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& 1^ " BIDE YOUR TIME. When fortune treat? you slightingly And everything goes wrong. Remember that you stiil are free To labor and be strong. To him who bravely does his part j I Misfortune is no crime. ; Just hold your grip and keep up heart ; And learn to bide your time. fcvr/." j The surest road to greatness lies Through hard and patient work. (The glorious name that never dies Comes not unto the shirk. Fame sits upon an eminence, ; A pinnacle sublime. He who would win must seek her thence, : Strive on and bide his time. r-~ ' The man of hope and energy. Who keens one goal in sight, > - :.i. .tvno gws ins wiin auiMaui}, Will some time win the fight. The man whose life a glory lends To every age and clime Is he whose purpose never bends, Who works and bides his time. Go onward, u'er the future s hills The dawn falls cool and sweet. Go onward. He can win who wills And bows not to defeat. Go onward though your path may lie Through calumny and slime. The way will brighten by and by. Go on and bide your time. And when the fight at last is o'er, ?The toil at last is done: When standing on life's farther shore, Beneath her setting sun; Beyond the future's unbarred gate, The bells of heaven chime; And justice, love, and glory wait For him who bides his time. / ?Denver News. |, THE LONG NEW CHUM By HOWARD MAR:H. fe ^OK* HE big chum wasn't long in jf ^XV getting the hang of things. |l. o o He was a good shot to bep"; M &,n Wjt^> ail(* kept ws fairly ||X Q9C well supplied with game lll?!^. and kangaroo tail soup. k|'" Jackson, our boss, hail fixed the name ?f Cropper on the newcomer, probably because somehow it fell to his lot to get all the "buck-junipers'' to ride. He had been thrown so often that he was getting saddle-shy. He couldn't ? understand wny it was iu<u im.- uimri fellows' horses gave tliem no trouble, while his own-were shooting him into r space at most unexpected times. !"You see, it's like this. Cropper," the boss would explain to him: "the horses know you're new, and they're just having fun with you." Barnes, on the other htyid, warned him that all the horses were only half broken in, that they needed constant watching, and couldn't be trusted for a minute; but he doubted that. To convince him Barnes rode alongside of Cropper and swung his stock whip lash suddenly under the tail of the new ? chum's mount. TKa hnrcn plomnorl his tflil rtnwn linon || it like a vise, dropped liis nose to the ground^ doubled dp like a cat in a backfence concert, and bucked for all it was ||v worth. Ten stone ten of New Cbum . vrent bouncing away from him like a || : rubber ball, and struck the ground 1\ none too gently. Cropper picked himself up painfully and remarked to Barnes: "A little of this will go a long way with me." It did. It went a long way toward making it impossible for a horse ever " again to catch him unawares. There was one man in the party to whom Cropper didn't cotton. That was Johnson, the one-eyed cook. It was a case of mutual dislike. Johnson had begun by trying to rough Cropper, and was promptly called down hard at the muzzle of a gun. He weakened at jprj once, but he got some satisfaction out of telling the others what terrible ? , things he would do one of these fine days. The New Chum knew he wasn't scared by the gun, he said, and he referred to the act as a cowardly bluff. That gave Barnes an idea. "Look here, Johnson, why didn't you * ??- - J can mm out;' lie asKcu. v.au miu out. Tell him you -want to settle the thing. There are the two Martini rifles in your wagon, say you're willing to meet him and fight with them. If he weakens, you've got him. If he agrees, we'll doctor the cartridges so as you won't hurt one another." The cook's one eye sparkled at the thought. "I'll call him out, all right." he said, when he had digested the idea. "I'll call him out, all right, and you needn't doctor the cartridges, either. You'll see. If he doesn't get frightened, why. I'll make a sieve of him at a Hundred yjjjds." /^Hundred grand mot hers!" Barnes . said in disgust. "Do you think we're going to waste all the ammunition in the wagon? You'll meet at ten yards, tfnd you can have the ammunition faked or not, just as you please.'' The cook hesitated. "I don't want to mangle him." he said, finally. "If we meet at ten yards maybe?maybe you'd better fake the bullets." "That's settled, then," Barnes declared. "I'll second Cropper. If he won't come to time I will. I'll be behind him." "Hold on there," the cook exclaimed, excitedly. "We haven't had any trouble?you and me. We've got no call to fight." "This end of the 'we' does and will." Barnes said, grimly, "unless this business is settled at once. Is it to be faked or not?" "Why?er? faked." of course." said the cook. "I don't know as I really want to hurt him. A