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VOL. XXI. MANN ING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 181907. NO. 20. HE LIKED I. What Julian lawthorne Says About Tillman's Speech "RE SHOWED A MIND. Which, When Thoroughly Artused, Can Rise to a Height of Indignaion and insight to Which Not Many Men Under Any Circum stances Attain." Senator Tillman's great speech in the United Siates Senate last-month has been fearfully misrepresented and the Senator himself has beer held up to riducule by some of the State papers for criticizIng some of his fellow Senators. Last week we published an extract from that speech giving the Senators views on a cer- t tain crime for which black fiends are generally lynched. There is hardl) a white man in the South but what endorses the view expressed in that extract. Below we publish what .ulian Howthorne says of Tillman's great speech in the Sanate. In writ Ing to the New York American Hawthorne says: Today will be remembered lorg by thase who have followed the course of the Senate in Washington, and many a years from today Students of our na tional Congress, and men whozilsh to C read for themselves how much of the t ancient energy and elcquence which I made It renowned In the era of Clay a and Webster, Calhoun and Benton, 1 will find in the latest utterance cf 4 Tillman, of South Carolina, words and thoughts which will eake them know that there is still at leet one ' statesman left who Las force, sincer t Ity and that natural and spontaneous a elcquence which is seldom heard at any time, but which, when it is beard, ( stamps itself upon the mind and feel- t ings in a way which time can not % efface. Tillman, as noted last week, has e kept silent since the remarkable at- a tack upon him of Senator Spooner, in the latter's plea for the Presidert. in C regard to the Brownsville out..-ge. r But toe longer he kept silepce .;he a more conviDcEd did those who know a his character feel, that, when his g time came, he would make himself U felt. EVERY SEAT FTRLLD. 0 Accordingly, when it was runored this morning that he wcu'd address the Senate, every seat in the galleries 1 was filled, and the crowds In the cor ridors stood packed like commuters a at the entrances to Brooklyn B:idge - in Ne% York. e The Senators themselves found it I convenient to leave their chatungs a and Intrigues in the lobby and com mittee rooms, and nearly every one of them will be able to tell his grznd children, if be have any, that he was 0 present on this memorabe occeme.n. Not a fe~w of them beard things about themselves, which there as no ta ikelihooI of their ever forgettiog; ie and if they might otherwise ilead forgetfulness, the press and the Con- , stitution would find means to remuind t them. Such an arraignment, It is safe to 3 say. has not been heard betore in the a annals of the body, and while it was a filled with caustic essence of a grIm o humor, there was yet such earnet tess5 a end meaning in it, that the lau-,.ter a was mingled with that uncanni feel- I ing which ever attends the utterance a of truth, in surrcundings more used p to listen to ccmprcomises and nordl juggling. s Tlllman's grasp on the entire situa tion before him was remarkable and a showed a mind which, whenthorc ugh- b 1l aroused, can rise to aheight of in- i dignation and Insight to which not p many men under any circmustances can attain. Had Tillman never t spoken before, or were this hia last g utterance, he would be spoken of in q the records s capable of great per- t ception, dauntless courage, and, what s Is more than these, of sound and , weighty statesmanship I TOWERED ABOVE COLLEAGUES. C He towered above him colleagues; he asked and gave no quarter, and yet nothing that he said could be termed unjust or unfar. 30o one was ever in doubt what he meant by vwhat he said; and his blows resounded on headpleces and on breastplates, but were never aimed to take adv. ntage of weakness- or to wound by foul means. The Senacor is now, I believe, sixty t years of age, but he has only r:gened and gained strength with the p-osing of the years, and now proves b aself to be a man who must serioL'ly be i reckoned with, and who, whatever bei the machinations against him of the politicians, will be trusted by the people at large as one who spears the inmost feelings of their own bearts,. and who is prepared to resist i ouble dealing and chicanery In their behalf, without regard to the power er In fluence of those who may oppo:: him. When he rose it was seen th-at he had the notes of his opening rercarks beside him, but the maner In which he pronounced them detracted noth ing from their e ffect. He summn!oned to the bar of his Senatorial sp rcasm and invective one after anouer of thcse who had participated in the debate of the foregoing weeks, and when he had finished with them they had been marked each cre for life. Taking his cue from some clever press man's observation that he was "the burnt cork artist of the Senate," he proceeded to char.aeter Ize his colleagues as reprenenltlfg other mEmbers of the colored min strel troops. SHA RP AND FUNGENT STROKES. It was capitally done, at~d the strokes with which he painted his sketches were sharp and purgent as the etcher's lines, and as full e i color as the fibres of a Rubens or a Rem brand;. It was upon Senators on his own side of the chamber, that he ex pended the greater part of his assault; but whenr a Republican happiened