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TWO INJURED WITH AXES. f Pair of Negroes Probably Fatally Hurt in Drunken Row. Chester, April 20.?What came near being a tripple tragedy as the limax of a gambling, drunken carousal among a crowd of negroes has just been reported from Great Falls. Two of the victims are lying at the point of death and are not expected to recover. Another is suffering from a wound on the leg but will possibly get well. Two are in jail eharged with the affray and are bey ing held, pending the outcome of the fight their victims are making for life. The report states that a bunch of negroes had gathered in a negro boarding house to play poker and * * 1 1 ? ^ ? +V* A A TT/-VWA mat in tne game uuc ui iuc piajwo, John Calhoun, lost all his money and was cleaned out. He flew into an ungovernable rage and left with threats that he would have his money hack. Shortly he returned, accompanied by another negro, Tom Signer, both armed with axes, and proceeded to put his threats into execution. K' * He and his partner charged the others in the house and laid them out indiscriminately. Hattie Nelson's skull was broken. Tom Scofield reeeived two blows on the head with k an axe. Bessie Harris caught a ^ blow from the edge of the axe, which floored her, and by this time the other hangers-on had disappeared in all directions. The matter was immediately reported to the constable, who made a raid and arrested John Calhoun and I Tom Signer. Bessie Harris claimed that she had been robbed of $9 in r 50-cent pieces, and these were found Ion the person of John Calhoun. The two negroes charged with the affray were brought handcuffed to the city and lodged in jail by Constable A. D. Sanders, who made the arrest, and Magistrate J. R. P. Gibson, of Rossville township. Warrants E charging them with assault and bat* tery with intent to kill have been sworn out, but these will-be changed to murder should the victims die. It Is not thought that two of them can facover. State Will Borrow $500,000. . v * The State of South Carolin will borrow $500,000 through the Palmetto National bank of Columbia for winning expenses for this year. The rate of interest is 3 per cent., which Is considered very low. This an mouncement was made yesterady roilowing a session of the finance com(! mittee of the State, which is composed of A. W. Jones, comptroller general, R. H. Jennings, State treas*rer, and the governor. The general assembly authorized the committee to borrow the above amount. There were several propositions before the committee. The Germania Savings bank of Charleston, offered $200,000 at 4% per cent. The First National bank of Rock Hill made an offer of a little less than | f:- 3% per cent. The loan will be paid back durTon?o?TT whfiTi fho tsT mnnpv is U au UUff J nuvu vuv , received by the State treasurer. It is probable that the loan will be repaid in installments of $100,000. The loan last year was placed at above 4 per cent. The loan was handled by Chief Clerk Carter of the office of the State treasurer.?The State, April 20 A Novel Experiment. Governor Johnson, of California, has signed a bill providing that if a husband is sent to jail for non-support of his wife and family he shall be required to work on the public roads, for which labor the county shall pay his wife Or family the sum of $1.50 the day. That is not a bad idea and we expect it to be a big success in California. Non-providers will cease to be non-providers when the county not only adjudges them guilty of nonsupport but also sees to it that they do support. Under the old system of providing the delinquent provider with plenty to eat a? the county's expense, his family getting along as best it could in the meantime, the man in question did not care very !mucn wnat nappenea. in uanrorma it will be different hereafter. We expect that all husbands in the Pacific State will hereafter turn over their weekly pay envelopes to their Wives as they ought to do, instead of pending their wages at the nearest beer hall. Postmaster Shoots Himself. Huntsville, Ala., April 19.?John S. Hunt, agent of the Southern Railway and postmaster at Brownsboro, Ala., shot himself to-day and f' % is dying. A postoffice inspector went to Brownsville to check him up. Hunt turned the office over to him, walked home and out to the barn, then climbed into the loft and shot himself in the breast, the bullet atriking the heart. Railroad officials and the postoffice inspector are checking up Hunt's accounts. Hunt has a wife and m aon. gr I ? SEEKING WHITE MAN. Is Accused of Attempting to Assault Little Negro Girl. Spartanburg, April 19.?Charged with having attacked an 8-year-old negro girl with intent to