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AMDEl\ CAMDEN. 8. C.. KHIDAY. NOVEMBER C>. X?J?8. PALMETTO HAPPENINGS TOLD IN BRIEFS ^urroivcta of Interest Gletvned f*rom All Secticus of the Busy Palmetto State THB 0AMEroIu^8 "ow Of Scrftarv11?^? Prepared by WlTri Jr'H> *">?** Tlu. a,?i i >lfl of rvquMv" daily' 7^ 'S 'n rocoii,t Win, !UWk ?,?"> ?>W?i of tV date tie lis,., i1 ,ul0t ,,4t giviqp <.o???i|,,K v,!' ? i fvu : .I t,v,d?jue of thg in?' &>*'? c,mai;?t?,Trbrif ovpr Wealed that ..v'i . lias re fi?q?ealg ,a<'"P??'8 bo returned, ftiui t! ' oli-*o from oi.l,?r fii( own. Birds. years bo for'. ?fi ^ ' l>a?se<I two wax (ihi? ' i Audubon society Ran/? ' what mo Ka,?? K iS V*} Th. B?,?e wild durfcii ' W-'r"Hi ' Keesb, brant, dock ... si 7 snipe, wood black bin!" ri (.partn,lf' > ? rice bird, plofrer enri 0VG' .Bart%piper?, upland p^gsir " ,mUy ?? "?! kn"?'? l? tlie society why l.?t, nor why Monj-oli?. ZXM J*mnt. ami ruffed Praiiii. u^'' , There n in no whZL i'*""" Ro"11' Carolina ; Plleattintu l0r'i "r? ')o1 '' Moif<olinn thJh? ?al)ove birds lnav 1)0 xlw,t >? aL^T Penni,,<H' bv ,aw' or ?hU .0Se 8?80rt8 l,y ??.v mot bod wtueh the luw allows. I . tfonzamo Birds. "?!,?" thi8 ,isf a? "<>? jranie bn-dK within the meaning of tlu* aw, and may n,otfJbe killed at any <5. iioi may their nest h or einrs be destroyed. It i? ? miadenieanir to HI? '!!? P1?S"KPP8110n a,,y ?>art of ? non fgne bird, snch as feathers, body or f?I"; ?"?. 11 iH Mlua,,V against the' law whothpr such bird was killed within or without tfce\State, The State Owqb the Birds. -? ?j1^r?ream^0 ' to t,,is a<,t ie stated : Theft all wild birds, whether resident or migratory, in this State shall be and are hereby, declared to ! tJie the -property of the State. ' ' That i is the law of Smith Carolina Birds That Aro Exempted. _ The act further recites that the English sparrow, cooper's hawk (tbe eJncken or hen hj?wk), the sbarp rtiinned lmwk (known locally as the ' Blue Darter"), the great horned owl and all other birds which are bv nature destructive of other J irds, are not included among the birds pro tected by this act. .nor are the nests -or efgs of these birds protected. A person is allowed to kill crows on his premises if they are destroy ing crops, but ho is not allowed to -:?? wll them or thoiV feathers.^ No non-jrame bird mny be shipped ont of the State nor may the e^s or feathers of siiclv ^i?d belffiipped. Tor Scientific Purposes. Certificates mav be granted by tbe seeretarj- of sthte to any person of tbe ajre of 15 or Ttteiwird. avIio is properly accredited, pi^Smitting tbe holder to collect b'rds and tl'eir etnrs for strictly scicnUflcjj^^Boses. Tbe applicant must bo" endoi^ed by two well known OTnithologjefij and if it I ? j? proved that the hold^jhaw taken birds for other thawHBtillc pur poses his certificate at once fanrcli.'t! and no! renewed. Besides he will b? liable to a'fhiiffif $100 or illOOJayiV:impriponw:eMi&1^.''. ^"win be seen that ^n^Wfemnn has the right to wear the .Wlfiier of a ? noa-camo bird on her; hfftj it is nn: indictable offense under Wd Jnws of South Carolina, nnd it-ijiBp^be add ed that it is cn : iu^^^^^gfense | dirwtinj? .jttr county pyfiteM1 ;SSfhM?ld ^unty, 1( 1908. This' fuartwn rout<i^ m h lTz?ii Owl witf- '? ^ fl T? ?ffL 1-. Strother,'#? ?fttA*. 1. - fti |vj j Routes No. %r -- *i Ho. 3 from ? W . - Wn ? est n bli under the laws of almost every civi lized country in t lit* world. Thy re are 1 50,000, 000 birds used up in (lie plume trade <?f Knrope every year, those bird# being imported from Asia, Allien and Polynesia. Many species have become extinct through tins sUvujjo slaughter. Tho Open Season for Game. Aceordihg to dhe net of 1000 the season for shoot ing part ridges, \\il?l turkey, woodcock, Mongolian oi i/ther pleawauts is made front November 15 to March I, with the exception of I lie following counties. Beaufort, Hampton, Dorchester, Colleton; (Mini leston", liurmdell, Deik Icy, Aiken, Oconee, Fuirfield, Saluda, Georgetown and Clarendon. These counties liuve from ' Novem ber 1 to April 1. Lexington was formerly among the excepted coun ties, but has been taken off and tho season there