to cem i wthin range, he showed that tis *-3 i - biting and brillant aS me m it ardent. Democrat could nv,: weshed it Joe" was as fully equal to his duties at the Minstrels" assuredly, he said, "Fire Alarm oe" was a fully equal to his duties at the other end. Between them, they had adequately performed the Orlando and the Furicso both. (ulberson was pictured as the bone-soloist celebrat ing the President; Daniel was the brilliant and courtly orator, who wqrked his rhetoric overtime, and then came that "Dying Swan," "SMiling Tom," of Colorado, the State recently bought by one Gug genteim at auction, and whose swan icng was a dirge for the dying Demo racy of the North, stabbed to death by Bsn's pitotfork. Very pathetic was his act, Tillman declared, And would bring tears to the eyes of the most callous audience. TEE OTSrUR OF DEBATE And then twere was tue redoubt Lble knight of TennesseS, Carmack, who aforetime had bein a very Bot pur of debate, whose spear had rung :brough upon the visor of the Usur ,er at the White House, and who, in nany an onset, had set the sparks ying; but now his spearhead was >roken off, and he himself had been inhorsed, and ere retiring from the Ists he had decorated his headless weapon with a garland of flowers, to ay at the feet of Roosevelt, the All orquering, who whistles Demccratic enators to attend his pleasure at the Yhite House and lick the hand that mad ro often smote them. His pecialty is a song, "Renominate our dol, and give us back our platform., The speaker next depicted Lodge a the habitual communicant over he wire with the Executive, a true hameleon in his ability to repeat I he changes of color at the White I louse, who represented the home of be Sacred God, where their Adams ote for Douglas, and where Ldge , Imself, lite Enoch, walks with the1 lmighty. Clay figures as the pompadour artist, rho answers no questions, but trusts 3 D his voice to carry c3nvlction to his udience. "Gunshoe Bill from Missouri" 5tone) was the star artist of the roupe, dancing highland flings on t be top rail of the fence, but whoseA ost strking feat was walking on ggs without iver breaking their 2ells. And, to wind up, we have the jug. f er from Wisccnsin, of international putation, the supple, sly and foxy srtbat, who, having aforezime been lawyer, was noted for his ability to 0 et on both sides of any question, and t y sing alto, bass, tenor and soprano. e While Tillman was mating this part his attack he turned directly to ard Spooner, who hid his embarrass- g Lent, If he felt rny, under the guise taki.g nctes,.but who, at the time. U ade no attempt at a rejoinder. And b ter finishing the sarcastic part of is arraignment, Tillman assumed a t raver tone, and spoke with great a irce of the "unprecedented action -a Ad utterances" of a man whom he 0 d for ten years believed to be hi - b lIend at heart, in spite of the knight- * tilts against each other in the pen iists of debate. | "MY NATU RE TO BE OUTSPOKEN.' | g "With me," he said, "our clashes e idebate have left no bitterness 01 5: cfriendlness heretofore, and I had d ipcsed the case to be the same I 'Ithihim. But 1 am forced to feel E it I have in some way earned the alious enmity of the Senator: and | Rf-respect ccmpels me now to comi- o tnt upon his latest utterances. It a but my nature to be blunt ana titspoken, and Defer have I taught ~ tv tngue double dealing; if there 1 e any vice which more than another I abhor in men, it is hypocrisy ; and 1 m myself too old to begin now to| ractice it. I "Last week, during the Senator's C peech, after I had several times at imoted in vain to be heard in my I n r efence, it dawned upon me that i e had in cold blood brought mattersd a this pass, in order to carry out ad reconceived plan. C "Having cut me off in a curt and rutal fashion-I had almost said un entelemanly-ae read me a lecture, I noted from my remarks in this a ody, and from alleged extracts Of my I peeches in the newepapers, and I rhile deprecating the unpleasantC rork he was doing, excused himself a the plea of 'public duty.' He hadc een 'Led off," he repeatedly declared, cm the orderly course of the debate. I "A most excellent piece of acting," c iclaimed Tiliman, with savage scorn, c 'worthy of Uriah Heep in his most amble moments. Patroniza Home Merchants. ] ,ust at this time the mail order ouses are setive in flooding the coun ry with big handsomely gftten up pring cataiegues, quoting attractive rices on staple articles and making] 11 sorts of big scunding claims for our cash. They do not offer to ex ange their goods for the farmers' ggs, poultry, butter or other produce.1 ~hey don't trust a penny's worth, but cake you pay cash before you get the: oods and the freight besides. if any hng is wrong with the goods or they lo not suit, they will not exchange hem for you. They pay no taxes into tour city or county breasury, with hich our schools are maintained, cads, bridges and sidewalks built. Ehey do not contribute to our itiurches, charitable institutiOns, nor o our poor. Think of these things efore sending your morney off to the listant mail order houses. Poisoned Candy Sent Girl. Was it a jealous rival who sant a box of poisoned candy Friday night to Miss Margaret Windle. a pretty cashier in a State street department store in Chicago. Miss Windle and her mother think so, and the police are inclined to agree with them. Miss WIndle sad her mother narrowly es caped from eating the candy. A