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N G. S. C-. J1L . 12. PUBL15HiED =VERY WEDNESDAY Communications mlusL rye a-vcompanfte by the real name and address of the writer in order to re-ive attention. No communication 0 a personal cnaractr will be publisbed except as an udvertisement. antered at the ros:oibce at .M, ir t-s So ond Uass matter. THE AUGUSTA CONCLAVE. The provocation to say some thing, which ordinaril v would be unseemly, is great for the Gov ernor of this State, but if his speech at Bamberg on ;ast Sat urday was not garbl.ed, so that his words would convey a difer ent meaning than he intended to convey, then we must say he lost his bearings, and forgot the dig nity of his high position. The re ported language could only em an ate from a mind highlv exasper ated. that Governor Blease is the victim of a merciless prosecution there is no doubt, the opponents of the man are seeking his utter destruction, no stone is left un turned to accomplish their pur poses. This being true, we cin readily understand how a iman even in his high position will be exasperated into forgetting the proprieties of public deb ite to give vent to his outraged feei ings, at the same time, were he the cool, calculating scoundrel his detractors would have the public to believe, he would be shrewd enough to not permit himself to be tantalized into say ing things which may be calcu lated to shock his friends: it matters not what he wight say or do. his opponents and his etie mies would do all in their power to magnify his utterances into an argument against him, therefore, it is useless for him to attempt t o placate them they a r e against him now, they have al ways been against him, even be fore he performed one single act as Governor. However, this con dition does not justify him in the threats he is reported to have made, or the unseemiy referenc es to mixed blood, or to the com mittee investigating the charges against him. It is true that every member of that committee is op posed to him and he has every reason to believe they are prej u diced; and incapable of doing him justice, nevertheless ih e should remember that the mass es in South Carolina are able to discriminate, they will judge for themselves whether or not he is guilty of the charges preferred against him, whether or not there is a deep conspiracy or plot to destroy him, and whether or not this scheme is financed by the interests which have been fighting him from the beginning. T h e testimony offered a t Augusta is so voluminous that it is impossible for us to comment upon all of it, but up to the pres ent, notwithstanding there is an array of Georgia lawyers repre senting Col. Felder, and he also has his employed detectives, the testimony only discloses conver sations which the detectives claim to have had with different per sons. The detectives claim, that in the conversations had with these persons the dictograph was used to take down what was said. The dictagraph used, as we understand it, is a kind of a tele phone placed in the room where the detective and the person he was talking witha were sitting, and in another room was a ste nographer who could hear what was said, and that he wrote down the cornversation. It is easily seen that by prearrangement a conspiracy could be concocted, for instance: if the detective framed up a conversation with another, the stenographer at the other end of the line could write down what was said in the ad joining room without knowing whether or not the person pur porting to be making the state ment was the real one or not. But so far, we have not yet seen -anything in the testimaony as of fered, which is proof that wvhat the persons alleged to have said had any foundation in fact. The whole testimony so far, is based upon what certain persons are alleged to have told the detec tive. Take the case of the alleg ed statement of Mr. Charlton Wright of Columbia, the detec tive said that he told him he paid Blease $500 to block certain rail road legislation, Mr. Wright em phatically denies ever having paid Blease any money or that he ever made any such state ment. The detective also r-elates a story told him by Mr-. S. -J. Nicholls, a Spartanburg lawver,. about the editor of the News and Courier, the remarks tile editor made about Blease in a r-oom in Washington, the editor of the News and Courier positively de nies any such occ:urance. Then there is the statement that Gov ernor Blease was paid 82,000 for the release of Rabens, who was sentenced to three years for r ceiving stolen goods, Rabens in a card to the News and Courier denies that money was paid for his release, and states he only had twenty-e'ght days more of his sentence to sev when ihe was released. The record shows that Rabens was released upon a petition signed by the county officers of Oconee countv. to gether with a lot of the~ m~ost prominent men of that coun't. also a petitil~n from Charlet >n signed by a number of th.