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: - * i , % mmmammBmmmammammmammmmaammmmmmmm THE BACKWARDS ROAD. I know that somewhere there must be A Backwards Road, A read like this, Lending to all old lovely times. Picnics last year, forgotten rhymes, And dolls 1 used to kiss. Bat every road beneath my feet J Leads farther off From yesterday: And. when I creep into my bed, 1 feel it rock beneath my "head Jyike ships upon their way. If I could enly find that road, The Backwards Road, How quick I'd walk. And change the naughty things I've done. Pick up my playthings one by one, And hear the baby talk. ?Florence Wilkinson. I f IN THE I HOG PASTURE. I * $ I #^BYI.S.ELLIS#^ | ^ ****** v tTfTTTttTttT J The domestic hog, grunting lazily about his pen, is as harmless a creature in appearance as can well be imagined. In their wild state, according to travelers, hogs are fierce and cruel, unrelenting in their fury, and will attach men when roused. Circumstances occasionally arise which show that this wild strain has not been wholly lost,- even in the most obese porker. Mark and Carl Perkins, two Chicago boys, aged eleven and fourteen, while spending their vacation last summer on their Grandfather Triggs' farm in Central Wisconsin, had an experience with hogs which they will not soon forget. Among the many delights which the farm afforded, the one which gave the boys the most pleasure, during the early part of the summer, was picking wild strawberries in a pasture a half-mile from the house. The most convenient route to this field was across the hog pasture, a tenacre lot which lay between the "'strawberry pasture" and the house. Ors these berrvine trios thev were often accompanied by Mack, a farm dog of uncertain breeding, with the color and intelligence of c. shepherd dog and the heavy jaw and persistency of a bulldog. The boys had taken a strong fancy to the dog, and he in his turn appeared to like the society of youth, after long association with Grandfather Triggs. One forenoon, the week after their arrival, they started for strawberries, carrying with them two tin pails and a lunch which their grandmother had put up for them. "Boys," their grandfather called after them, "see if there are any gophers in those traps I set on the * hill! The little pests are going to kill all the grass if I don't manage to get rid of them somehow." The boys went to the place indicated, and found the traps, nicely hidden, but no gophers. "I guess it's too early. They haven't come out yet," said Cari. The boys went on to the strawberry pasture. After their pails were filled, they sat. down to rest, and suddenly remembered that they were hungry. They brought out their bread and jam and cold chicken. ? "Let's go back by the traps," said Carl, after they had finished their lunch. "There mi^ht be a gopher in one now." < The traps were near the centre of the field. When they were near them they heard a pig squeal. The squealing grew louder. "Well, that's queer," said Carl. "It must be hurt." "Maybe it's lost," suggested Mark. They could hear hogs all over the pasture grunting in response to the squeals of the pig. "Come on. Mark!" cried Carl. "I see it. It's in a trap!" He began to run, holding the pails carefully so as not to spill the berries. "Take them," he said, handing these to Mark, "while I get it out. Its leg may get broken." He stooped to bend the spring, but the pig made such franctic efforts to escape that it jerked up the stake which held the chain and hobbled away, with the trap clinging to its ;; foot. "Carl, I'm afraid of the hogs!" cried Mark. They were indeed acting stangely. They were running toward them from all quarters of ihe pasture, uttering a noise that was more like a roar ^ than a grunt. "Hogs?", said Carl, scornfully. "Hogs won't hurt you. See, I can anve taem away wnu uu: sue*. He picked up a stick and rapped a hog smartly over the back. The animal squealed and inn to one side. Mark was reassured. His confidence in his older brother was unlimited. Together they set out after the crippled pig. chasing it hither and- thither, in and out of the drove of excit:d hogs. Finally Carl caught the end of the chain and stopped its progress, at, which the pig squealed more wildly than ever. The old hogs were making a deafening uproar round them. Even Carl began to get nervous. "You'd better get cut!" he shouted to Mark. "Run and ciiml> over the fence." "Shall I fake the berries?" asked Mark. While Carl hesitated, a snout struck the back of his leg, and he heard his trousers rip. "Run