commit a capital felony, Sam Davis, a white man, is being sought by the police. It is alleged he enticed the girl into a house in the rear of Cannon street and back of her home this morning and handled her roughly. Her mother was attracted by the child's ; ? - . - i j screams, uavis opened tne ooor aim dashed out. He was pursued by a number of the negro women but escaped. The child's mother swore out a warrant for his arrest before Magistrate A. H. Kirby. A Cotton-Belt Demosthenes. Whereupon the senate being in ; consideration of the bill to create a tariff board, the day being Thursday, March the second, and'the hour one of the clock in the afternoon, the 1 Honorable Ellison DuRant Smith arose and, proceeding to a convenient station at the end of the center aisie nearest the main entrance, turned to the Republicans who had happened to be in their accustomed places let ] loose the long yell. , Presently, when Mr. Smith was in the midst of an eloquently and ap- i parently important paragraph concerning raw materials, which he was , delivering with great declamatory ef- ] feet and with suitable gestures and elocutionary eloquence, the vener- , able Shelby M. Cullom arose, also, , and waited composedly until Mr. Smith had enunciated the immortal doctrine that the producer of raw maetrial, under the law of trade, is , forced to sell at world prices if he , produces sufficient to meet the needs not only of his people but of the world at large. Judging this a good , point at "which to separate Mr. Smith from his flow of thought, the aforesaid venerable Shelby M. Cullom ask- , ed mildly that Mr. Smith rest his' . larynix for a time and allow the sen- , ate to go into executive session. Mr. Smith paused and tapped his i brow. "I yield," he assented, "although I am not near through. This is the first opportunity I have had to give my views on governmental affairs. I have been a novitiate in this , body and have tried to follow the oldestablished rule that you have to be . here ?wo years before you speak at , length; and I was desirous of giving this body a thorough sample of just , what I was capable of when 'I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day'?and I am to-day." ; The, still venerable Shelby M. Cul- j lorn smiled benignly a? Mr. Smith and j asked for the question. It was put and an executive session was declared. At the conclusion of that execu- , tive session Mr. Smith resumed both , his station in the center aisle*and his speech. From this very moment it was evident that what Mr. Smith had ; said before his interruption was as j mere sounding brass and tinkling ] cymbals to the real thunders of eloquence he had in reserve. Having stated, as he did, that he intended to show the Senate what he was capable of. It was after the Cullom break in the stream that he first broke into poetry; and it was some few minutes after he broke into poetry that he began to get really good?before he really did start showing off, so to speak. Still, he had the goods. There is no denying that. He had the real, standard, genuine, time-tried orato- j rical goods; and he laid them down 1 where all, and particularly those Re- . publicans who were not at luncheon, might see and hear. 'He was no friv- i olous youngster, bobbing into a debate with a line of unconventional, < ideas of producing new and untried figures of speech. Not so. Here was an orator who knew the good old stuff?the stuff that always brings 'em to their feet and sets 'em cheer- ; ing and crying. When the Welkin Played Alarm Clock His first sample was from the timetried and always effective "mother" ; bin. Dashing back the hair from his forehead, he raised both hands high in the air and let go with a few lines ; of bleeding and suffering hearts?and : then to it, thus: "I want the Senate < to remember one thing. Thank God! ; the love that a mother and father j have for their children is not measured by the number of dollars they" ?the fathers and mothers, not the children?"own. In spite of the cali- ; co dress; in spite of the work-distorted hands; in spite of the seamed i cheeks, from which the bloom of beauty has been smitten by the cruel i *-? j -j ? u ? Dana OI poverty aim auversity, m spite of the stooped form?thank God! underneath that calico dress, ; despite all those physical distortions, the poverty-stricken mother loves the bright darlings about her feet with as glorious and divine a love as ever burned in the heart of a queen." The listening senators, there to be shown by Mr. Smith just what he could do, took this bale and marked it "Ehibit A," waiting interestingly for the next sample. The wait was not long. In a few moments Mr. Smith swept gallantly to his second Has Pessed Century Mark. Anderson, April 20.?Yesterday ] was the 101st birthday of John Wedlock, who lives on Harris street in the Orr cotton mill village. He looks to be somewhere in the six- j ties, is hale and hearty and attends ^ to light work. Mr. Wedlock came to T Anderson several years ago from j Georgia. He has in his possession s records to show that his claim to be 101 years old is correct. ( When you see a man armed with 1 1 ? A o V) a I a COTKSCi eW me a.i c mai. aj.is going to be present at an opening. demonstration, which was a fancy exhibit of "farm" rhetoric.