The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 03, 1909, Image 1

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VOL. XIII MANNING, S. C.- WEDNESDAY, MARCH3,10NO2 THE STATE DRY For Fifteen Days, During Which Time the Great WHISKEY QUESTION. Will Be Settled by the Wet Counties to Suit Themselves-Local Option ists and Prohibitionists Reach an Agreement Upon a Referendum Measure Upon Sale of Whiskey. Columbia, Feb. 26.-Refusing by a vote of 28 to 9 to adopt a State wide prohibition bill, and by a vote - of 27 to 11 to pass a State-wide ref erendum bill, the Senate today pass ed the prohibition measure with the Christensen and Willliams amend ment, after a lengthy discussion as to what was really the agreement of the evening before. During the dis cussion Senator Otts, the prohibition leader, charged practically that there had been a breach &f faith among those who had reached this compact, and asked the prohibitionists to con sider where they were in the mat ter. The bill, as fnally passed in the Senate to third reading, provides for State-wide prohibition in the coun ties of the State from the first Tues day in August until the third Tues day in August, when an election shall be held in the counties now wet. This election is to determine C the policies of the wet counties as Ito whether they sha;l retain the sale of whiskey. The right is re served to the dry counties, as under C5 the Carey-Cothran Act, to vote upon the question once every four years. a The Christensen amendment as adopted provides: The Christensen Amendment. Section 14. This Act shall take effect on the first Tuesday In Au gust, 1909: Provided, that In the - eounties then having dispensaries an election shall be held on the third Treeday In August, 1909, for the purpose of determining whether the ti dispensaries located therein shall be reopened, and such election in each of said' counties shall be held and g conducted by the same officers and a under the rules and regulations pro- h vided by law for general elections. Seetion 15. At such election the y the o;ection commissioners for such n county shall at, eaeh voting precinct fo thereIn provide one ballot box, in p whieh the ballots must be cast, Any person who Is a qualified elector of 0 such county may vote in said elec- t< tion. Every voter who may be in p favor of the sale of liquors and bev- 11 erages In-such counties shall cast a a ballot in the box provided therefor, ti on which shall be printed the words. "For Sale and Manufacture of Al- t] coholic Thinks and Beverages," and f< every voter opposed shall cast a bal lot upon -which shall be printed the E words, "Against Sale, Etc." If a majority of the ballots cast in such 15 election be -"For Sale, Etc.," it shall be lsawful for such- liquors and bev- y~ erages to be sold in said county as hereinafter provided. Provided, that E the expense of these elections shall be borne by the State. Section 16. In case an election as herein provided shall result in 3 favor of the sale of liquors and bev erages the dispensaries in each coun- O ty so voting shall be reopened and conducted under the provisions of -.. an Act entitled, "An Act to declare the manufacture, sale, use, consump-1 j tion, possession, transportation and I - disposition of' alcoholic liquors and j beverages, within the State, and to s police the same," approved the 1 6th a day of February, 1907, and Acts| amendatory thereof: Provided, that all of the provisions and limitations of the said Act not Inconsistent withj this Act shall remain in full force and effect In all of the counties of the State: Provided further, that in counties which shall reopen dis pensaries therein, the county dispen sary board and dispensers in office on August 2. 1909, shall Continue to discharge their several duties as If such dispensary or dispensaries -had not been closed. The Williams amendment, which oecasioned a great deal of dis dission, finally being adopted pro vides: Dry Counties Can Vote. Provided, that in counties which have heretofore voted upon the ques tion of dispensary or no dispensary under existing or previous laws, and have no dispensary at this time, shall have the right at any time after the expiration of four years from the last election on the liquor question to hold an election upon the question of dispensary or no dispensary -as provided for in "An Act to declare the law in reference to and to regu ,late the manufacture, sale, use and consumption, possession, transporta tion and disposition of alcoholic liquors and beverages within the State, and to police the same, ap prove'd the 16th day of February, 1907." This would give, unquestionably,, the right to the dry counties to vote upon the whiskey question, which it seemed that the Christensen amend ment did not clearly and expressly provide for. The motion to table the Williams amendment resulted 16 to 19, and the amendment was pass ed on a yea and nay vote of 20 to 15. Hurled to Ravine's Bottom. Guayaquil, Ecuador, Feb. 24.