Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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jjjp- - rV" ^ W: k'i SOME DAY. He's not at all distinguished, but You want to wait awhile and see, iWh.en once that fellow leaves the rut Titere's nothing that he couldn't be. 'He's in a rather humble place. 1 .A But that's not where he means to stay, He means to strike a swifter pace And move up to the front?some day. v Ju^t now he hasn't had his chance To show the world what he can do. There' s so much adverse circumstance !t>; To keep his plans from going through. ;But time will bring his opening ;. And clear the obstacles away; ? . He's merely crouching for the spring. You'll see what he will do?some day. ??? * " Hes getting past the flush of youth. - - At times we think lie's lacking steam? Some people say. to tell the truth. ^ TTo'o loeo or./"*??>/] fr\ /Ir\ fViiri drpfim But he has faith that's fresh and green, &: Although his head is getting gray, His hope's sublime, his faith's serene, He means to do a lot?some day. ?Atlanta Constitution. ;' - , / 1 Love and Tigbt Slises. | Miss Pendleton said to Brownlow as they left the house: "You needn't apeak to me again, for I shall not answer you." Brownlow said: "That would hardly be polite, would it? I rev,. member that in my infancy I was admonished to 'speak when I was spoken to, come when I was called, &< shut the door after me'?and scmep, tiling else which rhymed, but which I have forgotten. I was told that was ||P 'manners.' Now, you wouldn't like me to think that you had no manners, ! ...v .wouiu you; t "It is a matter of perfect indiffer?&?nce to me what you " || She bit her lip and did not complete the sentence. "You were saying ?" Miss Pendleton' did not answer. |Kj- Brownlow looked at her and smiled. **l don't want to obtrude my society on you," he said. "If for the moment you would rather be without me I could go back, you know. Or," he added, "I might walk behind you a |bv vbfew paces?say, twelve feet. That Bp jatrikes me as a respectful distance. iWhich shall it be?" g i He stopped, as if to fall back. Cx r "I won'* bave you following me," she said in icy tones. "If you wish to ju, ileave me you are at liberty to do so. ST suppose I can go alone. It will look ^ Strange, but I don't suppose you will : care for that." fe "Well, won't it lopk strange if you p don't speak to me? It would look as If you had quarreled with me. Bef' -sides, as I said before, it would hard||p?|y be polite." "I shall treat you precisely as I itfv^^rould any other gentleman while we ^r:- are there. After that I don't wish to see you." , "Surely, I am to escort you home?" "I said 'after that.' After this fj?; evening, if you prefer it." ft "But I don't prefer it." g^f. * "Whether you prefer it or not, I prefer it?infinitely. And irf the meantime I wish to be excused from conversation with you." Miss Pendleton turned to look flown the car track. B3&v-'l,It,s coming now," said Brown%? low. gg As the car stopped Brownlow laid Ip?-|ll8 hand upon her arm. "Wait," he ?? said in a quick, businesslike way. . .**Jbo we take an Oakwoods or a Jackson Park car?" If. She glared at him for an instant, but his face showed innocent doubt W," and only that. gfe "Jackson Park!" she snapped. Sfe' "Philopena!" said Brownlow. "I w> ill can chid id an I"* He helped her aboard, and as he \ did so he noticed what particularly .'// trim shoes she was wearing. Well, S:; she was a particularly trim young fe person. He could not help feeling 't proud of her, although it was all over between them. "I find these street car signs very v entertaining," he observed, when they had been seated a minute or two. It was a summer car and they bad to occupy a seat together. There was no response to this. She looked at a passing automobile as if she fancied she recognized ^ one of the occupants. Brownlow i-' looked at her averted face, and it fi) 'aeemed to him that a sort of spasm ^ of pain crossed it. He wondered if that inconsiderate remark he had jnade an hour before could have hurt I' " her much. He had apologized for it, though he had not thought it anything serious; but now he felt actually rppentant. |p; ) Miss Pendleton stole a sidelong fcv glance at him and then bent over ;with a rapid movement and did some% thing to her shoes. Brownlow ap- . .parently took no notice of the movement. Presently he sighed and : turned toward her. She averted her head. He kept on sighing at inter- j vals of half a minute. She refused to look around. He gave it up at last and rose and went back to the rear platform. He was gone three or four minutes. When he returned ; Miss Pendleton looked very much I disturbed. "What is the matter?" he asked. j This time Miss Pendleton spoke. ; "I've lost my