is from November 15 to March 1. The doer season is from September 1 to January 1, but the law applies only to Georgetown county. The rest are from Ainrust J to February 1. Game Birds Not to be Sold. The net of 1000 makes it a misde meanor to sell, or offer or expose for sale, to pothunt, net, or trap, or by firelight to pursue with intent to catch, kill or injur eany of the game birds named in that Bcction. The handling, possession or ownership of these birds is prima facie evidence that they are being offered for sale^ T ne L??w oT tho Land. These are the laws of the State of South Carolina, made bv the lawful representatives of tin* people and are binding on every citizen whether lie thinks thev are wise or unwise. The first consideration is that thev are the laws of the land. Any person has the constitutional right to make representation to. the legislature to have any law ehauged. but while it i$. on the bcoks he is bound to obey if. Bis Verdict at Greenville. Greenville, Special. ? In the Fed eral Court here a verdict for two hundred and sixty-three thousand, four hundred and tifty-three dollars and llfty-three cents was returned for the Southern Power Company, of Charlotte, in the suit against the ( .'fttawbn I'iiwop Compnnv, r>f Rnnlr Hill. S. ('. The suit was for the col lection of some promissory notes. The verdict was agreed upon by the attorneys for the two companies. Tiro in Darlington Causes .$15,000 Lobs. Darlington, Special. ? Fire on Wed nesday morning destroyed a lnrge tobacco warehouse on cast Broad street. This buildimr had been used for storing cotton and there were 204 bales of cotton in it at the time of the tire, all of which was destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is about $15,000. which is protected bv insurance. One of the Atlrntie Coast Line passenger eoaelios. which had been sent lip as a special for the delegates of (lie T. P. A. to the progress meeting at Columbia, was burned. Imperial Company's Pl3nf at MulHnB is Destroyed, by Fire. ftfullins, Special. ? Fire (lest roved the three-story structure of the Im perial Tobacco Comnnny, ownpd r.nd operated bv ,T. P. ?>alo & Co. The 7r o was discovered in the redrvimr machinery, and in n short time was beyond control. About 200 ne<rro ern ploves were at work in tho bni'din?. and so rapidlv did the tire gain head wav that several came near losing their lives in sretling out. Tn *he | building wore, abojit TOO.OOO pounds of leaf tobacco. The loss is estimat ed at $-100,000 mostly covered by in surance. Union County Votes Prohibition. ' Union, Special.? Union county again voted for prohibition by about tin ?ec hundred majoritv out of fifteen hundred votes east. During the past | three years of prohibition the ar rests for drunkenness have decreased 50 per cent and property valuations in the county are said to have in creased -two million dollars. Spartanburg Lawyere in Personal En counter. i Spartanburg, Special. ? Ex-Oov. John Gary Evans and his former law partner, S. G. Finley, engaged in a [personal encounter hero in the law of^j ^fce of Nichols & Nichols. Several blows were exchanged but they wore (Separated before either was injured. Messrs. Evans and Finley were asso ciated in the practicc of law at the ^ftartanburg bar for several years. A months ago they dissolved the rship and there was a disng t as to a settlement. gjp'Baluda Bank Prosperous. -(Saluda, Special. ? At the recent an H' meeting of th^ stockholders of ^ansk of Saluda the report* of the iont and cashier showed the hank i?d a prosperous and successful It waa evident from the presi- . t report that a very conservative | frhad been pufime<f and this was *ly endorsed by the stockhold egQlar dividend of 9 per is paid and the sum of $2,000 to the surplus account, rv. < ' t THANKSGIVING DAY NOV. 26 4 ' . The Proaident Point* Out thv? Btcady Growth and General Prosperity of the Nation and Urges Upon Ameri cans That They Eeturj) Thanka to the Almighty For the Jtlxistiug Con ditions. Washington, Special.?