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LEVER'S MODEST CONSTITUENT. ' K? &v _ ??? Funniest {Story in a Hundred Years. r? The "Requests." ??V A letter which would undoubtedly be considered a hoax perpetrated by some professional wag, if the document itself did not bear unmistakable evidence of its seriousness, was recently received by Representative A. F. Lever, of the 7th South Carolina district. This missive has caused a great deal of hilarity among those who have seen it in its original ^ innocence. During the debate on the farmers' free list bill, lately passed by the i* bouse of representatives, Mr. Lever delivered a speech of which he was justly proud. He mailed a number of copies of the speech to his constituents in South Carolina. His A - reference to the effect of the measure as putting various agricultural necessities on "the free list" brought this remarkable requisition from his district: . j "To the Hon. A. P. Lever, Washington, D. C.: Kinde frend, I read in the book you sent Me that a good Many importance is on the free list J, please send Me 10 pairs oil tan brogans number nines and ten pairs oil tan brogans number tens for Men, and ten pairs fine button shoes for Men number nine and ten pairs fine button shoes for Men number ten flour and bacon please send Me five -barrels first patent flour and five ! barrels second patent flour and five hundred pounds chunk meat and five . hundred pounds side bacon and two fine mules gears and harness and a good new wagon. "Shoes for Wimmen ten pairs button shoes number eights, ten fine pairs button shoes number seven and ten pairs fine button shoes number sixes and ten pairs fine string shoes number sevens. Verry true. "P. S. please send me 250 lbs tub of lard ,and ten sacks of corn and ten sacks of oats." Mr. Lever has not yet complied with the naive request. IRatterees and Straits Fight. Rock Hill, July 27.?A very serious shooting affair occurred at Ogden, five miles south of this city, this morning, in which three parties were shot, one very seriously. About ,10:30 o'clock a message was telephoned from Ogden for doctors as a riot was in progress and several had ;; , been shot "5 Dre. W. G. Stevens and J. R. Miller went there in an automobile. Upon reaching there they found that ^ Claude Ratteree, one of the most extensive farmers in the county and ? who also runs stores at Ogden and Smith's Turnout, was shot four times : ' through the abdomen, through the right lung, in one arm and a ball had arrdreA his head. "Bud" Ratteree. a I ! brother, was shot in the arm, and Lewis Strait shot in the hand, neither of the latter being seriously hurt. An y apibulance was summoned from here and Claude Ratteree was brought to the i'ennefl infirmary, where an operation was performed. It is reported that the Ratterees and the Straits had some misunderstanding earlier in the day and that # they had settled it, but that other parties interested themselves to stir * it up again and went into Mr. Ratteree's store and told him that Strait v "^as outside and wanted to settle the affair and that when Ratteree went outside the shooting began. There were two Straits and two Ratterees in the affair and three of the four were shot. Thomas Higgins, Oldest Gunmaker. Thomas Higgins, horn in 1821, the : . oldest living gunmaker in the United | . States, and probably the only living gunmaker of the Confederacy. At the age?of ten he entered as an apB& prentice a shop owned by one of his relatives. After studying the armorer's art for several years, he be'Vj San making sporting rifles. In 1845 he could make a rifle complete from the raw bulk iron. The unusual excellence of his work attracted attention throughout a section of a radius of a hundred miles. Many a successful contestant at an old-time shooting match owed his luck to a Higgins' rifle. At the outbreak of the civil war he contracted to make the rifles for arming the "East Tennessee Squirrel Shooters," a State cavalry regiment of Rebel volunteers. After volunteering in '61, he went to Lynch Durg unaer <joi. vaugnn, 01 tne ?sra Tennessee Regiment. Before his company saw actual service he was ordered to Knoxville to instruct a company in the use of cavalry rifles j out of old fowling pieces. Many a wagon load of long Kentucky flintlocks were collected in the South and sent to Knoxville, where Mr. Higgins i and his men converted them into ser percussion lock, large bore carbines for Confederate cavalry. Mr. Higgins witji a natural pride, states that his picked assistants were fast workers, and that they labored strenuously for many months, often working all night to complete the equipment of some waiting troops or cavalry, until the federal army forced them to retreat.?Confederate Veteran. K . # - / , GUARD CHILD'S ASSAILANT. Ohio