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f ATLANTIC SEAG8AR0 b IN GRIP OF BLIZZARD JVOKST STOItM L\ R?CE>T HISH| BB| k early Two Feet oi Snow Fell at RalB ei*rh?Disturbances generally | From 3foine to California. I t Washington, April 3.?:Ihe weather j ^au tonight promised a relief ii LweatL-er tomorrow from the frs;' tn which held the entire Atlantic; ?ard in a wintry grip today. Fair; Ber in the South and Central At- j States is the forecast. Serious Damage ut Norfolk. Norfolk, Va., April 3.?A norti ea?: gale wLich swept up to Virginia coast j e^rlv today caused serious darn a;?: here. Although 110 loss of life has f been reported early tonight high tides i l ave inundated many principal streets j in which water stood three feet de=L:. [ Ail wire, rail and ferry service is put: out of commission. The storm struck this section Friday night. Its intensity is increasing evedy 'hour. Blowing sixty-three miles per hour at midnigi.t. The velocity at Virginia Beac: is reported at seventy-five miles. Sncw and sleet fell and high tide is sweeping into the heart of the city, prostrating wire and poles and causing the use of boats in many streets. The storm is declared tee worst in twenty-eight years. No trains have reached the city during the day. It is impossible \ early tonight to ascertain the esteDLi of damage to shaping and n^irtv! points. The tide in the city shewed indications of receding tonight. AI , late report from Newport News stated It ti:at the German cruiser Prinz Eitel W Friedrich is .still moored at her i icr | I ?ere. ^ Reports reaching here tonight siatcrl ?that a number of vessels were in distress off the Virginia and North Carolina coast. Unverified reports said tLe British warships displayed distress signal off tee .capes. i i iteached xrom Maine to Florida. | v New York, April 3.?Virtually the en- j ? tire Atlantic seaboard, inrlading New * York, were in the grip of a blizzaid I today. The disturbance was general j from Maine to Florida, with a feeavy j gale between ivew lorn ana toe vu-, ginia capes. Snow jell as far down ti e j coast as South Carolina. The storm j center is reported to be cff Cape Hat- j V teras. Where the steamship Prins ; I Maurite, of the Royal Dutch West In-' I - dia line, is sending wireless distress j for help. Eighteen coastwise trans' Atlantic steamships tonight are await- j I ing the storm's let-up to leave Xew j k York. Heavy snow storm visited this j ft city. The condition of streets made i remote tie nossibilitv of an Easter pa- I k^ide in -Fifth avenue tomorrow. Street! >? fc-tnlc here was blocked for many | Hours. Worst in Recent History. Raleigh, April 3.?If -e v^orst storm' in recent history in central and east- j m ern sections of Xortl. Carolina ra?ed | nis-ht and todav. wrecking miles of telephone telegraph, power line and j ft completely demoralizing business in! I scores of nearby towns. Nearly two j 1 feet of snow fell here. The gale at ( times reached sixty miles an fco'?r.' Communication with outside world j has been interrupted nearly twenty- i four tours. i <S> <S>| ANDERSON COLLEGE NOTES. < >; ^ * <$> : "V - , 3>3><$><$><?><$><s><s><8><$><$><s><s><s>3><9><s>i Anderson, April 5.?Dr. Kinard has j perfected ti':-e arrangements for the; commencement addresses. Ti':-e bac- j ftPniKvn will hr> delivered! by Rev. W. E. Thayer, of Sumter, S. \ C., Sunday, May 30. There will be a ! 6ermon in the evening before the Y. W. j C. (A. by Rev. Byron DeMent, of Green-1 wood, S. C. The baccalaureate address j on Monday May 131, will be by Dr. W.j S. Currell; president of the University j South Carolina. The annual has gone to print, and so a great burden is lifted from the j shoulders of several young ladies who j have had it in hand. Thefacultv teas on alternate Thurs day afternoons are much enjoyed. Mi s. j Goode and fMiss Maddocks "were hostesses this week. Misses Cecelia Schultz and Theo | Hirschmann -have been spending soy- , eral days at their respective homes because of the