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LYON EXPLAINS. At Lexington Why Hie Took - Double Pay. SI) IT WAS CUSTOM For Legislators to Draw Pay as Members of the Legislature and as Mtmb:rs of a Committee at the Same Tima. Ragsdale Was Very Sacarstic. The fl-st series of meetings of the State campaign ended at Lexington on Saturday. It was a very good meet ing. There was much more snap and life in the prjeedings than usu t~. A. C. Jones, John M -Malan and R I. Manning broke away from their even tenors and made things lively. But the sparkle of the meeting was fur nished in the speech of Mr. J. Wil lard -xagsd.le, pzis ing Mr Fraser Lyon for Attorney Generai. Mr. Ragsdale arrived late a:d spoke after the Gubernatorial candidates Mr. Lyon had spoken early and had kept close to the usual lines of his previous speeches. but Mr. Rsgsdale literally lit into Mr. Lyon with gloves og. He jabbed him wherever he thought there was an opening, and be sides trying force, tried to ridicule his opponent. 'Jhae or four times he rose on his- feet, and with arched fingers pAinting to his bosom, exclaimed: "I am J. Fraser. Lyon, the great pursuer of grafters!" Then he would tiptoe and exclaim: "I am the great Fraser Lyon," who was going to do this or that. It amused the audience because it was roasting the other fellow brown, and the average crowd enjoys a finish ed roast no matter much who is roast ed. LYON DENIES A REPLY. Mr. Ragsdale wanted Mr. Lyon te answer nim oat:gorically. bat Wr. Lyon declined to do this, and begged to reply at the conclusion of Mr. Rag adale's speech, but Chairman Eird declined to make any exceptions or to change the original programme, and Mr. Lyon spoke briefly at the very end of the meeting. Mr. Ragsdale, who arrived late and who was eager for the fray, said he rode 700 miles to be here to-day. He seemed surprised that Mr. Lyon should have spoken after his regular time. H: said he wanted to settle certain issue. here and now. He went on to say that Mr. Lyon had at a previous meeting said that certain statements he had made were not so. Mr. Lyon had, he heard, made such a statement after his speech. Now he wanted to know directly whether Mr. Lyon had gotten double pay while serving on the inves tigation committee. He wanted.to know if he had been paid as ajlegisla tor and as a member of tha commit ~whieits in session-during the ~- Mr. Lyha asked if he s* indetall from the rec an fs h ol gladly do so Chairman Eird held ta be could not permit any extended statement. Mr Lyon refused to answer yes or ro, without an explanation, and then Mr. .Bagsdale piled iuito him, and said here was a great purIfier and ;,chacer of gat, taking $4 a day as a legislator, and $4 a day at the same tlime for ser -vice on the investigating committee. He said thiat Senator Jcnes Stack house, of 'Marion, bad told him that Mr. Lyon had said he received the ex M AKES MANSY CuARtGEs. As to tne item z d stateme't not being. filed, he gucn his information from Mr. Blease. If acot a statement had teen filed, then it was all well and good. Then Mr. Ragsdale said Mr. Ly on had been electen to the house from Abbeville as a dispensary advecate, and he wanted to know what pledge the people had that he would not have a cnange of heart in his pursuit of the graf ters. No man shculd change his views without fl:st cnsulting hirs people. The Attorney General at best had little to do In such cases. .The solicitors do the proscutiug, and if Lyon will only give the evidence the prosecution could now go on. He said Lyon was simply making a grand stand play talking about pursuing tne graft era. Ht said Lyon was waiting to say: "I'll unfurl this banner. I'll be the leader against graf t," and Incident ally draw $1,900 salary, w~hich, he said, was more than Lyon had ever made before, for but a few years ago he was'satisfled with a S-nate clerk ship at $4 a day. No man, he sala, ought to. be electse d who could not get the support of his home people, and he did not think L yon could now carry Abbevile. Lyon should have resigned his place in the House If he meant to fight the dispensary. He made merry of Mr. Bristow and the evidence of Mr. Brlstow and In sisted that it was all worthless and so Indeninite as not to be worth a penny. He had a lot of fun ridiculing the Bristow evidence as a ty pe of the work of the committee. He said he was in earnest in cffring to get out of the way for Gen. Youmans and knocked hard at the suggestion that he 'was put up as a decoy to take Lyon out of the race. LYON MAKES A STATEMENT. Some of the audience wanted Rags dale to talk on, but he only spoke britny over his time. After all the speaking and when but few remained, Mr. Lyon said that it was an almost universal precedent for members to accept pay as ligislators and also as members of special committees that served during the meeting of the Leg islature. The question came up be fore the Investigating committee and, with but one exceptaon, as he remem bered, all voted to accept the pay, as it had always been done before. He accepted both salaries as has always been done. The Legislature had ruled directly upon such pay a-nd all Legisiative committees working during the ses sion were provided with pay and have been paid. In rare instances recently such pay had been declined, heunder stood. As to the item'zed statement, It was published in the Journal ot 1906 and that ought to end It with any honrable man, The House and Senate by vote ac cepted this statement as satisfactory and directly refused to ask for any further statement. Any one could have easily found that this statement was printed in the the cifcial Journal. The only issue in Abbeviile was on the 1-2 mill tax in the Brine law. He fa vored It. Mr, Loimax opposed this fore, what was the position of his peopic? He did know his people stood for honesty and right and that was his position, and all he