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HARD TO BEAT That's What the New York Press Says About Bryan. A REPUBLICAN VIEW. Should Bryan Be Chosen as the Democratic Standard in the Next Campaign the Republican Party Would - Have to Put Forth Its Strongest Candidate to Beat Him Says a Republican Paper. In discussing the announcement of Mr. Bryan that he would accept the Democratic nomination for Pres ident if tendered him the New York Press, which is Republican to the core, says: The Bryan announcement is re ceived by the leading organ of the Eastern Democracy--the World withia sneer to the effect that "after eleven years of Mr. Bryan's leader ship there are only two Democratic United States senators north of Ma son and Dixon's line" and only six Democratic governors north of Ohio. Mr. Bryan has often challenged the Democracy of the World and he now would deny that he has lead the Democratic party for eleven years. The disastrous Parker campaign was in charge of Tom Taggart, Aug ust Belmont and Pat McCarren, not of Bryan, who cursed the Democrat ic ticket with faint praise in 1904 and has been making war on the party machine ever since. If he does not get his third nomination failure will be due to the fact that he and his friends are unable to wrest the ma chinery from the hands of the men who rode roughshod over his delega tes at St. Louis three years ago. Another Eastern Democratic auth ority, the Evening Post, finds it main objection to Mr. Bryan in the fact that the people are tired o: hearing him and seeing him. More over, '-during half a generation vot ers have now formed the habit o: voting against Mr. Bryan, and such habits are fearfully hard to break.' Specialists in the art of advertising, asan offset to this, would argue that Mr. Bryan's name has become such a household word, as to be a valu able asset to the party. Don't we all know that the adver tisement in the newspapers with which we grow familiar because of their persistent hitting us in the eyes when we cannot help ourselves, even tually drive us, by a hy pnotic proces of suggestion, to purchase the arti cle we have thus learned to know of. Does the continuous dinning of Bry an's name in our ears, the ineffaca ble sight of it in the public prints, have the like effect to what is known in advertising patter as the "Follow up System?" People who object to Bryan for president because he is an old story, and say they just cannot bear to look on his face any longer, forget that when he first ran for the presidency one objection to him was that it would be a shame to rob the nursery. The second time the Boy Orator ran the Wall street wing of the party gave it out that the nomination was given him to get rid of him. But the pest still buzzes around. If he is beaten the third time there is no reason to believe that 'he will then relegate himself to the limbo of the president ially impossible. Maybe in order to get rid of him it will be necessary for the reactionaries of his party tc turn in and elect him president! Mr. Bryan gave the country real leadership in the march away from the dangers which threatened the nation at the time when his "cross~ of gold" speech startled the coun try into a study of its political con ditions. He was the man with the bomb, hurling it recklessly as a pro test against a state of things which -imperiled the welfare of the people. It was not the right weapon he used and he threw it in the wrong direc tion. But it served its purpose as a protest, and it made the field ready for the attack by the right men with the right weapons who came after him. The progressive movement has e" en marched past Mr. Bryan since he burst into fame with a few inflam mable periods. Governor La Follette went further than Bryan had thought of going. Governor Hughes is ahead of him with better and more drastic measures than he discussed. But Bryan has served his country. There was a great outcry against his attack on the courts; but it was his influence which has modified "government by injunction." He was called revolu tionary because he wanted an income tax. Now nearly everybody wants an income tax. And in the present condition of the Democratic party, which probably would not accept a Hearst or a Johnson, the people would be better off with Bryan on the Democratic ticket than one etf the smut Francis type or one li?,z Parker or Daniel. Much depends on who is nomina ted by the Democrats Mr. Bryan says he does not care whom the Re publicans pick, and his party ought to pay no attention to that. But it will make a difference to the other side whether it is Bryan or some one else that is to be beaten. We do not share the belief of some Democratic authorities that Mr. Bryan has no strength with the voters. We are sure he is strong enough to beat a Knox or a Fairbanks. He would not be easy for a Taft or any other d. le gated candidate to beat. Mr. Wat ,terson, who thinks Bryan is no great shakes, as a runner, still belie-es the Commoner could beat Theodore Roosenelt on the third-term issue. Nobody can tell about that, but at least it is an- to sa: that Bryan '-:i! put up such a ght if nominated as no Republican, however, popiular, could afford to despise. So if it should be certain that Mr. Bryan will get the nomination of his party:--and so far he has no strong rival in the field--the Republican party will have to run its best man against him, we believe that Gover nor Hughes would make a far better president than Bryan-the records and writings of the two men warrant that behief. We feel certain the American people would vote that way. B ut with a candidate of the fight ing .ability of Bryan,- with the prog ressive