JewishHolidays at this season of the year. President Kinard went to Eas.ey April 2, to serve as judge in the Pickens County Oratorical contest. At the recent meeting of the State Teachers association Miss Helen P.: Smith, dean of the college, was elected one of tl":o directors of tfce South Carolina branch of the American Peace League. Lloyd-George's liquor speech brings to mind what happened to tfce other giant when a David went out again?t him.?Greensboro News. : i Pi:.II) XA> RETIVES WHEN HEART tYAS MASSAGE!) | Pittsburg Clerk, \pparentlr Dead Nine Minutes, Talks to Doctors and Lived Three Hours Longer. Boston, Mass., April 1.?After being ar>nar^nt?v -dead nino minutes, no res piration Laving been manifested for j 45 minutes and on noticeable beating ! of the heart, for eigt x minutes, Wii- ' lard Wallace, a Pittsburg clerk, who, it is charged went from city to city realizing large sums on worthless drafts, was revived for three hour.; - ' --4 A-- i-J _ D^... 1 ana twenty minutes louaj at u-t; fusion Relief ospital. This was a.ter he had been subj cted by Dr. William J. Brinkley to V e hercic operation cf massaging the heart. Several hours previous i':-e '_ad swallowed cyanide of potassium in the city prison. Wallace died at 2:10 this afternoon, and i>r. Brink.ey said that had he taken any poison but cyanide his life would ' ave been saved. 'D'e ckr.i was to have been arraigned in conn this morning r.s a fugiti.e from jus tice. Or. Brinkley said: "Upon his admittance to the hospital, Wallace's condition was growing worse. At 10 wo began artificial respiration; at the patient ceased apparently to breathe. His heart was running fairly strong and we proceeded to give manual artificial respiration. lA.t 10:30 no pulse COUHi De ie.i a,i u-t; unci ciuu only an occasional faint 1-eart be?.; could be heard. "I made two incisions three inciiei long, just beneath the breast bon?, sufficient to admit my hand. "I put one of my fingens against the diaphragm and could ;eel no !.:eart beat. All of t e time the respiration was being continued by my assistants. I then placed my right hand un?!or the heart and my ot<:er hand against the outside wall c-f the C est and begin to massage rhythmically, very gen:ly. "Inside of two minutes the heart began to beat, slowly and irregularly r t first, but in ten minutes it was beating strong. T;:e color in the face whic). had been of deadly pallor, slowly changed to red, and the change >va3 noticeable in other parts of the body, even to the finger tips. * - 3 ~ i. 4.1 "i' e puise appeareu iu tat; ?noi 15 minutes later, and continued. At 31:30 ti e pumotor was put into service again, but ti e manual massaging of the her.rt continued at inter<:ls of fi.teen minutes. "I felt thr.t we were really going to save him. At 1:30 the heart began j to fail. Shortly after 2 it would not icspond to vigorous massage. ; At 2:!?) it ceased altogether. ".My wisi was to prolong life unri1 j he had recovered Jrom the first effects of the cyanide; after that I felt i tl at I could combat with any other | situation that might arise. 'T-his man | did not die from paralysis of the r;>spiration and exhaustion of the heart.' i Wallace wa3 unconscious through i it all. Dr. Prinkley said that he I'-'ad lor? t^ad such an operation in mind, and if it could be done for persons who had ^ollapsed on the operating table : 1 ? -v -rr-V?fT ir d ' YV1-1 1./3 nnt i X1C SU A 11CT I traOWii ? njf ii C'Uuiu nui | be attempted in a poison case, par-1 ticularly where cyanide is used. TU- j opinion expressed by other surgeonp to- ay is ti ".at the operation will hereafter be attempted frequently in poison cases where t< e life of the victim is simply hanging by a thread. When arrested Wallace had a stack of new bills issued by a Portland, Ore., j bank. At first he denied his identity ! onKiroatATiarl "hie r?nr>tnr<; witti civil I U>liU f VUWVUVWk V? ^ vw? v - V suits. This morning as he faas abou! to be brought out for detectives to look him over, Wallace