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BBNNETTSVIIXE, S. C.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1006. NO. 32. MAKIIOONEY. That Is What Commissioner Ta tum Says About the STATE DISPENSARY, Which Is Vouched (or by deo. Wilie Jones. According to the Figures the Dispensary Assets Are Nearly Double that of Its Liabilities. Mr. W. O. Tatum, state dispensary commissioner has given out the fol? lowing statement: "lteoeutly a nu auber of papers, and Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, oandidate for at torney general, asserted that'th? dis pensary was insolvent: that if it woro put in liquidation lt could not pay its dobts. At tbs time thia state ment was mada 1 came out in a card asking a suspension of judgmont and asserting that tho dispensary was per fectly solvent. 1 said I oould pto duce the figures to prove that the dis pensary was amply sole to pay every dollar lt owed. I hive the figures to moro than sustain my contention and will submit them in this statement, lt took much time and lots of work to go through tho great mass of accounts at the state dispensary and prepare a condensed statement showing exaotly the condition of the institution. I could not expeot the newspapers to publish all the flgutes in their col umns, but I invite any citizen, par ticularly Mr. Lyon and tho editors of the paper? which questioned the solv ency of thc dispensary, to oall at the state dispensary and examine for themselves the books and accounts, and so verify tho statement I have prepared. Now hore are the figures, condensed to the point whore any mind oan grasp them and any memo ry retain them: ''On June 1, 11)00, the state dispen sary owed for wniskey, beer, etc., a total of 8735,880 04, Since June 1, and up to and Including July 21, 1000, there has been paid on the above ac counts a total of 8461,005.01, leaving a balance of 8284.881.33. But of this balance 8107 388 07 is not yet due, which leaves th? amount due on old accounts 887,402 71, and the state dispensary had on hand at the oloso of business July 21, a cash balanoe of 800,518.70, O? 80,0110 05 more than enough to pay all acuouuta then due. However, when tho new board of directors were restrained by order of ; tho dispensary investigating oommit tee from paying old accounts of the dispensary Instead of lotting the dis pensary f multi Ue idle, they discount ed a .ru-oioor of new aocounts ny this course making an extra profit for the state of 83.008 32. Of the aooounts so discounted, an aggregate of 879, 119 70 would not have been due on or before July 21, and so had not those aooounts been discounted the cash balance on that day would haye boen 8175,037 52, or 887,145 81 more than enough to tiave paid all aooounts due at that time. "On July 21 the State dispensary owed for whiokey, beor, supplies, etc., 8448,225.34, though only 87,402 71 of this amount, as stated above, was due on that date. Any assertion that the dispensary ls not solvent and could not pay out every dollar it owes If lt owes If lt owes if it went intol'quida tion seems ridiculous, when the as Bets of thc institution are compared with that total of Its debts. THU ACTAL FIGURES, "On July 21, tue total of Its debt was 84 13,225 14, to meet willoh lt had easily aeacts ~f 8000 000 in round fig ures, mado up of 81)0,518 70 cash on hand, about 8005,000 of stook in the state and county dispensaries, real es tate which cost 850.300.50, supplies of bottles, seals, corks, etc., machin ery and ( id ce supplies. If all of its assets wcro sold at Qf ty cents on the dollar they would be more than suffi cient to pay its indebtedness. In the above 1 have given tho value of tho real eBtate at its cost price, but lt joust be remembered that it was bought bofore the tremendous boom of recent years in the price of Colum bia real eBtate. Ttie opinion of real estate men, archlteots and tho county auditor of Richland county ls that a ^very conservativo estlmatoof the pres ent value of the dispensary real estate would be 8150,000. Accepting that figure would make the dispensary's as8et3 a million dollars with whloh to meot debts of less than 8450,000. Far from being insolvent, if the dis ponsary were dosed out lt oould pay every cent it owes and hundreds of thousands of dollars Into tho aohool fund, te) which it has contributed In tho last ten years 81,361,007.05, be sides paying 83,901,325.49 to thc towns and counties in that same po rted, a total of 85,348,023.12. "That 1B tho condition of the dis pensary today. Tho facta given above auBtaln my contention that the dispensary 1B In bettor condition to day than evor before. When I took charge, of the dispensary in March, 1904, tho dispensary'a condition was shown by tho following statement compiled on February 20, 1004: C?narterly statemont of State dis ponsary for quarter ending February * 29, 1904: ?E8BTS, Cash In state treasury Feb 29, 1904. 8 17.680.2E Teams and wagon?.... 04.0C Supplies (Inventory Feb 28, 1904). 34.828.0? Maoblnory andotlloo lix tures. 0,310.01 Contraband (inventory Feb 29, 1001). 1,472 4' Iteal estate. 62.860.5< Merchandise In hands of dispensers Feb 29, 1004 . 400.668.81 Merchandise (inventory of stock at Stato dis pensary, Feb 21), 1904 490.03? 61 Suspended aooounts.... 2,890.2' Personal accounts due state for empty bar rels, alcohol, eto.... 6.830 7) Total assets $1,012,687.91 LIAUILITIBS. 9 619.064 12 492,873 86 Total liabilities.