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U" js S, Man Appears VysterousIY in His sweetheart'S Photograph. HAS D.'GGR I' HIAND. Tbreaening tier Ufe Apparently. It so 1 FrigtL ns T.e Yountig Laey That She Breaks tier E~gsgmnt, ard the Youig Man i6 Muh Wor i. d. A letter frorn Lo Eno, g. say on f the weident ph-:nmena in the history of photogrpy has ca M:ss Gd/s Man:t'nz, a beautiful Sou,.bampton girl, to breik ter en gageent with Laut. G .dcn Wa ters, now on service in Indis. Ia every one of a d, z n pactographs the camera revzaled a gholtigure with dagger in hand hoveriog over her. She reccgnz -d the dfu:e as her fiance aL.d !mm;0ntely bake th eL gsgeme:, believirg ar it wns E warning cif what vcud LppeL 1 ShOuld hhe becumA hl bfnd:!. The ecurse of true love ran smooth for this coiuple untu LIeuteiant Wat ers was Callec to Incia. He expectedI to return to return to E giand on a furiough ia " ytar and uaze Mls bride back to Irda -witnbrnm for the re maiinder of his serzice. Letters were xcaanged wih reg ularity daring six months and tne prep--ations for the wedding had been commer c .d. Then one day an old frienu. an u.successful rival of the Indian ttdr, paid a partiLg call. H was on hii way to Am rica in a few days and begg d fcr a putcgraph. Miss M aiing had no recent pic tures aru was eatily persuaded to sit for new ones. The rext day she fiutd time during her shoppicg tripik L m don to ca.l at a wcli i.own p.to graphers studi Two days later, Instead of the ex pected proofe, came a sAort letter of apology. 'Wotild she plea-e make another appuintment-an tAc-. en.. had ruined Lte plates. Her Londou trips were vtry fr. q-ent just tben. See sat again witheut a murmur. Agrain a letter of ap,:logy instead of proofs This time tha 1t ter %as krgar and spoke vaguely of strange acin of Ete light. The puoegrap-ers r, quest for a third sitting was granten with the mildiy expressed hope that nothing would happen this time. Several strAngers were about the studio dur Ing the third attempt. Miss Mnning observed with tue well trained peri phery of a woman's eye suat they were watching her with evidenlt cur losity. Ttough this e' piorage was annoy Ing anl int2to i so'd aer snerhing was wrong. she showed no s'gn ef dir pleasure even when one of the observ ers srole up and muapped her with a hand camera. M:s, s Mnng's uti easiners was furtisr incr ased wzuen for the thiid time a letter of apology arrived insttad of prolfs. There was no expilas:io.. Fe photograpaer begged ter to come to 'Ls stod:o a scoon as p0 siiue at d birg so-.e oe with her. He weau d anenr, he suid en. deavor to explarn way is was im~o.si ble to puotograph her. Mr-.. Manning and her daughter took the next train to the metrcpol 5 Tue pr.oogre pher led them isto a privae'room and produbad a handf ul of plates. Before showing the plates to the mvbtdied women, ha asked of Miss Manning: Do you you happen to know a very tail youvg Aieutenant with dark skin at d iight hair?" 'Why, ye, I d1o." answered Miss Manning, glancing at her mother. Well perhaps you can account for these plates," &aid the photographer handir.f them over. C-I never bad anything like tais happen to me hut once before. With success:ve gasps of amazament the young woman looked at the plates and then at the proofs. which sho wen things much more clearly. lieach case her picture was clear and quite good. They were the aver age work cf a first.- cisss photcgravh er. But in every case there locmed c.ose to her a strango, ghostly, yet distinct fiure. In the figures right band was a dagger. There was no question of identity. It was Lieutenant Waters, sall, frowning and sinster. Sometimes the Lieutenant's figure was on the left, sometimes on the right of his Bancee, but more often tehmnd her. In every plate the dagger was held close to Miss Mmiung. Tnree plates scowed him hol.ding it poiut downward just above her head. Ia others it was at her throat and breast. Tue poise of the mysterious figure showed that it was not in the act of striking a blow, but held itself balanced in readiness to stab. So ominous and threatening was the cifset that the two women were quite overcome. "What do you think~ it means?" they isked. Were you thinking or worrying very hard about him?" he asked in reply. Miss Iarning was quite sure that during the first two sittings her mind was full of shopping, and at the third her thoughts were trying to account for the curiosity she was inspiring. "I hope.d it might have been thought traosfere-nce from your mind to the plate," he said. "I have of this happening often to other pho tographers, but it happened to me only once." Presed for details of this one pre viu ces, the photcgrapher reluct antly gaxe them. They were far from reassuri g. A man just before is weddirg had sat for his pictrure. Tn ngure oft a woman appeoc cn every plate- She too, was sinmter .arnd had a.trevolver instead of a dagger in her hand. The man rechanized her as one who ba leved she hs6 a claim en N's affection was much disturotd by tbe plates sad insisted cn d1estroying them. He was mar:: d, und sccn after set cut with Lis biie for sydney, Australia. Arnd wha~t haspperae?" asked Miss Manning v~u t~e nrmatire par-ed at this point. "He curimitted suce atnd was buried asea," he iisured. That is1 all I know. aubt as to Wl ether it was a case of e or murder. The woman who ad appesred mystericusly -on the lates had been a ptsseuger on the tt.