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"iTj ";'*.N ' * '. ' ? v ' '-.'-v "' ' ' " <- -. ' 7-^'X - 4 ? - . v.* . . < - . . 1 ' pp" . ' " 'v:' - >V-; | * ': : T^V^' >:v^ - y v; -; 2% lamberg Iferalb I * Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1907 One Dollar a Year |||ji BURNED TO DEATH. Mr. J. T. Wilkins Cremated in His Home Near Cowpens. Spartanburg, March 6.?Mr. - * John Terrell Wilkins, aged 70 years, was burned to death this morning at his home near Cowpens in a fire . which destroyed the Wilkins house. Mr. Wilkins has for many years been a paralytic and has been practically helpless. This morning he was left in front of an open fire place by his wife with a bed quilt wrapped around him. It is thought that a coal fell from the fire and ignited the quilt. The helpless man remained in this position. Mr. Wilkins was unable to call for assistance owing to the fact * that his paralysis extended to his throat. Mrs. Wilkins, upon smelling the burning cloth, ran into the . room and endeavored to extinguish 11 ? me names, railing m tuu, sue ion to the home of her son, Mr. B. Wilkins, a short distance away, and summoned help. Those called upon ran with haste to the house, which by this _ time, was wrapped in flames. The assistance was too late and the unfortunate man was burned up along with the house. The blackened and kv charred remains were found in the ^ debris. Skin Grafting Saves Girl. Pittsburg, Pa., March 7.?Sur<; geons at the Presbyterian hospital jV announced that Iowa McKenzie, the ; six-year-old daughter of George Mc; Kenzie, who was burned over more ^ V than one-third of her body, by her clothing catching fire at an open "<?.? erate, several weeks ago, would re cover. When one-third of a person's V body is burned the surgeons always say they cannot recover, so that lit-|S ' tie Miss McKenzie's case is a most ? ? remarkable dne. Skjn grafting is responsible for recovery, the surgeons say. Four per; ' sons contributed 320 pieces of cuticle ??? from their own bodies, which were grafted to the burned surface of the child's body. A Hungry Ear. ; Sv-' In a little school house in the north of Scotland, the school master keeps - his boys grinding steadily at their t / desks, but gives them permission to .v : nibble from their lunch baskets some; times as they work. ? ' ? *i ii x V Une day, wnue tne master waa mtjp structing a class in the rule of three, | he noticed that one of his pupils was paying more attention to a small tart than to his lesson. "Tom Bain, listen to the lesson, f-/ -. will yeV\ said the master. "I'm listening, sir," said the boy. ; "Listening, are ye?" exclaimed the master. "Then ye're listening f wf one ear and eating pie wi' the other" ; What It Felt Uke. \ ' . 1 Lloyd Griscom, the new ambassa?lor to Italy, says the Washington ? Star, described at a dinner in Washington a diplomatic game of base ' llv ball in Brazil. '4An Englishman,'' he said,' 'caught for his side, though the poor fellow was strange to the catcher's box. JsV/TciioKmon o-rpw confused in fxuu the second inning, missed a ball and it struck him on the nose, keeling -5% mm over. \" 'What was it?* he said feebly, as he came to. ^ foul, only a foul,' said the umpire. ^ 44 'Man alive,' said the&Englishman. 'I thought it was a mule.' " > Higher Than Law. |pjp-Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Si& -err&s, in an address in Oakland atr '<tacked the trusts, f;* , "What if their sins are legal?" he ended- "They are sins none the less, and I wished when trusts sin legally we could prevent the law from protecting them. I wish, in short, we ; could all act as one of our Oakland farmers did last year. He, one day 2 last year, found a score of men put;'V: ting up telegraph poles all over his . best field. He ordered the men ? - ^away but they wouldn't go. They ? showed him a paper that gave tnem Authority to put up their poles wher? ; -v- ever they wished. The old man looked at the paper, saw it was lawful, v \' walked away in silence. He went to the barn and turned a savage red W bull into the field. The mad bull j-v made for the men, the men fled at *y -top speed, and the farmer shouted v: after them: 44 'Show him your paper! Show him your paper.'Washington 'vrtf' -.Star. " , Place He Was Fitted For. The village carpenter had given so generously of his services and sound advice toward rebuilding the little manorial chapel that when it was completed all the summer people / agreed1 that he should be asked to speak after the luncheon which was - to follow the dedication exercises. The day and the carpenter's turn ; ; came. f I "Ladies and gentlemen - dear friends," he began, his good, brown face very red indeed, "I am a good deal better fitted for the scaffold than for public speaking!" ,j. Then he realized what he had said and sat down amid roars of laughter. ' ?Youth's Companion. i> * ~ * ? !'