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THREE MEN HELD For the Murder of R. T. Westcott in Columbia. TWO ARE NOW IN JAIL Jim Gardner, Jr., and J. B. Hoy Charged With the Crime and T.I C. Jones Wanted as a Witness. The Authorities Determined to Run Down the Guilty Parties If Possible. The State says Jim Gardner, Jr., and J. B. Hoy are in the Richland jail as the result of the inquest into the cause of the death of R. T. Wes cott. and the coroner's jury has rec ommended the arrest of T. C. Jones. who is said to know something of the matter. Gardner was arr'ested the afternoon of the murder and has been in jail ever since. Hoy was arrested last Friday night week after an adjourned session of the coroner's inquest, and was re leased Wednesday of this week, but I was rearrested Thursday night. He < was with Gardner the night preceed- i ing the killing of Mr. Wescott. Tom Jones' connection with the matter is that he has declared that he has information which would im plicate some one. He made this statement to Mr. Jesse Thomas, the father-in-law of Mr. Wescott, and the jury had the information the night of the homicide, it having been conveyed to them privately. But Tom ' Jones has been seen only once since that time. ] Mr. Thomas' statement to the jury I was that Tom C. Jones had come to him the afternoon of the homicide and had stated that if inducements in the form of rewards should be of fered he would give information which would incriminate some peo ple. That is all that is known of Tom J6nes' connection with it, but the of ficers are very anxious to get him and find out what he knows. Coroner Walker stated Thursday night that he has an idea where Jones is and that he may get hold of him Friday. The inquest convened Thursday night at 6:30. This was the third sit ting. After having heard the testi mony of several witnesses the jury deliberated about an nour and brought in the following verdict; "That R. T. Wescott came to his death by gunshot wound at the hand of party or parties unknown to the jury at this time. We, the jury, re commend that Jim Gardner, Jr., J. B. Hoy and T. C. Jones be held for further investigation. "George A. Burns, H. E. Watts, C. L. Slizh, H. L. Creighton, R. L. Murrell, G. M. Miller, F. C. Grigsby, P. M. Malone, W. S. Brown, W. F. Stieglitz, T. I. Harris,- J. D. Pop well." The coroner's jury also recom mended that the grand jury be ap prized of the conditions in this coun ty with the view of getting mounted rural polie. This very interesting action was expressed in the follow ing language: "We, the jury empanelled by the coroner to investigate the death of R. T. Wescott, after rendering our verdict do resolve: "That the coroner be and is here by requested to appear before the next grand jury to Richland county and give an account of the murders recently committed in our suburbs. "That he express to the grand jury and desire that they carefully consid er the pressing needs of a mounted county police service and make such* recommendations as will promote the inauguration of such police protec tion. "George A. Bruns, foreman; H. E. Watts, C. L. Sligh, R. L. Murrell, P. M. Malone, F. S. Grigsby, H. L. Creighton. G. M. Miller, W. S. Brown, T. S. Harris, J. D. Popwell.'' At the inquest several interesting things were brought out. Coroner Walker so handled the case that Hoy was confused and contradicted him self. He was very much worked up over this and was quiite unruly at one time. It will be remembered that Mr. R. T. Wescott, a butcher who had a shp on Taylor street and lived in Waver ley, was found dead by the school house in Waverley on the morning of May 2. By his side was found a 32-callibre revolver with two empty chambers and the suicide theory was at first indulged by some. But later developments indicated foul play. While the bullet which produced death was a 32ecalibre, yet the wound was such that it was wellnigh impos sible for Mr. Westcott, a man with one hand, to have inflicted it. The homicide occurred about 5 a. m. That afternoon Jim Gardner, a rather notorious young man of Wa-i verley, was arrested on suspicion. He had been seen hanging around the~ Shandon dancing pavilion until about 2 a. m. or later, and he was again there about 7 a. m. and knew all of the particulars of the homicide which had been discovered an hour or two before. His own contradictory statements about his acquaintance with the de ceased and his knowledge that Wes cott was dead caused his detention on suspicion. I J. B. Hoy was arrested on suspic ion also. He and Gardner were very thick. They had tried to "hold up'' ex-Magistrate E. A. Larick once, and when they saw that their identity was known they passed it off as a! joke. Likewise they held up a boy named Shull in Waverley one night,! and when he called their names they attain passed this off as "just for fun." Hoy and Gardner were re le A to have been seen together oni Hj*ie <treet the night before the homici 4. , So far n direct evidence has been I produced. but the conduct of the two li men has excited suspicion. Thursday night Coroner Walker i t introduced a witness, W. F. Cartar,!a who conducts a store at the corner t of Gervais and Heidt streets. He 1 swore that between 8 and 9 o'clock the morning of the homicide a youngf man came to him to borrow a nicklec with which to get up town to collect, some money. The man was Hoy, for r Carter, after remonstrating with the il young man for not working, loaned e him the 5 cents and wrote Hoy's o name-on the wall. H{e contends that about an