The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, February 16, 1910, Image 1

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VOL. XXIY MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 10 NO.26 SHOULD SWN E g gd DfggjBy AssaIk Aged White Woma IS SHOT BY OFCERS When Surrounded by Officer% Negro Attempt. to Shoot But Ofm-irs Get First Shot-Bullet Pierced Negro's Thigh.-Mob of Angry Citizens Outwitted. Escaping trom a turpentine camp sIx miles from Tampa. Fla.. where he was detained as a convict. Roland Flowers, a negro, went to the home of Mrs. Jane Ellerbee. a prominently connected white woman, two miles away, at two o'clock Thursday after noon. and at the point of a gun forc ed the frightened woman to submit to an assault. As soon as the negro left, the woman ran a'distance of two miles. with no shoes on her feet and but the scant attire the brute had lett on her and gave the alarm. Officers from Tampa hastened to the scene in automobiles, and secur Ing bloodhounds were soon on the trail of the negro. Half a hundred men on horseback also took up the chase. but the sheriT's posse was first to sight the fugitive, which prob ably saved summary punishment be ing visisted on him. When sightel the negro had a gun which h. ha,! taken from the Ellerbee hoirb. Wher. commanded to halt. ne strted t shoot, but the offcers firvvi ist. on# of the bullets piercing his taich Another went through the tw3 har reis of the gun. The negro was placed in an auto mobile and hurried to Harcey. z small station several miles dise:.nt. Anticipating that the roads wou.i .-e watched by the angered citizeni. who outnumbered the officers ten to one. the latter took a wide detour a-2d Pr rived at Tampa with the!r prLso.or six o'clock and Zodged him in the jail. He is now under heavy guard and it is hadly probable that any violence will be attempted, for the present at least. Mrs. Ellerbee tells a story revolt Ing in detail. She was In the yard at the time the negro arrived, and was the only person about the house. The negro asked for a drink of water and permission to sit down and rest. He walked into the house to sit down and when Mrs. Ellerbee pro tested he forced her to go Into the house also. pointing a gun which he found in the house at her. Mrs. El lerbee is about 54 years old and lives with -her ,son in a small farm house. DE&TW OF AN OLD WOMAN. Said to Have Been One Hundred and Siateen Years Old. "Aunt" Mary Cain. reported to have been 116 years old, died recent ly near Durham. N-. C. This old mamn my, whatever age she had, was an - interesting character and until her decline, dating from last year. had a clear mind that enabled her to tallk entertainingly of Judge Thomas Ruf fin, believed by many lawyers to have been th-e greatest judge of his day. She was a friend of Judge Cameron and the nurse of his son, Paul Cam eron. These facts alone sustain the claim of .great age, but she was near ly a grown girl when the war of 1812 broke out and she talked 0' that date to a finish. She could re call well the soldiers and their dolngs in those days and any date within 100 years, it appears she remember ed quite well. TRIED TO CARRY OFF BOY. Two large Eagles Attack a Ten Ye-ar Old Lad. Ten-year-old Ira Cunningham. of Laporte, Pa.. has the distinction of having had to ftght with two huge bald eagles for his life, and he w.i carry the marks of their talorns to the grave. The boy is the son of a farmer. living in a remote sectio: known as Ringdale. On Thursday he was returning from school, an ' was about a mile from any habita tion when two eagles swooped dow' upon him knocki~ng him down an attacking him with great fury. They repeatedly sunk their talons in hiN shoulders and tried to carry him~ away. The boy fought pluckily, and getting hold of a club, resisted the birds so sturdily that th'ey abandon ed the attempt and flew away. DIES AFI'ER BIOUT. Boxer Succumbs to injuries tecelved In Fight. At Chicago Albert Wilkowski died at a hospital Wednesday night. fol lowing injuries receive in a 10-round boxing match. The police took into custody pending the outcome of a coroner's jury. Harry Gilmore, the veteran pugilist. Joseph McCarthy. and George Leatham. The bout took place in Gllimore's Boxing Acadelauy. with McCarthy as WVilkowski's oppo nent. Leatham was one of the sec onds. The men founght with two ounce gloves. The rounds were fast and furious. At the tenth round th~e men finished in apparently good con dition. but shortly afterwards WII k'owski collapsed. His death follow ed twentyfour hours later. A Cherry Mine Victim. The body of one miner and the carcasses of 64 mules were found .350 feet deep in the St. Paul mtid at Cherry. Ill., by relay parties of re WORK OF HIGH TARIFF MANY HUNGRY CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO. At Least