asked was justice. :Mr. Lyon made his brief statement witout any flurry, quietly and impressed those who remained with his sincerity and honesty. BeyondP Beyond the prison cell Release! Beyond the stormy passage Peace! Beyond the starless night The great Sun's rising Beyond these wilds a home Of death's devising. After tumultous years To creep Within a lonely room And sleep! After the exigence Of human hunger, Bread, and lodging, and wine To need no longer! How I have longed for this! And yet How can I go content Forget All that was dear in life Entwined about you? How can I pass Beyond In Peace without you? Forgotten Forgotten you? Well, if forgetting Be thirkit g all the day How the long nours drag since you left me (Days seem years with you away) Or hearing through all the strange babel Of voices now grave, now gay, Only your voice-tan this be forgot ting? Yet, I have forgotten, you say, Or counting each moment with long ing, 'Till the one when I'll see you again; If this be forgetting, you're right dear, And I have forgotten you then. Forgotten you? Well, if forgetting Be reading each face that I see With eyes that mark never a feature, Save yours as you last looked at me. Forgotten you? Well, if forgetting Be yearning with all my heart, With a longing half pain and half rapture, For the time when we never shall part, If the wild wish to see you and hear you, To be held in your arms again If this be forgetting, you're right, dear, And I have forgotten you then. Forgotten, you say! COTTON STALKS MAY BE U ED TO MAKE GOOD PRINTING PAPER. Latest and Most Interesti' g Inven tion to Make Paper From Useless Product. The manufacture of paper from the fiber of the cotton stalk is one of the latest and most interesting inventions of the new century, says Harvie Jor dan in Manufacturers Record. For many years expert inventors !have been busily engaged experimenting with the cotton stalk, and now it appears from recent developments that their labors and expenditures of money are to be rewarded with signal and strik ing success. Not only have these in vstgations passed the experimental tage but they are rapidlly being sbap ed to be placed into practical opera tion. It has been ut~g iestionably do monstrated that all grades of paper, from the best form of linen grade. to the lowest, CaLn be manufactured from the cotton stalks. In addition to this, a variety or by products, such as alco hol. nitrogenl, material for gun ccotton and smokeless power, can alEO be se oured in paying quantities. The time Is not now far distant when paper glants equipped with all modern ma chinery and devices for making payer will be built and placed in operation troughout the cotton-growing states of the South. The establishment of these mills for the manufacture of pa per from cotton stalks will at once de velop a new industry of quite enor mous proportions of a waste product which at the present time has com parative little or no value. It will prove the entering wedge of checking the present increasing cost of paper, which is becoming such a burden upon the newspaper industry of the coutry It is estimated that on an acre of land producing a bale of cotton at least one ton of stalks can be gather ed. Upon this basis of calculation tis new industry can annually depend upon -from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 tons of ra w material. This will not only furnish necessary supplies to meet all home demands, but a.so permit of the export of pulp or finished pro ducts to foreign countries. At the present time there is approximately 287,000,000 invested in paper mills in the United States, with but few plants located in the South. The bulk of the material going into the manu facture of paper at the present time is spruce pine, and which is annually becoming more expensive in the deple ion of the forests and the high prices which such timber commands in the market for other uses. The utiliza tion of a waste product such as the cotton stalk, manufactured into com mercial paper, will be a boon of inesti matable value to the whole country. The practical &iect of this new in venton will be to increase the present value of the Scuth's cotton crop near ly 8100,000,000 annually. The grog ers will be amply paid for the expense of removing the stalks fromt their fields and delvery to the paper plants and In addition thereto receive a pro fit on this product of their labor. In the southwestern section of the cotton belt the new industry will especially be of value and a blessing. With the removal of the cotton stalks from the felds in the early fall the Seath knell of the boll-weevil will De sounded and Its present devastating influences re duced to a minimum. So that from very standpoint the speedy develop ment and extansion of this new indus try will be welcomed in all sections of ne cotton belt- Paper manufactured from the cotton stalk is of the strong est texture and softest finish, 1t Is reported that several plants will be rected during the next few months in certain sections of the South which will be in full operation by January 1, 1907. Must Have Been Crnzy. At Comfort, Texas, on Thursday in he presence of the assembled wed ling guests, at the home of his in ended bride, Joseph Reinhart, the man who was to have been married o her, shot and instantly killed Miss m~esine Kutser and then stiot him elf with probably fatal results. The BOOKS DOP RED. TEXT BOOKS TO BE USED IN THE S SCHOOLS. Business Was rivided Out Among p Several Houses-Many New a Books Selected. b The State board of education last week completed the adoption of text books to be used in-the public schools of the State for the next five years. It t: is said that the list selected will com- c pare quite favorably with the book c adoptions in other States, and it is e also claimed that this is the best list o which South Carolina has had. There has always been more or less