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THEY ARE NEEDED. SOUTH CAROLLNANSBEFORE THE HOUSE CODITTEE. Delegations from Columbia, Orange burg and Sumter Present Claims of Their Towns. The Washington correspendent of The News and Courier says Colum bia. Orangeburg and Sumter, through their representatives, had a hearing Thursday before a sub-committee on buildings and grounds with refer ence to securing Federal appropria tions for public buildings in those places. These delegations were com posed of the following: From Sum ter, R. I. Mannng, Marion Moise. Geo. D. Shore, E. T. Reardon, Dr. J. A. Mood and W. H. Seal; from Colun bia:, B. F. Taylor, Geo. D. Huggins. Willie Jones. Dr. Cain. F. H. Hyatt. Micah Jenkins and T. B. Stackhouse: from Orangeburg Mayor J. W. H. Dukes, R. H. Jennings, . W. Bow man and A. D. Webster. These gen tlemen were met upon arrival at Washington by Representative Lev er and showed every possible atten tion. At 10.30 o'clock the hearing be gan. While the arguments put forth by the different speakers were in the main the same, they liffered in a few particulars. Messrs, Manning. Moise and Shore, who spoke in be half of Sumter, called attention to the fact that their town was the best in the State, which statement was at once challenged by Columbia and Orangeburg. They said all they want ed was for the members of the com mittee who had this matter in hand to go there and they would see that their town was entitled to better post oince quarters than it now enjoy ed. For Orangeburg Messrs. Bowman and Webster called attention to the rapid growth of their town, and said that from a hamlet -with practically no business to speak of a few years ago it had grown in the last ten year. to a place of such inhportance thai" the Government should be ashamed of its present prstollice building. Every pha.. of Orange burg 3 coinmercial life wws touched upon. Postmaster Webster conclud ed his remarks by stating that at the present time Orangeburg was trans acting its postal business in a build ing 21 by 54 feet, and t.at the com mercial interests of the town and the people demanded better facili ties. For Columbia there appeared B. F. Taylor, Postmaster Huggns and Mo jor Micah Jenkins. They told at some length the story of Columbia's rise from the ashes of war and her commercial importance of the prei ent time. F. H. Hyatt told the com mittee that Columbia was like the little boy who had outgrown his pants, he ought to have a new pair. of if he couldn't have a new pair his old ones ought to me patched. That. he said, was the condition in Colum bia with respect to the postoffice building. * The members of the committee asked numbers of questons and seem ed interested in the information given them. It is probable that Mr. Lever will have a delegation visit South Carolina some time during the present session of Congress to take a look at the places wanting Federal aid, and he will endeavor to convince them that Columbia ought to have $590,000 with which to en large her present building; Sumter $60,000 for enlarging h-ere; and Or angeburg $100,000 with which to buld one there. NEGRESS EILLE She Was Crawling Across Railroadl Track Under Car. About half-past two o'clock Fri day afternoon Selina Green, a col ored woman, who is employed at Claflin University as a servant, was instantly killed at the Southern Rail ray freight station, just opposite the Ujnversty. It was a sad accident and made a deep impression on the col ored people of Orangeburg. The facts, as developed at the in quest, were about as follows: The woman and a companion were cross ing the tract while a freight engine was doing some shifting. The com panion walked around the three box cars which were standing by them selves, but the Green woman took a shorter route and began to crawl un der one car to the other side. Just as she got about half way across t he engine and five more cars struck those, under one of which the woman was. The car moved only about four feet, but that was sufficient for the wheel to reach her body and pinion it to the track. The body was fearfully mangled and t. was necessary to pull the car off in order to remove the remains. It seems that the accntent was caused solely through the careless ness of the woman who was killed. as she could have walked around like her companion. Coroner Rickenbaker was immedi ately notifleti and in less than two hours the inquest had been hld. The verdict was in accordance with the facts as above related. Shot Wife and Self. Mad with love for another woman. determined to sever the bonds that bound him to a woman he did not love, George Willoughby. prominent in busine:-s and church circles at Milwaukee. Wis., shot his wife dead Friday morning, and twice wounded himself. Bryan Will Win. Pr'-esentative Johnson. who is at hoo Spartanburg for a few days from -shington. says he believed Mr. Br.1: would be elected Presi dent. In :n any Republicans he lieve Mr. Bry.au w i be the next Pres ident and a Demoecratic ~o'us*eof Representatives will be chosen. Fatal Explosion. The boiler at the saw mill of G. W. Moore at Homeland. Ga..