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1 * NICHOLS WAS DRUNK. This Was His Excuse for Dictagraph Testimony. Columbia, July 19.?The direct charge of graft in connection with the ^ Charleston whiskey situation and the ?. defense as put up by Sam J. Nichols, the Spartanburg attorney, to the charge of a pardon deal, were the features of the sessions yesterday of the committee of the general assembly of South Carolina that is investigating the affairs of the old State > dispensary. i The committee made a ruling yesterday that will have an important bearing on all witnesses to be summoned in the future with reference to the alleged system of collecting a "protection fund" from the blind tigers of Charleston. Witnesses in the future will be required to give testimony or be ruled in contempt. The testimony under the ruling of the committee will not be used in criminal cases against the witnesses. As a result of the testimony yesterday, Ben H. Stothart, chief constable of Charleston county, is charged with receiving a monthly sum from J. P. B. O'Neill, confessed wholesale and retail whiskey dealer. O'Neill made the direct charge that he paid * this fund for "protection" from the constables. He charged that he collected the fund from several retail dealers and that they were given the necessary protection. The method by which this fund went to Stothart is _ shown in the verbatim testimony of \J xxtsm. The committee, while not making an official statement, has indicated that every wholesale whiskey dealer in Charleston, charged with accepting the protection fund from the retail dealers, will be summoned and forced to give testimony or they will be held in contempt. No witnesses will be allowed to refuse to give testimony on the ground that "it might incriminate him." "If I made that statement it was f * liquor talk." This statement is the substance in part of the defense of Sam J. Nichols, >; the Spartanburg attorney, against the charges by the Burns detectives that he had framed up a deal whereby Gus DeFord, the most notorious prisoner v T in the penitentiary, was to receive a pardon from the governor of South Carolina for $15,000 or more. T 1 Nichols appeared yesterday before the legislative committee that is probing into the affairs of the old State disDensary and gave his version of ? the dictagraph testimony as presented before the committee in Augusta by E. S. Reed, the chief lieutenant of W. J. Burns, the detective of international prominence. He said that he was drunk when he made many of the statements and that he did not remember much of the conversation with "Henry N. Porter, the Chicago attorney," who was trying to secure a pardon for Johnson, alias Gus DeFord. Nichols said that he was acting as associate counsel with Henry N. y Porter in trying to secure a pardon and that whatever action he took was as an attorney and that he only expected an attorney's fee for his services. He admitted that the conferences with Henry N. Porter in the Finch hotel at Spartanburg; in the New Willard hotel in Washington and the Altamont hotel in Spartanburg, as y ~recorded by the dictagraph testi mony, which was presented in Augusta. i lie made the positive statements - that he was drunk and that he did . vnot remember his conversation after , * a certain stage at all of the conferences. u, ^ He admitted that he had been employed by Henry N. Porter, the Chicago lawyer, to secure a pardon for Gus DeFord, and that $15,000 was to be paid as a fee. He admitted that he went to Barn^ well with the express purpose of looking over the situation with reference to the attitude of the governor. He admitted that C. P. Sims was to be a party to the deal and that Sims was to receive a part of the "fee." He admitted that the petition had been prepared and was being circulated in Spartanburg county for the pardon of Gus DeFord. He stated to the committee that he believed that the case of DeFord / ( was a meritorious one, and that he V should have a pardon or that he would never have consented to enter the case. 4<He was very drunk, I am sorry to say," said Judge George W. Nichols, of Spartanburg, and father of Sam J. Nichols, who was put up to substantiate the statements by Nich' - ols as to his condition. An extract from a circular letter that seems to have been very generally circulated through the county is as follows: "It is very desirous that we elect men to the legislature in accord with Governor Blease"? Why??Florence Times. i m Rub-My Tism will cure you. LORIMER IN ALTO SMASH. Ousted Senator Injured when Car! F Strikes Telephone Pole. Clavsville, Pa.. July 21.?William Lorimer, the Illinois Senator recently d deprived of his seat by the United si States senate, was cut, bruised and ti stunned when