That Is What Mr. Shoop Superintendent of Chicago Schools. Says is the Case. Five thousand children who attend the public schools in Chicago are hab itually hungry, and 10.000 other children in that city are not sufil ciently nourished according to a let ter from the superintendent of *7e schools of Chicago from whi:h Rhep resentative Henry of Texas reau ex cerpts in the House Wednesdav. "Texas." declared Mr. Hen-y. ' plying to a recent speech in ds-fense of the new tariff law. delivered t., Representative Boutell of Illinois. "is prosperous in spite of the Payne- UA drich tariff bill. if that law had .':' things to do with the prosperity of Texas. why does it not bring pr's perity to Chicago and other great cities of this country. Again replying to Mr. Boute!l's speech. Mr. Henry said he did not think the price of cotton was i< o high. nor were any other farn pra-/ ducts too high, on the farm. Cot.on being on the free list. was not a.-ct ed by the tariff, he declared, but ts price was fxed by the markets of the world. "Yet." he added. "cotton ties and cotton bagging are taxed for the ben et of the steel trust." Referring to high prices, Mr. Henry was interrupted by Mr. Bon tell who said that with prime heavy beef selling on the hoof In Texas at $10. he did not see how the people >f ChIcargo could buy them at $6 on the hoof. "Does the gentleman from Texas want to reduce. the tariff on cattle?" inquired Mr. Boutell. "I will repeal the duty on beef if zhe gentleman from Illinois will help iut every member of the beef trust In the pen." retorted Mr. Henry. "To whom does the gentlemna re er?"* asked Mr. Boutell. "To the Beef Trust." "But to whom does the gentleman efer?" "Don't you know?" asked Ur Henry. "Then the 1;,000 hung.-r hIlden in the public schools of hicaco should haunt the gen-2eman from Illinois." Mr. Bowell replying to statemente y Mr. Henry declared that toni. there were no hungry chill 'i t 'he ablic school of Chicago. that -.;;tt tatenet applied only to condition' attending the panic of i: )7. A Chicago dispatch says the state ment that 5.000 Chicago chidr-n zo to school hungry each day and Iht t 10.000 more are not pro,) ly nou 'shed was verified by Assistan: $up rintendent John D). Shoop. 'I am certain the flguces are 1. 1 verdrawn." said Mr. Sho.w. "'I knosw from personal observaiiani th G~ m ent hlldren &, iot make proress IT school because they d V ro eci. good nourishing food.'' TOO MUCH SOFT SOAP. ueer Accident to the Sewer Pipes 'it Orange. N. J. The bursting of a tank of hot soap afew days ago has given the sewer lepartment of Orange, N. ,1., the big gest job of sewer cleaning that It has had since the system was ecmzpleted ears ago. The soap was almost oiled when the tank burst. and :here Is no telling how many tons of the' sticky mass got into the sever pipes. The low temperature cooled the soap. and It con,;ealed on the In side of the pipes, stopping the mains ~ompetely. For a mile along the line of the eer awa' from the factory men are working at each manhole da, etard night trying to pierce the viscidi n~ss. The soap is as hard .'5 it would be if it had drnea for weeks. ad is being taken out of the pipes n chunks. It looks as if there was a long job ahead of the department .nd plenty of work for- the Board of ~lalth if it is delayed very long BAD) TO WAIT ON HElL Lady Toil Gate Keeper Went to Get Maed When Miss Louisa Paul returned ruesday to Newport, Ky.. after anc 'iour and a half absence, during vhh she .xad be'come the wife "f .'m. Paldwin, she found a mcns'.cr -e'ding party had assembled in thke orty or more vehicles that lined the road about her home. As ker.>r: or the toll gate on the PerUAm-fmf Grove road she had dutifully ic:-d the e,sie when she went away anZ.i ine travelers were unable to go out. They speedily hid their annoyancet os.'r the delay and when they learae4d t'-e cause heartily congratulated the bride and groom. Maniac Attacks Woman. At Culla n, Ala.. Mrs. Rosa Houk was attacked on the streets oy a young man by the name of Casson. s-ho is a maniac. Inflicting several wounds on the face and head beforA help reached her. John Krelhouse, after some difficulty, was able to free the woman from the clutches of the maniac. The man was placed in jail. w.ere he had to be strapped to a bed to prevent violence to himself. Decad in Their Home. 