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SKETCH OF THE JUD General U. R. Brooks i and Bar," Publish' Things the Vote "Mr. Associate Justice Ira B. Jones is 56 years old, and the highest position he has attained has been earned Dy bis own maiviauai wuau, and high, conscientious character. He was born December 29, 1851, in Newberry. As stated by Mr. Thurmond, in nominating him to the supreme court, his inheritance was a good name and an honest character. With this solid foundation to build upon, Mr. Justice Jones at an early age developed a character that has not only brought him political honor, but which has stamped him as a man head and shoulders with his fellow citizens. His rise to the high and merited honor is but another illustration of the adage, 'every man is the architect of his own fortune.' The early years of his life were spent in Newberry where he entered the Lutheran college there and went through the sophomore class. "In 1868 he entered the junior class of Erskine college and graduated in the class of 1870. Among the distinguished men in church and State who were members of this class was James Calvin Hemphill, editor of the News and Courier. At Erskine college Mr. Jones was a member of the Euphemian Literary Society, in which he distinguished himself as an orator and debater. He was medal orator of his society at his graduation. After graduation he returned to Newberry and taught school two years in the county and Edgefield, studying law in the meantime. While in Newberry he was associate editor ? j fAwn T-TQ trflS UI lilt? nuaiu ui LUU.V luiru. .. ? admitted to the bar when 21 years old, and since that time has followed his profession with zeal and success, as is evidenced by his elevation to one of the highest and most responsible positions in the gift of the people. "In the fall of 1875 Mr. Justice Jones removed to Lancaster, and has since resided in that town. It was then a town without a railroad or telegraph facilities, but there were great possibilities open to an active, energetic young man. The town and county were undeveloped, but a railroad was headed toward Lancaster \ from Chester. Mr. Justice Jones, then a lawyer just beginning professional life, induced by his cousin, Capt. W. L. DePass, late of Camden, cast his lot in Lancaster. When he got there he had $10 in his pocket and no friends and acquaintances. He had energy and pluck, however, which often count for more than dollars, and always bring tltem in. "As a lawyer he has been at the head of the profession in the State, In recent years his services were 1 1?J? J K,.+Via Ofo+o Tn largeij iu ueumuu u> V"^ celebrated cases in reference to the railroad taxes, which Gov. Tillman pushed so vigorously, Judge Jones was chief counsel of the attorneygeneral. From the inception of the , railroad tax cases his advice was always most valuable, and it is generally conceded that the victory of the State in these cases was largely due to his services as assistant-counsel. "In 1890 he was sent to the legislature as a member of the house of representatives from Lancaster. He immediately took a prominent part in the deliberation of that body, and was appointed chairman of the ways and means committee, and by common consent was the acknowledged leader of the house. On the election of Speaker Irbv to to the United States, he was chosen speaker of the house, which position he filled until January 30, 1896, when he was unanimously elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. And on the 22nd day of January, 1902, he was again unanimously elected for the full term of eight years to this responsible position. "By his uniform courtesy, kindness and fairness as speaker he received the approbation of all factions and parties. No speaker had been more popular or won more praise fron) members of all political faiths for his manner of conducting and expediting the business of the body over which he presided. He was elected a member of the constitutional convention in which he took a prominent part, and was chosen vice-president. Besides these honors, Mr. Justice Jones was for years county chairman of the Democratic party, chairman of the congressional dis+ onH q mcmhpr of the State ex ci au\i ? -?* ecutive committee. "While thus full of political honors from his fellow-citizens, Mr. Justice Jones has not been noted only in a political way. In educational matters he has always been foremost. He was largely instrumental in securing : LIFE OF GE IRA B. JONES n "Soutk Carolina Bench ed in 1908.?Some :rs Should Know. ! the establishment of the Lancaster : graded school, which has assumed a j high position among such schools in j the State. "At the opening of Winthrop col- -j ! lege he took a prominent part in the j laying of the cornerstone exercises, 1 | delivering the dedicatory address. In ; i charitable works he lets not his left j hand know what his right doeth. His ; good deeds have made many a poor 1 | man, woman and child happy, of j which the world has never known. "Mr. Justice Jones married Miss ?