his automobile was! S wrecked late this afternoon one mile v west of here. Mr. Lorimer was not ti seriously hurt, but had a narrow es- f< cape. His private secretary and b chauffeur sustained scratches. All three proceeded to Chicago by train s to-night. w Mr. Lorimer and party left Wash- a ington Saturday morning en route to ^ Chicago in a large touring car. Short- ii ly after passing Clayville a horse t] driven by William McCombs, a farm- h er, was encountered. In an effort to o avoid a collision the steering gear was broken and the automobile crash- b ed into a telephone pole. The three tl occupants were thrown out. C B When Psyche and Ma Came Home, r h Some years ago my business called .. me often to the coastal section of the s State, and after business was done s< \ I took many rambles alone in that a section, and one day I came to a n large oak grove, Duridic in appear- t< ance, and under a monarch of its kind I came upon an old man sitting near two grass-grown graves. His long white hair and beard gave softness to his fine, yet withered face, o The aged father was asked if he was G guarding hidden treasure buried d there, and he looked up with tender a and expressive eyes and said: li "My son, you augur well, for under C this grassy sod my greatest treasures b lie, and as you speak so kindly I will i tell you a tale. Years ago when I S '"O" T mof o HlnD^vofl maid ^ W CIO JUUUg) X UIV/V U 1SAUV VJ VV? *** ?-?-; my ideal of womanhood. Her form A was fashioned by the fays, her face r was as the morning flowers, her voice s was soft and gentle as the cooing d dove's. I sought her heart and hand h and won them. Hard by on yonder h farm we started life, which was a ^ lovely dream to me. Each day as 13 Burns, '1 plowed the lilies down,' and F came back to the cottage home at t: eventide to be caressed and kissed t by my sweetheart, my bonnie bride. n The years went by so swift, so fleet, ^ and in those fleeting years, there ^ came to us a little blue-eyed girl. c We named her Psyche. Oh! how we * loved that child so sweet, so fair, so innocent, and when the little lisper ^ began to talk, our love was even 8 greater. At a tender age our darling n child began to sing, and her baby ^ songs were the songs of grown up h people, symphonies as sweet as ever y angels trilled. We loved her, for in 0 her make-up, we saw ourselves re- a fleeted. And often times with Psyche a in my arms, and with the mother by c my side, we would stroll about the 8 farm, over the woods where fairies dwell, and watch the squirrels play, and hear the cooing doves, gather the wild-wood flowers?a happy trio. But when our love was greatest ^ sweet Psyche took ill and died. We v laid her here to rest, beneath that spot. My form though young and ^ strong, weakened beneath the shock. t I would go at early morn afield to * make an honest loaf of bread, but a the former vigor was not there. Then v Psyche's ma began to fail. I saw the 0 languor in her eyes, the pallor on her 0 cheeks, and I knew a load was rest-. * ing on her heart. In time to come P she died, and we laid her body there. (Then double was my load of sorrow. v My empty foot-steps in my house, seemed to mock me, and to call up sweet memories of the past. I would wander all alone. I would look upon the fields, ripe with the gracious harvest; upon the skies at night, all studded with the stars; upon pale J? Luna; upon the forest clothed in majesty and beauty; upon the sun- I shine, but in none I saw the beauty of bygone days. Then I would hie ^ me to this spot, under the mossgrown oak, 'emblem of England's y ancient faith,' and here I would pour out tears of grief and agony. I a looked upon yonder cdttage. To me n it seemed a funeral pyre. Upon its p roof the raven's wings were spread, and gloom and desolation seemed to p mantle it, once bright and beautiful v to me. Within, there was no hand to v guide me, no smile to cheer me, no j sky-blue eyes to look into my own, f no ruby lips to press upon these sun- t browned cheeks a raptured kiss of love. I tried to look beyond, but ^ there I saw a shadow cast. No sun- s beam broke upon me, no light, no a hope, but all around closed up the ^ threatening clouds of gloom. s ''Arise," said the aged father, "and c let us go to the cottage, and there f we may say more." 0 We arose the slope before us, and s there upon a central hill the cottage ^ stood. We entered, and upon the p wall I saw a harp, and I asked the ^ aged father to try his skill upon this, 0 the most gentle of musical sources, j He took it down, and with his wither- v ed hands he swept the strings, and r the chord was perfect. Then he he- ^ gan to play and sing: Kathleen Avara, what diamond tiara FROM GOVERNOR TO CONVICT. 