- iar est business men in tha city. and that it was repr-esenteti to the Governor by Dr. Meuiler- a Lutheran minister, that t h? e mother of Raoens was ili and aged and that shit desired to see her son before she died. if it is a WInS had only twenty-eiht days more1 oe his th ree years sentence t s~er'e. it does look unreason able to believe that his friends would pay $2.000 for his release. Thereore we a n thie lang1:4U age of the News and Courier of Saturday, -to char e is no nuee essari I to P-ove and further. "it iS; 11CinUMbent uon +U a0ll c. iil of South Caron, im-ever. to bear in imnd 'at re ga rdl 1es' of hether oi- not they Ve coth-, eredo('vernor Bles t man for the omhc he o('cups they tOhat :. t-> b consider LL 1) C ''l ,.i UC" S-rdn .Te aro not to b- 1h acetd or rejected, a dice my dictate, but the' sliuJ itd be we!ighed Very carefajly as alo-So the evidence ad duced in thir sUppOrt. andl any; jud-ment s-hould be avoidU until l tle evidence is iII aid untdl the -,ccused has had an oppor tunitv to have his duty In court. EVel the Columbia State Loo toriously unfriendly to the Go ernor, has not been able to tind proof of criminality, as per the ifollowing in its Monda' s "Burns ha s an ox traord inairy re:ord of su9ceses in those cases that he has underfe a fle' i vestiZ.ition. but tLe present tions mado ;z Augusta are more in the nature of m'eene to snuport noa Coic. ton thall evidence to prove anything in a court of 1,%. The mattetr rought out dOes not iix criminaiity upon the Governor of South Carolina." SThe State can make this adnission then we think the most ardtent hatter of the Governor can atford to agree, the detec tives have done nothing so far but to stir mua. to create a suspic ion of foulness, with the prom ise of doing better later on. The situation as we see it :s simply this, Governor Blease has the animosity of a large number of people, among them Col. T. B. Felder of Atlanta, whom he has criticised and charged with attempting to debauch a State officer, and by the way, Col. Fel der admits the incriminating let ter to "Hub" Evans, but he claims that said letter is a forg ery and the forgery was done by his (Felder's) former chief clerk,! a relative of one of his law pars ners, and said clerk is an expert imitator of hand writing. Col. Felder's tirm according to his! own statemnut had an expert 1im-1 itawr of hand writing in his employ, and- that expert is con nected with members of his firm., after being dismissed, forged the letter that "Hub" Evan~s allegesI he received through the mails in which an attempt is made to frame up a conspiracy to defraud South Carolina. There is no evi deuce that Col. Felder ever pros ee-uted the mran he0 chocm mitted this forger-y, neither is there any evidence to show how~ many other forgeries this man, this expert imitator of hand writ ing-. committed in the interest of Coi. Felder's law practice. Upon princ-iple we are not given toj hastily accept the statements of a man who makes the claims Col. Felder does, nor are wxe prone to accept hastily the state m'ents :> uncorroborated detec tiv-es. notwithstanding the great striess laid upon the ''dicta gr-aph." We are told there is a dictagraph which not only r-e cords the language used likre a phonograph, but it also recordcs reod he voice: the machine used in this case however, ap ~pears to be one that does not record the words or v-oice at all, but merely relies upon the oper ator- at the concealed end who wrtes what he is supposed or paid to hear. Under these cir cumstances the people should: be careful not to condenmn too! quickly. The impr-ession made by the! Nicholls interv-iew was that the famous " yeggman Gus DeFord"j was pardoned by the Governor and that he is rot now in the penitentiary, but this seems tol be untrue as that prisoner is in the penitentiary and has not been pardoned. The par-t S. J. Nicholls is alleged to have play ed in this mniserable business may be ever-v word true or it mybe as false as some of the other statements the detectives made, according to Wright and| the editor- of the News and| Courier. Nicholls is a lawyer. a professi-on which in this day and time is priv-ileged to accepti employment to do things which ~laymen cant ihu rn i wxas employed to secur~e the re lease of the -yeggman"'.ve hav io doubt but that he wvent at i to get his fee. and to make: alli of~ th'e mon'ey out of it he couldi, at thiswriingwe hav-e not seen a statemn1t from Nienoi s, but tere is this signtcance about the case. showinig