program which he advocates with so much zeal, if not with Con summate skll, the men who are drag KILLING AT MILLICAN. An Alleged Attempt at Criminal As sault Causes Homicide. Lewis Connor, a young white man. was shot and killed by Barkley! Rush, another young white man at Millicans. a station on the Pregnall Branch of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway between Vances and Holly Hill, on last Saturday. The killing was the result of a row between Con nor and H. T. Rush, father of the slayer of Connor, earlier in the day. Bad blood is said to have existed be tween Connor and the two Rurhes for some time, -and the tragic event of Saturday was not unexpected by those who knew the real condition of affairs. The testimony taken at the coro ner's inquest involved H. T. Rush. Mrs. S. C. Cannon, widow of the late Leon Cannon, who was killed in Spar tanburg by his stepson, and a sister of the man who was killed Saturday, testified that H. T. Rush attempted to criminally assault her and she told her brother of the assault; that he went to the store of Rush, which is only a few hundred yards from the Cannon home, and after indulging in a very heated quarrel both men drew their pistols and began firing, Rush :-eceiving a slight flesh wound in the arm and Connor coming away un hurt. Connor started back to his sister's home and met her on the way to the scene of the shooting. Mrs. Cannon prevailed upon her brother to go back to Rush's -tore and make the quarrel up with him. Arm in arm Mrs. Cannon and her brfthe:-, ""ewis Connor returned to the scene of the trouble and just as they reached the store young Barkley Rush fired on Connor with a double-barrelled shot gun loaded with buck-shot, the entire load taking effect in the abdomen and thighs. He released his hold from his sister and fell. Like in all such cases the witness es do not agree as to the particulars. Some of the witnesses testified that Connor shot four times at Rush, and others say that he threw his pistol aside when Rush shot him and he fell mortally wounded. Mr. J. S. Strock, who was some distance away when the shooting took place, testi fied that he heard both pistol shots and gun shots. The killing of course will be thoroughly investigated at the next term of the court of general sessions, when no doubt all the facts connected with the unfortunate af fair will be brought out. Lewis Connor, the man that was slain, was the only son of Mr. Benson Connor, who died a few years ago at his home near Holly Hill. He was a good man, left a good estate, and was connected with the very best people of his section. Recently the unfor tunate young man left his mother's home, near Holly Hill, where he liv ed, and went to spend sometime with Mrs. Sue C. Connor, who was his sister, and lived at Millican's, where the tragedy was enacted. After be ing shot young Connor was carried to his sister's home, where he died. Up to a few years ago the unfor tunate young man stood well with all who knew him, but, he fell into bad habits and for the last year or two he has been regarded as a dangerous man. H. T. Rush and Barkley T. Rush are father and son. They are tenants on the place of Mrs. Cannon, and keep a little store in connection with their farming operations. Both of them are now charged with seri ous crimes. The father with at tempted criminal assault on Mrs. Cannon and the son with murder. No doubt both cases will be ventilated in the criminal courts, unless the ver dict of the coroner's fury ends the matter. The verdict of the jury was that Lewis Connor came to his death by gunshot wounds in the hands of Barkley T. Rush, and that the kill ing was in self-defence. The body was taken in charge by Undertaker W. H. Dukes, of Orangeburg, and carried to the dead man's mother's home Monday morning. Interment took place in the old Target Church yard. The slayer was taken in charge by a constable. CLUTCHED LIVE WIRE And a College Student Was Shocked to Death. At Princeton. N. 3., while attempt ing to shake his coat from an elec tric light wire running into the Hill dormitory, James Walker, Jr., of Evansville, Ind., _was shocked to death. Walker had climbed up an 'iron pole to get a coat which had dropped on the wire from the wmn dow of the neighboring building. He gripped the wire with his right hand, and instantly received the full power of 2,500 volts. It was two min utes before the power could be shut off, the Walker fell to the ground. Five physicians worked over him for Iseveral hours, but to no avail. His rgthand was fearfully burned. Roosevelt Responsible. In a letter to the News and Courier Congressman D. Wyatt Aiken says| he is meclined to Bryan as the Dem-| ocratic candidate for President, and that the paramont issue of the campaign shoulq be to lower the tariff. Mr. Aiken very truly says "the trusts are fostered and pro teted by the robber tariff which, of course excludes foreign competi tion, andthe president, in pretend-1 ing to fight the trusts without low ering the the tariff, knows better thm anyhedy else in this country that lhe is not sinarie, but is only makir~g a great noi-e to keep him self in the centre of the "spot like." No m~'an in America today is mnorei repnsible for the failure to make an honest and ieal fight on the tru.'t s than President Roosevelt. i He is res:;onsibl1e for the panic on| Wall street." Crngressman Aikeni is another m-.n th tt R"ooseelt ca-it fool with his t-reat pretense at trust "busting." Roosevelt has bamboh'o-I zled some folks by making them believe that he is red hot after the trusts, but he can't fool any one who has watched his course. He is' beyond doupt the biggest humbug that has ever