Sheriff Takes Steps to Avoid Lynching Attempt. Akron, Ohio, July 2*7.?Fearing an attempt would be made to take John Kelly, aged 24, of Youngstown, from the county jail, with a view to avenging the confessed assault of Audra Martin, two-yeor-old daughter of Mrs. H. F. Martin, of Barahardt, Sheriff David Furgeson to-night callgd in all his deputies and armed them with riot guns. Kelly was arrested at Cleveland and when brought here waived arraignment. Bond was fixed at $5,000 and later raised to $25,000. The child, who is making her home with Mrs. Rosa Nagle, was maltreated while JKelly was fully conscious of what he was doing, according to *Tr?rk+ ti'Viilo ha waft in a 1UI&1 agIC, <1UU uut nuuv uv ~ somnambulistic trance, which excuse was offered by Kelly when found with the child. He fled when the doctors discovered the child's condition. Making, the Farm Pay. When David Rankin, the world's largest farmer, was asked to tell the secret of his success (he began by 1 borrowing $6 ang died worth $6,000,000, all made in farming) he answered promptly: "Success in farming consists in making every minute, 1 every cent and every seed count. A good workman is cheap at any price < and a shiftless, careless man is dear if he works for nothing." 1 Not long before he died, Mr. Ran- ? kin amplified his views. . "To make a profit the farmer, just as any other manufacturer, must reduce the cost " *? - * * of production," ne saia. jl saw tuis long ago and when I saved a hand's ' wages by the use of a new piece of machinery I felt pretty good; that i was making money for me. We farmers must not only keep eternally < at reducing the cost of production but plan a way to get most out of our 1 product. Use your head as well as < your hands, for it is the little savings that make up the profits at the #nd of the year. It takes sharpening of wits all the'time." The fertilizer problem* is one of the most serious confronting the farmer to-day. Shall he open up his fields to the commercial article or # shall he husband his own resources I I * - r?flAn ana maimaiii tut; icinmj' ui iuc sun by returning to it the elements of which it was robbed in producing a i crop? The answer is simple. A ton ] of average fresh manure contains ten ] pounds of nitrogen, five pounds of ; phosphoric acid and ten pounds of i potash. At the prices which these ; elements of plant food would cost , in commerical fertilizers the value < in manhre would be $2.50 a ton. 1 This does not take into account the 1 ? - - * XX 4ft f value or tne organic matter iurmsn- < ed, which may be greater than that of the plant food. That this theo- ] retical valuation is very conservative ] is shown by the result of many field < experiments; by various experiment , stations and by practical farmers, i The value as shown by the increased crops has equalled and often exceed- ' cd this theoretical valuation. j An experiment conducted in Jasper ] county, Missouri, resulted in an acre which had been treated with eight tons of manure yielding sixty-five bushels of corn, while an acre immediately adjoining?which had not been treated with natural fertilizer ?yielded only twenty-nine and a half bushels. Experiments conduct- i -J - >- V!. 1- 1.1. - eu at uuiumuia, iu iuc saiiia oiatc, resulted as follows: A tract on which corn had been grown continuously for twenty years yielded only three bushels to the acre. Immediately adjoining, a tract planted to corn for twenty years but which had been liberally manured, yielded thirty bushels to the acre. Another tract, likewise adjoining on which corn had been rotated with oats and clover yielded forty-nine bushels to the acre. Still a fourth tract, immediately adjoining on which scientific management had been practiced to the extent of both rotating crops and manuring the field, yielded sixty bushels to the acre. Good Money After Bad. ? It is a curious fact that many meif, level headed enough about other things, seem to lose their wits entirely when they become involved in lawsuits. In a case recently con ciuaea in tne uerman courts a merlin merchant paid out over $900 to recover the value of a five cent postage stamp. He had written a letter asking for an address and enclosing postage for reply. Failing to get an answer, he sued for the stamp. The famous Missouri watermelon i case was just as trifling and even more disastrous. The seed was planted on one farm, but the vine crept through a crack in the rail fence and the melon grew on the other side. Both farmers claimed it, and instead of perceiving the humor of the situation they went to law. To add to the puzzling feature of the question of ownership there was the further complication in that the fence stood on a county line, whereupon a question of the jurisdiction of the courts came up. The farmers bankrupted