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'VOL. XXIV MANNNG, S.C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1909 * -T _ FALLEN A-SE k.jaL &Caide PMsse Away a, -ythr 1ada hnin FERAL HELD FRIDAY pIa ot Yeas and ot Lonors. South Carouna's Grand OWd Man Lars Down His Barde and Enters rom a RSher Lite in the Heanes ly Land.. Dr. james Henry Carlisle died at 7:45 o'clock Thursday monIng at his home on Wofford College cam pus in the city of Spartanbur. The end came quietly -after sewral day. critSIcal lUnes. Last Monday morning early he was taken with a fainting spell. but after medical attention by the. atteudig pbyacian. Dr. H. R. Black. he quick ly rallied. Tuesday he took a turn for the worse 'and Tuesday night he was not expected to lirve through the night. Wednesday morning he show ed signs of returning consciousnes and about 9 *-cleek Wednesday morning he was partly conscious. Early Wednesday afternoon '.e b came delrifous and contined to Pow wors. Wednesday night Dr. H. R. Black left Dr. Carlisle's bedside at S ocloch. leeving his paent in charge of a skled trafoed nurse; medicines wese administered to soothe the delirious mind and bring rest. At 2 oclock Thursday morn ing Dr. CarIlsle was reported by the n'ure to be resting under the infin ene of anestbetics. but that he was powlng aparetly weaker. The end- came so quietly -that nc one could tell just when fe wa breathed out. At 7:45 it .was an nmioed that Dr. Carlisle was dead. Te wondrtl *rong contittii th ad. d newer known abuse either by difpation or unarranted ex posure had made a stout -fght agatnst death. Several times he bad ral lied, fr6 amk ts tat were: thought to be fnal: but the harvest of a wela Wet was tan with the ripetnn ft o 'Mgears.o The ftnera. whIch took *lace at 'clock Friday ateenoon.-was very siple. and ita held in Woford Col lege chapel in the presence d0 a very large crowd of peopIe from an over the State.-. There was no, speechI mking or tributes from - mnent mt The We of the grand old man iy eloquently than the live of any man could have spoken in Two meinbs rom each of the - n college and two frOm the ittinc school werer chosen as actie plbere as tolows: Senior Clas-R. Leon Keaton. KateOn W. F. lugh. Greenwood. Junioe Css--M. . SLIreley. - .ayesboro. Ga.: D. T. Outa. John Sophomore Clas--.G. M. C-un rngbrg- C. R. Moseley--Laurens. Freshman Clas-B. M. Kener... . Moore. fW chool-J. H. Anderson. MC. Moore-.. Theboof1~pallbearers were E J.B.Cevlnd1.,- i te. t . S. Truesdale. stro CetrmlMnhdist church.whrD. Ualil hed a msbershi;). was interrat Magnoiacetry Sdents of Wofard Colleg8 at Chapel Th~riay morning by President H. It Snyder. H(e was filed with emO tio wen betold the stadents. that the forp hadinished his work here and: bsd'goue MoeaP hi rerd.- Following the annonne met. Dr. Siarder sid there woud. be no exerciseS Thursday ad Fri d. The old College hell, the ring ng of which had. 'oeen. sweet to the a of the deceased 'educator for o than :fty years. waS tonled. $ taps lMeing given. Dr. Cril s su-twed by' two children. Jamei H. Carlisle, Jr., and Miss Sanie Car lsle. and two brothers and one uis ter. Mrs. William Morrison, and Thas Carlisie. of Blackstock, S C. and Capt. J. W. Carlisle. of Sper tanur. EIDNA DGIRL m 'D 3 ut~ ef Ner H Bome of lier Jane Lol.the four and a half yes' old girl who was believed to hae been kidnapped while- at play in front of her home in East Thirty ninth street. New York. oni Septem ber last. wa mysterio@ely return ed to the vicinity of her home before dayight Tnday. -A pouceman found the ehnld alone in the darkened street two bMors from the tegemeut occupied by her p~t5. Mjong tou-el was wrapped several timeSshout the child's head. either to .mnme her cries or conceal her Identity. Since the girl was stolen-her fath er who Is-a prosperous frait dealer, had received numerous letters de manding large sums of money and1 reatnig to injure or kil the child if the ransom was not paid. -Wind and In Prisoc. At Patterson. N. 3.. when WiI 11am Fason, a blind negro., was de ied a drink in a saloon he drewa revolver and Ured promiscuousi: round the barroom. Although hi coald see nothing, his buflets ktll ed two men and wounded two cht rs. As a penalty. the court has fu ecdd that Fason must spend f..rt ma aa' rsn WILL DO THE WORK NEW COTTON PICKER SMUD TO Bi AN ENTIRE SUCCESS. ClaIms That it Will Pick a Thousaw Pounds an Hour Without Injuj to BoB or Plant. The practical working of the Price Campbell cotton picking machine wa demonstrated on te plantation o: Senator John L. Mc!Aurin. new Bennettsville one day last week it the presence of a large number 0l plante s and other citizens, and 11 what is claimed for the new ma chine is true. it can be truthfull) asserted that the days of hand picked cotton will