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TILLMAN TALKS To the Members of the Farmees Union of Chester THE SENIOR SENATOR eiscss. the Le-Asb e. De-oun es compulsory Education. Spaks pleasantly of President Taft. Do fends Clemson and Scored Some of the NewspPers. A special dispatch from Chester to The News and Courier says an audience variously estimated at from 2.500 to 4.000 persons gathered o the grounds of Union A. R. P. church. near Richburg. Tuesday to attend the rally of the Chester Coun ty Farmers' Union and to hear Sen ator B. R. Tilman and the othe? speakers engaged for this occasio The senior Senator seems fully re juvenated and spoke with all hi old-time force and Are. He jumped on the mileage system in vogue in this State by which the railroads sell a passenger a mileag book for $20 and then compel the passenger to waste much valuablf time and patience in attempting tc exchange mileage for a ticket. H4 said the whole thing is the fault o the legislature and cautioned thq people against putting too many rail road lawyers and frelends of cor porations In the law-making body -An infernal fool arrangement.' he called the present practice. He said he did not know muel about the Farmers* Union. bu thinks it a good thing. only he beg god to warn the people against al lowing the organization to becom a lever to advance the fortunes o polticisans He described his mis sionary work In the North. and hi endeavors to convert the Northeri people to.the sane and Southern wa of viewing the race question. He denounced the efforts of thos who favor compulsory education as : scheme to give dhe ballot to negroe which it surely will. he said. by co= pelling them to go to school an overiome the educational qualiftes tions. which alone stand betwee: them and the ballot. President Taft, he said, is a spi-a did gentleman, a great improvemen over his predecessor. but Is "spread Ing all the molasses he can to catc ties." He descrbed conditions at th North as regards social problems an drew a beautiful picture of the cou parative purity that obtains In th South. The divorce evil he partict larly denounced and called on hi bearers to hold fast to the presen practice - in South Carolina on thi -subject. T!ouching on Clemson College. th Senator denounced the newspaper that have been meddling with tb situation there, as he desrlbed 1I for the sole purpose of stirring u discord, and offered to compare rea ords of life trustees with those c eeced trustees. He also said that no instance con! be shown where life trsesh Ined up en masse on one side of question and the eleted trustees o the other. He hoped that certal defects at Clemson have been reme died, and the future of the Collog made brighter. Certain political foemen in Sout Carolina. he said, want to write hi obituary, but he is well and heart and won't go until he has to. H warned tbe people against the "ram cals" and bade them keep their ey on the State Legislature and th lawmakers at Washington. Other speakers were Editor W. I ("aldwell. of the Chester Lantern Solicitor J. K. Henry, Co!. T. I Butler. of Gafrey. Mr. J. G. I White. president of the Cheste County Farmers' Unon. and Pro: W. S. Morrison, of Clemson College The day passed off Quietly, the mot perfect order prevailng. Hasn't Long to Stay. Man is a little cuss and hasn long to stay. He flies around an makes a fuss and then he hike and makes a fuss and then he hike away. Some men imagine they ar great and try to tear up Jack. bn each one meets the same old fats and treads the same old track. Groea esa's dead and tuned to cla~ and so is Cicero. Alexander ha gone the way the rest of us must gc The sage., poets, heroes, all the me: of the world, into an open gra, must fall and crumble back to earti Then let's not join in the affray and * struggle like the deuce and agonla our lives away: for really what' the use? Let's live ad love ani * sing the while, and work some noi and then, and give to every one smile that cheers the hearts of men And whether we are crowned witI flowers or chilled with winter snows with happiness let's fill the hours er< we tur'nup our toes. His Little Joke. Under the sweltering summer sur he stood In the middle of the blis tered street. "Gone!" he shouted wildly "Gonie! Gone!. Gone:" Ten strong men emerged from un der a sheltering awning and offered~ their symnathy. "Did your cashier skip with all your funds?" queried one. "Wife run away?" "Nope." "Lost your watch or pocketbook? "Nay! Nay:" "'Then '-hat in thunderation is gone?" "Why-. yesterday. my friends, yesterday. Beofre today is gone you should take out a life insurance-' But he got no further. Ten strong and per-spiring men took him and - dropped him into a horse trough.e Felt Froma Third Story. Arthur Bleakiey. one of the lead ng dry goods merchants of Augusta, Ga-. fell from a window of his flat, third story, over his store, to the u~idewalk Friday morning about 1 o'clock. suffering a broken leg a'nd other injuries. He died Friday night at a local hospital. Death GOES OVER FALLS NIAGRA RAPIDS SWALLOW UP ONE MORE TICTIM Young Man's Brave Efforts Prove Useless, Giant Waves