- The Prejii* dent lias issued the unmml Thanks giving proclamation,, in which he pointed out the steady growth of i ho nation in strength, worldly power, wealth and population, and that, our avfivflgo *of individual comfort tud . well being is higher than that of j.jiy other country in (he, world. For tliis, he declares, Americana owe it to the Almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things. The proclamation follows: By the President of the United States of America, Proclamation. "Once again the season is at hand when, according to the ancient cus tom of our people, it becomes the duty of the President to appoint a day of prayer and of thanksgiving to (fod. "Year by year this nation grows in strength and worldly power. During the century and a quarter that has "elapsed since our entry into the circle <>t independent peoples, we have grown and prospered in material things to a degree never known be fore, and not now known in any other country. The thirteen Colonies which straggled along (be scucoast of the Atlantic and were hemmed in -by ? -few miles- west -of tidewntpy by tho Indian-haunted wilderness, havd been transformed into the mightiest republic which the world has ever seen. Its domains stretch across the continent ftetn one to the other of the two greatest oceans, and it exer cises dominion alike in the Arctic nnd tropic realms. The growth in wealtfi and population has surpassed even the growth in territory. Nowhere else in the world is the average of individual comfort and material well ?being, as high as in our fortunate land. "For the .very reason that in ma terial well being we have thus abounded, we owe it to the Almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things. With a nation, as with the individuals who make up a nation, material well being is an in flicnotitnhln fmrnvl/tfl.m l>,,f 41*. fVuMMM. .VII, muv uio foundation avails nothing by itself. That lite is wasted and worse than wasted, which is spent in piling, heap upon heap, those things winch minister merely to the pleasure of the body and, to the povter that, rests only on wealth. Upon material well being as a foundation must be raised the structure of the lofty 1if>> of the spirit, if this nationa . is properly to fulfill its great mission nnd to ac complish all that we so ardently hope ami desire . The things of the tjodv nre good; the things of the intellect better; but, best of all are (he things of the soul ; for in the nation it is character that counts. I^et us there fore as a people set our faces reso lutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness nnd good will toward nil men. but with un flinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in pi'blie and private life. "Now. therefore, ~J, Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States, do sot apart Thursday, the 2fith day of November, next as a dav of general thanksgiving and praver. and on that day I recommend that the neople shp.ll ceas" from their daily work, and, in their homes or in their churches, meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that, thev may be given strength so to order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in tho future. "In witnoss whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the Unitfed States to be affixed. "Done at the City of Washington, this thirty-flat day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the in dependence of the United States the one hundred and thirtv-thrid. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT, "By the President: "ALVEY A. ADEE. "Acting Secretary of State." Swallowed Up by the 8ea. ? Norfolk, Va.. Special. ? -Captain. J. A. Godwin, of the tup Prudence, upon his arrival here from Baltimore, re ported having made an unsuccessful effort off low Point in Chesapeake Bay ?, Saturday night to rescue an un-s "Ejlp/n njjm who was evidently lashed! tothe top of the masthead of a small vessel. Captain Ooodwin putting a rope around his body jumped over board and swam to the man who ap ? peared craeed. Ho was 'unable to move him, another rope was tied about the man. In the had weather and dark ness the rope was lost and the man disappeared. Prank of Hallowe'en Celebratory Oavscc Costly Piro inTcxas Town. Beffcn, Texas, Special. ? Fife start ed by Hallowe'en roisterers Satnr day night destroyed the Helton com. press and 10,000 i>ales of cotton. The damago i? $250,000, covered by in surance. Twenty residences were, damaged by firo and water, and 170 loaded freight ears burned. ? ? - ?? THE STATrSSCHOOLS I:* I'hoit, Wiij.iam U, IUnd. r?i.tv?