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A GREAl WORK State Sunday School Convention Finishes and Adjourns. MANY FINE SPEECHES The Meeting the Largest, the Most Enthusiastic and the Most Spirit ual in the History of the State Association-Many Distinguishvd Visitors Wero Present and Took Part. With the adjournment Friday night of the thirty-first annual State Sun day School Convention, which- was In session several days at Union. a lorious meeting came to a close, glorious bebcause of the ideal weath er, as well as the great enthusiasm. great interest and earnestness of the hundred, who have been in constant attendance during the three days to do more and better work in the Sun day School cause than ever before. The Convention just closed is unan imously conceded by all to have been the largest in attendance in years. being considered double, and by some treble, that of the usual annual gath ering of the Sunday-school workerz of this State. The addresses have all been of a high order; that of Dr. Scherer being especially magnificient, though from such a list of fine speakers and noble and earnest workers as W. C. Pearce, of Chicago; Dr. A. L. Phillips of Rich mond; Dr. E. M. Poteat and Gov ernor Ansel. and others it is hard to make a selection. In this connection must be men tioned the incalculable benefit thp.t the Convention has received by ha'r Ing with it Tullar and Meredith, mus Seal directors of New York, whose presence and work in the daily exer cises and various other ways are be yond computation. That the Con vention marks an advance movement in South Carolina there is no doubt. Everybody feels it and talkes it, and those at the head of the State organ Ization feel sure that the coming year will show it. Officers for Ensuing Year. The following officers were nomi nated. and unanimously elected: President of the State Convention. 1909, Dr. B. M. Poteat, Greenville. Vice president, 1st district, Mr. J. . Hagood, Easley. Vice president. 2d district, Dr. W. F. Pelham, Newbebrry. Vice President, 3rd district, B. W. Crouch, Saluda. Vice president, 4th district, Thos. H. Law, D. D.. Spartanburg. Vice president. 5th district, N. A. Bethume, Bethume. Vice president, 6th district, Prof.T. S. Easterling, Marion. Vice presIdent, 7th district, the Rev. W. E. Wilkins, Columbia. Vice president, Sth disrtict. Vice president, 9th district, Mr. J. D. Riser, Round. Vice president, 10th district, Mr. R. C. Lebby, Charleston. Vice president. 11th district. Mr. B. G. Collins, Conway. Recording secretary, the Rev. W. L. Herbebrt, Charleston. Treasurer, Mr. S. R. McElroy, Pel zer. Adult department superintendent. the Rev. F. W. Gregg, Abbeville. Superintendent elementary grades. Miss Grace Vandiver, Spartanburg. Executive committee, at large. Capt. J. Adjer Smythe, Jr., chairman, Pelzer; Prof. Thos. W. *Keitt, Clemn son; Mr. Paul Quattlebaum, Conway; Mr. William Goldsmith, Greenville; Hon. Jas. E. Peurifoy, Walterboro. Executive Committees by Counties. Abbeville, 2-The Rev. 0. Y. Bonner, Pne West. Aiken, - ---The Rev. W. S. Myers, Ward. Anderson, ,1=.r W, R. Osborne, Anderson. Bamberg, 1. Barnwell, 2s-Miss Hattie Creceh, Barnwell. Beaufort. 3. Berkeley. 1-.T. J. Russell. Charleston, 2--The Rev. Walter IL Herbert, Charleston. Cherokee, 1-Mr. Jas. L. Strain. Wilkinsville. Lee, 1. Calhoun, 2. Chester, 2--J. Lyles G.san, Ches ter. Chesterfld, 3-The Rev. B. G. -Murphy, Cheraw. Clarendon, 3-The Rev. A. R. Woodson, Manning. Colleton, 3. .Itiss Ida M. Fishburn, Walterboro. Darlington, 2---L. A. Welling, Dar Iington. Dorchester, 2-The Rev. A. B. Cor nish, St. George. Edgefield, 1-Mrs. 3. H. White,. Johnston. Fairfield. 1-.-. Frank Foeshee, Winnsboro. Florence, 1.---.Mr. 3. W. Heffmyer, Florence. Georgetown, 2-Mr. B-.IL Beaty, Georgetown. Greenville, 2-Mr. John Wood, Greenville. Greenwood, 2-Mr. A. A. Morris, Greenwood. Hampton. 1 Horry, 3--Mr. J. C. Spivey, Con way. Kershaw, 2-C. W. Birchmore, Camden. Lancaster. 1--S. E. Bailes. Laurens, -Mr. 3. T. Tolbert. Laurens. Lexington, 3-Miss E. L. Able. L.'-sville. ' - rion. 3-The Rev. E. 0. Watson. Ma:1horo. 3. New arv. 1-Mr. Jas. F. Epting. Newberry. Oconee, 1--The Rev. J. L. Moore. Westminister. Orangeburg. 2-Mrs. Marchant Fairey, Branchville. Pickens. 3-Mr. 3. T. Tayior. Pick ens. Richland, 3-The Rev. 3. D. Moore, Columbia. Saluda, 3-The Rev. 3. B. Har mon. Leesville.. Spartanburg. 1--The Rev. J. W. Shell. Spartanburg. Sumter, 2-Mrs. D. Jas. Winn, Sumter. Union, 2-Mr. George H1. Oetzel. 'Union. Williamsburg. 