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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1F, 1906. NO. 29. PATHETIC OASE. Young Girl Attempts to Commit Suicide Because She HAD BEENT CAST OFF By Her Home People, Who Lives at Pac olet, S. C. The Friendless Wan derer Drank a Big Dose of Laudanum Atter Getting a Letter from Home. Crz.d with laudanum and begging for more, with the avowed purpose of ending her life, a girl of eighteen who gave her name as Annie Turner, of Pacolet, was arrested Thursday af ternoon by Officer Alexander and locked up at the city hall for safe keeping, says Fridays Greenville News. It develcped that early in the morning she had gone to the livery stable of Briscoe & Douglas, on Wzst Washington street, and ask.d for water, saying tha, she intended tak ing the contents of a bAttle of laud num which she carried in her hand. George Dougsa&s ti V the drug from her and pt ur O it oiA the ground, and she went away weeping bitterly. When arrested she ,as beggibg hysterically for work, sayirg that she had been discharged from the cigar factory because she couldn't leaan how to make cigars and that she couldn't work in the c tton mill on account cf her weak lungs. She declared herself willing to do any honorabie labor in order to make a livaag. Her story, told be..ween bysterical sobs, as she clung to t-: e door of her cell anI pressed her hot face azainst the cool Iron bars, was that she is the second daughter of J. H. Turner, once a second-hand In the Pacolet Mills; that last October she ran away and married a sewing machine agent nam ed Marsh Green, only to find that he already had a wife; that he beat her and Anally deserted her and her peo ple furthermore would not believe - that she had been married to him; that her child died soon after ltz birth, and was taken away so that she never saw It, and that in despera tion at the abuse and scorn of her home people she came to Greeaville with a friendly stranger who promis ed to find work for her here. At this point her sobs became so violent that she was unable to go on for sometime, because, she said, her first and only transgression of the social law was then. Rain was falling heavily when she reached .Greenvilie, acccrdirg to her story, and the man finally persua ded her to go to a lcdging house as man and wife, assuring her that n one would take her in at that houv, otherwise. She went with him, but left the next day and sought employ ment. For a wnile she worked in the cigar factory on Court street boarding with a family a blcck away, on Falls street, but she gave up the eff.ort te live honestly and decently when she was discharged from the cigar factory and received in adciltion a letter for bidding her return honre. Sne said that she had been drinking laudanum at intervals all day. Her condition proved the truth of her assertion. The police gave her all the atten tion possible at police bairracks, and she became quieter and weaker after the effectb of the drug passed cff. Her parents will be notified and some ais position made of her. The facilities at the disposal of the police do not contemplate the caring of such cases and her presence Is rather embarrass ing to the kind-hearted t fibers. The letter from her y ounger sister which explains the whole dramatic story and Is rather interesting in It sell, follows: "Dear Annie: "I will write to let you know we received your letter and was glad and surprised. Papa says you can't cme home any more. You would not be have when you were here, so y ou can't come home. I wish you hadn't done like you have. Now, Annie, you must be a good girl and work bard and may be some day we will meet again. Remember poor mamma, bow hard she tried to make us what we ought to be. She 'will be dead eight years Easter morn' the morning Christ died for us. He died that so we might be cleansed from our sins. Woat are you doing? We will write to you, but you can't come home. Do the best you can. You won't stay anywhere long, l'm afraid. Answer as soon as you get this." Bill Inside. A Kansas paper tells the following on Biil Jones, a local merchant who went to Kansas City last spring to buy goods: The goods were shipped immediately and reached home be fore he did. When the boxes were delivered to his store his wife hap pened to look at the largest and ut tering a loud cry, calledu for a ham mer. A neighbor, hearing her icmam rushed to her assistance and askeo what was the matter. Mrs. Jones, pale and faint, pointed to an inscrip tion on the box, which read as fol lows: "Bill Inside." Mil1ikeD Won. The Lucas-Mllliken fight over the control of the Laurens and Darhingtoi cotton mills bas ende~d. The MiUi ken party pays the Lucas party $1( a share for theIr stock, par valu $100, market value $160, for th Liaurens mill, and $65 a state, mar ket valuc $50, for the D~aringtonl mill This means the retirement of Mr Lucas from the management of thi two milis Burneal to Death. Three children, the oldest eigh named Dawkinls, were burned to deat. In a house in Union county on Taurs day. Tne~ children were ioeked up 1i the house while their parentS were a work some distance away in the field 6 VE ALL TIV WIFF. HAPPIER -IS CLERK TEAN WBEN A CAPIrALIST. A Charleston Man to Be Eid of Eis Wife Gives Her His Fortuue and Goes West. "I have had more