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VOL XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST L 1906. N MAKING MONEY. That Is What Commissioner Ta tum Says About the STATE DISPENS &RY, Which Is Vonched for by (en. Wille Jones. According to the Figures the Dispensary Assets Are Nearly Double that of Its Liabilities. Mr. W. O. Tatum, state dispensary commissioner has given out the fol lowing statement: "Recently a number of papers, and Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, candidate for at torney general, asserted that the dis pensary was insolvent: that if it were put in liquidation it could not pay its debts. At the time this state ment was made I came out in a card asing a suspensior of judgment and asserting that the dispensary was per fectly solvent. 1 said I could pro duce the figures to prove that the dis pensary was amply able to pay every dollar it owed. I have the figures to more than sustain my contention and will submit them in this statement. It took much time and lots of work to go through the great mass of accounts at the state dispensary and prepare a condensed statement showing exactly the condition of the institution. I could not expect the newspapers tc publish all the figures in their col umns, but I invite any - cit z n, par ticularly Mr. Lyon and the eaitors of the papers which q :estioned the solv ency of the dispensary, to call at the state dispensary and examine for themselves the books and accounts. and so verify the statement I have prepared. Now here are the figures, condensed to the point where any mind can grasp them and any memo ry retain them: "On June 1, 1906, the state dispen sary owed for wniskey, beer, etc., a total of $735,886 94. Since June 1. and up to and including July 21, 1906, there has been paid on the above ac counts a total of $451,005.61, leaving a balance of $284.881.33. Bat of this balance $197 388 67 Is not yet due, which leaves the amount due on old accounts $87,492 71, and the state dispensary had on hand at the close of business July 21, a cash balance of $96,518.76, or $9,026 C5 more than enough to pay all accounts then due. However, when the new board of directors were restrained by order of the disensary investigating commit tee from paying old accounts of the dispensary instead of letting the dis pensary funds lie idle, they discount ed a number of new accounts by this course making an extra profit for the state of $3,908.32. Of the accounts so discounted, an aggregate of $79, 119 76 would not have been due on or before July 21, and so had not those accounts been discounted the cash balance on that day would have been $175,637.52, or $87,145 81 more than enough to have paid all accounts due at that time. "On July 21 the State dispensary owed for whiskey, beer, supplies, etc., $443,225.34, though only 87. 492.71 of this amount, as stated above, was due on that date. Any assertion that the dispensary is not solvent and could not pay out every dollar it owes if it owes if it owes it it went into 1 quida tion seems ridiculous, when the as sets of- the Institution are compared with that total of its debts. TKE: ACTAL FIGUREs. "On July 21, the total of its debt was $443,225 34, to meet which it had easily assets of $900.000 In round fig ures, made up of $96,518 76 cash on hand, about $665,000 of stock in the state and county dispensaries, real es tate which cost $56.360.56, supplies of bottles, seals, corks, etc., machin ery and cffice supplies. If all of its assets were sold at fifty cents on the dollar they would be more than suffi cient to pay its indebtedness. In the above I have given the value of the real estate at its cost price, but it must be remembered that it was bought before the tremendous boom of recent years in the price of Columa bla real estate. The opinion of real estate men, architects and the county zadtor of Richland county is that a very conservative estimate of the pres ent value of the dispensary real estate would be $150,000. Accepting that figure would make the dispensary's assets a million dollars with which to meet debts of less than $450,000. Far from being insoivent, if the dis pensary were closed out it could pay every cent It owes and hundreds of thousands of dollars into the school fund, to which it has contributed in the last ten years $1,351,697.65, be sides paying $3,991,325 49 to the towns and counties In that same pe riod, a total of $5,343,023 12. "That is the condition of the dis pensary today. The facts given above sustain my contentianl that the dispensary is in better condition to day than ever before. When I took charge of the dispensary In March, 1904, the dispensary's condition was shown by the following statement compiled on February 29, 1904: Qnlarterly statement of State dis. pensary for quarter ending February 29, 1904: AEsETs. Clash in state treasury Feb 29,1904........ lt1,680.25 Teams and wagons.. .. 64.00 Supplies (inventory Feb 28, 1904).- - --- -- - ---- 34,828.08 Machinery and otfice fix tures..- -- -- -- -- -.---6 ,310.06 Contraband (inventory Feb 29, 1904).. - 1-4-25 Real estate-- -- -- - -- 80 Merchandise In hand~s of dispensers Feb 29, 40588 1904 ------ -- ------ 40588 Merchandise (inventory of stock at State dis pensary, Feb 29: 1904 49003 0~ Suspended accounts... - ,9. personal acczuntts due state for empty bar rels, alcohol, etc.. ..- 5.830. 78 -Total assets.. --..-.-.