1-The Rev. W. S. Goodwin, Rome. York. 3-R. B. Cunningham. DOES IT FREE. 1OF GREAT INTEREST TO ALL STOCK OWNERS. Investigations of Contagioes and 1a fectious Diseases of Animals Made Without Cost to the Owners. The majority of stock owners do n->t know *bat this State provides for the investigation of contagious ;diseases and consequently there is an :-unecessary loss of many animals ezch year. Some of these animal dis e; ses are also communicable and fa tal to man. and. therefore the ap pearance of any disease of suspicious character should be promptly report ed to the State Veterinarian. All let ters asking for information of noncon tagious diseases of animals will be promptly answered, but owneds are fu!ly requested to fully describe the symptoms of the disease. Observe the following rules in requesting in Rule 1. All notice.s for contagious or infectious aiseases should be sent to "Veterinarian. Clemson College. S. C." Rule 2. When two or more reput able citizens of any county in this S:ate shall notify said veterinarian that any animals in their county are a!ected with a contagious disease. the tendency of which is to cause the death of such animals. he will investigate the same, or cause an in vestigation thereof to be made. Such notices should also state the num ber of animals sick. the number ex posed and the number dead, or it should contain such other information as may indicate that the disease in question is contagious oi infections and one that can be legally investi ga(ed under the law. Rule 3. When said notice shows ,hat the disease is contagious or in ectious an investigation will be made. Tneestigations will be made in the order notices are received when this is practicable: otherwise they will be made in order or importance or according to location. Rule 4. Persons requesting inspec tions should hold the animal. in readiness, awaiting the arrival of th. veterinarian or assistant veterinarian. and be present to give the requireI information and assistance. Rule 5. The veterinarian, when re quested, will furnish blanks on which I to make reports. All letters of in qriry asking for information regard ing animal diseases will be answere.l as soon after their receipt as may be found practicable. Rule 6. In accordance with Section 5, of the act of February 9. 11. Clemson College will pay the neces sary expenses of the veterinarian. or assistant veternarian. in making in spections where animals are affected with contagious diseases: The owtn er is expected to pirovide transporta tion to and from the railway srati'n and furnish necessary labor and fee~d while the animals are being tested or are in quarantine. Rule '7. If an inspection has b'een requested and the sick animal die or recover before the arrival of the in spector, the person requesting the in spection must. notify the veterinar Ian. Too Near the Trenth. The awful charge is now made that at the recent session of the Ohio re publican convention Messrs. Roose velt and Taft aided by Congressman Burton "tried-to insert a real dem ocratic tariff plank in a republicar platform." General J. Warren Kei fer, a stand patter, is credited with having foiled the attempt. The cbarge put out is that Mr. Burtop, with the approval of Roosevelt and the Roosevelt candidate, tried to have the Ohio platform charge the tariff with fostering monopolies and trusts. Bryan never had unkinder words than these for the Dingley and McKinley laws, so the republi can reactionaries say. A Washington letter says the Ohio platform's history began in conferences held in the city of Washington in which the presi dent, Secretary Taft, Congressman Burton, and Attorney General Wade H. Ellis took part. When the rough draft they completed was turned over to the convention committee on resolutions at Columbus that com mittee struggled with it for a bit, according to the dispatches, and then turned the problem over to a sub-committee of which Mr. Burton was chairman, and several Ohio congressman members; General J. Warren Keifer was one of these. The platform as adopted had this tariff plank: "A revision of the tariff by a spe ial session of the next congress, insuring the maintenance of the true principles of protection by im posing such customs duties as will equal the difference between the costs of 'production- at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit, to the end that without ex cessive duties, American manufac turers, farmers, producers and wage earners may have adequate protection." - The story put out is that Mr. Bu ton offered a plank which followed the sentence demanding revision by the next congress with the words, "To the end that the further fos tering of trusts and monopolies by the tariff shall be prevented" It is said he assured the sub-committee that he had consulted with the par ty leaders most interested on his plank and that it had their approval. This was accepted as an assurance that the president and Secretary Taft had approved it. Nevertheless General J. Warren Keifer offered a prompt and warm protest against talk of fostering trusts and mnonop olies in connection with the tariff plank of the Ohio republicans and enough of the. sub-committee took his view to chloroform the Burton plank then and there. South Carolaua. Prof. Tho. W. Keitt. lemson. International cxecutiv e eto.nmittee men from South Carolina, Capt. J. Adger