The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, August 03, 1905, Image 1
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Young Kenneth Keane, Member
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of the Bamberg Company
SHOT IN THE BREAST
The Shooriof is Somewhat of a Mysteri
ous Affair. Kearso Says He Was
Walking Aloof oa Lower Main
Street When He Was
Shot Unawares. ^
Kenneth Koaiae, a young soldier
who is la.camp at Columbia with the
Bamberg Guards, last week, waaserl
oualy shot in the iett side by an un
known negro about 11 o’clock Thurs
day night. The affair occurred at
the corner of lower Main and Divine
streets. The bullet penetrated the
“chest cavity hut the physicians state
that there is nothing to Indicate that
it entered the lungs. The wounded
man was taken to the Columbia boa
TOO KANT SICK.
The Penitentiary Authorities lay
lew Law Paters the Counties.
'tj
Oonvlete Worked by Oomntlee Until
. 7 T
They Break Down and Are Then
pita! soon after the shooting. The _
"-'■■following account of - the somewhat gang authorities are not (quipped to
dent to State Penitentiary.
The harden of the new law giving
county supervisors the use of oonvlots
sentenced to terms of ten years or
less, with the option of turning them
over to the penitentiary authorities
whenever they dear out or break down
from ill-health, is falling with increas
ing weight on the penitentiary au
thorities, who complain that practi
cally all of the prisoners they get now,
except those sriht in for long terms,
ate either diseased or are otherwise
incapacitated for work; that short
term prisoners kept on the average
chain £a D B In this state are soon
broken in health from lack of care
and by reason of Improper treatment
and are sent into thfc penitentiary
physical wrecks.
The new law Is working a terrible
cruelty, ” said Superintendent Griffith,
to the Augusta Chronicle correspon
dent recently. "I do not believe there
is a man In this state physically strong
enough to stand ten years’ service on
a chain gang In this state. The chain
*4*-
mysterious affair, is taken from the
Columbia State of last Friday:
Kearse and Charlie Marshall, a
member of the Richland Volunteers,
were coming up Main street from the
gqjpn station and when they reached
' Jths corner of Main and Divine a ne
gro', who it is said was being chased
by persons In civilian clothes, ran past
them and bad not gone far When he
tumid and fired. The nevro waa not
known to the soldiers, and after the
abnntirg disappeared mysteriously.
K* arse’s friend, Marshall, took him
1mm dlately to the office of Dr.
Rtoe, which la only a few blocks away
from the scene of the shooting.
When they reached the office of the
physician the wounded man was suf
feting considersbly and an anodlne
waa administered to alleviate his pain.
Both Keane and Marshall were un
armed when they reached Dr. Rloe’s
office. At the hospital the physician
probed for the bullet but could not
find It. Later the patient was said
to be reetlng very well, although auf
faring from shook. No definite opin
ion as to the result of the wound cap
’ be given at this time. Tbs ball en
tered the cavity but there la no trace
, of bfmorrbage nor do the lungs ap
pear to be affected. i
Patrolman Ford waa on that beat
at the time the ahtotlog occurred.
He elated that he heard one shot and
after an Interval of about a minute
time others. He was then near the
otrner of Main and College streets and
hurried on down In the direction from
which the shots were dbmlng. At the
corner of Main and Green streets he
passed a street oar conductor named
Martin who told the
to his
era shooting at a negro.
The policeman ran on to the corner
of Main and Divine one block further
down. Here be met several negroes
who told him that some soldiers bad
been shooting at a negro and that
they had gone down Divine street.
FOrd then ran down Divine for three
blocks to Lincoln sod did not see any
_ body but one man who waa coming to
ward Main street. He was dressed in
civilian clothe* and said he had not
•con any aoldlra or anybody on that
street. -
* When Officer Ford returned to the
corner of Main and Divine the t agroes
wera still there and told him that the
soldiers ware oomlng. along Main
atreet and met a negro wbo war on
the Inside of the pavunent next to
the fence and that they began to
abase him and be ran out In the mid
dle of the street and opened fire -on
the militiamen. These two accounts
are totally different and neither of
them explains the seriee of Shota heard
by the pollof man.