boy delivered the package at the Windie home, handing It in wIthout comment and hurrying away. Both Miss Win de end her mother helped themselves from the bcx and were made very sik. Miss Windle gave ahe police the name of a girl she suspected, say ing she and her former friend quar reled over a young man whom both amired. WHO SHOT HER? A Murder Mystery at a Country Wedding Serenade. As THE PRETTY BRIDE Opened the Door to Bow to the Sere naders Somebody Fired a Shot From the Darkness That Robbed the Waiting Bridegroom of His Lovely Bride. Sinee Christmas Eve the quiet New England village of Ira, Vermont, has been terrorized as though a Franken stein monster were stalking the coun ry roads. For over a month two young wo men have lain at death's door, stricken lown by the diabolical hand of an un. mown fiend. One was a bride, snatched from her musand's arims in the first hour of his *edded bliss. This singular crime occurred on Jhristmas Eve. On that evening retty, winsome Mary Parker, the ineteen-year-old daughter of Farmer rohn C. Parker, was married to Onas. Rlmore, the son of a neighboring armer. The Parker farm house was full of iappy visitors, showering congratu ations and good wishes on bride and room. At length, amid the laughter md chatter, singing and music, there ras heard a noisy blowing of horns i ad banging of tin pans in the road utside. 'A horning party," cried somebody, d ,ad there was a rush for the door to :ive the boisterous serenaders a wel ome in hospitable country style. Charles Gilmore, the groom, with t he dainty bride of an hour, advanced 1 oward the door to acknowledge the alute and to give the serenaders an avitation to come inside. As the pretty bride opened the door f o bow to the serenaders and the light a loded her figure, a flash and a shot n ame out of the darkness. t With a scream the bride fell into Aer husband's arms. The right sleeve f I her wedding gown had suddenly g rned red. The warm blood spatter- a d her bodice and the bunch of pure t rhite roses at her corsage. t It trickled down her white skirt to hLe floor in a sickening food. It even I plashed upon the shirt front and e pon the face of the horror-stricken y usband. ri There was a momentary hush, as fi de company stood transfixed with b we. Then a second at ot rang out, t] na Mrs. Henry Gilmore, kister-in-law p f the bride, fell to the floor, with n ood streaming from her arm and g oulder. t) A yell of raw riot rose from the men b, nests, whlle the girls and women areamed and fainted. The men rush d out dcors after the fiendish assa in or assassins, who had paraded un- 1 er the guise of friendly serenaders. E ~ut in the darkness of the winter og ight they had vanished like ghosts. I s The lover-husband, crazed and fran- I e Ic with grief, at first thought only jtj f his belos ed, snatched from him in le hour of his supreme happiness. ! In his arms he carried her to what ji ras to have been her bridal bed. Her p tfe blood was fast ebbing away. The tupor of death seemed upon her, a A physician, hurriedly summoned, I topped the flow of blood for the mo-|1j aent and gave some hopes of her re- - overy. But It was a terribly cruel n round. The girl's fair, round arm t: Lad been almost shot away, the bone l i racture:1 between the arm and shoul er. Only her corset side-steel had a teected the bullet,. from its fatal lb ourse toward her heart. I When the young husband, almost ja lemented with grief and rage, had a line to regain his self-possession, andli ,ter the vain pursuit of the sere- m maders. he tried to think who could' s 'ave had a motive for the Inhuman. eed. ,ealousy was the first thought that s ame Into his mi -d. He suspected,a t first, a neighbor and a suppoSd a riend, Andrew Farrell, a young manr if twenty, his own age. He made a I omplaint to the town oflicers and arrell was arrested on the charge of sault with intent to kill. He was aken to the House of Correction at utand. t When the enormity of the crimee sine to be considered, it seemed al nost inconceivable that young Far ell could be guilty of it. He is a !rank, honest-locking young man,j ;opular among his fellows and of good rputation. Taking these things into account, md also the growing Imprassion In he community that some other, more E rilanous hand had str ack down the roung bride, State Attorney R. A. awrence changed the charge against1 rarrell to cne of simple assault, and put him under $1,000 bond to appear before the March term of the grandi lury, The principal evidence against Far rell is that he was recognized, by Chas.1 Qlmors, the groom, among the more r less disguised band of serenaders. ] Had there been but one shot fired it might be looked upon as an accident,j and the person who did it would prob ably have come forward and confessed, with the usual excuse of thinking the gun contained only blank cartridges. But there were two shots, fired in de. liberate succession, the second after the bride had screamed and fallen. Whether the second shot was aimed at her, and intended to complete the deadly work or whether the assassin intended to kill both the bride and her sister-In-law is still in doubt. It now appsars that this distressing affair was the result of a plot quite beyond the mental cunning of a farmer's boy like Andrew Farrell. Early In December, Charles Gil more, the prospective bridegroom, found a letter one morning pinned to the front door of his father's house. Opening it he