Smyth, Jr.. Pelzer. Alexandria Silenced in Ten Hours, Short Record. AWFUL BOMBARDMENTS Gibraltar, Although Week After Week 6,000 Shells a Day Were Hurled at It. Withstood Allied Fleets of Spain and France for Eight Hun dred and Seventy-four Days. In skortness and decisiveness it will be difficult to beat the record of Alex andria, every gun of which was effec tually silenced within ten hours by our fleet under Admiral Seymour, says London Tit-Bits. But these few hours witnessed such a destructive deluge of shot and shell as might well have laid a big city in ruins. No fewer than 10,000 projectiles were hurled against the forts of Alexandria, many of them monsters of 1,700 pounds weight, fired from 81-ton guns. Sin gularly enough, this murderous hail of iron did little damage to the forti fications, the majority of the shells burying themselves harmlessly in the parapets of sand which had been raised to protect the batteries. But so terrible was the havoc and Mlz.ughter wrought among the adher ents of Arabi Pasha by the flying fragments of the shells which explod ed that the forts were quickly evacu ated: while some of the shells started a Are which destroyed almost the whole of the town. Sabastopol. with its grim, massive forts were quickly evacuated, while some defended by 700 guns, many of them of heavy calibre, held out against the combined armies of France and England for 327 days. When, however, the place was evacuated, it was found that the town was in ruins; and to complete the work of destruction sueb docks and forts as still remained standing were blown up by the engi neers of the allied forces. It took 132 days for the Germans to bring Paris to her knees a gener ation ago. During January, 1871, no fewer than 10,000 shells were rained on to the doomed town every day, and of these 500 fell into the city proper. During a single day, January 3, the Prussians hurled 25,000 projectiles at Paris at a cost of ? 60,000. The havoc they wrought was fearful, and the resultant fires threatened to destroy whole districts. During the siege no fewer than 40.000 of the inhabitants succumbed to disease and hunger. For ninety-four days Plevna defied the pick of the Russian army, although its defenders were hopelessly outnum bered. and on December 10, 1877. after the last grain of rye had been eaten, the indomitable Turks sallied forth and tried to hew their way through the Russian legions. Osman Pasha commanded his gallant remnant in person; three lines of trenches wers pierced, but the odds against them were too great. Surrounded by al most countless hordes of the enemy, his men mown down by sweeping tor rents of bullets and shells, the brave leader at last yielded to fate and al lowed the white flag to flutter from the roof of the hut near which he was lying mutilated and in agony. Khartoum withstood the Mahdi and his hosts for 341 days, under the brave direction of Gordon; and in Kars, Gen. Williams, w-ith 15,000 men, with pro visions for three months and ammu nition for three days, kept an invest ing army of 5,00 at bay from June to November. "Gen. Winliam s." wrote Mouravief,. the Russian general, to his gallant foe, "you haves made yourself a name in history, and posterity will stand amazed at the endurance, the courage and the discipline which this siege has called forth in the remains of an army. Let us arrange a capi tulation which will satisfy the de mands of war without disgracing hu manity." Gibraltar. as all the world knows, stood impregnable against all the as saults of Spain and France for 874 days, althofigh week after week 6.000 shells were hurled at it every day, and, in spite of the comlbined attack ->f forty-six sail of the line, a count less fleet of gun and mortar boats. tnd fioating batteries whic.a had cost ?508,000 to construct. Richmend, Virginia. was defended by Gen. Lee through a year c..f terrible fighteg. until the seizure of his lines of supply compelled him to evacuate it on April 2, 1865: Lucknow held out for eighty-six days. when Ger. Have lock came to its relief; and Strasburg. witis all its strength, defended by a garrison of 17.000 men, had to sur render to the Germans after a siege f forty-eight days. Among other not blp sieges Mafeking survived seven :onths. Kimberley 12.3 days, Lady smith 118. Petchefstroom ninety-four Metz seventy-two'. Gaeta seventy seven, and Cthitral Fort-forty-six days. IA much closer parallel to the siege of Port. Arthur can be found in the bombardment of -Santiago during the recent war bet*een America and Spain. The United States warships Texas, Indiana and Brooklyn opened fire- on the towns at a range of six miles, and for three hours poured shells into it with such deadly effect that, although the gunners could not even see their target, fifty-seven buildings were wrecked and set on fire, and it was said that a few hours more firing would have laid the whole place in ruins. Even more effec