-'r. and the youbg widow .had _at; d btat it was her opinion that be was implicated even if she had ot done the shooting herself. The pbotokrapher, wishing to test he puenomena more throughly, had 'r 'ught several witnesses to observe iss Mauniva's thi:d sitting. One cf hese witnesses had made a separate :xpmsure simult -neously with one of ze regular camera's pictures. This )ate showed the ghostly visitor stan lirg behind the girl, with the dagger bove her head. The large camera re 7-aled him in the same position, :.bugh in one case it was a rront view i in the oi her a proile. Miss Mann~ig is not a student of pSychology or metapbgsics. It shc aas any theory for the explanation of er nrTg pictures it. must be guess .d at. fur she will not discuss the ubj cet, But der montal processes, whatever .hey were, resulted in speedy to ior. \ot twent-fjur hours after examin og the plates a letter was oa its way o Lieutenant Waters notifying him hat be might consider himself a free :0a. It is said that she frankly tcimitted the photographs were the ~ause. Lieutenant Waters has by no means riven up tie fight. He has sent far nd wide for books on the subject and vritten to e'inent authorities. H . Is t present at a less for an explana ton, but is said to susp-ct his defeat d rival of in some way tampering vith thne plates Lleutenant Waters is endeavoring a obtain his furlough at onee and to et to the bottom of th- mystery ben he reaches Eigland. He hops hat his broken roaauca will interest cientidic men to help solve the mys ery and win back for him the glrl he oves. R&ILWAY RETURNS Ure N.&rly Doubled by State Board cf Assessors. The state board of railroad assessors ast week raised the assessments ,gainst the railroads to forty milio iollars above the returns made by the .oads, apprvximately deubling it, and iimilar raises were made in the cases f the telE graph, telephone, Pallmar nd exprets coccrns. Tne car c:n erns assessed by this board are the aikcn and Greenville and Columbia .nd Cuarlestor rnmp.nIes, which were .l1o raised st fil -. The assessm-nti n the total for the railroads are near y thirty miliions highrer than last ea". The increase over returns it he case of the 0;ast Line is f teen nidhot s. Southern sixteen millions, 5.aboard three millions, Cariestox md Western Carolina nearly thref :illioi s other companies one and a alf miliians. Followirg are somE nteresting totals taken frcm the re po-t: Atlantic Coast Lne B. R - REstured by comprny.. .. 4 293 38 & s ssed by state board... 19 944 47( Increase over returns.. ...615.651,08? Southern Railway - Returm d by company... .8 7 959 22' Assessed by state board... 24 061 Increase ovsr retu-ns. .816.108,48' Seabord Air Line.. Returned by company... 8 3 762.822 ssessed by state board... 7,511,262 [crease over retur ... ...$ 3.748,442 Charleston & Weste~n Carrira Retur; ed by csmpanv. ..8 1.713,932 Assssed by state board... 3,088 921 Increase over return...$ 2.898,234 L-cal Railroads Reurn at.... .. .. ......s 1,512,843 A.sessed by state b.>ard... 3 088 92i Increase over returns.. .. $ 1,576.08' Usecd Bribery. The inquiry bj the interstate comn merce commission into the relationu bet ween the Standard Oil Company and railroads of the country began 2 Ch cago Tnursday. T ao points, npcz which, it is said, the Itnvestigation wil endea ;or to throw light, are the pip' 1nes of the Standard 0.1 Company which -are laid along tne railroads rights of ways, and purchase of t-h4 Galena oil by the railroads for head, lght and signal purposes. E. M. Wil holt, of Topeka, now an independen1 ol operator, but ten years ago ax agent of the Mandard O0l Company testified that while In the employ o: the Standard Oil (Xmpany he had i following out the instructions of hil suerior of~cers, bribed clerks in thb f fl.es of the railroads and employeel of independent oil concerns to obtali information of the details of the busi ness dons by rivals of the Standari Oil Comparny. Wed Amild De bris. The San Francisco disaster so shool the plans of Montford Spining, son o: the Rev. D:. and Mrs. George L. Spin Ing, of South O-arge, N. .T., that hir weding took place an even month be, fore the date he had.setL for It. Mr. Spiing is treasurer of the San Fran cisco Lumber Company. He was ti have been married on May 24 to Misi Alice Duncan, but everything was St changed by the calamity that diespite the fact that the home which had been made ready was ruined, the twc were wedded on AprIl 24, when the: with a quarter of a million otther Sar Franciscans. were homeless. ktmember This, The following time table should be preserved by every mother, as it i often a scurce of the greatest anxiety to know whether or not a child will develop a disease after having beer exposed to It. Chickenpox, symptomie usually appear on the fourteenth day; diphtherIa, second day; measles four beenth day; mumps, nineteenth day; ssrlet fever, fourth day; small pox, twelfth day ; typhoid fever, twenty First day; wlroop:ng cough fourteenth day. At Habana Thursday the pillars upporting the second floor and goof >f the rear part of a large new cfgsr; atte factory belonging to Jose Genart .ollapsed and 40 men- and womnn workng in that part of the factory were caught in the falling brick and tmber debris. Six were taken' out dead and a dczsn more were injur Two Maraered. James Mucchio and his wife, Celesti, paoseros Italians were found mur dnt d Ti ursday morning in their rooms in Brooklyn. Ttiey had their agular veins eut. An Italian who boarded veith the couple is missir.g. Tbe police believe burglary was the FLAYS OIL TRUST In Message to Congress Presi dent Roosevelt Brands as CL ASSAL R9BBERS The S:andard Oil Combines. Which He Says Has Enriched Itself by Crimes. Commissioner Garfidd's Proof of Monopoly's Quilt the Basis of Charg s. President R-osevelt, in a messag4 to Congress Friday indulged in a se vere denunciation of the Standard 0 monopoly, charging it and the railroadi of the country with all manner of of fenses against the Interstate Commer oe and Anti- R abate laws. The c'iarge against this vicicus monopoly weri Uimed psychologically with the ap proaching vots In the Senate on th; rafir' ad rate bill, the