hour d later Hoy came back, repaid the loan, a went to the back of the store and t WILL BE HIGH. "otton May Go to Twenty Cents Per Pound. rhe Spinners in America Are Short And a Cotton Famine Stares Them In the Face. Cotton seems to be getting very ;carce and hard to get in the South. the Florence Times says the cotton nen all tell the farmers to refrain Erom selling their cotton, all admit [lfteen cents cotton and some expect to see the staple bring as high as twenty cents. There is no cotton in the country and a famine faces the American milis. The English mills got the best of the American mills this season to pay them for having tricked them two or three times in the past and they did their American ousins up to a brown finish. The European spinners sent a com rnittee over here and that committee went over the country in company with the officers of the Southern 'otton association, made a tour of nspection of the cotton belt. The kmerican spinners took the reports f the government and the estimate >f Mr. Hester of New Orleans and thers and they looked wise and let ;he European have the cotton. Liverpool quotati6ns stuck steadi y above New York in spite of the mammering of the American bears md the cotton went in a steady stream to Europe. Now the cotton s gone from the fields, gone from the warehouses, gone from everywhere md the spinners of this country are rying for cotton and it is not to be ad. The planters of Louisiana have planted four times and they say they aave no crop yet. Frost and flood ,ave played havoc with them. The lississippi men have planted three times and no crop yet, and the coun try under flood. Cotton seed is run ning short. In Texas the farmers are paying any price for planting seed. Cotton seed is selling in open mar ket for $65 a ton and it is mighty scarce. The farmers all over the country have run out of seed and the crushers have not the seed to sell them back. They bought all they could, sweeping the farmer's floors and are still tnirty percent behind last year. In Texas the boll weevil coming earlier than ever is destroy ing the young plants. Cotton, if it is good staple, can be sold today at the owner's own price. Even bad cotton will bring good prices, the spinners want anything and they confess it. They let the cotton go in their efforts to beat the price down below that fixed by the association and they have lost. The association is stronger today than it has ever been and its future was never so bright. There is every reason today why the farmer, every farmer, should stand by the associa tion and win his independence in this one year of grace. It will most like ly be done. The farmer controls the situation and if he does not throw; away his opportunity he just cannot help winning. A lot of cotton was sold by the very wise ones, who know better than the united wisdom of the whole as sociation for nine and a fraction, fu ture delivery this fall, and every ef fort is going to be made to force these sellers to deliver that cotton. It is going to be a most interesting situation. This, considered in con nection with the recent fight or bucket shops and gambling in cottor is going to make a pretty state of af fairs when the buyers of the con tracts begin to squeeze. THE Washington Post thinks thai -Michigan man who is accused of hav ing seventeen wives must have been determined to have his buttons sew ed on if he went to jail for it. matter of the killing of Mr. Wes cott. Witness' testimony on this point "He went in and took his drink~ and came back out, and I mentioned something of the tragedy and I no ticed he seemed somewhat affected, a change in his complexion at the mention of it, and there was no con versation after that between us. and he soon left and went on." Hoy had been kept in ignorance of Carter's presence and testimony. When brought into the room where the inquest was held, Hoy denied that he knew W. F. Carter, denied having borrowed the 5 cents and de nied that he came into Columbia be fore 11:30 in the morning, and swore positively that he did not take the er that morning. Carter was brought in and con fronted Hoy, identifying him at once. Hoy then admitted that he had borrowed the nickle but declared that it had been in the afternoon. Hoy gave a rather indistinct ac count of his movements in Columbia, but it was brought out that he pawn ed a pair of shoes to Goldstein for $1, got a quart of X liquor for 60 cents and then went home. He could prove by Steve Gardner that it was 5:30 in the afternoon. He claimed to have the pawn ticket at home. He said that he and Jim Gardner had bought a quart of whiskey in the morning and he had bought this oth er in the afternoon. The coroner asked: "Did you buy whiskey twice that day?" A. It was three times, I think, two or three times. Q. Do you usually buy it that wvay every day? A. No. sir. Q. Seemed to be worried that day? A. Had nothing to worry me. Q. You and Gardner didnt usual ly come up that many times a day and drink, did you? A. No. The other witnesses examined 'hursday night threw no light on he subject except that a negro wo nan named Scylla Moore testified :hat very early the morning of the iomicide she saw a man at the Shan Ion pavilion and when he saw her md another woman approaching he urned his back. She could dot iden ify him. A young man named Montz testi ied that Jim Gardner had had a 32 alibre nistol. Coroner Walker stated Thursday. ight that he will urge Gov. Ansel to crease the amount of reward offer-, d from S100 to $250. The city has ffered $250, When