read the single sen tnce wrinten in red: "I shall be with you on your wed ding night." Instead of a signature theee was the ghastly emblem of a skull and cross-bones. Young Gilmore laughed at irst, thinking it was the joke of some friend. In New England country towns a certain class of fellows made a bridegroom the butt of all sorts of jokes, Charles Gilmore tried to think that this sibylline letter was the first Of a series of mild hazing tricks that he would have to stand good-naturedly. But, nevertheless, a cold shiver ran over him as he looked again and again at the glaring skull. Then, to rid his mind of the name less horror It suggcsted, he tore up the note and threw it to the wind. The following week he called on his Intended bride one evening. When be left the house about 11 o'clock and went to take his horse and buggy out Df the barn to drive home, he found an envelope stuck in the wire screen ing of his lantern. A suspicious fear shot through him La he tore it open, and even before he read the lines he surmised what the nessage was. "I shall be with you on your wed ling night," and below was the same )minous signature, a skull and cro yones-all done in red. Charles Gilmore read and reread the I iote in a state of dazed, Inexplicable ear. It was not so much the contents of the letter this time that alarmed ilm as the manner in which it bad men left. While he had been looking into the aughing, lovelit eyes or his bride-to e, some stealthy form had been irowling outside, perhaps seeing his kappiness through the half-closed htters-andipreparing to blast thai west emotion on his home going. The message now conveyed a malig- 1 Lant jealousy, Young Gilmore studied k carerully, for it no longer seemea a Dke. He tried to think whose hand riting it was. It did not seem like ny he had ever seen before. Then e espairing of making anything of it, t a a flash of indignation he tore up , he note. Now he would give anything for I hat precious bit of evidence that 0 2ght to used against the assassin. At times during the next fortnight, r hat fateful sentence occurred tu him, j nd his blood alternately boiled and i roze at its blind meaning. But other , nd happier thoughts mostly filled his s ind and he mentioned the two mys Drious letters to no one. After the tragedy, when he and the C riends whe had been the wedding i nests were discussing the shooting i ad trying to think of some clue to r hs asasssin, Gilmore told about the i Pro leoters. t "6Why, that is a quotation from o Ers. Shelley's novel about the Frank- f ntein monster," said one of the f ung men who is particularly well t tad. Amazement spread over the a Les of the group. They started to b hugh-but frowned instead, for they a 2en remembered that this was the t arting threat of the Frankenstein t tonster, made to the ill-fated bride- p room-a threat that was fulfilled on i e wedding night by strangling the li ride in her bed. This deepened the mystery. The t asin, whoever he was, must have en an Intelligent, well-read man. [e must be a resident of the village t some nearty town. The only mo- e lvs for such a crime, under such cir i imstances, was jealousy-a vindic c ie rival or a repuleed lover-which? a Love affairs sn a village'like ira are lI pen secrets. The whole town knows 5 ist how tha ocurtship of every fond air s progressing. There had never been any secrecy bout the romance of pretty Mary C arker and young Charles Gilmore. t 'hey had been lovers from childhood I -all through their school days-and r o jealous rivals ha-l interfersd In 1I tsir pretty, simple, loyal love-mak. Ir :g. That so foul a plot should be woven I bout their wedding seemed incredi- I le. That young Andrew Farrell, the I ian who had been arrested, wa a a alous, disappointed lover, no one for I moment believed. It seemed more u te the deed of an overwrought I unathan like the act of a healthy 1 anded merchant, farmer or villager. The only substantial clue which the I ,uthorities have is the bullet which truck Mrs. Gilmore. It Is consider bly fiattened and out of shape; but ,ppears to have come from a 44 calibrea ifla. The same kind of bullet struck 1 rs. Gilmore's sister-in-law. The police have made a search ofa he whole village for rifles that could f ive fired such bullets. Several have >een found that would have answered be purpose, but there is nothing to onnect any of the owners of the guns vith this atrocious crime. There are matters which will be ifed at the March term of the grand] ury. In the weeks that have dragged by ine Christmas the young bride has aced the alternatiye of death front thok and blood poisoning or the poe- < alble losing of her right arm. The ttending physician has thought It < night ho necessary to amputate just selow the shoulder In order to save s girl's life. in the meantime the mystery of the annatural crime deepens, and therei ieems to be no hope of clearing it up ill young Farrell is brought before he grand jury, and the State Attor-1 ey has produced all the evidence that i is now carefully gathering. No case has ever so stirred up the1 people of Vermont except the famous frair of the ibrarian-legislator-select Ean-burglar Clarence Adams, who: trrorized the whole countryside of Dhester, was finally caught, impris oned at Windsor, and then was be-I ieved to have feigned death, orept out of his coffan and escaped to Canada, three or four years ago. Some timid folk at Ira even venture the suggestion that