a of a dff.rence between the books used in the public schools in the country t and those used in the graded schools, t but many of these differences have t been eliminated in this adoption and it is said that the list selected will do t for any city school in the State. t Governor Heyward presided at the ' meeting and State Superintendent $ Martin, by reason of his having been t in the school work as a teacher and t subsequently has been able to give so I much time to the comparative study a of the merits of text books, cffsred t valuable suggestions. The other members present, representing the congressional districts in the order C named, were: W. K. Tate of Charles- e ton, J. E. Boland of Blackviile, D. 1 W. Daniel of Clemson College, A. G. t Rembert of Wofford college, A. R. 5 Banks of Lancaster, Hartwell M. t Ayer of Florence, and A. J. Thack- t ston of Orangeburg. a The board adopted Dr. Henry Alex- t ander White's History of South Caro- ' lina for the elementary grades and t Col. J. J. Dargan's for the seventh 2 and eighth grade!. Waddy Thomp son's general history of the United States was selected. Another book d by a South Carolina Luthor which n was put on the list is Dr. D. D. Wal- t lace's book on civics. Uader the new regulatiors made by the State boardof education, there will be established in Columbia a cen tral depository for the handling of S these text-books. This means that prbably $100.000 a year in new busi ness will be turned loose in Columbia. This has been going to Atlanta and tc a the publishers and it will be a great c accommodation to the teachers in the State who may order from Columbia nd get the books the same day or ,nr fjilowing day. In the common school course, the b best lot of readers was given to May- s card, Merrill & Co., whose "Graded Literature Series," 1, 2 and 3, were I adopted. B. F. J~hnson & Co., keep t the fourth and fifth readers. Silver, e 3.irdett & Co., were awarded second I place, their "Stepping Stones to a Literature" being used as supplemen- I: tary to Maynard, Merrill & Co.'s t books. The selection of readers d constitutes one of the principal items a Maynard Merrill & Co., were repre- t sente d by Mr. MoMichael of Georgia. a The spelling books adopted were a two: Hunt's "Progressive Couree in Spelling," published by the Americant Book company, and the "Benson and I Glen Speller and Definer," by D. C. Heath & Co. The S:ate companyt offered the speller prepared by Supt. W. H Hand of Chester. Tne selection of arithmet!cs was asc follows: '"Brook's Mental Arithme 1 ti." by Christopher Sower & Co.;c Wentworth's elementary an.d Went, worths practical' by Ginn & Co. Messrs, Newson & C)., througha their representative, Mr. Scherer, t succeeded in placing both grammarsa for the common school course, "Bush- I ers's Modern English Grammar" 1 (with composition); and Hotchkisse and Buehler's "Modern English Les Sons." Frye's higher gecgraphy, by Ginn & Co., was retained, but the Ameri can Book company placed Redway andi Hinman's "Natural Primary Geogra-c phy." Mr. Craw, of D. Appleton & Co., t landed the order for physiologies, there being two books of Khron for g advanced and intermediate classes. 9 Lee's primary history, by the B. F. t Johnson company, was retained, but c Waddy Thompson's History of the United States, by D. C. Heath & Co., was put on the list and Chapman's South Carolina History was supplant ed by the history by Dr. Henry Alex ander White, published by Silver,~ Burdett & Co., and Dargan's History of South Carolina, published by The State company, will be used for the e higher classes. g Mr. 0. P. Barnes, publisher, secur ed the order for Barnes' "Outlook Writing System," and D. C. Heath & Co., received award for their natu ral system of writing. Tnese em-v brace two different styles of writing. The Augsburg System of Drawing was adopted and the "Eiversideg Series of Song Books," by Houghton, Miflin & Co., was put on the list. Tce following books were adopted v for use in the high school course: " Eglsh-Sykes' Elementary En glish Composition; Tappan's -Bag- ei land's and America's Literature; - Literary Masterpieces. Latn-Biin's First Book in Latin; Gilderleeve-Lodge Latin Grammar; y Harper & Tolman's Caesar. h Business Course-The First Book in Busineas Methojds; O'Neill's Punot-h cation. Natural Science-Hannicutt Agri-C ulture for the Common Schools; Bailey's Sotany. Cfies-Wallace's Civics. o Geograpy-Tarr's Physical Geog- de r~aphy (new). Algebra-Lippincott's Elementary zm Algebra; Wentworth's New School ti algebra. History- Dargan's History of South Carolina; Myers' General His tary (Rev. Ed.); American History e, Le fets, Hart. g Geometry-Well's Essentials of Ge- o :> metry. n__ _ _ __ _ _ _ Wanted to Bear Tilman. t1 It was announced that before the Adjournment of the present session of aongress Senator Tillman would make i red hot speech on the case of B. F. P Barnes the man who has just been h appointed postmaster of the city of t Washington, and the man that Son- a? Ltor Tilman believes responsible for le ihe rough treatment of Mrs. Minor D KIorris at the white house some w. nonths ago, the senate bave been packed every day, and long lines of w ipectant people have waited patient .y for an opportdnity to secure a seat Lnd hear what Senator Tillman might iave to say on the sut jact. Ora man Daniel Boone, who has ch >een dead for lo these many years has fe yeen made the innocent incentive hi 'or onther drinking bout in old Ken- . 