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Pjjjp' L; AS1R0NG LETTER I; _____ < c Secretary Rice Makes Appeal for \ Audubon Society. J i i DOING GOOD WORK. : i He Points Out llie Valuable Results < \ That Have Heeii Accomplished in South Carolina in Spite of a latek of Funds and Under (Jreut Difficulties. Tne following 1 otter written by Mr. James Henry Rice, secretary of the South Carolina Audubon Society v :js published in The News and Courier one day lust week: Spartauburg.- S. C., July 12. 1908. To the Kditor of The News and Courier: Sir?Saturday's copy of The News and Courier was delayed, reaching Spartanburg Saturday night, llence I did not see your editorial on the Alabama game law until to-day. You have been imposed on by the facturing reputations out of nothing, common an cheap method of manuAlabama has a good law?It ought to be a good law, for it .was written by the Audubon Society, and passed principally through the efforts of ' Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, national secretary, whose home is at Greensboro. N. C. 8outhCa rolina contributed generously with suggestion and otherwise. Mr. John H. Wallace possibly also contributed, and he may have written, that Is to say, copied, the law from the original <Audul>on draft, and may have had It presented to the Legislature. J ust prior to the passage of the Act I received a leter from a prominent member of the Alabama Legislature ridiculing the game law, especially the effort of the Audubon Society to secure better laws. The Audubon Society made certain revelations before the Legislature of of the State to action and caused widespread comment throughout the I nion. It was shwn among other things that sixty thousand < fiO,000) live parrldgcs had been shipped the previous season from three small towns in Alabama, and that the I pnii'Ioge was about to become ex tlnct In ninny portions of the State ?a fact not known at all in the State of Alabama. To credit Mr. Wallace, or anybody else in the Stato of Alabama with having written a good game law is simply to misstate the facts of record. The Alabama law is simply a copy of the same law in South Carolina, uiul the South Cdrallna law was passed first. Alabama has a meagre fish law, just as South Carolina has. When Mr. Taylor and mysolf write a good fish luw they will probably have a good fish law in Alabama shortly afterward, and somebody else will credit Mr. Wallace with previsions and all the other qualities. There is a difference in Alabama's favor, for which they deserve credit. They began by electing a State game and fish commissioner, with n salary of $2,500, who is elected by the people and holds office for four years, the Act being pussed at the session of 1907. The State pays all the expenses of his oflice, except the commissioner's travelling expenses. Printing and all other expenses are paid by the State. The same Act makes all sheriffs, constables, deputy sheriffs, marshals miu uilier pence officers ex-officio game wardens, and provides for the appointment of county game wardens on commission. This placed, ready-made, in the hands of the State fish and game commissioner, a machinery for enforcing the laws, and money with which to make the machine go. Alahnma has a non-resident license law, the fee being 515, and they make a hunter's license for citizens of one dollar, good only for the county in which they live; outside their own county they must pay another license of It is from these sources that 520,000 was realized, and the sum is only one-fifth what it ought to be. Before leaving his branch of the subject do not forget that the power that forced action and that gives stability to the whole scheme is the Audubon Society, "Vhicli lias accomplished a great deal more in South Carolina than it has in any other Southern State, in fact, in the same length of time. Let us pass now to the conditions confronting us in South Curolina and confine discussion to a statement of the facts to date. The Audubon Act, granting a rhaeine ^ 1 " 4 ? - .hi IU i.i." /MIUIH WI society of South Carolina, and makng certain reg'i'utions as to the sale, trnncp >rtuttnn and killing of game, and providing for a non-resident license of ten dollars, was entitled into law at the session of 1007. No provision was made for the pay of wardens, except that they were to l>e paid by the Anduhon Society. A game protection fund was created, just us in Alabama. Under this charter the Audubon Society of South Carolina was organized and began work In April, 1907, when I wont on the road to appeal to the peoplo of the State to provide funds for carrying on the work of preserving the birds, game and fish of the State. The Socltey had only flint), all told, with which to police South Carolina, provide for printing and legal expenses and for the pay of wardens, as well as i to pay the salary ond travelling expenses of the secretary. The report of the treasurer to the Governor in i December showed that the secretary of the Audubon Society had received ' altogether but $255 19 for his ser- i ices. (Compare with this tho i $2,500 paid by Alabama for the i same service.) When the Legislature met in Janu- j !