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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2F. 1906. NO. 26. FIRMS NAMED That Are Under Fuspicion of Im proper Dealing. WITH LISPINMARY. Letter to the State Bosid from Messrs. Christensen and Lyon Naming Firms With Which the Direc tors Are Advised Not to Do Business. Senator C'iristensen and Represent ative Lyon of the dispensary investi gating committee Wednesday recom mended that the State board of dis pensary directors discontinue doing business with a number of firms that have been previously selling supplies to the dispensary. The recommenda tion was made as a rezu't of a para. graph appearing in The State Wed nesday morning, as follows: "The new board received a letter from Chairman Hay of the dispenrar. investigating committee as follows: " 'The committee Is not now in pos session of evid-. ce castiDg suspicion on any v l key -aler. Tne position ande A. V of t:e board is to be con gratuat, .' "This is an answer to a resolution adopted at the firso meeting of the board, as follows. "'Having no knowledge of the evi dence the legislative committee has in its possession, we he-eby instrrct the cierk to ask the committee through its chairman, Bot J, T. Hay, whether or not there is ey evidence in their possession cswng auspicion on any whiskey dealers or any other person or persons dealing with the State dispen sary of any unfair dealings with the the State it so, to honor us with the names of such person or persons so that we can hold up their bida until they have made a satisfactory showing to the said committee.' " Messrs. Christensen and Lyon felt that this might be misuuderstood and, knowing that Chairman Hay was not familiar with all the facts in their pos session, thought that it would be well to let the board know that they con sidered several firms had not dealt properly 'wih the dispensary. Among the firms mentioned in the letter to the board are the Richland Distilling company and the Carolina Glass com pany, both of this city, and J. S. Far num of Charleston. Wednesday morning the sub-com mittee held a confere:.c, with the bard in regard to the resolution and as a result the follwing additiona. resolutiCn was adopted and the letter below serzt to ihe committee: "In view ,,t thei fact that since the "board addressed a letter to Senator Hay asking him to give the names of any liquor houses of other concerrs who were under suspicion of the dis pensary in estigating ccmmnittee ano having received his reply in the nega tive and it having happened that Sen. ator Christensen and Representative Lyon have just returned from the N~orth after examining certain credi tors of the dispensary and being in formed that Senator Charistetsen ano Bepresentative Lyon have not har time to consult with Senator Hay since their return. "Bc it resolved, That the clerk addreas a letter to 5- nator Cbrns tensen and Representative L; on ask ing them to give the names of any concerns, persons or corporations d. ing business with the dispensary which they suspect of irregular or improper dealing with the dispensary and which have not been reported to the chair man," The letter to Messrs. Lyon and Christensen is as fodows: Hon. N. Christensen, Jr., and J. Fra zer Lyon, City. Gentlemen: Upon resolution of the State board of directors I am instruct ed to ask you to give the names of any concerns, persons or corporations dc lr g business with the dspensa.ry whiu yuu suspEct of irregular cr improper deaings with the dispensary and which have not been reported to the chairman of your committee. Ilam very respectfully, M. H. Mobley, Clerk. As soon as this letter was received Messrs. Christensen and Lyon sent the following reply. Messrs. Rwlinson, W ylieand Black, Board of Directors, S. C. Depen sary, Columbia, S. C. Gentlemer.: Besponding to your let ter of even date will say that, while we have not evidence in the case of each of the concerns mentioned telow that would establish the fact that they have been dealing improperly or in an irregular manner with the dis pensary, still we will say that we sus pect that the firms hereinafter men tioned may at some future hearing be shown to have been guilty of some irregular dealings therewith. We think that the evidence brought out at a recent public session of cur committee shows conclusively that the Carolina Glass company and the C. L. Fiaccrs Glass company have been guilty of grave irregu'arities in their transac tiorns with the dispensary. In addition to the glass companies above mentioned and tne Nievison Weiskopt company, the irregularities of welch were called to your attention in Chairman Hay's communication, we think you would, under the terms of your resolution, be justified i dis continuing business for the present with the following houses or firms: Messrs. H. and H. W. Catherwood, Philadelphia. L Jack Cranston company, Augusta. Fleischmar>' & Co., Oincnnatti. Gallagher & Barte.n, Pladelphia. Garrett & Co., Nor'olk. Hirsh & Schofield, New York. J. W. Kelley & Co., Chattcnooga. Wmn. Lanahan & Son, Baltimore. Meyer, Pitts & Co., Beltimore. Rosskam, Gerstley & Co., Philadel. phia. I. Trager company. Cincinnati. Bluthenthal Distilling companY, Lnuisville. R chiand Distilling company, CO