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.;3 WH1IHDE CHEAPER. the Southern Railway Will Ratfiica its Passangar Ratas. Make* This Concession of Its Own Volition and in Appreciation of South Carolina's Kindness. South /.Carolina will get the bene. fit, ao far as the Southern Railway is who cttlma'to be a prophet and concerned, of the reduction in rates made by Legislative enactment in Other States of the South, but with out the turmoil of Legislative agita tion and without the expense of pro longed litigation. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says President W, fsrM W. Finley, of the Southern Railway,- ,7^® °f at a conference in the Governor’s of- ^^aterfa fice Friday stated that on April 1, 1908, the Southern Railway would put into effect in South Carolina the following rates. For straight tickets, 2 1-2 cents per mile. For family mileage books, 2 1-4 cents per mile. > For 1,000-mile and 2,000-mile mile- % books, 2 cents per mile. te conference was attended by Governor Ansel, Attorney General Lyon, Chairman Caughman, of the railroad commission, and Commis sioners Sullivan nnd Earle on the part of the State, and by President Finley, Vice President Culp. General Coun sel Thom and Division Counsel Ab ney on the part of the Southern Rail way. The conference was held in the office of the Governor and was open, being attended by the newspaper men. ; *. • ' ^ Mr. Finley, in a conversational way, put the proposition of the Southern before the Governor, ex plaining as he went along The rat sons for the different rates and the reasons governing the railroad in making this {ffoposition. He ex plained that the Southern on ac count of the fairness with which South Carolina had treated the rail roads had a disposition to give the State the benefit of the reduced rates, and consequently the South- ids, wii' effect era intends, without compulsion, to s which it -I* .. K t into effect the rates s proposed as a compromise in Norm Carolina, Georgia and Al* bama. He felt assurad that the agreement entered into would be made effective in these States, and perhaps in Virginia also. 'Hie same treatment promised South Carolina wjujld be given Tennessee, which, has also been liberal in the matter of legislation:—““ — ir ”" — The 2 12 cents rate will apply to all Inter-State passenger business on straight fares. The 2 1-4 cents rate for family mileage books, which contain the name of the head of the cmtaiUnga minimum expenditure of $11-26 The 2-cent rate for mil ,*age books of 1,000 and 2,000 miles relates to individual mileage books and also to what are termed mercantile books, good for members of a firm or bus iness concern up to five individuals, the names of each of whom shall vtJBn pa kin cmB57r DIRE CALAMITY Pr$dictid by a So-ealM Proph et In Ponnslyvanla. S*ys the World Will Come to sa End In the Latter Part of Decem ber Next. A York, Pa., prophet, at least one whose prophecies have attracted the attention of people who care for that sort of thing, has issued his 1908 bulletin. It is his habit and his livlihood, of course, but this one is more startling than some of those issued..;. The fedtewing is letin: the world. The end of will come to an end in .» theend of the month of December on a Sunday, in the year 1908. Heaven and earth will pass awav. Nineteen hundred and eight will be a year of trouble, such as was never known before. Nation shall rise against nation. Kingdom- shall rise against kingdom. There shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes. Rivers will dry up. The fish of the sea will die. The sea will boil up with a great noise. The cities of the nation will fall. Mountains will not be found. Islands will pass away. The city of Boston will sink. New York will go up in smoke. People will flee to the mountains. The land will dry up to get ready for fire. The crops will fail and prosperity will be cut off. The banks will keep on failing. This can not be stopped. Roosevelt will get rid of all his BRYAN POPULAR At a Lecturer and Makes Fifty Thousand a Year. CROWDS HEAR HIM. ■t ’He Won’t Hpeak on Sundays or for the Benefit of Idlviduals, and Is Most a Local Liberal in His Treatment of Managements. He Always Brvan stands of platform each appearance. Mr at the head of the list speakers today Tor the size of his audience, for the receipts at the box office and for the demands for his appearance. f Mr., Bryan’s regular The treasury will go dry. People will carry their money in their pockets and hide it in their