peace and con tentment since I came to California than I ever had before in all the twen ty-aight years of my life " Tnat was the satement made to Judge Trask in the superior court a;. San Francisco, Cal., by Eiward A. Hall, who testified that, after waiting until the youngest of his three chn> dren was over age, he gave his wife $100,000 worth of propertv, and, taking $900 in cash for himself, sev I ered his family ties and cune to OQli lorcia at the age of sixty. Formerly president of the Palmettc Pharmacy compz-ny of Caarlest. n, S C., with a big tiiree-story bust.es3 block on the main street of th:: c ty and a $35,000 stock of goods, bsbiie: a good home and a considerable amount of real estate, he has taken a position as a clerk in a geacral store at Fallbrook in Sin Diego coun ty. "And I'm happy at the prospect," was the man's only comment. "I believe that that man's a man," said Judge Trask, after he had grant adsa oivrce to Hall from Enmoza Hall, his wife, who is now running the business he founded at Charles ton and livir g on the property he gave her. 'Time and again, I deeded to m, wife a piece of real estate in the hope that she would stop her wrangling and come back to me," said 2Bail "For years the public did not know of oui difficulcies. .Finally I became broken down in health. The children were grown up and one day she caine to the store and insisted that I was unable to manage it, and that bhe wanted a change. Lter, at home, she told me she wanted me to get ou and never c-me back. "I told her I would. I deeded tc er all the properzy I owned and sransfered to her the stock I held a& president and principal owner of the I Palmetto Pharmecj company. Then I took- about $900 in cash and came to California." "Then you have found in the many years of your married life," queriea Judge Trask, "that peace and con :.entment are worth more than the fruits of ycur years of labor?' "I have found that ressonable peace md contentment are worth more than all the money in the world," was the reply. ''Then since you came to southern California you have been perfectly ippy ?' again asked the judge. "I have had more peace and sitis faction since I came to California than I ever h. d before in all the twenty eight years of my married life," an swered Mr. Hall. "And you gave everything to your wife except these few hundred dollars before ycu left Charleston-all the property it had taken you years to earn ?" Yss, sir, 1 did," said Hall. "That's all," said the judge. WILUIAMSON'S UORN PL AH What the E ditor o the Southern Cu! ti-rator Says About ft. We have been asked our opinion as to this "stunting theory" of Mr. Williamson's. We endorse every word f this plan except this "stuntini: idea" and using a ''eurniog plow " in caltivating his corn. We would pre vent the over-productionl of stalk, by aaving the corn thick. We would have ours in four-foot rows 12 to 18 inches in drill, and would cultivate with scrapes or Pasnet Jr., cultiva ors. We have always ad vcecited pu; oing manure around growing crops. Our fther made 763 bushels corn on poor land, curing a dry season by put ting 150 pounds mn drill at planting 200 pounds on side at second plowing nd 150 in the middlle when layirg by. We 'celieve in planting corn early or lae. We have made as lne cyjn as we have ever seen with similar manui g by planeing after grain on first of June. This crop will not hit as often as the early planting but will be made much cheaper. Have made 75 bush 81s per acre cn rich land, with two lowngs. On the whole Mr. Wil iamson's plan is exzellent, but it I: agaist nature to stunt an) thing" for best resalts. To keep cgrn or any crop In growing condition Is best Mr. Williamson succeeded in makieg fine yield in spite of his stunting, b-y deep and thorough preparation of his land, and by liberal manuring of avaIlable pl.nt food after vards-to make amends as it were. We want several to try bis plan and on half the field carry out his plan fully; while on the other half keep the cul tivation going on regular and the corn rowing, andi see which dces the best. Agricultura1i So istics. The bureau of statistics of -the dr partment tof commerce and labor an nounces that the agricultural product are o'w making thle highest record i?n exports of the United States--and should the present rate continue dur Ing the remainder7 of the fiscal year. the exp 'rtationl of uch prdducts wilt in 19136, for the first time cross the bllionr dollar line. In the first eight months, ended with kFebruary, the value of agricultural products erport ed amounted to seven hundred mil ion doll::rs wnicha is a total consider. ably in mxess of tne figurers for a imilar paiid r f arv ometing year. Jumped Fromn Bridge. At New York while thousands on the bridge and ferry boats looked on horror stricken during the rush hours Wednesday morning a man leapedl from the central span of the middle arch of the Williamsburg bridge. The man was pulled aboard a ferry boat and was taken to a hospital in a dying condition. He is Nathan Isaacs, a student of Socialism, despondent over he~ death of a brother and the serious ineS of his mother. IU FOR TAT. Senator Tillman Replies to the Letter of Mr. Lyon. HE GREW INDIGNANT And Used Some Very Plain Language in Speaking of the Insfnuations of the Committeemen, All of Which