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FOUND SHORTAGE Probers of Cofleton's Situation Makes Rep'rt. ARRAIGNS OFFICIALS Report of Exp-r"\ ho Made Stru of the Affairq ct Ste'-ral of iw"I ofces of Colleton County Fil-d With the Covernor-Accuntant Clalms ETrea.urer short $3.144 The Columbia Rec;ord of Monday a*ternoon says Mr. R. E. Hill. ap pointed by Governor Anse1. under a special act of the last legislature to investigate the affairs of Colleton county, today filed with the governor his report finding ex-County Treas urer D. L. smith short $Z-144.1S. nd severely criticising several former and present county otficers for loose ness in methods and direct violations of law. The report divides the Smith liabilities as follows: Borrowed money account $1.031.6:. bond ac oount $2.450. dispensary account $t.662.56. Following his services as county treasurer. Mr. Smith was a member of the legislature. and was accused by Representative J. Wright Nash of Spartanburg of appropria.ting his prohibition bill and running it in under the name of Smith as a ruse to defeat the local option bill. Mr. Nash made a dramatic speech to knife his own 'baby" under the Smith name. so as to save the day for local option and put the old State dispensary out of business. Mr. Smith was at one time spoken of as a candidate for governor. Accountant Wilson of the comp troller general's olfce, who has twice checked up Mr. Smith as treasurer the final checking being when Mr. Smith left office. was surprised by the report of today. Mr. Wilson off'rs to bet $100 each that each of the three items referred to by Mr. Hill are in. correct. Mr. Wilson does not believe Mr. Smith is short at all, that Mr Hill has made some error. Governor Ansel will not take an) action on a report for the present The act requires the report to be pub lished in one of the county papers and thls will be done. In the mean time the governor v ill reserve ac tion. The treasurer's office was held bj Mr. D. L. Smith's father. Mr. A,. R Smith. from 1S99 till the spring o: 1900. when he died and was succeed ed by D. L Smith. who was succeed ed early iu 1907 by the incumbent R. E. Jones. who the report finds conducting his oMce properly. excep that he has a habit of cashing claiims " which is liable sooner or later t -cause trouble if it has not airead: done so. to say nothing of the fac >that it is directly contrary to law. --Cocluding to begin work in th< -offce of county treasurer." says the report. ''we called upon the count: 4auditor (held by A. A. Pattersot Jr.) for abstracts of the duplicate and copies of the settlement sheet from 1899 up to the last settlemlent Swhich was for the fiscal yea- begin ng January 1. 1907. and endin June 30. 190$. "We were informed by that offce that he knew little or nothing abou such papers. as he had only recen*i gone into offce and had been kep busy ever since in taking tax return and in making up his duplicates pre paratory to the n.:t collection of taax es, and that therefore he had not has an opportunity or the time to ac quaint himself with the other affair .pertsanne to his offee. He did. however, point out to us a. indiscriminate mass of papers an *books piled on top of tables. in dr -goods boxes. etc.. in an utter stat of confusion, with no sort of diu tinction between the papers of on year and those of another, sayin at the -same time that they were i: just the condition ,in which the were turned over to him by his pre decessor. "After spending considerabse tim in a futile effort to obtain some re 'liable data that would be of servic to us. we applied to the comptrolle general for the settlement sheet fled In his offce for the period tv be covered by our investigation. bu as he seemed somewhat indisposed to allow these papers to go Out 0 his- offee. Mr. W. W. Bradley (thi expert accountant employed by Ms -Hill to assist In the investigation: went up to Columbia and made cop - es of them, save those for the yea: 1905. which be was Informed. 'coul< not be found in the offce.'' -Colleton havring sold the Greei Pond and Walterboro road, for whici the county was bonded to the exten ~of 360.000. td the Plant System fo: 35AS.000. is now entirely out of deb th about $1.0010 on hand to mee tuture claims. The report says: "The following is a summary o: the liabilIties of D. L. Smith. ex county treasurer, as found by us: Borrowed money accounts .$1.021.62: on bond account 52.450: on dispen sary account $1.662.56: total $3. 744.1." -The report says of the last item, a credit for $1.210.76. that it was given by Mr. Smith as paid the towns on dispensary account, whereas the towns had already gotten this muon "'The offce of county supervisor." sys the report. "being one ot the most important of our county offies. should be filed b~y a man of firmness. good judgmnen' and business talent. ut unfortunately. 