Hoy was rearrested Thurs ay night by Constable A. P. ~Rich rdson of Waverley, he was disposed >be quite resentful at first, but was MANY FLAGS Followed by Major-General HenryH Ronald Douglas McIver. A ROMANTIC CAREER. A Soldier of Fortune Who Fought For Eigiteel Countries Died Last Week in NewYork. He Had Many Adventures, One of Which Was the Killing of Major Tonlin, of Vicksburg. Maj. Gen. Henry Ronald Douglas Maclver, of the Servian army, major in the Confederate States army, and t t with rank varying from the highest I to the lowest under eighteen flags, 7 who died in a lodging house in New 1 York last week; was facing grim pov- I erty when he went to his rest. His i battle-scarred body was found by his c landlady, Mrs. Mabel Campbell, who forced the door open after raping on I it in vain, The general had been heard mov ing about his room in the early morn ing. The night before he had com plained of feeling cold and Mrs. I Campbell had sent him a drink of whiskey, and later a cup of tea. A f fellow-lodger went to his room at midmght, and asked him if he need- c ed anything. "I thank you, sir," the general re- E plied. "I need nothing." The police I of the Twentieth street station, tak- I ing an inventory of his belongings, wrote it down that the soldier of for tune, the warrior who had fought under eighteen flags for the mere love of fighting, had 46 cents in cash and his clothing. If the general has tened his end, it was done so careful- ' ly that no one suspected it. "Appar- I ently natural death" was recorded on the blotter at the station. - Mrs. Campbell said that her lodger 1 was ready to start for Washington several days before his death, but re ceived a letter which kept him in New York. Gen. Maclver was sixty one years old, but showed few signs of his age. He was waiting for Richard Hard ing Davis, who has written so much about his fighting career," said Mrs. Campbell. He was expecting Mr. Davis in a few days, and told me about it. We all know that the old gentleman was a great soldier. He looked it." Gen. MacIver's scant belongings consisted of uniforms, his well-car ed-for street clothes and a trunk full of papers telling of his life of adven ture. The general was born on Christ mas day. 1864, in Hampton Roads, Va., aboard a ship seeking a harbor. His father was Ronald MacIver, a Scotchman. The son went to Italy and fought under Garibaldi. He serv ed in the Ten Years' war in Cuba, in Crete, in Greece; twice in the Carlist revolutions in Spaini, in Bosnia. He returned to Virginia, when war on a gigantic scale was framing. His sword was offered to Gen. Robert E. Lee and was accepted. He fought with Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, and was four times wounded during the great conflict. At the close of the war there was much dueling between the officers of the two armies. Maclver was in one of these affairs outside of Vicksburg. His combatant was Maj. Tomlin, of the Vermont United States artillery volunteers. They fought with swords, Maclver running his oppon ent through the body and cleaning his blade with his handkerchief. "He is dead; we must go." called one of Maclver's seconds. A negro brought up the horses of Maclver and his seconds. "Mv friends are in haste." said Maclver, turning to the seconds of the man he had slain. "Is there any thing I can do? I hope that you con sider this matter settled honorably." Then he mounted and rode away. After the civil war MacIver, with other Southern officers, went to Mex co. He fought under Maximilian there. When the fighting was over he went to Egypt and then to France;1 everywhere that cannon were hot and the caravans of war were plow-1 ing up the roads Maclver was to be found. Maclver was appointed United States consul at Dania, Spain. The man he was to succeed declined toI get out, and the soldier of fortune< immediately suggested that they go to the outskirts of the city and set tle the matter with pistols or swords. Stephen BonsaI, the present corres nondent of the New York Times in St. Petersburg, who was then the charge d'affairs at Madrid. was sent to adjust matters. He adjusted the matter and Mclver was installed without bloodshed. The daring of Maclver was best exemplified, perhaps, when he took t part in the Cretan struggle against 1 the Turks. He was received more than gladly by the Cretans, who gave him "full power ty make war on land and sea against the enemies of ~ Crete, and particulary against the Sultan of Turkey and the Turkish forces, and to burn, destroy or cap--. ture any vessel bearing the Turkisht flag'' After getting through this ~ proposition alive he went to Athens, ~ and later put in a few months trying ~ to exterminate the Grecian brigands, ~ fighting in the mountains and doing E so well at it that he was given the a highest decoration that the king of f Greece could confer upon him. It was in Servia that Maclver at tained his highest rank as an officer. f He received a commission from the t prince of Servia to organize an in- I dependent cavalry brigade. He left C Fleet street, London. for Belgrade, b and got busy gathering men who lov- a ed fighting. THe got the right men 11 and trained them wvell, commanding a legion of a thousand cavalrymen 9 of Ruso-Servians against the Turks. t1 He received the cross of the Takovo n order for gallant service, and was" made major general in command of . all of the cavalry of the Servians. ' The decoration was given him on the eve of battle. g If Maelver wa nothing else, he o: was picturesque--always. He lent a t4 olor to his surroundings, whether r~ they were the coridors and vestibule d of the Hoffman house, where he had h been a character for years, or wheth- D er they were the table d'hote holes- ti in the-wall on the lower West Side, li ,here all the patrons affect to be fa persons with mysterious missions or rr with pasts. 