fright will do him a bit of good, though." Then Mr. Johnson had another thought. "Of course, he won't know it's to be ft fake. There's no need to tell him that" . ...I ^ ^ "JCo, of course not." Barnes replied, sarcastically. "lie isn't a sure thing man. you know. Couldn't be. He's only white." I The cook began to fidget ami lingered j a cartridge nervously. "How uo I know you won't forget to fake them?" 1 he asked. "Oh. that's all right, Johnson," the boss put in cheerfnliy. "I'll attend to that for you." * Cropper came along and dropped a couple of wild turkeys on the ground. "There's something hotter than salthorse. cook," he declared. "Cook them for supper, will you?" "Better wait and see if you're alive | at supper time," Barnes remarked, significantly. "You can have my share if I am not," i said Crooner. "But I don't feel sick? j haven't got heart disease or anything I like that?and 1 am hungry?hungry I for something better than salt-horse and new-killed mutton. What's the joke, anyhow?'' "There's no joke. Cookie, there, has | challenged you to a duel with riflesten yards' limit. I'm holding your hoi sc. The boss is lookiug after his. What do you say?" "Say? Why. I say he's an ass, that's what. I don't want to kill the fool, and I don't propose to let him kill me." The cook's nervousness left him sud denly. "Yah, he's a chicken-hearted Johnnycome-lately," he cried, turning to Barnes. "I knew it all the time. He's scared and I knew he would be. I'm satisfied. I don't want to kill a man that's half scared to death to start with. Yah!" He kicked the turkeys as he spoke. "Oh, you don't?" Cropper snorted, red with rage. "Well. I do. by thunder. Kick my turkeys, will you? Take that ?and that!" "That" and "that" were foot app.':iea +Kof novf nf tho r*r\r\lr*c nor. liuiid li[^vu uuu pai c vi uiv vwrt v jfv* son which should have been covered by his coat tails had he worn a coat with tails to it. Jackson ran in between them. "I'd eat the heart of a man who did that to me," he hissed in the cook's ear. "Nothing but blood will wipe this cut," he said gravely to Cropper. "Nothing but blood. I'm backing Cookie." "Come on, then," said the angry new chum. "If he must have it, he shall take a bath in his own." They started down to the flat. Cropper and Barnes in the lead, Jackson bringing up the rear with the cook. Jackson was busy wrenching the bullets out of a handful of cartridges and filling their places with pulped plug tobacco. Where the edge of the Dot ^latva/1 Aattti +a llia "Dillrlinr?cr iV.nxr UUt Oiupcu UV/^il IU ilit uiijj i/uu^ IUV.J came to a halt. The stream there was hedged off by a thick growth of wattle bushes, six feet high. Even cittle could not penetrate it, which was a good thing for the cattle, because just there the Billybung swirled over a bed of quicksand that would have bogged idem in short order. Jackson placed the men ten paces apart, the cook with his back to the bushes, and between Cropper and the river. Then he handed each man a rifle. "Fire at the word," he said. "And just remember that I'll fire at the man that fires before the word," Barnes put in, looking significantly at the cook. Mr. Johnson shut his one eye ih a long wink, ard grinned as he directed Barnes' attention, by the wave of the hand, to Cropper. "You'll see," he muttered. The new chum's face had grown white. His Dassion had worn itself out. "Say, Cookie," be called out, "what's the use? Can't this thing be settled some other way?" "I told you he was chicken-hearted," the cook shouted to the others. "Xo, it can't, you white-livered idiot!' ho replied to Cropper. "I am going to fill you full of holes." The new chum's face grew red again. "I'll make you crawl for that." he said. "Ready?" Jackson asked. "Fire!" Both, guns were discharged at the same moment. Cropper tried to get out another shell, but the shortened cartridge got jammed between the magazine and the lift and disabled his rifle. The cook was having better luck, dropped his piece slowly, worked the lever carefully, brought the gun to his cheek confidently, fired and repeated. Cropper worked frantically for a moment to clear his gun, then straightened up and threw it aside. The cook let out a yell of triumph. ">ow watch him run!" ne cried. iSext instant he ghrieked in terror, threw his own gun away and started at top speed for the wattle patch. "Stop him!" he yelled. "Take it away from him! Don't let him murder mc!" No one but Cropper had thought of the ivory handled six-shooter at his hip. The new chum drew it as he threw away his rifle, and as it flashed in the air the cook saw it and turned tail. The new chum tired two shots over the head of the fleeing cook, and then collapsed in a lit of laughter. The cook flew at the wattle bush, and as he reached it he rose in the air and sailed over it. When they got him with