soon be a thing of the past. It is asserted that the ma. chine picked cotton at the rate of a thousand pounds an hour. without njury to the plant or unopened bolls. About 90 per cent of the open cotton was obtained at the first pick ng, and by running the machine over the same rows again, it got about 90 per cent of the balance. making 99 per cent. There was a consider able amount of trash in the cottou picked. but many practical farmers said they had seen more trash in and-piekd cottton. A hundred-are feld of cotton was ought last summer from Senator XcLaurin by Theodore H. Prtaa of New York for the demonstration of the machine. No cotton had been pWkd in the feld. and the bolls. which opened early in the season had been damag ed by dust and smoke in the field. and the follage had become dry andI rotten. so that the cotton naturaIy made a poorer appes ance than It It had been picked soon after open Ig. Some of the cotton was ginned and submitted to buyers here, who classed it as low middling to strict low middling. They said they had bought a great deal of cotton this aseon which was not as good as tha picked by the maehine. Upon the invitation of Mr. Price, a number 9f Northern capitalists ame down and witnessed a private test of the machine. They saw a bale of cotton picked in an hour and then ginned. The party included V. rnest Macy. Marshall P. Slade. W. I. Loftus. N. F. Carpenter. Geo. . axter. Rudolph H. Kimsl. George C. F aser and Ewood Hendrick. of New York. Herbert E. Walmsley and Herbert . Walmsley. Jr.. of New Bedford. Mass.: Stephen C. Lowe. F. P. Sheldon. Frederic S. Goodwin. C L. Hathaway. F. W. Perkins and 0. D. Hammond of Boston. S. H. Mo ibbon'and George P. Gordon of Pittsburg. and Joel Hurt of Atlanta. They were fully convinced that the machine is a sucoesa. The machine Is driven by an auto mobile engine, and the driver sits in front and steers the .mchlnj astride p, row of cotton. It moves over a row as fast as a man can walk, picking about an acre an hour. The projecting --noses" run ahead )f the machine, on each side of the ow. and lift up the limbs that are all gathered up and pressed into a pa about a foot wide. While the tlk Is thus held, smaln steel spin dles reach through it from both sdes, reaching every inch of space. On one side of each spindle Is a rov of small teeth, so short that $.ay will not catch hold of anything ex -e the cotton fiber. These a dIes are revolving rap dly and when a lock of cotton is ucd It is caught and wrapped around the spindle. The spindles then move out of the plant, stop rolvinL..and the cotton Is taken offby ribs similar to the breest of again. It falls.on conveyors, which empty It In bags at the rear of the machine. A boy -sits on the rear of the machina and packs the cotton in the bags. The boy would not be needed If the bags were large enough, to bold a round without 1%acking. Wery few Pieces of locks are left ina b.burrs. The cotton left is usually In whole bolls or locks. The in-ileS either mIss them or else ue already ioaded when they come in contact with them. When .a pspndle engage a lock, It usually :wistts It all out. Running the ma :hne over a row the second time emonstrated the fact that practically 1ll the cotton could be gotten the fit time by doubling the capacity F fthe machine, which can be done y leng. cing the battery of spin Angus Crmpbell. of Pittsburg, the Inventor of the machine, saw the nchin work. He has been work ngg at It eIght or ten years. It has~ 1asobeen Improved by other inven :os, working uder the direction of Mr. Price. who has thrown his whole sul and energy and vast financlal resurces into the development of the machine. He does not even read th cotton market reports wired tc him at Bennettvll*-e so intensel) Is he engrcssed In the testa of th< ppiker. He spends each, day out al Seator McLauriU's plantation. anc Is usually accompanied by Mrs. Price who Is with him at the McCail hoto tBeunettsville. Launch Party Ming. -T launch Sarah L,.. tsvedays ou of alker. Minn.. Is believed to hay gone down with all on board o1 Leih ate In the storm which seep the lake. A government boat ha bee sent out to look for the wrecki age or dead bodies. 1Endurg Monent.ab R ansa City. Mo.. haslotabn (aor In the death of Thomas 1 1wp. millionaire and philanthrol 1st He was eighty-one' years ol and his finest girt to that city wa the park whl'h bears his name. cotnaans 1.400 acres and i wo - emr tan s:on.000. A USEFUL IWE Dr. Jams H. Cadide Passes Away S runded by Loved Omes. WA TRULY A GOOD MAI WBre Sketch of the Distinguhe Educator's Life and Ums Gre Wotk for the Young Men of Sut Caroina as President of WoItor College. James Henry Carlisle was born I Winnsoboro. Fairfield county. Sout Carolina. May 4. 