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MR. ROBT. RAY DEAD Prominent Citizen of Barnwell County Dies After Many Months' Illness. Mr. J. Robt. Ray, one of the most prominent planters of the Olar section of Barnwell county, died at his home on Sunday afternoon at 4:30 p. m. after several weeks severe illness. Mr. Ray had been in HI health for many months, but up until a few weeks ago he was not considered in a critical condition. He was buried - - . - - ? -1 1 on Monday morning at n o ciock at Friendship church. Mr. Ray is survived by his wife, four sons, Arthur of Wilmington, N. C., George, Leo and John of Olar, and four daughters, Mrs. Maner Morris, Ina, Anstie and Maida, all of this county. The deceased was one of Barnwell \ county's best men, modest and unassuming, yet a man of sterling qualities and noblest virtues. He was an ( affectionate husband, a devoted father and a true friend. He will be sorely missed not only by his loved ones, but by all who had the good J fortune to know him.?Barnwell j Sentinel. \ Against Control of Corporations. / * New York, July 20.?In an academic discussion of governmental relations to corporations this afternoon, John E. Parsons, former president of the American Bar association, and former counsel for the American Sugar Refining company, declared to the congressional committee investigating the "sugar trust" that the proposition of E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, for government control of business combinations, was socialistic. He added that in his opinion congress should place no restrictions whatever on trade. "Government should permit commerce to take its course," he said. "A great corporation cannot be organized merely on the valuation in . dollars and cents of its physical properties?the men behind it must be capitalized. They are worth something to the investor. The capitalization must be on the physical properties, the prospects of thp business and the. men who are to manage it. That is not water. i "If congress should pass a law conforming to Justice Harian's dissenting opinion in the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases it would cause the country's greatest disaster. If Justice Harlan's opinion stood as the snling opinion of the court our jails would be filled to overflowing with stockholders and officers of corporations. No two businesses could combine to increase their trade." . Mr. Parsons was positive that mere snouia ue uu guvuumcuk wutrol of corporations, that they should be permitted a free hand and the ultimate consumer would profit by his plan. In discussing the agreement between the American Refining company and the American Beet Sugar company relative to the agreement for the control of sales, which was > declared illegal, Mr. Parsons refused to admit that it bound the refining * company not to market its cane produce during the few months of the beet sugar company's season or vice versa. Nor would he say that the clause in the agreement prohibiting the beet sugar company from selling in New England was in restraint of trade. : ? Sunflower Philosophy. r .. It is said that no one on earth can save money as fast as an old maid after she has become convinced that men are not worth having. , Admiration for the style of hats ho -women boueht for Easter will have to be acquirde, like a taste for |C v olives. i * When one says, "This is the most terrible town in the world for gossip," put it down that that person / has been up to something to excite I gossip. People in big townfe are so selfish. We would rather live in a little town, where the people symapthize with you when in trouble, and where, if you have no trouble, they will look up some for you. We wouldn't like to be an express agent; we never go by an express office that we do not hear a pup crying. Pups are common enough at home, everywhere. Why are they I shipped over the country? When a man is left with a lot of motherless children on his hands he usually scatters them among his relatives. If it is the woman who is left with fatherless little ones she keeps L them together and earns a living besides. Women develop great energy, when left without a man. In fact, all the widows we know are getting along a great deal better than the married women.?Atchison, Kan., * Globe. London's debt is now $555,000,000 of which $2,100,000, was added during the last year. An international manual has been prepared recently by the Chinese to p facilitate translation. ANGRY, GAVE AUTO TO BOY. Youngster Helped Owner Out of Ditch Into Which It Plunged. Cecil Hancock, a 12-year-old Jasper county (Ind.) boy, was presented a motor car by an exasperated New Yorker, who while motoring to Chicago, met with an accident near the farm owned by William Hancock, the boy's father. The tourist refused to give his name, but the auto license bore the number "8605-New York." While descending a hill near the farm the New Yorker lost control of his machine and it plunged into a ditch. Young Hancock helped the occupant out of the wreck and its owner made the air blue with lurid remarks about the blankety-blank machine. "T'li thp mt awav for anything to get rid of it," he said. "Give it to me," suggested the boy. "Take it and welcome." He then hired the boy to drive him to the nearest railroad station, where he boarded a train for Chicago. According to the new registration numbers George E. Shaw, of Three Mile Bay, owned car No. 8605.?New York World. Bazin Pardoned. Florence, July 20.?The announcement that the governor had pardoned R. L. Bazin was received here yesterday, but it was no surprise. Do ri Tiroe fminri pmiUv at a. recent nuo ivuuu ? ? term of court of manslaughter in Causing the death of L. E. Poston at a school festival in the section of the county in which both live. The friends