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WON'T WORK FOR NETTLES. Publisher of Advocate Refuses to 1 Sign Wage Scale. The Spartanburg Typographical Union will "rat" the shop of the v n VN -r-rv. D^intinor fnmTianV T C5P<ii Idu. u ui fe a 11111,11:5 vumji?, , which prints the Southern Christian r Advocate and is conducted by Rev. t S. A. Nettles. This was agreed on at a a meeting of the union held last Fri- t day night, when it was decided that i the publisher of the Advocate should r sign the wage scale, agreeing to pay c a given salary to each man for a i special task. i: This Mr. Nettles refused to do and stated to a reporter for the Journal 0 Saturday morning that he was not e operating a union chop, but an open b shop, but that he always gave prefer- p ence to union labor. He stated that t he did not want to tie himself up by s signing the wage scale, but stated he ii did offer that, if the union would f guarantee to keep him a man who could set 40,000 ems a day, which is j a fairly good amount, considering the b /?rmv iind conditions hp would sien n the agreement to pay this man $25 h per week. The union refused to guar- a antee Mr. Nettles service of this kind t and he refused to sign the scale. a The trouble arose over a new em- a ploye who was working for Mr. Net- ^ ties. He was being paid $10 a week, b which Mr. Nettles said was more than t< he was worth. The scale price is $16 ti per week. The union has declared o that since Mr. Nettles refused to b sign the scale that he is operating an f< unfair shop and that when this de- si cree is taken by the union, then all u real union men walk out of the shop, si It is understood, however, that a d man is still working for Mr. Nettles who holds a card. Mr. Nettles stated o Saturday morning that only one man o left him and that everything was s< moving along smoothly and he y scarcely missed the man. He only y employed two. T J. B. Felmet, president of the ^ ' union, stated that the matter had ij been reported to the international ei headquarters of the union and he ex- b: pected the national officers would or- ti Pder a strike at this shop until all dif- r< fe^ences are settled. li This is the second time that Mr. b< ? Nettles has experienced trouble with the union. The union men say Mr. w Nettles is hard to get on w-ith and m expects too much of them, and Mr. Sj Nettles said the union men did not p< "tote fair" with him. as He says be is willing to pay tne qi ** maximum price for a minimum ti amount of work, but, according to 0i the printers, his ideas of "maximum" w and "minimum" are, to say the least, ^ a bit hazy.?Spartanburg Journal. m Another Calf. Ex. Gov. Gillett, of California, at a dinner in San Francisco recently ^ was praising the gift of repartee ^ which most women possess. "Against this quick-wittedness,' 1C he, said, 'we men are powerless. cr PEven when the logic and common * sense of a situation are on our side, a woman will, with some flash of 113 speech, put us to shame?rout us engglPl'.' tirely. ! ei Siv,' 01 "As an instance, a man whom I C( knew was very much displeased because his wife had bought a few puffs cr of false hair. He concocted a little scheme to make a telling expression sa of his disapproval, and hid in the hall one day when his better half was getting ready to make some calls. J1' Just as the obnoxious puffs were 111 being adjusted he darted into his wife's room. " 4Emmelme!' he exclaimed, in a voice of stern reproach, 'why under g the heavens do you put the hair of ^ another woman?possibly a dead one ^ ?on your head?' 0 " 'Why,' answered his wife, 'do you a] wear the skin of another calf?sure- ^ ly a dead one?on your hands?' "? v/ Judge. ti ^ M Wrong Man Was Found and Held. p'f; Chester, June 8.?W. E. Ferry, * V' who shot to death Langdon L. Boozer ' at the Wylie Cotton mills in March, ^ 1905, and who was thought to be a captive at McAllister, Okla., through the instrumentality of Mr. and Mrs. . . h J. B. Gardner, who were his neighbors while he resided here, has proved out to be another case of mistaken Identity. There is a $1,000 reward out for the capture of Perry and the tl bunt for him all over the country has P caused a great deal of inconvenience tor the local authorities in the big a trips that have been taken from time o to time only to discover that the wrong man was being held. This h ? ~ 4-V?