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AS IT EVER WAS. Each man on his neighbor Contemptuous looks down, The crown upon the crosier, The crosier on the crown. I Each man reviles his brother And calls him knave and fool. The schoolman ilouts the layman, The layman scorns the school. Yet each man casts in secret On each an envious look; The king would hold the crosier, The dullard know a hook. ?-The Philosopher, in Town Topics. rz/-// w THP TA171TA 11IL. 1 HrVIVH TABLETS. r : : : : By A. WALLIE. : : : : 3AVE found the very thing J " \ to suit you!'' cried Philip 9 T g Dunton, impetuously. "No {tf -* )? more of this abominable mechanical work for you? i 3pui it away, Madge!" He laid violent hands upon the manuscript lying beside the typewriter at which Madge Margetson was employed scad flung the offending document into <tfee grate, whence the girl retrieved it ifeeffore answering. "For shame, rhilip!" she exclaimed, prith indignation not wholly simulated. "It belongs to one of my best clients? . St is his last novel, indeed?and I have Jto end of trouble to make out his writ, ' 3ng at any time. Now you have made 5t more difficult than ever for me." She smoothed the crumpled sheets, ^tenderly, while the young man, somewhat abashed, watched her closely. "I'm awfully sorry, dear," he apolo"hut T wn<s rpolH- sn ftoliorhtofl of the idea tbat you may get rid of this horrid work for something more congenial that I did not stop to think. |pf. 3F?rgive me, won't you ?" He had come very near to her, but r. she moved away. "I'll pardon you upon two conditions," she returned, maintaining her p % ?erefity. "One is that you sit down? the other, that you tel! me coherently Sltitat this wonderful plan of yours is!" He seated himself as she bid, and she resumed her place at the machine, but H'. ^toeing him. "You know," he began, "that in two Mays' time I leave, along with my unp ?le, Professor Kruse, to whom I am to act as secretary and assistant while fee explores the mounds of Tarku, in jpK . Asia Minor." The listener nodded. ""That," she commented, curtly, "is fiddlers' news; we have discussed it for R&- greeks past." "Pray note," he retorted, mischiev miy, "that I am making up for my ^ . precipitation just now by putting everyr Airing plainly. Therefore, permit me fe add that we two are engaged, but I feave nothing to marry upon except lerhat I get from my uncle, who disapproved of marriage on principle, and, 1 Terily believe, of all women, s'ave Miss Miriam Morgan. "This Miss Morgan wants a companion who understands cuneiform writing; and has sought vainly for one possessing such an unusual accomplishment. I told her of you, and of how, to assist your late father in his Assyrian researches you had learned something of it She deputed me to ask Whether you wouia come to lier, ana offers ten pounds monthly by way of g|. alary." ; v . Madge's strong, handsome face Sighted up. *Tt would suit me, certainly," she admitted; "but what kind of a woman is 1H? Morgan, and what reason has she :Ser such an extraordinary requiremeat?" "She is very rich, good natured, - stout and nearer fifty than forty." lantern summarized in reply, "and since she has known my uncle has developed a craze for his special line of study, about which, however^ she is extremely stupid. You are sure to like W\ *er" This prophecy proved correct. Madge did take to Miss Morgan, and that lady reciprocated the feeling; in fact, the foUowing afternoon, when Professor Jwrtrse, along with his nephew, called to bid her farewell, they found her full off praise of the new companion, with . whom she had arranged that morning. ^Such a dear girl," she gushed, "and if-\. ^ so pretty?not at all like one who knew v \ anything about that wonderful cruci* ?*" form writing." "Cuneiform," corrected the professes-?a spare, ascetic man. "It is cer? lainly unusual for a woman to understand it. But what better occupation eonld she have than its studv?" he dov.; Banded, with that enthusiasm for his hobby which characterized him. "What better?" reiterated Miss Morgan, her rubicund color flushing to . uaimson. "Why, she could marry, of . ?rorse?uiai wouiu ue a nigner occupa' ~ ikm." f "1 don't agree with you," the professor retorted bluntly. "No woman with srientifie taleuts should marry?it is a . sacrifice of her genius at the shrine of '? mere man?a moral suicide?an utter iniquity. "1 trust to be able to send you from Turk*," be went on, as though lie were id the lecture room, "the clay tablets bearing the records of the hopes and Tears, tbe ambitions and the disappointments of 4000 years ago. With your young friend's