>r*tty of toutt) t'troltna 1'ainr NuinU-j' KJtfltt. I'OOU ATTKNDANri: Kvcii with imotlhcieol funds, poor school houses, shorl school Ifi in.-, ami incompetent teachers, I lie people may fstill show a commendable educational put|>ose by sending every child to ev ery day tb* school* an- in session. Much good may lit* not out <M' a \* iy inferior school, jf ,tlu- cliil'ti 43ii at tend il regularly ami .with t h<- pur posec of gtting lite most possible out of :t . ll?\v arc i Ik* while children of South ?Carolina attending the schools? 111 11107 the white e-ijollmeiil in the public schools of the State wan- 1 H, GOS, while tho average attendance was only 1 0!1,.'U)4. The federal <u'ii Hiirt taken seven years before (lOOO) gives Bouth Caiolinu 217,072 white children between the Uges oi' ami 20 years, while our legal Behool a?e is between ti and 21 yearn. It is safe to assert that barely sixty per cent of the white children of the State, are enrolled in any kind of school, ami not over forty per cent are in avoiugu attendance. In 1000, thirty six per cent of the white children between the ages of 10 and 14 years were not enrolled in any school, pub lic or private. Iji the same year Massachusetts had only six per cent of her white children of the eorre jxmdiug apes out of school. Connecti cut had woven per cent and Michigan eight per rent. Sonttr Carol hm had 34.177 native white illiterate* over 10 years of age, only 702 fewer while illiter ates than the State had in 1870. thir ty years previous. At tho same date Connecticut, with nearly twice the. white population of South Carolina, had Imt l,0f?S white illiterates over 10 years of age. A train, South Car olina hnd 15,04:1 native white illiter ates of the voting ages; Rhode Island, with ' fonr-flths the population of South Carolina, had just i>")0, We had 17,835) native white illiterates between tlni ages of 10 mid 10 yearns Michigan. with twice our poprtVatiofy had 1,141; Connecticut had 100, and Hhode Island 100. Is it reasonable N> hope for the South Carolina of tomorrow, with her load of helpless illiterates, to cope successfully with those States nu<l sections which have frnnr? f v??? t't'Oiri the bondage of ignorance? The dav is forever gone from South Carolina when a few highly trahied men of leisure could direct and control the destinies ?of the peonle. This- responsibility has been shifted to the shoulders of the masses, and now we are foreed to consider the training <>f the .masses. Only yesterday lion. O. B. Martin pave this out: "Several educational leaders in New England frankly told us that tliev are spending their mon ey and building up their schools in order to nctain and maintain their in dustrial supremacy. They realized that we have advantages and great resources in the South, but they pro pose to keep the lead, if possible, through the power of trained brains and trained hands." Intelligence and skill will win cverv time in every race. What is South Carolina doing to meet this open challenge from New England? Why are these South Carolina children not in school, and why are they not in school? Some are the sons and daughters of parents them selves ignorant and unable to appre ciate or to understand what educa tion means to their children and to the State; pome are the children of fathers and mothers, greedy and sel fish who are more than willing to make wage-earners and bread-winners out of their young untaught offspring; a few are the children. of parents op posed to education, because they have known some educated ' scoundrel ; a very few are the children of parents who actually need the labor of their children to eke out a living; and many are the children,. of fathers en grossed in materinl affairs and moth ers recreant to dutv. Many of these children are at work on the farms, in stores and shops at a few cents a day, and in the