'elder Says Blease is Certain to Land in the Penitentiary. j Atlanta, July 20.?Thomas B. Fel- I er, the Atlanta attorney who made ensational charges of official corrup-' ion against Gov. Cole L. Blease, of outh Carolina, before the special inestigating committee of the legislate of that State, to-night made the allowing reply to a statement made y Gov. Blease to-day: "He (Blease) substantiates his tatements by the affidavits of men hn havp hpen ronvicted of felonies nd pardoned by him and by men j rho are under indictment for graft- j ig in South Carolina. Further than ' hat the reply that will be made to i im will be as soon as he is relieved f his gubernatorial robes. "It is just as certain that he will e landed in the penitentiary as it is hat the Ohio grafters, the Atlantic lity grafters, the McNamaras, Abe Leuf, of San Francisco, and the land obbers of Oregon were placed beind the bars. "We have better and more conclu-! ive proof against Blease and his asociates than William J. Burns had gainst any of those people who are ow serving terms in various penientiaries of the United States." Murray Praises Lyon. Columbia, July 18.?In the report f the campaign meeting at St. reorge, Barnard B. Evans, a candiate for attorney general, is quoted s saying I had told him he was at berty to inform the people of soutn Jarolinaj that Thomas B. Felder had een employed by, the commission 3r winding up the affairs of the tate dispensary, contrary to my rishes. Mr. Evans probably acquired bis information from reading the ecords of the commission, which how that I voted against Mr. Feler's employment. I voted against im because, frankly, I did not think e could carry out his promises to be commission. But results proved ly opposition was not justified. Mr. 'elder not only fulfilled his obligaions to the State of South Carolina, brough the commission, but he did lore than his contract specified. I now of no other man who could ave given so effective service in reovering money for the taxpayers of bis State. Our work is a public document, rhich speaks for itself. I want to ay that I am a friend and ardent adlirer of Attorney General J. Fraser ,yon. My official association with im in the public service or the four ears brought me to an appreciation f his splendid, sterling qualities as man and a public official. He is main bulwark in the State against orruption and other evils in our overnment. W. J. MURRAY. i Swears to Notes. V Atlanta, July 19.?Sigmund Tietleiaum, of Atlanta, the stenographer /ho took the conversation between )etective E. S. Reed and Sam J. lichols, of Spartanburg, in a Sparanburg hotel, made affidavits here o-day that his notes were "accurate nd (jomplete and not faked in any /ay." The affidavit was made in the ffice of Attorney Thorns B. Felder, f Atlanta, whose testimony before he committee in Augusta, Ga., was iroductive of so much sensation. Jharges that the stenographic report /as altered had been made. That graceth the brow of a queen, Vith the golden dark hair, on your brow can compare, )r rival its wonder of sheen. ******** Kathleen Avara, the old harp of Lara Hangs silent to-day on the wall, Jut a minstrel could make, all its sighs for your sake Vith music at memory's call. He ceased and I said: "Father do ou never smile?" "My son, I regret that you have sked me that, but I have vowed to tever smile again till Psyche and her aa come home." I parted with the old'man then, and romised to return, which I did some /eeks later, and for some years I /ent to see him now and then, and saw that at each visit that he was ailing fast and that ere long he oo would pass away. A lovely morn in May I stopped efore the cottage door. All was as ilent as the tomb. I rapped, no nswer came but being familiar with he queer old man I entered. There at the aged father in his old arm :hair. His eyes were glazed, his ace was pallid, there was dampness n his furrowed brow, his limbs were tiff, his hands were cold, his heart tad ceased to beat, his lips were tartly closed, sealed by the signet of lis maker, but on his pale and bland Id face, there was a smile divine, 'syche and her ma had come, for he ras dead! Tender hands laid him to est beside the graves of Psyche and ler ma, and as Shakespeare sayeth, Thereby hangs a tale.? A. W. BRABHAM. MAX MEETS PECULIAR DEATH. Drowned on Roof of Building: While n Cleaning Drain Pipe. New York, July 21.?Robert F. Kinsela was drowned on the top of [ a 12-story building in which he lived on East 1 6th street to-day. He had gone to the roof to release a fpot of water which had collected there after the drain pipe became clogged. He ran his right arm down into the drain pipe, and as he released the rubbish the suction of the rushing water caught his arm. His arm was drawn in up to his shoulder