stopped for a drink of water and then sail to an inspector: "I have taken some of the strongest kind of poison." MWl.at is that?" "Cyanide of potassium." "Wljere did you get it?" "I had it concealed. They didn't find it when they frisked me." Then he collapsed. Tlie Kemedy For It. Florida Times-Union. One of the concerns that fatten on the yearnings of poor men for "a home of their own" has passed into the hands of a receiver tJ rough the ac-1 tion of the federal court in Bir-( mingham, Ala., but not until it had drawn more than $3,000,000 from t>ie salaries and wages of the i':ard woroking men and women. Some such company had a representative in this city a few days ago?penhaps the same one j ?and managed in the brief career of the ranch here to take in some of our citizens. The installment deposit loan j schemes flourish because of tf:e neg- ' lect of the legislatures. The desire of' men to own the home he lives in is well nigh universal and the compa JL1 iecj Uclil iuwa,jrt> iiUU Jjanuuo, jymc ui j v;hom become victims aJfter it f:as j lived through tine first stage of win- j ning conditions. Whenever a State j legislature has failed to put such in-! i I rtitutions under the control of the 1 Stare's banking department that legislature is to blame for t; e losses of j its citizens. I But there is another way in \v*':ich i legislatures play into the hands of ( * those who li. e by exploiting the peo- ! i)le. At te same time and in t) e Sam'? i way they retard tl:exgrowth of agri- * culture. If a system of rural cred'to j were provided whereby the home seik- j er could borrowr money to build upo:: ! and re\der habitable any tract of lane j * he might possess, or make a Srsi i ^ payment on land and improve it. ai"i * tJ is loan be repaid by easy payments i * through a term O; years, t! e:e wo:iM ' 1 be no material for fraudulent concerns j ; i to work upon. 'i he alluring offers!1 they make to those they wish to victim- j 1 i,;e in Themselves suggest legal in- j ^ stitutions whicJ: would add greatly tc> I 1 t( e prosperity and solidarity of the j [ . State. | ; ft needs but provision ijy law r'oi the organization and management o? j; co-operative credit institutions among j farmers and industrial workers, con- ' ; / pled, perhaps, with the adoption el j the Terrens system ci land title r-?g- i j j istration, to open the way to a ible svstem of farm and industrial j ! ] finance leading to greater prosperity, progress and contentment among both classes It is not a? t? ough this were , 1 J an untried experiment. We have learncc | through many sources that it has in- j menselv improved the condition of other decades and generations. < HAS LAKGE PLAjVS ' FOR DEVELOPMENT j ] : President Kinard Talks of Anderson t ! rollege?>'o ThousrI.it of Combin ing With C'hieora ! ? !> T* ~ Cini a , *c utaic. ^ j Dr. J. P. Kinar,l? president of An- f derson college, was in Columbia yes; i I terday. returning from the meeting ^ ; of tilt State Teachers' arsociatio'i in ; Florence. j * Speaking oT the institution of which 3 i he is the head, Dr. Kiiiard said: ( "T? e articlc ill t! e State of Friday < ; and the signed statement of Dr. Black- ; I burn on Saturday n:\ke it perfectly < | plain that Anderson college has no in- \ ; tention of combining with Chicora. Ai ( [ sufficient answer of any such sng| gestion is found in tlie fact to wiiich ] I Dr. Blackburn calls c-.ttention fl at An i uerson college is owned and controlled j by fe Baptist denomination of Soiitl: Carolina. ; \erer in Better Condition. < "As a matter of fact, Anderson college was never in hotter condition * than it is today. The State Baptist ' convention which met in Charleston ' last December gave the college all it j1 acked -or and since that time the j ^ | president and t> e trustees have be^ii busy making plans for further devel- ( ! opment and improvement. ( | "The convention at Charleston granted to the college the exclusive ' i privilege of conducting a three years' ; campaign for the purpose of raising $100,000 for the institution. The col- j lege !nas just secured the services of ( one of the best business men in the State. He will be a permanent officer $ of the institution and will begin work c for the college about April 1. just as j soon as he can close up his private 1 affairs. The citizens of Anderson are 1 ready now to start tl is subscription ?.