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' " ;*"?.' '*- " * ' \ ?^?? ??? POSTMASTER EXONERATED. Georgetown Official Cleared of Charge of Being Short. Washington, D. C., August 14.? Postmaster King, of Georgetown, has been exonerated from all charges of a shortage in the money accounts of his office, and no further proceedings will be taken in the case by the department. About two weeks ago, upon the complaint of King's bondsmen, postoffice inspectors were sent to Georgetown to investigate King's books, the bondsmen claiming that the latter, they believed, were short. At the same time, a petition was sent here asking the department, in the event there should be a vacancy, that James E. McQuade, "also of GeorgeSvv< * J ? TK z town, oe maae rvmg s suuxoawi. The inspectors have been at work on the case for two weeks and the resuit of their work was made public only to-lay. It is shown that while King was short several hundred dollars recently, there was no evidence going to show any criminal intent or that he meant to defraud the govern? ment. On the other hand, there was evidence to show that because of g/V-* heavy personal demands upon him as well as some irregularities in the handling of funds, he had fallen be hind in his accounts with the government. The amount he owed has now been fully paid up and nothing further will be done in the matter.. It was stated that in addition to the report of the inspectors which exonerates King, many of the leading citizens of Georgetown had signed a peti(tion and had also written the postmaster general signifying their belief that Mr. King was entirely straightforward and honest, and asking that no steps be taken looking to his removal. His Graduate Daughter. (From the Boston Herald.) Our daughter's graduated, An' we're feelin' quite elated. For she's eomin' home frum college in a week or two, she writes: I She hez studied all the lingoes Uv the Eskimos an' Mingoes, An' in 'ologies an' classics she is way up in the heights. She hez tuuk, a prize in spellin', An' in readin', so they're tellin', She kin reason out an' argue like a statesman on the stump; She kin dance an' play pianner In a most artistic manner, She hez got the facts an' figures uv the ages in a lump. She kin' pose, an' do Delsarte, An' get up a meal a la carte, She can do the physic culture in a ' Way to beat the band; She kin handle all the topics Frum Alaska to the tropics, She kin bow an' "slam," her ma says, in a way that's truly grand. ' She's an actress an' a painter, J An' in fact, I guess there ain't er 1 Blessed thing in art or science she 1 don't know from A to Z. An' I s'pose this raft uv knowledge |; I Is a boom fur ev'ry college, But jest how she'll use it farmin' is 1 the thing that's gettin' me. The Whisper. "Gentle maiden hear my whisper, Here beside me gently kneel, Come oh! quickly, lest I languish, ' To you a message let me seal." Many were the messages spoken, By the boys who wore the gray, Many voices were there lifted, And were some heard to pray. 1 Hearts were some heavy laden, With great grief and woe, Others resigned to God and kept Their voices still forevermore. But there was one to anguish given, And grievous was his tale of woe, To his country he had given his life, And now to heaven he must go. Neither was his grief so stricken, By the victory of the blue, For to die was his victory, And to his country he was true. sv --v?. ' "Break this message to my mother, A +a I HA nrav* ? XXUU IV UVUU1V, M. uv Jt/4^ 'With you all I cannot linger, I am going home to-day.' " i:/ ; The azure sky had lost its tint And stars bedecked the lonely way; And there beneath the pale twilight, Slept a mother's boy in gray. ?WILLIE HAY. Govan, S. C. Vorpm Runs X mnrlr Nashville, Tenn., August 15.? Tom Harding, a negro, to-day fatally wounded his wife, Mary, shot in the leg Nathan Marshall, a policeman, who tried to arrest him. Later he fired at another negro whom he charged with alienating his wife's affections. After wounding the policeman, Harding led his pursuers a long chase, finally dropping from exhaustion and then attempting his own life. * Ifai Ufaii i. . Vf a BOYS WENT TO CHURCH. Rector Won All Their Marbles and Thftv Couldn't Plav. "Many interesting stones are tola oi the late Bishop vvilmer, ot Alabama, who was noted tor his wit and sharp repartee," said jt^ooert \V\ Kennedy, or Birmingham, Aia. A story whicn is considered cnaracteristic oi the man was told by a V irginia minister at a private dinner in Richmond not so very long ago. " 'When Bishop Winner was rector of the little Protestant Episcopal church at Uppervilie, va.,' said