- I ' . IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down For Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. ( W. D. Ellison, a white man, charg ed with grand larceny, escaped from < the Richland county jail on Tuesday night by sawing the steel bars in two. j Lewis W. Byers killed his step-son Oliver G. Lanham in the Olympia mill village, Columbia, with a gun on Wednesday. The young man was ' 22 years old and a carpenter. The J deed looks like cold-blooded murder. Jacob Taylor, aged 20, was killed by David Gunter, aged 19, in Greenwood county on Tuesday. Taylor ! ? . ?ro-u _ i was snot tnree times wan a pistui. , Gunter, who has been committed to . jail, says Taylor was trying to cut him with a knife. L. L. Reading, a citizen of Chester, was committed to jail on Tues- j day charged with forging the name J of L. D. Childs to a number of , checks. Mr. Reading came from j Ohio two years ago to manage the ] Baffalo Lick springs near Chester. He has confessed the forgeries. 1 Under the recent act of the legis- < lature appropriating $5,000 for the 1 supplying of artificial limbs to Con- < federate soldiers it will not be allowable to pay the applicant the money. The limb itself must be furnished. * i* i -i i i Application DianKS are now uemg sent out by the comptroller general. Principal Sam Rogers of the Boykin school of Marlboro county was acquitted by a jury on Wednesday of the charge of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in the whipping of a bad boy in the school. The trial lasted two days, and the jury found a verdict in two hours. Recently several members of the sophomore class of the South Carolina University were suspended for hazing, and another student was suspended for having a pistol on the campus. It appears that the sophomores attempted to haze him and he drew a pistol. This week three cadets were expelled from the Citadel for breaking barracks. Congressman Aiken and others who have been working for years to secure an increase in the pay of rural mail carriers have at last succeeded in having the salaries of carriers increased to $900 a year, $75 per month. Heretofore tne salary has been $720 a year. The in- < crease in salary will probably go into J effect the first of next July, which is 1 the beginning of the government s fiscal year. 1 Reasons Enough. j Although political opponents, Con- j gressman Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, 1 and Speaker Reed, of Maine, became ( greatfriends on account of the abil- j ity of each to see a joke. 1 At one time, Simpson, wanting a { private pension bill passed, went to j the speaker and told him the bill af- : fected the fortunes of a poor widow ! down in Kansas. ! "Why" asked Reed, "do you want 1 this bill passed when you have been I opposing pension legislation during j this session?especially such a bill as this which comes in without a favor- ] able report?" ' "There are thirty reasons why I support this bill," replied Jerry. "The first one is that the woman needs the money. I have forgotten , the other twenty-nine," The bill passed. ?? Getting Her Legal Rights. An old colored woman, arrayed in a rusty black dress and a gorgeous : purple "picture" hat over which was a black crepe veil, appeared at the courthouse of a Carolina town not long ago. "Am yo' de jedge ob reprobates, sah?" she asked, cautiously opening a erack of the office door. "Yes, I am the judge of probate, aunty; what can I do for you?" was the smiling reply. "Yassah! Thanky, sah! I'se heah 'cause mah ole man done died detested an' lef' fo' lil' infidels, an' Ah wanter be 'pinted ter be dere executioner, ef yo' please, sah!" Hsvemevar Purchases Land. Beaufort, March 8.?Mr. H. 0. Havemeyer, the sugar king, has just I concluded the purchase of the two tracts of land at Sheldon Station on the line of the C. & W. C. railroad formerly the property of the Fuller families; also the Timothy plantation, formerly the property of Col. Charles Hutson. The price paid was $35,000. The land will be converted into one continuous hunting preserve, to which it is well adapted. Mr. Havemeyer will erect a mag- j nificent mansion on the estate for; his hunting and sporting purposes. "Say," growled the first hobo, "why didn't yer go up ter dat big house an' git a handout?" "Why, I started ter," replied the other, "but a minister-lookin' guy gimme a tip not ter. He sez. 