President's pel measure, which he 13 determined shal go on the Federal statute books. B 1 this belated laying bare of the .1igrani and persistent violation of th: jaw b: the R ckefeller monoply is two year, behind the times. In 1904 the same charges against the 0 1 combine were made by C..)n gressman William R mdolph Hears in all his newspapers, and in Dec.m ber of last year he proposed a remed; in the shape of a bill to increase thi powers of the Interstate Commero Cmmiison and to cr-ate an lnte! 4tate Cmmerce Court, which woul have made impcssible a continuatioi of such defiarca of the United Stat, laws. The bill served as a model for th Esch-Tawnsend bill, and was killed b: the Administration. For years th Governm -ni has paid no attention t the repeated aceusations agairst th StandarO.1 Company, whose crime are calmly enumerated by the Pre1 dent and Commissioner Garfiuld to day. Derp'te the sunerlativeness of tb deout e.,.orv a j ctives used by th Presinant and Cummissioner Ga fiald which ac use the Standard Oil monol oly of divars and sundry ff.nse against Federal laws, the D partmen !f Justice, In almost the same b -eatt annncu-Ces that it will try to prosec'lt ONLY under the Anti-RB bate law. c Ivmca the maximum penalty for con viction is on:y a fine of a sum. Wale at most wtuld be c.isidered paltry b the millionaire dfendants. In otber words, sh uld all tb Standard Oil officlals, all the railroa chiefs of the country be convicted they would mercly have to scrate their pens across the bottom of chcck for sums Iinmtesimal as compare with the profits seured from toe ilie gal and secret rates and rebates and go on committing the cam -crimes against the laws of the land Then, by putting the screws unda the price-llst anew ai~d tacking a can or two on to the rate for oil, the tiui would get all Its money back asi enormous interest. Commissioner Gairfeld's investiga tions unearthed undenlable pro-.f 'c the guilt of the 0.1 Trust and tb rai roads, and his specilic charge formed the basis for the President message and recommendations to GOr gross. He winced no woods and used n emasculated phrases In denouncini thie Standard Oil Company as a vic tous bismess organ.zation, rea~red upo: the loot from Illegal methods of doin business. He accused the officials of the com pany of criminal methods and strip ped the fabric of tneir boasted organ ization hart ; showed it to be a masi ofc corruption; a combinatlnn defian of every law of the land, and even c decent business amenitie.; a heartles and wynton destroyer of ccmpetitor and a menancae to the country. Thr revelations In the report c Commissioner Garfield are almost as roundng. They expose, so far as th Standard 0:1 Company Is corcerned exactly the same methods that Wi] 1am B. Hearst has uncovered In th coal roads trust and the alliance be tween the Sugar Trust and the gres railroads. It is significant to' not that Commissioner Garfield's exposur illuminates the situation wIth exam ples of precisely the same kinds o: rebates, refunds and other illegal fav or as the coal cases and the sugar case have developed. In other words, it tends to prov what Congressman Hearst and man, writers and Investigators have con tended for a long time-that th Standard created the system and per focted it and the coal roads and tb Sugar Trust and the other trusts ar only Imitotors and follo wers of th mos gigantic trust of them all. Seldom has organized capital bee1 sruthlessly pilloried. Cimmisslon er Garfield presents an array of fact and figures that would convince tha most skepptical and he does it with clearness that a hid could under stand. He nos only convicts the 0il Trns of flagrant and persistent violation of the law, but accuses Its officials o deliberate lying. He says that a the beginning of the investigation thi officials of the Standard Odl said th company had not obtained and wa then not obtaining secret rebate from the railroads. He then proceed Ito show that the company has -hab italy received and is still receivinj such rebatef, and he cites case atfte: case in proof. Probably no more opportune tim' could have been elected by the Pregi dent to send the report to Congres! just as the Senate Is about to begir voting on the railroad rate bill. Th4 Pesdent believes the factf revealet bgmmissioner Garfield constituti the fesb argument yet presented that the ynly effective remedy for secre1 *reIiaticgfand open preferential ratinga .I through government regulation, with only such restrictions as are nec :esary under the Constitution. One of the most significant featurei o the report is that when the atten tion of the railroads was called tc certain specific instances of rebating discovered by Mr. Garfi ld, uhey dis contiued the practice thereby ac knoweging their guilt. The Presldent's only recommer-da tions In his message are that the Im munity law be corrected, that the tree alcohol bill be passed, whicil would be a set-back for the Standard and that the further exploitation by the trusts of coal and oil lands owned by the Government be prevented. Already the Dpartment of Jus ties bas taken up the matter of pr,s eeutions of the Standard Oil Oompany and the various railroads involved, on the facts learned by Commissioner Gai field. In this conn-ction it sh:nuld be noted that tne report presented to day is only on one phase of the oil situation-that relating to transpor tation and freight rates. There are six other branches of the generalsub j et that the B-ireau of Corporations is still considering and on which it will report later. WANT TO KILL Ir. An Appeal to Inite Against the Dls pensary System. The address below has been sent to The News and COurier for publication It will be observed that it is signed by a number of gentlemen who ha.ve bcen conspicuous in theiZ oppositito to the