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THEY MUST GO. Secretary Straus Issues Sweep Ing Order About Anarchists. Says He Wants Commissioners of Immigration Inspectors toLookAf ter Deportation of Alien Criminals. Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus Wednesday issued a sweeping order to all commissioners of immi gration and immigrant inspectors in charge, directing them to confer with the police in their respective jurisdic tions, with a view to "securing the co-operaton of police and detectives in an effort to rid the country of alien Anarchists and criminal fall ing within the law relating to depor tatior-. The order of Secretary Straus fol lows: "To all commisisoners of immigra tion and i mmigrant inspectors in charge: "It s hereby directed that, with r view to promptly obtain definite in formation with regard to alien Anar chists and criminals located in the United States, you shall confer fully with the chief of police or the chief of the secret service of the city i' which you are located, furnishing such officials with detailed nfornr tion with regard to the meaning o' the term 'Anarchist,' as used in tb Immigration Act of February 20 1907, and with regard to the inhib i tion of the statute against aliens of the criminal classes, explaining the powers and limitations imposed by said statute upon the immigration officials with respect to such persons. "You should call to the attention of the chief of police or the chief of secret service the definition of the, term 'Anarchist' contained in Sec tions 2 and 3 contained in the Act of February 20. 1907, and provision of Section 2, placing within the ex cluded classes *persons who have been convicted or admit having com mitted a felony or other crime' or misdemeanor involving moral turpi tude, 'pointing out that if any such person is found within the United States within three years after land Ing or entry there he is amenable to deportation under the provisions of Section 21 of said Act. The co operation of said chief of police should be requested, making it clear that in order that any particular Anarchist or criminal may be de ported evidence must be furnished showing (1) that the person In ques tion is an alien subject to the Immi grant Acts, (2) that he is an Anar chists or criminal as defined in the Statute, (3) the date of his arrival in the United States, which must be within three years of the date of his arrest, (4) the name of the vessel or the transportation line by which he came if possible, and (5) the name of the country whence he came; the details with respect to the last three - items being kept at the various ports of entry in such a manner as to be available if information is furnished with respect to the Anarchist's name, the date of his arrival and the port of entry. - "It is desired that the above in dicated steps shall be taken at once and that no proper effort shall be spared to secure and retain the co operation of the local police and de tective forces in an effort to rid the country of alien Anarchists and crim inals falling within the provisions of the statute relating to deportation." THE USUAL CONTESTS. Filed By Dantzler, Meyers and Prio leau for the Fees. March 24 is the day fixe for hear ing the contests filed for the seats of Mess. Legare, Patterson and Lever by the three negroes. who claim to have been elected to congress. Aaron P. Prioleau, who has been figuring some in the prints of late, and who once figured in jail for robbing the mails, Is contesting the seat of Le gare. Isaac Myers from somewhe-e about Aiken, is contesting the seat of Patterson, while A. D. Dantzler contests Lever's seat. All three of these negroes have contested before. and, finding it profitable, have done it again. They each get $2,000 al lowed by congress to any one who files a contest. The wonder is that there are not a dozen negroes every time, instead of one in each district. All they have to do is to get up and run, then fie a notice that they were rightfully elected and cheated out of it. It is not necessary to get votes at all. The election committee of the house, which will hear the con testants, will have some fun out of the negroes who appear before them and then vote unanimously to throw their cases away as being without any justification.