-A passenger train on the main line, bound north, was thrown over a cliff one liundred feet high at a point near Rio Ramba and crashed to the bottom of the ravine. Twenty-five persons were killed and forty wound ed. FiGHT WITH LION ARMY OFFICER HAS A NARROW ESCAPE. Blood-Poisoning Results from Claw ing and Biting of Infuriated Beast, Which Is Killed. London, Feb. 24.-Among the pas sengers who arrived at Plymouth by the steamer Marmora was Lieut. G. S. Anderson, Eighteenth Hussars, of Dawlish. Lieut Anderson, who has been attached to the intelligence de partment, is suffering from blood poisoning, the result of a mauling he received from a lion six weeks ago on the borders of Somaliland and Abysinia. In company with a native servant, Lieut Anderson went out for a day's hooting. Finding a lion at short listance, he fired and the shot graz d the beasts's skull, slightly wdund ng It. The infuriated beast leaped ipon the officer, throwing. him to the round, and bit him through the :nee 'just as he fired a charge from is double barrelled sporting rifle hrough its head. - The animal continued to claw and i ite him while Lieut Anderson, fight- i ng for his life, clubbed the lion with he butt end of the rifle. All the vhile blood was streaming from the ounds of the lion, which was of i nusual size. The native servant, although prac- ] cally unarmed, rushed to the aid c f his injured master, and at length ( he animal, exhaused from the loss i f blood, slunk away, leaving Lieut.|% Lnderson almost overcome and in a N ery precarious condition. I Subsequently the lion was found f ead at a little distance from the If ene of the encounter. The injured d icer was conveyed to the coast, and t Aden embarked for London, where j e will be treated in a hospital. p TAFT'S CABINET PICKED. ' a Places Have Been Offered and P f Accepted Now. s 1: New York, Feb. 25.-All qualifica- f ons of uncertainty in the prediction 0 iat Franklin ManVeagh, of Chica- 11 o, has been accepted by Mr. Taft s his Secretary of the Treasury, are reby removed. 6 Mr. MacVeagh accepted the place 3 esterday, and thereby the Taft Cabi- a et was made complete as hereto- ti >re announced by the Associated ress. c No official or unofficiaL declarations tl f Mr. MacVeagh's appointment is p ) be made by Mr. Taft until he n omulgates his entire Cabinet. But a i this case, as in other notices of a pointments, the facts are known a ) be correct. s The Cabinet, as completed, with a e selection of Mr. MacVeagh, is as s llows: g Secretary of State--Philander C. nox, of Pennsylvania. e Secretary of the Treasury-Frank- e n MacVeagh, of Illinois. n Secretary of War-George W. t: iickersham, of New York. Postmaster General-Frank H. 1I Eitchcock, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy--Geo. von v~ .Meyer', of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Interior-Richard o .Ballinger, of Washington. Secretary of Agriculture-James 1 ~ilson, of Iowa. Secretary of Commerce and Labor i -Charles Nagel, of Missouri. c With his Postmaster General, a 'rank H. Hitchcock, Mr. Taft took five-mile walk through Central lark in the biting wind today. He w a number of New York financiers urig the day, but said the calls rere those to express friendship and iad no other significence. There was a genuine reunion of the 'aft family tonight at the Henry W. at residence. A BLOW AT THE DOGS. )ning of Sheep-Kiming Canines to1 Be Prohibited. Columbia. Feb. 27.-The follow ng bill became a law by passing the louse last night: Section 1. That from and after :he 1st day of April, 1909, all per ons are hereby prohibited from buy ng. selling, receiving, giving away, r otherwise ,owning, controlling. avng or keeping in possession any fog or dogs commonly called "sheep killing." and known to be such. Section 2. That the violation knowingly, in any one or all re spects, of the foregoing prohibition, shall be a misdemeanor, punishable upon conviction by a fine of not ex eeding one hundred dollars, or im prisonment for not exceeding thirty days. WILSON WILL BE OUSTED. Florence Will Have a White Post master Says Ellerbe. Washington, Feb. 24.