- ,012,537.98 LIABILITIES. School fund.. ... $ 519,664.12 Personal accounts due by state for supplies, whiekies, wines, beer alcohol, etc... ..... 492.873 86 Total liabilities... ..$1,012 537 98 "It will be notice d bow little cast was on hand at that time. The amount of stock was $890,000 in round figures or $225,000 more than July 21, 1906. Of that stock $250, 000 was represented by an accumula tion of hard stock which had not been worked cif since the institution begsn b: siness. This has bben worked off during my administration, aod the present stock contains hardly $20, 000 worth of anything except new fresh salable goods. This alone rep resents a tremendous improvement of condition in the last two years. "Besides, in the liabilities as repre sented in the statement of Feb 29;h, 1904, there was over $300,000 of ac counts past due, some of them as much as six months cverdue. This condition compared to the statement for the present day ought to be con vincing to any reasonable mind of the improvement of the financial condi tion of the dispensary. "The school fund is not a debt of the dispensary, but its profit and loss account. It is less understood than any other feature of the dispensary. This article is too long to permit me to stretch it further by adding an ex planation of the school fund. I will give such an explanation later in another article." WILIE JONES' STATEDXNT General Wilie Jones also gave out the following statement: "After reading Commissioner Ta tum's statement, and after having ex amined the balance sheet of the books of the institution I say without hesi tation that I regard the present con dition of the finances of the institu tion as in better shape than at any time during the last ten 3ears. I was chairman of the board from April 1st, 1896 to April 1st, 1897, and also a member of the board by appointment of Governor Heyward about six monthe in 1903, and I feel that I am thoroughly familiar with the affairs of the dispensary." (Signed) WILIE JONES. TO PBV. 1T LYNCHING. A Negro to Be Hanged on Board An Oyester Boat. A dispatch from Baltimore, Md., says with the greaest possible secrecy, William Lee, the negro who has been 1 held in the city jail under sentence of death for assaulting two women in l Somerset county, some weeks ago, was on Wednesday placed aboard the steamer Governor R. M. McLane of Ir the Maryland Oyster navy and started e for Somerset county to be executed 8 for his crime. Lee's case has been one of great I iffilty to the authorities owing to t the indignation the crime aroused on d the eastern shore of Maryland. 1; 1 has been repeatedly declared that the citizens of that locality will never allow the negro to be legally executed I and threats of burning at the stake 1 have been freely made. After the|Q rime Lee fied to the eastern shore of t Virginia, and to protect him from|~ Maryland pursuers he was taken toa Norfolk under guard of Virginia StateC roops, thence he was broughtbDack tos he city, tried and convicted prompt-a ly. The law gives a convicted mur derer 20 days between the day of con- I viction and his execution. This I period expired Wednesday. On board the Governor McLane the offiers having Lee in charge took a gallows, coffin and all other necessary I hings, and, It is said that the execu- f tien will take place on board theC steamer as soon as possible after the waters of Somerset county are reach- t ed. This probably will not be until 1 early Friday morning. It is hoped 1 thus to circumvent those who swore 1 to lynch Lee. Beauties of Divorce. A special dispatch to the Agusta Herald from Savannah says a mar rfage that will attract attention all over the state, If not throughout the south was that of Judge H. D). D. Twggs -to Mrs Lucie E. Twiggs. They are now both residents of Sa vannah. It was a remarriage which was attended by the daughter of the contracting parties. Judge T wiggsa was married to the lady who is now again his wife about thirty five years ago in Augusta. About ten or fifteen years ago there came an estrange ment. Judge Twiggs moved to Da-I kota and secured a divorce after a six1 months' residence there. He camei back to Georgia and married another lady, who had been a client of his in Augusta. Since then he has secured a divorce from her. Not long since his love for his first wife was rekin ded and there came a reconciliation. The result was the marriage. Afraid of Toxaway Dam. N. A. Patterson, a brother of Con grssmanrl as. A. Patterson, of Barn well, writes to Governor Heyward from Arden, N. C., calling attention to what he considers the danger to Anderson and other South Carolina counties from the big dam at Lake Toaway. He says the lake is a con stant menace and that residents below it will some day have a Johnstown naod to go through with. Mr. Pat terson also wishes a commissioner of deeds for South Carolina appoined in Asheville. He says-niotarlal fees there are just double their amount in this tate. Finnlaea. Again.. President Roosevelt announces that he is pleased with the campaign plans of the republican congressional o .m mittee which met the president and it was decided that a "stand pat" pro gram was the proper one. Messrs. Taft, Shaw, Cannon and Beveridge were agreed upon the big guns for the stump. The committee will op en headquarters in N. Y. By agree ing to stand pat on the tariff ques tion the President flunks again, as he has been passing as a tariff reformer. Another Battle. A dispatch from Manila says anoth-I er battle has occured between the T wentyfourth Infantry and constab ulary against the bandits in the is and of Leyte. Fifty bandits were kinle and sixty wounded. TWEN Y TWC-KILLE IN A COLLISION ON THE SE X BOARD AIRLINE. moDg the Number are Two Colored People From the Town of Bennettsville. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., says the head-on collision between R ckingham and Hamlet on the Sea board Air Line resulted in the death of 22 persons and the injury of 23. The regular local passenger train was an hour late and instructions were wired from the train dispatchers of fice here to hold it there for an extra freight going west, but for some rea son the order was not delivered. The operator at Rockingham is W. E. Lu tber. The distance between Hamlet and Rcckingham is six miles, and En gineer Bandy of the freight, seeing the approaching passenger train when three miles from Hamlet, stopped his I rain and jumped before the collision, i Tae dead: White. Frank B. Lewis, engineer, o Hamlet; H. S. B;rd, baggage master, Rockingham. Colored: Thomas - Hill, fireman; a Watt Bogan, porter, Adusbor3; Rev. [homas Jones, Rockingham; Gilbert a McFadden, Hamlet; Sandy Caples and wife, Laurinburg; GQart. Harrington's aby; Eater DuPree, Bennettsville, S .; Mazy Land, Bennettsville, S. C.; y ary Bell and child, Rockingham; Hannibal McNair and child, Laurin- g burg; George McLaurin, Hoffman, N. r ).; Jane Russell, Hoffman, N. C.; t Brinker Russell, Hoffman; two un mown men. Two other unknown men died en 'oute to Charlotte oxx special train. The white injured are: J. D Bowden a )f Wilmington, N. C , conductor pas- E ienger train; G. S. Birmingham, v Etockingham, N. C ; E. A. Carter, t Rockingham; E. S. Sandefore of Rtckingham. The colored injured are: George C organ, Rockingnam, N. C ; Cicero 'homas, Laurinburg, N. C.. Oscar ee, Hamlet, N. C ; Gart Henton, C lamlet, N. C.; O-car Fiowers, Liles ille, N. C.; Rich Douglass, Bennetts rille, S. C ; May Douglass, Bennetts- a rile, S. C.; Ivie Oxindine, Lumberton, k T. C.; frank Scott, ; Jim Odom, o ibson, N. C.; Lizzie Bowman, Ham et, N. C.; Perry Clark, Laurinburg, c q. C., Mannie Lee, Hamlet, N. C ; )ctavia Jackson, Hamlet, N. C.; Jane tewart, Laurinburg; James Stewart, h kckingham; Carry McNair, Laurin- b burg; E. A. Radley; Rockingham; une Ridley, Rockingham. The freight train was an extra and ras southbound from R sleigh to Mon oe. Conductor Hunter is not report- a d hurt and Engineer Bundy is very t lightly injured. The mail train was No. 44, running rom Charlotte, N. C., to Wilming- t on. This train was in charge of Con uctor John D. Bowen, formerly of aleigh, and a brother of Capt. J. J. wen of the Southern Express comp. ny here. He was slightly injured. is Cgineer Frank L wis of Hamlet, t 'ireman Thomas Hill of Hamlet, bag- v agemaster H. S. Byrd of Wilming- p n and Porter Bo.gan of Wadesboro la f the crew of this ill-fated train were 11 killed. The baggage car and eight rs of the freight were deraied and me of them piled upon other cars b d crushed to pieces. Why the order was not given to the assenger train at Rookinghama is not nown, and will be investigated by the perintendent of the road. It Is said bat the operator at Rockingham is an perenced man and has beena taith- bl a and careful employe of the company 3 r several years. When news of the isaster reached Raleigh Monday night perntendent Jenks went immedia- s sly to the scene. A train was made p and the injured taken to Charlotte'y a soon as they could be gotten from he wreck. Caskets were sent from t.alegh and other points to Hamlet ~ afd Rockington to receive the bodies ~ f the dead. The Reason Wby. n Backgammon boards are made to ook like books because Euies, bishop f Sicily tried to stamp out backgam- ~ non in the fifteenth century. Eudes e lecided in 1467 that his clergy devot d more lime to backgammon and ~ hess than was good for their spirtu- 9 , welfare, and therefore ordered that ~ I1 brckgammon and chess boards in ;he Sicolian monasteries should be C lestroyed. Toe wily monks only pre ~ented to obey. They bound their oards in calf, put pious titles on their backs, and put them on the ~ ook shelves along with the monastic C works, Thus Endes was satisfied and Ihe monks not deprived of their inno ent games, and thusi arose the cus om of constructing backgammon and 3hess boards to resemble folios. Love Orased. 11 At New York a love loin Italian, I alavtor Dove, ran amuck in West t00bb street Wednesday morning and d in trying to shoot his sweetheart sent ' ullets Into the bodies of three pedes- c brians, two of whom were seriously in- I lured. Dove, who was badly in . love c with Tharesa Lodite, because she ac epted attentions from another man, Wednesday morning he waylaid her J nd fired shots resulting as statedI ove. ________ Aniance Disbands. Pursuant to a call issued by State Secretary J. B, Nesbitt of the Soutb Jarolina Farmers Alliance, a meeting of that organization was held in Co ubia Wednesday night, there being bout 15 present. The alliance ex change fund having been distributed cording to an order cf the supreme ourt, the members decided to formal ly disband, thus ending an organIza ton that was at one time one of the most powerful in the South. Fatal Accident. A special to The Macon Telegraph from Ls G:ange, Ga., says: "'Tnis 1 afternoon while young Willie Stewart, I in the employ of the King Hardware I ompany, was showing a customer a I chisel, he dropped it in a catse of dyna mite, causing an explosion. Stewart was killed and several other men int thestore were badly hurt. The stock of goods valued at *250,0, was badly damaged and the storehouse, Masonic 1 hall and the Elm City club rooms, all r ovi-head, a badly damaged. 