themselves without obtaining a decision as to the ownership.?Green Bag. CHARGED WITH MAIL FRAUDS. Postoffice Department Inquiry Results in Arrest of Four. Atlanta, July 27.?After several months' investigation by officials of the department of justice and the postoffice department, Richard Purvis, president, Ernest O. Heim, vice president, Guy King, treasurer, and W. N. Smith, formerly secretary, of the Southern Loan and Trust Company, were arrested here to-day on charges of fraudulent use of the mails and using the mails to promote a lottery. The company has been doing a money lending business in all' the Southern States and its operations have involved, according to the federal officials, between $500,000 and $3,000,000. The arrests were made by Postal Inspector George R. Cellar, who has been working with Leroy J. Bailey, of the department of justice at Washington. According to Mr. Cellar, the company has been doing a business in "loan investment contracts." A man wishing to borrow money from the concern paid $5 for a contract which bore a number between one and one hundred. One hundred of such contracts were supposed to be sold to each holder, and each holder was required to pay $5 a month. They could then borrow a sum of money. When his turn came, he had the right to obtain what he wished from the company, which was to be paid back with interest. According to the officers, those holding high numbers stood little or no chance of being able to borrow. This phase, they contend, formed the basis of their charge of conducting a lottery. t* fc coin tho pnmnanv had branch offices in Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma and did business in many other States. The men arrested wer taken before United States Commissioner Walter Colquitt and gave bond. Purvis and Heim were released on $7,500 each, and King and Smith on $2,000 each. The preliminary hearing was set for August 15. Sensational Charge. Washington, July 26.?The sensa tional charge was made before the house committee investigating the postoffice department <to-day that Leonard Goodwin, a Chicago lawyer, brother of Russell P. Goodwin, assistant attorney general for the postoffice department, was exploiting mail order houses throughout the country, telling them he could arrange any trouble they might have through a denial of mail privileges, etc. The charge was made by K. G. Lewis, president of a publishing company in St. Louis, recently denied the 3econd class mail privileges. Lewis also declared that postoffice inspectors at St. Louis had been told to use whatever methods they pleased to "put Lewis out of business" and "to 3hut Lewis up before the next campaign." This was the campaign of 1900. Murderer Denounces Judge. Denver, July 27.?Frank H. Henwood, convicted of murder in the second degree for killing George E. Copeland, while shooting at S. L. Von Phul, the St. Louis aeronaut, whom he also killed in a hotel barroom here on the night of May 24, was to-day sentenced to life imprisonr ment. An appeal will be taken. Never in the history of local tribunals have the presiding judge and prosecutor been subjected to such an aTOAn'otinn ae that r>rrmnimoeri hv ^AVVl lUWivu MM w** v v ^ - Henwood when asked what he had to say "why sentence should not be pronounced." He walked to the bench and said: "1 come for sentence but not for justice, from a jail wThere for two months I have been surrounded by prisoners whose faces become blanched and who tremble with fear when they contemplate coming to this court for trial so long as Judge Whitford sits in this division." Henwood characterized his treatment by the court and prosecutor as "persecution" and declared that his attorney had been "bound and gagged by rulings of the court" and that his trial for the killing of George E. Copeland had, in reality, been turned into a preliminary hearing." Judge Whitford listened attentively to the defendant. "I am not surprised," said he, "at your state of m;nd since you have been surrounded by all classes of prisoners, 14 of whom I recently sent there. "I am of the opinion that the verdict of the jury in your case should have been first degree murder. I believe that you shot Von Phul because of jealousy over Mrs. Springer, but for some reason the jurors returned a finding of second degree murder. The law leaves the sentence to the discretion of the court. It is the opinion of this court that you shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary at Canyon City for life." 00 . ; DEATH CAUSES COMMENT. Peculiar Circumstances of Case at Branson Stir Community. Brunson, July 27.?The sudden death of a bright little 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Priester, living on the farm of Capt. Ben S. Williams, one mile from the town of Brunson, is occasioning