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TOOK LONG TRIP --4 Fma New York to Washington in His Airship Made by Atwood. CREATES A SENSATION Atwood on Boston to Washington re Aerial Journey, Creates Excitement b Among Throng of Holiday Visitors cc by Alighting Near Famous Board 0i walk at Atlantic City. M 0. Thousands of visitors at Atlantic City Tuesday saw Henry N. Atwood, tl after fighting heavy winds through- P out his flight from New York, and the third leg of his proposed journey i from Boston to Washington, by land ing in his biplane on the beach front. tl During his flight Atwood made three r< landings for gasoline. Atwood said A that; judging from the amount of w gasoline he had used, he must have a travelled at least 250 miles. He was a in the air more than five hours. The distance elong the coast is % about 115 miles. "I hope to start a for Washington before ten o'clock in a the morning," he said. "The only ti trouble I had was- with my gasoline 0 supply. After I left Governor's Is lan'd I headed along the coast. A y warning whirl of protest from my w engine as I neared Asbury Park told n m-the gasoline was low. I landed 1 and took on five -gallons. "When I rose the wind was strong. S So I took a travelling altitude of about 1,500. When I neared Tucker my tank became dry again. I bor- V rowed five gallons from the owner of . an automobile and made a good get- S away. G "The wind took me a hard chase. F it had been steadily rising. I en- A countered bums and air bodies that IV made the going difficult To make L matters worse, my gasoline ran out T, again. I came down, narrowly miss- A ed disaster when a puff of wind T caught the plane about a hundred 1M feet-from the- ground. I was almost C thrown from my side, as the wind got C under the wings again. When I struck the ground, I felt the shock, but found my machine un'damaged I and continued, afterstaking more gas oline, and made a successful landing here." Atwood left Governor's Island, in New York Bay, at 8:49 A. W., and landed at Par Place,'Atlantic City, at 2:30 P. X. e Atwood's appearance created a d sensation,-asIt was not generally be- s lieved tlxat he would attempt his b f;ight to the National Capital or that t Atlantic City wonl. be on his route. The. Boardwalk was crowded with a S holiday crowd when he hove in sight C and when he alighted he was cheered t by thousands of people. His landing i place was close to the Boardwalk. n -His machine was in fine condition c wh'en be finished the flight. F tHe left Atlantic City for Washing- p ton early Wednesd-ay morning, where he was received with enthusiasm. He 5 * alighted, in the ground immediate19 1; behind the White House. Atwood s used the Washinggton Monument -as 1 -a guiding mark, and several dozen v square feet of dazzling white canvas 1 was placed on the lawn to mark the b landing place. The Comos elub and 2other scientific clubs and so'cleties act-* u ed ashosts. .- b CAPTAIN PUT OUT OF CAMP. Omicer Curses Governor and Staff and Publicly Ejected. George H. Todd of Montgomery, p Ala., captain of. Battery B, Second regiment, Alabama National Guard, o was ejected from the camp at Pick- t etts Springs Thursday night by Col- t: 'Bricken and a company of infantry t~ for cursing the governor, the adjutant e general and his fellow offiders. A court-martial will be ordered in his case. Todd wias thrown from his horse Thursday 'afternoon when a salute was being fired in honor of the visit of Gov. O'Neal to the camp. It -made his angry and because the men at the gun laughed at him he swore si they should not complete the firing tl nor should they lower the flag. Capt. c Lewis of tht Tuskegee company, offi- C cer of the day, ordered the salute to C go on and when Todd attempted to b interfere, placed him under arrest. T ''At a consultation held later Adjt. el Gen. Scully told Col. Bricken to do Jas what he thought best and a guard e: was ordered to escort Todd -to the ti outskirts of the camp. The incident 3 created a great sensation at the camp. 'M which was crowded with visitors. * r4 ti YOUNG WOMAN IS KILLED. -e~ Sister, Father and Little Brother Are Seriously Wounded. A family automobile party, touring. from Portland to San Francisco, end- L ed..near Cresent City, Oregon. when the machine's -fuel tank exploded, fa tally burning one young woman and inflicting serious injuries upon siss- N ter, father and the two little broth- i4 ers for whose protection she gave fi: -her life. A -bump'in the road struck it the bottom of the car stripping the it gear and tearing loose the gasoline h< burners streamed back, touching the F tank. An explosion followed and fLa flames enveloped the tonneau'. Myrna bi Kelly, with her arms around her six it and eight-year-old brothers, crowded W them down in the car hut was her- w self caught by the full blast of the ti fire. She died late Friday night. * of w Ferris Wheel Falls. a With every seat occupied a ferris a wheel, operated by a carnival com pany at 'Booneville, CGriss., collapsed and a boy on the ground was the onl y person killed. Nine persons ti were badly injured and sever.l others g less seriously hurt. Frank Mahaffy. w aged 7, was killed. Mrs. Mahaffy ran cl toward the machine to catch her lit- h< tle daughter falling from one of the m seats. Her son ran after her and se was struck by one of the iron girders. by Set Off By the