Finally Over coming. Driving Him Under. Niagara rapids claims one one more victim. A dispatch from there says August Sparer. an eighteen year-old boy. a resident of Niagara Falls. went to his death Monday in the whirlpool rapids after a gallant battle with the giant waves between the lower bridges and the pool. With three companions Sporer went for a swim in the river. He struck about at once for the middle of the stream and then turned toward the bridges. His companions called to him to turn back. for the current is very swift at that point. but he kept on down stream and was caught in the great sweep. the first break from the smoother waters to the rapids. The boy struggled for a time against the current but to no avail. Then, realizing that he was beyond human help and was to be carried through the rapid which took the life of Capt. Webb. and which have resisted every unaided human effort at passage. he deliberately turned down stream and began a grim fight for life. Not in all the history of the river has such a brave effort been witness ed. Although but a frail boy. he went into the rapids swimming strongly and held his own until he struck the giant wave which curls up opposite the Old Battery elevator. Then he went under and for a sec ond was lost to sight of the score of people who stood on the lower arch bridge. Again and again he disappeared only to reappear. each time fighting desperately against the terrible cur rent. Then when within 300 yards of the whirlpool his strength gave out and he sank and was lost tc view. D Even then he had swum perhaps 100 yards farther than did the great " English swimmer. Capt. Webb. THEY WERE SENT BACK. ucle Sam Detains a Runawal Couple From Prague. - At New York the immigration of ficials have shattered the romance of nineteen-year-old Beatrice Mayer who left her husband of a few months and eloped to this country with her irst sweetheart. Adolpb Grohman. a youth of twenty-three The young couple who have a plenti a ful supply of money, and whose re fnement apparently verifies their claims to kinship with prominen families at Prague. arrived in Nei 8York on Monday. Mrs. Mayer wai accompanied by her maid and al eof them had first cabin passage. They would not have been disturb Sed in their desire to landi had not Scablegram preceded their arrival. I was from Mrs. Mayer's husband. an< asked that they be detained at Nei Yorn. A special board of lnquir: dhas decided that the man and Mrs 'Mayer and her maid must be deport ed. Before the board. Mrs. Maye: Smade an impassioned plea to be al low-ed to land. e"Adolph was my school compan ion. and we have loved each othe: for years." she said. "We wante< to marry, but my folks objected I resisted as long as I could. bu in the end they forced me into thi: objectionable marriage. I never lov ed my husband, but I do love Adolph eAfter four months of marital trouble I decided that the only way to avoic a life of trouble and unhappines was to run away with Adolph." -RELICS OF TRAGEDY. -Fifteen Skeletons Are Found in Ex t cavation. In Washington fifteen skeleton: lying together in such a position ai to indicate hasty burial and threi t English copper coins bearing the i date 1720, found with them durinj the excavating for the U~nited .Statei Medical School Hospital near the banks of the Potomac. brings tc light, it is believed, some Indian o: piratical tragedy of early Americar days. As authentic history sheds no 11. luminating ray on the case, the finge: of suspicion wavers in its pointini looking first toward the rem man, who stole silently along the wooded Potomac banks a century and a hail ago, then to a mythical pirate crew which Is holaieved to have made its rendezvous in the upper Potomac, and lastly to a mutiny-infested cave trading vessel. SBut the bones may remain forever as silent as when they were in their grave. * Fiend Will Hang. Rogers Merritt, a negro. was Tuesday convicted In the Superior curt at Atlanta of criminal assault upon Miss Maggie McDermott. 16 years old, on the night of June 20 last. The negro will be sentenced to hang. The assault occurred in the heart of Atlanta. Miss McDer mott being ec route to her home whn the negro attacked her. Killed by Lightning. Two men were killed by lightning at Trion Factory. Ga.. on Tuesiday. Seven men were sitting in a row in front of the depot when the bolt descended, killing Sam Ray and Clar ence MdcCants and seriously injuring Jeff McCants. Other men were knocked down. but not seriously in jured. Lightning damaged the de pot of the Ce'ntral of Georgia and a livery stable near by. Killed Near Williston. Dan Gaines was shot ana Instantly killed by another negro. named Pet er Green. near Wilston Saturday nIght. The men were playing, when Green pulled out a pistol, saying. "I believe I will shoot you."