lumbia, S. C. (arolina Glass company, Columbia, S. C. J. S. Farnum, Charleston, S 0. Pabst Brewing cmpany, Milwau kee. C. H. Ross & Co , Baltimore. C. L. Flaccus Glass company. Very respectfully yours, Ni!s Christensen, Jr., J. Fraser Lyon, Men'ers DiSpensary Investigating Committee. It now remains to be seen whether or not the State board will abide by -this recommendation. The resolution published above would seem to indi cate that the board wou'd, on ir-for mation received. refuse to purchase supplies from any firm believed to be guilty of irregular methods with the dispensary. Offeial action may be taken today when the purchases will be made. YOUNUMAN KILLED BEA&USEHE BE ENrED INSULT TO RIS S WEE THE IRT. Mr. 3. B. Gaylord Shot and 'nstant ly Killed by Nr. Grover Ya his. On last Friday nig'at at the home >r Mr. W. F Outlaw of. the Her iott sc caion, L.e couaty, Mr. Gro rer Mathis suo* and instantly killed 5r. J. B. G4ylord, bfth young mei )f that section. From information received it seems ihat there was a party at mhe house o! Kr. Outlaw. Mr. J. B. Gaylord ezcart 3d Miss Alma Coughman to tae party. While the pleasure of the evening were in progress and everybody wa ipparently happy, Mr. Grover Mathib was taking a promenade with Mis Joughman. When out of doors MItis Mttempted to take liberties wih the ruog lady She resisted this attempt Lud quietly rebuked him. He perist d and again annoyed her. She then left him and went sack into the house, rying. Mr. Gaylord, her escort, and io whom it is said she was engaged to >e married, begged the young lady to tell him the cause of her tronble. At irst she declined to tell him. but final y informed her sweetheart thateMatL is had persistently tried tol take liber es with her. At an opportune Ulme Gaylord took Mathis out into the ball for an Lnterview. After asking Mannls wily ae had treated the young lady so ur entlemanly, hot words brought on Ln a]. ercarIon. Tnere are several re Ports as to how tue fight stared and bow the shouting was djne, noue of which are poeitive, as this carrespoL lent has not been-able to interview my ee wi':nesses. From reports, I, eems that Gaylord had a knife and at-his had a plitol. Wnen the fight as ove?. Gayiord was mortaAly wound d and liven but a few minuses. and h1tbis had one or t vo stabs in his shulder. Mitais claims to have ated in self-a. fense. The reports are cor~fi'cting onL this point, however. some claiming that there was no t c s~ity or e xeusa for the killing, Gese opinions being based on what hey have gathere d from thle reports. Shenff Muldrow was notified about I o'cl cc arid took Deputy Sheriff Moneybam and went to the scene of the homicide. H a was mnformt d that Mathis had went to Bishopvilhe to surrender. Wnen the sheriff returr. ed he found Mathis there and the prisoner is now in j,.il. E0EE1FIED FUSEMAL PARLY aniac Wounds Nine Persons and Sets House on Fire. B:-ooklyn, Anne Arundei county, jist across the Patapsco river from Baltimore, Md., is horrified over the deeds and death of Walter Potee, an insane man, 28 years old, who enter ing his brother's house just as friends and relatIves were gathered to at tend t be funeral of tne brother's lit te child, c pened fire with a revclver, set fire to the house and himself died from gunshot wourds. but whether self-inflicted or Dot it is unknown. Potee entered the room and began dirrg so entirely u xpectedly. that everal persons were wounded before they cauld er cape. l1ine people were jred more or less seriously by shots from revolvers and a repeating shot gun. Or these a brother, John H. Potee, atd Win. H. Miller, a brother in-law are ilkely to die. The craz; man found time between shots tu sprikle oil ab~out the ht use and set fire to it. Firemen summnoned from Baltimore, Md., finally extinguisheo the fiames, but not before the bul ding had ben almost gu:ted. On the second floor was found the body of he maniac badly burnged :about the waist and with a shot w'~und -over his heart. Bystanders had fired at him repeat edly, but whether one or their shots hit him during the two hour fusilade or whether he died by his own hands oan only bs cot j :ctured. Potee is said to have shown evidence of insan isy for six or eight months psst. The body of the child was removed before the fire reached it. Brhers UonvOct di. At Cordele? Ga , the jury in the case against George W. Bundrick, charged with murder, returned a ver dict of guilty and he was sentenced to death. Bundrick ard..bis brother An drew in S ptember, 1902, waylaid and shot to death Joihn Shrouder and wounded his wife. George escaped and Andrew was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment. Gaorge was recently captured in Louisiana ano5 brought back for trial. Trains C.,11ide. A freight and a passenger train collided in a snow storm near Bloom Idale, Oaio, on Sunday and two men were killed-a fireman and a mail aent-and 1-5 persons were injured. HARD ON BLISS. Another Sensation in the New York Life Insurance. C tMPAIGN TRIBUTE Paid to Defeat Bryan In - First Cam paign. Hamilton Declares He Paid Chairm n Bliss a Big Sum. Bliss Denies and 1am ilton Shows'Receipt. The followin, interesting article from the New York Herald of March 20, shows the nteans used in 1896 by the Rspublican, to