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VOL. .VI. NO. ?. CAMDEN, S. G? THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1909. Sl.SOPer Year m i:;:. A FALLLN IDOL Br FREDERIC ANSTEY. CHAPTER II. 4 Continued. "Bat why? you must have some seaton?" "Sur?ly -we ara very happy as wo ?re:** "Hardly, as far aa I am concerned. Just think, Sybil, how often do I ?\?t see you? Why, this is the first time wince that evening at the Pontl fexes' that I've had a chance of being alone with you. I have t? be content with catching sight of you through some confounded crush, and thiuk myself lucky if 1 get a look or a word 'In the course of the evening." "I think you might have seen that from the flrst!" she said, "but I sup pose it is your nature and you can't help It, so l must forgive you. And I will tell Aunt Hilary ' everything this very evening!" "I can t think of letting you do that," he said. .<"It ought to come from me." She gave a little sigh of very ob vious relief. "If you think it best," ?he paid. "And when will you tell her?" ?'To-morrow, as soon as the sitting Is over." "We shall lie? scolded dreadfully, I know." said Sybil, ruefully. "Still, ?o long as it relieves your mind? And now," she added, brightly, with a complete return to her original gay ety, "don't let us think of disagree ables any more. ' I've a surprise for you. While you were persuading yourself, I dare say, that I had com pletely forgotten all about you, what do you suppose ( was doing' for you this morning??guess." "I can't tell?v'i'm sure," he said, ?if It wasn't sllp(pers." "Of course it Wasn't slippers," said 8yhll, Indignantly; "to -think you've no more imagination than that. It was nothing oj that kind?I don't go in for It. Well, 1 had better tell you. I bought you a little present?you. know I never &&ve'3*ou anything In return for that lovely ring, which I've never worn yet." "You gave me this," he said, tak ing the hand which was nearer to -Mm. v "That didn't cost me anything to *ive; this is a real present?*vre you grateful, or will you tell me how ? foolish it Is of me to waste my money N on presents? That is what Aunt Hil ary used to say when I gave her any thing. To be sure," she ndded, re flectively, "I always had to borrow the money from her first, liut you "will try to like this?" "I think I can promise that," he ?aid; "I haven't any words to thank you with." "You must wait till you see It? perhaps you won't care about it. I don't know what made me think you would, but I'll tell you how I camo to get It. I was driving with Aunt Hil ary, this morning, and we went Into a little bric-a-bra<; Shop near Oxford street, where aunt had heard of some 8herraton she -'wahted to look at. "Well, the shop was kept by the dear est old man, who wore a velvet cap, and -seemed so low spirited; and while Aunt Hilary was upstairs look ing at Buhl cabinets, the old man poured out all his sorrow to me. It ?eems he has hnd nothing but misfor tune for months/ looses and break ages and burglaries and flres?all kinds of trouble, poor thing. Well, I felt so sorry for him, particularly as 1 knew quite well that Aunt Hilary wouldn't buy" anything?she never doos; so, I had made up my mind to get something for you, I thought 1 would get it there to cheer him up a little. But all the things were so dear except one. I'm not going to tell you what it is, because you'll know very soon: but it has a little Story connected with It. It was dug up a short time ago by some Captain Somebody, who had to leave the array shortly after for some disgrace he got Into?so the old man told me. And the ship which brought It over from India was wreckcd and all the cargo lost except Just that 0110 thing, which floated safely to Innd wedged inside a lifebelt. So it's rather ? curiosity in its way." "Evidently," said Campion "But I had such a frlgh,t while I was buying it. for in the very middle who should come in but Lionel Bab cock! He came smiling up In that patronizing way of his. swelling his chest out, and >;ald, 'Well, little one, and what are we throwing our pocket money away on now, eh?' 80 of course I had to show him. nnrt then he wanted to know wbat possible use could I find for that. And I told him 1 hnd bought it because his last pho tograph didn't do him Justice, and then he went upstairs to find Aunt Hilary, and I had Just time to give your address and swear my old gen tleman to sllenco. It ought to be at your house by this time, I do wonder what you'll think when you 009 It.'" "I shall think it my chief treas ure, whatever it is. I shall keep It all my life." "But will you really. Ronald? Somehow I don't like to think of your ever parting *vith It. Will you promise to keep it?whatever hap pens?" "Whatever happens," he agreed, smiling at her earnest, charming face. "Well," said Sybil, "we've had a nice long talk anil only one quarrel, and now 1 must go, Ronald." "Not yet.