2 COUNTRY BOS AND GIRLS. . hould be Given the Same Chance Town Children Have. It is a remarkable fact that a large art of the brain and brawn has al ays come from the rural districts of 1 countries. We might go down the usiness streets of any town in South arolina to-day and take an inventory, to speak, of the men who are doing ae business, and we would find a large art of them were reared in the coun ty. We do not write to make odious )mparisons between the country ilaren and the town children, but re wish to call the attention of par ots in the country to the new order f things coming to pass. We wish to ask fathers and moth rs if it is reasonable to suppose that heir boys and girls in the country rho only have an opportunity to cul Ivate and develop their minds from bree and one-half to four months in he year will be able to stand up and ompete with and enter into life's trogles with the boys and girls in the owns who have 9 months to improve ha mind and be trained for life's rork; to say nothing of the magazines ood literature and lectures to which hey have access. It is not reasonable o suppose that children who have ractically the same natural ability nd have more than twice the oppor unities the others do, will b.. equal rhen the contest comes. Parents of the rural districts, your hildren ale as dear to you as any par nts. Do you want them to be help ss or inferior in capacity to their allows in the years to come? I am ire no true parent does. But mark t.e prediction; unless the parents of he rural districts bestir themselves d secure more of the advantages for heir children in the way of educa ton, the time will surely come when hose who have it not must serve. 'his is not a pleasant thought, but it as true as the Gospel itself. We do of want to see parents of tho rural stricts satisfied with three or four xonths' school; they must not be con ant with this if they expect to keep ace with the towns and villages. ON TE RUN. ensational Suits Have Been Brought Against Trusts. The prosecutions the government is bout to begin can very properly be lassed as sensational. They are said D be against the Standard Oil Com any and the Pannsylvania railroad. D seems these coporations are not to e indicted but their officials in re . ponsible positions are to be. Mr. Cassat the president of the 'ennsylvania is mentioned as one of he railroad men who will be prosecuti d. His trial would attract attention a Europe as well as in this country, lace there are few better known men a the financial world than he. The ral would be a notable one for the efendant would be prosecuted by the blest men the government could ob sin and would be defended by law ers whose fame is not confined by tate lines. It has been intimated that it is not he purpose to prostcute any of: the eads of the Standard Oil Company, iut that intimation isn't authxorita le. It wouldn't be surprising if the teads of that trust were attacked t is difficult to see why the president if the Pennsylvania railroad should ie prosecuted and not the chief, men if the Standard Oil counpany. In Wall streec it is said the Stan lard Oil Company realizes it must ,dopt new methods of doirg business bat its present method cannot be pur ued any longer with safety. Hence, t is proposed to greatly increase the rust's capital stock and to list the hares on the stock exchsnge. In ad lition it is said reports of its bisiness will be published regularly arid the alcy of secrecy will be aband(Ied. If this information is correct it would seem that the great trusts are a the run and that the govemnment as but to pursue its advantage to ring them to terms. A fe, days ril doubtless show what the pro rammne of the government is and rhether or not the trusts are ready o abandon the fight and agree to bey thE6 laws for their regulation. With The Humorists. Knicker-Do you think we should rash our soiled linen in publiW Boker- No; I favor sendig it to e laundry for total destrition. [ew York Sun. Esmerala-It's too bad ydu've giv a Jack his walking papers. fHe's the nods, all right. Gwedolin-Yes, and he's the cann I ;oods, all right.-Chicago Tribune. Miss Plane-I understad you do ary handsome work and make very retty pictures. Potographer-Yes'm, but I could ye you an exact likeness if you wish. -Philadelphia Ledger. "I have done the state some ser-1 ce," the politician began, "and I-" Yes shouted one of the delegates, and you charged the state about sev iten times as much as it was worth." -hicago IRscord-Herald. . "Minnie, come right into- the house ts instant!" "Wy ma?" "I told >u not to stay whe-e those nanghty >ys were using horrid language. I s heard one of them sai 'packing yase' as distinctly as could be." icago News.1 Weary Willie (reading "ad.")- I fran wanted to chop wood, bring up I al, tend furnace, take care of gar n, mind chickens and children." 3 Frayed Fagin (groaning)-Geel Dem atrimonial advertisements make me red.-Judge. "I think that's the funniest joke I ever wrote. Everybody laughs the2 st time they read it; you're the only 1 :ception," said Young Scribbles, dis-t istedly. "Why, I laughed," replied ~dum. "You dia? Not so's'I could >tice it. No: you wern't born at ie time."-Philadelphia Pres-. $'75,000 for Greenwood. The Senate has passed a bill ap opriating 875,000 for a government ildng at G:eenwood. At the same ne the senate cut *5,000i off the ount appropriated to Greenville, Lving the amount 875,000. It will w go to conference. Mr. Johnson .11 stand Out for 880,000 for Green La. It is not thought that Green >od will get anything like 875.000. Ham tand ice Cream. At Arcadia, Fla., Albert Simmons. e 19 year-old negro who on March last murdered his aunt and his two1 lldren, chopping up their bodies and ading them to the hogs, was legallye ,nged Friday. Just before the exe tion he a1er1 fr ham, egg and ice SCHOOL OOK DEPOSITORY. The R. L. Bryan Company, of Colum bia, Gets It. There was a merry old battle in Columbia on Monday night of last week before the representatives of the publishing houses recently award ed contracts to furnish school books to the state over the selection of a state depository, a fat contract worth about $50.000 in the five years the present contract has to run. The only contestants were The State and the B. L. Bryan company, both of this city. It was but