-iL * ?ir nnn +^, con nan fho i Willi irum ipii),uuu iu <p^v/,v/w auu i.uv college will certainly get the remainder c i from the rest of the State. ' Co-operative Government i "Everything at tJ:e institution is } maving along satisfactorily. Under ? \c the experienced leadership of t'he dean '. of the college, - Miss Helen P. Smith, with the help of the president and t):e I faculty, a system of co-operative government has been instituted. TMs is , generally accepted now to be the bos'; ^ means of preparing students to meet the responsibilities of life after leav- ( ing the walls of their alma mater. , Both- students and faculty are well * pleased with its working at Anderson j college. The purpose of this mstitii- ^ lion has always been to provide for a c small number of students tfte best conditions for moral, mental and pliys- . ical development. j . i i "A great deal of thought and atten- j tion is given at the college to the mat- ^ ter of training for Health. The officers < of the institution are in thorough svm- j pathy with the awakened public cor.oienfo nn this snhiect. Thev mean to T make the 32 acres of College Heights I ^ a training place for r:ealtTj and right j living. t "No, Anderson college is too busy i now, and too firmly entrenched in the e affections of the great denomination r that supports it, to be thinking of e uniting witft any institution." t It *:as been definitely settled that j Fi'-akespeare did not serve as a butcher's apprentice in his "boyhood days. But even PMs has failed to lower the * price of meats.?Greenwood Journal. ! * ? j I The "On to Berlin" and the "On to j Paris" are not so rapid. The march- j ( ing clubs are still in the trendhes.? <3 Augusta Chronicle. I PEL'S SHERIFF TO LNFORCt CITY LAW;, SOY. MANNING WILL NO LONGKUj LOOIi TO 3FAYOU OIUFFIN. Executive is Told I hat Liquor Law in Caiiilal City is Being Frequently Violated. Cews 2 ad Courier. Columbia, April 2.?Enforcement of aws against illicit liquor selling in :':e city of Columbia has been placed pen Sheriff John -C. McCain, if Cic=..and county, by Gov. Manning, followug continued comp'aints to his ofhcn 1-.f r\n 1 o n-r. in r'V. ^ r.itv WPfft hpir'lT! * LI a L LiltJ I ct ?? o 111 tiiU V/iij ^ ? v ? ^ , ;iclatedj The policy o: the governor j s to leave law enforcement to ri_e j jity auti orities and scon after he came | nto office he held a conference with i Mayor Lewie A. Griffith and Sheriff! rCain, and put the responsibility for! - e enforcement of the laws in Columbia on il.e mayor, and outside of the j itv ri the sheriff. However, the | heriff has now been made responsible j for the enforcement of tie laws in : :he city because of ti e continued com- j plaints of violations. The mayor has stated on several oc- j ?asicns that the laws were being en- j forced in the city. It is a matter of j general report tf:at many, violations Dccur and the governor l':as instructed :he sheriff to enforce the laws, especially those dealing with the illicit sale of whiskey. T:is occurred several days ago and the governor is no onger looking to the mayor, but is - -* fiift lowing tne snenu resiwuoiuic ivi i.uV | situation in Columbia. The action of ti e governor in going j :ver fc e head of the maoyr of Col urn- j jia and calling on the sheriff to en- j force the laws is of particular inter- j rst at this time, and many are won- j 3e; ir.g wl: ether this will have any i rearing on tfc-e situation in Charlestor, ,vhere the givernor teas given Mayor irace until next Monday to produce ; "esults. The governor has not been officially advised of the raids by the 2 arleston police on the blind