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PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and
> at Other Points*
?Mr. W. D. Rhoad left yesterday
for a business trip to New York.
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?Mr. H. D. Drawdy, of the Olar
section, was in the city Tuesday.
?Mr uti3 uraonam, or Aiienaaie,
spent a few days in the city last
^ week.
?Mr. H. Z. McMillan, of the Colston
section, was in the city last Saturday.
?Mr. Thomas Clayton, of the
Colston section, was here last Saturday.
?Mr. J. F. Kearse, Jr., of the
Ehrhardt section, was in the city last
F * Saturday.
?Mr. O. D. Faust, of Jacksonville.
Fla., spent a few days in the city
last week on a visit to relatives and
friends.
?\fiscp<3 WpasiA ThomDson and
Bessie McManus, of Lancaster, are in
the city on a visit to Miss Annie
| Lou Byrd.
?Miss Mallie Patrick left Monday
morning for Atlanta, Ga., where she
will spend a couple of weeks looking
over the latest creations in millinery.
From there she will go to Talladega,
> Ala., where she has acepted a position
as milliner for the coming season.
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?Mr. James McGowan, of Islandton,
spent a few days in the city last
week on a visit to friends. Mr. McGowan,
is still suffering from the
results of the hurt he received in getting
off a train here several months
> ago, and he is advised by physicians
that he will never be well again.
This is sad news to his many rrienas.
He suffers much, and is lame.
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Pension Money Greater.
Washington, Feb. 13.?By a vote
of eight to three, the senate committee
on pensions to-day agreed to
report to the senate the Sulloway
general pension bill, which already
'% passed the house. It was amended
so that the annual cost, in addition
to the $153,000,000 estimated for the
ensuing year will be about $45,000,j*
000.
Senator McCumber, chairman of
the committee, opposed the Sullo
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committee report a measure which
v would cost for the first year about
$8,300,000. He was joined by Senators
Gore and Taliaferro in making
up the minority on the final vote.
As passed by the house, the Sulloway
bill would increase the monthly
pension of veterans of 62 years
from $12 to $15; of 65 years from
$12 to $20; of 70 years from $15 to
I $20, and from 70 or more from $20
to $26. The senate committee, by
a vote of six to five, reduced the proposed
maximum allowance from $36
to $30.
* As there are estimated to be 63,461
veterans who would be affected
by this amendment at the present
t time, the change would decrease the
! annual cost a little more than $4,500,000.
In the statement made by the Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger, the
cost of the Sulloway bill as passed
by the house would be $45,489,468,
but the committee found there would
have to be added to this about $4,000,000
to which a limited number
? of veterans would be entitled under
general laws.
Its friends do not anticipate an
easy time passing the measure
through the senate, especially as it
has been intimated President Taft
would veto it if it were presented to
him for his signature. The very
fact that some senators are confident
that the president would veto
the measure is said to have induced
a withdrawal of considerable opposition,
but on the other hand there
are senators who feel that the responsibility
of such action should not
be placed upon tl? executive.
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I DR. TANNER TO PAST AGAIN.
He's 81 Years Old Now and Will Try
80 Days Abstinence.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 13.?"1
am going to try to show the American
public the way to settle once and
^ for all the beef trust and the high
cost of living," said Dr. Henry S.
Tanner to-day.
Dr. Tanner celebrated his eightyfirst
birthday yesterday by beginning
a fast which he will try to hold for
eighty days. The doctor says that
the average man and woman eats too
H.: much.
"When I pass the 100 year mark,
I will get married," said the doctor.
"Fasting sentiment is growing, and
a person should not stop at the end
of thirty days, the length of my former
fast."
Negro Child Fatally Burned.
f Anderson, Feb. 13.?A 3-year-old
negro child was cremated last night,
when the home of Jim Gaillard on
' the plantation of Elias McGee was
destroyed by fire.
The parents left the child locked
y in the cabin, while they went visiting.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
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KILLINGS ON RAILROADS.
