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Ol Democrat. "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, JL^I'Ili* OU? SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HA?-PY CB OUB DEATHS CrLOBTOUS IN THY AUS?.?? BENNETTS VILLE, 8. C.. FRIDAY. JULY 27, 1006. NO. 31 i BIG DAY AT LAMAR Tuesday Was Truly a Great Day at That Place. ENTHUSIASTIC CROWP (lathered to Hear Senators Tillman snd Lotimer. Mr. Ed. Smith, of the Cotton Grower'8 ^) Association, Made a Speech. Senator Ii. lt. Tillman was received by an audlcnoo cf about 1,500 poople pt Lamar. Senator Latlmer and Mr. E. 1). Smith, of the Cotton Growers' Association, wore present and spoke. 1 ho audience were as responsive to ?Senator Tillman's characteristic ut terances as ab any time since MB ap pearance In 181)0. Ile was vigorous ar.d energetic exhibitlrg as much Klager lu his elforts and an muoh in bi? remarks as he bas ever exhibited In Darlington Ccunty. When mak lng bis attack on thc "Court House King" and the members of tho last Legislature who voted against the Rdysor Manning bill and who sup ported tho Morgan bill, tho old fami liar ''Hurrah for Tillman ! ' was a* muoh In evider.ee ub ever before. It was a Tillman audience and Tillman knew it. Ills admonition to tho peo p'e to leave ab heme this summer bhe h gislators who had voted agalnai the Slate dlspertary- met with a surprls irg response ard apparent approval. Senator Tillman came down from Cl.eraw Tuesday afternoon, leaving Ile train at Darlington, and with Dan T. McKelihao, T. E. Sligh and Dr. J. C. Lawson, entereo an automo bile, and, after spinning arc uno Dar lu Rton, they worded their v.ay to Ls mar, where he was the guest of Ex-Senator J. W. Beauly. The speak ing was in a pine and oak grove, al mest in the centre of thc town of ^ Lamar. A stand for thc accommada tion of the speaker? and seats for about 100 persons wore erected under cue of tho famous Darlington caks. The seats provided were, of courBO, i ot sufficient for the crowd and hun dreds of people stood for three hours. Serator Tillman's speech was what 1B usually designated as "hot stuff." So much did lt impresss the boys that a caucus of dispensary friends was held In Warr's nail right after the t peaking, and the following named gentlemen will, bc the diupenhary candidates: For the Set atc and for the Legislature: George P. Soarbo rough, j, P, Klrveu, J. E. Miller and W. A. DowliLg. It ls probable that George P. Scar borough will bo bhe Senatorial candi date and tho others- mui'Jned will be for the House. Mr. Scarborough voluntarily retired from thc cilicjof bheiil? two years ago, after having served bwelve years. He is one of the leading citizens of the county and ls very popular. Messrs Dowling, Kir ven and Miller have all scrvod In the lower house before. .Senator Tillman was thc second (peaker. Ills lirsb speech in this county waa maae twenty years ago, and was made from tho porch of Manuel Marco's store at Lydia. Boys who were in thc cradle then are now voting. Lethargy v/as as great then SB nov/. Ile found then the Court House ring In charge of a few bright joung men, who controlled tho no minations for dil^e. He rapped the com,ty Demociailc executive com mittee for closing the list Of entries so Bur n. He thinks it io a trick, lie says "the Slate" is a bl;< rattlesnake, ^ and the Darlington Mows a little rattlesnake. He said the people would think him a green man tf he weie not to discuss matters when lt Morned to him that South Carolina was going to the devil or tho devil coming to lt. Ho said the people had said to him: "Wc like your way of talking, be Governor." And when he .bad Kbrved a while they then paid: "We like your way of managing the Governorship, be Senator," and by God he 1 ad been Senator. He refer red to tho dispensary system, and said it had been Bottled tinu and again by the people as the best sj stem of con trolling tho salo of whiskey, but some people who can see no gi od In Till min or Tillmanism are still lying awake at night dreaming, scheming and praying for some chance to get even with him. Senator Tillman said he had lt on good autnority that when a candi date for tho position of a director on tho State dispensary board approach ed members of the Legislature bo vote for him the chief qualification requir ed by Home members of the Legisla ture wa? whether or not the candi date would steal and steal everything in sight. This was to bring thc State dispensary Into disrepute. Spartan burg's Legislativo delegation ia re sponsible for tho rottenness in the ci unty board there. Jun Earnum vas tho head devil in corrupting the :Slato dispensary. When they got g afier him tic took his trunk and went to Georgia, and when the trunk was ?biought back all evidence of his sohcir.es had been destroyed. He re ferred to lUvis's testimony before the Investigating committee and scored tho committee for not Unding the liquor drummer who,with Hub Kvans, saw the liquor drummer give mem bers of the State board money. Thc Darlington Legislative dele gation had no r)g:it to vote to destroy the dispensary. They had no in struction from thc people of Darllpg ton to that effect. They wore traitors for so doing. He spi kc of tho Raysor Mannh g bill as a cure for the evils of tho Stau dispensary. He left no doubt ' it that Senator Manning lain bis opinion tho man to elect Gover nor; ho did not say so, but then