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MEN HELD ?tarder of R. T. Westcott in Columbia. J _ ? ARE NOW IN JAIL ax Gardner, Jr., and J. B. liny Charged With tlio Crime and T. O. Jones Wanted as a Witness. Tho Authorities Determined to Run Down tho Guilty Parties If Possible. The State says Jim Gardner, Jr., and J. B. Hoy are in the Richland jail as the result of the inquest into the cause of the death of R. T. Wes cott, and the coroner's jury has rec ommended the arrest of T. C. Jones, who is said to know something of the matter. Gardner was arrested the afternoon of the murder and has been in jail ever since. Hoy was arrested last Friday night week after an adjourned session of the coroner's inquest, and was re leased Wednesday of this week, but was rearrested Thursday night. He was with Gardner the night proceed ing thc killing of Mr. Wescott. Tom Jones' connection with the matter is that he has declared that he has information which would im plicate some one. He made this statement to Mr. Jesse Thomas, the father-in-law of Mr. Wescott, and tile jury had the information the night of the homicide, it having been conveyed to them privately. But Tom Jones has been seen only once since that time. Mr. Thomas' statement to the jury was that Tom C. Jones had come to him the afternoon of the homicide and had stated that if inducements in the form of rewards should bc of fered he would give information which would incriminate some peo ple. That is all that is known of Tom Jones' connection with it, but the of ficers are very anxious to get him and lind out what he knows. Coroner Walker stated Thursday night that he has an idea where Jones is and that bc may get hold of him Friday. The inquest convened Thursday night at 0:30. This was the third sit ting. After having heard the testi mony of several witnesses the jury deliberated about an nour and brought in the following verdict; "That R. T. Wescott came to his death by gunshot wound at thc hand of party or parties unknown to the jury at this time. We, the jury, re commend that Jim Gardner, Jr., J. B. Hoy and T. C. Jones be held for further investigation. "George A. Burns, H. E. Watts, C. L. Slitrh, H. L. Creighton, R. L. Murrell, G. M. Miller, F. C. Grigsby, P. M. Malone, W. S. Brown, W. F. Stieglitz, T. I. Harris, J. D. Pop well." The coroner's jury also recom mended that thc grand jury be ap prized of the conditions in this coun ty with thc view of getting mounted rural police. This very interesting action was expressed in the follow ing language: "We, the jury empanelled by the coroner to investigate the death of R. T. Wescott, after rendering our verdict do resolve: "That the coroner bc and is here by requested to appear before the next grand jury to Richland county and give an account of thc murders recently committed in our suburbs. "That he express to the grand jury and desire that they carefully consid er the pressing needs of a mounted county police service and make such recommendations as will promote the inauguration of such police protec tion. "George A. Bruns, foreman; H. E. Watts, C. L. Sligh, Ii. L. Murrell, P. M. Malone, F. S. Grigsby, H. L. Creighton. G. M. Miller, W. S. Brown? IVS. Harris, J.D. Pop well." At the inquest several interesting things were brought out. Coroner Walker so handled the case that Hoy was confused and contradicted him self. He was very much worked up over this and was quite unruly at one time. It will be remembered that Mr. R. T. Wescott, a bulcher who had a shop on Taylor street and lived in Waver ley, was found dead by the school house in Waverley on the morning of May By his side was found a 32-callibre revolver with two empty chambers and tho suicide theory was at first indulged by some. But later developments indicated foul play. While tho bullet which produced death was a -VJ. calibre, yet. the wound was such that it was wcllnigh impos sible for Mr. Westcott, a man with one hand, to have indicted it. The homicide occurred about .r> a. m. That afternoon Jim Gardner, n rather notorious young man of Wa verley, was arrested on suspicion. He had been seen banging around the Shandon dancing pavilion until about 2 a. m. or later, and he was again there about 7 a. m. and knew all <>f the particulars of tho homicide which had been discovered an hour Ol' two before. His own contradictory statements about his acquaintance with the de ceased and bis knowledge that Wes cott was (lead caused bis detention on suspicion. J. B. Hoy was arrested on suspic ion also. He and (lardner were very Click. They bad tried to "bold up" ex-Magistrate R. A. Larick once, and when they saw that their identity was known I bey passed it off as a joke. Likewise tbey held upa boy named Shlill in Waverley one night, and when ho called I heir names they ii tin passed this off as "just for fun." Moy and (lardner were re ] ii . !iu have been seen together on li:: ;| reel tho night before the homici :'.