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VOL. III. NO. 46. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1906. 31.50 Per Year! By Walter besant CHAPTER XIX. 10 Continued. "Harriet has made up * fine collec tion of lies," 8n id Jem, with a whole ?erlea of tight winks, and an attempt ?t a light and cheery- manner. "When ahe'a In a wax there's nowhere a finer ?trlnger of big ones"? he glanced fur tively at his cousin, who stood medi tating, his hand on the hag containing the Jewels. "Now I assrre you I had no more notion of what she waa going to make up this time than you your* aelf. Ran them off fine and fluent, tldn't she? In half au hour's time she ??will by crying on my neck. Poor Har rfet! it Is her Infirmity. Poor Harriet! 'And as Tor these lies, the less we dis* cuss them the better. They're too ab surd to be mischievous." "How came the Jewels in the bag?" "She put 'cm there harselt. I kuow nothing about them." "How did she get the key of the ?afe ?" "I gave It her. Why, when you were dead, I thought the Jewels and every thing else were mine. I gave her the Jewels for herself. She only put them Into the bag to make up a story." "Yet you promised ? you promised sol emnly?that if anything remained over after the trust money waa paid you would give it to Katie." "That was when we thought there would be barely enough in that trust. You could not expect -" "Go on." "Well, I gave her the key of the safe, (where tlic jewels were lying. That is all I have to explain." "Then there is the old silver. I sup pose you know that my uncle's collec tion of silver is worth a great deal." "I gave it nil to my wife as well. I didn't want old silver. Women like those thing*. I gnve It all to her?not to sell, of course. She wouldn't have ?old It. What does she do? Paek It up In this sideboard aud pretend I pat It there." "Then there are the pictures. I no ticed a whole stack of tliom In the hall." "I suppose she put them there her ?elf. By the Lord, Tom, it's as neat s put up tiling as I ever saw." "As for the wlno, now " ? Oh, as for the wine, I drank It regu larly till you came home. Why not?'' "Jem, there's some law about in heritance. Were you entitled to all these things? I have other cou'ins, you know, by my mother's aide. They ?re in New Zealand, to bo sure, but ?till ? " "Well, "?.Tern looked embarrassed, ?nd be winked hard? "I can make all that clenr to yon.- But It's a long ?tory. I can't explain the law of In heritance in five minutes. When we have a qnlet quarter of an hour to gether " "Ye-yes," said Tom. "Your wife's revelations have made me seo things more clearly. My return must have disgusted you more than enoiigh, and 1 ought to have understood It. I forgot that altogether. Well, yon had better, 1 think, let me take possession at once of uiy own house. If it Is mine, or tem porary care of It, If It la not mine, with these valuable things. Please make out a statement of the whole estate with Its liabilities by? say? by to-mor row. Can you do that? Shall I send In accountants to help you?" "I must say," Jem begou, "that your ?usplclons " "I do not allow myself to liave any suspicion*. As for most of what your wife alleged, I shall never make any further inquiries. But until I hear from? from Kate's own lips? If we ever 11ml her? the truth about her In terview with you? whether she re pealed her destitute' condition to you or not? I can have no denlings with you." "1 suppose." said .Tern, "that I may muke out my hill of costs?" "Certainly. Oh, Jem! if you had ?cted well by that poor girl? If you had behaved with common honesty and truth? there Is nothing in the house that you might not have taken! Noth ing of mine that you could not have had. Man. I would have made you re joice and thank c.od that I returned." There Is only one more chapter of this history to be written, and that Is ? short chapter. Let me. therefore, ex plain that Jem's after conduct with re gard to Uncle Joseph's estate was per fectly fair and upright. He sent in, the next day. a statement of the estate, and the various securities, houses and lands, belonging to it. He also sent lu tils bill of costs, which was naturally heavy, not to say outrageous, and he .wrote a letter, couched In most digni fied language, stating that after what had passed he should be pleased to be relieved of his functions In administer ing the property without the least de 1*1- . This done, and having received a re ply, and a check for the bill of costs, be ?ent the whole of the papers to his cousin's new ' advisers, cabbed the check, called a cab. and drova away. He never came back. The two old clerks went on dozing and meditating; the boy slumbered, and read penny novelettes, and played at astragals In the office below until Saturday, and then Ihere was no money, and no on? to n*k for It. They waited anotlic week The master cam# no more, nix tytu uu4tr?