it bounded so. Ile rofcrred to tho government by nowspapers before IMO, when The Nows and Courier wau ol rou la ted in nearly every home. It was then edited by Franois W. Dawson, and ls now four timos as large and tlvo timos as small as then. Ho declared tho Mayor of Charles ton had said ho was doing all he could to suppress blind tigers, but it is not true. He ls asleep, as is also tho Governor in his ethos at Columbia Supino and grovelling, courting of public favor is tho trouble He op posed a compulsory education law on tho grond that tho United States Constitution, would, uudor suoh a law, compel us to eduoato tho negro children. There are more negroes In school in this State today than whites because there aro moro of them Senator Tillman declarod that of lat* he has become popular, whereas for a long tl no bc was only notorious. Mr. Smith, president of the South Carolina Cotton G towers' Association, spoke on the situation now facing the cotton growers of thc South. H J do ploted tho condition of the o >tton gorwers in graphic lang ur ge, giving an optimistic oolor to the future. He ?ave statistics to provo his argu ments. DOCTOR CAUGHT STEALING. HufTAto l'hyslolan Caught stealing Ut mu fruin a BI Auston. Dr. Edmund (). Farnham, who describes himself as a member of a family in Buffalo, and a United States army surgeon, was captured Sunday by the polloo in the Uno residence of Dr. Burdotto Craig, at Highland avouue and the Boulevard, on Jersey City Heights, ono of thc most fashion ' able sections of Msw York City. The story tho young man, who ls only twenty-five years old, told amazed Chief of Police Murphy, to whom he confessed his Idontlty. Farnham, ? attired in a handsome Summer suit 1 and wearing gold eyeglasses, orossod 1 tbe spacious lawn of the Craig home soon after 2 o'c'ook and smashed tho 1 glass of a cellar window. Then he 1 entered the vacant house- -thc Craig* . now being at their Summer home, at Pond Bldy, N. Y. ' MrB. J. M. Hughes, an eldorly wo- f man, living at Nu. 51) Highlaud \ avenue, adjoining the home of Dr. * Craig, witnessed all this. At Urs! she was too astonished to aol. Then ' she made her way downstairs and toid 1 her daughti r, who at or.ee telephon rd to Police Headquarters. Word 1 was sent to the Montgomery street 1 station, only live blocks away from ? tho Craig house, and the reserves ' were rushed to the Boone, They entered the window Farnham had smashed, and on the third lloor I lie was found crouching under a bcd with a drawn rcvolycr lu his hand. He surrendered without attempting j to lire, and was hustled to the polioe- 1 station. Li another room of the mansion tue polico found a bundle j containing rings, bracelets and other Jewels, besides a quantity of silver ware, which had been prepared for 1 removal. -i LADY OUI Zm 1IK& 80i)OENL>?. . A fJhtoAKo ileIre NH. Hot t.tiihhainl WAH c Viof roy Of India. I A dispatoh from London sayB Lady J Curzon, of Kid lesion, wife of the for- , mer viceroy of India, and daughter of the late Levi Z. Leiter, of Chicago, who has been 111 for some days, died at 5.40 o'clock Wednesday evening. She nev?r (puto recovered from her serious lllncsit at Walmer Castle, Kout, in 1U04, and the recent hot weather brought on a pronounce! attack of general debility. It was announced at the Cu /.on rosldense that the fiaal cause of Lady Oura ?n's death ?as heart (allure, but she had b eu suffering from complications whloh wore thc seque) of her terrible illness of twi years ago. Thc fune,al, the date of whloh has not yet been llxed, will take place at Keelleston. Lady Curzon, of Kodlcston, was Mary Leiter and was lu her own righi oho possessor of S.'l.??O.O??. Fri m Chicago tho family moved to Washing too, and later travelled extensively and entertained lavishly. During a stay in England M ss Loiter met George N. Curzon, oldest son of the Rev. Alfred Nathaniel Holden Cur zon, fourth liat?n Scarsdale. Th y were married In 181)5. In 181)8 Cu-.zm was created li^st Huron Curzon o? K d leaton, and In 1800 was appointed Viceroy and Governor General of In dia, which pjst bo resigned in Au gust, 1!)U5. Itailrond Mau't, 1'iuyor. The following ls tho text of a rail road man's prayer pasted on the lire? man's bide of the switch engine in the Northern Pacltie yards in Spokane: "Now that 1 have Hagged Tine, lift up my feet from the rough road of life and plant them safely on the dock of the train of salvation. Let me use tho safety lamp of prudence, make all thc coupling?, with the link of love, and let my hand lamp te the illblo, and keep all switches closed that lead off tho main line into the sidings with blind ends, Have every semaphore block along the linc show thc white light of hope, that I may make thc run of life withoutstopplng. Give mc thc Ten Commandments asa working card, and when I have tin (sh ed tho run on schedule time and pull ed into ihe terminal, may Thou, superintendent of thc uni verne, say: 'Well dono, good a-i.d faithful ser vant; como Into the general ( thee to sign the payroll and rccdve your check for eternal happiness.' " wi f.: Hl?yor'a Oonlonslons, The Charleston ICvonlng 1'?st ?ayr: Marcus, who, If he will listen Intent ly, can now hear at tho jail th ; bows of tho .ian.mers and tho rasping of tho saws in the hands of thc carpen tero at work on thc gallows, has taken communion from Father. Duffy and has made confession of his sins. He was