'Turn jfrom yer present path; yer going' ! ter dedogs.'" ?Philadelphia Ledger. SISTER BURNED TO DEATH. Two Aged Members of Prominent Family Share Peculiar Fate. Spartanburg, March 8.?Mrs. Mary E. Littlejohn, aged 79 years, sister of Mr. J. T. Wilkins, who was burned to death at his home near Cowpens, Wednesday, was burned to death this evening about 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Littlejohn resided at Cowpens, living in her home alone. This evening the neighbors were attracted by a flickering light which was seen in the Littlejohn home and upon entering found the form of the old lady wrapped in flames. She had evidently caught fire from a fire which was burning briskly but a few feet away. A TTTO C* TY> f A OV? (1 dtlCXIUUUO C11U1 k WOO lliauv iu VA tinguish the flames during which Mr. J. W. Wilkins, a nephew of the old lady, was severely burned. The fire was checked before the house caught fire, but the aged woman was dead before assistance reached her. Mrs. Littlejohn was one of the best known women in this section of the State and had h very large family connection. She is survived by one son, Mr. Milton Littlejohn, and one daughter, Mrs. Henry Littlejohn, both of whom reside in Pacoiet. The prominence of the family and the strange coincidence of the death of Mrs. Littlejohn and that of her brother, Mr. Wilkins, caused considerable excitement in Cowoens. Honor Roll Qovan High School. ? n ? _ i i _ j n r* ^ r onowing is ine nonur run ur uru/an High School for the sixth month, snding March 1st, 1907. To merit a place on the honor roll pupils must mve a clean record and make ninety per cent or above general average: High school?Misses Lizzie Kennely, Mattie Lena Mather, Lillian Lan- i laster, Estelle Lancaster. Eighth grade?Spurgeon Mather, ] L Frank Lancaster, Lewis Williams, Lizzie Collins. Seventh grade?Leda Williams, Nettie Nimmons, Talbert Lancaster, Vfonnie Lain, Dan Izlar Mather. Fifth grade?Jessie Zorn, Letha , Uollins, Corrie Kennedy, Lila Lancas- i Wilbur Williams. < Third grade?May Eubanks, Cary \ 5orn. i Second grade?Corrie Collins, Min- , lie McCormick, HattieSue Williams, jilmore Lancaster, David Zorn, .^rank Creech. First grade?Angus McCormick. 1 The Local Paper. The local paper should be found in ; jvery home. No children should ; jrow up ignorant who can be taught : to appreciate the home paper. It is said to be the stepping stone of intel iigence in all those matters not to be found in books. Give your children ; a foreign paper which contains not ; a word about any person, place or 1 thing, which they saw or perhaps eyer heard of, and how could you expect. them to be interested? But let them have the home paper and read )f people, whom they meet and of : places of which they are familiar and ( soon an interest is awakened which increases with every arrival of the , local paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed and those children will read papers all their lives and become intelligent men and Women, a credit to their ancestors, strong in knowledge of the world as it is to-day.? Seneca Journal. Negro Shoots Town Marshal. Anderson, Mar. 10.?"Hun" Ferguson, colored, was brought from Pendleton yesterday morning and lodged in the county jail, charged with shooting Mr. Charles Roberson, town marshal of Pendleton, Friday night. Marshal Roberson was in search of a negro. He went into a negro pool room, expecting to find his man in there. He remained a few minutes and the negro Ferguson got up and went out of the room. In about ten minutes two pistol bullets crashed through the window glass, both hitting Mr. Roberson. One of the bullets entered his right leg and the other grazed his breast. Roberson is not dangerously wounded. It is not known that Ferguson did the shooting, but he has been making frequent remarks about Mr. Roberson ?that he would kill him if he (Mr. Roberson) would cross his path. It seems that one of Ferguson's "pals" had been pulled by the town marshal. He holds this up against the officer. Hortgaged Team Ten Times. Anderson, March 5.?There is a negro in the Anderson county jail by the name of William Cureton who can give Mrs. Cassie Chadwick cards and spades and beat her in high financiering. This darkey bought a pair of mules and a wagon from a gentleman of this city, giving him a mortgage to secure the balance of the purchase price. The negro got busy and in a few days mortgaged his team to about 10 persons. He was lodged in jail Friday on the charge of disposing of property under mortgage. His team was sold Saturday