'these qaul fica tions are not often taken into ac *count by the av'erage voter. We found th papers relating to one yrear's in very much the same cone!!!rMa as were those in the auditor's omee the papeds relating to ono yeer's transactions mingled and mixed up with those of an~other. in th mos indiscrimate manner conceivable." The occupants of this ome" have been J. 0. Jacques. whose term iast ed four years: he wa~s sutcor-ded hv 3'. . Moore. who was succ'edd last year by J. 0. Grfin. The report finds that the board of which Mr. Griffu is chairman had or dered dalms paid which were not propery sworn to as required '57 law DASHED TO DEATH [ARACHITE FAILED TO OPEN ?ROPE1tLY. Before a Htorrifed Crowd a Balloon i.-at Cu( I.ooe To - Soon and i. Kincd. .liStaking th-- promi-cous hirinK of r-volvors as a signal fur the cli max of his aerial act. James Corco ra-.. aronaut. S years old. o Low el!. Mass.. cut loose with his para cute wheu but a few hundred feet from the earth at Portland. Me.. Sunday. and was darhed to the ,round. meeting almost instant death at the feet of 5.000 horrified spec tators. Three parachutes were attached to th balloon for a triple jump. It was arranged that Corcoran shou'd drop with his parachutes when he heard a certain nunmber of revo:ve. -bots after the balloon bad reached a height of approximately 5.000 feet. Corcoran had barely left the ground before promiscuous firing I gan. but the man to give the signal I:t!ed out to bim to keep . on up Above a few hundred feet it is hard for an aeronaut to judge correctly his exact height. and so when Cor eoran heard a second fusillade it is believed he was certain the signal had come. He was seen to drop. al though he was barely 500 feet in the air. The, distance was too short for th.e parachute to open properly. and the man dropped like a plummet. strik ;ng the gro-:nd about 1.000 feet from where the ascension was made. He sustained a fracture of tht skull and other injuries and he soon died. PREACHER FATALLY SHOT. Minister Wounded Trying to Sepa r.te His Son and Another Boy. A dispatch from Grayson. Ga. says: Much excitement prevailed it that community over the fatal in jury of the Rev. E. L. Langley. wh was Monday shot while trying to sep arate his son. Bose Langley. and J E. Webb. who were engaged in ight. Webb and young Langley fought i desperate duel with pistols. Eac0 Ireceived two wounds of a serious na ture. The minister In attempting to ae as peacemaker. came within th range of the flying bullets and fel at liS son's feet mortally wounded MISSING BOY FOUND. Murder Mystery at Clinton P'rove to be a Cnard. The boy. Ben Deane. who was re ported missing from Clinton sine Saturday a week ago, has been foun< at Ware Shioals. This puts an end ts the sensational rumors which wer flying about of murder at the Lydi :4ill. The police found on close in -estigation that the repo-ts abon Joe Franks and his friends war r tased on facts, but they were greati exaggerated. and there Is no resso: rto make any arrests in connecio: with the matter. SEES HUSBAND CRU7SHED. I Groom Steps in Front of Exprese Wife Tries to Rescue Him. As a result of seeing her husban Scrushed to death under a railroa . train on Long Ildand. N. Y.. M e Halsey H. Thebaud. a young bridi -s prostr'ated at her home in Nei e York city and under the care of phy g sicians. 2 Mr. Thebaud. who had an exten y sire insurance brokerage business - and his wife had been members c a house party over t.he Fourth o: e Long Island. - They had been attracted s'ross tb ralway traeks by the burning of: r hldin~g and In returning Mr. The s bd. while only a few feet in a y vance of his wife, stepped in from eof an express train. Mrs. Theband reached for her hus band and might haye fallen unde the train also had not friends re strained her. had been twice paid. The cant: would have been short to this exten but for the investigaion Ex-SupervIsor Moore's account were correct, but Joe JacQues had lef a lot of jury certificates not con ceded. The present clerk of court Is con ducting his office properly, but ex. Clerk E. R. McTeer did not keep book for recording "flnes and for f eitures" as required by law. except or last three months of his term ermi. The superintend~ent of education. Dr. H. W. Black. is conducting his office all right. The manner in which the offices of master and judge of probate are run are highly com-nended. The magistrates are 3trongly con demned for not making regular re ports. The present sheriff is doing al: ight. but of ex-Sheriff L-. G. Owens. who held office about 12I years, the report says: hitaexuin books for several years back. n. found that in the case of qutte a number of taxpayers who~ had retu:T ed lands. runnIng from an acre u,' ito 196 acres, -aggregating over a"n ares in 1905, who failed to pay th taxes thereon, that executions were issued against them and put into the hands of the sheriff for co!!eet~otn. "In his return, :made to the treast rer. is this report. T~an't flnd.' when in 1t thiese same parties paid th-' axes on the'se ident~cal lands. show in that with proper '-ifor: the.' :ands could have been found. Th" same or worse is true as to e::eetiO::t for 1906 and 1907. "It occurs to us that there ::ght. be some profitable gleanings had by the sinking fund commnission in this e1. were they to look into the :nat ter." SAYS HE DID IT Unexpected Confession Made in Murder Trial. HORRIBLE DETAILS Bob itelcher. One of the Men Charged With Slaying Oficer in Oconee on the Night of Marca N. Claims He Fired the Shots That Proved FataL --yes. I k!led the Corbins." With thes' slartling words did Bob Belch er clear up Tueeday the mystery as :o who fired the fateful shots that removed forever Deputy Enited Statesi Marshc W. B. F. Corbin and and hIs deputy, "Chris" Corbin. Po.:r persons. J. B. Palme,. Charley Pa:mer. father and son. and Lou Belcher and Bob Belcher. mother and son, stand charged with murder ing the two offcers near Walhalla on the night of March 8. 