$1,012 637 98 "It will bo notloed bow little oaah was on band at tbat time. The amount of stock was 9890,000 in round figures or 9226,000 more than July 21, 1906. Or that stook 9?60, 000 WAS represented by an acoumula- 1 dion of hard stook which had not been worked off slnoe the institution began boslness. This has bben worked off 1 during my administration, and the present stock contains hardly 929, 000 worth of anything except new, fresh salable goods. This alono rep resents a tremendous improvement of condition in the last two years. "Besides, in the liabilities a? repre ' sented in th? statement of Feb 29 ,h, 1 1904, there was over 9100,000 Of ac- ' oounte past due, some of them as j muoh as six months overdue. Thin condition compared to tho statement 1 for the presont day ought to bo con- j vlnoing to any reasonable mind of thc improvement of the financial condi tion of the dispensary. "The school fund ls not a debt of 1 the dispensary, but Its profit ?nd loss , account. It ls less understood than any other feature of the dispensary. ' This artiole is too long to permit me 1 to stretch lt further by adding an ex- ? plantation of the school fund. I will 1 give Buoh an explanation later in ( another article." WIMH JONK8' BT?TKMJ?NT. General Wilie Jones also gave out J tho following statement: \ "After reading Commissioner Ta turn's statement, and after having ox 1 amined the balanoo shoot of tho books of tho institution I say without he?l- ' tatton that I regard the present con dition of the fl nan oos of the instltu- < tlon as in better shape than at any 1 blmo during the last ten joars. I 1 was chairman of the board from April 1 1st, 1896 to April 1st, 1897, and also a - member of tho board by appointment of Governor Heyward about ?Ix ] months in 1903, and I feel that I am ? thoroughly familiar with the affairs of the dispensary." (Signed) WILIK JONES. TO PKKVEWT LYNCHING. A Negro to Bu Hanged on Board An J Oyester Bout. A dlspatoh from Baltlmoro, Md., ? says with the greaest possible seorcoy, ! William Leo, the negro who has hoon held In the olty Jail undor sontonce of 1 death for assaulting two womon in 1 Somerset county, somo wooka ago, was On Wednesday plaood aboard the steamer Governor It M. MoLano of the Maryland Oyster navy and started 1 for Somerset oounty to be executed ' for his orlmo. Lee's case has been one ol great 1 difficulty to the authorities owing to 1 the indignation the crime aroused on ? the eastern shore of Maryland, lt has been repeatedly declared that the citizens of that locality will never j allow the negro to be legally oxeouted and throats of burning at tho stake ? have boon freely made. Aftor the i crime Lee fled to the eastern shoro of * Virginia, and to protoot him from < Maryland pursuers he was taken to 1 Norfolk under guard of Virginia State 1 troops, thence he was broughb back to 1 tho city, tried and oonvlotod prompt- 1 ly. The law gives a oonvloted mur derer 20 days between tho day of con- 1 vlction and his exeoution. This ' period expired Wednesday. < On board tho Governor McLane the offloors having Lee in charge took a 1 I gallows, coffin and all other necessary I things, and, it ls said that tho execu tion will take place on board thc 1 j steamer as soon as possible after thc ; waters of Somerset oounty aro reaoh- 1 ed. This probably will not be until 1 early Friday morning, lt ls hoped . thus to circumvent those who swore 1 to lynch Lee. Beauties ot Diyore>4, ( A ipeolal dlspatoh to the Aguata Herald from Savannah says a mar riage that will attraot attention all ovor the state, if not throughout the south was that of Judge II. D. D. 1 Twlggs to Mrs Lucie IC. Twlggs. They are now both residents of Sa vannah. It was a remarriage which 1 WM attended by the daughter of the 1 contracting parties. Judge Twlggs was married to the lady who ls now again his wife about thirty fivo years ago in Augusta. About ten or fifteen years ago there came an estrange mont. Judge Twlggs moved to Da kota and seeurod a divoroe after a six months' r?sidence there. Ile oame baok to Georgia and married another lady, who had been a olient of his in Augusta. Since then he has scoured a divorce from her. Not long since his love for his first wife was rekin dled and there came a reconciliation. The result was the marriage. Alr?l(l ot Toxaway Dom, TS?. A. Patterson, a brother of Oon grtssman Jas. A. Patterson, of Ham well, writes to Governor Hey ward from Arden, N. G., calling attention to what he considers the danger to i Anderton and other South Carolina counties from the big dam at Lake : Toxaway. He says the lake is a con stant monaco and that residents below i lt will some day have a Johnstown i flood to go through with. Mr. Pat terson also wishes a commissioner of doods for South Carolina appolned in Asheville. Ho says notarial fees there are just double their amount in this ?tate. m_ Clunked Again. 1 'President Roosevelt announces that 1 he ls pleased with tho campaign plans of the ropublioan congressional o un 1 mlttee which mot the presidont and lt was decided that a "stand pat" pro I gram was tho proper one. Messrs. Taft, Shaw, Cannon and Beveridge ' were agreed upon the big guns for 'the stump. The oom mlttee 7/111 op on headquarters In N. Y. By agreo , I lng to stand pat on the tariff quea ' tlon the President flunks again, a? li lias been passing as a tariff reformer. [) I Another Battle. i A dispatch from Manila says anoth er battle has occured between the Twonty-fourbh Infantry and oonstab 8 ulary against tho bandits in the ls - and of Leyte. Fifty bandits were Si I killed and puty wounded. School fund. Personal accounts due by stat? for supplies, whiskies, wines, beer alcohol, etc. TWENTY TWO-KILLED IN A OOJUlilBlON ON 'UH1! BK\ DOAHI> AIllhlNK. ?moog the Number Aro Two Colored People From the Town of Bennettsville. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., says the head-on collision between Rockingham and Hamlet on the Sea board Air Line resulted In the death ot 22 persons; and tho injury of 23. Tue rog ular local passenger brafp was an hour late and instruoMons were wired from the train dispatchers of ?oe hire tu bold it thero for an extra freight going west, but for some rea ion the order was not delivered. Tho aperator at Rockingham is W. E. Lu ther. Tho distance between Hamlet ..nd Rockingham is six miles, and En lister Bandy of the freight, Booing .".ho approaching passongor train when ihreo miles from Hamlet, stopped his train and Jumpod before the collision, rue doad : White. Frank B. Lewis, cnglneor, Hamlet); H. S. Byrd, baggage master, Rockingham. Colored: Thomas HUI, fireman; 57ato Bogan, porter, Adesboroj Rc7 Thomas Jones, Rockingham; (J il hen, VtoFadden, Hamlet; Sandy Cap?es and wife, Laurlnhurg; G.rt. Harrington's ?by; EUtor DuPreo, BennetUvlllo, S J.; Mary Land, Bonuettsville, S. C.; Mary Bell and child, Rockingham; Hannibal McNalr and child, Laurin Durg; Georgo MoLaurin, Hoffman, N. 1; Jane Russell, Hoffman, N. C.; I?rinker Russell, Hoflman; two un mown men. TWJ othor unknown mou died on onto to Charlotte on speolal train. Tho white injured are: J. D Bowden )f Wilmington, N. O , conductor pas longer train; G. S. Birmingham, Rockingham, NC; E. A. Carter, Rockingham; E. S. Saudcfore of Rockingham. The colorod injured arc: Goorge Morgan, Rockingham, N. (J ; (Jioeru Thomas, Laurlnhurg, N. C.. Ojoar kee, Hamlet, N. (J ; Gert Henton, Hamlet, N. O ; O.oar Flov?ors, Liles ville, N. 0. ; Rich Douglass, Bennetts' ville, S. C.; May Douglass, Bennetts* ville, S. C.; IvleOxiudlne, Lumborton, N. O.j urank Scott,-; Jim Odom, GlibBon, N. C.; Lizzie Bowman, Ham let, N. C.; Perry (Jlark, Lauriuburg, N. C., Mannie Lee, Hamlet, N. C.; Dotavla Jackson, Hamlen, N. C ; Jane Stewart, Lauriuburg; James Stewart, Rockingham; Carry McNalr, Lauriu burg; E. A. Radley; Rockingham; June Radley, Rockingham. The freight train was au extra and wasaouthbound from Raleigh to Mon roe. Conduotor Hunter ls nob report ad hurt and Engineer Bundy is very slightly injured. The mall train was No. 44, running from Oharlobbe. N. C., to Wilming ton. This train was In charge of Con Juotor John D. Bowen, formorly of Raleigh, and a brother of Capt. J. J. Kowen of tho Southern Express comp \ny hore. Ho was slightly injured. Engineer Frank Liwis of Hamlet, Fireman Thomas Hill of Hamlet, bag j;agemaster H. S. Byrd of Wilming ton and Porter Bjgan of Wadesbom )f theorow of this ill-fated train were ill killed. Tho baggage oar and eight ' jars of the freight were derailed and lome of them piled upon other cars ind orushed to pieces. Why thc order was not given to thc pauenger train at Rockingham is not known, and will he Investigated by the mperlntendent of the road, lt is salo that the operator at Rockingham is an axperlenced man and liss been a faith ful and oaref ul employe of tho company tor several years. When news of thc disaster readied Raleigh Monday night Superintendent Jenks went Immedia tely to the scone. A train was made up and the Injured takon to Charlotte ia soon as they could he gotten from tho wreck. Caskets were sent from Raleigh and othor points to H runlet Mid Rookington to rooeivo tho bodies Ot the dead. Tho Kennon Woy. Backgammon hoards arc made to look like books baoanse Eu les, bishop ot Slolly tried to stamp out backgam mon in the fifteenth century. Eudes deolded in 1407 that his clergy devot ed moro Hmo to backgammon and ohosB than waa good for their splrtu rd welfaro, and therefore ordered that all brckgammon and chess boards In the Slotllan monasteries should be destroyed. Tue wily monks only pre tonted to obey. They hound their boards in calf, put pious titles on their backs, and put them on thc book shelves along with tho monastic works. Thus lOndcs wassatlslijd and tho monks nut deprived of their inno cent gamos, and thus arose the cus tom of constructing backgammon and ohoas boards to resemble folios. I io VD Crn/.oil, At New York a love lorn Italian, Salavtor Dovo, ran amuck in West 100th street Wednesday morning and in trying to shoot ids sweetheart sent bullets into tho bodies of throe podes, trlans, two of whom were norlously In jured. Dove, who was badly In love with Tharesa Lodito, because she ac cepted attentions from another man, Wednesday morning he waylaid her and llrod shots resulting as stated above. _ Alliance DlMhandH. Pursuant to a call Issued by State .Secretary J. B, Nesbitt of the South Carolina Warmers Alliance, a meeting of that organization was held In Co lumbia Wednesday night, thero hoing about 16 present. Thc alllanoj ex change fund having beon distributed according to an order cf the -supreme oourt, tho members decided to formal ly disband, thus ending an organisa tion that was at one time one of the most powerful in tim South. Fatal /V mi oil II i. A speolal to The Macon Telegraph from La Grange, CA., says; "This aftornoon while young Willie Stowart, in tho employ of tho King Hardware company, wat1 showing a customer a ohlsel, he dropped lb in a caso of dyna mite, oauslng an explosion. Stewart was killed