Sun. At Washington. Pa., rays of the sun focused on the fuse of a package ed of firecrackers through a bubble in de a window pane Saturday caused the WV explosion~ of the entire window of of fireworks were destroyed and the ti< store was ruined. ro WILL BE BIG CROP ' )VERNMENT ESTIMATES IARG EST EVER MADE. reau Figures Indicate Yield of 14, 423,000 Five Hundred Pound Bales For 1911. Official estimates of the cotton crop port of 1911 indicates that it will the largest in the history of the untry, approximating, according to e present figures, 14,425,000 bales 500 pounds each, evceeding by al ost 1.000,000 bales tht record crop 1904. Dr. N. A. Murray, acting chief of Le crop reporting board of the de rtment of agriculture, made the llowing statement subsequent to te issuance of the cotton crop re )rt: "The report shows the condition of te crop to be higher than on any cor sponding date in the last 10 years. . month ago the general condition as 8.5 per cent. above the 10-year 7erage. Today it is 10.13 per cent. yuve the 10-year average. "The acerage of cotton this year Is )out 35,000,000. Allowing for the erage amount of abandonment out 1,000,000 acres-the indica ons are that approximately 34,000, (0 acres of cotton will be harvested. The condition indicates a probable eld of 202.8 pounds per acre, hich on 34,000,000 acres, would lean 6,895,000.000 pounds, or about ,425,000 bales." Comparisons of condidons by tates follow%: Ton-Year State. June 25. average. irginia. . . . .. . 98 82 orth Carolina .... 89 80 uth Carolina .... 84 80 eorgia ........... 94 80 lorida ........... 96 85 labama .......... 93 79 ississippi ......... . 87 79 ouisiana. . . . . . . -89 78 exas ............. 85 80 rkansas .......... 89 91 ennessee ....... 87 84 :issouri .......... 90 84 klahoma ..........87 81 alifornia .........100 *95 *1910 condition. UANGED FOR BRUTAL MURDER. egro Meets Death on Scaffold for Killing a Tailor. -Damel Duncan, a negro, was hang in Charleston Friday for the mur er on June-21, 191'0, of Max Lu~bel iy, a Jewish merchant, the crime, eing among the most atrocious in ie annals. of this State. Unitl the last moment Duncan iowed great nerve but as the black ip was, being adjusted he fainted, ie trap being sprung while he was i this condition. To the last the egro stoutly maintained his inno nce of a knowledge of. the crime aving an statement for the news5 apes. The mnurder -of Lubelsky, a ~King treet atailor, occurred on June 21 of ist year. He was found in his'sifop nseless and lying in a pool of blood. he only clue left by the murderer. 'hose motive was robbery, was a. lody stick with, which the* crime ad been committed. A few weeks later the widow of the iurdered mian was attacked in her usband's place of business in a man er similar to that which resulted 1 the death of Lu.belsky. Duncan. -as sezied outside the store and re gnized by a neighbor as the man Swhose bands he had seen the stick -ith which the tailor had been kill i shortly before the murder took lace. The .negro was tried and convicted -the crime. His case was carried the State supreme court, which ibunal declined to interfere with ie verdict. Gof'. Blease also declin I to interfere. * UDGE WOULD FIGHT LAWYER. ttorney Ordered From Conrt Room By His Honor. Charging that Judge Win. Dickin m had "mutilated" the record in ie G. B. Cox perjury case in a Cin nnatti court. Assistant Prosecutor oleman Avery caused a quarrel in hambers Friday that ended in his sing ordered to leave the room. he irate Judge is said to have offer I to settle the dispute by personal count. "You made up this bill of eeptions to suit yourself," Avery >ld the Judge. Tht row followed. idge Dickinson ' declared after ards that he had attempted to cor ct the bill in a few minor parts, and ien, to send a/neat .bill to the high -court, he had the pages the with e interlineations and erasures cop I.I i GREAT PRESENCE OF MIND. edy Saved Herself from Most Terri ble Death. When the clothing of Mrs. F. K. cCutchen, a prominent and popular >ung matron of Dalton, Ga., caught 'e from an alcohol lamp Saturday, stead of becoming terrified and los g her head, she calmly caught up a avy rug and wrapped it around her. nding that this did not check the tmes, she ran to the bed and got tween the' mattresses, this smother g out the flames. It was only this mderful self-possession while she as suffering severely from the burns at saved her life. An examination the burns showed that. while they are very painful, they were not of serious nature, and she will suffer disfigurement as a result. Two Hundred May Perish. A dispatch from Surf, Col., states t of the two hundered passen s and eighty-five sailors on the recked Santa Rosa. only 8.5 had cs ped to shore. It added that little ipe was held out for those who re ained on the vessel. Eleven pas ngers and five of the crew were lost the capsizing of -the life boat. * I Heat Causes Explosion. Intense heat, it is believed. caus-3 an explosion at the Standard Pow-c r Works, at Horrell. Station, Pa., r ednesday, resulting in the death C four employees and the destruc- 1 In of the works. The storage o WORUT WELL 6133iRsSIO GoernmeBt Has Helpd CO hnnbia Wenderfdy. UCH MONEY IS SAVED 'in Thirteen Months," Says Capt. W. E. Gonzales, "Floating Debt of $75,000 Wiped Out-No Debts and no Overdrawn Appropriations. Mon. ey Saved From Income. The commission