- blew up Friday morning, killing Mr. Moore. the proprietor. instanLay, and seriously scalding three other men. Mr. Moore was one of the wealthiest men in that section of the State. * Mad Dog Bite Kills. Little Jennmgs White Russell. son of Mr. F. P. Russell, of Newberry, died in Atlanta Tuesday from a bite of a mad dog received there some FREAK SOCIETY. The Pointed Beards in Paris-To De fend Cause of Fat Men. "Pointed beards only need apply." This is the law of the latest Parl sian society of freaks-the "Sphenopo gones, as they call then;selves. Its members, who are compelled by -ie rules of the society to wear point d beards aLd mustaches. have band ed themselves together for the avow d purpose of promoting perennial joviality. It is a secret society. Its delibera rions are secret. its dinners are so ret, its happy evenings are secret and the naaes of its members can oe seen only in tho society's secret Jooks. The Sphenopogones comprise lead ing politicians. literary men and ar :ists l'ving ia various parts of France. Each member must be elected unani mougly and must, under pain of se vere penalties prenise to wear a beard which tapers symmetrically to a point and a mustaene also pointed at eacn .end. Once a month the members dine to gether. The date and place of meet ing are arranged by the "gonfalon ier," as the treasurer is called, an' the proceedings are kept strictly pri %ate, no one being admitted except duly enrolled members. If any member has between one dinner and another distinguished himself by writing a successful play or a book, or by painting a picture of exceptional merit. or by doing any thing to earn public praise. he is greeted with uproarious applause. After dinner the possessors of the pointed beards give themselves up to conviviality In accordance with the terms of their secret charter. Wanted an Office Boy. There is a tale a bout a company pro moter who wanted an office boy. He advertised and received 100 replies. out of the hundred he selecten teu whom he interviewed, his choice fall ing upon an apparently bright young ster to whom he said: I "My boy. I like your appearance and personality, and think you will do. Did you bring a character?" "No, sir," replied the ooy, "but I can go home ana get it." "Very well," replied the promo ter. "Bring it hack tomorrow, and it it is satisfactory I shall engage you." Late that same afternoon the pro moter was surprised by tie return of the candidate. "Well," he asked of the uoy, "have you got your character?" "No," said taie boy.-"but I got yours and I ain't coming. either'"-Hap good's Ipportunities. The First "Blue Book." The first "Blue Book" issued by the Government was in 1816. It had only 176 pages and listed 6.3_, names as the number of officials and employes of the Government. The Blue Book of 1907 will contain 4.218 pages in ;s two big volumes, and an approxi mate total of 349.075 names. The volumes will weigh about thirty pounds. Maryland Captures Federal Places. Maryland on account of its geo graphical relation to the District of Columbia, has "captured" far more than its quota of Federal employes in the district, having no fewer than 2,192 which is several hundred more than Pennsy'lvania. and nearly as many as New York. Marylanders employed in the District receive an annual aggregate of $2.099.4::5. A New Turbine Torpedo. A new turbine torpedo will shortly be tested in France of greater speed than any at present in existence, capable of traveling a distance 01 more than 1.250 miles and of carrying a much larger charge of 4xplosives than any torpedo now in use. Burmese Sacred Cattle Profitable. A herd of Burmese sacred cattle which Tom O'Connor, a stockman of Goliad. Tex.. imported from India about two years ago has none so well that the variety will soon be ound up on many of the ranches of Souta west Texas. ICareful Blastir.s in France. In France the depth of u~rill holes for blasting Is restricted to 1% meters. or about five feet. The miner is for bidden to touch a hole atter it has once been fired, and when a shot is missed the hole must be druiled over. Bird Like a Flower. A remarkable bird in Mexico is the bee martin which has a trick of ruffing up the feathers on the top of its head into the exact semblance of a beautiful tlower, and when a bee comes along to sip honey from the supposed nfower it is snapped up by the bird. There are sone unfortunates who per'sist in 'turn..ig their worst side toward the world, and very often the temptation is great to just leave them alone. "Just one more kiss, Salty," said the handisomre young carrier on the rural ma.l route. "You Detter be careful how you lose time, Jamdson." cautioned tue farmer's daughter, with a rosy blush. "Uncle Sam might get after you." "Don't worry siweetheart. If he should get after me I'd just tell him I stopped on t..e way to co.nect a few prints. He couldn't object to that." IMuch of one's happiness in life de pends upon the way one locks at things. ____ THE Charleston Post offered the best solution of the dispensary trou ble we have yet seen. It proposed that the General Assembly should abolish the commission appointed to wind up the