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??>% % VOL. V. NO. 34. CAMDEN, S.C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908. Sl.SOPer Year SCENT; OR. TRACED BY DIVINING f ROD; r By i LADY MARGARET MA JEN DIE. CHAPTER III. 3 Continued. "Women are easily satisfied when they know no better; rest assured of that. Antoinette will know no bet ter; also she will be a great protec tion to me. she has about her some of the mysterious gift?but I trouble you. 1 stay too long.** "Rigaud." said Mr. Denstone, earnestly, "be advised by me. Do justice to your child. You have no right to condemn her to this paltry life when she has been born to better things. Believe me, the happiness will soon compensate you for any sac rifice." -I hate the word 'sacrifice.* " said Monsieur Rigaud; "and, believe me, my dear friend, it is totally unneces sary. You kpow the old proverb, "What the eve doth not see the heart doth not grieve over.* It is absolute ly applicable to this case. So why should I not indulge my predilections for a quiet and unpretentiuus iife?" "I have, of course, no right to in torfere." j The old Frenchman bowed. The bow was full of a kind of fine irony j which irritated Mr. Denstone consid erably. "I have said all I can presume to say," he said, rather fiercely. "I am obliged to you for your good advice," said Monsieur Rigaud; then swiftly turning the conversation, "and more obliged to you still for 1 your most kind invitation. With your permission I return at once to my hotel, there to pack my clothes, and I will return this evening before dinner to install myself under your most hospitable roof." Monsieur Rigaud was Just going, when a sudden thought occurred to Mr. Denstone, and he strode after blm toward the door. -Rigaud," he said, "it has Just oc curred to mo I should like to give you one word of warning. Do not deceive yourself with the idea that when you are at homo at Goucy you can preserve now the strict Incognito that was doubtless possible twenty years ago. You are a well-known personage both in London and Liver pool, not only for your financial acuteness but for your enormous wealth: They tell me the railway runs through Goucy now. Where the railway goes, modern civilization fol lows. It will bo difficult for you to preserve your reputation for poverty even in so quiet a spot. Doubtless your frequont absences have been a fruitful source of conjecture and gos sip in the cafes." "Not at all, not at all. I am known to be a commercial traveler. I and my bng havo been known on the line the last thirty years, and as for sus picions in the minds of Goucy folks ?Peste! my dear friend, you who live in towns can form no idea what ever of tho obtuscness of country brains." "I can form a very good idea of the acuteness of town I,rains," muttered Mr. Denstone, but ho only drew back, saying half apologetically, "I meant to throw no reflection on your coun try folk. Rigaud." Monsieur Rigaud bowed again, and murmuring, "My respects to madame, and entreaties that I may in no way derange her." ho went away. Mr. Denstone turned to Arthur, who had been seated during the whole conversation near the window, apparently engaged in reading the Times. "That is a curious study, Arthur." he said. "What is your opinion? Is he mad?" "No," said his nephew, "not unloss tho cupidity of a miser is really a sort of mania. It Is taking complete possession of him, body and soul. You can seo it in his very hands, the fingers beginning to crook them selves. tho tips pointed and claw-like, tho furtive glance over his shoulder." "Wretched man!" exclaimed Mr. Denstone, walking up and down tho room. "Did you ever hear such con summate egotism? As to his wculth, my dear follow, that man has capital worth thirty thousand a year at tho lowest possible calculation of Inter ' est. nnd where is It? Tell mo that. Into what Is he dissolving It? "He could not carry about the bul lion even were ho fool enough to con vert It Into gold; and I hear of his closing banking accounts in all direc tions. I wish ho were not coming here. I cannot bear him now." "Where can the child be?" *:ile said 'at school.' It Is a mercy "that ho has the decency to give her some sort of education at nil events. As for her fate, shut up at Goucy with an old miser for her solo companion. It is a miserable prospect. God help her!" "Ho must die some day," said Ar thur. "I)le!" c/lod Mr. Denstone. "Those sort of people never die! I must go and tell your nunt that ho Is coming hore. 8'te won't like It at all."' CHAPTER IV. Monsieur Itigaud