defeat the election of Williama Jen lings Bryon: "I see that C irnelius N. B!i, treas urer of 'jhe Be ublican national com mitte, ienies 1aat he had received from 'ae for ti e New York Life the sum of $75,00( for campaign purposes in 1F.96," said Former Judge Andrew Harmilton Wednesday, commenting upcn Mr. B!tss3 assertion that he nev er met the j dge. "Maybe tris might stimulate his mer.ory a bit," he added. Judge Hamilton reached Inside the brrast pocke of his ciat and produc *a a steaf of vouchers, some of which bore the signature of the foremost men in:financeof today, and stripped off a white receipt fr m such as the B,=publican national committee uses. Hte smcothed out the bit of paper, paz-d at It with an amused smile, and spread it f at upon the table In his 1,partment "Loks as P it was up to Mr. B'!ss o think some more, does it noL?" :ntinued Mr. Hamilton. The receipt is a voucher for $75,000 tigned by Mr Bliss and dated October I and 20, 1896. It is explained that ;he amount was paid over in two pay nents, the first on%, of $1u,010, on Jotober 1, and the balance of 065,000 )n Ontober 20, the figures at the eft hand lower corner of the voucher 3eing raised from $10,000 to $75., )00. When it was first br ught to the Lttent on of The Herald, on Sunday, Mnat Ardrew Hamilton said he held a ;ouenc-r showing that he had paid 75,000 to Mr Bliss, in addition to 5be 50,000 admitted by Mr. McCall :o haue been paid to the oampaign 'nnd of the R.publican party in 1896 Ar Bliss asked concerning the mdt ker, and he denied all knowledge of ca payment. His exact lanuage was: "Such a statement is utterly false. [, as treasurer of the Rejlualican na vional committee, did not receive any money, nor was any v ucher therefore ssued by me. I do not know And -ew Hamilton, would not know hIm 1! 1 shlould see him, and never heard of rim until recently." In his home, 189 Madison avenue, yn sterday, the m nner was aga~n call ed to the attention of Mr. Bliss. "Since applying to~ you for infor matIon about the alleggd payment of an additl. nal $75,000 Into the Espub lican national canmmistoa~'s fund in 1896 by Andrew Hamiltan, new evi dercs has come to hand, Mr. Bliss Can you rt~call the incident toda; ?" was asked. "1 have said all I care to say about the matter," returned Mr. B'Iss. "No such sum was paid over by Mr. Ham iit..n or the New York L fe. My word ought to be accepted as final." "But io is now known that a votch er exists." "Tn~at Is untrue. No receipt ex ists. It any one says so he lies. Have you seen such a voucher?" "Yes, Mr. Bliss, and I have a pho tograph of that vouaher. Will you let me show it to you in order that you may pass upon the genuineness of the signature?'' 'No sh' Iwon't lo~kat it. I de cline to say another word about the matter." Judge Hamilton explains the exist arnce of the check and takes a pecul tar delight in rECalling the careful manner in which the payment was kept c.f the books of the New York Life. Bliss wanted more money." he said. "I don't know anythi:.g about the 850, 000 which Mr. McCall ac inowedged was paid to the Republi c.tn campaign fund in 1896. T.iat was another matter. Bus I know I was instructed to pay this money to Mr. Bliss, and that 1 borrowed $75, u00 upon my notes and passed it cvar to Mr. Bliss. I iirst passed over $10, OC0 and got Mr. Bliss' receipt for it, and when 1 raised the balance 1 paid that over, land in order to simplify the transaction caused the addition $65,000 to be receipted for upoa the same 'zucher, preserving the two dates i' payment, 20 days apart. "I borrowed this: money and when I was reimbursed I took up the notes ar d settled the indebtedness. I know this transaction does not appear in .the regular way upon the books of the New York Life. ' But you do not suppose, do you, that Andrew Hamilte:n was paying $75,000 of his own money to the Re pubdcan campaIgn fund? As a mat ter of fact, the entire transaction can and will be proved to the satisfaction of everybody in due time. Do they want any more vohers of this sort? "I notice that several men on the exeoutive committe have Intimated that they ought to make good to Mr. McCall's estate the amount cf 8148,. 000 which Mr. McCall paid over to the Repubiicrn fnnd. That is all rIght, out I am in a position to tell them that they will have to )ay over much more than $148,000 to square the actual Ironey contributed to the capinfunds by the New York Life during the last 13 years. Taib $75,000 is one addition. Let them get busy and find more. In commenting on the above the Columbia State says: Mr. Bliss says go. .inde Hatmilton oontidlni waves the voucher in air. if Mr. BliEs's word "ought to be accepted as final" it is ne-artheless true that it will not be s, accepted. The public has great faith in what is put down In 'black and white." Oae of two things is certain. Elth er Judge Hamilton's voucher is gen uine or else is a forger. If the vouct er or receipt is a forgery then Ham ten is either a forger or an ac complice in forgery, and in eith er event he shcu-d be prose cuted. If, on the other hacd The receipt is genuine, there is no other recourse than in the painfulcer. tainly that Mr. Bliss is lying. Cer tainly a gentleman of Mr. Bliss's staniiing will not rest under such a susp'clon. He