>.) fat ii ' direel evidence bas been produced, but t be conduct, of the t WO men bas excited suspicion. Thursday night Coroner Walker introduced a witness, W. F. ('arlar, who conducts a store at thc corner of Gervais and Heidi streets. ?Io swore t hat between X and J) o'clock the morning of t he homicide a young man came lo bim lo borrow a nickle* with which to Kel up town to collect some money. The man was Hoy, for Garter, after remonst rat ing with the young man for not working, loaned him the i? cents and wrote Hoy's name on tho wall. He contends that about, an hour later Hoy came back, repaid the loan, went to the back of the store and took a drink. Carter mentioned the WILL BE HIGH. Cotton May Go to Twenty Cents ? Per Pound. Tho Spinners in .\moilni Aro Short Ami a Cotton Failli UV Shires Them In tho Fuco. Cotton seems to be getting very scare?and hard to get in the South. The Florence Times says the cotton men ail tell the farmers to refrain from selling their cotton, all admit Hf teen cents cotton and some expect to see tho staple bring as high as twenty cents. There is no cotton in the country and a famine faces the American mills. The English mills got the best of the American mills this season to pay them for having tricked them two or three times in the past and they did their American cousins up to a brown finish. The European spinners sent a com mittee over here and that committee went over the country in company with the officers of the Southern Cotton association, made a tour of inspection of the cotton belt. The American spinners took the reports of the government and the estimate of Mr. Hester of New Orleans and others and they looked wise and let the European h?ve the cotton. Liverpool quotations stuck steadi ly above New York in spite of the hammering of the American bears and the cotton went in a steady stream to Europe. Now the colton is gone from the fields, gone from the warehouses, gone from everywhere and the spinners of this country are crying for cotton and it is not to be had. The planters of Louisiana have planted four times and they say they have no crop yet. Frost and Hood have played havoc with them. The Mississippi men have planted three times and no crop yet, and Ibo coun try under Hood. Colton seed is run ning short. In Texas the fanners are paying any price for planting seed. Cotton seed is soiling in open mar ket for $(>"> a ton and it is mighty scarce. The farmers all over Un1 country have run out of seed and the crushers have not thc seed to sell them back. They bought all they could, sweeping the farmer's floors and are still thirty percent behind last year. In Texas the boll weevil coming earlier than ever is destroy ing the young plants. Cotton, if it is good staple, can he sold today at the owner's own price; Even bad cotton will bring good prices, the spinners want anything and they confess it. They lei tho cotton go in their efforts to beat the price down below thal fixed by the association and they have lost. The association is stronger today than it bas ever been and its future was never so bright. There is every reason today why the farmer, pvcry farmer, should stand by the associa tion and win bis independence in this one year of grace, lt will most, like ly be done. The farmer controls the situation and if he does not throw away his opportunity he just cannot, help winning. A lot of colton was sold by the very wise ones, who know better than thc united wisdom of the whole as sociation for nine and a fraction, fu ture delivery this fall, and every ef fort is going tobe made to force these sellers to deliver that cotton. lt is going to bc a most interesting situation. This, considered in con nection with the recent fight on bucket shops and gambling in cotton is going to make a pretty state* of af fairs when the buyers of the con tracts begin to squeeze. TtlN Washington Posl thinks that Michigan man who is accused of Inn - ing seventeen wives must have been determined to have his buttons sew ed on if he went to jail for it. matter of the killing of Mr. Wes cott. Witness' testimony on this point is: "He went in ami look his drink and came back Out, and 1 mentioned something of thc tragedy and 1 no ticed he seemed somewhat affected, a change in Ins complexion al the mention of it, and there was no con versation after thal between us. and ho soon left and went on." Hoy bad ben n kept in ignorance of Carter's presence and testimony. When brought into thc room whore the inquest was hold, Hoy denied that he knew VV. F. Carter, denied having borrowed the 5 cents and de nied that he came into Columbia be fore ll ;:!