shoe," she said, with j }>.; forced calmness. "It was a little un- i comfortable and I slipped it off for I a moment or two, and I?I think it i lias fallen out-of the car." 1 i Brownlow was silent for a moment | or two as he considered the awful j situation. Then his face cleared, j 'What size shoe was it?" he asked, j suddenly, and she was surprised into ' saying that it was three and one-half. "Then here's where I get off," he said, rising. "You go on around the . > loop, and when you get back to the ' % * ' " .V j " r. * > - - < . I next corner you'll find me standing there with a glad smile on my face and a pair of three and one-half shoes under my arm. It will make us twenty minutes or half an hour late, but that won't matter." "I wouldn't think of it," she began, with cold dignity. "I will not con' sent." But Brownlow had swung off the car. By the time the car made its circuit and got back at the corner where Brownlow had left it Miss Pendleton seemed to be in a happier frame of mind, for she hailed the appearance of Bro&nlow with a smile almost as glad as his own. "They're in my pocket," he whispered, as he took his seat beside her. "I'll smuggle them to you one by one. Are you ready?" "Yes," she said, with a nervous little laugh, and took a shoe from him. "Now the other. That's right. How do they fit?" "Eeautifully?and as easy as can be. Oh, Jim, how sweet and noble and resourceful of you! And I was so horrid. Will you forgive me?" "How long have you been wearing that shoe?" Brownlow asked. "All the afternoon," she confessed. "Then I forgive you," said"Brownlow. "I only wonder how you let me off so easily." When Brownlow reached his room tkat night he took the missing shoe from the breast pocket of his coat and looked at it long and tenderly. Then he put it away in a drawer.? Chicago News. DYING PEARLS. The Fate of Necklace Once Worn by the Wife of M. Thiers. In the Louvre Museum at Paris is to be seen a pearl ndcklace on its deathbed. Not literally on a bed, but on a velvet cushion. It is the great necklace left by the great diplomat and statesman, Thiers, which once belonged to this prominent statesman's deecased wife. It is J mounted in an unostentatious .style and has no value as an article de vertu beyond the former value of the pearls, which was about $60,000. It consists of 145 pearls in three rows, which weigh altogether 2097 grains. The largest three pearls i weigh thirty-six, thirty-nine and ; fiftv-one grains. The pearls of this necklace are destfned - to die, says the Deutsche 1 Goldschmiede Zeitung, as they are j gradually losing their lustre from I day to day, and will during the next few decades turn as black as the faded roses of the much handled wreath. But why? Because pearls will only retain their original lustre when they are worn by beautiful women and come in frequent coptact' with the warm skin of the wearer. When a pearl necklace is removed from the neck, where it has been exposed to a high temperature, and is placed in a cold marble tablet, whicli is of about one-half of such high temperature, it may be justly inferred that the scales ofi the pearls will contract and lose some of their brilliancy. When pearl necklaces are habitually placed on velvet cushions after having been worn this circumstance may also well contribute to the detriment of the'beauty of a pearl, while the chemical composition of the color may be ah additional factor in this direction, not to overlook the effects of a strong light. The management of the Louvre Museum has held this necklace of M. Thiers in high esteem, and it has probably noticed the gradual deterioration with serious concern. The lack of authority to do has no doubt prevented the board of managers from taking the responsibility of experimental steps advised by competent experts to save this necklace from further deterioration. How long pearls do live?that is, retain their lustre?has not been determined. Examples do exist where pearls have retained their beauty for several hundred years. On the other hand, it has also been demonstrated that under adverse treatment pearls will die quickly, justifying the proverb, "You must not throw pearls to swine." The Tiber is Not All Yellow. "The yellow Tibet-," as Macaulay calls it in his ballad, is not always of that color. High up in a peak of the Apennines it first emerges as "a bright, crystalline cascade springing from rock and earth and spreading into a little waterfall." Miss Marie Van Vorst followed it from its source to its outlet in order to describe the journey of the river, and Andre Cnstaigne illustrated its picturesque flow for Harper's Magazine. Miss Van Vorst says: "The ancients called the Tiber 'Albula'?white water. Al- | though to the vulgar eye the Tiber is a yellow