*o4 AM tfeflr tn V ?M gagement had come to an end. The boy waa the moat grieved of the three, because to him the dlaaater meant that be would now have to find a place where be must work In earnest. The two old men, who had done tbelr life's work, also looked for other places, but failed to get an engagement elsewhere. One of them had saved money, and he proceeded to buy himself an annuity, and la a moat reapectable old gentleman, with a strong opinion in politics. Tbe other, wbo had aaved none, went Into tbe Marylebone Workhouse, and 16 now one of those useful collegians wbo learn the rules by heart, and Insist upon their belnp carried out to tbe letter, and complain to tbe guardians continually. Tom met his cousin a few months afterward. He looked less like a seri ous solicitor than ever. Tom bore no malice, being now restored to happi ness, and shook hands with him In cousinly fashion. "And how are you doing?" he asked. "Getting on with your profession?" "No. I say. Tom, what that she devil said was all true. I meant to have stuck to all tbe money when you were dead. You ought not to have come back. You were dead. You had your funeral, so to speak? what would happen If dead men kept on coming back and upsetting things? When you came back, I saw that I should get nothing unlets I helped myself. But I did hope that you would find the girl, and that we should arrange everything friendly.'* "I see," Raid Tom. "Well-It was or dered otherwise, as they say. And how is your wife?" "She Is singing at a Liverpool music hall. She went her way and I went mine. A fine woman, Tom? with a temper. I believe that Baronet fellow, Surennery, as they call him, put her on to it." "What Is your way, Jem?" Jem winked both eyes and laughed. "I atn now a tipster, Tom. I send the name of the winner, you know? and the mugs send up their half-crowns by the dozen. Juggins, thank goodness, Is everywhere. Oh, I'm doing pretty well. As for the law, I always hated It. You're looVjng well and beaity,\ Tom. Good-bye? good-bye!" CHAPTER TIIK LAST. I. IKE AND I-OVr, Everybody at the hospital continued to show the most extraordinary Inter est and sympathy with Kfltle during her short convalescence. The senior physician spoke mysteriously of joy as a great assistance In cases where the patient bad been brought low by trou ble; she also said that freedom from anxiety would be found an Invaluable medicine; and that rest from every kind of work with perhaps travel amid new scenes, would complete her cure. 8hc said these ridiculous things just as If rest and ease and travel were attain able, and within the reach of the poor est girl In all London. Then the Sister, a most sober-minded and practical per son, free from all enthusiasms, agreed with the senior physician, and sihl that she was always right, as her patient would find. Then the secretary used to sit by her bedside and whisper that, pfter all, there was no cure so good as happiness. And so with everybody. The other patlenta were all In the same tale, and would tell her that she was a happy girl, and no one envied her, bccausc she denerved all. Why, even when visitors came to see other patients there used to be a great whis pering. and the visitors would look at her curiously. Kate mended fast? and one ofternoon her friend. Miss Wllloughby, told her that the time had now come when she could leave the hospital. "And now, my dear," she said, "you pre to have a surprirfh. Oh, what a lot of things I have to tell you! I heard yesterday what the dortor-oh, she is ? wise womon!? said about joy. Yes, Joy Is a beautiful medicine. Thank (jod, I know It in my own case. Now there Is no luggage to pack up, la there?" "I am the only girl in the world," said