must and will demand that Judge Hamilton be prosecuted and convicted of forgery or connivance in forgery. Tnat is the only courss that will absolve Mr. Bliss from the susp'cian tt- Is naturally aroused by the exhihlon of an alleged genuine receipt signed by himself and ac knowledging the receipt of money that he denies having received There Is no mistaking what Mr. Bllis's crrnse should be. It is plain and peremptory. Until some one proves that Hamil ton is a liar of the most malicious sort. there can be no rest for the weary. He is stirriog 'em up with a long and pointed stick. With the jaunty as iarance of the man who admits ali and rather glories in the admission, he is going about disporting himself in a manner that i'-as joyful to him as it is disconcerningto the group of high financiers and corporatian l.wyers that constitute his gam3. He is quite willivg to talk and he is not carefi.l as to whom he talks about. For the safe ty of those gentlemen high in the counsels of flaance and of politics, he most be gagged. It he is not, it is as ertain as fate that something Is go lIg to drop. B G XONRY IN TAU3X. One Farmir Made Savpnteen Thous and Dollars Clear. The State says Col..E J. Watsn, ommissioner of agriculture, Immigra tion and commerce, is very busy now getting material for a statistical bul Atin which *he will issue shortly early every day he gets letters in jutring for information on certain iubjects and it requires a persc nal o furnish the answer eaih time. H? bas decided upon the kind of bulletin te will issue and is preparing the manuscript for the work. The amount az d variety of informa tion to be furnished in this pamphlet will be a matter of surprise to all orkers in figures. He will give ton ge hauled on railrcads for each year or a decide; tonnage of trtil.zrs ased in zh9 same length of time; nrm yer of bales of cotton spun into thread numer of bales of cloth made; popu ation and crops. Oe of the most remarkable ezhib't; which Col Watson has got together in ome time is a statement of the in -ome from the sale of garden truck. :ank forms are camng in. These will have to be oollaborated. "South arolina, the Garden Country of merica," is the title of the pamphlet on gardening for the market. The most remarkable statem .nt of all1 those so far received shows that on >he farmn of 103 acres the owner last ear made, net $17 500. Onasix acres f lettue he cleared $2.530; $3 000 on 10 acres of cucumbers, a d 23,300 on 2 acres of cucumblers. Tne publica non of toess figures Is enougru to ake everybody quit everything 'ss and go Into the track raising bus ness. Commissioner Watson will leave he latter part of this week for COer son college where he will confer with President Mell and Prof. Chambliss in regard to the terms for the competi ors from this State who will take part In the corn growing contest. A :mmber of farmers from South Caro lina will take part, several having al ready sent In their notifirations. This State will, as before, be the only State in the S-uth to take part In the contset, and the $1,000 prize was won y Mr. Drake of Marlboro in the last competition. Commissioner Watson wants the school children Wj take part as they did in Illinois and taas get up a carn exhibit from South Carolina for the Jamestown exposi tion Next week Com-nissioner Watson will b3 in B iauf rt where he will look into the matter of growing sweet pz atoes there. This is the banner county of the State In the ,matter of raising sweet potatoes. White Mec Must Hang. A Supreme Court decision seals the fate of Bob Smalls and John Nall, North Carolina white meD, who were convicted last sprmng in Darlington of the murder of a negro named Frank Scott, whom they shot on the streets, the white men being in a drucken ani rowdy condition. Smalls was only 22 years old and Nall jast 19 at the time of the kildnug. Smalls was given a death sentence and Ncll, being recom mended to mercv, got a life sentence. Smalls was sentenced to hang last May. The Supreme Court affirms the results In the lower court, and Smalls is to be sentenced in the near future. Killed His F'ather. A t Atlanta Henry J. Purcell, a bar br, aged 50 years, was shot and in stantly killed by L is son, E isha Pur cll, aged 24, at their home on Court land street early Wednesday EveDing. Te circumstances as gathered f:om several witnesses were that the eider Purcell came home intoxicatta and began at once a quarrel with his wife. Going from the house he re turned with a brick which he made a motion to throw at his wife and at the wife of the youoger man, who immediately drew his revolver and fred. Elisha Purcell surrendered to to the police. Killing in G sorgia. Barrell Bush, aged 60, was shot and killed by Alonza Hadack Taursday at Haddock, Ga. Tne slayer Is aged 3. He surrendered promptly. The trouble gr..w out of the marriage of a sister of Haddock and the son 0f Bush In Macon. The parties are rominent in the rcnnntY. TALE OF HORROR. Some Indians Who Sacrifice Ba bies to Sacred Snakes to WARD OFF TROUBLF. The tinge Living Reptiles Are Kept Shut Up in a Cave in the Mountains and Fed op iuman Sacifi cial Flesh by the Fa. natics. The grand jury of Bernadillo Coun ty, New Msx'co, was presented with evidence recently which apparently shows