& iry Mr. B. F. Taylor and myself :ave our entire time to getting the natter before both branches of the General Assembly. The facts were ilearly presented and met with gen:ral favor. Such amendments to he game and fish laws as were obriously necessary were embodied In he form of two bills, one relating :o game and one relating to fish. Both were as thorough and well irawn as any two bills ever presented an the subject to any legislative bod> In America. These two bills wen simultaneously Introduced into the House and into the Senate. In th< Senate they had action first. sine* they were in the charge of Senatoi Christensen, of Beaufort, who mad< business of them and pushed then through. The House bills luggec through lack of proper attentioi and were delayed so long that it was on 1V noRRlliln for thorn to irot thoi third reading on the last day of th< session, and the announcement o Senator Latimer's death preventer that. Hence no action was taken b; the Legislature and things reverie* to the status quo ante helium. The Audubon Society has crente* a healthy public sentiment through out the State on the subject, had sue ceeded in convicting a number o violators of the laws and lacket only funds to make the worl thorough and eftective in every par of the State. The legislature having failed t take action there were only tw courses open. One was to take th usual course and express regret tha nothing could be done further, th Audubon Society having discharge* its full duty to the State and to th cause. The responsibility woul rest on the legislature; they coul fuce the people and explain thei non-action. The course actually adopted wu the alternative of keeping up th work in the field by might an main Conviction has followed conviction The game laws of South Carolln are better enforced today than ur the laws of Alabama or of Nort Carolina. This enforcement has no only been self-sustaining, but it ha not cost the State of South Carolin a red cent. Hlease remember that this worl has now been going on for nearl a year and a half. The only incom the Audubon Society lias had hav been membership dues and the frac tfon of non-resident license that wa collected. There is nothing wonder ful about collecting a non-residen and resident hunters' license witl the whole machinery of a State bacl of you and plenty of money to set i in motion. The work of the--Audubon Societ or south Carolina has been a lattei day miracle, and any thinking ma is liound to admit it. If there i any lingering doubt in any man' mind let him go out into the flel and try to enforce law, collectin money as he goes from individual for publishing laws and other nc tires, paying lawyers' fees and e> penses incident to trials, payin travelling expenses, paying warden and so on. Such a man will get en porience very fast and be wiser i his generation. The fact cannot be disputed tha the Audubon Society of South Care Una has handled every case reporte to it. and justice has never miscat rled through lack of proper effor being made by the Society. The Society had a bill introduce at the last session providing for one dollar gun tax, and this woul place all necessary revenue in it hands. The point to emphasize is tlia Mr. R. F. Taylor has given freel fully half of his time to the cause n protecting the birds, game and lis of South Carolina. lie is a larg business man, as is well known, an lie has never received any kind o compensation for his services. Mor than that, lie has given a stcnogrn pher to the cause. Mr. Taylor efforts, which are in line with tli most advanced patriotism known t * * * midiim do appreciated and they will he. This fact of hi assiduous care, coupled with th further fact that I know more pec pie personally than any man in Soutl Carolna. and have the good will o most of them, has made possibl the work of the Auduhhon Society Hut all my work would have failei at the start and a dozen times sine without Mr. Taylor's assistance an< friendly confidence in me. The News and Courier has heei a valued friends to the cause, am would he among the first to bai such an achievement as has act nail: been accomplished by the Societ; against the heavy odds described From three different kinds of licensi the State of Alabama collected $20. 