--Joshua Wilson's name will not be sent to the Senate again for confirmation as postmaster at Florence, and we ex pect confidently to secure there for postmaster a good man very soon." This was 'the statement made by Representative Ellerbe today, referr ing to the efforts that have been made to oust Wilson from the Flor ence office. Gets a Good Job. Washington, Feb. 24.-Bernard H. Rawl, of Lexington, S. C.. was today appointed chief of the dairy division of the Department of Argiculture at $2,500 per annum. He is a graduate NARROW ESCAPE Singular Accident in a Large Building At Concord. A MILL COLLAPSES Three Floors of the Splendidly Equipped Gibson Mills Give Way and Sink Six Feet-Crumbling of Pillows Affected the Foundation. No One Was Hurt. Concord, N. C., Feb. 24.-With a creak and a slow downward move ment, the three floors of the north and of the big Gibson Mills, located in the northwestern part of the ty , sank to a depth of probably ix feet Saturday afternoon at 1:30 'clock caused by the crumbling of i pillar which subsequently caused he giving away of the beams under teath the building, probably affect ng the foundation. There were 400 hands at work in he immense structure and when they ealized what was taking place a ild panic ensued, although not one ustained the slightest injury, though wo or three young women fainted. The mill is badly crippled, but to rhat extent cannot be ascertained. 'he structure is 700 feet long and .00 feet wide. The point where the ave-in occurred is where the south nd of what is kno.wn as the first 111 was joined by an addition of 00 feet. Where this connection 7as made is where. the greatest de ression exists, and on the ground .oor the machinery slopes gradually r twenty feet at .an angle of 30 egrees. The second floor is a little more recipitous and the depression runs atallel with the side walls, though t the center of the room, a distance f probably 100 feet. On the third .oor the depression is still more ronounced and the floor slopes still irther to the north 'end 'of the :ructure. While this condition ex ;ts paralled with the building the oor swags inward from the sides y about sixty feet, one column ot being injured in the least. The top floor contains eighty spin ing frames, and the second and first >oois are filed with carding and >inning machinery. None of this iachinery mentioned is Jocated in y part of the addition-to this mill, te floors of which are intact. The gradual fall of the heavy ma binery and flooring did not cause te breaking of the shafting, steam ipes or machinery, every piece re aining in its stationery position when put up, except for the natur I bending and twisting of the pipes id rods as would be natural in a ump. The west wall is cracked for | distance of fully 150 feet, and is .d to incline inward several de rees. The 'collapse will entail a consid-| rable loss, both in time and prop- l rty. All work connected with thet ill will stand for several days, and 1 at part of the mill that is injured ill necessitate a shut down of at ast thirty days. Hndreds of hands made somej ery miraculous escapes, and the ianner in which employees took care themselves in everything demon trates how well prepared factory ands are in perilous situations. 5 The Gibson Mill is rated as hay-| ag the finest equipment in the way improved machinery that is found1 nywhere in the South. RECORD CHANGES HANDS. r. James A. Hoyt Secures Columbia Afternoon Newspaper. Columbia, Feb. 24.-The Record his afternoon has this announce "Negotiation, which have been oing on for some time, looking to he purchase of the controlling in e'nest in the stock of the Record Pub islaing Company, which had been eld by Geo. R. -Koester, the founder )f the Daily Record, and associates, were completed today, and said con :rol will on the first of March pass nto the hands of Mr. James A.'Hoyt d associates. As to his plans, Mr. Ioyt will make his own announce ent. Mr. Koester's valedictory, so o speak, will appear in the Record f the 27th of this month, which will be the last issued under his manage ment. The transfer was an entire ly amicable arrangement, and the new management will start with the heartiest wishes of the present man agement of the Record. It will be recalled that Mr. Jas. A. Hoyt was the promoter of the company which was to publish the afternoon Sun in competition with the Record. The city of Columbia will be spared a war in the afternoon newspaper ACCIDENT AT HAMBURG In Which Some Are Killed and Oth ers Injured. Hamburg, Feb. 24.