of Bazin and his attorneys insist that the conviction was unjust to Bazin, and was due to the charge of the trial judge to the jury as to the law and facts, and that there was evidence that might, if it had been brought out, been the means of acquitting Bazin. A lengthy petition was prepared by the attorneys, and among the signatures were a number - J3 iV ^ oi in? county omciais auu iuc ucuator and other prominent citizens. Hearing of this petition, the family of Poston got up a counter petition, insisting that it would be defeating the cause of justice for Bazin to be pardoned. This petition was a very lengthy one, and is said to have had the majority of the people in that section. The solicitor was requested to take the paper to the governor when the other was sent up on** ortrtio atrainct thp nflrdotl. Solicitor Wells telegraphed the governor these fa6ts and asked that no action he taken in the matter until the counter petition with the argument of the solicitor, could be heard, j The following telegram was received by Mr. Wells in reply: "Columbia S. C. July 18. "Hon. W. H. Wells Florence, S. C. "Your wire. Mr. Ragsdale here. Will wait your arrival if you desire to come. Am frank to say, however, that pardon will be granted. (Signed) "COLE L. BLEASE, "Governor." American Cotton Goods in China. Receipts of piece goods into Shanghai and Tientsin show marked increase of late. The source of this information is the Shanghai office of the International banking corporation, the statement being as follows: American piece goods have recently been ordered for Shanghai to the value of 100,000 pounds ($486,650,) which brings the total since last December to 250,000 pounds ($1,216,625.) * Shipments were made from Manchester during January and February to Shanghai and Tientsin to the value of 2,200,000 pounds ($10,706,300,) against 1,400,000 pounds ($6,813,100) for the same period last year. In March the average of shipments from Manchester was more than maintained ana more inan doubled the March, 1910, figures,! and we can only hope the consuming | capacity of our market has not been overestimated. The offtake during the three months has increased by 12*? per cent, and sales by public auction (which are 37 per cent, of the total offtake) are higher by 42 per cent, than in the first quarter of 1910. Enjoyable House Party. % Cameron, July 18.?The beautiful country home of Mrs. Will Taylor has been the scene of a gay house party this week. The royal hospi-J tality of Mrs. Taylor is known throughout the Orangeburg section, and fortunate indeed are those who are included as her friends. Among the social events planned in honor - * -L"' - * - ^ ? rnnnntl' r\n at fh p OI ID6 gUCbLS was a j uv home of Mrs. E. R. Dunning on Monday afternoon from 5 to 7 and a lawn party at the home of Mrs. Taylor which included one hundred invited guests. Among those who are enjoying the house party are: Miss Daisy Murphy, of Midway; Miss Nina Gasque, of Florence; Miss Dorothy Zimmerman, of Cameron; Miss Annie Rickenbaker, of Greenville. A number of Bamberg people have recently gone to the mountains, the seashore and watering places. DOG GETS WHITE BURIAL. White Satin, White Hearse and White Horses at Setter's Funeral. An Irish setter dog was buried here yesterday in a casket of white brocade satin, and the hearse which carried it to the railroad station was also white and was drawn by white horses. The dog was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cronin, a childless couple of 255 Virginia street, and was destroyed the day before at a veterinary hospital. The dog had been brought up carefully from puppyhood by Mrs. Cronin and had for years been shown every I attention that a pampered child could wish. At the death of the dog an expensive coffin suitable for a child of 12 was ordered and the embalmed dog was placed in it with its head resting on a satin pillow trimmed with lace. Its collar was decorated with pink ribbon and the casket bore silver handles. The animal was buried on a farm outside the city under a wild Aerry tree in a crave lined with evergreens. The coffin was covered with roses and carnations.. The granite shaft that is to he placed over the dog will bear these lines: "That loving heart, that patient soul, had they indeed no longer span to run theii* course, to reach their goal, to read their homily to man." The dog during life slept on a feather bed and drank two bottles of ale every night.?New York Sun. Wedding Code of a Divorcee. An early wise and disillusioned Boston divorcee has recognized the duty incumbent upon her to give her feminine friends less experienced in the ways that lead to the divorce court, some rules to be observed before entering upon matrimony. As a good dinner is a great promoter of receptiveness and a great aid in digesting ' ' ? - ? !-J XI ' certain Kinas or wisuom, uuest; wuiuc of counsel were preceded by that pleasant function: Pick out your own husband. Don't let your mother's advice force you to marry. Marry the man you love provided he has a good disposition. Don't marry until you are out of your teens. If after marrying you'find you are ill-mated, by all means get a divorce. So young and so wise! it is not often that at the mature age 01 zz a divorcee can thus lay down a code of rules on marriage for the guidance of her sex. Mere man has often tried it and as often failed and been led to conclude with Shakespeare that "n^arriage comes by destiny." In modern times, however, the marriage arrangements of destiny are subject to ?review in the divorce court, and we fear that no code of rules, however skilfully devised, will prevent at least an occasional resort to that refuge of disillusionment.?N. Y. World. m * Tragedies in Gallinger Family. Tragedy sits close to the family of Senator Jacob H. 