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M41-t'QLITO(JA Mast ha Xuforced in Counties Which Have Voted Cut The Dispensary. Constables Sent to Pickens County on the Advice of Chief Constable Hammett. As was suggested in The State and other daily papers Gav, Heyward has been puzzled to know what to do with the enforcement of the dispensary law in counties which bave voted out the dispensary, At drst his disposi tion was to remove the constables and to trust to the people of the county to Zcep down the illicit sale of liquor. Coinplaints having come from Pick ens and Newberry counties, Chief Constable Hammet was sent to those districts to investigate. Upon his showing that the cftizials in Pickens admit that they do not try to enforce the law, Gov. Hayward ordered con stables to be pliced there, bu; the Newberry situation was not dispcsed of pending the action of the Law and Order league in that county. The constables in Pickens will be paid out of the proceeds of a special levy of a half mill in that county. Mr. Hammet's report is as follows, ad dressed to the governor: "At your request I paid a visit to Newberry and Pckecs cruaties last week, and endeavored to gather such information as would enable me to make to you an impartial report of the actual situstiofn with reference to the enforcement of the law, which report, I trust, will prove satisfac tory. At Newberry I conferred with a number of the most prominent people both for and against the dispensary, and from a careful revievw of what was told me I .m led to believe that the local offials and the better ele ment of the cit-izens desire the en forcement of the law, and are en deavoring to compel it in the city, but at the same time I am forced to the conclusion that it is being vio lated in certain pr.rts of the county outside of the town, and I would re commend that constables be placed in the county where it is necessary to prevent the trflic in whiskey as long as i may be deemed advisable. "From Newberry I went to Pick ens, where I found abuo the same conditions existing, with th a excep tion that I satisfied myself that liquor is being sold in the towns as well as in the country. Hare, too, I inter viewed a number of substantial and well posted citiz-ns, eliciting fror them sufficient irnformation to warrant the above opinion. I learn that the distillers are again active, and that most of the whiskay being used i blockade. "In view of the above facts, I recommend that constables be placed h Plckens county where necessary." Gov. Heyward in a letter to Mr. D. 3. Coker of Darlington on the 15th of July stated his position on the matter. . He will give the people of a county a fair trial Defore appointing constables. BE GAVE BOND. Mr' Daniel Zimmerman Waives a Preliminary Examination. There are no new developments in the~ Zimmerman case the an nouncemernt in the Record Wednes day t'i at Mr. Zi zmerman had co~r forward and would appear before Magistrate McMaster and give bond attracted a great deal of attention. Magistrate McMaster consulted with Solicitor Timmerman and it was de cided to fix the bond at S100. This bond was prepared and Mr. Zimmer man appeared at 5 O'clock ;with his attorney, Mr. G. Duncan Bellinger, and signed his appearance for the February term of court, the bond be Ing given by Messrs. F. H. Westor and J. Pope Matthews, of Columbia. and Mr. T. A. Amaker, of St. Mat thews. He was accompanied by 1. is son, Mr. Daniel Zimmerman. An interesting chapter to this story however, is the statement by a num her of Columbians that Mr. Z~mmer man had been seen on the Charlotte train and the statement by Mr. Zim merman to Sheriff Coleman that he had not attempt Ed to elude the sheriff As a result of the statement as to the Charlotte trip, Mr. Coleman sent Deputy Sheriff Cathart to Charlotte Wednesday afternoon in search of him. Mr. Coleman stated that Meg Istrate ,EMcMaster had not notified him Mr. Z'mmerman's intention to surrender, and when Mr. Z'mmerman appearedathere was no warrant for his arrest. The recognizance was c u'y signed, however, and Mr. Z'mmerman at once went home He had no statement to make except that he had not tried to elude the sheriff and that at a proper time he would iset forth the facts. There was much sympathy expressed Wednesday fcr the family and cpln Ion is still divided as to Mr. Z~mmer man's guilt or innocence. Big Cannal Projected. President John S. Shaw and the board of directors of the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company, accompanied by a num~ber of engineers and other advisors, started from Pitts burg, Pa., Friday on a two days' trip to examine the twvo routes proposed for a ship canal connecting the Ede Lake with the Ohio river. At Ashta bula, Ohio, the Pittsburg party will be joined by the c fficers of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Snip canal Comp any, of which Joseph H. Ca.ssidy, of Cleveland, is president, and the two organizations will continue the trip to gether. One of the two routes is from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Pittsburg, the other from Erie to Pittsbnrg. Each rcute is about 105 miles lcng, and the cost of either would be about $30.000, 000. President Shaw is of the opinion that the work could be completed and the canal opened to traffic In the sum mer of 1911. Mass Alica's ViitCs. If the prcsident's daughter desires to keep all the costly presents present ted to her trip abroad she will likely have to have the help of congress. In no other way will she be able to get them in duty free, unless she will do nate them to some national institu tion. The law makes no exceptions in favor of the president or members of his famil;; consequently when Miss Roosevelt arrives af San Fran cisco she will have to the custom oi. cials the value of ail the articles she! brings wIth her. If they are really worth as much as reported, $400,000,I Miss Roosevelt could not afford to pay the duty, which amcunt to as much as her fathers salary for one year. 8KE PlAIN FAC ". Why Cotton Ehould b3 Held for Eigher Pricas. An