- - " -I.X ? xl* A 1A4A \ ! KeDecca vvyse, aaugmer oi me ww j Capt. Joseph Wyse, of Edgefield, ' j (now Saluda.) He has living two < I sons and three daughters. He is a 3 I consistent member of the Associate : Reformed Presbyterian church, being < an elder of the church at Lancaster. '< "As a judge, Mr. Justice Jones is 1 j one of the ablest. His opinions are 1 | clear and to the point. His mind is '< marked by great fairness, vigor and * j acuteness. He has made a great rep- < j utation as a judge. Honesty, sinceri- ! | tv and truth are the very essence of I his nature. His grasp is such that ^ j no complication of details embarras- '< j ses him. Quick of comprehension, < i almost unerring in judgment, with < ! admirable power of demonstration, 1 I he sees lucidly and makes himself < : understood in every opinion he 1 ! writes. The late Chief Justice Mc- * I Iver often spoke of him as the 'Com- 1 ing man.' " tho ahnvo was niihlished 1 U1UVV vuv wvw f v ? ? x Judge Jones was, on the resignation of Chief Justice Y. J. Pope, elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court | in January, 1909, taking the oath of office on April 15, 1909, which position he filled until January 9, 1912, ! when he resigned to make the race i for governor. Fight at Campaign Meeting. | Columbia, Aug. 1.?Geo. R. Rem! bert candidate for the house, and : floor leader for Gov. Blease in the ; last house, was knocked down at the (campaign meeting at Congaree, 18 miles below Columbia, this after! noon. Rembert left the meeting in ; a bloody condition and was given medical attention. The fight was brought on by certain insinuations by Rembert. When ! Rembert started his speech he re| quested that no one interrupt him j but if anyone should take exception i to what he had to say that he would ; give them satisfaction after the j meeting. The fight came after Rem: bert had challenged the Jones leader | in Richland to joint debate. McMahan told Rembert that he did not know whether he was the leader in | Richland county and did not know | whether he was entitled to accept the 1 ! challenge to joint debate, but that he 1 ! would accept the challenge as to ( | fighting after the meeting and that '< ' Vi^ tl-ohIH srivo him "a s'oori heat- i j ing." I Rembert jumped from the stand j and McMahan struck him in the face several times. Rembert was knocki ed down. The crowd surged around I the fighters. Dr. E. C. Adams found Dr. F. S. Earle, member of the Co| lumbia City club, on top of McMa! han. Earle was jerked off by Adams. ! Several men were required to keep Adams from attacking Earle. There was 600 voters present, all farmers, and the mention of Judge Jones's name cause much cheering. It was distinctly a Jones meeting. Head-on Collision on Southern. Danville, Va., Aug 1.?Seventeen or eighteen persons were injured, several of them seriously, in a headon collision near Clarksville, Va., of passenger train No. 107, Richmond to Raleigh, N. C., and an eastbound freight on the Norfolk division of the Southern Railway at 12:30 this | morning. The crash occurred on a | long, high trestle just west of Clarks| ville, with both trains running at considerable speed. 1 The coaches of the passenger train 1 | fortunately remained on the high ! | trestle but several cars were splin- ] ! tered or toppled over a high em- < i bankment, being practically demol- ' ished when they struck the ground below. The tender of one of the lo- 1 comotives also plunged down them | but the engine remained. A wrecking crew was sent from this city and | had the track clear and open to 1 trains by 7:30 p. m. j The injured are: J. C. Pugh, freight conductor, leg broken; G. E. Jones,, freight engineer, arm broken; | E. L. Holloman,, freight brakeman, arm and leg broken; J. M. Taylor, i fireman on freight, badly scalded. Light weight rain proof automobile dusters, also fine for traveling men, 'price $6.00. Write F. G. MERTINS, I Augusta. Ga. THE PALMETTO STATE. As Seen by a Yankee?A State of Perpetual Irritation. South Carolina is a State of perpetual irritation, situated between Georgia and North Carolina, and somewhere between the Revolution and the War Between the Sections. 1 It is the fighting State of the Union, ' and is the unsafest spot between the Atlantic and the Pacific in which to i discuss the emancipation proclama- 1 tion or to edit a newspaper with a trenchant pen. South Carolina is about as big as 1 the front yard of a Texas cattle king. ' It contains 30,000 square miles, is 1 -1 J in-- - ^ ,-vf 1 snapeu line a uve ccui mi ui pic, and has 1,500,000 people, including Republicans, Chinese and Indians not taxed. The population is almost equally divided between whites and blacks, but one white Carolinian when he gnashes his teeth and draws in his breath with a low, hissing sound can make 100 colored residents go away in search of rest and i change of climate without waiting for the next train. South Carolina was settled about 250 years ago, but has remained unsettled