homes. Families will steal it from one an other. This is the gold that is piled up for the last days. This gold will rust in your pockets. It will give a [you more tronhte than good. Labor organizations will come un der one head and rule the land. There will be great wrath among the people. Hatred, killing one an other, hanging themselvss and child ren will rise against their parents: two against three, and three against two; mother-in-law against daughter in-law. All plagues that are writ ten in the Bible will be brought t fdrth. The land be full of- liee. frogs, and crickets and locusts. Whoso ever be stung of the locust will die. There will be signs in tha sun. in the moon and in the stars. In the end of time the sun will be black, and the land will be in distress. The moon will be as blood, the stars will fall and the heavans will be shaken. This coining summer and fall the elect, the saints, will be gathered together. ‘ For unto Je sus shall the gathering be. The bride is getting ready to meet Jesus, the bridegroom, and we will be changed in theftwinkling of an eye and meet the Lorii in the Mr. Makes His Own Terms With Lec ture Bureaus. £ Curtis writes in The Chica go Record-Heral^: According to the report of his agents, William Jen nings Bryan is making about $50,000 a year from his lectures. Charles L. Wagner, secretary of the Slayton Lyceum Bureau, which manages his lecture tours, tells me that he has filled 175 dates during the year 1907 and that his receipts for the season charge at Chautauquas,” said Mr. Wagner, ”is the first $250 taken at the gate and half of all the receipts over $500, not including season tickets. He is the ?nly man who can make such a liberal contract. For evening lec tures in a course he charges $200 cash as a guarantee and half of all the receipts at the door. For single evening lectures not in a regular course he asks half the gross re ceipts. •'His average for the season under these terms has been more than $800 a lecture, and he has probably filled 176 dates under our management without including his political speech es. He started out on the 6th of Jan uary last and spoke almost every day until September 10, frequently twice around the world he asked me to have our London representative ar range a few dates for him in Eng land. The latter replied he feared it would be impossible. He explain ed that Mr. Bryan was not popular in England and he did not th; ublic would pay to hear hiM speak. British people did not take any interest in American politics and did not have much respect for American politicians, while Mr. Bryan person ally was practically known in Eng land because of his sympathy for the Boers during the South African war The writer closes his letter by say ing that he did not think Mr. Bryan would draw three shillings in Lon don. I sent this letter to Mr. Bryan and he read it at Franklin, Ohio, im mediately after the lecture that brought him the largest receipts of that summer. It appealed to his sense of honor and he replied thatit came just in time to keep him from getting ‘chesty. He said that he in tended te frame it as a reminder. A month later, while he was in our of fice in Chicago, I handed him a tet ter from our agent in London stat- inar that he had an offer of five pounds for one lecture from Bryan in that city and asked me to cable the reply. Mr. Bryan read the tetter and then remarked. ‘That isn’t a bad in crease; he has raised the quotations have averaged more than $300 for f* W lectures from three shillings to five pounds in three weeks. Just watch the market and when the bids reach a reasonable figure take a few dates.’ Mr. Bryan did not lecture in Lon don for money,” said Mr. Wagner. He spoke for the American Society on the Fourth of July and at the in ternational peace congress, where he madeagreat sensation. v ‘‘Mr. Bryan has a standing offer from Winnipeg for two nights for $1,000 a night. The managers of the lecture course there explained tha f they could not accommodate all who want to hear him at a single lecture, and insist that he shall give them two nights, but he has not accepted. We have on file more than twelve hun dred applications for the dresent winter and for next summer, but have been compelled to refuse them because Mr. Bryfm has decided net to appear upon the lecture platform again until after the Presidential campaign. He could get an engage ment for every night in the year on his regular terms of $200 a night and fthega Iowa. made LABOR TROUBLES. tv 7 Highly Kexported Fanner of Aiken Commits Suicide Mr. Samuel Bonnett, one of the most highly respected farmers of Montmorenci. Committed—suicu Thursday by taking paris green. 