Official Address to the Farmers From President E. D. Smti.h Utility Will Bring Success. The Southern Cotton association is an organization of, by and fur the people. It is not fr the few but for the many, not for the farmer alone but for the merchant, profEssional man, mechanic and laborer, for every one who makes a living where cotton grows. Tne objects sought are manifold and far reaching; among them is the establishment of system bcth in pro duction and marketing, thereby creat ing a condition conducive of fair and1 renumerative prices. T promote manufacturing where cotton grows, to the extent of our own peopie seil ing the finished product l-stead of sending two-thirds o-f our raw mater ial out of the country. But the imed iate anxiety of the S C. A. Is that cotton this year should bri -g the far 11 cents per pound, the price set by the association. That the farmers are not getting this price is no proof that the -asso clation and other organizations made a mistake in estimating the value of cotton, but it does pro re that the as sociation is timely and the wt-rk is was created to do is an imperative necessity. Its weakness is apparent rather than real; its success under the cir cumstances is phenomenal. Without its powerful intluence c;tton to-day would be selling at as low a price as at any time last year. Never in the history of cotton has ten per cent sur plus blended with a succeding crop without the price running low till the farmer had sold out. We are weak in proportion as business men and far. mers are unenlisted in our comman cause, and we will grow in stregth in proportion as the people in cotton growing communities unite with us in defense of Lur own r;ghts and interests. We have allowed conditions to ob tain that robbed 812 cotton c-uaties annually of $200,000,000 that rightly belonged to them, and the loss of two cents a pound this year means $100, 000,000 gone forever, leaving cmpty store buildings and pari; z, d busmess to that extent. There are reasons why the farmers are not gettieg 11 cents. The armers always distinctly re member the expe.ionces cf the yea befure. Now two years the farmer sold on a raising market and aw-er each sale he regretted that he did c.t hold his cot ton a lftt-le 'ozger, and resolved not to be czught that way again. So last year to profit by -his late experience, ne was disposed to gt his cotton gin ned and then not be in a hurry to sf;il. Then when the statijoical condtion howEd an izmense surplus he was caught in the awful avilanche of fall ing prices; and be -don't yet reahz that last year prices were good for sE long a time, simply beciause he was a eonscryat-ve Instead of a p:ecisptat. seller. Remembering the geod prices during the early weeks last year ano .he trap that crippled him, ne resol yes to be the early bud6, with ste re suit that at this year a grcnter psr cent. of the crop is already marketet ,han i .any sea cf the past, and this biernded with the shrunken skele t.:n cf last year's surplas, in so short a time foims a comination that vould break down any market, what ever th:e concomitiant canditioni mght be. Belgirg this condition the mer chant zn.a s money and the far mer wants to pay as soon as possible and while cur bankers are willing to. ..xend good papers and to grant fur ner accommodations, yet merchant and farmer ahike have had so many batar lessons that they hesitate tc drop a mcderate certainty for a promi sing uncertainty. As things have always been, this position of merchant and farmer is not unreasonable Heretofore no concerted Effort has obtained to make the owners .a party to the trade when our farm products are to be priced. Heretofore no thoroughly organized work has been done to get the i~statis tical situation for the farmer's use in ime to benefit the farming com .munity. Heretofore no interested organiza tion has been strong enough to in fluence market conditions to favor the farmers in time- to benefit him. Heretofore all has been uncertain guess work, but this year the statis tical situation is well In hand. When the first bale this season lock ed back over the past year, it saw~ that 13,000,000 of its brothers had been laid upon the shelf by the fatal hand of cousumption, it looked to the future and saw the diease spreading in ne*- and wider fields, through Japan, China, Russia and the world, including the survivors fewer than 11,000,000 would be thrown out tc all before the dread destroyer who is eager and anxious to consume 2,000, 000 more. Farmer, is not $10 a bale worth looking after? Merchant, Is not 50 per cent in crease of business worth looking after? Are you not willing to help cnrry the financial burdens of an organization that has done so much for you and your own people? Are you not will ing to help us carry on a greater work of usefulness in the futur e? To all our people let us say we are seriously in earnest; are sure of ouy promises, and confidently urge all to stand firm for 11 cent cotton. Merchant and banger stand by tue farmer: Farmer, refuse to take less than 11 cents; when you unite to show the world you are In earnest, that you understand the situation, the market will quickly responrd to your demand, for the spinuers and speculators know the situation, and they know you could get 12 cents if yo- were unitedly arouse toidemand it.. Oh!i Farmers, Merchants, Bankers, Editors and all the people of our cot ton growing south, let us stand to gether now a band of brothers and we can win this fight; to loose o-ut means humiliation, and "def'ia:" will mar our banner. E. D. Sxrrn, President S. C. Div. S. C. A. French War Balloons. The huge Lebaudy dirigible balloon, constructed under the patronage of the war cffice, at Toulan, France, bas made Its first successful asc~u- with sme chief engineers and a party of offcers, who made an extensive rrcan nassance of the military defernces fr m Troul to Nancy, near the Geran frontier. The distance covered was about thirty miles at a rste of twenty eight miles per hour. The otiicers made inspections of the forts and took photographs of