* CAN'T BE FOUND. Relatives of a Dead Man at Asheville Can't Be Located. The body of James Orlando Ami don, who died in a hotel at Asheville several days ago, still lies unclaimed in an undertaking establishment in that city. The body is embalmed -and dressed ready for burial, and the -lodge of Masons is using every ef fdrt to locate the relatives of the deceased. A badge found on the lapel of the stranger's coat indica ting that he was a memiber of that Order. . The deceased is said to have a brother named G. Fred Ami do n at Framingham, Mass., and a siV er named Miss So Amidon at Mid * be- N. H., but telegrams to both placs failed to elicit any response. In th- "ockets of the dead man's clothing -ns found a postal card from the iH::wkins Publishing Coin .pany of Wate,-ille. N. Y., addressed to the deceased :sMiami, Fla. * Marked for Murder. Father Jacob Aust, pastor of St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic church, of Hazelton, has received a letter de claring that he is one of six priests of this country marked by the anar chists for death in the same manner in which Father Heinrich, of Denver, was recently murdered. Sold Game Birds. In a Magistrate court at Sumter on Tuesday the case of the Dixie Cafe was tried for unlawfully offer ing for sale game birds. and the cafe owners were found guilty by a jury of selling six birds, one offence, and fined $12.50 or fifteen days in jail. COL. IANKS HONORED. Presented With a Loving Unp By H1is Comnittee. The State says one of the plea.ant incidents of the pres ent session of the general as seii.!y was the presentation Thurs day of a handsome silver loving ctp to Representative J. A. lsanks of Or angeburg. the chairman of the ways and means cdmmittee. by the other ment-rs of that committee. -Mr. Banks has worked hard to make a record while in charge of this. one of most important parts of the gen eral assembly. and his committee has been an unusually harmonious one. But Mr. Banks had not an inkling of the pleasant surprise in store for him when the committee met Thurs day morning. Mr. Dick was selected to make the presentation speech and in a few words he told of the high esteem in which the chairman was held and hoped that the cup would be accept ed as a token of the love and es teem of the members. Mr. Banks. in receiving the cup. expressed his appreciation and made the statement, much to the regret of his friends. that he would onl ac count -of business reasons, hardly ask for legislative recognition from the baby county. "Calhoun." However. the other members of the committee state that Mr. Banks must come back. even if it is necessary to elect him State senator and send him to the upper branch of the general assem bly. The cup is a handsome one and is engraved with the date and the en time rembership of the commit tee. RO3ilCIDE NEAR LAMAR. Old Dispute Over Land Line Ends in a Murder. A dispatch from Lamar to The News and Courier says Wednesday afternoon J. S. Parnell shot and in stantly killed Robert Randolph about two miles from here. Both parties are white. It appears that trouble has been brewing between Parnell and Randolph for several years over a land line. While laying off rows in his field Wednesday Randolph, who is a quiet and well liked man. was placing a guide stake when Parnell approached from the side, and, taking deliberate aim with a breech-loading shot-gun, fired at Randolph. The entire load entered the neck and face, killing him instantly. Parnell went to his house, and getting his coat fled, car rying the gun with him. Two deputies of Sheriff Blackwell are on their way to the scene and a posse is being formed to hunt down the slayer. A lynching is feared if Parnell is captured before the officers arrive. Randolph was about 45 years old and leaves a wife and three small. children. Parnell is a ma-1 of about fifty years. The tragedy was witnessed by David Paul, a negro. FIRE RAGES, PUPILS SING. Scholars Marched Singing fronm the Burning School Building. While a fire raged in the fourth floor of the five-story public school building n 19th street, New York on Friday two thousand pupils .marched from the building singing "Anteri ca,"~ under the leadership of their teachers. The children were engaged in their singing exercises when the fire gong rang, and they continued to sing as they marched out of the building. There was no sign of a panic and a few minutes after the first alarm was sounded all the children were assembled in the school yard wait ing the word of dismissal. Fort in ately all of the smaller children were in rooms on the lowver floors of the building and many of them did not know of the fire when they were call ed upon to march out by the regular fire drill. The fire was quickly ex tinguished after causing $200 dam age. FEA.RED FOR NEGRO'S LIFE. Alleged Assailant of Young Girl Re moved to Penitentiary. A special to The News and Cour ier from Laurens says as a matter of precaution Sheriff Duckett carried to the penitentary a negro prisoner. Fred Eldrege, who was lodged in the prompt action of Constable El ossaulting the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. MacGambrell, of Princeton. The child is reported to be in a serious condition and much excite ment prevails in the Princeton sec tion. When the matter becanme known efforts were made by large parties of citzens to run the alleged rapist down, but were thwarted by the prompt action ac Constable El ledge, who arrested and carried the negro to jail, thus for the time sav ing the boy's neck. Late in the af ternoon, however, rumors reached the sheriff that a lrowd was being organized to make a raid on the jail. hence the prisoner's remov .1. * MAN FOUND DEAD. Familiar Object of Charity at Green ville Passes Away. A dispatch from Greenville to The News and Courier