S aLe dispensary. To tae Democratic Voters of South Carolina: As citizens of South Caro lina opposed to the prese.nt State dis pensary system, we, the undt rsigned, call upon our fello -v citizens of like opinion to unite for the purpose of or gan'zing the opp.sition to the dispen sary system So nearly of one mind concerning Dhe dispensary system are the people of the State, that it is only by their failure to unite for action that the dispensary can be preserved. It i; only by default that the dispensary can win another victory, before the electors or in the Legislature, and it mill be foolhardy for those who desire its overthrow to sit supinely by and see the pernicious system again en throncd in power in ou- Common wealth. E ;ery sinctre, patriotic c!tiz D must regret that this issue should be again the paramount question in a South Carolina campaign. But so lng will it continue to be the paramouct issue, and it should, therefore, be the desire of every thoughtful citizen to see this festering sore remove d ind a i healthier conditioa secured. To this a end we invite the co operation of all those who believe the Szate dispen sary system to be an evil and propose that, other diff:ring policies for the time being laid aside, the demand, drst, now, be made that the State 5 dispensary system shall be des: royed. 5 On trial now for thirteen yeaTs, fortiff d all tne time by strong sup port and as truly protected by un ce.sing criticism and watchfulness, there is no need to point out the evils which the State monopoly of the whiskey trafic has bred. Corruptio.n at the fountain head arid in its branch es, drakenness and mardir, woes and t misery have been its prolaAs. A pernicious political machine of gigan tic proporticns, Rith a beavered lobby f in Columbia, and a willing rirg in every county, the monster has waxed fat, insolent and defiant. Tne will of che people has been perverted and suppressed, and when finally demand a ing expression that demand has ben 5hwarted and circumvented by appeal to the trival technicalities of the law. In eighteen counties the people have Fptken and in all these except -two their voice has in tcunder t-mes repudiated the syste ma. In other 3.;un ties they are now ready to give exp.e . esicn to their will awaiting the sum mer primary, in this primary, where rthe life or the death of the dispensary Swill be and should be decided, it is Svitally necessary shall be active and 2united. It is only by action and un ion that the dispensary has been vot ed out of sixteen osunties under the fB rice law and by no other means than eaction and union can tame system be gup-rooted from the State SThe people are decided. it merely remains for them to make their de cision e.ff cive. Thu.v must choose Srepresentatives who will re1.eel suclk laws as they desire to have repeald, and who will enact such laws as they diesire enacted. Then they must put in of~ce men whe, in rull sympathy, will enforce -i atly and vigorously what?,ver law. are upon the statute books. Tne people have shown, by -their eager acceptance of the only op portunity accorded them. that they bele ve in the prinsiple of local self Sgovernment, and now, lest they havE this inalienable right again wrested jrom them, the free citizens of South Carolina must make their sovereign .power felt. There must be elected a -Legislature which will not renounce~ this principle, which will not yield to the dispensary machine, there must be elected executive and prosecuting cfi sials who will not permit the law to be made a meckery for its undo. SIng. We suggest consultation and co-op eration in every county and through out the State that these ends may be attained. J. S. Brice, J. C. Obts, D. R. Cok er, James A. Hoyt, Louis J. Bristow, W. L. Mauldin, Joe. A. McCullough, J. W. Hamsl, W. H. Wallace, D. W. aiott, W. C. Allen, Howell litrrall, Chas. A. Smith, H. L. Freeman, C. B. Elwards, A. B. Stukey, D F. Bradley, Laban Mauldin, C. T. Mar tin,.R. F. Smith, John A. Brunson, C. C. Featherston T. R. Waring. Makinig Progzess. For some time engines have been taking water without stopping, and mail cars have been picking rr~al arscks from posts without so much as a pause. N~ow an appliance for coal ing engines without stopping has been invented and experiments with it are said to have been satisf actors. Tue next movement to save the running time of trains will be a device for throwing passengers on board and ofl ~'without stopping. What Luck Means. jLuck mnans rising not later than sx o'clock in the morning, living on a dollar a day if y~ou earn two, mind. ing your own business, and not med ding with other peoples. Luck means the appoinitments you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch. Luzk means trusting in God and your own re sources. Fatal Runaway. W. C. Agnew and his sister Miss Janie Agnew and two of his daugh ters of A bbeville county were return ing in their carriage from Abbeville on Wednesday when the horses ran away. Mr. Agnew was so badly hurt that he died, and the sister is repor ted fatally hurt. A Bad FelIcw. G. Raymond Berry of Dillola, the defaulting county superintendant of education in Marion county has been heard from again. He was shot in Tampa Fla.., last week by a man whose wife he hadbeen annoying.Berry tried to climb in the window and was shot in the arm, but not seriously. Most of us count up everything else but our blessings. Right there our adding machine stops. It isn't right though. THE COMIM NUJF. "PAST GENER ITION. LIKE AN I !I EECILE OLD FA 'ER,' Says Weaver, "?as r isinherited its Children, But They'll Break . the Will." To a symposium eatitled "Socialism In America." and 1ublished in tbe New York World, General James B Weaver of Iowa contributes the fol lowing: To the Editor of the World: T ie movement toward a c'alism