them, thus establish ing the merits of dirigible ballcns for ATTEMPTED ASSAULT. Men Who Atte mpted Assaulton Lady May Be Hold-Ups. Dan Slocum, the member of the gang of feather renovators arrested for attempting to assault a Miss Pad gott near Columbia recently, waived preliminary before a magistrate, and Slecum was sent to j.;,ii In default of bail. He has employed no attorney so far. No evidence was givan, and it is difflult to get at the detail3 of the aleged assault. I& appears from what can be learn ed , f the affstir that Slocum and three of his c: mpanions found Miss Padgett alone at her father's home, and that Siocum grabbed her, when she scream cd. The strangers vanished and the neighburhocd was soon out searching for them but it was a sheriffs ofcer who caurht them. Slocum's pals are being beld as sus pects. They all claim to be working for the National Renovator Company of Chicago, and cannot b3 run in for vagrancy. But it is thought that some light mig't be thrown on the series of hold ups the city has witnessed the past few weeks by holding them. Tuesday night A. F. Fonderburk, a well known furniture dealer, saw a well dressed white man standing under some trees near Trinity church, ap parently waiting for him as he ap proached. He called to the man, who gave no answer. He asked a negro nearby for a revolver and the man under the trees taking flight Mr. Fun derturk ard the negro gave chase. In a short time halt a dczen police officers ha.d arrived, but the fug.tive had es caped through a vacant lot. Bat tbis is not an unusual incident. Some pro minent CIumbians havs been EuI jec ted to this sort of thing almost every night for the past three weeks. There are many wild stories going over the town about these hold-ups One is that a few nigbts ago a well known Columbian being held up shot the hold-up man smvrely, and that the supposed thug has turned out to oe himself a prcminent Calurbian, and that his wounds are being cared for in secret, the matter beirg hushed up on account of his name. Of course, there is nothing in the story but wind, but in the nature of it it v ill not down. Another, in which there is ju t about as much truth, carries the mem ory of graft and hold-up. Tnis story is to the effect that the hold-up gen u. operating about Columbia has gatter hold of Digenese and taken his lanterr away from him the hold-up occuting n the shadow of the state dispensary .valls. TEXPIED AND FELL. This is the Confession .01 Edward George Canliff -. E 'ward Gaorge Cunliffe, the Adam; Express employe who disappeared from Pittsburg, Pa., with S' 01 00( in cash, was arrestLd at B:idgepart, conn. He made a confession and express ,d his willingness to return at once tc P ttsburg. He declared that the oney which he took is intact and that it could be recovered, but declin Sd to tell until his return to Pitts burg, where it is hidden. On his per ecn when arrested, the detective found 8290. Detectives trace d Ounliffe to Bridge port. All the hotels were watcied carefully, bu O unliffe was not arrest, ed until late in the forenoon, when he was seen walking down Middle street Cunlff a made no attempt to deny his identity and offered no resistance. "F.ve minutes after I took thal money I was sorry," said Cunliffe. "but it was too late to do anything. What can you expect from a man get ting a salary of $65 a month and hand'ing thousands of dollars a day: I was tempted arnd I fell. I have handled larger sums. I remembe once when I had $250.000 in cash,:] was tempted, but I thought it over, and decided to be tonest, *"The night I left Pittsburg, I rodi In a sleeper on the way to New Yorli and I stuck my head out of my berti and saw Slater pass by. Slater is om local manager iD Pittsburg. I though1 then that I would turn back, bul kno ling that he did not see me and that I had the money with me i cash, I thought I would take the chances. "I want to go back to Pittsburg, restore the money and throw mysel: upon the mercy of the courts." Husbands in Revolt. Thorougly disgusted by the univer sal giving up of their wives to socia functions, 2)0 citiznns of Williams port, Warren county, Ind., have en terer vigorcus protests against the practice, and have demanded in nc uncertain terms that there must be more consecration to home duties and less devotion to clubs. The rEcent utterances of Mr. Cievaland on the sul jaect caused much comment among tqe husband, and it was concluded that the ex president knew a thing o1 two about women that he was not afraid to tell, and the Williamsport husbands determined to be equally bold. This led to protests home, and when there were ignored, anothe: plan was advanced. The husband: met yesterday afternoon, had a pink tea of their own, and then marghed in a body to the various places, where their wives were being entertained and burlesqued their sonial functions. The husbands were followed by a lar ge crowd of boys and single men and the afiair was made as grotesque as possible. "'Tailhoh." No M1ore. There is no sentiment in the heart: of the gentlemen in charge of the post o1me department; neither is there any music in their souls. With owlish wis dom and due disregard of public feel ing they have declared "Tailholt" t( be lacking in euphony, therefore the postoffce of Tailholt, Ind., Is no more. In its place we are to have Carrollton. Ini the name of all lovers of real poe try, The Comnmoner protests. When James Whitecomb Riley wrote "The Little Town o' Taiholt" he made that village famous, and he added to the gaiety of nations. And now t: cave the sordid, unpoetic, prosaic and unsnimental postoffce authoritlES wipe the village from the map Is too much. Fiery Death Show er. At Chicago, Ill., five tons of mol tn metal exploded at the Joilet plant Iof the Illinois Steel Company Wed. nesda~y falling in a shower of death on a band of workmen about a conver ter. One man Is dead, three are fat ally burned and half a dt zen are inj.iu red so badly that they may die. The accident came without warnin g. The explosion shock the whole plant, sen ding panic into every corner