arrived In tlr.io fpr dinner. Ho entered (he drawing rdoni, where he found Arthur dressed first, amusing himself by half-petting, iMtlMrrltating his aunt's pet pug. The dog, who wanted to be let alone, kept making odd little yaps and snarlings. "Ah, your good uncle keeps some of these little houuds?" sold Monsieur Rigaud, sealing him self at some distance from Chloe's black muzzle. "They are said to be a great protection." "They are only little useless play things of my aunt's," auid Arthur, smiling. "She is very fond of them; but as for protection, I don't fancy they are very courageous." Monsieur Rigaud was looking fur tively at Arthur's stalwart form. "You are very tall and very strong?" he said, Interrogatively. "Yes, I am both." "It Is a fine thing to have so per fect a physique," said the old French man, rather plaintively. "Nobody would like to meddle with you." "I don't think they would," said Arthur, smiling. "Only, of course, one may be one ngainst numbers." "True. I wish I was strong like you," he went on: "and I wish my life were of as little value as yours. Stay! I did not mean that. Do not be offended." "I am not in the least offended." said Arthur, laughing. "My life can certainly not be considored the least valuable Just now. I hope to make It so in time." "Ah, yes, doubtless,, of oourse you will; bet meanwhile?" "Meanwhile it does not matter." "Certainly. How well you speak. I have a box, a little box. It contains papers of no value to any one but myself; to others useless, but to me inestimable. I went into your room Just now. It was a mistake. I would not have Intruded for the world, but I am a man of quick observation. I could not help seeing you had there a strong cupboard with a good lock, a firm, new lock; a mahogany cup board." "Yes," said Arthur, "it is so. There is a stout old wardrobe there. I hang my coats in it." "There Ib nothing of the kind in my room," said Monsieur Rigaud. "Nowhere to put my little box. And the housemaid looked at it so much. What sort of u woman is that house maid?" "A very good servant, I believe," said Arthur, carelessly. "The ser vants all nre good here." "It is a small favor to ask," said Monsieur Rigaud. "That box, might I leave it in your charge?" "With pleasure." said Arthur. "You shall lock it up there yourself." "You are strong, you are young," said Monsieur Rigaud, admiringly; "and those whose lives are of small vnlue live longest and in most safety. You are sure it will in no way de range you?" By no means," said Arthur, who could not help inwardly laughing at the naive rudeness of the old French man. "Then let us lose no time," said Monsieur Rigaud, leading the way upstairs. He brought in his box, a black dressing case or dispatch box of strong leather, strapped and double strapped and fastened with a Brainah lock. He put it in Arthur's cupboard and nestled it among his boots in the farther corner. He then locked the cupboard and deliberately placed the key in his pocket. "But stop," said Arthur. "Let. me nt least get all the clothes I want to morrow morning." Monsieur Rigaud gavo up the key vory reluctantly, and Arthur good naturedly bundled out his clothes, and, relocking it, returned him tho ko.v. They went downstairs and found their host and hostess ready for dinner. Arthur slept soundly that nlgtjt, very soundly, as his vigorous health and clear conscience enabled him to do. But about 2 o'clock ho awoke suddenly with the odd sensation that there was some one in tho room. Arthur had plenty of presence of mind. Ho made no movement, but lay perfectly still, and through a chink in tho curtain surveyed what was passing in his room. Tho shutters were unclosed and the moon shone In. making a brilliant white square on tho ground, as if a sheet had been laid on tho floor; be yond the squaro of light it was black darknoss, only the dim outline visible of the big mahogany wardrobe with its do,*>r open. 8ome one was moving with a most unnatural stillness of movement. Straining his eyes Arthur fancied he could make out something?a person sitting on the floor; but the complete outline was broken by the open door of the wardrobe. He held his breath > and watched more closely. | "flood Heavens!" he thought. "So I it was cot a delusion of the old fel low s after all. His bo* was valuable, land some blackguard Ik after It." I He was Just about to spring out of bed when ho was arrested In tlm?. Into the square or moonlight, for one brief Instant, cam? a hand; the lljjht gleamed on It, aad h* recognized at onco the long, lean Angers, with