says P. A. Ham mett a well known and pathetic fig ure on the streets for the past year. was found dead in a lonely and al most unfurnished roomt he called home early Wednesday morning. The body was taken in charge by the coroner. Heart disease was de clared the cause of death and no in quest was deemed neenssary. The body has LPean enb~almed to he kept for identification. He was about 60 years old and because of a disease of the eyes could not work. The Salvation Army gave him a room and he begged on the streets. He had no friends and no one knows v i re he came from, or whether he left any relatives. There was nothing to give any definite clue to his identity. Merry Makers Killed. At New Orleans the had accident of the Mardi Gras Carnival occurred Wednesday night when three negroes were killed b.- a street car. The ne groes were in a wagon and were part of the merry-makers en route for the entre of the city to witness the Comus parade, when they were run down by a street car. Even if you can not toot a horn you caon folno a rform band. BENEATH GROUND. In a British Co!umbia Gold Mine. When the manager of a gold mine at Rossland offered to take us down we accepted readily, and it was only when we were invited to "step-in" that we thought of the light summer suits which most of us were wearing. We had left the boat at .obson and come on to ,.ossland to learn some thing of that vast mineral wealth up on which. with lumber and fisheries and fruit growing, the cominer-ial and industi'ial future of British 7olumbl,a is to be built. At the Centre Star the sant of the shaft is one of about 60 d&egrees and the body of tne skip slopes baI1cKi to the rails upon which it falls into the depths. Which means that when the eight of us are pacKed tight lv in the innocents who uave entered first find themselves tilted on their heels, their backs upon the cold, wet, rusty iron, and held fast oy the ov erlying strata of human avoirdupois which fills the skip. It was at the third floor window that the man stood who heard the Op timist, hurrying by on his long fall from the roof of the twenty story skyscraper, murmur to himself that it was "All rigliL so far," It Is at about that stage of his downward journey. probably. that the man who descenas a mine for the first time begans to take the cheerful view. His earlier mind is complex, elusive and difficult of analysis, but at any rate i': is not chetrful. Sudden blackest darkness; the feeling of falling out of one's hair; the whirling cable that may snap; the engine man who may lose .ontrol; an upward glancing of the soul to all Defending Powers: and then oblivion -an oblivion cloven as it were, in past the openings. one below the oth er, of the dimly lit galleries at deep er and deeper levels. The skip slack ens speed, hovers hesitatingly for a moment and then comes to a stand and we step out. "You'll want candles," says the manager, and on the threshold of this new world we light them propitiator ily, as upon an altar. It is a world of gray. The walls before us and the roof above, upheld by huge ti-mbering, are gray, relieved only at a nearer view by the shimmer of the imprison ej metals. The galleries that extend to right and left, the cars wnich pass us laden and the men who oend be hind them are gray as the ore which they dump between the rails into a chamber below. The electric lamps which line the roofs of the gallerles burn gray, as it seems, and the very air is gray. On the mountain above the sun is shining, and thank Goa for the green world that one can look upon thence. "Ollabo'd:" cries our guide. Obadi ently we clamber into the little sqaare trucks which have been brought up I in a row to carry us through the mine. Each nian has his truck, rides alone upon his own plank and lights I himself with his own particular can dle. In a moment we are in the gallery. As we meet the sharp current of air I the hot wax gutters over onto our fin gers and we slant the candles back to the horizontal. At the end of a long gallery, where a second shaft descends, we cumb out. penetrate a gloomy, narrow passage in which heaps of ore lie waiting to be trucked away, and croucemng enter from below a little chamber, some 8 by 8 feet. blasted in the rock. Here, where the air is still full of the odor of gelignite. is a driller at work with his machine. We squeeze ourselves flat and bend low against the sloping walls and watch. The heavy iron arm shoots out and in, striking t'he face of the rock full square perhaps fifty times a minute, every blow falling with tne weight of 1.000 pounds. twisting as it strikes as if to bore through what It cannot break away. The man behind the Idrill turns on us an impassive face. No one speaks or would be heard 'or the echoes of the thrust and thud and the vibration of the machine. We wonder that beneath such blows and amid such din the sleeping masters of gray unde'rworMl should not awike and bring the foundations down up on us. At the bottom of the shaft we wait while the men of the night shift flash by us, skip after skip, to Ler