** he pleaded. ?'Ye?." ih? rejoined, "now. 1 coaxed aunt to drive home and leave me at the Mastermani', because 1 wanted to talk with,- that odious Alice; and 1 assured her I could And my way across tfce pavk alone. She said one never knows what kind of people one may meet, which is quite true, for I hadn't tho least idea 1 should meet you. I ought to so back at once, or she will be feeling nerv ous about me. No. you mustn't walk a stop further with me?I forbid It. Tou will have your own wi?y to-mor row." They parted, and he watched her graceful figure till it disappeared In the dusk, and then he, too, made his way out of the park with a heart lighter than it had been when he en tered. He reached the corner, and was a few yards from his studio, when he noticed a youth, an errand-boy appar ently. preparing to cross the road with a most superflous degree of cau tion for that unfrequented quarter; again and again when half-way across ho would retreat to the curb stone he had left, looking this wny and that, as if completely demoral ized by nervousness. At last he seemed to pluck up cour age and made a run for it, with an uncalled for determination which mightily amused Campion; he was still laughing when an empty han som dashed round the corner and bowled the poor boy over a few inches from tho footpath. - The cabman, without waiting to *ee what injury he had done, whipped his horse to a gallop, and was gone before Campion, horrified and shockcc* as he was, could stop him o.* ascertain his number. He could only run to the boy and pick him up and wait there while he leaned, white and gasping, against the railings of Campion*# garden. When the boy could speak he said, "You'll bear me out, mlstsr, as it wasn't none of my doing; the guv'nor, he told me to be keerful, and I've been keer ful enough?If It's broke it ain't my fault noway." "Never mind that," said Campion, "the chief thing Is, are you broken anywhere?" "I don't think as how I'm broke anywhere, though 1 fell all nohow; the shaft of that there 'ansom ketched me on the shoulder and sent me a-spinning. But feel o' that there par cel, sir?do it seem all right to you, through the paper? Well, that's a good thing, anyhow. If you knew the job I've 'ad a brlngin" of It 'ere you'd feel for me, you would Indeed! I took a ?bus at Tot'nim Court Road, and blimy If both the 'orscs didn't go down! Then I took another at the ClrklB, and we got a-raclng down the Kdgeware Road, and run Into a butcher's cart and very near turned over that time. I never see any thing like it! Then aez I, 'Not any more rldln' for me,' I sez, 'I'll walk the rest.' And, would you believe It, sir?If all the kebs and 'busses and carts there was didn't seem bent on runnln' over me! Never run such an erran' In all my born days! Why, I was like a old woman by the time I got 'ere, and just as I sez, 'Blame the hlmage!' sez I, 'I'm quit of It now!' round comes that there gallopadln* 'ansom, and over I goes like a skit tle!" "I saw," said Ronald, "you weren't to blame In the least; and now you had better come with me and we'll see If you've broken any bonoB." "I must deliver this 'ere parcel, and get that off my mind first," said the boy stanchly. and then Campion discovered that it was addressed to himself. "Why, it must be Sybil's present!" he said, as lie saw the label. It was curious to think of the perils It had run of miscarrying and even perish ing; its escape struck him as a sort of special providence. He had the boy attended to and ex amined at once. Fortunately ho had escaped with a bruise or two and a slight shaking. "I never heard 110 cab," raid Bales, "the boy's been fichtln' 011 the way?them young ras kils will get fighting?ho never got thotn bruises In no accident!" and 110 iirgunnnt would move him from his opinion. Meanwhile Campion nan unpacKca the precious parcel in full confidence of finding iiotm thing with a pretty fanciful association with it, some graceful and well-chosen addition to hi* household gods. His splritn fell suddenly, at the reality; It wns a household god liter ally enough, being nothing more nor less than an extremely ugly Oriental Idol, such as a Buddhist shrine In China or