natural that Columbia should be awarded the depository, on account of its location, and these were the two leading book store concerns of the city, although The State people have not attempted to handle shool books heretofore. There was speechmaking, and all that sort of thing, Governor Heyward backing up the claims of The State people and State Superiatendent Mar tin leaning to the Bryan company, it is said. The Bryan company won finally by a vote of three to one, the vote of the publishers' representatives being ap portioned according to the amount of the contracts they had with the state. The contracts total about half a mil lion dollars worth of school books to pass through the Bryan oompanyse hands within the five years, the pub Ushers to pay the state depository 10 per cent for this handling, and the sub-depositories, to which the Bryan people are to ship in turn, also get 10 per cent. The prices of the books are stamped on their backs and are fixed in the contracts the publishirg con cern allowing a book to be sold above t te figure to be liable to a $25 fine for each offense. State Superintendent Martin says that although several changes have been made the state will save on the whole about 20 per cent. for the pat rons of the schools, and be is to short ly give out a statement setting forth the comparative prices in detail and establishing his contention that there has been a saving. The contract, he points out, also prevents the retail book people putting on an abritrary profit and charging to suit them selves. He says that in some instan ces the retail book stores had added a profit of 75 per cent. The law re quiring the county superintendents to aot as the agents of the publishers has proved a dead letter, and there was no hope of getting the books satisfactorily handled in this way, Mr. Martin says. ALCOHOL FROM POTATOES. Ncw Industry Openingfor the South ern Oil Mills. There was a meeting of the cotton seed oil mill men of South Carolina here Thursday that mean much not only for the oil mills but also for the farmers. Those who have kept up with such matters will recall that sev eral weeks ago a chemist in Arkansas, J. C. Spurlin, discovered that denat ured alcohol could be extracted in large quantities from the potato by the use of the present ol mill ma chinery. The matter was noticed es pecially by the oil mill men and Thursday at the meeting the whole suggestion was gone over and its practicability discussed. If the icheme. is worked out suc cesfuly it will be of mutual advan tage. The oil mills now shut down in srm~r and just about the time the potato crops are coming in. The farmers often have to throw away hundreds of bushels of potatoes be cause of a glut in the market or the fact that they have sprouted tco soon. These could be sold to the oil mills at slightly reduced prices and used by them for making of denatur ed alcohol. The government now propsoes to remove the tax from this product and to can then be produced very cheaply. The fact that it will keep labor or ganized during the entire year is also If considerable advantage to the oil mills. . After much discussion it was decided to obtain further information about the project and then take some definite action. The tax is not re moved by the government until next Miav. The meeting of the oil mill mnen was primarily for the purpose of ef ecting an organization to be known as the South Carolina Cotton Seed rushers' Association of the samne en lerprises. There was a very large at tendance and F. D. Hunter of Dar ington was elected president, J. T. Stephens, vice president and B. F. 'aylor of this city was elected secre tary and treasurer.--Columbia State. It Has Been Hotter. It has been hot, very hot in fact, aut, says the State, Section DIrector Bauer in charge of the weather ureau in Columbia says that the ~hermometer has been higher in June md in fact the temperature has not seen unusual. Wnat has made the eople long for the breez.s of the fans s the moisture in the atmosphere. Tearly every day the li tt41e ~hower would add to the humidity mud for this reason the heat has been elt more. This is the usual time or a little hot spell, the highest egistered this year being 95 degre~es iarly in June and again on June M. Lest year June 26 saw the n er c ury shoot up to 97 and ret the people this year will assert ihat it is the "hottest ever." A reak in the wave Is expected shortly, lowever, if precedents are followed ad in fact the nights now are begin dng to be a little more bearable. Triple Suicide. A suicide pact between Mrs. Mary ehrens, a widow, and Edward Gan er, who had a wife and five children, 'esulted Friday in the death of both he man and the woman and Peter lehrens, the 12-year-old son of Mrs. sehrens. All three were found dead i the woman's apartments in Dekalb venue, Brooklyn, with every gas urner turned on. Mrs. Ganzer had ecently asked Mrs. Behrens to give anzer up, threatening at the same ine to procure warrants for the ar est of both. Two letters were left iy the suicies, one by Mrs. Behrens to ter "friends,". and the other from 'nzer to his brother In-law. In Living Tomb. After fighting against death for sore than twenty-two hours, Jere iah Fisher, a plumber, was rescued live Thursday from a sand pit at 'homknsvlle, Staten Island, in1 rhich he had been imprisoned since 1 o'clock forenoon. The remcued an Is in a pitiable condition -> rhaustion, and it Is not certain ,Zhat e will survive the effect of theI THE IINQUEST HERD. THE TESTIMONY OF ONLY THREE WITNESSES TAKEN. The Peplorable Tragedy Has Caused Universal sorrow in T his Community. Coroner F. N. Rlckenbaker impan elled a jury of it quest Saturday morn ing, and the reglar inquest was held according to law over the .remains of Mr. Parks. The finding was in the following language: "The said J. T. Parks came to his death by a gunshot wound in the hands of B,. H. Covar." The