Kenneth Keane la a son of Mr. An
drew Keane, a respected farmer who
lives on the Atlant ic Coast Line about
£ seven miles from Denmark. A tele
* phone ite-sage from Denmark state*
that Kenneth Kearse has always been
regarded as a quiet and orderly young
“ Ban In that oommunlty. During a
i put of the last three yean he has
: lived in Columbia, being employed at
. Qnt one thing and then another. For
i awhile be worked at the glass factory
ap«t subsequently in a drug store.
Keane has an uncle at Denmark who
was-apprised of the shooting so that
he (bold Inform the parents at once.
A Hen •tor Hentened.
United States Senator Mithell.con
rioted of using hla office of United
States senator to further the law
pratlce of the firm o{ Mitobel & Tan
ner of Portland, Ore., waa aentened
to pay a fine of 11,000 and to six
months penal servitude. Pending
a review of the case by the supreme
c&urt of the United States executton
of the sentence will be deferred.
Meantime Mitchell will he placed un
hail tetbe amount of tR.OOO.
Many Arrested.
The London Daily Mail’s Vienna
correspondent says the aultan has of
fared a reward of Aip.000 Turkish for
the dlspoTpry of the (fonsptrators who
arranged for the throwing of the bomb
at hla majesty last Friday. Nearly a
tbrhsaiid persons hava been „ ,
arrested on suspicion. An early repe-
oare for the prisoners as they should
be cared for. When the average chain
gang prisoner gets wet working in the
rain he is allowed to sleep through
the night in his wet dothea, which la
barbarous. We never allow a prisoner
toilsep in wet clothes down here.” A
m* jirity of the deaths that occur at
crop.of 1904. yet It bro
iSLff ^ more money by 113.143,619 31
cu osis, and many of these cases are w ]]i thus be seen that It pays b
life la feared and extensive preoau
hit bean taken to pravent it.
contracted after tbe prisoner reaches
Columbia, though some are sent in
each year from tbe chain ganga dying
from consumption.
A victim of this disease recently
was A. S. Simpson, a life termer, sent
tere four years ago from Abbeville
for murder Simpson was only 31
yean old and contracted tbirdisease
.8 months ago. He waa abridge buil
der and killed his man in a dispute
over the construction of a bwuge.
He was a well behaved prisoner and
waa apparently a naan of some culture.
Hla remains were shipped to bis widow
and two children, at Calhoun. Two
of hla brothers were frequent vislton
to the penitentiary. Simpson waa at
fint worked in the hosiery' mill,
where practically all of the tuberou-
losla oaaea originate, but recently he
had been working in the csrpenter
shop. Two negro convicts, who died
within the past thirty days, were
brought in from the county gangs;
each died wlthtn two days after his
admission to tbe penitentiary.
In this connection, a paragraph from
Dr. S. £ Harmon’s last annual re
port, will be of much Interest:
There were 392 patients in tbe hoe-
pital. 'Ten times that number were
treated for minor troubles that did
i who told the offioeTTh answer,
it quiry that 1twai\acme soldi- hospttxrr Ireport thirty-one de
this year, all c being of a chronic
nature, with the exception of two or
three, Including one suicide. Nine
teen died of tuberculosis. The death
rate from this disease can hr reduced
by isolation, but when we consider
that a large per cent of those that die
from tuberculosis are admitted to the
Institution already infected you oan
readily tee that the death rate from
this disease will always be large. You
will see that seven of the number that
died were received from the various
chain gangs, in a hopeless condition;
one of whom died two days after be
ing admitted.” \ \
THE COTTON CROP.
The Outlook for Oeod Prices Is Most
Vxealleut.
The Fi
Have Only to Marke
Lightning Set One on Fire
Others Quickly Ignited.
the Crop Oarefklly and Prop
erly to Reap Profit.
MEN AND MULES BURN
The farmers of the Sooth have
things in their own hand! now, and if
they will act with each other they
will reap a rich reward, not only this
year, but for all yean. The ootton
situation at this time is mpre favors
hie for high price ootton this fall
than we have had in yean. At the
close of the year 1904 then was no
surplus ootton, and by September 1st
12 500,000 bales of the 13,584,457
hales made in 1904 will have been con
sumed. This will leave about 1,000,-.