Katie? "the only girl, I believe, who has got no luggage, no posses sions, no money, no friends, and no relations." "Yes; which will make all that fol lows tbe~niore delightful. You may add, my dear, that you have got no Clothes." "No clothes?" "Why? you could not possibly go to the House of Joy in such poor, shabby things as you had on when we brought yon here." \ "Katie, I am In maurnlng, yen know " "My dear"? she kissed hfr? "nobody knows it better than I do. Sometimes, however, wc put off mourning -on joy ful occasions? say, for weddings. To morrow, If you like, you may put it on again." Her new clothes were fitting for a young lady, being, In f?ct, much finer than anything tbe poor girl bad ever worn in her life before, but Katie put ?hem on without a word. "Where have you brought me?" Katie looked about the room. They had come In a rati; It was fi o'clock; outside it was dark already; they werp in a room beautifully furnlsbad, wltb ?11 tortf of prfttj tbiofi In It; tb? j' . lamp was lighted, and on the table tea was standing in readiness. "My dear, yon mast not ask. too many questions, because I have got such a lot to tell you. Oh, how shsll I ever begin! First, you shall hare a cup of tea? and so will I? nothing In the world like a cup of tea. Formerly ladles drank amall beer. Think of that! Is It sweet enough, dear? Ob, Katie? I am so happy to-night." She stopped in tier talk to kiss her. "This is my room ?is it not a pretty room? And now 1 sm going to give it up to my sister, be cause I am going to be married? you know that, don't you? My lover, who was dead, has come back to life again, and nothing will please him? the fool* Ish boy!? but that I must marry him at once. Oh, fT^our lover could come back, too! And I shall never have such a pretty room as this again. I am sure. But I shall have him Instead. He was In Egypt, you know, like your boy Tom? poor Tom Addison. My boy knew Tom Addison very well. He will talk to you about him if you like." She stopped and kissed her again, and again the tears came Into her eyes. "Well, It was all in the papers, and 1 dare say you saw It. There was nn expedition made, an attack, nnd the Egyptians ran away, and my boy was reported missing? Just like yours. Yes, dear, we were sisters In misfortune? and we did not know It? that day when you fell fainting Into my arms, nnd told me you were without friends nnd without relntives, aud I was your cousin all the time." "Are you really my cousin?" "That Is one of the things I am go ing to explain fo you, dear Katie. Oh! if Tom Addison bad only come home with Harry McLaucblln!" "McLauchlln! That Is the name of the officer who was' missing at the same time." "Yes? he was only a prisoner, and he escaped. If Tom had only escaped with him! Foor Katie! we lost our lovers together. Oh! if we could And them together." She stopped and listened. Outside there wore voices. She ran out of the room, nnd Katie heard her saying, earnestly: "Not yet ?oh! not yet? I Implore you? not yet? wait till I call you." Then she returned nnd shut th s door carefully. "Ob, 1 have such a lot lo tell yon. First of all. dear, you are my cousin. I)o you see tills portrait?" It was a miniature representing nn old lady, sweet of faco and beautiful. "That Is your great aunt and mine. Katharine Itegina Wil loughby. Your name is the same, and so Is mine." "But my name Ih Capcl." nf tllO ?!.? will. JUIU father called himself Cnpei because he quarreled with bis relations? and? am! refused to speak to them any more, you know." This was n kliu^ way of put ting It, and the male members of the family reversed this statement. "But his real name was Wllloughby. Here js a portrait of him in uniform when he was in the army? there It is." She brought a water-color portrait showing a very gallant young hero In searlet. 