'The bodies of John Janowski and his wife were found In their home at Clevend. Ohio, by the police Wed nesday. It is believed. that both ere murdered last Saturday night. They had been stabbed. A neigh or woman said a strange man called upon the couple Saturday night and there wa much driking. COUNTRY SCHOOLS WILL SOON HAVE SPECIAL SUi' ERVISION BY A State Superintendent of Elementary Rural Schools, Who Will Be Prof. W. K. Tate, of Charleston. The State says the department of education is soon to receive a strong addition by the appointment of W. K. Tate. assistant superintendent at Charleston. to the position of State supervisor of elementary rural schools. This position is made pos sible by the liberality of the Pea body board and the Southern educa tion board. The establishment of city and State systems of public education was for many years the great aim of the trustees administering the will of George Peabody. who in 1867 gave $3.500.000 to the cause of public education in the South. Next in or der the Peabody. undertook to foster normal schools in the fourteen South ern States. The great work accom plished In South Carolina by the Winthrop Traning School. now Win throp College. has been liberally sup ported by this board, and the recent endowment of $1.000.000 set aside for the George Peabody Coliege for Teachers at Nashville forcibly em phasizes the purpose and practice which the trustees have consistently followed. The latest experiment introduced by Dr. Wyckliffe Rose. agent of the Peabody board. is a direct effort to improve school conditions in remote country distrtcts. This work has proved so successful in Virginia and North Carolina that the board has deenzed it wise to introduce it also Into South Carolina. A trained school man will be associated direct y with the State department of edu cation and will devote all his time and energy to the rural school of the state. The man selected for the work is well known to the profession in every county. Coming to South Carolina upon the invitation of Julian Mitchell at that time chairman of the board >f commissioners of the city schools >f Charleston. Prof. Tate is thorough ly identified with the educational In erests. His work in the Memminger %chool. in several State summer cchools. and on the State bcard of dineation is well known and fully appreciated thoroughout the State. He is the retiring president of the tati Teachers' Association and at he recent meeting in Columbia made a forceable presentation of the con nection between education and good citizenship. When first approached with the of fer of the position as State super visor of elementary rural schools,. he made this characteristis reply: "A 7fanf with frontier blood in his riens s irresistibly attracted by the diffi ~ulties and manifold opportunities of this new work." Prof. Tate will do ecture work In the university and erhaps at Winthrop College. It is probable that the trustees of the university will make him professor >f elementary education, thus giving he students in the pedagogical de partment the benefit of his ability and experience in their preparation for active duty in the school room. The girls at Winthrop will also be rfforded a like opportunity to hear Prof. Tate's lectures, If his duties in the country schools do not require all of his time. The thanks of the educational de partment are directly due to Dr. Rose and Gov. Ansel for securing from the Peabody board an appro priation of $2.700 for this work. and Dr. S. C. Mitchell for his assistance in securing $1.000 additional from the Southern educational board. These appropriations will enable the State supervisor of elementary rural schools to visit any community with out imposing any expense whatever upon trustees. teachers or superin tendents. His work is intended t' reach communities unable to secure skilled supervision and suggetions in school improvement. Prof. Tate will enter actively upon his new work during the coming summer, and is to be the right arm of the State de nartment of education. The development of this work in the hands of Prof. Tate recalls the great service already rendered SouthI Carolina by the trusc'es of the Pea body board. In 187S Dr. Sears. the first general agent of this board. made possible the adoption of the school law formulated by Hugh S. Thompson. and his colleagues. Three years later he also brou.:ht to South Carolina Dr. Edward S. Joynes, pro fessor emeritus of modern languages i'a the university. In 1886 the Win throp training school was founded by Dr. D. B. Johnson. with the as sistance of that great educational pioneer. Dr. J. L. M. Curry. In 1910 Dr. Wyclike Rose, the third agent of the board, has made possible this work for the too-long neglecttd country schools, and in giving to South Carolina the services of Prof. Tate he has placed his finger upon the weakest link in the school system of the State. Voted it Down. Antagonism to Hale and Allen hills which propose to give the rank of Rear admiral to Cammander Robert E. Peary and retire him on full pay. was shown by a sub committee of the House committee on naval af fairs. when the six members of th.' sub-committee voted unanimously against bestowing that honor upon Peary. Burned to lleath. Hemmed by flames in the upper portion