~ Gaines said. ''WeIl shoot." he did so. wlth deadly effect. It seems that it was jan unprovoked murder. After all, the light Pole may notI RESCUED SAILORS SEVEN SNATCHED FROM DEATH BY THE LIFE SAVERS. Captain of Schooner Drives His Vee sel on Shore Thinking Hotel Glare Was Liner's Light. Long Island life savers. after a six hours' battle. added another vic tory against the sea to their long list of remarkable rescues Tuesday. when they brought safely to land the cap tain and crew-seven souls in all from the three-masted schooner Ar lington. of Boston. which went as.hore early Tuesday morning in the driving rain and fog off Long Beach, on the South shore of Long Island. The eighth member of the crew. Madden Pierson. a Swede. put off from the schooner on a raft a line. but was swept out to sea and lost sight of. It is believed that he per ished. The rescue from the schooner was witnessed by cheering guests of the Nassau Hotel at Long Beach and by hundreds of cottagers. The ho tel was indirectly responsible for the vessel's plight, for Capt. Ira Smith. after having lost his bearings. mis took the glimmering lights in the structure for those of a liner in mid ocean, and thus misled ran aground. The schooner, heavily laden with Anthratic, bound from New York for Mayport. Fla.. struck a sand bar. Pounded by a heavy sea while a terrific easterly gale was blowing. she began to yield immediately. The captain and crew climbed out on the bowsprit. The life savers reached the scene -oon after daylight. They worked frantically, but in vain trying to shoot a line to the wreck. The high wind and seas made made this mpossible. but after six futile attempts they succeeded in getting a surf boat through the breakers to the lee of the wreck and the rescue of the imperilled sailors followed. Aside from a broken ankle sus tained by the cabin boy and the suf fering incident to exposure. which all sustained, no one was seriosly injured. The Arlington will be a total loss. WOMAN FINDS SN AE IN BED. Was Awakened by Reptile Crawling Over Her Face. Mrs. John McKnight of Shartles ville. Pa.. had an experience with a black snake which she is not likely to forget for some time. The fami ly retired as usual and when Mrs. McKnight had been in bed but a short time she heard a peculiaz noise back of her pillew. Thinking It was an insect of some kind she thought no more of the matter and went to sleep. She had just fallen into a doze when she felt a peculiar sensation on her face. Reaching up to her forehead she was herrinted to find a snake crawl. Ing over her face. Grabbing it. with a shriek she Ihurled the reptile across the room. Arising, she found the snake lying in a corner of the room and killed it with a cane. The snake measur -ed three feet, four Inches la length. END OF THE WORLD NEAR. According to the "Holy Ghost and Us Society. The Holy Ghost and Us Societ3 -whose principal base of operationw is at Shiloh, Me.. has received ad. |vices that the end of the wolrd is te come at 10:20 a. in.. Wednesday, SSeptember 1. The Rev. Prank Sandford, whc originated the sect and calls him. self "Eljah,"~ says that this . ll happen. The Holy Ghost and U. society at Shiloh is making prepara tions to don the pure white robes, pass to the housetops of their vil ilages, and there await the dread mo ment. When It comes they expect to see the sky fall, and the earth, moon. and sun disappear, and they them selves transplanted into the realms of eternal bliss, while all others pass in tc destruction. |How is Hurt. One of the private cables recelid by a New York cotton dealer from |Liverpool on Monday said that "the South was an anxious seller of spot cotton at present prices and that daily offerings were large." This was given as a reason why prices would be lower as soon as the con tracts sold by the farmers were due. The fact that cotton advances in price in the face of these outstanding contracts shows how strong it Is. If it was not for these contracts the demand for spot cotton would be much greater, and there is no telling where the price would go. But these outstanding contracts, which many farmers have sold, will keep buyers off the market, unless they can buy cotton at a lower figure than that sold In these contracts. They hope in the meantime that cotton will decline in price. Never Too Old to Marry. Claiming that she could have mar ried several younger fellows, but that she thought her choice the best. Mrs. Evaline Hall. aged eighty one years. who has a son aged sixty two years living, was married to Robert Wright. $!ty-one years old, at Plttsburg. Pa.. on Tuesday. When seen by a reporter, the aged bride was calmly smoking a pipe and laughingly remarked that she expect Ied to live until she became 100 years of a~te. Pellagra at Durhamn A report from Durham. N. C., says an epidemic of pellagra result ed in the fifth death there a few days ago, that of Mrs. D. C. Mitch el!. a native Georgian. and the wife. of an extensive lumber dealer. Physicians are not able to assign any cause for the disease. There have been eIght deaths from pellagra in Durham and adjacent territory. Wheni a fellow is a regular hay POLICE GRAFT In Now York Amounts to a Mil lion of Dollars In HARD CASH PER YEAR General Bingham, Police Commis sioner of New York, Says That He Could Have Made at Least Si Hundred Thousand Dollars in His First Twelve Months in Offime "I am asked to estimate the money value of graft and blackmail in New York each year. No one can make such an estimate with accuracy, but my belief is that the total Is mot less than $100,000,000. During my first year at the head of the police department it would have been an easy matter for me to have made $0O.000 in bribe money, and 1. 