of the great works. Half a hundred men were within range of the liquid metal nd many, suffed sverleV burTns. WHY BE LOST J )B. The Expilanation of the Summary Die missal of a Clerk. The biggest sensation in governmen servle in Washington in year was th dismissal, without hearing or chane of deferce, of Walter S. Elvidge, messenger of the bureau of standardc which comes under the department c commerce and labor. No reason was assigned for the dic missai, but it is now known that E'N idge is the man who was driving a: automobile a few days ago in front c the carriage of President Roosevel and would not move out of the way t let the carriage of the president, b annoying the president by the Cust b threw bzhind. As a result of the act of Elvidge who was appointed from Minnesota the President Tuesday issued an orde conferring upon cabinet officers an himself the righr of instaht dismissa without notice or nearing, of any en oloye of the government service ci served to be conducting himself em properly or to b inefficient. It is sur posed that the presIdent immediatel gave orders to Secretary Metcalf t have E.vidge dismissed, and this wa done Thursday. When seen on tb subject Secretary Metcalf declined t give the reasons for the dismissal C Elvidge or to admit that he was tb man %ho had kept in the way of tb president. The action of the deparl ment was accomplished with the greal est kind of mystery. President Roosevelt himself, unde civil service regulations, that existe until Tuesday, could not bring abor the dism!ssal of Elvidge without filin charges agaist him and permittin Elvidge to file a defence, but under tb new order E'vidge was not allowed defence. The statement of E'v'dge Is that b did not know that he was keeping I front of the president's carriage. B did not know whose carriage he wz in front of. He remembers that sonr one (Qe now understands it was a set ret service c ffl e) motioned to him t get out of the way, but that he di not pay any attention, because if k tad crossed to the other side of tt street he would have violated Distric regulations and laws as to keeping 1 one side of the street, allowing tb other for vehicles coming from ao 01 posite direction. On the other hand it is chargei th E vfdge persistently kept his autcmi bile in front of the presidential ca riage doing so in a disagreeable at unfair way. . W. A. PITTS. a morial Services Held at Targ Church in His Home. Rev. W. A. Pitts pastor Cf ProV dence circuit, Orangeburg distric died at the home of his parents i Clinton, Thursday, Oat. 12, at 3 1 p. m. His illness, some se i -us for of stomach trouble, was of only a fe weeks duration and in its steady ar rapid progress seemed from the fir! to mark him for the tomb. B was taken from Holly Hiil to ti Sumter infirmary on Monday, Oft. and thence on Tuesday, the 10th., t the home of his parents at Clintc where he lingered only a few days. Sunday Oct., 15, at Target chur< one of the largest churches of ti charge served by the departed your minister, memolial services were col ducted by Riv. Marion Da~rgan. pr siding elder of Orangeburg district, the presence of a large conecurse sorrowing frietds and parishioner Tributes of respect and affection we feelingly spoken by Dr. J. L. B. GI more, Rev. J. F. Way, Rev. E I Danzler, T. M. Danzler, recordir secretary, and by Presiding Bld Dargan, who spoke in Eu':dued, ya exultant accents of the earnest at faithful ministry of his fallen your colleagur; his manly, purposeful cha acter; his great concern and d sire to be restored to his work; ani finally, his peaceful falling cn slee and surcease from anguish and suffe ing. During the service the choir sar with much soleminity and feeling ti hymns beginning, "1 Would Not LI Away," and, ,,Servant of God WE Done;" and after a few strong wort from the presiding elder, especially1 emulate the life ahd example of the deceased young pssts r, the congreg Cross," thus closing a most impressis service, which must have had a stror infuence gor good npon the mind at heart of everyone present. High Diver KinedI. J. J. Dorsey, a white civilian en plyee at the United States artllei post, Fort de Soto, Fia., lost his 11: by diving from the top of the pi driver, nearly one hundred feet 1m1 Tampa bay. Dorsey's body struc the water with great force and d: not reappear until several hours late when it came to the surface and wi recovered. Dorsey's wife was amor the witnesses of his fatal leap. Kansas Jails Crowded. Many c~unty iails in Kansas are l ed with law violators because of Go' Hoch's crusade against the liquC jints. Jails that had been the aboc of mice,bats and owls for months has ben opened to the floor of bocze ver ders who have been c~nvicted. Bi cause of the crowded c mndition of til Montgomery jill Judge Flannely post poned for a week the sentencing twenty-one j olnts who had pleade gilty. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Give Body to Science In accordar c with the provisior of the will lof George W. Catt, pres dent of the Atlantic Dredging compi ny, who died on Sunday at his res der ce in New York. His body wi take to the Bellvue Hospitsl Medici c~llege to be disseeted in the interes of science. Mr. Catt was the hui band of Mrs. Carrie Champman Cati president of the International WC men's Suffrage League. Win V'isit Us. Secretary of War Bonaparte hi promsed to visit Charleston scm time in November or D camber, o the ccasion of the presentation of silver service to the cruiser "Chales ton" by the city of Charleston. THE Philadelphia Press says holder of policies in the big life comnpanie are at least finding out that they havs been paying too much for their in surance. That is their part of the res elations. ___________ A NEGRO was5 taken from conStable near Bainbridge, Ga.. on Saturday ani lynched by members of his own rac for assaulting a young colored woman THE Marion County farmers arl standing out for 11 cents for cotton Only two bales were sold in Marion or riay and nne on Saturaay. GREAT LAKES SWEPT By the Most Disastrous Storm of Re. cert Years. Ten Vessels