Total for a Quarter was 2,948 as
Shown by Commerce Board.
During the months of July, August
and September last the number
of persons killed in train accidents
was 321, while 3,892 were injured.
These facts are disclosed in a bulletin
issued by the interstate commerce
commission, the first under the revised
accident law. It includes many
accidents not heretofore included in
bulletins.
The total number of casualties of
all kinds for the quarter was 22,328,
or 2,498 killed and 19,380 in
jured, on steam operated railways.
The totals are largely increased over
corresponding periods in previous
years, because of the inclusion of
highway crossing accidents and those
to tresspassers on the tracks, etc.
At the same time the totals of certain
classes of accidents to employees
are diminished by the exclusion of
accidents- which are not peculiar to
railway operation* For the quarter
in question the total is 21,130?132
killed and 21,002 injured.
The accident statistics of those
electric lines on which interstate
traffic is carried show 146 persons
killed and 1,070 injured.
KILLS HIS SWEETHEART.
Roanoke Man Murders Girl and then
Commits Suicide. *
Roanoke, Va., Feb. 13.?Driven to
desperation, J. W. Powell, of Buchanan
to-day killed his sweetheart,
Miss Maude West, 18 years old, and
then turned the shotgun on himself
and ended his life.
The double tragedy was thought
to have been caused by jealousy.
Powell, 28 years of age called upon
Miss West last night and while at
the home met 'another young man.
He was heard to make threats as he
was leaving.
While the young woman was on
her way to a mail box to post a letter
Powell, who was in hiding on the
side of the road, jumped from a
clump of bushes and opend fire on
her with a shotgun. He emptied
two loads in her body and then placed
the weapon to his head and fired.
When found both of them were dead.
FIGHT WITH A LEOPARD*
Finally Dispatched the Brute with a
Hatchet.
The Rev. Dr. G. A. Wilder, a missionary
of the America board in
Rhodesia sent by the Asylum Hill
Congressional church, of Hartford,
Conn., in a leter from Silinda, tells
how he and two natives and dogs
hunted a leopard after the animal
had felled him and inflicted four
noisonous wounds on the rieht side
of his head.
The native escorts sucked and
dressed each of his wounds, and the
hunt for the beast was resumed. Dr.
Wilder said: "The leopard could not
be seen, but soon he came rushing
toward fts, and stood at 20 paces. 11
fired and got no response. Kaziboni
climbed a tree, and the dogs took a
fresh start. Nyuswa fired, and all
this got on the nerves of the leopard
which still kept hidden close to the
ground.
"The dog squealed, but got away
with her ear ripped open. We formed
a close line and marched with rifles
ready. In five seconds the dog
uttered a low growl, and quick as a
flash I had a bullet in him, which
was followed by a terrific roar. The
men followed the charge, and I got
another cartridge into the barrel,
and he did not come on, but began
making away down the hill.
"We had taken it out of him this
timp hut hp stood sfirain a few vards
off below the second anthill, to
which we went as quickly as possible.
Kaziboni climbed a small tree,
and, seeing the leopard, fired.
"K. fired again, the dogs attacked,
and the men rushed with spears,
and the game fought desperately for
a few minutes before he died. With
broken legs, dum-dum bullets smashing
up his chest, he fought with one
paw and his mouth like a demon.
There were seven spear wounds, and
I finally smashed his skull with a
hatchet."
Speculators Hold Timber Lands.
Washington, Feb. 14.?President
Taft to-day transmitted to both the
house and senate the first part of
the long awaited feport of Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations,
on the lumber industry of
the United States. The report is
in response to a resolution of the
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House passed in jjecemuer, ?yvo,
and one of the senate dated January
10, 1907. It represents the first comprehensive
investigation of the
amount and ownership of the standing
timber of the country.
Deploring the concentration of the
control of the standing timber among
a few private interests, Commissioner
Smith declares that the bulk of the
timber is being held speculatively
and is "closely connected with railroad
domination."
