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,.o Be an Agent of the ?trklsh Stilton. SLAIN PRIEST ?::o-,vu to lio n Politician and JPWtcr Dislike of Him Was Openly Kxpressct? by Greeks nml Others. Ho Crossed American Society In Amelie? Which Seek? to Free Av* Olenl;t From Turk's Control. Dilligent effort on tho part of a score of detectives from headquar ters did not make much headway in the solution of thc problem of how the body of the Greek priest, Father Casper Haran, or Vatiarian, as the police records have it, came to be found doubled up in a trunk in a va - cant room at 333 West Thirty-seven th street, New York, Sunday May 2G. Two men, and possibly four, whom the police believe to be impli cated in tue murder have not yet been found. Tho developments have brought forth two facts which may uncover the motive of the murder and clear away to some extent thc doubt con cerning how and when tho priest, mot his death. Most important of these discoveries is the fact thal Father Casper was a politician as well as a cleric, and that he had close alliance with one of the American secret rev olutionary societies in this city. It was learned that very recently there had been a split in the ranks of the revolutionary workers of the local Armenian colony, and that much bad blood had been engender ed between the two factions. REVOLUTIONARY ORDER. Vahram Sopossion, an Armenian, who has a restaurant at 137 Fast Twenty-sixth street, and a number of Armenians gathered there ox ?dained to a reporter just what ide ation tho affairs of the Honchekis or Henchagain society may be found to bear with the murder of Father Casper when tho hidden facts in the case are brought, to light . Throughout all Europe and in America wherever there is a suffi* ciently large colony of loyal Armen ians branches of tho Honchekis have been established. The order is pure ly a revolutionary one, and the avow ed object is to free Armenia and neighboring Christian countries from the rule of the Turks. The New York branch of the society had been es tablished some time ago, said the Armenian restaurant keeper, and had worked many years in harmony until two months ago. Serpossian said that as a member of the new branch of the society he could not niter into details of the split, but * ding was high and there was still bu .or recrimination and ac cusation of unfaithful passing be tween the two branches of the revo lutionary order. SPIES HAVE BEEN SLAIN. In Europe and in a few instances in this country spies have been dis covered in the ranks of the Armen ian society whose duty it has been to nip incipient revolutions in Armenia by passing up to the Turkish author ities at home information of thc Hon chekis campaigns. "There have boon spies in our own number,"and Terpossian. ''The ac cusation of spy has boon made mem bers of our society." "Was the priest a spy?" "If he was a spy he died like oth ers have died before him who have been spies," was tho answer the Ar menian made. Tho restaurant keeper and his com panions wore asked ii' Father Casper had been a member of the Honche kis. They said that ho had, but they would not specify which branch of the recently divided society he be longed to. BITTER TOWARD PRIEST, "Father Casper had a bad reputa tion," continued tho speaker for the .group. "He was known to bo mis erly and to prefer to bog his bread and bod than work for it. We have always known bini as a man who loit ered around and did as lit tle as pos sible for a living. Ho bad tho repu tation of being no good." Tho second fact brought out in tho investigations which forced the de tectives to reviso their theories of the time and place where Father Caspar was murdered is that he was seen alive at 12 o'clock noon on Wed nesday and in tho restaurant of the man Serpossian, who is strong in his condemnation of (ho dead priest s character. According to this man's story, the priest cann1 to his place of business alone and carrying with him tho black hand hag which he always took with him on his wandering through the city. When ho loft (ho restaurant about noon he said ho was going up town to moot some friends. I Up to the present the detectives iliave not boon able (o trace Father Caspar's movements after he was seen by Mrs. Soberer, the German woman who rented a room to the two Armenians who disappeared on Wed nesday evening. MYSTERY BECOMES DEEPER. Mrs. Scherer say the priest in the company of the two at s o'clock in the morning, in tho hallway of the Scherer Mat, on tho third Moor of the tenement at 333 West Thirty-seven th street. The Gorman woman (old ibo detectives she was sure that she saw Sarkis, one of ber lodgers, and a strange mau coming upstairs, to tho ila( with a heavy trunk in the fettered H of (he same day. The de tective "oin to acceptas positive the assumption (bal tho priest's body was n. 