000, and, of course, the most of this came from resident hunters. \V? can take a similar license law wit! our present organization and colloc five times as much. The only sufferers have been of flcrs of the Audubon Society, ol South Carolina, who have been work ing with almost no compensation for my own salary is so small that I am almost ashamed to mentior what it is. I have to make that. Now to show u comparative state ment of the work done by membership, which Is the pi'h and marrow of any game enforcement, whethei done by the State or otherwise, I shall cite the figures front the North Carolina report, as Mr. Pearson it justly esteomed as the head of hi.? class In the United States. As the result of five years* work, backed by the National Audubon Society and paid a salary by thorn. Mr. Pearson shows in his report.page* 30-33, made to the Coventor and people of North Carolina, a life membership of 148, who paid $10 each one time; he shows a sustalninp membership of 102. who paid $.' for the membership and an annual dues of $1, as members of the South Carolina Audubon Socidty pay This makes a total of 310 members a little over half of wheh keep ir active touch with the Society by paying annual dues. In Its last report to the Governor Lhe Audubon Society, of South SEIZING CONTRABAND STIFF. Sections From CWey-Oothran Law Governing This Matter. The following sections from the Carey-Cothran law govern the seiz. ure of contraband beers and whiskeys: I Section 21. All alcoholic liquors I in possession of any person for unr lawful use shall he seized without , warrant, and IT no action to recover } same is begun, within thirty days ? from such seizure, or if such action , be begun and the judgment of the r Court be advise to the plaintiff, then , such liquor shall be forfeited to the j county in which same Is seized, if j 1 there be a Dispensary in said coun, ty. and disused of as the County B Dispensary Board may deem bbest; r but if there be no Dispeusary therein in, such liquors shall be destroyed f publicly by the Sheriff of the cotin i ty- I v Section 22. Upon affidavit, which j may be on information aud belief, to the effect that contraband liquor Is being unlawfully concealed, kept or stored in any place, a search warrant may lie issued by any Magistrate of ~ the county empowering any officer or person who may be deputized to enter the said place by day or night * and to search the said premises for the purpose of seizing the said continhund liquors therein concealed, " kept or stored which said liquor, " when so seized, shall be disposed of ' as h erein before provided for the disposition of unlawful liquors: ' Provided, That no dwelling house 11 may be searched In the night time. ' Section 2 8. It shall be the duty I of the Sheriffs, their Deputies, Magls( trates. Constables, Rural Police, City II and town officials, to enforce the provisions of this Act. If they fail H to do so. it is hereby made the duty of the Governor to enforce the same, ' and he is hereby authorized to ap' point such Deputies, Constables and ? Detectives as may lie necessary: the o salaries and expenses of such ofhcers I' to lie paid out of the profits of the t Dispensaries in counties wherein they 8 may fie established, and out of the ora dinary county funds in counties wherein they have not been establislik ed. y <? ARRESTED FOR DYNAMITING, e s Secretary ljice, of the Aiidtihorti Soeiety, Sivciin. Out Warrants. t h Mr. James Henry Rice, Secretary k of the Auduborn Society of this State, 'lt swore out before Magistrate Brunson in Orangeburg Thursday morny ing a warrant for the arrest of Dr. - L. H. Russell, a dentist and prominn ent citizen of Greenwood; William s Waldrof, a machinist for .1. I. Chlps ley , of Greenwood: nnd N. E. W. d Sistrunk of North; charged with g dynamiting fish about a month ago r at North. ?