/-y 1 ^ f Vl iline ilia.ue ctuuut mc v. However, so positive was D. L. t< Boozer, the father of the dead young n man, that he went to Columbia about a 10 days ago and secured requisition q papers from the governor and, at s his own expense, sent Chief of Police Derrick, of Ridge Springs, who was v well acquainted with Perry, to see if d the suspect was the wanted man. Af~ h ter making a thorough investigation S of the case, Chief Derrick reported a that the wrong man had been cap- d iured. s DIET AND INTELLECT. veeping Body and Mind in Pit Condition?Soipe Great Eaters. Spare living and hard .thinking rere thought to be almost synonytious terms and to some extent expeience seems to have borne out the ruth of this dictum. Many men, .nd for the matter of that women, lave done their best brain work when nsufficiently fed and clad, and the emark applies especially to inventus. It used to be thought that fastng purified the spirit and made the ntellect clearer. This view, however, as have many if the old time ideas, says the Ditetic and Hygienic Gazette, has ieen relegated to the limbo of ex?loded notions, and it is held now hat while fasting may purify the pirit the effect that it has on the utellect is not altogether of a satisactory nature. Undoubtedly overeating has an inurious effect on the mental powers, ut on the other hand fasting does iot strengthen them. Overeating as a tendency to cloud mental agilty, but perhaps fasting attenuates he faculties of the mind. The old xim that "what's one man's meat is nother man's poison" holds good ,'ith reference to mind as to the ody. The amount of food necessary 3 keep body or mind in fit condiion varies with the individual, and f course no hard and fast rule can e laid down. The quality of the )od requisite to insure a healthy tate of body or mind is dependent pon such a large number of circumtances that it would be absurd to ogmatize on this point. Some of the giants of literature or f other branches in which conspicuus intellect has shone have been al) trenchermen of no mean powers, /alter Scott, Goethe, Luther, Charles Dr. Johnson were all big eaters, he great lexicographer, as was his ont, discoursed to Boswell sapient r and weigntily on tne suDject 01 iting and according to his faithful iographer carried precept into pracce with an unfailing and vigorous igularity. So much so that in pote society at least he must have I sen regarded as a glutton. Napoleon ate very fast, a habit hich caused him much suffering and iay have been at any rate partly relonsible for his end. The Little Cor:ral's table manners were as bad 3 tncce of Johnson, for he was fre- ?' lently in such a hurry to get done < lat he would use his fingers in place < : fork or spoon. His tastes in food i ere catholic, but he had an especial ! king for Italian macaroni and Par- i esan cheese and highly esteemed 1 te red mullet of the Mediterranean. < He must have been the despair of 1 is cook, as he took his meals at any 1 me of the day or night. At night ] iod was always kept ready for him. 1 e evinced a great predilection for < es, which together with coffee with 1 earn chocolate and champagne, he i ould consume at a late hour. s Many great men have suffered from ( digestion due to some extent no ! iubt to errors of diet. The influ- i ice which indigestion has exerted 1 l the course of events cannot be 1 imputed. Battles have been lost, imes committed and the pen has 1 jen imbued with venom and deadly ! itire mainly owing to the fact that ^ *eat men, like ordinary mortals, ive possessed weak stomachs and ive indulged not wisely but too well , . the pleasures of the table. j Weds Son's Widow. Zanesville, O., June 6.?John C. ' aird, 63 years old, is now the husind of the widow of his son, Mrs. ; arv H. Baird. aged 36. The laws of hio do not prohibit such a marriage, | id Baird says: "We can see no ] arm in it. I always liked my son's ] ife, and since his death the affecon has ripened into love." Neither 1 r. nor Mrs. Baird has any children. Frank A. Bryer, a wealthy former igislator of Massachusetts, has been ' ainly trying to change the law of lat State in order to wed his daugh>r-in-law, Mrs. Katherine Bryer, uner similar conditions. The Massachusetts law now proibts the union. Score was Tied. ! The Detroit Free Press credits lis one to "Mayor Easterbrooks, of awtucket:" "England and Germany, spending 11 their cash on ornaments, remind ne of Mr. and Mrs. Spratt. "Mr. SDratt. vou knowr. one told is friends that he would attend a ertain 'smoker,' and Mrs. Spratt Did hers very firmly that he would ot. Well, a non-partisan acquaintnce, the evening of the smoker in uestion, dropped in at the Spratts to ee who had won out. "The visitor found Spratt and his rife fast asleep in the chairs at the ining room table. Spratt, you see, iad put sleeping powder in Mrs. ipratt's coffee, so that he might slip way, and she had put sleeping powier in his to prevent him from doing o." GIANT "ESCAPE" CAPTURED. Big Bill Surratt to be Returned to South Carolina. Washington, June 6.?Six feet, seven inches tall, with a weight of about 200 pounds, William X. Surratt, alias William Broadus, colored, 