and became wedged in the pipe. Three companions strove frantically to release the imprisoned man. The suction held him in the pipe and his head was drawn into the water which still remained on the roor, causing him to drown. Music 100 Years Hence. The Voice Museum, which was officially inaugurated in the basement of the Opera by M. Pedro Gailhard in 1907, has received another year's addition to its voice records of the best singers who have been heard at the Paris Opera and elsewhere, and also some other records that will be of value for the history of music. The ceremony, which has now become an annual one, was presided over by M. Leon Berard, Under Secretary of State for Fine Arts. The museum consists of phonographic disks, carefully wrapped in asbestos and covered with glass, which for greater protection are placed separately in hermetically sealed metallic boxes, from which the air is exhausted. The boxes are placed in rows on shelves in the vaults, and when each shelf is full the front of the vault is walled up. The disks are not supposed to be opened for Vin oinornr'o U11C UUUU1CU vcaio. Alio oiug?i d name and a detailed instruction as to how to use the disk are placed inside each b'ox. The first disk placed in the vaults included ^he 'voices of such singers as Tmagno, Scotti, Mme Calve, Adelina Patti, Schumann-Heink, and a piece executed by Kubelik. The disks added to this year's collection contain the voices of the , tenor Franz, Caruso, Amato, Mme ! Sembrich, Geraldine Farrar, Bessie Abbott, Tetrazzini, and a piano piece by Paderewski. The ceremony, although it was described as a "burial of the voices," had nothing funeral about it. The many visitors present enjoyed a speech by a well known Parisian actor and manager, M. Gemier, delivered by the phonograph.?Manchestei Guardian. Righteous Indignation. Some of the people who raise the long holler about boys who go ir swimming remind one of the mossgrown Civil War story, to-wit: Certain v troops were encamped near the home of a nonsympathizer who kept a fine view of the river, also three daughters. Soldiers felt need of a bath and took it. Householder raised some smoke, and commanding of| ficer assured him that it wouldn't happen again. To that end he ordered bathing soldiers to go one mile down stream. And they did. Anc again the busy householder approached the commanding officer and yelped: "My daughters are simply horrified when they see those naked soldiers in swimming." "But they are a mile away," said the officer. "Yes," said the parent, "but the daughters have a fine telescope."? Topeka State Journal. Fed Wife on Lettuce and Grass. Atlantic City, N. J., July 18.?Under orders to abstain from feeding his pretty 17-year-old wife grass,, lettuce, radishes and the like, and give her meat and potatoes at least once a day, Edward Dawson is out on 1300 bail for court to-day on a charge of desertion. It was Mrs. Annette Hoover, an aunt of the girl-wife, that testified that Dawson insisted on his wife living on grass. "He was a huckster," said Mrs. Hoover, "and for days all she had to live on was grass gotten in various forms and vegetables that were left over in his wagon at night. If I had not brought over things for the poor girl to eat, she would have starved to death." "Now you tell me what your hus Dana gave you 10 eai, saiu juubc Jagnetty, as he looked down at the pretty complainant. "Radishes and lettuce," said Mrs. Dawson, as tears filled her big blue eyes. "Was that all?" "Sometimes we had onions with a little grass dressing," admitted the girl wife with a catch in her voice. At this the magistrate declared that radishes and lettuce, even with the addition of onions, was "insufficient food for a 17-year-old wife, especially a pretty one. ' Ana you, sir, ne scuu, iuuiwus sternly at Dawson, ".take your wife off from this cow diet and give her nourishing food. She needs meat and potatoes every day." Our Soda Fountain ^ f We have secured the services of Mr. Deason, an expert soda dispenser. We make ail the latest drinks, and you get the very best service nere. ; i Keep cool under the electric fans. Everything neat and clean at our fountain. We take especial pains to serve the best. OUR ICE CREAM IS THE FINEST. Ipi Our voting contest is getting interesting. Re- member we will give away two handsome prizes. Votes given with each cash purchase. Help your ^pffJl favorite to win. : BAMBERG PHARMACY S J. R. OWENS, Proprietor. 