He Says Are Vile and False. Senator B. R. Tillman was seen a; Greenville one day last week by a r: resentative cf The State as the sen-a tor was on his way from Washington to Clemson college to attend an im portant meeting of the board of trus tees. He was asked if he bad any. jing to say iQ reply to the letter of Mr. J. Fraser L;on, publish-ed in T.e State Saturday. The senatur bad nct seen the letter ,and when a copy of it was handed to him, he read it and grew wrathy as he read. Being under the impression that the publicaticn shown him was only an outline of MIr Lyr.:'s letter, he was at first dhin .,ieO to say much, but when be be came satitfiad that he was in posse.s ion of a complete ec-py cf the letter, he threw cff the silence and talkee with characteristic freedcm. dentun ring tac letar as sneaing and M:. Lyon's reference to the rumor that a whiskey house had presented S3nator Tillman with a piano, as a dirty cow ardly insinuation." The senator was first approached by the ne-n-paper mar as he sit in the new passen&er stn.tion at Charlotte scanning a large number of Souta Car ,lina newspapers with which his trav eling bag was p .cked. The in.terview ontlnued interruptedly on b.-ard the Soutnorn Southwestern Limited as far as Greenville. GREW INDIGNANT Atter reading the letter, Senator illman was indignant and grew more so as he taled. "I am surprised," be said, "that a entlema such as I thought Mr. Lyon to be would go in the papers in such a sneaking way as this. E ven Mhe name of a lawyer to whom h wrote is not given, but whether he au :hoiz:d its publicity or not, I assume t to be authentic. "I have not attacked the investiga ing committee; I only warned it in a friendly spirit. And why? Either the $700.000 worth of claims against the State b- ard are valid and binding or ney are n3t. I say they are not, be ause the whiskey was bnught con rary to law and the State is not le gally bound for payment. " The comnittee knows this now as wll as It will ever kncw it. Messrs. yon and Cnrirstensen have blacklisted :er.ain firms; thre presumpiton is they ave dilscojvered evidences of fr, ud. It h: se firms have acted dishonestly the ld board cannot be clean; but~ lea~v og Messrs. L'. on and Cnristensen , o h'.mt for proofs, to which I do| nt object, again I ask: ' Why the de " Whether fraud is preven or not, no decent lawyer will contend that hese large I~urchases of whiskey are lgal; First, because there wras not ompetitive bidding, as the law re luires; second bacause the1l'.w express y limits the atrount that may be on and to C400 000 and instead of diek ring wit2 lawyers employed to col et the money, it is the investiga>.ing ommittee's plain ou!.y to repndia he whole transaction, foib~dtne new board to pay for any 1:q eor and thu have an end to et.- Mssrs. Lyen and Critensen will be rei ponsible o the taxpayels of the State if they 0. K sy single purchase that was illegadl1 bught." "WHAT ABOUT THE PIANO?' "Wait about tat piano?' Senator Tlman was asked. "'WelJ," be replied, '-I have heard it said if you turow a rock in the dark: dfnd a dog howls you may swear he L it. "I have not sought to discredit the investigating committee," the senator continued, "but to warn it and wnen Mr. Lyon, without provucation, mahes puelhc Its dirty and cowardiy insinua. tions that a whiskey firm gave me a piano, it is pretty clear to my mine that he howls because he is hit. It was easy enough for him to have found out all about the pia::o. Mr. Malone, the music dealer in Columboia, knows to whom he sold it and whbo paid for it and he knows when it was bought. "I note also Mr. Lyon's pretext for deay is that he may look into the re cords of the Mill Creek Distilling ccm pany to see whether there are any credits." Senator Tillman's reforence to "credits" appied to that part cf Mr. Lycns letter which resds as fol lows: " We wish to find the credits on the hocks of the distillery showing the amounet of rebates which Senator Till man said he returned as a gift for the gratitude he felt to the figuor concern crediting the State cf South Carolina. Besides this there had come to my ears a rumor--thae sources of which I think should be looked into-that Senator Tillinan when governor was presented with a pIano by a liqnor concern. "In may be that receipts may be so wn for the rebates whicn may have been received as was rumored to be the satisfactory explanution in the case of the Towill horse matter.'s Mr. Lvon heard my testimony in Clumbia and he knows I said noth ing about returning any money, for I never received any," said Senator Tilman. "If the books do not show that any money was ever paid they certainly will not show that any was over returned. j"I want to reteate and r-mnha size, in tbe most postive way my be ief that the investigati-g committee, charged with such a great respfnsi b!lity, sruld do its duty by deciding at once what is lawful to be done about these whiskey claims; the more lawyers they write letters to or see about this matter, the greater is the *atger that tnere will be a mean scan dal. ADVICE TO THE NEW BOARD. "While I am on the dispensary," said the senator, "1. sant to give the new bo.rd a friendly warning, too. It cannot purchse lquor under the law unless t::e bidding is clearly competi t v:. and the lo east priced. With )ut deti-An