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MANNING. S. C., NOV. :2.1905. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SZBSCRIPTION RATES: one year ....................... $1 0. Six months-. . ---- ------..................... 7 Fout months-.............-................. 50 ADVERTISiNG RATES: One, square. one time. 51: each subsequent in sertion. .;0 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liieral contracts made for three. six and twelve months. CommunicatiOn must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to reeeive attention. No communication or a personal character will be published except as an advertisement. Entered at the Postoffice a, Manning as Sec ona Class matter. PUBLIC SAFETY DEMANDS AN INVES TIGATION. We print in this issue a letter from Mlagistrate J. H. Keels of Paxville, which is intended to explain and reply to the editorial comments in our last issue in the case against Henry C. Tindal, charged with rape in a warrant issued by the said Magistrate. and upon this charge the said Tindal was committed to jail. Later the defendant was released upon a bond of $500. The Magistrate does not seem to grasp the meaning of the com ments we made upon this case, but seems to think his holding the preliminary in the office of the defendant's attorney at Man ning is the point needing an ex planation. We incidentally men tioned where the hearing was held, but this was not important, and really has nothing to do with the case. A Magistrate in this county has jurisdiction all over the county and has a right to hold his court where suits him best, and if he was willing to accommodate the defendant's at torney there is no objection, and he was not criticized for that. It is not our purpose to create public sentiment against the party charged: but the crime he was originally charged with is of a nature that we think it against public policy to let it pass with out a most searching scrutiny into it, Tindal was committed to jail by Magistrate Keels on the charge of rape, and it is a matter of discretion whether a preliminary is granted: but in our opinion a Magistrate has no power to reduce an offense from one punishable with death or im prisonment for life, in order that the party charged may be admit ted to bail. In the case of Tin dal the only power to grant him bail is under habeas corpus pro ceedings before a Circuit Judge or a Supreme Court Judge. The law should take its course fully, and if the State has not the convicting proof, giving the defendant all reasonable doubt, the charge should fall and Tindal be set free. Tindal was charged with a felony ; the penalty is death. The Magistrate granted a preliminary hearing. The place where it was held, and why it was held there, does not mat ter. And at this hearing,our in formation is,the prosecution was not represented by a lawyer, but the defendant was. The as saulted child, a negress about eleven years old, under oath charged the defendant with the horrible crime, and the Magis trate reduced the crime from an unbailable offense to a bailable onie, and this is what hae was criti cised for. There is nothing in Magistrate Keels's letter going to show that the testimony for the State at this hearing revealed a lesser crime, but the Magis trate says Dr. W. H. Reynolds had examined the little girl and " reported that no rape had been committed." If Dr. Reynolds was not at the preliminary hear ing he did not testify under oath, where he could have been cross examined, and must have report ed to the Magistrate privately. We cannot see why what Dr. Reynolds told the Magistrate pri vately should have been taken into consideration in this case, or where the private report of Dr. Reynolds gave the Magistrate jurisdiction to grant bail in a case where the party charged is com mitted to jail for a capital felony. We do not think it a safe ad ministration of the law to accept a statement from a physician or anybody else outside of court in such cases. If a man at Paxville was charged with murder and a man in the community was to tell the magistrate privately, that the man supposed to have been killed was not dead, would the magistrate feel warranted in reducing the charge of murder to assault with intent to kill, and turn the prisoner out of jail on bond, thus giving him a chance to escape? Our contention is that Magistrate Keels had no jurisdiction in the case cf Tindal after he was committed to jail, and the only way Tindal could obtain bond under the cir cumstances, was through habeas corpus proceedings. We hav e 'no desire to injure Magistrate Keels or do him the slightest in justice, but our