a rope be was up to his armpits in the quicksand and begged in tearful tones to be saved. It was Cropper who passed him the rope.?New York News. Had to Believe Her. I Judge Perry of the English judiciary tells of a feeble-looking man who was rebuked for supporting a ridiculous claim made by a wife. "I tell you candidly I don't believe a word o:: your wife's story," said Judge Parry. "Yer may do as yer like," replied the man mournfully, "but I've got to." -V" . V'--r-vr - -> r j f jMfsJcvjrsJrvirMfsJfvi* j i I SOUTH CAROLINA l\ !i STATE NEWS ITEMS. i ! w t %CNHNIC\ICN>rslCNJ*MtOJ Trading Stamp War in Charleston. j The Merchants' Retail Association ! of Charleston have declared war on j | the trading stamp business and are ! making an effort to discontinue the } use of the stamps. A petition has been : | sent in to the city council asking that \ i the license of the trading stamp ] j houses in Charleston be made so high I as to force them out of business. | i 3 * Property Line Causes Shooting. As the result of a dispute over the line between their respective farms, Clark ~mith was shot mortally, it is reported, by John Davenport at Kinards, a small station on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad, IS miles southeast- of Laurens. Both men are very prominent citizens and the affair is greatly deplored. * * Labor Candidate for Legislature. Joseph Walsh, i printer on the force of The News and Courier, is being put forward by the laboring element cf Charleston as a candidate for the legislature. Mr. Walsh is a nephew of the late Patrick Walsh, of Georgia, and, no doubt, if elected, will make an able representative of the laboring people of his city. ? * * Holiness Meeting "Pulled." Acting under order of Mayor Mahon, Chief of Police Becknell pulled a holiness meeting which has been | going on at Greenville for several j weeks. Complaint was lodged against the exhorters by Dr. Davis Furman. I who said that the life of one of his | patients was endangered by the shouts | and screams that lasted during the I greater part of each night. ? Fears Assassination. Solicitor Thurmond has been appealed to by another man in Saluda county for protection from assassination, s The man, M. M. Morse, is described as a hard-working farmer, who has been shot at several times, and one load of shot was fired into the house, narrowly missing his wife. As a result Solicitor Thurmond has written the governor, asking that a reward of $150 be offered for the party or parties who are after Morse, and this has accordingly been done. * * Accidentally Shot by Brother. Thomas Beckmau, a young white man, has been accidentally shot by his brother, James Jbeeitman, near juaucaster, and the wounded man being in a critical condition and very little hope entertained for his recovery. The Beckman brothers were working with the pistol, which they found,when suddenly it was discharged, the ball striking a silver dollar in the pocket j of Thomas Beckman, glancing, the ball J entered his body, severing two intestines. * m * Alleged Counterfeiter. As a result of the investigations of the police in a counterfeit money case at Columbia. Henry Stafis, a white man, has been arrested, charged specifically with passing a raised onedollar bill on a negro woman. The bill was raised to five and white paint was used to mark over the figures, I ! the work being exceedingly well done. The man will be given a hearing before United States; Commissioner Verner, and, in the meantime, several other bills that have been placed w*ll be traced. I t- * Power Company Chartered. The secretary of state tfhs chartered the Eelton Power Company, with $100,000 capital. The concern will do a general mill business, and sell and deliver water power. The company I will develop from 4.50Q, to 5,uou-norse power on the Saluda river, and transmit it by electricity for operating the Belton mills, the Williamston mills, at Williamston, and other industrial enterprises, besides furnishing electric I lighting and water to the town of Belton. * * it Spimers Meet at Spartanburg. A meeting of spinners representing 1,671,000 spindles was held in Spartanburg the past week at the Spartanburg Mill office. President J<.mes L. Orr, of Piedmont mills, presided, and committees were appointed to report at the meeting to be held in Greenville, July 26. Meanwhile, it j was agreed that pending that meet- j ing no goods are to be sold on basis of less than 3 1-8 cents for sixty-lour square seven yard print cloths, twenty-eight inches wide. Mills of neighj boring states are expected to be rep| resented at the Greenville meeting. t* * Planning Time Curtailment. The cotton mill> men who are to meet in Greenville July 2G fo consider the curtailment of production, have appointed several committees, consistj ing of two members from' each of the I | four leading states of the south, who will ascertain the extent to which indi r .