() in the morning, and swore positively thal lie did not take the car that morning. ('arter was brought in and con fronted Hoy, identifying him at once. Hoy then admit led that he had borrowed the nickle but declared that, it had been in the afternoon. II<>y gave a rather indistinct ac count of his movements in Columbia, hilt it was brought oui thal he pawn ed a pair of shoes to Goldstein for ?jil, got a (pun t of X liquoivfoi' (ill cents and then Went home. Ile could nrove by Steve Gardner that il wa 5:'10 in the afternoon. He claimed to have the pawn ticket at home. [Jo said thai be and Jim Gardner had bought a quart of whiskey in the morning and he hail bought this oth er in I be afternoon. The coroner asked: "Did you buy whiskey twice that day?" A. lt was three limes, I think, two or three times. Q. Do you usually buy it that way every day? A. No, .sir. 0. Seemed to be worried that day? A. Had n?thirig to worry me. ti. You and (lardner didn't usual ly come up thai ninny times a da\ and drink, did you? A. No. The other witnesses examined Thursday night threw no light on the subject except ihat a negro wo man named Scylla Moore test ?lied that very early the morning of the homicide she saw a man at the Shan don pavilion and when he saw ber and another woman approaching he turned his back. She could dot iden tify him. A young man named Mont'/! testi fied that dim Gardner bad had a 82 .alibie pistol. Coroner Walker stated Thursday light that he will urge (?ev. Ansel to ncreasothe amount ?d' reward offer 'd from .>Ki() lo $250. The city bas if?orcd $250, When Hoy was rearrested Thurs? lay night by Constable A. P. Rieh? irdson of Waverley, ho was disposed o be quite resentful attir?t, hut was ?laced in jail without difficulty. M?NY FLAGS Followed by Major-General Henry ! < Ronald Douglas Mciver. A ROMANTIC CAREER. A Soldier of Fortuno Who Fought For Kiglitooil Countries Died Lust Week in New York. Ho lind Many Adventures, Ono of Which Was thc Killing of Major Tomlin, of Vicksburg. Maj. Gen. Henry Ronald Douglas Maelver, of the Servian army, major in the Confederate States army, and with rank varying from the highest to the lowest under eighteen flags, who died in a lodging house in New York last week; was facing grim pov erty when he went to his rest. His battle-scarred body was found by his landlady, Mrs. Mabel Campbell, who forced the door open after raping on it in vain, The general had been heard mov ing about his room in the early morn ing. The night before he had com plained of feeling cold and Mrs. Campbell had sent him a drink of whiskey, and later a cup of tea. A fellow-lodger went to bis room at midnight, and asked bim if he need ed anything. "I thank you, sir," the general re plied. "I need nothing." The police of the Twentieth street station, tak ing an inventory of bis belongings, wrote it down that the soldier of for tune, the warrior who had fought under eighteen tings for the mere love of fighting, bad db cents in cash and his clothing. If the general has tened bis end, it was done so careful ly that no one suspected it. "Appar ently natural death" was recorded on the blotter at the station. Mrs. Campbell said that her lodger was ready to start for Washington several days before his death, but re ceived a letter which kept bim in New York. Gen. Mac!ver was sixty one years old, but showed few signs of bis age. He was waiting for Richard Hard ing Davis, who bas written so much about bis fighting career," said Mrs. Campbell. He was expecting Mr. Davis in a few days, and told me about it. Wi? all know that the old gentleman was a great soldier. He looked il." Gen. Muclver's scant belongings consisted of uniforms, bis welT-car ed-for street clothes and a trunk full of papers telling of his life of adven ture. The general was born on Christ mas day. 1864, in Hampton Roads. Va., aboard a ship seeking a harbor. His father was Ronald Maelver, a Scotchman. The son went to Italy and fought under Garibaldi. Heserv ed in the Ten Years' war in Cuba, in Grete, in Greece; twice in the Carlist revolutions in Spain, in Bosnia. He returned to Virginia, when war on a gigantic scale was framing. His sword was offered to Gen. Robert E. Lee and was accepted. He fought with Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, and was four times wounded during the great conflict. At the (dose of the war there was much dueling between the officers of the two armies. Maelver was in one of the! e affairs outside of Vicksburg. His combatant was Maj. Tomlin, of the Vermont United States artillery volunteers. They fought with swords. Maelver running Iiis oppon ent through the body and cleaning bis blade with bis handkerchief. "lb" is dead; we must go." called one of Maclver's seconds. A negro brought up the horses of Maelver and bis seconds. ".My friends are in baste." said Maelver, turning to the seconds of the man be bad slain. "Is there any thing I can do? I hope that you con sider this matter settled honorably." Then be mounted and rode away. After the civil war Maelver, with ol ber