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VO.XVII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESD)AY. S3EPTEM8. 1 92NO5 HEY WARU AHEA1). Talbert in Second Race. Not Far Ahead of Ansel. MARTIN DEFEATS McMAEAN. Gunter Defeats Stevenson. Several Will Have to Run Over in the Second Primary, to Be Held Next Tueslay. The returns given below are ofllial as tabulated by the State Democratie Executive Committee. The vote polled for governor was 95.367, while that for senator was 95.110. being third in size. Latimer leads out the senatori al race by a good thure. his vote being 22.971. and .John Gary Evans comes second with 17.893. For governor Capt. Heyward has more than doubled the vote of his nearest competitor. Talbert. who it appears is in the second race with 18. 21S votes against Ansel's 17.685. Till man is in fourth place with 16,398 votes, and Timmerman brings up the rear with 6.515 votes. Col. Sloan leads out the race for lieutenant governor by nearly 5,000 votes and will make the second race with Gary. Gantt and Wilson will run over for secretary of state, the latter leading out by nearly 4.000 votes. Gunter has been nominated for at torney general by over 8,000 votes over Stevenson. and Superintendent of Education McMahan is beaten by Martin by 2,000 votes. Frost led the race for adjutant gen 'eral by a handsome figure and will make the second race with Boyd. Jones and Walker will make the sec -ond race for comptroller general, the latter leading by nearly 5,000 votes. For railroad commissioner. Evans, who is in first place, is close pushed by Caughman, with Whom he will run the second heat. Mobley is in third place. Wilborn is badly beaten. FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR. William Elliott...............13,658 John Gary Evans............. 17,893 John J. Hemphill.. ........13,261 D. S. Henderson..........13,771 George Johnstone. ...........13556 A. C. Latimer... .........22,971 Total.. .................95,110 For Governor. -MaTtin F. Ansel.. .........17,685 D. C. Heyward... .........6,551 W. Jasper Talbert.........18,218 James H. Tillman...........16,398 W. H. Timmerman... ...... 6,515 Total............... . ...95,367 For Lieutenant Governor: Cole L. Blease............ 19,274 Frank B. Gary....... ..... 35,464 .John T. Sloan.... ........ 39,779 Total ................94,517 For Secretary of State: -J. Thomas Austin.... ... ...22,398 .J. T. Gantt............... 34,136 .J. Harvey Wilson... .... .....38,036 Total.... --....---.. .-.-.--.-.94540 For Attorney General: U. X. Gunter, Jr......... ..51,582 W. F. Stevenson ..... .. ...43,073 Total ..................94,655 For State Treasurer: R. H..Jenniugs.. .. .... ....94,572 For Comptroller General: N. W. Brooker.............. 18.420 .A. W. Jones.-..-..... ..... 24,865 W. H. Sbarpe... .......... 21.780 G. L. Walker.... ......... 29,326 Total..........----....94,391 For Superintendent of Education: John J. McMahan.. .... .. ..45,891 0. B. Martin....... .... .. ..48,850 Total. ...........-------94741 T'or Adjutant and Inspector General: Panl E. Ayer..........---------- 2,987 J. C. Boyd................ 30,527 John D. Frost.. ........... 36,643 John M. Patrick..... .. .. .. .. 20.957 George Douglass Rouse.. . .... 394 Total.. .. .....---.. ... ..9.5,008 For Railroad Commissioner: James Cansler.............945 B. L. Caughman.... ...... -18411 W. Boyd Evans ...... ........20174 A. C. .epson. .... ..... . .....7.170 HenryJ. Kinard ............5.127 John G. Mobley. .......... 1,241 Hugh HI. Prince.. ...... .. ... 2065 J. C. Wilborn...............0,13 .J. G. Wolling....-. ---- ..-.. 7281 Total ... ...... ..-- ......9467 THE CONGREss1ONAL VOTE. The following is the vote received 'by the different candidates in the sev -eral congressional districts: First District. 'Legare ............---. -.....7,4t6 Bacot..........--.--.-..359 Second District. 'Croft ............ .-.-.....4096 Bellinger ............ ..... 3974 'Thurmond......-.--..-.---- 8-t; Third District. .Aiken...... ....--..--..-- .... :,642 Smith............-..-- ..-- . 22S McCalla....... .....- -- - -- -2,46( Prince.........-..--- -.>61~ Rucker ............. -- .. 1,206 Stribbling .... .....-.-.-.-.-.. 19 -Gravdon.......... .-.----.- -- - SC Fourth District. Johnson.. .... ...... ... ...10.31 Wilson .. ...... ........ . )- ----- '. Fifth District. Finley .. . . . --.- -- - . 280 Wilson........---..--.--..-. Floyd . .. -.-.-.-.--.-..--.-- --- Sixth D)istrict. Scarborough... .... .. .:--....130 Seventh D)istrict. 'Lever........--------------. McLaughlin.. ....--.--.--.- . 2.1:-1: Boy Drowns in Well. Quite an unusual death occured at Urbana Ga.. at H1. L. Thompson : Co's. saw mill on the Tifton, Thomas ville and Gulf railroad when a negr( boy fell in a well in the mill quarte and was drowned. Hie had been dead some time when found. PREMONITIONS OF DEATH. Curious Cr incidence Vhich Await a Natural -: aLanation. l'remionitions of death are often scouted at." said a well known Wash incton newspaper man. "hut there are occasionally authentic instances aris ing which raise doubts as to whether there may not he. after all. some sort. of indvtinable spiritual phenomena in the incidents. - It will be recalled that a well known chief of division in one of the departments. in apparent perfect health on the last day he appeared at the ottice. died recently of apoplexy on that night. I have since learned that on