the article to bught by . mt~nng other than X,' isinotcom "Then I routce that while 14 :-un zj dispcrsarles have been closd. t;ere 13 no red. ctioa In the force of s'.dried inspectcrs and other employ es. "I am carnestly desIrous, both for their own sake and the dispensary. that the new toards actions shall be appr- ved by the people, but there can be no Excuse for continuing to oy for men w*Lo are nt needed: Ether the old forca was over worked or on third of it cught to b. dispen std with. "In myeffbrts to keep the dispen sary frcm teing assassinated, I shall spare to man be e firkend or foe, Wnlose acti:fn-l d , not !qu re with the law a-.d indico.e a deauea to carry it ut loyally." PIANO WAS BOUGHT. Mr. M. A. Malone, irem vhom Sen itor Tilan said in his interview above that he purchmsed the piano alluded to in Mr. Lwon's letter, was by a representative ofThe S ate and a- ked if he could recall the sale of the instrument the amount paid, the Person who bought it and the time of the sale. Mr. Malone had read the .rticle and unhesitatingly stated that ne sold the piano to Senator Tilman for $325 and that the sale was made in 1891, previous to the establishment of the disponsary. Mr. M .lone s Ad that oe recalld the sale bec::use it was soon after Senator T.!lman, then governor went into cfi.:e and ne had not long moved to this city to occupy the exe cutive mi~nsion. Furthermere, the aZLount p-.id for the piano w:.s a see cal concession made because, as Mr. Ma!one stated, he thought cbe sale ,*cuid enable him to dispose of other pianos. "Yes, sir," said Mr. Malone. "it was a fair and square deal ard there was no qucstion cf g-aft. Immediately after moving into tae mansion Gov. Tillman, came to my store and looked at the pianos. They rented one, for the puprpose of keeping it until they had tried it. "Tnis instrument they decided to buy and it was the ore for- which he paid me the amount stated. He aever bought any other piano from me." TERRIBLE RXYSEIG3 Ofan Ej: cted Tenant on an Indiana Farme.x. An explosion of dynamite on the farm of Philip Schenider, just south cif Hammond, Ind., Thursday, can inces all the neighborhood that the place Is honey-combed with the dead yv st~uff. While Schneider was plow ng, he struck a glass jar filled with the exploseve. He was thrown fiF ty feet and fatally injured. His eyes were blown out and his body horril -utilated. B.th horses were killed. I'ne unconscicus mm~ was found by is wife, when she went to look for aim at dinner time. This is the second tragedy that has followed the leasing of the farm by Schneider. The place farmerly had Deen rented by J ean A. Thomason, aho, on being i jacted by the owner for ncn-payment of rent, swore, it is sid, tuat anyone who set foot en the land would be killed. It is claimed ov neigh bers ihat Tut mascn at that rzme bought 200 pounds of dynamite ~ealed in g:ass jirs. L~ist Saturday, six j'trs of dynamite asre found by Sch'neider in the fur ows o1 a fi&ed. When Sonneider who lased the place two months ego, took ooession, ho found packa~ges of dyna mite in the house and barn. One. :ight, not long ago, an i explosion oc curred in tho ci:n, wnich was des ,royed by fire. Tihe next day the re ma:rns of Taumason w;ere found in the dbris. Kiiled His Wife. Jesse Ttmmcts killed his wife near Kyvile, Ga., in an unusually horri ble manner. It seems that they had separa ad. Timmons met his wife on tns roadway in comrny with anoth r woman. He walked up to his wife in -a frisr-diy manner, and when al most within touching distarnce open ed fire with a revolver. Four bullets took effsct and she was killed instant ly. Her clothicg caught fire from the flimes of the gun. Timmons forced his wife's companion to eccom pany him about a mile, prevezar'g her giving the alarm until he hat! made his escape. The corpse of his murdered wife burned in the road way and was ba.dly charred before rescued from the fire. Shot a iBurglar. At New York Hlenry J. Miller, ex cavalryman of the United States arnmy who had seens service inl the Pnilip pines, early Friday morndag shot and killed a burgist wao enterea his h:>me. He also fired a shot at a second burg lar unic~n strack a butt .n on his coat, glanced ud struck Mrs. Milet in the leg. The latter was not hurt serious ly. M:ller w'as arrested on a charge Ci comicide. TLie other burglar was cap turedi. Asss iaed. J. Burdette, pres'dent of the Eufau a National bank of Esitaula, I. T., was shot and kLiled in his own yard on flednesday night by an unknown as sassifi. He was one of the w,.althiest men of the nation and carried liie Tn surance to wu; auant of $250, 000. Poor Watcer, Typhoid fever 13 epidemic in Pitts burg, Pa. Seventy-six new cases wie re ported to the boar d of healt~h on Saturday. It is attributed to the rrinking war. HITS BACK. Mr. J, F. Lyon Replies to Sena tor B. R. Tillman's LTIEST INTERVIEW, A Spirited Resentmedt of the Senator's Criticisms. The Law Limiting Purchases Not Quoted Correct ly. As to Mid Creek and Rebates. Trk the Editor of The State. The offer of your columns to me to reply to Senator Tillman's inter view is accepted. I shall try not to re burdensome to either yourself or a long-suffering pub"c. I do not thing the public interested in the senator's opinion, either of my course in the dispensary investigation, or