000.000 would not have been an ex cessive figure at all." Thus writes General Tbeodore Bingham in an article to be publish ed in the September number of the Hampton's magazine. It is the first public statement made by General Bingham since his removal by May or McClellan from the oMce of Po lice Commissioner. He writes: "The power of Tammany Hall rests, ard has rested for forty years, upon its ability to control the po lice. by fair means or foul. A strong honest, fearless Police Commission er, supported by Police Magistrates of ability and integrity and a mayor big enough to conduct his oMce without fear or favor, can sap and utterly destroy Tammany influence in ten years or even less. provided he is empowered to dismiss and transfer his subordinates for cause, without recourse to the courts. "I do not believe i am unfair in estimating that from Afteen hun dred to two thousand members o: the force are unscrupulous grafters, whose hands are always out for easy money." That this is known by the head of the department and apparentl] ignored is because the commissiones is only nominal head of the force he states, while a policeman has of fice for life. Discipline and the question of vested interests should be kept separate. he declares. Graf1 is hidden In most city ordinances, ht says and were enacted to be brok en so that some one could mako money from them. He continuer "One day. shortly after my ar rival at Police headquarters an sc quaintance dropped into my oMce. "Commissioner." he said. "Ther is a house at No. - West Thirty third street. run very quietly. I will be worth $10.000 a month t you"-buit the sentence was nevea fnished to my knowledge. "As a matter of fact, the plac< had never been opened, and the mas had been used as an agent to fee out the department. "A few months later I was of fered $5,000 in cash and 8500 month merely to be seen shaking hands with the proprietor of an up per Broadway cafe." General Bugham states as his be lef that gambling cannot be elimi nated, J~ut that a reasonable law imposing heavy licenses and ironelai restrictions can be enforced. Con cerning the Rogues' Gallery. th< ontroversy over which proved his tumbling block, he states that it 1I necessary to photograph criminal! but adds that it should be settle< by a law not drawn in the interes of criminals. FEET TOUCH ON BODY. Man Thus Located Under Water an< Was Rescned. When Miss Ruth Rogers leapet feet foremost from a raft on Man hattan beach at Chicago she touch ed one of her feet on a body lay ing in the bottom of the lake. Het cries when she reached the surface brought former Congressman Chas S. Wharton. Dr. W. H. Falke and Dr. H. B. Clapp, who were swim ming near. Mr. Wharton dived and assured himself that what Miss Rogers had touched was really the body of man and after repeated efforts the recuers were successful in bringing it to the surface. They were aston shed to find that breath still re maned, although the victim was un conscious. When he had been resuscitated after an hour's work, he said he was John Tuzhocki, twenty-three years old. He was unable to say how he came into his plight, but it is be lieved by those who were at the beach that in diving from a post e struck a great rope stretched as a life line anid was rendered uncon scions. The Social Life That Was. While country life has gained so cially in many ways it has also lost in large measure some social fea tures which were the Joy of young people in former days. Thirty or more years ago, and less than that in some sections. spelling bees, sing ing schools, debating societies and cher similar doings were numerous. affording untold pleasure and no small benefit. They made a needful break In the ordrinary routine of farm life, and today many look back longingly to the times of their youth when merry patries of young people. after the day's work was over, drove to ths country school to hear or take part. n singing. debating ques' tions. or in spelling one anotber down. Country life today, socially and in other ways, is unquestionably etter than it was, and books, papers nd other material are now plenti ful in the farm home as once they were scare. Still it is doubtful if any of the young people of today et more genuine satisfatcion out of he advantages they possess, than heir fathers, and mothers got in their youth from the social doings which brightened many a long wint er night. The prisoners cannot act familiar. for that would be making the~m slvs~ too f ree. A "tidy'' ;:anerally belies its name~ AMAZING GROWTH IN THIRTEEN YEARS OF RURAL MAIL DELIVERY. Over Forty Thousand Routes Now in Operation, Serving Over Twenty Millions of People. On October 1. 