that human sacrifice Is still be ing practised among other barbaric religious rites by our American In dians. A considerable amount of testimony was produced as to the practices of witchcraft and the com mon habit of the Indians of murder ing men and women who are suspect ed of being "evil spirits." In fact, Joe Luis, chief medicine man of the Papago tribe of Arizona frankly ac knowleged that be is the slayer of Josefa Anton, a woman, whom the Papagos of a native village near Covered Wells in the Gunsight county accused of belug an evil spirit who bewitched them and was r-soonsib' for their misfortur es. During thp Summer a great m wy cattle belong ing to the Indians sickened and died, and starvation stared them in the race. Later some of the leaders o, :he tribe succumbed to a mysterious disease, and the savages, who still believo in withcraft, held Josefa An ton, a woman of the village, respon sible for the conditions. Luis, the medicine man, believed it his duty to rid the village of the witch, so he lur ed her out into the desert and mur dered her. But the most shocking testimony, says the corespondens of the Ne'. York American was given by a Cat.hc tic missionary who was admitted to some of the sacred rites of the Indians of the pubelo of Z a, the most isol - ed of the savages in Ncw X<x c,. Here the priest was led to a cave in ;1e mountains, the mouth of which ls enclosed with a stone wall Bffteen feet thick. In this wall there is a cole eight or ten inches in diameter, and in the cave lives a huge sacred snake, which at times emerges through this hole. The Indians keep a watch at the cave and regard the appearance of the servent as a man date upon them to produce a human sacrifice for the creature. Usually, the witness said, the sacri Oce was voluntary, some Indian moth er being ready, under the spur of re ligious enthusAi.m. to cffar her in fant. I', however, the exhortations of the frenzied medIcine man failed to find willing response, then a council of the old men of the tribe was held and a baby was pickced out by vote. In either case, wil:Ing or unwilling, the mother was led forward to the entrance of the cave and kept there antl the snake appeared. As the huge serpent wriggled forth through the hole the mother crept forward and delivered over her child. A'ter this a dance was begun by the chief medicine man, which was joined in by the others of the tribe, and the ceremonial kept up until sun rise. It is known that a very si'nilar sys tem. of sacrifice of babies and adults was practised until recently by the Gorieta Indians, who lived in the Pecos-Valley, of New Maxieo. Tarirty miles north of the vIllage of Gliorieta, in the mountains, is a cave similarly sealed up except for a hole ler e enough to admit a large snake. Tv'is is well known to all residents of that section. Several years ago when the Gorleta Indians were snake worshIp pers, a huge sacred serpent made his abode in the cave. . A human sacrifice was made at reg ular reriods to this snake, the cere mony connected therewith being one f the most sacred tenets of the In dian relgion. Sometimes the sacri flee was v:;luntary ongt~e ,pirt of the vicim, and sometimre* plac~d e the altar by his comijles. Finally the tribe d windled dn'~ to one man and one woman. WLn the time of sacrifice again came round, the wo man was s.zad with terror, as a wC man was alway considered preferable as an cffaring to appease the great spirit through the medium of the snake. Uitknown to the man. she fed before the fatal hour arrived. L:-ft alone to face the grues~me 0: deal, the man was also seized witti fear and fled the country. Oaher In dians of othe:r tribes know of the cave, and cannot be induced to go near it. Tzne grand jury was impressed with the need of a thorough investIgation of the secret practic~s of the Indians, and a resolution was adopted calling upon the United States authorities to sitt the matter to the bottom and tke means o stop fo.rever the prac tice of human sacrifice. In view of the great di~oulty a white man has in penei rating the se c ets of the in dians, it is not surprising that the Government officials are Ignorant of these c ual ceremonials. In fact, many villages of Inditns In remote muntain districts a.re hardly known o even the wandering mining pros pects, and are never visited by agents of thLe D:partment of the Interior. It must be remembered, too, that New Mexico is a big territory, with an area as great as the crmbined ares of New York and the New E. g land States, and events may transpire in certain sec uded sections of it and be as little known to many other secticns as If the Inhabitants d welt at a much greati r distance from the scene of these events. The highest forms of civi~zuWon and prosperity exst in certain parts of New Mexico out Luere are.stid s~me lIdian pueb los; or villages, little known- to the white man. in ne form or another this story Wich was brought before the grand jury is not new, as it has been told around campfires and t.y writers of Pueblo legends and traditions, but it has never heretofore been br ,ught be fore a judicial body. A version of the story is that there is bu5 one snake of venerable age and immense size, which has been transferred from pueblo to pueblo, causing