tive was the demoralization caused by the bombardment. wifch directly Idto the sulrrender of the' to~n, - THE Constitution of the United States and the principle of national right seem to be regarded by the trusts as convenient shelter when ever their special privileges are at taked, but as mere rubbish to be* brushed aside, whenever they, on the other hand, design to encroach: upon the rights of the public. In the opinion of the trusts, privilege and tariff Drotection mean safely and advantaige to themselves alone, and include the policy of plundering the mnultitude without responsibili ty __________ THER~E is to be no pruning of the tariff unless grafting is allowed at the same time. A little pruning and a great deal of grafting is the idea f the friends of the tariff. They call this the non-partisan mthod. IT is said that for every 50 foreign. laborers arriving in this country, 147 are leaving it. To have nearly: three emigrants to one immigrant is: something new in our experience. t indicates hard times. Nothing ike it ever happened while the Denm Ths Telegrapher's Yarn. "I was never accused of telling a lie by the superintendent of tele graph but once," said the old rail road telegrapher who would rather tell the truth than eat wooden nut megs, "and I must confess that the circumstances were peculiar. "You remember that switching tower along the shore of upper Nut cong Lake, don't you? And un doubtedly you have heard about the size and abundance of 1ish in that lake? Well, I must say that they are no idle -press agent's yarns. "An operator on duty at this tow er has numerous opportunities to fish right from the rear windows of the tower, waich overlook the lake. Many's the fine mess of fih I've yanked from its depths. "You could just drop a set line from one of the windows, pull It in every hour or so, and be sure of two or three fine pickerel or lake trout at a setting. Yes, sirree. I got so much brain food at that tower that I almost became eligible to membership in an Indiana authors' colony. "The fishing was particularly good of nights. At those times I would make my most remarkable catches. "One night, or rather, one early morning. I was startled by the opera tor in the next tower east, calling me viciously on the telegraph wire. " 'I am holding an important spec ial up here for a clear block. Has the train backed over yet that you sig nalled me had crossed to the west bound track?' "'That s news to me,' I replied. 'I've never signalled you that a train had crossed over to the westbound track. " 'I don't like to call you a liar,' he flashed back, 'but I surely got a crossover signal from you on the bells and I demand a clear signal b. fore I iet this directors' special come west to you.' "'You'd have less liking to call me a liar If I were in striking dis tance,' I wired him, 'as no man has ever called me that and got away with it.' " 'He insisted, however, that I had given him a bell signal that the west bound track was occupied by a train which had crossed over from an east bound track for some purpose, at my tower. " 'There you're ringing it again now,' he said. "I was nowhere near the bell keys and I rushed over to the bell but ton connecting us with the next tower east. What d'ye think? "My set line had slipped from the usual nail In the window frame and become firmly knotted around the bell button. The other end In the lake had hooked a big fish and of course each violent bid the big fish made for his liberty, would jerk on the bell key. which was fitted in the side of the tower nearest the lake. "It just happened that the fish would make his jerks and squirms for liberty in groups of five. We blocked trains by bells and this grouping of five bells was our code signal to the next tower east that an east-bound train had crossed over and was occupying the westbound track. "Naturally the operator In the next tower had no way of knowing that the signals were being wafted to him by a fish. He thought the westbound track had been blocked by a train crossing over, which was fre quently the case at our tower. So he held the spec'al up. We patched the thing up and the special was only delayed about fifteen minutes. "Of course I was called down to the main office early next morning for an explanation of the delay to the special. I took the fish down as a working model to explain to the su per just what did happen. . I had no ulterior purpose in taking the fish, a lake trout weighing about six pounds, with me. "Would you believe it, he wouldn't tand for the story at all! No. sir ree. Said he thought I'd been asleep and didn't know just what I was do ing when I rang the bells. How ever, as he had no proof that I was sleeping on duty, he'd just lay me off ten days for carelessness in let ting the fish line hang so near the bell key. "He also kept the working model. He even intimated that I was lying. No say, you don't think I'd tell a lie do you. old sport?'' "Well," said the tall cynical con ductor, "I -am in the throes of the Christmas spirit and-no, I don't know as I would care to limit yon to one. "--Ch~arleston News and Courier. An Old .Man's Offiec. There is a Washington lad who as sents to the old proposition that it is well to have more than one string to one's bow. The boy was being catechised one day by a well meaning visitor to the house. "Wel. Harry." said tlie lady, "don't you think you have a ehance to be President of the I'Dited States?" "O. I (don't know," a:-swered Har ry carelessly. "Maybe l'ai try for it after I get too old to ne a pitcher."