1909. Their case was begun in the Sessions Court. Although nearly a score of witness , es had b'een examined. not before Bob was placed on the stand had the au thor of the shot been revealed. Belcher. nervous and perspiring. told the following story of the event of that night: -"About 2 o'clock that niht :ome one knocked on the door. I start ied to open It. but my grandfather said: 'Let me open It.' He asked who was there. The reply was Cor bin.' Open the door or I will buv 'i dowu.' Pup. J. B. Palmer. un buttoned the door aud the Corbin's I the old one tW. B. F.). came intu the room where we were sittilng about the fire with a cocked pistol in his right hand. I did not run and hide. 11 did not know who they were. nor what they wanted. 1 baLed Into a I room to the left. and W. B. F. Cor . hin glanced at me. but said notu I Ing. Pap asked him his businie.ss. - and he made no answer. He went > into the cook room, took up a lamp - there, and climbed up on the stove. - Lou told him .to get down. as we khad stolen nothing. He said: 'That's all right.' Lou said be could not I walk around the house with cocked pistol. Again he replied: 'That's - all right.' Lou and Charley Palmer. my uncle, followed him. He search t ed around in th-re about fve min e uteo. I stayed in the front of the I house watching Chris Corbin. who - was standing with a pistol drawn in the front door. Bill Corbin came back Into the big room. and with out a word walked up to me and j put his bIg pIstol barre! right over my heart. Charley knocked the pis tol to one side just as it was fired He wanted to kill me. but did not have time to ire. I dodged. Chris e then ran in and grabbed my hand. i and in jerking loose from him my elbow knocked a board from the side of the house. ChrIs grabbed e me by the coat, and pulled me to. award the front door, firing again. -Ju%t then Lou said: '-Oh. you shot t me.' and I grabbed the pistol to pro tect my mother. Hie dragged me out of the door and fired twice at my head, but I turned the pistol. lie dragged me out doors toward an apple tree. About that time, when Charley and Lou were begging them not to kill me. I heard Charley say: 'Oh. Lord, you have killed me.' and .f-Il. I jerked loose from Chris to run to Charley. when I saw Bill Corbin trying to chop my mothe: d with an axet. I ran in the house and got my shotgu4. P'll kept com ing with hIs axe as !t he meant to - kill either me or Lou. so when he .was three feet off. I shot a:. he tell. Chris Corbin then fired again -at me. and I returned the fire and he fell. I thought Charley was dead -on the ground. I shot because I saw ;. th.-y were trying to kill me. I never f did know what they were trying to a ill me for. I saw no papers. I could hav'e escaped thr1,ugh the win e dow when they came." 1!I there was ever any doubt as - to the phaa of the defendants it is - now removed. Illegal Invasion of a tman's house and firing to kill all the defendants will be charged - jaginst the two dead men. On cross r Jexamination by Solicitor Bonham, the - wtness was considerably confused. It was truly a gruelling examinatIon. - Court adjourned for the day with the r witness still on the sand. The State Srested its case before the dInner hour. sIt was evident thaat they will try tto prove a conspiracy to prevent the arrest of Bob. Judge Dantzler ad mitted testimony going to show that he de-fenadants knew that a warrant for Bloh's arrest for shooting into a mail 1:ox would be issujed. Wit ness.-s were introduced to prove and disprove that some one had been in the loft. where, the State contends. 'Bb was told by the others to hide. Many gruosome objects were of fred in '-vidence. Including bloody un wads and~ shots, taken from the lungs of the dead man: bloody skirts. trousers and waists wor~n by the de 'fenlants. The crowd overflowed *f1om' the court room into the square and streets nearby. Many women wr- prese-nt. G.s F.NPLOSION KILLS NINE. \ iner'. Suffocate in Pit at Tollerille. Near Trinidad. Coio. Ninp men were killed Tuesday by an *-p:r'sion of gas in the Cedar i: Coal & Coke Company mine at TI. rville. near Trinidad. Colo. All out on~ we're foreigners. The men were descending in the cage. The explosion partly wrecked the shaft and those who we.re not In stn!y killed were su:ffocated by gas. .!! of the bodle' have been recov'eredI. F'a'ted Forty-nine Iay'. Mr. L!:lfan 0. Hoag. of Los .n;-.'