the evening in question. sh;rt ly before he retirei. a large dog in his household set up such a prolonged and dismal howling in his yard that he went out with a revolver, under the supposition that there night be in truders prowling about, although the dog howled and did not bark. The dog refused to stop howling upon the ap preach of his master, and followed him in the house. whining and show ing evidences of distress, looking up into the oiciais face in such a pecu liar manner thint the membiiers 'r the family at the time th: ugit it exceed ing strange. The (log contitlUed to follow his master about the house, acting strangely in the manner I have described. On the following morning the onlicial was found dead in his room. "The above incident is a curious fact, as is also the following, and while not of startling ghostly interest, is also local to Washington, the par ties being members of my own family. "Some time ago my wife's mother started on a journey to California. Several days after her departure an el derly colored woman, who had been a slave in her family, having been raised with my wife's mother, called at the house. As in similar instances in the South. there had been a warm attach ment existing between former mis tress and slave, which has continued through life. The old servant was visibly agitated. She declared she had been 'warned' that my wife's mo ther died at an early hour that morn ing on the train. When asked whether she had received a telegram to that effect she replied that she had not, but that at the hour in question she had been awakened by the ringing of the front door bell. In responding to the call she had found no one on the steps in each instance, the bell having been pulled three successive times. Her house, by the way, was on a down town street, and was recently razed to make room for a business structure. 'At about 10 o'clock on the morning of the day when the former slave had communicated the intelligence of my wife's mother's death we received a telegram from the omficials of the rail road, dated from a far western state, announcing her sudden death at about the hour when the colored companion of her early childhood had heard the pulls at the bell. Had the bell been rung during the ordinary hours of the day we would have attached no im portance to the former slave's positive assertion of a spiritual visitation from the deceased lady, but as It was about 3 o'clock in the morning the incident has ever been one of more than usual interest in our family. If the pulls at the bell were not supernatural, they were assuredly a strange coincidence." -Washington Star. Gantt f'or Secretary of State. Mr. J. T. Gantt, who is a candidate for promotion to the office of Secre-.ary of State, deserves to succeed in ;his election, and doubtless will be elee ted, becanse of the excellent record he has made during a four years' incumbency as assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Gantt has been at all 4imes faithful and etlicient, always at his post of duty, and ever willing and ready to go, if need be, beyond his duty to serve those having business with this important otlice. Ie has systematized and improved 'the records, opened new records and dices, and adopted the most approved business methods in this work. IHis four years' experience in the ottice has qualified him to carry on the work without hitch or hindrance, and to point out eeeded changes and amend ments to the corporation law of the State. the enforcement of much of which devolves upon this otfice. As a result Of his work. the receipts of the ofice have increased ten-fold- over $4,00 having been turnedl into the treasury, to reduce the burden of taxa tion last year: The work in which Mr. Gantt takes most pride, however, and for which he is best known, is the attention he has attracted to the valuable records of the State and the steps to preserve them. for which he is responsible. Realizing this fact, the State commis sion requested him to prepare an ex hibit for the Charleston exposition, and the splendid display in the State building resulted. The exhibit was secured by Mr. Gantt largely from rubbish in the State house. It is upon this record that Mr. Gantt asks the votes of the people, and he deserves election.-Dorchester D~emo crat. ___________ Man TakesiFatal Nap. Louis L. Conway, a foreman in the New York city cleaning department, laid down on the cliff at One Hundred and Eighty-seventh street and the Speedway for a nap. After sleeping an hour he awoke and, in stretching. lost, his balance, rolled over the edge Iof the eliti to the Speedway below, a distance of 160O feet. and w'as instant ly killed. Conway's fatal fall was wit. nessed by several pleasure seekers or the cliii. Killed Her Children. Mrs. Kate Wagner. wife of Ross J. Wagner. a machinist, killed her twO children, aged six years, and herself. Wednesday right, at their home ir: Little Rock. Ark., by cutting theih throats with a razor. No cause is known for the act. Their bodies wert Ifound in the house next morning by the aged mother of Mrs. Wagner. Drew the Line. A0 Cobb County Ga.. farmer. accord in to the' Marieta Journal, on hear in tha t his daughter was engaget ith pingpong. declarged she mighi iirt as much~ as she pleased. but thai she shoudn't bring any Chinese into t he tnmile. I-EYAWA1I1) P~LEASED) With the Result of the Recent Pri mary In This State. HE TALKS