quick!" he cried, and the next instant was knocked down. A babel of hoarse grunts and the napping of tusks surrounded him, above which rose the shfill squeals of the pig. Carl had clung to t'??e stick, and, half-rising, he laid about vigorously, and soon had a circle cleared, round which the hogs stood with snapping, foaming jaws. In this moment of relief he saw that Mark had reached the fence. He sprang toward the hogs that stood between this and him, and beat them over the head. They gave way, and he started to run, "when he was jerked back by something that tugged at his hand. In the excitement he had slipped a finger through the ring in the end of the chain and could not withdraw it. He was chained to the pig! The danger of the situation really came to the boy now for the first time. He struggled madly to release his finger, but the ring had slipped over the knuckle, and his struggles only served te blacken and discolor the finger. If he was to escape he would have to fight his way through. He could not run. The pain in his finger from the continually tugging of the pig was becoming excruciating. Slowly he moved toward the fence, now about a hundred yards distant, dragging the pig. The drove of hogs moved with him in a solid and constantly narrowing circle. To increase his difficulties, the distracted pig began to run abont him, winding his legs in the chain and threatening to overthrow him. Carl was becoming terror-stricken, frantic. He struck a hog which was disputing his way, and saw his stick fly to pieces. He looked up and cried aloud in terror. The fence was so near, yet he could not reach it. He could see Mark running about excitedly on the other side of the fence and?whistling? Yes, whistling. He was calling Mack. Carl turned eageriy toward the house and his heart gave a great bound. Help was coming! Up the long slope that led rrom the house Mack was coming like an arrow sped from a bow. Would he be in time? Carl turned and began' to kick savagely at the hogs. The frightened pig ran between his legs, and whirled i about, wrapping him hopelessly in ! the chain. He struggled to keep his i footing, but fell under the rush of the | hogs.- For a brief moment they ran | *_ ? ?j i? ? I over mill, auu lie vuvereu His iav-c with his hands, expecting with each breath to feel their teeth. Then to his amazement they left him, and he was lying alone in the sunshine, unmolested. Even the pig had escaped by freeing itself from the trap. The explanation for this came from an uproar at one side. In the midst of the drove Mack was spinning like a top, snapping right and left, a bleeding snout here and an ear there snowing that these leaps were not futile. At last the dog made a lunge at a particularly large hog, and fastened so securely that his hold could not be broken. The squeals of the victim sent the entire drove fleeing in terror down the hill. Carl got up slowly, crossed the fence, and sat down. The world seemed to be traveling round in 4 circle. Mark, the clouds, the trees and the two pails of berries all seemed a part of a huge merry-go-round. "I'm glad you didn't spill them," he said, thickly. "Grandma " Then it suddenly became dark. When he opened his eyes again Lit; y> lib 111 111C tUUI UVl (.U UCUl UUJU, and his grandmother was rubbing his forehead with arnica.?Youth's Companion. THRIFT MAKES WEALTH. French People Own the Securities of Other Nations. The public debt of France is $6,000,000,0'OO, all held at home. In addition, the French people own foreign securities to the stupendous aggregate of $15,000,000,000, and it is further estimated that an equal amount is placed in home securities. These figures may be exaggerated? all but those representing the public debt?but they illustrate the virtue there is in thrift, which is also a German usage. There is no Rockefeller, no Carnegie, in France, though there may be a lesser Russell Sage. The French people do not speculate; they save. | They do not get rich at a hop, skip 'and jump; they accumulate by slow degrees?they economize. The crime of crimes in rural France is waste, and France would subsist on what America throws away. Within the past year there have rotted on American farms enough machinery and utensils to supply agricultural France the next quarter of a century. A ' ? ? - ' n m #3 *. n n 1 JjeUSclU I U1 ?