. Cal.. has broken a2l records o tt r'ig. a'>stain ing from food 49 days. The highest record previously was thiat of PriscIlla Gro'.". a Chica g .'hool teachebr. who 'hunned food SIX CREMATED IrREN THEIR 1OME IS DESTROY ED BY FIRE. kn Old Confederate Veteran and Five Cbildden Meet Horrible Death at Danville. A dispatch frvm lanuville. Va.. ;ays ats the re:,uit of A mysterious ire. which totally destroyed the home >f S. E. Hamlett at South Boston :urly Moudiay moruing. five of their rhildren and H. A. Strange, aged 74. were burned to death. and anoth er child, aged four years. seriously injured. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlett es caped without injury. The victims of the frightful affair are: M. A. Strange. "ernie Hamlett. aged 14 years; Beatrice Ha3mlett, ag seven years; Violet Hamlett. age six years: Cecil Hamlett. three years; Henry Hamlett. age !S months. Mr. Ham'ett. who is employed with a planing mli at South Boston, re sided in a two-story frame building on the west side of the city, near the Norfolk and Western Railway. The fire was discovered at about 3 o'clock Monday morning by neigh bors. At this hour the occupants of the house had not been aroused. and the building was almost com Dletely enveloped in flames. the fire ranging the worst on the south side of the structure. The residence was tbreatening to fall ia at almost any minute. when Mr. Hamlett and his wife were aroused. They were on the north side of the house. and their four-year-old child was in the same room. They crawled out of the window on the front porch and drop ped the child to the ground. Both of the child's arms were broken by the fall. The baby was also slightly burned and its face lacerated. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlett reached the ground in safety. All of the occupants of the build ing were sleeping on the second story. and those who met death were on the south side of the house. When the fire was discovered it was im possible to save any of the children or Mr. Strange. all of whom it Is thought had been -burned to death by this time. Mr. Strange was a Confederate Veteran of halifax coun ty, and was in South Boston to at tend the Fourth of July celebra. tlon. The building collapsed and fell a few minutes after Mr. Hamlett and his wif6- escaped. The six bodies of the victims of the fire were burn. ed to a crisp. the remains an un recognizable mass of bones being taken from the debris. CRUSHED UNDER ENGINE. Engineer Meet& Horrible Death Neat Anderson. Mr. Stoney Bouchillon. of Bor deaux. engineer of a hoisting engin. on the A. C. and W. C. wreck train, operating near Barne's station, was probably fatally injured when the engine overturned Monday morning. The engine and one of the work care turned over, and Mr. Bouchillop was eaught underneath the engine. II! 'fellow workers- jumped to safe*.y Mr. Bouchillon was quickly place' on a special train and was carried t, the hospital at Anderson. His condition is precarIous, and his death is expected almost at an' moment. His right leg was almost crushed to a pulp, his hips were also crushec and other interna! injuries are fear ed. Hle is severely shtked, and ! getting worse. His condition ha prevented any close examination and. of course, no amputations havi been made-. It Is doubtful whethel be will suffciently recover from thi shock to even permit an examInation. The cause of the wreck is a mys te'ry. It. blocked the track for some time and several trains had to tranrs fer. Several persons employed ot the work train were more or lesa injured by jumping, but no othe: than Mr. Bouchillon was seriousll injured. FATAL DURL IN YIRGINIA. Farmer Kills Mercvhanat and is Die charged as Guiltless of Crime. A dispatch from Lynchburg. Va., says reports from a country road side duel Sunday afternoon, in Nel son county, thirty miles from Lynch burg. In which John McCallum shot and instantly killed L. A. Astrop, a merchant of that county, reached Lynchburg Tuesday afternoon. Mc. Callum Is a farmer. The men quar. reled two weeks ago and Sunday, when Astrop saw McCallum in the road. he opened fire on him. Mc Callum responded and killed As trop. A preliminary trial resulted in McCallum's discharge upon the ground of self-<defence. The dead man is survived by a wife and eight children. Both men seem to have be.'n armed for each other. ARE FOUND GUILTY. Two Camden Men Sentenced to Ser'. Thirty Days or Pay $100. A. L. and C. P. Lindsay Wednesday were found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nat ture at Camden. The sentence was $100 or 30 days. This case. which has created a great deal of talk, grew out of an attack on R. L. Lane, s traveling man, at the Hotel Camden. the house Kept by the Llndsays. Signers Meet rn the room '1a--a" C lso-t:ra in of Independence was signed in independenre hall in Pbiladelphia several scoares of descendants of the signers gathered Monday. Resolu tions were adopted provilding for a general mteeting of the society of 'he descendants on October 19 next! at orktown. Va. to take part in the 3th a-.nivesary of the sur riene of Cornwalis. Committed Suicide. .