river?fawn-colored, in- ! deed, at certain parts of its channel ?vet it is pre-eminently white, with the milky mistiness seen in certain jewels, and it is at Rome that the 'Lily River' is whitest." * It is rapid in current, and at no point very wide. A Printer's Pranks. "I have played many a practical joke on writers in my time," said the veteran compositor. "My last joke j was on a bishop. Studying the Rus- j sian revolution, he wrote from Mos- i cow to a church paper a descriptive i letter that ended: " 'But I can write no more. The ' gorgeous domes of the city beckor J rue, and I go.' "I," said the veteran, with a loud ! laugh, "made 'domes' read 'dames.'" j ?Philadelphia Bulletin. *>: . . -<.v-V . * ' V . I - \: * '* ' I 1 ill rflh ^ ^ A s*. a ! r :Palmetlo$tatelews f y^'VTV'V'WTt VIT J Postmaster at Clio Named. President Roosevelt sent to the senate Monday the nomination of D. 2 McLaurin as postmaster at Clio. * $ * To Invest Eastern Capital. New York capitalist sto the number of two score were in Charleston a few days ago, representing millions, for the purpose of organizing in this state the South Carolina public service corporation. capitalized at $10,rS'VA nfift iMir*vw?crrkw? ir\ IahiT^I r? est VUV.VVV, ?? "AWA |7UI I'lUUl A*^.L work of trolley lines l'rom Charleston to Columbia and to Orangeburg, conneciing with the Augusta and Aiken. I * * Brother of G-vomer Dies. John J. Ansel, an elder brother of Governor-elect M. F. Ansel, died at his heme at Walhaila a few days ago, after an illness of several weeks. He was a veteran of Orr's regiment. 58 years old, and leaves a wife and five children. The interment took place at Walhaila, and was largely attended. s * * A Fleet-Footed Sheriff. Sheriff Corley of Lexington has arrested John Moore, colored, who is .wanted in North Carolina for killing a vhite man at Gastonia. The negro tried to escape from Sheriff Corlev by running across the toll bridge over Congaree river into the city of Columbia, but the sheriff was too quick for him, and the negro is now in Lexington jail awaiting for a North Carolina officer. * * * Jordan Not Present at Meeting. The meeting of the South Carolina Sea Island Cotton Seed Association was held in Charleston the past week. Editor Schell of Florida and Dupe of Georgia were on hand, representing the associations of Florida and Georgia. Harvie Jordan was unable to be present. The object of the meeting was to consider the question of the long staple planters crushing their own seed produce of 200,000 bushels a year, more than needed for planting. Only the soil of the islands of this state will reproduce a permanent quality of this cotton. * ? * ? Respite is Granted Adams. R. A. Adams, the Walterbcro man slayer, whose case has cccupied more time in-the courts than any other capital case in years, will not be hanged yet awhile.! Governor Heyward respited him until February 22, at the request of the board of pardons, in order that late petitions, in his favor, which are now in the hands of the court officers, may be examined by the board. Ko is not likely to be finally pardoned. He escaped once while under the death sentence and remained out long enough to make a crop for his family in his own county, keeping a shot gun by hini in the field by day and hiding out oy night. ! * * * Columbia After Subtreasury. General Willie Jones, president of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, has announced the following committee to go to Washington and press Columbia's claim for the sub-treasury: E. W. Robertson, president of ! National Loan and Exchange bank; George L. Baker, president of the State bank; John J. Seibels, vice president of Palmetto National bank, and B. F. Tavlor, president of the Taylor Manufacturing company and director ' of Palmetto National bank. This committee went to Washington in order to be present before the conference on Tuesday morning. General Jones and Governor Heyward desired to go with the commit tee, but General Jones has important business in the city and Governor Heyward cannot go on account of the meeting of the legislature. Columbia will leave no stone unturned to secure the sub-tregsuvy and it is understood that Columbia has the undivided harkinrr of thp South Carolina dele j gation. The fight is said to be between Columbia and Atlanta. ? * Secret Orders Name New Officers. The secret orders of the state have all elected their officers for the ensuing year. The Knights of Pytnias elected the following officers: A. IT. Kobn, chancellor commander; J. S. Wheeler, vice chancellor; J. I. Bedecbaugh, prelate; T3. S. Mathis, master at work; R. C. Counts, keeper of records and seal; J. F. Browne, toaster of exchequer; C. M. Harmon, inner guard; j D. J. Taylor, outer guard, j The Masons elected the following I officers: E. N. Kibler, worshipful masI ter; W. F. Gibson, senior warden; J. F. Browne,, junior warden; N. H. | Young, treasurer; B. B. Schumpert, j secretary; C. T. Dyche, senior deacon; | J. L. Wise, junior deacon; S. C. Barre, j tyler. | The Woodmen of the World elected the following: J. P. Wheeler, C. C.; . ... ? ' V v I. 1? - -; r. -7 .. - ' - t - : . i gI ?pip |? R. C. Counts. Ad. -Lieut.; V.'