\Ul iiJUXAUJ nuuiu ao xcu.c subject his household plunder to the rage of the elements as his plows, or harrows, or harvesters. And the same is true of the German on the other side of the Rhine. Waste makes want everywhere, and frugality makes .wealth everywhere. France is blessed with a soil more fertile and a climate more favorable than Germany, and that is why toil gets richer return on the Frc-ncii side of the Rhine. It was ever so. Centuries ago France recovered from the devastations of war much more rapidly than any of the German States, and for ages it was the trade of both countries to avail themselves of the blessings of peace to make accumulation that would allow them to indulge in the horrors of war. Now that is (all changed, and another thirty years j of peace between the two peoples may I make impossible a war between them. If our population were as thrifty as the people of France, and our tillage as thorough, we would have build new barns for our harvests and open new hanks for our savings.? Washington Post* ^ - / OPENING FAIR DAY Will Be Strictly Rooseveltian in Every Feature. PROGRAM IS JUST ISSUED Chief Executive is Billed to Take Part in Every Function at Inauguration of the Jamestown. Exposition. President Roosevelt is to be the feature of the opening of the Jamestown Centennial exposition, the official program of which has just been ? 3 'PU ? announced. xuc u^cumg ^av ltiocn, which take place Friday, April 26, will begin at sunrise by a salute by the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of the first English settlement of America. The president will reach the exposition grounds at 11:30 o'clock, after passing on the Mayflower through the columns of I saluting foreign and American war- J ships in Hampton Roads. He will be i escorted to. the reviewing stand on | Lee's parade in the rear of the audi- j torium building. The speech-making j features of the program will begin at once, and in the open air, should the weather permit. An ovation by the Right Rev. Fred McGill Randolph, bishop of the diocese of southern Vir- i ginia and a brief introductory ad- j dress by Harry St. George Tucker, j president of the exposition company, j will precede the president's remarks. I When the president has concluded ' he will press a gold button and im- | - - . I mediately the machinery of tne great show will be in motion, a thousand flags will be unfurled on the exposition buildings and salute to the nation will be fired in the roads, and by the garrison at Fort Monroe. At the conclusion of the salute the ex- j position bands will nlav "The Star- | Spangled Banner," the troops will j "present arms" and the concourse will stand with uncovered heads while : the parade of the soldiers and sail- J ors of the United States under Major \ General Frederick Grant, will'review \ the parade from a grand stand, where also will be gathered the honored guests of the occasion, including the | diplomatic corps, the official commit- ! tees of the senate 'and house of rep-. resent atives and governors of states, I twenty of whom have accepted invi- ; tatipns to be present. j The day will close with a recep- j tion to President Roosevelt between j 5 and 8 o'clock. i i MMRnPR AVENGES A SLAP. ?" i Prominent Dentist Arrested on the Charge of Killing His Wife. A New York dispatch says: Dr. Samuel S. Guy, a prominent dentist of Far "Rockaway and for a number of years coroner of Queene Borough, is under arerst charged with the murder of his wife in their home Moa- j day night. The woman's body w?,3 found lying in the dining room floor with two bullet wounds in the breast. A servant girl says that as husband and wife entered the dining room Mrs. Guy slapped his face. Immediate- j ly afterward the door closed and in | a few minutes two shots startled the j girl. i OUSTED FROM RECEIVERSHIP ! I But Dargan is Allowed to Take Part J in Administration of Affairs. By an order passed by Judge Newman in the federal court at Atlanta Monday afternoon, J. T. Dargan, president of the Atlanta-Birmingham Fire Insurance company, was relieved from further connection with the receivership, but, as president of the company, was associated with the administration of the affairs, and allowed a fee to be paid out of the estate to be settled. KILLED BY ALLEGED BURGLAR. Alabama Deputy Sheriff Meets Death in Attempting to Make Arrest., Deputy Sheiitt John xctaeriek of Centervile, Ala., was shot -anti instantly killed in Bibb county Wednesday afternoon. Roderick and Sim Darden, a Tuscaloosa deputy, had gone to a house to arrest a man, named Redd, charged with burglary. As they approached the door was thrown open and Roderick instantly killed. Darden was covered with pistols by throe other men, and the guilty ail got away. STAMPED