business of the institu tion, thereby removing the issue raised by Judge Pritchard of a trust teeship of creditors' funds over which the courts had proper juris diction. The Post offered the above solution while the Legislature was in session, and it could have been easily carried out, IT begins to look now as if those receivers appointed by Judge Pritch ard will never get a chance to di vide out any of the State's money among themselves. EIGHTEEN days after he murdered a priest at his altar the Denver an archist was sa tenced to death. Had he comrmittedl is awful crime in South Carolina the chances are he CHARACTER IN THE TONGUE. Germany's Way of Sizing People UP Available Chiefly to Doctors. Germany has taken up the pastime of reading character and telling for. tunes by the tongue. Somebody has been making a study of the organ of speech and has discovered that it is full of indications. A long tongue is said to denote opennes of character. It suggests generosity and free handedness. Its possessor makes friends and eviemie. easily but doesn't save money. When the tongue is long and thick the openness degenerates into a ten dency to gossip and scandal. The fu ture of the owner is beset with trou bles of his own making. It also indi cates flightiness and inconstancy. Short tongues indicate secretiveness and dissimulation. Their owners make good detectives and attorneys. The owner may acquire some money by economy and guile but has not largeness of spirit to make a great fortune. Thin pointed tongues are found in diffident people who do not succeed in life. Short and broad ones accompany craft and falsehood: the person who has such a tongue is compelled by it to deceive and betray, whatever effort he may make to keep straight. The vibrant, quavering tongue de.. notes the artistic temperament. Bril liant carmine hue is a sign of long life, pale pink tongue denotes weak ness of character and delicacy of cOR stitution. "If it's all true," says a German newspaper. "it is lucky that it is only at the doctor and not at our friends that we stick out our 'tongues." BUENOS AYRES. It is One of the Most Magnificent Cities in the World. Buenos Ayres is already one of the most magnificent cities in the werkL. Enormous sums have been laid out in widening the streets and erecting splendid buildings. But apparently the Argentines are not yet content, for the Chamber has just autnorized the raising of a new municipal loan of 93,000,00 "for the purpose ef improving and embellishing the city." This is probably due to jealousy of Ro de Janeiro, for the Brazilians have recently spent a good deal of money in beautifying their capital, and the Buenos Ayrians are determin ed not to be beaten in the race of luxury.-London Globe. President Diaz of Mexico. President Diaz of Mexico, who is past 77, literally takes upon himself a very extensive portion of the admin istrative work of his Government. He is an 4arly riser, and his day is sys. tematically arranged. Few publit men are more kindly anu agreeablc in private life than the Presidenr o Mexico, and he has behind an hah.. itual gravity of manner a very Nean sense of humor. He never frets Or worries over petty matters. and Is always calm and in perfect mental poise in times of crisis and emergeO Princess F'edora a Novelist. Princess Fedora of Schleswig-.Hots. tein, the youngest sister of the Ger.. man Empress, is the author of a mo'v el recently published in Germany en titled, "Hahn Berta." She has a ro mantic history, having declined all offers of marriage since the tragic death of her fiance, Duke Frederick of Mecklen burg-.Schwerin. who, while in command of a torpedo boat, perish ed in the Dbaltic with the endre crew. New Opera by Verdi. A complete score of a new opera by Verdi. the existence of which has hitherto been unknown, has been dis covered in Paris in an old chest full of manuscripts and other papers which formerly belonged to the fam ous musician. It was the composition of this opera which occupied some of the latter months of Verdi's life. Greece Rich in Ore. Dring the year 1906. 89 mining concesions were granted by the Greek Government. A glance at the list of these concessions reveals the richness and variety of the mineral deposits of Greece. as they include Icopper, lead. zinc. iron. manganese, cobalt, nickel, coal, antimony iron pyrites gypsum and asbestos. Knew Nothing of Civilization. Knud Raassuesen of Copenhagen who has been studying ethnology at Un.. manak, North Greenland, has str.'t ed for Smiths Sound to And an Eski mo tribe which is reputed to have never come in contact with civiliza.. tion. His aim is eventually to reach the Canadian mainland some time in Official Ostrologuers. The Empress of China, King Men.. elik of Abyssinia, the Ameer of Afg.. hanistan, the Sultans of Morocco and Zanzibar and the Khedive of Egypt all maintain official astrologers. Her face was not so pretty, Her form was nothing great, And she was rather shy on sense; But. oh. her figure was immense! So men came round to wait Uon this girl of beauty shy Whose charms seemed quite a blank Attracted from all quarters by Her figure in the hank. Jilted Man Suicides. JTilted by Mrs. LaFayette Gleason. divorced wife of the clerk of the state enate, Herbert Kremer, son of the president of the German-American nsurance company, shot and killed himself in the woman's rooms in the Ho:el St. Charles, New York.