1825. His fathe: Dr. William Carlisle. was a native c Ireland and came to this country i 11. settling at Winnsboro. wher he was a practicing physician fe many years. Young James Henr Carlisle received his primary school ing in his native town. Later on hi parents moved to the historic town o Camden. where the young man wa prepared for college. being taugh by Professors McCandless, Hatuel and Major Leland. He entered the sophomore cas of the South Carolina College Feb ruary 1. 1842. During his cours at the college he was under Dr Robert Henry; who had charge o the department of languages. and Dr Leiber. who was in charge of de partment of economy and civil law Dr. Carlisle graduated In 1844; be ing the second honor man In 'h class, the arst honor man being Gen P. H. Nelson, who was killed In th4 battle of the "Crater." Being the scond honor man i fell to his lot to deliver the Eng dsh oration. His subject was "Shel ley." the poet. It is said that thh oration elicited much favorable com ment and many predictions wer made of his future career, but b achievements have surpassed tht most sanguine hopes of his most ar dent friends. The real teacher, like the poet. Is born. not made. Young Carlisle Im mediately passed from the schoo! room as student. to the school room .s tracher. being elected principa at the Odd Feilews' Institute in Co umbia. which position he held for four years. In I54 he was elected to a postion in the Columbia Male Academy. In December. is850. Benjamin Wof ford dieJ. He left by his will one hundred thousand dollars "for the purpose of establishing and emsow Ing a college for literary. claasical and scientific education, to be kcatd in his native district, and to be un der the control and management of the conference of the MethcliIst Episcopal Chunch of his sative State." A charter was duly secured and the trutees held their Eiret meet in to organize under it at New berry. Nov-mber 24. 1S53. Thus was established the Instito ion which was destined to be the centre of the intellectual life of South Carolina Methodism. and which wai to be a potent inflnence in the pro duction of the highest type of citi zenship foi- the State of south Caro lina. One of the United States Sen ators from this State. one of the Supreme Court judges, several cir cuit judges and many oth&r oficiale of the State are graduates of Wof ford College. while under the presi dency of Dr. Carlisle. Since 185.4 the history of Wofford College has~ been largely determined by James H. Carlisle. In 1CC hi was elected president of the institu tion. A: different times lhe has taught mathematics, astronomy. clv is ethics, the English D~blei. He was more thoroughly conversant witl South Carolina history than any liv g man. He Is the author of an ex celnt text book on astronomny. en itled. "The Young Astrono~mer. Tme and again flatterng offers frozi other Institutions have been made but to all of them he ever gave I courteous refusal. prefering to serv< that institution of his church te which he consecrated his lofty char acter and resplendent abilities. The honors that have come to Dr Carlisle have always been unsought Being modst and unassuing. th very idea of seeking a personal hon or seems utterly foreign to his nob; nature. He was elected a memibe of the first general conference o his church of which laynen wer membes, and. was elected to eac: succeeding one as long as he fel able to go. He was a delegate froe: his church to several Ecumenica conferences. He was a member c the ecsson convention, signing th famous ordinance. He was a repr' sentative in the late confederate- les islature. 1863-4. These were th first and only political offices he helk though time and again he has bee rged to 4ccept positions of honc and trust in State and nation. Wofford's adored president ha ever been a spirituai magnet. dras lg out the highest and noblest I the young men who have come undi his infuence. His stately form. h graceful movement, his loving y firm voice, and his benign face. ha' blended In an imperati~E cafll oung manhood that has found esponse In every heart that ha knw him. Jf you seek the monument of D C arlisle look about you in churt nd state, and see the mighty ho f Woford's men of sterling wort ho lives are a benediction to t! nation, and you will find his endc lg memorial. The last time that Dr. Carlii Kappeared in -public was during ti - summer school for teachers at WC d f ord College. when it was the plea s re of the teachers to hear an i t teresting address on school life long ago. and on WashingtOn's vi to . o tb Caroia a~fte he ha~d be TEACHING FARMNG SCHFME OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE F.UDMEFlS' UNION TO Establish in Each State a School to Teach Actual. Practa Farming Means Much. The movement recently broached by President Charles S. Barrett of I the