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We require the name and ad- ] dress of the writer in every case. 1 No article which is defamatory or j offensively personal can find place in ?$." our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex.pressed in any communication. Thursday, February 18,1909 ! jR'.v' We do not know what sort of a ' lawyer the new associate justice is, | |& - but we have heard that he is a good < i i politician. No doubt this is true, for s his election is no doubt a greater ^ * tribute to his political work than to . his legal ability. j . -. The general assembly seems willing to investigate almost anything except the dispensary. No doubt the result of the investigation of the State dispensary accounts for this opposition. The investigation was what killed the State dispensary. South Carolina juries seem to be I improving ^.somewhat. Three white men have been recently convicted of murder. None of them were sentenced to hang, as they should have . been, but it is well that they were even convicted of murder with recommendation to mercy. That dispensary church affair over in Orangeburg county is still creating a great deal of interest. The church people ought to quit trying to .. explain. Fetter to have made a clean breast of it at the outset. It evidently was the intention that the ?*? ~ Aav,4 Vktr 55^.- " CQurcnue avtcpccu uj iut mtvuudists, and it no doubt would have ||fcW been had not the matter got into the newspapers. Senator Tillman is to be congratuH lated on the success of his efforts to prfevent the confirmation of the negro Crum as collector of the port in |P|;' f Charleston. He made a fine fight, and the people of Charleston and of . South Carolina appreciate his efforts. True he did only his duty, but none the less we give him full credit for his magnificent fight. Now, , if the Senator will Just be a little mnrp tAmnpratp in his utterances we !l would be still better pleased. Liquor in Aiken Jail. ] A very peculiar fight occurred on 1 i Saturday night, in the city jail. < Three of the city prisoners serving ] sentences were in jail over night, i Saturday afternoon, it was charged, 1 Jerry Minor visited the jail and gave T the prisoner, Press Dorn, a pint of 1 whiskey. Thi3 pint was augmented ] a little later by a half pint given by i Maria Kinard to the prisoner, Ar- < menia Street. With a pint and a half ' then in stock, the three prisoners, Armenia Street, Amos Myers and Press Dorn, began to celebrate in a typical Saturday night manner. When they were placed in jail they < were allowed the freedom of the jail ( room, and not confined to cells. Af- c ter they had consumed the bottled * goods, they began to get rowdy and '< were soon fighting. Dorn struck < :^>s Myers in the mouth, and then the ? woman took a hand in the fight. An ( officer visuea tne jan, auu jl/uiu uau to be clubbed and the woman slap- 1 ped to make them submissive. 1 They were then placed in cells. < The locks being worn on the cell * doors they were soon out in the halls 1 again. Next time they were placed in cells with new locks on the doors. < Jerry Minor was given a sentence ( of $5 or ten days for giving the pris- < oners liquor. Maria Kinard has not yet been apprehended, but will have J to face the same charge as soon as < she is caught. < Bat West yesterday forfeited a bond of ten dollars by failing to an- 1 swer to a charge of carrying a con- 1 cealed weapon.?Aiken Journal and 1 t r-i Review. 1 Negro Church Blown Down. ^ Learned, Miss., Feb. 14.?A storm 1 struck this place from the north- ] west about 2 o'clock this afternoon with terrific force, blowing down a negro church, killing Dick Harris' wife and one child of Maggie Bennett, and injuring eight or 10. About 1 75 persons were in the building at 1 the time. If it had not been for the j arched ceiling they would all probably have been killed. Logical Result. "Where are you going, my pretty ' maide?" "I'm going a-milking, sir." she saide. "Then I want to marry you, my pretty maide, For I own the water-works here," he saide. So they were married, egad, and they ; Have lived ever since on the milky whey. 11 V i .- '"V J ' FIREI) INTO TRAIN. Tliviliiig Experience of Two Fayetteville Men on A. C. L. Train. Saturday afternoon's Fayetteville Observer has the following: Hon. J. G. Shaw, ex-congressman of this district, and Col. Sol. W. Cooper, manager of the National bank of this city returned from a business trip to South Carolina last night, and report a thrilling experience, the result of an outrageous act. They were on the train bound for Columbia and at 11 o'clock, when a short distance from Florence with the train running at full speed, a bullet crashed through a window, which Mr. Shaw was sitting next to, and not six inches from his head, and only a little further from Mr. Cooper, who was sitting next to Mr. Shaw. A second before that a ball had crashed through a window ot tne second class coach just ahead, but fortunately no one was hurt in either case. Only a short time ago