-/''a -T"- ' tkses^T 1 - ' T' - > ; ?*.* ? .' " ' ; <.'';5 vidual curtailment has been carried on for the past two months, and one of the committees will aiso endeavor to obtain the consent of at least 80 per cent of the Southern gray goods men to a plan of organized curtailment, if in his opinion at the next meeting such a plan appears advisable. * ' * Aquatic Trouble in Greenville. After a stormy meeting of the Greerville city council over the differences between the city of Greenville and the Paris Mountain Water Company, Mayor Mahon announced that he considered it his duty to remove Alderman Perkins from the chairmanship of the water committee, and thereby declared the office vacant. In taking such a step Mayor Mjahon said he was actuated solely by what he considered to be his duty to the city and its people. Alderman Perkins had opened a Correspondence with the president of the Water Company without the advice or consent of other members of his company or of city council, and such a course was an insult to council to the committee and to the chief executive of the municipality, who had placed Alderman Perkins at the head of the committee. e * * Cashier Under Serious Charges. S. P. Harvey, cashier of the freight department of the Atlantic Coast Line, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Chief Auditor Haralsen at Charlesion and gave bond in the sum of {>5,000 to appear at the next term of the circuit court. 'i*he warrant alleges that Harvey, who has been cashier for several years, has between July 1, 1902, and July 1, 1904, appropriated to his own use funds of the company to the amount of $5,000 and upward with fraudulent intent. The affair creates a stir, as Harvey is a member of a well known family of Charleston, and was held in high esteem in the community. Oconee County Bonds Sold. A short time ago Oconee county closed a contract with the Robinson-Humphrey Company, of Atlanta. Ga., for $45,000 of 5 per cent ten, twenty and thirty year refunding bonds. The bonds have now been properly issued, and have been delivered to the purchasers and paid for in full by them. The bonds are payable, principal and interest at the Morton Trust Company, New York city. One-third of them are made payable in ten years, one-third in twenty years and onethird in thirty years. There were a number of offers received for the bonds from various bond houses and investors throughout the country, but the contract was finally closed with the Robinson Humphrey Company. The county received a premium for the bonds. THREW CHILD IN WELL. Negro Woman Gets Rid of Her Infant in Horrible Manner. Partney Edmondson, a negro wo man, is in jail in LaGrange, Ga., charged with the killing of her baby only three or four days old. It seems that the woman placed th echild alive in a kettle, put the kettle in a sack and dropped the sack to the bottom of a dry well about 30 or 40 feet deep. The child had its skull crushed by the fall, but despite this, remained alive. It was still alive when some parties passing the well about 2 o'clock the next day heard its cries and fished out the sack. The infant died shortly afterward. It was in the well a day and a night before found. KILLED WIFE AND DAUGHTER. Buffalo Business Man Tcok Two Lives and Then His Own. One of the most shocking tragedies that ever occurred in Buffalo, N. Y., came to light Friday when the dead bodies' of Edgar T. Washburn, a member of the grain firm of Heathflelvl & Washburn, on the board of trade,Washburn's wife, and his young daughter, Gladys, 15 years old, were found in a bed room of their home. Washburn had shot and killed his wife and daughter and then himself. He had written a letter recently saying that he was having troubles in business. As far as is known the m?nbers of the family had not had any troubles among themselves. EGAN AS STRIKE BREAKER. Former President of Central of Geor. gia Employed by Packing House. A Savannah, G<i.? 'dispatch says: John M. Egan, formerly president cf the Central of Georgia Railway Company, has been made president of the Armour-Swift Company, and is to be in charge of the fight that the packing concerns will wage against the butchers and meat workers' strike. Ryan Gives to Virginia Building. Thomas F. Ryan, of New York, has forwarded to the governor of Virginia his check for $2,500 for the benefit of the Virginia state building at the St. Louis exposition. The check was a surprise, and came unsolicited. Report Traced to Russian Consul. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: There is good reason to believe that the report of the Japanese- disaster before Port Arthur came from the Prussian consul at Choefoo. r-v , r*'.