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SAYS JUBOKS TO BLANK juror* Sny? H ? Tatai So Stock !q "Spasm" of RJfhUouaneM Spartanburg June 15.? "If there ia a lack? in the administration of the law or a lack of punishment of criminals* it is the result of len-v ieru-y in tho kearts aml of the jurors for the last forty years, r.nd it is a result, an accumulation, u growth. I have no patience with these sudden spasms of v righteous ness, a spasm only, in tho public xyiincl. to get somebody and get them right now. Let those people,, who now rise in righteous indignation sometimes search themselves and se.e whether or not they have not here tofore sat on juries and turned crimi nals loose who ought to have been convicted,'' said Juilgo T. S. Souse, of Spartanburg in his charge to the grand jury this morning upon the convening. of the summer term of the ?djiurt ()f general sessions. "The judge cannot write a ver dict 'of guilty, neither can the soli citor, it is up to you.. Let us do the work lumestly, squarely and faith fully and let the consequences take care of themselves," admonished .-Judge Sense. ;? The following is the statement of the judge's remarks as taken by the court stenographer: ? .... . ? ' Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the- < I rand Jury: We have only one week at this term of the court and (here a iot of cases on the* docket r.iul it looks like about forty or fif ty more. There is no use for ifily body to tear their shirts about it. \\c will just proceed in the orderly way ?>f administering the law as best we can, grand jury, petit jury, solicitor and court. When we have done that, we have performed our duty. It makes no difference if there are other cases on the dock at? Kvery ease must receive due con sideration ?t the hands of the grand' jury, petit jury and the court. We are here for the purpose of convicting arid punishing the guilty, that is to say, those that have? been prove 'i to be guilty beyond a reason-. ;ible doubt, and we are here to /shield those that are innocent *nd thQse ?that have not been proven to be guilty Ofr.vu'hl a reasonable, doubt. 1 have heard a great deal of criticism by * laymen, not by the lawyers, of the jaw of reasonable doubt. That one word, gentlemen, is the cornerstone. Sometimes, as you no doubt no tice now, there is a spasm of right eousness, a spasm only, in the pub lic mind, to get somebody, get them rijjhi now. That is only spasmodic -in! it dies out soon, and it should die out soon, because every person accused of crime, however serious the .-.barge is or however patent the evi dence: is of his guilt, has a consti tutional light to have his case tried n decorum and in -the orderly ad ministration of justice. The com munity gets outraged, and they think by this spasmodic effort, this spasm of righteousness, that they can rev olutionize the matter in a day or a year or ten years. It can't be done. Why? Because, if there is a lack n tho administration of the law or .? lack of punishment of criminals, it i> the result of leniency in the hearts and minds of juries for the *:a>t 10 years, and it is a result, an accumulation, a growth. 1 b-t those people who now rise in righteous ? indignation sometimes search themselves and see whether or not they have not heretofore sat on juries and turnjed criminals loose, who to have been convicted. Let 'hem search their own hearts. It is *>ot :he fault, if fault there be, of the ouri-. The judge cannot write a ? c rdii t of guilty, neither can he write j ?i verdict of not guilty, under our -titution, and I am glad of it, ause I would hate to have the re sponsibility, the enormous responsi bili?\ on my shoulders to say guilty ? "t guilty. That is for the petit y and it is the best system we v. ?. ever had, and those who criti '? it and criticize its sufficiency ? i effectiveness, let them produce ???UK other 'scheme. I have heard of . r.u. ^ * . ^ c, we will proceed in the or ?<iiy way of the administration of -Ustice and eventually we will come Ait victorious, but if you violate the ?'? by refusing to give a man a deliberate and impartiaj trial, >'?u will do no 'good along the line ?>f respect for law and enforcement ' the law. You would therefore be vio.ating the law itself. I say, gen ' enien, I have no patience - with a Midden spasm of a desire to enforce the criminal law. Let it be a long pull and a steady effort all the time to that justice is done Hi favor tho state and to see that the criminal gets the fair ttlal and de liberate judgment of the court* ac* hording to the law and the rule* n* law Utf tr tip ISngljsh apaaking P* ople Have- found, best for a thou s*nd years. I have been preaching law aad order, gentlemen, for 28 aa4-. torn* times I have become discouraged but 1 don't get mud about it and have a spasm over it. I do my conscientious duty wherever and whenever I can say a word in ?a proper place for tho enforcement of law. That is all I can do. Tho solicitor is not to be criticised, he can't write a verdict of gijilty or not guilty, he can't make