'Tls a eolor which sets off the Are and masterfulness of the hero In his youth. "Oh! It Is my fnther," cried Katie, "though I caunot remember him so young at this. But he kept his good looks to the last." "Yes? It Is your father. It Is all proved now without the leaRt doubt, Katie." She lowered her voice as one dot's when one Is going to say a disa greeable thing. "We will not talk much about him, because he-he had his faults, I am afraid. But you should keep this likeness. He was Miss Wll loughby's favorite nephew: she gave him quantities of money; she forgave him all extravagances; she even placed ? large sum In the hands of Mr. Joseph Addison, ber solicitor, so that he might enjoy an annuity of ?300 a year, which wns paid him regularly." "Oh, In Mr. Addison's hands? Tom's Uncle Joseph?" "Yes, after his death the principal was to be given to her niece? to you, my dear." "To me?" "Yes, to yon. That trust, the discov ery of which sent Tom to Egypt, wns yours, Kntie. And I am very much afrnld that Mr. llolfe, who seems to have been a person of no morals at nil, was actually going to cheat you out of 'j . It Is all yours, Kntie; you are? not rich, perhaps -but you have plenty. Mv, dear, If Tom had only escaped with Ilarry!" "Oh; but how did yon find out nil this? Is It really true?" "You have lots of friends, Katie, quantities of friends. There are both friends and relations waiting for you. To think that I did not know, and took you to the Co-Operative Work Olrls! But never mind. And now I am going to bring In some of your friends." She rnng the bell, and the door was opened with a promptitude which proved that the man? It was n man? must have been lurking outside in readiness. "Katie," said the other Katie, "this is Hnrry McLauchlin? niy Harry? who was In enptivity among the Arabs foi six months with your Tom. Harry made bis escnpe, you know. If Tom could only have escaped with him!" The escaped prisoner, who showed no traces of his long enptivity, bowed and took her hand, but said nothing and looked embarrassed. "It is like n drram to me," snld Katie. "I cannot understand. You were ? prisouer with Tom?you were present when he? was killed?" "Harry will tclj you all. If you please to ask him to morrow; not to-day. dear. He will tell you how it fared with them In their long captivity. But per haps you will hear from another source." "MIsf Wllloughby," snld Captain Mc* I.auehlln, recovering from his eon funlon, "we found out? Tom and I? In i the talks which we bad at night oil about ?ft?U oilier. Wt \U\ ron could bo none other than (1m laughter of Harry Willoughby." "Did Tom send me no message when fou eocaped? none at all?" "None," said the captain. "Captain McLauchlln. tell me**? she caught his hand? "oh! tell me, once for all. how he died." "Not now, not now. Ask me. If yon like, to-morrow." "Did he Buffer? Was he murdered while he tried to escape with you?" "He was not murdered, but he suf fered?well, he suffered about as much as I did. We had a bad time of It, Miss Willoughby. He helped me to bear It." "Ask him no more questions, dear,** said her cousin. "To-morrow, as many as you please. There is another friend who wants to see you." Then there appeared? none other than Dittmer Book. At the sight of Katie lip burst Into unfeigned weeping and sobbing, and fell on his knees. "Ach. nimme!," he cried. "It was my fault. 1 ought never to have left yon alone. I was a Duuim Kopf. I lost my way In the fog. And It was midnight when I got back to the Park, and yon were gone? you -were gone, Katclien, can you forgive me? All your sufferings were uiy fault? mine. Rut they are all' over now that ?** He stopped and choked. She gave him her hand, which he kissed, and got up still penitent. "You did your best, Dittmer. Do not reproach yourself. Can 1 ever forget that you were the only friend we had in the world? Lily and I? before we all lost each other. Where is Lily?" Dittmer stammered. "I? I? I? do not know," he said. "I seek her still." "We must find her, Dittmer. Do not let us lose sight of each other again. \ou must have so much to tell me after all these weeks." "A eh! I mnst no more Call you Katclicn, but Fraulein Willoughby? and you will no more listen to me, be cause " He stopped and looked confused. "But you will be happy. What matter If all the world were bankrupt, so that you are happy. It 1s true that my salary, which was forty pounds a year, Is now sixty pounds. I should have had thirty pounds a year to help you with, because I could live easily on thirty pounds a year." lie sighed as if lie had lost a beautiful chance. "I must not grumble. Your happiness is wortli more than thirty noiiiuls a year. It is true also that I have nearly completed a project which would give, I am sure, another Gode froi to Hamburg, if I could