3 Mr. Boqnett’s mind is thought to have been weak, symptoms of such a state having been in evidence for some time. Thursday morning he got up and, it- is said, acted rather strangely. Soon after he took a large quantity of paris green, evi dently with a suicidal intent. A physician was summoned bv tel egraph, but before his arrival the drug had taken such effect that lit tle could be done td save him, though antidotes were administered in large quantities. He died Thurs day afternoon. Mr. Bonnett was a good man and no cause other than that stated can can be assigned for the act. He was a good farmer^ a quiet uifeasuming man and a leader in church work. He is survived by a widow and sev- children. White Man Hanged. A dispatch from Lake Charles, La., says L. H. Coleman, white, was hang ed there Friday for the murder of Deputy Sheriff William Shoemaker, at Dequincy, La., on October 24, 1906. Coleman killed Shoemaker when the deputy attempted to arrest him on a minor charge. Four Persons Murdered. A report has readied the coroner at Pittsburg, Pa., that four mem hers of a family living at Grays Mills near there, have, been found mur dered. No details accompanied the report. The coroner has started an investigation. — Aged Couple Killed. William B. Dick, aged 82, and his sister, Emily Hortage, aged 76 were kilted Thursday by an express train on the Reading railroad near Cam- Strikebrenkers ptoned and Beeten in !—•'—Mancie. Rioting occurred on the streets of Muncie, Ind., between striking em- ployesof the Indiana Union Traction company and strikebrakers. Shots were fired and stones and other miss ies were thrown. Nine persons were injured, thos? hurt the most seriously being Morris Matey, who received a bullet wound in the groin, and Harry Gardner, who was badly beaten. Others wen hit with stones. '— Cars were started Friday without interruption, each protested by from seven to nine strikebreakers. A crowd soon gathered at tne interruption station and in 30 minutes 2,000 per sons surrounded the building, ecu’s were stoned as they started out. At other Darts of the city cars were stopped and the strikebreakers were driven off. Two cars collided on account of the inexperience of the motormen and several people had natoow escapes. escapes QUEER ACCIDENT. Blow from a Move Lifter Caused an Explosion.' Mrs. Josephine Cominsky, 18 years old, of No. II Pearsall street, Long Island City, became angry Thurs day night with Caster Gussus, who boards with her, and and struck him on the side with an iron stove lifter. Immediately there was a loud report and Gussus fell to the floor scream ing with oain. - Mrs. Cominsky called an ambu lance from St. Johns hospital. The surgeon found that'Mrs. Comil blow had exploded a cartridge that Gussus had carried in hia pocket, and the ballet, striking against a twenty-five eent piece, had driven Hie com parily in his side. - The hospital doctors cot oat the coin and Gussus will recover. The coin nndoubedtiy ttved the man’s life. Mrs. Cominsky was n os corroborated In addition to these he has a large number of political during the year; he has spoken at conventions, banquets, col lege commencements, Y. M. C. A. and church meetings, and on other occasions without a fee, of which I have kept no record. ‘‘Mr. Bryah uses a special form of contract prepared by himself, which differn in termairbm the. amtracta. of all other lecturers. The chief fea tures of his contracts are the stipu lation that the general admission to his lectures shall not exceed fifty cents; that he will not lecture under individual management or where the profits go to individuals. The con tract reads: ‘It is further expressive ly understood and agreed^that this engagement is given under the aus- oicesof some church, lecture course, literary, educational, fraternal or charitable institution, and all profits realized from this lecture shall be used |or the benefit of said auspices under which said lecture is given. It is further understood that should tiiis lecture be given under the aus E ices of a lecture course there shall e not less than two other lectures advertised to appear on said of entertainment.’' ‘Mr. Bryan never spoke for mqp- ey on Sunday except at Chautauquas where an admission fee is charged. He prefers to speak to free audienc es on that day and nearly every Sun day during the last summer