000 bales to stirt business on Septem
her 1, 1906. Tbe present year’s crop
will hardly exceed 9,000 000 bales.
To that you add the 1,000,000 bales
brought over, and you have only 10,-
000 000 bales, about 2 500 000 bales
short of the consumption of 1906.
To make more ootton than indicat
ed above we would have to make mote
per acre than we have made for tbe
past five yean, which hardly aeemi>
possible if tbe crop reports an to be
relied hpon. According to the nports
we hate the shortest acreage this year
and the lowest nport. except one, in
tbe five years. In 1903 our acreage
Seat to Stay Progress of Plsaws, They
Wen HesMKd la After Explosioa.
Two Sqaare Miles of Heavy*
Sanke aad Lurid, laex-
a
tiagaishable Fire.
At Humble, Texas, covering an
area three-quarten of a mile square
with a great canopy of smoke hovering
•wo square miles, the oil tanka of the
Texas Company continue to boll and
bubble under the great heat of the
burning oil, the fire having burned all . ... . . . . ^ .
night. *—Yr 4jtr0og.hr illegal, and feels no regret
When It oan he extinguished is prob-
ematioal, certainly not until it has
burned all of the oil In eleven big tanks
which held two and a half million bar
rels when lightning struck them on
Sunday afternoon.
It la now known that five negro
workmen perished. There are hun
dreds of homeless people. They were
ivlng 1 in tents and in the oil
WM 28,014,860, and we 1 made 9 851," g e ld lad fled for th«ir Uvea to the &
RaUlMnake* In tbe 8tr«et.
Ten days ago a Dr Arnold went to
BaMh; Wy0..selling eye medicine.TO
attract attention to his warea-the do^
llectlon of
tor brought with him a collection
freaks, among them being a snake
charmer with several boxes of rattle
snakes. Having no state license, tbe
doctor waa arretted, lined 860 and sent
to jail for a week. Upon being liber
atod he found that hla freaks had dis
appeared, the snake charmer leaving
behind his collection of full grown
rattlers. About dusk Arnold went
into the center of the town and open
ed the doors of the snake cages, per-
mlttlng-thv'tweniy five big rattlers to
escape. Arnold then got out of town
on horseback. The alarm waa spread
and a nlgnt of terror was spent by the
citizens, wbo were afraid to leave their
residences because of the rattlers.
Arnold will be lynched If he is caught.
Htove Exploded.
Two dead, two fatally burned and
three others seriously injured la the
result of an explosion of a gasoline
stove early Weanesdzy at the borne of
Levy Titus, a Kosher butcher, Brad-
dock, Pa. The explosion was caused
by tbe overturning of a gasoline stove
on which Mrs. Titos was preparing
breakfast. The burning fluid waa
scattered over the room, enveloping
Mrs. Titus and igniting a five gallon
can of oll l 'HandlDg on the rear porch
near tbe door.. Tne dead are Harry
Titus and Meyer Titus, twins, aged 7
years. _ Mrs, Sarah Titus, the mother,
and Elate Titus, aged 3 years, were
fatally burned.
price,as that would do more harm than
good. Do not think that beoanse we
havtrwon one great victory you oan
push ootton tea very high prioe. You
must remember that there are other
places that can raise ootton besides
tbe States of tbe South. But you
need not fear competition as long as
ootton stays below 12i cents. There
is nothing under the sun you oan
man jglth_aa cheap aa you
cotton at 12}<
Properly hand
king again, and will make the South
In time the richest country in tbe
world. So, let us all take courage
and stick together. This can only oe
done by a thorough organization of all
the business Interests of the South.
We are all in the same boat with tbe
man that makes the cotton. What
hurts him hurts us all. So then let
us get our forces in good shape and
victory is ours. - Farmers, market
your ootton as long as it stays from
ten to twelve and a half cents, but
Just as soon as it gets below ten cants
stop right off and positively refuss to
sell until some on will see fit to give
you ten cents, which will always come
if it ean^h* bought for lass. If you
are not already a member go at onoe
and join the Southern Ootton Ateooia
tlon, which has certainly done a grand
work for the Sooth tbli year.