4 WHERE IS II? Ninety-Six Sailors On a Myster ious Island That NO ONE CAN LOCA.TE. )n This Island May be Living Command er Hunt and the Crew of the United Staten Man-of- War That Disappeared Long Ago. Hardly a year passes that the Presi !et of the United States is not im ortuned to send forth a naval exped tion to solve the most fascinating sea systery that ever existed-and this ne has baffled all inquiry for nearly alf a century. If "Robinson Crusoe" is the most bsorbing piece of sea fiction ever Irn iten, irw much more interesting rould be the authentic record of ad. entures of no less than ninety six tobinson Crusoes all cast away on the me uncharted island in the North 'aclfi forty-six years ago. Whenever sea-faring veterans con regate to exchange experiences and aminlscences the probable fate of his whole ship's crew of Crusoes is a svorite subj ct for speculation. "Aye, aye, Captain," says a griz led old second officer of a tramp eamer, "I remember the Levant as rell as if I'd seen her comin' up the .ay only yesterday. In those days she ,as a man o' war to be proud of. The nited States had few stauncher. The rhole crew lost, you say, Bill? Not a it of it. Pitcairn's not the only un parted island to show up jus.t in time save a shipwrecked crew." "Right you are, Mate," says the aptain, "and there's still a patch out i the Pacific south of 20 north lati de and east of longitude 14C as big 3 the State of Maine that nobody nows any more about than they do the North Pole. You all know at's about where the Levant got iught by the typhoon back in '60." "That's the idea, Captain. It there's D island in that patch, says I, why asmncbody ever run across the wooden ull of the old Levant, or any of her .atin' junk?" THE TELL-TALE MAINMAST. "Except her mainmast that stranc I on Kaalualu in the Hawaiians," 6a Bill, making a historical correc "That stranded spar goes to prove . hat I'm tellin' ye," says the old amp second cmeer. Why was noth L' but the mainmast of the Levant rer seen afterwards? Well, I'll tell . The mainmast went overboard hen the typoon fust struck her, an' ,id a clear curse for Hawaii. But ie officers maugged to keep the Le ut's nose p'inted sou' sou'east for anama till this here undiscovered is ad bobbed up, caught her fast on a >ral reef an' made Robinson Orusoes everybody aboard." Such, In a nutshell, are the possi ilities-perhaps, even, the possibill es-regarding the fate of the offcers id crew of the Levant. Commander William E. Hunt, with netyfive offcers and men, started 'ith the sloop-of-war Levant from ila, Hawaiian Islands, on Septemn r 18, 1860, bound for Panama via se Calfornia coast. These were the icers under Commander Hunt: Leutenant--McB. S. Porter, E C iout, Colville Jerrett and R. T. Bo en. Surgeons-J. S. Gillliam and 'illam Bradley; Purser, Andrew J a~tson; Master, James C. Mosely; irst Lieutenant of M~trines, P. L. rowning; Acting Boatswain, Harr ) Edmonston; Gunner, Robert S. :ing; Carpenter, John Jarvis; Sail iker, Charles S. Frost. The offcial early records of the Le ant's disappearance are brief, but in restng and significant. Command r . B. Mongomery, United States 'agshp Lancaster at Panama. The >llowng are from Montgomery's re orts to Washington from his flag bip waiting In the Bay of Panama: 'Nov. 20, 1860-I have recently re elved letters from William E. Hunt. bat the Levant is now ready and on s way to this port." "January 31, 1861-The Saranac nd Wyoming will proceed In search f the Levant, to Hilo and Honolulu. he unusual length of time since saI g produces serious apprehension for er safety." "February 13, 1861-No word yet. urricane last September dismasted n American clipper, and H. B. M. ne of battleship Ganges had her sails lown from the yards. "A letter from Commander Hunt, ated September 3. 1860, stated he roula start from Hilo in ten or twelve ays. It is now known that he sailed rom ilo September 18, wIthout hange of purpose to return to this "February 14, 1861-Commander .K. Mitchell, of the Wyoming, at [llo, reports his cruise from Panama. Io word, except that Hunt Intended o take the usual Northern route to >a~nama, via the coast to California, o get the record of his work before longress." "June 8, 1861--Thomas Miller, U. .Consul at Hilo, reports a mast rashed ashore seventy-five miles from here, supposed to be the mainmaat f the Levant. Charles Spencer, Isaac ~ihols and Christopher Baker ex mined this mast of yellow pina and ironounced it to be that of the Le 'ant. Part of a lower yard five feet In Ircumference at the slings was found iear the mast. Consul Miller and W. . Parks, Marshall at Ribo, confirm his opinion. Baker was the pilot who >iloted the Levant In and out of Hilo iarbor, and'he had the dimensions of er masts and spars." ACT OF CONGREss JULY 24, 1861. "June 3), 1881, shall be deemed and aken to be tne day on which the 'loop of war Levant foundered at sea." This act of Congress, implying that be Levant, having "foundered," was rreparably loss with all her crew, fail d to r any curain of oblivion over the incident. The mystery took too deep a hold on the imagination for it to be allowed to sleep, forgotten. Every nation whose flag floated over the highways of the North