1909. the thirteenth anniverasry of the installation of ru ral delivery In the United States wil: be reached. In commemoration of the event some suitable recognitiar is suggested, as no branch of the postal service has had so recent a beginning with equally remarkable results. The honor of the fIrst attempt 'o test the practicability of such a rad Ical broadening of the operations of individual delivery rests with five routes from three postoffices In 1% est Virginia. The innovation was so great that it took some time for the paopc to be benefitted to realize the rd vantage in store for them. By the end of the third fiscal year after thli service began, but 391 rutes were established, at an annual expend' ture of $150.012. The convenience as well as ethical economical, com mercial and educational benefits in cident to this particular public utili ty were now so forcefully demon strated that expansion went Dn rap idly, the cost aggregating up to th< prsent time no less than $170,000: 000. The 40.804 carriers in coverin their 40.919 routes traverse mor than one million miles every seenla day of the year. excepting Neg Year's. Washington's Birthday Memorial or Decoration. Indepen dence and Labor and Thanksgivin Days. or the Monday followini should these days fall on the Sat bath. In making their daily round more than 20.000.000 rural resl dents are served. In looking back over what ha been accomplished during the brie period of its existance. it is appai ent that the rural delivery service I a great public convenience. Result are the best commendation and ther are sustained by unanimous exprei clons of approval of patrons. From an ethical point of viev the utility of the service is evident I many ways. It brings the rural pol ulation into neighborly relationshi and promotes fntercourse with nea by communities, and through the with cities great and small, and wit the world at large. As a commerical proposition lacil ties are afforded to keep tab on Ut markets as to prices of products an commodities for sale or purchasA in this respect farners especial] find themselves greatly benefitted 1 constant knowledge of the conditioI of trade. In an economical sense the publ has derived advantage from the in provement and maintenance of road over which rural delivery routes at laid, this being a condition prece dent to the establishment of ma facilities. In addition, good roa' insure greater frequency and regt Slarity of mail delivery. With respeet to roads since ti inauguration of this service it estimated that more than 376.000 000 has been expended in rebult iag. repairs and maintenance. As a means of education, the wit ening of the utilirzation of the mai by rural free delivery has largel extended the circulation of local at 'metropolitan newspapers. magazin< and general literature, besides ha lng proved a stimulous to more e: tended personal correspondence. It is further mentioned as one< the incident of the service that sinc the Introduction of the rural ma carrier, that bumble representatis of the administration has becon> popular among residents in the ri ral districts, developing their al precation of the beneficence of th government at Washington. |The popularity of rural deliver -among farmers and others livin from communities having city ma faclties is shown In a summary< this service that Postmaster Gene3 al Hitcltock ordered prepared the office of the fourth assistant pos |master general, up to August, 190( This exhibit gives 40.919 route |in operation served by 40,804 ca: I riers. Of the total number of route 622 are tri-weekly. In bringing th service up to its present high stat of organization and efficiency. 60.18 petitions were received and invet tigated. Of this number 17,163 wer reported upon adversely. At the clos of this report. 1.432 petItions wer pending, of which 2u2 have bee assigned for establishment betwee: |August 16 and October 1. 1909, leas lag 1,230 unacted upon. |The seeming discrepancy betwee: the number or rural routes and car riers is accounted for by instance Iwhere there exists tri-weekly servic on more than one rural route out o an office, one carrier serving twi routes alternating each day. The State having the largest numi ber of rural delivery routes at thi date is Illinois, 2.2S4. There ar< seven States with more than Ne' York (1.841 first in population, an< four wIth more than Pennsylvani (2,168) second in number of inhab~ itants. WOMAN TAKES ARSNIC After a Very Heated Argtument Witi Her Husband. At Atlanta. angered with her hus band over some trival family dis put. Mrs. A. Gilbert. Friday swal lowed a quantity of arsnic In th< presence of her husnand. Gilbert at once hurried to a nearby dru: store and secure an emetic, which he fcen~d his wife to swallow. after whih he 'summnored an ambulnnc4 and had the woman rushed to th' Grady Hospital. It is thought she will recover. Gilbert declared he had no doubt his wite took the poison with suici !al intent. buzt declined to discus his family troubles. He said his wife became enraged during an ar ument shortly after breakfast, and a~nounced her intention of endirg it all by taking poison. It is easy enough to, se w sv-~m. popio are ab'out when they do DESIGN ACCEPTED I FOR MONUMENT TO THE NOBLE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. Beautiful, Elevating