'Gallinger, and the death of his favorite son, Dr. Ralph E. Gallinger, in an auto wreck at Pembroke night before last was only the most recent of a series of fatalities in the Gallinger family. They began 20 years ago, when the senator went to visit his daughter, who was recovering from a mild illness, and found her dead. Five years ago, as she was entering a Washington theatre, Mrs: Gallinger fell in a sudden faint and died in a few moments. Two years ago another spn dropped dead without a moment's warning. A year ago his son Ralph, who was killed Wednesday, was attacked by an insane patient at the New Hampshire State prison and the arteries in his arm were severed by a stroke from a butcher knife. It was feared that the victim would be crippled for life, but he recovered. The heartbroken old father, as he left Washington yesterday for New Hampshire, remarked, "I can't come back again this session."?Holyoke Transcript. Suspend Work. Greenville, July 20.?The executive officers of the Greenville, An derson & Spartanburg interurban electric road, in session here this afternoon, adopted resolutions which in effect suspend at once all work on the construction of the line between Greenville and Spartanburg until a subsequent meeting of the board to be held at the call of the president. The resolutions set out that the company has experienced great difficulty in securing rights of way between the two cities, that suitable terminal sites in Spartanburg are held at prohibitive prices and that the Spartanburg city council failed to grant a franchise. In view of these circumstances it 'was resolved that it is deemed unwise to enter the city in face of the opposition of municipal authorities and citizens. The board, however, instructed its representatives to continue the work of securing options in Spartanburg, but under no circumstances to make a purchase unless further advised by the board. ( , . - >'>v ' . , . . .. J BATTLES WITH LOCUSTS. In 1870 an Army Was Arrayed Against the Ravaging Pests. Since the days of the Pharos the locut has been an unmitigated plague. Pliny relates that in many peaces in Greece a law obliged the inhabitants to wage war against the insects three times a year?i. e., in their various states of egge, larvae and adult. % In 174 9 locusts stopped the army of Charles XII, king of Sweden, as it was retreating from Bessarabia after its defeat at Poltava. The king at first imagined that he was being assailed by a. terrific hail storm. In Transylvania in 1780 the ravages of the locusts assumed such disastrous proportions that the army had actually to be called out to deal with the pests and the whole regi ment of soldiers were employed gathering them up and putting them into sacks. A weird, unclanny looking customer is the locust. The general color scheme of his body is a kind of an r !n<4oAnUA T?nliqttoH hr nlnlr iUU^ilUitU 5 L 1 W&AVV vu KfJ legs and wings of a whitish color. Two huge, blank, unmeahing eyes give an expression of utter imbecility to the insert's countenance. To atone in a measure for their destructive proclivities the locusts are edible. The Arabs are particularly fond of them. Camels, to which they are fed after being dried and roasted between two layers of ashes, look upon locusts as a great delicacy. The flavor resembles that of crabs, and in Bagdad they are consumed so extensively as to affect the price of meat.?Stray Stories. The Night Mary Garden Became Famous. In .the August Woman's Home ^ 1 ? IV- ~ J in uompamou : ? me seuuuu ai uvic w a series on the girlhood of great prima donnas. The current article is on Mary Garden, the great singer, who was born in Scotland, brought UP in Chicago, and, only a few short years ago, came into fame. Following is an account of her debut in Paris: "A sudden, unforseen opportunity came early. Witt her characteristic self-reliance she 'took it without qualm or hesitancy. ' "The prima donna singing Louise at the Opera Comique fell ill during the first act, and, after struggling through the second, was carried away to a hospital on the fall of the curtain. Ca-rre was busy meanwhile, for the opera must be completed. Remembering that Miss Garden had mentioned that part as in her repertoire, he hurriedly sent for her. 'Would she attempt it?' 'She would try.' It meant a chance; it was a great risk, which, had she hesitated, she might not have taken. "The stage she had never troaaen; the complicated action with other characters, singing with the massive tone of an orchestra, were things unknown to her: she knew only Louise's music. "From the moment in which she said, 'I will try,' until the curtain rose, there was no time fort any thought but of the actual moment. She was dressed and on the stage; the curtain was up, the orchestra playing. She did not notice the surprised buzz of voices as she began to sing; she,was not nervous, there was room for only one thought, she must 1 be Louise, to do that she could no longer be Mary Garden. ' Her whole being was absorbed; it was not a dream, but a tense reality, in which every move, every gesture, must count in her action, every breath in her singing. The three remaining acts followed in growing intensity, her grip on the moment never relaxing. "When it was over, she had proved all that she had worked for, all she had learned, all of which she was capable?her future had hung upon it. The curtain had falfen on the most unusual of debuts, one that - - * i J brought her over two nunurwu cuusecutive appearances in 'Louise.' On that momentous night she had stepped from girlhood into womanhood." Pointed Paragraphs. Faint praise ne'er flattered fair lady. ? Jolliers don't always get the most fun out of it. Never judge a man by his clothes ?unless he is a tailor. 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