40 years old, manslayer and ex-convict, and believed to be the tallest prisoner ever taken in custody by the Washington police department, will leave this city in care of Sheriff John Coyle for Gaffney, S. C. Beside the giant prisoner, Coyle, who is but five feet, five inches tall and weighs not more than 150 pounds, looks like a midget, but the diminutive sheriff is armed with handcuffs and a six-shooter, automatic revolver, and he declares that if he does not deliver the prisoner safely at Gaffney he is willing to ad I. ?t *i _ _ * i T. ^m - _ mit incapaonity or nuiuing ins uuiue. Detective Sergt. James Springman, one of the smallest men in stature in the central office, arrested Surratt Saturday afternoon in 7th street, between P and Q streets, when the giant wis armed with a razor. When Springman, alone aEd without any help in sight, calmly walked up to the towering man and placed him under arrest he gave a decisive reply to the queries as to whether policemen earn their money, demonstrate bravery, etc. Springman hailed a passing auto and in the machine the prisoner was conveyed to police headquarters. There the razor was found in his pocket. He was disarmed and charged with carrying concealed weapons in order that he might be held until word could be sent to the South Carolina authorities. Sheriff Coyle arrived yesterday and will leave with the prisoner as soon as the proper papers arrive. Nine years ago, Surratt, in a dispute over 10 cents after a game of craps, drew a knife and stabbed Ridge Hale, also colored, to death. Hale was cut in thirty places. Surratt was sentenced to five years, but after being in jail a year he sawed his shackles with a file and escaped. He has been living in Washington eight, working as a hod carrier. Since he arrived here he married and has two children. Do Not Make Good Our Claims. It is pretty hard to convince the average Northern farmer that we can grow over 200 bushels of corn Dn an acre, when the average yield is less than twenty bushels. The South will never be in the corn belt until we make a better average yield than twenty bushels per acre. Some af our people are fond of boasting of the fertility of our crops but those Sr.*ho know our crop yields per acre do aot believe our soils fertile. Likewise, we talk much of the forage we can grow, but our claims are discounted by the fact that we buy feeds for livestock. We boast of our ability to grow two and three forage crops per year, out discredit ourselves by failing to grow even one. It is true that we can grow two* or three crops a year on the same land, but this truth is no value as long as we buy hay and pay the heavy transportation charges from the Northern States.?Progressive Farmer. Removes a Nickel from Boy's Throat. Dr. H. R. Black performed an unusual and rather delicate operation in the Spartanburg hospital Tuesday, removing a nickel which had become iodged in the aesophagus, or gullet, cf a child. The three-year-old son of L. K. Kirby, of Union, put a five-cent piece ' ' - - Al- - 1 into niS mourn a wee* agu lvivuuaj and by accident swallowed the coin, [t stuck when about half way down the gullet, and all attempts to dislodge it had been futile up to Tuesday. The child suffered intensely and was unable to eat anything but soup and other liquid foods. Dr. Black administered an anesthetic and while the boy was under the influence of the ether thrust a long instrument down his throat and extracted the nickel. The child was at once relieved and was able to return home to Union.? Spartanburg Herald. A Modern Test. Rather long was the journey, and the passengers, from talking cabbages and other matters of vital interest, had got on the subject of lies. "Yes," repeated the man in the corner, <4I don't think the test of the cherry tree proved that George Washington wasn't a liar." "Well, perhaps you'll devise a better one?" chorused the other passengers. "All right," said the man in the corner. "Supposing now, that George Washington was standing on a stormy night at the door of a restaurant, and the waiter had rushed up to him with a beautiful new silk umbrella with an ivory handle and no name on it." Then the train entered the tunnel. WOMEN AT MONTE CARLO. > Sit Seriously and Solemnly at Tables ^ and Watch Others. Naturally a woman going to the > gaming table is interested in her fellow-women. If she has never been there before she looks instinctively ' for their horns, hoofs, and even tails, ^ in fond remembrance of Sunday' school literature on gambling. But she gets a great surprise, for she ; might almost fancy herself, so far as dress and appearance go, enjoying a pleasant Sunday afternoon in a nonconformist chapel in the provinces, says the London Chronicle. Women sit as seriously at