help you will be able to decipher these writings, which n-o mortal eye has read for that period. "Wimt commonplace, present-day marriage can equal such an experience?" "You mentioned that before," responded the lady, evading the direct issue, "and that was what gave me the idea of getting a companion who could A, s; - i '* r t' read them to me. But you will -writ? to me yourself, professor?" "My work will so engross me," he returned, still in the same vein of awk- j ward gallantry, "that I fear 1 must ask you to accept the sentiments of the tablets as mine. I shall select suitable ones, and am sure you will be interested." Miss Morgan sighed again, and did so still more deeply when shortly after the visitors took their leave. ******* Philip's letters to Madge, after his arrival at Tarka. reflected the state of his mind, which was much distressed, j lie did not see a chance for them, he wrote, for his uncle's antipathy to marriage appeared to increase. But, the young man added by postscript, the professor had forwarded to Miss Morgan a case full of curious tablets they had discovered, bearing in cuneiform characters much ancient correspondence. When the package thus advised duly arrived, Miss Morgan opened it "svitli enthusiasm. "Can you really read this?" she asked Madge, as she picked out a cake of baked clay. "It looks like badly made chocolate, with the marks of hens' feet 011 it." It took the girl the greater part of a day to fully decipher the hieroglyphics; but toward evening she brought the result of her labors to her employer. "I think I have made out most of it," she reported, hesitatingly, "but I hardly like to tell you what it is." "Read it at once," the other ordered, eagerly. "I am old enough to judge for myself." . "It is addressed in your name," Madge, thus instructed, proceeded, with a blush. " 'To Miriam, the wellbeloved, the searcher, sendetk greeting.' " "Go on!" cried Miss Morgan. " 'My heart panteth as does a Syrian ass under burdens. Name the nuptial day. Then shall the teacher fly to the taught, and the searcher seek his beloved.' " Miss Morgan's face was a study of j smiles in color. "How poetical!" she exclaimed. | "How characteristic. What a dear man to express it in such an uncommon way. I shall answer him at once." Whereat Madge was discreetly silent, but at the same time that she seut awav a letter from Miss Morgan to Professor Kruse she posted one to Dunton from herself. The result was startling. Some weeks later came a cable from the professor to say that he was returning, and, shortly after, he arrived, accompanied by his nephew. His first call was upon Miss Morgan, who received him alone. "I had your letter," he began awkwardly, as soon as the first greetings were over; "and to clear up the obvious misunderstanding, came home at once ?acting, I may say, partly on my nephew's advice." "Misunderstanding!" repeated the lady, sharply. "It is plain that I had?ah?no intention in?ah?sending you a tablet bearing a proposal of?ah?marriage 400C years old?of?ah?adopting its sent* inents." Miss Morgan drew herself erect. "In Mr. Dunton's presence, before you left, you told me exactly the reverse," she retorted, with acerbity, "and your attentions otherwise, Professor Kruse, have been extremely marked. You have placed me in a very false position." "The error may not be irremediable."' he stammered, clumsily. "I have alirnvc Miss Mnrcnn?Miriam that no woman has ever interested me as J you do, and that none had taken such concern in my researches." "And in you," murmured the lady, encouragingly. "Then suppose we let the tablet stand as expressive of my feelings. Its language is florid, but " "You can try to keep it up," she suggested boldly. "I have lov?liked you all along. Professor, and^ now my money, as well as myself, will be able to assist your investigations." The door opened to admit Madge Margetson and Philip Dunton. who paused as they saw the attitude of the others. But the professor called them in. "Let me introduce you," he said, blithely, "to the future Mrs. Kruse." "Congratulations," returned Philip. "You said that when you married I might do so!" His uncle trowned?the contingency had not.occurred to him. "Who is the lady?" he demanded evasively. "Here she is?the translator of thr Tarka tablet."