Soul bern officers, went to Mex eo. lb' fought under Maximilian there. When the fighting was over lie went to Kgypt and then to France; everywhere that cannon were bot and the caravans of war were plow ing up UH- roads Maelver was to be found. Maelver was appointed United Stales consul at Dania, Spain. The ?nan be was to succeed declined to eel out, and the soldier of fortune immediately suggested that they go to the outskirts of the city and sot ( le the mat ter wit h pistols or swords. Stephen Bonsai, the present corres pondent of the New York Times in St. Petersburg, wno was then the charge d'afi'airs at Madrid, was sent to adjust malters. He adjusted the maller and Mciver was installed without bloodshed, The daring ol' Maelver was best exemplified, perhaps, when be took part in the Cretan struggle against, the Turks. Ile was received more l han gladly by the Cretans, who gave bim "full power ty make war on land and sea against the enemies of Crete, and particulary against the Sultan ol' Turkey and the Turkish forces, and lo burn, destroy or cap ture any vessel bearing the Turkish ibu'." After getting through this proposition alive be went to Athens, and lalor put in a few months trying toexterminatc the Grecian brigands, fighting in the mountains and doing so well at it. I bat. be was given the highes! decoration that the king of (?reece could confer upon bim. lt was in Servia thal Maelver at tained his highest, rank as an officer. He received a commission from the prince of Servia to organize an in dependent cavalry brigade. He loft Fleet street, London, for Belgrado, ind got busy gathering men who lov id fighting. He go! the right men ind trained them well, commanding i legion of a thousand cavalrymen d' Ku. so Servians against the Turks. Ile received (be cross of IbeTakovo ode!' l'or gallant service, and was nade major general in command of ill of the cavalry of the Servians, rbe decoration was given bim on the ?VC ol' bal I le. If ?Mac I vcr was nothing else, be vas picturesque --always. He lent a .olor to bis surroundings, whether bey wi re the condors and vestibule d' tho Hoffman house, where he liad teen a character for years, orwhoth >r tlioy were the table d'hote holes n t he-wall en the lower West Side, vhere all the patrons affect to be ?orsons with mysterious missions or vi tl i pasts. Maelver had fought as an of??ccr HO WILLYT BE? Fh? Pol?ticas Pot 8og|s to Sim mer Over the Country SOME BOOMS HEARD Ami FaVOI'ito SOILS Figure in Several Minor Sklrn.lHhcs. Tho Peerless Heyan is Acknowledged to ho tho Standard Dearer of ttyo Jefferson inn Democrats and Will Win tho Knee. Political activitives arc engaging the attention of millions of people througout the United States at the present Linie. Tito question of who will be the canflidates^jw* the Pres idency put forth by tUflfJLwo great political parties is most eng rossing. In several states bot battles are ue. ing waged by thc aanorcnts of "fav orite sons." In Ohio, the modern "center of President making," a battle royal has been fought recent ly by the Foraker and Taft interests and the backers of the Secretary of War have come out victorious. In other words, when the National Republican convention meets, there will be a solid Ohio delegation in favor of nominating Secretary Taft for the Presidency. He is the "fav orite son?' of t'ne Buckeye state to all intents and purposes at the pres ent time. While Secretary Taft has not announced his candidacy abso lutely, it is undersood that he will do so early in June in a speech he is about to make supporting the poli cies of goverment of Theodore Roose velt and favoring their continuance for four years more. In making that speech Secretary Taft will outline the platform the Republican party will adopt, doubtless, at the convention. It must not" be thought, however, that Ohio will rule the convention, simply because it has come out in support for Taft, instead of indors ing Foraker,a re-actionary, for there are many other candidates in thc field for Presidential honors. There are Fairbanks, who bas al ready been assured the support of Indiana in the convention; Hughes, of New York, whose little boom started by former Gov. Odell, was not heard far: Fl ibu Root, who would like to be President, but who will have to work hard to get the backing of New York state, and Sen ator Knox whose Presidential boom has not been beard of since it was launched by Pennslyvanians in Wash ington a couple of months ago. All these men are possibilities, and strong ones, too, for they are all men of marked ability in Executive work. BOOMS SOMEWHAT RESTRICTED. The well defined political move ments in favor of certain possible candidates are not general. The Taft boom bas no root in New York state: the Root movement luis no tendril in Ohio: the Fairbanks boom has vent ured into several states, but it has bad the effect