~ -Phildephia Ledger. Previous to 1 760 the Freo would not eat potatoes. it being upoed that they would cause freckles. THE efforts of The News and Courier to bunk iin the same politi cal bed with Senator Tillmnan must be accepted as a verification of the old adage that politics sometimes make strange bedfellows. THE rival Republican press bu r aus at Washington are working over-time in preparing statements tat their side is on top, which indi cates it is nip and tuck between the laft and anti-Taft factions. A OLITICAL bureau in Washington that is fighting Mr. Bryan in season~ ad out of season says Lee County, owa, Democrats refused to endorse M. Bryan for President. But it faled to state that the Democratic Convention of Iowa had instructed the delegation from the State to the Democratic National Convention for Bryan. SENATOR Tillman has the sympa thy of all the people in the State in hs ilnes Poetry Wgrth Reading. Enough. Mt a little ?ittsburg girl. fhe was twenty-one, she said. And she had goggles o'er her eyes, A dust-cap on her head. "My Iittle maid." I said. "Pray tell Me where you've spent Your time." She answered, "I have toured Upon the continent." "And how was Paris?" then I asked. But vigorously she fanned Her red-rimmed eyes. It was quite plain Shse did not understand. "Did you see Rome?" I asked in vain. "And how was Italy?" She shook the dust from out her clothes, And vaguly gazed at me. "Pe'haps," I ventured, "Spain you saw, Madrid-e grand old place? Maybe at Monte Carlo you" No l4gbt broke o'er her face. "Oh, little maid, don't keep it back; Tell me-just where you went." She raised her head quite haughtily, "We toured the continent. "What more do you desire than this, Oh. stranger? Rest content. We di4 not see a single place; We toured-the continent." -Judge. His Fathers Son. Oh, my! oh, my! the years go by Like sheep the dogs are harryin', But late I had a lispin' lad, An' now he talks o' marryin'! Lord bless me, but he has the strut Of one that's grand an' knows it No lass so prim that looks at him Bat likes his cat an' shows it. An', faix. 'twould do your heart good, too, To hear him at the blarney; There's ne'er a lass that sees him pass But wears a smile for Barney Our Barney A wishful smile for Barney. Though Cupid lays cutea snares these days When Barney goes philanderin'. An' all his traps holds geese, per haps, None takes this bold young gander In. AKh! none as yet, but there's a net That wIU, one day or other, An' her I'd name to bait the same Is one like me, his mother. Aye! sure as fate, he'll take for mate Sweet, roguish Nora Kearney, Who meets his wiles with scornful smiles, An once I did with Barney My Barney The father of "our" Barney. The Pure Food Inspector. The chile raised its fur and yowled, the sausage yelped with glee, The potted game did much the same. as joyous as could be. For came a man of lofty mien, and mean also of face, To make report to Uncle Sam, of pure food in the place. Ho came and shook the chile can. and just to make it saire, He read the label carefully before he stamped it "Pure.'' He poked the sausage with his cane, and fed some to the cat. Which threw a fit, so he also as pure food labelled that. For averybody knows that food when packe-1 in little nots Or cans or skins or other things to -keep it. never rots. White no one making things to eat would ever think to rob. Or f ,sitly-but this Is mum--a man must hold his job. -Dallas News. Taffy. A man may be a giant --f colossal intellect Or a paragon of dignity and poise. But just let a woman say,. "Oh, how well you look to-day'" Aid his face will glow with pleas ure like a boy's. A woman may be cranky and can takerous at that. Just waiting her mad epithets to hurl, When a man will really say, "Why. how sweet you are to-day!" And she'll flush and blush and stutter like a girl. -Laura W. Sheldon in Brooklyn Life Reality. ft lie's a dream, I'd like to know What makes the tooth Ache hurt me so. Birmingham Age-Herald. Never Until Broke. Whle the coin Holds out to burn. Few are the sinners That return. The plan of the yacht that origin ally won the America's cup does not seem to enter into present-day dis cussion of form at all. Ground chestnuts take the place of goj in some parts of France. VERY STRANGE. CASE. 