* Use Plenty of Lime. Get lime as soon as you can ama spiinkle it everywhere, it will mens fewer flies and less sickness this zum mer. It will not do to put it off too late, use before the first crop of flies sorn. 'and you will have fewer rops to contend with, it takes touble. but it will save trouble, you can use the same energy that you would have to use fighting flies in the summer to get somethinlg accom pished that would ad to your wealth or happness. ~E believe that the United States Supreme Court will sustain the de cision of the State Supreme Court i the dispensary case. We hope so WILL NOT DOWN. QLD STATE DISPENSARY HARD TO GET RI.1 OF. Joshua Hardstron, Makes Some Ob servations About Matters As He Sees Them in Connection With it. Pardon us for mentioning it, but the old State Dspensary seems to be the chief topic of discussion nowa days; but -1e will not tarry long. In his opiai iu rendercd uore than fifteen years since when declar-ing the Dispensary Law imrcoustitutioral] Chief Justice Mclver declared the sale of whiskey under this system was not a proper funcdio cf ;;cvern ment, and his words s5eemn to be prophetic, for time is fas: proving that he was right. More than a year since the peo ple throught the Legis attire abtlish ed the State Dispensary, and ap pointed a commission to immediately wind up its affairs; ye: the old crea ture seems to be more alive woday than ever. Two years since ar. investigating committee was appointed by thus Gen eral Assembly to investigate its af fairs, and since that time the pa pers have teemed with sensational statements about fra.id and graft, and we have been many, many times promised that "grafters" would be wearing stripes ere many moons had waxed and waned; and still the bat tle goes merrily along, while the good people are paying-the piper. Numerous junketing trips have been taken beyond the limits of the State to get evidence. and i: has been got ten, so it is said, but the elusive grafters are still enjoying the free dom of other citizens. One noticeable feature is that these in charge become very active toward election times; the Attorney General offers himself as a vicarious sacrifice upon the altar of "states rights", the Governor sends a bombastic message to the General Assembly, and all of the smaller fry who have not an nounced their respective candidacies croak in unison. It is a surely. an amusing situation. If sufficient thunder and lightning can be produced the Governor will not have so much trouble n securing re-election this summer; and if the Attorney General, bless his soul, can just get Judge Pritchard to send him to jail for contempt why that means Governor Lyon two years hence; and just a litle later this man of destiny wil1 be hailed as the only man to been the redoubtable Benjamin Ryan when he enters the lists for United States Senate. But Pritchard is a sly old chap. We are not deprecatug the efforts of those in authority to hunt down criminals and see that they are meet ly punished; but this should be done in an orderly manner and with judge ment. If any person or' persons stole money from the Dispensary let thenm be indicted, tried and punished: bul dont let uis be forever talking aboul it. The conflict in Judge Pritchard% Court would never have arisen it those in authority aad attended tc their business and wound up the Stat. Dispensary in six months as the law under which they were act ing required; they should have con cluded by last July or August. One thing is certai, it is not seem ly that out highest cfficials, those en trusted with upholdinag the majest) of the law, should atbuse the law it self, or the Courts, 'or the Courts. ox the lawyers; there is only one stel; from this to anarchy and lynch-law The firms which sold the whiskey are entitled to be heard in the Courtx as to the validity of their claims that is what we t-ave Courts for; they are enttled to emply law.yers to represent them ;n those Courts and it is none of o ar business wha1 fees they pay these lawyer-s; ths United States Circut Court, Judge Pritchard presiding, has the right un der the law to hear' these cases and to decide them as he deems propex in the light of the :.aw as he sees it and if he decides a rongly, the Stats has a complete and adequate remedy by appeal ot the United States Su preme Court. which will surely re verse. if the Court below is in error So,therefore, why all this fuss and feathers: the State cannot suffer The United States Supreme Couri has been justly declared to be the greatest court in the wordl. In at unbroken line of decisions it has up held the rights of our citizens fron: the hghest to the humblest. It has never hesitated to decided to decide against popular clainor when the lan was upon the other sde. Ithas nevei fattered in defining and upholdini states rights. A familiar instance of this is the famous Dred Scott