--Ten persons were killed and seventeen injured to night through the slipping of a gang way between the wharf and the steamer Auguste Victoria, which was being loaded preparatory to sailing for New York on Saturday next. Those who were on the gangway wher the accident occurred, include members of the crew, stevedores and stewardesses. They were dashed in t- the water, which was covered with thick drift ice. The majority of them sustained broken bones and sev eral were badly crushed. Only sev enten of them were rescued, and the ofiicials'estimate the dead, some of whoe bodies have not yet been re FLIM FLAM GAME WORKED BY A SLICK NEGRO ARTIST IN ANDERSON. Reaped a Rich Harvest by Claim ing to be the Forerunner of Booker Washington. Anderson, Feb. 24.-Special tele gram to the Greenville News tells of a fnim flam game worked on the col ored people of this county by a slick rascal of their own color. Claiming to be a forerunner of Booker T. Washington, a negro by the name of Will Johnson has reaped a harvest among the colored people of this county during, the past few days. His harvest-reaping was abruptly stopped when Sheriff King .and Po liceman Martin of the -local force nabbed him on a street of this city a couple of nights ago. It is said that Johnson has been operating in this section some time; that he has picked communities far from any cities. He claimed to be an insurance agent, and that the com pany he represented was organize'. and manned by Booker Washington. le talked the ignorant negroes in ;o paying him sums of money, claim ng that Booker Washington urged im to come here to cause them to take out good insurance at cheap ates. He collected considerable money, iving the victim in turn a slip of aper, which he said was Greek, and which could be translated only by ooker Washington, "who is soon o visit this section and who will leliver the insurance policies in per on." Evidently the negroes here bouts are anxious for a glimpse of Vashington, for no doubt the sug estion of his delivering the policies ad as much to do with causing them o "take out policies" as did the eed of insurance. Johnson was haled before Magis rate Muldrow this afternoon, and hen brought face to face with nine idictments he plead guilty to eight nd not guilty to the ninth. Mag strate Muldrow imposed the maxi num sentence in each indictment aking the sentence aggregate $800 r eight months. The prisoner will e given a trial on Monday next on he ninth indictment, and in the eantime between 40 and 50 other dictments will be secured from oth r victims. Johnson is a slick-looking negro, nd his scheme was well worked. Lt present he is resting in the coun yr jail, and will remain there until fter Monday, when he will likely ommence service of his long sen ence. INDIAN TURNS SCALPER. tuns Amuck in Station and Kills Two Persons. For the first time in many years e ' ear-splitting warwhoop of an dian was heard in Cincinnati, 0., is week, when an unknown Indian ~ecame crazy in the Union station ~nd fatally cut and stabbed Mrs. nna Devord, of Huntingdon, W. Va., nd Max Meyers, of Cincinnati, and riously wounded Joseph W. Gordon f Cambridge, Ill'., in an effort to cap -him. The Indian was a Wyoming Indian ~nd was on a return trip from Wash gton, with three Sioux chiefs, who ad paid a visit to the "Great Fath r." As the passengers alighted from he train at Cincinnati, the Indian ith a warning warwhoop, drew a ng dagger and started through the rowd, cutting and slashing right nd left. Station attaches rushed to he mad man, but not until he had one much michief. DESPERATE BATTLE. (fexican Mountaineers KPR Five Peo ple and Are !T Culiacan, Mexico, "ei 2 -Two omen and three r ., .killed ad another woman -.ided in a ight between mountaineers and a and of gypsies on the road to Maza ian. News of the fight has just eached here. The mountaineers de anded that the gypsy women attend dance and when they refused open d fire. Two of the women fell dead and another was badly wounded. The mountaineers fled, but were pur sued by the gypsy men, who succeed ed In killing three of them. TOO FEW WEST POINTERS. Capt. Hagood Would Increase Size of Cadet Corps. Washington, Feb. 24.-If a scheme that has been prepared by Capt. Johnson Hagood, of the army, and which has been proposed as an amendment to the military bill in the House is passed, South Carolina will hereafter have twelve men at West Point, insread of nine, as at present. Recent compilations show that a very small percentage of the regular army is made up of West Point men, and it is proposed to remedy this, if possible, by allowing each State more men. GIRL ASSAULTED BY NEGRO. . Fifteen Arrests by Pittsburg Police Grow Out of Affair. Pittsburg, Feb. 24.