1 Maclve hael fogt as an offier ti MHO WILL IT BE?I T he Political Pot Begins to Sim mer Over the Country c g 9 OME BOOMS HEARD C t] nd Favorite Sons Figure in Several d Minor Skirmishes. The Peerless p Bryan is Acknowledged to be the tl Standard Bearer of the Jefferson- G ian Democrats and Will Win the Race. n Political activitives are engaging n he attention of millions of people t' hrougout the United States at the a iresent time. The question of who t ill be the candidates for the Pres :ency put forth by the two great 4olitical parties is most engrossing. n several states hot battles are be- 1 g waged by the adherents of "fav rite sons." In Ohio, the modern -center of President making,'" a >attle royal has been fought recent y by the Foraker and Taft interests nd the backers of the Secretary of Var have come out victorious. e In other words, when the National Zepublican convention meets, there vill be a solid Ohio delegation in avor of nominating Secretary Taft or the Presidency. He is the "fav 4rite son?' of the Buckeye state to 11 intents and purposes at the pres ,nt time. While Secretary Taft has ot announced his candidacy abso utely, it is undersood that he will lo so early in June in a speech he is bout to make supporting the poli ies of goverment of Theodore Roose relt and favoring their continuance or four years more. In making that speech Secretary aft will outline the platform he Republican party will adopt, loubtless, at the convention.. It nust not be thought, howe rer, hat Ohio will rule the convention, ,imply because it has come out in ;upport for Taft, instead of indorS ng Foraker,a re-actionary, for there re many other candidates in the d for Presidential honors. 1 There are Fairbanks, who has al ready been assured the support of [ndiana in the convention; Hughes, f New York, whose little boom started by former Gov. Odell, was iot heard far: Elihu Root, who would like to be President, but who will have to work hard to get the backing of New York state, and Sen tor Knox whose Presidential boom as not been heard of since it was aunched by Pennslyvanians in Wash ington a couple of months ago. All these men are possibilities, and strong ones, too, for they are all men of marked ability in Executive work. BOOMS SOMEWHAT RESTRICTED. Thewell defined political move ments in favor of certain possible candidates are not general. The aft boom has no root in New York state: the Root movement has -no tendril in Ohio: the Fairbanks boom has ventured into several states, but it has had the effect of lowering the political temperature considerably; the Hughes stir had a short gasp in New York state, although Gov. Hughes has gained great populari ty and respect in many states on account of his individual work for good government; the Knox boom, just a tiny little noise, has not been heard outside of Pennslvania pand the Foraker boom is dead and buried under the massive predonderance of Secretary Taft. Therefore, it is seen there has been no definite cam-I paign operations launched by any of the~"favorite sons." The Roosevelt movement is the1 strongest Republican current in the political sea at the present time.1 There are millions of the admirers of the President who are anxious for him to run again for the office be has graced so well. For many < months, in spite of the President's 1 statements that he will not be a can- < iidate to succeed himself, there will be a popular movement throughout the country, the objiect of which will be to force the nomination on 1 the President in spite of his own de-< sires. To-day that movement isi :he very greatest in the political life'1 f the country, and it is raining I strength week by week, such great 1 ;trength that the adherents of the< favorite sons" are beginning to >ecome worried over the probable >utcome of the agitation. IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP. All roads lead to Bryan in the )emocratic territory. Without a ioubt, according to the leading j ipirits in the party of Jefferson, p 3ryan will be the standard bearer n the coming Presidential cam aign. The South would like to y iave one of its Democratic states- i nen President. There are those t n the South, however, who are of he opinion the time is-not ripe for >ooming a Southerner as a Presi- e ential candidate-. They think that a smoulderinga mimosity exists between the oldt nen of the North and the South . I'hat is doubtless so, but it does not li leter the Southerners from desiring v o have one of their statesmen onb he ticket with Bryan. There are nany able Democrats in the South a who would fill with ability the office i. f Vice President. Senator Culber- t on, of Texas, an able political gen- t ral, has been spoken of as a prob- . ble running mate of Bryan. Hoke e mith, of Georgia, a seasoned polit- ~ al warrior of the strenous type, t< as also been mentioned as a man h t to travel in double harness with d he Nebraska statesman. Senator d )aniels, of Virginia, one of the si eepest thinkers in the Senate, has i een singled out among Democrats s a man worthy of being on the po tical banners with Bryan. It is the desire of the Democratic t< arty to stick to statesmen for g aeir leaders and not attach faith top