wort in the lower depths, and then we are drawn out. of the void as we came. -London Daily News. Bread in SIxty Minutes. Reaping began on a fielu of wheat at Blocklev. in Worcestershire. at 9 o'clock in the morning and'was serv ed as bread just 60 minutes after. The 'coon hunters of Three Springs Huntington county this state. recent ly treed a 'ccon, shot it, anc then had a dog fight under the tree. and all tae fun and excitement belonging to a Igenuine 'coon hunt, only to find later that it was somebody's tabby ('at. There are now in Germany 116 cities with special schools for back ward childrei. The total number of these schools is 203. and tue numter Iof pupils is 13,100. Berlin has 31 of these accessory schools. If you are prosperous you will be envied and if poor despised; get in the middle of the road and turn on steam. -Cuero Record. "How fast does your automobile "I can't say," replied the motorist. "It all depenas on how many sher ifs we meet on the route." Many a girl surrenders at the piano Looted a. Bank. A telegram from Chihuahua, Mex i'co, late Wednesday afternoon says that the Banco de Minero, owned by Amassador Creel has been robbed of $295,000 in Mexican money. No per sons have been arrested. FRANK H. Hitchcock has resigned as first assistant postmaster general. -e will be succeeded by Charles P. Granfield of Missouri. Mr. Hitch cock will take charge of the Taft hoom, and see that the colored bro ther is kept in line for his man. A WASHINGTON lettet to the Au usta Herald says "there is no get ting around the fact that Senator Tilman is a very popular man among the people at large, if one may believe one-half of what he hears concerning the South Carolina enator from men who are gathered in Washington from all parts of the DECLARE FOR BRYAN. Nebraska Populist s Instructs Dele gates to Vote for Him. With the largest number of dele gates at any Nebraskan Populist meeting for four years, the Populist convention was called to order at Omaha Thursday afternoon. Resolu tions reaffirming the Omaha platform enunciated in 1892 and declaring for the support -)f Bryan by all Populists were adopted. The convention af terwards listened to speeches of the true Populist brand made by differ ent leaders. while the committee pre pared a platform fiery enough for the old-time Populists. After a de bate lasting two hours the conven tion decided to respond to the call to the national committee and to send a full delegation to the Populist na tional convention at St. Louis. Thir ty seven delegates were selected 7or that purpose aml instructed i vote and work for the interests of W. J. Bryan. GOT THEIR MONEY. Certain Whiskey Houses Paid by the Dispensary Commission. A dispatch from Asheville to The State says Judge Pritchard in the United States Court Thursday made an order in the Wilson case. other creditors intervening authorizing the South Carolina dispensary commis sion to pay certain creditors amounts agreed on between the commissioners and creditors. The total amount ordered paid out by Judge Pritchard. in accordance with the judgments rendered by the dispensary commission, is $14:8,724. 89. The sworn claims filed with the commission in the 14 cases amounted to $174,079.56. The total amount of "graft" and overcharges recovered by the State in these cases is $25, 354.67. HIDDEN TREASURE FOUND. Many Million Dollars Discovered in Ruins of Old Castle. Hidden treasure valued at eight million dollars is reported -o have been discovered in the ruins of an ancient castle at Kamenietz, near the Russian-Galitzan frontier. The treas ure consists of thirteen tons of pure gold and of much jewelry and pre cious stones. It was concealed by Prince Galitzin when he fled from -Kamenietz, exactly 110 years ago. Efforts to learn the details of the discovery are blocked by those who are In posession of the facts. Burglar s Notebook. "Here Is an interesting find," said Lecoq the detective. "It Is a bar glar's notebook. Instructions for the burglarious young. Listen and I'll read you some extracts." He opened the little yellow book and read: "To keep from sneezing close eyes and open mouth and press upper lip till desire vanishes. "Use turpentine to drill iron If it is hard. "Put hard soap into cut when saw ing off padlocks. "Black the face when doing job and carry soap and piece of mirror to wash off with; also carry towel "Put rubber washer on bottom of vise to make soundless. "Carry vial of tincture of arnica fr cuts and bruises. "Try all chisels before using. "Use electric lamp, never the old fashioned oil lantern. "To break window, cut with dia mond and then spread thick white tad on flannel and press from. "Hold lamp always at arm's leng th when lit. Then, if It is shot at you will not be hit. More Than Merely Discreet. There is a Chicago lawyer who. his colleagues aver, has a positive genius for malapropos suggestion to his witnesses on the stand, says Harper's Weekly. Recently this lawyer was counsel In a suit for divorce, wherein he was examining a woman who had taken the stand in behalf of the plaintiff. "Now, madam." began the attor ney, who is always saying the wrong thing, "repeat the slanderous state ments made by the defendant onl this occasion." "Oh, they are unit for any re spectable person to hear!" gasped the witness. "Then, madam," said the attor ney, coaxingly, "suppose you just whisper them to his honor tha judge." Measure for Measure. "And the name Is to be-" asked the suave minister as he approached the font with the precious armful of fat and ficunces. "Augustus Philip Ferdinand Cod rinton Chesterfield Livingstene Snooks." "Dear, dear!"' Turning to the sex ton: "A little more water. Mr. Per kins, If you please."