the perpetratori of this last fiendish act in Clarence Adams, returned to his native State, aid starting in on a new course of villainous crime, while masquerading as an honest citizmn. In support of this they point out that he would be lust the man to pick out the fiendish warning of the Frankenstein monster of Mrs. Shel ly's novel, and weave around It a nefarrus plot with his diabolical nning. THE CHAROES And Specifications Made by Gov ernor M. F. Ansel. AND SERVED UPON John M. Rawlinson, Joe B. Wylie and John S. Black, Directors of the State Dispensary. In Accord ance With the Resolution of the Legislature. Following are the charges and spec ifications made by his excellency Uartin F. Ansel, governor of South Darolina, and served upon Jodie M. Rawlinson, Joe B. Wylie and John Black, directors of the dispensary. "Take notice that the general as ;embly has passed a concurrent reso ution adopting the report of the con nittee appointed to Investigate tbe ffairs of the State disponeary, finding ihat the directors of the State dispen ary heve violated the law in the pur 'isse of liquors and should be remov id from office, and have referred the whole matter to the governor to take ch action as he may deem necessary bd proper in the premises. "And that, by said concurrent res ilution and' the report of the said ommittee appointed to investigate he affairs of the State dispensary, ro are charged with violating the ispensary law, as follows: "1. That you have been guilty of nisconduct, neglect of duty and In apacity in that you have overstocked he State dispensary; that $400,000 rorth of stock is sufficient upon which o run said dispensary, and you bad en and on January 15, 1907, about $669, 00,worth of stock. "2. That you have violated the equirements of the law as set forth 2 section 557, criminal code laws, 902, prescribing the conditions under Phich purchases of liquors may be made in the following particulars: "(t) That a purchase of about 1, 00 barrels of liquor was made from lark Bros & Sons of Peoria, Ill.; at this purchase was made by John Ilack, member of said board of di ectors, in person and without the mits of this State; that no adver Ising as required by section 557, riminal code, was published, calling )r bids on liquors, that no bid was arwarded by said firm to the State reasurer stating the quality, price d chemical analysis of the liquor ought, nor was there a sample or mples of said liquors delivered to be dispensary commissioner; that e said board did not meet for the urpose of considering bids for said quors, nor open bids for said liquors public, and did not, at any meet g, consider the purchase thereof; bat said board did not reject any bids r said liquors nor readvertise for ther bids; that the said J. M. Raw nson and J. B. Wylie did not object a the said purchase as aforesaid, Lther before or after the said purchase ra made, but on the other hand, oncured in, approved and ratified bove mentioned illegal purchase of quors, made in violation of section 57, crimInal code, as aforesaid. "(b) That a purchase from Lehman SCo. of Peoria, Ill., was ma~de, of hich about 300 barrels have been re sved by the State dispensary; that bis purchase was made by John lack, member of said board of di etors, In person, and without the mis of this State; that no advertise tent, as required by section 557. riminal code, was published, calling or bids on liquors; that no bid was orwarded by said firm to the State reasurer, stating the quality, price nd chemical analysis of the liquor ought, nor was there a sample or amples of said liquors deli iered to he dispensary commisioner; that he said board did not meet for the surpose of considering bids for said Iquors, nor open bids for said liquors a uhl(c and did not at any meeting onsider the purchase therecf; that aid board did not rejset any bids for aid liquors, nor readvertise fur other sids; that the said J. M. Ralinson sd J. B. Wylie did not objeos to the aid purchase, as aforesid, either be ore or after the said purchase was nade, but on tbo other hand, concar 'ed In, approved and ratifled above nentioned illegal purchase of liqucrs, nade n violation of section 557, crim nal code, as aforesaid. '() That a purchase from Moyre 3ros. of Cincinnati, Ohio, of f800 oas is of liquor was made by JI- Black, nember of said board of directors, in srson, and without the limits of the ta~te; that no advertisement, as re uired by section 557, criminal code, ias published, calling for bids on 11 jors; that no bid was forwarded by laid firm to the State treasurer; stat ng the quality, price and chemical alyis of the liquor bought, nor was here a sample or samples of said 114 ors delivered to the dispensary comn nlssionea; that the said board did not meet for the purpose of considering sids for said liquors, nor open bids for said liquors in public, and did not, at my meeting, consider the purobase hereof; that said board did not reject iny bids for said liquors i or readver ase for other bids; that the said J. E. Rawlinson and J. B. Wylie did tot object to the said purchaser as foresad, either before or after the sad prchase was made, but on the ,ther hand, concurred in, approved aid ratified above mentioned illegal purchase of liquors, !rLade In violation t section 557, criminal code, as afore "3, That you have been guilty of mirsconduct and neglect of duty, in that you have made the purchas from Clark Bros. & Sons, as heretofore