their ! sbarp, c1a'<y-like tips Hlightly hooked I downward. It was tho old man him self. The tension of Arthur s fpelings re lazed Into something like contempt and even a little amusement (or the present. He was careful not to move; he was afraid of frightening Mon sieur Rigaud Into some kind of fit. But the sight soon became grotesque, almost ghastly. The old man's face came Into the light. The thin, hooked nose, the sharply defined black shad ows cast on the ground, the old, claw like movement of the hands, seemed to Arthur as if he were watching a creature half-vulture, half-human. Then came the sound of his voice, the low whisper of a man counting "One, two, throe, four,** and so on. Arthur could not see what he was counting; that was within the black case; but it was something the old man loved, for his fingers fondled it, his face leered and gloated over it. It seemed interminable, for tho count ing went on up to hundreds, even further, when suddenly the close struck 3. and Monsieur Rigaud start ed so sharply that something in the black box jingled und rattled, lie hastily thrust in a mass of cotton wool that he gathered up from the darkness beside him, thrust it in, made all tight, replaced the box, took I away the key with him. and departed with the same extraordinary silence with which he had come. Arthur heaved a sigh of relief as the door closed noiselessly behind him. "I can't stand this another night," lie said to hlmselty "If the old heathen cannot sleep without counting his treasures, he , must change rooms with me; ho shan't come into mine to do it." The next morning at breakfast Monsieur Rigaud asked Arthur If anything had disturbed him In the night. He answered "Yes; that he had been greatly disturbed, but would explain later." Monsieur Rl gaud's face turned more yellow than ever, but he changed the subject with all the grace of a Frenchman apolo gizing for having made a mal-apro pos remark. When they were alone Arthur told him that his own sensa tions had troubled him; that he had an Inward conviction that the casket left in his charge was of greater value than he had thought. He was afraid of the responsibility, and he proposed an exchange of apartments. Monsieur Rigaud accepted with alac-. rlty, and from thenceforth to the end of the Week, when he departed, the Denstones saw little of him. He spent the whole day in his room, locking it up with the greatest-care when he was obliged to leave It, and manifesting so strong a dislike to any Inroad of housemaids that they re marked to each other that he was only going to stay a week, for his room would be unfit for any respecta ble dog to live in, let alone a Chris tian! Arthur, meanwhile, had been gain ing in the graccs of his new-found relations, and he would have been quite hjippy in tho pleasant conscious ness that ho was both Riving pleasure to them and also beginning to help tho severe necessities at home, but for a letter from Tola which drew him back Into the region of worries for the time. Tola did not often write; she had really more on her hands than she could get through properly; but for her, the little ones wonld have grown up untaught and neglected; but for her, the mother would never hnve been ablo to sit down for five minutes. She htd had a little disappointment lately, not a very great one, but still one that weighed on her a little. The first fruits of Arthur's ten pounds had been the long-coveted cashmere gowns for tho girls, and one for tho dear mother, too; but, like a true man, ho had followed tho advice of the linen draper's man and had bought dress-lengths. Ten yards would have amply sufficed for Tola and for her mother; but ten yards for Janet! that was Impossible. Tola was tho first to see it, and the first to suggest a remedy. Janet should have five off hers; and the remaining five would make a frock for Letty. Janet would not have accepted it, but the stuff was all cut out by Tola's deft little fingers before she knew or could remonstrate. Ono person observed It, but that was because of the extraordinary per spicacity of his gaze whenever Tola was concerned. This was the vicar, a grave, tall gentleman of nsarly forty, John Irvine by name, who lived with ItIh mother In St. John's vicarage, and was beloved by the poor, and rather feared than liked by the rich, lie seemed to know Instinctively how things stood, lie would talk to Janet, and glvo her directions as to h?r school teaching and her district visit ing; but he never gavo directions to Tola, and once, when ho saw hor large, brilliant