Pacific saw its shipi menaced by the unknown. Here was a vast area of ocean into which their ships were liable to be blown by storms which was absolutely unknown, lying well off the beaten track of nav igation, and possibly made hazardous by the presence of characteristic coral reefs and island which in the Pacific are generally so low as not to be visi ble until a ship is almost upon them. The gres ter part of this unknown area still exists. It is to the south and east of the route from San Fran cisco to Australia, and to the south of all the routes from the Hawaiian Is. lands to Panama and to Callao. Wha lers had explored it only tentatively, noting certain islands, some of which remain mythical to expeditions which made systematic search for them. The al most absolute silerce and mys tery about the disappearance of the Levant, especially, as the years rolled on, the fact that no trace of the wreck appeared, beyond the stranded mainmast and yard, inspired every sailine master traversing those waters with a firm belief that the Levant had ast her crew upon some land, herself linging fast upon the rocks which caught her. Between 1827 and 1839 this un known region had been somewhat nar rowed by cruises of three British and ne American expeditions. All of these expeditions reported indications of shoal water and urged the need of fur ther investigations. Daring sixty years, however, no further progress was made. In 1899 the Fish Commis lion steamship Albatross traversed part of the doubtful region and re ported seeing several lowlying islands, !v'dently the same that exist in wha irg annals. OQe year before the loss of the -Le rant Captain John de Greaves, sailing Prom Hoaoluiu to Callao, reported the li every of an island at longitude L3.64nd north latitude 17, which was ibout fifty feet high and two miles .ong. This island was so near the route of the Levant that it she had :eached that neighborhood in the 1gtit she might easily have been wrecked upon it. The latest effort of the United states Government to dispel the mys ery of the Levant was made in 1903, when President Roosevelt dispatched the Tacoma out on an expedition of liscovery. All that the Tacoma did was to narrow the unknown region lown to an area of about the extent )f the State of Maine. It discovered o island where there were visible gns of a wreck, or which were inhab ted. The Tacoma negatively dispos sd of several island theories, but not ,f the possibility of the existence of we upon which the aged Robinson )rusoes of the Levant may now be i ng. Ole of the great characters of fic ;ion is popularly supposed to be among ;hese castaways-Philip Nolan, the )athetic hero of Eiward Everett ale's "Man Without a Country," whom the author disposed of aboard he Levant. Captain Lawless, in writing of his cruise, mentioned re selving a letter from the aged author af that masterpiece in which he said: "If you have fou'nd dear Phil No an, bring him at once. to this kcuse; [will adopt him as my grandfather." The great historical analogy for the heory that members of the crew of ~he Levant are still alive on some iknown island Is the existence of ~he colony on Pitcairn Island, in the outh Pacifie, these people being de cndants of the crew of the Bounty, nich mutinied more than a century ~go and were wrecked on that Island, here to exist for eighteen years be ore their fate was discovered and nade known to the world. These Bounty mutiness for nearly a ~core of years were genuine R ibinson rusoes, subsisting wholly upon fish Lnd the other sea food, the birds and mimals aud the fruits which the is and afforded. The Levanters were, perhaps, able so save part of the wreck of their ship from which to build huts, and some )f the stores, including clothing. If these old men are now clothed at ill must be with the skins and feathers )f birds, or even woven grasses, or per aaps the woven fibre of the outer husk af the cocoanut. It is possible that there were seeds aboard the Levant wd that this colony of Crusoes has been able to cultivate the soil as a means of varying their supply of fish, irds, eggs, turtles and so on. Pjs sily the salvage of the ship's chrono meter may still give them the time af day. As at least a score of th;:m must have been men of education, loubtless they have kept diaries which contain records of their strange ex perences from day to day. But the mystery of the lost Levant and his crew, and also of the great un explored region, is too fascinating for ttempts to solve it to cease until svery square mile of those latitudes has been scrutinized. Even ten yearsI from now, if the fatal island is fouand it is within the possibilities that some broken, half savage old men may be rescued to tell civilization the true story of the loss of the Levant and of their long and wonderful exile. Caught Up With. Anna Nolan, a negress, employed at Lauderdale Springs hotel, forty miles from Meridian, Miss., was arrested Wednesday morning charged wioh an attempt at wholesale poisoning c-f the proprietor, attaches and guests .f the hotel by placing a anantity of R .ugh on s.ts in the coffee ser ved Thursday The woman had a grievarnce against the proprietor. Two of the guests are reported very Ill from the effects of the poison. Eloped With White Girl. Henry Ulayter, the negro arrested in Chicago where he was about to marry a white girl with whom he had eloped from Irvington, Ky., was placed In the county jail at Laursville for safe