- it seems thnt Dr. Russell and Waldrop came down front Greenwood g in an automobile and at North were s joined by Sistrunk. The preliminary hearing will be before Magitsrate n Branson in a few days. The penalty for this offence is $100 fine or six t monins or both. ?jj Every traveler In (bis world should .. carry in summer and winter the "mantel of charity" to throw over the conduct of others. d Carolina, showed a regular membera ship of 113 paid. Since that time (I the membership has incroased over j! 200 per cent, and is still growing at rapid rate, last month being one t of the best months in thehistoryof v ihe Society. ,{ Mr. Pearson reports total cases I, with convictions as 243, and with P onfessions of guilt adde^ the Audu(j 'ton Society, of South Carolina, can ,1 make a favorable comparison with p this also. Mr. Pearson is backed by the Nafi tional Society; he receives a salary , from it: he is hacked by the State t >f North Carolina, and receives comI lensntion for his work there. He is ,. :ne of the most valuable men in the e whole field in the Cnited States. Now how does that comparison I, strike you. Mr. Editor, and you, felf low citizens of South Carolina? Do p we need any Alabama citizens to write our laws? ,j There remains scarcely six months , until the Legislature convenes, and rj he election of a Cnited States Senator cannot take all of its time, u In this interval |he citizen*; of 4 South Carolina can bridge the gap. j Every six dollars sent in the the Audubon Society lias a power now v it can never have again. Every South Carolinian, especially every lame honored by being on the rolls . of the Audubon Society, ought to feel pride in the work accomplished. South Carolina has always led. , Uefore Alabama was settled by her * vmincr ?????* Iru oho k '* ? ? , .... r...U IIOU II I'lV 1 I /.HI l(>n hat commanded respect throughout . Christendom She is now leading in f Ids great cause and leading because . ier citizens have responded in a vay ne other Southern State has t >ver responded to such anappeal. , It has been with every member >f the working force. Mr. Taylor, Mr. . (leyward and myself, a labor of ove and pride, to save the heritage if our fathers. The Legislature will ict. we feel sure, and act in no unI certain way, both because they have , the ul<-h to do . o, a;.-. beca'iJ tuc , M'b- i f S'.nith f.'a*-,Mna are sq ,n?c i ly behind the movement. The ('nfnri'pmi'nl <>' u ~ i ... ?v/i iur ill w N, which has characterized the Audubon Society's work throughout, has been edifying and uplifting. No nwin ha? been above the law, for Rome of the wealthlst and most prominent citizens of the State have been convicted. Toleration and clemency have been extended to the poor and ignorant. No reflection is intended, of cour<e, on Mr. Wallace, who may be doing good work. It is 011 the record we appeal to nir fellow citizens, and we have absolute confidence in the Issue. James Henry Hice, Jr. Secretary South Carolina Audubon 1 Society, _ ^ > TALKS OF PRESIDENCY i I WHAT WHITE HOUSE OCCU'ANT 1 MUST BE AN1> HAVE. < ??? 1 Democratic NoiiiIihh) for President j Contributes an Article to Colliers Discussing the Office. Wm. J. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President, has written an article entitled "My Conception of the Presidency" Tor the July 18th issue of Collier's Weekly. Mr. Bryan says: "The President's power for good or for harm is often overestimated. Our Government is a Government of checks and hulanccs; power< is distributed among different departments, and each official works in co operation with others. In the making of laws, for instance, the President joins with tl^ Senate and House. He may recommend, but he is powerless to legislate except as a majority of the Senate and House concur with him. The Senate and the House are also independent of each other, each having a veto over the other, and the President has a veto over troth; except thut the Senate und House can, by a two-thirds vote, override the President's veto. The influence of the President over legislation is. therefore, limited. He shares responsibility with a large number of he people's representatives. Even in the enforcement of the law he is hedged about by restrictions. He acts through an Attorney General (whose appointment must ire approved by tho Senate) and offenders against the law must be prosecuted in the Courts, so that here again ihe responsibility is divided. In the making of important appointments he must consult the Senate and again of necessity be compelled to exercise cure and discrimination. ' The most importaut requisite in a President, as in other oflicials, is that his sympathy shall be with the whole people rather than with any fraction of the population. He is