attained to his posl tion in this country. He blusters about like a March wind, but when the trusts magnets get after him he s as calm as a May morning. stage of the hunt and who may cap ture some of those in the North will~ have no choice, when they are fore ed to choose a Republican who can win the presidency but to take Coy JOHNSON ON BRYAN. Why He Favors Him as the Dem ocratic Candidate. Because He Towers Incomparibly Above Any Other Man in the Dem ocratic or Any Other Party. Congressman Jos. T. Johnson was recently interviewed by the Charles ton News and Courier as to the next presidential election, the candidate of the democratic party, etc. This interview published in the Charles Lbn paper. Mr. Johnson is strong in his utterances for Bryan as the par ty's choice, giving clearly and dis tinctly his reasons. Following is the interview as it appeared in the News and Courier: Congressman Johnson takes up the questions one by one and answers them as follows: Who is your choice for democratic nominee for president? Bryan. Why do you favor Bryan? Because he towers incomparably above any other man in the demo cratic or any other party. All of the people of the tarth appreciate his worth, even if sr -ie of our own peo ple do t ernors of states, rep. resentat vs in congress, senators, iudges of the supreme court of the United States, generals of the army, admirals of the navy, great scholars and distinguished divines, have gone abroad. and yet no man of our country. not even ex-president Grant, received the homage and attention that Bryan, a private citizen, receiv ed. What did it mean? It was the world's willing tribute to the-worth, purity and greatness of the man. Bryan deserves the nomination, in order that the great mass of honest American voters may right the wrong that was done him, and the still greater wrong that was done the people in 1896 and 1900, when man agers of trust companies, bankers, railways, trusts and corbines, in the guise of patriotism and in the name of honesty, contributed hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars ol trusts funds to encompass Bryan's defeat. In those two great cam paigns, practically every corrupt and corrupting influence in American politics was arrayed against him. All who enjoyed speciai p.iivileges under the law--privileges that enabled the possessors to reap rich harvests with out rendering an equivalent service to the public therefor--were against him, and are still against him. Why' It is because Bryan is honest, fear. less and incorruptable, and would honestly, earnestly and efficiently stop evil practices so far as the law enabled him to do it. Much as I ad mire Mr. Bryan I will say that I dc not always agree with him. I differ from many of his views and utter ances. Personally I am the strictesi of strict constructionists of the con stltution-of the United States. Bryar is not. I beleive that all powers not delegated to the fede ral governmeni are reserved to the states and to the people. Neither congress nor the president has any warrant to exer cise any authority beyond the strici letter of the constitution. Some ol the things Mr. Bryan believes in, it my opinion, neither the president nor congress has any more constitu tional authority to deal with than the South Carolina Methodist Con ference would have. [ do not expect the nominee of the democratic party to see all public questions from my viewpoint. He may believe that the moon is made of green cheese, or he may believe in predestination with out in the slightest degree impairing his usefulness as a public official. Bryan would execute the laws in honesty, decency and mercy, and fill the greatest office in the gift ofr men with becoming dignity and modesty. Lt me say one word with' reference to some things that Mr. Bryan advo cates that are not within the power of the federal government. Even his failings lean to virtue's side. He shows intense sympathy for his fel low man. While he believes in pro tecting to be more concerned about the sacred rights of men. He places man-living, breathing working, suffering men, women and children above the dollar. Those who lie awake at night thinking little about the sacred rights of men are against Bry an. The Standard Oil Company and the United States Steel Corporation can talk eloquently and well of the sacred rights of property since they got it, but it wasn't so sacred when the other fellows had it. What will be the issues in 1908? Tariff reform, regulation of inter state commerce, trusts, and states' rights. The constitutioni of the Uni ted States reserves to congress the right to regulate inter-state com merce. That right should be exer cised fearlessly, honestly and in the ,interest of Deople. This right should be so exercised as in no way to inter fere with the rights of the states to regulate their own internal affairs. The lir.e between federal and state control should be clearly defined. Do you believe in government own ership of railroads? No. Such a plank will not be in the democratic platform. Bryan has said as clearly as it could be stated in the English language that he is in favor of giving government regula tion a fair trial, and that in the event that government regulation fails the ultimate solution will be in govern ment ownership. I have heard that opinion expressed by democrats and republicans in congress over and over again. Roosevelt himself has said that failure to regulate will result in government ownership. If Bryan were elected president he would en force the laws as he found them. It! would be necessary for congress to act before there could be any gov einent ownership of railroads. The onstant