considerable comment because of the peculiar circumstances of the death. Monday of each week a specialist physician for the cure of the "hookworm" ailment examines and prescribes in Brunson for any and all applying to be treated for that dis ease. As the prescription is given free of charge, and the modus operandi quite liberally advertised by the county press, many have applied for treatment. Monday last, Mr. H. D. Priester had four little sons prescribed for, ages ranging from 14 to 6 years. The parents began giving the medicine, according to direction, Monday night. Tuesday midday found all four of the little fellows completely prostrated from extreme nausea, but worst of all, the youngest, who appeared to be in absolute collapse. A physician was hurriedly summoned, but despite all efforts at resuscitation the little boy died at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Developments in Union. Union, July 26.?A number of developments in the near beer situation followed the recent arrests, but it now appears that nothing will be done for several weeks. It was announced that Marvin Charles, W. J. Este& and J. W. Gilbert had demanded preliminary hearings, but it was stated this morning that Marvin Charles had withdrawn his demand and that the preliminary hearings of W.' J. Estes and J. W. Gilbert had been set for August 4. Sheriff Long said that, as he bad instructions from Gov. Blease regarding these cases, there , would probably be something doing when the preliminary hearings were heard. In the meantime samples of the near beer had been sent to Columbia to be analyzed. Sheriff Long stated that besides4 these different kinds of beer, he had stored away apple brandy and corn and rye whiskies, which was seized some time ago. He is to-day in commiinir>o+1rm with flnv "Rlpflfift with reference to funds for securing a lawyer to prosecute the cases as he says P. D. Barron, one of the county attorneys is counsel for several of the parties arrested. Stereopticon in the Sunday-school. Mr. J. M. Way, Conference Field Secretary of the Sunday-school department of the M. E. Church, South, in this State, writes as follows in the Southern Christian Advocate in regard to the progressiveness of Mr. M. W. Brabham, the superintendent, in putting into use the stereopticon in the Sunday-school here. In this connection we want to state that Mr. Brabham is the livest superintendent we know of, energetic and progressiva anH wo nrilv wish that. everv d6 partment of civic life in Bamberg was managed as ably as Mr. Brabham manages his Sunday-school: "Trinity' Sunday-school, at Bamberg, of which Mr. M. W. Brabham is superintendent, will give stereopticon lectures during the remainder of the summer, and probably, through the entire fall and winter. This splendid attraction is made possible by the combined effort of the Sunday-school, the Fpworth League, and the Home and Foreign Missionary societies. The lectures will embrace both a study of missions and Bible history. If every sunaayschool would take up this stereopticon, and thus study missions, there is little doubt that the next generation would be a generation of missionaries. "We most heartily commend the plan of Mr. Brabham and his coworkers. The expense of such an undertaking is as almost nothing compared with the benefits to be gained. There is no reason why our large Sunday-schools should not use the stereopticon. Indeed a few are doing so, and we should like to have reports from all that use it. For some time Buncombe Street Sunday-school, in Greenville,, has been using it." A Significant Notice. Richard"Croker, the day of his departure for his Irish home, said to a New York reporter, according to the Washington Star: "It is the desire for freedom that j sends so many Americans and so many millions of dollars abroad every June. The Puritanical laws of America enslave us. These laws, with their total misconception of freedom and of enjoyment, are well exemplified in a notice board I once saw in ,a New England park. This board said: " 'Pleasure Grounds. Notice? These grounds are for pleasure only. No games or play allowed.' " FATHER TOOK BRIBE. Holts law's Son a Witness at Lorimer Hearing. Washington, July 27.?Expressing his firm conviction that his father, former Senator D. W. Holtslaw, received $2,500 to vote for Lorimer, Hershal D. Holtslaw, of Iuka, 111., today appeared before the Senate Lorimer committee and sustained his father's famous confession. The son was cashier of his father's bank when the father claims to have received the money from Senator John Broderick and he declared today that deposit slips he put in evidence proved absolutely that his father received the money. The son told the story of how the Holtslaw family received the confession and of his father telling