constantly called upon to act in the capacity of a Judge?deciding between the importunities of those who seek favors and the rights and interests of the public. Unless his sympathies are right the few are sure to have an advantage over the many, for the masses have none to present their claims. They act only at election and must trust to their representatives to protect tlietn from all theli- foes. "Second, the President must have a knowledge of public questions and j the ability to discern between he I true and the false; he must be able to analyze the conditions and to detect the sophstries that are always employed by those who seek unfair advantages. He must possess the moral courage to stand against the influence that are brought to bear in favor of special interests. In fact the quality of moral courage Is as essential in a public official as to either right sympathies or a trained mind. "A President must have counsellors and to make use of counsellors he must be open to convictions. The President is committed by his platform to certain policies and the platform is binding; he is also committed to certain principles of Government and these he is in duty bound to apply in all mutters that come before him. But there is a wide zciie in which he must act upon his Judgment and here he ought to have the aid of intelligent, conscientious and faithfnI advisers. The laws provides these, to a certain extent, in giving him a Cabinet and the Vice President ought to he made a member of Ihc Cabinet exofflcio, in order, first that the President may hnvetlio benefit of his wisdom and knowledge of affairs; and second, that the Vice President may bo better prepared to take up the work of the President in case of a vacancy in the Presidential office. There ought to be cordial relations between the President and those who occupy positions of influence in the co-ordinate branches of the Government, for our Government is not a one-man Government, but a Government in whirh he chosen representatives of the people labor together to give expression to the will of the voters. e "But the Presidency is the highest postion in the world, and its occupant is a factor in .ill national matters. If ho Is a devout believer in our theory of Government, rccoglnzes the constitutional distribution of powers, trusts thoroughly in the ,nu,.n- <11111 tuny ay in par nizes with them iri their aspirations and hopes, he has an opportunity to do a splendid work. He occupies a vantage ground from which he can exert wholesome influence for each for- 1 ward movement. "The responsibilities of the ofTiee 1 are so great that the occupant ought ' to be relieved of every personal *<un- 1 bition, save the ambition to prove worthy of the confidence of his countrymen; for this reason he ought to enter the position without thought 1 or prospect of a second term; while burdens of such an office are heavy, and while the labors of the office are } exacting and exhausting, the field of ' service is largo, and, measuring its c greatness by service, a President, by consecrating himself to the public ' weal, can make himself secure In ;ho 1 affections of his fellow citizens while he lives, and create for himself a li permanent place in the nation's hb- 1 tory." ' t'ur Wheel Plant Sold. The Carnegie Steel company, chief . subsidiary of the United States Steel r corporation, has put the Schoen Steel c Wheel company out of the business c by a flat purchase, the price paid for |< the Pittsburg plant being $3.0o0.000. a The price is $1,000,000 in excess of p the cost to Charles Schoeu, the in- f ventor, c Increasing Gout of Battleships. I England in now building a bat- 1 leship which is to be as far super- ' or to the Dreadnough as the Dreadlought is superior to the best of '.be old class she superceded. Of -ourse Hnglund building such a warship, we shall have to do the Mime. The <]iiestion of cost in these monsters of the sea is what is of greatest interest about them to nonnaval men, especially at this time* when our national treasury shows a deficit that becomes larger each year. This question is brought to public attention in a recent issue of Colliers. Wheu the Dreadnought was laid down, only three years ago, it was said that she would reduce all existing battleships to the scran hean The St. Vincent, begun at the end of last December, was said by a British naval authority in a burst of rather tropical enthusiasm to be "infinitely" superior to the Dreadnought. "Infinitely" in that case probably meant about 