Three Mlnen Killed.
While a number of miners were at
work in the Bulkhead mine in New
Mexico an explosition of dyamlte oc
curred which wrought awful havoc in
already,! tbe mine and killed three men. jMap
bodies of tbe men were blown to
- AUtpb-of’lhe attemut oft the tultan’iInot enough being left by which they
ocnid be recognised,
were injured.
Several others
Bought Hie lAfe.
Bound, gagged and at the meroy of
Mexican bandits, B. S. Loomis a San
1* ranclscoan, was held a prisoner in
the mountains of Cerro de San Juan,
near San Blast, Mexico. A promise
(f the payment of a ransom saved his
life, for it waa the Intention of the
robbers to kill hini after they had
stripped him of aU his effects.
L^mls is the superintendent of
fiutt company at San Bias and is wel
known in San Francisco. In telling
of bis experience Lcom'a writes
“While returning from Tepio I was
held up by bandits and robbed of my
effect# . I was bound and gagged and
tben taken to a narrow canyon to he
killed. I bought tbe bandits off with
a promise to pay them 1200, the moa
ey to be taken to a certain point on a
certain day. They threatened to kil
me at night if I did not keep my
promise. I did not keep my promise
and Instead of sending the money
purchased a rifle for my protection.’’
and
PAID THE MONK?.
Iditor WUliama, of tbe Fews-Leader,
Vakas-Public Statement.
Have $25 to Elect Andereoi*. Makes
Announcement In Hla Paper Ad
mitting Rumor* to Be True.
The following dispatch to the
Washington Poet from Richmond,
Va., concerns an act of Mr. A. B.
Williams in connection with ao elec
tion, in which he defends himself for
using money in election:
In a letter to the public Alfred B.
Williams, president and editor of the
News Leader, admits that rumors
connecting him with the expenditure
of money in the ^recent municipal
primary are true. He frankly ex
plains the whole matter, says he is
not conscious of having done anything
SENATOR TILLMAN
Is Willing toltfAfe ik a Joint Vis-
eposarr Debate.
for his action.
For a week the grand jury has been
engaged in probing charges of fraud
in the late "election, and during tbe
past few days rumor baa been busy
with the name of Mr. Williams, alleg-
ng that he paid 125 to a party worker
to aid Col. George Wayne Anderson,
candidate for commonwealth’s at
torney, in the First precinct of Jeffer-
129, which brought 6660.549,230 82,
in the crop of 1804 we bad 30,453,600
acres, and made 13 584,467 bales, that
brought .1647 405,534.51. These fig
ures are Interesting, and we shall
pursue them further.
The crop of 1908 was~», 491,386 bales
yet It brought
It
pays better
to raise a moderate crop than a very
large one. The acreage for 1906 is
about 26 179,038, the smallest -that
ws have had in tbe last five yeara, ar d
with tbe average for five rears multi
plied with tbe acreage of 1905, it
makes a erop of about nine million
bales. Figure from any standpoint
you ple*ae and you cant figursa over a
ten million bale crop, and it can be
figured as low as eight million for 1905
with plausible figures. “
In ths faoi of the above figures, it
is very plain that if tbe farmers mar
ket tbe orop Intelligently good prioee
are bound to prevail. The present
crop la worth ten cents and not a
pound of it should be sold below that
figure. The thing for the farmer to
do when cotton goes below ten cents la
to put it in a warehouse and wait for
a rise, but do not Inslat on too high a Atb are all that are known to have
town. All their belongings were de
stroyed by the fire. During the night
there waa a beayy downpour of rain,
and this oovared the ground with a
sheet of water coated with a thick
film of oil.
Shortly after a big tank began to
blaze two hundred workmen with sev
enty-five mules were hurried to the
place to throw up earthen embank-
nents. Suddenly the oil gave an up
heaval, bubbled and lifted a great mass
of the burning fluid bodily from tbe
tank and the fire waa oommunioated
to three other tanka. .
At 4 o’clock Monday morning firs
broke out in the steal tanks of the
Texas Company attha pumping sta
tion, a mile from the original fire.
What damage waa dona cannot be as
certained beoanse it la impossible to
reach that part of the field.