set forth and that you have agreed to pay 81 50 to $1.75 per gallon for said liq uors, whiCh are of a very inferior quality being what is known as high wine, and not worth more than $1.33 to $1.35 per gallon, Eaid lquors being purchasable in the market at this lat ter named pric. "4. That you have been guilty of misconduct, neglect and Incapacity, in that you have purchased and ship ped to county dispensers over their protests, and over the protests of the commissioner, goods which were not orderedily said county dispensers, and which goods were unsalable and un satisfactory to the county dispensers and to the people. "5. That you have been guilty of neglect in that you have failed and refused to buy In sufficient quantities X corn, X gin and X rye, although s!2ere was a big demand for these gcods and bids upon same were made to you by reputable concerns offering them for sale. "You ure, therefore, required to show cause, if any you can, before me at my cffice in the State house in Columbia, S. C., on Friday, February 8, 1907, at 12 o'clock x.-, why you, and each of you should not be removed from the office of board of directors of the State dispensary, now held by you. Oa the hearing of this matter, the report and findings of the joint committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the State dispensary and the testimony taken before said com mittee wid be used, copies of which are herewith served upon von. "AARTIN F. AxszL, "Governor. "Given under my hand and seal of of fice at Columbia. S. 0., this 5th day of February, 1907." % ili Start Life Anew. W. K. Powers, the sixty-six-years old Confederate veteran from Ander son county, who was committed to the penitentiary about six months ago under a life sentence for murder, has been released upon a pardon recom mended by the board of pardons, and bas returned to Anderson to start life anew, well on in years though he Is. Upon his army record his age, his reeble health and certain evidence lending to show some justification for 'he killing, was based the petition lor commutation of his sentence. The pstition was liberally signed. Powers tilled T. T. Rchie in Oconee county. Ee was tried in March last and found ruilty of murder, with a recommend Ltion to the mercy of the court. Gov. rnor Heyward signed the papers or lering hib release on January 12, just ihree days before he went out of of. ace. Dry County Whiskey. On last Monday week four well mown local traders left Gaffney for 3partanburg to engage in trading iorses They procurred from some .lace what is thought to have been wood alcohol, of which they all drank )retty freely. The names of the men Lre J. F. Farmer, Hoses Bright, Bud 3right and W. H. Scoggins. They pent Monday night in Spartanburg, ruesday night at Mount Zion and itarted for Gaffney Wednesday morn ng but Farmer died between that point and Cowvens and the others are aid to be In a critical condition at Jowpens. Relative of the stricken non have gone to Cowpeas to see if ihey can be of any assistance. Both Ipartanburg and Cherokee Counties re socalled dry counties. Bow to Get Tr-ade. The trade territory of a town is not 11 dependent upon the distance to eighboring trading points. The trade erritory depends upon the enterprise if the merchants and the residents of he town. If a town does not reach Lfter the trade it will come only as ast as It has to, and it will grow as t is forced to. But If the merchata to after business In the surrounding :ountry, advertising in every possible eay, and making good every word of 1heir advertising, trade will come fromn an everlncreasing radius, the town wil' gain a reputation for being awake and it will forge to the front. It is .he men in the town and not alto letiher the men living .within a cer ,ain number of miles from It that nakes the town. Died a Hero. The story of a double drowning in a leep pond at Violetville, a suburb of Baltimore, revealed a youthful hero n the person of Carl Nowek, fourteen rears old, who gave up his life In an aff ort to save that of his chum, Albert Schmnidt, a year older than himself, who had broken through thin Ice while skating. Nowek made his way tio the place where Schmidt was struggling in the water, but in his effort to drag his friends to safety the ice under him gave way and both boys were drowned while a number of men and boys on shore looked on, ap parently too freightened to act until too late to save the lives of the two boys in the water. The bodies were recovered. Voted It Down. The attempt to form a new county out of Greenville, Laurens and Spar tanburg, with Fountain Inn as the county seat, was defeated in Tues day's election by a considerable ma jority. At Fountain Inn thare were 180 votes for the new county and none against it. Jumped in the Sea. The London Central News corres pondent at Vlenna says advices from Oonstantinople announce that the representative .if the American con sulate there committed suicide by leaping into the sea from a cliff 300 feet high. The body has been recov ered. Didn't Make Any. "Senator Forsker did not answer a single point I made," declared Sena tor Lodge to a friend after the recent Lodge-Foraker clash. "That's easy," said Foraker, hearing of Lodge's re mark. "-Lodge . didn't make any points." Firteen Kiled. Near Berlin, Germany, fifteen per sons were overwhelmed by a snow avalanche on Thursday. Eight bod ies of victims have been recovered. Thirty cattle were killed in