tigers, md ' e has nothing to say for pubU :ation on that subject, but it is known. :hat he is watching the situation ilosely. I \ a EXPENSES A>i) INCOME OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY I Washington, March 28.?The results ! >f operation of l':e Southern Railway ; :ompany, for the months of February. | 1915 and 1914, ana ior tnG penuu w ijgi t months this year and last year, j exclusive of interest, rentals and oth-j ?r income charges, were announced by | ^omptrol er A. H. Plant today as fo? ! ows: Gioss revenue, February, 1915, $4,>17,407, February, 1914, $5,310,007; iecrease $692 000, or 13.04 per cent. Operating expenses, February, 1915. ?3,664,431, February, lyw, *>*,153,001, i iecrease $518,230, or 12.39 per cent, j Net revenue, February, 1915, $952.-1 )76; February, 1914, $1,127,346; de-} urease .$174,370, or 15.47 per cent. Taxes, railway, February, 1915,! >231,322; February. 1914, $229,057; in-j :rease $2,265, or .99 per cent. Uncollectible railway revenue, Feb- j uary, 1915; $2,489; February, 1914, lone. ~ 1U1" I Operating income, reui uu^, t >719,165; February, 1914, $398,289; decease $179 124, or 19.94 per cent. In addition to the foregoing operat-. ng expenses, Vr.e company spent durng the month, for improvements to its oadway and structures, $764,545, as Lgainst $173,282 for February, 1914, an ncrease of $591,263. Corresponding results tfor the eight nontJ. s, are as follows: Gross revenue, this year $42,0(35,986; ast year $48,031,015; decrease $5,995,)29, or 12.48 per cent. Operating expenses, taxes and un;oliectible railway revenue, this year 533,666,316; last year $35,963,941; decrease $2,297,625, or 6.39 per cent. Operating income, this year $8,369,>70; last year $12,(>67,074; decrease 53,697,404, or 30.64 per cent. In addition to the foregoing operatng expenses, t'.e company spent, durng eight months this year, for im)rovements to its roadway and strucures, $6,208,6S1, as against $1,853,651 luring the same period last year, an ; r.crease of $4,355,120. Operating income as shown above epresents tl':e amount remaining after he payment of only those expenses ncurred in the actual operation of he -railway and of taxes, and takes j io account of charges for hire of! equipment, rental of leased lines, ter- 1 ninals, and other facilities, and inter st on funded debt (bonds), all of vhich costs are d arged against op5r-i fir? income. , C2 Tf?ere Are Others. "I think Prof. Hilrowe is a wonder- j ul lecturer," said t'be Old Fogy "He )rings things home to you that you j. lever saw before. 11 "neat's nothing," replied the, Crouch. "I have a laundry wagon [river who can do that."?Cincinnati inquirer. |1 DLf Kits ELECTION i)r S?( utTAi!li > ! ommitfre Will Nominate Hen for tin* Two Plates to He Filled by lionril ot Charities. T: e State, 2nd. Organization was perfected at the i first meeting of the State board oi' v ariiies and corrections, created 1a- : an act of the last legislature, which j was held yesterday at the State Louse. | All members of the board were present: George B. Cromer, of Newberry; D. D. IWallce. of Spartanburg; the Rev. Z. i. Cody, of Greenville; R. H. King, cf Charleston, and L. E. Carrigan, of j Society Hill. I)r. Cromer was elected chairman ! and Mr. King temporary secretary. A secretary and an assistant ~ec- j retary will be elected at a future meet- j h.g of t e board. A committee, con- j sisting of Dr. Cromer, Mr. Wallace j and Dr. Cody, was appointed to report | the nominees for the positions to be: fiiled by the board. He next meet-! ing of the board will be held in Co- i lumbia May 25. The opinion of, the i board was that a trained expert should , be selected for secretary. A large num- j ber of applications have been received :or the two positions 1\:e board appointed Dr. Cromer and Mr. King as a committee to visit and inspect the State hospital for the insane and tl:e State penitentiary before July 1. Mr. "Wallace and Mr. Carrigan were named on a committee to inspect the South Carolina Industrial school at Florence and tfte Lexingtcn reformatory, in Richland county. Members of the board discussed ifc* work to be undertaken. - The War News. ! Brooklyn Citizen. The latest -Petrograd advices confirm the report tlhat part of the army ?