to our mind the) commitee wvas eagecr to get alof the~ in'riminating stuff they could '1rom the detectives: whleni Nich~olis 'e was brought into th (ae Charirna .arlile w'ho ive in Nichols town, and~ know 0h10 o.eedt h it:es as he~ cialms~ . ...n i a lute1ly no1hing' to show th. Go any kowledg~e of the matter D*ir v1'a~h o Nihols 15was to. get out of 1h. penittry is Tis nwspaers ace featured it was evidently the quality of the booze they sell in Spartan. burg which made him so garrul ous to a stranger. According to the dict agraph S. J. Niebolls is the chief attorney in that city, and hi- fees are something enor mous, but fortunately, the mass es know that if Sam Nicholls did g;Ive the detective all of this hot air. he was merely practicing law as it is being practiced by some of the modern lawyers w h o are regarded airight by the pro fession, and by the public as be ing shrewd. Their shrewdness however lies in.being able to keep out of prison. The Times editor will not vote for or support a dishonest man, and if the evidence proves Gov ernor Blease is one-third as bad as h e is charged with being, it would be doing violence to his conscience to countenance his acts. There is this much, the revelations are going to have one of two effects, they will crush Blease forever, or he will be vindicated by the people of the State by an overwhelmning majority. AN APPROPRIATION NOT AP?ROPRIATED. Tihe Acts of the general assem bly have been distributed by the State Libra-ian, and in looking over the same. we find on page 9S2 item 18 section 34 of the Ap propriation Act "John Keuker refund $1.652,94." This $1,652, 94 was a claim against the Sink ing Fund Commission, which commission refused to allow be cause it had no authority. The claim was allowed by the general assembly, but vetoed by the Gov ernor. On pages 1254 and 1255 the House Journal shows that the Governer's veto was sustain ed by a vote of 74 to 14. The reasons assigned by the governor for his veto are as follows: "I disapprove of Item 18, Section 34, because I think this is a mat ter which should be settled in courts of law. A resolution should have been passed allow ing Kueker to bring a suit against the Sinking Fund Com mission, if you want to pay him the money, and if the courts say that it is just he should be paid; and. if they say it is not a just debt, you gentlemen then should certainly not pay it. As we understood the matter at the time Mr. Kueker of Flor ence, a money lender, advanced money to a party who bought land at public outcry from the Sinking Fund Commission, and to secure himself he took a mort gage, the mortgage was fore closed and Mr. Kueker bought in the property, but when he undertook to take possession, a lumber company claimed the land and satistied Mr. Kueker he had no claim. He then applied to the Sinking Fund Commission for a refund of the money, the party to whom the Commission sold and made deed does not ap pear to have been considered in he transaction at all, the Com mission took the position it had no authority to make the refund, then Mr. Kueker presented his caim to the committee on claims, and this committee recommended its payment, both branches of the general assembly voted to onfi-m the action of the com mittee, but when the Act went own stairs to the Governor that fiicial scrutinizing the various items close'y vetoed this item giving the reasons already re ferred to.. The question before the House then was "Shall this item be ome a part of said law, the ob jections of His Excellency, the Governor to the contrary not withstanding pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution, the yeas and nays were taken on the passage of the item, result ing as follows: Yeas 14 Nays 4. Then follows the names of i those voting. After the vote was announced the Speaker made the following eclaration. Having failed to receive the necessary two-thirds vote of the House, the objections f His Excellency, the Governor were sustained, and the item failed to pass." We cite from the House Jour al so the record will be kept straight and for the purpose of ireting attention to the care ecessary for perfecting a statute. Eere is the oQicial Act of the eneral assembly making an ap propriation of $1,652,94, it could be -S1653,294,00 just as easy, which was not appropriated be ause the Governor refused to - llow the claim as presented, nd pointed out the legal course for the claimh to take, in this he was sustained, and yet the action f the Gov-ernor, andl the legis lature is ignored by some one in c:-harge of the appropriation Act. Thel appropriation Act as pub lihdby the Code Commissioner is the official guide for the Comp troller Gener-al and the State T~reasure, if the c-haim