keeping. Word was received by the police that a mob was forming at Irvington to lynch Clayter. Grave it Utp. Jerry Miller a saloonkeeper of Bris tol, Tenn., upon receiving word that he had fallen heir to mining p-operty worth $2,000,000,000 gave his saloon to his barkeeper and announced that he would never sell another drop of an intoicting beveraget DENATURE ALCOHOL. SURPLUS FRUITS AND VEGE TABLES AND WASTE STUFF Can Be Made Into Material for Eeat ing, Lighting and Eunning Engines. "The passage of the denature alco hol bill by Congress at its recent ses- 1 sinn is one of the best and most help ful measures ever gotten through that 1 body. Many persons do not fully un derstand the real help that is to come from this bill, but when they learn that denatured alcohol can be used for the same purpose that gasoline is, c they will understand in a measure-the g great benefits that we may reasonably t expect to derive from it," says Mr. Sigo Meyers. of Savannah, -Ga., who t has given the matter a great deal of a thought and his views on the subject t are of more than ordinary interest "I am reliably informed that dena C tured alcohol can be produced at a cost of from 6 to 10 cents per gallon, a and I know that the processes of mak- h ing it are not very difficult, and in fact are in reach of any farmer of or linary means. Tnough every farmer has not sufficient quantities of raw material for making such an enter. prise profitable yet in each neighbor- d nood there is a plenty of material a that is wasted every year to make these plants paying from the very E tart. Denatured alcohol can be made from any fruits, corn and all grain, h Sugar cane, potatoes, beets and a doz- v m other vegetables. - "It has occured to me that the best hing to do with the large surplus h fruit and vegetable crops of the state would be to convert them into dena tured alcohol. When this is done we have at hand the fuel forrunning our h utomobles, our small power plants, b md instead of burning coal or wood Lt high price we can use our cheap u md inexpensive alcohol for cooking md lightning, heating purposes and for many other uses. I should not go b further with this interview before tating the fact that.denatured aco ol is poison and cannot be used as a everage any more so than gasoline or erosene-in fact, a very small quan City taken internally produces aeath; xence it is that no one, no matter k ow religious, could object to its man ifacture as it positively cannot be ised as a beverage. "The passage of this bill was a di rect.thrust at the Standard Od, which fought its enactment into law with ill of the powerful forces at its cam-n and. The farmers of the country were behind the bill and when these orne handed sons of til gave the word it went on the statute books. Denatured alcohol, you see, is destin id to rob the Standard Oil of a good R Seal of the profits it is now making T )n gasoline. Denatured alcohol will h )e used in a thousand different lines >f art, with which chemists and skill ,d artisans are familiar and with which the general public have little dea. EvenlIknow of only afewtuses t can be put to, even these few de nonstrate the fact that Its use will >ecome general in the United States .n a short time. "I am of the opinion that It will beg early a year before the government it will be able to permit the opening of ~hese plants. In the meantime the b eal benefits that may be expected ~rom the passage of this bill will be ome the subject of favorable corn-0 nent in every section of the country,~ mud when- the government is ready ~ or opening of these plants there will me a thousand of them ready to begin r musiness. Commissioner ,Tohn W. Terkes of the Internal Revenue De partment, has gone abroad where hed will study the methods of handling hese plants by other governments. Kost, If not all of the Important for-y ign governments do not tax denatur- ~ ad alcohol, andit is saidthat in Ger nany, for Instance, that It has been >f great benefit to the small manu acturer, and that it has done a great eal towards making Germany one of Ghe leading manufacturing countries >f the world. I look for it to haves much the same effect in the Uniteda Sttes, and 1 am certain that no sec-a Gion of country will be benefited so much from the cheap power thus made possible as will the South. e "It may be generally understood n but at this time the regular alcohol y now in use is taxed at the rate of o about $2 a gallon. Under the bill just a passed this tax is entirely removed. A s I have stated it will admit of the a farmer utilizing every spare ounce of , the fruit and vegetable produces of a bis farm which under the old law was , not permissible, as so few could afford b to pay the tax to manufacture. In ci a~ddition the demand for denatured tj alcohol at the price It had to be sold was so inslgficant that no one cared a to manufacture It. It is now worth e in the open market about 82.50 per j gallon. When the present bill becom- c es of force, say a year hence, it will be e sold at retail around 20 cents per gal- b ion and by the barrel at a much small- e er prica. I look for a new and more prosperous era of Industrial activity I all through the country, and the man b who is going to be the recipient of ,a the greatest benefits is the sturdy and y hard headed farmer, in every section a of the country." Both Shot. Mrs. H. A. Leaptrot was shot and instantly killed and her husband probably fatally wounded