and sovoral Other men In bhosboro woro badly hu rb. The stook of goods valued ab 425,000, was badly damaged and thu storohouso, Masonic hall and the Elm Ciby dub rooms, all overhead, aro badly damaged. WHERE IS IT? Ninety-Six Sailors On a Myster ious Island That NO ONE CAN LOCATE. On This Island May bc Living Command* er ?liinl and the Crew o? the United State? Man-of-War That Disappeared Long Ago. Hardly a year passes that tho Presi dent, of tho United States ls not lm portunod to send forth a naval exped ition to solve tho most fascinating sea mystery that cvor oxlstcd-and this ono has bafilad all inquiry for nearly half a oontury. If "Robinson Orusoc" is tho most absorbing pleoo of sea llotion over w ribbon, hov/ EUUOh mme interesting would be tho authentic record of ad ventures of no less than ninety-six Robinson Orusoes all oast away on the same unohartcd island In tho North Pacifia forty six years ago. Whenever sea-faring voterans con gregate to exchango experiences and reminiscences tho probable fate of this wholo ship's orew of Ctujoea is a favorito subj ct for speculation. "Aye, ayo, Captain," ?ays a griz zled old second officer of a tramp steamor, "I remember thu Levant as well as If I'd Been her oomlu' up the Hay only yestorday. In those days she was a mau o' war to bo proud of. The United States had few staunoher. Tho wholo crow lost, you say, Bill? Not a blt of lt. Pitcairn's not the only un charted Island to show upjuft in time to save a shipwrecked crew." "Hight you arc, Mate," saya thc Captain, "and there's still a patch out in the Paoitio bouth of 20 north-lati tude and cast of longitude MC as big as tho State of Maine that nobody knows any more about than they do of the North Polo. You all know that's about where the Lovant got caught by thc typhoon back In !(5G." "That's tho idea, Captain, lt there's no island in that patch, Bays I, why hasiuobody ever run aoross the wooden hull of the. old Levaut, or any of her fiwatln' Junk?" T11K T1CL.L-TAL.IC MAINMAST. "Except nor mainmast thatBtrand ed on Kaalualu in the Hawaiians," says Rill, making a historical oorreo tion. "That stranded spar proojr to prove* what I'm tellln' yo," says tba old tramp seoond officer. Why was noth ln' but the mainmast of tho Livant ever been afterwards? Well, I'll toll yo. The mainmast wont overboard whoo tho ty poon fust struck her, an' laid a clear cmrse for Hawaii. Rut the officers mangged to keep tho Le vant'8 nose p'lnted sou' sou'east for Panama till this here undiscovered ls land bobbed up, caught her fast on a ooral reef an' made R ?hlnsou Orusoes Of everybody aboard." Snob, in a nutshell, are the possl bllltles-perhaps, eveu, tho possibili ties-regarding the fate of the officers and orew of tho Levant. Commander William E, Hunt, with ninety-live officers and men, startod with the sloop of-war Levr.ut from lilla, Hawaiian Islands, on Septem ber 18, 1800, bound for Panama via the California coast. These wera the officers under Commander Hunt: Lieutenants -MoB. S. Porter, E O Stout, Colville .lorrett and R T. Ho well. Surgeons-J. S. Gilliam and William Bradley; Purser, Andrew J Watson; Master, James C. Mosely; First Lieutenant of M irlnes, P. L Browning; Acting Boatswain, Harri son Edmonstou; Gunner, Ulbert S. King; Carpenter, John Jarvis; Sail maker, Charles S Frost. The official early records of the Le vant's disappearance are brief, but lu terestlng and significant. Command er J. H. Mougomery, United States Flagship Lancaster at Panama. The following arc from Montgomery's re ports to Washington from his flag ship walting In the Bay of Pinama: ' Nov. 20, 18(50 -1 have recently re ceived letters from William E. Munt that thc Levant ls now ready and on Its way to this port." "January 31, 18(51-The Saranao and Wyoming will proceed In search of the Levant, Lo Hilo and Honolulu Tho unusual length of time since sail ing produces serious apprehension for her safety." "February 13, 18(51- No word yet. Hurrlcano last September dismasted an American clipper, and H. B. M. linc of battleship G unges had her salis blown from the yards. "A letter from Commander Hunt, dfcted September 3 l.siio, stated he would start from Hilo In lon or twelve days, lt ls now known that he sailed from Hilo September 18, without chango of purpose to return to this port." "February 14, 18(51 Commander J. K. Mitohell, of tho Wyoming, at Hilo, report8 his cruise from Panama. No word, except that Hunt intended to take thc usual Northern route to Panama, via the coast to California, to get thc record of his work bofore (Jong ress." "Juno 8, 1801 Thomas Miller, U S. Consul at Hilo, reports a mast washed ashore sevonty-Uvo miles from there, supposed to bo tho main mai t of the Levan ii. Charles Spencer, Isaac Nichols and Christopher Baker ex amlned this mast of yellow pina and pronounced lt to ho that of tho Le vant. Part of a lower yard live feet in clrcumferoi.co at thc slings wav. found near the mast. Consul Miller and W. C. Parks, Marshall at Hilo, confirm this opinion. Baker waB tho pilot who piloted the Levant In and out of Hilo harbor, and he had the dimensions of her masts and sptrs." A(;T OK UON0U1C88 JULY 24, 18(11, "Juno il j, 1801, shall bo doomed and taken to bo the day on which tho sloop of war Lovant foundered at sea." This aot of Congress, implying that tho Levant, having "founelored," waB irreparably loss with all her orew, fail ed to draw any curtain of oblivion over i / i tho Incident. The mystery took too doep*a hold on the Imagination for it to b- Allowed to sleep, forgotten. Every natipn whose flag floated over tho highways of tho North Paol?o saw its ship:; monaood by tho unknown. Here was a) \ast area of ocean into wbiob thelrahlps wore liable to be blown by swines' which waa absolutoly unknown, lyinh>Woll oil tho heaton traok of nav igatt?Jji, and possibly made hazardous by ti.;t> proRonoo of oharaoterlstlo coral rcofa abd Island which in tho Pad Ile are generally so low as not to be visi ble until a ship is almost upon them. Th?Vgreater part of this unknown area exists. It ls to tho south and c..