--London Tit Bits. Only Pai-rot Talk. Abrose Austin, an English musician, had a parrot. On one occasion the late duke of Edinburgh, son of Queen Victoria, spoke to it. Thereupon the parrot angrily said, "You're a snob!" to the horror of Its loyal owner and the delight of his royal highness. The pulpit would profit by looking at it from a pewpoint once in a while. SPEAKER Cannon's little presiden tial boomlet thas met with great encouragement ' being endorsed by the republic tittee of Guil ford county. . Ir. Cannon was born in th t c SOME papers tce rinding fault be cause too many candinates are com ing out. This is a free county and every man who feels like it can run for office, and we don't think the gentlemen of the press should ob A white man was acquitted in Barnwell on the charge of murder but. The State says "now he is in real trouble, being charged with at tempting to steal from the treasury. Murderers and scientific grafters need not worry, but the white thief Their Occupation Is Fraught With Perils and Hardships. OF LONG EXISTANCE No Marine Industry in These Days Brings Such Hazards-Daily Dur ing the Sealing Season Hundreds of Men Risk the Dangerous ice Flows. There is a seal fishery which has had a far longer existence than the fur-seal fishery of the Pacitic, and en joys greater vitality, and mnat is the hair-seal fishery of Newfoundland and Laoradur. u marine imuustry ii these d.:ys b. irs s:ci hazards to crews aj:d slups as thi:: o-e. Da1: during the sealing season hundreds of men risk their lives on the floes, and the vessels face arctic "nips" which often crush them. When the hunt op ens, stout steamers, built for this fishery and carrying 5,0G men, sail from various ports in quest of mighty floes swept south from Greenland. Somewhere amid these the herds will be found, the mothers having mounted tne ice to drop their young, which are cradled there, the parents fishing In the adjacent waters for their sub sistence. The seal-ships must ven ture amid the floes for their quarry, and the seal-men must hunt these "pinnipeds," as scientists call them across the frozen wastes, subjected to all the perils of such a pursuit, with out tents or other shelter, fire, or the raeans of making any, and no chance of retreat to their ships if a blizzard besets them when they are far from the vessels, and often they go six or eight miles across tne crys tal wastes in the excitement of the hunt. The crews always start off at day break and remain out till night. They are clad in flannel underwear and can vas outer garb, but carry no over coats, that they may travel tue easier, and take along only a little food, for the same reason. Hence, when bliz azrds assail, they are Ill provided to defy them, and if the storm is pro longed, they cannot withstand the ri gors of a night on the floe, with its benumbing cold and gnawing huxger. Never a year passes but some seal ship will shelter ten or twelve hun dred men for a night or two, the whole assemblage on the floes making for the nearest steamer when storm or fog threatens, lest they lose their way in trying to reach their own and fall victims to the perils with which they are engirt. One of the most serious tragedies in the annals of this industry befell the crew of the steamer Greenland on March 29, 1898. Up off Labrador at this time winter has by no means spent its fury, and on this eventful day, while her two hundred men were scattered over the floes, a blinding snowstorm began, with a startling drop In the te:mptrature, the vscl was driven helplessly setwasrd, and the hapless crew were La to their fate, no other ship being near and they being far from land. When Lm.e tempest ended, after two days an^ nights, It was found that forty-seven had perished and sixty-three were se verely frostbitten, some .so severely as to be maimed for life. The story of the sufferings of the wretched par ty was appalling. A few years ago the steamer Huntsman was penned in a floe off Labrador and driven against a rocky islet, where she went to pieces, forty-two men perishing within an hour amid the contending ice, reefs, and fragments of th'e ves sel. The rest of the crew crossed the floes ':o the land; but one man, named French, had been left Oehind, uncon scious. As the ship struck, he was fung against the rocks, having his shoulder, two fingers and two ribs broken and his head badly gashed. But he was wedged in a crevice, and