as to whether it vas sneaking and c:wardly t- address my reply to an Ittorney, in response to an inquiry, giving my reasons for delay, and al lowing that letter to be published. However, I do not wish to take the senator at a disadvantage, and it he thinks it more in keeping with his ideas of fairness, he may treat my letter as if it were addressed to him personally, with each statement there in reiterated. Senator Tillman says, "I have not attacked the investigating committe!. I only warned it in a friendly spirit." His reference to the committee in his address stands for itself, and I scarce ly think he can expect that this latter statement can be understood as being consistent with his former. In my opinion it will be a very indulgent person who does think so. Tne Senator has mnde the wonder ful discovery that the $700,000 worth of claims against the State board are valid and binding, or they are not. P.rhaps the entire committee will -gree to this statement when they kaow the senator has said It. But when he says: "They are not, be cause the whiskey was bough: co: - rary to law, and the State is not leg _ly bound for payment," I hesitate, for I have no facts to base such can lusion on the opinion of a person him self under Investigation, and know of no law limiting the amount of stock, save the version as cited by this same ;erson. I am not familiar with a law that expressively limits the amount of goods that may be on hand to 8400,000. I have need 'An act re ating to dispensary profits,' acts 1902. page 1102, in which it is provided Lat the directors of the dispensary shall pay to the State treasurer by January 1, 1904, all of the school fund reported by them in excess of $400,000 and making provision for ascertaining uarterly thereafter the net profits acruing to the State. No doubt the Senator will cite accurately the -law e refers to. It is somewhat a surprise to know hat the senator has spoken in sr'ch trenucus language, because the pib ie has been notified, at his requ~est, hat we are investigating the piano atter. He characterizes this as a irty and cowardly insinuation. I gree with him that it is rather a irty looking thing all the way trough, and I may have acted cow rdly, but the senator cannot flatter imself that it was an insinuation. Os he other hand, it was a plain s a-.e nent that the piano matter was under nvestigation. becauase it came to us hat it was possibly a "rake-ceff''-a e.ufficient reason for mnvestigating it. We have investigated at least ane ther transaction somewhat similar tO be piano matter. This letter was in estigated largely for the reason that he senator publicly expressed his sus >leon about it. It is only suspicions hat we have to c:>mmence on, and it s not my purpose to tell about sus icns transactions that are being robed unl:.ss those under investiga ion a-k for information at a time when it may safely be given: I would uggest; however if mnformation Is nus really desired it may be well not -o be too inquisitive, for someone else :ight be offended. Tne interview has represented the senator as saying that my pretext for elay is that I may look into the records of the Mill Creek Distillery ompany to see whether there are any redits. Is it not a little strange that h Senator should thus refer to Mill reek when no mention of it is made in my letter? The statement in this respect is the product of his own fer tile imagination. Is it not singular that he should associate in his mind Mill Creek distillery and rebates? This f itself would warrant the committee in looking for "a nigger in the wood pile" in the back yard of the Mill Creek distillery. But now comes the startli: g denial that he ever said anything about re turning rebates. It may he Interest ing to read his interview along with u.s sworn statement before the com mittee. INTEEVVI.W. "Mr. Lyon heard my testimony in Columbia and he knows I said noth ig about returning any money for I never received any."~ sWORN sTATEMNT. "But for the fact that Hubbell cred ited me I could not have started the dispemary at all. When we looked through it he said: 'This purchase is sujct to a rebate, becuse of the fact that the Mill Creek company is a memer ci the liqu'e trust.'** <Well, I saidi. I dcAe want any deal ings with rebates; ycu keep that as a .oonus for t.~c accommodation you -ve given me in selling me liquor at a fair price, and assisting me in my , forts to start the dispensary.' " I take it that the senator does not dsire to quibble and I prefer to be eve his sworn statement true, espec ally as the act under which we are proceeding makes false swearing before the committee periury. Such being the cndition of affairs, I thnkr w have reasonable grounds, and it is our duty, to probe this matter as we have been doing and are continuing to do. The senator avows he has a friendly spirit tbwards the committee. Leaving aside the suddenness of his recollee tion of thL fact and acting upon hs avowal as it It were true, I suggest that if he has any more letters in hif. possession of similar nature to the one Mr. Fant wrote him some years ago, he will confer a favor by deliver. ing them to the committee before we learn of such letters and the affair. to which they relate, througzh some other scurce. What we need most is facts :%nd not "friendly advice." So