and brought enough to satisfy the first mortgage and leave some to be applied on the second mortgage. His "creditors" held a meeting Saturday. ' ' V ; * . i, - */ \ , . J- - i v C- ^ li ^ - = r > " COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered AH Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt News. Ehrhardt, March 11.?Messrs. J. F. Copeland, J. C. Copeland, I. W. Carter, H. A. Hughes, and H. C. Bishop went to Bamberg last Monday to attend court. Miss Minnie Copeland is visiting her sister, Mrs. T. J. Hiers, of Dunbarton. Mr. Rambsey, his little daughter, and Miss Mamie Carter; of Williams, came up Saturday to visit Mrs. Lorenzo Copeland. Messrs. Willie Bishop and Eddie Rentz visited friends in Colleton county last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Mice Sease, of Kline, has been visiting friends and relatives in this community during the past week Mrs. H. C. Kirkland, of Olar, spent last Saturday night with her sister, Mrs. S. W. Copeland. Mrs. J. L. Kinard spent last Friday with Mrs. Henry Planer. Mr. J. D. Dannelly has his saw mill loaded, and will start for Bayard, Fla., today. Mr. Tom Dannelly and his family will go with them. We are sorry to see them leave Ehrhardt, but we wish them much sue-1 cess in their new field. In the spelling match last Friday afternoon at the school house, Annie Rentz won the prize. Mr. W. D. Sease was in town last j Sunday. Mr. G. L. Kinard went to Bamberg last Monday. Mr. S. W. Copeland leaves today for Columbia as a delegate from the Woodmen lodge here to the Woodmen meeting there tomorrow. Annie Re^tz. Ehrhardt Graded School. Ehrhardt Etchings. . Ehrhardt, March 11.?Nearly all jf our town folks were courting last week, even our chief of police was summoned to appear there to give in '-j-.j j 3violence, but was disappointed anu iid not get a chance to tell the gentlemen of the jury what he knew, rhink all of them were tired of the week at Bamberg. Mr. J. D. Dannelly has his mill torn down and loaded on the cars ready to go Monday. Mr. David. Dannelly will take with him Mr. Tom Dannelly and his family, also Mr. Ed. Steadly and his family and several of his hands to Florida to work his saw mill. A blind tiger must have been near town Saturday. We did not hear him growl but saw the effects of some of his work on several on our streets. Mr. S. W. Copeland goes to Columbia rm business todav. C. Ehrhardt & Sons had their saw mill shut down last week, putting in a new boiler. They will be ready to commence work Tuesday again. We miss their whistle. Miss Alice Sease is visiting Mrs. T. D. Jones. Mr. and Mrs Jones Lane are visiting her father Mr. Perry Padgett. Farmers are all anxious about their fertilizer. These warm days are making them think about planting corn. Mr. Henry Ehrhardt was summoned to Florence last week as a juror in the United States Court. Clear Pond annual picnic comes this year on the 29th day of this month. Some of the ruling spirits are talking about it, and preparing for entertaining the crowd on that day and want the public to remember the basket part of the occasion and assist to make it an enjoyable occasion as usual. Jee. Freight Conductor Killed. Lancaster, March 9.?Conductor L. P. Brown, of freight train No. 372, extra, on the Southern, was killed by being caught between the bumpers of two cars while coupling them at the depot here, about noon today. Notwithstanding the fact that the lower part of his body was terribly crushed, he took several steps, crossing the -ditch alongside the track and sat down, dying in less * J_ *A. J_ tnan a minute aiterwarus. Mr. Brown was from Greenville, where he has a family living. He was apparently about 45 years of age, and had been a conductor on this branch of the Southern only a few days, this being his second trip on the road. The body will be carried to Greenville tonight for interment. This is Nauseating. Washington, March 7.?A club in Minneapolis is composed exclusively of negroes having white wives or who have white sweethearts. No white man and no colored woman may attend its dances. For years its annual ball was held in Minneapolis, but there was so much violent comment upon it that recently it has been transferred to St. Paul. Of this Senator Tillman says: "These people insist upon social ! equality. -That is the great danger in the whole problem; a menace to the whole white race." '' - C ' a '' - tijiS' . i-Li ' ;'? \4 VJ- y?r. ?A:J KILLING IN ORANGEBURG. Negro Kills Another for Attempting to Assault His Wife. Orangeburg, March 6.?During the morning Sheriff Dukes'learned that a negro had killed another