case when the Court, cornposed largely ol men of Northern birth, just prior tc the breaking out cf the Civil War sustained the contention of the Southern States and set the whole North aflame. It should also be remembered thai the United States Supreme Court af firmed the constitutionality of this ame Dispensary La-w, when our own Supreme Court had declared it un constitutional. Therefore why should the Federal Courts be abused, especially by out highest officers? There is one tuling the people ap pear to lose sight of; this little di. verson is costing them thousands up on thousands of dollars of the mon fey which they have plowed and sweated for, and is not yielding themi a penny, if we exce pt the amusement they may get out of a first class ~scrap. Joshua Hardstrong Opened Again. T~he dispensaries in Calhoun Coun ty were clossed on Monday by or-der of Goveran Ansel, who took the pos itionl thati there is no pr-ovision of aw for their operation as dispen saries in Calhoun County, and in the absence of any exp ress authorization for their continuance Governor Ansel takes the position that they should be closed and he so notified the Or angeburg County board. The matter was taken before the Supreme Court who ordered the dispensaries open ed, and they are -unning full blast until the matter tan be settled. WHEN Bryan gets in the White Ho~use we will have the only real Democrat President we have had ine the war. A HINT TO HUNTERS. A Connecticut Farmer Says Deer Are Destroying His Vegetables. A farmer in the town of Barkham sted writes to the Hartford "Courant" a detailed statement of what he has suffered from the ravages of deer in the past summer and of the meagre compensation with which he has been forced to content himself, that seems to form justificable ground for com plaint. The complaint is the more worthy of cont'deration from fhe reasonable tone in which it is voiced. and one is led thereby to believe that it is based in fact rather than in Im agination. This famer of Barkhamsted, to con dense his troubles has had destroyed by deer this summer the product of one-fourth of an acre of wax heans, 240 out of 1,259 cabbages. and three fourths of an acre of mangel wurt zels, getting from the latter three tons of crop, where he had reason to ex pect twenty tons. In compensation for all this damage the state has paid him the sum of $20. He has to take that or nothing for there is no su ing the state. Farmers who have tried to raise crops of this sort. and some others who have had experience with them, may judge how inadequate a sum this is to pay a farmer for so large a part of a whole summer's lab or. "I can't afford to work all summer like a slave and lose everything just for the pleasure of some city sports. says this farmer. sadly. Hasn't he come dangerously close to the real root of this matter? For what are we so jealously protecting our Connecti cut deer? Why are we allowing them to multiply so unrestrainedly, to be so practically undisturbed that they venture with impunity on to the land of any farmer, and into any field he cultivates? Is It from motives of hu manity or love for the dear, graceful animals themselves? Not for a min ute. The real motive back of this careful protection of the deer is the idea of certain misguided ones who think they are sportsmen, that in time we may be able to make Con necticut over into a happy bunting ground for at least a few weeks in a year, with the customary attachments to the deer shooting season elsewhere presumably. There are others than farmers who sh'buld have an interest ia preventing any such result. Meanwhile, let's face this deer situ i atIon fairly and sensibly. If we must protect the deer in all his depreda tions for a few years longer, let's see that the farmer who suffers gets just remuneration for his sufferings. In that way we shall run up a state deer expense account which by the time the legislature meets again will be sufficient to sober the statee into re vising the deer protection law to a point which in a year or two will thin the deer into proper n.rnbers tor the good of the state.--New Haven Register. A Canny Quaker. To get a subscription from Stephe'n Gire.rd, founder of Girard College in Philadelphia was no easy matter. i, required tact and the r.ght intro duction, and many failed while f'w succeeded. It is told, by the autnom of "The French Blood in America.' that Samuel Coates, a genial Qualmr was one of tne few men who knew how te approacha the eccentric mil lionaire. He was a manager of the Pennsyl vania hospital, and called on Girard for the purpose of raising money Ior the institution. "Well, how much do you wait, Coates?'' asked Girard, in his usual brusque tones. "Just what thee pleases to give, Stephen," replied the quaker. Girardi wrote out a check for $2,000. .ml handing it to Mr. Coates, was surpris ed to see that gentleman pocket i1 without looking at the amount. "What! Y~?ou don't look to see how much I give you?" cried uirard, In crc :ulously. "Beggars are not choosers Stepha en,' replied the Qtuaker. "Give me back my check and I will change it," said Girard, after a mo ment's