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GAME OF BLUFF President Taft and the Republ can Leaders FOOUNG THE PEOPLE Meanwhie the Pubie Protests, and the President to Appease It Tries to Check the Clamor for a Time, But the Cost of Living Will Go rp When the Tariff Bi Passes. Zack McGhee. in his Washington letter to The State about sizes up the game of bluff now being played by President Taft and the Republican leaders In their attempt to fool the people. Zack says Washington seems all expectant and excited about Mr. Taft's Ajaxing. and from mouth to mouth, and from Washington pa per to Washington paper. it is com municated that the tariff Is to be re vised downward in spite of appear ances, and that the people are te come into their own. Ajax cuts an impressive figure thii morning and again this afternoon ir the afternoon papers. And 'zr. Ald rich Is just going to be compelled U come under, they say. The press as sociations have been given to under stand that Mr. Taft will just not pu up with any foolishness about thi thing, that he is committed to a re vision downwood and a revisior downward there must be. But Sen ator ( .4 remarked the other da3 that the way for you to tell whethei the promise has been kept is whet you go to a store and find out If th( price of your sugar, your cottor cloths, your gloves, your stockings and the various other articles yo% buy are any cheaper than they wern last year. Last year. and ever since the Din gley tariff law been been in force th< articles you have been buying wa: exceedingly high. The people pro tested against the high prices caube< bw the Dingley tariff for many years t. at last the Republicans coul< withstand no longer the clamor an promes to revise the tariff and re duce the exhorbitant rates of bount the people have been paying to th extortionate protacted Interests. I they had kept their promise. or I yet they keep it, if Mr. Taft com pels them by this Ajaxing of his t keep this promise made to the peo pie in the last campaign, why thei the prices will be cheaper than the were last year. Members of congress are gettin by every mail prepared statement from merchants and merchants' as soclatlons showing how rates har been raised, and how, if the rates a fixed in both the house and the sea ate bills, which bills are now bein harmonized in "conference,"~ are ex acted into law the people will hay to pay higher prices for their arti eles of clothing, especially cotton ani wenfen exoths. Mr. Tart hmselr ha been circularized and in various way has been made to feel the weight c this showing up. Every dry goods merchant in thi country almost is already an actiw agent for the Democratic party. Tb Importers in New York and elsewher alon th shre avebeen circularis in lg retailers all over the country. tb merchants' associations and the var ions representatives of those concern which have all to lose and nothing t gain by the raising of duties hay been sending out letters and clrcn Jars to the men and concerns whici they deal with In the small town and the mer'chants of the whole coun try are studying the tariff as the; have not studied it before. I was in a little town In the Souti the otber-day and to my great sur prise I found a small dry goods mer chant who had never before beel known to take any interest in na tional politics talkng tariff. He tool -me behind his counter and showe< me gloves that he sold for$2.25, bu which, If the proposed Payne ratei on gloves go Into effect, he woul< be compelled to sell for $3. He -shewed me ladies' hose, which he was now selling for 25 cents a pair the kind the greater number of wo men buy, and he had figured out thal -S f the proposed Payvne dutIes or stocking go Into effect he would have to sell those stockags for 35 o1 40 cents. And he took me all aboul his store and showed me cotton and wooe goods of various kinds whiei 'a ~ uld have to be raised in price. No It does not make any differereo whether a man is a Republican oa 7a Democrat. If he Is a dry goods mer chant he Is going to raise the price of his goods so sure as this bill coe: through.. as It seems now destined to do. 3Mr Taft has been told this, and he he, been made to realize it 'That's the reason he Is Ajaxing ae marvelously. He hears a rumbllng of the political earth in America and he must bestir himself. Seeing how unpopular just at this tie Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Cannon are, who, by the way, are no worse and no better than their party, the president does not want to appear to be doing .what these two unpopular party leaders want him to do. More than that, he wants to have the peo Ipie believe that he It is who is going to drive the two arch enemies of the people into doing his bidding, and he Is going to bid that the tariff come down. In other words, the president Is mal a desperate effort today to put a check to the tremendous and t remendous~f noisy public clam or against the iniquities of the Payne Aldrich measure. He may stop the clamor, for a while, but he can no more stop It permanently than he can stop Messrs. Payne and Aldrich from doing what they have set out to do. -And hear what Mr. Aldrich said one day on the floor of the senate: *Soth lng Is going to deter me from doing my duty towards these manufactur ers." Zach McGhee. Commits Suicide. Standing before