of their home near Lands Station. the wife of Ernes: Forbs colored, her two nieces and 2-month old infant, were burned to death about seven o'clock on Friday morn Inlu. KLLED SEVEN Tie Murderer of a Whole Family Electro cated at Richmond. WAS ALL ROUND BAD MAN -0 After Murdering His Victims. Seven in All. He Attempted to Conceal His Crime by Setting Fire to and Burning the House With the Bod ies in it. At Richmond. Va.. Howard Little. who murdered Mrs. Betsy Justia. he. son-in-law, George Meadows. and thse latter's wife and three children in their home near Nurley. Buchanan county. Va., last September, was put to death by electrocution in the pen itentiary at dawn Friday without un usual incident. -Most murderers are executed for single murder; Howard Little has seven to his account. There were six in the wholesale butchery for which he was s-ntenced to die in the electric chair here Friday-a man, two women, and three children. The victims were Mrs. Betsy Justis. Geo. eadovs, Mrs. Meadows and three children of the latter couple one :ight last fall. Little was no ordinary "low brow ad" criminal. He bore an excellent -eputation in the community in which te lived and a number of friends till believe in his Innocence. His charac er appears to have been strikingly )n the Dr. Jeykl-Mr. Hyde order, to 3ne side being attributed the atro :ious crime which brought him to the shadow of ignominious death, the )ther being such a nature as to hold .he friends who stood by him until he last. Little is described as one of the landsomest men in the State; more han six feet in height, weighing 23-S ounds and being, in short, a more han ordinary fine spenimen of phy flcal manhood. He held the position >f United States marshal for the .astern district of Kentucky for a iumber of years. Except for his as ociation with women he declared iimself generally without reproa:h. 1 ie was a sort of rural "Don Juan." 2owever. and he himself declared. that women had been his ruina ion. It was while in the office of Unitzd tates marshall that he shot Ge . j icKinley, in eastern Kentucky. and ras sentenced to a life term in the Kentucky penitentiary. He was pardoned after a short per od and moved back to Virginia. wvhere he was made foreman of a arge lumber company at Hurley. Bchanan county. While in this pos tion he lIved with the family of| Geo. Meadows. Mrs. Little and her :hildren lived in tne same house .Irs. Littla is alleged to have been| resent when the murders were com-| itted, but she was not allowed to| :estify in the case. It was alleged by the prosecution| tnd believed by the jury that Little :oming home one night, killed the three Meadow children, Mrs. Justis ad Mrs. Meadows with an axe and hot George Meadows as the latter ran from the house. Next morning the Meadows homre was found in ashes. Dead bodies, ,nly partly burned met the eye on lmost every side. They were in arious postures, indicating that some af the victims at le.ast had made ter rible struggles to save themselves. Robbery was established as the di rect motive for the crime. It was known that the ill-fated family had kept a good deal of money in the house, and that Little afterwards ppeared 'fiush." It is believed that e incended to leave Virginia with his latest woman friend. At one time there was talk of lynching t'im, but public anger cooled, especially at Li: tle was promptly convicted. Originally the man was sentenced to die January 7th, but Governor Swanson respited him in order that the case might go to the court of appeals. That tribunal sustained the convicted.* ALLEGED LUNATIC HELD. Aiken Officers Arrest Man Who Acts Queerly. At Aiken W. C. Stone. who claims to be a lieutenant in the United Sates army, and alleged to be an escaped lunatic, from the Richard Grundy homue. Catonsville, Md., was arrest' d Wearesday, and the Mary and authorities have been notified. tetters which he carried indicated that he Is a member of a prominent family. Stone was arrest'ed after en terin.r a private residence, and ask ing for dInner, the food set before him being angrily thrown to the floor, because it did not suit him. Stone said he had been illegally de tained at the Maryland institution, and would fight extradition. Peculiar Death. Mese McKevit. a negro. died at his ho-me near Gree. on Tuesday night as a result of an injury received while down in a well. McKevit was down in the well cleaning it out. whena big henvy tub or bucket used in hau l ing mud and water to the surface. fell back from the top after being1 pulled up and his head was crushed.