form of govern xtent has proved a splendid success in Columbia. Where c eficits were shoiwn under the old council rule a surplus is now ound and the capital city of South Carolina will this year spend more tan $100,000 on permanent improve ments-a condition heretofore un known. Next year the city will ap propriate $150,000 for such purposes. There are five men in Columbia who make it their regular business to look after affairs of the city. There are four. coundilmen and the mayor. Rhe councilmeh receive $2.000 a year, and the mayor $2.500. Here is the way the city's business is apportioned: W. H. Gibbes-Officers, accounts and accounting. Police and record er's court. Taxation and civil ser vice. It J. Blalock-Li::enes. Sanits tion and health Insurance and build ing permits. R. C. Keenan-Fire department. treet department. Market and light ing. ' R W. Shand-Law and finance. Schools. Parks and trees. W. F. Stieglitz-Water works and sewerage. Public buildings, chari ties and city jail. Up in Trenton, N. J., the citizens are making'a fight for clean govern ment. The Trenton Evening Times asked Capt. W. E. Ganzales, editor of The State, for a s'atenient as to the results obtained in Columbia and he as the following to sey which is to the point: Thirteen months ago a mayor and four councilmen took over the man agement of the municipal affairs from a mayor and r5 alderman. Formerly, the mayor got a salagy of $1,500, the alderm nothing. Now the mayor gets $2,500, and each of the councilien $2,000. We have the Des Moines plan with several improvements. There is civil service for police, fire and health de partments; initiative, recall and re ferendum.. None ot-these privileges has been Invoked. Ward lines are obliterated, council men being elected, as the mayor, at large. - The ward boss is dethroned. In the old system there was little r no grafting, lack of definite respon sibility; the unbusiness-like system resulted in waste-;. a thousand little leaks. There were jealousies a~nd bickerings among aldermen. All that Is changed. For four years before its 'adoption an earnest advocate of commission government, the i-esults exceed my expectations. There is more in the system than in the individuals. Thirteen 'nonths ago the new sys tem found a finatiny, debt of about $75,000-they always had fifwating debts, the E4dermen. Twenty-five thousand a year was all that covld be given by aldermen for street care and Improvement. -In ten months, for the irst-time in -many years, the city got on a cash basis. No debts. No appro priations overdrawn. Every council man publicly known to be responsible for the counduct of a certain depart ment. The water works, instead of showing a deficit of $18,000 to be paid out of general tares, is payirfg expenses and beginning to show a cash balance. Besides $25,000 for street cleaning and repairs, $100,000 was appropriat ed for expenditure this year for per mature improvements, the citizen a1 '.ng another $100,00) to i4-aL out of current receipts. Next year the city will appropriate $150,000 for such improvements. Council meets often; the citizens can have hearings at any time and they are in direct touch with the business managers of thiraffair. Ordered business supersedes a muddle. From the verga of bank ruptcy we step to a 20 per cent, divi diend proposition. There are more policemen, with three, instead of two, reliefs. The fire department is more efficient. powercars have supolanted horses in several instances. A wonderful change, and a splen did success. BLEASE APPOINTEES ENJOINED. udge Gage Issues Order in Beaufort County Case. Through a temporary injunction is ;ued Monday at Walterboro by his honor, Judge George W. Gage, the :ownship commissioners appointed ty overnor Blease for Sheldon, Bluff on and Yemassee townships, in Beau ort county, are restrained from ex rcising the authority of their office intil a hearing is had and either a )ermanent injunction granted or the >rder of Tuesday dissolved. The re training order was issued in response o a petition presented through the Lttorney , J. S. Griffin, of Walterboro, y the men whom the Beaufort dele ration in the General Assembly re tommended. The hearing on this natter will likely be held September b, the order requiring the commis oners to appear and show cause hy they should not be permantely tnjoined at the September session of jourt for Beaufort. Lever Gets the First. A Lexington dispatch says "the irst person to secure a marriage li ense under the Act of the last Leg slature, in Lexington County, was o.ngressman A. F. Lever, who is t' r'ed iss Lucille Scurry Butler. on text Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock. 