is pre sented, the disbursing offieer has o alternative but to pay it uni ess he is enjoined. The Comptr-oller General has nani fested a disposition recently o hold things down strictly to be] letter of the law and we call tention to this so hie mayV give t. his attention should there be my attemp~t made to collect this caim. The trouble about a claim n the condition of this one is atan innocent person may get urt. The claim is offered for neiotition1 the same as other pape, the rIiecord-Appr-opria toin ac- shows provision w~as made( byd th~e regular legal an thoi. In thi~s instance there happen's to be no danger for Mr.1 Eucris a man of means and would not attempt to collect nor would lhe dispose of the claim to ; a ea -antage of nyhody. WE FIGHT FAIR The News and Couries of last Friday took occasion to criticize 1 The Times, because it does not see through the glasses used by our contemporary. When The Times criticises an editorial ref erence by a newspaper, it has the fairness to reproduce just what that newspaper really did say, so the readers can judge for themselves whether or not its criticism is justified, but our friend of the News and Courier received his training in the office of The State at Columbia, there fore it is hard for him to realize the meaning of conducting his editorial columns this way. We did not join the News and Courier in a denunciation of the Governor for his reported utter ances in his Charleston speech, but we did say that if he was reported correctly, we did not endorse what appeared to be a threat. When the Governor sent his letter to the press, and it was printed under the head of "ad vertisement" in some of the newspapers, we sa.v that while the Governor did use the lan guage attributed to him, it was so placed before the reader as to convey a different impression than he intended. It is a com mon trick to use the words of a speaker, word for word, and make them have an entire dif ferent meaning than he intend ed. There is a great difference in being present hearing a speaker, seeing his manner and keeping in touch with the line of his argument, frequently a min ister in his pulpit uses certain words and he is quoted word for word, but the one quoting him .reates an impression foreign to the intention of the minister: in newspaper work it appears to be a trick of the -profession to pre sent the exact language in such i manner that it will convey -n impression as false as falsehood aan make it. Did Governor Blease or any ther man intend to threaten the people of Charleston into voting [or him it could not have our ndorsement. and when the Governor disclaimed any inten tion to threaten, it convinced us that the indignant stress the News %nd Courier placed upon his, words was for a purpose-there was method in its madness. The purpose being to arouse the peo ple of Charleston into a spirit of resentment against the Governor in the- hope it would have the effect of taking votes away from iim. The people of Charleston eard the Governor's speech, they are fully competentto know whether the utterances ot the G-overnor were intended to breaten them. Because The Times does not 31 up its editorial space with a] lenunciation of Governor Blease, < ho News and Courier assumes1 'The Times is probably ashamed >penly to proclaim itself a sup porter of the Governor for re- I election." This is assumption:a sure enough, it might also be1 :haracterized as presumption. 'The Times is not the organ of Governor Blease, nor is it in sympathy with the political con itions in Charleston. neither is t the organ of Judge Jones or nterested in the forces behind urn; it certainly has nothing in :ommon wihthose interests which it is alleged, is giving its suppor-t to the Judge-we refer, o th~e mill-merger element and he paid attorney's of the great ~orporate interests. Thec Times as endeavored to be fair. The News and Courier's opposite pinion to the contrary notwith-' tanding. There has not appear d in its editorial columns any ~hing which could be construed is unfair to Judge Jones, nor has ts editorial columns put for vard any partisan arguments in 1 avor of Governor Blease. The 1 fl'nes has been holding itself in t position to give both sides a ~quare deal. We cannot say as1 nuch for our contemporary. The opponents of the Gov rnor have scoured the earth, nd for what we know the egions below, to implant into ,he minds of the people a suspi ion of corruption, they have ven used a legislative committee o go out of its way and exceed ts authority to aid them in their cavenger work, they brought to play the rottenness of the,. t y of Charleston-a rotten ess confessed to have existed here from the beginning of the lispensary regime; they have one everything