be helped by your sympathy." "You will always have that, Dltt LAJt'l ? % "No; yon can no longer listen to my plans. What are ambitions without a sympathetic friend?" "Why not. Dittmer? Did we not agree that I wa* always to be your sister? What lias happened to destroy that Agreement?" "You are rich: you hare many friend.?: you will have also " He stopped because the other Miss Wil loughhy shook her finger, "Ya? I goiri br eh end. I any nichts. I search for my Island in the Pacific Ocean, like Herr Godefrol." "Herr Bock"? it wa? the other Kate ?"you can have no more time. Now go? all of you? because there i? still one other friend " "My dear," she said, when they were alone, "does Joy kill? Are you strong enough to bear the greatest surprise of all? Everything has been restored to yon. Your name, which your father concealed; your fortune, which a dis honest lawyer wished to rob; nnd? and ?oh, Kate? we are happy together, Heaven gave you to me on the day when my love came back to life? I give you back to Tom? not killed, but es caped? and at home again and well? waiting for you? waiting for you, my dear " One shall be taken and another left. Where 1? the woman who was left? Alas! they have not yet found her, though Dlttmer seeks her continually. Perhaps In (he future, far or near, the happy woman who was taken may be permitted to bring the solace of love that endureth beyond shame unto the hapless woman who was left. So mote It be! They were married from Ilarley House, so that the girls who have to seek continually for work and have never any Joy In their lives, or rest, or love, and never get enough of any thing, have now something sweet and pleasant to remember and to tell, THE END. Money From Fro|i, Several young men of Clyde hav# been engaged during tbe past week In catching nnd shipping frog* to the city market. Tlie frogs are raked np from tho bottom of the canal, where they lay in tbe mud In a torpid state. The business pays those engaged In it from $5 to $0 per day. From sixty to 180 pounds of frogs' lrgH can be secured dally, which can be readily sold for fifteen cents a pound. One man in Clyde has been out driv ing about the country the past two weeks catching frogs In the ponds and ditches, and has realized from $5 to $6 a day for his services after pay ing expense?.? Clyde Correspondence of Rochester Herald. A FIUmb Ton Ploc* of Coral. The dredger Governor, in tho old Pa cific Mail dock, did hertelf proud yes terday morning by landing n fifteen-ton piece of coral on dry land. The big scoop ha.l been delivering ordinary loads, when tbe boom dropped and the engine started to haul In a fresh load. Then the g*ar groaned and things com menced to make a big fuss, and more steam was given and everybody stood by. Balanced as neatly as an egg In a spoon came tip a coral rock far too big to get In the scoop and Just able to cramp In under the fta block,? Hono lulu CommtrcUl AdrsrttHr. ^ - - WRECK AT DANVILLE Another Rear-End Crash and Negligence I he Cause TWO TRAINMEN ARE VICTIMS Engineer George Kinney, of Thomas ville, Brother of the Engineer Who Had Such Narrow Escape Thanks giving Day, and Brakeman W. B. King,, Killed Outright ? No. 34 Tel escope* a Freight in the Tarda at Danville ? Fire Follows the Wreck ? A Number Injured, of Whom at Least One Will Die. Danville. Ya.. Special. ? Another railroad horror on the Southern which in many resects resembles that at Lawyers nine days ago, which re sulted in the death of President Silen cer, was enacted in the yards here Saturday morning at about 4 o'clock. Two persons were killed outright, half a dozen more or less injured, ouj of whom will die as a result of their injuries. Train No. .'14. northlxmnd, a solid Pullman and passenger train, crash ed into the rear of freight train No. 82, which was standing on (lie main line. The engine ploughed through the caboose and demolished several cars ahead of it. Fire followed the wreck and the local department was called out. Four or five cars wciv consumed and others badly damag ed. The Dead and Injured. Engineer (Jeorge C. Kinney, of No. 34, was scalded to death and Brake man W. H. King burned to a crisp. The home of Kinney, who is a brother of Will A. Kinney, the engineer on the train that crashed into Spencer's car, is at Thomasville. N. C. King's