?New York News. Cooking by Electricity If you live in a flat or an apartment house, you live just where electricity | can be used to its best advantage. The janitor's tires in the basement supply your hot water. All you require is occasional heat for the preparation of meals, and when you want it, you want it in the quickest, cleanest, and least troublesome form. Here the elec- j trie cooker just fits the situation to a j dot. As you never have overmuch j room in an apartment house, the compactness of the electric scheme is a delight. Some of the latest N'ew York flats are furnished with electrical outfits so light and tidy that after meals they can be stowed out of sight in the closet. The ordinary and larger flats have electric ranges, all tiled and hooded, so clean and free from smell that you could almost run one on the parlor carpet without "littering up" any. To be able thus to cook with something that doesn't turn your whole fiat into a furnace, makes electricity in summer a joy forever.?Warren Har- ' per, in the Pilgrim. ! A young man charged at Kingston, i England, with assaulting his father, pleaded as a reason for the act that it was the first time he had seen his father sober. BUTCHERY PLANNED Children Thwarted the Extermination ofWhole Family. CONFESSION OF PRISONER Alf Moore, Colored, Tells Graphic Story of Assassination of Carters and Diabolical Scheme of the Alleged Murderers. The confession of Alf Moore, the negro arrested Saturday for complicity in the Carter assassinations, has added to the excitement in Valdosta, Ga., and the Hahira district, over the murders. He has told the full story of the plot from its incipiency, detailing the conversations he alleges to have had with the Rawlings, the deal made with him for his participation in the affair and the acts of himself and the Rawlings boys on the night of the tragedy. He says that Rawlings hired him I to come from Ivey's crosstie camp, where he was working, to kill or help kill, the entire Carter family. That when he reached Rawlings' home he was taken to a small vacant house nearby and kept there until the night of the assassination, his meals being carried to him. He says that Rawlings and his boys joined him at this house on the evening of the tragedy and that Rawlings told them to go and kill Carter and his wife, then the grown daughter and 3'ounger children, to throw their bodies in the house and to set the place on fire after taking all the money they could find. The premature appearance of-. Willie Carter and his sister in the yard, where they went to doctor a sick calf, thwarted the original plan to Mil Mr. and Mrs. Carter first. After the boy and girl were shot down Carter began firing on the assassin anc. Moore states that he then became frightened and ran away, making his way back to the croBstie camp where he was arrested. The officers are working on other important evidence and while a disclosure of tbe nature of this evidence would tend to defeat the ends of justice and needlessly increase the public feeling over the crimes, they intimate that other important developments are likely to be made in a few days. One or two other arrests will probably be made soon. None of the prisoners are allowed to see or communicate with any persons except their attorney. WAR PARTY IS OBDURATE. Backed by Military Element, It Endeavors to Hamper Peace Move. A St. Petersburg special, under date of June 19, is as follows: The war party has by no means surrendered. On the contrary, backed by the military element, is it making a concerteh effort to dissuade the emperor from concluding peace. Even with the two armies already clinching members of the war party are filling St. Petersburg and Peterholf with optimistic views and Lieutenant General I,inevitch and his lieutenants are reinforcing their arguments with roseate reports of the strategic situation. Many Russian correspondents at the front, evidently inspired from St Petersburg, are flooding their papers with dispatches in the same strain. The Novoe Vremya's correspondent, in his zeal against the conclusion of a humiliating peac?, points to the hazards for the government in disbanding an army of half a million men without giving them a taste of success, and expresses the fear of dangerous consequences. The same correspondent. however, chronicles the 'fict that the rank and file are indifferent and concludes: "If peace can be obtained without the cession of Russian territory, or j blood money, then peace by all j means." POLICE CHASE ROOSEVELT. Mleged That Automobile Was Ex* ceeding Lawful Speed Limit. President Roosevelt's chauffeur was overhauled for speeding in Washington Sunday afternoon while carrying the president, his son and two of the latter's friends along the conduit roads i to Great Falls. Two policemen, con- i sidering that the chauffeur was going at a speed greater than that allowed by law, gave chase and overhauled the automobile. When they learned