him it was true. In cross-examination Attorney Hanecy, representing Senator Lorimer, declared the deposit slip had beenjuggled at both Lorimer investigations. In explanation he absolved attorneys or others connected with the committee from his charge. Detective's Testimony. Thomas McGuire, of the McGuire & White Detective Agency, in Chicago, told of working on the so-called White confession. He was explaining the extent of his work when the committee adjourned for the day. For the first ten days of his services, the detective said, he was employed by the Chicago Tribune, but when he turned over to State's Attorney .Wy-, man information obtained and entered the service of the State's attorney, that official not only paid him for his Ttrr?r>lr fliirinc the ton Have ho haH hfiOT) employed by the Tribune, but reimbursed him $25 he had advanced to White for a board bill, at the suggestion of the Tribune's counsel. Former Representative, James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, was to-day cleared from any criticism growing put of the testimony of James Keeley. Chairman Dillingham said as the committee considered there was no testimony before it in any way implicating Mr. Tawney, it would not ask him to appear. ? Fought for Life. Lawrence, Mass., July 27.?Women swooned and men shouted in excitement this afternoon while hundreds watched two steeplejacks, one crazed by the heat, battling for life on top of the 150 foot stack on Kunhardt's Mill. After a struggle of 15 minutes on the top of a fragile scaffold in midair, Patrick Jennings, 35 years old, of Lawrence, succeeded in subduing John Cavanaugh, five years his I senior, who had suffered a sunstroke. I Then without losing his nerve, Jennings lowered himself and Cavanaugh to the ground. Jennings was at work a few feet from the top of the chimney, when he noticed that Cavanaugh was ill. He climbed to the top and spoke to him. As he did so, Cavanaugh, with a maniacal cry, leaped to the edgfe of the platform. Jennings and Cavanaugh struggled to and fro on the platform, while hundreds, attracted by their swaying forms, watched^ the battle from the ground. Finally Jennings' strength told, and he bore Gavanaugh to the floor not, however until several times the fighters barely escaped tumbling from the top. Wool Tariff Bill Passed. t Washington, July 27.?A compromise wool bill offered by Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, a modification of both his own and the house bill, was passed by the senate, 48 to 32, through the union of Democrats and .Republican insurgents. Upon this middle ground the Democrats having secured a record vote on the original Underwood bill, joined with the Republican insurgent forces. The measure adopted reduces the raw wool duty to 35 per cent, ad valorem and correspondingly reduces the duties on woolen articles. There is some doubt as to what course the house Democrats will pursue with regard to the compromise bill. House Leader Underwood several days ago served notice that the house would not accept the original T,aFnllpftp hill. I Although President Taft has made no definite utterance to that effect, it haa been strongly intimated at the Whie House that he might feel called upon to veto a wool tariff bill, passed in advance of a report on that schedule from the tariff board. Mashed Under Car Wheels. Edgefield, July 27.?Mr. C. C. Burkhalter, one of the most prominent citizens and planters of the western section jf the county, yesterday met with a railroad accident that resulted in his death. Purposing to go to Augusta and being too late at the station to catch the passenger train, he attempted to board a moving freight train, when in some way he lost his footing and his legs were thrown under the car wheels, both being horribly crushed. He was immediately carried to an Augusta hospital, but died soon after reaching there, from shock. The accident occurred at Parksville, on the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad. IlL; jM GOOD NEWS. Many Readers Have Heard It and Profited Thereby. "Good news travels fast/' and the thousands of bad back sufferers in Bamberg are glad to learn that 1 prompt relief is within their reach. i Many a lame, weak and aching back fl is bad no more, thanks to Doan's Kid- fl nav Pillo Our HfW-Pna a re talHnflr I the good news of their experience ^ with the Old Quaker Remedy. Here is an example worth reading: Mrs. Joseph McCormack, Newbridge St., Bamberg, S. C., says: "I obtained my supply of Doan's Kidney Pills from the Peoples Drug Co. and ? \ I am willing to recommend them, knowing that they are a good kidney % medicine. I had headaches and dizzy spells and was also troubled by backache and other symptoms of kid- , ney complaint . 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