when consciousness -returned he crawled, with the aid of his uninjured hand, to the top of the rock, where he lay for forty-two hours drenched by the spray and battereu by chunks of ice, lacking drink and food, and agonized from the pain of his wounds. ti" the ice closed in solid and enabled ham to make his way to the coast, which he did safely and ultimately recovered. That same man, aged 70, was seal-a.unting this year, it being his 54th consecutive season. Record For Good Cows. James Miller. of Schultzville, Lack aanna county, Pa., has a herd of 16 cows that yielded 15,6?,1 pounds of milk in one month, an average of al most 1,000 pounds a cow, or about 16 quarts a day. The laws of Norway compel- a man who chops down one tree to plant three saplings. By emigration Europe loses 960.000 natives every year, and in me same peiod 200,000 return. Ma's motto for framning: Keep busy and you won't have to read books on how to be happy. When a man get~s away from home he can wear a blue shirt with a red necktie,-if he wants to. Some weddings are little else than a dress suit case. IT is a pity that the work of the dispensary commission has been in terrupted by the United States Court, and we hope that the matter can yet be amicably arranged so as the good work being done by the commission can be continued. WITH 88,000 men out of work in Chicago and 90,000 in New York the full-dinner-pail argument is likely to be badly battered up be fore the next campaign opens. C. W. MORSE, of New York, anoth er eminent "defender of the nation l honor" is now engaged in a tus sel with the sheriff and a bunch of legal wits. The idols continue to THE three most popular and most thoroughly trusted men by the mas ses n the United States today are Wiiamn Jennings Bryan, Theodore Should Be Instructed. Herman Ridder, editor of a New York paper, recently traveled through the South urging, so the the New Orleans Times-Democrat says. the Democrats of this section to see to it that Mr. Bryan is not nominated at Denver. In an inter view with the Times-Democrat Mr. Ridder says: "I am convinced that Mr. Bryan can not carry a northern state, and I would like to suggest to our southern friends that they should not instruct their delegates for Mr..Bryau, but tha- they should go to Denver uninstructed, so that the Democrats all over the country may consult and advise together in regard to the best man to put at the head of the ticket. Perhaps by that time Mr. Bryan himself will come to the conlusion that by his public utterances he has made him self impossible and will agree with the other Democrats in nominating a winning ticket." But why should the rank and file of democracy leave to their repre sentatives the duty of doing what the rank and file should do? The men whom Mr. Ridder represents would, according to the'Philadelphia Press, be satisfied with "anybody but Bryan." Why not "trust the rank and file to say what the party's course shall be? So far as Mr. Bry an is concerned he has not asked and will not ask for the vote of any man or of any state. He does say, however, that it is the duty of Dem ocrats in precinct, county and state convention to instruct their dele gates as to the choice for the Dem ocratic nominee. The New Orleans Times-Democrat puts it well when in referring to Mr. Ridder's "no instruction plan" it says: "We think that the will of the constituencies can not be made too plain. An uninstructed convention would present boundless possibilities of chicane. No candidate should be considered, unless his record will stand the probe of popular scrutiny. Under our primary system. we have earned to judge candidates on their merits and have forever foregone the assistance of the middlemen who used to pack conventions and thwart the people's will. We once labored under the delusion that United States senators could not be choosen without days and weeks of wrang ling in state legislatures. But, hap pily, all that has been changed and we can not see why the democracy's standard-bearer should not be se lected in like fashion. Whatever is done, let it be done in the open. The dark horses should be kept in the stable-and so should the jock eys who are so eager to mount." Democratic Opportunity. "We are not likely to have a walkover in 1908, and this is not the tme for dissensions within the par ty ranks."