--Just when the authorities believed that the re cent trouble in this city between whites and blacks as a result of many assaults on white girls was at an end, another white girl was the vic* (tim of attempted assault late last night. Early today the police had arrested fifteen negroes in connect GIVES HIS ViEWS SENATOR TILLMAN EXPLAINS HIS VOTE ON THE Brownsville Resolution, Which Looks to the Reinstating Negroes in the Army. Washington, Feb. 27.-Rising in the Senate the other day to explain his vote on the Brownsville resolu tion, Senator Tillman said: - "When the Brownsville matter was first brought into the Senate I took the position, I believe alone among Democrats, that the President was not warranted in his action; that his dismissal of the troops under the conditions and circum stances was cruel and contrary to all ideas of justice which I had ever read about or thought about. The majority of the Senate then iook a contrary position and sustained him. The Senate today has reversed and stultified itself and emphatically condemned his .action by the step which it has just taken, which per ,nits all of these troops to be re enlisted under certain conditions guilty and innocent alike. "My position then was that the President ought not to have dismiss ed and punished innocent men be cause some men were guilty. We have today illustrated what used to be called on the Scotch border- 'Jed wood justice.' When the lords of the marches caught some man who might havebeen suspected of stealing cattle or committing some other of fence, they would hang him first and then try him afterwards. These ne groes have been 'hanged,' so far as the President could do it, and now the Senate proposes to give them a trial and a tardy justice to those who may be able to prove their in nocence, although I doubt if any :an prove it. But it is a cardinal egal principle that a man must be ionsidered innocent until he is prov nd guilty, and proving a negative is in impossibility. But my attitude is that somebody shot up Browns rille, and I believe some of the ne roes did it, but not more than 25 f them were ever charged with it-, hile 168 were discharged. Now, o turn the whole bunch back into he army, as they doubtless will be, xill be. to admit into the service of he United States; some men who tave corriitted murder, for there is io doubt in my mind that you will iever be able. to find out who com nitted this crime. Therefore, as did not want innocent men to be :icked out of the army, I do not ant any guilty men to get back in :o the army, and so I voted 'nay' n this proposition." * t NEGRO RAN AMUflCK.j n Illinois With Gun and Narrowly t Escaped Lynching.| Mount Vernon, Ill., Feb. 24.--1 ames Lewis, colored, shot four ne ~roes and Sheriff Irvin, when he went| o arrest him. Lewis surrendered ~nd was taken to .jail by a round ~but way to escape a mob follow ng. Lewis came, here Saturday night rom Memphis, Tenn., and went to he home of Walter Harris to board. -e gave five quarts of whiskey to ~arris to keep until he called for| t, and when he demanded for the iquor, Harris could not produce it. The angered Lewis then opened ire on Harris with a gun, shooting im through the arm. Then Harris' wife interfered and she - was shot trough the ha.nd. .Lewis then left the Harris home, shooting at everything he met. Archie Campbell was shot in the ig and may die. Annie McGuire was the next victim. She was shot in the limb. After shooting the four negroes, Lewis took refuge in a bar and shot Sheriff' Irvin in the neck, face and shoulders. The negro then ran to the residence of William Chafflin. Driving Mrs. Chafflin from the house, barricaded the doors. The crowd of a thousand persons opened fire on the house and more than one hun dred shots were fired at the negro. He surrendered and was taken to jail. It was only with great difficulty that the crowd was kept from mob bing the negro. The most incens ed people were the negroes and talk of lynching Lewis was heard. NEGROES AGAINST SALOON. Congress at Atlanta Puts Itself on * Record. Atlanta, Feb. 26.-The Southern Negro Anti-Saloon Congress in ses sion here has put itself on record as anxious to co-operate with any and all agencies engaged in fighting against the saloon. At today's session, a resolution was adopted embracing the follow ing: "Organizations shall be perfected throughout the South to make war on the saloon wherever it is in ex istance and to stand on guard against its reencroachment in States and communities from which it had already been driven; to crystalize sentiment among the negroes and to use it against the liquor busi :ess." * Mixed in Scandal. The Pittsburg graft cases are caus ing the entire State of Pennsylvania to stand aghast with horror. Ac cording Lo the story of Councilman John F. Klein, now on trial for ac cepting a bribe, there was a regular organization among the councilmen and he, as "The Angel of Charity," SAME OLD TALE Of Violations of the Prohibition Law by Merchants., A SMALL SENSATION Sprung by Solicitor Spears in the Darlington Court as to Rumors of Liquor Selling-Has Evidence of Reports of Violation of Law by Prominent Men. Darlington, Feb. ,24.