criticising of Bryan because of his government ownership of rail rad views is out of place. The critics ll known that congress, not the president, makes laws, and that there will not be govornment owner ship of railroads, certainly not for years to come, and that Bryan's per sonal views on that questio~n are of o more importance than his views n predestination or immersion. Can the democratic party win next' year? I hope so. If all the democrats who voted for McKinley, or aided indirectly in his election by throwing away their votes on Palmer and Buckner, will vote the democratice ticket we can win. A CHARLESToNTAN PLEASED. Congressman Johnson has _receiv ea letter from a represenative gen Leman of the city of Charleston. com THE HOME CIRCLE Crude Thoughts As They Fall From the Editorial Pen. Some Pleasant Evening Reveries Ded icated to the Tired Mothers As They Join the Home Circle. While dedicated to the -zothers, the matter published in this column will be found to be good reading for every member of the family. Swift Destruction. We sat upon the sea shore and waited for its gradual approaches, and have seen its dancing waves and white surf, and admired that He who measured it with His hand had given it life and motion; and we lingered till its gentle waters grew into migh ty billows, and had well-nigh swept us from our fi a footing. So we have seen some of the heedless youth of our town gazing with curious spirit upon sweet motions and gentle ap proaches of inviting pleasures and sins, till they have detained their eyes and imprisoned their feet and they have been swept to swift de struction. De Hind In Little Things. The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time. In the nusery, on the playground and in the school room, there is room all the time for little acts of kindness that cost nothing but are worth more than gold or silver. To give up something when giving up will prevent unhappiness; to yield when presisting will chafe and fret others: to go a little way round rath er than come against another; to take an ill word or a cross look rather than to resent it; these are the ways in which clouds and storms are kept off and a pleasant, smilling sunshine secured even in a humble home among very poor people, as well as it families in higher station. Much thai we term the miseries of life would be avoided by adopting this rule of con duct. The Beautiful Lesson. If you love, love more. If you hate hate less. Life is too siort to spend in hating any one. Why war agains1 a mortal who is going the same roac with us? Why not expand the flowel of life and happiness by learning tc love, by teaching those who are near and dear a beautiful lesson? Your hands may be hard, but your hear1 need not be. Your form may be beni or ugly, but do you not know thai the most beautiful flowers grow in the most rugged, unsheltered places The palace for care, the cottage for love. Not that there is no love in a manshion; but somehow if we are not very careful, business will crowd all there is of beauty out of th( heart. That is why God has given the Sabbaths and Saturday nights that we may leave business and have a little heart cleaning. Saturday Night Reveries. Saturady night seems to have the happy faculty of making people hu man; set their hearts to beating soft ly as they use to do before the worlh turned them into war drums and jar red them to pieces with tatoos. Or Saturday night the ledger closes witi a clash, the iron-doored vault come! to with a bang, click, goes the key it the lock. It is Saturady night anc the business man breathes free again Homeward, ho! The door that ha! been ajar all the week gently close! behind him, and the world is all shui out. Shut out? Shut in, rather. A1 home are his treasures after all, anc not In the vault and not in the booll -save the record in the old famil3 Bible-and not in the bank. Maybe you are a bachelor, frosty and forty Then poor fellow, Saturday night is nothing to you, just as you are noth, ing to anybody. Get a wife, blue eyed or black-eyed, but all above true-eyed. Get a little home-no mat ter how little-a sofa, just to hold two, or two and a half in it, on a Saturday night, and then read this paragraph by the light In your wife'E eyes, and thank God and take cour age. The Elder Sister. There is no character in the home circle more useful and beautiful than a devoter elder sister who stands side by side with the toiling mother, light ening all her cares and burdens. How beautiful the household machinery moves on with such efficient help! Now she presides at the table in her mother's absence, always so neatly attired that it is with pride the father introduces her to his guest as "our oldest daughter." Now she takes a little troop in the garden with her and amuses them, so mother may not be disturbed in her work or her rest. Now she helps the boys with their hard lessons or reads father's 'paper aloud to rest his tired eyes. If mother can run away for a few days recreation she leavs honie without any anxiety, for Mary will guide her house wisely and happily in her ab sence. But in the sick room her pre sence is an especial blessing. Her hand is next to mother's own In gen tleness and skill. Her s-veet music can charm any pain, and brighten the weariest hours. There are elder sis ters whose presence is not such a blessing in the home. Their own self ish ends and aims are the main pur suits in life, and anything that stands_ and Courier. It is written in a very appreciative and sincere manner, and the text of the letter is as follows: Charleston, S. C., Nov. 12, 1907. J. T. Johnson, Esq., Sparanburg, S. C. My Dear Sir: I hope you will excuse an