formly a Uomitn Catholic, bul of late y ears liad let lill religio? become unimportant In his lifo. Now, with tho f'ay of oin hanging a little rrore than two weeks (.IT, Marcus has bc? como repentent and lias made peace with his Maker. Hard woik has been dono hy tho Star Gospel Mission and tho priest to convert Marous and lt would seem that ho ls now of that frame of mind in which a wife mur I dorer should be oxeoutcd. FAMILY BUTCHERED. OIMM?OF Ul?VOIiTING IlOUltOit IN NOltTH OAKOL1N \, Hu^and, Wife and little Boy Mur dered by IVcgroes Whilo ?hey Slept. A dispatoh from Bather Junotion, near Salisbury, N. O., says: Ooo of tho moat horrible tragedle? m the history of this countv was commit ted ue*r this station Saturday morn ing betwoen tho hours of 1 and 2 o'clook. An unknown porson or porsons '.ntered tlie bouge of Mr. Ike Lycr ly, a well known farmer, while its occupants wero asleep, killing Mr. Lycrly, his wife and little son John nie, and wounding their infant baby, Alice. Tno two parents and two children were sleeping in tim front room on tho ?rst lloor, there being ?breo older daughters sleeping up stairs, who "vere unmolested, and who wove awakened by tlie smoke and flames below, tho ci i mal having set Ure to thc houso. Tho three older girls desoeuded the Ktairs to awake their father and motl or. On reaching thc lower room a most horrible and appalling scene, their father, motlier and thc children, still in their beds, all nav. the youngest, in cold death, their hearts being crushed and faces badly :ib figured. Through courageous and heroic Dlforts tlie elder daughters, Mary ano Addie, ages 18 and io, respectively, managed to carry tho dead bodies 1 fr. m the house and extinguished the Hames, whereupon they ?au to their icarest neighbor, Mi. W P. Birber, ind told thc awiul story of the tragedy. Thc dead are: Isaac Lycrly ("a tjher,) aved GU year.1; his wife, AU {usia, 43 yeats, and their little son, Johnnie, 0 years of ago. Friends promptly dispatched thc lews to the sheriff at Salisbury. The dieri IT started at once to tho seem if the killing with bloodhounds anci i posse of armed men. Bloodhounds were also sent from Winston S dem so assiut in apprehending the orjml ?als. Tlie wounded daughter, Little Al ce, ia seven years of age. Isaac Ly :rly was found on tbe lloor In the front bod roem, lying temi-prono on du rfKlit side with a biow on the right side of tho head, lacerating the jar and break.ng thc skull In severai pieces. A portion of his car was round. Johnnie Lyerlcy was found on the lloor and oadly burnod about, the lower extremities and an incised wound about the scalp, penetrating bne brain, thc substance of tho skull being crushed on tho side. Mrs. Lycrly was found lying on lier right side In tho bed with her right foot resting on the Il:or, with Mle left hand from tho bed, as if ibout to arise therefrom, her left ear jcit g cut ir. two and tlie skull in thc vicinity of the ear crushed, and about inc inch back from tho rojt of thc lair from the vortex an incised wound two indies long penetrating &ho brain, prouably made with an ixe. Thiee negro men and a negro wo nan named George Erwin, Jack Dil lingham and Mitchell Graham and his wife, upon whom bioad suspicion Is c.st, have been arrested and lodged In tlie county Jail at Salisbury, pend ing Investigation. M:ic. ell Graham ls stated to htve tnades' me agreement with Mr Lyerly n tho /all as rf gards a pUo- if land. Jraham, failing lo coliform to some joudltioD, was ousted and had to give jp all his interest. It was only a fjw days ago that this negro, CS is ?tated, made the romark thaS "Mr. Lyerly has cut his wheat, hut wcul? lever live to enjoy any bonedt thor;; "n m " Larer thc murderers confessed. Thc Ittl? girl ls also dead at last loports. S I RU UK BY LIQiUMUSG. Uauipordowii Milt ol Groonvlllo Hel loru from i. ;?. o ?: ? i n,". Lightning struck tho ootton ware* tiouse and tho cloth room of the Cam perdowo mill, at Greenville, at 2 ;iO Vcleok Tnursday afternoon. Fire brolro out In ein ec places immediately lifter thc dlbObarge and though rain was p .-tiring, the damage is estlaiated nt $io(ooo, all covered by Insurance fj, iii. Graham, formerly of North (Jaroiluu, ls president of tlie Camper clown mill, next to tlie oldest textile mauufaeturhig establishment in Greenville. Five hundred and li?ty hales of cotton were stored In the warehouse when lt WH* struck. Some of tim cotton had already boon dyed. Tho Camperdown makes ginghams and oilier got ds ready for tin; counter, holdes cotton the warehouse contain ed a quantity of domestics baled and re.ady for shipment. Unable to get nt the burning ootton, the firemen were furoud to lear down a part of tlie wall and place their bose Inside. Thc room was badly Hooded and much damage was done thc colored goods by water. Tbc mill wa) shut dowu for a short time during tho liro but resumed operation later la the .afternoon. Seventeen years ago tho warehouse of the Camperdown mill, occupying al most thc same alie, was struck by lightning and >i quantity of OObton WAS bumed at that time. Moro than 1,000 bales 'Acre. In storage and tlie otton was dumped Into Reedy river lu order to savo lt from the il..mes. KoOl> :r? Holo Up Auto. A touring cir in which were Frank Hamilton, Frank Iticirdbon and Chas Kerby was held up by three masked men armed willi re vol vt rs, In Glen wood stree.t, New York City, Sunday