cotton mills making good wages for children, while hundreds of others are rooming the streets and count rv lanes -rtlie training grounds for idlers, vagrants and enemies to Jaw, order and decency. Two of the worst enemies to' child hood and! youth nre overwork ar.d idlencRs. CIorr confinement at man ual labor is dulling, Rtiflinp. and des tructive to childhood; idleness is poisonous and ruinous towyouth? At tendance upon school may he used as ft corrective for hoth evils. The State, in order to prefect at least one class of children against over work, has passed a child-labor law. Barring some notable exceptions, the abortiveness of that law is a common jest. To ilustrate: In IftOfS. one of our city school superintendents lost more than twenty pupils from one school room within two months. In company with one. of the cotton mill superintendents of that town (a man in favorof schools), the school sup erintendent went from house to bouse in the mill village enquiring for these missing children. In one afternoon he locAt?<l twelve of them, every ofte of them unlawfully engaged at work in the mill, though only three of their names appeared on the pay roll. Now, the child Qrthe lasy, greedy, selfish parent is at work, and not in school. The child of the ignorant and indifferent parent ia neither at ' work n<?v i it school : ho in i?l|intr. Moth children need to lie educated; tho St nt ?? needs hot li of l imn ; and I lie State has already decreed that < hi* t tix pay fit* shall establish and main tain schools for both. Thcr.> remains hut oho logical thing |f? do compel tlii' jaunts of both to send their children lo school. There is hut lit (io lov.c in < t ?:.{>?'lli tij-r people to pay tnvt'K In i*!.; prn the schools, then per mitting the pis rent ?? of tin' children who most i.ti'Ot! the * boob "?l?.*li h**r ill civ to Ic?m p them from the benefits ??(' t Uov?- l< ols. The pooler the child the more 'x 'In' ? ? ? * v I for com 0*1 line Iiis parents to send him lo school, t 'ompulKotv attendance law* hio aim t'd at thr ?ellMi ami indifferent par ? nt, not at the-. child. Of what ad v. an la-go a io good teachers, hu'tg school terms, ami lino school houses unless the eh i hi red attend the schools f In a repeal election to increase the local school tax in a district in North Carolina, where they have recently enacted a kind ot' local option com pulsory law, a certain taxpayer made this declaration : ''If you vote to compel Hie children of this district to go to school, increase my lax aw you please; if you are not going lo put the children into the schools I am opposed lo any,, further tax." Thajj, man's argument has 'no answer. Some opponent to a compulsory law. Mays, 4 * You hnve not enough school houses ami teachers to take care of the thousands of children not in school." Thai argument is worth less unless we ure willing to admit that the white people of the State ure actually unable to take care of their children, Let some outside philun thmpist offer to aid South Carolina in nuitters educational, then you get an answer to that question. Will the flchnnl ? houses pvrr "be "tmtlt ' <Tr ftuT teachers employed until there is a need for tliem? Would it he wise for a farmer to let a $.r>00 crop waslo in the field*, rather than build a $100 house in whiyh lo store it? The last argument of the oppon ents. to compulsory attendance it that it cannot he enforced without truant officers, and that truant of ficers must he paid. Certainly. The present child labor law if this Stato is a dead letter, because no provis ion is made for its enforcement. And the pfdice of ( harleston,? Columbia, .au'd other places hnve to be paid, but it pays to pay them. We are perfectly willing to pay an officer of the law to arrest little negro boys in a 10-cent crap game, bnt jt is too much to pay un officer of the law to see that a lazy, selfish father sends his . chihl to school Wn nro ?