he, ne wa3 much worried by the nonattendance at service on Sundays of the majority of the young men of the community. On inquiring he found that instead of going to church they were in the habit of playing marbles for stakes?marbles in those days, it must be remembered, was a much more serious game than it is now, occupying much the same position in the realm of sports as do billiards and pool in these aays. " 'Bishop Wilmer, then a parson not well known, determined to break ilp this practice. He himself had been an expert marble player in his boyhood. Accordingly on Saturday he came across a number of the young men engaged in a game. The good bishop asked several questions, and finally challenged the lot to play him tor "keeps." They readily consented. " 'Much to their astonishment, the young minister won steadily, and soon they had to go to the stores to replenish their stock. Toward the close of the afternoon Mr. Wilmer had won every marble in the town of Upperviiie. Putting his "winnings" in a bag, he remarked, 'since you can't play marbles to-morrow, I hope to see you all at church.' And he did."?Washington Herald. Snake Leaps 1,400 Feet. Two Wysox men had a thrilling experience on Table Rock Mountain Monday afternoon, one which they will not care to repeat. As they were walking on the mountain they came upon a large nnnnortionH onal'P whi^h WAS PTllOV ing a sun bath 100 yards from the rock which gives the mountain its name. The men looked around for stones, but none that they could handle to good effect could be found, nor was there a good club at hand. .Taking sticks of good length, they attacked the snake, which showed fight and struck at both men. Failing to land and not liking the lashing of the sticks his snakeship started for the edge of the mountain overlooking the river which flows at the base some 1,400 feet below. Reaching the edge of the table rock which hangs out from the mountain-side a considerable distance, the snake arranged itself in a peculiar shape, and then with a hiss balf jumped, half squirmed out into the air. The men rushed upon the shelving rock and peered over and watched the fearful descent 01 tne snake, expecting to see it strike the trees or protruding rocks down the mountainside, but it missed all these obstructions. It was not thought possible the snake would clear the Lehigh tracks, but as the distance was covered the snake seemed to straighten out, and, as the men vow, orawled through the air and succeeded in landing in deep water with hardly a splash. While they were watching to see if the snake came to the surface one of the men became dizzy from peering over the edge of the rock and would have followed the snake's awful example had not his companion oaught him just in time. Some idea of the distance traveled by the copperhead can be had when it is known that but few boys or men can throw a stone so that it will strike in the river as the snake did.?Towanda Review. Motor Victim Dies. Wrightsville, Ga., August 15.? Miss Nina Tompkins, daughter of a well known banker, who with five others was frightfully injured in an automobile accident here yesterday, died at 3 o'clock this morning. Physicians to-day performed an operation on her brother, Roger TnmnVine in an nttpmTit S3 VP his X ULU|/A1U?) ?U MM MVWMAfV ?w life, but it is said bis case is hopeless. Miss Emma Tompkins, William Tompkins and Oswold Tompkins, all more or less seriously injured, will recover. Saves Negro from Lynching. Americus, Ga., August 15.?By a clever ruse Sheriff Feagin outwitted a posse at DeSoto to-day and safely brought Dean Adams here in an automobile. The negro was captured by the officer at an early hour to-day and confessed his purpose in entering the home of a well known woman in DeSoto. Feeling against the negro was intensified by his confession and nothing but the officer's speedy care prevented a lynching. -\i?S3R*w??. r-' ili ft ft it; ft ft ft ft ili ill ft ft ft l ? _ i*i ' 1 < ( ? 4 !? h I# < i? I \\ % I w\\ << > f ll-\vS\\v^~ I l\v I 9 | 1 i ? ' m22 i * m > !g To those who may > ? i ; rious grades and pric :: This offer is simpl i ( ?fj based on actual facts ? ? i it I > w I ? 'tf ^ I > ? ? I > ? 