a mirrow In his room In his home at Haytt's Park. Clumbia, Louis R. P. Arndt, aged 25, took his life late Monday by - ending a bullet crashing through his brain. Ill health and despon dency are given as the cause for the act. He was well known in Columbia having been employed by a local drug store as a drug clerk. A doctor of divinity should benieve TWO LADS DROWNED CHESTER YOUTHS MEET DEATH IN BRUSHY CREEK Little Known of the Pitiful Tragedy s No Witness Was Near Excepi Possibly Another Small Boy. A special dispatch from Chester tc The State says one of the saddes1 tragedies ever recorded in Chestei County was enacted in the waters ol Brushy creek near Chalkville Monda afternoon when Jesse. aged 10 years and John. aged 12 years. the twc little sons of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M Chalk, were drowned. The two little fellows. accompanied by Perry Woods. the little son of V -nd Mrs. Frank Woods. left thei home Monday afternoon at about o'clock and strolled down to a lak on Brushy Fork creek in Mr. Mill pasture. By and by little Perr Woods returned alone: the afternoor wore away, and still the other tw< boys didn't come home. The parent. naturally became alaimed. and th< Woods boy was questioned as t4 where they were. No satisfactor Information could be obtained fron him, however, and Messrs. Eli Wilks J. B. Carter ard others organized i party and proceeded to the swImminj place to look for them, fears be:nD nad from the frst that some acciden had befallen them on the creek. Their clothes were found on th, bank of the lake, which is about 151 feet long and several feet deep i1 places and the search began. A the party were good swimmers, an but little difficulty was experience in Suding the bodies and bringin them to the shore. The two boys were found onl about four feet a:)art. One littl body was rigid, while the other wa not. When Messrs. Eli Wilke and J B. Carter ree bed Chester In quest c coffins no statement had been obtait ed from Perry Woods as to the de tails of the tragedy. It is supposed, though, that he wa along when the two little Chalk boy were drowned. Neither of the vic tims could swim, and it Is likely ths they ventured in beyond their dept I and were engulfed in the wate: which is deep In places. MUST HAVE BEEN CRAZY. - North Carolina Farmer Rescued Wif Just in Time. I At Patetown. Wayne County. N. C F Sunday night James Bivens instant] killed his brother. David, with a hoa 9 The slayer surrendered to the at 6 thoritles at Goldsboro on Monds morning and following a prellminar 6 examination was released on $20 s bond for his appearance at the At gust term of court. 9 The tragedy is enshrouded in myi tery. Bivens statec that he heard hj ewife screaming in his cotton field an running up was startled to see the she was being ehoked to death by hi Sbrother. After felaing his brothe: SJames Bivens carried his wife hom and by vigorous effort saved her lif< The dead man's wifc, a sister of Mr: James Bivens. the only witness t the fratricide, testified at the hearin that the killing was justifiable. TI Smotive for the dead man's attack c his sisterdin-law is unknow'n. FELLAGRA IN CHICAGO. Discovered Among the Inmates c the Asylum. sPeilagra. a mysterious plague, a - atal as leprosy and usually foun o 'nly in Southeren States and tropics countries, has been discovered in th Insane wards at the Dunning asylur -at Chicago. Three aged women ar now suffering from the malady an s ~ix other women have succumed Ihe disease within the past year. A~ the time i. f their death the Dunnin: 'hysicians were mystified as to tb ~ature of the ailments. A suspiclo: that pellagra was the affiction c 'he women was confirmed by Dr. C H{. Lavinder, a surgeon of the Unite< state. public health and marine hos nital service, who for the past twi ,months has been making exhaustivi study of the baffing disease at: 'aboratory at Columbia. S. C. CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING. A Man Arrested in Charleston 01 Such a Charge. Joe Andrews of No. 624 King St. Charleston. doing business under th< name of the Carolina Produce an< Commission house, was arrested or Wednesday afternoon on a warran sworn out by Postofie Inspectoi Smith. charging fradulent use of th< mails. On account of the absence o: material witnesses the preliminar3 hearing before United States Coi minialner Young was deferred unti: 'ext week. Andrews Is an Italian Hie is charged with soliciting and re relying consignments of fruit and egetables and not making returns. He denies that he meant to defraud his creditors and correspondents among whom are several parties irx Orangeburg and other places in this ad adjoining states. Negro Kills Negro. A difeficuty occurred in the New Cut section of Lancaster county be tween two negroes. Moody Thomas and Watt Watts, in which the former was fatally shot, dying of his wounds Monday afternoon. Watts is in jail, The trouble was about a woman. It is said. Stung by Bees. Two young ladies of Fair Forest 'n Spartanburg County were fearfully stung by bees Wednesday. The young ladies wont to the rescue of a ca'f that had overturned a bee gum, and the bees made for the girls by the' housands. The calf was so badly stung that it swelled to the size of an ox. Dropped Dead in Church. A communication from Yancey, yle. N. C.. says