>nvinj? to day in actual money -every year five times as numb mi tribute to the in dustrial supremacy of New England and othrv sections, as it would cost ux to pyt every . white child in the State in school for six month#' in the year. What economists we are. And what philosophers we try to bo. WILLIAM U. HAND. University of South Carolina. NKW8 FROM TlfK FAR EAST. Hankow's $350,000 electric light plant is owned entirely by ChlneBe. China Is now shipping goods to the province of Tibet via the sea., route, through Calcutta. American-British tobacco enter prise already has over forty per cent, of Korea's total cigarette business. Distress In India Is still decreas ing. The number now In receipt of State relief Is only 405.000 (Septem ber 14). Australia wants a visit from a Brit ish battleship fleet equal In power to the American fleet v/hlch has Just visited that, country. The Malaysian rubber output in tho first four months of this year was 9Q5 180 tons, nn increase of 367,270 tcna over the corresponding period of 1907. In the first three months of 1908 tho Federated Malay States had a tin output of 13,227 tons, an increase of 2 2 40 pounds each over the first quar ter of 1907. In 1^07-08 British India imported $454,(570,085 worth of merchandise ($64,000,000 Increase over 1906-07) and exported |577,957,323 worth ($1,OOO.OOQ Increase over 1906-07). After fourteen years' operation the 180 shares of Hsle'u Chans: (China) match factory are worth $040 each. The Cnpltal of the company is $40, 000 Of the 600 worlcors 400 are women. L ... China Js very particular th?t the quality of the foreign goods it buys ; shall be fully up to sample, but pays very promptly for what It does buy. A Chines? merchant's woid Is as good as Ms bond - Korea, with a population of 20, -- 000.000, consumes 840,000,000 cig arettes yearly, of which Japan sup plies 40,000,000 monthly. The bal ance is made largely of Virginia leaf tobacco at Shanghai and in the Uni ted States and England. Why? Nftt Goodwin, tho actor, has a friend who owns a country pluce In Main* that is ten miles from a railway sta tion or telegraph office, a fact ol which Goodwin is duly cognizant. Mow the plavor used often to rlsl! this friend, whom he has ever found a laviehly hospitable ho?t, and whe has time and time again advised 'hat there is a room at tho place in Maine t^ady -for him whenever fie c*ros to occupy it. ? * ; " - On one occasion Goodwin cabled from Ix>nrton: "MaV I *tav over thf tbfM Sunday In S^ntomber? ' Tho friend paid tti to f*i? messenger who brought tho cah?c message, like wise a wm necessary to rllelray the cost of hi* reply: "Of course, but don't cable/* Whereupon Goodwin innocently sent t>?U nnerr *?? cable, "Why not?"? Harper's Weekly. IS. ASTOB, RULER OF SOCIETY, IS DEAD Long a Leader of the Fashionable Life of New York. HEART TROUBLE KILLED HER .Swayed llcr Net by Dignity, Not "Wealth? -I'mllsputcd in Hofgii*? - ? Smile or Frottn Uecognl/.ed or Denied Social A inbltions. New Yorlc City. Mr*. William /Valor, for almost hair a century tlio undisputed houd of American society ; and tho arbiter of the social fortunes of Americans in London, Paris, Her Hn. Madrid-, Vienna, St, Potorsburg and other European capitals, died from heart trouble in her home, at No. S4U Fifth avenue. I>r. Austin Flint, Jr., tho family physician, had spent three days and threo nights at her bedside. With him mowl of tho time wan Dr. Hillings. Thoy ex haualod every Known resource of medical science to nave* tho Ufa of I Mrs. Astor. Tho news was (lashed Immediately tho length and breadth of the nodal world. Wherever Jt went it was re ceived w|th sorrow and regrtjt, so threat wan the affection in which Mrs. Aalor wan held by those who so many years had availed themselves Kindly of her social leadership.. No untitled woman In tho world, perhaps, ever exercised sueli fcieat and far-reaching social power. Her mere word lived the social status of thousands Of ftxplrlnaf families nnl only here but also abroad. Thero wore few men or women, however energetic In their social enterprises, who succeeded In climbing over or under tho bars Mrs. Astor oared. Her ban, which closed tho doorB of the most exclusive set to such aspir ants here, operated Just aa effoctivaly In the social centres in 10 u rope. On It ho other hand, those who went to 13 u rope bearing tho seal of approval of Mrs. Astor wore