Wrecked and Many Lives B Lost. Many places Are Not Yet Heard From. A dispa'ch from Chicago says the storm which Friday night and Satur day swept over northern Lake Michi f gan, Lake Huron and Lake Erie, was t one of the moAt severe in recent years. r As far as re*urns are obtained to y night 10 vessels have been completely e wrecked and 12 to 15 otte-s more or less severely damaged. Twelve lives are kn ,:a to have been lost, and as the gale on Southern Lake Huron and r Lake Erie is still blowing fiercely to. I night it is feared that other losses, both of life and property, will be re ported within the next 24 bours. The boats are as follows: Tug Frank P.arry, sunk off Bool is lard, in the Ceneaux group. Steamer Joseph S Fay, run ashore , n:ar Roges City, Mich., and broken to ,3 piees by the waves: Mate Joseph S) ze, ,orowned. The boat is ownr A by M. A. o Bradley of Cleveland. , Barge D. P. R-iode, in tow of the e steam.r J. S. Fay, driven ashore near e Sheboygan, M ch. - Schooner E nm3s L. NeIlson, strand ed in Presque Isle harbor; boat badly damaged but crew was saved. r Schooner Minnedosa foundered two d :nd a half miles cff Harbor Beach in t Lake Huron early today, carried down entire crew of eight men. Schooner Mautenee, ashore 18 miles west of Erie, Pa. a Schooner supposed to be either the Tasmania or Ashland of the Corrigan e flbet, sunk 2 1 2 miles southwest of the a southeast shoal lightship on Lake e Erie, carried crew of eight men, o S whom nothing has been heard. e Schooner Sheldon beached and ;_ wrecked near Loraine, 0. s Schooner Kingfisher. beaten to piec d es off Cleveland. e Tug Walt-r Metca'f, sunk near e breakwater light, Cleveland. t Tae Minnedosa, on which so far as o known tonght the greatest loss of life e occurred, was coming down from Fort William, Canada, bound for some Lake Ontario point with a corgo oi 6t wheat. She was in tow of the steam er Westmount, which was also towing r the barge Melrose. The tow line: d broke during the stcrm and the Mel rose and the Westmount were separa ted from the Minnedosa. They man aged to make harbor at Harbor Beact late in the afternoon and reportec that they had seen the Minnedosa gc t down. She was in command of Capt. Philips, who had his wife aboard. ThE names of the other members of the I- crew are not known. Tne boat wat b, owned by the Montreal Transportatior Lt company of Montreal, Canada. ;0 The schooner Mautenee struck 2 n rock 18 miles west of Erie, Pa., early w this morning and pounded by the ter d rific seas, commenced breaking up. it The waves were so high that it wat e impossible to launch. 2Pointed Paragraphs. ' Beware of the willing worker; hE n may try to work you' Y~ u may lead a fool, to talk but yot ai cannot make him think. Le It's imqossible to cor vince a splnster .that marriage is a failure. 2- If a man owes any thing to himsel. - he Is apt to settle promptly. n Give a pretty girl a chance to shop )off and she'll not get lonesme. s. If some men were'ico put their cen ce sciences on ice they would spoil the 1- ice. ). It isn't rigtht to Juige a man by L4 the company his wife's folks irnflict r upon him. t Now is the s-ason fast approrching d when the can-opener will be mightie1 g than the sword. r- Any young man who beliberatell ~j'lts an innocent girl deserves to be inoinpreked by her successor. p No Alphonso, we have no data al r- hand relative to any ice dealer having been driven to suicide by remorse. g !After reaching a c artain age a mar t begins to make up his mind-and a re woman begins to make up her facs. 11 No.tbing makes a woman so angr3 s angry as to) prepare for c >mpany that o0 tails to come-unless it is to have ir company came when she isn't L- repared.________ e: Five Deer Pound Deed re Sportsmen about Charleston art concerned over the number of dead ddeer found in the woods, five being discoved in the past week lying deac apparently without any reason foi . their deaths. Some of the hunters y say that paris green used on cotter re plants to kill caterpillers is respors Le ble for the killing of the deer, which o have eaten the poison aud died from Sits effcts. Nmre of the deer had d "black tongue." r, Bryan Welcomed To Japan. Wiliam J. Bryan and his family ar grived In Yokohama on Saturday. They will make a vlsit of five days to Tokic ar d Ma- q'1ls Ito, president of thE lprivy council, and Count Okumna, tun: .foreign minister, will invite Mr. Bry. r an to a dinner. The Japa -American e society invited Mr. Bryan to address e its members at the Young Men's hal: . on October 17. Count Okuma presid ed at the function. e Pistol Duel. SIn a sensational pistol duel at Te Shule Miss., Thursday. W. A. Spratlin and Jack Glenn, t wo well known trav eling men, met death. Spratlin, it is claimed, accused Glenn of cheating in 5 a game of cards. Later the two men - met on the principal street of tbe town L- and both began firing. Glenn was - struck by four bullets, and Spratlin s also receivad a death wound. Glenn 1i represented a Greenwood music hcnse t and Spratlin travelled for the Nation -al Drill Co., of Memnpils. Here This week. Governor J. K. Vardmnan, of Missi.; sippi, will be in Columbia this week and deliver an address to the South s ern Cotton associatian. Mr F. H. C Westcn, the secretary of the asscio n tion, received word of Mr Vardaman's a intention to come to Columbia and ipreparations will be made at once to receive him. Among other speak ers will be Messrs. IHarvis Jordon, s the president cf the Cotton associa s tion, and E- D. Smith, the president e of tha South Carolina branch of the - association. Guests Leit. The appearence of a negro football player at a table lfn a Chicago hotel caused the hotel to lose eight fami lies who were boarding there. The management of the hotel exercised .the right of choosing their guests and Sthe boarders evercised the right of choosning- their ssniatest THE DISENSARY HoD. J. W. Ragsdale. ot Florence, Says It is not Dead. The Washington crrespondent of the Columbia Record says; Among the promicent bankers of South Car lina who have been here