- Deprecate ing the cry of "Back to the farm!" Mr. Smith inquired passionately: "In a word, Mr. President, in any great wealth-producing professions, vocations or avocations, have you heard any man clamor: 'Back to the law!' 'Back to medicine!' 'Back to the railroad business!' 'Back to the great manufacturing enterprises!'? No. The cry has been: 'Back to the farm!' We need a broader foundation of bleeding hearts and poverty-stricken bodies in order that our velvet-shod feet may walk a little smoother/' It was universally conceded by the listening senate that that foundation of bleeding hearts for velvet-shod feet was pretty hot stuff; and it was put down as "Ehibit B." Spurred by this evident approval, Mr. Smith next showed some prime "plain-people" frills. He was at his best by this time, making the welkin ring so rapidly it sounded like an alarm clock. "Thank . ( God!" he said, "I am a representa tive direct from the people?from the field. I have no other profession, vocation or avocation; ^nd yet, because I am ont trained in the law to split hairs and to differentiate to the shadow of a shade the Supreme Court's interpretations of the law, some hear me indifferently." There , was a murmur of protest at this. All were hearing him with great delight. Continuing: "The people themselves are no more compentent to understand these abstrusities than I; and you have no right to make a law that the great rank and file, though they be uneducated, cannot understand." Proceeding passionately along these lines, Mr. Smith came again to what evidently he considered his strongest exhibit of what he is capable of, for he recurred to the original line of spellbinding. Picturing the dismal conditions that surrounded a young man and his wife, who were certainly in poor luck as farmers if wpi-p nnlv in half as bad case as , Mr. Smith described, he said: "I have seen the mother, with the loving mother's heart, lairing and toiling; willing to do any drudgery; willing to put her body in the stony road of poverty in order that the feet of her darlings might have a smoother road to travel than mother had walked." Mr. Simth also told something 1 about the tough situation of poor i father, whom he had seen "with mute j helplessness written on his careworn < face; where was depicted the tragedy ( of unjust legislation." And he pledg- ] ed himself anew to strive to remedy ( these conditions?which pledge con- \ eluded his part of the entertainment. ] Owing to the press of other mat- ( ters, it then being within 48 hours of adjournment, there was no consensus of opinion concerning Mr. Smith's exhibition of what he is capable of ] along the lines of connected thought ( and real eloquence; .and the subject ( was left for future determination. ( Still, there was a large inquiry as to , the identity of Mr. Smith; and it was ] speedily discovered he had every j reason to feel that, after waiting pa- , tiently for two years with much j burning language within him, he \ could hand the senate something that ] would make it sit up and take notice. Ellison DuRant Smith, as all shall , know, is the colleague of B. R. Till- ] man in the United States Senate. He ] lives in Florence, South Carolina, and , is the son of a minister. At college ( he won gold medals in debate?mark ( that!?science and literature in his j sophomore, junior and senior years. 1 Wo aorvorf in the legislature from 1896 to 1900 and began what, in his autobi6graphy, he calls the cotton movement, in 1891. He finally be- j came field agent and general organ- ( izer for the Southern Cotton Associ- ( ation, his territory covering the entire South and his service lasting j from January, 1905 to June, 1908, j when he began his race for the senate. He was chosen at the primaries { in September, receiving, as he points out, the largest majority ever given ] to a candidate for this office in the ] State. j That, of course, is interesting, but has not so much bearing on the case j as a further statement, which reads: , "Became a national figure on account , of addresses at New Orleans, Birm- ^ ingham, Dallas and Shreveport." Clear as day?now, isn't