illionaires such as Sewall, who ran 'ith Bryan the first time, or Henry under eighteen flags." In 1884 he 13 ot a newspaper man to write a book b F his tales, entitled "Under Four- h< ien Flags." It didn't get into the - mks of the ten best soldier of that - y, but Mrs. Campbell's lodging G ouse folk said that Richard Harding ri 'avis had had the general in tow and. tI ie two of them had planned to pub-w sh gnother book some time next si ~ll. They said also that Davis got h< tost of his material for his "Capt. tc [acklin," from the experiences of tI SCHOOL MONEY. %'e Comptroller General Issues War rants to Various Counties. The comptroller general Friday ssued the warrants for the last dis ribution of dispensary school mon Ny, the sum representing the rem iant of the fund left over after the >ld State situation went out of busi iess. The total amount distributed tmounted to $63,409.94, and a part )f it was on the basis of the deficien -y in the amount given each scholar 3y the respective counties and the result by the enrollment. The amount >y counties follows: On En jounties. Deficiency. rollment. A bbeville. $ 299.20 $1,547.91 _iken ........ 156.35 1,530.38 Anderson.........-- 2,600.96 amberg........ 1.25 717.75 arnwell... ....222.80 1,245.75 Beaufort.. 672.58 3erkeley 971.17 harleston ...... 2,451.85 ,herokee.... ..-851.61 hester .... . 1,154.00 ,hesterfield...... 1,565.74 788.00 3larendon....... 364.25 1,155.02 dolleton....... - 981.38 Darlington...... 1,216.81 Dorchester .. 578.96 Edgefield....... 58.50 1,018.66 Fairfield.... ...- 1,256.31 Florence ........ 38.57 1,199:80 Georgetown - 688.10 Greenville. 43.72 2,453.90 Greenwood -- 1,291,05 Hampton...... -714.00 906.15 Horry..... ...2,100.00 1,112.46 Kershaw........ 44.00 954.85 Lancaster ....... 395.50 1,154.68 Laurens......... 136.92 1,418.88 Lee. .........100.58 907.85 Lexington....... 317,40 1,220.90 Marion -.1,492.08 Marlboro....... 141.34 1,089.48 Newberry....... - 1,143.82 Oconee....... .895.21 1,101.22 Orangeburg .... 98.44 2,738.00 Pickens........ 128.30 944.95 Richland... . 1,694.82 Saluda.......1,028.00 960.27 Spartanburg.... 46.86 2,979.67 Sumter 1,320.66 Union . 4. 1,180.05 Williamsburg. 240.30 1,335.29 York..,......... 27,00 1.922.25 Total......$9,26-3.51 $54,146.43 Unequally Distributed. There is considerable complaint about the distribution of the pension fund. It is claimed that some coun ties get a great deal more than they are entitled to, w.hile others are shared out. Recently the Florence Times called attention to the corres pondence from Spartanburg to The News and Courier about the pensions given out in that county. The cor respondent thought that the pension roll in Spartanburg County was larg er than it ought to be. He seems to think that there are names on the list which ought not to be there. Spartanburg County was given $20, 000 of the pension money. Just about four times as much as Orange burg County was given. We think there must be something wrong about this distribution, but just how to remedy it is the question. Of course Spartanburg has grown in population a great deal since the close of the war, and many - cotton mills have been built, and no doubt confederate soldiers have moved in from other counties and from North Carolina, but it hardly seems credit able that they should have increased the pension roll as much as it nnw appears to be. Spartanburg County has about eight hundred names o!' her pension rolls. The roll shou'd be purged, as we are satisfied thet there are names on it that should not be there. The Abbeville Medium, which is edited by a gallant old veteran, makes a suggestion that each enuntyv take charge of its own pensioners, and provide a fund for them. T~e d not know how this would work. Un less the different counties v;ould agree to pay their pensioners about the same, such a charge would cause a great deal of dissatisfaction. Then again in some of the counties that are heavily burdened with taxation, the needy old veteran might be neg lected and given nothing hardly. On the whole we think it best for the State to manage the matter. Then the strong, rich counties can help the weaker counties and pay the neady old veterans a uniform sur.. But the roll should be thoroughl2y purged in every county, and the mon ey given only to those who are enti ted to it. We are satisfied that many get it now who are not entitled to it. Their Pay Raised. An increase of 10 per cent in the pay of conductors over the entire system of the Atlantic Coast Line~ hasi been granted by the officials, 0f0"-I tive May 1, in response to a request made by the general adjustmlent committee. The raise will apply to freight as well as passenger conductors, and will practically meet the request made by the conductors, who had prepared a schedule of salaries for the conductors, computed on 'the number of miles traveled by them. The argument used by the commit tee in sustaining their claims for an increase of pay was that the price of living has greatly increased and they are requested to do a great deal more work than formerly over the same amount of mileage, the railroads getting the benefit of more work for the same amount of pay a mile. An oi-der has been issued granting the increase, computing the salaries that will be paid to conductors ac :ording to mileage and time. This chedule bears a uniform increase of 10 per ccnt, and totals really more than was asked for by the conduc ors. The management of the road semed perfectly willing to come to m agreement with the conductors, md after