\ diipatch from Aiken says Jo cph Crews, the negro who killed! its wite a: Warrenton Thursday. -ommtted suicide Saturday by plac ng himself in front of a train and ing r'; o'ver. The body has been DUAL TRAGEDY rakes Place in Edgefield County Monday. KILLS WIFE AND SELF, G.eorge Bush Shoots His Wife Six Times, Mortally Wounding Her and Then Takes Refuge in a Swamp, Wbere He Puts a Bullet', Through His Own Brain. Several parties from the neigh borhood where the awful tragedy occurred. brought the news to Edge field Monday that Mr. George Bush had soht and instantly killed his wife. Alice. the -veapon used being a pistol. The homicide occurre. at the home of Mr. P. P. Doolittle. an uncle of Mrs. Bush's. near Renoboth .: Ist church. Mr. and Mrs. Dush have been sep arated several years. their trouble being due to the former's alleged very d!ssipated hablis. lie has lived in Augusta for some time, but re cently returned to this county, of which he is a native. and in the neighborhood where his wife resided, and has been using efforts to get her to return to him. This she refused to do. On Saturday last he avowed his intention to take his wife's life and then his own. and while little credence was given to what he said, as a precaution. Mrs. Bush was mov ed from the place where -he was staying when the threat was made. to her uncle's home. and it was there that Mr. Bush appeared at 11 o'clock Monday morning. and It seems. with out warning or excuse shot her to death. The circumstances of the homicide are not known. Bush, It is said, fled as soon as he got in his bloody work. At 12 o'clock Monday Sheriff Ouzts received a telegram from Modoc ot the Charleston and Western Caroli na railway to come there at once, that Bush had killed his wife. and the presumption at Edgefleld was that he had been captured at that place about three miles from where the killing occurred. Bush is well known. having car ried the mail from Edgefleld t< Parksville for several years. He wa! a bard drinker. It was alleged. bul was thought to be harmless. Mrs Bush before marry!ng was a Mis Doolittle. and a most estimable wo man, her family being prominent ir the county. Mrs. Bush Still Alive. Later information brought by party direct from the -cene of tho tragedy is that, although Mrs. Bus is shot six times, she Is alive witi no hopes of recovery. Her statement is that her husban< met her coming from the sprini and demanded that she come bac) to him. She refused. He then said "Well, you are a dead woman," an< commenced firing, shooting her twic' after she was on tha ground. Thb news spread like wildfire, and sooi hundreds of citizens gathered and are. hunting Bush. As yet he ha no encaptured. but likelP Iwil be. and the apprehension is that h will be lynched. "uicide." Coroner's Jury Verdict. ciThe posse that surrounded Georw Wj 1. Bush In the woods. findIng tha they could not secure dogs, went n zfted Bush. Thcy found him lyinj on the ground dead. with a bc'ie hole through his brain and a 3? Icalibre S. ad W. pistol in his riga hand. The coroner's jury, summo-: ed by Magistrate J. Rt. Bllackw4' found thait Bush "came to hIs dena! ecrm a gunshot #ound inflicted by hi own hand." NEGREQS STABS POLICEMAN. Hatpin Causesa Wound of Seriou Nature-Occurs on Car. A policeman, Harry Bands, o Duquesne, Pa., is in a serious con dition at his home, as a result o being stabbed with a hat pIn whil taking a negress to the workhouse The stabbing occurred on a stree car late Monday night. The car was crowded, and whe, the officer told his prisoner the: would transfer, she declined to leave It is alleged that she jerked a pia from her hat and stabed the police man in the stomach. Bands compelled the woman te board another car on which the jour icy to the workhouse was continued. Returning home later he became ill. Tuesday night the attending physic ian said that the man was in a criti cal condition. GIVES BLOOD TO DAit'GHTER. Real Estate -Broker's Sacrifice Doeq Not Save His Little Mary. IThe heroic sacrinice by G~ovanni Ellero, a real esate broker of New Rochelle. N. Y.. of twenty-two ounces of his blood dId not save the life of his daughter. Mary, The doctors at St. Luke's hospital informed the father a few days ago that only the infusion of a <;uautIty of new blood would save his daugh ter. Incisions were mad" and :3 otne es of blood were transferred from E-1ero into hIs daughter's v'eins. The younn woman rallied for a time. but 'her illness had progressed too far and even the new' blood did not save her life. Bucket Shop Keepers Indicted. Charging vIolation of the Virginia anti-ucket-shop laws the grand ju ry at Norfolk, Va.. returned six indictments against Price & Co.. a Baltimore corporation, H. E. Boy kn, of Norfolk: Julian Price, of Greensboro, N. C.. and B. B. Daugh tery. of Portsmouth, trading as HI. E. Boykin & Co.. of Norfolk. The specific charges are that the defend ats made marginal sales on cotton. n !t'-ba:e tots. Boykin & Co.. aro ,'ca! 