-A sensation was sprung in court this morning when Solicitor Spears arose to make a statement to the grand jury that had just filed in the room to make some presentments. Mr. Spears call ed attention to some articles which had been published in his paper, the Darlington Press, in the months of October and November last, signed "Vox Populi." These articles said that there were being circulated In this coun ty rumors to the effect that in some towns of the county liquor was be ng dispensed by-some leading mer hants and business men. Mr. Spears went on to state that 2e did. not stand for the truth or alsehood of these rumors, but only ield that they should be brought to :he att ition of the grand jury, and f true, such investigations made as would be necessary to bring the guil :y parties to justice. Mr. Spears then stated that In very sense of the word he stood ersonally responsible for those ar icles and that he was not only pre ared to gives, the grand jury the ames of witnesses who had been irculating such reports, but that Le proposed to do so today. To the articles of "Vox Populi" he Messrs. Coker of Hartsville took xception and wrote asking the ed tor of the Darlington Press to state rhat towns were referred to and vhat merchants in those towns by 'Vox Populi." This the editor re used to do, and in an editorial made ublished, the author of "Vox Popu oker and gave- his reason for re using his request. Judge Gage charged the grand ju y that there were two issues. They rere not to consider the personal lement, that is any feeling - that aight exist between the author of Vox Populi" and the Messrs. Coker. f they found, however, that the re orts said to have been circulated id refer to Hartsville and to the lessrs. Coker/ and if there was any ruth in such rumors, then the fssrs. Coker were indicatable. If, owever, they found that the reports ad not been circulated and the ar ies by "Vox Populi" did refer pecifically to Hartsville and the *essrs. Coker and were maliciously lublished, the author of "Vov Popu i" was liable for libel. No small amount of interest cen ers around this a:air.-The -State. LUNATIC KILLS HISELF. nmate of the Insane Asylum Cuts His Throat. Columbia, Feb. 24.-Walter Say rance, of Darlington county, comn nitted suicide this morning at the state Hospital for the Insane. Mr. avarance was a young man about 0 years of age. He has made- sev ~ral attempts to kill himself, and strict surveillance has been kept; >ver him, but, as often happens in| uch cases, he managed to' snatch a -azor and cut his throat. It appears :hat there is a regulation that the nmates should be shaved about once L week at least, and the purpose is o keep the unfortunates in a neat mnd tidy condition. While the male attendant was attending to the shav ing young Saverance snatched up a razor and cut his throat. He died Listantly. Coroner Walker held the inquest, and the decision was that the young man had killed. himself while insane. The body was sent to the young man's home in Darlington county. HARD ON TEDDY. Tilman Wants Message Excluded From the Mails. Washington, Feb. 26.-Senator Tillman today astonished the Senate by the introduction of a resolution instructing the committee on post office and postroads to inquire wheth er messages and reports recently sent to Congress by the President should not be excluded from the mails as obscene literature, unfit for circulation. The resolution was on motion of Mr. Tillman, referred to the committee on postoffice and postroads, its reading in the Senate and reference causing no discussion. The resolution includes not only the President's message, but the re port of the commission, and the com mittee on postoffices is directed to consider whether the use of the mails should not be prohibited to the entire matter. The resolution refers to the Presi dent's homes commission, dealing with lbomes in Washington, to the message on the commission's report and to the report itself, which treats of conditions in the alley homes of the city in plain language. * Killed by Lightning. Donalds, Feb. 23.-Capers Robin son, a respected colored man of this community, was killed by lightnina Saturday afternoon. He was sitting with his family at the fireside it his home. The others were not hurt KEPT HER BUSY ATLANTA BOASTS OF A REMARK ABLE WOMAN. Though Only Thirty-Nine Years of Age She Has Reared Her Nine teen Children. Atlanta, Feb. 25.