far as the lawy. rs are concerned who represent the claims held up and the persons under lnvstigation, I will say that when they write me letters they will receive a c urteous and frank reply and each of them may expect tu. be treated in a respectful manner when they appear before tne commit tee. In the event some other person may wish to find out somethbing about the investigation and prefers not to use the newspapers as a medium of cor respondence, just let him write a po lte inquiry, if be can, and a courteous reply will be returned. If such person should be afraid of gettirg uapleasant information and obj.c.s to tee reply to his itqury being made public he will be accommodated upon rcq2est. In conclusion let me thank ycu for the use of your columns and ask you, if I am nut too inquisitive myself. whose cur was it that yelped the oth er day somewhere up between Char lotte and Greenville? y. FRAsERt LYON. Abbeville, April,10N. THE LU00UbSFUL BAAMER. Some Hints to Practical Parmers From a Book Farmer. The most progressive and up-to date farmers, and likewise those who are most successful from a purely financial standpoint, are those who read and think and study Intelligent ly. It Is quite a simple matter to control many of our worst insects and fungus pests if the work is under. taken intelligently. YAt we lose millions of dollars annually from various causes which are practically under the control of the farmers. IL is naturally surprising that such should be the case in this day of m. darn and successful journalism, and yet it is surprising to know how com parativaly few of our farmers take an zgr cal ural paper and read it and prodi by the instruction contained therein. Tne farmer, to be successful,-must first of all understand that business principles have as definite a relation to financial success on the farm as in any other vocation. He should there fore study over his farm accounts carefully during the year and see which crops were the most profitable. It is not a very difficult matter to keep aa account with each field, and it is safe to say that if we readiz d 4 more frequently the cost of making a I pound of cotton or t: bacco, that dif ferent methods of culture would bt' pursued and an entirely different sys tem of crop rotatioa and fertil z tio practiced. There are some crops oci the farm that pay a larger profia that I others, and the farm r must keep i books in order to elim'nate thosi | which are unpr fitable and c .ange l his practic. so .. L~O increase his pre-| fts from the desirshle ones. A study of profit and loss is con sidered essential in every businen s except that of farming. The great| business houses strike a trial balance very once in awhile to see how the! stand, yet farming is admited by all to be at besta-complex problem, and how can the farmer hope to succeed who keeps no -record of his various transactions? The fact that he doe.s not acccuuts for the large nnmoor of men who barely make a living from the soil. In the long' winter months there Is ample opportunity for those who are so minded to study the fina~n cial problems Involved in their oper at-ions carefully and learn wisdcom from the failures and success cf the year. Boy M~aO'e Good. At Toledo, Ohio by a surgti eal operation Harcld Hurley, two~lve years old, whoi was cne of the worst boys in the city, has been mad "god" He was so n?.ugoty that he had been seniteuced ro the r f ;rn school. Then his mother remember-] ed that he bad once suffared a frac tured scull, and she decide d to try an operation on his head. This was doze and a bone nearly an inca long was found imbiidded in the brain. Ph;. sicians did not expect results before six months. but the desihed end has been quickly attained. From an Incorrigible, who would jump out of the window at night to stay downtown and sleep in alleys from a boy in whom parental love was wholly wanting-Harold Burley has been transformed into a tractable lov ing and thoughtful child. The hap py outcome of the operation is a yin dication for the boy,s mother, who could never believe he was wilfully guilty of many bad things he did. The Dear Old Mother. Young man, did you ever putou arms around your dear old m~tr tell her that you love her and ar grateful for the tear3 s'he has shed and the prayers she has offared for you? She may think that you love her without you assuring her that you do, but it costs you but little of fort to tell her and your words may bring more joy and su2nshine to her heart than you ever dreamed of. Some young mnen will pay two dollars for a rig to ride three hours with a seventy-five cent girl and tell her all the Dice things they can think of that are true, and more than are not true, and don't spend five c'ents or five miutes in a year to show .their old .moher that they care anythingi for her. _______ Farmers Should Read. The farmer should read the bulle tins of his state experiment station for they contain muca informptionl of value to him and cost him nothing, during the long winter evenings there i' plenty of time to glean much infor mation that can be put to practical and profitable use in every day life on the farm dudlag the busy hcurs of summer when labor and time are both at a premium. COMING PRIMARY. CANDIDATES MUST FILE STATE MENT OF CA31PAIGN EXPENSES. And Pledge Themselves