4? Cable Building, ill;! ' ili ill tl? il; ill ill il* cly5crx suicide a mystery. Reason for Young Student's Rash Deed Remains Hidden. Lancaster, August 14.?Coroner King held an inquest to-day over the body of young Ernest Clyburn, who killed himself at the home of his father, Capt. W. U. Clyburn, near Haile Gold Mine, yesterday afternoon. Only two witnesses were examined, W. N. Clyburn, a cousin, and Brokam Clyburn, brother of the deceased. They testified that the young man was found in a room behind a bolted door, lying on the right side with a revolver, 44 calibre Colts, under his breast and arm, and was dead when thus discovered. A bullet wound was through the head. A note was pinned to the shirt, stating no one but himself was to blame for the deed. Thor<a was no evidence whatever throwing any light on the cause of the tragedy. The verdict of the jury was that the deceased came to his j death by his own hand. The remains were buried this afternoon at Pleasant Plains church. The father of young Clyburn is one of the wealthiest and most influential citizens in the county, and is prostrated with grief over the fourth death in his family within the past two years, three sons and his wife having passed away, two of the sons meeting with violent deaths. It has been suggested that the death of his mother, to whom he was fondly devoted and for whom he never ceased to grieve, had something to do with young Clyburn's suicide. He was a young man of high character and exemplary habits, had been a close student at Wake Forest College for two years, and had arranged to return there next month. TO OPERATE OX SHERIFF. P. H. Corley, of Lexington, Goes to Richmond for Treatment. Lexington, August 15.?Sheriff P. H. Corley left Friday night for Richmond, Va., where he goes to have an operation performed upon his hand, which was injured by the negro, Ed Bynum, a few months ago. The hand has been almost useless to the sheriff since it was shot, and it is hoped by f^ianHs that thp nnpra tilt? OiiCl ill O lii^UU0 VUM.V VMV tion will be entirely successful. More than 100 shot took effect in the hand, and but few have been extracted. They are said to be lined up all against the bones of the fingers, and it is not certain that the surgeons will make the effort to extract them. " "V "-? < : ' *. &> ? ~ \ I? :!: mnv ft I? >Eftft ft ft ft ;1 v Prio ;7 ' i . 4 inquire here we shall state cle :es, setting aside any consider [y in line with our establishe , leaving the decision to them. bhViam EVERYTHING KN 4 J. V. WALLAC A* ?# TROUBLE IN COLLETON. Local Paper Claims Supervisor Has Not Kept Records Straight. County Supervisor J. 0. Griffin, of Colleton county, is "shy" approximately $10,000, according to an item in the last issue of the Colleton County News, a paper published at Walterboro. The story says in part: "There is a discrepancy of $10,474.53 between the supervisor's reported expenditures as published to the people he is supposed to be serving,and the checks he has drawn upon the treasurer. Supervisor Griffin's report for the first quarter of 1909, as published as an advertisement in The Press and Standard, on April 28, shows an expenditure of $2,854.06. The re- , port for the second quarter as advertised in the same paper on August 4 shows an expenditure of $9,519.13. The total repoHed expenditures for -1 the half year Supervisor Griffin has been in office amounted to $19,373.19. These reports do not fit in at all, however, with checks hearing the signature of J. O. Griffin held by County Treasurer R. E. Jones. When The News man called on Treasurer . Jones, the figures from the treas- . urer's books of record were called over, tabulated, checked and re- . checked and then taken to a bank official, who footed them up on an add- , ing machine and then rechecked his addition. The result of this showed ( that the county supervisor had | checked from the county treasury the sum of $29,847.72 since January 11 . and that $10,474.53 of this amount has not been accounted for by him in his published reports as required by law." The article also charges that "along the interrogation it was dis- ' covered that the supervisor has had i to borrow $10,000 already this year, although he found to his credit, when i he took charge in January, a bal- i ance of more than $18,000 and has since had placed at his disposal the! *- ?9? ^ ^ /I a o I < COU?ll.y S Sllitl'C U1 lUC uioptuoai J profits, the money from fines, licenses, etc. It is very probable that an investigation will be made of the affairs in the office of the Colleton county supervisor in the immediate future in an endeavor to discover : why there should be so great a difference between his advertised expenditures and the sum he has really spent." 1 : m itr-t- n- a? ip m cnonn ? -n n:? cu ritt There is a demand, and place, for low priced pianoi They give people of moi for enjoyment of music, wl many cases, if all pianos w priced class. We carry a large stock o: we sell them for just what the prices asked for them, 1 C for which we ask more. Tt will hp rnnrp nrnfitahli -w "*** r- ?? ers to ascertain the facts I to purchase instruments ol Our experience is freely wish to benefit by it, even made from us. arly just where the difference ation of the fact that we are f d policy to give all who are inl i fynnpa OWN IN MUSIC. E, Manager. > ?4? ?4? ! ?