ENVELOPE CONTRACT Let by Government to a New York Firm for ?5,725,336. The postmaster general has awarded a contract for furnishing sfaniped envelopes and newspaper wrappers for four years from July 1, 1907, to the Mercantile Corporation of New York, the lowest bidder. The bid3 were as fonows: Hartford Manufacturing Company, $5,887,635; Mercantile Corporation, $5,725,886. ' j- ''jf ; ; 1 . i X BHBHHBBBHBBHBBHBaHMMi "ANIENS" WORTHLESS. Not Worth a D?n Unless Something is Done to Make Them Effective, Says Editor Stead. William T. Stead, the English editor, in an address before the New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York city. Monday, pleaded for the assistance o! American Methodists in the movement for international peace, which is to be considered at the next Hague conference. "Are you American churchmen ? you members of the church of Jesus Christ in America?willing to take action to secure the enactment of this law as an international statute," he I asked, "and aav that there shall he | a moment's pause before the dogs j of war are unleashed?" "Amen, Amen!" came in a chorus | from all over the church, j "Amen; oh, nobody cares a damn for amen, unless it leads you to d; something to put into effect your prayers," the speaker responded. He declared that in his visits t j ' ! various parts of the world, he hasj j found no one who thought the Chris-1 [ tian church was a force, in the world today. He said: j "You speak to the great men of Europe, and ask their opinion of its! i power and they shrug their shoul- ] ders, and tell you that the Chris- j tian church has been allowed to go, to the devil. Is the church of Christ going to do anything to help in the secular work of the nations?the secular - uplifting of the world? You Methodists are at least the second church in this American country." If you should decide to put your forces to work to the task that is before us , ? - * - 1-.- r -4.1-:*. we nngni nave great results uum tu.s meeting. We had a meeting at Leeds before I came over here to consider this, and the Free church announced j that it was ready to act under th?l direction of the archbishop of Can-1 I terbury in the matter, and when I left they were considering whether j it would not be better for the Church { of England and the Roman Catholic church to unite in joint action. I j do not know whether you do this i here, but are you willing to act together?" As the speaker sat down there were loud cries of "Yes! yes! yesP from all over the auditorium. A committee of three to draft suitable resolutions was appointed by Bishop Berry. TEDDY HER GOOD ANGEL. Woman Wills President Her Earthly Possessions, Including the Cat. President Roosevelt is the sole beneficiary under the will of one Luia B. Grover, which was filed in the cffiAo tho ciirrnp-ntp at N'pw York Oil Monday. No petition was filed with the will and the value of President Roosevelt's bequests are, therefore, unknown. The main parts of the will, which are very brief, read as follows: "I give to Theodore Roosevelt at my death everything that is mine; household furniture, personal property, jewelry, diamonds, estate, all money in bank to my credit, and my cat. Snow Drop Low, and everything that is mine. I owe to Theodore Roosevelt a debt greater than I can ever pay in this world and in this way I wish to show I am not ungrateful. He has been my good angel who spread his wings of shelter over my peace through life and was my only true friend in trouble. I gladly give my little all to him and only wish ? were millions instead of so small an amount. I hope he will accept it in the spirit I give it and with God's blessing." It has been announced that President Roosevelt will accept the estate bequeathed to him and turn it over 1 to some New York charity. The cat is now being cared for under directions issued by the president. | WORK BEING SUSPENDED. Southern Unable to Negotiate Sale of Its Improvement Bonds. * Owing to the fact 'that the South ?; i - nn.iKln fn nn<r/i. ? I I (111 w cl} na^> utcii uuauiu iv/ *..jqy | tiate a sale of its improvements, large contracts in northern Alabama anl southern Tennessee are being suspended. These include the extension of the Stevenson and Chattanooga branch of the tunnel through Look- * out Mountain. i CUBA OWNS ISLE OF PINnS. j Such is Decision Handed - Down by United States Supreme Court. That the Isle of Pines is not American territory was officially and judicially declared Monday by the supreme court of the United States. The opinion of the court was that, according I to the Paris treaty, the Isle of Pines had been considered as an integral part of Cuba and that it could not be held to be covered by article 2 of that treaty, which included only islands ia the vicinity of Porto Rico. 9 -. . > . - ; \ .f * ' vc '" "'? : PalmettoStateNews[i: < * ] i ? 