George W. Dailey. a rominent and wealthy citizen of that section. dropped dead Sunday morn ng, while mnaking a talk at Prospect hurch. near that place. Mr. Dailey was addressing the Sunday-schoo! wen he was seen to pitch forward o the floor, dying before medical as GOOD MAN GONE The Passing Away of Judge Joshua H. Hudson. SOLDIER AND JURIST The Venerable Man Was Visiting His Daughter When the End a& His Long and Useful Career Ended Body Shipped to His Hone at Ben nettsville for Interment. Joshua Hilary Hudson, lawyer. Judge. teacher. State Senator, and Veteran of the civil war. one of the most distinguished men in South Carolina. died shortly after noon Thursday in Greenville at the home of his daughter. Mrs. William A. I Williams. Death was due to Bright's disease which had confined him to his room and bed for the past two weeks. His last public appearance as a speaker was at the meeting of the State Press Association when he delivered a t short impromptu address. At that time he appeared to be in the best a of health. Several weeks ago he left his home at Bennettsville to visit his daughters at Greenville. and during a large part of the time he spent in I Greenville he complalued of feeling ill. and for the last few days his family and friends have been ex pecting the end. He was totally ' blind during the last hours of his 3 illness. Judge Hudson Is survived by the following children: Mrs. William A. Williams. and Mrs. A. A. Bristow. of Greenville. and Mrs. J. L. Jordan and Mrs. W. R. Crossland. of Ben .9nettsville. S The interment was at Bennetts ville. the remains were taken to that place on the train leaving Greenville at noon Friday. Members of the Greenville Bar Association will act is honorary escort for the body when it is removed from the residence of Mrs. Williams to the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad station. e Judge Hudson was one of the ablest lawyers. as well as one of the most prominent and highly re garded citizens, of the Palmetto State. He was president of the State Bar Association at one time, and - South Carolina has produced few members of the legai profession who stood higher In the estimation of the people .| He was a lifelong and consistent members of the Baptist denomina .- ion and, a In affairs of State. his S advice in church councils was always respected and generally followed. t In 1897 Judge Hudson wrote his s autobiography for "'The Bench and . B ar or south Carolina.'' by Col. e Brooks. In which he graphically but . modestly portrayed the struggles of . his cz.rly life. gCHARGED WITH ELECTRICITY. Stepped on Ground and Shocked to Death. Two horses w7ere killed Wednes day morning at Anderson In a most peculiar manner. Early that morn Ing a horse belonging to J. H. Evan was passing in front of Anderson's Pharmacy. when it keeled over as dead as a mackeral. A crowd quick Ily gathered, and about the time they had decided on the cause of the ani ma's death Mr. Prue Skelton came along, driving a borse belonging to Ligon & Ledbtetter. He was told to stop but before he realized the dan -er he drove onto the same spot o f ground and his horse, too, fell dad. It aopears that the electric wires eading into the pharmacy had be 'ome crossed in some way. This lead a heavy charge of current, about 1,100 volts, into the ground wire !eading from the store. There is a little drain running across the street at this point, fed by the waste water rom the soda fountain, and as water is a good conductor, it soon had the rround along there charged with the electric current sufficient to kill a horse. Several bystanders who came up at the time were shocked but not hurt. It takes a much heavier charge of electricity to kill a man than It takes to kill a horse. The matter was speedily reported to the authorities. NATIVE OF THIS STATE. Andrew Jacksion Says So and He Is ISupposed to Knew. To the Editor of The State: I read recently a statement that the question of President Jackson's native State was still. and would per haps ever remain unsettled. Today I read In an old magazine I found in my father's library, styled The Examiner and Journal of Politi cal Economy. printed In Philadel phia, dated Wednesday. May 28. 1~34, a proclamation Issued by An drew Jackson. president of the Unit- I d States, addressed to the citizens of the State of South Carolina. reason-t ing with them on the rights of a Sate to nulify the act of congress. . which the state had recently passed. a in which proclamation he uses these a words: "'Fellow citizens of my native State. let me not only admonish you J as the~ first magistrate of our comn- I mon country. not to incur the penal tis of the law."