nea the place of Mr. Mackay Salley, in the fork section, and he immediately started for the scene of the crime. While on the way there, he met a negro, Alfred Jefferson, who told him that he was the party wanted and gave himself up. Jefferson was accompanied by his brother, and was on the way to Orangeburg to deliver himself into custody when he met the sheriff. His story is that he left his home for a short time this morning, and on returning heard a commotion in the house and on entering found John Summers struggling with his wife, and realizing that the man was attempting an assault, he immediately shot and killed him. Jefferson savs his wife afterwards told him that Summers entered the house soon after he left, and that she had been struggling with him for some time, when her husband returned. Claims she had succeeded in getting him out of the house twice, but he had immediately forced his way back and renewed the struggle for the third time when killed. , Bad Beef Condemned. Four large front cuts of Western beef shipped by a Columbia packinghouse agent of Spartanburg Saturday were rejected because of alleged unsound condition and were returned to this city. The Spartanburg consignee was C. F. Younger. Mr. Younger refused to receive the shipment and the express comnaniT o/>f?nn> nn ne+miotinno frAm fVlO |/CU1J J avbxug VAX XlUbi viii vaav J agent, was about to dispose of the consignment elsewhere in Spartanburg, when the health officer heard of the car and forbade sale of the meat in that city. It was accordingly returned to the agent here.?Columbia Record. * Rhett Predicts Fair Rates. j Washington, March 9.?Mayor Rhett, Mr. P. H. Gadsden and Mr. H. R. Jackson, manager of the Charleston Freight Bureau, tonight appeared before railroad officials of the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line systems and appealed for fairer freight rates for Charleston. The party was about seven hours late in reaching Washington, consequently the hearing did not begin until night. There were present, on behalf of the Southern Railway, President Finley and J. M. Culp; of the Atlantic Coast Line, Messrs Walter and Emerson, besides B. L. Abney, Claudian Northrop and A. P. Thorn _ of the lecral deDartment of the Southern. Armed with numerous papers and documents of various kinds, Mayor Rhett made a strong plea, for better and more equitable freight rates for Charleston. After the conference Mr. Rliett said that the railroads had agreed, as a result of the consultation, to send a special agent to Charleston next week who will be empowered to make a careful investigation into the whole situation. President Finley, Mr. Rhett said, has not yet named the man who will be sent here, but he will be one of the best in the employ of thS road and one able to take a broad and comprehensive view of the entire situation. Besides promising to send a representative to Charleston to go over flip matter no other Dromises were made by the railroad people. "You may tsay," said Mr. Rhett, "that the conference has been satisfactory in every way. We believe we will get what we want, fairei freight rates." y An Accidental Shooting. Manning, March 7.?H. G. Pack a young white man of this place was accidentally shot by the dis charge of a parlor rifle, held by Mr Wilson, an employe of the Clarendor Sentinel, here today about 12:31 o'clock. Wilson had loaded the rifli to shoot at a target when it was dis charged, the ball taking effect in th< abdomen. The wounded man wa taken immediately to the McCal House and Dr. Geiger was summon onr? nnnn PYaminatioi CU Ol Uiiw HUM found an operation necessary, as th< wound is thought by him to be ex ceedingly dangerous. There is littL hope of recovery at this time, thoug] the operation may change the situa > tion. A Cow's Appetite. Several years ago a farmer nea Chesterfield whose modesty forbid the publication of his name, hunj his vest on a barnyard fence. J calf chewed up a pocket on the gar ment in which was contained a stand ard gold watch. Last week the ani mal, a staid old milch cow, wa butchered for beef and the tim piece was found in such a positioi between the lungs of the cow tha the process of respiration had kep the stem winder wound up, th watch had lost but four minutes am two and a half ticks in seven years It is one of the most remarkable oc > curences ever heard of.?Carolin i Citizen. ; ' ' - ',r.' COURT STILL IN SESSION. II ' ? m NEGRO SENTENCED TO HANG FOR *G? KILLING ANOTHER NEGRO. ' J. R. Turner Gets Fifteen Years for Attempted Rape?Civil Cases .