'nents In Norfok of Price & SHOT THROUGH HEART' [TAL.AN CI;At *LNt*FACTRER' V S.AIN IN FO'L 3IANNER. Wife lkoc', Not Hear report But Di- s cover% Fatal Wound When Hu. band's (loth Are Removed. A d -pat:ch from New York says I what was at first thought to have been a Fourth of July casualty. the police now believe was a successful plot to naurder. Joseph Pagano. a cigar manufacturer. was shot through the htart by a rifle ball as he was about to climb into his bed in a rear room on the third Coor of his home at 2:12S Chrystie street. Hi! wife did not tear the report of a shot anA it was not until his cloth ing was removed that the bullet wound was discovered. The Arst po lice on the scene attributed the death to a bullet fired by persons cele brating the holiday. as there was much shooting immediately after midnight. Later. however. Mrs. Pagano de clared that the life of her husband had boen threatened because of troubles among certain Italian secret societies. Then the police investigat ed further and found that Pagano had been shot by a rile and not by a pistol. A number of detectives were plac ed on the case, and before daylight four men were found on the roof of a building acrose the sereet. They were hiding behind a !ight shaft, and were arrested. In a rent occupied by two of the men ->n the fourth floor of the building wais found a ri fle which had been discharged re cently. The location of the wound on Pagano's body and the cotrse of the bullet indicated that the shot had been bred from this building across the areaway. At the police station the four prisoners refused to make a state ment. Accepting the theory that Pagano was murdered. the police be lieve that his assassins planned to kill him on the Fourth of July so that their shot would have been drowned in the noise of the general celebration. DRIED EGGS IN NAVY. Uncle Sam Experimencing With Ren Fruit. I Dried eggs! Now. what do you I think of that? Not fried eggs. but dried eggs. That's the proposItion that the Unit ed States navy has recently been wrestling with. It's a big question when It comes to furnishing a fleet with eggs, ee. pacially fresh eggs. So Uncle Sam has been experimenting in order to solve the egg proposition in some satisfactory way. So much space do the ordinary Seggs take up in the limited apart ments set aside for provisions on a man-of-war, that it was found neces sary to nit upon some plan to econ 4 om:ize space. Hence, the rise of the s dried egg, which has recently been 1l tested in the Atlantic Reet with very satisfactory results. Just think of having an egg done up in a neat paper in powder for:,'. in such way that you might store fie or six specimens of hen fruit in the same space that one of the ordinary kind would require. Take Out your little paper, and water and "Presto"-there's your egg: Isn't. Sthat easy, though? All the s-pace that would have be.-n taken up with the bulky eggs is filled with more perishable pro ducts in the way of prcaisions. One can easily imagine how much this means as regards the toothsomeness of the man-'o-war's fare. That the :iried egg has its use has already been proved by the commisslary de partment of the navy. The main objection to the dried egg is the heavy cost of the prepara tion. To successfully reduce the iluid egg to a powdered form re quires nmuch skill and elaborate pro cesses. making the preparation of the fpowdered eggs an expensive under taking. Even when it has been re duced to powdered form, the egg re tains one of Its egg-like ways, which is its tendency to spoil. This makes necessary fresh supplies and adds to the expense of preparation. But Uncle Sam has accomplished something in the way of handling this all important article of food by his :'ecent experiments, and It seems l!kely that further experimentation will give better results. LEG SHOT OFF. Aged Stepmother Placed in Prison tAwait Trial on teCharges. Mrs. Mary de Marco, eighty years old, is in the Jersey CIty jail. charg ed with shooting the left Jeg of her stepdaughter. Mrs. Marpt-ret Carlo. loff. with a shotgun.; The two women had quarreled about t'e division of certain proper ty. and Mrs. Carlo. who is twenty four y.-ars old. declared that her age'd sttpmoth.-r had awaited behind' th.- door unlti .he passed and then had Dre an old-fashioned, single barreled sh~otgun at her, carrying her: l off at th- knee. Mrs. de Marco. wh declared it was an accidenat. had been arres.ted before on onn occasion for biting:. a policeman's hand. Whon the po ien arrived at Mrs. Carlo's horne: 'lhov tound har dismembered l7g st ingi the rlaster of the wall, 'vhere :t had been lodged by the '* of the explosinn. Liquor in Dry Sections. AXt a me':ng of the Texas Brew-r p.- Associat:on Tueosday at Gaiveston a fund oaf SinlO.AA( was set aside to v i..e gven to a public charity if they. could rV provec that more :iquor is u consum.