~ etc. It seems to me that Jackson thus a s~eaks of South Carolina as his na nive State and there should be no 1furter controversy about the ques tion. R. W. Simpson. , Commits Suicide-. John Wilson committed suicide at a Fort Mill Township Saturday morn- p in. Hie was a white farmer. He y shot homself with a shotgun in the p nek. the gun being so arranged tha: tI he pulled the trigger with his toe-.r The suicide is supposed to hav'e be~n ! caused by family trouble. The de- i eased was 55 years of age-.t A man will confess to one bad hab- e it for the purpose of hiding a dozen al THE HOOK WORM S WIDESPREAD LN SEVERAL OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. morts Will Be Made to Eradicate the Terrible Disease by the Medi cal Boards. A Washington dispatch says the iook worm, or the "lazy bug." as it ias been shown to exist in the South -rn States. according to the investiga ions of the physical condition of the trmy recruits. will form an interest ng chapter in the forthcoming report )f the surgeon-general of the army nd will probably lead to widespread ,ffort on the part of the boards of )ealth in th Southern States to erad cate this disease. which a few years igo was brought prominently to the rttention of the world in connection ith the Porto Ricans. After being I reated all of the infected soldiers ained in weight and improved in hysical condition generally. Following this Investilgation of he recruits, it was discovered that 'uncinariasis." as hook worm is call d in the medical world, was a com mon disease thoroughout the South een States. It is estimated by the army surgeons that 50 per cent. of the recruits in the army today from he rural districts of North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia. Florida. Mis11ssppi. Alabama and Louisiana will show hook worm infection. The investigation has been pro gressing quietly during the last six or seven months. so that whenf Surgeon General Torney makes up his annual report he will have much data to prove the pravalence of the hook worm among the soldiers en isted from the Southern States. These .ecruits passing though the army depot at Fort Slocum. N. T.. were examined to the number of 140. 109 of them being infected with the parasite. West Virginia. North Car olina. South Carolina. Georgia. Flor ida. Alabama and Tennessee all sup plied the recruits that were infected. Th e Columbia Record says the knowledge now in the possession of the government corucerning the hook worm has been secured largely through the investigations of Dr. C. A. Stiles, who spent a year or more in Columbia and South Carolina for this purpose. He went I.ito the cot ton mill towns and out into the country. including the sand hills. liv ing among the people in their homes and examining the children in the schools. His observations are the basis for the present announcement. NEGROES USE COCALNE. Said to Otain the Drug from a Cer tain White Man. A dispatch from Lexington says a promInent farmer from the Hollow. Creek section was there and stated a fact that the law governing the sale of cocaine was being openly and flag rantly violated In his section. The habit among the negroe was rapidly becoming Intolerable. in that farm hands were using the dope to the extent of being useless. He says that negroes carry it around in their pockets, selling it at churrca gatherings, and In some in stances they become wild and almost unmanageable. One negro is said to have had as much as $12 worth of the drugs at one time. It is said that it is much easIer to peddle co caine than whiskey as it can be more easily concealed. It is thought that a prominent gentleman living in one of the near towns is acting as a kind of a whole sale dealer, and that the negroes and whiten that have become addicted to the habit get their sumply from time to time. It is said that a uegro moving into the community from Prosperity some months ago started the use of the drug among the negroes. and the habit has steadily gro. w. . until most of the negroes in the setlement use It in preference for liquor. Both men and women use it. it is said. It will be recalled that not many weeks agc 'he mayor of the town of T.eesville fined the vIolator of the eocaine law $500. He was tried on fve different counts convicted and fned $100 on each count. One ne tro. Mack Manning. is now in jail having been sent up by Mayor Hen- 1 dlrix. The officers are going to work on the case reported and it Is thought that the guilty parties will b-. ap rehended. WOULD BE FIEND LYNCHED. Drder'ed Two Young Ladies to Get Out of Buggy. King Green, a would-be negrof end, was lynched and his body rid led with bullets at Gum Branch four i niles out from Eastman. Ga.. Mon- I lay morning. la The Misses Nicholson. daughters s f Sam Nicholson. ono of Eastman's c >rominent citizens, while four miles .1 iut from Eastman. were met in the f oad by the negro. who caught their d orse by the rein and told them to i: et out, that it was his horse -and he 'as going to have it.b The young ladies whipped up their i orse' and tried to get away from him t he held on until frightened byj heir screams.I Dogs were sent from the county 'a onvict camp and pllaced on his trail. nd after a run of several hours the v egro was captured. h The Sheriff and his deputies. while rr n their way to town, were met at , um Swamp by a posse of 1-5 men. f, -ho ook him away from the off- a ers and strung him up to a sapling. o: fter which the crowdly dispersed. Look After the Town. t It is charged against the Ameri- ir in people that while they are models 01 fneatness and order in their own omes they are careless about the ppearnce of their streets and other b: Laces. This charg'e is too sweeping a t it has much truth In It. Waste rr per. uncut grass and weeds lessen th e attractiveness of any town. The Ki 'al remedy is for citizens to take sam'e pride( in the appearance of er, city or village as they take in at of :heir own homes. In fact. fr e city should he