ABOUT THE OUTCOME. f f:xTpresses His Gratification at the Very Handsome Vote Given lii in All Parts ot south Carolina. Capt. 1). C. Ileyward passed through Charleston last Thursday, en route to Columbia. Capt. Heyward stated that he could not be but intensely gratified at the handsome vote accorded him, and whife he felt highly complimented. he accepted it as an evidence that the great mass of voters in South Carolina approved of his efforts to conduct his campaign on high principles, and that they were in accord with his platform to 'administer the laws of the state fairly and impartially and to be a go.v ernor of I h- entire state. without re gaId to fet Tonal or sectional di fer ences. i certainly appreciate the vote given me by the people of Charleston," he said. "1 cannot possibly thank them in person. but I felt so assured of their kind consideration that be fore the recent primary I devoted my time elsewhere. feeling assured that Charleston would stand by me, as she has so loyally done. I hope to be back here in a few days and meet as many of my Charleston supporters as possi- 3 ble. Another gratifying feature of the recent vote was the very liberal support given me by the mill districts. I have always been a friend to the la boring men, as evidenced by the unani mous vote given me by every laboring man who lives in my neighborhood, but I have not been in public life be- C fore, and had no way heretofore to prove it, ana therefore cannot but feel that the loyal way in which the mill districts stuck by me is a tribute well worth cherishing, and should I become governor I will endeavor to prove to those worthy citizens of our state that they have not reposed their trust in me unwisely." "What do you think of your chances 1 in the second primary?" was queried t by the reporter. "They could scarcely be better and s not be a certainty," replied Capt. Heyward. "I believe practically every vote given me in the first primary will be accorded me in the second race. In my case you see the support was the spontaneous expression of people to one whom they trusted. It was, I t take it, a vote of love, affection and respect and they will be just as ready to give it to me in the second race as they were in the first. I have every a reason to count on the support of the s friends of the defeated candidates. In the campaign I treated every one of my opponents fairly and gave them every possible consideration. I have f the good will of Dr. Timmerman, Col. Tillman, Coal. Talbert, and Mr. r Ansel. All of them I count as friend ly to me and in the second race Ic count on receiving the bulk of the votes of each defeated candidate. "The total vote, you see, recorded up to date, is about 80,000, and using that simply as a basis, 40,000 odd votes will be required to elect. My 1 vote is already about 3'?,000, so I mere ly have to get 9,000 votes out of thee 50,000 given to my opponents to give me the required 40,000, These figures 1 are crude, hut they are practicallyt about the way it will result and a blind man can therefore see that my chances are excellent. Just let my( supporters remain true and then use 1 all fair and honorable methods of in-r ducing the supporters of the defeated candidates to join with them in their support of me." "What about your movements, Capt. Heyward," inquired the newspa per man. 1 "My movements," he replied, "willf be largely governed by :ircumstanlces. My plan is, however to continue the 1 fair, upright, honorable and highi campaign which I have heretofore con-i ducted. and knowing and believing, - as I do, that it meets the full approval of the State, my efforts will be to roll up a large majorit.y so that there will t be no question as to whether the peo ple of South Carolina approve of the manner of the campaign which justt has been concluded." A Brave Woman. Nineteen prisoners of the county jail at Covington, Tenn., made an attempt to break out this morning in 1 the absence of the jailor, and nearly succeeded. They had bored through the top of the cage and were about to break through the roof, when the wife of Jailor Smith took a hand. She armed a negro "trusty" and taking her husband's shot gun, covered the prisoners and kept them still until her husband's return. The prisoners were then forced to return to their cells. No Republican Ticket. 4 While the Democrats are holding primaries, the Republicans in their hopeless minority are keeping very ( quiet, says The State, of Columbia.1 There have been rumors that the Re publicans would call a convention in September anid put out a full state 4 ticket. A leader of that party stated, the other day, that the Republican state committee would meet in Sep tember, but he felt sure that no con vention would be called. Burned to D)eath.] In a fire at Gehring, Neb.. six peo-1 pl lost their lives. S. HI. McCumpsey,: a machanic, started a fire with kero sene. The can exploded, igniting the clothes of McCumpsey, his wife, two children, aged one year and four days. respectively, and two other little girls. The parents remained in the burning house trying to save the chil dren and all perished. Killed by a Tramp. Police (Jticer J. J1. Flowers was killed just before daylight Thursday by two tramps. at Bessemer, Ala., v while he and Oflicer Smithermanl were looking for loiterers. They found twvo white men in a box car and ordered them to conme out. The men refused to do so and