The burning oil caught men and
mules and hemmed them in. Some
of the mot mounted ths mules and
got out hut at least forty mules balk
ed and were cremated. Five negroes
were seen to go down and It is not be
lieved to be possible that they oould
not escaped. While all the men
have not been accounted for, tin
son ward.
Mr. Williams lays In HA card, pub- tha fattgus of making any speeches,”
perished. , —
At 10 o’clock the fire was still raging
with no prospects for Immediate con
trol. It Is believed, however, that
the flames will eventually be confined
to the tankage district. There were
000,000 barrels of oil ln the storage
tanks, all of which will be destroyed.
Lomeeare estimated at 1750,000 or
more with practically no insuranoe.
its of fatalities art not verified,
ibugh a number of men are report
ed missing. The conflagration wft
visible in Houston, seventeen miles
away and in Galveston, sixty five mile
distant. *
The OH Fire la Over.
After burning for three days and
nights the Texas oil fire is over. Work
ing under the greatest difficulty and
at the imminent peril of their lives
hundreds of workmen threw up em
bank meats between the burning oil
and those not yet on fixe, and
this In a large measure, contributed
toward stopping the flames. It was
impossible to do anything with those
burning, but since It la now believed
the further spread of the fire is pre
vented, ths oil in the burning district
■ted (be Monament.
The Augusts Chronicle says negro
soldiers of Savannah and Augusta,
while parading on Broad street Tues
day afternoon, attracted considerable
attention and .won the applause of Bn
hundreds of whlte people, who wit- ^
nessed the incident, respectfully sa
luting tbe Confederate monument, in
passing the beautiful abaft. It was a
graceful act, and one that was widely
commented upon on fell aides. The
military saints, by presenting arms,
aa the marble shaft, commemorating
tjte Confederate dead, was passed,
cuneaa a surprise to the spectators
along the street. Almost Instantly
tfcfe Applause began and was oontinusd
gntu after flht oompaiilsKjiad pcMtd.
ed, twelve lives lost and property wip
ed away to the value of 31,500,000.
Of the twelve dead all were negroes.
Only six of the bodies have been re
covered, all of them being charred be-
yound recognition.
Took Her Own Life.
At New York, within five minutes
from the time that Charles Marshall,
a Wall street broker left his wife ap
parently sleeping soundly in bed, the
woman wrote her husband a note, tell
ing him not to let ths world blame
him (or what was going to happen,, aoc
shot herself, dying before her hushfenc
eouid reach the bedside, Mrs. Marshal
was formerly Miss Grace Starr and
waa highly connected in New York
social circles No cause for the suicide
wss discovered. The tragedy occurred
in the Raleigh, a fashionable family
apartment hotel, overlooking Central
park at Ninety-second street.
—1 1 ■ 1.1111. n lit. ■■■■
Foucht It Out.
James B. Gray, editor of the At
lanta Journal, and H. H. Revil, a rep-
reeentive in the Georgia legislature
from Merriwether County, had a fight
at a prominent place on Peachtree
street Vn Atlanta. They were sepa
rated before damage was done. Thd
fight arose over an editorial article in
the Journal dealing with Mr. Revl
and a spec oh in reply. Mr. Revil
drew a pistol, bat Mr. Gray was un
'Hlfd, r» — j—
ishsd in the News-Leader recently,
that the election transaction on which
these rumors are based waa no secret
and was not intended to be. He says
that be waa informed tbe night before
he election that active work at tbe
First precinct, Jefferson ward, would
carry it for Col. Andepon, and that
there was a man woo would do the
work, but he would expect to be paid.
I. immediately said," continued
fir. Williams, “that I would see that
be waa paid if he did the work, but
that Col. Anderson would not be told
about It, and would know nothing
of it.’’
Mr. Williams further explains that
was kept from Col. Anderson be
cause, under the Barksdale law, it
would be heoeesary for him to take a
rigid oath that he had not used money
in the election, or allowed it to be
used except for certain specified pur
poses. It la his understanding of the
aw, he says, that a candidate's friends
may do things that the candidates
cannot legally do.