welcomed every where. On thl*-s4de of tho water Mrs. As tor was as supreme socially In Now port, Par Harbor and the other social centrqW aa she wan In Fifth avenue. It was' admitted on all aides that ?' woman who could withatand the pleas of many of tho richest famLlics In the world for recognition, who could defy the thunderlngs of industrial kings upon tho portals of society, and who could command Ward MneAUIster to cut down her own sot from approxi mately 1000 to 4 00 without being dc tabbed from her queehship by a revolution, could do anything aho es sayed to do. Mra. Aator's maiden name waft Car oline Webster Schermerhorn. and sho was born on September 22, 1830. Her parents were Abraham Scher merhorn,. a well known New York lawyer, and Helen (White) Scher merhorn. The family is descended from Jacob Janse Schermerhorn, one of tho first settlers of New Nether land, who came to New York on tho ship Van Renssolaerwy'ck In 16.16. Five children were born to Mr. and Mra. Astor, of whom three survive. Tho surviving ones are Colonol John Jacob Astor, who in February , 1891, wedded Mlaa Ava Lowle Willing. In Philadelphia; Mrs. CJcorgo Ogilvlo Haig, -formerly Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton, and Mra. M. Ormo Wilson, who was formerly Miss Caroline As tor, and whoso marriage to Mr. Wil Bon was celebrated at the Astor man sion on November 18. 1S8 4. The eld est daughter, Emily, who married Mr. Jatues J. Van Alen, of Newport, died many years ago, and Helen As tor, who married Mr. J. Kooseyelt Roosevelt, died In Ascot, England, when her husband was secretary of the American Legation In London un der Thomas F. Bayard. WHITMORE NOT GUILT*". Brooklyn Motoriuan Acquitted of Murdering Wife. I Jersey -City, N J. ? Theodore S. Whitmore, the Brooklyn motornian, was acquitted in tho Hudson County j Court of Oyer and Terminer of the murder of Lena, his wife. The Jury retired a few minutes bo fore 5 o'clock, and came to an agree- i ment in an hour. When Foreman ] Henry Mandevlllo announced that it; was "Not gul}ty" Whitmore briskly stepped forward, embraced his coun- j sel, Alexander Simpson, kissed him on tho cheek and showed great crno-. tion. After the formalities of dismissal Whitmore arose, suffering from tho reaction, and exclaimed: "They hare taken everything from me, and I go out a pauper." His father and broth er quieted him. Lena Whitmore was Inred to the Lamp Black Swamp, at Harrloon, on tho night of last Christmas, rendered helpless by a blow on the head and hurled down an embankment Into ? i tidewater pool and was drowsed. I Whitmore was tried once before for tho crime, the Jury* disagreeing. t Blown Up by His Own Dynamite. | When Nelson Reynolds started out to blow ap tome boulders on his farm near Portland, Me., he placed a stick of dynamite In tils overcoat pocket. While walking along he reachad his hand into the pocket to get a match., As he pulled the match out It scratched on the dynamite and ex ploded it. Reynolds had both of his arms and both legs blown off, ? ... . "Tr*. -? - ?: i" ' -? 1 ?' ? v .77777 Throws at Mule; Kills tola Son. James Thorn, a farmer, of Russell- { /Ilia, Ala., while attempting to nra ft mule out of the yard, picked up a small stone and threw It at the ani mal. He missed the mulo and hlt hls two-year-old shp, killing him In Itaotly.. . ... : Reform Newspaper Renders. ? President Hadley. of Tale, declared that the reform of newspapera and the Government should be*ln wUtf CONFESSES AN OLD HltlBDEK On Way to Gallows Say* Brother 1 Is Being Punished For His Crime. Sn I vat ore ffoivlto Hanged nt Ki-?4U I ilig, I'd., l'or (lie Munlcr of T. Kellcber, a State Trooper* 1 Holding, Pa. ? Confessing that It* had murdered it man In Ualy audi that bl^Jnnocont brother whh serving ix ti Tin of twoutyrflvo yours In u tutnal , colony for the winiO, italvuloaro Cu. r rUo wr.s hnngod hero for the killing ' of Timothy J, Kollehor, a MLato trooper. Tho confession lout a highly dra matin tinge to t4ie execution, It waa not madu nntll tho condemned mau had been told thnl hit* timu had cumo and that hu must march from bin csl| to (ho aallowb which had been erected: in tho