in each in turn a mysteri';us decrease in the birth rate. Another vers'on Is that there are several snakes, but that the medicine men led the people to be lieve that there was only ore. Still another relates as to how the snake is guirded by the IAdian councilors, the people being k-ps ignorant of the fate o their children. The history of the snalke brought to the attentioo of the grand jury is qu te singu!ar. I! runs that the snake was first kept in the Santo Domingo pueblo, whence it was transf3rred to the Jem z Du bo. the Santo Dominicans paying a. larg, tribu:e to have it tsken off theb hands. The J=mez Ind ans in turn unloaded It upon the Z a pueblo, where it has remained for many years That the snake is a conspicuous figure in the religion of most of the America.n Indians in the Southwest is, of course, well known. The mod ern Indians get their traditions fro-r the arcient Aztecq, who were snake worshippers and who, we know, made human sacrificeas andwvenerated sacred reptiles. The M qul Indians and their annu-l snake dances are rurvi vils of te old Aztec cerembni.l The Mcquis Lapture large rumber of rattlesnakes, wash them and dince with them, hldirg the serpents in their teeth. Many of the daucrs are bitten, but the victims are at once taken into a cave where the medicine man administers an antid-ote and ro harm ensues. This secret cure for snake bite is known only to one man In cath triba, and he passes the secret on to a casen priest before he dies. Ni amount of persuasion by white men has ever been able to wrest this sacred and invaluable secret from the Indians. A medicine man will always let a whi:e man die (f snake bite rather than give him :.ne cure. Aside from puting an :nd to the cruel rites of human sacnfice there are enough secret ceremo: Ilss of the Pueblo Indians yet ura een by white men to well repay an inves igtion by the Depnrtment of the lItei.ar. THE PARSIDEN *S SALARY. "izures that Will Surprise a Great Many People. The Philadelphia Ledger says the discusIon of the ins~ffait:ncy of the President's salary has recommenced, tad certain facts are brought for ward with whic:i it is doubtful if the aver ag' American is acquainted. It will perhapi be news to many that al thougn the President's salary is $50, 000, he actually receives more tnan twice tnat amount -3125,000-every year. Government arprop.iati< ni year ly devoted to the execuAve mansion, in addition to the Presideni's salary, are given as follow.: Pay cf Presi dent's private secretary, $3 253; as sistant priv.tte s'cretAry, $2,250; ste nographer, $1,800; five meseengers, each, $1,200; two doorkeepers, eac-; $1,200; four other clerkrs at salatries rangirg from 81.500 to 8250; telegraph operator, 81,200; two usters, eact- $1. 00; one nuan usher, $1 300; a watcil man, $900. The government also furnishes a man to take care of the fres at $86i a year, a steward at $1,. 00, aad allows two special funis of $40,0(00 just mentioned, $12 500 Is for repaira and for refunrnishing the White House; $2,500 is for fuel;-84 000 for the greenhouse; $15,000 for gas, match es, the upkeep of the stables and varikus 2iscellaneous matters. The 88000 is for stationery, carpets, the cre of the staoles as distinguished from expenditures-for feed, equ'page ad the like. The grand total, includ ing the President's salary, is given as $125,000 a year. To most men these appropri tions will seem very liberal. It is possible, for example, that five nundred tons of coal are required in the White House every year for the purpose of heatIng and cookiLn? It is true that tne President is campelen to do a great deal of costly entertain ing, but practically all his household expenses seem to h a paid by the guy enent except the cutlay for fuoca and wine. Fifty thousar~d dollars is not much for a man woo must live In the style of the President of the Ui-l ed States, but $125,000 a year is a comf>rtable i~comne.--Philadelphia Ledger. SxL,,.e Bedes. Congressman J. A. Bede was tne speaker at a big barquet at Gra-nd Ri=ds toe otner nigot, at wn!.ca wo :nen were admitted to Pear the spe. ches. Mr. Bede apolypz d for the non-ppearance or Bepresentati . Weston, of Indiana, who he said was detained at homne because of " famnily matters." "I want in distincitly un derstot d." said Mr. B-de, "that ut der toe ROsev 1t ao~inistrationl tu national bird has be: n chsx ge-d froms the esgle to the b orz. The eiagle may screamn, but the stork delivere te goods. I ncver poud as an Adonis. Mr. Cede continued. "My wife always insisted that she would never marry any but a six feot man-one with a big black mustache. But sbe married me, atnd now we have a string of six ittle Bedes, Overworteu Himnelf. Pneumonia followicg a nervone cllapse as a result of strain and (X citement sluring protracted revival ervices at the First Baptist church at Paducha-Ky., caused the death .o the pastor, E. J.ohn S Cheek, aged 46 years, Thur'sday at Waco, Tex. A revival which brough6 about 1,000 conversions came to an errd last S ini d'.y af.:er lasting four mdnths, but Mr. Cheek~s mind and health gave way several weeks ago and he had been taken South in the hope that the change woinMg hae't a health. W ant. Aai.traxa. Many Australians hava an 'dea that Japan is looking covetously on