai,'' the court warned William. "You ought to thave a lawyer to speak for you. Where's your~la~wyer?" "Ah ain' got no lawyer, jedge-" "Very well, then,'' said his honor. 'I'll assign a lawyer to defend you." "O~h, no, suh; no, suh! Ple-e ease don' do dat!'' William begged. "Why not?'' asked the judge. "It won'-t cost you anything. Why don't you want a lawyer?" "Well, eh '11 tell you', suh," said William, waving his tattered old hat confidentially. "Hit's jes' dis-a-way -ah wan' tuh enjoy dem chick 'n mase 'f. "-Harper's Weekly. Congressman Lever's Good Work. To the Editor of The Sunday News: I am writing to emphasize the fact that the farmers of the whol.e country, and South Carolina in par ticular, owe to. Congressman Lever for his efforts in having potash salts put on t'he free list a debt of grati tude which they should endeavor to pay by every means in their power; not only by personal expressions of their appreciation, but by giving him continued support when he asks for it. Putting potash on the free list will save to this State alone not less than .$250,000 to .$300,000 per year, or $3,000,000 in ten years, and this enor mous saving to th e farmers has been secured by the splendid efforts of Mr. Lever almost aloie. I cast no reflee tions on our other Congressmen; no dloubt they helped him much but Mr. Lever's winning p)er.sonalities and his evidient high purposes win for h]im especially an earnest consideration from "the pow~ers that be." E. N. Chisolm. Rowesville, S. C., April 9, 1909. .Sisterly Shot. Mrs. Hoyle-My husband always smokes after a good meal. Mrs. Doyle--Doesnt he ever smoke at home --Home Reading. 0 thou invisible spirit of Wine, If we can call thee by no other name, Let us call thee Devil. ALIEN CRIMINALS. Many of Them Manage to Land on Amencan Soil. On every vessel sailiin from Paler mO Or Naples are a dozen (, miore members, of the Camorra or the Mafia, employed as sailors, coal heavers and stewards. says Everybody's Maga zine. It is their fraternal duty to aid their bretheren to evade the passport law. If there are six or more mem bers of a ship'.s company earnestly desirous of concealing a stowaway,! the think can always be done. There are recorded instances ...here a stow away has been hunted for three hours by twenty men. after all the officers and crew have been sent a shore, and hns remained undiscover ed in a mattress in a bunk. When the steamship has tied up at her birth in an American port. the fuitive puts on the uniform of over alls of one of his confederates and easily makes-his way off the pier. And thus, a seasoned and hardened crimi ual, his blood-stained hands against all the world as the world's hands are against him, he is turned loose in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Every steamship map concerned in the Mediterranean trade knows something about the system: one of them has admitted these facts It is the theory of the professional oliceman of America that the ItaliaP criminal comes to us through France and -Canada. That is nonsense; hr has neither th.e intelligence nor th.? means. 'The ex-conviet has the New York address of one or more former mem rers of his society in Italy. h e mares his way to this address as qickly as he may. He is without work and in a strange country. It honest work for him at once. But usually it is not so. He becomes, more likely, a willing and useful tool of the Black Hand, a dependent on the generosity of more thoroughly ae climated criminals. The stealthy de livery of blackmailing letters, the stabbings, the bomb plantings, and even the murders of the Bliack Hand type are done so helpless that they face starvation if t!hey do not carry out the orders of the Black Hand thugs who house and feed them after their surreptitious entry into the United States. -And He Got It. "Gentlemen," said the drummer of druggists' sundries, as he looked around on the half dozen men who were asking him for the latest story, "I believe I have felt about 400 dif ferent feelings in my life, and, the balmiest one of all was the feeling I had something coming to me, and would get it if I stayed on the road long enough. "A-ndyhave you got it ?" was asked. "I''have. I got it five days ago when I was coming into Ohicago. I was very comfortable in my Pullman wnen a young man -came along and told me a pitiful story and wanted me to buy 'his diamond ring. The game is older than the ~hills, and I was on in a minute. Bogus story and bogus diamond. Willing to sell me a $200 ring for $30. I asked him where the green spot was in my eye, and while I was pluming myself the man in the other part of the section pulled out three tens and pocketed the ring. Did I look down upon' him with pity and contempt.? Did I smile? Did I grin? Did I ask him where his guardian was ? Oh, yes-oh, yes, and he speaks up and claims that the stones were diamonds and the ring well worth 200 plunks. It nettled me to see the ass so cock-sure and to hear him say that of course I was no judge of diamonds and I put up $50 that he'd been done for. The conductor held the money, and when we got into town we made for a jewelry store. We took in four of 'em before I laid down. Same story ini each place-ring worth $200." "Slick as slick." "And there was a game in it?" "Of course. you camel. Seller and buyer were confederates and they probably worked the scheme six da.ys a week. If I 'd got ready to buy, some excuse would have been made to head me off. Yes, gents that 's what was coming to me, and noir that I've got it I feel relieved, and if any of you think yon iiqan push pool balls about just lead the way and I'll show you that it's all a pipe dream." Good Business. Inquiring Lady-How much milk does your cow give a day?i Trut-hful Boy-'Bout eight quarts. ''And how much do you sell?'' "' 'Bout 12 quarts."'-Tit Bits. He Does Now. Teacher-Tommy. you should have known better than to fight with that Williams boy. Tommy-I know, ma'am; but I hnogh I oullic k hA.-Daily Mail. Put This Your I It is wonderfully convenient to do kitchen work on a stove that's ready at the instant wanted, and out of the way the moment you're done. Such a stove is the New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove. 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