Ha says further that after tbe elec
tion he sent his personal check to the
worker in question, wbo is under
stood to be Samuel Goldstelu, a power
among a certain class. Mr. WUliama
aayi he sent a check ao that the trans
action should be open and there
should be no appearance of trying to
hide anything. There waa no talk or
suggestion pf bribery or corruptly in
tluenclng anybody, says Mr. Williams,
and he does not believe a dollar was
spent for such a purpose.
The writer says the differehoe be
tween buying votes and ssoarlng per
soosl influence in a legitimate way is
clear to him; that he would not have
given a dollar oould it have purchased
votes enough to elect Col. Anderson.
He concludes:
“If the grand Jury, in Its wisdom
, aaff consoience, sees fit to indict me,
shall meet the issue without any
quibbling or dodging play for delay,
or resort to legal technicalities."
The mater has created unbounded
Interest because of the prominence of
Mr. Williams, who has for jteMa
taken a leading part in city affairs,
and who has always been foremost in
all movements looking to the upbuild
ing of the city and the purifying of
the ballot.
The Barksdale law, which bean on
elections, is is follows:
No person shall expend, pay, prom-.
continued the senator, I think I
la nearly exhausted. Three million
barrels of crude oil have been destroy- ]q^q or become pecuniarily liable
Nexkliergeet In Bontb.
According to reports brought back
from Oteaaoo college by Sunerintend-
ent Martin, the summer scnool which
has Just dosed was tbe largest in the
South, with the exception of the one
held at Sewaoee. The total enroll
ment will go, over 700 and Mr. Mar
tin and other educators who took, part
feelmooh encouraged at this.lntereat
In education by Mia
in any way for any money or other
valuable tbipg in behalf of any can
didate for office at any election, prl
msry, or nominating convention held
in this commonwealth. Any person
or candidate violating any of the pro
visions of this act shall be subject to
a fine of not less than 3100 or more
than 31,000, or confined in not
less than one nor morfi than twelve
months.
VIOLATED THE LAW.
At Richmond, Va., Wednesday the
grapd jury brought in indictments
against five men, Including Alfred B
Williams, editor, for alleged violation
of election laws in the recent Demo
cratic primary there. The. indict
ment alleges Mr. Williams agreed to
pay 326 to one of the others indicted
for influencing votes in behalf of
candidate for oommd&wealth attor
oey. All except one, wbo is out of
town, gave 3500 bond each. The
oases will be tried Id September.
Laid to Heat.
The Newberry Observer says "Rev
P. H. E. Derrick and wife were called
to the bedside of Mrs. A. E. Geiger
last Thursday. Mrs. Geiger waa the
mother of Mrs. Derrick and wife of Dr
Frank Geiger. She waa the mother
of 12 children. Mrs. Geiger was of
tha family of Geigers that gave to
alatory the Emily Geiger who made the
darjog ride from a point in Newberry
county to the continental commander
at Orangeburg. Mra. Geiger waa laid
to reat in the Sandy Run cemetery on
Friday.”
Dteatisaed.
Prof. Andrew Noah Fox of the
Chicago theological seminary has been
flsmiieed from the institution be
cause of a telegram to Jno. D. Rocke
feller asking tar some of hla “tainted .... _
money” to endow two professorships, the happtsst Mm*.—X.
The Leader o< Dispensary ForeeaHot
Averse to Meeting on Mtump *
Champion of Opponents.
The Augusta Chronicle aaya United
States Senator Benjamin Ryan Till
man, although not having a great
deal to say nowadays is ne
taking a great Interest in political at
fain. Senator Tillman waa aeen at
his home in Trenton several days ago
by a representative of The Chronicle,
and readily answered the questions
impounded by the newspaper man.
Vhen questioned on the movement to
vote out tbe dispensary in hli own
county the Senator said:
“I have been about very little and
have had no opportunity other than
attending .one picnic in Edgefield, to
meet the people. I, therefore, am not
posted , aa to tbe present trend of
thought and feeling, but those who
and are well in
formed, tell me that in thia bounty
the sentiment is charging very rapid-
The people are constantly asking
what they are to have after the dis
pensary la abolished, while the effect
the school fund of withdrawing
from the county the money hitherto
received from the state dispensary ia
causing a great many people to change
ront.