to make the >eople of the State~ lose confid ence in him. No man. since'i he days of Tiiiman's activity ini tate politics. has been so16 -ounded, even Tillman did not c ave to go through with what( he pres~ent Governor is exper encing. Bleas~es opponents 1 :iaimed to have had all of this tuowldge and information of 1 :orruption before the general I Lssembly met, they even threat 1 ned to bring impeachment pro- I :eedings against him. If theye aad information to convict himi >f corruption, why did they note ring the impeachment proceed- t ugs? They had an overwhelming nioritv in both br-anches. then t wh ditd they make this tihreat ini ie press but when tihe pinchc xtine, sneaked into their holes.c md did nothinf.The Times standsi *eady and willing to advise its t eaders against the re-electionc >f Governor Bie-ase whenever it lI s proven that he has used his c ffice corruptly. It will not take 1I he testimony of men who havea giouch to gr-atify, any morer lan it would accept the testi-t non of a hired witness, bringa ie proof of corruption, and The e sews and Courier will then see rhether or not The Times is e shamed to proclaim how the CONGRESS CANNOT REGULATE TRADi. The anti-cotton future bill no in congress is receiving a grea deal of attention from those it terested. The former Presiden of the New Orleans cotton ex change, regards it a menace t the South. He says "the Beal anti cotton futures bill. if enac1 ed into law will strike Souther prosperity the severest blow i has sustained in many years. We do not know what Mr. W. E Thompson bases this view upon but we are inclined to think ther is something in what he says. W remember that every time cor gress has attempted to do any thing towards the regulation o commerce, the effect has bee against the producer or consun er, for instance, the govern ment' interference with the trusts ha not helped the masses at all, o the other hand it has done th masses harm. Take Standard O when the government compelle it to dissolve its combination tne result is that oil and gasc line has advanced over 50 pe ent. Then there are the mea packers investigations resultini in prices advancing so high thu the laboring man can only hay meat as a luxury and not as a ordinary diet. Everything th government undertakes to intet fere with comes back on the con sumer to bear the burden of thi political folly. The legislation relating to cot ton futures is not going to hell the makers of the fleecy staple the class sought to be helped wil be injured is the opinion of Mr Thompson and we are inchnel to agree with him, basing ou belief entirely on the past exper lence. We will soon have a Dem cratic congress, that will b pledged to take the tariff off mos 3f the articles the masses use we have very little faith in thi: being the help the politician promise; take the tariff off ani to our mind only means the in rease of profit to the seller, jus like today let an article go u] ten cents on a dozen packages nd the seller raises the pric ben cents on each package, bu et the cost go down and the sell r swings to his original prics ntil he is forced to bring i own by public demand. Tak ;he article of cheese, it advance >ne cent per pound and the sell r raises the price five cents pe ound, therefore we say we hav ery little faith in congressiona .nterference with commercial af airs. THEY ARE DANGEROUS. Is it safe to believe detectives According to detectiveBurns him -elf, he has no confidence in pri vate detectives and is constanti: warning the public against them d~e says they are crooked an< an be secured to do or say any ~hing. How about his own force re they any better? To cu: nind a detective is on the make al business is to get the infor nation he is paid for, if lhe can ot get it straight, he getsi unyway. Burns' detectives it heir testimony at Augusta claim d that Mr. R. Charleton Wrigh f Columbia, made certain state nents with regard to the gover or. Wright immediately pub ised a denial of having mnad< ny such statement to anyone. I vas charged by the detective: hat the Governor received S2, )00 for the release of Rabens his is also denied by Rabens vith the explanation that lie hat erved his sentence with the ex ~eption of twenty eight days he detective also made 'certair tatements as having been tok iim by Henry 0. Bass'lmeye1 f Charleston. Hassehneyer ir resterday's News and Couriel latly denies having told the de ective any such thing. The dje ective said that Nichols of Spar anburg, told him about making he editor of the News and Cour er leave liis bed in Washingtor >ecause of derogatory remark Lbout Governor BleasQ. The edi or of the News and Courier de ies any such happening. Sc tere we are, the hired sleuths et up the claim that