pause. "A bird in the hand is. wortb twc In the bush, thee knows, Stephrn.' mildly replied the Quaker. WVithout another word Girard sat down n wrote him out a second check fox $5,000. His farm on the outskirts of Ph*1 dephia is one of the best in the country, and while living in town he often drove out before breakfast tc see that all was going well. Arriving one morning a --alie earlici than umual he was greati yannored at not finding his man at work on a fence that he was building. The manm wife, noticing Girard approaching the house hurriedly awoke her husband and sent him to his duties by the way of the back door. After visiting the house Girard returned to the fence and seeing the man at his p')st, reprimanded him for being late "I'd been here, sir, but went back for a spade," said the man. "No. you hadn't. I went and put my hand in your bed and found xl warm." He discharged him on the spot. The man who writes with a quil: is naturally a goose. 'When a man doesn't care a wrap. he generally gets the sack. The man who lives in the valley of discontent should put up a bluff. Afanyc a financial upset is the re.:alt A NEW York minister with plent; of time to" figure out things"Isait recently that it was more dangerou to be a railway brakeman than to be a murderer. And he goes on t< prove his assertion with statistics showing that only one murderer ix 7 is hanged, while one brakeman ii every :30 is killed. THE Washington correspondent od IThe State says "it is universally con' ceded that there are no Republi can lawyers in South Carolina com-~ petent to sit on any kind of judica bench." This is a mistake. Abia Lathrop, Esq.. is an able lawyer and a honorable gentlemen. He would make a better judge than Pritchard, and as good as McCullough or any one else who would depend on Pritchard's influence with President Roosevelt to get on the Federal enh. Why This Solicitude? The New York Sun, which is own ed out and out by the trusts and which defends their interest on all occasions, calls upon Senator Till man of South Carolina to speak in I regard to the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan. It concedes the great influence of the South Caro linian upon the political sentiment of the South, but says that "the question is one of pure expediency at a critical moment in the fortunes of the Democratic party." "We all know," says the Sun, "that Tillman doesn't believe that Bryan could win if nominated, and so we hope every thing." That is to say, the Sun hopes that Mr. Tillman will consent that South Carolina shall be repre sented in the Convention at Denver by an uninstructed delega tion. "It is not the habit of the Southern States," says the Sun, "to send instrated delegations. Virgin ia does not, nor yet Louisiana. Ala bama has not the habit, nor Tennes see. But there is one of them that can do more than all the others to keep the question open until the del egates assemble at Denver, and that just now is South Carolina. Sena tor Benjamin R. Tillman has on ly to speak and all will listen anx iously. Will Senator Tillman speak?" Why this great solitude about South Carolina's action in sending dele gates to the National Democratic Convention on the part of the New York Sun, which is one of the bitter est Republican papers in the coun try? Why is the Sun so anxious to have Bryan who it admits will be elected President, defeated in the nominating convention? Is it be cause Mr. Bryan is too good a Dem o,.rat to suit the Trasts, whom the Sun serves? The Sun need not wor - ry itself about Senator Tillman. H( is for Bryan and will use his influ ence to have a Bryan delegation seni I from this State, and all the honeyed I words of the Sun will affect him not Defending Blindtigers. In speaking of the trial and con I viction of a man for running a blind tiger in Atlanta the Atlanta Journa says: Rev. E. H. Peacock, Rev. Len G Broughton's assistant, and as relent less a hounder of sin as ever sma.h ed a whiskey bottle or burned a deew of cards, came into a terrific arraign ment at the hands of Attorney A M. Brand, in the city court, crimi nal division, Friday. Mr. Brand with Attorney T. W. Rucker, de fended M. W. Jolley, a former po lice sergeant, who was arraigned fo: selling whiskey in the Virginia ho tel. Mr. Brand is not the author : the Iconoclast, but he used icono elastic methods Friday. He callet Dr. Broughton's assistant an infor mer and spy. Mr. Peacock, it wil be remembered, gave the informna tion upon which they arrested Jolley C. Mandel. proprietor of the Virgin ia hotel. and another man, on Feb ruary 20. Jolley was tried Friday found guilty, and fined $1,000 b: Judge Calhoun, with the alternativ of 12 months in the chaingang. Jo] ley will appeal. "Of all the capers that ever wer cut," said Mr. Brand to the jury "the capers of this man Peafowl ar the limit. He goes around in th most despicable form known to ma: that of an informer and spy. As: Christian minister he hounds ou some poor man, has him arrested brought to court and fined. He Peacock the avenger. How differen from the meek and lowly Saviour who went to men and said: 'Go th; way, and sin no