regard for the public safety is of more moment than the feelings of Magistrate Keels, and whenever he assumes to turn loose upon this commun itv a man who is charged with such a grave crime, and we be lieve he has stretched his author ity, we feel it a duty we owe the public to say so. and call upon Solicitor to institute a searching investigation of the case, so that when the grand jury con venes, if there is evidence to warrant the original charge the law may be satisfied by bringing the fiend before a petit jury on the proper charge. If he is .capabl of cmmittin such a dastardly crime, a bail bond signed by two irresponsible brothers, and a white merchant of this town will not stay his his lust, and he should not be permitted to be at large in this community. If on the other hand, he is innocent a jury will say so and set him free, but we don't want such characters loitering about here, and as a law-abiding people, we rely upon the law to give us protection, but what I protection have we, when mag istrates assume a jurisdiction in a case where he commits a party for a death penalty, anid then reduces the charge to grant bail. A STUDY OF COTTON. It may be all a mistake, of course: but to us it looks very much like a new element has en tered into the war that is being wagedaround the price of cotton, and thatelement is the great finan cial centres of the world. Up to 1899 the total value of a cotton crop was from $300,000,000 to $400,000,000. This sum was con ceded with fairly good grace. In 19Ld the figures reached 494,567,585. . That was an eye opener. It paid lots of debts and left the South in much better shape for the next year. The next year the receipts amounted to $452,113,158. This was not as good as the year before, but still it was along the same line and helped wonderfully. The figures of 1902-3 were -49-2,402,263. By this time the financial centres of the world began to realize that there was something doing down in the Southern part of the United States and they no doubt began to marshal their forces to battle. It was too late, however, to ac complish many big things. The cotton producers had already got ten the situation in a sling, and the next year they charged for their crop the sum of $613,797,339. Last year they made it $623,000, 000, and this year they are fight ing for figures somewhere in the same neighborhood. Of course this does not hurt the country as a whole. The prosperity of the South is good for the whole United States: but then a con tinuance of this sort of thing means a shifting of the centre of financial power, and the elements that have been in control are not going to permit anything of the kind if they can help it. We think this has something to do with the present situation. We think that those who exercise a predominating influence in the control of the world's finances are showing a disposition to stand together as against the growing power of the South, and their activity is being manifested on the side that makes for lower prices. But, after all, there is nothing especially discouraging in the situation. The cotton pro ducers are, as they should be by this time, pretty well able to take care of themselves, and they da not have to give up their cotton for less than they think it is worth.-Yorkville Enhquirer. HE WILL. SWIM UP STREAM, It now seems that those who thought Senator Tillman would be lined up with the President on " rate legislation " are mistaken, if the interview we publish below is authentic, and we have no rea son to doubt it-the Senator re gards President Roosevelt's po sition on the railroad fight an attempt to rob the Democratic party of the glory of such legis lation, which to our mind is a confession of the unfitness of our Democratic leaders. They will oppose a measure which is in the country's interests simply be cause aRepublican President sup ports it. The South has suffered too much already from such na row partisanship, and it is time we had some statesmanship : WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 27. The one absorbing topic in connection with the forthcoming session oft Con gress among Congressmen, newspaper men and newspaper readers at the capi tal seems to be the railroad regulation matter. The Senate Committee on In ter-State and Foreign Commerce, which met, talked and adjourned here last week, has been somewhat in the nature oi a 'skirmish before the light, which promises to be a general engagement and a prolonged one. Senator Tillman, who is a member of the committee, left for home last night to return some time during the present week. He is full of railroad and says that nothing