attending the sessions cf the American Bankers' Association during the past few days is J. W. Ragsdale, of Florence, who is the preside-t of a bank in that town and also prominent in legal and political circles. Mr. Razsdale has bren stopping at the Ebbitt house. In coaver.;.tion today with a Record representaive concernin. matters in S auth Caroli ia, and especially the future cf the dis pensary, he said: "The recent elec tions in South Carolina are not a cor rect indrx to the real sentiments of the people on the dispensary ques tion. In every county except For ence they have voted out the dispen sary, but in each of these counties excent Fiorence restricdons were thrown around the ballot that pre vented thous;nis of write men from expressing their wishes at the polls. Ia Florence c uaty, by an agreement betwern the dispensaryites and the anti-di.spsnsaryitzs th' e primary rules prevailed and vhe dispensary system was retained. In my cp*nion, the dispensary s, stem will win cut next year when the white per'ple of the state will be allowed to express their wishes in the primary, and when the questions will be discussed on the stumc, and wh en they will take an interest in politics and p-o -ably 85 or 95 per cent. of them wil turn out and vote. Recently the ekotions have been con dned to about 25 per cent. of the white voters in each county in which tile dispensaries has been voted out.. L US TO CLERICaL 23iORS. The Pcople of Dorchester Have Faith L in Thir Treasurer.-i... A ditpatch frcm St. Georges to The State says thelrecent Euspension by Gov. Heyward of County Treasurer Whetsell and his refusal to reinstate Mr. Whetsell comes to the people of Dorchester county like a clap of thun der frem a cicudkss sky. With very few exceptions if any, the people of the county believe that Mr. Whetsell !s an honest man and that he has been guilty of no criminating conduct dur ing his inumbency as treasurer of the county, but on the contrary, they feel catisfied that If there is any error In his cce itris due entirely to clerical mistakes. Yc ur correspondeL t asked Mr. Whet sell FrWay for a statement, but Mr. Whets.Al said that until a cmiplete and impartial examination of his books and accounts was had he did not carc to make any statement for publica tion, for he felt tLat his con cience was clear and to piove that this asser ion is correct, and that his actions are characterized by honesty thrcugh out, he put up the alleged shortage Ir orcer that his ccnstitutsrts might nc even run the chance of losing a penni Mr. Whetsell did say, however, tha: the alleged shortage arises from annu al settlements previ:us to- four years ago, which annual settlements were made by the then cor ptroller genera] for whom the present cymptroller general was au~itlrg clerk and made the settlements himself and proncuc ed the same all right at the time. Mr. Whetseli's friends look upon the recent occurrernces os very unjust to Mr. Whetsell but Mr. Whetsell being a modest man, doe:: not* - imself use such harsh expressions. T.ae c:nsen sus of cpinion here is tflat Mr.Whet sell will cbtain complete vindication of the whole matter as scon as an im. partial investigation as to the condi tion of his off fcc is I C'd. Relnseti a Room. William S. Brcwn, of Wakefield, N. J., filed in the United States cr cult court at New York a suit for $10, 000 damage-t against William C. Mus cbenhelm, proprietor of the New As ser hotel. B:owns says that on the aight of Aogust 6 he attended the theater In New York with h:s wife And was delayed so that be missed his !ast train home. He went to the hotel and applied for a rcom, but it was re fused to him. The hotel clerk, he says. intimated that Brown was with a lads aot his lazful wife and refused him sccommodations in the preser ce of a number of guests in the hotel lobby in such a manner as to cause him $10, 000 worth of damage to the feelings of his wife and himself. The Atlantic Coast Line announces rate of one first class fare plus twenty dive cents, plus admission to the Fair Grcunds, fifty cents fcr adults and twenty five cents for children, to Col umbia S. C., ernd return sccount the State Faiir, 0 -tober 24 27th. Tiekets on sale Ootober 22 to 26th and for rains due to arrive In Columnbia before ooon 27th. Final limit October 29.h. There will also be a spccial rate of one cent per mile per capta for Militars Companies and Brass Bands in uni form twenty cr more in each direc tion. For further information call on your ticket Agent or Communicate with W. J CRA1G, General Pa senger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. Japan's Dt b t Former Ja panese Freign Minister Okuma, referrirg to the sudden ex pansion of Japan's finance, said that when the withdrawali of the troops is completed she will find herself con fronted with a debt of 81.250,000,000 the annual interest on which alone, roughly speaking, will be $75,O0000 or nearly twice the revenue of the cunty ten years ago. The per capita rate of taxation before ,the war war $2. Now it is $6. The per capi ta share in the national debt before the war was $6. It is now $25. Where He Lived. The idenity of the Captain Rumill, who with four of her crew, was mnr dered in a mutiny on board his schoo ner, Harry Berwind, in Southern waters was estabiilied as Capt'Edw ard R. RuuAi, of Pcetty Marsh, Mount Desert, Maine. He was 40 ye ars old, ar-d :eaves a w;ido.rw and two children at Pretty Marsh. They re ceived the news of the tragedy through press dispatches today and were prostrated with grief thereby. A Big Crop. The census bureau has issued a bul letin showIng the production and dis tribution of the cotton of the United States available between September 1.l194 and~ September 1 1905, to be 14, 455,994 bales. Oi this amount 91 per cent was exported, 30 per cent was used in domestic causumption, leaving a surpuis cf 9 per cmnt. The domestic consuttplion iecludes 36,776 Ibales dostroyed by Ec. As a Result More and More of Them Break Down. ALL CLASSES AFFECTED Tremendcus Increase in the Mortality From Heart Disease-Temperate