'he happy young Congressman-for te has been wearing a smile as broad *s long for the past few days-ap eared early at the office 'of Judge of probate Drafts, but the veteran offi er had gone to his farm, and is was ot until 11 o'clock that the first li ense was issued." Mr. Lever and s fair bride will 'have the best rishes of all our people for a long CAUSE MANY DEATHS HEAT RECORDS OF YEAR SMASH- I ED EVERYWHERE. Fatalities from the Torrid Weather S Are Recorded Ovre the Entire Country, This Week. A dispatch from Washington s'ays the country over Monday early re- s ports to the weather bureau indi- 3 cated that hot weather records might a be broken in many sections and later a reports verified the early indications. t At Philadelphia the government a thermometer on the top of the post d office building registered 99 at one i o'clock. The hottest day since July f 24, 1901 when 103 was recorded. s There were nine deaths and scores t of prostrations. t At Pittsburg at- 2 o'clock the tem- t perature here hovered around the 100 i degree mark. During the forenoon four persons droppd dead, one com mitted suicide and two were drown- t ed in the river while bathing. The i prostrations run into the scores. At Baltimore the hot weather took heavy toll Monday, although the of- q ficial maximum temperature of 95 j degrees was two degress lower than t that of Tuesday. Four deaths, one of 1 them a suicide, two attempts at sui- t cide and twelve prostrations were re ported as a result of the heat. Chicago sweltered and suffered as the torrid wave, which held the city in its grasp, continued. One death and half a dozen prostrations are re- 1 ported. The death rate among the abies is extremelf high since the be ginning of the hot waves. At Newark, N.J., the thermometer registered 100 degress in the shade at ten o'clock that morning. There t was one death and numerous prostra- t tions. At St. Louis the heat wave con tinued over eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. The temperature is 94 and rising. The two men died from heat. At Milwaukee there were two pros trations and one death from heat. The hot wave prevails through out the state. Tie thermometer record between 90 and 95 dgrees. Five deaths from the heat and numerous prostrations were reported in"Kansas City Tuesday. A tempera ture 6f 103 in the afternoo'n estab lished a new record for the year. One death from heat occurred at Atchi son, Kan., where the mercury regis- I tered 108, the hottest July 4th on record. A dispatch from New York says the cumulative effect of three days of the hottest weather that city has ex perienced in years manifested itself Tuesday inra'list of twenty deaths at tributed- to the heat. Prastrations were counted by- the score and nine drownings were reported. Philadelphia dispatches under date says nine'additional deaths from the hot weather were reported that night, making a totaRPof 34 deaths within the past three ~days. The mercury1 recorded 94 degrees at 3 o'cloek. ORANGEBURG COLLEGE. Preparations Being Made for the Best Year in its History. The annual advertisemnent of the Orangeburg College appears in this issue of our paper. This school has had a most remarkable growth in the past seven years since President W. S. Peterson has been at the head of it. Every room was taken last year, and the prospects for next ses sion are brighter- than ever before. The Cpllgge draws its patronage from~ every section of the State, and from other States. The faculty for the coming year is the best that thet school has ever had, being composed of sixteen College and University trained teachers. A number of the. professors are on the road canvass ing for the eshool this summer, and it is expected that the boarding pat ronage will run up to at least 300 students the coming session. Prof. Peterson gives his students board at actual cost and this has reduced the expenses to the lowest cost. He gives the boarding department his own personal supervision, and having given the subject of dietary many years of careful study, knows how to furnish most excellent fare. The music department of the~ school the coming session will be es pecially -strong. Prof. Thomas L. I Tinsley, the Director of Music, is a 1 Georgian by birth, is a graduate of the Atlanta Conservatory of Music, I and has also had training in thes North. He is a great concert pianist,-s and will prove a valuable aequisition I to the school. Mrs. Della Gilbert,1 who will have charge of the Vocal department, is a graduate of the: Grand iPrarie Conservatory of 'Music t of Illinois, and also of the New Eng-e land Conservatory of Boston. Mrs. I Gilbert has- had many years of suc cessful experience both on the Con cert stage, and as a teacher. She comes to Orangeburg College from Columbia College, where she had charge of the Vocal department in that school for the past five years, and where she was successful in1 building up for that school a great ~ school of voice. She possesses a rich E contralto voice, and is flown all over C the State as one of the best sinrers 1 going. These two talented teachers f will insure Orangeburg College as fine a department in music as can be fouind in this State. r There has long been a demand for t a school that would give such train- 1 ing as this school gives at the low 11 cost that it does, and it is no sur- ~ prise to its friends that it is ,growing a numbers.a Will Fight Pine Beetle. a: As the result of widespread de struction of the pine trees in this section of the country, it is announe ed that the government will establish 14 a forest insect field station in Spar.. cl tanburg County. A. D. Hopkins, in l~ charge of the foresty insect investi- C g~ation, will take up the fight against " the pine beetle, which is believed to nh be responsible for the destruction. * A4 Meets Horrible Deatn. a While at work on the upper part a derrick at the Winnsboro Gran ite corporation near that town Wed nesday, Rex Caine, a young white al man from Wilmington, N. C., got his b: head caught between the beam an~d si og wheel, getting