the same fall of snow. Burned to Death. The nine-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Boling of Lando, Chester county, was burned to death on Friayb he r clothing taking fire. CAUGHT :BY LOVE LETTERS. Woody, Marine Corporal. Arrested and Held at Dallas. Within a week Walter R. Woody, the marine corporal charged with the murder of Lillian Reeves, on October 31, and who escaped from the Char leston jail cn December 31, will be back behind the bars at Charleston. He was arrested Saturday morning in Dallas Texas, by the chief of police, and is held subject to the orders of Sheriff Martin, of Charleston. The Charleston Post says the sheriff re ceived news Saturday morning telling of the arrest of Woody. He Immedi ately applied to the solicitor for the neessary papers-to move Woody to Charleston and by long distance tele phone secured Gov. Ansel's promises to telegraph the Governor of Texas that requisition papers be honored when presented. For some time Sheriff Martin and Deputy Sheriff Poulnot have been on the track of Woody. Sheriff Martin paid unqualified praises to the work of Deputy Poulnot in catching Woody. By the Charleston authorities it was founds that Woody left Charleston on the eleven o'clock train, on the night of his escape; that he had visited a girl on Line street, and had been able to trust her with the secrets of his escape; that he had gone West after he left Charleston, and that he as sumed the name of E. W. Raines; that he was at Dallas or a town nearby working for the Greiner-Kelly Drug Company; that his Texas address was Dallas, 437 Commerce street; that he found out he was being watcned, and was about to leave Dallas, when he was arrested Saturday morning. The story of the crime with which he is charged and of his escape Is well known. He was found on the night of October 31 on Broad street, apparent ly fatally shot in the breast. A few blocks off, .n'Asheley avenue, lay the body of Lillian Reeves with a bullet wound in her left side. She was dead some time when found. Woody was sent to the hospital. He declared that Lillian Reeves had shot him and he did not know how she was killed. The coroner's Inquest fixed the responsi bility of Lillian Reeve's death on a person or per.ons unknown. Later Woody was arrested, charged with her murder. He was placed in the Charleston sil as soon as he had recovered from lis wound in the left breast. He was ,pparently a sick man, and was allow Bd the run of the jail. One rainy af ternoon, on December 21, he secured , piece of scantling, scaled the high I il wall, and was seen no more. He went to a friend's house on Line street, changed his clothes, and took the Southern train that night for parts unknown. Had he not been reck tea enough to write here to a woman he would yet be free. He wrote. He is now in jail at Dallas. His trial will :ome off at the next session of the vurt of general sessions, which opens a Charleston on February 18. He hould be here in a weeks time. Advertising Pays. -. A dispatch from Roanoke, Va., says "bA romantic marriage will take lace at Greensboro tonight. The sontracting parties are Presley M. Skyes, of Enfield, N. C., and Mrs. ennie Meyers, a widow of Boanoke. he bride-to-be saw an advertisement n a paper and after a short corres ondence a meeting was planned. Tis was scheduled to take place in [ynchburg and came off as per ar angement. 'The gentleman sent the ady a piece of purple ribbon like that which he wore on nis coas, and by this he recognized him. They were mu ually pleased and after their return o their homes letters were passed fast and furious and the wedding da.y was soon named. The groom is a prosperous merchant and farmer." Lamp Exploded. Ab Cleveland, Ohio, John Burke. ged twenty-two years, was burned to eath, and Mary Gardner Masterson, ged twenty years was seriously burn d Sunday by an explosion of a gaso line lamp In the home of the latter, West Twenty-sixth strret. Burke was paying an evening call and was assisting the young woman in filling he lamp when It exploded, envelop ig both of them in fiames. Burke :ded shortly after receiving his inj rie. The young woman wIil probably rec >ver. In the room were many fine pantngs, one of which was valued at 1,000, which were badly damaged by the explosion. Grip Vs. Cold. The grip is not simply a bad cold and this fact is worth kncwing, says The Baltimore Americana Ji resem bles a cold in some respecas, and colds are often wrongly diagnosed by the victims as grip. The grip is a malady which has laws of its own, both as to its origin and progress after develop met. According to the doctors, it must run its course-"Ghere is no remedy that can specially destroy the infection, no drug that can kill the bacillus or neutrabze its toxin." Tais .so is worth knowing. The main thing is to nurse with care and give the sysrem the best possible aid in its efforts to throw off the poison. They Must Pay. Much time was spent in the Sensate Wednesday debating Senator E:ird's bill to relieve State Treasurers Est1es, Timmerman and Jennings from~ finan cil responsibility on their bands for the Zimmerman bond embe zzlement, amounting to 312.500, and accrued 1n terest. The biil was finally snowed under by a vote of 27 to 11. This charge against the bonds of the treas nrers grows out of the Iocs of valuable bonds, for which the responsibility has never been fixed. The matter is still in the courts. Knocked in the klead. Will