entire stranger taking the liberty to com mend a recent utterance made by you, but it is so refreshing and en couraging to find a man raised to eminence fearlessly taking his stand~ for what is high and just and clean, that one feels a desire to thank him. I read your interview about Bryan with so much satisfaction. From the beginning to the end it voiced my sentiments; but it did more than that; it seemed to me from first to last, to be as aggressive as it was temrperate, and he who can unite these qualities in a political utterance cannot escape the thanks of those who share his sentiments. I doubt not that we may differ on some points, it would be extraordi nary if we did not; but!I could realize that and yet desire the pleasure of voting for those who so strongly rep WANTS TE CONVENTIO'N. Offers One Hundred Thousand Dol lars for Democratic C .ing. At a conference of the members of the Democratic national commit tee, at French Lick Springs, it was decided to hold a meeting of the committee at Washington, December 12, to select a time and piace for the national Democratic convention next year. National Chairman Thomas Taggart presided at the conference. He said there were present 18 mem bers, while six other members were represented by proxy. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnatti, Atlan tic City, Denver and Long Branch, N. J., want the next national con vention. Chas. F. Wilson said that Denver was building a hall to seat 15,000 persons and that Denver would send to the Washington meet ing $100,000 in gold towards defray ing the expenses of the convention, if beld in Denver. Geo. S. Lenhart of Atlantic City supplied the conference with litera ture booming that city for the con vention. Several members of the com mittee will remain over Sunday. National Chairman. Taggart will be a candidate for reelection as the Indiana member of the national com mittee. When asked whether he would be a candidate for reelection as chairman of the national com mittee, Taggart's only reply was a laugh. HE IS LOCKED UP. New York Jail Opens Doors for a Wealthy Man. Howard Maxwell, until a few days ago president of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn, and looked upon as one of the rising young financiers o Kinks count, spent Thursday nigh in a cell in Raymond street jail an Friday his counsel renewed effort to secure $30,000 bail for him. William Gow, who made a mil lion or more out of advertising, an< who has been called the chief con spirator in the Borough Bank scan dal, and young Arthur D. Campbell formerly cashier of the bank, whc were indicted with Maxwell, secued the required bail when arrested, an< spent the night at their homes, bu Maxwell was handcuffed to a detec tive, and with head bowed, was lee through the streets from the dis tricts attorney's office to the jail. It is said three new true bills wil be found against the jugglers of th funds of the banks. The names o two of them have appeared alread: as men closely associated with Gov in business with Maxwell in real es tate speculations. TRAGEDY AT TAMPA. A Young Lady From This Stat Killed in Florida. At Tampa Florida, Karl Christian twenty-four years of age, shot an< killed Mrs. Florence Williams earl: Wednesday morn~ng, then turned th revolver on himself, inflicting a fate wound. R. W. Williams, the husbanc arrived on the scene of the traged in a few minutes and had to be fox cibly prevented from killing himsel: Mrs. 'Williams 'was formerly Mis Florence Simmons of Summerville S. C., and Christian has a mother lis ng at Palataka, Fla. A Washington dispatch says tha the financiers and trust magnets hay agreed that if the administratio: will give them asset currency the will not make a fight against the ad ministration's federal control of coi porations plan. With asset currene in their hands the trusts could hol up the peoule and i-ob them when ever they felt like it regardless o federal control of corporations. rHE New York World prints i: display type this statement by th London Telegraph: "The New Yorl World holds an unassailable positio; in America as an independent news paper, unbought and unbuyable.' The World went a long ways fron home to get an endorsement. Wha does the home folks think of thi World? _________ IN answer to the question pro pounded by The News and Courie: "can the Democrats win next year.' Congressman Johnson, who is one o: the ablest men in the State, says, if all the Democrats who voted fo: McKinley or aided indirectly in hi: election by throwing away their vo tes on Palmer and Buckner will vot< the democratic ticket, we can win.' In the way of these is regarded witl great impatience. Such daughters ar< no comfort to a mother's heart Which kind of an elder sister are you in the household? Old-Fashioned Mother. Thank God, some of us have, and others have had, an old-fashioned mother. Not a woman of the period enameled and painted, with her great chinon, her curls and bustle; whose white, jewelled bands never have felt the clasp of her baby fingers; but a dear old-fashioned, sweet-voiced mother, with eyes in which the love light shone, and brown hair threaded with silver, lying smooth upon her faded cheek. Those dear hands worn with toll, gently guided our tottering steps to childhood, and smoothed our pillow in sickness; even reach ing out to us in yearning tenderness, when hex- sweet spirit was baptised in the pearly spray of the river. Blessed is the memory of an old-fashoned mother. It floats to us now, like the beautiful perfume of some woodland blossoms. The music of other voices may be lost, but the entrancing mem ry of her's will echo in our souls forever. Other places will