the evi dence. If he should attempt it, he ought to be impeached. So let us do the work that our handp find tg do, do it honestly, squarely^nd faith fully, and let the consequences take Cafe of themselves. FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that L. J. Whitaker, administrator of the es tate of M. L. McLeod, deceased, hath this day made application unto me for < a final discharge as said adm\nistra- . tor, and that Mpnday, tho 20th day of June, 1925, at 11 o'clock a. m? at tho Probate office in Camden, South Carolina, has been set as the time ' and place for the hearing of the said application. All parties, if any, having claims - against the said estate will present' them duly attested on or before that date or be forever burred. . VV. L. MvDOWKLL, * Judge of Probate Kershaw Co. Camden, S. C,, May 21st, 1 925. "Happy. As Can Be" "I can work as well as ever, and am as happy as Can be, for my life has ? been given back to me," writes J. It. Bryant who says he went to special- . ists who told him he had Brights Disease and they could do nothing for him. He took eight bottle.^ of Hobo Kid ney and Bladder Remedy and is en tirely satisfied. "Hobo" is a. powerful vivifying balm ? made from an herb that con tains no alcohol, no opiate**,- no habit forming drugs. V*bv sale by all druggists. Price $1.20 per bottle, or a full treatment ! of six bottles for $li.00.' This full treatment is recommended and guar anteed to give entire satisfaction or ? money refunded. r* . Hobo Medicine CO., Beaumont, Texas.! VA? ?? ?? -> <* V I JOHN J. FOLSOM I>EAI) Was Prominent Citizen of Tiller's Ferry Section The news of the death of John J. Folspmj which occurred at the honvj of his son J. L. Folsom in the Tiller's. Ferry section of Lee county in his 79th year last Saturday moaning was received ? witk profound ^ regret, al though^ not unexpected. Mr. Folsom had been sick about two weeks with pneumonia, but was thought to haVo been some better the day before the final summons came. John James Folsom was born May 1, 181G, in the Tiller's Ferry section ? of \vhat is now Lee county, and liveJ all his long and useful life in the same neighborhood. He was a man of strong character, a determined will and an even disposition. T1U__ life, hhd been so sperifr that when ho must 'Have realized that his time on ejirth was drawing n?ar to a close, he prayed/ that he he relieved of fur ther earthly responsibilities. This jptJlVer was answered, and death eaiho peacefully ami quiet and his life had lu'i n apfillt among* his fellowmen. Mr. Fol#om was one of the few old Confederate soldiers that have been spared to live in this age. When \ mere lad In* entered t.he cause of his native state and served with distinc tion In Company K, of Hrown's Bat talion. ' ? . Forty-six years aj?o he was nappily married to Miss Mary Jane Clements of Darlington county, who with six children survive him, as follows; Mrs. hula Oaughntan and Mrs. Maggie .Kelley, #W. H. Folsom, E. W. Folsom, S. L, Folsom and J. I. Folsom. Also two brothers, Z. T. and J. K. Folsom and two sifters, Mrs. Lizzie Kelley, and Mrs. Lydia Parham of Orlandy, Fla., and' several grand children and great grand children. The funeral services were held Sun day morning at Bethany Methodist church, of which the deceased had been a member for many year*. In terment followed in the church ceme tery, services .being conducted by his pastor, Kov. German. The floral of ferings were laicge and beautiful. ? Kishopville Messenger. Last Cruise of the Oregon Oregon for the Oregon. The most famous of American battleships since the Constitution has found her final resting place in Portland harbor, where the local pride of the Pacific Coast will see that the slow processes of decay ure as tyn? us possible re sisted and that no impious hand shall, "tear her tattered ensign down" says the New York World. The Spanish war- -we know now that it Wtffe a little onejebut it was our own ? 'found the Oregon upon the Pa cific, where she had been built and passed her few years afloat. The Isthmian canal was not yet; Captuin Clark had to bring her home down and up the two coasts of the New World, threading meanwhile Magel lan's tortuous straits, visited, from point to point in the general imagina tion by dire perils from foe and sea. She was on hand when needed not the least of the ships that took part in the, defeat yf Cervera at Santiago. From the day of her ljVunching the Oregon's home has been in the Pa cific. Disarmed under the Washing ton conference treaty, she will doze out her Ihst. days' among friends. Peace to her plates! Florence Hoy Cleared of Charge Florence, June 19. ? Aleck Pitts, ltf year-old boy charged with the mur der of his father, T. K. Pitts, promi nent farmer near Florence, was ac quitted this morning. The case went to the jury without arguments on the state's testimony. Young Pitts' de fense was that he shot to save his -mother V life. The jury wijs out only a few minutes. QII1T8 BENCH TO TURN HOBO Judge Kinsell of California Hndu Freedom of Souf in I.ong