Burmah might contain. It was made of a dingy mottled kind of alabaster with a sparkle here and there under the smooth surface, the robes were faintly indicated by a dull red lacqucr, and it was repre sented squatting cross-legged with great fanlike hands on Its knees. The eyes In the broad flat moon face were closed, and the general ex pression was one of umug and sleepy self-satisfaction?as If It were being reverently tickled by an unseen at tendant. This, then, wni Sybil's first pres ent, and at the sight of the Inscrut able sinllo on its calm countenance Campion's demon of doubt again | stirred; the smile seemed to bo say ing: -Now do 1 look the sort of tklif a girl would giv? a lover alio seriously and honestly cared (or?* and tho an swer he gave was: "No, she has sent me this In some fantastic spirit of mockery?not love: she has been playing with me after all." i CHAPTER m. From a Pedestal. Campion was still gloomily staring at his Ill-favored sift when Bale* re turned from seeing the errand boy safely off the premises. "I suppose." remarked the attendant, with a du bious and Inquiring Inflection, "I sup pose as tint there hlmage struck you favorable from a ornamental p'lnt of view, or you wouldn't have spent your money on it, sir?" "It was a present. Bales." said Campion, unconsciously vindicating his own judgment at the expense of Sybil's. "And now suppose you suggest some place for this idol?how would It look on the low bookcase?" "It wouldn't look no handsomer than what it would elsewnere," said Bales. "Try it on the bracket where the Hermes is now?you had better fetcbi the steps, perhaps." Bales fetched a pair of steps, and, bringing them to the mantelpiece, mounted laboriously, and. after de posing the reduced but faithful plas ter copy of the antique, prepared to establish the Oriental in tho room of the classic divinity. He turned on the stepn, holding the image out at arm's length, as he remarked with strong disgust: "Just think, now, that there's nig gers so ignirent us to fall down and worship this hero old flggerhead? why, I shouldn't have believed " But what Bales would not have be lieved was not destined to appear on that occasion, for at that instant he lost his balance and fell, accompanied or preceded by his burden. A wild clutch at the small overmantel brought the entire piece down, with its valuable load of old Bohemian glass, Venetian pottery and Roman terra-cotta, the hard won spoils of Campion's Continental wanderings, and Bales lay on his back in the midst of the ruin. "Well," said Campion, rather grim ly, as he relieved him of the over mantel and picked him out Qt the fragments, "you've contrived to'come down on a rather extensive scale, Bales." Bales sat up and rolled his eyes. I'*e come down ou the edge of a fender," he i id. "It'll take me an hour to clear up this mesa," he added, in an Injured tone. "I didn't make It, confound you!" said Campion, laughing In spite of his anger; "here, get up, and col lect the fragments. My Hermes smashes to. atoms, I see. and 1 sup pose the idol has come off no better." "The idol, sir, being uncommon strong, has remained 'old and entire, which is more than I can say the same of my ed; my skull's all in frac tions, and my brains In that state of concussion I 'nrdly know what I'm a-saying of, or whether I'm sit ting down or standing up. All I can say is. tho next time your friend take9 a fancy for sending you a present I hopo he'll choose one that's easier to 'andle, that's all." But at least Sybil's gift has es caped the slightest scratch, ar.d Ron ald, in the midst of his annoyance at the whoiesalo destruction, was glad that he would not havo to tell her that her idol was In fragments. Where should he place it now? Perhaps, after all, the studio and not the sitting-room was tho best place for It, and there Sybil would see It when she came the next day; ho had a little Chinese pedestal round which a gaudy dragon curled itself, and up on this pedestal he established the idol for the present. The next morning, when he came In to his breakfast, It was to flud a letter on his plate, the stamp and marking of which made his hands shake as he opened the envelope; he knew it contained the long-expected answer from Sybil's futher. Colonel Elsworti, It was a cautious and rather hesl tnting letter. The colonel began by saying that, if Campion's position and projects were all he had stated thorn to be, there could be no reasonable objection to the match, particularly i'S his sinter, who was a better Judge of these things than he could be. had allowed them io become engaged; for he presumed that her consent would naturally havo been obtained In tho Urj?t place. 