his 'skull crushedF instantly. The body was taken tow the old home at Wilmington, N. C., fha fo brial. *a VERY STRANGE CASE 'OUNG WOMAN TRIES TO LMTE BABY ON A TRAIN. he Was Required to Resume Posses sion of the Child, Which She Gave to a Man. The Augusta Chronicle says a sen ational story was told in Augusta fonday of a mysterious attempt of n unknown young woman to desert ,n infant on the Atlantic Coast Line -ain, from Savannah, upon its arrival ,t Yemasse and being prevented from toing so by the passengers, carried I t with her on the C. & W. C. train rom Charleston to Augusta, where he is said to have presented the baby o a gentleman from Augusta wh6 n hisid$kg'FFd.dh..etaoinshrdluem irought the new member of his'fam ly to his home in this city. Neither the- name of the supposed other or the present possessor of he child could be learned. Accord ng to the story as related here by zcursionists from Charleston Sunday Light, the unknown woman arrived at [amesse on the train from Savannah. k number of the men who were on be train, and whose attention had yeen attracted to the child, noticed hat the lady had got off the train and hanged to the C. & W. C. train, >ound for Augusta. She left the infant on the train and Ls she evinced no attention of re urning for it, they sent to her and equired her to take the baby with er. After the Augusta train had eft Yamesse and the unaccountable :onduct of the woman had been cir :ulated among the passengers, the nan from Augusta became a charac er in the story, by offering to take he child and provide a home for it. EHs offer was accepted, the baby Pas placed in his charge and he rought it on to Augusta with hign. The lady, who was young and good ooking, left the train at 4arnville, a tation in Hampton County, South larolina, between Yamesse- and lampton, without any one, so far as an be learned, having ascertained ier identity. She spoke to no one xcept asrelated..and offered no ex anation of her strange and myster ous conduct. SORT OF FREE LOVE CULT. [Leader of It -Being Tried in Chicago . \ for Immorality. Mrs. Lucile Bridges frequently cissed Evelyn Arthur See, founder of :he "Absolute Life" cult, called hi-m 'dear" and wrote letters to him while le was in jal, telling of her love for im,' according to her testimony giv m at the trial of the cult leader at hicago on rFiday. "The many kisses I exchianged with !vr. See were holy and sinless saluta ;ions," Mrs. Bridges testified. "They ad none of the rieaning of the kiss :he world outside of Absolute Life nows. Mr. See is a pure and chaste nan. It was not sinful for us to riss. We had the true light. We were above smn :and safe from temp-~ ation. Nothing we coufd do'would ye wrong." 'g saw a ne'l' light and a feeling a-a-.* ii me as -though there were omre: .ngS for mn'. te. do~ to better ny ;elf and beter the.world 'at large. t was a feeling which was like 'wialk .ng on a cloud.- That feeling wpas absolute life,' " said the witness. Mrs. Bridges admitted also thai ;he frequently visited the "temple" >f "Absolute Life," where See made is home, on nights while her hus >and was away from Chicago. She ;aid also that she hal made con ributions et -$1,000 and $500, re ;petively, to See in the cause of 'Absolute Life." WAS SHOT BY HIS SON. Ian Killed For Threatening Treat ment of His Wife. MRay -Kirkland, aged about 65, as shot and killed early Monday norning by Willie -Kirkland, his son, ged 25. The killing occurred at he home of a farmer in Kershaw :ounty, 20 miles from Columbia. Phe younger Kirkland, it is said. tilled his father to save his mother. McRay Kirkland, it seems, drove tis wife out of doors last night. She o refuge at the house of a neigh or. This morning McRay -Kirk and drove to the neighbor's house nd called the occupants out. *He eized his wife and threw her into Li buggy, menacing the hystanders rith .a knife. Willie Kirkland de nuanded that his father release the roman. The elder man paid no at ention to his son and the latter fir d once the bullet taking effect in the athers' head. TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING. ockingham County, Va., Swept by Violent Electrical Storm. Two men were killed, others were hoked and burned and it is estimat d that thousands of dollars' worth f damage was done to property and yve stock Friday when an electrical torm of great violence swept Rock igham county, Va. John Crider ancn acob Wilkins were struck by light ng 'while riding for shelter, and keey and their horses were instantly iled. A .bolt broke up a funeral roes'.:ir,n in East Rockinghiam, stun ing the undertaker and his assist nt, who were riding on the hea-e. ndd throwing the mourners into a ani'. More than a score of cattle od horses were killed in the fields. * Kills Baseball Player. At Huntsville, Ala., Horace Brad y a baseball pl'ayer, formerly ci~t *1er for Columbus in the South At ntic League, and late with Yazoo i, in the Cotton States League. asshot and instantly killed Wed sday night by a woman named Lucy nerson. The woman surrendered >the police and says Bradley shot ther first. Mother and Child Struck. The bodies of Mrs. H. M. Harmon 3d h'er infant son, who were struck liihtning near Cullman, Ala., were uppped to Little Mountain, this state, rid;1y afternoon for burial. They cr natives of Lexington county and a oved to Alabama several years; BOOM FOR JOHN Rews ad