tnleir island continent. Their suspilns were increased the other day by the discovery In the baggage of t ao Japa nese, Soo were traveling in Austre ia as merce.auts, of a complete set of the secret ilans of tue Sydney for tifictions. POf~ kL111CAL PO)T. DEM1OCRATIC EXECUTIVE COM MIT ]EE TO MEET ON APRIL 5. rates for Meetings of County Clubs and County and State Conventions. Gen. Wilie Iones, chairman of the State Democratic executive commit ;ee, announoed Thursday that the commttee would be called to meet this year on April 1:h to c'nsider the matte.rs pertaining to the campaign socn io open and to issue the call for tme State convention, which will for maly set the ball in motion. Tne meeting of the present clubs .d2l be held on the las; Saturday In .i piil, the 28th, and the county c n ventions, made up o delegates select d at the club meetings, will assemble n the 7th of May to elect delzgates to the State convention, a couaty .ex. Pcutive committee and a member frum each county of the State Damo ratic executiva c~mmittea. The State Democri tic convention will be held on the 16-h of May, that baing the third Tuesday. It is nct known what matters will come before he convention this year. Af ter th't -neeting of the cor vention the new rrangements for the St:ate campa!gn along lines dec!ded pr n in the eMn ventdon. rhe it:n 'r&'y wili be map ped out by the exZrut ve committee The party contution says that thers ehall be one or more clabs i, -ac'i ward or towrahip and t-;af the clubs stla'l mect on the founrh Satur ,ay in A pril in State eleci-,n 'ears, he ceunay conventins the fi:-st Mn !ay in May and the State e nvention tee thild Wedne.day in - y The qualifications f.r vc s:ng in the State primarie3 are that ,he person who 6esires to vote must bare been a reildent of the State 12 inoans and of the count. 3 days, who must pledge himself to abide by the result cf the primaries, and his name must be on 4 e club list at least five days before the primary. Toe Stat.e executive committee Is cmpOSed cf the following rep-esenta tiyes from the several countle,: Abbeville, A. W. JOneis; Aikeo, 3. R. Cloy, Anderson, J. P. Glenn; BaRm berg, '. B. Free; B;rnwell, W. D Birck; Beaufor, Thomas Msrtin; Berkeley. B. W. Haynesq Charleston. J. F. . ley; Cherokee, W. S. Hall, Jr.; Cbester, T. J. Cunningham; on sterfield, W. F. Stevens-n: Claren doz; A. J. Rtchbourg; Colleton, T. W. Hill; Darlington, J. B. Cnggeshall; Dorecester, J. D Bivene; Edgefield, A. E P.sdrett; Fairfield. T. A. Ket chin; Florence, D. H. Traxler, Geor geown, 3. W. Doar; Greenville, J. T Bramlet; Greenwood, D. H. Magill; Hamptoo, L. C. Langford; Sarry, J A. McDermott;.Kershaw. J. G. Rich .rds, Jr ; Lancaster, T Y. William,; Lurens, T. B. Crews; Lee, W. A. Jame.; Lexington, D. J. Griffltt; Martnn, W. A. Browc; Mar'bro, W. D E ans; Newberry, C L. Blease; :onee, F. M. Cary; Orangeburg R.'bert Lid"; Pickens, W. T. 0 Dl; Rcb land, Wilie Jones; Szluda, J. C. a. Etuch; Spartanburg, N. L. Ben nett; Sumter, R I. Manning; Union. 3 M G-er; Wililambarg, D. C. Scott; 'ork, 3. W. Ardtey. Senator Tiliman is an ex-: fficio membeir of the committee by reason f hist i fie as member of the nation al commistee. XOTE STOPS WEDDIMG. Separated Couple as they S tood Be tore Minister. The course of true love, it develop di last M.tdiy received a rude shock wen B. A. Turner, of Higgstown, and Miss Paarl Coleman, of Savannah ere not married as tney had hoped to be. As the words "I pronounce yon -an and wife." tungc on the lips of Rv. Rjbert Vandeventer, the mother of the would-be brida d.ished in upon the assembwege. S-:riking apart thel two hands btuat were about to b: uatted forever, she forbve tha mar riage. F.tinting, the bride fell to toe dor and the groom stocd with star ng eves at the prevention' ot the flfillment of his long planned elopc ment, Dr. Vandeventer, too startled t> speak for an instant, held the mar rage license loosely in nis hand. Tziis was the mother's opportuni'y; she cluchedl the license and det!ed th mnister to procied. Dr. V .nteven ter begged that she allow the wed'din2 ceremony to ga on. To this she was >o lurate. Tae would b3 -.bride was r:auscitated, the wedding assembly dpersed and Mats Paarl, the 14-year 'd bride that was to be, returned dis c nsolate to her home. Tae mother is Mrs. Elisa. A. Cok man. Tae would be gro m is the .aner of a sawmll at Htiggstowa re wedding certmony wa- tuterupted a the home of Mrs. N. F. Cosart. te irate moth-er' sister, at 607 West Broadtreet Saivannah. Lut Monday Mr. Turner renewed his ueff.rts to win the mother's con sent, but Mrs C' leman was uerelent ing apparently. Sne said her daug:h ter must wait five years. When th' lcesee was secored the girl was given as eighteen. She wears short dress Were Rescued. Seventeen passengers on three cars f tue Crevelaud Southwestern trac ion line, snow- bo.d by deep drifts five miles from~ Wooster, 0..1, atter pending an uncomfortable night, vere rescue'd Trsday by .fsarxners and liverymen from Wooster,'~ who sent three big sleighs to the snow bound cars. Tee snow is .so deep betw ea Wooster and Berea, 40 miles away, that traffle on tue road Is at a standstill. - .Death of idr. hemas. A dispag from WedgefieH t> The ;tate sayfr. Mr. H. B. Tn..mas, one. f this