eyes looking at him wistfully when he spoke V>f some siok person Janet was to visit, ho turned to her and snld, with tho rare, sweet smllo that used to lighten up his grave features: "Orand old George Herbert would appreciate your life. Miss Denstone." She did not thank him. but the flno light camo back into her eyer She thought a good deal of the few words he said to her, fe?1lng that she was a little household drudge and he like some saint of old days. But though Tola's letters were rare, they were generally very full of matter, and this one carried Ar thur back nt onco Into the society of tho homo circle. To bo Continued. Curious Korean Animal, A countryman reported that a curl* ous anlfnal had appeared in the dis tarict of Chungwha. It has long hair and Is different from anything be fore seen there. It roams through tho villages at nlaht, and many do mestic animals have be?'n carried oS by it.?Korea Dally News. SOME FLOOD STATISTICS Reports Still Coming in Showing the Great Loss by Recent High Water. Columbia, Special.? Commission)-! Watson hns received very lull re|>orU concerning the flood damage in tlie Savannah River Valley on tlie South Caiolina side, in rpply to liis recent requests for information to promi nent and intelligent residents of the, flood swept district? of the State. The replies from this section referred toj ace made by Mewrs. Harry Ham mond and J. C. Lamar, and the terri tory a fleeted is almost exclusively in Aiken county, down to the Barnwell county line. > From North Augusta to the mouth ol Horse ('reek, it is estimated that by the flood three thousand bushels of corn were destroyed, .520 tons of hay, and that tiie damage to proper ty, including manufacturing plants largo and small, amounted to .|82,(i00; the hiss to husiuess enterprises amounted to $i:i(>,f>f>0. Two negroes were drowned in this territory and that covers the loss of life in that area. Jrcm Horse Creel: to Cpper Huns it is stated that ii2.i.>0 bushels of corn .vere ruined, 1 .US 1 tons of hay and 1-*2 bales of cotton; 22M hogs were diowned or lost, 20 cows and two .ies. The property loss, iu cluding buildings, etc., was $:u>r>o. and t lie huisncss los was $410. One lite was lost in this territory. It !?:?.?; already been published that there is much destitution in this par ticular territory as the nsult of the destruction of the cr?>ps. the loss of live stork and rations in the coun try distrifts, .just as there vs in the Conga re:* River Valley in this county. hnJ measures of relief through the Red Cross and other agencies, are on foot to supply the wa:its of the ne groes and others who have suffered. Responses to Commissioner Wat son's ii.(|iiirv are still coming in, but Mr. Watson yet lacks sullicient data on which to f?>rin a satisfactory gen oral estimate. However, the rcsimuses that have so far come in give definite information and are from reliable people. They indicate a very heavy loss throughout the sections of the State visitel by the flood. In the Congaree Valley, the owner of one farm, who requests that his nam" he withheld, reports a loss of $21,700. $10,000 of which is in dam age to his lands from deposits. His other losses include S.000 bushels of corn and 8,000 bales of hay. An other farmer near him reports a crop loss of $0,030. The damage in Oconee County i* reported as follows: Three hundred thousand dollars in crops destroyed, $1 .">0,000 damage to farm lands.* Lancaster County reports crop loss es of half a million, damage to lands of $100.01)0. The Southern Power Company re ports damage of $S 1.000 at Kocky Creek, $(>.000 of which was in loss of cement. The I'elzer (Vmpanv reports dam age to its plant of $.'{.000. Anderson Countv reports damage to crops $20,000, damage to lands $.">0,000. (leorgetown estimates the damage to its rice fields at *100.000. The i-eabord suffered damages amounting to $-10,000 in this State. From Sumter County reports of $11,000 have been received. On the Sumter side of the Wateree swamps $S,000 worth of entile were drowned. Lexington Man a Suicidc. T.exington. Special.?This entire county was shocked when it became known that I'rof. John l>. Fa it, of Chapin, recently nominated for coun ty superintendent of education, had committed suicide some time during the night by shooting himself in th? head with a shotgun. Few were will ing to believe that one who had just a few weeks ago been honored by the people of his county would want to take his own life. ? Planning to Sell Direct to Europo. Columbia, S. C., Special.?The State Farmers' Cnion is at