* Shot Daughters FEscort. W. F. Roddy is dying at the home of his brother from a pistol shot wound rece-ived In Columbus, Ga.. having bee-n shot by the father of a youing woman with whom he was out ri'ing. Roddy was shot through the throat and tongue and is therefore unable to give his version of the IRLS AND BOYS Enter the Corn Costest zad Wi Eidea or to Win Premium PRIZES AND AWARDS Over 1,000 Boys to Plant Special Acre for Premium-Method and Purpose of Boys Farm Demonstra tion Work-Rules Governing Con tests-Prizes and Awards. Over one .-usand boys of the state will be in the corn contest this year. There will also be a number of clubs composed of young ladlea. These corn clubs will be found in al most every county in the state. Dur ing the fall there will be an exhi bition held in Columbi. under the auspices of the corn exposition. The United States Department of Agriculture has made the following announcement with reference to the boy's corn clubs. It is worth while to get a boy to form a good purpose and work per sistentl-y toward its accomplishment. If a number of boys can be Induced to strive for the same goal, with a spirit of friendly rivalry, which will stimulate observation, study. indus try and economy, then the good re sults will be Increased many fold. Such Is the plan of the Boys' Corn Clubs in the Farm Demonstration Work. In order to get the best re suits it Is not only necessary to get the boys to unite in their efforts, but it is also essential that other vit al forces in the county cooperate. D)ne of the strong features about the Demonstration Work is that it Is co-operative. So In the Boys' De partment we frequently i nd the ounty superintendent of education ind the teachers, the Demonstratio:. igents. the business men, the news papers and the parents giving aid Lad support. Where this work Is being Intro Inced in a county, the county super atendent of education and teachers :an reach the boys in all sections of he county more quickly and more ffectively than any other agency. r'he superintendent can explain it to he boys and secure the names of all oys who will agree to plant one acre )f corn. It is best to begin with orn. It Is a fine subject for study, nd our ppople need to raise more :orn in order to be prosperous and ndependent. After this is done a meeting of all oys interested shoul4 be held at he court house for the purpose of )rganization and instruction. Such neeting should be held as early in :he se-s-n as possible so that every toy may have time for proper prep iration of soil and selection of seed. For the first year it has been foundl rdvantagecus to see that first class teed are furnished to all of the boys lke. After that each boy should elect and breed his own seed. Wherever a special agent of the De partmnent of Agriculture of the Unit sd States is located tn a county it will be found that he will gladly help in giving instructions and advice In regard to the agricultural part of he work. either in the country club ar to local groups of boys whom he may meet In his rounds over the :ou nty. If the merchants and o ther public spirited citizens have been visited sd the general meeting of boys. there will be a fine list of prizes to announce. There have been many commendable contributions to this cause In various parts of the country uring the year. It adds consider able interest to the work to offer prizes like the followinez, which have been selected from different lists In the South for this year: 'A Trip to Washington, $50 in old, $10. $5, a nice Buggy, a first lass bicycle, a strong 2-horse plow. a double-barrel shot gun, a $5 hat. a $15 suit of clothes, an up-to-date corn planter. a ton of fertilizer, a two-horse wagon." and other arti ks of utility and value, Some boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce have made appropriations for pri?.us and some have given fine recognition to the efforts of the Boys' Clubs by giving them banquets and street car and automobile rides. Circulars and Bulletins. Just as soon as the names of all of the boys are assembled in the office of the' county superintendent of education. duplicate lists should be sent to Dr. S. A. Knapp. Washing ton. D. C., who has charge of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. These boys will from time to tlnse receive circulars of instruc ton and inforration in regard to the preparation, fertilization, cultivation, seed selection, etc. These circulars furnish excellent subject matter for discussIon at a club meeting or for a lesson in school. They also lend to further study of farmer' bulletins and books. A boy will profit from such ressons. discussions and books because he Is making practical appli cation of the principles taught. Hie larns scientific agriculture because he needs It and not because it is se)'ntific. Rules and Awarda. It is not necessary to have many rules. A few regulations, however, are necessary in order to preent misundersten-ling. It is well for the boys to elect their own president vice-president, secretary and treasur er. Somie clubs have badges of mem bership in the shape of a button with the name of the club, name of the county and .state, and the year print ed or engraved upon it. The following rul-as might be adopted by a club, with such modif! carcn and additions as may be found neessary. 