“While I am not eager to undergo
WAS WRONG.
would really enloy having a J fint dia
cusslon with spy champion the anti-
dispensary piople might decide upon,
or, for that matter, any half dosen of
them. The people are disgusted with
the management of the state dlapen
sary, and there ia widespread belief
that -there ia corruption somewhere.
This will cause many to vote against
the system, who have hitherto been
ta strong friends.
“In my recent letter, I mentioned
some figures aa to tbe effectiveness of
prohibition, or, rather, its failure in
fialne and Kansas. I have received
from Washington tbe last annual re
port of commission of Internal revenue
Or the flaeal year e ding June 30,
1905. In it 1 find the following fig
ures: ‘
“Retail dealers in Kansas, 2,862;
wholesale liquor dealers, 23; brewers,
retail deafen in malt liquors, 335;
wholesale dealers in malt liquors, 108
“In Maine the figures an: Retail
quor dealers, 430; wholesale liquor
dealers, 5; bnwen, 3; retail dealers in
malt liquors, 558; wholesale dealen In
malt liquors, 22.
‘ ‘Now, in neither of theee states oan
iquor be sold as a beverage under the
aw.
In South Carolina the figures an:
‘Rstail liquor dealen, 612; wholesale
iquor dealen, 7; brewen, 1; ntall
dealers in malt liquon, 66; wholesale
dealers in malt liquors, 9.”
Senator Tillman ben gave the figur
es in tabular form, in order to show
ths oomparison men clearly:
Continuing, he said: “The figures
•peak for themselves, and when any
one nmembers that no man will pay
the 326 to ths United States govern
ment for ths permlaskm to ntall for
fun, it may ha assn how prohibition
prohibits. Of oouras, in South Garo-
ina, then an a number of beer prl vl
eghs, and all dlspenaarisa take out a
United States llosnae, and these will
have to be deducted from the fi nurse
above given in order to show bow
many blind tigers we have in this
state.
“Kaasaa has pnaalhUy 2QQ.0QQ mon
population than South Carolina, while
Maine has about half our population.
Any one who la interested can
out the percentages. The figures show
that then an about twice aa many
liquor dealen per capita in Maine as
n South Carolina, even Including the
dispensaries, while in Kansas there
an more than five times aa many. -
“I am mon than ever convinced
that there is political signlfloanoe, as
well as a desire to further the cause of
temperance in the move to destroy the
dispensary. I shall be glad if at least
dozen counties vote out the dispen
saries tills summer, because it will
give the people of thoee counties a
good chance to find out bow far pro
hibition (will prohibit before the real
fight a year henos. ’’
Olrl Lost In Coal Mine.
Miss Florence Evetett, of Soothe
Amboy, had an experience In a coal
mine at Freeland, which nearly ended
in her death. With Mias Mabel
Road, of Perth Amboy, and a party
of Freeland friends, she. was seeing
the mine, when their lights wen ex
tinglushed by a sudden draft. In the
confusion Mias Eventt became aep
•rated from her companions, and got
into a blind head, ending into 70 foot
shaft. When she waa groping her
benighted way along the head
ing, and was within a couple of feet
of the shaft,) The party, upeet by tbe
incident, got ont of the mine quickly.
A Second Estimate of theCotMs Y
Acre*|tby the
SOME REPORTS
Crt# Eaffmsrtfeg Beard Mi
^ a anv iw*a__ m. • m
accreitry witsofl* rot Ktptrt stjt
that Hyde, With Hetass
DrAssssadtssM Hten Dm.
felHBf ^Wp®t •Jt® 'Y ..«»!
thute Tee Low. JY.
Assistant Secretary Hays Wednes
day made the following report to 8eo-
retary Wilson on-tbs acreage of cot
ton In ths southern States in 1905; as
compared with that planted ia 1904:
“Ths orop estimating board of tbs
department of agriculture baa consid
ered tbe report issued by tbs bureau
of atatiatioa on June 2, relative to tbs
aorefegs planted In ootton in tbs
southern States In 1906, as compared
with that planted in 1904, and has
concluded:
“First. That a new estimate should
be made on acreage planted, and that
tbe figures In Mr. Hyde’s hands when
making his estimate should be uasd as
the hula
''Second. That Mr. Hyde with Mr.