in the United States and elsewhere is strict ly defens'vs and abaormal. It rs sembles the movements of opposing armies in the M.l. The s cialists prefer that the muLtitude shzll own and operate everything rather than that a few shall absorb all. It ih economic war, ard lying hidden with in it are disioetions fearful to con template. The sie il:tocratic fo: c s which engend.red soci-lism in the ole world hiave begotten it here and ar giving it growth, strengtb and v' .ty Scn.. or Hanna's prephetic vision was clear and accurate it his econo mic and political theories are to con tinue. He c intemp'a'ed a contiun arc-. of the present plutocratic re gime and he bad at that very time been slated by wocopolistlc wealth f r eight years' sei vice aA preadent of the United States. Visions of gigantic trust combinations and ship subsidy schemes cintrolled his greab brain. Under~ sucbi conditions, of course, nothing ciuld avert the socialistic is sue in 1912. He would have forced exctly that issue bad he lived and succeeded in tia ambitLns. He, his etnferes and asscelates have precipit ated a life-and death struggle between artificial persons createO by tbe state, called c! rporations, and natural per sons of flish and blood created by the Almighty. The former, reinforced by an allied army of speculators, have driven the men of flesh and blood Into the overcrowded market of day lab-Pr ers, have absorted the sources of wealth, including the sol ; have se* the laboring men at war with them selves, while the government in all its branches is used chit fly as a police force to keep the peace while the cor porations get in their work. The allied ccrporations say nobed) shall do business but themselves ar d that competition shall be eliminazed. They have forced labor to say that a man who does not belong to the uriloL shall not work, and they will say -vether or not he may j in. The pa- t gene'ration, like an imb cile old ratner. has disinherited Its children. Tney will break the will. Tae senate of the Uaited States at this moment is crea.i. g soci 1t faster than they can be organized and equipped. It is a great sccialis1c re. cruising station and is destroyirg Pa trotism faster than Abraham Li', coln ev-r built it up. Nothing but a sudden halt in political affairs. state and national, and a change in public polcy, can avert the struggla.. It is an ugly ondition, but the conflict, as was once before the case, is again irrepresble if present conditions are to continue. Fortunately there are~ signs of an awakening, and it is na tion wide. it is adumbrated in the skies. Somethirg is shn krg the conscience of the nation a- d it is not soialism. It is simply the mighaty tread of true demcc-scy and Christ iamty walking hand in hand. Djs not be alarmed. The alliance is WI-oli) holy. T.'ere is neither excuse Do] rc cessity for socialism in this country f the government will hunestly anc conservatively align itself onda m !re with the pe ple. But let me asiure the reader that tne safety of both persori and pioperty d-mands that this saa be done speedily and a inhbout sham. Haw to check the growth of sc calism: First-There must be less money spent for military and naval estab lishments and more for reclaiming our unwate.red empire, thus furnish ing homes for destitute people, and we should help poor settlers if need be to get a start. Our policy in this partculir mnust be broad, liberal, ag gressive and must be inaugurated at )ne. The army of foreigners dali landing upon cur shores cm then be donsistentlv rcquired to settle upoD and cultivate this reclaimed land. Secnd-We iiust take up the ques tion of land reform, nationally and in states. Ltrnd naonopoly Is monstrous, unChristian and unciviiZad. Tird-There is but one way tC control the railroads, it is not neces sary that the government shall owr and operate our 'vast railway system. The tentative way to approach that problem is to pass an act author zing the government to construct or pur. base three transeontiniental lines north, south and through the center of the continent, if such a law were passed the present lines would be quick to sell at reaqonable rates Q estons of connecting with these inoes and all subsidiary and collateral matters would be easy of adj-2stment. Fourth-We must elect United States senators by popular vote. Ffth-Tne struggle for cmmunity control of public utilities must con tinue-and it will. Eastore the com petitive equilibrium even if we have to discourage corporations for private gain. If they will insist on destroy ig competition and crushing - the in dividual, to that extent destroy them by recalling their charters. If it is a question of which shall live-the cor poration or the .man-let the man survive. The duty of the state is to the individual. The remedies will be trIed first before the nation Lakes the Cimmerlan leap into sec'alism on the wide scale contemplated by your question. Sixth-Finally,nlominate and elect a conservative ticket in 1908 whose very names will inspire confidente in all classes. it will not be hard to iind such a ticket, but it will have to be seected with a view of tacklngiivirg and vital issues. No namby-paimby administration at war with itself can possibly grapple with the mlgbty problems now pressine far solution. JAMIEs B. WEAVER. Cof x Ia., A pril 20. Get Acquainted with Machinery. Some men are born kickers. He who kicks about a new piece of farw machinery not working just righat, would have less to kick about if he would spend a little time, on a rainy day, studying the ivstructions issued y the maufactuirer. Much valuable time 1s lost by the farmer not know ig his implements, and how to use and care for them. TIhe maker of a tool, whether it be a carpet stretcher or a mowing machine, knows more about its working parts than any one