being shown schedules of rices paid in other sections of the ounty readily agreed to the advance. DID you ever stop to reflect that t was one thing to talk about peo >le and another thing to have people ;alk about you? If those of us who1 ise our tongues a little too freely. I bout our neighbors, would stop and efect about this matter and knowI he great evil that comes from too nuch gossip and tattling, we are ure we would call a halt and gossipC !o more forever. BRYAN was elected President in 1 .898. After using millions of-dollars I o defeat him and failing, the Repub- 2 [cans then stuffed the ballot boxes, I nd in this way cheated him out of t he election. They can't do that f DEVOUR EVERYTHING. lie Frightful Plague of Locusts in South Africa. From earliest Biblical times the lo ise has been regarded as a pest and destroyer of inanimate life. Swarms ' them swooped down upon the reen valleys of Egypt and made life iserable for agriculturists thous Ids of years ago. When the locusts ume, famine followed. In this coun -y they occasionally do considerable ?mage to growing crops, but the [ague has never been anything like iat in South Africa this spring. A year ago Pennsylvania and parts E adjoining states were visited by custs but they stuck mostly to the 'oodland, and the grain crops were ot much molested. In the early orning and at sundown the woods ,as turned into a bedlam of noise by ie chirping of hundreds of thous-. ads of them. They fed on the young ees, and acres of them turned rown as in autumn from the bites f the insects. Not very long ago great swarms of )custs passed over the Rand in South Irica. The whole country, lovely i the growth of splendid crops, and iade greener and more beautiful by imely rains than it had been in many ears, was in a brief few days turn d into a bare, brown and withered esert. The swarm literally ate its ray through the country, and made . clean job of it. They consumed rhole fields of grain, and the loss to he farmers is incalculable. The country is at a loss to know ow to deal with the scourage. The *rdinary methods which have been sed in the past in combatting the est have utterly failed. Cyprus creen has been of no use. So ira nense was the swarm that the fields nd forests were not large enough to Lold the myriads, and they swarmed ito the towns and cities. Streets of the city of Johonnes >urg have beeh made hideous by the easeless, dreary chirping. A locust :an make more noise for its size than my other insect, and its chirp is a eird, unpleasant sound tbat is par icularly trying to the nerves. A half ozen of them can make enough iose to annoy a whole square. Fancy he state of things where countless housands of them are holding their laily concert. In Johannesburg the streets are itterally a brown mass of crushed ocusts. They have tied up the street :ar traffic by settling on the rails, ;heir crushed bodies making the rails ;o slippery that the car wheels re rolve without moving the car. Men are obliged to go over the ine and sweep clear the track for ;he approaching cars, and in 15 min ites they have the job to do over igain. Already this state of affairs ias caused several bad accidents. A notor car has been smashed, and :wo tram cars have been telescoped. 'he motormen have great difficulty n controlling the cars on the greasy :racks, Steam cars are having the ;ame trouble. In some of the smaller towns where 1 particular effort has been made :o keep the streets clear of the dead modies, pedestrians slide about in the quirmy mass in a most disgusting 'nanner. All are obliged to remove shoes on entering their homes after aving been on the streets. A Wise Law. One of the wisest things ever done :y the Legislature was the passage f the law giving the County Coin nissioners the right to levy a tax of >ne mill to build good roads. The aw wisely provides that the tax so ollected shall be spent in the town 5hip in which it is collected. We are lad that the County Commissioners >f this county has levied this tax and ;e hope that they wlll continue to evy it until every road in the county s put in good condition. This is a uxury that new counties like Lee, orchester, Greenwood, and others, :anntt afford as they are heavily tax id for ordinary county purpose and ther necessary expenses, such as uilding courthouses, jails, and so n. Good roads are necessary if we vant to keep up with the times. The )ostoffice Department requires the 'ural mail carriers to travel only hose roads that we keep in good :ondition. So it will be seen how mportant it is for our roads to be ept up. Then, too, under our road aw, there is no danger of the money )eing collected in one part of the ounty being spent on the roads of nother part, as it requires that the noney collected shall be spent in the ownship in which it is collected. Didl Not Mean It. The Sumter Watchman and South on says Attorney General Lyon has een in office nearly six months and is pledge to put stripes on the State [ispensary grafters is still unredeem d. If he has made any effort to aake good his promise, it has been :ept secret, and who would believe hat he would hide so good a bit of olitical advertising as that. The lack f developments from the inquisition onducted by Mr. Lyon and the com ittee of which he was a member nd by means of which he attained be notoriety that landed him in the ffi he now holds, induces us to be eve that the entire investigation ras a waste of time and money. We ave never doubted that there was raft of the worst sort in the man gement of the State