considered as the ac mmon home of its inhabItants and a: CASHIER SHORT Trusted Man of Anderson Ruins His Good Name "00K BANK'S FUNDS nd Lost Them in Speculating In N Cotton Futures, Diappears, Leai b. Ing a Written Confession, Which e Completely Stunned His Friends, Who Had Trusted Him. J. T. Holleman. who for two years t] as been cashier of the Bank of An- b erson. and who for four years was C ".,stant cashier. has been found D hort in his accounts approximately 4 135.000, and '--as left for parts un- $ :nown. In the cash drawer of the bank he eft a letter. addressed to President . F. Mauldin. in which he made a lear cut and complete confessioi aying that he lost the money In peculating in cotton futures. Rather than face his friends, he aid in the letter. he would Aee. and his he did on Sunday morning. when ke left supposedly on his annual va :atioa. The people of Anderson are everely stunned, for there was no nan in Anderson who enjoyed the onfidence and esteem of the people nore than did Mr. Towmes Holle nan. The board of director issued the 'ollowing statement Tuesday: "The board of directors of the ank of Anderson make the follow ng statement in regard to the short Lge of J. T. Holleman in his accounts s cashier, which came to the knowl dge of the officials Monday sight: After carefully looking into the af !airs of the bank we find the amount will be about $35.000. and Inasmuch L the capital stock is $150.000 and :he surplus $225.^00. making a total f $375.000 to which is added the ability of the stockholders. 150. 00, making a total available for :reditors of $525.000. the public can realize that the standing of the bank is not impaired and that the business )f the bank. with its well-known a'.il ity to accommodate its customers. will not be lessened. The loss will be charged off to-morrow, when the bank examiner ascertains the exact amount." This statement was signed by Pres ident B. F. Mauldi-l. Vice President J. A. Brock. Attorney Joseph N. Brown and 11ve directors. No statement ever issued in An derson occasioned grea'-r surprise and consternation. The officials of the bank knew nothing of the matter until Monday night. Mr. Holleman left the bank Saturday afternoon. supposedly with the int-ition of go ing away for a vacation of a week or :wo. He told his associates in the bank of his intention last week and e left with their fullest permission. and they did not dream that there was anything wrong. Hte is sup osed to have left the city sometime Sunday. It is not known where he has goneA. The bank was opened as usual Monday morning and everything ran smoothly during the day. When Mr. A. H. Sharpe. assistant eashier. went to balance the cash that night he found in the cash box a letter ad dressed to Mr. Mauldin. the presi dent. He also saw that there was something wrong with the cash. Mr. Sharpe sent for Mr. Mauldin, who was at his bomne and the letter was, apened and read. In It Mr. Holle man made a complete confessIon. He said he had been speculating in fu tures and had gone from bad to worse and that he had become des-1 perate and de' ded to leave as he j ould not face his exposure. | He turned over all his property toli :he bank. but this will not come near| overing the shortage. The directors t f the bank were su-nmoned. a.nd af :er examination they placed the facts before Mr. Giles Wilson. the state lank examiner, who happened to be n the city on one of his regular .rIps. and he is now going over the >ooks. The directors. however, have, iready satisfied themselves that the hortage is not more than $35.000, nd of course, this will not in any say cripple the bank. which is one f the strongest in the up-country. Everything will go on as usual as the >ank has a large surplus fund. seven r eight times sufficient to take care >f the shortage. Mr. Holleman. in his letter, said he Irst began speculating in fairres out a year ago wonf $90, whih heI ad saved. He lost that ann' then orrowed $1.000 fro m th. hank w'th rhich to recoup his loss. This soon rent and othe~r sums in rapid succes ion. It is an old story of a small eginning by a man who was the soul1 *f honor and had no intention of de rauding anybody. t Mr. Holleman is a native of Wal alla and has lived in Anderson bout twenty years. He has a wife ~ nd several children. He has held everal responsible positions in the ity and has been with the Bank of C ,nderson about six years. He was rugal in his habits, steady and in ustrious. and had always lived with- Ii 1 his income. He was just about " re last man In the city that would h ave been suspected of being short ihis accounts. C The announcement of his trouble ~ ill be reseived with the greatest sur rise throughout the city and county S id State. aind there will bie the deep ;t sympathy for him. He was un! rsally li'<ed. It is not known iwhere a has gone and no statement was .ade as to what steps would be tak ito appr.Thend him. All of his tends and the bank directors were stunned to map out any course action. In the midst of the grief over his wnfall about the only comfort is 4 at the- solidity of the bank was not k ipired in the slightest degree, and. R course, it does not affect any of e banke in the city. Mr. Holeman's popuilarity is sho~wn sh~ -the fact that sereral of his friends M id that, if he had told them of hIs n. luble. they