Cearier Wants Swearingen foi oveirnor or the State. WIDE PRESS COMENI '-he Charleston Paper Says Swearin. gen May be the Strougest Max When the Campaign Opens up Nex Year Because of His Stand in Bool Matter. The Columbia correspondent of th< Augusta Chronicle says the action o the State Board of Education in plac ing an unnecessary tax of $400,001 on the people, while working unde: the chairmanship of the governor, ha aroused general indignation through out the State and the latest develop ment is the proposal, .editorially, b: the News and Courier, of Charleston that John E. Swearingen, of Edge field county and State Superintenden of education offer for the governor ship because of his courageous stana against the action of the state boar of educationsln taxing the farmers o the State unecesarrily. Under the caption "Swearingen fo Governor" the News and Courier ha the following to say: " 'Swearingen,, observes the York ville Enquirer, 'could get a good vot for governor if he would run, and i elected he would make a good gover nor, too.' "Right on both counts. The En quirer knows less about meteorolo'g 10s nane, but it is as a rule -emark ably keen in sizing up a political situ ation. "It is at least not unlikely that cor ditions may be such when the nex gubernatorial campaign opens tha the present state superintendent c education may be the strongest ma: around whom the decent people c -the state could rally. It Would b possibfe to make a very strong argu ment in favor of his availability as candidate in certain cirsumstances. "The thought so tersely expresse by the Enquirer has occurred, prgj ably to many others. It is the habi of the American electorate as soon a a man shows ability in one public pc sition to consider transferring him t another. "We wish to suggest, thereforn that in the office which.he now occt pies, Mr. Swearingen has an oppoi tunity for useful service -to his Stat as large as any which should come t him were he State's chief executiv We. are glad/to, believe that M1 Swearingen realizes this. He has man's-size- task before him rigb where he is, and if he dcesn't accoir plish it-we shall be surprised as we as disap.pointed. "He has courage, ability and cot science. He is not a demogogue an he does not play to the galleries. Th people of South Carolina already hav reason to be grateful that he 1111s hi present lposition. Signs are mislead ing if this obligation is not to. be en larged. "Mr. Swearingen at'presenxt is ng running for office. He has more in portant matter's to thin aboust." The people of South Carolina, an especially those in the rural districts are aroused over the action of th board and there may be further de velopments. The Darlington News and Pres says: "While it . is not knowi why th change was made, it is known by al school men who are familiar with ru ral conditions, now that it was use less-a reckless waste of the people' money." The Allendale Herald says tha "the parents will realize next fal when they are required to purchas new ;boom that the charge is wel founded." This 'with reference t the statement of J. E. Swearingen. The Edgefield Advertiser says tha "the sweeping change can accomplis] b enotu thing, as wetaoinestaoin but one thing, as we see it, and thati to tagce money out of the pockets o the parents and put it into the treas ury of the book publishers. The Florence Times says that Mr Swearingen is right and "the gover nor seems to be assuming responsi bility for the mater." The Union Times says that th< whole thing looks "fishy" and con demns the board for the "star chain ber act." The Greenwood Index says tha there ought to be some way to fin< out who voted so much money out o the pockets of the people. The state board of education meet ing eliminated about 80 per cent 0 the text books now used by th< schools. The new books adopted ar< much higher in price than the oli ones, and it is estimated that th4 board placed an. unnecessary tax a1 $400,000 on the people of the State The legislature may take a hand, bui that will avail little as the real trutl about the matter will never bc known There v-as certainly a trick turned somewhere, but who turned it will never ,be known. Tell Tale Thumb Mark. The print of sweaty fingers on a highball 'lass may lead to the cap* ture of three men who shot Juli-n~ Weigel at his road house on Hem p. stead turpike near New York Tue s. day mornitng. The murderers had a drink, .one leaving a plain thumb mark with an irregular scar on the Drowns His Child. When his wife protested at the wanton -destruction of a picnic din ner she had prepared. Oscar Shoot, f Red Bav. Ala.. in a fit of anger. Friday pushed her and their two chil dren in the river. One of the little ones was drowned before it couild be rescued. Policeman Dies of Wounds. Patr.1man E. C. McConnell, of A~sheville, N. C., who was shot by i~he negro desperado. John Huff, last Monday while the latter was under arrest for cattle stealing, died on Fri l.ay afternoon. Pneumonia developed n both lungs. * Four Drown 'in Port.. Four v.