of lowering thc political temperature considerably; the Hughes stir had a short gasp in New York state, although Gov. Hughes has gained great populari ty and respect in many states on account of his individual work for good government; the Knox boom, just a tiny little noise, has not been heard outside of Pennslvania pand the Foraker boom is dead and buried under the massive predonderance of Secretary Taft. Therefore, it ia seen there bas been no definite cam paign operations launched by any of the "favorite sons." The Roosevelt movement is the strongest Republican current in the political sea at the present time. There are millions of the admirers of the President who are anxious for him to run again for the office he bas graced so well. Foi many months, in spite of the President's statements that he will not be a can didate to succeed himself, there will bea popular movement throughout the country, the object of which will be to force the nomination on the President in spite of his own de sires. To-day that movement is the very greatest in the political life of the country, and it is gaining strength week by week, such great strength that the adherents ol the "favorite sons" are beginning to become worried over the probable outcome of thc agitation. IN TI IE DEMOCRATIC CAMP. All roads lead to Bryan in the Democratic territory. Without a doubt., according to the leading spirits in the party of Jefferson, Bryah will be the standard bearer in tho coming Presidential cam paign. The South would like to !i"ve one of its Democratic states men President. There tun; those in the South, however, who are of the opinion the time is not ripe for booming a Southerner as a Presi dential candidate. They think thal a smouldering animosity exists between the old men of the North and the South. That is doubtless so, bul it does not deter the Southerners from desiring lo have one of their statesmen on the ticket willi Bryan. There are many able Democrats in the South who would lili with ability the office r>f Vice President. Senator Culber jon, of Texas, an able political gen eral, has been spoken of as a proh ibi? running male of Bryan. Iloke Smith, of Georgia, a seasoned polit ical warrior of the strenous type, las also boon mentioned as a man it to travel in double harness with die Nebraska statesman. Senator Daniels, ot Virginia, ono of the lecpest thinkers in the Senate, has )een singled out amone; Democrats is a man worthy of being on the po itical banners with Bryan. It. is the desire of the Democratic ?arty to stick to statesmen for heir leaders and not attach faith to nillionaires such as Se wal I, wh<< ran vlth Bryan the first time, or Henry 'under eighteen flags." In 1884 be jot a newspaper man to write a book ?flus tales, entitled "Under Pour* cen Flags." R didn't get into the auks of the ten best, soldier of t hat lay, but. Mrs. Campbell's lodging louse folk said that Richard Harding )avis bad bad the general in tow ami he t wo of t hem had planned to pub* ?sh another book some time next all. They said also that Davis, got nost of bis material for bis "Capt. Jacklin," from the experiences of he general. CURES AF RHEUMACIDE hase had failed. Rheumacide Johns Hopkins Hospital, t of Salem, Va., and D. H. remedies and the doctors Almost n Miracle In Tills Case nt... . .Dillon. S. C. Aa Bobbitt Chemical Company: Gentlemen:-In September, iwo. 1 tool< malism in a very bad form (inllammatoi y) month after tim disease started 1 had to e my work and KO to bed. It continued tc worse until my arms and hands were drawn, so much so that I could not uso My lees were tira wu bank till my loot to my li i ns. 1 was as helpless as a baby for i 12 months. Tho muscles ol my arms au were hard and shriveled up. I suffered many limes over. Was treated hy six dil physicians in McColl, Dillon and Mai io none ol (hum could do mc any u< od, until i'. KwillK, ol Dillon, came to see mc. Il nm to try your Kl I KUM ACIDIC. Hu L'ot n bo ttl ti thu medicine and I beean to til and bei..re thc first bottle was used up I io tot better. 1 used bH bottles and was pletcly cured. .That was years nco ai health Mas been excellent ever since, had no symptoms of rheumatism. Wi further that I heirn n to walu in about si: after I bonan to take RHEUM ACIDE wit aid of crutches; in about three months i bcuan to take it I could walk as good ft: body, and went back to work again. Yours truly. JAMliS WILF DNVOUK KVlOHYTHINCJ. Tho Frightful IMuguo of Locusts in South Africa. From earliest Biblical times the Io dise has been regarded as a pest and a destroyer of inanimate life. Swarms of them swooped down upon the green valleys of Egypt and made life miserable for agriculturists thous ands of years ago. When the locusts came, famine followed. In this coun try they occasionally do considerable damage to growing crops, but the plague has never been anything