jury of irquest was composed of the following business men: Messrs. F. J. D. Felder, A. L. Dukes, E. R Paulling, P. M. Smoak, R. B. Keller, 4 A. D. Ruple, J. X. Weeks, J. C. Pike, R. D. McMichael, A. W. Hoff man, J. W. Stack anI J. L. Weeks. Only three witnesses were examin ed, including Dr. H; drick, who con ducted the post-mortem examination. Mr. Charles P. Brunson, the magis- 1 trate in this city, has his c fioe in the 1 rear room of the Court House, and he was just going towards his ocfee. He was one of the closest of any of the spectators to the parties at the time of the shooting. Mr. A C. L' stedt Is well known in tusiness circles of this city. The testimony at -the in quest is given as fcllows: Mr. C. P. Brunson, sworn, sayE. 4 .That on June 29, 1906, ?b3ut 11 o'clock a. m., I was driving up to the Court House gate, at my office. Be fore getting to the usual place of stopping Mr. A. M. Bczard came up and spoke to me, relating the death scene of his wife. Just then 1 saw the deceased, J. T. Parks, walking 1 out of the Court House, and at the same time Mr. R H. Covar coming toward Russell street side of the Court House, on Church street. I was looking at them. Just aa the I gate they met. Mr. Parks gave Mr Covar a hand salute: Just then Mr. Parks spoke to Mr. Covar and Mr Covar replied. Just then Mr. Parks struck (I presumf) Mr. Covar. Just as that happened Mr. Covar backed a little, both hands to his shirt bosom; in the twinkle of any eye he (Cove') 1 presented a pistol at Park's body and fired and continued firing. Then Parks kinder turned, and then drew a pistol and fired. Then it was con tinual firing by both men. Q'estion. Did any one else fire a pistol? Answer. No one. I saw Mr. 1 Covar's father with a pistol in his hand, and saying to his son: "Kill him," and going In direction of his son and Parks. Parks was moving backwards. C. P. Brunson. Mr. A. C. Linatedt, sworn, sayF: That on June 29, 1906, about 11 o'clock a. m., I was coming down Church street by the Ccurt House fence. I saw Mr. Parks strike Mr. Covar. Tnen instantly shooting com 1 menced. Mr. Covar fired first. They could not 'have been over eight or ten feet apart at the first shot. It could not have ben more than a second be fore rapid firing by both parties. Parks and Covar. Just at the time 1 they ceased firing and coirme need to1 reload, I rushed to Mr. B. H. Covar and disarmed him. Just as I lcoked around I saw Mr. Covar's father com1 Ing up, hollowing, "Robbie, stop stop." He was armed I tried to take the pIstol away from him. He said: "Don't disarm me." I said: 'Put it In your pocket." Then he put it in his pockot and went cif with his son. I then turned Mr. Covar's patol over to the sheriff. Qestion by foiemnan: Wculd you know the pistol no'w if you saw it? Answer. Yes. (Pistcl presented ) It Is the pistol, it was ubreached when I got it; had two loaded shells in It; no empty shells in It. A C. Llnstedt. 1 Dr. A. S. Hy'drlck, being sworn. says: That he has this day examined t by dissection the body of J. T. Parks. and finds on the body of the said J. t T. Parks three gunshot wounds, viz: First, one shot entering and fractur lg the chin and passing out, the direction being from right to left and e from above downwards. The second, a gunshot wound, entering on the t right side of the body between the ninth and tenth ribs, in the axillary c lobe of the liver and the transverse olon, the point of entrance being five Inches below the nipple, right side, and the point of exit, 6 1 2 inches below nipple on left side. Third, a wound below and to the right of the umbilicus, which was made by a spent 1 bullet and did not pass through ab dominal wall. There was about three c pnts of blood In the abdominal d cavity, and evidence of general peri tonitis. In my judgment the death of t the said J. T. Parks was due to the t woids described above. A. S. Hydrick. s The death of Mr. Parks, which oc- 9 curred a little after twelve o'clock Saturday morning, has cast a deep i, shadow of sorrow over this communl- ~ ty, and the greatest sympathy Is felt for Mrs. Parks and her little boys In the terrible calamity that has befallen ~ a Mrs. Parks, who was Miss Annie Pereylear, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Perreyclear, was popular ~ as a young lady in this city, and hasd a large family connection here. Ind addition to his wife and two little si boys, one a mere baby, Mr. Parks r~ eeaves a daughter about sixteen years ci af age, the ohild of his first wife, who died a number years ago in Edgefield d Mr. Parks, in addition to his news-a paper work, taught school at one time 0 nn this county. He was for several0 rars one of the public cotton weigh rrs at this place, and had numercus reends all over the county. He was vvry pleasant, affable gentleman, ofr nn open, sincere dispostion and made r reends of all with whom he came In b 3oact. He was always considerate f others and it was not characteristic f him to speak ill of any person. He 98s very guarded in his expressions onnernng others, although fearless *n his editorial writings. It was re narked by one of Mr. Park's friends hat of all men he would not have ex 2ed to learn of his death in such a E naner. Mr. Parks was an active C neber of Orange Lodge, Knights of :di ythias, and during his residence here tc rs an cffetal in the lodge. gi During Friday afternoon in spite of pl is intense suffr1rig Mr. Parks gave H lirtions regarding the disposition of t is business s f airs and he made a will a0 hree were some directions that he hi essired to give in regard to his busi- w esss atters and he apparently was E poeession1 of his mental faculties ?r ini a short time bafore his death. hi I made no ante-mortem statement, ti s far as has been ma.de known. He of aaj none to his attorneys, Messrs. re ayoor & Summers. Rev. E M. in s igh-ot 1:astor of the Orangeburg at m .muJaJ al r au . Tribute of R-spect Paid the Late Dr. J A. Clifton. The Sumter Watchman and South ron says the very highest testimonial to the esteem in which Dr. Clifton was held by the citizens of Sumter was presented Sunday night week ago at the First Baptist Church, whithe 800 or 1000 persons went to attend a service in his memory. The audience was made up of a multitude who seemed, f.,r the time at least, to have forgotten or ignored the fact that they were not all members of the same re ligious body. The memorial service was conduct ed by the pastor of the church, Rev. 0. 