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INCIPIENT RACE WAR NIPPED.
Alabama Town Stirred by Prospect
of Serious Trouble.
Gunniston, Miss., Feb. 12.?Following
a clash with a number of negroes
here last night, in which one
negro was killed and another wounded,
a third negro has been arrested
and the town has recovered its composure.
The root of the trouble was
in the existence of a house on the
outskirts of town where gambling
was said to have been carried on. A
posse of citizens attempted to suppress
it and the exchange of shots
followed. For a wnne me town was
up in arms and a serious clash was
believed inevitable. Early this morning,
however, the negroes concerned
in the affair failed to. assume a belligerent
attitude and quiet was restored.
Why One Pastor Quit the Ministry.
The following letter was not intended
for pblication, but it is such
a frank statement of experiences
which, possibly, many pastors know,
that we venture to give it to the public:
"My Dear Jim: I am through.
Yesterday I handed in my resignation,
to take effect at once, and this
morning I began work for the
Land Company. I shall not return
to the -pastoi^te. I think I can see
into your heart as you read these
words and behold not a little disappointment,
if not disgust. I don't
blame you at all, for I am somewhat
disgusted with myself. Do you recall
the days in the seminary, wheh
we talked of the future and painted
pictures of what we were to do for
the kingdom of God? We saw the
boundless need for unselfish Christian
service, a/id longed to be out
among men doing our part toward
the world's redemption. I shall
never forget that last talk on the
night before our graduation. You
were to go to the foreign field and 1
to the First church of . We had
brave dreams of usefulness, and you
have realized them. As I look back
npmss twpntv-fivft vears I can see
some lives that I have helped, and
some things which 1 have been permitted
to do that are worth while;
but, sitting here to-night, I am more
than half convinced that God never
intended me to be a minister. If He
did, I am not big enough and brave
enough to pay the price. Even if it
leaves you to write me down a
coward, I'm going to tell you why I
quit.
"To be perfectly honest with you,
money has had much to do with my
decision. I think you will^not charge
me with being mercenary in those
days when you knew me well, and I
am not conscious of caring any more
for money now thah I did then. I
have never desired to be rich; I do
not desire to be. I have not gone
into business with any expectation of
making a fortune, but I do want to
have something for the years when I
can no longer work, and for my
family, if I should be taken from
them. I do want to be able to meet
my bills as they fall due. A month
ago, in our ministers' meeting, an
old minister, shabby almost to raggedness,
arose and told us that he
and his wife were on the verge of
starvation. He had no money, his
credit was exhausted, they had no
food, no coal, and were about to be
put upon the street because they
could not pay the rent. We raised
some $30 among us and gave it to
him, and I suppose he will go to the
home for aged ministers; but it
scared me. I saw myself in him.
What reason have I to expect that
I shall not be where he is twenty
years from now?
"Frugality? Well, I have not been
thriftless. Wife and I have tried
hard to lay by a little each year. We
did get $500 saved up, and then Edna
was taken with tuberculosis, and -it
all -went, and much more, before
God took her home. I had $1,000
per year from the church at B .
Ttiey paid it promptly, ana possiDiy
some men would have been able to
save something out of it each year.
We tried our best, and failed. Once
the church thought of increasing the
pastor's salary, but Deacon Edmunds
argued that the minister should trust
God; said that when he began life
he only had an income of $200 for
the first year; spoke of the joys of
Christian sacrifice; pointed to the
Saviour of the world and His selfabnegation,
and the salary was not
increased. I may say that the deacon
is supposed to be worth not less
than $200,000. Then I was called
to this field at $1,200 a year. I have
been here seven years, and there has
never been a month since the beginning
when my ^alary has been paid
promptly. At times the church has
owed me $600 and $700. I have borrowed
and paid interest, have 'stood
off' my creditors until I was ashamed
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and twisted and wiggled until my
soul was raw. I've had enough.