a prominent citizen of South Carolina was killed in this same manner. This sort of thing makes one feel unsafe to travel through South Carolina. The train was not stopped and the person who committed this fiendish act was not seen. That Church at Livingston. There has been quite a stir in church circles of late over a report, that has been going the rounds of the press, to the effect that a Methodist church had been built in the town of Livingston almost entirely by contributions made from the profits of the county dispensary. Knowing the position, hitherto, occupied by the Methodist church in regard to the whiskey traffic in all its forms, we vere not inclined to attach any very jreat importance to this report. Later developments, however, show :o our humiliation and grief that the -eport was, in the main correct. Livingston is a small town in Orangeburg county, in the bounds of the Norway circuit. Notwithstanding the fact that Livingston is but a small ;own, it appears that the county dispensary, at that point does a most ;hriving business, so much so that :he town authorities were not able to 11 +Viic* cnn lse an iiit; revenue uuui uV?.w ri public improvements, and conseluently entered into an agreement vith Rev. J. A. Graham, who was ;hen serving as pastor of Norway cir;uit, to use a certain sum in building i Methodist church. How any minister could get the jonsent of his mind to build a house >f worship with the funds, that had Deen derived by this source is a ques;ion that must ever puzzle every right :hinking man. Mr. Graham is credited with sayng that he accepted this dispensary noney on the advice of his presiding elder, Rev. J. W. Kil?o. Mr. Kilgo, in a private let;er, says that the matter was never mentioned to him during his adminstration as presiding elder of the Oringeburg district directly or remotely ?that his first information that a ;hurch had been built at Livingston ivas an editorial notice in a recent issue of the Southern Christian Advocate?that he did not even know here was a dispensary at Livingston. The Methodist church has occupied rery high ground in the matter of temperance reform during all the rears of her history. Her warfare igainst king alcohol has been constant and unrelenting. She has waged many hard-fought battles with :he minions of the bar and the arothel, and in this glad hour of vic:ory, when the arch-fiend has raised :he flag of truce and is negotiating ;erms of final surrender, to have her -ecord stained by the folly of those inder her vows and bearing her crelentials is a question that taxes our patience to the limit. The Methodist church is in no way responsible for ;he faulty judgment and warped deals of those responsible for the deplorable affair at Livingston, and will, in all likelihood, at the proper ;ime and place, repudiate the whole jusiness. And it goes without sayng that this church will never be revived by the annual conference.? Sumter Herald. Convicted Oil Concern Pays Fine. Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 15.?On the ground that the Waters-Pierce 3il Company of Missouri has not ;omplied with the ouster decree of ;he supreme court of the State, in an mswer filed this morning Attorney General Major filed with the court a suggestion that the ouster be made effective against the concern. The iction of the attorney general is 3ased upon the fact that the company las - not furnished satisfactory evilence that it has severed its connection with the Standard Oil Company. H. S. Priest of St. Louis and H. 21ay Pierce, chairman of the board :>f the Waters-Pierce Company, toiay filed in the supreme court of 1 r* + Vi^ forme Missouri till vyj. tvt 1UU laid upon the company by the recent auster order of the court. The fine $50,000 was paid. The ouster decree provided that the company must show to the court that it had severed all connection with the Standard Oil Company. A statement to this effect may yet be required br the court. Judge Priest, however, said that tie believed to-day's action covered the case so far as the Missouri corporation is concerned. . Newspapers in the School. An experienced teacher says that pupils who have access to newspapers at home, when compared with those who do not, are better readers, better spellers, better grammarians, better punctuators, and read more understanding^, and obtain a practical knowledge of geography in almost half the time it requires others. The newspaper is decidedly an im-? portant factor in modern life. This will not be disputed by any one who has taken the trouble to investigate the matter for himself. The merchant cannot swell your account when he uses the McCaskey system. So-called "sharp" merchants don't use it. D. A. Kinard & Co. - " ' ' : Vv'. -.f"' " ' . \ "I.