like that in South Africa this spring. A year ago Pennsylvania and parts of adjoining states were visited by locusts but they stuck mostly to the woodland, and the grain crops were not much molested. In the early morning and at sundown the woods was turned into a bedlam of noise by the chirping of hundreds of thous ands of them. They fed on the young trees, and acres of them turned brown as in autumn from the bites of the insects. Not very long ago great swarms of locusts passed over the Rand in South Africa. The whole country, lovely in the growth of splendid crops, and made greener and more beautiful by timely rains than it had been in many years, was in a brief few days turn ed into a bare, brown and withered desert. The swarm literally ate its way through the country, and made a clean job of it. They consumed whole fields of grain, and the loss to the farmers is incalculable. The country is at a loss to know bow to deal with the scour age. The ordinary methods which have been used in the past in combatting the pest have utterly failed. Cyprus screen bas been of no use. So im mense was the swarm that the fields and forests were not large enough to bold the myriads, and they swarmed into the towns and cities. .Streets of thc city of Johonnes burg have been made hideous by the ceaseless, dreary chirping. A locust can make more noise for its size than any other insect, and its chirp is a Weird, unpleasant sound that is par ticularly trying to the nerves. A half dozen of them can make enough noise to annoy a whole si piare. Paney the state of things where countless thousands of them are holding their daily concert. In Johannesburg tho streets are litterally a brown mass of crushed locusts. They have tied up the street car t rallie by settling on the rails, their crushed bodies making the rails so slippery that the car wheels re volve without moving the car. Men are obliged to go over the line and sWeep (dear the track for the approaching cars, and in 15 min utes they have the job to do over again. Already Ibis state of affairs bas caused several bad accidents. A j motor car bas been smashed, and ; tw<> tram cars have been telescoped. The motormen have great difliculty in controlling the cars on the greasy tracks, Steam cars are having the same trouble. In some of tin1 smaller towns where no particular effort bas been made Lo keep the streets clear of the dead ] bodies, pedestrians slide about in the squirmy mass in a most disgusting manner. All are obliged lo remove shoes on entering their homes after having been on the streets. Tun St. Matthews county advoca tes have published a letter from a gentleman, who bold about the best paying of?ice in Hamberg County, lo prove that the organization of Bam berg County was a great blessing. No doubt it was to the gentleman with tho fatoflice, and be could hard ly be expected to say anything else, but l?OW about the fellows wno non't bold office? DID you ever slop to reflect that it was one thing to talk about peo ple and another fiting to have people talk about you? If those of us who use our tongues a little too freely, about our neighbors, would stop and reflect about this matter and know the groat evil that comes from too much gossij) and tattling, we art' sure we would call a halt and gossip no more forever. Gassaway Davis, who was a weak running mate to Parker. Many of the Democrats do not sympathize with Bryan's government owner ship ideas. The Nebraska man. however, has lately made it a point to state he would not insist upon his theories in that regard being em bodied in the Democratic plutform. TER THE DO lured thousands of cases of R cured John F. Kline and ot he greatest hospital in the W< Olmstead, the Norfolk, Va., c< had given up hope. Rheum? of rheumatism she ha< ! 1& Hughes, of Atkins, Va.," There is a reason why il ! ina' cal science, and while p ' prow ?* the blood, it operate i?uiiy most delicate stomach. them! itched nearly cl lees dcnih forent II. hut Dr. J. e told 10 one ike it h"iMI , rom id HIV 1 lavo 11 say JWEEPS ALL P< <.days A purely vegetable rem rttcr I curcs by removing the cause, s any Sample bottle and booklet frei .ES. BOBBITT CHEMIC SCHOOL MON KY, The Coil) pt roi lei' Ocucral Issues War* neills to Various Couillles. The comptroller general Friday issued the warrants for the last dis tribution of dispensary school mon ey, the sum representing the rem nant of the fund left over after the old State situation went out of busi ness. The total amount distributed amounted to $63,'109.94, and a part of it was on the basis of tho deficien cy in the amount, given each scholar by the respective counties and the result by the enrollment. The amount bv counties follows: On En Counties. Deficiency, rollment. Abbeville.$ 299<20 $1,547.91 Aiken. 156.35 1,530.38 Anderson. . 2,600.96 Bamberg. 1.25 717.75 Barnwell. 222.80 1,215.7.") Beaufort. .