Not to Use Xoney or Whiskey to In fluence Voters. At the session of the legislature in 1905 an act w.s passed making certain offenses in primary elections misde meanors and prescribing a form of pledge to be taken and filed by every ccandidate before oferirg for election. Toe act was of no special interest last year, as no primary election was -held But in the election this summer for t.he state and some of the county of iims all candidates will have to abide 0. the provisions of the act. Among other requirements every candidate, immediately after the elec don, must file an itemi.z2d statemert under oath showing all twoneys spent during the election. In at least cne c:unty the filing of such a statement aas been requlred before, but only ac cording to a rule of the cunty execu tive committee, but it was incorcora ted into the state law at the 1905 ses sion of the legislature. The provisions of the act will be of interest not only to prospectime candidates, but to the people generally, and is giveA in full as follows: Au act making certain off ences in primary elections misdemeanors and prescribing penalties therefor. Section 1-Be It enacted by the gen eral assembly of the state of South Carolina, at or before every pontical primary election held by any political party, organizstion or association, for* te purpose of choosing candidates for coffioe, or the 'election of delegates to conventions, in this state, any person who shall, by threats, or any other form of Intimidation, or by the pay ment, delivery or promise of money, or other article of value, procure or offer, promise or endeaver to procure, another to vote for or against any particular candidate in such consider ation, Offer to so vote, shall be guilty of a misdnmeanor. Section 2-Every candidate iffrinig for election, under the provisions of section 1, shall make the following pledge and file the same with the lerk of court of common pleas for the :ounty in which he Is a candidate, un less he should be a candidate in more than one county, in which case he shall file with4ihe secretary of state, befoie he shall enter upon his cam paign, to-wit: I, the undersigned.......of the :ounty of......... ....and state of outh Carolina, candidate for the ffilce of ........hereby pledge that I ill not give nor spend mone7 or use toxlcating liquors for the purpose of >btaining or influencing votes, and hat I shall, at the conclusiozi of the ampaign and before the primary ection, render to the clerk of court r secretary of state, as hereinbafore nrovided ) under oath, an itemized tatement of all moneys spent or pro rided by me during the campaign for ampaign parposes up to that time, 6nd I further pledgethat I will, im nediately after the primary election >r election tbat I am a candidate in, ender an itemized statement under lath. showing allifurther moneys spent >r provided by me in said AlecIon. rovded, that a failure to comply vlch tbis provision shall rende1 such lection Luti and void, in so far as the aindidate who fails to file the state net herein required, but shall not &ffct the validity of the election of ~andidate complying with this see ion. And provided, furtber, that uch itemized statement and pledge hail be cpen to public inspection a~t 611 timnes. Suction 3-That any violation cf any f the pravisions of this act shall bz misdemeanor, and any porson, upon ~onvction thereof, shall be fined not es that 2100 I.or more than 8500, r be inpisoned at bard labor 'or not less than one month nor more ~hab six months or both fine a-.d im rionent, in the dicretion of the turt. Faidijuni Nuirse R warded. Some months ago Ensher Marvin :ook a ourse of training as a nurse xced wnaen she had ps.ssed her exam naions, she was ashedi to look aiter Mr. and Mrs. Benjamnin Boode', of dl~mpstead, L. I , whom s-he nad mocwn from caiildnood, Bonh were var seventy five years oli and very ick and feeble. She rnursed them mght and day, and seldom left their lose. She expected only a small eimbursemenI, but was dumbfcound ad when by the terms of their will which was recently filed for probate, she received bonds and property worth early $7L0,000. Since then all sorts of propositions of means for investing aer fortune have been made to her from "staking" a mining scheme to promoting a company for the mann facture of balloons. She has also re eived scores of letters containing pro posas of marriage. Accused of Arson. The Columbia Record says 'the in vestigating-Oomptroller General Jones hiad instituted in the matter of the burning of Dawkins & Gibson's store at Carlise oni the 5th under suspicious !rcumstances, resulted ]!riday in the irest of Dave Gibson; a member of theirme on ,the :charge of 'arson. Specl Deteuve Thornton has bsenl at work on tgase.. The stoek was insured fo~C~ but Jnformiation came to the .te i he stock urned wats not. wom an i1i$300, and W. K..Thomas; ehe iwner of the. building, writes that part of the tock was found hidden out frm the fire. Blesse Xs Acquited. Senator Eugene S. Bleas5e was tried and acquited in the Saluda court for the murder of J:>e Ben C>lemn, his brother in law. The trial only con sumed one day, a verdict being render e in .the afternoon. Senator Blease testified and with tears and sobs told the story of his regard and respect for -Cale-nan and the unutteraule shock it was to him when he discover ed that improper relatio'ns existed be tween and his wife. Oo. leaving thie stand Bleass completely collapsed. Pnrsicians attended him, but he never recovered sut~clently to return to the haringo- f the trial. 