National Farmers' 'Union look h Ing to the establishment of schools d in each State of the Union as purely schools for actual teaching of actual. practical farming-in other words n farms and school conjoined -is the h most nove! and radical movement of 7. the kind ever conceived by anyone. , In discussing the matter W. M. n Sherrill. of Denver Colo.. says: " e have recently read in The Atlanta 1 r Constitution a lengthy article by Mr. y Barrett. giving his Idea of the pos sibility and practicability of such s schools and I must say his idea, f while novel and radical, as before s said. seem to me both sure and prac t tical. I For instance, his idea that there shall be one great national training or farmers' school centrally located and subsidary small feeding schools to not only teach. but practice sure enough old-time farming (not pid dlIng) is certainly a movement. if carried out, would mean an absolute revolution in farms and farmers ev erywhere.-especially In the South. Mr. Barrett. as is well known. Is a practical. cultured. sane man; and he says his Idea has been in his brain many years; that he Is going to work the scheme, and promulgate and car ryIt out In every detail. It Is known that so many farmers in the South. say in Nor.i Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia. are dragging not a living, scarcely. but a hand-to-mouth existance on old wornout red gully hill *des and dales. It is his aim and determina I tion to show those worthy men (none more worthy on God'*- green earth) that these conditions are wrong; need not be so; can be changed by actual training schools for young men, mak ing farming what it surely and real ly is-a study and a science. We all know, If once some of the dear old-time farer:: could be got to see that "book-farming" is not nonsense. not a bugaboo. but a neces sity. if farming is to be rightly done. I say if these schools can be run so as to show them. through train tug their sons In farming schools. transform with high intelligence and intensity and to '"bring up" the so called worn-out farms (not worn out. as supposed all too often). If the farm school can do any such work as this. their establishment will sure ly mean more for u all. whether in town or country, than any movement I have heard of In a great time. Mr. Barrett Is already at work; says he has money and stupport be hind him; Is not talking as a visiona-| ry; has studied the situation, and Is going to do what he has long felt and desired and ought to be done. In what I write I do not mean to place the farm head and shoulders above other occupations. We are tot consider- the thousands of wage-e~arn-i ers and all other classes, I do mean that, so much depending on right farmln.g. that the farmer of all men. needs sebooling-just as the lawyer or the doctor or the minister must have aszch to have any success or standing whatsoever. I-do not think this a movement to "turn the he'ads.' so to speak. of this class. Where lid right schooling ever do such? But I do believe It a sane and neces sary and feasible movement. which heaan knows,! wish hearty success. WENT TO HIGHlER COURT. .an Who Was to Have Been Tfried in Oourt Stricken. George Walters. about 50 years ld. who was to have been tried this w ~eek In the Government Court on the charge of operating an illicit dis illing plant. fell unconscious from a sudden stroke of apoplexy in the - all leading into the court room. ' about 6 o'clock Wednesday after - non. It is believed that he will lie. Walters was apprehended In .1 une by Officer Mderrick in Ocone~ county and has since then been aond.er bond for appearance. He ls originally from Georgia. He was t|:noved to the Salvation Army Cita a Ide,. having no frIends or relatives 1in the city. It Is not improbable that In falling he fractured his skull e l n the stone floor of the hall. He lingered until neidnight. when he died.. elected president of the United States. I Prior to this time he had not made ran address in public for many months. SThe commencement at Wofford last June was the Birst commencement n miseed4 by Dr. Carlisle for more r than two score years. When he was isa member of the faculty he always occuped a seat on the rostum during e the commencement sesson. and after he retired from the active presi a de of the college. he never missed S an exercise. Last June. however, he was indisposed and it was impoe '. siblc for him to attend any of the b exercises at the college. st Dr. Carlisle was president of Wof .. ford College from 185 to 19(2. ie when he resigned and became r'es! r- lent emeritus. Following ths res ignation. Dr. Hi. N. Snyder was elec't ,Ie ed. Although he resigned the presi se dency of Wofford. he did not give f- up active work, for he continued to s- lecture on astronomy and the Bible. n- His