else. Therefore, read up and get ac -eaine with the new machines. Ba by's ShoPs. Lay them away, stained by a mother's tears: Precio:s keepsakes through the com ing years. The baby's shoes, the tips now slight ly worn Their spring hcels frayed by runn'ng o'er the floor Lay them away, with heartstrings wrenched and torn, For baby's feet will wear them never ore. But throigh the gloom of all the com ing years The baby's shoes will ope the fount of tears. Lay them away, and sacred mem ory Will cluster 'r-ound them till his face we see Until in robes of angels' purest white, With harp swept by his little fingers blest. His smile shall banish all the gloom of night And call us to his Father's endless rest. Those little shoes! Through all the coming years They'll speak of him, and fill our eyes with tears. Lay them away! No more will baby feet Ran to the gate with pat 'ring music sweet. Upon the shores of briliter endless day He stands. He smiles and waves his hand, And after we have quit life's weary way We'll greet our baby in that better land. And so we'll keep these shoes through all the years That they may banish all our doubts an4 fears. They now pare potatoes and wash dishes by electricity. A package or e-velope sealed with white of egg cannot be steamed open. Fif ty years ago one woman to e tery ten men worked for wagts. NyA the ratio is four to one. E--member, you can train yourself to throw off worry, in the same way that you acqiired thehabit. Let your brain b3 a burying ground for other peoplis secrets. Iis a good place for your own, too. Wireless telegraph may pe cmpai ativbly new, bu, the kick under the .able is as old as marriage. The queen of Siam has-the small-st foo4 of .ny tal-d period inthe world Shie wears a No. 1 1 2 shoe. If you bake the soil in which fine fl wer seed- are to oe planted, you will not be troubled so macn with weeds. Half a lemon dipped in salt will be f.u d qu.te as serviceable as oxalic aela in cjiamng articmes of copper and brafss. Il Austria a man and a woman are upposed to be cap. be of conducting .% nio-me of their ou n from tue age of fourteen. Ia the German colonies white wn men are scarce, tWere being only 254 in East Africa and 239 In ode G-rm.n islands in wne Pacific oc.an. One of -he b"st known low York act.e.ses, M:ss Blanche B .ats, nas 1urucd farmer, as a reliLf fr=m the nr vons strain of theatrical work. In Bavaria the women claan the steets. L, is only a few y ears back, when tralns were in fashion. Chat wo men performed the same work hzre. The only woman firearm agent ina the woild Is pretty Nahle Batiett or e .ver, who sells powcer and shot gun4 and represents the Oitdoor L ft. Magazine. A mani in Pannsy ltania sold his wifr for $3 and tzuen spent she manlel for a oai quit to thb puzrcbaser. Some wo iem wouid seil ier husbands for les. An Indiana woman sumceeded -in laying ir a stock of fourteen husbands before thle authoritIes deemed it best to inter fere and clip the wings e f her monopolistic spirit. The man who breaks di an angage ment witbouit an explanation, should be waited upon by the giri's father or brother and an explanation demand ed. Tis will be merely for satisfac ion. Randolph Milbourne, the Washing ton, D. C. muic teacher, who wears woman's clothes, has got around k gel o j etions by wearing a large sli v-r bndage bsarlng thle inscriptlin, / It .ndolpi Mdlbourrie.- I am a man." To shut out an o' j acional view from side or rear windows mix a lit tle mastic varnish and white lead in equl q-lantities and apply to the In side 01 the panes with an old paint orsh. It will be a good Imitation of ground glass and will wear a long time. A Chicago professor recently pre dicted that the industry of the twen ty first century would be contr led by women; and Supreme Court Jus ice David A Brewer, In an address before Vassar, suggested that "the next half c ntury may tx:end full suffrage throughout the nniOnl.', When vcu've a good wife and true, Wno, let fortuns be foul or fair, Of watever may come to you, Will cheerfully bear her share; Wo has proved she's a brave, true helper, Perhaps far more than you know, It will lighten her end of the burden, If you kiss her and tell her so. Gjvern ment Maps. It may not be known to some of O&r Folks that the Government of ne United States is making a min ute survey of the entire country, and is isuing complete and accurate maps of the parts surveyed-inecnd ing every road, every farmhouse. every cottage, creek, together with water shed and elevatio;-and that these maps are for sale, so far as printed, at a merely nominal price-a few cents each. T ae person to write to for information is Chas. D. Wal cot, director of the United State Geological Survey, Washington, D) C. It may be that your particulsr neighborhood has not yet been sur veyed and mapped, but perhaps it is; we have told you how to fiad out. Hiing Frost. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says information was received in this city from tha uperintendent of the Narth Carolina test farm as Statesvlille stat ig that all the cotton and corn in ht section was killed by the frosts last week- Other crops are believed to have suffered at verely. Cotton has bee. killed or injured in u'ny of the States, and farmers have had to plant Young Man Deaa, Capt. Benjamin Kennedy, comman dant of the Welch Neck High Schoo-l at Hartsville, died in Columbia Wed nesday night after an illness of six weeks. He was twenty-eight years of age, having been born in i3enesville, Una county, on March 16, 1878. OLD) AGE PENSION IN WALES. Has Markedly increased the State Debt. Among the claims made for the New SoUth Wales old-age pension act, prior to its passage, were that (first) it would lessen the number of iudigent persons in. the various state insEtu Lions; (second) it would remove much