they were old certain things by certair yersons. and immediately thosc >ersons deny maiging such state nents. There is somebody lying hose who are being paid by. the ~ord only knows who, or thos< yho are accused of making th< deged statements. The pubi< nust jiudge. THE BETHUNE CASE. The supreme court has at las' eacec:i a conclusion in a case o: ntense interest to many peopkc n Ciarendon. The case of thE tate agen~st Willie Bethune :onvicte:d of the murder of Mr 1. B. Mhr.s. There were mans -umors in tis county immendiate y after the campaign mieeting vith regard to this case, and 1be eving there was a tmisundler tanding we took it upon oursell o write toj the Governor telling im that there were rumors to thc ~ffect that he threatened to pun sh the Mimn' for what lie regard d their bad treatment of him, anC hat he intima:ted that Bethumn ould not be executed. In reply; o this hie wrote to us the follow ng: "Now, as to the Bethunt :ase, I tubi Uhose meni when they :ame to mec that I did not expect, n any man ner. shape or for*m, o interfere with the Bethmum ase. You know the law: yor: :now that the matter is in thi ourts, and that I have absolute. y no control whatever ovcr it, .nd whatever the courts do is all -iht with me: I shall abide by heir decision, as I have always bided by tihe decisions or the ourts of my State. Of course. J rould not take any action in this ase on account of the acts of the dims brothers." We wrote the Governor that he was inistaken in i-hiargin g that the Mims' howled him down or t attempted to show him disre . spect, but in the same letter he t says as follows: "[, myself. per sonally, stood on tne stand and saw the big fat Mims .yelling and I hollering with the college crowd while I was trying to speak." We - are sure thc Governor mistook t another "big fat" man for Mims, there was a man of such a description, "with the college crowd," encouraging them on in the howling down process, but it was not one of the Mims broth . ers, nor was lie related to the . Mims'. Friday's Columbia Rec f ord hals the foliowing: In an opin on by D. . Hydrick. asso clate jusrice. coneured in by R. C. Watt. asociafe justice. and Eugene B. Gary, c-hie r justice, the suprv'eme court S ha. afiirmed the action of the lower a court in refusiot! a new trial to Willie B3ethune. convicted of murder in the 2909 June term of the court of general 'sessions for Ciarendon county. After 1 his con viction a petition for rehearing was presenzee, one beinz on the rounds tha..sinc e his coovietion. defendant-had become iosanec. Upon that issue a trial by jury in the 1910 terin of court t was-had and the d.fendant was declar ed sane. Thereafter- on motion of defen dant, exection was -tayed on the ground of after-discovercd evidence. That mno i Ws heard and" rtefestd. atd from the rer re inian appeal was a tkn, .e SUpreme court :L1rmi_ the action of the ow er court.. Wille 13ethune was contice(l for the murier of at ir ninnt white citizen of 5 Clarndoni, !he circumst:-nces of which greaty ar;s-d ti pe p~o'ple of tihe coun . ty. Bethune etde the hcrse aul buggy of the slain ind wi " it to-k two colored women :o ride. While ridiuif. the own er of the vehicle approached and made 1 tne two women get out of the buggy, and with Dechune, started for the jail. On the way Bethune snatched the pis I tol of the white man from his e rasp and I' shot him. causing death. Beth.one es caning. He was later arrested and tried. At the time feeling was very h igh against the defendant and one of the a motions for a new trial was on the t ground that the mind of the jury was prejudiced against the defendant. LORIMER EXPELLED. f be suspense is over with 'Wil liam Lorimer, United States Senator from Illinois, whose seat was questioned upon the ground that he secured it by bribery. Senator Lorimer made a gallant fight to reiain his position but the senate in respose to public clamor declared the seat vacant which sent him out of the cham ber a disgraced man. Those w h o followed the investiga tions in this case must b e struck with the methods employ ed to bring . the destruction of this man. 'wo investigating committees by a majority report decided in his favor, the senate in March 1911 exonerated him, but his pursuers continued the fight against him until there was such a sentiment built up that . the case was re-opened, and thereby a precedent was estab .lished by the United States Sen I ate which will be there to plague .it in the future. Senator Till .Tillman~ believes Lor'imer inno cent and he had the clerk of the :senate to read his thoughts. which after relating his own ex - perience with an opposition Spress, and how he was misrep Sresented, abused and vilified, -said: S"Since I was stricken with paralysis .thirty months ago." said Senator Till man's statement. "I have thought often aud seriously about death and the hereafter. That I am herec at all is in some respects a miracle, and I know I munst go bence acd meet the Great Judge faco- to face very soon. I cannot do other, 'a i vote as imy conscience dict t. a i he'lieve this man is in coce(nt '. t:r- char.:es brought against ISinatorTil a- expr'esed the hope that. . forim.