who the occupants were, they withdrew, after the president cautioned the chauffeur to slow up a little. TQ SAVE WOMAN'S NECK. Habeas Corpus Granted in Mrs. Rogers' Case in Vermont. A writ of habeas corpus in behalf ; of Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, whose exe- j j ctuion for the murder of her lrusbana | j fixed for Friday, was granted late 1 j | Monday night a: Brattleboro, Ver- I mont, by Judge Wheeler of the United States district court. ] FRANCE FINALLY YIELDS. Agrees to the Proposition of Germany for a Conference to Straighten Out the Moroccan Tangle. A Paris special says: An international conference for the consideration of the affairs of Morocco is now practically assured, as the result of the conversation between Premier Rouvier and Prince Radolin, the German ambassador, and attention is now directed to defining the scope of the conference. Details are being rapidly arranged and the officials expect to be able to announce the plans for the conference in the course of four or five days. This result, after the severe strain which tested the diplomatic resources of both governments, has the effect of relieving the tension, the officials of the foreign office and the diplomats of the German embassy agreeing that an amicable adjustment is near at hand. Although the acceptance of the conference gives a certain measure of success to German diplomacy, yet M. Rouvier emerges from the controversy with the advantages of having brought Germany to define exactly the scope of the conference and so to rid it of the objection of being a mence ? French interests. Although the basis of the conference has not yet been settled, it is understood that the two governments substanially agree on some of the main features involved. Germany has suspected that France had designs on the sovereignty of Morocco, but the negotiations disclosed that France had not questioned this sovereignty. similarly, it was disclosed that France had not designed to interrupt the present territorial status quo of Morocco. This appears to have been one of Germany's chief apprehensions as any change in Morocco's status quo might involve an ultimate French protectorate similar to that over Tunis. With both governments favorable to the sovereignty of Morocco and to her territorial 'and political status quo it j remains for the conference to adjust the equality of commercial rights, as Germany desires this assurance from an international conference, instead of through the operation of the AngloFrench agreement. Therefore, the conference is not likely to consider changes in the political status of Morocco, but rather international reforms and commercial privileges. A Berlin dispatch says: No adequate view of the German feeling over the 1V1U1 nUA 11 lau UC yiCDCllttJU W1LJUL- | out making note of the general belief in naval circles that Great Britain is seeking an excuse to check the great progress which is. making in thex German sea armament. This belief'"is widely expressed among naval officers of all classes. It is their view that Great Britain would be willing that France should suffer on land if Britain thereby was given a chance to destroy the German navy. As a result of this feeling there is great activity in the German navy, and it has never been so alert or so perfectly ready for defense as now. | ' WALLACE QUITS PANAMA JOB? i Such is Rumor from Colon Anent the ! Departure of Chief Engineer. A dispatch from Colon says: It was j publicly announced that J. F. Wallace, chief engineer for the canal zone, who sailed for the United States June 16, was going home by order of Secretary Taft, for the purpose of a consultation on important matters prior to the sailing of the secretary for the Philippines, and that he was not likely [ to return to the isthmus until his annual report had been written and he had secured a rest. Since the departure of Mr. Wallace, however, it has been said in influential circles that he does not intend to return to the isthmus to resume his position of chief engineer, but that j he has gone home to confer with Sec retary Taft on the subject of his res- : Ignation. The fact that Mr. Wallace j went home, accompanied by his wife ' ami two secretaries, seems in some j quarters to lend credence to the rumor that he does not intend to return. GAYNOR AND GREENE CASE. Writ of Habeas Corpus Is Granted by Montreal Judge. At Montreal, Monday, Justice Ouimet ordered the issue of a writ of j habeas corpus in the case of Gaynor j and Greene on a pet'tion presented ' on behalf of the accused. The j grounds were as usual, that there > was a lack of jurisdiction on