Bible lectures continued until of last winter, when he was forced to it give up class-room work on account a oe B ,aevao cold. LUNATIC SLAYED .SYLUM INMATE IS STRANGLED IN LONELY PLACE Dead Man Attacked Phylelan in In Lettees to the New anspesad He Is Accsld of the Murder. Dr. A. 0. McGowen. for twenty years a leading physician of Jack son. La.. In jail on the charge of having murdered H. A. Judson. of New Orleans. an inmate of the State asylum for the insane he:.i. Judson's body was found in a lonely spot near Wakefield. La. He had -been strangled to death. The insane man had been allowed to leave the asylum the preceding day In com pany with an assistant supervisor. Judson was seen with Dr. McGowen later. Dr. McGowen in sunder Federal in d!ament on the charge of mailing nbjectonable letters to prominent men and women. For the past ive; years the postal authoritIes have been puzaled by repeated mailing of these letters and it was not until a few months ago that secret service men discovered evidenc. that is said to have pointed to Dr. McGowen. No trace can be found of the guard who left the asylum with Judson. who -was considered a harmles lu natic. While residing in New Or leans he sent many letters to the newspapers criticising usam and at ter and one object of his attack was Dr. McGowen. mNE BxPLOSjON. TerrbAe Disaster in Okahom Mine NeW Eitsborme. Ten miners are dead, two are in Jured and one is missing as a re sult of an explosion in mine No. 10. .f the Rock Wsnd Coal Mining Com -any Noar Hartshorne. Okla. NIne ooies were recovered. The men are believed tn have gone beyond a "dead lne" with lighted mps in entering the mine. the lamps Igniting escaping gas. The fact that Dan Hughes, a sub-boss, was with the other men, suggests the theory that the men were arranging the a- courses to carry out the gas when one or moro of the men passed er the "dead line." Hughes was Llive when taken from the mine. but never regained consciousness. This is the third largest catastro phe in the history of the McAlaster ining district. In the Dengan mine ear Wilburwi,-. In 1905. nineteen men were killed. Twenty-nine men were killed on August 26. 1908.. in the Halley-Ola Mine near Halley rile. TYrHOON PLAYS HAVOC. LAss of Life in the Archipelago May Be Heavy. A dispatch from Manila says a typhoon of unusual severity swept orthrn and Central Luzon on Sun lay. Wire communication beyond Dagupan and Luzon Is cut ofi and 1 Ietala are lacking. One messa.ve from San Fabian !ayi that the loss of life is consid rable and that the damage to prop arty was heavy. At Hongkong many casulatles at-C tended the typhoon that played hay oc with native shipping and dam aged other vessels at various points an the corast during the nIght. At Macao the fortuguese gunboat Patria was lifted from Its moor. ings and carried up the canton ri-I i-r. where It was stranded on a flood ed rice field. Many houses were blown down in the vicinity of Macao, where funks and fishIng smacks in large number foundered. involving manyessulatles. FIED BY THE GOVERNORi. The Dorchester Board of Begistra tion Removed. By a proclamation made public Wednesday. Governor Ansel summar! ly removed from omce Elias Doar and R'. M. Liehouse. membe.is of the Dorchester county roglstr..tion board, for misconduct in offce In; registering negroes and others from list furnished them without exam! nation and far Issuing certificates to a number clearly not entitled to registering because some could not read and others had not paid their ~axe as required by the Constitu tion. The Governor's action was taken after a full Investigation. In cluding personal interviews with the men deposed. A. W. Rumph. the third member of the board. "who i an old man' and in ill health." w~I be alow'd to resign.* NEGRO DESPERADO KILLED After Shooting a .Magstrate and a. Negro Child.I At Sumter Wednesday while Mag Istrate Dooglas Jenkins and Deputy Charles Jenkins were attempting to arrest a desperate negro named Geo-I Mitchell. the latter fired upon and seriously wounded Magistrate Jenk ins and the negro's stray shot caught a negro child ih the neck. crippling It for life. The offcer, returning the ire killed Mitchier instantly. The oroner's .iury ~exonerated themn. here. was intense excitemt for a ime, the Jenkins being promneoty connected. Tys universal verdict s that Mitchell g't exactly what he eserved, and that the ceamnity n which he lived is better og with out him. High Praise. Bishop Candler once sald that he ould rather his boy would simply go into a room where D~r. Carlisle's old coat was hung up than to be under the real tuitlon aftyn a s'g I etle grateducato'. FOUND GUUlY BighA nid Ana Convicted of M dnghe and Sent Up for THREE YEARSANDA HAL it Will be Remembered That Aman and Bigham Shot and Klfle