|? $ ? ! t|? ? < Established in 1894. The aim at the echoed is MOTTO* Thorough instruction under The school was established by the Methodisl place where girls can be given thorough train cost. The object has been <o fully carried out t pr-Qj tj T>t It is to-day. with its faculty it JLoUL1. building and grounds, worth THE LEADING TRAINING SCHC A4 pays all charges for the year, fan , !S | r^ll heat, laundry, medical attention, T except music and elocution. Ap REV. JAMES CANNf MAIL CLERK ARRESTED. Plunkett Cliarged With Selling and Transporting Whiskey. Washington, August 14.?Arrested on the charge of selling liquor , without a United States license and recommended for suspension from 1 the government service for carrying liquor in a railway mail car is the plight in which E. C. Plunkett, of J Richmond, Va., for seventeen years railway mail clerk on the Charlotte & Richmond Railway mail route, Bnds himself to-day. The announcement of his arrest and the recommendation was receiv- ( J t ea at tne postomce uep<m,mc.uL wday. The arrest was made at Char- 1 lotte, N. C., yesterday by Postoffice 1 Inspector W. C. Calvert. I < Pistol Duel With Sister-in-Law. Orange, Tex., August 15.?E. H. 4 Rice and his sister-in-law, Mrs. A. Smith, engaged in a street duel with ] revolvers here to-day, following a < dispute over domestic troubles, and as a result the former is living at his home with three bullets in his body i and the latter is in jail. Mrs. Rice j and her sister, Mrs. Smith, were at the Rice home when Mrs. Rice an- j nounced her intention of leaving her ; husband. He followed the two wo- 1 men to the street armed with a pistol and the duel followed. Several < shots were exchanged until the two i women took refuge in a building. ] Rice fainted from loss of blood. One j bullet penetrated the shoulder, an- ' other the head and a third the neck, i v.;'. ' ..V. . , 'r %. *" ' ' ; ; 1 I a o 41 nos J | ?? { " * If . y m m ? tf J therefore a legitimate || ? * 5. < m ; i *. < derate incomes a means. i i ? hich would be denied, in jj | \ ere of artistic and high- ? :% I low-priced pianos, but ?* they are?pianos worth ; j j ^ : -"i MA mmaJ AM A^VAWI r 1, JUl> UUb 3U gUUU <* ? UbUCiS r.-J i i & e for intending purchas- ;: , jefore making contracts \ j f f exaggerated worth. || | offered to any who may f'J| though no purchase is 11 M .??/> [ ' u?s in pianos ?fva- I 'i m >iano merchants. i J 4;erested, information J1 '?. w II 4 ill Charleston, S. C. i '-|w t ? '%< ^gtlElPiMHPOaglttllg J A A 4! iHSSHBHSSHlBSSfiSl dearly set forth by ita positively Christian influences ?t the low*?t I Church, not to make money, bat to farobh * in* in body, mind, and heart at a moderate hat as a of 82, ita boarding patronage of 300, audits 1140.000 # >OL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA. # fjj Eluding the table board, room. Gffhta, steam ' , physical culture, and tuition in all subjects ply for catalogue and application blank to W. JtL, M. iL. Principal. Blac ketone. V% EATS FIVE WATERMELONS. :||| ????? Kentucky Negress's Feat Results in . V: Cardiac Paralysis. :M Louisville, Ky., August 14.?Lu;inda Davis, a colored woman, aged 35 years, died to-day as the result of sating too much watermelon at a contest last night. Dr. Loomis Blanton, issistant coroner, pronounced death iue to cardiac paralysis, superin- ' y luced by acute indigestion. Lucinda ite five watermelons. ? The Spiritual Line. A good story is told of a very seiate doctor of divinity. When returning by train from a church congress a fellow passenger undertook * to draw him into conversation, and . ;o far succeeded that the reverend gentleman asked him to what profession he happened to belong. ? ^ "Oh," said the layman, cheerfully, 'I'm in the cotton line." "Oh, indeed," replied the clergy- y:. man, urbanely, 'there is a good deal * Df business going on in that branch just now, I understand." "First-class," said the layman, with a cunning smile. "And may I isk what is your line?" "I," said the clergyman, patronizingly, with the nearest approach to a ^ j joke he was ever known to perpetrate, "I am in the spiritual line." "Blest if I didn't think so," exclaimed his companion, knowingly; md putting one hand on the doctor's knee, he leaned forward eagerly and < idded, with an indescribable wink, 'but, I say, what a price you have got ?in up to."?Chicago Record-Herald.