night. The robbers shouted "llanda ni I ' and the men In tiic ear were so fflghtenod that they stopped the rna chine. The lui d up men got Into thc oar, each holding a gun poised. Thc man at the waeel was commanded to run tho car to a lonely spot, where t ioy were relclvedof their money and \aluablos. lt was nearly an hour bo foro thoy recovered sulllclontly to re port to tho authorities. Senator THImdti Reviews PoHil cal History and Shows Why GEN. WADE HAMPTON Was Not Reelected to thc United State? Senate, and Fully Explains the Aiken Incident, Which Caus? cd the Old Hero to bc Left at Home. Sonator Tillman io some of his speechou baa none fully Into tho sub Jcot of the oft repeated ohargo wbicb baa boen laid at his door for the past seven years, to the olfect that In the matter of tho dispensary be ls now doing the thing that in 1890hcoauscd a subservient, legislature to retire Senator Hampton for-meddling lu state affairs while serving a? a United States Hcnator. Souator Tillman gives a true version of how Senator Hamp ton wa? put asido for a new fancy and is of particular interest just at this timo. He said: l'l want to particularly emphasize In tho beginning that I am touching un this unpleasant Jnoldonb of thc past mo.roly for the purpose of setting an event of history straight in the minds of the people, to prevent The State aud other newspapers, which nave lived by lying on me for tho past liftoi :i yoars, from Ingraining a He into the minds of the youth of South U&rolina. "Senator Hampton was in Canada when the oampaign opened in tho summer of 1890. He waa a great sportsman aud lt was hie practico to go there and lim when congress ad j jurned. Ho was written to como nome that bis presence and influence vere needed. He arrived lu tho state two or three days before tho meeting at Columbia, arter similar gatherings at Greenville, Spartanburg, Laur.ni and other points in ttie up country had shown that tho reform move ment was sweeping everything befo* it. "The meeting at Columbia waf largest and most exciting *e hu/ nao; great crowds being prosen Lexington, Sumter, Oraugeburg, ? ?<?? Hold and oWior nearby points, and uvorything was my way. Sonator Hampton spoke, his utterances being along the Hue of conciliation, plead lng for harmony and good feeling, willoh was all rig lit. There were other things connected with tho Co lumbla meeting which it ls unnecessa ry to mention. "Two or three days lafer we went to Aiken, and Isp.kc to the Aiken peuple about tho incident there the other day, because there were two or three hundred men in the audience wno had attended the 18U0 meeting, and 1 wanted to give those au op portunity to con-cot me if 1 misstated anything in o ami el Inn with tho af fair. "My friends had gotten Mr. Heggle tin Augusta livery stable man, to bring over ono of hts finest carriages, drawn hy four of the ll nest horses In theojuntry. The carriage had been ?ecorated with tLwera and agricul tural emblems made up of coru, oats, wheat and the liku. On ouo sido ap ?eared in large letters: "Hampton and Reform, 187(5," and on tho other ''Tillman and Reform, 18?0." "My friends sent a committee to Senator Hampton thc morning of the meeting to invite him to rloc with ma. The Invitation was declined. 1 unn't think thc ommittee saw Sena tor Hampton himhelf, his friends sending word that he preferred to ride in another carriage. As a matter of fact he rode with my opponent, Gen eral IC irle. "Tills was the llrst source of Irrita tion. Tho meeting was large, somo 3,000 or 4,000 people being present, and the excitement, as usual at that time, ran high. For thc reason no women were present. "Senator Hampton waB put up Hist as I recollect. His addrebs was along similar lines aa charactered Iiis re marks at (Jolumbiaexoupb ttiat he was more aggressive and moro outspoken in indicating lils sorrow ab duding such intense factional foellng and ex cloement -and wcut on to warn the people against how things were drift ing. Ho speke of the largo negro vote and of thc dinger that lurked in it. His remarks could oot be con struod In any other li,-.in, than that the March convention which nomi nated me mis outside the regular or ganization and ho feared wo would have in the btate a repetition of the Mahone program which had proven successful lu Virginia. In other words he accused me of imitating Ma hmie and mo and my friends of an attempt to break up thc Democratic organization with au appeal to the negro. "That mado thc crowd furious, and lt yelled out Its feeling. The disorder grew HO great that tho county chair man was helpless, as was tho cx.se in many other comities that year. 1 got up and pleaded wi til my friends to let Senator Hampton prccaed. John U. Haskoll, Hampton's BOII in-law, also tried to take ciiargo, but when i ie got up the orowd yolled and jeered at htm and almost pulled him elf thc ?hand. 1 arose and said something Uko tills: "My friends, we all voted for Hampton in 1870 and after wat d sont him to the senate, and for my part 1 would lie glad to seo him re main there till he dies; but lie has no business mixing in tilla family light; ne ought bo go home and stay there1 Thc crowd yelled: 'Let him go homo.' Well, ho did go homo, and we saw not hing more of hi aa in that cam paign. "The reformers throughout thc stato wore Insultod, but so muoh re spect was folt for Hampton that nothing was said muoh about it pub