1 y v v j' Labor Contract Law Before Court, j , The constitutionality of the Soutn , Carolina law penalizing breach of la- , bor contracts, is being tested in the j United States district court at , Charleston. Attorney General Lyon ( took part in the case for the state. |. Judge Brawley reserved his decision , * 1 * * i Four Murder Cases on Docket. { The court of general sessions for Spartanburg county convened last . -- * T - - a ? - 1 U-:-U , Monday, judge aiuhcu picaiuiug. | The docket is a heavy one and itj is quite likely that many cases will have to be continued. There are four murder cases on the docket. * ] * * Big Whale in Charleston Harbor. j An 86-foot whale was reported . within the jetties of Charleston harbor a few days ago by pilots. The re port caused great excitement among . fishermen, and there is talk of organizing an expedition to capture the huge monster. Thirty years ago a 50-foot whale was captured in the harbor and the skeleton is now at the Charleston Museum. * < * # Dr. Maxy Lee Pardoned. Governor Ansel, on the recommendation of the pardon board, has granted a full and unconditional pardon to Mr. Maxy G. Lee, a member of one j of the leading families of the state, who has been serving a life sentence, since 1889, for the murder of his father, Dr. H. J. Lee, his partner at Darlington. Both Governor McSwee( ney and Governor Heyward declined ' _ , , ^ i to Pardon Lee, wno is a weaiuiy inau. ** * Consul Haynes Promoted. A Washington dispatch says: Transfers and promotions in the consular service have been made by the president. % Thornwell Haynes, of South Carolina, is promoted to be a consul general of class 5 ($4,000), at Singapore, vice David F. Wi>bur, promoted.* Mr. Haynes is now a consul of class 5, at Nanking, where he has serv.ed one and a half years and previously at Rouen for five years. * * * Price Claims Self-Defense. James Price, who shot and killed William Redish, near Colleton postoffice, in Colleton county, last Friday, when the latter went to see him about Price's alleged cursing of Redish's sister, was caught Sunday at Blackvilie, and by instructions from Governor Ansel, was sent via Charleston to jail at Waterboro in order to prevent the possibility of his being lynched. Price says he killed Redish in self-defense. ? * * * Sawmill Manager Murdered. P. P. Smith, manager of the Sia- ?' gletarv saw mills in Florence county was killed a few days ago by Tom * Lloyd, a negro employed at the mill. I Mr. Smith reprimanded Lloyd for be- ' ing slow about his work and a few j ( minutes afterwards Lloyd .slipped upl1 behind Smith with a cant hook, an|,< instrument used for turning logs, an.tP struck Smith across the head, crush-J ing his skull. Mr. Smith lived for 1 about an hour. Lloyd escaped to the I ' woods and has not since been seen. J ] He is a mulatto, five feet six 'inches J ^ and weighs 145 pounds. j * I 1 Ex-Deputy Marshal Jailed. J B. L. Toland, formerly a Istate con-1' stable and ex-United States deputy L marshal, was lodged in jail at Spartan-1 ( burg by Assistant Deputy Sheriff I ( Becknell, who went to Atlanta for To-1 . land. At the last term of criminal J ( court Toland was convicted on the ? charge of obtaining goods under false . pretenses and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve a term on the chain gang. At the time of the trial he was out on bond and he failed I to present himself to the officers to enter upon his sentence cr pay the fine. ; * I 4 ? Conventions For Anderson. J1 Anderson' is to be the convention! city for this year. It is estimated that J; five thousand delegates will visit the city. The state T. P. A. meets on! May 9-10. The grand lodge of Knights I of Pythias meets on the 28th of May. The South Carolina Firemen's Benevolent Association will hold their an-1 nual meeting on July 16, 17 and 18. a! firemen's tournament, open to the! world, tfill be held at the same time, j The South Carolina Dental Associa- ? tion convenes on July 3 and 4. The j coinaa R.mtist Association meets in', ? ? August. The Presbyterian synod ot . South Carolina meets in October. j j .