2b per cent. Now the London "Telegraph" assorts that a new type is to be laid down to eclipse the St. Vincent. The Dreadnought is of 17,900 tons and the St. Vincent of 19,250. The new monster is expected to reach 21,000. But size is to be one of the least of her distions. She is to go hack to 13.5-4nch guns, abandoned in the British navy for all ships begun within the past seventeen yeais. The modern twelveinch 58-ton gun, firing an 850-pound projectile at 2,900 feet per second, has a muzzle energy over one-third greater than that developed by one of the 13.5 inch 69-ton guns of the Royal Sovereign, which fires a 1,250 pound shell at. 2,016 feet per second and it will pierce 17 inches of Krupp steel armor at three thousand yards, while the Royal Sovereign's guns will pierce only eleven inchs. The size of guns oscilates from age to age. Four hundred years ago the Turks had some that would have held Mr. Tuft in comfort. They used to fire stone cannon balls that weighed six hundred pounds apiece. Then the pieces grew smaller for ease of handling, and when better methods of handling wre invented they grew larger again. At otic time the Italian navy had guns of 17 inches, firing shells that weighed tt ton apiece. The last American hattlehips to carry 13-Incli guns were the Alabama, Illinois, and Wisconsin, launched ten years ago. The largest since that are the 12-incli. Now it seems that bigger weapons are to be in fashion again. A still mor remarkable innovation in the new British ship is to be the use of gas engines making funnels unnecessary. Anions other advantages, tlvo will remove th* leinptatl n> lor ?:a .* . ! ess irscns in ai.ships tu drop bombs down the sinoakstacks Max Foinherton equipped his Iron Pirate with gas engines fifteen years ago, predicting that this woud be the motive power for the tleets of the future another illustratlond. like so many in the career of .Tules Verne, of the superiority of fiction over fact, the gas engine threatens to end the reign of the turbine before it has fairly begun. It is estimated that the proposed British super-Dreadnought will cost something like $12,500,000. Of course she could not be duplicated in this country for less than $15,000,000, and if we take the lead in the competition with 25,000-ton ships sis Mr. Hobson suggests, we must] be prepared to pay at least $20.000.-j 000,apiece for them. And about the same time a $50,000 flying machine! may send them al to the Museum of Antiquities.? Augusta Herald Democratic I'lntform. The Charleston Post says tho Democratic platforn. is a const ructtion which bears upon its face the evidence that the two wings of the party are together. In the matter of injuntions it does not go too far and. yec u meets tho just demands of tllOKP whn hnun " * __ ....... Uiucu aiieilliuu II) injust'Ce V'uIfi* 'he law as ii stands. In the matter of railroads, it does not not go one wit further than the reeomendations of Roosevelt, which he had appropriated from Democratic sources, and which the co nventlon of his own party Ignored. After an absolutely truthful criticism of the Republican party for its attitude on the tariff, the statement of the position of the Democracy could not he improved upon, and if th^re is any sincerity in the demands for revision of the tariff, which have been made by some Republicans, should unquestionably influence voters. It ir as follows: We favor immediate revision of the tariff by the reduction of import duties. Articles entering into CQmpeition with trust controlled products should be placed upon the free list and material reductions should be made in the tariff upon the necessaries of life., especially upDii articles competing with such American manufactures as are sold abroad more cheaply than at home, and graduate reductions should he made in such other schedules as may be necessary to restore the tariff to u revenue basis. Kxisting duties have given to the manufacturers of paper a shelter belir.d which they have organized comdnations to raise the nri^o r?f > K?M' md of paper, thus imposing a tax lpon (he spread of knowledge. We lomand the iminediae repeal of the arifT on pulp print paper, lumber imber. and that these articles he dared upon the free list. ! With regard to trusts. State rights md the navy, it Is sound and eniilently reasonable. With regard to ' tanking it takes a position extremey difficulty to criticise and appealing vith tremendous power to the mass ?f people; while distinctly not. injurous to banks, in offering a simple