as Flowers struck a! mach he wa shot dead. DR. LEN TOO LIBERAL. There is Trouble Brewing for Him it IN. Assec ation. Dr. Len G. Broughton, of the Bapt ist 'i'abernacle church, of Atlanta, eems to be a litttle bit too liberal for the other Baptist denominations oi the city. and they have gone after him. a louig with the Christian Index, the State Baptist organ, with a hot iron. It is alleged that )r. Broughton is receiving into his church members from "'The (as the Index says) Camp beilites and pedo-Baptists" without such members being baptized by a regularly organized minister of the [aptikt faith. In other words, the inmersion by .hristians or Primitive Baptists does 2wt go with the other Baptist church 's in Atlanta. and it is hinted that [r. Brough ton will be carried up be 'ore the forthcoming session of the tone M'luntain Baptist association,of xhicli his church is a component part. The i;t of evidence of the liberality f thoight practised by Dr. Brough ;on's congregation is best told in a ,onversation had between a Methodist avman aid a lady member of Dr. [roughton's hurch last Sunday night in the portico of the J aptist Taber iaele church. "Why, Mr. Blank," asked this lady, aughing, "what is an old Methodist ike you doing down here at a Bap ist church?" "I don't know that I'm ata Baptist ,hurch when I'm here," he replied. She smilingly assented. "Well, rou're about half right. It is about alf way between Baptist and Metho list," and that closed the incident. Dr. Broughton and his church is )opular with all other denominations n the city, except the Catholics, and nost of his audience every Sunday light is composed of numbers ofother :ongregations and non-church mem >ers. TERROR OF CONGO STATE. )ctopus Frequents Caverns and Devours Men's Brains. A Belgian otlicer just returned from he Congo free State reports that in he caverns of the Uelle river there wells a species of octopus that pre ents a grave danger to all who navi ;ate the river in small lboats, say an ntwerp cable to toe Philadelphia edger. The strange beasts are called "meg ve" by the natives, and are very num rous in the neighborhood of the sta ion of the Amadis, owing to the num >er of rocks and caves in that reigon. ['hey attack the native canoes, capsiz ng them easily with their tentacles, .nd according to their state of hunger, eizing one or two men. The octopus drags his human prey to is cavern, and there, without inflict ng the slightest external wounds, eeds on his victim's brains by insert ng the points of his tentacles in his iostrils. He generally keeps his prey ifteen hours, then lets the body float >t on the river. "I was an eyewitness to a disaster f this kind," says the Belgian. "A anoe was capsized in the river and ine of the three occupants disappear :d. When the survivors swam ashore hey told us that an octopus had turn d over their boat and carried off their ompanion. "The next morning about 9 o'clock he body was found floating and no race of any wound could be found, hile the only abnormal appearance gas the swollen state of the nostrils. )n examination It was found that he brains had been extracted. The atives of the Uelle all dread the megwe' while those of the Itimbri mow nothing of its existence." Made the First Revolver. Joseph Shirk, formerly of Lancas er, Penn., the man who made the irst revolver, died the other day. The resent generation hardly imagines a ,me when there was no revolver, but n truth it is a modern weapon and in ts real efficiency only a few years old -not to exceed 40. Before the civil yar there were the old-fashioned pep er boxes, which were dangerous to he user; then camne the "navy," vhich had to be loaded like a musket, uach barrel r'equiring separate atten ion, and usually. being ineffective ex ept at point-blank range. Jimu Was Mistaken. Just before the primary election Jim ['illman furnished this modest predic ,ion for publication in the Atlanta 3onstitution: "I am perfectly conti lent I will be the next governor of outh Carolina. It may not be pos ;ible for me to win in the first pri nary, though I may; I will not be nany votes shy of a clear majority. I tm sure of winning in the second pri nary." Child Killed by Cow. At ines, Ala., the thirteen-years ldl daughter of William Holloman, I r., was leading a cow to pasture, and ;lipped the rope over her wrist. The xow was frightened and ran away into he bushes, dragging the child behind ,er. No one saw the accident and he was unconscious when found. She lied that night. A Fatal Swim.k A special from Miles City says that Sergeat Moon, of troop HI, Trhirteenth avalry, was drowned while attempt g to swim the Yellowstone river. Eis body has not yet been recovered, hough detachments of soldiers fromi Fort Keoughi have been actively en aged in a search for it. Power of the Press. The Columbia State says: "Thai 3ewspaper opposition is more effective than newspaper support is again Demonstrated in this campaign. It was undoubtedly owing to the fight 'f the press, practically solid, that Jim" Tillman came out so far be bind." Five Were Drowned. Five members of a boating party oi ;ix employes of the Battle Creek sani tarium were drowned Thursday night in Lake Goguac, near Battle Creek, Mich. Their rowboat was run dowi by the steamer Welcome. RURAL DELIVERY. One Hundred and Sixty-Seven Routes in This State. GREAT INTEREST IS SHOWN. I And the Postoffice Department Has 1 Received Many Applications for Establishment of New Ones. S According to the otilcial list of the e postoftice department in Washington, c which list has just been compiled for 1 the use of the officials, South Carolina from May 1. 