home is iu Danville. The seriously injured arc: II. M. Patterson, of Chatham, brakeman. in jured about the head and shoulders and kg broken. (). J. Mull, of Columbia. S. Hag man of No. H2, back sprained and hurt about the head. O. O. Mailer, postal clerk, slightly Robert Ford, eolored tiremau on No. 34. injured internally ami will likely die. Several of his bones were broken. The blame for the wreck rests up on two employes of the Southern. Flagman Mull, of No. 82, who was in jured, and one or the other of the op erators nt Danville and Ncapoli-. block stations. When the freight came to a standstill it was the duty of the flagman to go hack and place a danger signal for any approaching train and the information so far shows that Mull did not do this. Operator Skenille, at Danville, and Operator Clellons, at Neapolis, make contradictory statements regarding the (tending and receiving of orders of a clear block for No. 34 and only official investigation will bring out the real facts. Dispatcher Skenille, at Danville black station, was former ly at Rangoon and was succeeded by Mattox, who is held responsible for the recent big wr?ck at Lawyer*, An investigation by the local police au thorities will be held in the mayor's court Tuesday morning. Wreck at China Grovs. China drove. Special. ? Several box cars of southbound freight train No. 75 were derailed here. A num ber were completely demolished, but nobody was hurt. The chief feature of the wreck was the inconvenience t-j passenger trains. The main line is completely blocked, and unabh to pass at 1 1 :30. Young Men Needed Tor the Navy. Washington, Special. ? " We want younger men to command tin- ships of the navv," said Admiral Dewey, after an interview with the president, "ami the only way to accomplish it is to retire officers early." This re sult is sought to he attained hy th" enactment of the naval personnel bill which the Admiral discussed with the president. Discharge I Negro Soldiers Apply for Re-Enlistment. Washington, Special.- At the in stance of Secretary Taft Sergeant Sanders and Private Klin >r Krown, of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry, colored. Hied with the military secretary ap plications for re-enlistment in the army. One of these has been refer red to the President in order that ho may determine whether or not any of the men of the Twenty-tilth Infantry who wore recently discharged with out honor shall be re enlisted and if so on what condition*. John 0. Brain Dead. Tampa, Fla., Special. ? John Brain, of the Confederate uavy, died here of paralysis. Duriutf the civil war he commanded scver.il Confeder ate vessels. After the war he went to Kngland and returning a month later he was arrested by order of Secre tary of the Navy (lidcon Wells and ( was held a prisoner until March, ? 180D, being the last Confederate pris | oner to be released. THE WORK OF CONGRESS What Our National Lawmakers Are Doing From Day to Day Taft to Give Information. The resolution ol' Senator Penrose railing the President or all tlu facts regarding the discharge of the negro troops belonging to the Twenty-llt'th Infantry, was received at the White House and at oiuv? turned over by tho President to Secretary Taft, who will furnish the information desired. The Foraker resolution. whieli also was passed at the same time, but whieli is direeted to tl?.? Seeretarv of War, had not been received by Secretary Taft up to a late hour Friday. See rotary Taft said, however, upon re t timing from the cabinet meeting, that he would comply with both reso lutions to the fullest extent. Simplified Spelling. Simplified spelling received a hard bolw in the legislative bill for 1008 reported to the House by the com mittee on appropriations, which says: "Hereafter in printing documents authorized by low or ordered by Congress or either branch thereof the (lovernment Printing Office shall follow the rules of orthography es tablished bv Webster's or other gen erally accepted dictionaries of the Ki.glish language." The bill carries an appropriation of "f.'U .'J 1 which is $liS."