dispensary, but any one harbors a hope that any of e grafters will be punished we fear iey are domed to disappointment. idging from Attorney General Ly n's masterly inactivity. Our cotem orary takes Mr. Lyons altogether o serious. He did not mean one alf he said when he was a candi ate. All candidates, more or less oes the same thing, and Mr. Lyon iould not be blamed for following a well beaten path. TH E St. Matthews county advoca s have published a letter from a ntlean, who hold about the bet ying office in Bamberg County, to rove that the organization of Bamn arg Connty was a great blessing. o doubt it was to the gentleman| ith the fat office, and he could hard-! be expected to say anything else, K it how about the fellows who non't t >ld office? assaway Davis, who was a weak mning mate to Parker. Many of! e Democrats do not symnpathize ith Bryan's government owner-'' ip ideas. The Nebraska man. t wever, has lately made it a point I state he would not insist upon his a Leories in that regard being em Baking DISTINCTIVELY TARTAR BAKI It does not contain phatic acid (which Is A digested in sulphwrki (which is oneathiid s healthfulsubstancesa king powders because Judge With a Backbone. We have long been of the opinion that most of our judges allowed bail in many cases when it should not be 9llowed. In fact-it was a rare thing for bail to be refused in any case. [t is therefore with pleasure that we commend Judge D. E. Hydrick, who is now holding court here, for refus ing bail to W. H. Mills, who murder ed Frank Deal at Blacksburg some time ago. Mills claimed justification under the much abused "unwritten law" for his crime, submitting a most horrible affidavit from his wife, which told ill about her relations with Deal. This very properly had no effect on Judge Hydrick, and he promptly turned the application for bail down. We cordially agree with the Spar tanburg Journal that "this fiction of the -unwritten law' has been greatly overworked of late and, if we under stand sentiment correctly, it will hereafter be applied more strictly than has been the custom in recent cases. The avenger of the spoliation of his home will still be held guilt less, but~ the circumstances must more closely fit the rule than has sometimes been allowed. We are not trying Mills, not pronouncing him guilty or not guilty. That is for the jury to do. His case is not bailable, however, according to the constitu tion and he is not entitled to have a circuit judge, by admission to bail, deny his guilt 'the proof is evident or the presumption great' and enjoy the benefit with the jury of this pro nouncement. Neither should his case be prejudiced by this decision." As we said above the granting of bail in homicide cases has been too free and easy in the past in this State, and we are glad a halt has been called. The Journal goes on to say that 'the writ of habeas corpus is a sacred one, but it should not be abused. Many men have been ad mitted to bail who did not deserve this benefit, and such acts on the part of the judges has led to miscar riages of justice. Judge Hydrick has taken a stand that might well be im itated by other circuit and also su preme court judges in South Caro lina. It should take a better show ing than Mills makes to secure ad-. mission to bail in any amount. They Advertise More. One of the most notable facts con nected with a country newspaper of today is the large increase in the amount of advertising of local busi ness houses. The change has taken place gr adually, and has been mark ed especially during the past year or two. It is highly significant, and an inquiry as to the cause of it is of great profit, not only to those in the newspaper business, but t-o every business man and citizen of our town as well. The change, in brief, means that local merchants have found it nec essary to call attention to their goods because of the immense com petition they face -the most deadly element of which is that from the great stores of the large cities. These great establishments adver tse their wares most lavishly and the metropolitan newspapers which contain their advertisements.are dis tributed over the country, some one paper of which enters nearly every home. The result is that these me tropolitan establishments have built up an immense mail trade. In our town, and indeed in most of the towns of the state there is no occasion for this out-of-town buy ing. The duty of citizens in the matter is plain, and where other things are equal support should be iven local dealers. Our merchants ~ave invested their -capital, have erected buildings, which are the pride of the city, and ha'e .estab lished concerns which are almostme tropolitan in character. They have built up our little city, and it is only a fair return that they have the ity's trade, to turn trade othier ise, even in the line of small pur hases which are great in the aggre ate, is to invite the decline of prop rty values in our town. Mr. Cortelyou may as well come o the front with the facts about the ontributions to the republican cam aign fund. The public is getting hem one by one. There was the ~50.000 Mr. Perkins took from the nsurance money, the $50,000 that ~VIr. Harriman gave, and the $200, 00 that Mr. Harriman raised among is friends. That accounts for about ive per cent of the total slush fund. THE St. Matthews correspondent f The State says more agitation on he subject of a new county has been onducted by the various county pa ers and their correspondents than y people who are most interested. Ve came to this same conclusion a I ~hort time ago, and concluded so fari IS The Times and Democrat is con- I ~erned to suspend discussion of the| atter until something definite is nown about the proposed scheme.