Holy, and tho Inoident would havo passed 'At but for subsequent acts on his part. "There wore two Domooratio con ventions that year, tho first to deter reine ;whethor nominations should he hy convention or in the primary, and tho seoohd to mako the nominations I received the nomination for govern or by an overwhelming majority, evory county in tho state voting fur me exoept four, and the vote for Sum ter, Goo. Earle's home, was devided. Tho fodr were Charleston, beaufort, Georgetown and Richland. "Shortly after that the bolters con vention mut and nominated Judge A. O. Haskoll for governor on what thoy oalled the straightout ticket. Some time In October, on tho heels of that convention, Senator Hampton wrote a loller endorsing Judge Haskell's candidacy, not directly, but indirect ly, by praising him as a manaud good Democrat, one worthy to bo trusted, and all that. "This, of oourse, was a great sur prise and shook to tho Djmoorats of tho st|ito, who had neon taught by both Haskell and Hampton that 'an independent was worse than a radi oal. And to complete the alienation of tho peoplo from their former Idol Senator Hampton did not voto for anybody in tho Novombor goneral election, exousing himself on the ground that ho had left his registra tion papers In Washington. He there by refused to vote for tho Demcoratlo nominee and had endorsed tho Inde pendent ticket. Thu result was thal when jihe legislature met with about 120 of-my frlondo in the senato and house tho reformers divided between M. L. Donaldson of Greenville and J. L. M. Irby of Laurens, a fow of my friend? voting for Senator Hampton, who only reodyod 40 odd votes. On the thjrd ballot Irby was eleoted. "It'comes In bad grace from The Nows hud Courior to talk to me about loaving Hampton alone, about not naming him. Evory well Informed noan in South Oarolina knows that in '76 that newspaper exerted all of Its in?uocoa In behalf of Chamberlain's nomination, and lt is the essence of impudence for lt now to declaro lt represents 'a South Carolina which I can nevor know' and that 1 havu no | olalm.or right to speak of Hampton. "I supported him and did as much as any. other ono man in South Caro lina to eloot him lu '70. Ho was a great soldier aud did the state an In estimable scrvloe In helping rid us of the horde of carpet-bag thioves and to throw off negro domlnatlou. The men win howled him down at Aiken for th? Insult he offered them wore . no mon who had been most active at ?erg and at Ellenton, where the lots ocourred that broko thc >f negro domination in South UR. loved him, and wo love his ,iow, and I will not permit prortes to go unchallenged any lohgor. His friends and rolatlves cause his defeat by persuading him to do.what he did. But all South Carolinians honor his momory. "Tile News and Courier and none of its ?dud have a right to conjure with ?his naroo now that ho is dead ai.? I will not longer tolerate by my silence the slanderous charges that have been sent abroad these many years as to the causes of his retire ment from pohtloal ellice." Hoototy 1? Columbia to Claro lor HolploHH Infant?. The News and Courier of Friday prints a special from Columbia which say?: Thanks to recent revelations by the Salvation Army as to the pres ence among negroes hero of many white ohlliren abandoned by their parents, there was a meeting in thc parlors of tho Columbia Hotel Thurs day evening for tV.e purpose of organ izing a soolety whose Obj sot shall bc tiie revjue of those needy white child ren who oannot now for one reason or another, bo reoeived in tho rogular or phanages. All interested in saving such child ren to useful manhood and woman, hood wero asked to be present. Mr. W. H. Streeter, a representative of tiie Ndtional Children's Home So olety, of whloh Dr. Charles Hender son, of the University of Chicago, met those interested at this gathering and explained in detail the plan of opera tion. How great is the need for suoh an organization, not only In the city, but lu the country dlstrlots few people outside of polloe and orphanage olr clos real zj. T.io regular orphanages may receive only the children of re speotabio parents; yet among the ne groes and the "red light" element of every city, aa rooont investigations by the Salvation Army here have shown, there are dozens of children, capable of development Into usoful mon and women, born in shamo and cast ctr as impediments by their unnatural pa rents. Tho society is non sectarian and ls supported solely by voluntary gifts, it seeks thc oo-opcration of all good citizens. Its child-placing depar iment, per haps the most Important, certainly the department mont needed for Co lumbia's prosont conditions, operates somewhat as follows: It reqelves homolcss children, after oarefulo?n sideratlon of oaoh caso; selects homes on recommendation of tho local au thorities, after a visit by an experi enced agent; supervises children, after placement, by oorrespondenoo and hy visit from officers of the society ; sm ploys a State superintendent to bo friend, receive, place and visit chil dren, also collectors; transfors chil dren from tho homes llrst solcoted, if I necessary. The society goes about Its work in praotloal ways. Important to Kural Carriers. Congressman A. 6\ Lever ls Just In receipt of a communication from the post Lillao department; which will lie of groat Interest to the rural oarricrs In tho State, says the