>: ' - - - v,^ | DEMOCRATS CONFER. ! Seizure cf Neutral Ships by Russian ^ Officials Arouses England ar.d Germany to Emphatically protest? Leaders of the democratic party gathered in New York Monday to d;s- ! ^ cuss campaign plans. A long con- * ference was held Monday night in the d rooms of Former Senator Hill, at tne * Hoffman house. At the close a statement was given out to the effect that * the chairmanship of the national com- ^ mitiee had not been discussed. Privately it was said the judgment of all i present was that the interests of the i party would be best conserved by s leaving the committee absolutely free I to elect its chairman. Judge Parker 4 was said to favor this course. The i conference resulted in an agreement io i call a fneeting of the national commit- t tee, to be held at the Hoffman house ? July 26. The question of fixing the time and place for the notification of f the candidates for president and vice president was left to tne candidates I themselves. < Present at the conference were the i leaders who brought about the nomi- < nation of Parker. There was also pres- c ent Senator Dowling, of New York, ] who looked after the Tammany inter- i ests. Everyone declared that harmony 1 had been the watchword throughout, i The conferees were Former Sena- t tors D.'B. Hill, of New York; James i Smith, Jr., of New Jersey; Henry G. ( Davis, of West Virginia, candidate for j vice president; Edward Murphy, Jr., i of New York; Senator Gorman, of Maryland; William F. Sheehan, of New y York; Cord Meyer, chairman of the i New York state committee; John W. 1 Kern, of Indiana; Colonel James M. 1 Guffey, of Pennsylvania; Senator P. H. i McCarren, of Brooklyn; James M. j Head, of Tennessee; Norman E. Mack, < of Buffalo; Ferry Feimoni ana auguii i Belmont, of New York; Thomas P. Ryan, of Virginia; Senator J. K. P. Hale, of Virginia, and John R. McLean, of Ohio. Colonel J. M. Guffey presided. The gentlemen met primarily for the purpose of meeting Senator Davis, of West Virginia, candidate for vice pres-1 ident. An exchange of views followed and the question as to when the national committee should be called together for organization was discussed, and it was agreed to recommend that the committee be called to meoi in New York city at the Hoffman house at 12 o'clock noon on July 26. The question of fixing a date for the notification of the candidates was talked over and finally referred to the ! candidates to fix the date and place of notification. x There was also a general discussion ] as to the favorable prospects of the i party in the coming campaign. 1 There was no discussion whatever < concerning the selection of a chairman < of the national committee. t Mr. Davis engaged In the discussion j of all topics before the conference, hut 7 in no more personal vein than others < in attendance. His most significant statement was in relation to the unit- ] ing of all interests. The gathering of t so many strong men, representing fac- c tions which had not always pulled to- 1 gether, he said, was indicative of a t strong- campaign. j The meeting gave a number of those t present the first opportunity they have c had of congratulating Mr. Davis since c his nomination, and the reception accorded him was hearty. The discussion of prospects in the coming campaign was general in char- | Anlninn nm o nvrirDCCcI hf tHJ ICI . 1JL1C V^flUiUU '? vwwv* w,? several that western democrats would give earnest support to the ticket and that no fear of factional opposition need be entertained. 1 c SULLY SEEKS TO COMPROMISE. t n Makes Formal Offer of Fifty Cents on the Dollar to Creditors. ^ At New York, Monday, Daniel J. j Sully & Co., and Daniel J. Sully indi- t vidually, made formal offers of com- { promise at a meeting of their credi- c tors, but final action was deferred, as ^ it was not shown Ihat the bankrupts i have funds sufficient to make good the , compromise offer of 40*per cent cash ^ and 10 per cent in ninety-day notes. ^ . j FROM RUSSIAN SOURCES. s Posts Recaptured from Japs at Pert r Arthur Says Report. ( A dispatch to a London news agency from St. Petersburg says the war of- i fice announces the receipt of a dis- $ patch from Port Arthur confirming the j report that the Japanese sustained considerable losses on July 11, the exact particulars of which have not yet been j ascertained. ; According to the dispatch, tie Rus- \ sians recaptured all the positions lately j taken 07 the Japanese. z t CAR COMPANY TO APPEAL. t Judge Emory Speer's Ruling |s Not Accepted as Final. According to Judge Emory Speer, R who decided at Mount Airy that street car lines could not be laid in Savannah by resolution of the counci.