0OT AFTER HIM. Negro Struck Lady on Train and a Mob Came NEAR LYNCHING HIM. The Wretch Was Scared Grey, and Only The Very Large Numbesof His Assailants Saved iim From Beizg Strung Up. The Lady Knocked Down. An infurlated mob cme very near !ynching a negro In New York one riight last week. The American says one hundred men clamored for the lit' of Albert Traut, a West Indian negro on a Sixth avenue "L" train at Seventy-second street, when he knock ed down Miss Is bal Oliver, a beauti. !ul young Scuthern woman, whom he had grossly insulted. The negro was draggel to the platform and was in a way to be lynched when the police arrived. In the West Six'y-eighth street Do lice station, Miss Oliver, who Is a na tive of Alabama, would have attacked the negro herself had she not been re strained. Clear to the station house doors the negro, his face turned to a sickly cop pery hue with fear, was followed by the threatening mob. Fifty men forced their way into the station, and only the presence of the police pre vented another attack upon Traut. His knees trembled beneath him, and he had to be held up to give his name. Miss Oliver, who is highly educated and acccmplished, was on her way to her home at No. 292 West One Hun dred and Forty-second street, and sae stood in the first car of the train, clinging to a strap. Every seat was taken and many were standing up waen Traut forced his way into the car from the Seventy-second street platforrm:, When he cro aded past Miss Oliver, eye-witnesses say, he de liberately took her by the shoulders and threw her to one side. The young weman almost sat down in the lap of a gentleman opposite her. She turned on the negro witb flashing eyes. _What do you mean by doing that?' she cemanded. To this the negro is declared to have made a most insulting reply, ap plying an epithet to Miss Oliver that made the high spirited girl almost wild with anger and humillation. "You miserable cur," she said, but got no further, for Traut at this point drew back and hit her full in the face, knocking her down. Her eye was lacks. an, her chin cut, but she did n ,e consciousness. So b 1en was the attack of Traut that for a few soconds the other pas sengers in the car sat as it stunnen. Then the women shrieked hysterically and every man present with a common impulse spring to LIIS feet and made for the negro. "L;nch him!" "Kill the brntel" "Throw him on the tonird rail," were a few of the cries of the crowd that rushed at Traut. But it was the very number of his opponents that saved the negro. He stood stili, making no ~ffrt to escipe, and trned to fignt off tmose near him, wno were fairly rain. Lng blows upon his head and face. The train by tils time had pulled out of the Seventy-second street sta rtion, but thle conductor, who had wit nessed the attack on Miss Oliver, stopped it and had it backei up to the pat form again. Tne motor~man blew police signals u thle crowd su-ged off tue train, toss In the franz ci: pushed Traut ahead af them. Tei.se in the other cars also q dckly learned the truth and 'raut, w4 speedily the centre of a surging m .b whose members struck one another in their blind desire to get at Traut. Patrolman Michael Flattery heard the wiities and rescoed the L station on the run. He worked his way tborough to whein Traint was being guzacred and mA.aled by the croid, who unheeded his cries for mercy, but thle mob would not let the polceman take him. A hundred tongues crned fur his life. Flattery and Trant were pushed against the railing andi it was not un il the policeman drew his revolvar that the crowd subsided. Another policeman and a Holmes detective, who had alighted -at Seventy-second street from a downtown train, joined Fattery and edging along the raling thley managed to get Traut down to the sidewaik. They had to drag the man to the West Sixty-eighth street station. He was too frighitened to walk. It was after Miss Oliver had -cleansed the blood from her face and witnessed in the station house mirror the disfigur ir g cut upon her chin that her loath Ing for her assalant again overcame tier and she would have struck him haed -not Sergeant Stevenson interfered T'raut cowered in his cell when the door closed and whimpered that he was glad to escape with his life. Noe. Naedeax. According to offcial information, [naian an,.rchlists are arriving in the Cinited S&ares in great nunoers at oth Paclfic and Atleatic sea ports. Diplomatic representatives to the [talian government have positive In formation to this effect and hate brought the matter to the attention f the United States. Baltimore, it is statel, Is rapidly becoming an an archistic center. It Is said that very shortly there will be placed in the hands of the immigration authorities suffcent data. upn which to mae a number of irrests. SCot. Juwary. A burglar entered a room of the tel Hampton Terrace, Augusta, Ga., on W-.nes lay night, occupied by Mrs. Ocas. F. C~ark and her daugh ter cf New Yo%~ a id stole 84.000 wortha of je welry, including two gold watohes set with diamonds, five di mnadri engs, locke pns, e.