*V? o/I i WHICH IUi liiuil oui uau luiv^vu Przemysl has been detached and cent to the Carpathians. TT:e Russians have succeeded in breaking through the Austrian defense at some of the j passes and have debouched into the Hungarian plains. It is feinted in Ber- j lin dispatches that Marshal von Hindenburg has sent some of t):e troous operating in Central Poland to the Carpathians. In Germany t):e seriousness of the Russian attempt to invade Hungary is not being under-estimated. Everything tftat can be done to save at-? fnUtiAil oTK- -rr-if'hr*n+ n Tl J*AT"i 0 i? Ill LCL1 Ll-L*. Ui <2.11'J mi-uwui, vuj%vmqV- - tie German defense will be done, of this there can be no question. The fall of Przemysl has changed fe-e whole military situation east and west. It was the signal for yesterday's great "Irrelentist" demonstration in Rom'"'. The Italian war party realizes that now is ti e time to strike at Austria, when her fortunes are at their lowest ebb. Nothing will satisfy tnese patriots but the whole of Triest, the Trentino and Dalmatia. Austria will never consent to cede these provinces except pfter a defeat. and tie allies, it is iuir lo aisumf. will balk at their transference to Italy after the war, should tne present at-j titude of neutrality extend until then. Italy gained her independence by the j sword. Count Cavour did not hesitate in the Crimean war to ally Piedmont with France and England and four years later f'-e induced Napoleon the TMrd to make war on Austria. The j march of the legendary "Thousand * | under Garigaldi gave Naples and the ' two Sicilies to Victor Emmanuel. It was by the sword that Italy obtained Tripoli. Italian statesmen realize full well that the national aspirations for ti e "lost provinces" are! only capable of being realized oy Italy's participation in the war. T!bat they are waiting merely to complete their preparations is the conviction of the best informed minds in Europe. That the government is doing nothing to check tJ':e "Irredentist" demonstrations, but rafter encourages them, is the best proof in the world that the king and cabinet have made up their minds to draw the sword. I?! GOVEKMIJK 3AuT1JLC5 PARDON BOARD' ? David Ellison, Henry Tillman and W. j E. Jenfcinson to Hiss Upon Petitions Filed. I __ . The State, 2d. David G. Ellison, of Columbia, Henry C. Tillman, of Greenwood, and W. E. Jenkinson, of Kingstree, were appointed yesterday by Gov. Manning as members of the State board of par* i1 ?"? ?? nornl/s na r/'rtTi i cons, aii pctiLi^ii& ilti ptn.~v*. or commutation will be submitted to this board by the governor. Gov. Manning has been in office for more tl an two months and not one pardon or parole has been granted. He has received many petitions and these will be sent to t)he new parden board. It was said at t'ae governor's office j that the old board was automatically j removed by the appointment of a new board. The Turks, for all they are considered so effete, manage somehow to build effective forts.?Atlanta Journ-il. I A r \ iil) W uKIiT*. Editor I ho Herald and News: Will you pub.is . *J <> foii<?v?i;:g. and cbiige. Your truly, Eugene S. We its. County Auditor. Newberry. S C., Dec l~>th, 1014. Hon. Cole. L. Blease, Columbia, S. C. I>ear Go ernor: I wrote you a lew days ago that 1 would write you more fully o; the grand jury's presentment as to the auditor's office. I am going to try to. do it in all candor and frankness. At the outset. I desire to thank yoa for the considerate way you nave treated me in this whole matter, i feel very grateful to you. ^nd I hav=* done evervtl in? in mv power to make ^ 9 w tA t (\ CT.