worry- on the part of people growing old as to provision for the future; (third) it would have a tendency to encourage relatives to assist in the sup port of the aged, thereby avoiding the reflections usually cast upon them wher aged relatives b.came objects of char 1.y, and (fourth) It would ultimately diminish the taxation required undei the old sytem. The act was passed and has been in operation five years, The labor members of the federal par liament, desiring to pass similar laws appointed a.commission to inquire int< the results obtained from the Nev South Wales act. Among those wh< testified before this commission wa, the direetor of government asylums foi the infirm in New South Wales, wh< stated, in substai-ce, that about si uonths after the act came into fore 60U old people secured their pension aj left the benevolent asylums; tha te majority returned to the institu, tions and surrendered their pensions there now being almost as many in mates as there had been. prior to th< passage of the act; that the reasoni given for returning were that, the: were better cared for in the institu tions and could live more comfortabl: th..re, and that. the annual cost o maintenance per inmate at the asylum was $80. From a statement madeb: the state treasurer it appears that th amount expended for the old-age pen sions last year exceeded $2,50,00( while the amaoupt necessary to suppor the infirm was -greater than ever be fore, yet the population had not mate rially increaced.-Brooklyn Eagle. Purifying Drinking Water. It is probable that electric purifies Lion of drinking water will soon be in troduced into the home. This metho already used by a number of municips water works in Germany, is based upo the germ-killing effects of ozone, whic is cheaply engendered by electricity. I an electric discharge takes place b tween two glass tubes, one inside to other, whore surfaces facing each oti er ire coated with metal, ozone is de veloped in the space between the tubei Electricians have tried in recent year ,6 simplify the means of electric ozon development for purifying water. Ti ideal apparatus would be one whic housekeeper could put up in the kitch sn, and by utilizing the electric currem !f the com'on electric light wires, pur ify every glass of drinking water. I: fact, such.an apparatus seems to hav been successfully made by Mr. Otto, French engineer. This apparatus is of very simple cot struction and takes up little space. I consists principally of a small, close box, the metal cover of which is mad conductory with the bottom.- In th box 'it an ozone developer, an intet rupter and a tin tube. Through the lai ter the ozone, which first has to pal hrough a cotton stopper to free it fro: .dust and germs contained in the air, I conducted into the water and mix. therewith. If much ozone has been al sorbed, the water becomes phospho: esent in the dark. The most impo: tat part of the apparatus Is the "mlb er," action of which .can be interrupte at will. The apparatus Is capableC purifying about 60 gallons of water i ~n hour, and the cost per hour is abot .he same as that of an ordinary ele< tric lncandes'.ent light.-Chicago Newi Frog Cure for. Typhoid Fever. Your corre~pondent, like other pet pie, lhves and learns. He discovere yesterday that a toad applied to th toot of a fever patient, and kept t~her< would certainly cure the patient.] may be that the same is a weli know~ remedy, known of old, but it is ne' here. A young man in this county ha been very low with typhoid fever fc several weeks; so ill, in fact, that 12 physicians gave him up to die. Anlot] er young man once suffered wit typhoid and took the frog treatmer and was cured, and so the treatme2 was applied to the patient mentioned with gratifying results. The your man is reported as convalescing. Th toads, the story runneth, turn gree and die, having drawn all the feve from the patient It seems to be a excellent remedy, but It is tough on th frog.-Charlotte News, How Foolscap Got i Name. Everyone probably has wondere why a certain size paper, familiar 1 all .who write, is called foolscap. A1 early as the year 1301 water mark were employed by paper manufacturer to distinguish their products. O' grade of paper much In demand durn the Middle Ages, resembling what s call foolscap and known by 'that nami had ior its water mark a fool's ha we'-'ig cap and bells. The mark aij peared on'this grade of paper until th middle of the seventeenth centur3 when the. figure of Britannia was sul stituted by the English manufacturer: and other marks by other papermal crs. No.one has, however, changed th name of the paper, so we have to thi day the foolscap paper. e3~rta's Many Canals. The canals which form a networ] throughout a great part of Chin abound iD fish., The rice fields, whic) are Irrigated with the water from thes canals, make ideal hatching places fo Smallest Police Station. The smallest police station In Eg land is at the' town of Fishguard, I, Pembrokeshire, the building being oni; about 10 feet square. LE AR your mind of every gloomy selfish, angry or revengful thought allow no resentment or grudge towari man or fate to stay in your heart ave: night. Wake in the morning 'with blessing for everything on your lips and in your soul. - Say to yourself Health, luck, usefulness, succes art mine. I claim them. Keep thinkin1 that thought no matter what happens ust as you would put one fooo befort another if you had a mountain t< climb. Keep on, keep on, and sudden ly you will find that you are on thi heights. He ad One. A salesman dropped in on one o. or young business men the other day, crrying In his hand a finely polishec oak cabinet. "I want to sell you I pach of a talking machine," he saic G ot one," replied the yourg busi ness man. "What kind ?" was asked "The best kind on earth," was