. V,'. | Wheeler, banker; T. A. Doir.inick, clerk; M. S. Dominick, escort; A. Z.' ! Counts, watchman: J. A. founts, seci retarv; A H. Kohn, P. C. C. The IViasons had their banquet on | t.he 2Sth. The Woodmen had theirs j on January 3d. The Knights o: Py- | thias banquet was held on the night i of January 4th. * * * Immigrant Labor Discussed. Cotton presidents and superintendents from every mill in the state, representing a capital of $55,000,000, were in session at Spartanburg a tew dnvs ago, the occasion being the anY * nnal meetina of the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association. The meeting was called to cider by Ellison Smvthe, president of the Felzer cotton mills, and president of the association, who made the opening address, wnich was responded to by Arch B. Calvert, of Spartanburg, president of the Drayton mills. The session was held in secret, only members of the association being present. The leading topics under discussion were labor, including immigrant labor, child labor, compulsory education and transportation. The association was organized at Lake Toxaway last summer. The association adopted resolutions for the support and encouragement of immigration to this state. Hie legislature will be asked to make a provision to enable Commissioner of 1m migration Watson to carry on immigration work. The association recommended the passage of state laws providing for compulsory education and for registration of births and marriage licenses. * President Warner, of the National Civic federation of New York, addressed the convention on civic improvements at mill villages. Addresses were made by Ellison Smythe, president of the association; A. B. Calvert, of Spartanburg; D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, and Professor Doggette, of the textile department of Clemson college. A banquet to the visitors was given by the local mill men at the conclusion of the conference. . . JOHNSON IS RE-ELECTED. As Head of Georgia Division of the Southern Cotton Association. The Georgia division, Southern Cotton Association, held its annual meeting in Atlanta Wednesday in the hall of the house of representatives at the state capitol, elected new officers for the ensuing year, passed several interesting and important resolutions and transacted other detailed busi- | ness before adjourning sine die. The officers for the new year, elected by acclamation and rising vote, are as follows: President, M. L. Johnson of Cass Station, re-elected; j vice president, Dr. G. A. Nunnally of | Newnan, who succeeds in this position Hon. W. L. Peek of Conyers; treasurer, John D. Walker of Sparta, re-elected. , WOMAN FIRED AT JUDGE. Arose from Seat in Court Room and Let Loose with Revolver. Incensed at his recent decision in a partition suit in the estate, of her father, August. Weil, Miss Rosa Weil attempted to assassinate Judge Jesse A. McDonald, in the circuit' court at i St. Louis Wednesday. Miss Weil's aim | was unsteady, and the bullet went j wild. After the excited woman had been j overpowered, the judge ordered her j t^ken to the private office of the sher- j iff. lie then resumed hearing court motions. "I ought to have got him," Miss Weil was heard to exclaim, as she was taken from the room. ULTIMATUM TO ROADS. Given by Brotherhood of Locomotive Enigeneers and Firemen. "Arbitrate or settle the Southern Pacific strike or suffer a walk-out of firemen on all your lines," is, in brief, an ultimatum sent E. H. Harrimau by Grand Master Hanrahan of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. Unless an immediate reply is received from Mr. Harriman, the firemen on the following lines will he" called out; Illinois Central, Union Pacific, Chicago and Alton, Baltimore and Ohio, Oregon Short Line, Kansas City Southern and all lines of the Southern Pacific not now affected. FINANCIERS TO PRAY. Wall Street Officers to Begin, cays Work With Religious Service. The practice of Mrs. J. Alde.n <3aylcrd, who opens each business day in her brokerage office in Wall strcec, New York, with prayer, is to be wid- l ened so as to include many other j offices in the heart of New York's i financial district. This is announced by the Rev. Henry W. Warren, chaplain of the city hotels. New Spanish Minister Slated. It is expected that King Alfonso will at once sign the nomination of Ramon Fina as Spanish minister to the l^ited States. Senor Colcgan.who was appointed minister some time ago. but has never presented his credentials, is to he transferred to Mex"co. 3 -i " '7 *:. '-.V-s W .; ' * - -' ' ' - ' , > L- ' ' 1 . : >, ,\ - . ^T.