the part ; of Judge Lafontaine to deal with the : case, and that the offense is not ; included in the extradition. i SECRETARY HAY RETURNS. Back in Washington for Brief Stay? ! Calls Upon President. Secretary Hay arrived in Washington from New York at 6:30 o'clock Monday evening. Two hours later he called at the white house, and j spent the greater part of the evening j with the president. The secretary is j expected to remain in Washington but i a few days, and will spend the sum- J mer at his home on Lake Sunapee, ! New Hampshire. - .. < . .. - .. . ... v . ... , ' j JCNicsirvJcsi?Mcs?? 12 SOliTH CAROLINA j j \ STATE NEWS ITEMS, jj New Cashier Elected. Edwin A. Carlisle has been elected i cashier of the Newberry National bank to succeed J. W. M. Symraons, deceased. For the past few years Mr. Carlisle has been the southeastern representative of the Springfield Metallic Casket company of Springfield, Ohio T-Tp is fl srm nf Prpsiripnf \f A. Carlisle. * * Attends Trap-Shooting Tournament. Several members of the Charlestoni Palmetto Gun Club went to Warm | Springs, Ga., to attend the Southern I Interstate Trap Shooting tournament. The Charleston-Palmetto Club is one of the best known organizations of the kind in the south, and its members have frequently captured valued trophies in competition with some of the best shots in the United States. * * * New Industries. The Chattanooga Tradesman reports the following new industries established in this state the past week: Columbia?$30,000 investment con: pany. Orangeburg?$6,000 warehouse company. Camden?Power plant. Charleston?$10,000 building company; $10,000 bottling works. * * * Expending $40,000 on the Streets. At present Union is engaged in spending $40,000 in street paving, having purchased a plant and implements at a. rost of $30,000. When the present work is complete, which is under United States supervision, the city will be supplied with about ten miles of paved streets, including sidewalks, over which electric cars will be operated as soon as the rails can be laid, the work of grading and putting in the ties to begin some time this month, as provided in the franchise already granted. * * * t Sought to Stay Hanging. A Columbia dispatch says: An eleventh hour petition in behalf of Willie Johnson, the negro sentenced to be hanged at Orangeburg for criminally' assaulting a little white girl, was presented to the governor by a negro preacher and was refused. The petition was signed by a dozen negro preachers, doctors and professors. The paper asked "a .stay of execution until material evidence in favor of the culprit, which it c^n be shown was withheld at the trial, can be exommofi r-O Qtllr Q nnmmilt!i;;ATl t n Vi 1* V ucrv U - - n L.m^??1 11 IV life imprisonment." * * Prohibitionists Begin Campaign. The first gun of the prohibition campaign was fired at a meeting held in the Washington Street Methodist church, in Columbia, the call for which was signed by some fifty prominent prohibitionists from various parts of the state. The call was signed by Joel E. Brunson, the state leader; J. A. HOyt, Lou's J. Brystow, J. P. Gibson, Rev. Vernon I. Anson, Rev. Walter I. Herbert, R. A. Lancaster, T. J. Lamctte and others identified with the State Law and Order League. * * College in Excellent Condition. At a meeting of the board of trustees of Newberry college, the report of Dr. Joseph E. E. Scherer, president of the institution, was read and routine business transacted. The president's report was very creditable and showed the college to be in excellent condition, the session iust closed proving itself one of the most successful in the history of the institution. It was decided at this meeting to add a department of technology to the courses already offered by Newberry College, George H. Kicklighter cf Atlanta, being elected head of the department. * * * New Road Seeks Chartfer. The Anderson and Tidewater railroad and the Ohio, Knoxville and Port Royal railroad have filed articles cf incorporation as the Chattanooga and Atlantic railway, the papers being signed by Frederick A. Johnson o: Chicago, first vice president, and J. E. Breazeale, secretary, of Anderson, s r Three hundred thousand dollars is the stated capital of the company and the directors are Albert A. Martin, president; F. A. Johnson and J. R. Lea of Chicago; N. B. Neeley of Milwaukee; J. E, Breazale, P. K. McCulley, B. F. Whitner, J. J. Bretwell of Anderson, S. C., and R. E. Hambly of Clayton, Ga. 0 * * Doctors Fight Over Patient. At Columbia, Dr. Francis D. Kendall, division surgeon for the Southern railway, was placed under a two thousand dollar