1. Boys joining clubs and entering contests must be under 1S years of age. BOUR EXPLODES SIX MEN KILLED AND SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED. Accident Caused by Turning Cold Water in a Hot Boiler When Wa ter Was Low. At Bay City, Mich., six men were instantly killed and a number of others seriously, if not fatally injur ed. when the boiler in Princings Saw Mill at Crump exploded Thursday. wrecking the mill and scattering the debris 100 feet in all directions. The accident is believed to have been caused by forcing cold water into the boiler when the water was low. causing excess of steam. The accident happened during the noon hour while the men were in the boiler room of the mill warming themselves and waiting for the whis- 1 tle to blow to start the second half of the day's work. Two of the dead men, William Coppersmith and Oscar Shoup weie narried. The others killed are Geo. De Witt. Ward Amidon. Chris John son and John Flood, all single. CALIFORNIA RAISING COTTON.1 More Than Fifty Thousand Acres in Imperial Valley. A Los AnUg-les dispatch says ar rangements have been made w'th London and San Francisco banks to advance $500,000 to finance the planting, cultivating and harvesting of this year's cotton crop in the Imperial Valley. It is believed that the land devoted to cotton th's Pea son will exceed 50.000 acres. Gius will be scattered throughout the val ley and a compressor, an oil mil! ano a refinery built at El Centro. The :otton industry in the Imperial Vt.1 ley has grown so rapidly in the ha' .wo years that it is now regardel as ne of the most important In seutb ern California. Profits fron last season's crop, which was largely ex perimental, are estimated t have een close to $50 an acre. BISHOP IS IN JAIL. Pastor "Holy Church of the Living God," In the Toils. Denounced as a menace to society LAd an imposter. Jonas Samuel Stur levant, the negro bishop, of the 'Holy Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of Truth." was sentenced at -Baltimore Friday to jail for three years. He was con victed of having assaulted and beat n Mrs. Rose Demard, one of his white "disciples." She testified that she was influenced by him to leave her husband and children in Brook lyn to follvw the ne;ro. under whose spell she lived eight months. She old a revolting story of her life in he quarters of the white women ver whom the negro had mastery. * nless he becomes a member of a club. 3. The members of the clubs must agree to read the instructions of the Demonstration Work. 4. Each boy must plan his own rop and do his own work. 5. Ex.hibits must be delivered to he county superintendent of educa ion by October 16th. 6. The amount of the yield and he method of measurement must bej1 ertified by each boy and attested byl t least two disinterested witnesses. ho shall be satisfactory to the coun y superintendent. 7. In awarding the prizes the fol owing basis shall be used. (a) Greatest yield per acre, 30 per cent. (h) Best 10-ear exhibit. 15 per :ent. (c) Best written account showning history of crop and expenses. 35 per ent (d) Best showing of profit on in restment. 30 per cent. Experts from agricultural colleges and departments of agriculture and leading farmuers should be invited to act as judges and also to give talks n corn judricing and seed selection. In estimating profits uniform prices should ha used, for instance: $5 per acs for rent, 10Oc an hour for the work of each boy, and 5c per hour for each horse. Fairs and Exhibits. Where there is a county fair the boys' exhibit should be shown there. If no fair should be held in the county, the boys' exhibit should be collected in the courthouse or some other public place easy of access. A good exhibit to a Boys' Club may )e ad to the establishment of a county fair. Exhibits by local clubs' at school houses stimulate the work and give fine opportunities for gen eral instruction. Althought the clubs may start with corn, the de velopment naturally leads to exhi bits of other farm and garden crops. Resulta. The object of the Boys' Demonstra tfon Work is the same as that among men, namely, better methods of farming and greater yields. Many of the boys in 4he clubs who begin to study agriculture in this way will continue the study in the agricultur al colleges, others will continue such efforts on their farmn, and all ot them will make more useful and more emicient citizerns. From the plesant and profitable experience of owning and man:gein-: their smal! plats they will develop into inde pendent. intelligent farmers. The country needs such a citizensaiij :. d such a life offers and will offer great opportinities for some years. 