Lexington Dis patoh. Tho oarricrs through Senator Clay's efforts in tho Senato, and tho work of Congressman Lever in tho House, havo been granted tifteen days loavo of absenos. The department writes: "Tao Aot authorizing leavo of absence was passed so near tho oloso ot the session that lt was im possible to Issue regulations by the date tho said law was to go Into off ut, lt ls expected, however, that the reg ulations will bo ready for distribution by August 1st., when all postmasters at oihees where there is rural service will be furnished with a copy. POWDER TRUST Will Be Hit Hard by the Govern ment's Clans TOMAKKGUNPOWDEE For Its Own Use, for Which Purpose Congress Has \lrcady Made Appro priation. May Save thc Na* Hon Much Money. Plans Being Pn pared? r News from Washington says that Trust busting" ls beconulug a habit with tho government. The railroad trust, tho meat trust, the oil trust, tho ooal trust, tho paper trust, the grain truBt, tho tobaooo brunt and othorn have had their exlstonce en livened by the lioosovclt administra tion; aod now li ls proposed to call time on the powder trust. Secretary Taft haB oallcd for specifications for tho construction of a plant with an initial capacity of 300,000 pouuds of powder annually and lt is expeoted that the mill will be in operation within a year. At the rcoiint session, oongreas au thorized thc building of the proposed powder plant as a sort of experiment, it haB been known for yoais that thc powder manufacturers of the country were forolng tho government to pay moro for its powder than lt fairly wac worth. In faot, tho powder trust has tho government by the throat and compels lt to pay any prices for the product that lt secs Ut to impose. When tho proposed government plant is In operation, tho actual cost of powder will be determined with dclinitoneBB. The expectation is then that the trust will be obliged, In or der to retain its government trade, to reduce its prioes. If it should de oline to meet the government's 11,, urca tho administration will rrcora mend to congress that tho U.Uted States manufacture its own pjwdor for the uso of both tho army and tLt navy. Already tho navy department has t. considerable powder plant at Iuiilan Hoad, Md., near the big gun proving grounds. Tho plant basacipaclty of about 3,000 pounds a day. Tue ex pense of manufacturing tho powder at tho Indian Head mill is far lest than was formerly paid tho powder trust for Its produot and the trust bas been forced to reduce its prion lo? 75 cents a pound. By tho naval ox perts, this price ls considered too high, although notsorlously excessive. When the army gets its plant in ope ration lt 1B regarded as likely that the price of powder to the government may bo reduced to even sixty ceuts a pound. Congress appropriated $165.000 foi the construction of tho proposed army plant, lt will be constructed so as t< make lt ?astly possible to enlarge lt, if that should provo necessary, 1 was not tho desire of either the exe cutivc or tho oongrchS to attempt to drive the powder manufacturers out of buaslness, but simply to give them to understand that they must bs Bat tled with a prolit without attempting to tqueeze the government unneces sarily. Secretary Taft estimates tho pro kter powder reservo of thc government for both the army and the nwy al 35,000,000 pounds. At thia timo thc government has in hand only about 4,500,000 pounds. To pr?vido what Secrotary Taft regards as a safe re serve, therefore, would require an ex pcndibuic on tho part of tho govern mont, if trust prioes were paid for the powder, of nearly $25,000,000. On suob in amount the trust would reap a pruitt of more thau $10,000, 000. The construction of tho new plant will be under thc supervision of Ma J >r Beverly W. Dunn of tho ordnance department of the army, who ls at work now In preparation of plans. 11 m Bones Aro Urowing. Among tho outpatients of thc Man cheater Boyal l.itirmary Lindon, Eng., is aman who after attaining normal development can not atop growing. He ls sulfuring from a dis easo known as soromcgaly, which means an onlargoment of the bones, and most obviously of the bones of the .skull, hands and feet. The man ls forty two years of ago, and the disotsc was diagnosed aboui sc .'Mt years ago during which timo ho haj developed enor mously. He has enormous bands in comparison with an ordinary man. The lingers are not growing in length, but thickening, and lire palm In get ling wider. He can not wed spread out hi? lingers, and the tendency ls to cause tho hand to resemble a round ed spade. Tho upp ? parts of the arms aro shrunken, a? arc the upper parts of his legs. So thick have bis feet bocomc that walking ls a dilhoulty. I naru (| nato OAT OouiWIiiRft. The papers in thc oaie, brought by thc United States Interstate Commis .lon against the Atlantic Coast Linc, were served Thursday upon General Managors W. N. Royall and other, ?.mol?is of the. system, at Wilming ton. Forty-live caso havo been docketed against the Atlantlo Coast Line, dunging forty four inadequate couplings on freight oars and a simi lar ohargo against an engine. O "her CASOS will be brought against tho At lantic Coast Lino, in the district In whioh thc violations of tho lawocour. For thc forty-live oases $4/mn are in volved, aa the penalty 1B $100 In each and the oases are brought under the safety appllanoo act approved March 2, 1893, as amended by