more!' " - If the ideas of this lawyer wer carried out there would never b another conviction of a criminal i: any of our courts. In his eyes an; witness who testifies to the guilt o a man who is violating law is a sp; and informer. Away with snel stuff. It is the duty of every hones man to help convict law breakers i he can do so by telling what h knows before a court. The man wh called Rev. Mr. Peacock an inform~ r and spy accepts money to shiel' a man that he kno ws to be a violato of law. What would you call him? The .Cotton Acreage. How about the cotton acreage farmers? We know you are advise so much that you pay little or no al tention to the advice that is volut teered to you, but still we deem i our duty to point out certain fact to you so as you will be informed o the situation. A bumper crop o cotton this year means low price *next Fall. There is no market fo goods. The mills cannot sell thei products and in consequence the; *have been compelled to curtail pre duction. A big crop this yea means six cents for cotton next Fall A 13,000,000 bale crop at six cent would be worth only $890,000,000 while a 10,000,000 bale crop at tei cents would be worth $500,000,000 In the fate of these facts, farmers don't you think it would be a par of wisdom to reduce the cotto2 acreage and increase the food crop? TE person who fired the sho that killed Ex-Judge 0. W. Buchan an while traveling in a railroad ca3 committed a most inexcusable crime and should be severely punished foi it. People who travel through om State in railway train's must be made to feel that they are not liable ~o shot to death bysome fiend or fool. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ KNoxs presindeital boom don't seem to be making much headway. The Commoner says it has reached the stagte where it is neccessary for the fender to be put on behind. IT is really pathetic to witness the interest ex.hibited by the Republican press in the welfare of the Demo cratic party this year. They are so afraid that the party will nominate Bryan and be dkfeated ihat they can Ihardly restrain their grief. Absolutely Pure From Gr4 the most heal of fruits, comes chief ingredie ifh ROY~ G . Q01 @cst la Com or p Royi AWFUL TRAGEDY. JUDGE BUCHANAN SHOT WHIL RIDING ON TRAIN. He is Fatally Wounded and is Taken to a Hospital in Augusta Where He Died. A dispatch from Augusta to The News and Courier says former Judge 0. W. Buchanan, of Winnsboro, S. C., died there- Tuesday at 11-30 o'clock as the result of the 22-calibre rifle wound which he received while sitting in a railway car at Ward's Station, S. C., Monday afternoon. Judge Buchanan was coming from Winnsboro to Augusta and was sit ting by an open wndow reading a newspaper when without warning the small leaden missile whizzed through the opening and buried it self in his right side, the shot having been fired by some unknowz party, the only theory enteitained here be ing that it was a stray oullet fired by some person practicing shooting. The wounded man was brought to this city and an operatiin at Dr. T. R. Wright's private sanitarium resulted in the su~ccessful extraction of the bullet, but the intestines had been pierced in several places. The remains were taken to Winnsboro for interment. Judge Buchanan was to meet a party in Augusta .composed of his brothers-in-law, Messrsa. James H. Tillman, A. R. Fuller, of Laurens, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. G. A. Bunch. He was siting in a seat with Judge Lyon, and as the train was leaving Ward's Station, thirty-five miles from Augusta, he exclaim ed that a brick had struerc him, arose from his seat, and in a fe~w minutes later fainted from the. shotck of his wound. - A dispatch from Edgefield says that three boys were ont hunting near Ward's and one of Ihemn seei dentally shot in the train with a rifle. It is reported that the boys have been arrested, but no names-are given and it Is impossible to get authentic in formation as to the real facts of the sad tragedy. It is supposed that a ful investigation. will .be had and the matter clarified COMIMTS SUICIDE. A Columbian Takes Poison and Then Stabs Himself. 'Athol H. Miller, a representative -of the F. S. Royster Guano company, Norfolk, 'Va., committed suicide at rthe Hillboro hotel, Tampa, Fla., Friday morning, taking about 100 grains of morphine and later stab ing himself three times near the heart with a six-inch1 pearl-handled dagger. -Miller left two -letters, one to his wife at Camden, S. C., his home, and another to P. E. Black of the Prairie Pebble Phosphate aompany at Mul berry, Fla. In the letter to his wife fMiller stated that he had no cause ffor the suicide, but felt an uncontrol lable impulse which he could not con quer. The letter to Black related to busi rness matters. Miller had been at Tampa two weeks, stoppiing at the Tampa Bay hotel. Before going to Tampa he spent three weeks at the Prairie Pepple Phosphate plant in the interest of Shis employers.* House Agent (to young married cou ple house hunting)-The place does not lack Interest. Two former tenants were dr wned in this mnoat.