0. Brown, D. D., in which the meeting was held. He read a paper concerning Dr. Clifton, which he had written for the Christian Adv.ca~r, and then followed it up with a talk of fifteen or twenty minutes upon some of the traits which characteriz ed the lamented dead. The tearful eyes and solemrtfacesof the multitude attested the fact that they were heartily in sympathy with the uttered words. Dr. Clifton's wife and children were present and express ed their thanks to many over the fact that such a meetirg bad-b eug. The choir had selected s soDp for the ocas'Oa, and the e was isoaai Prof. Schumaa . r's render ng of '-me, ye D sconsolate" on the violin, was very toubhing and-fal of moving pathosP, as was also .the song by Tom Walsh, "If I Were a V.,lice." What a Waste of Money. The annual military expenditures of the several great powers of the world are enormous. A recent issue of the British- Bluebo'k says the United Kingdom spends for this purpose each year $157,000.000; Irdia. $100,000,000; 1 rance,127,000,000: Germany$1b1,000, 000; Austria-Hungary $87,000,000; Italy $58.000.000; Japan $24,000,000; Russia 194,000.000; United States 3115.ooo.ocO These amounts do not Include the amount paid in rensions - by any of the goyerments named: The United States. in add tien to the 1 15 000,000 named above, pays each year, $140,000,000 in pensions to her old soldier. including what she spends for pensions, the United States spends mpre than any other government for military purposes. Our military -bur den is the heaviest born by any nation in the world. 'When we contemplate the vast sum which the so-called Christian nations of the earth spend in:.training soldiers, building. ships, guns and other engines to destroy men we are almost forced to the conec y>. sion that our profession -of being., lowers of the meek ;and lowly who had not where to lay -his while on. earth Is: false. If we;; His followers r e wo no use for these things acdthe m spent for them could .be used: other and nobler purposes. - This sum of money. properly used wonti banish poverty from-the earth would bring joy and-happiness. to the~. world instead of death abd-destu as it now does. - Whiskey in Kaa As every body knoaws Kansas /. one of the three. so-called prh. to States, but it will be seen a Kansas vaper says below therels trouble to get whiskey out man by the name '01.,~. New Castle, Pa., wrote to Reason, a weekly p - culation published at Girt ansae the following letter:. "Prohibitionists here sythat out in Kansas they have no ruseto jails since prohibition has been adopted. Is thaM The Appeal to- Beason replied as follows: benwtc'axan.f This willbenw dien -I prohibition rules 1n Kansas-It has not been discovered. -In -thlalittIOtown we have five open saloons and there are some fifty orsixty..saloons in -e county. Our jails are just as full a~ in Pennsylvania. Just aslouas profft: a can be made selling .liquor itwill be sol 1-according to law or in violatoT of law. In Kansas prohibition does og prohibit. Our sa~sareralya' greater menace than-licensed slos When it is known that aboutthe - thousand people in Xansas hold Uj ed States IInternal Bevenue- h to retail whiske'and~ other liqu the statement of the Kans can easily be believed. Shoots Two hen. At Wadley, Ga., Will -an" escaped negro convict, early Thursday shot and killed Marshal Morris of Midville, and mortally wounded 3.. J.. Pope, a well known planter, living near there. The negro who. was serv' ing a twenty year sentenc', had es aped from the camps. Mr. Pope dis. covered that the negro had taken re fuge at his former home and was be ing protected by his wife~~&nnmmon lng Marshal Morris the:iwo appro~c ed the cabin and were met with a volley of shots which continued until the marshal was dying on the ground> and Mr. Pope lay mortally wounded. Smith then came from the cabin, ex mined his would becaptors and dis ppeared Into the dense woods. Much excitement followed and a posse was formed immediately at Wadley, wohc-. i now in pursuit of the desperate no How It Shoul4 Be. What a holy and divine thing the aman heart is if people would do as od intended when he breathed His mage into man. Woman is Infinitely - Icher In Godlike qualities than'nan. gman naete Is a beautiful thing i God Intended it to live, but the ' rcuble is that this wild, mad scram e for the dirty, blood-stained dollt"K Ioesn't leave poor humanity much of achance. to develop itiself exoept 'on 'he bruta!, animal side. Our preseng ocial system-or lack of system-is specially designed for cruhing out 1l that is good in humanity and de reloping all that Is bad. THE Chicago Record-Herald asks: 'Who can mention a single good ' shing that United States Senator Platt has ever done for the pol?" [he Houston Post verp~truy says Platt has never claimxed to bea servant ~ if the public. He has been a politidal rafter all his life and has never Ire ended to be anything else. Platt is iot sailing under false colors. THE New ork Evening Sun regrets hat the great Empire State of New ork is "unrepresented In the Upper louse of Congress" but it can't awak-~. n any answering regroW on the part if the two political mummies who ow the salary for representing the-~ 3aptist Church, of which Mr. Parks was a member, was with him from bhe time he was shot until he died. The general suppoition in this city s that both gentlemen had been led o believe from tales that bad been fold them that the other would kill aim on sight, and that be must be ,repared to defer d himself. It is aid that Mr. Parks was met at the lepot when he arrived here on Friday norning and told that if he came up ,he street that Mr. Covar would shoot .