the tables as they might do at their prayers. And after studying them pretty closely for nearly two months, I am inclined to say that if gambling is at the root of male human nature, it is also at the branch, bud and bios/N P f Vl A f A Y"r-> A 1 A t V sum ui tii^ iciuait. Women have wonderful luck. jg While men work out elaborate "sys- M terns," and sit frowning over figures 2 the mysteries of which would take a very Napoleon of finance to elucidate, and then play?and lose, women simply plank their money on the number they are "sure is going to win," and they do win! It is not at all an uncommon thing to see a woman sitting against the wall, her husband by her side waiting to put pieces on at her command. While he trots to and from the tables, telling her what numbers turned up last, fussing and fuming, and worrying what to do next, she calmly surveys the figures she has jotted down, gives him another "piece" at the a psychological moment to put on, aftd her big velvet embroidered bag grows wider in circumference every hour. The five-franc pieces are even hpnvipr anri rlnmsipr fo oarrv than our crown piece. But she is so thor- M oughly used to it in quantities she W does not mind it all, but says: "The ^ heavier the better!" These ladies play with a sang = froid, an indifference as to whether they lose or win, which is only equal- jft ed by their menkind. I have seen 3 one of the Vanderbilts lose a for- J? tune in an hour without seeming to notice it. And I have seen a man whose stake of 100 francs won him over $3,000 the next moment have to gft be tapped on the shoulder by the ? croupier to pick up his winnings. He had forgot that he had a stake on! Good luck and bad alike are taken as w calmly as a lake receives rain. It is scarcely in human nature, jft perhaps, to know when to stop gamb- 3 ling after one has once begun, and hence all the sad tales of the broken banks of those who have been to = Monte Carlo. The game of roulet itself is perfectly fair and open and above-board. Jou know what you may lose and what you may win to a half penny, which can scarcely be said of any perfectly respectable business transaction. Anything of a shadowy or questionable nature in the Casino is due to the human beings in it, not the games played; and I am sorry to say that when there is anything wrong it is generally a case of "cheerchez la femme." The officials at the door have instructions to be very particular as to the men they will allow to enter. Even a Duke would not dare to ask for a card of admission while wearing a flannel shirt and collar, for instance. But, judging from the frowsiness of some women, one would fancy that in their case anyone can pass the portals. Thi9 is the more strange when one notices that women win where men lose, and, as I have said, are mostly at. the root of any evils that arise. There are women by the side of whom it is dangerous to play. They will pick up your winnings under your very nose, and then brazenly declare to the croupier they are theirs. This happens not very frequently, but sometimes twice or thrice in a day. The croupier generally pays both parties. There are women, also, who make a practice of sitting by men n?i/1 oeVinor fnr o nidno n f will a lilt CfcOXllUL^) IVi U> yivvv V A. VUV?4 If nings. They must be well known to the croupiers at least. It is a pity the porters cannot leave their posts to look at the tables now and then, to get to know those persons. ONE MYRTLE HAWKINS. == Girl Found in Jacksonville Refuses 11 to Return. Jacksonville, Fla., June 8.?Myrtle Hawkins, the cashier at a local restaurant, was photographed to-day, it is said, and the picture will be sent to Hendersonville, N. C., for use by the courts there in connection with " TT J? X_: ~ 1 tne Myrtle nawKmsniuruer max liuw in progress. The Hawkins girl here says that she formerly lived in Hendersonville, N. C., but declined to return with a detective to that place to-day. The detective has made no statement as to whether or not he believes the cashier is the same young | woman for whose supposed death the M seven defendants are now being tried 11 for murder at Hendersonville, N. C. ^ Wanted] AtOnce R J White Girls 14 Years Old || AND OVER, ALSO . H . ^ WhiteBoys 14-16 Years Old ,; to learn to operate machines in Spinning and 1 Weaving Departments. M '%M I "-IP O v? Can earn as much as $6.00 to $9.00 per week M >%, after short experience. Good pay while learning. II , c7 i, wraalr rnri+Vi Vtol'f IiaIi'/Iqw IE XU.111 i'lliiS Ul I1UU1B pci niw UUIU uvuuwj | . ft-', Saturdays. Steady work all year round. j !l Tlll APPLY, OR WRITE TO Charleston Bagging1 sJ Mfg. Co. II [ 29 JOHN STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C. 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