-d in the prohihitlno. or dry. -p States andi sortions of the l'itd n Sites than in *he free o: wet sec tons. Th h.ead baker would pr&'ab'y' AN OLD CONFED I .Y OUT IN OKLAIOMMA SFND>S Yi (I:1:TIN(;S TO HIS I urviviu Comrade% of the Confed- I: rrate .Army Wherever They Alay ik- Found. eadquartern Joe Shelby Camp. No. 97:. r. C. V.. G.eo. C. Buchanan. Conmmander. Ift Chickasha. Okla.. June 2(1. 1909 resting to my old comrades. where teer they miay b-: The fast-tloeing days of the year 51 t.9 sti!! retain you as the happy re i;.ient of this earthly habitation. ou ha' e been kept in sweet ;emem ranc.- of an allwi'e Creator, and to- a ay this e-.autifu! S~ahbath morning n ias found you in the loving em- b >rae.- of all that is pure and good. 1: he ope:n hand of luxury is pointing t he finger of consolation. The oil >f joy is still pouring out to the oiling millions of your land and :ountry. The swe-t fragrance of 3od's loving kindness has broughtj elody to a!! nations and prefixed its reatness in earth's remotest bounds. t rhe guidance of heaven's own sweet enchantments has been your guiding ;tar through all the years gpne by. Your sorrows have been turned to joy. The great touch of sympathy bas been as bread cast upon the wa ters. The mighty hand of kindness has been extended to you until to day this -. of greeting has come with the i,.shing tide of the fondest hopes of an everlasting future--all hiended with the profoundest grat itude to God and charms of peace and good will to all men. We should teach a lesson to all the world in every fabric of our na ture. where the deeds of charity shall be the watchword that shall light our pathway on to that final destiny from whence no traveler ever returns. Yes, my dear comrades, the -out stretched hand of a kind and loving Providence has staid your sorrows and turned them into joy and glad ness. The fragrance of time's pur est flowers will embalm the whole world with the sweeest notes of frui tion. Today. with the passing years and events of sorrows entermingled with gladness. you are the men of a nation's born fighters. The bond of brotherhood which unites all trite Southerners into and through the ties of blood, a sacred sentiment and hallowed memories, is in a great measure the stronghold of a nation's life. And to you, my comrades. is the onward march toward your setting sun-the fifth decade whose close will mark a half century since were hushed the roar and din of battle in which you were engaged in behalf of a cause most sacred. It is impos sible to efface from your youthful minds the recollections of those days of carnage and the supremacy of a nation's pride. Today we rejoice to know that the civilized world recog nizes the old Confederate soldier the greatest of all human effort and one who represents everything to fur ther the interest and achievement of a great people. At no period of the world's history have the tradition of men been more cherished and reverenced than are those of the mnen who gore the gray. Fortitude. ftdelity. forbearance, brav ery and lon g-suffering was the very keynote of the whole make-up of the brave boys who marched to the sweet notes of *'Dixixe." And. my dear comrades, while so many have obeyed the fnaal command and are known to us no mote, they have only gone ahead, following their standard bearers. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread; Angels guard the sentry round The hivouac of the dead. The grotwling guns of war are still. Th" fo.-s have gone afar. The ting that floated proudly on the hill Has called you back to a single star. By old Potomac's rushing tide Their bay onets gleam no more. Far oe'r the bounding waters wile God is calling to the other shore. They hear from out that sunlit la-nd Seyo'nd these clouds that gathe~r The happy sound from God's o'.n hand Calling brother to brother. In all that3. heroiC th-ong. Shall wear a semblance grander; Bedecked with frest..r wreathes of Than any earthly commander. They sleep the sleep of the brave. While we drop a tear not forgot. With flowers we bedeck their gravesi: Let them rest and disturb them not. Garlands with fragrance yet untold. Birds of every wing and hue ayy amid the riowers sweetly sing To the boys that were brave and true. \oic, one song for the stranger liv-I One voice from God's own hand. 1 To the homne of that far away To the boys in that distant land. There no tyrants hand to bind. No fettered powers shail be; But a home of lend endearment far:a awayt For the hors that followed Jacksonj and Lee. t'rom every hil!!top of this fair land. Fro-vail--:.. j:ountrain and glade, *l rrom east to west Gcd is calling To comec to that reirttshing shade.C Yes. my dear cozmrades. we wcl- a ome tihe name of th' 'Tonfederaze :, old ier. We i.ow to the honored : ennants of the grea'os army that h he world has eve- known. We -uld marvel that suen~ men could t 'or have b.'