he spoke at least once, and usually twice, for some church, some Y. M. C. A., or some college. He always likes to visit small colleges and helo them do not know What he charges for po litical speeches or what arrange ments he makes. I have never had anything to do with them. “We advertise three lectures for him ‘The Prince of Peace’ he likes the best himself, and it is the most popular with the people. It is a eu logy of Jesus Christ and His teach- ngs, and his description of thehru- nfiction is one of the most eloquent word-paintings ever heard by human ears. He has delivered that lecture at least 600 times and never varies word in delivery. His memory is so accurate that he never makes a mis take. ‘The Value of an Ideal’ is an older lecture, and although it is not delivered so often these days it has probabiy been heard quite as many times as the other. The Old Work and its Ways’ is his new lecture ant is the result of his recent tour arount the world. He delivered that 1 gate money. He is w great- demand than ever, and I think his popularity has increased instead of diminished, judging from the anxie ty of the lecture managers through out the United States to secure him. Ve have been acting as his agent for lour years and have booked him for an average of 160 lectures a year during that time. He has never sl owed us to book him in "Nebraska. 3e has never lectured for money in that State and has declined .to do so repeatedly, in hif settlements with committees he has been more gener ous and considerate than any lectur er I have ever handled. If his audi ence is kept away by rain or by any accident he never Insists upon his lull price. He always gives the man- igers the benefit of all doubts. He has never had a dispute of any sort, although L_have known on several occasions when he has been very bad- y treated. Nor will he allow us to engage in a dispute over receipts and settiemeuts on his account.” • VETERAN OPERATOR DEAD many Chautauquas last surrimer am probably 150 times altogether dur ing the past year. “The greatest indoor audience Mr. Bryan ever had was at Seattle last January, where he delivered ‘The Piinoe of Peace’ to about 8, 000 people, and hia .receipts were ovor $2,000. The greatest audience he ever a dressed at a Chautauqua was a Carthage. Mo., where 12,000 people gathered to hear him. “He c osed h : s tour for 1907 on the 10th of September with the excep tion of a few political engagements in the Sou h. I wanted him to give THE LIEN LAW And tin Nigra at Sain by Northern Man A Who Has Been a Resident of the County of Orangeburg for Near ly One Year. The following letter written by Mr. Beers, of Bristol, Conn., to the Connecticut Valley Advertiser, will be read with interest. Mr. Beers is at the head of a huge lumber comp any located near Rowesville, and has been living in South Carolina a little less than one year. He seems to be a close observer. Here is his letter: This is the time of the ye«r when the collector is abroad in this land and when the negroes are 1ft hiding in the woods to avoid meeting him. They have the lien law in force.and system of chattel mortgages that means that the negro and the poor white too can anddoes mortgage not only what he has on hand in the shape of property, buf he mortgagee the future crop which is not yet plant ed. TT ' Already negroes are coming into the stores and buying fertilizers to make the next year’s crop. When the crops turn out well it is a good year for the business men, as they make finolest his a practice of selling under the liens at an exorbitant profit, but when the year is bad and that year is followed bv another bad year, then the mer chant is liable to find himself in a hole and with a lot of nearly worth less live stock on hand. * Under the lien law the man gives a note and mortgage on the crop that he is going to grow, and it is his bus iness to take the first bale of cotton or the first sack of rice or the first of his corn crop and turn it over to his creditor. This he must do before he markets any of the crop to an out sider. As cotton is about the only crop that is grown in this State for the market it is the first bale or bales of cotton that he should turn over, and the negro has more than one way to get out of doing this. As every negro who grows cotton fa well known to the ginners and to the merchants-as well, he does this way to get around his obligation. Instead of taxing his cotton to the ginnery he takes it in small quanti ties to a well-to-do negro who man ages