fade away and be forgotten, but her's will shine on until the light from heaven's por tals shall glorify our own. When in the fitful pauses of busy lie our feet wander back to. the old homestead, and crossing the well worn threshold, standing once more in the low, quaint room, as hallowed by her presence, how the feeling of childish innocence and dependence come over us. and we kneel down in the motten sunshine streamir-g through the western window-jusx t where, long years ago, we knelt hy our mother's knee, lisping "'Our Father."' How many times when the tempter lured us on has the memory f those sacred hours, that mothers words, her faith and prayers, saved us from sin. Years have filled great drifts over between her and us. Ijit they have not bidden from our sight SOME GENTLE HINTS. To Young Folks Who Want to Make Good Clerks. Taken From a Phamplet Issued by a Departmen$ Store for Use of the Employees. Treat aU customers courteously, regardless of how they may be dressed, the contrary is inexcusable under any efrcumstances. All fixtures and property of the house should be treated with the greatest care; the first scratch paves the way for carebessness. Each day should find us doing things better and beter than previ ously. Acquire the habit of promptness in every matter, large or small, which is left to your care. Know the value of a good personal appearance; do not think that any detail of your attire will escape no tice. Learn to ask such questions as will draw out the most profitable in formation Spend wisely your spare time; count every golden hour, every m.o ment an opportunity; don't waste; a minute at any time. Avoid being infifenced for thq wrong by other persoms; have a Vur pose of your own; 'weigh couinsel but act from your own best thciught Cultivate a good, clear, liegibli handwriting; many people judg1 quickly on this point; a good han< always is appreciated. However attached to your busi ness, do not allow ocmmercia, sens4 . to deaden, but to quicken, the :noral artistic and all wholesome senti ments. The great majority of er-rors at made through carelessnets; learn, t care; be exact; strive to 'have it at solutely right-making a mistalr.e i: business is like falling down in foot race-it is a setback.. In giving orders give reason thus teaching subordinates! to thin] for themselves. Think to be interested in you work; learn to love it, and. you wil have the most pleasure of busines relations. Cultivate a happy expression an! a happy manner; feel it, mean it; th, advantage is wonderful in. every way Learn to show a thoroigt inter est in a customer or any person ap proaching you; try to loctk the mat ter from his standpoint as well a your own. Make memoranda of little point while you thing of thern; run ove the various subdivisions of your worl to recall any points you may hav forgotten. Let every effort be towards th idea of permanence; do things t I last; make the casuar customer permanent one throug satisfaction. SKeep your eye open for improve lments, criticisms and. suggestion! which will help any part of this bus: ness. -Pay strick attention to 'whateve -you have in hand, and let that fo the time have your whole though1 ,Learn to leave no 2nisunderstand - ing unsettled to the entire satisfat tion of the other party. .Cultivate cleanliness In every spc and corner of the house; see the your own section is perfectly clear SKnow how to write a good busj ness letter, and be sure you are thoi oughly understood by the recipieni Be sensibly economical in larg and small matters, save paper, say lights, etc, and treat each privileg as a trust. Learn to utilize the knowledge o others, and know every man for th best there is in him. 1Try continually to set a good ex ample for those around you, wheth er above you or below you in posi tion; example is the greatest of al teachers. Be careful in all conversation cultivating prudence, caution, modi and, as well, good English. bKnow how to listen well; take ii all the points you are told, and catcl the spirit as well as the letter of the request. Learn to close an interview dip lomatically, and save your time an< that of other people as well. Avoid too much cross-examinatiox of customers when goods are re turned; this causes needless irrita tion., , When a commission is placed ir your hands to fill, see that you pui Into it yous best judgment and thought. Learn the great extent to which the golden rule may be applied in business maters with the utmost satisfaction to all. Don't submit a thing for approval until it is your best; otherwise some thing else than the best may be ac cepted. All the time you are forming busi ness habits take care that these are such habits of progressiveness and worth as you will care to retain, and never find occasion to break. Learn to observe as you go and draw valuable lessons from the things around you. Let each of us do his part to make this organization one that will stand out in history for the men it pro duces. Think about your work as a whole not merely about the little pieces of it in hand. We fool ourselves when-we are too well satisfied with our own acts. Do not allow little differences to shut off profitable connections and associations. Learn absolutely to re spect a promise or appointment and keep it faithfully. Put yourself in other people's places to get proper view of your methods and work. Let your every dealing with the public be such as will inspire confi der'e. See that your work begins prompt ly in the morning; let the first few minutes find you in full woxking trim and busy. Salesmanship may be made a cro fesion, and receive the same degree of respect accorded to an artist of any