1glEfjjg if not, tell ipu_?aocaoonoi?? : Screen Doors and Windows I fjiB In order to make room for other goods, we will sell all of the remainder of our stock of Screen Doors and Windows at , ABSOLUTE COST ' ; j M j We have in stock a large lot of Mason and E. Z. Seal Fruit j Jars in all sizes, also quantities of Jar Caps and Rings, and , Economy Jar Tops, and a general line of Hardware and Building ' II J. A. HUNTER | M THE HARDWARE MAN. BAMBERG, S. C. ! BL?lOaOOBO' AS- Others See Us. A GREAT RECORD Here is a little editorial notice giv- Hard to Duplicate It in Bamberg. en South Carolina by the Baltimore __ Sun, which is very similar to editorial Scores of representative citizens of comment upon this State appearing Bamberg are testifying for Doan's in many of the newspapers of the Kidney Pills. Such a record of local v s ' endorsement is unequalled in mod- v. ffiaa country. ern times. This public statement \ "There must be a 'hot time' in made by a citizen is but one of the South Carolina if it be true that de- many that have preceded it and the V/l*! tectives of the Burns agency are hundreds that will follow. Read it: afraid to venture into that State. Mrs. L. B. Ftpwler,> Elm, St.,.Bam-' ' ? . -i j. . ? berg, S. C., says: "My little daugh- i'M Gov. Blease is not only offering to ^er suffered from weak kidneys for $$.?$58 shoot all hostile comers himself, but several years and she had practically , is supposed to put a bounty on the no control over the kidney secretions. murder of the ungodly by proclaim- ?he+.oft^n C0 Plain?d her back ' i . . . . . ? .. . . hurting her and her health was poor. . m? hls intention to continue his pinany i g0t a box of Doan's Kidney wholesale pardoning policy. Pills from the Peoples Drug Co., as. "While this red-shirt campaign is they had previously been used in our ; going on timid folk may be pardoned ? , for avoiding a comonwealth where jng them, the trouble with her kid- ' L the governor may shoot you if you neys was corrected and her health im-' don't agree with him. Tl^ Palmetto proved. I shall always recommend : State has been the theatre of many K . military and political battles since ' ioca * v,oo A PERMAXEXT CURE. / ,' 1860, but there has never been one ^ ? . . On January 26. 1911, Mrs. Fowler l m "toch her honor and good name WM in.terviewed and she said: "It #$1| L were more nearly concerned. Let us gives me pleasure to again endorse ->r|g| hope that when it is over Blease and Doan's Kidney Pills, for the cure they yfaja Bleaseism will be wiped off her po- made in my family has been lasting. _ . . - .. You may continue to use my state- : litical map. It is time tor soutn ment? * . Carolina to banish the political ban- For sale ?y a? deal rs. PrJce 50 pMtM ditti and restore herself to her old cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, I position as a State of chivalric ideals New York, sole agents for the United r and knightly leaders." States. ? Remember the name?Doan's? A\jgBM : HOW CHRONIC C0U6HS ? Are Being Cured by Vinol New Haven, Conn.?"I was troubled " '- ^^1 . with a most persistent chronic cough rinT in j?j nd "old oiSSJvCy V:'<?:'1$& . for a long time and had tried so many - ^ Take ofjaw V ^ | remedies and prescriptions without 'L If benefit that I was discouraged. I was A18* r? yc*Kkr-o?c s?t.safest.Always Reh*bi# persuaded by my friends to try VI- S0LP BY fV^tiGfifSTS EVERYWHERE 1 nol. After taking the second botfle, ^ 1 my cough left me, and I must say I J > ' never felt better in my life. I can also recommend Vinol to any one in a t run-down condition as the best possibie combined action the , medicinal elements of the cods' liv- I ere, aided by the blood-making and "LOMBARD" j! strength-creating properties of tonic L -A>rAJ n^... IfSVIw iron which makes Vinol so efficient in jllTIPf 0VVU udW lvilllui piirinc nhrnnlft rnneha rnlris and L'.minir cnirTlAL CTCn Strong, Aecunu bronchitis?at the same time building (VAK1ADLI inHJiivn illu. ??d iuiiiw?, i Try a bottle of Vinol with the un- eagy to'^andle. Are made in seven j i derstanding that your money will be 8izeg are good, substantial money i returned if It does not help you. making machines down to the smallest j Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. size. Write for catalog showing En J ; S. G. MAYFIELD. W. E. FREE. - ^ MAYFIELD & FREE ? *ucu - " J AbKSW FRANCIS F. CARROLL ,* ;JJ Practice in all the Courts, both " A,, , ? State and Federal. Corporation AttOrney-at-JLiaW practice and the winding up of estates a specialty. Business entrust- Office in Hoffman Building ted to ns will be promptly attended GENERAL PRACTICE. H. M. GRAHAM bamberc, s. c. Attorney-at-Law J- Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson Will practice in the United States and TTT o tt j State Courts in any County Wyman ffl Henderson in the State. bamberg, s. c. Attorneys-at-Law Stetson nats ana otner nue maites, t $2.50 up. Also straw hats to close BAMBERG, S. C. out cheap. Write F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. General Practice. Loans Negotiated.