node of restoring and establishing >n an immovahle basis that confidence which the lack of has, in the opinou of bank officers and statesmen of .11 parties, precipitated nani" aftet j lanic. As we have pointed i .1 be- , ore, Walter Wellman, a Republican corespondent, warns his readers that this plank Is going to elect Mr. Bryan and It Is calculated to do so. Of course. It is not a plank which will excite any enthusiasm in >*ew York city, but when we note a South Carolina banker, boldly admitting this in this state, while advocating I the same principle, that is. a guaranty of deposits, we realize that matters can no longer be kept disjointed to suit the financiers of the greatest city in America, and something like an equitable adjustment must be arrived at to satisfy that vast volume of business throughout the country, unwilling to be tied up with every stock flurry In Gotham. On Asiatic immigration, the announcement is fair, open and just to all and upon all the minor issues we find nothing to criticise and much t'x highly commend. The fact, however that one plank has received almost unversal commendation from innumerable quarters, Republican and Democratic, may probably be the greatest vote-getter of all. and is offered in all sincerity to remedy conditions. not to be iguoied. shall not prevent us from declaring that in our opinion, the plauk calling fur the election of Senators by direct vote of the people is a mistaken attempt at reform. It is a short cut which, in our opinion, is injudicious and hasty. If the State Legislatures give in the main too poor a set of Senators, then the attenmpt to take out of their hands the duty of selecting Senators is an acknowledgement that, those vho frame the laws under which the bulk of us are most intimately affected are not to sit as such and the true remedy would he to patiently and laboriously supply thein places with such as are. | He who has an unfaithful servant should make him faithful or discharge him; not remedy the difficulty by performing his work. Yet this objection, which is the real objection to this plank, we realize is not generally shared by the public, who sec in the plank a genuine reform of an ubuse. With this one exception the platform is one of the strongest and most intelligent appeals to the thoughful votes of tiie country ever prepared and the contrast it offers to that straddle at Chicago is instructive to the last degree. "ItKltHL AltMY" RCXS AGAIN. Melts Awar in the .Mouiititin* Mexkiui Troops. Col. Dorantes. commanding 1,00c Mexican troops, encountered Tuesdaj some 500 "revolutionists" in the fool hi Is of the Santa Rosa mountains, 40 miles south of Las Ascas, a courier who arrived at Del Rio, Tex., reports. He says the "rebels" were easily defeated and that they hnoke into small hands and scattered through the mountains Ruralcs and number of casualties on either side is not known. * CHiAIt SALESMAN WANTKI). * * ?Experience unnecessary. $100 * * per month and expenses. IVer- * * less Cigar Co., Toledo, Ohio. * K(?CiS FOR FALL t'illCKS.? * * S. C. Ilrown Leghorn and liar- * * led Plymouth Rock $1.00 per * * setting of 15. Fine range, pure * * Ktock. healthy birds. * lllythewood Poultry Yards, S. II. .Mellichunip, .Mgr. * lllythewood, S. (!. * ^ + "+ ? * ? * PIANO AND OR<;.\.\ ECONOMY. If you are interested in the purcliuse of a PIANO or an OlttiAN, we want to sell you one. Don't think you must go to some mail order nouse to buy a low priced piano or organ; nor outside of South Carolina to get the best piano or organ. We have a great variety of grades, and all styles, at prices which cannot full to Interest you. We are manufacturers factory representatives for several of the largest and most famous makers of pianos ana organs. We take old instruments in exchange and make most liberal terms of payment to those who wish to buy on time. No house?quality of pianos and organs considered?can undersell us. Twenty-four years of fair dealing in Columbia and throughout South Carolina is our reference and guarantee. Write us at once for catalog price and terms. Malone's .Music House, Columbia, S.C. Pianos and Organs. ' E303233332 COLUMBIA SUPPLY Your Engine N Whit man of experience has to event governors, of various mak the Gunlher-Wright. Thi:. gover ever tried." We carry all sites in ?t COLUMBIA SUPF If 1?