'A urglar in. Sleep, idut an Honzest Mian Awake. Charged with breaking into the home of Fred Folger, at No. 4001 Armour avenue, Chicago, and attack ing Folger arid his wife, Ross Free man Son of a wealthy oil dealer. was acquitted on -:he ground that he was asleep when he conmitted the offeuice. Freeman was found by Foiger in the kitchen oi his home. He grappled with the intruder and was gettingj >dly beaten when his wife api~earedt Although she was beaten also. they managed to overpower Freeman and hold him until the police a rrived. In ocurt alienists testified that they blieved Freeman was asleep when heentered the Folger' house and that hi attack upon Folger -and his wire ws not a criminal act. One alienist. Dr. ONeil. said that Freemnan's act ws commiuttel while 'ite was in the "atomatic mood following an epi leTic seizure." Hie asserta~d that this as different from the state of sam ammbulism and testimony was given HOLD YOUR COTTON IN SPITE OF THE BEARS STAPDLE REMAINS IN FARMER'S HANDS. Plenty of it Still in Farmers' Hands and Speculators Believe That There Will be Heavy Liquidation in May. In spite of the fact that the far mers had been led to think that they had seen the last of high prices for cotton, there is a revival of hope re cently. The spot market is still high, the demand good and in the face of the bear onslaught the farmers are holding out. Receipts at the ports, while heavy are not so heavy as last year or the year before. The future market is going down because Wall street be lieves that there will be heavy liquid ation in May, which will put a lot of cotton on the market, but the spot cotton is not following the figures on the exchange blackboatds. All cotton letters say that there is still a lively demand for cotton fn .Europe. E. D. Smith gave out the following to the press recently: "According to the facts gleaned I see no reason why those who have spot cotton need be uneasy as to the final outcome of prices. India is prac tically 2,000,000 bales short. America practically 2,000,000 bales short, aggregting fro'ru these two' secthi's alone 4,000.000 baies less ihaL !zstI year, making a rednction 'f 25 pcr cent. in the world's visiie an-I invis ible supply. "The spindle capacity this year is far in excess of that of last year. Therefore more cotton is needed. "It is estimated that there are be ing consumed, at the present rare, about 1,000,000 per month. Ac cording to the figures of Mr. Hester. there is available, for the balance of the season, a little over 4,000,000. Therefore by the 1st of September the stocks of raw cotton will be practical ly exhausted and no reserve to car ry over at all. "Confidence in trade is being rapid ly restored, money is getting easier, the Southern mills are reported as being practically without cotton, the, ;orthern mills are short of stocks and from all indications and from every standpoint, if the present holders of spot cotton are able to hold on some body will have to pay the price. -"We have learned a valuable lesson on account of the dependence of so many producers on the stores and hanks. Let's reduce that dependence next year by reducing our obligations for home supplies and fertilizer bills. "I was delighted with the spirit of cheer and determination at every point visited. We are becoming vet erans in the fight for Southern pros perity, and we are learning to use the weapon with skill and effective ness and in the proportion that we' demonstrate our ability in that .pro portion is the world learning to re spect the one time despised produc er.''" *1 Capers Hedging. A dispatch from Washington says Mr. P. B. Chase, owner of a theater in Washington has been made defend-1 ant in a suit for damages. Mary Stewart, a negress, nurse and maid in the family of John G. .Capers. internal revenue commissioner, brought action for $3,000 damages against Mr. Chase, alleging that she was ejected from the theatre at last Saturday's imatinee when she pre sented a ticket for an orchestra seat. According to the petition filed by the plaintiff she had accompanied Commissioner Capers and his two children, aged 8 and 11 years, res pectively, to the play house. Mr. Capers did not intend to see the performance and left the two child ren in the care of the nurse after buying tickets for the party. The doorkeeper refused to accept the ticket and, it is alleged, told the nurse to stand aside, whereupon Mr. Capers pushed his way through the line and demanded an explanation. The doorkeeper, it is asserted, in-' formed Mr. Capers that under the? rules he was powerless to admit the woman as negroes were notr allow ed to oc...upy seats in the orchestra. While vain protests were being lodged, tM-' nurse. it is alleged, was a victim or "rude" treatment at the hands of one of the theatre employ-i es. Capers is backing the woman~ in her suit. In fact he is said to be the inspiration of it. Capers intends this as a grand stand play to fool the negroes into beleiving that he