-Punlch. Soon. Soon we'll hear the willow swish, Soon we'll bait the hook and fish, Soon we'll dream 'neathsummerskies Soon we fight our friends, the flies. Soon we walk in shady lanes With our Mauds and Sarah JTanes, Soon we'll in a hammock sit, While loves makes the most of it. -Soon we'll put on lighter duds,. Leave off eating beef and spuds, Wearing furs and overcoats, Having colds and bandaged throats. Soon we'll hear the ice man say, "How much ice you want today?" Soon we'll trip upon the green, Where the chiggers bite, I ween Soon we'll hurry to the shore, Where the waves leap o'er and o'er. Each one with a bathing suit; Some rotund and others "cute. Soon we'll join the picnic crowd, Setting forth without a cloud, But when we come back again 'Twill be in a pelting rain. Soon we'll watch the freckles race Right across Clarinda's face. Soon the sore will ask anew, jeI is hot enough for you?" thful the nt of LBAKING PWDER: only baking powder p ade from Royal rape Cream Tartar a lie morethant e= nro&us aIl waie of lime powder, but with aesrpure,eahfufood. MANY LIVES LOST IN MARINE DISASTERS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. Many Vessels Wrecked During the Past Fal and Winter Season Just Ended. A review of the marine casualties - off the coast of New England and British North America during the fall and winter eeasons just ended, shows that about 350 lives were lost Of this number 251 persons perished in the wrecks of ten vessels belonging to the French fishing fleet of St' Pierre, Miquelon, last fall. These vessels "foundered In- heavy gales, which swept the. grand banks. About 25 New England fishermen were also lost in these storms. iThe most thrilling disaster was that which befell the British steamei St. Cuthbert off the Nova Scotia coast on. February 2.. The steamer while on a voyage from Antwerp to New York, caught fire and in their e dearor eo escape incineration four teen men perished; thirteen by drowning and one by falling into the burning hold. - . Anoth.er notable- disaster of the winter was tihe wreck of the British steamer Tolesby, Galveston, Texas, for Havre. The Tolesby struck; the rocks at Freshwater Point, near Cape Race, in a .heavy snow storm~ 6n the night of January 13. The steamier broke in two and the crew ww~s in danger of be'ing swept overboard, but they finally. reached the beach, but encountered a steep elifft 200 feet in height and extending for miles. After suffering from cold. an-1 flying spray for 18 hours all hands were rescued. One of the greatest feats~ in ma rine annals was the saving of 1.ae six hundred persons who were on the Canadian Pacific steamer, Mount Temple, when she struck on Lahavre Iron Bound Island ledges off- Bridge water, N. S., on the night of'Decem ber 2, while on her way-'to St. John from Antwerp. The steamer went on the- rocks during a heavy snow storm, and at the time it was thought she would go to pieces. The women and chidren -were landed on Iron Bound Island by means of breeches lines and baskets and the men -were taken off in boats from fishing. shooner's and .tugs. The Mount Temple is still on the rocks. On December 13 the Thompson 4 liner Kildona, bound from Dundee for Portland, struck Brazil Rock, off Cap Sable, N. S., and was. totally - wrecked. The crew were rescued by the steamer Luinisburg. The latest mihfortune to befall a steamer was that which overtook the Red Cross steamer, Sylvia,'-New York for Halifax, and St, Johns,. N. S. She was wrecked March 14, on. Sow and Pigs Shoal. The passengers and crew were landed at New Bed The Dominion Atlantic steamer Yarmouth, was wrecked nearSt John, on December, but was floated later. No one 'was lost. - On December 13, the seven masted schooner. Thomas W. Lawson, went to pieces on the Sicily Islands. Near ly all of the crew were drowned. The other great tragedy of 'the~ sea. and one that may always re main a mystery, was the dissapear ance of the Bath, Maine, ship Ar thur Sewall, one of the best knowir vessels in the American. fleet. She left Philadelphia, April 3, 1907, for Seattle. Wash., and has .never been reported since she left -Delaware Breakwater. -The Sewall carried a 'cargo of coal and prolbably founded with all on board. In addition to the vessels named thirty schooners, ten barges and sev eral vessels of smali rig were wreck ed in New England and Canadian waters. In New Foundland waters dozens of fishing eraft were driven ashore in the gales of . last fall and twenty-five lives were lost. About a dozen -lost their lives off -the New England Coast by the sinkink of Killed by Lead Pencil. James Foster, a young white boy of Cherokee Springs, Spartanburg county died last week from blood poisoning caused by the point of a lead pencil. He was running around with a lead pencil in his mouth, and in falling the point of the lead stuck in his wro h. Pa'ents should warn children about pi:tii' lead pencils in their mouths. 4 For Killing Negro. At Hirtwell. Ga.. Hugh Wall, a white man. tried for the murder of Job, Norris, the latter a negro. was found guilty of voluntary manslaugh ter and recommended to the mercy of the court. Wall was sentenced to 14 years in the penitentiary. *