-.tj of the routo from San Kran otsco to Australia, and to the south of all the routes from tho Hawaiian Is lands t$> Panama and to Callao. Wha lers b ul explored it only tentatively, noting Certain islands, some of which romain>mytbioal to expeditions which made aystematio soaroh for them. Theil fr?os t absoluto silero.-, and mys tory about the disappearance of the Levanp! especially, as tho years rolled on, tho fact that no trace of thc wreofc1 Appeared, beyond tho stranded mainmast and yard, inspired every sabina: master traversing those waters with a' firm belief that the Lovant had oast hf r crew upon some land, herself ollnglKg.. fast upon ibo rocks willoh caught, hor. Between 1827 and 1830 this un known vc?lon had been somowhat nar rowed hy cruises of three British and ono Anwrloan expeditions. All of these expeditions reported indications of shoal water and urged tho need of fur ther investigations. During sixty years, '^however, no further progress was m&je. In 1899 the Fish Commis sion steamship Albatross traversed part ofethe doubtful region and re ported Sobing several lowly lng Islands, cv.dsntjhjtthe Bamo that exist in wba ling annals. One y?iar before tho loss of thc Le vant Cifttaln John de Greaves, sailing from Honolulu to Callao, reported the dhoovcry of au Island at longitude 13.0 and north latitude 17, whicti was about ilfty feot high and two miles long. <Tbis island was so near thc routo of the Levant that if she had reached that neighborhood lu thc night she ml?ht easily have beer w,recke<?,-upon lt. Tho 'latest effort of the Unltec States government to dispel the mys tery o/ V,he Levant was made In 1903 whon President Roosevelt dispatcher, tho Tacoma out on au expedition o: diecovjiy, All that the Tacoma dh was t?j narrow tho unknown regloi down ?Q an area of about the exten of the State of Maine. It discovers no isUud whore there were vls.bl signs o' a wreok, or which were inbab Ited. '.'he Tacoma negatively dispos od <jC -? av?rai island theories, but no of tL^e -possibility of the exlstonce o one \ . n whioh tho aged Roblnsoi Or!' <..'"> Levant rn?? n o** ! b living: - O .e of the groat oharaotors of iii tlon ls popularly supposed to be arnon these castaways-Phillp Nolan, th path?tlo hero of Edward Evoret Hale'f. "Man Without a Country, whom tho author disposed of aboar tho Levant. Captain Lawless, 1 writing of his cruiso, mentioned rt celvlng a letter from thc aged anthe of that masterpiece in which he sah "If you have found dear Phil N( ian, bring him at once to this house 1 will adopt him as my grandfather. Thc great historical analogy for tl theory that members of thc crew c the Lovant are Btill alive on son: unknown iBland is thc distance i tlie colony on Pitcairn Island, in tl South Paollio, these people being d sccmdantB of the crew of the Bount which mutinied moro than a centui ago and were wrecked on that Islan there to exist for eighteen years b fore their fate waa discovered ai made known to the world. These Bounty mutincss for nearly score of years were genuino lt )blns< Crusoes, subsisting wholly upon li and tho other sea food, the birds ai animals aud tho fruits whloh the land afforded. The Lsvanters were, perhaps, al to save part of tho wreck of their si! from which to build buts, and soi of thc stores, including clothing. If these old men are now clothed all must bo with the skins and featlu of birds, or even woven grasses, or p haps the woven libre of the outer lu; of tho oocoanut. lt ls poss!ole th there wore sccdB aboard the Lova and that this colony of Crusoes 1 been ablo to cultivate tho soil as means cf varying their supply of il birds, eggs, turtles and so on. V sinly the salvage of the ship's ebro; meter may stol give timm the tl of day. As at least a soorc of tb must have been men of cducatt doubtless they have kopt diarios wli contain records of their strange perleuoes from day to day. But the mystery of the lost Lev and lils orow, and also of the great explored region, ls too fascinating attempts to solve lt to cease u every square mlle of those lat!tu lias boen scrutinized. Even ton yt from now, If thc fatal Island Is fe lt is within the possibilities thats? broken, half savage old men may rescued to tell civilization tho i story of tho loss of the Lovant i of their long and wonderful exile. Caught Up with. Anna N dan, a negress, omployoi Lauderdale Springs hotel, forty rr from Meridian, Miss., was arrei Wednesday morning cnarged with attempt at wholcsalo poisoning ( f proprietor, attaches and guests of hotel by placing a quantity of lt ) on Rita lu tho coffee servid Thun Tho woman had a grievance aga thc proprietor. Two of tho guost* reported vory ill from the tt? et the poison._ bJlopod Willi VVlilto Girl, Henry Claytcr, tho negro arre lu Chicago where bo was ahou marry a white girl with whom had olopod from Irvington, Ky., placed lu the county Jail at Lau rs for safe