is a real negro lover, but it will fail. It proves however that a renegade white man can fall pretty low once he starts down the hill.I Teddy's Retreat. "In other circumstances," says The New York World, referring to, the program of palliation recently put forth by Mr. Roosevelt in the form of a message to Congress, "it? might be difficult to believe that the hand which no longer ago than Jan uary 31 purposed to 'cut out rotten ness from the body politic' is the same hand that is now so gently mas sageing all the sore spots in the ele ments of political influence." "The message," continues The World "fully confirms the report that a Re publican national convention will be I held June 16, and that there will be a' Presidential election in November at which my policies are to be sub mitted to the people." The World concludes that "if anybody who votes or contribution to a campaign fund was overlooked in the prepara of this tionspecial message it was not because Theodore Roosevelt does not aim to please." We agree with the Charleston Post that "it is a sad com mensarv, indeed, on the manners and I morals of our times that the loudly ailed and vociferously proclaimed| :dlscoverer and champion of right-i t ousness in politics should presume to become a timeserver in the expec tation of satisfying the people of the j United States that he is qualified to I irect, rule and govern them. It is a ot astonishing that Theodore Roos-. velt, moralist, should expose his rue character thus, because he has one that in a hundred different in- I stances, truckling to influence which e could not beat down, but it is at r it startling and and exceedingly de ressing to find Theodore Rorse elt, master politician, concluding b hat surrender of principle and open :oncession to adverse interests will t reserve his dominance. Will he t lisprove Lincoln's M'ory ihe~ it is mpossible to fool olhe sople all1 Confi when eating, that highest wholesome nothing in fit th distress you- M doubly coinfortabli t This supreme have when the fo The only baidng with Royal Grape There can benc Adence when eating der food. Chemist less of the alum po alumor allem salts : A LEOPARD IN HAMPTON. Beast Supposed to Have Escaped From Circus is KiUed. A dispatch from Hampton to the State says an animal bearing the resmblance of a leopard was zilled Monday by Frank Linto in the Grays neighborhood about 12 miles from Hampton. This animal passed through the lower part of the coun ty last week frightening the people in the community tnrough which it traveled until it wandered ts way to Grays where it was slain. The o sal was about three feet in .ht and bore spots characteristic a leopard which is supposed to have escaped from some circus. "I reepived your majesty's message." said the new misionary. "Did I nn erstand you would do me the honor to call upon me and dine tomorrowT' "Almost correct," replied the old cannl bl cbief. "7 said I would call and dine tl)on you tomorrow."-Philadel pbla Press. Quoting Scripture The New York World has publish ed a pamphlet against William J. Bryan, and heads its list of reasons hy Mr. Bryan should lay down the arty leadership with this quotation1 fom First Samuel: "And every one that was in dis tess, and every one that was in debt, nd every one that was discontented athered themselves unto him; and e became a captain over them; and tere were with him about four undred men." The Fort Wayne, Ind., Gazette ays the personage mentioured in the uestion is, as everyone knows, avid, the son of Jesse, and just why he New York World should hold im up as a warning to Mr. Bryan is ast comprehension. Indeed, the rophets of Bryanism could find1 othing from cover to cover of the ood Book that so aptly fits Mr. ryan's case, nothing in~ the wide rage of literature or history, sacred r profane, that forms a more strik in parallel, or, what was more, ustifies more sanguine hope of Mr. ryan's ultimate triumph.. There a good many people who are in debt distress, millions who r in bedt (and going broke every ay), millions who are descontented nder trust rule, and they have in eed gathered themselves unto William J. Bryan, and he has became captain over them. But the World should have pur ued the subject further, and have counted what the captain and his our hundred did, It's all in the ook of Samuel, too. Like Bryan ouring the .world and returning elomed as no American had been velcomed, David returned from his anderings, and here is what he and s four hundred did. Here it is as we find it recorded in the First and Second Books of amuel: And David smote them from, the wilight even unto the evening of he next day. And David recovered all that the malekites had carried away. And David took all the flocks and e herds which they drove before 2 :hose other cattle, and said, This is )avid's spoil.t In the second book of Samuel, we i And the men of Judah came and hey appointed David king over the ouse of Judah. Now there was long war between he house of Saul and the house of )avid; but David waxed stronger nd stronger and the house of Saul raxed weaker and weaker.E Then came all the tribes of Israel David into Hebron and spake, sying behold, we are thy bone andg y flesh.