-vc- v v S* . '-iV * ^ ;-' LODGE IN HI President's Bulwark in Senate Defends His Act I IN DISCHARGING NEGROES Strong Speech of Senat.r Deaiing With Question of Law and Fact In the Case?Foraker Replies in Negative. A TTT^r?Vir?/vfr.*\A/I?^ 1 oo xx >v aaiuiigiuu cii cciiaiuj Lodge spoke at length before the senate. Monday in regard to the Brownsville affair. Mr. Lodge said in part: "Two questions are here involved, a question of fact and a question of 3aw. They are entirely distinct, they ought to be settled separately and neither should be permitted to cloud or obscure the other in the public mind. The question of fact may be stated in this way: "There was shooting in the streets of Brownsville on the night of August 13, 190-6, houses were fired into, one man was killed and the lieutenant of police had his horse shot from under him and was so severely wounded in the arm that amputation was necessary. "These facts are admitted and are not disputed* by any one. This shooting was done by some one, it was done either by United States soldiers from Fort Brown, or by inhabitants of the town of Brownsville. There was no one else, and it is not pretended there is any cne else who could have done it. "The president, the secretary of war and the officers of the army detailed to inquire into the affair have decided that the shooting was done by me soicners p.ua xurnisn ititumujijr iu sustain their opinion. The Constitutional League, representing the soldiers, deny that the shooting was done by them and assert that it was done by the citizens of Brownsville disguised in cast off uniforms of the troops and provided with exploded shells from the government ranges, who committed this outrage for the purpose of casting odium upon the troops of Fort Brown. One of these two propositions must be proved for general negations and are of no use here. "It will be the duty of the committee under the resolution to take all possible testimony and decide whether this shooting was done by the soldiers or by citizens of Brownsville. This is the question of fact. In it is involved not only the innocence or the guilt of the soldiers, but the innocence or guilt of the inhabitants of Brownsville. "The question of law is whether the president in dismissing these companies without honor exceeded his powers under the law and the execution. This question can be settled by the senate just as well now and I think better than at any other time witcout tne least regard ior me committee's decision as to the question of fact. It is purely a question of law and I think it ought to b*j detached from the question of fact and settled ar once because I think that confusing one question with another has already done harm, teuds towards injustice and will create great delay and prevent prompt action. The constitution makes the president commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States and congress isgiven authority 'to make rules for the government. and regulation of the laud and naval forces.' "In the fifth amendment of the constitution the land and naval forces are excepted frcm the rights guaranteed to all persons who are held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime. In making the president commander-in-chief the constitution conferred upon him all the powers and authority ordinarily exercised by the commander-in-chief has, as such, the right inherent in his office to punish or discharge except so far as it is limited or regulated by the law-baking power which has enacted the articles of war. Mr. Foraker replied vigorously to Mr. Lodge's speech, taking issue with the Massachusetts senator on both the points as to the law and fact He declared that there is no auto? x -3 in 111 1 3 ciP.tic ana unrestrained !-??-?** cx m country, not even in the commanderin-chief of the army. New Orleans Carnival Opens. The carnival season which closes with Mardi Gras opened at New Orleans Monday night with the annual bnl! of the Twelfth Night Revelers at the French opera house. # TROOPS COMING FROM ISLANDS. Ninth Regiment of Infantry Ordered Home from Philippines. The Ninth regiment, United States infantry, has been ordered home from the Philippines and will be stationed at Fort Sam Houston upon arrival. This regiment; includes a number of well known Georgians, and lias been located in the Philippines for the last two years. This regiment saw service before the wall3 of Fekin. - Si ' ? , ' - . - j. , ' J . ' <: ..... - - ... . - - OPENED WITH DISSENTS. Georgia's