ever since. It has always been noted for its nervous disposition and its willingness to rise up ind smite the universe on all occasions. The British were having an sasy time in the revolution when they struck South Carolina, but General Marion soon made them look like a Republican who has criticised Generil Lee in Charleston. The State helped win the Revolution, but threattn tak#> its rioll thines and eo home in Jackson's administration, 2 ind in 1861 it opened the war between the sections by seceding with < i prodigious explosion. Later it contributed Tillman to the U ted States senate and has listened to the uproarious results with pride ever since. South Carolina was severely shaken by an earthquake in 1886, but did not secede at that time. South Carolina raises cotton, rice ind sweet potatoes, and supplies turpentine to the world at large. It begins at the Atlantic ocean in a modest way about six feet below high tvater, and for many miles inland is so moist that the farmers keep life belts handy. It has many fine old towns, full of polite and chivalrous citizens, but :he populations peters out in the ivestern mountains, where the people sat clay instead of ice cream and lobsters, and empty the hookworm out if their Sunday shoes by pounding 1 the soles with a stick. There are * three religions in the State?Prot- { sstant, Catholic and State Rights. Be- 1 tween the Savannah and the Pee Dee rivers John C. Calhoun is still the < greatest man in 'the world and his- * ?~ - ? :ory closes in 1865. Charleston, a beautiful petrified lity on the seacoast, is the metropolis :>f South Carolina.?Geo. E. Fitch in Wisconsin State Journal. Used Tomatoes for Revenge. Atlanta, July 31.? "When the poice answered shrieks for help and ushed into the home of Dr. J. T. Jordon, 48 Larkin street, yesterday ifternoon, they thought themselves n the presence of a frightful and )loody tragedy. Dr. Gordon was extended on a sofa. Sis face was covered with a red iquid that resembled blood and his lead was in a terrible condition. It vas wet and red all over and large chunks of what looked like raw flesh vere mingled with the hair. His wife, with her clothing awry md bruises on her face, was in an)ther corner of the room. But there lad been no murder. Dr. Gordon had struck her in the face, she said, and ,U ItVCUge UClBCU sue ua.u ixici.ooa.gcei ^ us face with ripe tomatoes. She had ? lsed a whole peck of them, vigor)usly, angrily. She had smeared them r his eyes and smashed them over lis head, and stuffed them up his lose and in his mouth until he nearly lied from suffocation. "If we hadn't come soon I guess she would have put salt and vinegar in him and eaten him alive," said :he police sergeant. Standard Oil $1,000 a Share. Standard Oil old stock sold on the curb yesterday at $1,000 a share, (vhich is the highest price on record. Several shares changed hands at this price. Before the dissolution of the , company the highest price was 842, < recorded in 1901. At $1,000 a share the market value of the old company, including subsidiaries, is represented by approximately $1,000,000,000, the capital out- ! standing of the old company having . been a shade under $100,000,000. When the dissolution took place . the market value of the old stock , v/as around $675 a share, making a total market value for the entire capital of $675,000,000. The advance . in market quotation has been $325 , a share, or a total of $325,000,000. The appreciation in market value of . the stock since dissolution has been approximately 50 per cent.?Wall Street Journal. v WHIMSICAL WILLS. IW Human Nature as Shown in Queer Requests and Bequests. 1 The remarkable will of a man who died not long ago directing the undertaker to stab him through the heart after he had been pronounced dead by his physician is not a unique one. The fear of being buried alive has driven many a man to stipulate in his will that extraordinary steps be taken to make sure of death. Thus, for instance, a magnate of Plymouth, England, decreed by his will that his wife should cut off one of his toes or fingers to make sure he svas dead, adding that he made the request so that "as she had been troubled with one fool she will not ;hink of marrying a second." The will of Lord Lytton contained special directions as to the examina:ion of his body in order to provide igainst the possibility of his being ouried while in a trance, which appeared to be an apprehension of his. A farmer of Hertfordshire, Engand, who died in 1720, was so cer;ain that his lethal slumber was to De not really death, that he inserted n his will his written wish that, "as ie was about to take a thirty years' aap, his coffin might be suspended o hfliim in hia ham and hv no neans nailed down." He, however, permitted it to be locked, provided i hole were made in the side, ;hrough which the key might be lushed, so that he might let himself )ut when he awoke. His nephew, vho inherited the property, obeyed lis whim and did not bury the cofin till 1751, allowing him an