the response. "Where did you get It?' was the next question. "Married it.' said the y. b. in., and the salesmar Rate LAsIatlonf. The railroad rate bill is still the storm c nter in politics. The Demo crats generally, favor a measure that would give adequate relief to thke peo ple without doing injustice to the rail roads. The consolidation of transpor tation facilities has reached such a point in this country that seven com binations contol practically all the railroads and wield such vast power that the people are unable to prevent abuses. The Democrats want a law glving the interstate Commerce Com massiun autbority to ft reasonable rates and forbidding any interference by the courts, or such a limited court review, as will prevent the rullifica tion of the work of the Commission by interlocutory court orders, and leave the rates fixed by the Commission in full force until the final hearing and decree in the case. But a numberof broadest possible review by the courts includingi the power to suspend the Commission's rates by an Interlocu tory order or temporary. injunction before the final hearing. Judging from the debates in both Houses, Congress will hardly pr-s the bill without providing for some sort of court review; but the Democrats will . insist on limiting that power. An Old Preacher. A Methodist minister who had been ' preaching for seventy-seven years Is worth some little attention. The dis. t '4nction belongs to B v. Bichard By. 2 mer, of Brixto, England. He was a preacher when William IV was King e of England and Andrew Jackson was - President of the United~States. !o man ever gains anith ng by try ing to belittle others. Remember this young man and act on it. THE Republicans in Congressare di v:ded on every proposition that looks towards reform, but they are all unit - ed on the "pork bill" and "for the old 4 flag and an appropriation.". Kixss undertakes have formed a trust. Hereafter funeral' expenses must be guaranteed orthe deceased will not be buried. Thus do maniy a e man's woes pufsue him to the grave. - I3WGBANTs are coming into Tk3as at the rate of 1,o00 a day, and New York and Boston at 16,000 a day. This e country will have to continue to do e some tail assimilating to- digest so b much raw food. REPUBLICAN senatois seem to 't dread to vote on the'Soot case, - and many of them intend to repudiate e the bargain made with the Mormon a church by Perry Heath In 1900-which gave the Repuclicans .ie electoral vote of Utah. I THE shi-subsidy steal is one vote d shy of being reported favorably by the e Committee of Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and Gen, Grosvenor and the lobbyists have expended all their -ef s forts so far for nothing. n A German scientist sag the- time will come *hen the supply of water 'will not be sufficient -to supply lie on .this earth. This may be true, but the troublejastGOfar ~off for us of this time to worry over it. aTHE standpatters will hardly- dare fstand out against abzting the ta.riff on Sbuilding material to the unfortunate SSan Francisco sufferers, though they. will still continue the tariff tax on homes for the balance oflus. THE adxantage of an Indirect tax Slike the tariff is, as one of the princi dpal standpatters said, th'e foolish egeese don't know whois plucking them .but the Republicans are discovering tthat the voters are getting their-eyes openen. SAN eminene minister of the gospel rsays ninety-flye per cent~ of the-sons or 6rich men are worthless and do noth -ing but spend the money they inhieri hted. While this may be true, yet they tare some use in the world Iby robly helping to keep money in circulation. gTHE city of Johanesburg, South Af rica, prohibits all advertisements re guarding liquor and gamblin~g on a penalty of 212, or two monthis' impris onment. That is good law, and better still we are told it is strictly enforced. THE people of PortoBicohave found that wearing shoes is a cure for the I"lazy bug" disease.. That is not al ways the case in this section of the globe. Some folks here who have-two or three pair of shoes have the "lazy 'bug" disease to an alarming extent. SECEE'rAEY Shaw 3sso: thick with the Rockefeller City National Bank and other Wall Street bankersthat he is virtually paying Interest on the* gold they a.re importing from Europe by advancing the cash without inter et, on security other than United ~States bonds. IT was only ayear or two ago that Senator Lodge voted to strike out the imprisonment clause of the anti-trust act and now hesproposes Imprisonment for railroad managers guilty of -grant ing rebates. ..Has Senator Lodge re pented or is he using that old Repub Slican dodge of trying to tool the peo pe? ________ THE United States government and various states spend at least $l,000cn the health of sheep and cattle for. every dollar they spend to protect hu man life," said Dr. W. A. Evans di rector of the Columbus alaboratories, in a lecture at the- tuberculosis exhi bit at the municipal museurr recently. That is easily accounted for. The al mighty dollar is our national god. There is money in sheep and cattle raising, but none in man raising. Con sequently we raise sheep and cattle and let men die. Do you see the dif ference? t DIVORCE decrees granted in one state do not bind the defendant if he or she resides in another, according to a decision of the United States su preme court, and as a resultthousands of men and women who, aftersepara tion in states where lawsare lax have married again, face the possibility of having themselves declared big amists, and their children illegiti mate. Hard to Pliease. T wo men were arrested recently In New York for causing a lot of citizens o laugh and cheer and and another an was gathered In on the same day fr refusing to look pleasant when ordered to cross the street. The