New Appellate Court Began Business With Friendly Disagreerr.ents Between Judges. The new Georgia court of appeals * started out at Atlanta Monday morning with two dissenting opinions, filed before argument in a single case had been made. ? Judge R. B. Russell filed his distent to the rule designating a presid lixg JUU^e ill winx Judge Arthur <3. Powell filed a dissent '? % to the order naming a woman as one of the court stenographers, on the ground that this is a slate office, an<^ cannot be held by a woman. Thus did the state court of appeals begin its formal sessions at the capitol in the supreme court room. The court met for the purpose of attending to such preliminary matters. as it had to deal with In advance of begiuning the regular docket, and ;..j right interesting these preliminaries were. Here, in part, is the order making provision for a presiding judge, ta which Judge Russell takes exception": "The established order of precedence in presiding in this* court shall be the same as obtained in the supreme court prior to the creation of the separate office of chief justice of that court, that is to say, that the president or chief judge of the court shall be the oldest judge in commis-/ sion, and, as between two or more- % judges wose terms of service with ' -y this court begin on the same date, the oldest man shall for the purpose - of this rule, be regarded as the oldest in commission. In the absence of the. chief judge, the next oltiesT shall pre- ^ side." Under this order, since the commis- ^ sions of all three of the judges bear yj the same date, Judge E. H. UI1J, beingv , the oldest in years, becomes the chief* l-sSi or presiding judge. The other dissent filed in the court ^ ; of appeals at its first meeting was that of Judge Powell against the appointment of a woman as stenographer to the court. In the selection- - M of stenographers, Judge Russell named Miss Marion Eloodworth, of At- ; lanta, this being the first instance in the state's history In which a woman N has been named as stenographer in., an appellate court ' 1, ' , ^ Presiding Judge Hill concurred ii? the appointment of Miss Blcod worth, ^ expressing doubt as to whether the -.jgjl position is one of "a civil officer" or merely a clerk, and giving the benefit of the doubt to the - appointee. Hence she will serve in that capacity. Judge Powell, however, took the- - r^ emphatic view that the position is. i that of a civil officer, hence that a jji woman is not eligible. Said he: % /*. "The constitutional amendment creating: this court provides that in all :'b respects, except as otherwise provided . / in the constitution,, the laws relative to the supreme court shall apply to the court of^appeals. To my mind, it therefore necessarily follows that females are ineligible to hold the office: as stenographer in the court of appeals. If I could find any escape from what seems to me an irresistible legal conclusion, i would take great pleasure in jolting with my brethren' in the selection. of this most excellent. . young lady." , ; Kiss Bloodworth, however, was> selected by the votes of Judges Hill t : and Russell, and she will hold the . 4: : position. FOR REVIEW OF FRAUD ORDERS- "M . . House Passes Bill Giving Courts^Jurfs- -&i diction in Matter. y: The house Monday passed a bill .. providing for a Judicial review of or- ,,yh Aers fvrinriin!? nersons from the use _ 1 of United States mail facilities, af~ ter a lengthy debate. In presenting reasons why the bilk 4 should be passed, Mr. Crumpacker, its. author, said the power given the post- . J master general under the statutes toissue fraud orders was not at all aSL : administrative discretion, it rather partook of the nature of a'pollce pow- ; r|l er for the regulation of the "norala s of the country. . % I A MILLION FOR SAVANNAH. V jj City is Promised Big Sum for Harbor Improvements. Savannah has been promised $1,- ' SI 000,000 for her harbor improvememts. Senator Clay secured a hearing be-. :.> fore Chairman Burton, cf the house committee on river and harbor im- : provements Monday for the Savannah.' .. % delegation. After a very brief hear- ^ ing the chairman of the committee declared that, realizing the- import- -:. . ~ ance of Savannah as a port, the com mittee would recommend an appro-: ' ! pria tion of $1,000,000 for harbor work ;u ~:} there. ' > BURNED ALL THE RECORDS' ^ In Order to Save Bondsmen of a Convicted Defaulter. At Peoria, 111., Sunday night, bur- j glars blew open a safe containing all records of -the defalcation of N. C. Dougherty, former superintendent of ' - 'J the public schools, now fa Joliet penitentiary, and burned them. This af- :,J fects the liability of bondsmen and prevents future indictments. 4 . , ' . ' - -s . yvffig ' ' < < mmMm