'I hr professions are crowded an: : th' wageearners must pay high pri: s f-ar the necessities of life. The wis: 'nd judIcious producer can only Esjoyu a-ialath, wealth and consentmen . h question is how many boys can be reached and influenced thus to suc NEW COUNTY LAW STATE SENATE PASSES A VERY RADICAL!1 BILL. It Relates to the Expenses of Form Ing New Counties and Who Should Pay Them. The passage of Senator Harvey's bill to require the proponents )f ne w counties to pay the expenses o: blar veys. elections. etc., caused % fight in the senate Wednesday morning. A motion to strike out the enacting words was made when the bill was called and Senator Harvey. the au thor, defended his bill with vigor tnd earnestness. The Senator from Berkeley said tbat if they had to pay the expenses. ;o many ambitious new county advo :tes would not spring up. as is the :ase now. He continues that with the Inancial obligations of attending to surveys and elections. attending an ffort to secure a new county the dvocates would thinkc and hesitate efore rushing into the attempt. Senator Montgomery favored the >ill. giving the case of Marion and he recent "run-in" with Dillon. The enator from Marion said that his ounty is now confronted with a debt f $10.000. half of which will have o be made by the old county, and he amount represents the expenses >f the formation of Dillon county. which hurt Marion and which it will ieverherless have to assist In pay ng. Senator Appelt told of a movement tow on foot in Clarendon to form a ew county and said that Clarendon s now facing a deficit caused by sur reys for new counties, which would ossibly have not been made had the .vocates been called on to pay the ills and at any rate the county vould not have sztffered financially tad the present bill under discussion >revailed at the time. Taking the position that the bill rould do an injustice, Senator Bass opposed its passage, as did Senator ates. Senator Grdon favored the ill. "A microbe lurks in every new ounty boom," he said. "and the new ounty enthusiasts are not satisfied rith one survey, but Insist on others Lntil their ambitions are finally real zed."o Senator Black.said that ils county f Bamoerg can not be affected eIt! r way, as it contains only a little ver the 400 square miles required y the constitution, but that he re ;ards the bill as a just one and in hat event would favor it. Senator Harvey again argd the assage of the measure, saying that f the other counties did not desire ts advantages, Berkeley at least was .nxious to enjoy the privileges pro ided for in the bill. By an overwhelming vote the mo ion to strike out the enacting words ras lost and the bill passed, and or lered sent to the house. The bill ads: "Section 1. That hereafter when it' s proposed to form a new county or o take any portion of an established ounty and attach same to another unty, the county auditor shall as ess on all taxable property in ter -tory proposed, to be changed, a suf icient tax to meet all the expenses ;f surveys, elections and all other rxpenses incident to or arising from ar out .of any change or proposed :hange in the county lines. raid tax o be collected as taxes are now col ected. "Section 2. All acts inconsistem. ume hereby repealed." DRV.G STORE ROBBED. landits Push Pistol in Face of Clerk and Get Cash. Two daring white youths burglar zed the Riverside drug stores in iacon, Ga.. Friday at noon. after 2lding up M. Griggs, the clerk, at :he point of a pistol. J. B. Kimball. tlleed to be one of the men, was :aught shortly afterwards, after an axciting chase which led over rail -oad bridges and across vacant lots. Griggs was standing behind the toda stand when his attention was :aled by a man who asked for a natch: as be looked up he erncounter ad a gun. Another man then rified he cash drawer but overlooked a afe. which contained several hun red dollars. After booting the cash register the men took to their heelr with a doza yr more ina hot pursit. They cross:' the river bridge and Kilmball was :aught beneath it. The' other was eaught later in the day. It is be lieved that Kimball got the bulrglar3 idea from reading cheap novels. H' used to buy th~nn in bulk.* Rejected Suitor Homicidal. Near Tylertown3, Miss., George Walker, a ne.gro farmer, was shot and killed, his oldest daughter, fat ally wounded and three others of hh family seriously, two of them per baps fatally, injured by Sylvester eardon. a .ound negro. late Friday. Walker's refusal to let one of his daughters marry Beardon led to the atter's attack. Pay" Fine Imposed. A dispatch from Laurens says 3. T. Kincaid. the young news butcher who was arres:,-d Tue"sday for selling wniskey on train No. 1 on the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad. plead guilty in the mayor's curt and war sentene.d :o ;)aya t:ne of $50. or .ery;- 30m days on the counTy chaingang. The young nwa: ~ad the fine and was released.