1899 to July 1, 1902. has been given 17 r;wial delivery routes. t This is considerably in advance of a number; of States larger than South 8 Carolina. It is said that the demand for agents k to lay out new routes in the State is greater from South Carolina than al-- I most any other State of her popula- n tion. Interest in free rural delivery I has in creased greatly in the last year n and today there are on file at the de- a partment in Washington a great many s petitions from South Carolina. c Following are the rural delivery of- I flees in South Carolina, the date of es= _ tablishment, and the nurmber of routes P now being operated: Abbeville. May 1, 1899, three. t Aiken, May 15, 1899, two. I Bamberg, April 3, 1899, two. f Barnwell, Nov. 1. 1901, one. b Bennettsville, June 4 1900, five, si Bishopvllle, Dec. 2, 1901, two, . Blenheim, July 1, 1902, two. 1 Camden, Jan. 1. 1902, one. I Cameron, May, 15, 1901, one. E Campobello, Feb. 1, 1902, three. h Central, Oct. 1, 1901, one. t' Cherokee, Feb. 1, 1902, one. F Chesterfield, Feb. 1, 1902, one. 0 Chicks Springs, Feb. 1, 1902, one. a Columbia, Nov. 1, 1901, one. i1 Cope, Feb. 1, 1902, two. c Cordova, Nov. 1, 1901, one. h Cottageville, Oct. 1, 1901. C Cowpens, Feb. 1, 1902, one. ti Darlington, April 2, 1900, two. Denmark, Nov. 1, 1901, one. R Dillion, April 2, 1900. h Edisto Island, March 1.5. 1900, one. I Elloree, Dec. 2, 1901, two. R Fairplay, June 16, 1902, one. t Fort Mill-January 1, 1902, two. n Fort Mott-November 1, 1901, one. t Fountain Inn, December 2, 1901, A two. V Getsinger, October 1, 1901 one. h Gaycourt, May 1, 1902, one. Greenville, March 15, 1900 three. R Greenwood, May 1, 1899, two. d Greer. February 1, 1902, one. v Hammer, February 1, 1902, one. a Hickory, April 1, 1902, one. Inman, February 1, 1902, two. Johnston, June 1,1899, three. Lanford Station, June 2, 1902, one. Latta, July 1, 1902, one. Laurens, June 2.1902, one. Leesville, February 1, 1902, two. Lewiedale, November, 1, 1901, one. Lexington, May 15, 1901, one. Liberty, October 2, 1901, two. Lowndesville, December 2, 1901, ~ two-. McColl, A pril 2, 1909, one- a Moore, May 1, 1900, one. Mountville, June 2, 1902, two. t Newberry, August 1, 1901, one. Nichols, July 1, 1902, one. Ninety-Six, A pril 1, 190 , one. t North, November 1, 1901, one- a Orangeburg, March 1, 1899 three. c Peak July 1, 1902, one. Prosperity, May 1, 1899, two. Rapley, F~eb. 1, 1902, one. Ridge Spring, Dec. 1, 1901, two. t Rock Hill, Jan. 1902, four. Rowesville, May 15, 1901, one. a St. George, Dec. 2, 1901 two. ~St. Matthews. Nov. 1. 1901, one. Saluda, June 1, 1899, two. Seneca, May 1, 1899, four. Simpsonville, Dec. 2, 1901. three. t Sigh's, May 1, 1899, two. Smoak's, Dec. 2, 1901, two. Spartanburg, Aug. 15, 1899, four. Springfield, Dec. 2, 1901, one. Sumter, Nov. 1, 1901, one. Traveller's Rest, Feb. 1, 1902, one. Trenton, Jiuly, 1, 1902, two. Waterloo, March 15, 1900, one. Wellford, Jan. 1, 1902, two-. Westminister, Oct. 1, 1901, three, j Wooidruff, Oct. 1, 1901, two. Yorkville, July 1, 1902, two. Anderson, Oct. 1, 1901, eight. Belton, May 1, 1899, four. Easly, Oct. 1, 1901. five. Hlonea Path, Feb. 1, 1901 two. Iva, Oct. 1, 1901, four. Pelzer, Oct, 1. 1901, two-.f Pendleton, Oct. 1, 1901, four. Piedmont, Oct. 1, 1901, two-. Starr, Oct. 1, 1901, two.f Townville, Oct. 1, 1901, two. Williamston, Oct. 1, 1901, two. ~ Caused By a Cat. A terrible explosion of gunpowder occurred at 2 o'clock Wednesday after noon in the cabin of William Hollo man, a negro, on the plantation of Mr. Gib. Lowe, five miles from Wash- ~ ington, Wilkes County, Ga., and as a result Lily Holoman, aged 15, is dead, while Prince Hlolloman, aged 7, and Jesse Holloman, aged 6, are seriously injured. The parents oif the children 1 were attending the great negro camp meeting at Liberty Hill, near Wash ington, and departed at once for their home upon receiving information of I the accident. A bottle of gunpowder :1 was standing upon the mantelpiece, when a eat jumped from the loft and 1 knocked it on the floor and partly into the fire. The children were stunned I and burned by the explosion. Lily was thrown into convulsions, whichC terminated in her death a few hours 1 afterwards. A Fatal Error.1 At Richmond, Va.. Sunday morn ing J. D. Wilson, a well known young man. shot and instantly killed his friend, G. E. Apperson. The fami- 1 lies of the two occupied the same house. Apperson's family was away and Apperson had changed his sleep ing room. Wilson, hearing a noise in the room, proceeded to investigate. Seeing a form which, in the dark, he suposed to be that of a burglar. he t challenged, and receiving no answer, I ired with the above result. Both the amiliesarem highly connected. HEYWARD WILL WIN. I What An Up-Country Man Says About the Second Race. The primary election upset calcula tions of every sort and knocked many >redictions awry. Its results and what he second primary will develop con inue to excite discussion and specula "Since it has been decided that Col. 1 V. J. Talbert will contend with Capt. ). Clinch Heyward in the second pri nary," said a business man from the ?iedmont belt, Friday, to a reporter >f the News and Courier. "there can c carcely