would hare furnished e money to cover his shortage and kn en hIm a new start. un re1 Sunk by a Tue. o In New York harbor the small ya sight eam er. Martha Stev.ens. iun nd to Trenton. N. J.. was run into m.: d sunk by ja ti:g boat Tuesday wh irning. Two men were killed and ths ABOUT CLEMSON 'HIT IT TAKES TO RUN THE BIG I FARMER'S COLLEGE. be Fertilizer Tax Brought In a Big Sum During the Year Ending June Last. The finance committee of the aard of trustees of Clemson College as finished its inspection of the ooks of the treasurer for the year ading June 30. Below are a few iteresting facts and figures from the -easurer's report for the year: The income from the fertilizer In pection tag tax was $177.271. Of ,iu amount the trustees expended y order of the General Assembly 64.3S9.79 as follows: For Inspection f fertilizers and mailing fertilizer ulletins, $13.638.59: for analysis of -rtilIzers. minerals, ores, waters, ete, j.997.65: for entomological inspec [on. $1.415.72; for veterinary in ection. 32.177.11; for Texas fever Ick eradication. S6.583.98: for coast xperiment station. $15.953.69: for rmers' institutes. $516.26; for 165 eneficiary scholarships. $15.166.79. These expenditures leave a balance redited t6 the College of $112.:S*. 5. to which must be added the in ome from productive funds. sueh as lemson bequest, tuition, rents, farm erd and dairy. etc. amounting to 9.702.81, and the income from the ederal Government. $22.254. These mounts, with a balance of $19.775. 6. make a total of $165,613.92 for he luse of the College. The expenditures of the College >roper for the year were for perma tent improvements. operating, equip nent. supplies. labor. insurance, paid :adet fund, and salaries-by depart nents as follows: Academic depart nent, $22,013.15: agricultural de )artment, $15.648.27: chemical de )artment. S6.737.30: engineering de )artment. $24,885.98; military de )artment. $3.010.39: texile depart nent. $6.955.64: miscellaneous de )artment. $67.116.11. The items which make the miscel aneous department mount up are hiefly barracks. maintanenance tand quipment. heat, light and water. onstruction and repairs. support of :onvicts, expenses and salaries of resident's and treasurer's offica. :rustees expenses, library, printery. Ite. SOME GOOD ADVICE. 1 Farmer Tells How to Get the Most From Cowpeas. "In just the proportion that we in :rease the acreage of the cowpea, in :hat proportion will the soils of our ection be increased in fertility," ays Mr. A. L. French, a suecessful orth Carolina farmer, in the Pro ressive Farmer. He then goes on 0 say: With us. it ususally follows a win er grazing crop that has been sown an corn stubble, but we are not averse to turnuing a good sod of elo rer and timothy, and often do this. plowing the sod in the late winter. Then as soon as the corn crop is planted, we start to harrowing the pea land. And the deeper the plow ing is done and the better the seed ,ed is prepared, the better results we obtain in the pea crop. No crop we have tried will respond better to good treatment than will the pea :rop. We usually prepare the land well with the disc. Acme, and spIke tooth harrows, sow the peas broad :aat by hand and cultivate them in with the spring-tooth cultivator. rhen level the land with the smooth ng harrow. On our best land we generally use bree-fourths to one bushel per acre -f good clean Clay peas and a peck >f Amber cane seed. This makes the best combination for cow feed of mny thing we have ever used. On :he thinner fields, where we sow the >eas for soil improvement primarIly. e use the pea alone. broadcast, one ushel per acre. Then where we want the crop to be grazed by hogs w'e put the peas in rows two feet part. We plant these with our two -ow corn planter. When we have grown a crop of eavines that will make .as fine a iuality of hay as 'we have ever been rvileged to feed, we make hay of t. every acre, as we have never been ble to figure out the economy of naking manure direct of peavines, rhen every ton of pea hay Is worth ifteen dollars when fed to first-class attle or sheep, and the manurial alue of the product reduced very itle by being passed through the nimal. When we can make hay of savines at a cost of from $1 to $1.50 er ton and return the manure back t the land for 25c per ton, we be eve it is good business to do so ather than to plow under the crop in he raw state and just bury $11.25 Ith each ton so plowed under. toesn't the proposition look reason ble? So we put the big s~x-foot mower 2t the pea field when the pods are ettng brown, let the hay lie In the wath until thoroughly wilted, then ake Into good sized windrows and ave until pretty web: cured. If the eather continues fair. bunch and a! to the barn at once, but if rain ureatens. cock up into large, hIgh cks and l.eave them alone until the eather clears. when the cocks are~ ken apart, sunned and aired and nt to the barn with a rush. KI LLEI) RIY IJGHTNING. r. Rahon of Henry. County Meets Death in a Storm. During a heavy thunder storm on ednerday Mrs. Tally Rabon. who v-e near Cool Spring. in Horry unty. was struck by lighTnin:: and lied. Her step-father. Mr. Abram ibon. who stood only a few feet am her. was struck by the same It and knocked unconscious. His es were also torn from his feet. .Rab~on never regaIned cosclous ss until sovera! hours afterward. Mrs. Rahon's husband and children ,'w othing of the sad occurr-nee til several hours afterward. whenr urning from th.' tobacco field ther v nd the dead body lying in th.