to come before Congress this session will be one fourth the interest. In talking about the matter with The State's correspond ent at the train last night he said : " There are so many phases of this ques tion, so many complications. I have letters and literature, not from any of my people in South Carolina. but a Georgia fellow sent me a whole lot of stuff in which it was claimed that the regulation of rates by the Inter-State Commerce Commission would operate to hurt the cotton mills of the South. For the life of me I am unable to see how, but he has a long argu ment to show that it will. This is just an exam ple of the efforts of the railroads against the measure." Senator Tillman was rather conser vative in his remarks on this subject. The question of State's rights is the one uon which the opponents seem to be bsing the hopes of defeating it. The South is jealous; but whether it will be guided more by sentiment or tradition in the matter or by justice and its own and the nation's interests is scarcely open to doubt. The regulation of rail road rates by the Inter-State Commerce Commission is a Democratic doctrine and was embodied in the Democratic platform long before R~oosevelt took it up. Says Senator Tillman: " But Roose velt wants to get the glory for it. I think this whole trip through the South was to get the favor of the Southern people-to get them to stand with him and help him push the matter through as his measure, letting him get the glory, whereas it is the Democratic partys declai-ed doctrine. But there's no telling what Roosevelt's aoing to do. He finked most cowardly and contempt iby when it came to prosecuting the railroad officials when Morton, a mem ber of his Cabinet, was involved. He's just as apt to flunk now when his friends and allies among other railroad mnag nates are involved." Whoever gets blue ov-er mer-e trifles is apt to paint things red to get over it. He who waits for something to turn The Williamsburg election is to be contested by those favor ing the retention of the dispen sary, upon the technical ground that the commissioners did not file the required oath with the Clerk of the Court. Such tactics to defeat the will of the people should be resented everywhere. The grafters should not be permitted to continue their reign of impudence. There may have been a: technical error on the part of the Commissionor, but the people should not have to suffer for it, and to attempt to thwart their wishes by trickery will be paid back many fold, if they are given an opportunity. The people and not grafting politicians, should rule this country. Those who have been relying upon the daily reports sent out by the bull operators of Wall street must now be convinced that the Southern Cotton Asso ciation has done a work never before accomplished in the his tory of the cotton growing in dustry. Theodore H. Price, the greatest of all bull operators, the man who has made the hardest struggle to force the price of cotton' down, has at last thrown up the spongue, and announces that the next report from the agricultural department will indicate a cron of less than 10,000,000 bales, 'which means cotton is bound to go higher. The Southern Cotton Associa tion has made this claim all along, but Price would not have it so. The Southern farmers have won the tight, and their victory will be greater than was at first expected. We believe 12 1-0 cents for cotton will be reached before the 15th of 1)e cember, and those who are in a position to hold will realize over 15 cents before March. Mr. Price claims that the present condition is due to sec tionalism and politics, which to our mind, is a confession that politics and sectionalism has robbed the Southern farmer of their earnings for years past. Politics has nothing to do with present conditions. The people have been fleeced all along, and it was only through their intel ligent business legdership that they succeeded in smoking the thieves out of the hollow, and are now getting their just re ward for their labor. The following wail from Mr. Price shows that he and his crew are whipt: New York, November 25.-Pursuing the policy of frankness which I endea vor to follow in regard to my operat tions in cotton, I desire to state that I have today covered the bulk of my short inte'rest in the market. My rea son for takine this action is my fear that the fort'icoming estimate of the Agricultural Department will indicate a crop of under 10,000,000 bales. While I personally, believe in a much larger crop than this, and while all my study of the question supports that belief, it is idle to ignore the fact that the size of the cotton crop has today become a political and sectional issue, rather than a statistical of a commercial fact, and political forces are not amongst those that I care to contend with. THEODORE H. PRICE. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDPO, '. g* LUca.s CCUNTY. * FR.sx J. CHENEYT makeS 0ath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENrEY & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and state aforesaid. andthat said firm will pay the sum of ONE HU'NDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the uise of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres nce. this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. w. GLEASON. J sEAL -Notary Public. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inernally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists. 75c. Hull's'Family Pills are the best. COTTON BY COUNTIES. What the Gins of South Carolina Have Done. WASHINGTON, November 27.-Spe cial to The Record.-The Census Bureau has just issued its first statement by counties, showing exactly how many bales of cotton have been ginned in each county to Nov. 14, 1905. Tliis is the first time this has ever been done and will prove exceedingly interesting to grow ers in the State and others interested in the cotton industry. The following fig ures show what has been ginned in the year 1904 and 1905 to November 14: 1905. 1904. A bbeville................ ...... 27,734 25.717 Aiken ........................... 30.131 30.225 Anderson. ..................... 45,841 49.486 Bamberg......................20.089 20,995 Barnwe11......................37.8 38.115 Beaufort........... .......... 5,611 4.729 Berkeley..... ......... .... .... 13.058 13,615 Charleston..................... 5,262 7.3544 Cherokee....... .............. 11,09 -11,988 Chester..... .............-...- 9.9 18,962 Chesterfield. ................... 21 59 12.168 Clarendon. .. .... ..... - .4370 26.232 Colleon...... . .. .........--- 12.787 11,980 Darlingon....................2 4,255 27.588 Dorchester................... .564 8,856 Edgeield................ ......24 .092 23,167 Fairfeld. ..................... 2185 20.512 F lorence..................... 23.995 22.952 Gcorgetown...,................ 2.004 1.493 Greenville. .................... 29,439 31.860 Greenwood....................26.923 22.787 Hampton......................26,93 2?3787 Horry.. ....................... 16,080 15,280J Kershaw....................... 5.525 6.737 Lancaster. .................... 16.056 15,806 Laurens................. --.-.. 17416 16,917 Lee................. -...... 23.29 29.593 Lexington .. .................. 16.284 16.296 Marion.. ...................... 36.952 36.201 Marlboro............-..... ... 38,506 33.852 Newberry.................... 3172 31.125 oconee.. ...................... 10,924 11,807 orangeburg....................61.74 71.991 Pickens. ...................... 10,948 11.050 Richand........ ............ 10.536 14.00)7 Saluda........ ................ 17.730 16,931 Spartanburg...................4.35~ 45.896 Sumter........................ 26.735 30.717 Union.. ....................... 14.367 14.304 Williamsburg ...... ...........20.,936 19.532 Y rk......................... 29,6 28.271 The Church and the W. C. T. U. There are in this country, it is authoritatively s t a t e d , about 18,000,000 Protestant Church members, two-thirds of whom are women. The W. C. T. U. membership, W. 's and Y.s', is about 300,000. Why is it, one naturally inquires, that so small a proportion of these 12,000,000 Church women is found in the ranks of the white ribbon organ ization ? To discuss this question ex haustively is not possible, or even desirable: but we do venture to suggest a partial answer, name ly, that the true relationship be tween the Churchland the WV. C. T. U. is not generally understood. And it may not be amiss to con sider at this time some of the as pects of that many-sided relation ship. First, and fundamentally, the W. C. TT U is t Churen. Thefactthatuthehurch, through its varied religious and philanthropic activities, was chief factor in training its women for the work of the Temperance Cru sade and for that of the organiz ation into which that movement crystallized Church history itself discloses. When thirty years ago the evil of intemperance had reached such proportions as to alarm the Christian public. when moral suasion methods had proved inadequate and theChurch found itself powerless to resist the encroachments of the drink traffic, the wives and mothers rose to the emergency, and from the very altars of the Church went forth to the rescue. A new page in the history of temperance