be any doubt as to the out- t ome. I know something of the drift 1: f sentiment in Anderson, Oconee, t ickens and Greenville, where Ansel tolled probably 10 per cent. of his c 'ote, and it seemed to be generally c inderstood that Ansel should get the s hulk of the votes in the first primary f ,nd in the second primary they would 3 o to Heyward. It was not believed, t en in that section, where Ansel is t nown and esteemed, that he would u > in the second race, but Piedmont t olk were going to vote for him, willy- n illy. It was not that they esteemed t leyward less, but they loved Ansel t core-and they stuck to him, as they il ]ways have done. Now, however, n inpe Ansel is no longer a factor to be t onsidered, the major part of his a 7,000 and more votes will go to Hey- a ard. Coming developments will s4 rover the truth of what I say. k "As for Dr. Timmerman's vote, t: here is no reason to believe that ih eyward will get scanty recognition e: com it. If the Doctor's vote coin e: e identified it would reveal his t rength with what, for the want of a better game, I would call the re- o gious or church-going class. The )octor is an active member of the Baptist Church, and, you remember, e e was not at all worried over the in rrogations anent his habits by the rev. Mr. Betts. The Doctor received ver 6,000 votes, and if the deacons nd preachers had been in the major- a y in this state he would have suc eeded McSweeney, and there wouldn't ave been any second race. either. ertainly he is to be congratulated on be character of the vote he got. t "The friends of Col. Talbert say he rill secure Tillman's vote. Suppose e does, every single one of them. C [eyward goes into the second primary ith 1,939 more votes to his credit ban the combined strength of Till ian and Talbert. And if you don't a pink Heyward is more invincible in t) ,nsel's stronghold than Talbert, I beg direct your attention to the tabu Lted fact that from the remnant vote ft by Ansel to his competitors Hey- b 'ard got 530 to Talbert's 201 in An- A erson, 579 to Talbert's 240 In Green ille, 213 to Talbert's 84 in Pickens nd 347 to Talbert's 64 in Oconee. 'ow that's official." d EXPENSES OF CANDIDATES. P t c :xperience of a Georgian That Many 0 R Carolinians Can Appreciate. fl b Below is given the expense account s: f a Hall county 3andidate who favor- g d a late primary. From this time on e says he will always be in favor of n early primary, although he will ever be a candidate again. Here is be way he put it down: "Lost 4 months and 33 days can assing; 1,349 hours thinking about be election; 5 acres of cotton; 23 cres of corn; a whole sweet potato rop; 4 sheep; 5 shoats; and I beef I iven to barbecus; 2 front teeth and a onsiderable quantity of hair in a a ersonal skirmish. Gave 97 plugs of bacco; 7 Sunday school books, 2 pair f suspenders; 4 calico dresses; 7 dolls 1 nd 13 baby rattlers. "Told 2,889 lies; shook hands 23, 75 times; talked enough to have ade in print 1,000 large volume sizec f patent oflice reports; kissing 126 abies; kindled 14 kitchen fires, cut 3 ords of wood; 474 bundles of fodder; icked 774 pounds of cotton: helped ull 7 wagon loads of corn; dug 14 ushels of potatoes; toated 27 buckets f water; put up 7 stoves; was dog- I it 4 times, watch broken by baby, ~ ost 3~ to have repaired. "Loaned out three barrels of flourg 0 bushels of meal, 150 pounds of r acon, 37 pounds of butter, 12 dozen ggs, 3 umbrellas, 13 lead princils, 1 ibe dictionary. 1 nmowblade 2 hoes'. overcoat, 5 boxes paper collars, none f which have been returned. "Called my opponent a perambulat ig liar-doctor's bill $10. Had five rguments with my wife-result: One ower vase smashed, 1 broom handle roken, 1 dish of hash knocked off the able, 1 shirt bosom runined, 2 hand ul whiskers pulled out, 10 cents worth S f sticking plaster brought, besides pending $1,768. Result of a Quarrel. f Lizzie Hall, 26 years olpl, and Joseph t ~ampbell are dead, and an unknown c ian is dying in Bellevue hospital, t few York, as the result, the police t ay, of a quarrel in the woman's apart- E ents. According to the police, the a wo men entered the apartments and t quarrel ensued, during which four r hots were tired. The Hall woman r ived in three small rooms in the rear t f the first Iloor of the house, which a s a large tenement house. Her almost f Lude body was found on the floor of I he bedroom. with a bullet hole In her ; ieart. Campbell's body, fully dressed .nd also shot through the heart, was ying behind that of the woman. The known man lay dying in the same oom. a bullet having entered the base C if his brain and shattered the spinal c :olumn. According to the tenants in t he house, the two men entered the '] voman's apartments Wednesday fore- c ioon. Sounds of quarreling were c leard soon after, and one woman says I he heard four shots fired in rapid I uccession. She ran from her room i i~cross the street to the quarters of a( ire engine company, where she told of he shooting. The police were sum noned and took charge of the prem ses. A revolver with four empty hambers was found in the room. Homicide inl Lancaster. In a ditticulty in the Dwight sec- 1 ion of Lancaster county Thursday amuel E. Usher was shot and in tantly killed by John A. Steele. I anth w prominent farmers. SAYS HE WILL WIN. 2l. Talbert Hopeful of Winning in Second Race. A reporter for the Augsta Chronicle alled on Col. Talbert while