to keep out of debt and this ne- 8HOOT8 WIFE m And Mothcr-in-Uw and Then Shoots Himself. Just at the expiration of the months’ pledge he Had given ^ the court not to molest his wife, Major H. G. Coates Phillips, one of the heroes of Spion Kop, rushed in to the home of his wife in the vil lage of Crookham, England, Thurs day, and, wounding two visitors and tearing hts beautiful wife in the be lief that he had murdered her, end ed his life with two revolver balls fired at close range. His death took place in the presence of his twelve-year-old daughter. It was the wife’s good fortune to faint at the first shot fire at her, which just grazed her head. Her fainting saved her life.* The wound ed visitors are Mrs. Phillips’ mother, Mrs. Luoena, who was visiting her daughter a London solicitor, who had hurried to the vilteya to give his wife legal advice. Mrs. Lucena probably will die of her wound. Mrii. Phillips divorced her hus band in 1906 od the^ ground of mis conduct while in South Africa, and in the course of the hearing of the case last December, Major Major Phillips entered her home and attempted suicide with gas. After ward on the last day of 1907, he gave his pledge to the court not to ' s wife for a year, his broth er being his surety. BRKAKH LONG FAST. Toad Eats His First-Meal is Thous- Yearj. i ' • w*. '. A dispatch from New York says Pythagoras, the toad,took his first meal i» one thousand years at the Bronx Zoo. Four flies and an earth worm constituted the meal of the tittte black creature that buried for so many centuries in limestone rock, 590 feet down in the silver mine at Butte, Mont. The ancient toad fa dowly eringhis eyesight and the uae his limbs, and fa gradually turning green again, as he was in the mid dle ages. He has already emitted several feeble sounds, but the croak had not come back. gro has it ginned as though it his own and^giyes them a part of the proceeds, ord of cotton and thus there fa no againstlM of his cotton without first with his creditor. One fairly well-to-do negro lives a little distance out of Ro Each ginnery keeps a rec all men for whom they gin record the negro who has disposed -aaimRg Juseph W. Katcfi, Who Served the rtw) Well. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says Joseph W. Kates, for many years the most prominent telegraph operator in Virginia and perhaps in the entire South, passed away Thurs- at Manchester. He was at one time superintendent of the South ern district of the Western Union company at Richmond and later gen eral superintendent of the Postal Telegraph-Gable company, with .uarters In this city. Mr. Kates was in charge of the of- .fice at Mimsssaw. Va^ during the battles of Blacxbum’s Ford and Man- and for several weeks did the work of the office by himself. It was he that transmitted the famous mes sage from President Jefferson Davis to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Win cheater, ordering that officer to make junction with Gen. Beauregard at Manassas. In the fall of 1861 he was again transferred to Richmond and in the spring of 1862 to Columbus, Ky., where he was operator at the head quarters of Gens. Polk and Beaure gard. j ' TWO MEN KILLED who wes- ville and who had about eight acres of cotton this year which should have furnished him with about four bates, have already ginned .13 bales. The negro who thus disposes 01 his cot- recov- of As the collector was about 20 miles from home a wagon in the condition that he found that was of no usA to him and the parts were left. Later they will be assembled and then the negroes will have a wagon for another year.* For weeks past sewing machine SLAIN BY BURGLAR. * AnnUmr tarftar Slain BraiMntMa Start. G«orge H. Fisher, Newark's <nnent Inspector, Is fthot from Window. 7 A burglar shot and kilted George H. Fisher, Newark’s tenement honse inspector, Thursday morning at the Fisher home, No. UOCongreasstreet, Newark, N. J. At the time of hia death Mr. Fisher was leaning out of a window shouting for the police. At the same hour in Williamsburg, David Jaffe, a bird dealer at No. 146 Messerole street, shot and kilted a burglar who had forced an entrance" te his home. * Mr. Fisher, with his wife affd their young son and daughter had watch ed the old year out and the new year in. Soon after 3 o’clock in the morn ing Mrs. Fisher was awakened by the sound of breaking glass. She arous ed her husband, and they looked out of the window, fhey saw two men in the rear of Feindt’s store, *djoin ing their home, trying to