Holmes at bis elbow, prompting him
mads the estimate lower than tbs
facta at bis band from tbs reports
from tbe seven aliases of reporters
employed by the bureau warranted.
“Third. The board finds, upon oars-
ful consideration of the reports of all
classes of correspondents sod agents,
that the acreage planted in ootton
this year, including the entire season,
should have been estimated at 861
per cent, of that planted last year,
equivalent to a reduction In planted
acreage as compared with last year of
14 9 per oent. (instead of 11.4) or
4,731,000 acres, the estimate of tbs
total acreage planted this year being
26,999,000 acres.
‘The
estimated percentage Of tbs
taf* each of tits ootton grow-
States is as followa: Virginia, 18;
North Carolina, 16; South Carolina,
14; Georgia, 14; Florida, It; AMmmbs,
11; Miasiatippl, 13; Louisiana, 17;
Texas, 10; Arkansas, 19; Tinna—,
13; Mteourl, 16; Oklahoma, 16; In*
dian Territory, II.
“Tbs averages wars sands for <
■>.;>
State by snob of ths four memben of
tbs board, and tbs comparatively
small disagreements wore harmonised
almost wholly by averaging, and Mis
above results are fully agreed to by
each and every member of tbs board.
“RsepeetfuUy submitted: 0
' ^Victor Olmsted,
“Stephen D. Fessenden,
“George K Holmes, V
“W. W. Lomo,
“Orop Ettimattng Board."
“Tbs above findings and report
made under my supervision have my
entire approval. “W. M.Hau,
“Assistant Secretary in Charge
Bureau of Statiattoa” 0 -
"Approved: '
“James Wilson, *
Secretary of Agriculture." *
■i
r
nixty five Tears Ago,
A boy and a girl wore together six
ty five years ago, near Cross Hill,
when they cams across a terrapin, of
the highland kind. While the young
people sat talking together the hoy,
with bit hen knife, sot his Initials on-
Jestea Hood.
“There is nothing in life so sweet
as love’s young dream,’* sang the
poet. 1 know that there la piquancy
in ths oourahip aad engagement that
has for tbe youth and tbs maid
charm a charm all Its own,
name one period that seems to me to
compare favorably even with that
When tha days of doubt am past and
the magic words bays been a pokes
that binds them for age, either for
weal or woe. Then when hand and
hand they enter their owr home to
raise for themselves a family altar
and plant their vine and fig tree
shelter them in old age. I think
%
the underneath front aide of the ter
rapin’a shell, and the date. The ter-
*s tamed loom. Only a fair
weeks ago this terrapin waa found not
mom than a hundred yards from the
same spot, with tbe initials and date
aa plain as the day they were eat on
tbe shell, tbe terrapin having grown .
very little in the 62 years that had
intervened. The boy of 66 yearn ago,
now a man of mom than eaxenty
remsmdered the incident and at onoe
moonised tbe letters and figures as
his own. He la now a widower. The
girl of that dav la still alive, and is n
widow. He is still a citizen of the
same neighborhood. She moved
away many years ago. Tbe above
story is vouched for by the Newberry
Observer.
Jadge aad Jary.
In 1883 a man was charge* in Vic
toria with having killed toother sun
with a sandbag, and In tbe faoedf the
Judge’s summing up, the jury brought
lu a verdict of not guilty. This an
noyed the chief justice, Sir Matthew
Begbie, wbo at onoe said: "Gentle
men of tbe jury, mind, that ia your
verdict, not mine. Oa your eoueot-
enoe will rest tbe stigma of returning
such a disgraceful verdlat. Many
repetitions of such conduct si yours
will make trial by Jury a horrible
farce and the City of Victoria a otty
of immorality and crime. Go, 1 hava
nothing mom to lay to you." And
then turning to tbe priaooor, the
chief justice added: ,T You am die-
oharged. Go end sandbag sons at
thorn jurymen. They deserve ttr
Anoounoement was made at
artmint Of Sgrtoottum
Bertha Burch, private
'Former stetMticisu
signed ind that 1 "
Sir Italia*
and three