he was n that city on last Friday and inter 'iewed him about his race for gover tor. He said it was true that he had een successful in the primary to the xtent stated. le showed a telegram ie had just received from Col. ilie Jones, chairman of the Dem cratic party in South Carolina, of iciaIly informing Col. Talbert that te had run second and would be in he second race. "I was sure of it all along," the olonel assured ne. "I new it was a lose race, but, after the first returns tarted in, I never for a moment lost with that I would win over all but Ir. Heyward. The newspapers, in heir enterprise, did all in their power o secure the returns quickly and all f them-including The Chronicle, he first paper I ever subscribed to in y life, by the way-was wrong with he others. The Coumbia State seems have hit it about right this morn g and the tip The Chronicle got last ight was riglit. B3ut I see you went :2Charleston for further information, nd the returns collected by the News nd Courier did not make me out as !cond in the run. But, gracious nows, I am not saying a word against te newspapers. What to my mind remarkable is the endeavor, the fterprise, the work, that they have rpended in collecting the returns, and oat they could be as accurate as they re in the necessary hasty collecton news is marvellous. STANDS ON HIS PLATFORM. "(Oh, I don't know about a 'second mpaign.' I am going over to Co mbia on the 1 o'clock train and will, suppose, meet the officers of the arty, and will be guided by the direc on they give. In the second race, in the first, I stand on the platform enunciated in the campaign. Plat >rms were made to stand upon. "The outcome? Youngman, Iam as asitive of success as you are sitting iere. I don't want to be considered 3astful, but there is no more question bout ray election as governor of South arlind than there is that there is be a governor to succeed Miles B. [cSweeney. "Well, I declare I can not think of nything I could say of the campign sat would interest you. The second rimary is on Sept. 9 next." Col. Talbert is very enthusiastic ver the outlook. He has a large num er of friends and well wishers in .ugusta and when it became known 3at he was in the city a number of entlemen called on him. Many at -mpted to' condole with him on his efeat, but he quickly turned sym athy into congratulation by showing de official telegram from the state airman. The news quickly got at that he had run in second and as in the second primary and friends ocked abont him to congratulate im to the extent of putting on a nail sized ovation to the distin uished Carolinian. The Educational Revival. There is being awakened a wide pread interest in education. Through at the country the attention of the eople is being called to this great jatter. The condition of our schools, oth secular and denominational, is eing looked carefully into, and large lans for their improvement are be ig projected. Specially do the schools the rural regions call-for immedi te and thoughtful attention. Our :heme of public school education in be country, in many places, is scarce rworthy the name, and is hardly tore than excuses for schools, says de Baptist Union. With miserable ouses, only the most simple and rude apparatus, poorly equipped sachers, only a few months in ses on, and with inadequate direction nd superintendence, it is quite im ossible to have such schools as the ties demand. It is high time our eople were moved in this matter. 'ublic schools have come to stay, and ey must be made adequate to the reat work c'mmitted to them. The est men in the country should be ade superintendents and school coin issioners, and should give them elves with great seriousness and in ustry to the charge of the duties of his ottice. The best men in the ommunity should deem it an honor o be permitted to serve on the school oard. Fewer and better houses bould be secured, trained and mature eachers employed and more months cupied. These things our people ould demand and continue to de and until they are secured. Let it e understood that our schools are not imply to furnish employment to the avorte daughters of a neighborhood, ut a place for honest and hard work n the part of men and women that ave been highly and thoroughly rained for their life work. Let our eople be stirred to serious thought and ction in these things, and not take it or granted that things are bound to emain as they are. Speak out in eeting whenever things are not what hey ought to be. It Is the right of n honest tax-payer to get the best or his money, and nowhere is it so 2portant to get the best as in our ublic schools. A Family of Suicides. Coroner Green Tuesday held an in uest over the body of Bessie Code, olored who died Monday night from he effr ets of morphine poisoning. The verdict of the jury was that she ame to her death from an overdose f morphine administered by her own and. It was a case of suicide. She tad attempted once before to kill her elf. Just a few weeks ago Eugene ede, her brother, took his own life. ;uicides among negroes were unknown tntil a few years ago.