open a win dow. Mr. Fisher went to the window, raised it and shouted “Police!” In stantly one of the men below the window fired the bullet going through Mr. Fisher’s head. He fell aa5s the window sill hfa head and should ers outside. Mrs. Fisher screamed, and the shot awakened the two children who ran into the room. The mother, son sod daughter drew the body back into the room and laid it on the floor. Dr. Frank Devlin, who was called, said that death had been instantaneous. The only clue that the police have •s given by s woman who lives about a block away from the Fisher house. She said she was with her sick child when she heard the shot and screams. She looked out of the win dow and saw the men running along Congress street toward Jefferson. They turned the corner and dfaap- try around Rowesville and there have been as many as 20 machines shipped to Branenvilte and Orange burg, the nearest large towns on either side. The negro accepts this A Fatal Explosion Occurs in a Steel Plant. Two men were killed and thirteen injured as a result of an explosion-in converter No. 3, of the Egar-Thomp- son plant of the Unitt d States Steel corporation at North Braddock, Pa., Thursday. Six of the injured were Americans and the others Slate. No official statement as to the cause of the explosion lias been made but tiie old converter men say the cause can hardly be other than by some molten metal shifting through the soapstone lining of the convert er and coming in contact with the steel sheathing which perhaps was dimp.t When ton leaves it at the home of the man who is to have it ginned before day- ht and he is not seen by the man 10 lives there and if lie fa question* ed he cmn say that he did not see any body leave it there. ., For the last two weekslhere have been riding about the country around Rowesville at least 12 collectors for as many different concerns. They have been taking in live stock that was sold last spring and in many cas es have nailed up the doors of corn houses tp hold the contents against the owners. One collector for a con cern in Bamberg, 18 mites away, which sells horses and mules has al ready driven off at leart 20 head that were sold last spring to negroes. In some cases the negro will give a mortgage on an ox, a horse or a mule that he does not own. Qf courae this is perjury and when the collector comes around and finds out what has been done then fa the time for the negro to toke to the woods and re main there for the next two or three months until the collector has got tired of looking for him. Last spring a negro living near town mortgaged an ox to a concern in part payment of a mule and the collector started to drive away the ox a few days ago. The negro told him that he nad better drive the ox through the streets of Rowesville and then he took to the woods. When the ox was in front of thestore of J. F. Boone the latter went out and asked the man where he was going with his ox. , * Mr. Boone rented the ox, a cabin and 40 acres of land to the negro four years ago for an annual rental of one bale of cotton. Plenty of men in town knew of the circum stances and they satisfied the collec tor at once that he had no claim on the ox and it was turned into the yard back of Mr. Boone’s store. One negro, who is in hiding at the present time because he can not meet a claim of $83 for which he made fradulent mortgage, sent in by friend a night or two since 30 cents to be tendered the collector in part stoicism. The writer on a ride a day or two since saw the collector with the mute that had been used all the sum mer hitched to the buggy to be tak en away and then he went into a field where the only feow of the family v as staked out and drove that a ■ The man shot by Mr, Jaffe in Wil liamsburg has not yet been identifi ed, but the police are holding a man whom they believe to have been Im plicated in the attempted Mr. Jaffe and hfa brother, were asleep in the stor awakened by someone faying to < the door. Several times have been made te rob the 1 Mr. Jaffe was certain thfai „ „ He drew a revolver from under pfOew and firad jmt as ma door IWQIIff 4)p§ll« The builct struck the intruder in the forehead and he fell (teed. Anoth er man who was with him ran to wards Graham avenue. Patrolman sidered his property with absolute turnfoe. inta Memml* fmm turning , into Meserote Graham avenue, saw a man and arrested him. The man said he wa* running for a car, but the po liceman took hip to the station. There he saidme was Thomas Bay ne. of No. 141 Leonard street, but refused any other information. rmirrn amman on^htlf V held^fallhOUt bail OH S The negro woman and half a dozen: Kn»<ri.