.n vanquished if w.e d d d ot know that theyv w'r.' finaly over- S f ntmt~rs and r.'sou;rces. I1 mus Sadmit'ed' thtat ti.i' Soust made .1 We doff outr hat in' tho ful:iest ith that post.rity. w:I hnor.ad et )UAL SUICIDE FAILS DWNG WOMAN REFU'SES TO DIE WITH BROOK LYN MAN. arequitted Inver Goes to Jail and Girl to the Ho.spit4-Boarders Save Them Both. James Morey is in a Brooklyn, N. .. police station. charged with haT Lg tried to force a young woman > dIe with him. Miss Catharine IcCauley is in the Long Island Col 4ge hospital recovering from her tartling experience with Morey. The man had become greatly at tched to Miss McCule.;. but her areats objected to his attentions nd she informed him that he must ot call on her again. A letter from im induced her to call at his board ng house and there. she says, he ied to kill both himself and her. "At first he wanted me to sign L written statement that we had 4lanned to die together and had urned the gas on.' she said. "but refused to do this and tried to .et out of the room. Ho locked he door. closed the windows tight y and then turned on the gas jets rithout tightening them. I tried , o',en the dcor and he attacked me, !boking me with his hands and browing me to the floor. where he held me until I became unconsci )Us." Oother boarders smelled the gas and ifter the door was broken in Morey and the young girl were found un eonsclons from inhaling gas. A MAGIC WORKING PLANT. The Cowpea. Which Enriches Impoy ershed Lands. The cowpes is a child of the South. a lover of the sun, shrinking away at the first breath of winter or the slightest touch of frost, but grow ing green and fresh and vigorous, lifting new leaves toward the sky. sending out new tendrils in all di rections through all the heat of the long fervid summer days, says the Progressive Farmer. And when the soil has become warm and the breez es stir lazily with th'eir load of sun sbine. how rapidly it grows and how quickly it changes the bare stretches of up-turned earth into swards of tangled verdure, dense, deep-glowing, fruitful, full of promise. Ah, wonderfully full of promise; For the slopes over which the cow pea has grown are not only rich with the food of herds - and flocks, with potential fat porkers and ripening steers, liberal-uddered cows and frol icsome col.a and calves and lambs and pigs growing through all their :ays of rich-fed contentment into early and vigorous maturity. They yield also a stranger and more sig nificant fruitage. Wherever the cow pea grows there follows-as if in somne tale of magic from past cred ulous years-a soil richer and more productive for all that has 'een talk en from it. Those fields where the cowpea grew and spread and fruited and fed the hungry stock arc, by reason of that very fact, ready to grow corn taller and greener and more heavily laden with drooping ears: harvests of ripening grain, deeper andi of rich er h':e: cotton more beautiful cov ered with the snowy lock~s whose tthiteness commerce changes into gold. It is one of Nature's every day miracles of goodness that this plant should reach into the air and gather from it the ethereal food that is to feed future harvests, and through these haves-ts the beasts of the field, and man himself. Truly, we of the South have do spised the precious gift bestowed us -the magic-working plant which, like the fabled fountain of youth, re stores and refreshs and re-fertilizes our soils, bringing to even the aged and long-barren fields a more than virgin capacity for fruitfulness-the opulent friend that with inexhausti ble liberality offers to the farmer on one hand the riehness of its own pro ductivity and on the other the more abiding wealth of an increased fer tility of the soil from which its sus tenance was drawn-Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. CATCHES HOREi BY HOOF. Driver Adopt. Novel Method ef Checking Ranaway Animal. W. B. Peden, of Peden Farothers, of Spencer. Ind.. land owners, took 32 unusual and dangerous plan for checking a runaway horse. The horse had kicked off the dash board of tne buggy. M~ was reaching for the driver when Peden, watching his opportunity, caught the animal by the hoof, and, sinking down In the bed of the buggy, hugged the animal's leg to his breast azsd held on until it had run for three 'lock on three legs and stopped. Mr. Pe den was completely exhausted and rell out of the buggy. Pr'f. Ordway Dead. Prof. John Morse Ordway. up to bhree years ego professor of metal urgy at Tulane university. New Or cans, died at his home in Saugus, bis. Monday, aged 85 years. tre beating weaker and our steps ire slower and feebler, yet every hrob is a conscious memory of a ust and righteous cause. My comrades, how we should rev rence the ram of our heroes-God iess avr-ry one of them. When they ave all gone :o their last camping round there will never be another onfederate soldier. God may never es~ and replenidt the earth with nother such class of men. They rere first in war, first in peace, first ' burid up a fallen cotantry. They ave made as true citizens as they rade soldiers. When~ the c'.-tain of me shal! fall and the rol! of sol iets be called the name. Confederate oldier wil! stanC oLt boIdly in raised t.ers of gold. Gi1-. G. PIstCHANAN. P. 5.-I cheri:J: :he name of the war old Sat.' of South Carolina. ough T bave b'..n :away 31out 38 a--. =-ith on!v n. s.hor? Tis'r aht'~