Portrayal of Self-Sacrificeing Devotion of Noble Women of "Lost Cause." Befitting In nobility of conception and beauty of execution the subject it is to commemorate, the desIgn for the monument to women of the "lost cause" has been completed. It is the work of a Dixie girl. Miss Belle Kinney, of Nashville, Tenn., and has been accepted by several States. It is probable that all the States whieh left the union in the Civil War will adopt the design and that repleas of the monument will be placed is the capitols of each. The design for the proposed monu ment is very beautirul and elevating. The central figure. of heroic else. Is the Goddess of Fame. At her right. the reclining :fgure. delicately fea tured, beautiful, but with an expre# sion of exquisite sadness, represents the self-sacrificing Southern woman of the war time. Fame is represent ed as placing a wreath upon the Southern woman's head, while she supports, at her left, a dying and emaciated Confederate soldier, to whom the Southern woman is ex tending, even in death, the palm of victory. The design is such that it readily lends itself to reproduction either of marble or bronze. A year or more ago the Daugh r ters of the Confederacy and the Sons r of Confederate Veterans decided up on the erection of these monuments in every State capitol in Dixie. The work was to have been done by an g Italian sculptor. When his design was submitted at the late Confede rate reunion in Memphis. it raised a storm of protest. The artist had pictured the Southern woman as s a militant and amazonon figure. f carrying in one hand a sword and in the other the banner of the Lost s Cause. .s This conception was so foreign to e the gentle. suffering and patient wo man of the Southland as those who ived her had known her. that the , design was rejected by au over n whelming vote. The art!st dccl!ad - to submit another and Miss KiDney p %as appealed tc. Tenneq-se h% ap propriated $2,500 through the n Daugheters and Sons of the Confed h eracy for a bronze cast of the design. Other States are raising funds to? - ine purpote and it is believed b-y e fall each of the former Confederate d States will have followed suit. . Miss Kinney. the artist, is but 22 y years of age and is already a sculp y tor of more than national fame. Ls She was recently awarded the con tract for a heroic statute of the late I Senator Edward W. Carmack, of - Tennessee. killed by the Coopers. , When but a child she received a priv *e at the centennial in Nashville for a - bust of her- father. She received Il her education in art at the Art in is stitute at Chicago and later studied .. abroad. She was awarded the eon tract for twenty Igorrote figures al e the Field Museum and has attracted is a great deal of attention in art elr. .ele throughout the world. RUTLEDGE OOUNTY DEFEATED i Bot Williamsburg ad Careudou dVoted It Dowin. A dispatch from Lake City, whiell town expected to be the county seal of the new county, says the propo sition to form the new county o1 Rutledge out of portions of Wil liamsburg and Clarendon was voted on by the voters in the sections af fecte? Tuesday and the result was a victory for those who are opposed to the formatIon of the county by a little over two hundred vtes. 'The eWilliamsburg portion of the propos ed county gave 823 votes for the new county and 415 against. The Clarendon voters, whose precinct was Sandy Grove. gave 45 for the new county and 25 against. The new county to have won required S31 votes in Williamsburg county and 51 votes in Clarendon. So the - troposition was voted down in both 'Williamsburg and Clarendon coun ties. .Lightning Severely Inure a a in His Cab. 0The Spartanburg Herald says fFrank J. Mooney. fireman on freight train No. 71, Southern railway, was struck by lightnIng in the South ern Railway yards Sunday night about 11 o'clock during the sev'ere rain and electrical storm. Mr. Moon e y was severely injured. At first it was thought that .. had been killed, but an examination by physicians showed that his injur ies were not fatal, and he was sent to the Spartanburg City Hospital. A report from the hospital Tuesday nirtht said that Mr. Mooney was get ting on nicely. He was conscious, but could not speak. Mr. Mooney was standing on the tender of the engine filling the boil c-r with water when .he was struck by lightning. Strsnge to say, there w'as no scar anyw"ahere in the flesh. Shoots Young Lady. At Portsmouth. Ohio. enraged be cause he had been jilted, Harry Bliss. 18~ years old. Tuesday shot and fatally wounded Miss Minnie Clark... 