bond by Recorder Stanley to wait the results cf two stab wounds Dr. Kendall inflicted in the lungs of Dr. J. J. Watson, whcse condition is regarded as extremely dangerous. Dr. Kendall, it is claimed, was attacked on Plain street, in front of his sanitarium when he left his office to see after a patient who had been hurt in a trolley smash-up at a. Southern railway crossing. U:. Watson had ccrne with his two brothers to remove the patients and this had been consented to. When Dr. Kendall called out from his office to make less noise, Dr. Watson, it is claimed, took this as a personal affront, anu, when Dr. Kendall came out, he attempted to slap his face. One of Watson's brothers separated the two men. Dr. Kendall then told Dr. Watson, it is said, to take his patient out and never to speak to him again. Immediately Watson, it is charged, applied a vile epithet and sprang forward and struck him and continued fighting him. Er. Kendall had a penknife in his hand and while warding off Dr. Watson's blows struck him twice with ?he knife, the blade parting from the handle at the second blow. The lung was punctured once from the. front and once from the rear. STRIKE DEVELOPS A SCANDAL. Driscoll Tells of Illegal Contracts Between Drivers and Business Men. The greatest scandal Chicago has ever seen, according to State's Attor- v 5 ney Healy, is to follow the disclo* ures made Thursday before the grand jury by John C. Driscoll, when the f former secretary of the Associated Building Trades and Coal Team Owners' Association, revealed the entire ,-} history of the dealings between em-i ployers and union labor leaders, particularly that branch of union labor represented by the Chicago Teams- N;' tern' Union. . Driscoll took before the jury sev- v eral check books, which ,tojgether with . the cancelled checks, ?re expected to prove many of the charges made by him against business men and labor leaders. It was learned later that one of > \ the statements made by Driscoll to * the jury was that President Shea of :< tho tPftmRfprs' nnion. accented S8.000 at the time of the stock yards strike 1 last summer. ?: ? ! MURDERS LAID TO RAWLINQ8. Negro, Under Arrest, Tells of AstsssL ; J nation of Two Carter Children. ^ A startling climax came Saturday "Jg afternoon in the Rawlings-Carter traf- /J edy at Hahira with the arrest of Alf SI Moore, a negro, at Lennox, Ga. He J3 is one of the negroes connected with I the killing, and, he immediately gave the whole story away, declaring that '3 he was employed by Rawlings to aid in the bloody work. . I Vj He says that before leaving for VaJdosta that afternoon, Rawlings carried S his sapper to him in the woods it* T*?| order to keep him from going home. J He also said the program was to kffi tj the whole family and burn the honse. ri He says that Milton Rawlings shot ^ Carrie Carter and that Jesse Raw)- : *J ings killed Willie Carter. The gun v| with which one of them was killed \ was also found. DAMAGES FROM COMBINE. Rui-ned by Brick Trust, Hlnckllff It ? Awarded Sum of $15,000. The appellate court at Chicago hand-. 4 ed down a decision ordering payment 7 of $15,000 to George Hinchliff, whose ' business as a brick manufacturer was ruined, it is declared, by certain Chi- 'M cago manufacturers, who agreed to undersell the plaintiff in the price of bricks. Builders and union laborers M were a party ta the "combination," it Aj is alleged. TROOPS ACCOMPANIED NEGROES*/ j| Three Condemned Alabama Murderers' ^ Sent from Birmingham to Decatur. J Governor Jeiks of Alabama ordered ; Captain C. S. Price and a cavalry -;f| troop from Birmingham to accompany Will Jackson, John C. Ccliier<and Harvey Smith, negroes, to Decatur, where } they were hanged Friday. Jackson ;Jj killed Officer E. S. Steele and Collier J and Smith killed and assaulted Miss Belle Blood worth. -. cs -.3 STRIPES FOR ARMY OFFICER. Aftermath of Rotten Scandal Which Caused Suicide of a Woman. The president has approved the findings in two trials of Captain Joe Kirk- "i; man of the tjventy-flfth infantry, sentencing him to dismissal from the army and confinement in the periitentiary of Fort Leavenworth for; i/v; three years. Kirkman was connected' *'' : with the sensational case resulting j In the suicide of the wife of another army officer at Omaha. MINE HORROR IN RUSSIA. Explosion in colliery Results in Loss of Five Hundred Lives." Advices from Ekaterinsolav, Southern Russia, under date of June 18. state that five hundred persons were killed in the explosion which occurred at the Ivan colliery at Khartslsk, belonging to the Russian Donelz com- < pany. Hardly a man in thr colliery / ^