\ ,v HEARING COMES TO AN END THREE OF DEFENDANTS RELEASED BY MAGISTRATE. Arnold McAIhany and Meriiman Reeves Detained on Charge oi' Murdering Game Warden. St. George, Feb. 12.?One of the most remarkable and extended preliminary hearings ever held in South | Carolina ended here this afternoon, when Magistrate Moorer decided that three of the men arrested for the murder of Pressley Reeves be released from custody. These were Tom Fairey, Charlie McAIhany and E. O. Arant. The two men who will be held for trial at the circuit court term in April are Arnold McAIhany and Mer jiiiija.il ucevcs. J This action was not received with any great surprise or dissatisfaction. It was the claim of the defense that no chain of evidence had been forged by the testimony and that the few links that existed were weak. This is, of course, a rather broad statement, but even to those of most neutral mind it appeared that the evidence was not connected or very definite. From the beginning of the proceeding the defense was able to handle the witnesses much more easily than had been anticipated by the lookeron in St. George. Of course, often, as in the instance of some negro witness, this amounted to little more than a bad distraction of thought, but some of the material witnesses , were contradicted in their statements. Decision Not Unexpected. The general impression here in St. George where the defendants are not, to say the least, particularly well regarded, appears to be that the decision was about what was to be exDected in view of the testimony. ' Many still confidently believe that the ! three men now free were more or less connected with the death of 1 Reeves, but these, too, admit that the men should not have been longer detained in view of the evidence sub- ! mitted. There was very little testimony to- : day before the arguments. One witness practically refused to disclose anything asked. This morning the magistrate ruled that evidence tending to show bad feeling between the defendants and the dead man could be introduced, but that testimony showing animos- i ity towards his surviving relatives was not competent. This prevented Merrick Reeves from relating the 1 feuds which are said to have existed for many years. The Men Arrested. Tom Fairey is short and small p.nd not particularly intelligent in appearance. He has been segregated from " Vior nriDrtnorc in Tail 3flH it. WAR because of his statements that yesterday his attorney, John Jones, asserted that the detectives had tried to persecute him at the instigation of Weeks. Rumors were heard now and then that Fairey would turn State's evidence in the event that he was prosecuted with the others. This idea probably arose because one of the witnesses stated that Fairey had remarked that he knew all about the murder of Reeves and would tell it when the proper time arrived. The two McAlhanys bear a strong resemblance. Arnold, who has a rather weak and loose mouth, sat with parted lips and watched the proceedings with keenest interest. Arant, who is an elderly man of some 50 years, has recently been paralyzed and one of his arms is crippled as a result. He is reported to be worth about $20,000 and has borne a good reputation with some people, although the Pressley Reeves faction accuse him of indiscriminate seining and dynamiting in the Edisto. 1 ^lerriman Reeves, who is also held, is a thin, scrawny young man, with a sandy moustache. His mother, who has been in court constantly, is an aunt of the dead man. From all reports the section of the county, (a little west of Branchville and Reevesville) appears to be as thicklv DODulated with McAlhanys as the Anderson-Abbeville line is with Ashleys. Necessarily Merrick Reeves, the father of Pressley, would have no love for these people and he was probably actuated to an extent by prejudice when he told the long story of family bitterness and trouble that existed over a period beginning as far back as 1881. But there is little doubt that he has bee:i persecuted. There was the inevitable church row and a difficulty arising over a school house which he himself erected. One incident he related as illustrative of Merriman Reeves' character was that this man let a sick and glandered mule into his uncle's land so that the cattle might be infected. Merrick ' Reeves is over the half centurv mark, but his big, loose frame can stand as much strain as it ever could. His face is notably strong and resolute, and in it are set as soft and beautiful a pair of brown eyes as ever graced a man or a woman. He is intelligent and kindly. The intimidation story came out to-day. It is said by one of the officers that a brother of one of the McAlhanys went to certain negro witnesses who had testified and said: "We will get you in time," or words to that eifect. It was because of anxiety lest witnesses be suborned in the period intervening between the preliminary and the trial that Mr. Weeks introduced so many witnesses at this hearing. Credit must be given this attorney for much untiring work on the case. He is extremely interested in it. Pressley Reeves Brave Man. The dead man's reputation for courage is quite noted. In view of the bad feeling between the Reeveses and those afterwards arrested, his father advised him not to become the game warden of Dorchester. However, he did so. was