-r would corrsemre-e the r-mariddiri f his Iife to lhe purl iention orf n..:t'nY hieno, and to the up1!ift of Iiu -: V est~izens it illinoi-s. "I il---- if he does bravel:y Sght for a pur mr and better goveranment. in filinois. he said, "God iil str,-agthen his~ arams and he will return to tihe son atc vindicated by the peole of that great State." STxrE t or0t. (.rrT or' TiX.ruo. 0. I~s Leec.&, cCNTY. FmRANmK J. CHENEY' makes oath that be isthC senior patrtner of the tirm of F. J. CRENEYV & Co., doingt business in the city of Toledo. county anid State uforesaid. andthat said rirm will pay the sum of ONE IIUND1ELD DOLLARS for each and every case of Caarrhm that cannot be c ired by the use of H~u~i.s cA:.utari cLR. F'r.\NKC J. CHENE Y. sworn to before me arind subscribed in my pres once. this thl day of Decembher. -\. D. 188. ..s A. w. G LEASoN. sgr. ' Notary Public. Haill's Caturrh Cure is taken internaiy and acts. directly on the blood and mucous surfaces ofthe- system. send ft-: testimnnis, free. F. J. CIENF:Y &co.. Toledo. 0. Sold by drugrists. 75e. H ll ' Fmily Pm.., ar the best The BaIl and the Bird. In the American .\lgazine Hugh S Fullerton. writing an article on freakt plays in baseballl. tells ouot a team once managed in Chicago h: .Jimmfy Callahan. This team wr's :-;dled the Logan Sqiuares. The Loptrn guatres played a game with am faimons coored team called the Letind Glirnts Fu'ler ton goes on: "In this game. whic'h was to decide the city penn:mut champion ship, a freak play occurred that helped the Lelalnd Ginnts to win A batted balil tih:t was :toin~g safe rve? the heaid of tbo s-econd~ basemtan st ru-k na Eri Mh sparrow. killed thle tirmd anrd fell directly in front of the brs-~nrmn. who thrrew the runniter out a:rd n eedi tile gme:t. If yout d;;ubt thins t::' :elnni will a'how you the bird. whii to had moun' ited to keep as "r "": a r of wha t harid huck mary do to :m la i ub. Got Ther., Ali. T he docor iold imr hg ,-.(:- rar bohydratesL.. prorrhis :rn4. aboo "lt somethin..: nitrn:en-.'.t The d"*tO to) at. He sta.g eed out ::n-! wI be -- 'v aot heef-tenkt f ::' e Th wier diant know. "Are ftied! plotiniOs rich iin ab;iohy. Th wolr courlda't say. -1, l ; .x it." dleclared the poor mnin, desair. "'Bring ime 1 large CASTOR !A For Infants and Children. The Kimi You Have Always Bought Bears the Revised Law. A m.... adown to write onta deed and began with "Know all women by these presents." "You are wrong." said a friend. "It onuzht to be 'Know all men.'" "Very well." answered the other. *')it if all women know it all men will surely!" The "Happy Ending." "Myrtle can you cook?" "No. Lionel. Can you afford to keep an auto?" "No. dear." So they did not marry, and they lived happily ever afterward.-Chicago Trib une. Lucky Juliet. Mrs. Knicker-What impressed you most in "Romeo and Juliet." 1rs. Subbubs-The fact that Juliet' could keep a nurse In what appeared to be the suburbs.-Harper's Bazar. A Word to the Boy% A boy should not get the idea that he can score in the game of life through the errors of his opponents. To win he must be able to make hits.-Youth's Companion. A new cask will long preserve the1 tincture of the liuor with which it was frst Impregnated.-Eorace. ALL DAMAjES COVERED and very of.en a good chance to start again under better circumstances, is what is azured by a policy of FIRE INSURANCE. We ask the public to point out a bet ter investment for the amount of ti mony than the premium for insurance in a good company. Ani while we don't say that your house afire would be a streak of good lack, we do say that a live policy is the best next thing to it. If not insured, call or send postal, and we we will instantly place your house safety. GERALD-DAVIS CO. Manning. S. C. V I I AIV, ~~ Y) A SINING EXAMPLE OF PURITY in drugs and compounding medicines is set by the prescription departmeat at Zeigler's. That's the reason customers dorat feel nervous about bringing pre scriptions here. The physician's "Rec ipe'U is followed here with absolute cer taintv. Have you seen our stock of bathroom supplies, sick room conveni encs, and other modern commodities that will help you live betteb? Zeigler's Pharmacy, The Safe Prescriptionists, flanning, S. C. Bring Your Tobacco to Manning. We have as gocod market as can be found. Deposit your money with' US. HOME Bank and.Trust Co. IPS TEA DRINKI -NOl ?ihat's b:tter: than a full LM.'ded Tea. w ith frizzled ice Our own Spcial Blends, anid Emupress at O0c., we cons Sbut unusual values. Teeexquisite blends a; twent ears experience in te Free With E .