-The Journal says Mrs. Flora Brown, aged 39 years, who lives at 647 East Fair street, is the mother of 19 children, in which number there are four sets of twins. Mrs. Brown says that a home without children cannot have even a hint of real happiness, but that the greater the number of children the greater the amount of .happiness for the ills of the world. "They keep mothers at home for one thing," she says. "If there were more children there would be few er card clubs." Ten of Mrs. Brown's children are living-, and all of the four sets of twins are as hale and as hearty as you please. Mrs. Brown says that though her family. is like that of the old lady who lived in a shoe, she has never had an ache nor a pain in her life. "When you have children you are too busy to get sick," she says. Mrs: Brown has been married twice. Her Arst husband's death left her with 12 little children to sup port and no means' of -supporting them. She was then living on a farm in North Carolina. As soon as possible she left the farm and moved to Asheville, N. C. There she secured work in a factory for herself and those of her children were old enough to work, and they got along as she expresses it, "by nip and tuck." Later she started a boarding house, and then conditions became more prosperous. Always she had had the necessity in- mind of edu cating her children, and this she has done despite her hard struggle. Four boys, she has sent to the Winston-Salem academy, N. C., and two other of her children are at the academy now. Two more at home will go to the academy in the fu ture. Of the four boys who have graduated from the academy all liave excellent positions. "That's because I was strict with them," says Mrs. Brown. - "That's the reason all my children are good children. There two who are at home never go anywhere without asking me. I hive raised all my children that way. They never dis obey me, but are always considerate of my wishes. Every mothei should raise her children by this strict rule." Mrs. Brown moved to Atlanta about two weeks ago from, Asheville. Her first husband was named Vaughn and it was by him that all of her children with the exception of one, were born. She says that getting names for her children became a diffcult thing towards the last, and she finaally had to fall back on the family phy sician and -the Bible for help. SUPERVISED EVERYBODY. Rather Striking Order of Chief Jus tice Pope.. Newberry, Feb. 27.-The Herald and News says Chief Justice Pope on last Saturday admitted Richard Davenport to bail on his own recog riizance. It will be remembered that Davenport is the negro who cut up Magistrate Chappell and Constable Menderson who had arrested him, the cutting taking place in -Magis trate Chappell's office. The charge against Davenport ist a very serious one and judging from the way in which he used the knife he evidently intended to commit a homicide or two. The order of Judge Pope not only releases Davenport but restrains the magistrate from arresting hixr on any other charges. ' LAWYER GOES TO PRISON. Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Bribe a Witness. New York, Feb. 24.-The trial of Carl Fischer Hansen, the lawyer and society man under indictment charg ing him with bribery of a witness, was brought to a sudden close today by the entering of a plea of guilty by the defendant to an amended com plaint charging attempted bribery. A sentence of 12 months imprison ment in the penitentiary was im posed on Fischer Hansen by Justice Dowling. In pleading guilty, Fischer Hansen completely exonerated his law partner. Alexander Michaelson. who had been indicted jointly with him. GIVEN UP FOR LOST. Has Not Been Heard From in Nearly a Month. Mobile, Ala., Feb. 26.-All hope has been abandoned for the safety of the schooner Dependent, which left here February 7, for Port Inblis, Fla., with a cargo of coal. The ves sel was commanded by Captain Anderson Dengston and a crew of three. The vessel and crew hailed from Pensacola. Nothing has been heard from the vessel since she left here and it is feared she has been lost with all on board. The cargo was insured.. Killed Over Crap Game. Laurens, Feb. 23.-Will Goodman. the young Cross Mill man who -is charged with shooting and killing a negro by the name of Ben Partlow last Sunday afternoon in a dispute over a game of craps, was lodged in jai last night by offiers COOPER TRIAL Sharp Creates Havoc in Camp of the Defence. WAS THEIR WITNESS After Swearing That He Saw Entire Fight He Admitted That He Was 175 Feet Away on the Other Side of the Crest of a Hill-State Is Making a Good Fight. Nashville, Feb. 25.