work on a seln me to sell cotton direct t<? Ku ropean mills, shipping through Char leston To this end Joseph I,. I\"itt. of the executive committee, has been appointed to confer with Commis sioner Watson to work out the de tails of the project. Not Guilty of Infcr.ticifo. Columbia. Special.? In the General Sessions Court, a verdict of not guilty was returned in the ease of IWia Clark, colored, charged with infanticide. The woman admitted throwing the baby in the swamp at Kingville, but claimed the child had diitl on the train before she got off nf Kingville, and sh" said she was afraid to go through the woods with the dead child in Vr aims. Since she has been confined in jail the woman has given birth to another child which she had with her in ('ourt. L**cn TTJV Aprcrl. Columbia, Sp-'i;'.- \{;rr::ev Gen eral I yon states {*:;?! the di*p"n?i'rv ease nil' ?>e fah'M up '-> tiie Fniled Stales Supreme {'-.tot. Ju?? low !'?' ??'nttfr will go up e,,itrot now h "i id, Inr it is iH" '''termination o1 'he \tto?-j'(y ft i"i el 'hi' <hn hisr't* ."st ( ouit i i ?' ? l-ind shall pass on ?he i-sues trvrfvrd a -d ill this the Attorney Gcr.rvt 1 has the ful] ap proval of tJover-ior AmspI. THLSTATE LOSES CASE Fleischmann & Co. Suit Not an Ac tion Against State- Framers of Constitution Never Conceived that Sovereign State Would Engage in Liquor Business. i.1'/ an "pinion banded down K H.moml. \ ,,y the I ?ift ,| Sla(t8 I iieuit < ourt of Appeals Jr 5? ^ IS ?? ''is lindiie-s in the now famous suit of th; clitnann Company and others against . .south (utulinn ?li >ih> isnrv ,irn. mission. Tli? opinion in this w In'i y *,5,,.nrs I'istrict ?J? lift' of t.reensboio. N. ?? by his associates. hjs.rict .lud?e Umlilill ;iii.I rhirl Justice Ful ler. |hp opinion is M?it(. len-ihv consuming more than fortv p.,.^ of eh'sHy typewriter matter. Mtn-h * however. is ,|, Vol, ,| ,|.c statement of facts. In the opinion proper Judue savs in part; There are two main propositions; st. the jurisdictional. whirl, pre sents the question whether this is i suit against the State of S??,th Car olina a,nl. therefore. forbiiMen bv !. i? ; ?,,d. s-eond. e ler the dispensary commission ;s a court meapahle of bavin" its pro cet?in?s staged by a writ of injuiic by a federal Conn. Does thi< case come within the limits prcserib <?" In this eonneetion it becomes necessary !o im,uire if th<> State has any present interest in the fund in controversy wilieh ean be divested bv a judicial determination of the true amount, if any. just I v due to the com plainant? Or has the State, bv an Act ot the Legislature, relicjuislied of n1"' ,'f n,,v |,xis,w*. c.amh ?f he tni.l to pay all the jus, debts ol the State dispcusarv. '' The lirst piopositiou rests lavcelv upon the construction to b,. .-iven to the Act of the South Carolina Legis lature of February 1(5. provid ing for the apiKiiiitmeut of a commis sion to wind up the affairs of the "tate dis|H'i.sary. and Seetion 17 of another Act abolishing the State dis pensary. The State, Iliromrh its Leg islature. has passed both the title and possession of the fund to the commis sion for the pur|?oses designated in p ?i '* the hands of the commission charged with this duty, the State has no interest in so much thereof as is necessarv to pav the just debts" ' ' Dispensary Fund a Trust Fund. I he Court cites the esse of the I nited States vs. Planters Hank of (.eorpia. (22. it. s..) and mai.v other <lcc.s,o,is sustaining this position, in cludintr the ease of (iunter. Attornev (icneral. vs. Allansie Coast Line Rail road, <200. r. S.) -I.. what capaci ty asks the Court, "are the n.ein tiers ot the commission acliii",' \re they officers of the State of SouMi andimi or are they airents appoint ed under an Act of the Lcgisinture empowered to take possession of -i certain fnml. and directed to admin ister such fund in a certain manner' J\c are constrained to hold that the funds in their hands are held in tru<t for the payment of the debts men turned, and I hut the creditors of the ), .sl.K>nsarv have a propertv in Hie fund in the |,am!s of the commis sion to (lie extent that the debts are shown to be just, and that a judicial determination of the true amount of such debts ean ... no wav alT.