Berks County Jail yurd. , A pathetic incident of tho oiocu~ Mod whb a farewell greeting sont to an old-time Sicilian HweethuarL AUTOJST GETS SKt MONTHS. Young Man Under HfvCW Henfcnc? I 'or Reckless Drlvlhg. Worcester, Mass. ? Barry C. Ortt dorff. a son of the late T. C. Orudorff. of this city, who was a wealthy man ufacturer, was sentenced In Brighton court to six months in the houso of correction on the charge of recklea* driving and thirty days in the Hour* | of correction on the charge of drunks ennoss. i Orndorff made the defense that It* I did not know what happened front tho time he left Boston nntll he land od lu a cell. Orndorff, In a big tour "Ing car, amasned Into an iron polo after sevoral policemen had tried to | stop him. The police testified that While Commonwealth avenua wan I flllod with school children and refit* ! clos at a busy time of day Orndorff j drovo his car through the street at *. | paco that whs dangerous to safetyv Orndorff testified that he had eatonr some canned food that was potsoaous. Ho said he took a drink of rock and rye which, ho said, Completely numb ed bin faculties, and ho could not re member anything from the time he started his car up Coramontrealtli avenue until ho arrived In the pollc* station. "BARD OS! 111011 ROCK'1' PKAItt John XV. Hutchinson, Inst of Famoafft Family, a Victim of Gas* t Lynn, Mass. ? John W. Hufchlif son, known as "The Bard of High Rock," and Icurt of the famous lintel*-, I Inaon family, Whose temperance and 1 abolition songs bofore tho Civil War . J and during that conflict made their j names known throughout the coun try, d|ed at his home. High Rock, In j this city,, of . gas poisoning. He was; Voighty-soven years old. * j The Hutehinsons' home was In Mir-r j ford, N. H. The "family" included altteen children, of whom twelrs , were boys. All nad good voices anil ? they quickly becamo popular when* : thoy began singing together Inr putt , lie. In tho years before tho Civil'' i War they toured the country,. hut; i their ureatcat prominenco wna gamed'. ' during the war, when, by special. [ permit from the War DopartnumU they yislted many of the Union campa i and sang to the soldiers. Mr. JJntck- x inson had long lived In this eltjr? < where, from his fame and his patrl * archal appearance, he was Ifcncuvn. a* ; "The Bard of High Rock." He is survived by a widow. FIGHTS LIQUOR SALE TO MINORS! ' ' . II?rsc Thief Association of OfcIftT|0Utai Will Ask Aid of Rocscvelt. Muskogoe, Okla. ? Tho/Texas and: Oklahoma Horao Thief-' Association* organized to prevent the stealing of live stock, In convention adopted a resolution pledging Its 10,000 msnh here to assiBt In the arrest and proso outlon of night riders. - It also decided to ask President Roosevelt by petition to stop the ship ping of liquors into this Stale by Missouri and Arkansas ..liquor deal era to minor children. -Ther associa tion officers 8hy they have evldenoa that liquor Is being shipped into th* State to boys and girls twelve ami fourteen years old. KIIXS FIANCEE AND SEIjH. Jealous Man Says Good-Rye, TlsCffc. Draws Pistol and Shoots. ~ Qreenfiold, Mass. ? Aftor bldd Miss Harriet W. Wing, his Intend bride, good-night, Benjsroin Gaines fired three shots at Miss and then Sent a bullet Into brain. Miss Wing died Instantly aodfc Gaines died at 11 o'clock. Jealousy is supposed to have act uated Gaines, who was thirty-nlna years old and superintendent of a.' large machine shop. Miss Wins was twenty-nine years old. ? I-. ? ... , 1. ? ? . .i m i* J ? ??|aij 1 n WOMAN AND DRIVER KILURDu Fatal Accident Overtakes Ctarfim Vyner'a Motor in Bavaria. Vienna. ? Captain Clarenoe Vynwr, a rich American resident of Vienna, started two days ago on a motor toar for England with Mmo. Betttn, of Chile. At Traunsteln, a town of Kr Bavaria* about twenty miles from IsburK, the motor car met with mm ** accident whtla descending a steep* hill. If mo. Bettin- and the chaaflfoar were Instantly killed and Cfe?U|R Vynar was seriously InJared.^T v ' ?? ?? .. .. -b^t iTjiti 4 y Board* ofr Elections forty sn gar barrels to be used 1 lot boxes In Sandausky C Top* with hlnffes and tt Riots wore ] lota. ^ v