Thursday; night while sitting on the porch of ( their residence near Cherry Valley, 6 Aik. The shooting was done by t three mounted men who fired from I the front gate. The five Woolbright I brothers were arrested on the charge a of omplicity. Two years ago Leapt rot killed a member of the Woolbrlght E family. _______ Double Buicide. At Marion, Oaio, 0. G. Johnston, aged 24, was found dead Wednesday. Ten days before Johnston quarreled y with his sweetheart, Cora White, f: as the result of which she committed I suicide by taking carbolic acid. John- c ston also took carbolic acid, and to y makea the endlsure turned on the gas. 3 MANY ARE RUINED BY BUT ING LND SELLING COTTON FU1UBES. . Bow It Ruined a Strong Man Who Was Immune Against Other Bad Habits. A few years ago a certain capable awyer living in a well known Georgia own, might well have been selected a the one citizen most likely to dis inguish himself and reflect honor up n his community. He was thirty Ive years of age, happily married, and odestly boasted that he did not :now the taste of whiskey nor tobac o. He owned his home,. and some 'ood farms, made a good income from ds practice, published a county paper, nd discharged efficiently the duties f county-school commissioner. Hay ag been a member of the State Sen. te, he had had his little fling in poli ls. As he had made a good record a the legislature, and retired with ncorrupted habits, one might have oncluded him staunch and safe. Big f body, he was otherwise big of brain nd big-hearted. It seemed to gite Im pleasure to help the needy; he ave cordially to the support of his aurch. Today that man is a fugitive from stice. Several indictmsnts charg ig embezzlement, cheating and swan ng, forgery and other kindred dmes yawn as an open prison door a the docket book of nis county. [e dares not face .the court where ace his ekquience and logic shared onors with mne keenest criminal ad ocate in the state. A strong man mght in the current of the under )w He was a strong man; e was a good man; at1 ie age of thirty-five he did not pose as the elements even of villainy. [e had been reared on a farm, and ad wrought his way to prominence y sheer merit.:, He was worthy of a the confidence the people reposed i him. What caused his ruin? The mania sell and buy cotton futures in a acket shop of his town. The same i isidious, strong right arm of the eil which is blasting more homes ad blackening more souls in our outh today than the rum shops. He new this .arrent was dangerous. ethers embarking weaker than he, he new must faint, but surely with his iperience, his leal learning, his ber life, he could trust himself to peer safely through treacherous coals. Serene in his confidence; he egan to play the game. In a small ay at first. The habit grew on him spidly. When losses came larger than his wn funds could cover, he could bar )w from the trust funds in his hands ad no one should ever know-if he ,on and replaced It.- Then, lost gain. The game grew desperate. 'o q-ilt now meant poverty and sonme umiliation. The luck must turn; he at the hour had struck to recoup his ases. 1Id he have "nerve" onough >act on his judgment? Yes, he had erve; why throw away the goldn op ortunity when only a few "conven onalities" stood between him and ae money for the stake. Confident st his time to win had come, he athered every dollar that he could rrow by process fair or foil', staked ion the game-and lost. Honor, sputaton, cenaraoter,- 1l lost! Per sp his eternal soul los. Tnere remained to him choice of 1ly three sources. Suicide? The eklng's refuge I He was young >t, and a mental collossus. No, he as weaing; he would live. Sur nder? The honest course, to be1 re, but he could not make restitu on, and without restitution, surren er meant long and weary years in ison, and a fag end of life beyond rcely worth while. Flight? Oh, s; if he fly far enough and hide1 fey he mightlive as a free man, erhaps repent, succeed in buness cder a new name, and by and by re irn what he had stolen. He fled, Ly he repent, prosper and restore. But why speak of the sad case? 'here's reason enough when one sees ie ncreasing number of bucket iops opening up in our cities and ad towns.1 Some Good aavice. At Jefferson City, Mo., Gov. Joe-1 ph W. Folk, in addressing tne retail ierchants of Missouri at their con enton there, spoke against the mall rder business and favored advertis ig In town papers. He said, in part: We are proud of our splendid cities, nd we want them to increase in reaith and population, and we also ant our country towns to grow. We rish the eity merchants to build up, ut we also desire the country mer tiants to prosper. I do not believe in tie mail order citizen' If a place is ood enough f~r aman toilive in and Smake his money in, It Is good nough for him to spend his money i. bo merchant can succeed with at advertising in one way or anoth r. Patronize your town papers, ald them up, and they will build tie town up and build yon up Increas trade and greater oppurtunitles. )o not be afraid that business is go ig to be hurt by recent exposures of rrong- doing in the commercial world. ro man who is doing an honest busi e can be injured by the light. All usiness will be better for the cleans ig process it is going through and r the stamping out of evil." They Muass (o. At Atlanta the lower house of the reorgia legislature Wednesday pass d what Is known as the Boykin An 1-Buckethop bill by a vote of 132 to 5, after the