*» Mtuiirw,... children w< little cabin to see them and'there was no apparent feeling of regret. There need be none, as they paid only a small part of the pur chase price and they had ti ' use of the animals all throi _ summer. In this case the man of the^ /amil^had^at work for the summer and earned $6 a week and there was no reason why he should not have paid for the animals, ex burglary, pending an inn ,of Si.l who saw the body < man, said he had ' iristantfa Mr. Jaffe was charged with homi cide an^ was released on parols. FARMER'S FIGHT WITH SWANS. Flock of Bird* Attacks Japanese ■> . ' His Horse. payment. Two m tores abroad?' me one lecture in Chicago, but he bottom of the converter dropped declined because it would be a viola- j out, throwing fifteen tons of molten tion of hfa rule not to spoak for the. metal into a pit where fifteen men profit of individuals.’’ . were working at ladefa. The force “Did Mr. Bryan deliver any tee- of the ecplorion Mew a sheet iron the com negroes, who are well known to the writter boughUa wagon last spring and made a small payment and gave lien on the wagon for the balance of the payment. One <£ ■■i the men paid up his portion during the explosion occurred the I the year, but the other paid nothing. tour roqf off tiie converter a mite caiWRiiiro walls to collapse. and When it was time for the collector to put in an appearance the man who had paid up took a front and a rear wheel ana the thills and the wagon seat to his bomb and tocreted It and left the other part to ha lev ied eept the lack of thrift and calcula tion that marks the entire race. Last winier there was a call for a repeal of the Tien and chattel mort gage laws of South Corolina and the matter fa sure to come up again in the next session of the legislature. Last winter it was the question of the doing away with the old State dispensary that occupied the time of the legislature, which must by law, adjourn at a given time. All the low country of South Car olina where the negroes are thickest has become disgusted with the work ing of the law and are solid for the repeal, white the up country, where merchants have to deal with that poor white class, demands that it be left on the statute books. Of the seven merchants doing bus iness in Rowesville all but two have ceased to sell goods under a chattel mortgage or the lien law and the time is not far distant when the ne gro will have to pay cash for what he buys. It will be better for both races when this state of affaire fa brought about. There fa labor for every colored man in the State who will work, but he will not work he can get credit. He Uvea in and for the present alone. A merchant saw a negro beating a horse and told him that if he did not stop the devil would get him. Hfa answer was, "You cannot scare that way by telling him of away off in the future,” m something will happen at once if you want to scare mm. Another nigger was caught in the act of stealing a pig and was told that he wouldnave to settle for it in the judgment day. Hfa ‘That was a long term of cred- A Japanese farmer, one of tha many who have leased much land around Russellville, Ore., on thi Base line read , had a moat thrilling adventure with a flock of white swans last week. He was out plow ing in his field, so E. N. Emery says, when suddenly several hun dred swans made their appearance. At first he paid no attention, but they soon began circling close down on him. Then they made a sudden sweep and nearly knocked him down. The swans renewed their attack on the Japanese with more vigor than ever. They dished at him and struck him in passing from all directions. He sought to drive themoff by swinging hfa hat but this had no effect. He then ran to tfas nearest fence, followed by part of the flock, and seizing a rail, defend ed himself; but still the swans at tacked him until he had knocked down several. The horse which the Japanen had left hitched to the plow was al so attacked by more than a score of the angry birds. The animal did the best he could to defend hhnadf with hfa heels and teeth while hii owner was wielding the rail assailants. Suddenly the flock by an impulse took leaving the Japanese battlefield “It was the most comical fight I ever marked Mi told certainly had hfa of the time he was the swans. He WAN* it, rad he and There id he guessed to stay and b he would go bade The negro fa e