-aitresses at a hotel in Mount Pocono, Pa., were drowned in a pond aear the hotel one day last week. wo others were rescued in :an ur HOLD THEM DOWN POLICEMAN LIARLf. FOR SHOOT ING OF BYSTANDEE, Supreme Court So Rules in the Case of a Policeman Who in Making an Arrest, Shot a Nan. A policeman, firing at a man he is trying to arrest, the ball striking a bystander, subjects the policeman to the law, according to.a decision hand ed down by the Supreme Court Tues day. In the case of the State against Robert M. Barwick, writes Chief Jus tice Irm B. Jones: "The defendant in October, 1908, was policeman for the town of Pine, wood, in Clarendon County, and on arrival of the Saturday night train from Suiliter, was opening a way through the crowd for me lady pas sengers when Thos. Singleton, accord ing to the defendant's version, declar ed he would stand back for no damn man, wherenpon defendant seized Singleton to arrest him for cursing and refusing to open the way. Sin t gleton broke loose and ran and the defendant pursued, firing his pistol towards him several times. "The deceased, Sam Bracy, was standing in line of the firing and struck by the bullet, which gave him a mortal wound, of which he died some days later in a hospital in Sum ter, S. C. The defendant was indict ed for the murder of Bracy and was convicted of manslaughter with rec omendation of mercy. "The testimony of the State was -to the effect that the deceased was hit by a bullet from the pistol of the defendant, but the defendant testi fied to the effect that Singleton, while running away, or someone in the di rection he was running, shot at the defendant; that defendant did not shoot until after this firing, and the suggestion was that deceased may have been shot by Singleton Barwick was questioned at his trial about statements under oath before the Mayor's Court. (A statement that Barwick made Sthere would have had the effect oi showing that if Singleton shot in a certain situation he could not have hit the deceased. The appeal to the Supreme Court was upon the question of defendant giving testimony against him in vic lation of the Constiution. Going into the law on this point of giving evidence tending to incrimi nate 4imself, the Supreme Court's - decision points out that when a de fendant voluntarily goes on the stand e he assumes the position of any other witness. There were other exceptions as to witnesses, "One of. the witnesses for the defence," writes the Chief' Jus tice, "admitted -that he may - have - said in a joking way without mean .1ing it that the coantry was going to ihe devil if they wo'uld' convit b white man -for killing a negro" "The Court charged the jury: "The law is applicable the same to every Bman. The law knows no pets, the law knows no difference between. an Indian, Japanjese, la ~eizegi of -this State, an African or a Cauca sion I would~ not charge you dif ferent law accordinig to the parties interested, much less could you try .tlie facts differently, the parties being ol* a different race, either Japanese, Chinese, African or Caucasion. There is no color line in the law, and there shall be none under your oath in the jury box." . The Supreme Court says that this charge was sound and proper .in the circumstances .and could not possible have -prejudiejed any right of the defendant. ~The judgment of the Cir -ult Court was affirmed in 'this hase.* ,HOT TIME ATAUGUSTA. Glorious Fourth With Its Usual Ac-, cidents and Fights.. 'Augusta's record for July 4th is ~perhaps the darkest, numerically, on the police blotter, it..has been in any year's celebration. One killing, two stabbings, two rendered unconscious~ from brickbats, one chopped in the head with an axe and 34 cases or drunk and disorderly. The jail was filled. Win. A Lauder. aged 24 years, was disembowelled with a pocket knife late in the afternoon by W. 6. Hall, Jr., of about the same age, in the western section of the city. Both young men a-re fairly well connected. It is learned that the two were in love with the same young lady and quarreled over her. Lauder died im mediately -after being placed in an ambulance. Two negro women were knocked In the head with bricits and rendered unconscious; both of them being tak en to the negro- hospital. Neither will die. Tuesday night two stabbing cases demanded the'attention of the1 police, in which the victims are in the hospital but will recover. John Cook, a negro, was chopped in the head with an axe and may die. JAPAN WANTS OUR COTTON. Baron Mitsui's Visit Seems About to .Bear Fruit. W~hat is regarded as the most ag gressive move yet made by Orientals to obtain a share in the South's coi. ton business was put into full sw".g Friday by the chartering, at Austin, of a $100,000 company by -K. Fuku shima, a Japasese. He is m-nager for the Mitsui banking hot.,e of Ja pan, and has opened offices at Hous ton. The purpose is to export cotton to Asiatic oountries through agencies to be established throughout the Ori ent. Thest plans follow the personal visit to this country aboout a year ago, of Baron Mitsui, who studied the cot ton 'and rice business. * Loses $11000 Per Week. Speaker Champ Clark is losing a thousand dollars a week, it is said, because Congress is remaining in ses sion at a time when he had expected it to have adjourned. The Speaker had a contract with a Chicago lecture bureau to take the platform on July Convicted of Killing Three. The jury in the case of Lawrence Odom, a white man of some means, who killed David Lyman Gaitman, and Joseph Stokes, at Citroneile, Ala., near Mobile, March 3, 1910, returned a verdict Friday night of guilty and fixe the pnisment at hanging.