---Leslie M. Shaw. The Washington Herald says' this obvious truth, uttered by the recent secretary of the treasury, and refer ring especially to the republican sit uation in Iowa, is equally applicable to the country at large. Party lines are broken everywyere. All well informed republicans like Mr. Shaw keenly appre're that no "walkov er" is in pro t for 1908. Dissensions are the rule, not the exception. A great party is work ing at cross-purposes. It is at log gerheads as to men, wide apart as to measures; uncertain, undeter mined, and afraid. It is as a house divided against itself. Six months before Harrison's ov erwhelming defeat in 1892, possibly arty conditions were as bad as they are today, but certainly no worse. Rooseveltism is almost, if not quite as strong as ever it was, in spite of adverse material conditions; but Rooseveltism, as everybody knows, is not republicanism, and the only republican who, apparently can keep alive the whole of this Rooseveltian sentiment--Roosevelt himself-has eliminated himself from the presidential equation. Mr. Shaw puts it mildly enough when he says "we are not likely to have a walkover in 1908." Repub licans of somewhat less prominence are saying, '"We shall be lucky if we escape defeat." They are fast com ing to believe, in fact, that but one of their number-Hughes, of New York-cen safely insure the party' salvation, and Hughes, of New York, strange to say, is not to be permitted to have the nomination, [if the administration can prevent it. Hence the clouds now hovering over the g. o.p. If the democratic party is really lacking in optimism at this momen tous juncture, as it seems to be, we 1can account for it only upon one of two theories-either it does not read the signs of the time aright, or made sick at heart by hope long deferred, its pessimism is become chronic. And the most hop'eless type of pessi mist, we may add, is that still too ubiquitous democrat who obstinate ly refuses to see in William Jennings Bryan the man of the hour-the democrat of all democrats to whom in 1908 the presidential nomination will be least likely to prove a forlorn hoe. If Rooseveltism passes, be prepar ed for Bryanism. IN a speech made by Bryan at akson. Miss.. Saturday, the Ne braskan declared that money is being used by interests representing the trusts and the railroads to secure' the election of delegates to~ the rh ver conventions oppo.Ced t ..ih.3 a m PI Absoiu The only hs made with Cream I No Alum, No I ~ I FIVE AT A BIRTH The Same Family Has Had Twins and Triplets Before. Five perfectly formed children were born at Steuuenville, Ohio, to Mrs. George Campbell. Three of the babies died within an hour. One boy and one girl will live, the ; hysi cians think Mrs. Campbell weighs less than 100 pounds. The combined weight of the infants was twenty four pounds. Campbell who is a mill worker, has four brothers. In the families of two of these twins have been born and each of the other broth'e-rs is the father of triplets. Campbell's first wife died after becoming the mother of triplets. - Campbell was for twelve yeats in the United States Navy and fought under Schley of Santiago. Two of his brothers are now with Admiral Evans' fleet in the Pacific. SHOT BY STRAY BULLET. Young Lady Sustains Serious Injury From Rifle Ball. Miss Russie Prather, one of the best linotype operators in Spartan burg and a young woman of wide acquaintance and popularity, was seriously wounded by a stray rifle ball, while walking in the surburbs Friday evening. She was alone at the time, and was returning from a visit to a relative. The ball pene trated her right hip inflicting a wound that bled profusely, causing her to fall from exhaustion before she realized that she had been shot from ambush. Who fired the shot is un known. -- HERO WORSHiP. Bchurz in His Autobiography Teils How Sherrnan Was Applauded. When he (Gen. Sherman) called himself a "happy man" there was a tone of just exultation in his words. He was, indeed, a happy man. He had won great renown as a soldier and an immense popularity all over the Northern country. This he knew; and he thoroughly relished it. All sorts or societies and public organi.. zations had made him their honorary member, and he appeared among them as often as he could. Whenever he entered a theatre, which ne did very often, the orchestra would strike up ''Marching through Georgia"; the whole audience would rise and clap their hands, sometimes even singing the tune, and his rugged face would fairly glow and beam with pleasure. Every social circle greeted him as a most welcome guest, and at receptions and evening parties and other gath erings the pretty girls would come up and kiss him-and how he did enjoy all this'-McClure's Magazine. Tested With Drops of Water A drop of water, even three or four drops, falling on the head seems a thing unworthy of attention; nevertheless in China a slow and con tinuous dropping of water on the head has been found to be a method of torture under which the most hardened criminal abjectly howls for mercy. When a professor in the Sorbonne stated this to his class the other day, says the London Chronicle, one of the students laughed increduously, and said it would take a good deal of that sort of thing to affect him. The professor assured him that even one quart of water dropped slowly onto his hand would be be yond his endurance. He agreed to experiment. A quart measure filled with water was brought in, a microscope hole was bored in the bottom and the per formance began, the professor count ing. During the first hundred drops the student made airy remarks. With the second hundred he began to look less cheerful, then gradually all his talk died away, and his face took on a haggard, tortured expression. With the third