-et the rifjhts and interests of the State Ha\ inc. therelore. determined th* relation of the appellants to the funds in controversy. we answer the nues tion propounded in the outset that tills is not a suit ajrainst the State, aii'l that the complainant js not for bidden to maintain his action bv th? 11th amendment of the Constitution ? f the I nited Slates. This suit is not a-ramst the fSafe nor is the Stale an indispensihle part v. "Treating the funds in the hands of the appellants as a trust fund and the duties of the trustees bein" clear ly delined, the trustor is not even a necessary party lo a suit brought to compel the truslees to discharge their hitics The position appears to be agents and representatives lit (bblor should (oustilute a Iri bunal absolute it, ils eharncfer to ar . i rarilv pass upon what, if anvlhiii". is due an alleged creditor, and if a r,"!,n 'V adjndired invnlM to put ?? :"d '' without further op,H?rl unil v oi redress on the part of ||,e credi tor. O uphold such a cuilentioi. ? '' ,0 a cr ??!it'?r " us property without dtl.' process o| law. The State a Liquor Dealer. ^ I lie ( onrt further announces that in the conccfition and adoption of tlie 11th amendment it never entered the minds of the framers o<' ?|,e ameiidment that a sovereijfr, Stale wouhl eniraife in the li.,?or busine-s and become a trader by buyiiiir and sellinu an article of common traflic in compel it ion with the citizens of It may be ques tioned. therefore. whether ihe ? late <?f South Carolina was ?>xerci?. i"% " governmental prerojrelive i i per,ormimr n function necessarilv or orcp-rlv incident to its autonomy ,m a State." In reference to the provisions of the lltli amendment Judge Boyd uses the following language: "Undoubtedly the lltli amendment was intended to prevent the Federal Court in suits prosecuted by citi>.?n*| of another State or citizens or sub jects of a foreign State t'-om inter fering with a State in the process of its autonoigy in maintaining its own system of self-government so long a* such system is in harmony with th?? Constitution of the United States. To this end. therefore, the funds of llie State in its treasury, or hold by its' officers or agents for use in the ad ministration of the governmental af fairs in the State are not to be af fected In the process of a Federal Court, nor can such Court entertain jurisdiction of an action which has for its purpose the invasion ??! the lights of the State to manage and eontrol its internal affairs or of an action which will obstruct the Sta':> authority or impair the State in.tr". mentalities in the discharge of legi timate functions in the maintenance of the State's integrity. I-.cxington Crops Short. Lexington, Special.?Crops in this county, as a rule, will be sVort. Ks peeially is this true of the cotton croit. There is no lop crop at all this year and.r.ot muc!i of the first. The tlclds are while everywhere and if good weather prevails for a wocK or two longer the entire crop will have been gat!iei"d. All of the gin arc running on f?.ill tin <? and ntuc': of the lir.-l picking is being mark-.* ed. Roosevelt Appeal? for Taft. Oyster Hay. V.. Special.? Pres ident Roosevelt in a loiter So William ft. McKinlev. chairman of ihe Rc publican congressional committee, made public Sunday, appeals to dis interested citizens to join with the national Republican committee and the congressional committee in a movement to elect William II. Taft as President and a RepnMicau Con gress to support him. Forest Fires in West Virginia. Cumberland. Md.. Special.? Re ports are fc'itig received of disast rous forest tires in the vicinity of Thomas. Davis. William and other points in West Virginia along tIn line of the Western Maryland Rail roa;l. Water is very scarce, compli cating the situation. No water has passed over Ihe Dry Fork dam for some lime and conditions are serious in that locality. The smoke is so d'Mise at Thomas that objects a few feel distant tire indisl ingnishahlc. Confessed Murderer Arrested. Jacksonville. I" la.. Special.- Wa! tor l.cdhcttcr. a negro I ramp, was arrested by Sheriff Howi!cn. in the settlement <>f Marietta, and confess ed to killing Mrs. Norman and hei daughter lliere Sal unlay. A > soon as the rtsidcnls of the set | lenient learned that the negro had been cap tured. there wire threats of a lynch ing, but tiie negro was safely lodged in the Duval county jail, where In is 1111 !