'The probability that Mrs. Stanl land, too, had heard from the colonel that morning, and bo hopelessly prej udiced against liim, made Campion's work fitful and unsteady until the time fixed for tho appointment, anil when tho studio bell announced that t?jbll r.nd Sybil's aunt bad arrived he felt extremely 111 ot ease. But Mrs.Stanllnnd'smanner, which was tho same as usual, showed him at once that she suspected nothing yet; the colonel must have put off writing or missed the mall, and Cam pion was still In time. She was a stately, handsome old lady, with Iron-grey hair veined with silver, large and luminous eyes, and a complexion still unwrinkled, and tinted like a delicate apple; she spoke with a ccrtaln Inoisi veness, and even when she meant to be most gracious her tone was the tone of one having suthorlly. To be Continued "Nothing like making 'possum poih ular," says the Baltimore Sun. Bless you; retarts the Atlanta Constitution. ?Possum was popular from the very day he slipped through Noah's handt out of the Ark. TIE NEWS IN BRIEF Kcsm w rkovh iMMcm ay WW and Cable I , -^a;. . GLEANINGS nflf BAY TO MY Uvt lt?M OovoIm Emits of or Lm Interest at Bom* and By an act of Congress on- Feb. 1st the windows of President Harrison and President Cleveland may use the mails free of postage for the bal&nce of their lives if their autographs be placed on the letters. The annex for the demented at the county home of Rockingham, N. C., was burned on Tuesday and two aged inmates were burned to death. The State of Washington has local aption. Every incorporated town and every country district is a unit. When Mr. Fairbanks was Vice President he had an elaborate ink stand made for his desk. On hearing complaints of extravagance ho sent in his check for $200, which covered the cost and took it with him when he re tired. The federal grand jury in New York found a true bill for slander against the New York World in the Panama affair. South Carolina makes it bad on the man that drums for liquor orders. Diplomatic relations with Nicara gua were practically broken off Fri day by the State Department, which ordered Secretary of Legation Greg ory at Managua tq return home, leaving the legation in charge of the consul, who will have no diplomatic capacity. Sir persons were hanged in Louis iana for murder and one for criminal assault March 5th. Maj. Hale, editor of the Fayctte ville Observer, presented to the N. C. Supreme Court last week an oil paint ing of Jno. De Kosett Toomer, who made the speech of welcome to Gen. LeFayette when he visited Fayette villc. Editor Hale also published the speech and tho General's response. At this writing Gen. Butler of South Carolina, and Hon. Cyrus B. Watson of North Carolina, seem to be in the power of fatal sickness. Preparations are being pushed fo* the 32th conference for education in the South to be held in Atlanta, Ga., on April 14, 15 and 1G. Telegrams received from Carinthia, Austria, report that a series of devas tating avealanches have occurred there and that numbers of houses have been swept away. It is already known thai ten deaths have resulted. Ilirschel Hogg, a confessed membei of the band of night-riders who mur dered Captain Quenten Rankin at Walnut Log in Octobcr, escaped from jail at Dresden Sunday night. It is said that there are 32,000 cases of land frauds for the Attorney General to see to as soon as practi cable. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Lcavitt has won her divorce suit and is now free from her husband. Miss Jennie Reed and Joseph Muel ler were strolling in Baltimore a few nights ago when she was shot and kill ed. Mueller raised the cry that a highwayman had held him up and gotten his valuables and on approach ing her received a slap in the face, whereupon the robber shot her. Muel ler now says he himself shot her ac cidentally. Bib Springs, Texas, had a fire Wednesday that destroyed a number of business blocks entailing a loss of $100,000. Lewis Nixon, the shipbuilder, pre dicts a great future for aeroplanes and airships. Michael Donnelly, judge of Third District, Ohio Circuit Court, is charg ed with imbez/lement of funds be longing to the Ohio German Insur ance Co. to the extent of probably $300,000. The company has failed. A tornado struck Brinklcy, Ark., last Sunday night and killed 35 per sons, demolishing most of the houses and leaving few fit for habitation. Charles