keeping. Word was rec? by tho polloo that a mob was fori at Irvington to lynch Claytcr. ORVO lt Up, Jerry Miller a saloonkeeper of toi, Tenn., upon recolvlng WOK! he had fallen hoir to mining p-oi worth $2.000,000,000 gave lils si to his barkeeper and announced ho wot.idnevor soil another drop intoxicating boverage. DENATURE ALCOHOL. Ml I KIM,li!! KIMI H'M AND V130B TABLiKS AND WASTE STUFF Can Re Made Into Material for Heat ing, lighting and Running Engines. "The passage of tho denature alco* hoi bill by Congress at its recent ses sion is one of the best and most help ful measures ever gotten through that body. Many persons do not fully un derstand tho real help tbat ls to come from this bill, but when they learn that denaturod alcohol oan bo used for the same purpose that gasoline is, they will understand in a measuro the great benefits tbat we may reasonably expect to derivo from it," says Mr. Sigo Meyers, of Savannah, Ga., who has glvon tho mattor a great deal of thought ana his viows on the subject are of more than ordinary Interest "I am reliably informed that dena tured alcohol oan be produoed at a cost of from 0 to 10 cents per gallon, and I know that tho processes of mak lng lt aro not vory ditlioult, and in faot are in reach of any farmer of or dinary means. Tnough every farmer has not Butlloiont quantities of raw material for making suoh an enter prise profitable yet in oaoh neighbor hood there ls a plonty of material that is wasted every year to make these plants paying from the veiy start. Denatured alcohol can bo made from any fruits, corn and all grain, sugar cane, potatoes, beets and a doz en other vegetables. "It has occured to mo that the best thing to do with the large surplus fruit and vegetable orops of the state would be to convert them into dena turod alcohol. When this is done we have at hand the fuel for running our automobiles, our small power plants, and instead of burning coal or wood at high prloo we oan uso our cheap and inexpensive alcohol for cooking and lightning, heating purposes and for many other USOB. 1 should not go further with this interview before stating thc faot that denatured alco hol is poison and oanuot be used as a beverage any more so than gasoline oi kcrosoue-In fact, a very small quan tity taken internally produces r^ath; hence lt is that no one, no ttor how religious, could obj'?otto ltb -ian ufacture as lt positively cannot bc used as a boversge. "The passage of this bill was a dl reot thrust at tho Standard 0.1, which fought Its enaotment into law with all of the powerful forces at Its cjm mand. Tho farmers of tho oountry \vo*e ti, ':iud the b!ii-4*ud wuw '?hese horneyhandod sons of toll gavo the word it went on tho statute books. Denatured alcohol, you soo, is destin ed to rob the Standard Oil of a goo ", deal of the prollts it ls now making on gasoline. Denatured alcohol will be used in a thousand different lines of art, with which chemists and skill ed artisans are familiar and with which tho goncral publlo bavo little idea. Even I know of only a few uses lt can be put to, even these few de monstrate thc fact that its uso will become general In the United States In a short time. "1 am of the opinion that it will he nearly a year before the government I will bo able to permit thc oponlng of these plants. In the meantime the real benefits that may bo expected from the passage of this bill will he come tho subject of favorable com mcut In overy section of tho country, and when tho govornment ls ready for opening of theso plants there will bo a thousand of them ready to begin business. Commissioner John W. Yerkes of thc Internal It^vouue Dc partmcnt, has gone abroad where he will Btudy tho methods of handling theso plants by othor governments. Most, If not all of tho Important for eign governments do not tax denatur ed alcohol, and it is said that In Ger many, for Instance, that lt has been of great benefit to the small manu facturer, and that lt lias done a great deal towards making Germany ono of the loading manufacturing countries of the world. I look for lt to have much tho Bame elloot in tho Uuited States, and 1 am certain that no seo tlon of country will be bencllted so muob from tho ohcap power thus made possible as will the South. "lt may bo generally understood but at this time thc regular alcohol now In uso ls taxed at tho rate of about $2 a gallon. Under the bill Just passed this tax ls entirely removed. As 1 have stated lt will admit of the farmer utilizing every sparc ounce of the fruit and vegetable produces of tits farm which under tho old law wa? not permissible, as BO few oould afford lo pay thc tax to manufacture. In addition the demand for denatured alcohol at tho price it liad to bc sold was BO Inst g (loan t that no ono cared to manufacture lt. It ls now worth In tho opon market about $2 60 poi gallon. When the present bill becom es of force, nay a year hence, lt will be .lold at retail around 20 oents per gal lon and by the barrol at a much small er price. I look for a new and more prosperous era of industrial activity all through tho country, and tho man who is going tobo the recipient of the greatest bonellts ls tho sturdy and hard headed farmor, lu ovory seotlon of thc country." Doth ?hot. Mrs. II. A. Leaptrot was shot and instantly killed and her husband probably fatally wounded Thursday night while sitting on the porch of their residence near Cherry Valley, Ark. Tiio shouting wa8 done by tinco mounted mon who ll red from the