< r iiiiard. A speedy trial i> now being arranged for the negro Suffocated in Tunnel. Detroit, Mich., Special.?Two men wore suffocated and three others in jured in a fire at the Windsor end ol the Michigan Central tunnel Tues day morning. When the fiames were discovered the two hundred men working in the r.haft made a dash for the exits. All readied Ihe air except four. The exact amount ot damage is unknown. Testify to Piscriminationn. Atlanta. (Ja., Special.?There were only two witnesses examined by Spe cial Kxamiucr Smith. representing the Interstate Commerce Commission in the complaint of four negro bish ops a'leging discrimination against their race by several Southern rail roads. The Vjitnesses were II. K. Perry, a negro insurance worker, and A. Craves, a iwuio real estate agent, of Atlanta. Roth told of instance* in which tliev had been refused better accommodations than was furnished hv the railroads, even though they hnd been willing to pay for them. Lockout of Tv/o Hundred Thousand Operatives Probable. Manchester, Fug.. Hv Cubic.- Late Friday niyht there seemed to be no hope that a lockout of 200.000 cotton operatives could be aveded. The wage dispute is of long standing. The em ployers pi'OTi'ised to reduce wagrs tiv< per cent., but they flnallv consented not to put the reduction in force nn !il Januarv of next year. The ope vatives voted on the rpt"?tion whethet or not to accent f'oj n(T"V. It Is c.tlmnteil that 115.ut0.nno poo pie speak the i'/iu'.lth Inn'miTe CONVICT LEASE ENDS Georgia Rids Herself of Cruel System of Long Standing WORK OF SPECIAL LEGISLATURE Governor Smith Signs Bill Which Ends a Regime of Corruption and Great Brutality in the Cracker State. Atlanta, da., Special.?Just at mid night Saturday niirht (iovcriuir lloko Smith signed I lie convict lease hill which hciTiilicr prohibit* tin1 leasing i)t" felons except hy the consent of the (loveriior and prison commission. The hill was passed hy the IjCijis lature Saturday alter $:i.~?,000 had been spent in an extra session, ami iieai l\ a mouth used in discussing the legislation. With the signature of <iovenor Smith on the hiII as cu posscd, (icoruia has done away wit It n system which has been in exist ence ever since 1S(:.">. It was to settle this convict lease question that Governor Smith called a special session of the I.enislatuie. lie desired that the lease system be absolutely abolished and the hill as passed provides that there will be u? leasinir ol convicts to any contractor lor private ?ain. It is said these con tractors have made thousamls of dol lars out of convict labor i<? deor?ia in the last tortv years, men beinjf leased to them at .$100 a piece with the proviso ot hoard ami sleeping quarters. In the investigation which led to the present legislation there was con sidciable testimony to the effect that negro convicts had been whipped hy overseers, that in several cases the abuse had resulted in the death of men under the control of the lessee. When the (Jeorpia l.enilalure as sembled a month airo to cousi<h*r the question ot convict labor, (iovcruor Smith announced that lie desired all |' fees ot I lie lease sysein to Ic erad icated. The Mouse ami Senate disa greed as to how this should he ac complished. The Senate insisted that there should be no leasing alter March .{1 next. The Motive wanted the lease system extendi d to 1011. I* i nit 11 hdwever, Mouse ami Senate compromised on a measure which p< rmits the us., hy the Sl.;ie of any convicts not used on St|roads, no'r by rnii!iici|.alities, nor in State insti tutions. Iln se men may l> ? ii ;ed as the prison commission and (iovcruor sees lit, hut as a clos,? friend of (iov cruor Smith said when ii was sug gested this p!o\ isic-- miuhl have a .joker. ''(iov.'rsior Smith, you liia_\ he sure, is tota.lv opposed to leasing convicts to private individ uals ami will never coiiM"it to any leases of this kind. The l->ase system is dead." Watchman Killed by Robber. Durham. Special.--The dead hr.dv ol Jack Uoberson, niidil watchman Ibi* ( arringlou Lumber Company, of Kasl Durham, was found Satur day morning in the road bet wen lh<* company's plant and the railroad tracks, cold ami evidently ha'inpr been there several hours. When I he alarm was spread. Sheriff Murward was one of the first there and made the examination disclosing the wav the man died. Two calibre pis tol wounds were found in the body. Suspicion rests uon a colore*? man, and robbery was the cause of the cri ne. To Confer or RofJb. \\ a sit i t jv t o::, Special. AmvPfft wil| he oi.'-ial1 v i' present*1 i at th? I lit <?; ; ??. 51; ? | ''en, | ! i < i:i? ? x ( V. i:*/rc?rt to h.' Ir Id i!i I';;i i - 'i", i iii<i'i<!i, ;ic coid.i;^ )<< an .*>??: n*!';* < incut made last week. The IV,irji jii^.f rv of public worl- ha- b.-md formal in ' i t a I:?us t' i ;; 11 *i ;_*!:? ?:? s a *i11 on I cs of t !iis eoniif i v ami mr.nv \\: jI iii< ablv att ad. B irrlav .'jaoi an? KMbtl Macon, da.. Sp 'eial. 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