extra fear of grace. The Sieur Boy, who died in 1845 it the age of 96, said in his will: 'Eight and forty hours after my decease, I desire that a post mortem, jxamination be made, that my heart le taken out and placed in an urn, vhich shall be intrusted to Mr. Bau- ? loin (the undertaker.) In conformty with an arrangement between aim and myself my heart is to be conveyed to a mausoleum in the de- ' bartment of La Maoenne and there ;o be deposited, as agreed." Robert, the famous Earl of Mellent ind Leicester, one of the early crusaders in the holy land, died in 1118 :n the abbey in Preaux, where his body was buried, but his heart was ;onveyed to the hospital at Brackley, ;here to be preserved in salt. Isabela, daughter of the Earl of Pembroke, who died in 1239, ordered her leart to be sent in a silver cup to her brother, then abbot of Tewkesbury, :o be buried there before the high | iltar. The heart of John Baliol, I ord of Barnard castle, who died in | L269, was by his widow's desire in- | jlosed in an ivory casket rich enam- 1 ded with silver. ~~Z But all these examples, strange as a ;hey may be, are not especially re- ^ narkable among the countless num- | bers of curious wills which are re- 8 lorded through many generations. ? There is, for example, the will of g i rich old bachelor, wno, incensed at * -vhat he considered the attempts of fj lis family to put him under the yoke ? )f matrimony, vented his spite on the a vhole sex of women by saying in his g rill: "I beg that my executors will a ;ee that I am buried where there is ? 10 woman interred, either to the g ight or to the left of me. Should g his not be practicable in the ordin- S try course of things I direct that they g mrchase three graves and bury me g n the middle one of the three, leav- j| ng the two others unoccupied." S John Reed, gaslighter of the Wal- S tut Street theater, Philadelphia, fill- g ?d that post for 44 years. There is g lot on record a single performance g it the theater at which he was not g jresent. He never aspired to appear ? >n the stage in his lifetime, but he g vas not without his mute ambitions, g ind before he died he contrived in- g jeniously to make sure or assuming ? i Shakespearan role after his death, a V clause in his will read: % "My head is to be separated from i ny body immediately after my death, g ;he latter to be buried in a grave, s ;he former, duly macerated and pre- gjj Dared to be brought to the theater, | vhere I have served all my life, and | ;o be employed to represent the skull ? )f Yorick, and this end I bequeath | ny head to the proprietors."?N. Y. = Bun. Clever Willie. A rough-looking man entered the home of a gentleman in a western Dity, says the New York American, and seeing no one around but a small boy named Willie, said to him: "If you don't tell me where your father keeps his money, I'll knock yev top-knot off and afterwards eat >*er." "Please don't," said Willie. "You will find all the money we've got in an old coat in the kitchen." Two minutes later a bruised and battered wreck was pitched through the front door of Willie's home, and sat in the gutter and blinked. "That kid's too smart," said the mad. "Never said a word about the ol' man bein' inside the coat." Rub-My Tism will cure you. Ve Lead, Others Follow \ Our drug store service is of the best, and you receive prompt, careful and courte- , ous attention in each department. Let us fill your prescriptions. Nothing but the purest and freshest materials used in compounding prescriptions, and you are certain to get what was prescribed, as we never substitute. ^ Drink at our fountain and you will * * * x T ! 1 _ 1 drink nowhere else, i ry tne new annus . we are serving, and don't forget our Ice I Cream i8 the finest. I | BAMBERG PHARMACY J. R. OWENS, Proprietor. If we please you, tell others; if not, tell us. "CTRIKE WHILE THE 1 J IRON IS HOT WEBSTER, I | A p5Mciioloqiatl moment w. Sit I j. .4.. uJ' I. 1 cry rri&un, r> uyv.OA tvnot im. wtuiai ?u? ^ retelves his e<trnwgs, or small. | Twpwtamt if great . I Iajmitetg Mmfr if small. , | Ij atwab moment a. just ^ maie a/vut a pertwvi set aside to wen j mare, them, the t&jcvwm potuer> will begun to multtj)l^ om.i <m. a sijsfon, lAicii luds to greatest i/ndepenhance. ' , Our bomkmq methods cure amser- ) . j .J ?i ,i_ vtlMAAC, O/YUX (W/vn.vrw>(X/rta. |TJr 1/7ic auuiO' | Ititl xcusrfij fff-aU dbpo$\ti>rs. I FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANE I , * 4 per ct. 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RESULT: It Is to-day with its faculty of 32, a boarding patronage of 358 Its student body of 412, and its plant worth $140,000 THE LEADING TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA $150 pays all charges for the year, Including table board, room. lights, steam A heat, laundry medical attention, physical culture, and tuition inal subjects ? exceDt music and elocution. "For catalogue and application blank address, ^ REV. THOMAS ROSSER REEVES, B. A., Principal, BLACKSTONE, VA. , s / I " I v r *V