?.S4'2 less than the estimates made for the leg islative. judicial and executive l>c partnients of the government. An increase fiom $1/200 to $1,000 is made in the allowance to members o F the Hot&o for clerk hire, and th; requirement that members certify they have spent 1 1 1 i . * amount is omit ted. KlTorts to take up the bill confer ring eiii/i'inhip upon the citizens of Poilo Kico, reported from the com mittee on insular affairs of the House were defeated by objections of the f h-mocrats. An Important Measure. Hilling th.* three hours th" House was in session it passed a bill which has the enthusiastic endorsement of labor as well as manufacturers gen i rally, repealing thai portion of the Wilson inter state coininero* bill re lating to coii\ ict -made goods and pointing the several States to regu late their competition with "free labor'' made grods. The bill was introduce! by Mr. ^V"^oVA.,^^fiV.uli\ 1 liter' Vtie <V.V1son bill, which became a law in 1 S! M >. eon vinct labor-made poods may enter in to active competition with the :;oods U'Miufncturcd by "five labor'" and under this Federal law a State could i.ot pass a law that would prevent the shipping into the Slate prison trade goods of other States. The law which was pan* d abrogates the inler Stal;' commerce law as ai present ap plied to convict-made goods, thereby affording to the different States and Teriitori.-s the right to inhibit the shipping of eonvict-ninde goods with in the con linen of nnv State or Terri tory. Senator Simmons gave further at fen t ion to i1k? case* which lie is to make out against Federal olhcehold ers in North Carolina, who have been perniciously aetive in political mat ters. Ho eonfered with Mr. Ih'graw, Fourth Assistant Post master rjencral concerning the specific charges which have hren made against Dajrgerhart, the rural free delivery carrier, who, it is allied, tried to break up a meet ing in Iredell county, at which Mr. Hacked wan to speak. Mr, Degraw saiil that the inspector assigned to look into this matter had not vet com pleted his report, hut lie thought it would he at hand in a wry few days. Mr. Dejrraw cnlirincd the report given out hy the civil service commission that an agent would he sent from t h ? ? department to accompany Commis sion?r (Jreen when In* starts on hi tour of investigation to the State to look into charges against Federal of lice hohlers. Minoiity lender John Sharp "\ V i 1 - liiims declared it |o he his intention to recomineiid Kcpresentat ive Small for nn'iuhership on the livers and liar bor- commit Ive. a recoynil ion that i> being urgvd hv the entir North Car olina dHegaf ion, Mr, Williams is re pitted to Imve said that Mr. Small was his first choice, and that if Speaker Cannon did not approve ol this recommendation he would mwi endorse Representative Kllerhe ol South Cnt'o)!i:<l. Japs Want Naturalization. Washington, Special. Favorable action hy Congress on the recommen dation of the president in hi* last :tn uual message that an act he passed specifically providing: for the natural ization of Japanese who com ? to the Fuited States inlcnditur to become American citizens, will go far toward securing a continuance of the tradit ional friendly relations between this Cyfl'ifry and Japan, in t li ?? opinion of Viscount Aoki. the Japanese amha?> sador. The ambassador expressed the be lief that there were not so many Jnp anerCs in this country to tak** advan taif of naturalization if if were granted, but he thought that such an opportunity should be afforded thcru ::)on.e with the citizens of other coun tries. |Ic said he did not think it probably that those Japanese who wei'c emigrating in large numbers to Hawaii and the Pacific coast would avail themselves of natf ralization as most of them ultimately returned to . Japan, . CUL. YOUMANS DEAD 1 The End Came Peacefully, Quietly and Unexpectedly at an Early Hour Yesterday Morning ? Ono of the Most Eloquent Court Ream Orators Known in South Carolina in Recent Years. Columbia. Special. I.eioy F. You mans it, ill*; (I. The eloquent advocate ?mil learned lawyer passd away [Mon day morning about !? o'clock. H:s ? 1?>:i 1 1 1 was peaceful and pain less. During tlu* I'.iihi (Jen. Youinaiis awoke ami. as wa* his custom. lic?an to read in I d. Hi* had a volume of Mac.iulav, which he read for a time, and then rested hi.