-The defense of the Coopers and Sharp in the Car mack murder case is finding the way a little bit rocky, and. the pitfalls dug by the State deep and well con cealed. Robin Cooper, whom the de fense declares fired the shot that kill ed ex-Senator Carmack, was the first witness called after the opening ad dress had been made to the 'jury. The young defendant was cool and careful -while on the stand,and he did not return an answer to a single question asked him until he had deliberated. upon it. The lawyers for the prosecution tried in vain to make him contradict himself. Then they tried to anger him, but with no better succes. When he finally left the stand'it was the unanimous opinion :ia the court room that he had greatly heIped the: defense of himself and his two fel low prisoners. John D. Sharp, another of the de fendants, following'young Cooper on the'stand and underthe skillaful ques tioning of Gen. Meeks, he told a story both plausable and helpful.. The case of the defense went along swim mingly until Sharp was turned over to the State for cross-examination. Then his, trouble began.- At the end of two hours he sat -on. the witness stand a crumpled -aid bewildered man. The State had-led and drive&-- - and cajoled him into-telling a tale of the killing so at variance- with the testimony he had given.on bigs direct examination.as to- amrzeevery. impartial listener and even cause the jurors to look at -him with pity. - Sharp, by his own admission. Put himself in such a position in the few moments in which thekilling of;Sen ator . Carmack. was accomplished, as to have made it physically impossible for him to have seen what he swore he saw. He claimed he was standing '' at least 175 feet from the'scene of the killing with a crest of a hill ris ing between him and the Coopers and Senator Carmack, aid yet he insisted that he saw every move made by the principals in the tragedy, even' to the blue-barreled pistol. : Again Sharp got: on dangerous ground by swearing that "Carmack fell after Robin Coop'er had fired three times." One of the bullet ounds, a necessarily fatal one perced the senator's neck within oe-sixteenth of an inch of the spinal ord~ and -'came out under the tongue. As Sharp swore that Carmack was facing young Cooper, aiming ar'e olver at him, this wound would' be impossible to reconcile withs the statement. Sharp was also pressed as to the identity of the revolver young Coop er had used. He said he never -saw it before. The.State's theory Is that. the automatic revolver is Shsrp's, and three times it. has- had the num ber of the gun entered in the record. KTTTEJ) NEAR ST. GEOBGE. Young Man Run Over and Crushed to Death. Mgr. Vandy Smith, a young' man acting as breakman on the Southern Railway, was instantly killed Monday night by a train two miles above St.. George. The way -in which the young man-met death is not definite-. ly known, but It is presumed that he attempld- to alight from 'the train while in motioni. His home Is but a few hundred yards from where he was killed, and it was probably his Intention to get off there. The body was terribly mangled and the identity of the dead man was revealed by a railroad pass, which he had on his person. Coroner Kizer held an inquest Tuesday morn ing, and the verdict of the jury was to the effect that death was caused by being run over by a train, al-. though no testimony was taken. Mr. Smith was about 25 years of age and unmarried. He leaves a large family connection in St. George, among whiom are two broth ers, who are employed on this' di vision of the Southern Railway.. The remains were interred in the local cemetery Tuesday afternoon. KNEE DEEP IN LIQUOB. Raiders Break Up Big Still In Green ville County. Walhalla, Feb. 27-The . Oconee News says probably the largest blockade still ever created in Green ville county was destroyed early last Monday morning in the Table Rock Cave, near Caesar's Head. The revenue officers journeyed Sunday night to the cove, and early Monday morning located the booze plant, which covered with all its ap purtances nearly a quarter of an acre. ' The raiders destroyed four thous and gallons of beer sand twenty-One fermenters and a forty-gallon wood doubler. It toolc the me'n an hour to destroy the layout, working like beavers all the time. When the beer was dumped one of the raiders said the whole party was knee deep in soft liquor for several minutes, and even young saplings were almost floating by the deluge. There was no clue discovered as to the owner shi of the plant.