| dter the survey is made and the' nes are established will be time nough for all the discussion needed. Ve (!an find more readable stuff for ur columns just at this time. MR. Debs, who was never chargedI ith violating a statute law is be-I eved by President Roosevelt to bej n undesirable citizen, while Mr. j 'aul Morton, who brazenly admitted at he violated the law, is given a ne recomimendation by that same J reidnt. Poirder LYPW A CREAM OF NC POWDER an atom'of phos-' e produot of bones acid) or of alus vIphurIc acid), Un doptedforotserbaw of their cheapness DIED AT -HIS POST. An Engineer Found Dead With HIs Hand on the Throttle. At Philadelphia the lives of more than sitty passengers, most of them residents of-the iashionable surburbs along the main line of. the :Pennsyl vania. were Imperilled when. William Armstrong. engineer of a -local train, died with his hand on the locomotive throttle. -As the train neared Hayerford, the firemain and the- crew noticed with surprise that there was not the usual slacking for the stop at .that Station at 8:11. - Indeed, the train increased its. speed every second, and dashed through Haverford at- the rate of a mile a minute. The fireman climbed into the cab and found Armstrong huddled in his seat with hisfand limp upon the wide-open throttle.It was the work of a second to check,. 'the flying monster, thus averting, the danger of a rear ena 'collision with-* another train. The- engineer- was . taken to the Bryn Mawr Hospital. It was said there he had been dead for -some time. He was sixty years old. and* lived in Pennsylvania. The Fair Se A woman Is always- pretending: that she never. pretends. A woman is always looking ontlie bright side-of a mirror. Cnrtship is the.Juicy, gape and - mairiage the appendieltis * A quiet wedding is but a curtaI raiser for a strenous- afterpart. Never, judge othe dimensions oft a woman's brain by the size of her hat. Mothers care not - who -does the lovemaking if they are allowedto do: the matchmaking. There is something the matter with a woman when she is willing to let a man do all the talking. .Some women. marryI in order to be independent, and some men get married -for that same reason. A man likes to get his wife'In an. automobile and then runl it -so fast that she Is frighteried.speechless.' Morst men appreciate the nonsense of a pretty woman far more :than they do the sense' of a homely one. Women, as-a rule; have poor headS 'for figures. That may be why it is almost impossible for one. to figure her age correctly.. - THE Durham Herald ~ Sys "we would like for the Democrats to put up a -conservative man,.- but we are not among-those who-believe-that a conse-vative Democrat could win. It is our belief that- the more radical ,the candidate the more votes he-will recive." The Herald is more- than half right. Ifthe Democrats win they can only do itwith aman that stands for something -How to "Plump" Poultry. A valuable point in reference to "p1 imylng" the poultry. This Is done by dipping It, after plucking, in water nearly or quite boiling for ten seconds and then plunging Iime-. datol1y Into cold water. Anot'ier way. of plamping is to place tie dress~d fowls in tfrough-like boards,. pressing the breast up and forcitig the flesh over-, bending the legs forward, and placing weights on the bodies. The troughs should be in r-oom: as cold as possible.. All dressi:-g zhould be doe When the flesh still i- warm, successful dry pidklng, especially depending on'this. Turkeys should never be scalded. If the tailand wing feathers are re-. moved the latter should be, taken out with a twist, as a straig~ht pull will set them. Dry-picked turkeya are worth two cents a po,:nd more thaij those scalded, as the flesh is brighter and appears more tooth some. Demand for Males. The demand for mules in old Mel. Ico Is something phenomenal. Thus far the supply for that country has been drawn from Missouri and Ten-. nessee, both of which grow a great many excellent mules. They are In demand for use on cotton, cane and rice farms. Miiles have been found most excellent animals for work In warm climates, and for many years the cotton and rice plantations of our southern states have drawn heavily on the surplus mules grown north. This growing demand has In the past few years greatly Increased the grow ig of mules here, and the demand for them Is' shown by market quota. tions. The mule Is very easily end cheaply grown, and is reid?"for work much younger than horses are, and endures hard work under un-~ favorable circumstances much long or and better. Feeding Chickens Turpentine. -Tupentne given to chickens In ternally is said to be one of the best remedies for limber neck. The tur pentine not only acts as a cure, but as a prei-entive as well. Bread p111* soaked in turpentine is the best way to give it. An ordinary full grown chicken may be given turpentine a teaspoonful at a time, but the ex periment is rather dangerous as the fowl may stranle. Consequently the urpentine should be given In the Watering the Sheep. Feeders should * - that th-fr sheep . have plenty of nter. .:j...o o;cera ;ors have water constantly before :eir sheep, while others prefer to ake their stock to the water :rough at certain periods, allowing hem to remain there for an hour or o at a time. The water should be :ept fresh and not allowed to spill