Bigham's Wile on the Evening A September 4 Last, at 3arrelli' Iniet. Three years and six months im prisonment In the State penltentiarn was thet sentence passed by Jud;t Watts Friday afternoon at George town upon W. B. Avant and G. C Bigham. for the killing of Mrs Ruth Crisp Bigham. the jury having rendered a verdie; )f guilty of man slaughter after '~c hours' deliber atior.. Thus ends the story of a deed that has shocked the people of the entire State. The correspondent of the State says the majority of the people art Lnclined to think the senten.e ex tremely light. In spite of the ver lict, though. the killing of Mrs. Big am has not been explained. mys try still enshrouds the affair. The Uht for the accused men centered round the fact that they considered he "object." which proved to be ra. Bigham. a trespasser and that here was reason for suspicion. This was ably combatted by the State, Lthough the prosecution was at dis Ldvantage In not having reply to Mr. agdale. Considerable surprise was created when the defense permitted the case o go to the jury without offering ky testimony. The State touched another phase >f the case when in the tLzI.ony o d. J. Pearce of Waterloo. Laurent ounty. It was shown that Mrs. Big am while on a visit to her old home a August had recelved a letter and legram from her busband. the con ents of which caused her to weep. lhe matter of unhappy maried re atlons was merely binted at in this nanner. Mr. Pearce had seen this etter and the tears of the deceasea roman. Mr. A. C. Leonard. one of the tate's witnesses, was on the boat o Georgetown, with Mr. and Mrs. vant. after the killing. -Avant has old him "It was a sad occurrance. >t I believe any one ele yould have lone It under the excitement and 'rtght. Dr. Bighant doesnt blame ne; he told .. me to shoot." That word -excitement" played a great art in the - argurienc by counsel. ,rticularly In that of Mr. Rags Wale. Attorney J. W. Wingate open d for the defense, speaking but 10 nnutes. dealing -largely with the !uty of jurors. He was followed by Solicitor ooper of Lauren.. vno spoke for t minutes. Mr. Cooper dealt some yhat at length with the law on tres Mr. Cooper pointed out that ac rding to the testimony Mrs. Big sam was sitting on the beach when thot, that there was no suspicious ction or movement, that the men id not hail her as she passed tne ouse. He argued the compiete ab tene of any circumstances that ould warrant suspicion; he showe.. L intencion on the part of the de endants to shoot and contended that hey were therefore guilty of mur Solicitor Wells argued that -since he defense was based on a specific ttatute. section 2. the burden of prov g the fitness and -applicablity of .his statute rested on the defense. l'en he attacked this plea with inueh vigor, mag a telling Im ression on the jury. Hie endeavored :o show that because these men were rightened was no eudicient excuse or the act. "The law doesn't ex smpt them because they are arrant :owards" said he. Mr. Ragsdale, for the defense. clos sd the arguments. making a pow erful appeal to the jury In behalf f his clients. He endeavored tC show an ab'sence of any motive tor the killing, a tact which the State baa not atiempted to establish. Hie ridiculed much of the State's tes imony and sought to discredit some of ts witnesses. While the appeal was eloquent, moving the hearts of many in thet audience, strong and forceful. it terms elegant and refined, still 11 was scar.ely more than an attemp1 to play on the sympathies of thi jury. He attempted to show thal y the testimony, it was dark whet the shooting occurred, that Avan1 and Bighamn seeing this susplciou: looking person on the premises wer only acting in dgfense of their home: nd loved ones. Several times dur lug Mr. Ragsdale's speech b.oth th< defendants. Avant and Bigham. wer moved to tears and sat sobbing heir faces buried in their hands. Judge Watts' charge was shor but to the point, touching only thee phases of the law that might appl in this case. On murder and man slaughter the jury were thoroughi Istructed and section 2 was especial 1' brought to their attention. C'rit ia carelessness or negligence, a diu regard of human life, were als touched upo~n at the request of S< licitor Wells. Judge .Watts told the jury tb: I the testimony satisfiod them th. the -'person" were acting in zsu: icious manner and dled when halteo then the. defendants wore accit wIthin their legal rights, as indica ed in the section. The clause "flees when halted which had been stressed by Solicit' Cooper was denned hy Judge Wat as not necessarily "running away but that a person might dece and y n ot move faster than in a walk. v- ManY hsnqestioned the matt WANT fil FR9~ FOOLISH. SENTIENTAL WOMEN IN ATLANTA PETITION Gorernor Brown to Pardon a 5>uble