17 years old, at a crowded ett cornor. When Miss Clarke refused to return a ring, Bliss drew a ra .o!vor and shot her through the back, th" bullet penetrating the right ung. Itiis was arrested. Young Lady Drowns. IMiss Ca roline Middleton, the six -.e'n-year-old daughter of Mr. James 3. Middloton. of 616 Piedmont aye tue. Atlanta. Ca., was drowned in ast Lake at the Country Cluh of the Atlanta Athbetic Club Friday morning a bout 11 o-clock, while in athing with a number of young lady friends. The family went to Atlanta from Charleston. W\ashington was the Father of His Country,. hut Pr-nnsylvania ds the , KIND LITTLE WORDS OURTESY IS THE CHEAPEST THING IN THIS LIFE, nd it Should Be Practiced by All of Us In Our Intercourse With Each Other. Little words in kindness spoken. A motion or a tear. May oft relieve a heart that's broken. Or make a friend sincere. Courtesy is the cheapest thing there is in this world. Because it. is so cheap is perhaps the reason that it is so infrequently used. It costs absolutely nothing, therefore one would think it would be by the desk or at the hand of every man and woman in the world. Yet the fact remains that there are very few really courteous men. So few are there that when one does meet such an one he is sur prised and refers to him "as a gentleman of the old school."* Because a person does not hap pen to fancy a man is no reason that he should be discourteous with him. Outward adornments, facial expres sion, peculiar mannerisms do not de stroy manhood. "A man's a man for all that." Sometimes we say that a man's real strength is shown in the manner in which he expends his energy; that his real benevolences are man ifest in the way he dispenses his charities. Yet if you would know what a man reall- and truly is you must study him aA he deals courte ously or discourteously with his brother man. The man who is discourteous to the man under him and servilely cringes before his superior with obsequious courtesy may be a great worker, a splendid result-getter. but he is not a gentleman. A true gentleman will, if c'm pelled to dismiss a man from his presence, do it with such grace and courtesy that the sting of the dis missal is largely removed and kindly remembrances established in the mind of the dismissed man. True courtesy gives of its substance as freely as the sweet-scented violet gives of its odor, thinking not of return, simply conscious of doing its duty. Courtesy opens many doors of op portunity where rough and ragged manners would stand knocking vain ly demanding entrance. Courtesy is oil upon the troubled sea of life and saves many a good ship of manhaod from going to pieces on the harren shores of failure and bankruptcy. Courtesy has won more battles in the world than bullets. Courtesy rs.s no cannon to force its measu-s. yet courtesy wins a thousand times where cannon and mortars w.: once. Is the hurry and rush of ;ife we~ need to think more of the graces of courtesy than we do. It would be a good thing if in every public school, academy and college of thew land, there might be established what should be known as a chair of cour tesy. In this chair the truest and most noble-hearted should teach boys and girls, young men and young wo. men, the value of true courtesy. rhe courtesy that plants a me of Felf respect in the underling, and which makes the superior feel that ne is in the presence of a man. Of a great man of the olden time it is said "his presence made bad men good and good men batter.' Underlying this sweet influence of the man's life was good, honest cour tesy. A courtesy that rose superior to all environments of hate, worry, vulgarity and trouble, and poured itself in gentle libations into every man's heart, purifying and making it sweeter and cleaner because of its influence. Happy, indeed, is that man to whom courtesy is a blessed birth right. He shall find that his path in life is smoothed before his feet and that difficulties he has dreaded melt at his approach. Happy, indeed, is that man who learns courtesy in the school of life, who turns from ungentlemanly man ners and habits to way of concilla tion and refinement. That man shall find friends waiting to do his bid ding and the wheels of purpose turn ing at his command. Unhappy, thrice unhappy, is the man who ~goes t'Arough life without the grace of courtesy, born or ac quired, In his heart. His way shall be the way of a saw through an oak board. He will mar, jar and cut, leaving behind in his trail only the remembrance iof a hard task master who was determined to have his way at all hazards. Cultivate courtesy as one of the flne art" of life. She will -,aake thy path rich and thy ways full of pleas ures and peace, for courtesy maketh friends for everybody who holdeth her to his heart. JOHN A. JAYNE. Wild Story Aficat. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says a wild report was circu lated over the country Tuesday to the effect that Charleston had been destroyed by an earthquake, bring ing marny telegrams of inquiry from press associations and newspapers The report is said to have started from Atlanta. The foundation was probably the suspension of tele graphic communication Monday af ternoon by the wind and thunder storm. Three Died in Mine. All the missing minors in the liar aso shaft of the Camnelia mine, near Pachuca. .Mexico. have been account ed for. The total casulty list is thrN men killed and 20) injured. Work in the mine has b'een resumed. F'ire broke out in this mine last Saturday. and a sdlore of miners were reported at first to have been ki:ied. Hung for Threew Months. After hanging for about three months to a tree near a public road. near Pittshurg. Pa., along which hundreds of persons pass daily the body of a man, apparently about 70 years of ag-\. was found a few days ago by berry pickers. No clue as to he idecntity of the supposed suicide HIDEOUS CRIME lidden by Charity's Cloak In New York City. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC CaMA" en by People Who Presed toe 9Noses" ad Friends of Their Tvs'&-S-hocking Discovery s Mad. by the Detectives of the Im. migradon Department. The erusade against evils In the management of immigrant aid soci eties in New York. which began Tuesday with the barring of two societies from Ellis Island. has shows conditions which officials de elare will be called to the attention of Congress. at next session. In an Interview a few days ago Repre sentative S. Bennet, a member of the comneinqoa appointed by congress in 1907 to investigate immigration problems says that an Inquiry by the commission has shown that 75 per cent of the so-called homes in New York have perverted the purposes for which they were organized. The most serious charge made by Mr. Bennet is that agents for disre putable resorts have been able to go to the homes and obtaia girls, newly arrived from foreign coun tries. who believed that they were about to find employment in desir able places. The agents have paid from $10 to $15 a piece- for the girls thus recruited, he says. The commisslon In getting at the fasts here and in other cities, em ployed detectives who posed as agents foA queetionable resorts. They had no difficulty it Is said. In obtaining girls from the officials of certain homes. Similar evils have been found by the commission to exist in other American cities, and the crusade against them s likely to extend to several parts where large numbers of imigrants arrive. The commis sion will report to congress early next March. The communication made public by Commissioner of Immigration Wiliams, in which te called atten tion to certain evils existing in Im migration homes in this city. revok ing the privilege which two of them had long enjoyed of sending their representatives to Ellis Island. only scraped the crust of a situation, the details of which are appalling. The investigation of the Immi grant homes is not confined to the immigrant authorities here. PresS deat Taft has been informed of the evils existing, and both he and See rotary Nagel. of the department of commerce and labor are anxious that the most stringent methods be em ployed to stangp out. For many Imonths the immigrant commission which is separate and distinct from the Immigration service, has been in vestigating these matters and today Representative Bennet told some things of what It had done. In getting at the facts the commis sion employed its own detectives women who posed as agents for ques tionable reorts. They had no diffi culty getting girls, and invariably when these girls were questioned. it developed that they thought they were going to a place of quite anoth er character than they had been hired for. In applying for girls to work for. them the agents of the disreputable resorts. Mr. Bennet says, did not stipulate that they wanted them to go as inmae. "They didn't need to go in to the life unless they wished to,'' the agents were careful to say. Mr. Bennet was not ready to give the names of any of these homes, which he gave so black a character, but It Is safe to say that the reports of thse commission, when It Is made, at Washington, will be a startling one. It is also to be expected that the homes which have perverted the avowed purpose for which they were organized will be put out of bust ness with scant ceremony. WEST POINTERS FIRED. President Orders Dismissal of Sev eral for Hazing. By direetion of President Taft, seven eadets were dismissed from the United States military academy for being involved in the hazing of Rolando Sutton. Cadet Sutton was a brother of James N. Sutton, -Jr., of the naval academy, whose death was investigated at Annapolis recent ly. The cadets ordered dismissed are: John H. Booker, Jr., of West Point, Georgia, first class. Richard W. Hocker. of Kansas City, Mo.. third class: Earle W. Dunmore, of Utica, N. Y., third class; Chauncey C. Devore, of Wheeling. W. Va., third class: Gordon Lefebvre, of Richmond, third class; Albert E. Crane, of Dawarden. Iowa, third class. and Jacob S. Fortner, of Do than, Ala., third class. A SLICK CROOK. Worked a Slick Game on a Private Detectkre. Thomas D. Stewart. the head of a private detective agency In Pitts burg, has reported to the Chicago po lIce that he was robbed of $500 in money and jewelry walle stopping at a downtown hotel inl the lake city. He went to Chicago in company with a man who had offered to lead him to the man who, he said. was responstile for the dynamiting of the Pennsylvania railread bridgco near Pittsburg several months ago and for whom there is a reward of $5000 offered. The detective and his guide slept in the same room at the hotel, and when the former woke up one morning he found his opanion and all U~s valuables gone. Pointed Paragraphs. lt's a hollow mockery-echo. One-sided people seidom side with WIth some women the man who neo.-r C!adte s o ai l.