Habits, Sufficient Rest, Exercise In Fresh Air and Freedom From Anxiety Best Safeguards. "Bad whiskey, rheumatism, mental strain and high living are among the leading causes of heart disease," said Dr. Henry P. Loomis in the New York Sun. "A chart sent out by the Health Board, which Illustrates the steady increase in mortality from heart d1s ease in this city since 1868, and- it in cludes a table of ixgures of deaths resulting from Bright's disease and heart disease combined, and shows that in 1868 13 persons out of every .0,000 died from the causes named. ' In 1901 the proportion had jumped up to 30 in every 10,000, or more than double. "There are cases of heart disease which are not complicated with Bright's disease," continued Dr. Loomis, "but it is not often that a sufferer from Bright's disease is free from heart trouble. "Many cases of heart disease art directly traceable to mental strain aud high living, the heart being indirectly affected through other organs: "In nine cases out of ten-well, n, that's putting it too strongly, perhaps; I would say rather the majority ol the cases of heart disease which come under my notice are due tc rheumatism in many form.. "Heart disease is not an ailmenl confined to one class. It is fatal alik to rich and poor. Persons with a tan dency to rheumatism, who are subjeci to frequent attacks of rheumatism, dc much harm- often by fighting the at tacks instead of giving up to them." "How give up to them?" the doe tor was asked. "By going to bed. at once anWi stay ing there till the disease yields; b3 avoiding exposure and remaining 1z an even temperature. Naturally th shorter the attack the less strai: there is on the heart. "Certain forms of throat trouble common to children are indicative o: rheumatism and they should be treat ed accordingly; that is, the patien should observe the proper precau tions. It is safer for a person Inclin ed to rheumatism to wear flannel the year round and use every preventi tive to stave off attacks of the dis ease if he wants to keep his heart 11 good working order. "It is true, of course, that one ma: have heart disease and yet not b afflicted with rheumatism, and vic versa. Speaking genera14y, I wouli say that in the,case of the rich, I be lieve that rich food and lack of piope exercise, excessive drinking and persistent mental strain are the mai causes for heart disease. "The strenuous life plus mental am lety is in these days almost irrevoc ably associated with the upper classel I don't think, though, thiat ther is any increase in drinking among tb rich, in fact, I believe just the ri verse; and the rich man has this 11 his favor-he at least can drink goo< liquor when he drinks at ~all. "With the poorer classes it is dii ferent. The great army of mechanice drivers, and laborers who work out C doors are more or less a prey to hear disease, not only- because of prolonge exposure, which fosters ills which i1 turn weaken the heart, but becaus of the drinking habit, which is ofte1 acquired in consequence of this e:1 posure. Hurry is bad, but not near! so fatal as we'ry and fret to a wee. heart." The Mexioan Cactus. The most hated cactus in America I the cholla. The Mexicans say that I a person goes near a cholla joint I will jump at him. Certainlyif oneli touched it will stick and when youa tr; to free yourself it will pierce you other hand as well. Each penden joint seems to reach out for the pass erby and the ground beneath th broad cholla tree is strewn with falle fragments, many of which take roc and grow. After one has felt th sharp spines through heavy boots an: seen their needle points, it Is a sourc of continual wonder to see the will cattle of Arizona quietly browsing il chollas. During the years of drout] thousands of cattle carry themselve over until the next grass by eatini chollas. With ther leathery tongue and lips they strip the spiny join from the trunk and leave the wide spreading cactus a bare and wood skeleton. Gormandizing at Sea. (Menu of the New Cunard Liner.) Before Breakfast-Tea, coffee, choc olate, grapes, pears, melons, biscuita i.&ad and butter. Breakfast-Everything customary finishing up with hot cakes and sy:1 11 A. M.-PIat cups of boufiom biscuits. 12 Noon-Sandwiches of all sort carried about tha decks. 1 P?. M.-Lunch. Items that did no appear at breakfast, and some more. 3 P. M.-Trays of ices, biscuiti cakes. 4 ~P. M.--Tea, coffee chocolate, bia cuits, bread and butter, toast, cabei 5 or 6 P. M.-Dinner. A new cree tion, includig oysters, whitebait, tun te soup, venison, hot-house fruit an< similar delicacies. 9 B. M.-Supper. Broiled bones sandwiches, fruit, tea or oogee, lemios ads. 'etc._________ Pity Tic So. Churches will sing and sing "Bescun the Perishing," but when a member young or old, makes a misstep anc goes wrong, there is very little at tempt to rescue. The tendency is t4 push them deeper down, rather that rescue them. This is especially trui in regard to girls or women. The) sing "rescue" but act "push down.' In the case of men It is a little better, unless his failure Is in his business. Then instead of praying for him thaey all prey on him. a Died Playing Chess. News has been receivea from the Philippines of the death of Thomai E Moss at Manila, a veteran of the civil war and at one time attorne3 general of Kentucky. He died playing chess with his son-In-law, uaptain Wheat, who is chief of the telegraph~ division of the Philippine constabu lary Moss was born at Greensboro, N. 0., In 1839. THE Augusta Herald says: "Caro lna's graft is not confined to the dis pensry alone, no matter how wicked folks would have us believe It." That TREACHERY BAY, The Incident From Which It Got Its Unsavey Title. Treachery bay, on the coast of AS tralia, received its name from the fol lowing incident related by Captain Stokes in his -The Voyage of the-Bea gle:" "1 had just turned my head around to look after my followers when I Tas suddenly staggered by a violent and piercing blow about the left shoulder, and ere the dart had ceased to quiver in its destined mark a long, loud yell, such as only the