-\ r?. 4;l ] &CX>a iw .. ? and get my books in shape to tura over to the treasurer as quickly as possible. t / l*n fortunately, I aid defer comple:- . . in<r mv honk too lone bv trvins to (io *** / ^-? w - w. the work myself, especially since spej cial school district assessments have i increased the work of the office more J than one-third, and hence I had to rusii ; tlhe work and had to call in help at | last. But we got the books made up, | and there are no errors except such as may occur on any county treasurer's bocks in the State, and I am staying in my office to aid the collection of' taxes, oy giving any iDiorinituun i u?m, wf:ere needed, as the law requires me to do. There are some clerical errors on the auditor's duplicate which, of course, appear on the treasurer's duplicate, but there isn't an auditor in the State who doesn't have to make corrections on the treasurer's duplicate, even after the book has been turned over. "Wl.en the auditor and treasurer j work in harmony with each other j these clerical errors can be arranged !l1 -11- - 1 * t/x trv^ | WllrliOtll Lilt? ItftlSL iv,ui\<uvv iu tax payer. They do not involve any loss to the county, the State, tfre treasurer or anyone else. But if the treasurer is disposed to do so, he can stay I entirely within his rights, and maks ! tve auditor's road as rouga and rocky as possible. I state positively lthat, with the dpplicate Mr. Epps has in hand, neither he nor the county of Newberry can possibly lose anything. Much is made in the grand jury's report over a few tracts of land being left off t:':e tax duplicates. I will venture the assertion that there is less land left off ti e books of Newberry county than ti:ere is in two-thirds of the counties of the State?a fact i./H can easily - nrnvpn or disauuroven at the close ~~ * ? ! cf t .e tax year. Mr. Epps knows, if j ti -e grand jury doesn't, that a regular ; additional tax return blank is furnished every county auditor every year by the conptroller general's office for the purpose of catching lip property in-, advertently left off the duplicates.. | Barring a few suca omissions and clerical errors due to hurry in making i ud mv book:? at the last, and t! ese do not involve any loss, the treasurer"'? duplicate is thoroughly reliable, i It was the grand jury's right to prei sent me if investigation showed that they were correct in their conclusions. But to take the statement and adopt the conclusions of some one not officially connected with, them?which, they did?without even coming into my office for a word or explanation, it. seems to me was very unfair. If tJe grand jury had done me the fairness to come into my office and ask or investigate the alleged irregularities, I would have been glad to go over them, item by item, and I am sure I would have convinced them that the county's interests l:.ave been thoroughly safeguarded in every particular. As one instance, tfce grand jury charged me with leaving off the property (both real and personal) of "W. T.-c>i T.inHor of Number 9 townsirx. If they had come into my,office, J could have explained the matter to their satisfaction, because of the fact that W. JofI:. Linder made his return for 19? 4 in the name of J. W. Linder, instead - -a-x TJf of SW. Josfr Linder, as nereioiore. >?. Josra and J. W. Linder, you see, is one and the same person. There were a few other instances of the same kind that, if they had come into my office instead of drawing their conclusions from another. I would have explained satisfactorily to them. T'aey did not see even a line or figure on the auditor's duplicate. I certainly appreciate your fairness; the more because of the fact that I have not been dealt fairly with by others; and I assure you on my honor that I will leave no room for just criticism of your kindness to me. With kind regards to you and MiiS Lillie and wishing you and her Merry Christmas and Happy Xew Year, remain, Very sincerely yours, Eugene Werts. Rosin bringing $19.75 a barrel in Germany.?Times-Union. Yes, and a block of ice in Hades would fetch a million dollars, but wto wants to take it to market??Arcadia News.