Muderer Bemuse He Claims a Change of eart. A dispatch from Atlanta says GOV. iBrown is being besieged by a dele gation of Atlanta women. interested in religious work. who made an ear nest a-d tearful plea for the life of 1j9hn Harper. convicted of the mur der of Sheriff Ben Keith in Mur ray county and sentenced to die. The delegation included represen tatives of the King's Daughters and active workers in some of the lead ing churches of Atlanta. They urged that since his conviction. Harper had experienced a decided change of heart and if given a chance to live would be an entirely different man. How ever, they were not hopeful of secur ing his release but would be satia 2ed with having his sentence com I muted to life imprisonment. In connection with the governo:'.& action on this case. it should be borne in mind that Harper. although public sentiment seems to have changed towards him in his own county recently, was reputed to bell a desperate man and it was for a homicide that Sheriff Keith was seek ing to apprehend him at the time he t was killed. The case has been before the a courts and the pardon board In va- e rious shapes "for several years. At c one time after his conviction Harper e succeeded in making his escape and was at large for about six months a before his recapture. Since then, he f has been confned for safer keeping e in the Tower in Atlanta, where he c has been visited almost daily by ; religious women who have greatly t I interested themselves in the man. d liarper's case has been before the t supreme court twice and before the a pardon board several times. When i all .hope seemed to be lost the de- ; fense would assert that new evi dence had been discovered and secure a respite in order to have It heard. a In this way. Harper has escape'd from c the very shadow of the gallows six or seven times. His tether has play- M ed out, now, however, and his last C die has been thrown. In Its report on the case. It Is y undestood that the prison board was o divided, there being two for eztreme $ punishment and one in favor of com- g mutation of sentence. t A JOHE THAT LASTED. t Conductor Gave ExhMtion of Work- f a Ing in HaP'tS. A dispatch from New York says Constable Bloscher of Leonia. N. J.. !s a practical joker of the first wa- c te, at least he was until he had o an experience the other day, which I may have soured' him on practical $ jokes for a while. Tbe other after- t noon he went down to Fort Lee with s a pair of handcuffs in his pocket. He. ws fairly Itching with a deslr( to -b have his little joke and at last the p opportunity came. Coming back on C: the Hudson River trolley line he play-. a fully snapped the steel bracelets up- I1 on the wrists of the conductor of the a car. The conduto'r did not enjoy I the joke so much as the constable c and the other passengers, but he t laughed good naturedly with them. while he asked Bloscherto free him. I The constable, still shaking with 11 laughter, fished out his key. put it I in the lock and-broke It off M Jock. I The conductor had an awful '.me ; ringing up fares, collecting nickels q an uncig .transfers with his t cledpunhad and not u'ntil no a got back to Fort Lee could he get a off duty and have the handcuffs fled offhs wrists. DECLARES IT GAMtBLING. ' t Coat Colieet Note Given for Stock - -pe= ra The supreme court of the united a States refused to take cognizance of the case of Majors vs. Wlli~amson,. involving responsibilities for a note given to pay a debt assumed in con nection with a speculation' on the1 stock exchange. The debt was con tracted by Williamson in Memphis. Tenn.. and a note was given with Mississippi real estate as security. The laws of Tennessee and Missis sippl prohibit gambling, and it was co.ended that under such laws the note could not be collected. The tnlted States circuit court of appeals sustained this view and the effect of the recent ruling Is to uphold the ?nding of that court.* Two Men Hung. Alabama had two hangings on ~Friday. Willie Stevens. white. was hung at Luverne for the killing of his wife and daughter. and at Grove IHill Louis Balaam, a negro preacher. was hanged for the murde~r of a deputy sheriff. I A Bol obber.I IIn 'lew of the scores of pasengers -on the Chicago to New Orleans lii -nois Central trainl, two highwaymfer Iheld up and robbed Conductor Day oison Wednesday night when the hm-1 - ited te~dn stopped at Harvey.a Chicago suburg. for water.* tiof both defendants being principais .in the commission of the deed. some .jthinking that Avant, who ac.mittedi g ring the shot, was or ought to be more responsible than Dr. Bigham. Judge Watts cleared up the mat tr in h!s definition of prmnals and rac~cessores. "A per'eon who is P?0" s ent whe'n a feiony is committed, en rouragiig. aiding. !nciting or abet t tin Is equally guity with the per son who a tually commits the crime.