- 672.58 Berkeley. . 971.17 j Charleston .. .. . 2,451.85 Cherokee. . 851.61 Chester ... . . 1,154.00 Chesterfield. 1,565.74 788.00 Clarendon. 864*25 1.155.02 Colleton. - 981.38 Darlington. .- 1,210.81 Dorchester. .. . 578.96 Edgefield . 58.50 1,018.00 Fairfield. - 1,256.31 Florence . 38.57 1,199.80 Georgetown. .- 688.10 Greenville. .12.72 2,I. 11 Greenwood . . 1,291,05 Hampton. 714.00 P?3.151 Horry. 2,100.00 1,11". 16 Kershaw. 44.00 0::.S5? Lancaster. 395.50 l,lo4.08i Laurens. 136.92 1, . . Lee. 100.58 907.85 Lexington. 317,40 1,1:20.90 ! Marion . . 1,4;)2.08| Marlboro. 141.34 1,1 ... ; ! Newberry. . 1,143.821 Oconee.... 895.21 1,101.22 Orangeburg_ 98.4 I 2,7'*? 011 Dickens. 128.80 ! U.};5 ? Richland. . 1,1 94.821 S?lvala. 1,028.00 960.27 \ Spartanburg.... 46.86 2,979,67 ! Sumter. . 1 ,o20.66 ' Union . . 1,1^0.051 Williamsburg.... 240.30 1,385.291 York. 27,00 LS ?2.2o Total.$9,263.51 $54,1 16,4.1 | YOU H (?HAM? MOTH Kit VHK? IT. I j Hut She Never lind Sulphur In Siuh Convenient Koria As This. Your grandmother usod Sulphur] as her favorite household comedy, |, mid so did hoc grand mot her, ?iil- i phar has hoon cueing skin lind ?!ood li disensos for a hundred years. ' Mut in tho old days (hov hud to i tnk? powered sulphur. Now lina-j cork's Liquid Sulphur gives it to you i in tho hos! possible form and y< ; gt tho full honeflt. I lundeotk's Liquid Sulphui' mut, Ointment, quickly euro iSczcmu. Tot tor, Snit, lthetim ?md nil Shin Dis ensos. lt cured nu ugly nicer for Mrs. Ann VY. VVlllOlt, Of Washington, l). C., In i h reo days. Talton internally, it purifies ih> Mood and clears tho compte don. Your druggists solis lt. Sulphur Mookie! free, if you write Hancock Liquid Sulphur Company, Mnli linorc. Their May Raised. An increase sit lt? per cent in the pay ?d' conductors over the entire system of the Atlantic Coa??t Linchas been granted hy the oltieials, cifec tivo May I, in response to a request made by thc general adjustment commit tee. Thc raise will apply to freighl as well as passenger conductors, and will practically moid the request made by tho conductors, who had prepared a schedule of salaries for the conductors, computed on the number of miles traveled by them. The argument used by the commit too in sustaining their claims for an increase of pay was that tho price of living bas greatly increased and they are requested todo a great deal more work than formerly over the same amount of mileage, the railroads getting the benefit of more work for thc same amount of pay a mile. An order has been issued Kraut inp; the increase, computing the salaries thal will be paid to conductors ac cording to mileage and time. This Bchediilc bears a uniform increase of lt) per cent, and tidal:- really more than was asked for by the conduc tors. The management of the road seemed perfectly williup; to come to an agreement with tho Conductors, and after being shown schedules of prices paid in other sections O? the county readily agreed to tho advance. GTORS HAV heumatism after all the dod thers. of Baltimore, after th arid, had failed. Rheumacid mtractor, after they had spei icide cured Mrs. Mary Welbo d endured for 20 years. R after the most famous New t cures : Rheumacide is the I lowerful enough to sweep all ss by purely natural metho and builds up the entire sys DISONS OUT OF THE edy that goes right to the seat of t Your druggist sells and recommend B if you send five cents for postage t AL COMPANY. Proprietors, Bnltlni Unequally Distributed. There is considerable complaint about the distribution of the pension fund. It is claimed that some coun ties get a great deal more than they are entitled to, while others are shared out. Recently the Florence Times called attention to the corres pondence from Spart anburg to Thc J News and Courier about the pensions ' given out in that county. Thc cor respondent thought that the pension roll in Spartanburg County was larg er than it ought to be. He seems to think that there are names on the list which omrht not to be there. Spartanburg County was given $20, 000 of the pension money. Just about four times as much as Orange burg County was given. We think t here must be something wrong about this distribution, but just how to remedy it is the question. Of course Spartanburg has grown in population a great deal since the close of tho war, and many cotton mills have been built, and no doubt confederate soldiers have moved in from i>ther counties and from North Carolina, but it hardly seems credit able that they should have increased the pension roll as much as it now appears to be. Spartanburg County bas about eight hundred names on ber pension rolls. Thc roll should be purged, as we are satisfied that there are names on it that should not be there. The Abbeville Medium, which is edited by a gallant old veteran, makes a suggestion that each county take charge of its own