longest debate of the resent session. The hill prohibits 11 dealings In futures on margin and ill close all bucketshops, exchanges, to, in the state. The bill goes to he senate where It is expected It will F'eU Overboard. Walter Ormond; a prominent law er of Atlanta, Ga., fell overboard rom the Kansas City offt the coast-of forth Carolina, on Thursday night n his return from Xear York to Sa annab, and was drowned, He was 5 ars of saa. TOUCKS FAILED In an Effort to Make Governor Glenn Pardon A BOWERY SWINDLER Who Was Serving a Sentence in the North Carolina Penitentiary for Working His Rascallj Schemes on Some Citizens of the Old North State. A dispatch from Atlantic City, l. J., says: Governor Bbert D. 1lenn, of North Carolina, discussed nardedly Friday night the report of ais having been held up by a gang of Iammany men In New York City and threatened with injury if he refused to sign a pardon for a Bowery swind fr, who was serving-a sentence in the North Carolina penitentiary. The fact that a Governor had been ubjected to such an outrage has been uppressed carefully for a year for ear of creating undesired political )rejudices. The hold-np episode, as related by hose close to the Givernor, occurred while he was the guest of . Tammany Sall as one of the orators at the i'ourth of July celebration last Sum ner. Governor Glenn and Lieuten. nt-Governor Sanders, of Louisiana mother guest, at the conclusion o he ceremonies were invited to join, a )arty going to Coney island. There was a deliberate effort, ac ording to the Governor, to get him trunk, several of the party being in icxicated. The Governor, however, fad been discreet and was unaffected. L'hey stopped at Henderson's restaur mat and wine was ordered. Scarcely had they seated themselv s when one of the men-a district eader, it is said-drew from his pock it a legally drafted pardon in favor f a gold-brick artist named Halsey r Halstead, then doing time in Raleigh, North Carolina, but whose ieadqaarters' were between the Bat ery and Fourteenth street. Thinking the Governor was suE dently Jovial to sign anything by that rime, the leader remarked: "Just a tavor, Governor. We would Ike you to sign this and let that man some back to New York." G,,vernor Glenn told the4eader that i petition had been presented to him last before he left home for that man's pardon; that he had looked -.. Into the case, and had decided in the negative. He was sorry, bat he could not reverse himself then, even to )blige his ho3ts. The man is reported o have become ugly, and shouted hat the Governor would not get out dlive if the pardon was not signed. Some allege that a revolver was bran liehed. The Governor rose from the tiable ind said. "If I have any .friends In this irowd, 1 wIsh they would come on this lde of the table, for tihere's likely to me something doing here pretty-soon." "'Tll stiand by you Governor," re sponded ideutenant-Governor Sanders. L'he remainder of the party assumed mn attitude of helpless intoxicatilon. "Now, gentlemen, do your worst," a the reported challenge by Governor Hlenn. "I'll see you in hell before I'll lgn tihat pardon," The politicians refused to carry out he bluff of keeping the Governor as a iostage for the convict, and he strode mts of the building nnmolested Ee* returned to his hotel and paid iis own expenses. Tao gold-brick swindler died In >rison a few we~k~s ago and his wife bpplied to the Governor for permission o take thle body from the State for ntermenti. In recounting her efforts io obtain freedom for her nusband she onfessed she had arranged to have he Governor invited to New York and a overwnelmed with kindness that he ould not deny her a pardon. "The truth of the matter was this," hat the Governor T huar sd ay lght. "After makring an address at ,he Tammany meeting, I went out with a party of men tio see the town. L'hey were not Tammany men so far bS I know, but they did tiry to get me trunk. "Afterward, I learned that these non had been engaged by the wife if the man In our penitentiary to get ne drunk so that I could be induced 0o sign a pardon. "Instead of begging or requesting ne to sign a pardon, they made an mmediate demand, and they were lownright insolent about It, t10o. "Well, sir, I just picked up my 3ati, tiurned on my heel and walked ut. I cannot tell you who they were." DENIES THE STOEY. A dispatch from Baleigh says lovernor Glenn expr.esses just indig aetion at the publication made In the New York American, reprintied a some of the State papers about what Is declared to have been an at. tempt on the part'of certain Tam many leaders on tihe occasion of'the ~overnor's visit to New York some months ago, to force the Governor of NTorth Carolina to sign a pardon for Eawley, one of the noted "gold brick" sonvicts. Ho says tihe whole publica sion Is a tissue of les and that he told she representatives of certain papers my whom it has been reprinted that this was the case. Iti would seem that the purpose of the publication m the the part of the New York paper was to discredit Tammany, whose guest Governor Glenn was while in New York, on that occasion. The article was sent out from Atlan tic City while the Governor was thee some days ago and told the represen tatives of tihe New York p'aper who ient it, there was no tiruth in tihe artiicle.____ ___ six as a Birth. At Kingston, Wiliamsonn county, Tenn., a negress Thursday gave birth to si children. The children were n211 alive at the last acconts.