front gato. Tho llvo Woolbright brothers woio arrostod on tho charge of complicity. Two yoars ago Leapt rot killed a member of tho Woolbright family. Douhlo . ;i? KOO... At Marlon, OJ lo, O. G. Johnston, aged 24, was found doad Wodnosday. Ten days beforo Johnston quarrolod with lils sweetheart, Cora White, as tho rcBult of willoh sho oom mittori suloldo by taking carhollo add. John ston also took carbolic acid, and to make tho end sure turned on the gas, MANY ABE RUINED BY BUY INO INI) SELLING COT j ON How It Buincd a Strong Man Who Was Immune Against Other Bad Habits, A few years ago a certain oapable lawyer living In a well.known Georgia town, might well have been selected as tho one oltlzsn most likely to dis tinguish himself and reflect honor up on his oo m rm m tty. He was thirty live years of ago, happily married, and modestly boasted that ho did not know tho taste of whiskey nor tobac co He owned Din home, and some good farmB, made a good inoome from his praotloo, published a county paper, and discharged efficiently the duties of couuty school commissioner. Hav ing b?en a member of the State Sen* ate, he had had his little fling In poli ties. As ho had made a good record in the legislature, and retired with uncorrupted habits, one might have conoluded him staunch and safe. Big of body, he was otherwise big of brain and big hearted. It seemed to glvo him pleasure to help tho needy; he gavo cordially to the support of his church. Today that man ls a fugitive from Justice. Several Ind lot monta oharg lug embezzlement, oheatlng and swin dling, forgery and other kindred crimea yawn as an opon prison door on the dooket book of his county, ile dares not face the court where onoo his eic q lenoe and logic shared uonors with oho keenest criminal ad vocate in the state. A strong man caught in the our rent of tho under iov?l He was a strong man; he was a good man; at the age of thirty-five he did not pos sess the elements evan of villainy. Ho had been roared on a farm, and had wrought his way to prominence by sheer merit. He was worthy of all tho confidenoo the people reposed in him. What oaused his ruin? Tho mania to sell and buy ootton futures in a bucket shop of his town. The same insidious, strong right arm of the oe vii which ls blasting more homes and blackening moro souls in our South today than tho rum-shops. Ho knew this current was dangorous. Others embarking weaker than ho, he ?new must faint, but .-surely with hlB exp?rience, his lei. al learning, his sober lifo, ho could trust hlmseh to steer safely through treacherous shoals. Serene in his confidence, he began to play the game. In a small way at first. The habit grew on him rapidly. When losses came larger than his own fuudB could obver, he could bar row from tho trust funds In his hands and no ono should ever know-if he won and replaced it. Then, lost again. The game grew desperate. To g. itt now meant poverty and soae humiliation. The luok must turn; he felt the hour had struok to recoup his loases. Did ho have "nerve" enough bo aot on his judgment? Yds, he had nerve; why throw away the golden op portunity when only a few "conven tionalities" stood between him and tho monoy for the stake. Confident that his time to win had oouao, he gathered every dollar that he could borrow by prooos? fair or fou', staked lt on tho game-and lost. Honor, reputation, charaotor,-all lostl Per haps his eternal soul loni I There remained to him obeloe of only three sources. Suicide? The weakling's refuge 1 He v/as young yet, and a mental collossus. Nu, he was weakling; he would live. Sur render? The honest oourse, to be sure, but he could not make restitu tion, and without restitution, surren der meant long and weary years in prison, and a fag end of lifo beyond aoaioaly worth while. Plight? Oh, yes; if he fly far enough and hido safely he might live as a free man, perhaps repent, succeed in business undor a new name, and by and by re turn what ho had stolen. He fled, may ho repent, prosper and restore. Hut why speak of the sad oaso? Thore'B reason enough when one sees tho lnoroaslcg numbor of buokot shops opening up in our cities and and towns. Homo Uoud advloo. At J, ff arson City, Mo., Gov. Jos eph W. Folk, In addressing tho rotall merchants of Missouri at their con vention time, spoke against the mail order business and favored advertis ing in town papors. He said, in part: "We are proud of our splendid oitios, and wc w*nt them to inoroase in wealth and population, and we also want our country towns to grow. We wish tho city merchants to build up, but wo also desire tho country mer chants to prosper. I do not believe In the mail order citizen. If a plaoe is good enough for a man to live in and Lo make his monoy in, it ls good enough for him to spend his money In. No merchant oan suooeed with out advertising in one way or anoth er. Patronlzo your town papers, build thom up, and they will build tho town up and build yon up lnoroas od trado and greator oppurtunities. Do not bo afraid that business ls go ing to bo hurt by rocont exposures ol wrong doing in thc oommoroial world, NJ man who ls doing an Inmost busi ness can bo injured by tho light. All ousiness will be better for tho oloans lng procccs it is going thrrugh ant for tho stamping out of evil." Tl my Must (io. At Atlanta ire lower house of tl c Georgia legislature Wednesday pass ed what is known as tho Iloykin An tl Buoketshop bill by a vote of 132 tx 16, af tor the longest debate of thc present session. The