* He (laims Kin. The editor of the~ North Carolina Christian Advocate claims kin with Danel Boone, who is soon to be ap propriately honored at the old Yad kin iverhome RESCUE ED Brute Shets 'rea Yong Gi aid As saltsb Her On the Ra, WAS SAVED FROM MOB By the Sheriff, Who Succeusfully Got By a Large Crowd That Wanted to Lynch the Fiend, Although He Was Mysteriously Shot by Some one, Who is Unknown. After hiding from a mob of angry citizens at Whistier, a small town nead Mobile for nearly six hours, Sheriff Drago Saturday night suc ceeded in landing in jail Henry Lee -Moseley. the negro charged with criminally assaultiag and beating Katie Walters. a white girl 12 years old. It was at first reported In Mobile that the mob had taken Moseley from the officers at Whistler and this gave rise to wild reports of a lynching, but Sheriff Drago succeed ed in eluding the mob and landed his prisoner in the Mobile county jail. Shortly after two o'clock Saturday afternoon the little girl.was walking, along the railroad at Bestor, AlL. two miles north of Whistler. She noticed a negro standing on a tree tie and saw that he had a gun. She turned and ran, but the negro fred upon her and she fell to the ground. The girl was painfully wounded In the back. but her injuries are not of a serious nature. The negro came to the prostrate form of his victim and. seeing that she was alive, evi rientlyied to kill her by 'triking her over the head with the butt end of his gun. A resident of Whistler, Emmtewt Myers, came upon the wounded girl carried her to Whistler where she received medical attention. The physician announced that her wounds were not of a fatal nature. .When the negro. -soon after his capture. was taken before the Little girl, she positively Identified him as her assailant. He was taken before her again for identification and she seemed to be doubtful as to whether or not he was the guilty person. At both times she was in a highly ner vous condition as the result of her experience. Intense excitement prevailed fol owing the negro's arrest and there seems to be some confusion as how he was shot. The negro, however. was shot in the hip, but by whom it is no know". IPersors living near the scene of the alleged attempt say that they saw a negro answering Moseley's de scription walking along the railroad track about the time the attempt was -nade. When arrested there were spots of blood on Moseley's shirt and a shot gun he carried had been lately dis charged. It is said that he admitted having the gun and explained Its con dltioni by saying that he had shot at a bird. THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON. Self-Confessed Slayer Found Guilty of Murder. A dispatch from Oxford. N. C., says in a very able speech Solicitor Gattis furnished his concluding argu ment Saturday morning in the case of the State against Solomon Shep ard on trial for murder of Engineer Holt of the East Durham coal chute in December. IS0S. The jury Sat urday afternoon brought In a verdict of guilty of maorder in the second -legree. The prisoner's counsel pleaded for mercy. Judge Blggs comn plimented them for their handling of the case but stated that the jury had extended all the mercy the pris oner deserved and he sentesced the risoner to 30 years in the State's prison at hard labor. the maximum punishment for second degree mur der.0 BURGLAR TO DIE IN CHAIR. North Carolina Negro Found Guilty of First Degree Burglary. At Newbern Jess Whitehead. col red. charged with hurglarizing a number of houses in the city In the past three months, and in whose ouse about $500 worth of loot was 'ound a few days ago, was found uIty of burglary in the first degree. and sentenced by Judge Peebles to be electrocauted on April 29. WhIte Nead was caught by the clever work "f the city police. and at first ad rnitted his guilt to the officers, but afterwards denied it.* WIASHED) OVERBOARD. Captain of a French Bark Swept Into the Sea and Lost. News of thie arrival at M1elbourne of the French bark Mtarshal deTur rene. from Ne'w York. after being ;we.pt by heavy seas, which carried Cptain Parrott and the thi-d ot.tr -verboard. was brought by the steam Mr3akura Friday. The starboard baat ot the Turenne had been smnasri -d.. by a riant wave. and Captain i'ar when a second .sa engulfed him. e third otficer. who was carried intol 'he s,-a at *h.t time, was rej.u.. iut the' commander perished.* Burning of an Old Church. Erected one~ hundred and four years ago. the Fi-st Miethodist Church of Sparta. Ga.. was destroyed by fire IWednesday afte'rnoon. A piano and a memorial slab to Bishop Pierce was saved.