class. Be emphatically unwilling to ask or receive favors from any person who expects a return in business favors. HARVEY Gerber. Democratic State Chairman, says "Bryan will be nom inated and have the solid, unani mous, enthusiastic support o. Ohio's| THE REASON WHY The Dispensary Was2Put Back at the Town of Elloree. Capt. Claffy, of the County Board, Discuoses isbory of the Dispensary Situation .t Elloree. Capt. J. H. Claffy, manager of the County Dispersary, and representa tive of the 'board in this county, makes :the following statement in refeirenoe to the opening of a dispen sary' in the town of Elloree: 'Some time in the spring of this yeer, shortly after the dispensary wgs closed at Elloree, the county board promised the Rev.. John A. Brunson, who has always led the fight against the dispensarv, that they would not reopen the dispensary as long as he could show to their satisfaction that a majorty of the citizens of Elloree were opposed to such action. Num erous requests had repeatedly been made, through letters and personal visits, by many su..bstantial citIzens of Eoree and vicinity that the dispen sary be reopened at that place. In f.ct, there was almost a unan imous demand from the surrounding country that the dispensary be re opened, as a great many blind tiger's were in existence and doing a flour lishing business. The fact that a num ber of blind $gers infested the El loree section was reported to the board, and Capt. Claffy and Mr. J. G. Smith, a members of the board, went to Elloree to look into the blind tig er situation and satisfy themselves as to the reports of the illicit sale of whiskey in that neighborhood. This visit gave rise to the report that these gentlemen had gone to Elloree to investigate the matter of reopening the dispensary in that town. Shortly after returning to Orange burg, Mr. Smith received a letter from Mr. J. C. Evans, of Elloree, one of the strongest opponents of the dis pensary, and during the interview Mr. Smith, as a member of the coun ty board, assured Mr. Evans that the r dispensary would not be reopened if I it could be shown that a majority of 3 the citizens of Elloree opposed such action. Mr. Evans returned home, and in a few days forwarded to the board a petition signed by 37 citizens who opposed' the reopening of the dispensary. "The next step taken by the board was to send Capt. Claffy to Elloree to personally investigate the matter and find out the sentiment of the people. Capt. Claffy, accompanied by r Mr. T. R. McCants, another member of the board, proceeded to Elloree to carry out instructions. Capt Claffy personally interviewed every citizen who could be found, with the excep tion of the Rev. Mr. Brunson and the Methodist minister, bothof whom he counted against the dispensary. -"Each man was asked the question "Are you in favor of or opposed to reopening the dispensary in Elloree?" He took the name of each party and noted his reply in writing with the result that twenty-seven expressed themselves as being in favor of and . 20 against reopening, 11 were Indif .ferent, and there were 4 who could not be seen. Capt Claffy states that t he is prepared to make an affidavit Sas to the result of this canvass should it be necessary. 'This showed that . a majority was not opposed, and was . the board's warrant for ordering the dispensary reopened." SAll of the papers in this matter Swere inspected by The News and Courier correspondent, and It is a noteworthy fact that out of the 3?l Swho signed the petition in opposition, 13 of them stated to Capt. laffy that they were either in favor of the dis -pensary of didn't care one way or -the other. Deducting 13 from 3 7 -leaves 24, which is the total of those Iseen by Capt Claffy, who were oppos ed, and those whom he did not see. This shows that both sides made a thorough canvass and neither missed a man. As to the election of a dispenser for Elloree, the board states that there were three applicants-W. F. Jones, Henry Harbort and J. W. Eer ry. Mr. Berry was elected, he :being the only one of the three who resided in Elloree, and his endorsements w'ere considered stronger, that is, his pe tition was signed by a larger number of citizens. Mr. 3. M. Weeks, who had previously held the office four teen years, was not an applicant for the position, as he is now as bitterly opposed to the reopening of the dis pensary as he was in favor of its re tention during the fight to close It in the early part of the year. rhe county board states that It does not propose to engage in any controversy regarding this matter; that it feels that it has acted proper ly in acceding to the wishes of tihcse citizens of Elloree who pref-2: the legitimate sale of liquor through the dispensary to the traffic as being ca'r ried on by blind tigers, and that all the papers and other evidence bear ing on the case can be inspected by any parties who are interested. The manner in which dispensary affairs in this county have been con ducted is exemplary, even the op ponents of this method of regulating the liquor business being outspoken in the praise of the work done by our county board, and it is a matter of great regret that any misunder standing whatever should have oc curred over the Elloree situation. Orangeburg Times and Democrat. JAMES A. Cobb, a negro, hs been appointed special United States Dis trict Attorney for the District of Co hmbia. Our great, sham trust "busting" president is trying to cur ry favor with the negro to head off Fire Alarm Foraker. TH E Washington Post says Bryan has monopolized the Democratic par ty, which leads some papers to re mark," if so, let him nominate him self and vote for himself." Bryan ti ;will have no need to do that. He will e nominated and voted for by mili ions of true blue Democrats. THE mention of Grover Cleveland's ft ame for the Democratic president jal nomination by a lot of Assistant Republican Democrats revives the uestion as to whether Cleveland ever did vote the Democratic ticket 'hen his name was not on it. The fu Jew York Journal says he never CRAZED WOMAN Lands on Narrow Ledge Sixty Feet Above Ground IN MAD DEATH LEAP. Hurls Herself From Roof, Lands on Coping and Races Round and - Round.