--V:1. And David reigned over all Israel; nd David executed judgment and astice unto all his people, t y all means let us liken Bryan to t avid. Their histories are so nearly milar that the last verse we quoted ~s like a prophecy, in whose fullt lment the American people wil-n ear their 'jart next November. a All that is necessary to carry out tl iesimile is to let the World play ierule of Saul, and no witch of i udor is needed to foretell the re- cc l of the comin battle iiu lence your food is of ness-that it has it can injure or akes the repast and satisfactory. confidence you Dd is raised with powder made Cream of Tartar comforting confi alum baking pow 5 say that more or Wvder in unchanged emainsinthefood. CONDITION OF STATE BANKS The State Bank Examimer Makes His First Quarterly Repo-t. Mr. Giles L. Wilson, the new ex aminer of State banks, Thursd4y made his first quarterly report.. Thip shows the condition of State bank ing institutions at the close of busi ness March 9th. The. last report was Dec. 18th. Since that time eight new banks have started business, two have- consolidat ed and one has nationalized. There are now 233 State banks. :Statement o f the conaltion of the 233 State, private and savings banks. located in South Carolina-at the close of business March 9, 1908: Resources. Loais and discounts.. $33,464,281.33 Demand loans.. .; 1,987,177.94* Overdrafts.. ...... 5;1,899.40 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank.. ....3,663,317.74 Banking houses. . . ...733,561.91 Furniture andfixtures. 360,161.07 Other real estate.. .. 287,937.82 Due from banks and bankers.. ......4,862,130 62 Currency. .. ..1,092,952.74 Gold........ . 165,220.50 Silver. nickles and pen nies. ... .. .. ....332,710.18 Checks and cash items..' 359,798.83 Exchanges for the clear- . .. . ing house. .. .. . .. 97,711.06 Other resources. . 5,973.15 Total.. .. .. ....$47,975,807.28 Liabilities. apital.stock paid in.. .$ 9,061,713.56 Surplus fund.. .. ..~1,536,410.44 Undivided profits(es current expenses and taxes paid)... ... .. 2,781,584.87 Due to banks and bank ers.. ..... .. 720;577.17 Due unpaid dividends.. . 27,569.646 Individual -deposits sub ject to check. .. . ..17,381,322.76 SavIngs deposits. . . .11,075,256.71 Demand certificates. .. 223,439.55. Time certificates. . . . 2,069,753.06 Certified checks.. .. 13,441.93 Cashier's checks.. .. 74,716.63 Notes and bills redis counted..........754,518.59 Bills payable.. .. ....2,237,173.23 Other liabilities...'....18,329.14 Total.. .... .....$47,975,807.28. S.BOULD BE ENDORSED. If We Are For Bryan We Should Talk Out. The anti-Bryan papers in the-State are insisting that -the South Cai-olina delegates to Denver go uninstructed by the convention as to whom they would support. The Florence Times says "that would be all right if the convention picks out the 'right kind of delegates, then it would not make much difference except that it would lend color to the oft asesrted story that the south does not stand for Bryan, which is niot correct. If the representatives of certain interests in South Carolina were selected South Carolina might be misrepresented in that convntion, and as South Carolina Is generally mighty careless in these ~natters. selecting men for positions honor and trust who aer personal y highly steemed by their fellow cit zes, without much regard for where :heir interests lie as compared with he interests of the people, we think hat t would be far better for the con rention to put itself on record in the natter so that there would be no Ioubt. The counties and townships td all up and down the line would 1 well to be careful in this matter his yea."' If they want Bryan :nom nated. let the clubs speak out.. .* KILLED AT GRIST MILL. t Colored Boy Got Caught in Ma chinery Somehow. The Aiken~ Journal,- and 'Review ays on Saturday week ago a negro. oy, whose name could not be learn d, was gtilled at Mr. E. H. Toole's. 'rist mill, near Wagener. The boy rent to the mill with some corn to . e ground into meal, and after it was round, he was instructed not to hang round the machinery. Mr. Toole *ent into another part of the house, ot thinking further of the boy. He ,on heard a thud and he thought at something was the niatter with 10 machinery. When he reached the Lace he found hte boy lying inesusi le on the floor. I !'I~ evi tntly uched one of the br- 3 ad was Lrown heavily to the flour. He was yt de and was carried to his home id are given to him. It was found' tat no bones were broken, but blood the brain was supposed to have * .used his death, which occurred on inday morning. The boy had severe nvusions from the time he was in ,-ed to his death. A