pensioners, and provide a fund for them. We do not know bow this would work. Un less the different counties would agree to pay their pensioners about the same, such a charge would cause a great deal of dissatisfaction. Then again in some of the counties that arc heavily burdened with taxation, thc needy old veteran might be neg lected and given nothing hardly. On the whole we think it best for the Slate lo manage the matter. Then the strong, rich counties can help tho weaker counties and pay the neady old veterans a uniform sum. Bul the roll should be thoroughly purged in every county, and the mon ey given only to those who are enti tled to it. We are satisfied that many get il now who are not entitled to it. A Wisc Law. One of the wisest things ever done by the Legislature was the passage of the law giving the County Com missioners the right to levy a tax of one mill to build good roads. The law wisely provides that the tax so collected shall bo spent in the town ship in which it is collected. We are p'ad that the County Commissioners nf tin.1; county has levied this tax and wc bopi> that they will continue to levy it until every road in the county is put in good condition. This is a luxury that, new counties like Lee, Dorchester, Greenwood, and others, cannot alford as they are heavily ta> - (I for ordinary county purpose ai/, tiber necessary expenses, such as building courthouses, jails, and so 311. Coed roads are necessary if we ivan I to keep up with the times. The pnslodice Department requires the i mal mail carriers to travel only li :?? roads that we keep in good ..ondition. So it will be seen how important it is for our roads to be iopt up. Then, too, under our road aw, there is no danger of the money icing collected in one part of the sounty being spenl on the roads of mother part, as it requires that the honey collected shall bc spent in tho ownsbip In which it is collected. BRYAN was elected President in ISPS. After using millions of dollars o defeat him and failing, theRepub icans then stuffed the ballot boxes, md in this way cheated him out of ho election. Tiley can't do that igain, however. to any of our customers for Un? ask pl um hug or linrdwiiro buslnoss, (tin pago catalogue which will bo found prices on anything In Hie supply lino. COU MISIA Hl'I'PLY I Tito Fair Sex. I A woman is always prelOUdlllg hal she never protends. A woman Is always looking on tho ?right shh-- of a minor. Courtshin I;: (ho juicy grape and narrluge tho append lotus. A quiet wedding is hut o ou rta In ' alsor for n stronous nftorpart, Novor judge the dimensions of a ' s'oman'R brain hy tho sl/.o of her lint. 1 Mothers care liol who does tho i vc taking if (hoy are allowed to ?lo I he nu tchniaking. 11 There la something tho matter 1 tors and all other means s e famous specialists of e cured Austin Percelle, nt large sums on other rn, ofHigh Point. N. C , heumacide cured W. R. York specialists failed, ates! discovery of triwdi germs end poisons out os, does not injure th? tem. 0 JURES ^ ,' :? s ?umbage, tthoumatlo Oout, Indigestion, BLOOD, rc; . he r'isoaso and Kidney Troubfew s Rheumacide. La 0rippe. O All Blood Rheumatism. ore. The economy <f special treatment BY When a man or woninn, who 1B wiso, oi'tora n lo ni controvoray involving u argo amount of money, do they soek t i economize in tho matter cf compet en co neel? Would it bo economy to engngo an Blt. rn?? y ut $7.r> who I Qt the case, when tho ono who wanted \ 100 could have w u it? Wit.h tho mun or worran sufforing f'om n chronio or doop dented ailment thoro is much mo e nt stake 'han with tho party who seeks tho lawyer. I'loa^ery dny theio Bret oucands of r on and women t? ho arc taking treafe? mont for tho wrong trouble! They havo gone to the homo physi cian-a worthy man, y< t whoso ox perlence in ueop-sontcd trouhloB is 0 nipArativoly limitod, cron ailoryonrs of prnct;ce. Ob, how ?ul it is to seopntionta walt ' until four or Ave <J oti rs have given t om up ?nd thou como to UB whon it is too luto! This happens som* timo^. n<'h more 01 -ii we b?ve rwon nbio t > i fleet a c< mploto euro, uvou lindcrsiluh adverao ci r?uuistanccs. In nearly all of euch CV-BOS it baa hoon our experience tit it. . h?rjot of the trouble Ima rever boen discovered, rmi that b t very ll ttl 0 tr. ntment would have been necessary had wo had tho nao a< the b ginning If you, render,are not enjoying the h n th that Natur? i. tou.o I yon sh uld, writo to vs. lu tho majority of cases it viii be chonpor in die end for you to oven m,tko u speolal dip to cull i>pou UB for a FREE 10XAMINAT?ON ard consultation. Altor wo havo cen icu'lind a good lo g talk with yon, we o.'trn cm bundle your cuso at your own homo. Sud fir our jour, al. "Health." Moiled free in unprinted wrapper. Dr Hat. away ic Go., 22| S. ll ead St., At Unto, G J. 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