-Gireat Crowd Powerless to Help Her.-Firemen Almost Dragged to Death and Struggles To Hold Her Balance. Balancing herself with the skill of an acrobat upon a narrow ledge projecting from the outer walls of the fashionable Revere apartment house, at Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Forty-second street New York Wednesday, Miss Eliza beth Coyden, a pretty girl of twenty, who had suddenly become "'Pent', insane and ran aroundland around the house on this perilous pathway. It had been no part of her insane plan to land on the ledge. for she had leaped from the roof, intending'to end her life. That she stuck on the ledge was a mere chance. Sixty A et below, men and women fillirig the street and avenue, watch ed with fascinated eyes as the girl circuled the house again and again on the ledge, which projected just below the sixth sthry. Women in the throng fainted and sank to the ground as they looked. Others covered their eyes a score of times when it seemed certain that the crazed girl must be dashed to the pavement. And the rescue of the insane girl was even more thrilling, for it was not accomplished without a fight, in which she nearly succeeded in drag ging Fireman Quinn over the edge of the le Ige. Miss Goyden had been engaged last Saturaay as a maid in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralnh Wolf, who oc cupy a suite in the Revere. She spoke little English, but she accomplished her duties with a deftness that de lighted- Mrs. Wolf. It was noted, however, that she seldom smiled. On Sunday night Mrs. Wolfe found her weeping. but the girl could or would not explain the cause. Whether her secret unseated her reason and caus ed her wild attempt to die Wednes day can only be conjured. Mrs. Ralph did not suspect that the girl was mentally unbalanced until 9' o'clock Wednesday morning, when she asked the way to the roof. "I must go up," she said. Mrs. Ralph tried to dissuade-her, but the girl shook her head. With her eyes glit tering with excitement, and repeat ing again, "I must go up," she ran into the hall and found the stairway leading from the sixth floor, on which the Wolfs live, to the roof. Mrs. Wolf followed her-and tried to overtake her, but the girl was too quick.. She ran to the edge of the roof and dropped off. Mrs. Wolf looked cautiously over the cornice, expecting to see the crushed form of the maid on the pavement. But. in stead, she was lying on the ledge, only twelve feet below the roof, one arm hanging over the edge of the narrow projecton. Even as Mrs. Wolf looked, the girl stirred,.and thengot slowly to her feet.. "Go to a window, dear, andI will let you in, and be very careful," called Mrs. Wolf, but the girl ap peared not to hear it. When Mrs. Wolf, trying hard to steady her voice, spoke again the crazed girl looated up and iaughed harshly. Then she be gan to walk rapidly alone the ledge, while a swiftly increasing throng in the street watched her. She chang ed the walk to a run and only slow ed down at the corners of the house, where the 12-inch path turned a right angle. Mrs. Wolf, in despair; descended to her rooms and telephoned to the police. Fully twenty-five other calls were received at Police Headquar ters in the next quarter of an hour, begging that reserves be sent to save this girl. Fireman Quinn, of Hook and Lad der Company No. 143, reached the house ahead of the reserves from the West One Hundredaand Twenty-fifth street station. Quinn went up to the rooms of the Wolfs, and opening a window, waited for the girl to reach that point. When Quinn, reached out, grasp ed Miss Coyden by the arms she ut tered again the harsh laugh with which she had greeted Mrs. Wolf. Then she turned and fought the fire man with a strength that was aston ishing. Twice she almost dragged him out- on the ledge. She braced her feet against the wIndow sill and pulled outward with all her might, leaning her body over the street. Had the fireman lost his hold she would have been dashed downward. But he hung on. even when it seemed certain that he must lie with the girl, and at the crucial ~noment two policemen dashed into :he room, and seized Quinn around ;he waist. A third policeman yank d loose the girl's feet, and she was )mlled into the room with a force ;hat knocked her down, while Quinn iso went over backward. But the young woman was on her eet again in a fiash, and would have eaned from the window had she not een seized and held. It took the ombined strength of the three po icemen to sbbdue her. Dr. Ross, who 'as summoned from Harlem Hospit Jl, pronounced her insane, and she w'as transferred to Bellevue. Mrs. Wolf could tell nothing -of diss Coyden, save that the young voman came here only recently from Iungary. SEVERAL KILLED. lig Lot of Dynamite Exploded While Being 'Thawed. Four foreigners were killed and iree injured in an explosion at a >nstruction camp on the Portland & eattle road near Cheney, Wash., hursday, while thawing dynamite r blasting. Some~ of the bodies ere blown into fragmens. What most towns need Is a curfew r married men. It takes a bunco man to appreciate 11y the good things- of life. An empty stomach provides a man