M. Schwab said the Bethle hem Steel Company would not reduce wages. The Standard Oil Company won its suit that releived it from paying the $20,240,000 fine imposed by Judge Landis. The United Stales District Court at Kanses City declared tho 2-eent rail road rate in Missouri confiscatory I and illegal. Dr. W. D. Crum has resigned as collector of the port at Charleston and it is understood that Mr. Edwin W. Durant will become his successor. The technical high school of Mu nich has conferred tho honorary de gree of dcctcr of technical sciences on Wilbur and Orville Wright, the Am erican acroplanists. Washington Notes. A petition widely signed is being handled by former U. S. Senator C. W. Hinds, of Mississippi, to bo pre sented to Congress to pension old people. President Taft is so pleased with his caddiy that he is sending the 1 youth to the University of Virginia, ' allowing him $2 a day for expenses. 111 is stated with some decree of authority that President Taft will visit the Southern States next fall. TWO TRAINS COLLIDE j Ooimd Tixmmm IU Oalj Victim oJ ImI-Oi Crash Bttwin Freight ud Fiw?mpr Trains aft Colon Sanford, Special. ? Seaboard pas aanger train No. 32, southbound, and a northbound freight ran togethei head-on Saturday .morning about 4:90 o'clock at Colon, a small station about 35 miles south of Raleigh Haasey Lindsay, the colored fireman of the passenger train was killed, and the engineer, Ed Robertson, ol Raleigh, was badly hurt. The engineer, M. J. Eisenhart, of the freight, and his fireman jumped and neither was hurt. Capt. W. C. Cox, conductor on the passengci train, had a leg broken; Ernest Du val, baggage master, was hurt in the back and internally. W. R. Lamb a merchant of Hamlet, was badly bruised; John Newton, colored, ol Hamlet, had a leg crushed; W. S. Rowe, express messenger, was badly cut; Sam Wicks, colored, of Char lotte, was badly cut. Others receiv ed minor injuries. The injured were taken to Raleigh for treatment. The engineer of the freight train misread the orders. He thought No. 33 was an hour and a half late, when it was No. 32 that was late. The trains were running at full speed and engines were practically demol ished. The baggage and express cars and first passenger coach of the pas senger train were splintered. WAR ON ?'BLACK HAND." Brutal Murder of Italian Detective Stirs New York Police?Other Cit ies Asked to Aid in the Extermina tion of the Criminals. New York, Special. ? Relentless warfare will be waged against the "Black Hand" societies by the police of this, and it is hoped, othei cities as a result of the murder ol Lieutenant Joseph I'etrosini,. the not ed detective of New York, in Paler mo, Friday uight. For years Petro sini had been . active in his work to i bring to justice members of his own race who carried on , blackmailing operations in thi9 country through threats of murder made in the name of the "Black Hand." It is believ ed here that his murder was the re sult of a plot thnt had its incepion in the United States and that the persons indirectly responsible foi his death are still within the reach ol the American police. If so, every ef fort will be made to bring about theii arrest and conviction, and with this1 end in view Inspector McCnfferty. head of the New York detective bu reau, sent telegrams Saturday to the authorities in the principal cities of the country asking that increased activity be exerted against all "Black Hand" suspects. Immediate orders were given to arrest at once all men in New York City who are believed to have connection with' "Black Hand" operations. Petrosini's murderer, who was n member of the "Black Hand," fired four shots from a revolver. Petro sini arrived in Sicily only a short time ago and was engaged in con ducting an investigation regarding Italian criminals. Inspector McCaffcrty said Satur day that he was anxious to know whother Petrosini had been robbed after being shot. He intimated that Petrosini had some papers valuable to the police here in running down i Black Hand and other Italian offend-1 ers. A cablegram from Pnlerma (Itnly) says: The assassination of Lieuten ant Petrosino has stirred the police to unprecedented activity. Many ar rests already have been made, includ ing a number of Italians with crimi nal records, lately returned from the United States. Great Floods in the South. A special from Montgomery, Ala., says the Alnbnma is f>] feet above| normal and is slottly rising. It \r expected to be 55 feet. No great casulties have yet occurred as fait warnings were given and resilient? from the lower districts moved tr ti e higher parts. The Consa at Rome I is .'Jl 1-2 feet, and 2S> feet at (tads-1 den. The Tallapoosa is a raging tor rent. South Pines Chosen. Fitzgerald, (la.. Special.?The Blw | and Gray Association at its animal encampment lie/e Saturday selected Southern Pines. N. ('., for the next reunion. The following officers wen elected: Commander in chief, Majoi) H. F. Dixon, North Carolina; senior vice commander, ('apt. William. M McCormick, Georgia; junior vic< commander, Capt. Joseph Price Florida; chnplinn in chief, Rev. W S. Harden, Georgia; judge fldvocnti general, (>. S. Deming, Warren, 0. quartermaster general, C. H. Worth Texn*. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS News of Interest Gleaned From AH Sections of the Stale and Arranged for Busy Readers W*r Afainst Tuberculosis. Aiken, Special.?Miss Susie S. Rev enel has been employed by the Aiken County Anti-Tuberculosis league as a trained nurse to assist the league in its work for the prvention of the white plague. The league has been very active in its inauguration of a war against consumption. Although the lcnguo has been organized only a few weeks, practical results are now being obtained, and the people are being instructed in the means of pre venting the disease. It is only in rcent years that means for coping with this dread disease have been discovered, and this knowl edge is not vet prevalent among the people, ami the dissemination of this knowledge is the primal object for the league in this country. No dues are paid for membership in the league, but voluntary subscriptions arc being received by the oflicers of the prose cution of the work. Many of the Northern visitors have liberally help ed in this work. Miss Kavencl has already com menced her work. She devotes the forenoons to the work, making visits to all parties who may need her ns assistanec, which is given, not from a acistance, which is given, not from a charitable standpoint, but as a matter of giving valuable suggestions for the caring of patients, prevention of the spread to other membors of the fam ily and to persons with whom infect ed persons may come in contact. Miss Ravenel has had long experienet as a nurse, and she has entered the work with spirit. She will make periodical reports to the president of the league, I)r. Fillmore Moore. The trained nurse will conduct her work in conjunction with the board of health. Miss Revcnel will also consult with the physicians of the city and work in conjunction with them. Cases that are reported to her as needing assistance or advice she will visit. The object of this is, of course, to prevent the further spread of the disease, and it is stated that where persons refuse to heed friendly and voluntary juiggestions for sanita tion and safety of the people against tuberculosis, such cases will be re ferred to the board of health to take such action as they sec tit for public safety. Governor Ansel Names Staff. Columbia, Special?Governor M. F. Ansel lias issued the following: "I <lo hereby make the following* appointments as the military staff of the Governor, to wit: Assistant Ad jutant General, Win. T. Hroek, eol onel, Columbia; quartermaster gen eral, Win. F. Stevenson, eolonel, ('lie raw; Judge Advocate General, Benja min A. Morgan, eolonel, (ireenville; commissary general, Robert 1'. 1 la mer, Jr., colonel, llarner, S. C.; chief of ordnance, David W. Daniel, eol onel, Clemson College: aides de camp, William W. Moore, colonel, Barnwell; Jos. G. Wardlaw, colonel, Yorkville; Daniel 0. Herbert, colonel, Orange burg; military secretary to Governor, Clias. II. Cahaniss, colonel, Columbia; aides de camp, David R. (leer, lieu tenant colonel, Helton; Francis S. Evans, lieutenant colonel, Greenwood; Alvin Ktheredge, lieutenant colonel, Saluda; William Banks, lieutenant colonel, Columbia; Thos. B. Butler, lieutenant colonel, GalTncy; Satnl. T. McOravy, lieutenant colonel, Spar tanburg; Ilal T. Buck, lieutenant col onel, Conwav. ("Signed) M. P. Ansel. "Governor." Wind and Rain Saved Johnston. Johnston, Special.?At 0:40 o'clock Tuesday the cry <?f lire was given and as a strong southeasterly wind was blowing fear and dread tilled the entire town, for all knew that tliev were at the m< rev of the Haines, as there is no pmtectiou from lire what ever. The lire originated in the mil linery store of Mrs. May Taylor, a wooden building. Rock Hill's Water Supply. Hock Hill, Special.?