* VERY RARE CASE So of a Kid Baker Proves to e a Barglar in City of New York. H FOOLED THE POLCE Stole Because Small Salary Didn't Al low Him to Entertain Women Lav ishly.-Loving Cup He Took From Peabody %Home Leads to Arrest. Tells How Easy it is to Rob. The New York World says Karl Von Metz Meyer, a lieutenant in the Norwegian army, who came to this contry on a-three-years rurlough to study banking, wed arrested in his home, No. 185 -Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Friday night on a charge of lurglary. His father is a wealthy banker at Christiansand, Norway, with a branch in Munich. "I am a burglar,"-cried Meyer, a handsome, soldierly looking man of twenty-four, -when- arrested. . "I am a burglar and a conscience stricken. burglar. I have recently committed eighteen robberies . on * Columbia Heights alone. "Come, with -me," continued Meyer, "I'll show you where many of. -the pawn tickets are." He led the de tectives into a room that adjoined .his own and -turned, up the carpet 'in a corner. There were twenty-one - tickets, representing 7 jewielry and silverware valued at $5,000. - "Why did:I turn burglar?" Meyer went on. "Well I turned burgla when I began to live beyond my means.Uneeded money and I got it by.breasking into homes. It is an easyzv , thing to break Into a Brooklyn home. I never carried-a jimmy or a revol ver. -1 didn't want to be caught with either in case of arrest. I weit to the rear of houses by climbing over fences. For two ionths! ten- defectives from Brooklyn headquarters hbare been looking for Meyer. In their night vigils they - became -werl o q-tainted with the handsomely dress Ad young'man who lived at No. 185s Columbia Heights and they felt sor ry for him -rhen -he told them- that - be was unable to go to sle-en. To the detectlyes the-man was known as "Lieutenant" having informed-hem who be. Vas and what he was doing in this country. The man was seen almost nightly on the streets by'the detectives and policemefn. - .He could always tell them that a man was better dead than a sufferer from insomnia. He . would enter his' own home and next morning a new robbery wbuld be re ported. Untill the burglary bf the house of Chariles S. Peabody, No. 128.Willow St., Juie 19th. there was ~never so much as a buspicion against the -Nor wegien lie-tenant and banking clerk. The Peabody .burglary took' place mn the early morning. iMeyer had gali ed entrance at ,the rear, and when all was quiet he-stole out of the front .oor: One of -'euethings he took was .' large silve'r ovine cup whi.:n be longed to Dudley peabody, son of Charles S. Half a block down the street Meyer. -.ugh't sight of a detective in. sthe .,adow of~a house. While passing #a vacant lot be dropped thei-oving cup over the fence..- There it. wassfounld an hour later by a milkman and re turned to the Peabody homo. ; "Couldn't sleen again," spoke up Meyer s he addressed the policeman; ten he passed on. When the4 loving cup incident was told the policemaa on post recalled having spoken to Meyer, who walked past the spot~ where the cup was found. Detectives-ileutenants Tenney and Ward was assigned to keep a watch on Meyer. The Norwegian seemed-to know he was under suspicidn. He continued ! is- nightly walks. but -the robberies ceased. Not one bit of evi- , dence could the detectives get against him and they feared to arrest the man because of his position. Friday night, however, the two. men from heafiquarters went to Me'y er's room en'd ,usin upon him, telling him he was under arrest; that he was the burglar for whom theo lice -had been looking for many months. After Meyer had completed his confession and shown wherethe pawn tickets were hidpen, he sidll "I came to this country two years ago; I attribute my downfall to wo men. It was all my own fault; they fascinate me. I got a pliace in .the foreign department of the Adams Ex press Company and made good from the fifirst day. e hTnI lost my health but this breakdown was not due to dissipation of the usual sort. I was due to my fondness- for staying- up late and tailking to some sretty wo man. - * 1AL CARRIER SHOT DOWN. Body and Wagon Found Just Off the Public Road. The ,bullet-riddled body and wagon of Linnie Maury, a rural mail carrier of Edison, Ga., who has been missing since Saturday, have been found in a swamp several miles out of town and just off the public road. With the body was found a note to the dead man's 'wife in an attempt to make the crime appear~'as suicide. Maury was evidently driving along the public road unsuspicious of dan ger. The wagon bottom was blood stained. The small pouch was found near the body. It is not known whether it had been tampered w~th. Posses are scouring the country with track dogs in an effort to cap ture the slayer of the carrier. 'Maury went out on his route Saturday morn ing as usual. When he failed to're turn a search was Instituted. The lead man Is a member of a prominent family and is survived by his widow nd one child. Left All to Himself. A spectacle which has not been seen for years, if ever, was exhibit ad in the Senate, says a Washington lispatch, on the reciprocity "debate" Friday, when for nearif ten minutes senat~or Gronna, of 'North Dakota, who was concluding his speezh begun ['hursday in opposition to the pact, was the only senator on the floor. * It is oftentimes better to surrender present good that a greater good ~a be hattained later on.