community's mo~st substantial ctz ms, and former railroad commis sioner, died suddenly We~nem'ay of 'neart trouble. He was a man of fine tusiness ability, which was fearlessly made known during his term as rail road commissioner. His sudden death wms sb chnto his many friends. SHOT FOR MONEY. D. G. Ziegler Shot by Eugene Rogan at Snmter FOR NT PAYING HIM What He Owed Him for Work Done in His Office. Ziegler Was At. tacked as He Was Leaving His Office. Was flit Five Times. A special dispatch from. Sumter to ]ne S-ate says Eugene Hogan, Jr. shot D. G Z ;gler Friday afternoon .t 4 40 o,clouk. The weapon was a 32-callbre pistol. He fired fie times, the Ast bal. Bntered directly nader the left shoul. :er blade and took a do vn aard course roward tne rigit side. Tae second ball entered jait ab .an two Incnes a -ove the tirs., oae and took an oppo site curse. Tae Laird ball went-be tween tne body a-d tie elbow, gra. i::g tue fb sh on the arm. Trie fourth aUL d ti snots went wild. Tae tragedy was enacted on the stairway of the Winn butlding, 13 N -.rth Main street. Mr. Z3igler was cimng diwn the stair*ay. Wnen aouvu flalf way down Mr. Hoga be gan furirg from the tcp of the stair y Wnen the first ball struck. Z .izler he turned, hi says, half way around and begged Hogan to- stop. This accunts for sue two balls cros ing eacn ouner in tne body, presam ablv. Z igler ran cn down the stairway - ino wne street, then turned and went ino Durani.'s pharmacy wnere he was made comfortable- until he -could be taken to the Sumter hospital. The pnyticians bave made ad examination with the Baentgen X-ray, but have failed to discaver tae ouiles. Tne doctors state that te is in a very sericus condition and while the wounds are not neccessarily fatal, they do not feel at all confident of his recavery. Z igler says inmielf he 1i going to die and has made a sworn antemortem statement and given some direions abaut the disposition of his budness aft.drs. Z:igier states, Ir.: i reporled, thata shoro while previous to we shootmg yonag Hogan callad at the door of his offiza and ne refused him admitance, aogcan demanded the money hat Z.ig'er was aue him as a draughts man when he was formerly in his employ. Z Agler replied that he did not tave it but wnu d pay him. Hogan went down sne hallway and aid mcmnd a irge aoor a4 the head of Lhe dtairs, Z;iiier says, and he aid nbt ano -l ids presence until he neard she first ahor from thi rear. IT is known snat Zeigier was indebted to Hegan for worn none and that he had made repeated Lfts to collect the dent but without sucoess. Tnre Swate's correspordant- visited the young man at Ene jal, out he was engsgad in consultatlon witn his at corney, H. D. Moise, who replied'thaZ - ne ham notning to say now. He war comfortably seated and cool and col lected. He greeted the correspondent in iris usual manner. He is acont 23 years oid arid nas a very young wiue and baby. Mr. Hagan's fatner, the well known ban-caer is prostrated wine Z igler has been an architect in Sumter for several years. He formerly niad an uffice in alumbia. He Is abont 3$ years Lf age and uas a wife and unree anildren. His home Is at 106 South Wasnaington Ssreet. Saow Barnnd. A dispzuch fromn Darrango, Colo., says afser bAing enO u baund for 12 :ays on the .o.ti summzit of Cambres Pat tae cress of tane San Jaa~n r.m~ge, 50 mitei froam sae 'nearest . town, a DY~nver asni Eio Grande train ooratimg .50 psssangstrs Tauirsday 4rnved in Aaam isa in s San Luis valley. Tne train left Dairango on MLs.c.i 10 and became stiled that *.gnu. $nowv cnsied falL g day iser day uait it lay on the level iigner taan the smoke ssack of tne oC:;motive. Esaroaa erniioyes car mid provisions to sne imprisanoi psa sangers by climbing ue mountain On snIow shoes, and sire p~assengers were ?flde as comfortable as possible. Oingz toJ tnre niga attitude, se~veral passengers oiecaine sicic. A rotary s-.ow p.o.e panetrated to sne train Edneedi ry nmgan and today the train ran to Al~nosa. Naar Deathum Door. The entire family of Jonn H. Wil llam:,on, postmas..er and station agent .3,t Gi:.a1 02borne, Pennsy.vanis., on :,t F Wayne raluroad, were found accnriOOCou.s from aspnryxiation Taurs day morning. The family ..onsisted of thre fascrer, mosner and five cil. .iren, and when found they were sup oosea to be in a monibund condition. .?ne diecovery was made by persona .vho had gone to the Station to take tine trai for Pittsoarg.. ],'oing rshe doors they fcund the en-tire family ~sal in their beds and unoonscious, Vfle house was fiiled with tue fumes of gas. Pnysicians were summoned and neroic eff arts were made to re suacitate toe victims of the accident, ont at 10 o'clock only one, an Infant, nad haen revived. Tno Wages of sin. The friends of Thos. W. Kiley, a weaithy tanker and merchant of Brooklyn, fear that he has committed suicide. Tnursday night a story was published to the e ffbs tnat Edey had married Mrs. Flora A. Colt, of Brock lyn, three years ago, in Hommzand, mnd., althouzh he had another wife at toe time living. After the puoil cation of the cnarges.Ktley was quoted as saying: "Tialsscandle will be more :ban 1 canl bear. I never did any i~in tnat was not honest or honora 1le u iti I married Mrs. Colt. I know roait was %ronlg and ISraaWA4