bill prohibit! all dealings in futures on margin anc will oloso all bueketshops, oxohanges eto, in tho state The bill goes tc tho senate whore it is oxpeoted lt wll pass? Foll Overboard, Waltor Ormond; a prominent law yor of Atlanta, Ga., foll overboard from tho Kansas City off the eoast o North Carolina, on Thursday nigh on his return from New York to Sa ? vannah, and was drowned, He wa 36 years of age. TOUGHS FAILED In an Effort to Make Governor Qlenn Pardon i BOWEEY SWINDLER Who Wan Serving a Sentence In the North Carolina Penitentiary for , Working His Rascally Schemes on Some Citizens of the Old North State. A dispatch from Atlantic City, N. J., says: Govornor Robert P. Glenn, of North Carolina, discussed ? guardedly Friday night the report of his having been held up by a gang of Tammany men in Now York City and threatened with injury lt he refused to Bign a pardon for a Bowery swind ler, who was serving a sentence In the North Carolina penitentiary. The faot that a Governor had been subjected to suob an outrage has been suppressed carefully for a year for fear of oreatlng undesired political prejudices. The hold-up episode, as related by those close to the Governor, oocurred whllb he was the guest of Tammany Hall as one of tho orators at the Fourth of July celebration last Sum? mer. Governor Glenn and Lieuten-' ant-Governor Sanders, of Louisiana anothor guoat, at tho conclusion o the ceremonies were lu vi ted to Join a party going to Coney Island. There was a deliberate effort, ac cording to the Governor, to get him drunk, several of tho party being in toxicated. Tue Governor, however, had boon diaoreot and was unaffected. They stopped at Henderson's restaur ant and wine was ordered. Soarooly had they seated themselv es wnen one of the men-a dlstrlot leador, lt is said-drew rrom his nook et a legally drafted pardon in favor of a gold-brlok artist named Halsey or Halstead, tuen doing time In Raleigh, North Carolina, but whose headquarters were between the But tery and Fourteenth streob. Thinking tbe Governor was suffi ciently jovial to sign anything by that time, the leader remarked: "Just a favor, Governor. Wo would like you to sign tnis and let that man come back to New York." G J vernor Glenn told the leader that a petition had been presented to him last' before ho left homo for that man's pardon; that he had looked Into the oose, aud had decided In the negative. He was sorry, but he could not reverso himiolf then, evan to oblige his hosts. The man la reportad bo havo beoomo ugly, and shouted that the Governor would nob get out alive If the pardon was not signed. Soxie allege tbab a revolver was oraa d taned, The Governor rose from the table and said; 'If I have any friends In this crowd, 1 wlsu they would oome on this side of tho table, for there's likely to bo somotniug doing hero pretty soon." "I'll standby you Governor," re sponded Lieutonant-Govornor Sanders. The remainder of tno party assumed an attitude of holploss Intoxication. "Now, gentlemen, do your worst," ls tho reportod ohallengo ny Governor Glenn. "I'll aeo you In noll before I'll sign that pardon," ( The politicians refused to carry out the bluff of keeping tho Govornor as a hostage for tho convict, and he strode out of the building unmolested. He returned to his hotel and paid his own expenses. Toe gold-brlox swindler died in prijon a few weeks ago and his wife applied to the Govornor for parmlssion td take the body from tho State for luterment. In recounting her efforts bo obtain freedom for her Husband she oonfessed she had arranged to have the Governor Invited to New York and so overwuelmod with kindness tnathe could not deny her a pardon. "Tho truth of tho matter was this," that tho Governor Thursday night. "After making au address ab the Tammany meeblng, I went out with a party of men to soo the town. They wore not Tammany men so far as 1 know, bub they did bry to gob mo drunk. "Aftorward, I loamed that thoso men had boen engaged by thc wife of tho man in our penitentiary to get me drunk so that I could bo induood bo sign a pardon. 'Instead of bogging or requesting me to sign a pardon, they made an Immediate demand, and thoy were downright Insolent about it, too. 'Woii, slr, 1 lust ploked up my hat, turned on my heel aud walkod ?out. I oannot toll you who they were.". A Murry lng (Url. Nob yet 17 years old, but a bride for tho third time, was tho record which Clara Minor Duezor Ologg, of Charlestown, li d , made Thursday when she became tho wife of II, Coley, of Louisville, Ky. The girl, who is wealthy, obtained a divoroo from William Clogg several days ago and ber friends wore surprised when . they learned that she and Coley were 11 married. Mrs. Coley was 14 years old when she married Charles Dmz jr In Jefforsonvlllo, Ind., On Novembor 17 1004, sho obtained a divorco from her husband and a weok lator she beoamo the wife of Clogg. The couple lived , I together for about a year, whan they separated. Mrs. Clogg sued her hus for dlvoroo and several days ago a do oree In her favor was issued. Taen she marled Coley. ? I THO A'rWftllgo TAX, 'j Tho amount of money going to OUuusou oolloga tnis year from the privilege tax has broken all previous records, Up to date it amounts to . 1140 000.04. This is a muon larger sum 11 than has ever before been collected from tho privilege tax. Of course itdoes b I not represent all the income for Clem son oolloge, as that institution ia ter B j unate In having other sources ot la* oome.