an act ..yprov cd April 1, 1803. ai? amended byan aot approved March 2, 1903. Cnmmiiimi lliinmul to A'rlson. A man named Suddath introduced himself at tho Penitentiary Wednes day night as a cl ti/, on from tho Dark Comor section of Greenville County, who bad Just been gi von Ure years for manslaughter. He bnokod up his ver bal introduction wltb bia commitment papers, which ho fished out of bit pocket< KILLED OVER ?AIiD??. QU A HUM Li O VKU AN AIJIJ-NIOIIT O A RIK OW OAHDS. Most Sensational Killie g in lau rons County. The Blay er at large. A speolal to tho Columbia State says one of tho most sensational kill logs to ocour lu Laurens county In re cent years was tho shooting to death of Elbert F. Copeland by G. Wash Humor at 4 o'clock Thursday morn ing near Goidville, 14 miles east of Laurous and live miles from Clinton. The shooting was the result of a dis pute over oards, tho principals to gether with two others, H. Lee 11 no un- and lt JV. D Leake, having played all night. Tuc tragedy look plaoe In a small store Louse at tho home of lt. Leo Hunter, brother of Wash Hun ter, the slayer of Copeland. Wash Hunter went to his homo, a mlle and naif distant Immediately after the killing and has been been by only one or two parklea slnoo, thougn the sher iff made un tffjrt to Und and arrest bim. lo ls understood that Le is will ing to give up after things get qulot. Coroner Watts hold an iLqiest Thursda) afternoon. Tostimouy of lt. Lee Huntei and Ross Leake, eye witness of ino whole affair, was taken, both stated that Copeland and Hun ter Lad bot, words over the game when Copeland, who was a orippio, struck ) I unter with bis oruton, almost kuook mg him down, and at the same time drew bis knife, and declared he would cut Hunter's throat. (? lick as a Hash Hunter drew ms plstui and shot live time, four of thc snots taking effect, three lu tho loft bide and one in the temple. He died Instantly. ANOTUKK ?.CCOUT, Only two witnesses testlliod ab thc coroner's inquest. These were Mr. ftoss L:akc &ud ll. Lee Hunter, who Lestitiid as follows: That Mr. Wash Hunter aud Mr. Ebb Copeland, wno oas been a cripple ali of nts life, Lad out a stump ol a leg and went ou ?. orutoh, became engaged in au alter ouolon in which Mr. Copeland, with ula or uton, knocked Mr. ii mn or to mt .mess, whereupon ne alnO drew Llb knife und bald ne would cut Huntcr'b d-d throat, lc wau tuen that liuntoi drew his gun aad be?an to shoot until ne had ahot live innes, lour of tuc nu.lets taking eil' cb, cuber of Abler, would produce Instant death. This \u aaid lu be Mr. Hauler's thLd or fourth VlCbiui. All thc parties connected with Inls awiul uStiit are among tue mo,?u prominent people ct tue oounty ano uoth are largely connected In Uiinton and surrounding country. TRU?E BECOMES EFFECTIVE. Contrai AuiorloaiiB (Jeane M^iuhi;: To Talk J'eftOO. Nows from O, stcr Bay, N. Y., sayt President Roosevelt Las received a dispatch from American Cnardge d'Affaires Brown, at San Salvador, scating that the armistice between Salvador, Gu&tcnata and Honduras went imo tifoot at U o'clock Wedncs day morning. Auotner uispatob received by the President stated that the United rftatea cruller Marble bead, which te^ves Aoajuta Wednesday with Amer ican Minister William L. Merry and ?be Salvadorian peace commiBSiouers, Dr. J. lt Paous aud Senor Gallegas, ou board, will arrive at San Jose, Guatemala, Thursday morning. At Sau Jose tiio peace commlasloners ot Guatemala, thc Mexican minister ano clio A mc ii oe. u oharge d'affaires, Mr. brown, will bc received abjard. The Marblahuad will immedlaieiy proced ed to sea aud tho session of thc peace comm ?solon will begin. A journalist from Salvador, who has arrivod there, pawing through Guatemala, says that lu ciseFr sident Cabrera prevents war with Salvador through Amorican intervention, Le cannot hope to continue iu power Ile reports Guatemala prostrated. Busi ness ls ?o ;ioi ie. uly suspended and oroya ruined. Tue President romains heav dy guarded and tho prisons arc ti.loo witit suspects. Gen Toledo will iuany event continuo thc wi&r, not being bound by International agreement. siuok to ii unbauoL A dispatch from Spartanburg says Pearl Shaver raised a scene lu J udgo Hydrlck's ellbo Friday morning when she persisted lu thc determination to go with her husband after the verdiot m bab as corpus proceedings w.iloh returned hoi tu ber father. Siio tinah ly reluctantly agreed to return with uer people after having beon advised to do bo hy every one in tho room, in eluding Shaver's counsel. Shaver was convicted upon a combined ohargo of perjury and marrying a girl under age. He waa sentenced by Judge E I Prince. For perjury Sliavor rooelved imprisonment of one year and a line of SI00. For marrying & girl under agc the ?.ont.nnno was live years or ?4D0. _ ..'Old ltlpV Hool. Joseph Jii?jrion, in token of tho many libbing trips ho enjoyed with Grover Cleveland, remembered the former President of tho United States lu bia will, dated Oitober 27,1899, and Hied in thc Recorder's otlloj. In a codicil dated tivo years later than tho will, Mr. Jefferson wroto: "To my friend, tho Honorable. Grover Cleveland, 1 bequeath my beBt Ken tucky reel." Tills reel ls said by those who know Joseph Jefforson in life to have boen ono of tho aotor'a most treasured possessions. May (Jet MM Ip ljlno. Commissioner Watson, is arranging a co-icienco with Mayor Rhett and other