-n on sight. It is also said that he same party who had made this tatement to Mr. Parks went back to dr. Cevar and told him that Mr. ?arks would not compromise the dif erences between them and that he iad better look out for himself. The act that both were armed with such leadly weapons would indicate the bove to have been the impression of ach of the parties. Mr. Parks did some up the street and on his way to all on a friend passed right in front sf the .. ie of The Patriot where Mr. ovar was at work. In company with the friend he went to see he passed Ube Patriot ee again on his way >ack. Mr. Parks did not intimate to his friend that he anticipated any ;rouble with Mr. Cover, and he did iot know that there was any trouble :etween them until after the shoot ng. I; seems that the trouble be. iween M. sars Parks and Covar ha? een brewir g for some time, but no wne ever dreamed., that it would have uch a traMc ending as that o' Friday. >f business transactions during tbe ime that Mr. Covsr was manager for dr. Parks after he bad moved to Co umbia. It wasnot known here that hs bitterness had bec. me intensified, although since the affair reports would dicate that such had been the case. 3otb parties had friends here and hey would have irterferred and en eavored to make satisfactory adj ast nent of the d~fficulties had it been :ade known to them. Certainly the riends of both parties would have in rrered and prevented so deplorable a germination of the d iferencas. When Mr. Parks iasposed of bi wrinr4g plantL..ere several monthE goto Messrs. Fanderburg & Cover i vas thought by the public that , h.i ;ver trouble there was had been set ed, but it seems that such was not he case. In addition to the trouble etween Messrs. Parks and Covar it eems that Messrs. Fau derburg and ,ovar did not get along well together n a ount of business d if rences, and hat they had agreed to dissolve co artnership by Mr. Covar drawing out f the business. What the diff rence: )etween Messrs. Fande'burg and Cc rar were has not been made public, )ut i t was only of a business nature mnd the two gentlemen were on per ectly amicable terms. It was re orted to Mr. Perks that he had bet er come down nere and look after his nterests as things were not going on a they should at the. Patriot ofce. fr. Parks had a mortsge on the ?atriot plant, and it was natural for his report to cause him some appre ension and a desire to come ciown ad straighten matters out. It is aid that on the same day that he re elved the abive information he was elephoned that if he came down here here would be trouble. How much is and other "talk" had to do with he tragedy Is a matter of combecture, mt there are not a few who believe at had nothir g bee n said to either dr. Parks or Mr. Covar about a dif Lulty that there would have been no rouble between them. It is general v believed that the two mien were put n a false light in each others eyes by he tales they had heard of each ther, which caused them to regard ach other as deadly enemies, and re ulted in the deplbrable tragedy of ast Friday. Pertinent Refit onons. The noblest form of forgiving Is orgetting. A fool even ina king's robe is no ess foolish. What tragedy can compare to a life brown away? No man .who loves his felloweman ould be mean. A man's mianner either mesn his ortune or mars it. The more charity giveth the more harity has to give. Ecause a man is poor is no indica ion that he is cheap. Life is made up, the Arabs declare, a wish and a dream. M'st of a woman's air castles are cated on Honeymoon Hill. The path to the poorhouse Is strewn pith rninety-elght cent bargains. Only he can do the great things rell who does thelittle things willing Tomorrow may never corne; yester ay is gone forever. But here's to The cynic will confide, first thing, at life's whipped cream is nothing ut soapsuds. Well, granted that politieness is mply Idealized policy-It's worth rhile even at that. Shakespeare says the soul of a man In nis clothes. And yet the wise res prate of the vanity of woman! Ad after all, life gives most of us hat we deserve. -New Orleans Pie une. _________ Chose the Better Way. The Columbia Record says Tim onsvlle has no short dispenser- or spensary, but it Is short a dispen ir. And all this Is en account of a vival meeting conducted there re mntly by Evangelist Leach. Mr. each knows all about the evils of the rink devil by actual contact as well through inspiration, and his efforts this subject are usally such as ight to appear In black type even a great family newspaper. He has nverted various persons at Tim onsville, including the,. dispenser, :r. W. B. White, who has forthwith isigned. At least that is the In irmation that has reached the state I tard about the matter, and an inspec-< iris togo there in a few days and ansfer the stock to Mr. White's suc- 1 esor, because Mr. Whitie since his ignation nas not wanted to touch se thing at all. Ravages of Bonl Weevil. . dispatch from Atlanta says State atomoogist Smith has written to >mmissoner of Agriculture Hudson, laring that the boll weevil is bound make ravages in the fields of Geor-e a cotton unless something radicalj events. He urges Commissionerc udson to take the matter up with e general assembly and arrange 1 me way whereby the farmers may reimbursed for a part of ahe crop, aich will necessarily be destroyed. 1 itomologist Smith has lust returned, tm a visit to Mississippi, where he a been making a study of thepes 'erous insect. He urges the farmers E the state to be on ther guard andC port an appearance of It in-seorgia s