-|jj Now Being Tried. When we went to press last . -";J| t Wednesday the case of J. W. Griffin, charged with murder, was being tried. Griffin is a young white man, * and was tried for killing a negro at ^|? t Denmark some months ago. The <-|? jury found him not guilty. J. R. Turner, the white man who ' -M attempted to assault the little daughter of Hon. S. G. Mayfield in i Denmark some time ago, was found rM guilty of assault and battery with intent to rape, and was sentenced to serve fifteen years in the penitent ^ig tiary. Turner has been confined in ?|$l the penitentiary at Colombia since the affair, he having been carried t * r a? < tnere Dtxaust; ui vuicisva vjl ijfuviuitg, ' but was brought back last week to [ be tried. Herbert Boyles and A. W. Nelson, ; two young white men, were found ' 3 guilty of housebreaking and larceny ; and sentenced to the penitentiary 'J for five years each. They were yjM "charged with robbing the drug store of Dr. J. S. Matthews at Denmark. "S A motion for a new trial wasv made ,? and refused, and an appeal was :2fam taken to the Supreme Court in the case of Boyles. He was admitted to bail in the sum of $1,500. Jasper Odom, a negro, was tried for murder, the crime charged being ^ that of killing another negro. He was found not guilty. Aaron JNeison, yueen i> eisuir, auu Dock Nelson, all negroes, were tried '4 for murder. Aaron and Queen Nelson were found not guilty, but Dock 4 Nelson was convicted of murder > ,f ,| without recommendation. The judge * 4| therefore sentenced him to be hang- % ed on Friday, the 26th day of ApwJ. "J! A motion for a new trial was mafie ; ij and refused. j? Criminal cases occupied the at- -4 tention of the court all of last week, and Monday morning of this week f-K civil cases were taken up. The foi- ' lowing have been tried up to the time i; of going to press: | Eugenia M. Rice vs. J. C. Bishop. l} j This case grew out of the cases tried here some time ago, in which Mrs. . 1 Rice recovered a lot of land which 2 had been sold to various parties. ,g Mr. Bishop owned one of the tracts M and this suit was to determine the ? matter of some houses and other improvements made on the land. The ; jury awarded the land to Mrs. Rice j and gave'Mr. Bishop $154.88 for improvements made thereon. A number of orders were taken . in various cases, a few appeals from :d magistrate's courts were heard and ! decided, a number of judgments ; were entered up against various' 4 W* parties, several of these being re ierrea to a jury. . J. F. Folk vs. Benjamin Graham" .!? . was tried Tuesday morning and a' ' verdict rendered for Folk for $1,200. jj This was a suit in reference to some 3 1 land. ^ 1 Tuesday afternoon the case of; ' Walter Richardson against Bamberg , ":'iMI 1 county was taken up. This was a : suit for damages in the sum of $5,; 000. Mr. Richardson's mule ran *|? ; away with him and threw him out of . ' his vehicle and broke his leg, the ! limb having to be amputated. He i claimed that the mule was frighten- $ ed by falling in a defective bridge ; and that the county was responsible, as the bridge was in bad repair. H|? 1 The testimony had all been taken ' '-ffj and arguments of lawyers made, ' but the jury had not returned a ver[ diet when we went to press. ,y Revival Meeting Closes. " ::: The revival meeting at the Metibdist church in this city, which ha^: ,.: ^ been going on for the past three . ' weeks, closed last Sunday night ., - 4 1 Rev. Thos. H. Leitch and his singer,,.} ?33 Mr. Marshall, left Monday morning',,, -J I for Morven, N. C., where they com3 menced a meeting Tuesday night. , ;i: a Much good has been done as a result -'M I of the meeting. About seventy-five a persons have professed conversion, . vi 3 and there will be a number of acj cessions to both the Methodist and r <'$ . Baptist churches. 1 m . . . x a Law and Morals. A Missouri graduate in law, says a ? e I politician of that state wrote to a ' * I loornor in Arkansas to in- ~ 1 pruilliuuib lunjvt ?. - - quire what chance there was in that section for such a one as he described \ himself to be. He said: "lam a Re- r % publican in politics and an honest < r young lawyer." C -v s The reply, that came seemed ens' cottraging in its interest: "If you [ are a Republican, the game laws - here will protect you, and if you are [- an honest lawyer, you will have no - competition."?Harper's Weekly. e ' 'So this is a typical frontier town, *, / J a eh? I suppose you have citizens who t have killled their men?" t ' 'There goes one now." e ''A peaceable looking chap. How d many notches has he on his gun?" 5. "He doesn't carry a gun." "Not carry a gun!" a "Nope; he's a doctor."?Houston ^