"Other things have contributed
to my decision. In these years I
have found not a few earnest, unselfish,
consecrated Christians. I do
not believe that I am especially morbid
or unfair in my estimate. So
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far as I know my own heart, I am
not bitter. But through all these
years a conviction has been growing
within me that the average church
member cares precious little about
the kingdom of God and it advancement.
or the welfare of his fellow
men. He is a Christian in order that
he may save his soul from .hetty and
for no other reason. He does as
little as he can, lives as indifferently
as he dares. If he thought he
could gain heaven without even lifting
his little finger for others, he
would jump at the chance. Never
have I known more than a small minority
of any church which I have
served to be really interested in and
unselfishly devoted to God's work.
It took my whole time to pull and
push and urge and persuade the reluctant
members of my church to undertake
a little something for their
fellowmen. They took a covenant to
be faithful in attendance upon the
services of the church; and not one
out of ten ever thought of attending
prayer meeting. A large per centage
seldom attended churdh in the morning,
and a pitifully small number in
the evening. It did not seem to
mean anything to them that they
had dedicated themselves to the service
of Christ.
"I am tired; tired of being the
only.one in the church from whom
real sacrifice is expected; tired of
straining and tugging to get Chris
tian people to live liKe unnsuans;
tired of planning work for my people,
and then being compelled to do
it myself or see it left undone; tired
of dodging my creditors when I
would not need to if I had what is
due me; tired of the affrighting
vision of a penniless old age. I am
not eaving Christ. I love Him. I
shall still try to serve Him.
"Judge me leniently, old man, for
I cannot bear to lose your friendship.
Yours as of old,
"WILLIAM."
We have no comments to make.
Our readers can form their own
judgment. But we cannot help wondering
how many ministers there are
who have any of the feeling expressed
in this letter.?Baptist Standard.
Blease Issues Statement.
Governor Blease issued the following
statement for the press on Saturday
relative to the conflict of authority
between himself and the supreme
court:
"The judiciary committee violated
the constitution and statutes by having
on their sub-committee a brother
of a justice of the supreme court.
The other two members are known
of all men to be two of my bitterest
enemies, and of course from them I
could expect nothing. I have asked
the legislature to do something, ana
if they don't I shall meet the issue
fair and square."
Members of Sub-Comnfittee.
Governor Blease's reference to the
composition of the house sub-judiciary
committee is to Mr. Frank B.
Gary, of Abbeville, who is a brother
of Associate Justice Eugene B. Gary,
of the supreme court bench. The
sub-committee's report was presented
by Mr. H. K. Osborne.
Colored Preacher: "De fo' part ob
de house will please sit down, for
de hind nart cannot see de fo' part
if de fo' part persists in standing befo'
de bind part, to the uttah obsclusion
ob de hind part by de fo' part
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PIXSOX PARDOXED.
Leniency Extended to Laurens County
Man.
Pnthmn Pinson. the young white
man from Laurens county convicted
in March of 1909 on the charge of
manslaughter and given a sentence
of two years in the penitentiary, was
pardoned Monday by Gov. Blease.
He killed Thornwell Boyce under
very peculiar circumstances.
They were friends and were returning
from a dance near Cross Hill,
in Laurens county. They were accompanied
by a young woman. Pin:
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son commenced to shoot, and claimed
that he accidentally killed Boyce.
The trial attracted much attention.
Attorneys for Pinson filed notice
of appeal to the supreme court. Before
the case was heard Pinson came
to the penitentiary and notified his f ,, Ja
attorneys that he had abandoned his
appeal to the supreme couft. His
sentence would have expired within a -
lew iiiuuuiia. '-&?9
Solicitor Cooper in writing of the
case, said that he would not oppose "%jS
commutation of sentence.
The official pardon was sent to the. 7;Jjj
penitentiary Monday, and Pinson left "^8
for his home in Laurens county