was turned. The sa loon itself, not merely the victim of the saloon, became the subject and object of prayer, of appeal, and of penalty. Moral suasion for the drunkard began to be re inforced by legal suasion for the drunkard-maker. Out of that experience was born the W. C. T. U. Christian women of all de nominations banded themselves together in offensive and defen sive alliance against the common enemy. At first the 04hurch looked askance at this remarkable and precocious woman child, this new and vigorous type to which it had given birth ; but as the child grew and waxed strong, i c1aracter and purpose were more clearly apprehended, the Church saw in it its own legitimate and withal most filial offspring. The W. C. T. U. stands before the Church and the world to-day a triumph of Christianity, a living Gospel commentary. Second, this nineteenth century daughter of the Church is the inother's strong right hand, Like every individual man and woman the Church must minister to its own day and generation. It ful fils its calling by serving the PRESENT age. Its duties change and enlarge with enlarging occa sions. "The greatest enemy the Church of Christ confronts to day," says a leading Church or gan, " is not materialism, nor rit ualism, nor deism, nor atheism it is alcoholism. The demoraliz ing, dehumanizing effects of strong drink go further towrcr vitiating and annulling Chsritian effort than anything else. If the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors were absolutely prohib ited the Church would make more rapid progress toward the com plete evangelization of the world than it has ever done in all the history of the past." Do we not see, therefore, how indispensable to the Church is the W, C. T. U.? As one of our own evangelists has put it, this right hand of the Church is thrust out with the instinct of self - preservation to save her own-her own because the whole world of the Musaved is the in heritance of the Church ; because the money which should take the Gospel to ail people is in the grasp of the liquor traffic ; be cause so many victims of vice come from Christian homes and4 from the Sunday schools of the 4 Church. 4 It is said that for one person converted to Christianity in for eign fields liquor at home makes one thousand drunkards. Drink ing habits among so-called { " Cristian " people visiting mis-4 sionary coasts are an increasingly serious obstacle to Gospel work. Among Mohammedons if one of their number is seen drunk the4 common. remark is that he has 4 become a Christian. "Christ brings fire-water," says the Mo hawk chief-and thus does drink everywhere bring reproach upon the name of our Saviour. For Church missionary work to be4 effective and its results perma nent Christian temperance must go hand in hand with the Gospel in every corner of the earth. This is the duty of the hour, of4 the new occasion,and what is so valuable an instrument in its ac compishment as the world-wide white-ribbon organization with its skillfully-manned and per fectly-adjusted machinery: ? Third, the W. C. T. U,, crowned { with t hir ty y ear s of heroic4 achievement, may well be char acterized as the advance guard of the evangelistic host. Lifting4 high the Gospel standard it fear-4 lessly goes forward at a point4 where the Church hesitates-lies-4 itates because in the din and noise of battle its Generals fail to hear the command " Onward, Christian soldiers, and still on-4 ward on the temperance line."4 Itis among the humbler followers4 of Christ, in ranks where ears are not dulled by so close prox imity to artillery, nor minds con-4 fused by the whirr of machinery and allurements of power and 4 place, that the Supreme Leader's ( voice is first recognized.4 Christian Temperance ! Does the Church-do white-ribboners I the ms el ve s-realize what 4t means as interpreted, not alone 1 by the pledge of our organiza- 1 tion but by its declaration of4 principles ? He who apprehends the wideness and inclusiveness of its aim will always acknowl-4 edge a company marching under4 its pure white banner as the van-4 guard of the Lord Christ's con-4 quering armies. In yiew of all it stands for, the po cy of the4 W. C. T. U. can logically be4 nothing less than "Do Every-4 thing." Its departments _ MUST4 extend and multiply, and it fol-4 lows inevitably that through its1 work is hastened the day when' the Church militant shall become4 the Church triumphant.