Xennedy, aged 20, was struck on the head with a plow handle by Elmer Mahan, aged 13, at Borne, Ga., on Saturday and killed. F5our Men Kinled. Four men were killed and 12 injur ed near Albany, N. Y., on Tuesday by a collisiou between a lcmrv nda abooe fille with laborers. IT WIlL WIN. The Indications Are That the Senate Will Pass the CAREY-00THRAN BILL The Prohibition Bill is Killed and a Mo tion to Strike Out ths Enacting Words of the Carey-Coth ran Bill Lost by a Vote of 17tG 22. The Senate had up the whiskey question again on Thursday night. After the disposal of some minor mat ters Senator Talbert called up his pro hibition bill. Senator Baysor moved to indefinitely postpone the bill. Sen Stor Talbert then took up his argu ment. He said that prohibition was pretty badly bungled up between the dispensaryites and antis. He said that enough had been said, buCtthat he had a few words to say. He said that he was still opposed to both State and county dispensary system. He has as much right to vote with the disuensary as did some of the local optionists who were in favor of high license. He denied that he had sold out the dispensary crowd, and stated that those who had said so were liars. He said that if he could get prohibi tion with the dispensaryites he would accept it. He said that there were too many politicians in public life and too few men, and that no office could persuade him to vote one way or the other. He stated that he did not be lieve that any man could continuously dabble with whiskey and remain hon-4 est. Both sides were throwing bou. quets, he said, and he suspected both sides. but he would stand by prohibi tion no matter what the others did. Senator Appelt moved to strike out the enacting words. The aye and nay vote was demanded by Sedator Tal bert. The bill was killed by a voteof 30 to 10. The aye and nay vote was as llows: Yeas-Louis Appelt, Geo. H. Bates, 1. B. Bivens, C. L. Blease, J. S. Brics, J. H. Brooks, Niels Christensen, Jr., T. H. Clifon. B. W. Crouch, D. F. Efird, W. N. Graydon, P. L. Hardin, E. W Haynes, G. T. Holliday, W. T. Johnson, B. F. Kelley, G. K. Laney, W. L. Mauldin, F. P. McGowan, D. F. MoKeithan, T.0. Otts, T. X.Bay sor, Huger Sinkler, W. S. Smith. G. W. Sullivan. G. L. Toole, B. F. Town send, Legrand G. Walker. J'. H. Wes - ton, T. Y. WIham Total 30, Nays-J. B. Black, H. B. Carlisle, 0. H. Csrpenter, J. B. Earle, J. S. arinlt, W. R. Hoigh, T. L Rogers, James Stackaoue, T, G. ,albert, W. E. Wells. Total. 10. The Carey-Cothran bill was then :alled and Senator Otis offered smendments. Senator Blease moved to continue until the first day of next session. Senator Smith moved to table, which was .ruled out of order. The dire:t vote to continue was then taken and the motion was lost hy a vote of 17 to21. The aye and nay vote was is follows. Yeas --3. B. Black, 0. La. Blease, 3. H. Clif ton, 3. B: Earle, D. F. Edird, 1. 3. Grima, W. B. Hough, W. 3. Johnson, B. F. Kelley, G. K. Laney, T. H. Raysor, T. La. Rogers, James Staokhouse, B. F. Townsend, Legrand Q. Walker, W. H. Wells, F. H. Wes ron-17. Nays-Louis Appelt, George H. Bates, 3. Dj. Bivans, 3. 5. Bryce, 3. H. Brooks, H. B. Carlisle, C. H. Car penter. Niels Cristensen, Jr., B. W. Grouch, P. La. Hardin, B. W. Haynes, (3. La. Holiday, W. La. Maulin, D). F.' MicKeithan, 3. 0. Outs, Hugher Sink ter. W. C. Smith, G. W. Sullivan, T. Q. Talber), G. La. Toole, T. Y. Wil Llams- 21. Senator Johnson then moved to strike out the enacting words which was lost by a vote of 17 to 22. The aye and nay vote was as follows: Yeas-J. D. Bivens, C. La. Blease, .1. H. Clifton, 3.3B. Earle, D. F. Efitd, J. S. Griffin, W. B.- Hugh, W. 3. Johnson, B. F. Kelley, G. K. !Lan ey, T. M. Baysor, T. L. Bogers, Jam es Stackhouse, B. F. Townsend, Le grand G. Walker, W. H. Wells, F. H. Weston-17. 1Bays-Louis Appelt, George H. Bates, 3.-D. Bilvens, 3.5S. BrIce, 3. H. Brcooks, H. B. Carlisle, 0. H. Carpen ter, Niels Christensen, Jr., B. W. Crouch, P. La. Hardin, B. W. Haynaes G. 3. Holiday, W. La. Mauldin, B'. P. EcGowan, D. F. McKeithan, 3. 0. Osts, Huger Sinkler, W. C. Smith, (G. W. Suliivan, T. G. Talbert, G. La. Loole, T. Y. Wiinlams-22. Senabor Otts then moved that the bill be passed to third reading the amendmentW'then to be taken up. Senitor Blease opposed this plan. Her said that he had done his full durty soward the dispensary, consequently ne did not favor the delay. He pre dicted that the people would reverse the majority shown to-night when they had had county dispensaries for a time. He said that the Carey-0oth ran bill provided for the most damn able sysoem ever invented and that the ultimate end was high licnse. Mr. Weston moved that debate on the bill ha adjourned until noon to morrow and that all amendments be printed in the Journal. Tals motion. was adopted. Senator Baysor, Senator Laney andi others offered amendmenis, whicht were ordered printed and the Senats then adjourned. Bured so Death. At Pelham, N. Y., with flames leaving about her, Mrs. Richard Vaighn stcod at a telephone in her home trying to seek aid from her burning home. The firemen respond ad too late. Tne house was destroyed, rnurning to death Mrs. Btchard Vaugbfn, aged twenty-Dine, and Bich sri Vaughn, Jr., aged five, a negro hostler, name unknown, and an un identined man. The husband of thle woman was severely burned in trying to save his wRife and child. Trny eight horses were lost ini the fire. The origin cf the fire is unknown.