-State. Sand Bagged to Death. Fred West, of Boston, is dead at ;aratoga N. Y., from the effects of teing sandbagged. West had just merged from a club house when he vas set upon by two men who beat im down and emptied his pockets of van thousand dollars. THE STEEL TRUST. It Is Now Worth Over One Billion Dollars. EARNS HALF A MILLION DAILY. The Figures Made in the Affidavits Are Skyscrapers. It Has a. Sur plus of Sixty-five Millions. At Trenton, N. J.. Wednesday, the United States Steel corporation filed in the court of chancery an answer to the amended bill of complaint of J. Aspinwall Hodge, Bernard Smith and William H. Curtiss, to restrain the proposed conversion of $200,000,000 7 per cent. preferred stock into $200, 000,000 5 per cent. second mortgage bonds. The answer denies that the books of the corporation show Curtiss to be the owner of any stocks of the concern. Smith, it is averred, did not own any stock of record until June 24, 1902, after the plan of conversion had been adopted, an.d that the stock now recorded in nmiah's ame was voted in favor of the plan. Hodge, it is admitted, owns 100 shares of stock, but it is alleged that he was not present at the stockholders' meeting when the plan was submitted and that his stock was not voted either * by himself or proxy. It is denied that fifteen or more of t the directors of the steel corporation are members of the syndicate, through which the preferred stock was to be converted into bonds. It is admitted that some of the rectors are members of the syndicate, but that this fact was communicated - to every stockholder in the circular of April 17, 1902, in the following words: "To further the success of the plane there has been formed a syndicate, in- > cluding some directors, who Il re=' ceive four-fifths of the 4 per cent. commission to be paid under the con- " traot with J. P. Morgan & Co., men tioned in the notice of stockholders' meeting." The answer says that the directors in the corporations are a minority in the board of directors, but they-are large stockholders and favored the conversion plan because they believed, it would-be advantageous to themas stockholders. It is denied that any stockholders had been offered special terms in Con nection with converting their pre ferred stock into bonds in order to se cure their affirmative votes for the t plan. It is denied that the $50,000,000 of additional capital which at was pro- _ posed to obtain was needed for pur- . poses that were chargeable to the earn ings of the company. The answer then takes up the line of argument made in the affidavit of George W. Perkins, chairman of the finance committee, filed last week, In which Mr. Perkins claimed that this additional $50,000,000 was needed to pay for improvements and to give the company a larger surplus to permit It to do a cash business and be protected against a money stringency in the event of a business depression. The . answer says the earnings of the cor poration for the year ending-(March 31, 1902, were $111,603,054; for the : month of April, 1902, $12,320,7166; May, $13,120,390; June, 12,220,360; July, estimated at $11,900,000, or at the rate of $150,000,000 a year. An inventory islfiled to show that ' the company's property Is worth $1,400,000,000-more than the comn. bined par value of the preferred and common stocks. It is stated also that - the company's surplus is $65,000,000. ~ The answer emphasizes the point raised by Mr. Perkins to the effect that the conversion plan would reduce - the fixed charges of the company and be advantageous to 1a11 stockholders, both preferred and common. A Care for Insomnia How many of us, asks the London ~ Daily Mail, ever give our lungs a full draught of the fresh air that is the life of the whole body? We all know what our lungs are for. We all breathe at least thirty times a min ute. Yet we practically never breathe with all our lungs; never breathe properly. It is possible for a man to exercise his whole body, to keep It strong and well, simply by breathing properly. Every child should be taught to breathe, and to get into the habit of filling the whole lung space at each inhalation and of empty ing it completely at each exhalation. Do you know there is no better way of getting to sleep soon after going to bed than by breathing properly? Here is a specimen breathing exercise: Push away your pillow and lie flat upon your back with your muscles re laxed. Slowly draw in the deepest breath possible, hold it for four sec onds, then slowly expel it until your chest and abdomen have collapsed. Repeat this until you are tried or fall asleep. This In Michigan. Walter Lemerand, lately from Toledo, Ohio, went to his home at Monroe, Mich., on Friday, and found a man, a Frenchman named Jos. Labarge, also of Toledo, in the house with his wife. A quarrel ensued, Labarge finally running from the house. An otficer attempted to ar rest him. ,vhen he ran down Third street. a crowd pursuing. The cry "Assaulter:" was raised and the mob began to shoot. Labarge ran into a corn field. where he was surrounded and shot dead, a bullet penetrating his heart. Mrs. Lemerand said: "The man was sitting in the parlor with me when my husband came home. q There was nothing wrong." Mrs. Lemerand said that she and TLaharge had planned an elopement. An autopsy was performed on Labarge's body and the inquest will be held later. Two men whose shots killed Labarge are known, but no arrests will be made until after the inquest. MORE trouble is reported from the Philippines. The Moros, the fiercest tribe, Mohammedanshby religion and assassins by trade, have signified a de- - sire to tight. Gen. Chaffee has been instructed to accommodate them, and we will likely have lurid reports of nhmanity."