it??why ( Senator Smith desired to let the sen- , ate hear what he was capable of? A thoroughly justifiable ambition, say I. And he did so. And, mark you, ( a highly descriptive middle name? that of the senator's: DuRant. That's what he do.?Saturday Even- ] ing Pott. i YOUTHFUL PAIR IN JAIL. E*retty Girl of Thirteen and Lad of Seventeen are Held. A pretty young girl, Miss Lillian Eteed, who says she is only a few nonths past 13 years old, and a routh of 17, both from Augusta, are ield in the Richland county jail. It seems that the young man, whose lame is R. H. Watson, has been in Columbia for several days. He and ;he girl were registered at a boarding louse as Mr. and Mrs. Watson. Ev?rything went well for the couple un:il the landlady was told of the true state of affairs. She telephoned the girl's mother. In the meantime 'riends of the pair "tipped them )ff." They promptly moved to another boarding house. Chief Cathlart was wired to arrest them. This svas done on Main street, between jervais and Lady, the two young persons going to headquarters with letective Richardson without any :rouble. Wotenn on/Soaunrod trk crof Q nntflrv ?l UtOVU tliUV/UI V4V/U VV Mr Mw?vr- ^ public of the city to marry them and he consented to do so. While he went ifter Miss Reed the officer appeared pn the scene and nabbed the couple pn their way to the notary's office. Watson Indicted. C. C. Reed, the father of the young jirl, came to Columbia and promptly event to police headquarters, where tie secured his daughters release. The poung man was detained and turned pver to Magistrate Fowles, being iniicted under the charge of carrying i minor from her parents. Sobbing as though her heart would break, Lillian Reed, said to be a mere ihild in age, although she looks much plder, stated frankly to Magistrate Powles that she would not return borne with her father and she would not appear as a witness for the prosecution should the case be brought :o trial. Would Leap From Window. In the midst of the excitement she lashed for the window and would bave jumped to the ground below, but was prevented from accomplishing this purpose. She tried to break iway a second time and throw herself out of the window. Miss Reed was required to give bond to appear as a witness, and lot being able to do so was sent to [ail with Watson. In Augusta Watson worked as a soda dispenser. The girl said that Watson bought a tick it and sent it to her to come to Columbia, while it is stated that Watjon said Miss Reed followed him tiere. Last night they both spent in the Richland county jail, and there they will stay until some satisfactory settlement can be made. C. C. Reed, the jirl's father, went ot Augusta last night.?Columbia State, April 20. To Operate Jim-Crow Road? Dallas, Tex., April 20.?Booker T. Washington, negro educator, and ne?ro financiers of the North, are planaing to buy the International & Glreat Northern railroad, at the receivership sale at Palestine,, Texas, May 15, according to a report printed to-day. It is said that Washingion will attempt to operate road with negro labor exclusively if ^he gets control. Death of Angus Patterson. Barnwell, April 20.?Mr. Augus Patterson died yesterday at the home Df his nephew, Dr. A. B. Patterson, Df Barnwell, after an illness of 10 lavs, at the advanced age of 76 fears. He was a son of Mr. Angus Patterson, who for many years was president of the State senate and svho did much to perpetuate the ?ood name of the old Barnwell district in the history of South Carolina. The funeral services were conducted to-day at the home of Dr. Patterson, and the body tenderly laid to rest in the old Baptist cemstery beside the remains of loved anes gone before. A large concourse af sorrowing relatives and friends paid their last respects to this aged peteran of the lost cause. How He Judged. "I love you more than anybody in the world," she whispered, as she sat an hubby's knee, her lips close to his aar, says Puck. "Don't add hypocrisy to unfaithfulaess," he responded sternly, pushing aer away. "Why, what do you mean, dear?" she asked, ready to cry. * ?~ ? nfkon "You care more ior sumo umvi nan than you do for me!" was the bitter response. "I don't know his name, but I think he fe a Chinaman." "You must have fever, dear. Do let me call a doctor." Her face was svhite with ^anxiety, and the tears were falling fast as she started for the telephone. "No. Sit down and explain?if you lan. You wear a lock of my hair in four locket?just one little lock?" "Yes." "And the entire queque of some Chinaman on your head!" Old newspapers, suitable for wrapping purposes, for sale at The Herild offiec. " *- ? - riT^ni ? 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