sav age can produce, told me by whom I bad been speared- One glance sufficed to show me the cliffs, so lately the abode of silence and solitude, swarm ing with the dusky, forms of the na tives, now indulging in all the exnber ant action with which the Australian testises his delight. One tall, bushy'"' h-aded fellow led the group and was evidently my successful assailant. I drew out the spear, which had e the cavity of the chest, and retreatei with all the swiftness I could com mand in the hope of reaching those. who were coming up from the boat and were then about halfway. "Onward I hurried, carrying the spear which I had drawn fron the wound, and determined if overtaken, as I expected, to sell my life dearly Each step, less steady than the former ,, one, reminded me that I was fast los ing bood, but I hurried on, still retain-. ing the chronometer and grasping my only weapon of defense. The 6avage cry soon told me that my pursuers had found their way to the beach, while-at every respration the air escaping through the orifice of the wound warn ed me that the strength by which I was still enabled to struggle through. the deep pools in my path must fail me soon. I had fallen twice, each di aster being announced by a shaut of vindictive triumph from the blood hounds behind. To add to my distress, I now saw with utter dismay that Mr. Tarrant and the man with the istru inents, unconscious of the fact that-I had been speared and therefore believ Ing that I could make good my escape were moving off toward the boat. "At that moment the attention of the retreating party was aroused by a boat approaching hastily from the- shipthe irst long, loud, wild shriek of the na tives having most providentially ap prised those on board of my dange They turned and perceived that I was completely exhausted. I spent the last struggling energy I possessed to join them. Supported on each side, I had just strength to direct them to turhto- . ward our savage enemies, who were hurrying on in a long file, ihoutingantL waving their clubs and were now only about thirty yards off. Our turning: momentarily checked their advance while their force increased. Then a "arty, headed by Lieutenant Emery;; hastened over the reef to our support. At. the sight of Lieutenant Emery'4 party the natives fled with the-u ntmost& rapidity." Thoreau, the Prophet Of Nature. Thoreau was. not the first American to live out of doors, but- he was the L Brst to make out of doors living'a pro fession and to open the way to ai new kind of writing. His egotism, his si sumption of individual. ownershipIn nature, have helped~ to found a schoo1 Cand to create acult, butis pirit haSg diffused itself through American life, Sand he must be counted among the per Smanent influences in that life. He Sopened a world of experlengAiich. Is one of the great refuges -from the tyranny of work and wealth, from! Swhich flow restoring streams of healthN - Svitality and joy. His defects of tern .perament are lost in his agile and virile .. SIdealism, and the best report of his life M 1Is to be found in his parable: "I long-i ago lost a hound, a bay horse and tr2 1tie dove, and am still on their faL Many are the travelers I have pka rconcerning them, describing:ter Stracks and what calls they ausee. to. I have met one or two whoha~ heard the hound and the tramp of thes horse and even seen the dove lpea Ibehind a cloud, and they seemed anxious to recover them as If they ha.Ti lost them themselves."-Hamlntn Mabie in Outlook. rst. Emon's Fire. tThe electric lights occasionally seen playing round the masts of ships -t sea and known variously as the Se of St Helen, St Elmo, St Peter and St Nicholas were .familar to sallo2 long before the Christian era. If sn gle the fame was named after Helen~ of Troy, and its appearance was re.~ garded as a bad omen. Two liht Swere known to the ancient Romaps as "Castor and Pollux," and sailors we!e corned them as boding good luck, n2 1696 M. de Forbes records crz~g more than thirty lights dancing ru the masts and rigging of hli ship.,I' ~the lights first appeared lowandds. appeared by ascending the masts prosperous voyage was believed tq be assured, but lights that began at the topmast and descended toward the sa presaged tempest and danger of we. The Vanaity or a msbop. "The bishop of Arichat," said his - niece, Miss Sarah Macleod, "has a lofI contempt for pomp. He shows hisdl" taste for It in a manner whichegfct with the dignity of his office sm-. times. On his elevation to theepso pate my father gave him a costly p~ toral cross and ring, Presently we ds' covered that the bishop was wearn neither the cross nor the ring; instead? of them a cross of lead suspended by a tape and a ring of no value. My father was indignant 'My lord,' he began impaiently, 'where are the jewelsaI gave you? My uncle laughed and got red In the face. 'Donald,' he confessed, 'I can't add to my many temptatos rm so vain that I am continually want ng tthank heaven tat Iam a MaC eod.' "-From "The Bishop's NieCt Ql George H. Picard. Corrects Today. The Columbia States takes ccoaslon' to correct Teddy as follows: "Mr. oosevelt claims to be an historian, and it iswell known thatbhe s alsoa a literator. He should, then, he more - faithful to history and to literary tra dition then he shows himself in his~ mimickrg of the scutberners who have Invited him to ride the best horse in the country, sir.' According to his-' tory-as written In N~ew England- - and according to literary tradition as preserved in the same sacred region -this must necessarily be the best hoss in the country, by gad, suh." Caught Ac Last. G. Raymond Berry, county super intendent of education of Marion oou - nty, who fled a few years ago after ~ embezzling county funds, has just den captured in Tampa, Fia., whore. he had become arespected citizen. Every enterprise that benefits the town benefits every man in it. If your neighbor starts a new scheme to help. along, don't jump on it with both feet just because you did not happen to think of it first. Aid him to boost It. - t. wil help you toon