~ S sa? ha Wat I'EULL KUJDDEt~ hea Eley Pay the Rgqdirs Tarif Tax on Their Otiimg TEY PAY TO THE LS 'he Whelesale ManHtMOrs Nave to Pay More for oClth. TinAgs and Trimmings, and So They Ar Compelled to RaIse the Price ad Cheapen the Quality. One of the matters which the peo Ile' had in their mind when they sked the gorrument to arrange the ariff law so that it would bear a ttle less oppressively upon them was lothing. Clothing costs far more a the Vnlted States than It does In Lny other part of the world, though his country produces most of the orld's cotton and a great part of be world's wool. In spite of the act that this nation sells abroad ast quantities of both of these prin pal materials for clothes-making nd that with it improved macbin ry and intelligent labor It ought to eat the world, the price of clothes s higher here than it is nuywhere Ise In the world; and the reason Is bar the tariff schedules are so high s to tax all the people through very rticle of clothing .they buy. almost tirely for the benent of a few mill wners who have done nothing to arm this fat special privilege. Congress did not lower the wool :edule. It is asserted, In Its de e.s that it did not raise them. ther. though untu the full extent f the sleight-of-hand work accom lished by Aldrich Is laid bare, no ody can be sure of that. Congress Id not lower the cotton schedules, t it did raise them, and it raised zost heavily those covering articles rhich most people buy because most ople can afford nothing better. hese things were done by the tarif w which President Taft praises, ad for voting saainst which he has bastised the insurgents of the west These abstract facts are made tore interesting by a feW figures. lothing has already Increased in -ice, and still further increases are romised for next sprMg. The sUit clothes that you used to buy for 16 is now $20; and the aMtoal 4 represents your tribute to -h ool trust and the 'all-owners, ough there was a large tribute in te old price of $16. The whole ilt mavalurps hae to pay more ir cloth. linings; and timinfuzY. ad so they declare they are com elled to raise prices--and. what 1s orse, to cheapen tin quality of the The consumer has this, tempting oice: He can pay $25 for the kInd E suit that..he bought last fall for 20. or he can pay the old price of 20. 'and get for It the kind of suit st he could have got for- $16' last ~ring. A pattraen of goods that used -to esold to the manufacturers at $2.'75 r yard riow costs him $.10. It kes three and a half yards to make nit so the added cost en tihis em alone is $1.22. Ad'inig -In this dditonal cost of triminges and nings it is estimated that 'the In ese in the makinpa suit out of tat cloth is $4.22. A dealer quoted by the Cincinat :nquirer sys: l'The retail store eeper who has a run on suits that e pays $15 for and -sells at about 22 If he wanta to bold his $22 rice will have to take an inferior laity of suit. He will get a. grade bat sold for -about $12 previously ir which he used to seU in his ore at $18." - Another dealer says that-"it Is Imply a hold-up behind the. tarif ee" This man bought a -lot of 1th for $2 a yeard that sell he same goods from the same' mill -for 85 cegts a yard in Engad be suits made of It are agI4 to the etaller for $16.50 and to 'the wearer or $25. If the clota could be bought t the English price. 85 cents, the etaler would ge-, the suit for $10 nd the wearer at $15. And so it goes, throughout the tt. thanks to the tariff law- which he presdent of the United States s praising in .the name of RePo e pa.-ty solidarity." What does he wearer of clothes, thus robbed. are about "party solidarity?" BITI- E A MIAD DOG. our Chidren of arA ce -by a Rabid Pet Dog. Four children of Mr. E. W. Kert', ho live in the Prospect neighbor iood near Mooresville, N. C., were sitten by a pet dog Sata.1Y. N'ori ng was thought of the i;,->-,, ""n: i few days later. when i . au -xhibted symptoms of '- II? was immediately killed a"-'I 'it h.-ad sent to Raleigh for examnedonI. .A long distance telephone message from the Pasteur Inutitute stated that the animal was undoubtedly nad and Mr. Kerr loft for Raleigh to place his four children in ta~ In srtute for treatment. - It is stated that a mule, cow, pig ad a numnbe' o A.-en.. were also itten by the canine and muoh con ern is felt in the neigekborho')! over his fact. Mr. Kerr was advised ey te Step chemist to kill all the naui m~al bitten by the dog.* Owners of London. Some 34.500 landowners posses the land upon which London 15 sit uated and this area is estime to be worth $3.000.000.000. The value of this land is now, however. increas ig very slowly. It is calculated that the increases In the next twenty years jl bo about $175,000,000. /