- e rd and only a few feet away the a consious !ormn of another. Th-- a t and woman were in~ the yard en struck, they having started tou o well during the heaviest of the u A RATTLERKILLED f [N A FAIR FIGHT BY A PLUCKY SCOTCH TERRIER. rhe Snske Measured Over Ten Feet Long and Had Twelve Ratte and F a Button. In a battle between a scotch ter rier belonging to Franklin Drew. a farmer a.t Richards. six miles south of Kingvile, and a diamond rattler, the dog. although bitten in the mouth, killed the snake, chewing the head off. The best part of the story Is that the plucky little dog was sav ed by his master, who extracted the poi!on by a liberal use of kerosenej a The Matagorda Tribune tell of the encounter thus: Franklin Drew had an exciting e. perience last Saturday evening with a huge diamond rattler while water- f4 ing some plants in his yard. He C heard a vigorous rattllng a few yards e away and called to his dog, whieh was playing just beyond where the serpent lay coiled ready for ac- n tion. Mr. Drew was fearful the ani- e mal might attack the snake. When the dog responded to the e call the rattler uncoiled swiftly and struck the dog in the mouth, the fangs penetrating the lower lip. The s dog immediately sprang in. and. catching the head between his teeth. literally chewed it off and swallowed It. Mr. Drew ran in upon the fighting pair. but was unable to interfere un til after the dog had dispatched the snake and shook the lifeless form vigorously. Mr. Drew noticed that the dog had been bitten in a vital spot. The head immediately began to swell until, within an hour. It t was twice its normal size. He applied kerosene oil liberally to the wound for about thirty minu tes. after which he noticed the green colored poison begin to ooze out. He applied several other well known antidotes, and after severe suffering for three days the dog began to show signs of improvement and Is now considered out of danger. The snake measured ten and three-founrts feet and had twelve rattles and a button. Mr. Drew en deavored to save the reptile's skin as a trophy, but it had been too badly disfigured and torn by the frantic animal. The poison taken inwardly by the dog swallowing the serpent's head it was feared would have: disastrous results, but Mr. Drew states that the animal appar ently did not suffer much, if any. from this soirce. YOUNG HORSE THIEF. Twelve Year Old Negro Boy Makes a Bad Start. Last Monday night Dr. Domi nick of Prosperity returned from a patient and. hitching hIs horse in the yard. went into the house. He returned in a few minutes and was astonished to find that his horse ard buggy had disappeared. Search was begun but not untilr Tuesday morning did he find which way the thieves had gone. It was fu that they had been seen going to wards Saluda river. Parties in aut'o information received along the road, one of the cars was able to follow the thieves, who were driving hard. About three miles from Leesville Messrs. J. B. Harmon and Jas. Hunn* caught up with the thieves. They were captured and broug'ht back t, Prosperity, and it developed that one of the thleves, was a little negro of about 12 years of age, and his comn panoa was a negro picked up on the road. SherIff Buford came down and car ried both to Newberry. and gave out the Information that the little negro was wanted for breaking ot' of jail, ad also for stealing a watch and a bicycle. The Texas Fever Tick. The farmers of the South should be acquinted with the 'life-history of the Texas fever tick. Its scienti ic name is Boophilus annulatus. The female Texas fever ticks fall from their hosts when ready to deposit eggs, which are laid in a mrass of several hundreds, and hitch after a period of incubation, which varies somewhat according to temperature. "This small seed tick, or larvae, which possess only three pair of legs. are able to live without food for a length of time, but finally die unless they find a host. If a suitable host animal is found, they attach them selves by means of their proboscis. grow for about a week, and then cast their skins, emerging with eight legs. The second nymphal stage lasts about another week, during which considerable growth occurs, and then the molting process is repeated, giv ing rise to the mature male or fe male tick, also with eight legs. At this time the female is a little larger than the male, but she soon a begins to swell out, and finally, F about three wee'ks later, is fully en- a grged and ready eo fall to the n ground and lay he:r eggs. Normally d Texas fever ticks remain upon the P ae~ host until they have grown to 1 cmlete maturity. but recent ex- tI perien ts have proved that Texas fever ticks taken from an animal at :he tim. of either molt will continue h :o develop if place-d on other cattle. ! It has also been found that Texas I:: fever ticks will sometimnes develop et o the adult sta::e upon cats and m !ogs. but as a rule this species is h< ,-strited to cattle and other large sc inimas, such as deer, horses, mules sc nd donkeys.' A Sudden Death. r. John Henry Young. aged 61 th -ears, dropped dead at Iva in Ander- TI on county Mionday morning while