Hike By fate ? jurist, sitting in judgment upon his follow mart; by instinct a nomadic wayfarer along- life's high ways, seeking the .sun. Such was the irreconcilable complex two months ago of former Superior Court Judge of Oakland, Cal., eminent lawyer and eitiaen. Bound l>y the tenacious con ventionalities of life, Judge Kinsell threw aside the judicial togH, he said, because no sun shone into his court room. ? But those who knew him, says an Oakland dispatch, knew that it was more than the sun in the skies abovo. that, the austere personage upon the bench found barred from his windows. To him the dark things of life that came across his Vision at the bar of justice barred from tin- windows of his own soul the light of happiness* ami mental freedom. One day Judge Kinsell dropped completely from sight. At his Oaklan 1" home it was said he had "gone away for a rest.'" lie had. (Mad in appro priate hiking to^s. Knapsaek slung jauntily over his: shoulder and soft hat pulled low over his eyes, the abdicat ing jurist had set forlh along the highways and byways of man, seek ing the- freedom his spirit had craved, Today .Judge Kinsell is back home", bronzed and hardened after a vagrant, journey in which# ho tramped and "hummed" his wa.V from the. shores of the l^cifie to the Atlantic, at. Jack sonville, Fla. He is back (home with a new aspecjl on life, a vision as broad as the country he traveled. Judge Kinsell's hike from ocean to ocean included what "lifts? could bo had along the highways that he fol lowed, but his actual walking averag ed from f> *to 20 miles a day. But there were mf paid fares, nor were there hotel bills to mock derisively at "" a weakened purpose. Nightly the sky was the wanderer's blanket, the earth his pillow. "True," he says, "I did reach the Atlantic, but that was just because I kept going, in that direc tion. It was cfiaiice guiding my foot stens. -I- started out without any dofi nite goal. Too many goals quickly be come obligations, and it was freedom that I sought ? and found. Sometimes riding* with wayside friends I even retraced my route." 1 Human nature, Judge Kinsell es tablished as one of his prime discov eries, is quite universally the same the length of the road, "whether it rjdes in the tapestried tonneau of a lijrnou sine or aboard the rough-riding rear seat of a flivver. People are natur ally suspicious, but likewise they are readily responsive flo the clean-cut appearance of the man who holds his head high. I say that figuratively as. well as literally. If a man walks alone and -is clean and neat in his appearance, trudging along about his business in a self-respecting way, he will find the high and the low ready to stand by and give him a lift. That is life." One thing stands forth iti Judge Kinsell's mind %s the supreme lesson taught him by his wanderings ? that is, time devoted to getting simple joys out of life pays far greater dividends thari that devoted to quest after* money returns. ; "Money," he said, "is essential, but Clod pity the man or woman who subserves all else to jthe pursuit of it. You cannot buy hap piness with gold, but you can have it for the asking if you seek it 'Hi freedom *of mind and body through communion with nature. The man ?who cooks his evening meal over a campfire along the railroad track is often happier than the man who whirls past him on the upper road in his limousine, going home to his fine dinner." The hospitality of the country ? that type of hospitality that opens the door without questioning to take one in ? is found in the "open coun-, try," Judge Kinsell declared. "I used to think of it as I lay beneath the stars on the floor of the Arizona des-, ert. I used to reflect on the infinite advantages of living in the open country 'as compared with the mod ern stress of city life. It has al- ^ ways my observation that dwellers in remote country sections havo the ways of open hospitality, frank andf( generous impulsiveness, which, the city man, in ,the struggle to ;ikeep abreast of life-upon-the-installment plan, and the bill ^collector, must forego. "Go anywhere ? anywhere where life runs by the wayside, free ant) untrammeled where the voice of datv and convention never calls; where simplicity is the keynote of existence, 'knd the sunshine and free breezes en fold both body and soul in a healing embrace ? that is life." ^ A new illuminating ffa*K said* to be non-nsphy*iating and to have double the heat value and candle power of ordinary manufactured g?b rs said to have- been* invented by Dr. O. U. Bean, the inventor of tbe Bun ! Mn GRAYS VACATION TOUR __ All Expense, Personally Conducted TO NIAGARA FALLS, TORONTO, CANADA, NEW YORK. CITY AND WASHINGTON August 5th to August 16th From Various South Carolina Points Most economical. A wonderful vacation tour without worry. Everything pre-arranged. Splendid chance for parents to give their children an educational trip during this vacation period. (^Vrit? for descriptive folder, showing cost, etc. S. H. M/cLEAN * y, D. P. A., Southern Railway Company Columbia, S. C.