-The Hock Hill Water, Light and Power Company is progressing line with the new well it has been drilling for some time near Ihe standpipe. The well is 1 '2 inches in diameter, and will be drilled to a depth where abundant water can be secured. At the 125-feot mark a thickness of about 10 feet of granite was drilled through. The work is be ing done in the most systematic man ner, and when completed it is thought Ihe well will furnish an abundant water supply, both for domestic and fire use. / Blow to Liquor Drummers. Columbia, Special.?A bill of mom than ordinary interest Unit was pass ed at the recent session is one to mako it a misdemeanor to solicit orders for liquor. The bill started in the Senate to provide for a fancy license to solicit orders, but it was clumped so as to make it a misdemeanor to solicit orders. The Act as approved reads: "Section 1.. That each ami every person, whether acting for himself or as agent for any jhtsoh. tirm or cor poration, who shall conduct the busi ness of liquor drummer, soliciting or receiving orders lor Inter-State ship ment within any county within this State, except ns now authorized by law, any spirituous, malt, vinous, fer mented, brewed, whether lagar or rice beer, or other liquors or beverages. or any compound or mixture which con tains alcohol and is used as a bever age, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and oil conviction lined in a sum not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment fof not exceeding six mouths, or both line ami imprisonment in the discre tion of the Court." Tried after Twenty Years. Cheraw, Special.?A case of moro tlvan usual interest was disposed of at the Criminal Court for Chcstcrllchl County last week, the case of tho State vs. Parker Moore, chargcd with murder. Nearly twenty years ago, in 1SS0, Parker Moore, a young man not yet 20, of good family, shot one Jordan, in the leg with a shotgun and immediately surrendered himself to the sheriff, claiming that the deed was done in defence of his own life, and was placed in the county jail to await the result of the injuries to Jordan. Jonlan died, and Moore, fearing the drift of public sentiment that rnu high on account of several homicides, escaped from jail and went to Texas, where he married and lived quietly with his family until recently when he was brought back and convicted. The sentence was made light and a pardon will bo sought at an early day. Dr. Crum's Successor. Charleston, Special.?A Washing ton dispatch says, it is fairly certain that E. W. Durant will become tho sucessor of Dr. Cruni as collector of the port. Postmaster \V. L. Harris, of the city, and Postmaster General Frank II. Hitchcock, who is Mr. Harris's close friend, called upon President Taft Monday and consult ed with him in regard to the matter. Mr. Harris went to Washington sev eral clays ago for the purpose ol" <1 is? cussing ('ruin's successor vith tho President. The treneral belief thorn is that. Mr. Dnrant's name will bo sent to the Senate when the extra session begins next Monday, and that there will be no trouble as to confirm ing the nomination. Mr. Dnrant is a Yale graduate and a man of consider able means. It is believed that his appointment would give general satis fuel ion here. First Death Penalty in About 15 Years. Laurens, Special.?For the first time in about 15 years a Laurens jury fias returned a straight verdiet of murder without reeommendation to mercy. This occurred Wednesday afternoon in the court of general ses sions when the jury returned a ver dict of guilty in the case of the Stato vs. John Henry Anderson for thn murder of his father-in-law. Ander son shot and killed old Joseph ('artor at the Cedar (Jrove church at tho funeral of one of Anderson's chil dren. Anderson shot Carter in tho back and without immediate provo cation. Killing at Seneca. Columbia, Special.?A special to The State from Seneca, savs: Deputy Sheriff W. F. Corbet and his brother, Charles, were killed at the house of ?1. It. I'almer, near Walhalla, at 10 o'clock Monday niuht. Il is said that Corbet had a warrant for the arrest of one < f the Palmers. Palmer, his wife, one of his souss and his daugh ter are all slight 1 y wound* d. Bitten by Rabid Dos. OaPfney, Special.- Mr. ,1. 'Volney Sarratt, one of (JalTney's n.ost prom inent citizens, was bitten bv a dog in lii< cify on Friday. He was walking jijoiig a street in the mill village, when ? l.e dog ran out from a house and bit him pretty severely on one of hit hv's. The dog later bit a woman of the mill village and was kill ??! by its owner. Air. 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