at iving his horse shod. Mir. Young .h as a prosperous fa-rmer and was re olding the head of his horse when pc eath came. Heart failure Is the of :triuted cause. He is survived by in is wife and several chIldren. If G~ovrnor Brown of Georgia wants mi irea.se the number of Georta aw rilornels from thirty to fifty, and ha. :an kd the legislatuzre to pass a bii ne iving h~m the authorIty. As nearly lig very man over in Georzia is a cot nel cr general already it seems to that such a law would be unnec- ev< 'ALLS INTO SEA aring French Aviator Attempts to Fly From RANCE TO ENGLAND erbert Latham Attempts to Go, from France to England In his Monoplane. but After Covering Half the Distance, the Motor Fals. Rescued by Torpedo Boat. Herbert Latham. the French avi or. made a daring but unsuccessful tempt to cross the English channel his monoplane Monday morning e got away splendidly under per ct condidons from the top of the balk Cliffe at Sangatte, and had cov red over half the distance at an erage height of 500 feet. when the Loor slowed down and he was oblig I to descend. The air space of the wings, how rer. kept the machine afloat and the ionoplane. like a wounded bird, was Lretched out on the water, when the 'rench torpedo boat destroyer Har :>n. which had kept abreast thorough ut the journey, came alongside and cked up the aviator. M. Latham was not wet and still at on the saddle, which is located bove the wings and behind the mot r. calmly smoking a cigarette. He n-:nediately announced that he was o: discouraged by the failure and rc.ld try again as soon as the ma hine was repaired. The injuries to e monoplane were slight, the prin !pal damage being caused when it ras hauled aboard the torpedo boat estroyer. The motor Is intact. The watchers on both shore had an nxious hour after the machine was ost to view behind a thin veil of fog n the French side, aid apprehension ras not allayed until It was repor~ed t Calais that the Harpon was re urning with X. Latham. uninjured, Lboard. On landing the aeronaut was giv !n a frantic reception. The failure of the motor Is attri )uted to a bad carbureter on the nonoplane, which, when 400 feet In he air. began to descend. When the nachine was 200 feet above the wa .er M. Latham shut off the power nd the machine glided down gently Lud alighted on the waves with hard y a splash. In a brief interview M. Latha iaid: "1 cannot exactly say what stopped the motor. I tried to get he engine working again, but could ot, and was obliged to fly gradually lwn to the sea. The heavy motor immediately went under water, but the machine tself floated like a cork, and I lifted ny feet to a spar to keep them dry. : found my matches still dry, and o was able to light a cigarette. I eliene the machine would have float d for two hours in a calm sea, but he wings were soon broken to br~e-s. "My experience has shown me that e English Channel can be crossed. eer mind. I will have another An ~onette monoplane from Charlons, with which another attempt will be ade to cross the channel within a week or ten days." ACCOUNTS DO NOT BA LANCE. Georgeown Treasurer Admits Appa rent Shortage of $6,800. A special dispatch from George :own says persistent rumors of a hortage in the accounts of County Creasurer J. F. Detyens have been :urrent since the 17th Instant. fol owing an examniationi of the books > Comptroller Jones and Chief 31erk E. B. Wison, but as nothing t an authentic nature could be ~atered nothing was mentioned in he papers. It Is now definitely stated by those position to know and in fact Is Ldmitted by Treasurer Detyens, that :here is an e-pparent shortage of Lbout $6,800. which cannot be ac ounted for. Mr. Detyens asserts hat mistakes In bookkeeping inci lental to the complicated system in ogue in the office is undoubtedly re ponsible for the outstanding balance Lgainst him. As Mr. Detyens is a young man of uiet and thrifty habits and appears o have always lived an upright life, he idea of his having used $6,800 if the coun'.y funds for his personal nds seems most Improbable. He as never gambled or speculated.* PUBLICLY BANGED. tFiend Pays the Penalty of HI. Awful Crime. At Beanlon, Miss., fully five thous d persons witnessed the hanging 'riday afternoon of Will Mack, a egro. who was &recuted for crimi ally assaulting Miss Mamie Meyers, aughter of a farmer, living near lhatchie. Miss., on November 17, 90S. It was the first public execu on which has taken place in Mis ssppii for a number of years. At the~ 'rt anons'* t Mack adnatted ,s guit. He went to his death wath te show of feeling. Amh1; thcso the crowd who w:tnewed. the exe ion was the negro'.A 'ictim and embers of her family. Whenu the dy was cut down there was a wild ramble for pieces of the rope. uvenirs of the hangini- * Medicine of Sunshine. The medicine of sunshine is some ing we cannot hare too much of. iere are a thousand ills and pains d aches of mankind for which it Is e cheapest and most effectual of medIes. When the Samaritan red wine and oil into the wounds he beaten traveler he also poured lots of sunshine of a lovable merci i disposition and it helped to heal Spoor man just as much s the ddicine and food. Sunshine chases a'- the shadows and brings hope d cheer. More sunshine in busi a. home. soc!i service, and re lon is what the world needs. The wie man keeps his temper