* * there are many tracks down in the s city without authority. Many of them J have been laic with no other authority the car company will appeal to the F court ot appeals. * BRYAN AND PLATFORM. iebraskan Dissects Declaration Adopt* ' ~ ed by Democrats and Renders Judgment. % 1 V A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says: V. J. Bryan Thursday made public the ollowing statement relating to the iemocratic platform adopted at St ^ouis: "The plank on imperialism is p?i- ^ ive, strong and satisfactory to the enire party and this question becomes * he paramount issu^ of the campaign. "The tariff piank is good, but it was nade so on a close vote in the comnittee and largely against the opposition of Mr. Parser's adherents. The >lank which was voted 'down favored a wise, conservative and businesslike' evision, made 'with due regard to ex* ; sting conditions.' The committee bought that these qualifying words / emasculated the plank and left it so veak as to give no hope to tariff reormers. "Tho anti-trust plank is a good one. t demands the enforcement of the jriminal law against the trusts; it da- ' *?3 nands the abolition of rebates asd discriminations and it demands the with* ? Irawal of the interstate commerce privileges from trusts when once con* acted. The plank is infinitely supe ior to the republican plank, and, with K i president who desired to -destroy rusts, would be a sufficient plank, but is this trust- plank was also eubstitut,J v? *,,11 .AmmUiaa fhorA ifl rPJt :u uy .uc tun ^.uuiuivkbv, ??v.v ? ,, >on to fear that it may not be in keep* ng with the ideas of the candidate. 'The labor plank is all that could be iesired. It declares against govern* > ^ nent by injunction; it favors arbitra:ion and the eight-hour day and delounces the methods that have been esorted to in the Colorado strike, but v is these planks were added in the full ?. lommittee, some uncertainty exists as :o the candidate's position. The platform declares in favor of ' Is lie reduction of the army. Upon this :he committee was unanimous. The sub-committee reported a plank in faror of an increase of the navy, but ihis was stricken out in the full com* nittee. ' "The platform declares in favor of :he enlargement of the scope of the | nterstate commerce commission and n favor of irrigation. "The general clauses of the plat* 'orm excite no dispute, and the appeal igainst the introduction of a race issue ought to have weight with the sojer, thinking Americans. "On the whole,' the platform is good. Prom a western standpoint, Its great* _ ; ?st defect is that it makes no men- .*-? '? - * MtiAeHon An ot* ,!On UL mt; muiicj quciiuuu. ttu ? :empt was made to secure a plank op-. ^ Dosing the melting of the silver dolar, opposing the asset currency and jranch banks, and expressing a preference for the United States note (orlinarily known aa greenbacks), over > he bank note, but having refused to )ut in a gold plank, the committee vas not wiling to have any phase of ;he money question alluded to. "While the motion to reaffirm the , Kansas City platform was voted down, # here was a consideraoie vote m iavur )f its reaffirmation, and the Western nembe.-s of the committee, together f vith a few from the south, stood to- v , ;ether and secured enough changes In he platform to make it a presentable locument and worthy of the support >f the party." ? y|||j INVESTIGATORS GIVEN ROAST. " ^ -ively Time at Meeting of Appropriations Committee of Georgia House. There was a lively time before the y house committee on appropriations * Thursday afternou, when the trustees >f the state sanitarium appeared to irge the committee not to cut the ippropriation of $325,000 which has ieen given it for the last two years. The committee had at a former meetng cut the appropriation to the saniarium to $300,000, but had reconsidered this action, and left the matter 4 >pen until the trustees could be beard rom. Judge Thomas E. Lawson, of Eat* ' >nton, vice chairman of the board of rustees, was first heard and he hanlled without gloves the report of the egislative investigating committee of vhich Joe Hall, of Bibb, was chairman, tnd which severely criticised the nethods and system employed in the Jr\f + Vi Q cKta G.oriiffiHlTm , 'UllUUVsl Ui iuv owwvv ?w,..., During Judge Lawson's address Mr. ' -Tali made reply to some statements of he speaker and Judge Law son said le did not want to be interrupted. "It is folly for any man to say that ?-* in institution of his magnitude, with ts ten trustees, has been conducted f or a period of fifty years, without an ntelligent system of bookkeeping." fudge Lawson said: "It's not true, no natter if one member of the commitee said it, no matter if forty members v paid it." ' ' ' WAGE CUT AT FALL RIVER. A ill Officials Post Notices of 12 1-2 Per Cent Reduction. * A committee, representing the Fall liver Manufacturers' Association, i* ued official notice Thursday that the rages of the cotton mill operatives In ^all River would be reduced 12 1-2 ier cent on Monday, July 25. The cat fleets SO mills, employing about 25,00 hands. ^ ^