hundred the hand be gan to swell an look red. The pain increased to torture. Finally the skin broke. At the four hundred and twentieth drop the sceptic acknowledged his doubts vanished and begged for mercy. He could bea~r no more. Cures Sleing S'iciieSr: Professor Koch. the great German medical authority, who has been in Africa about 18 npaths, inquiring into the causes and cure of that strange and widely prevalent mala dy. the sleeping sickness, has become famous throughout a large portion of the Dark Continent. He has treated and cured hundreds of black men af ficted with the dread disease men: tioned. and has, therefore, been given the title of "Great White Wizard." Clothing Caught Fire. While passing in front of a fire in an open fireplace the dress of the seven-year-old daughter of Jule Thompson, of St. George, Ga., caught~ -e and in h'e fright she ran into the yard. She was so badly burned.' DER tely Pure Toyal Crape if Tartar .ime Phosphate APPOINTS BOARD Judge Pritchard Asks Commission to Manage DispensaryFund. Arthur, of Union, Accepts, But the Other Members of the Commis sion Will Decline. At Asheville on Friday application was made to Judge Pritchard In. the United States Court by counsel in the case of Fleischmann & Co. vs W. J. Murray, et als, and Wilson' Dis tilling Companyvs. W. J. Murray. et als, for the appointment of a tem porary receiver for the South Caro lina dispensary fund. The defendant commissioners were represented at the hearing by Daniel W. Rountree of Atlanta, Ga. who waived the required notice of motion as to.the Fleischmann Company, and after hearing the petition, the Court granted an order appointing the de fendants, Messrs. W. .. Murrar, C. H Henderson, Avery Patton, . John McSween and B.. F. Arthur. as tem porary receivers for the dispensary funds now in their posession. The petition upon which the mo tion was granted stated that a bill had been introduced in the South. Carolina Legislature directing the defendant commissioners to - return the funds now in their hands to the State Treasurer. The commissioners were Imme diately notified of their appointments as receivers, but up to a late hour Friday night only one response had been received, that of Mr. B. F. Ar thur, who stated that he would ac cept and would act as a receiver. Dr. Murray has declined, since to accept would be to admit the Juris diction of the Federal Court. Messrs. Patton, McSween and Henderson will not accept Whether or. not Govern or Ansel will call an extra session Is now the question. A SPLENDID SELECTIONE F. H. McMaster Is Elected State In surance commtssiflbn. Mr. F. H. McMaster, of Columbia, was elected insurance commissioner Wednesday afternoon and will be the frst to hold the new position, which. carries a salary of $2,600 per year. The office was created at the present session of the General Assembly, and by Act the commissioner Is charged with all duties pertaining to Insur ance companies which now devolve on the Comptroller General and oth er State officials and with new du ties imposed by the Act Mr. McMaster is one of the best known and most popular young men in the State. He is a native of Fair field County, a. graduate of Pouth Carolina College and holds a diploma in law from that' institution. He was at one time in partnership with Sen ator F. H. Weston, at the Columbia Bar, and later entered the newspaper. business in Columbia. As business manager of the Charleston-Evening Post he made an excellent record. Several- years ago he became circula tion manager of the State, in which position he has also done good work. He now holds this position. Mr. McMaster during his residence in Charleston represented that coun ty in the House of Representatives and he has always taken an active interest in public matters. He has an Intimate knowledge of Insurance matters, having been private secre tary to Mr. Edward L. Cornand, gen eral agent for the Mutual Life In South Carolina at one time, and lat er Mr. McMaster was special agent for the Mutual Life.. He is frily competent to fill the position, both by character and ability. TRYING TO FOOL THEM. Roosevelt and Taft Beg for the N.* -gro Vote. Jack McGhee in his letter to The State from Washington says the ne gro tickling plant of the Ohio plat form, upon which Taft is to run for the presidency. and which it is un derstood was drafted by one T. R., at the White House, is causing con siderable comment in Washington. This plank is to cut down representa tion in congress of the Southern States because of the disfranchise ment of the negro. It has often been agreed by Southern statesmen that if the North will frankly admit that the Southern States have a right to disfranchise the negro then there would be no objection to cutting down the representatirf 'ecordingly. But there has been no M hie ment of the negro beause he is a negro, but Necause he is ignorant or ropertyf . T'eok the Wire Route. For a murder committed less than hree months ago, George Wilson, a egro, paid the extreme penalty in :he electric chair at the state prison