^ Tf 's GIBEES ujBSP "UTTlf^g GIBBES GIANT" PLANF.R, MATCHE Tj 1 Will piano tip to lMnf It" Q Inchon InthtrknoM, I'nr 1 U O moulding In medium and rab'nct nhnpa. ("Hpiiolty II Solid fnru'od tool r> lindi _ ? rate action. Kinopt babbit I Vovo-vy-J I tested before ahlpplnir. ? ItOO(1 ' (IIBIIKS MACUIl ^ Rollers of "Olbbesdiiaran iio? mo. c 37500 Square Feet Floi Pumps, Packing, Pullt Pipe, Fittings, Va . . . WRITE FOR PR1 Southern States COLUM E t \ _ [ HAS PASSED AWAY. I OH. TIIMKHMAN SKVIMIW TO PXKIMOMA. f He \\;.s til I tut a 1'ch Days?Former Stn'e rrcasurer ami liiciitcimut Govci ror. A di>;?..tch from Hutcshiii-g says the ent- ? community was saddened by the "ith of Dr. \\ . II Timnierman, v. > passed awav at 7..~>n o'clock Fuesd, . oiling after a brief attaek of pit' onia. l,r. Tiiumci man's den lit ' v \erj t-trbpcn. ho hazing been < :: the street t V- i day liioruljg. The (.moral pa tv proceeded iwm the " tare \v ,'unr. day afte neon at .r? o'? '?>-k. Thrt interment was at 11! o'el *k Thursday at the old Tim;nerniuu burying ground. near his old ho' in Kedgetield county. Dr. Tint merman was twice married, iii-i to Miss Pauline Ashill on Nov. I 18aG. His second wife was .diss Henrietta M. Hell to whom lie was mr-'rled Alav G. 1S7D. lie is survivid l?y his second wife and the following ehildren of the first wife: Mrs. t?\ I'. Seigler. Eureka; Mrs. it. H. Lewi*-. Johnston; Mrs. W. S. Mobley, Tie mson, Ga.; J. K. Tiunnorman of Aiken county and Urs. It. II. and \V I*. Timmerman of Hateslmrg. Hon. ' -orge Hell Tlmmorman. solicitor c* ihe Eleventh judical circuit, and >'! s Salome Timmermau of Bateshi. g are tlie surviving children ?f the -ond marriage. Dr. Tiinmerman was a ninnlier of. the con 'tutionnl convention of 1SH">, and in egarded this as one of the great* tonors of iiis career, despite the tin" that he was State treasurer and alt' wards lieutenant governor. SITES TO HK INSPEt I HD. innuvniHin in I'ollltcet ion Witll Felli eral Kuililiiigs. A clI -atch from Washington says an ini; ant step is s< on to he taken >y the ' easury department to select sites l new Federal buildings in South C 'olina The ust session of Congress auhorizc ' .lie pnrehase of sites at Oringelen .. Newberry, Aheville. I'liion, Diirllngti n and C.alTney, and also authorised the constrnetion of buildings tlie:< on at a cost of approximately $4."i poo each. Mills for the lots were n; .-tied in the office of the supervise architect of the treasury a few ii s ago. These Idils are being 1111 y gone over with the idea , in vi< of having an agent of the lepari . ent visit South Carolina during he next week or two and person My inspect all Ihe sites that have "it offered. lie will go to ill of places where buildings are io lie i eted. When these were recently opened it war '. mill thill there win possibly an ave; ige of ten hids from jeach >f the Fouth Carolina towns, and as nearly "II of tin* -e are within the limit of cost will t>e personally inspected ! v the trei?t?nv\ department agents There are some, however, that ci 1 for a larger expenditure than w Md be justiln..? m.. oiling to the app priation. and these will probably u?t he considered. When these ' -Hidings get under wav the "III n. ?. i.if ?? " '? " II* I* 11/ III*' bnildie into:? 's of the State. as they will rail foi , a o ; i>r (itiire of about $ i.' i.ihio. SI IC'IDK AT SAX ANN XII. ( eriiinn Hit urns Home ! vim XX'ork (o I iii<I His XVife l>< ill. At Su \ < mm h. (iii., on ret urn inn from he. work lute Tuesday Max iteden, Herman, found his wife, Marie, deal on her bed with a bullet hole ; i her temple and a bloody pistol !u math her. Coron* Stanley linds sni l ie the only Sx danatioii for the death, and assigns 'oiilinued troubled as the cause. SI..'' is said <o have believed she was h ing constantly f Mowed, and Tuesday declared "some one will die." Some people push the o< in the ditch on Saturday that tie y might have the Measure ot pulling hiin out on Situdav. Jt WmLWaEEEzwi COMPAt'v rto i.t! m nt a o. o^l eeds a t ood Governor. uy after us my: iie leading make*:?"I ba e tried es.but tailed 1?> vet proper regulation until I u?ed 1 nor gives better regulation than any olhe I have m oek,flanged or* -rcwed bottom with ?crc? edvide. M >i v rnuDi! v rni iiMmr c r Watch' r and mouldf.r. hm In width, nn'l up t*? it ml * qnnlxl for nistchlnir and I r" Id small pl?nln* mills snd I |i I *>s i.ttMi III 10 fiod fn-t. I'i rd.i . I r hi id. T?n* f. "t Art utItiir. Macdlne ihotonwhly ir f urthi r jisrt leu litrs writ*- Ci KKUY COMI'ANV. J*Nr>?ir?P teed Marhim-ry," All kinds ^ MtA V. w oi.raniA, 8. O. or Space Covered With :ys, Bating, / Ives, Etc. :ces .. ^ yJrjj? Supply Comp/ny, jia, s. c.