-' heail i>n his wile's shoulder. Alter a slum while Mi>. \ oilman-, thiukiuy her husband wa> asleep, frit that thciv was something WTony with liini. He was dead. ' Jen. ^ ouiitans was i:i his < in the Slate Capitol on Wednesday. Tlu next day beiuy Thanks.; fviny Day the otVice was elos'd, anil lie has not ?sincr been to the Capitol. Me was i!! on Saturday. Inn senile I hettrr <>>i Snndav, and there was uotiiitu* alaini illy; in his condit am. ll?' iiad sufl'er t'd for months from cii rliosis of th_? liver .and se\ei;;l limes dtiiiuy the Ia<l year his death had been expect ed. hut he rallied and seemed to pos sess a wonderful xitalilv. Besides his wife, who was Mrs. Til liny ha>t. o| ( tillisoiivillc, Beaufort county. < S?*ii. Y'MiimiMs i> survived by the 1 o 1 1 ( i w i n vi ineiahers of his family: I'l inyle I. \ unmans, of i h .? Coluni liia bar; .Mrs. M. McCoy Metts, wife ot Major \\ . A. Melts, of < 'olumbi::, at whose home lie died, and Mrs. Ol ivette llimtod. of Kric, |',i. Tbrrr chiidreii prrrrrd d liini l > yrave; Mrs. \\ . S. iteamer. Mr. Ifeamer, Mr. I* hft I \ oiimans, who died about : ix tccn yea is a ?.???, and Mr. Paul Von mans, who died in .lnn<\ l!MH. The loliowiny brothers and dsl is sur? \ ivc : Mr. \\ . 1 1. \ oi::'i;; )i.?, of Sau Sanba, 'ievas; I .aw rence W. You niaus. of Fairfax, S. ('.; M. II. Ynu uians. ol Statiord, 1 1 a 1 1 1 p t ? > : i cmoty, S. C. : Mrs. l-'rank Canev. of 1 1. imp ton: Mrs. Holiest T. Saii>"\. <d' Kstil!, s. ' l.eroy I*'. Yomnaus \\a . born X.?. \einhrr 14. lS.'U, a| I. a woiiv i I le. S. C. He graduated at the Soiuli Carolina I nivrrsity in 1S.VJ ;nul was admitted under the celebrated If. J. Davant. lie fount d a part ucrship with Mr. Kdinund Kl.eti when iiist admit ted and laicr with (leu. .1. \V. Moor.*, at llamploii. He w;;> elected solicitor in l^liti ami moved to Kdyclicld, 1 ?> form a partnership with (Jen. M. ('. Butler, which continued until I -w'J, when < ten. Votiiuaus came to Colum hia. wlieir iie has >iuce resided, re spected by all who knew him and loved by his associates at the bar. This year when Attorney Genera! Ciumer died Uen. Younians, at that time assistant to Mr. (Junler, was ap pointed Attorney General by Govern or lleyward. This appointment was made on March l!H)C>. and (Jen. Yoiunans has miicc been in office. Ihiriny a la rye pan of 'the time hi. health has been set-ii as to cau>e hi-, friends much anxi/ly. but lie has yiv en attention to the duties <>| his olliee liaviny a e.ipnble assistant in Mr. I >. C. Hay. of Cdumbia. Mr. YoumaiH was in his oiliee hi"! week and had lately seemed in belt r liealtli. This news of his- tlealh Monday, there lore, was a ureal surprise to hi* friends iu ( 'olimihia. When Mr. W. H. Town-?entl in Sep t.'inber. I resigned the position of assistant Attorney (Jrnrral Mr. Gun tcr selected Mr. Yoiunans to till th" vacancy. I pon Mr. (iuutcr's death, ii few months Inter, in Manli. l!NM>. Mr. Yoiunans was chosen b\ (lnvcn or lleyward as his successor, ] i i s ccm mission lviny issued Mai eh '27. Primary for Aiken. A iken, S| n"** !??!.-- At 1 1 ! ?? < ilk* ! meet iut; of tin- county e\<ciiii\e ? ? n - uiitlee l'i?r III;1 | mi r| ?' '* (.n'vis-i in. if 111* matter ol ? > i? ' a | >r i nut ? y li? nominate i ? ? lit - (Mv^'ui county treasurer and jud^e, holh ??! wltoin i ; * i .'tit i \ i < ? ^ i ? 1 ? 1 1 . it was ?!?*'? li? ?: i ?!?' r a primary and 1 lit* sain ? ha* bent scheduled I ? ? r III* j'l'cmnl Tuesday in January. Capt. Whilaon Woodward .Ocad. Ma rnwell, Special. -Tli ? town and surrouudiiia community was shocked Monday afternoon 1 ?\ the death ? > !' ( 'apt . W liihh'a Woodward. tap', Woodward ha- been an invalid 1 n the last lew \ ars -t'lV -i in^ I roin par alysis Ittil 1 1 1 ^ death v as ? | m ; < *? u nc\ - peeled and came a> a i en I shock all his I riciids. < 'apt. Woodward was injured in a wreck years njfo and from 1 luil lime !"? has never r. "jain ed his former strcn-ifh and activity. Later he suffered a strok- parayl sis and since that till"" has been con lined t<> his mom almost rontinuallv. ly. William 8 Case on Trial. Columbia, Special.- In the Federal Court Monday flu* timv was oceu pied xvith l!s suit of K. >1. William. atuinti the Soutl?orn ltailway. tit' trial not beiny concluded at ni;rh1 Williams claims tlO.OOO damages foi injuries alleged to have been rceivc! ed while h" and a companion were walking aloief I lie Southern's track near the Hla.uliiu: street depot in Co luttibiu in April, ."19051