--The4 Union Signal. Anything that is unnecessary is dear,4 no matter: how cheap it may be. Occasionally the string on a man's4 fnger only serves to remind him that1 We have just received Ten Thousand Cases of Heavy Blankets and Comfort-, which we have been fortunate enough in purchasing from a New York assignee sale, at rediculous, prnes. We will endeavor to dispose of the entire lot within the next TWO WEEKS. In order to accomplish this marvelous task, we have cut and slashed the prices on the Bargain of Bargains, and they will go at ANY PRICE. We herewith quote a few of the snappy bar gains, and one visit to our store will CONVINCE YOU 900 Genuine Lamb Wool Blankets, goes at $4.39. 700 Genuine Lamb Wool Blankets, goes at $3,38. 700 Medicated Lamb Woo] Blankets, goes at $3.95 30 Lamb Wool Blankets, goes at ..........$1.95 200 Lamb Wool Blankets, goes at........... 95c. 100 Lamb Wool Blankets, goes at.......... .65c. AIN $2.75, Comforts, the best Percaline, cotton filled, from Any Old Price. Reember, one visit will convince the most skeptical, The New Idea Where everlasting bargains are found abund antly. And inspecr my immense line of Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Caps,. Shoes, Clothing, Btc., That are daily arriving, it certainly will be to your interest to do so, If prices and quality are of note do not hesitate to say that I can please the most fastidious. ]My Dres8 Goods ihopaiiil Is filled with the newest and most fashionable goods to be had. I will now enumerate a few of them: Dirigo All Wool Venetians, SikPoplin, Mohair, Mohair Florentine, Sik Broad Cloth, Brilliantine, Pebble Cloth and Dress Silks, Etc. All departments in my store of general mer chandise is filled with the newest and latest goods at prices that will make for me strong and lasting cus tomersYours truly, L OU IS L EVI. '01VEN AIWAY II In one of our show Windows you will see a beautiful Hand-painted China Dinner Set Fourty-two Pieces, which will be given free to any one of my customers who holds the lucky number. We will give a coupon for every twenty cents purchase made at our store, which entitles the holders to a chance, I at this Set. Don't forget to see it, and have us explain, and if you are looking for Bargains in. Clothing, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, SHIRTS, HEAVY UN DERWEAR OR GENTS' FURNISHINGS. of any kind, come to see us before you buy. Money saved is money made. We especially invite your attention to our Line of OVERCOS.I . M.Davis&Co IMI ,DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS. Effective November 2', 1905. NOR u?LU.RADDWN RAL OTWSTED U Mied Mied. Pss. STATIONS. 342 o)5 Paso A.M. P.M. P.M. P.K. A.K. P.M. 10 15 3 00 7 45 0. Lv...........Alcolu ............r 25 4 00 8 30 11 20 10 20 3 05 7 50 2 ...........McLeod*.............. 23 3 40 8 15 11 05 10 25 3 10 7 55 5.............Harby*....... 120 3 35 8 10 11 00 10 30 3 15 8 00 7.............DuRant*...... 18 3 30 8 05 10 55 11 00 3 45 8 20 12............Sardini....... 13 3 00 7 35- 10 25 11 10 3 55 8 25 14............Gamble............. 11 2 50 .730 10 20 11 15 4 00 8 30 15 .............Beard*............... 10 2 45 7.25 10 15 1125 410 835 17 .............Gibbons*............. 8 235 720 1010 11 55 4 40 9 05 21............Hudsons* ............ 4 2 15 7 00 9 50 12 45 5 30 9 30 25 Ar........Bethlebem..........Lv 0~ 2.0 6 45 9 25 P. M. P. M. P. M. ''P.MK A.M. PMK * McLeod, Earby, DuRant.Beard, Gibbons and Hudsons flag stations for all trains. Monas No. 3. .Tuerdas No. 4. WdedyNo1. Wdeay.No.. TFrsdys N. . Sturdas No.24an . Srlays, No.. P. R. ALDERMAN. F. L. COLLINS, G. F. & P. A. Superintendent. SUMMERTON HlARDWARE CO., SUMMERTON, S. C. J. C. LANHIAM, C. 11. DAVIS, J. A. JAMES, President. Vice-President. Sec.-Treas. OUR MOTTO: 3 L'S. Live and Let Live. For dry goods. go to a dry goods store. For shoes, go to a shoe store. * For groceries, go to a grocery store. For medicines, go to a medicine store. For HARD WARE and its kindred articles, Paints, Agricultural Implements, Pumps, Pipe,I Stoves and Stoveware, Harness and Saddlery, Crockery and Glassware. We have them all. Our long residence in the county is our guarantee of fair and honest treatment of our customers. We have recently associated with us Mvr. J. M. Plowden form erly with the Dillon Hardware Company, who thoroughly under stands the hardware business and will take pleasure in giving the S. RNS IEVRING, Jeweler. ... Dealer in... - WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, EYE CLASSES AND ALL KINDS OF FANCY NOVELTIES. I make a specialty of WEDDING and HOLIDAY PRES ENTS and always carry a handsome line of adSilverware, Hand-Painted China, Glassware adnumerous other articles suitable for Gifts of all kind. COME AND SEE THEM All Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing done promptly and guaranteed. Lev Bick