\ handsome Colonial Cr; weI canot aiodto iv~eths time this oier' is necessarily uate interina~ these big val out the izlasses when you get Manning G Purveyeors to Pa; Was Willing to Go to Sea. At the time when William E. Chan dier of New Hampshire was see retary of the navy Admiral Meade was. commandant of the navy yard in Washington. They got Into trouble somehow, these two positive gentle men, and the commandant was sum moned before the secretary one day on a matter of importance. The secre tary told the commandant that If he kept on, or words to that effect, he should certainly be obliged to punish him by sending him to sea. "Mr. Sec. retary," said Meade, "I haven't any thing to say except that when it is punishment for an officer of the navy to be ordered to sea what is your serv ice coming to? I should like to go to sea, sir. Good day." The Pleiades. Those timekeepers the Ple!ades nave been used to mark the days from tbe most remote periods. T. W. Fewkes, describing the fire ceremonies of the Pueblo Indians of Tusayan. said that, having been present on two sucir occa sions in 1S92 and 1893. he found that the .error of time made by the Indians as to the 13th of November in those two years was insignifiennt. It was the culmination of the Pleiades which told the Indians the proper time for the beginning of their rites. All In the Name. Helen-My mother's a Presbyterian. What's yours, M1ary. Mary-Mine? Oh.. let me see. Miine L a Methodist. What Is yours, Bella? Bella-Miy mother never told me. but i heard njer tell her triend that she was a dyspepti.-Ex chante Executive Committee. The Clarendon County Democratic Committee met this 13th day of July 1912. The first matter that came up was a motion by Dr. I. M. Woods to re consider the assesements of candi dates After some debate on the question the motion was killed. Mr. W. M. Plowdennade a motion to apportion and refund to the can didates any money left oVer after paying the expenses of the campaign, which prevailed. A motion by Hon. C. M. Davis was arried to have the magistrates elected in the primary. A motion by W. R. Davis was car ried to have the managers to pro vide a box at the various clubs for the purpose of receiving contribu tions for the national campaign funds. A motion by J. R. Griffin was car ried to pay the secretary the sum of S25 each campaign. The following schedule for the. compaign meetings was made: Bakers Mill in Salem, Wednesday,. August 14. Turbeville, Thursday, August 15. Sardinia Friday, August 16. Alcolu. at night, Friday August 16. Paxville Tuesday, August 20. Pinewood Wednesday, Augnst 2L, Summert'on Thursday, August 22. Manning Friday, August 23. The thi for filing pledges will ex pire at 12 o'clock noon the day pre ceeding the day of the opening of the campaign meetings. Therefore all candidates must file their pledge by 12 o'clock noon,. August 13th. or they will be debarred under the party rules. J. Mi. WINDAr, Secretary. Of Town of Manning of Moneys Col ected and Disbursed -for Quarter begining April 1st. and ending July [t,11. RECEIPTS. Balance last Quarter .... S 4.229 77' Fines................... .. 14 95 Licenses................... 157 75 Taxes...................... 19 97 A. W. Jones, Refund Ins... 157 07 $4,729 51. DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries. ......... ....... $ 600 75' Electric Lights............. 612 42: Streets (ineln ding car terra cotta) ................... 424 77' Fire Department.......... 184 61. L. R. McIntosh. et al, Man agersof Election...........8 00~ CourL House Matron .... 18 00 Louis Appelt printing con brat and stationary........ 105 75~ Ianning Jlrwd. Co., Acet. 28 86. D. i. Bradham & Son., Acct Feeding, Etc............. 123 75~ Preight .... ............... 30 1.5 Darolina Portland Cem. Co. 25 991 -iscelaneous.... ...........15 25 Balance .............. ... 2,586 22: $4,729 51' State of South Carohida, ? County of Clarendon. Personally appeared before me, T M. Wells, Clerk and Treasurer. of the Town of Manning, who being sworn, says that the above report is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and b.elief. T. M. WELLS, LoUIS APPELT' Notary Public. Nil TIMERIGHT bodied, rich ::olored, all1 and lemon Satsuma at 75c. the pound, ider not only excellent Teas( e the result of more than sting and handling flne Teas. very Pound. stal Ice Tea Tumbler. As valuable Tumblers all the limited and is made to stimn acquaBend They'll go with roc ery Co.