commissioned on a Saturday and on the following Tuesday night his two mules, the reins dangling loose on their flanks, pulled home a wagon load of grisly freight. Reeves, fired on from ambush, had fallen forward and for nearly a mile the blood, first gushing, then dropping more slowly from his horrid 1 HERE'S jg if; Thi ift whi % a ni 3i ery j| ing 1 How About Men' | Over Patent Leath 1 jgj is e ? hos; W strs h wh I "i ^re IH. J. E ? * ? don't forget th ggggg^gggagggg wound, marked the progress of this weird and awful procession. The proceedings were quite naive in some respects. On the first day the witnesses were supposed to be segregated, but during the dinner period they w^ere at large. Considerable delay ensued in getting witnesses to the Btand and painful slowness characterized a large part of the examination. The citizens of ,'3t. George want to see the man responsible for this bloody crime pay for it. f special" notices. Advertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. For Sale.?Selected Eden and Watson watermelon seed. Apply to C. R. BRABHAM, Bamberg, S. C. For Rent.?Five-room house near electric plant with acre lot and good garden. Apply to MRS. C. F. ELLZEy, Bamberg, S. C. For Rent?Two-horse farm within two miles of Bamberg. Apply to J. H. MURPHY. Wanted.?Reliable, energetic man to sell lubricating oils, greases and paints in Bamberg and adjoining counties. Salary or commission. FAIRFAX REFINING CO., Cleveland, O. VerylowRates New Orleans, Pensacola Mobile and Birmingham Via Southern Railway Account Mardi Gras celebrations, the Southern Railway announces very low round trip excursion rates to New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla. Tickets will be sold February 17th to 22nd, limited for return up to and including, but not later than midnight, March 1st, 1909. By depositing ticket at New Orleans, Mobile or Pensacola and paying fee of $1.00, ticket will be extended until March 13th, 1909. To Birmingham, 11a. Account Laymen's Missionary Movement, Presbyterian Church in the United States, Birmingham, Ala., 1 very low round trip rates have been authorized, tickets to be sold February 14th and 15th, good to leave Birmingham returning not later than midnight of February 20th, 1 1909. : . i For rates, schedules and detailed information, apply to Southern Railway ticket agents or address, < J. C. LUSK, Div. Pass. Agt., Charleston, S. C. 1 J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga, FOK SAlxtv. The entire property of The Cotton Oil Co., of Bamberg, S. C., as listed below, at Bamberg, S. C., in front of the court house, at 12 o'clock m., on the first day of March, 1909, at an upset price of $25,000. Prospective bidders to put up on or before salesday certified check or sufficient bond in the sum of $5,000 to show good faith, successful bidder to comply with bid within sixty days from date of sale. One 16-box twenty-ton oil mill, complete with six 70-saw gin stand now in operation at Denmark, S. C. Also, four acres of land, together with the damaged machinery left from recent fire at Bamberg, S. C., nlso all seed houses and scales lo cated at near-by stations, an oouk accounts, money in bank, office furniture and fixtures. For further information apply to the undersigned. THE COTTON OIL CO.. By W. M. BRABHAM, Manager and Treasurer. G. FRANK BAMBERG, President. Bamberg, S. C., Feb. 15, 1909. Charleston is working to have a music festival this spring. An effort will be made to get Damrosch's orchestra of New York. j - - -'l "t'vi-' " ! i HOPINI it you will come and look at ch is arriving at our store da ice line of school children's ta . Also big lot of tin and gh to sell at bargain prices. s $5.## all 5 er Shoes for ejw.u ew pair left at this price. 0 omplete. Would like you to iery. In rear of store there is inrpri staKlps frtr pnirrynrnanpo ""VU VVU.VUiVUVV en you come to town use thi welcome. Srabha AT WE STILL HAVE SEEI :? & -I.' ;ii a? m m oi 0) & $ & "The Lack of Money is As Mark Twain once said, to realize how money g saved, there would be mot more prosperity. ...P E O P L, E MAK In thinking that they mm so before starting a bank a open an account in this ba Interest credited quarterly, check. ^ PEOPLES BANE - ???????????????? 1 Presidential jM VERY LOW ROUND TR Si INGTON, D. C. VIA SOU Account Presidential Inaugu mffij w ill sell' round trip tickets to Wi at greatly reduced rates. Ticki and March 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 191 returning not later than midnig Round trip rates from princii lL Abbeville $16.25 ffl Anderson $16.10 Blacksburg .. ..$13.75 fip Camden $14.05 yp Charleston $16.40 yf Columbia.: .. ..$15.05 |?y Greenville $15.55 111 For detailed information, sl< ^ ules of regular and special train ffl ticket agents or address, Mj J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Atlanto. Ga. THE COOPER TRIAL. Witnesses to Killing will be Called First. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 15.?On the eve of the trial of Duncan B. Cooper, Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharp for the slaying of former Senator E. W. Carmack, the factions are, figuratively, resting on their arms. Most of the witnesses for the State, who are from a distance, are in the city. The others are on the way. Mrs. E. W. Carmack, wife of the slain editor, arrived to-night and will sit behind the attorneys for the State. Sam C. Carmack, the dead man's brother,and S.S. Carmack,a cousin, are now here. The State proposes to establish first the death oi Senator Carmack by the eye-witnesses. Then it will begin to lay the foundation for its theory that the killing was the result of a conspiracy. Just at this point will come the big legal battle of the trial. The defense proposes to fight this contention from the start. The laws of Tennessee upon conspiracy are said to be very liberal once the groundwork is laid, but this founda-| tion must be very strong. The State's early witnesses will be Mrs. Eastman, with whom the Senator was talking when shot; former State Treasurer Ed Craig, who carried Col. Cooper'^ threats to Senator Carmack; Carey Folk, brother of the State treasurer, who saw the defendants standing near the scene of the tragedy a few moments before it happened. Just what line the defense will follow, except the broad one of self-defense, has not been announced, nor will it be until the State's case in chief is made. Attorneys for both sides were in conference until late tonight. Both sides also have in their employ secret agents in number, and every stranger in the city is subject to close scrutiny and espionage. There is little or no display of feeling in public, however. The court officials have prepared to take care of large crowds. Judge Hart has ordered that only as many as can be accommodated with seats will be admitted to the court room. No tickets will be issued, and those who arrive-first will get the prizes. ./ *v.VAA/V * - . ... ~ -c'J? ' * "' ig&?i -v -Msi tHi'I; ill1 ili (I? & ij; iji ili il? fl? ft? ft? J 1 i m C his ^ :.'f the new stock of goods 2 4. ily. Have just received J! ^ J .blets and other station- | iss ware, that we are go- 11 3 Ig ur stock of notions, etc., J; |i i look over our line of j | ; a big wagon yard, also : [ ftf ftiir pftnnfrrr fripnHfl. 3? VA VM* VVWi?Aj ** mmtnw 3m for your stock. You j J X m, Jr. 11 ) OATS FOB SALE. < }M the Soot of ill Err 1 II most people stopped , 4 prows when systematically e saving and consequently E A M I S T A K E... it have a hundred dollars or . -v MjIPf account. One dollar will Yopr money subject to * -^Ha Inauguration 1J fP RATES TO WASH- || . rnUI'DV DITTTT4V J XIUC/1V11 MOUUIlaAmniM QJKJ 1 ration, the Southern Railway M'Mj ishington, D. C., from all points' jS? ets to be on sale February 28th jj? )9, good to leave Washington KS ;ht of March 8th, 1909. >al points as follows: gjf; . Greenewood.. ..$15.80 ? V* Lancaster $13.75 Orangeburg .... $15.85 - m ... Rock HilL $13.05 || Spartanburg.. ..$14.65 Sfl Sumter. $14,50 ?| ; Yorkville $13.60 ieping car reservations, sched- wSa IM s, apply to Southern* Railway Division Pass Agt., Charleston, S. C. ?? MASQUERADING AS WOMAN. Youth Says He Got Money After Men ^J? Had Wined and Dined Him. New York, Feb. *12.?James Daly, . ^ a slender youth, who was arrested in . . Yonkers while masquerading in fern-'inine attire, admitted that he had ik A been posing as a young woman for^^i&i the last four nights and flirting with men in order that he might rob ;|g them. Daly was captured after conversing with a detective who became RnsnirimiR that his female companion was not a woman and later proved, his theory by tearing off Daly's wig. : ^ 'My reason for masquerading," he told the police, ''was that I need-: ed money and found that by dreefr> / J&flj ing in woman's clothes I could mix freely in crowds. After being wined and dined by men, I found it easy ? Pj to take all they had from their pock- \ ets and by this means and sleight of '-jJ hand I usually got the money." Niagara Falls Frozen. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Feb. 14.?^;:^^ Only a tiny rivulet, not deep nor swift enough to carry a pulp log Over:t|#J| the brink, is flowing over the Ameri*,< can side of Niagara Falls. A strong-... ^ t,nrthosQt wind which has blown . 1 UV/t bUVMMV -? ? ? since Friday has held back the water and allowed the ice to gain- a ? I foothold. A great wall of ice runs from the head of Goat Island to the American mainland, through which only tiny streams are able to trickle. Thli wall has even enarpached on the Canadian channel, extending . out a some 200 feet beyond the Third Stater Island and greatly diminishing the flow over the horseshoe. Only > the very apex of the Canadian fall is |j left and that is robbed of half its * flow. The gorge below is chokjed ; pi* and the rapids have lost their fury, A while the whirlpool is barely in motion. This is only the third time that this combination of wind and ice haa. j^ thus affected the fall since the white man came here. The other occasions ; were March 29, 1848, and March 22, '