*i !; Firemasters to Investigate. i f A court of inquiry to investigate J 1 ?; -i certain charges which have been made against the authorities of Newberry in reference to the recent dis. istrous fire, has been called by the board of firemasters, to sit at an early tlate. The investigating committee will be composed of the board of firemasters, who will be empowered to - j take testimony and make such dnves- J tigation as may be deemed necessary.. J Since the fire, which cestroyed J Lions made as to neglect on , the part > | of certain authorities to provide ampie fire protection, the low pressure 'i and apparent lack of water shpply at the time that the fire was under con- trol being the grounds upon which " ^ these charges are based. ^ The whole matter will be fully investigated and the blame will be placed upon the proper parties. 4 * # i Negro Saved from Gallows. * M Governor Ansel has commuted to J life imprisonment the sentence of EM /; X, ftainey, the negro sentenced to he langed at Gaffney, Cherokee county, Friday, April 12. Rainey was con- pel victed of unlawful relations with, ar 3 aegro girl which caused her death. '/.J> He was tried last fall and convicted '3 and sentenced to death. Judge Prince, who presided at the :rial, the pardon board and the prose-\ 4 juting attorney, Solicitor Sease, ecommended the commutation of sen- rf| :ence to 14 years, but Governor An- ."f* sel fixed the penalty at "life impnsj-v"^ anment. - . * r v TALE OF THE "BUMS" Unfolded Through Interpreter Before ,-f} Federal Court at Atlanta in --vj'jM Trumped Up Peonage Cases. ' ' "*J| More of the adventures of tha some twenty-five immigrants, chafr*.?||H acterized by Attorney Reuben Ar- x aold as "bums, hoboes and trampsi'N vere told in the federal court at At- i-$m anta before Judge Newman Friday.' VXp 1 1 ? Dninhnl/) th.i ctar wit, O Can JlVCiiiiAVlUy VMV mvw ?? .-v - . m 2ess for the government, was on the stand, and it was neariy noon when \ Vpf attorney Arnold finished cross-exam-^ y ning him. His memory on Friday seemed 3e better, and because of this there;Vy^J vere objections from counsel for tW } lefense. District Attorney Sheppar^ juestioned Reinhold about things tef^ ?||iS Ified to on Thursday, and Mr. Arnold.; .vas on his feet with objections stantiy. . He declared that Reinhcld had had. plenty of time since the adjournment^)i court on Thursday to consult with-.. ;he government's attorneys and wi?hv7daj Inspector Klinky of the secret service1 ?the detecuVe who vorked tip the 3ases, but in answer to questions/' ilong this line Reinhold denied posl:ively that anyone had spoken abont :estimony that was admitted 00 Thursday. He admitted under cross-examfaalion that the immigrants did little . ivork?some of them leaving before; ihey started to work, and he said 'they /.Ssl tvere well treated, and that even & .' .||j *eg of beer was secured for them in Atlanta'that they might feel more . it home. "Then they left," said Reinhold :er the beer was gone." The sheriff of Fayette county of the arrest by him of three of the - ~J1 escaping immigrants, and the town.. marshal of Fayetteville told of re-'; reiving a telephone message to arrest three Germans. ' Letters, alleged to have been writ- * -Is ten by M. F. Cole and by Zeigler,were offered In evidence by the government, together with a copy of the New'. . ^ fork Staats-Zeitung containing an al? '#51 luring advertisement for men south and work in a furniture fao?. tory. ' , . Then the* first crowd of immi-- "'t'A grants, which Reinhold declared con- ^ sisted of' Huns, Poles, Swedes, Ger- ; mans and Jews, was placed on the - ' * stand. He was Frederick Badge, a German, and was questioned through . an interpreter. He went over the tale . y of the adventures in the south and was still reciting this tale when court adjourned. CARNEGIE DOTES ON PITTSBURG. | His Benefactions in Iron City Reach | Total of $32,500,000. The gift of $6,0o0,000 to the dap? negie Institute at Pittsburg, Pa., an?i/ 'fM nounced by Andrew Carnegie, a few **'. 3 days ago, swells flie amount given - .|p by Mr. Carnegie. to the library, in- ' > ^ stitute and technical school to $19, / OA a/>a on/1 rnisps the 'total of his -! '* <? - ? ? benefactions in Greater Pittsburg to1 532,500,000. . . MANY WOMEN BUNCOED. ' * ' | Get Their Just Deserts for Patronize -:H ing Traveling Fakir. After working one of the smoothest ; sames ever heard of in Greensboro, \T. C., Earl Varstare, a self-styled palmist, who appeared in the clty^ ibout six weeks ago, has skipped, tafc? 'y ,ng with him jewelry and money tOj, ho smnnnt nf SKV.OOO. which ho Se?. 'O* rjred from his unwary wtmen vic\ r , Ams while pretending to tell their( $ fortunes.'" . . .