people interested on tho ques tion of dircot steamship eommunloa oatlon with the Northern and Europ ean ports for Charleston. He took the matter up some timo ago and has very satisfactory negotiations under way now with the o niel?is of sovoral Unes. lt ls likely that a oonferenoo may be arranged at Charleston tho latter part of this woek and that Commissioner Watson will afterward go abroad to puen the negotiations to a suooessf ul conclusion. UNHAPPY RUSSIA. Since Sunday Peasants Have " Burned Fifteen Estates. A REIGN OF TERROR. Estates are Being Sacked and Strikes sre the Order of the Day. The Uprising Spread.Rapidly. The Soldiery Do Jlieh Best to Quell lit. A dispatoh from St. Petersburg says tho peasant war, which began la the province of Voronezn, ls spreading ever the central provinces. Fifteen es tates, near the oity of Voronezh have been burned by peasant mobs sine? Sunday. A strike of hired laborers a week s ago was brutally suppressed by the Government forces. Enormous mass es ot peasantry then congregated and marched in a great column, several miles in longth, to sack all the estates in thc neighborhood. Troops arrived and tried to dlsparse tho mob with volle.yB of musketry. Many hundreds of peasants were killed and wounded, but the horde stubbornly refused to retreat. Tho approaoh of masses of peasants by other roads made the position of the troops unteuablo and they retreat ed, having tho estates defenceless. Tao Government has sent artillery to tho scene. The railway stations are paoked with fugitives and landlords and their families aro camping by the roadsides. Details have arrlvel of the deBtruo olon of 1\ Ino j O/lUT's estate of Padi, whoro the famous study of Orlofl horses was kept. Toe men lu oharge nad warning of the mob's coming and vvore ablo to drlvo the horses to the steppes and tho families of the em ployees were sent away. Soon enormous columns of smoke .vero soon arislug from tho buildings of tho eBtate. Tho devastators then advanced on oho Tulinovsky estates, where the horses and cattle were driven out of ?be yards. The local peasants hoped the estate would escape destruction, owing to the owner's friendly rela j?os with the peasantry of the dis trict. A spokesman advanced from tho vanguard of tho horde, however, and read to tho looal peasants and Tulln ovsky's tenants a decree ordering the burning and devastation of all estates. Tho peasants were allowed to move jhclr household belongings. A meohanio from the crowd bored a hole In tho main wall and the place i was tilled with special explosives. - The horde ad vano jd and repeated ita destructive work on all surrounding estates. Armed peasants of the province of l'ula are camped across the railroads near the station of Suvorlve, and are preventing the passage of all trains. They have boon reinforced by six ohousand mon from the Government Uarirldgo Factory, at Tula, which ii closed. Companies of Ismallvosky regiment ol the imperial Guard have now boen placed at the stations on the railway oetween St. Petersburg and Moscow v.o proteot thom. Private telegrams say that dragoons killed eighty peasants in the village of K-icherovka, province of Tamboff, whllo 3,OOO people were holding a peaceful meeting and discussing the laud question. Mounted polioo and dragoons, after tiring ?overal volleys into the orowd, charged it with drawn swords. An ottlolal dipatoh Bays that one person has been killed and ono wounded in the rioting at Tver. Tho Agrarian strike ls still spread hug. It has now extended to several Governments in wnlon oase the har vest is likely to bo lost. In Lubin, where tho revolutionists doclared war on the gendarmes and polioo, ten policemen havo boen shot. Cue prlnolpal junctions on the Southern Railroad have just been supplied wich nine speolal military trains, titted with steel blinds. Mili tary engineers aro instructing the employees of the railroad In traok re pairing, in readiness for au impend ing general strike. 15,OOO Elke lUraelo. It ls estimated that 40.000 visitors arc In Denver, Col., .of whom 20,000 are Elks and uaembors of their fami lies. Tho annual grand Elks parade took plaoo Thursday, 15,000 members In linc, besides many floats. A feat ure of the celebration was the massed baud parade, nearly 1,000 musloians being in lino. Manhattan Beaoh, with numerous attractions, was thrown open free to rogistcrod Elks and fami lies and a "Wild West" show and In dian exhibitions oonbinuod to be a source of wonder and delight to th? visitors from tho Eist. Kuli Overboard. j A dispatch from New York ?sys I that Walter O.mon, a lawyer of At lanta, Gi., fjil overboard and was drowned, from the steamer Kansas City, while on route from Savannah, to Now York, beoamo known Thurs day when thc steamer arrived. The drowning happened Friday while the I K tnsas City was coming up tho ooast. lo ls believed Ormond had fallen asleep whllo sitting on tho rail and had accidentally fallen overboard. MAU ?ntl Wife fourni Dead. Edward F. Kloss and wife who oon duotod a small mintinery store at 231 North A venue, Chicago, were found dead in their rooms abovo the store. The throats of both had been out, and blood was spattered on the floor and furniture. In addition to tho wounds in the throats, both ?tad been shot through tho head. A revolver viss found on the bed by the body of Kloss and lt ls believed by the poltoe (hat he oouamltted the crime.