'i trunk (bat Mrs. Sob erer saw bein., carried upstairs. Now that it has been developed that tili; priest was seen alive al 12 o'clock at 137 Kast Twenty-sixth street, tho puzzle of how and where Father Caspar's murders did him to death is deepened. Within three hours, al. most, after Serpossian, the restaurant keeper, saw tho prest, his body .was coiled up in a trunk at a place fully three miles away. An .examin?tion of tho records in the Adams Express ellice shows (hat the trunk weighed 146 pounds, just heavy enough, the del eel ives say, to indicate/that if contained tho hotly of a medium-sized person. The weight they declare, is far above the aver ago of that of tho contontsjthat could be placed into a trunk by a nomadic GROWS WITH TIME some Interesting Data About the Older of Masonry, Is HHS Expanded Until It Is Now Found in Evovv Civilized Country of the World. Some few weeks ago there was a great gathering of masons in Atlan ta to lay the corner stone of a grand temple in that city. The Atlanta Journal says this great gathering of Masons directs special attention to the oldest and most noble fraternal organization in the world, which now numbers its membership by the mil lion in all thc civilized countries of the world. The Journal goes on to say: Secret societies, having the fath erhood of God and the brotherhood of man as their basic principles, have arisen from time to time, have lived their life and followed one ano ther into thc shadows of thc past. The oldest of those that still survive are but as creatures of yesterday compared with the brotherhood of Free and Accepted Masons. It is a guild which can alford to look down with indulgent patronage on all the other guilds and crafts, noweuer an cient may ho their charters. The origin of Masonry is lost in the remotest period of the past. Tra dition has ascribed it to the building of Solomon's temple, and it is alleg ed to have had a leading part in the construction of the pyramids. That there is more than a mm e ba sis of truth for the former claim is practically undented, though it is not denied that the order has been materially modified since that era of remote antiquity. As soon as mankind evolved from his nomadic habits of life and bogan to erect fixed bodies, the mason, as. an artisan, began to come into re quest. Ile was necessarily a man of skill and combined something of the architect with his craftsmanship. As tho Christian civilization spread over the earth, "particularly in Eu rope and in England, magnificent cathedrals arose as tho expression of the pious devotion of tho people. An adequate idea of their size and magnificence may bo easily gathered from such of thom as still romain, and ono may readily understand that in thc building of thom men of the highest skill wore required. Some of thc oriental forms and ceremonies which had boen their birth in tho days of Solomon, un doubtedly came down through the ages, but it was at the period when artisans of every craft wore organiz ing their respective guilds that ac tive masonry acquired its regular or ganization in something Uko tho form in which wo lind it today. Hut there were necessary condi tions which differentiated tho masons from all other crafts. Tho weavers, the drapers, the goldsmiths could each attach themselves to a given lo cality like London. They had their guildhalls where they met and inter mingled and it was an easy matter for thom to know and remember each other. . Not so with the masons. From the very nature of their service they were called upon to travel from one city, to another, to build a cathedral at York or an abbey at Kilwinning. Signs and pass words were devised that tho liveried members of the craft might make themselves known to ono another and claim hospitality from their fellow-craftsmen as they traveled. It was perhaps from this circum stance t hat tho arcana of Masonry was first devised. These were per fected and elaborated by Elias Ash mole and his literary associates in tho early part of the seventeenth cen tury, and from that time may bo da ted the masonry of today. Charles II and William lil were ma sons, and the visible connect ion with operative masonry was kept up by tho selection of Sir Christopher Wron, architect, of SL. Haul's cath edral as grand master. While it is not necessary to go in detail, it may bo said incidentally that the lodges of Scotland trace their origin to foreign masons who caine to North Britian in 1150 to build Kilwinning Abbey, while the English lodges go still further back and assign their origin to tho assem blage of masons held by St. Alban York in 926, Such differences as ex isted were arranged in 1813, and the fraternity has since been managed by the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of lang land. A century before that time, how ever, when the cathedral of St. Haul's was finished, the way was opened for others than operative ma sons and builders to become mem bers of the organization, and that practice has grown and expanded until Ibo present day, when it is in a benevolent band of brothers, with out regard to craftsmanship, who "moot upon tho lovel and part upon t ho square." If has not escaped the fate of oth er noble institutions. Superstition and ignorance have attributed to it designs and purposes for which there was no foundations, lt has been ac cused of entertaining sinister pro jects against religion and govern ment, and bas been assailed with fiery zeal in many countries and at various periods of history. Tho oath of secrecy stirred the suspicion and resent nient of (lu; uninit iated and factionalism bas waged fierce war around it. Hut. as it has lived through so many ages, Unimpaired, so it will no doubl continue to exist, to para phrase Macaulay, "until some trav eller from New Zealand shall take his stand upon a broken arch of Lon don bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Caul's." Tho alleged "exposures" by Mor Armenian, RI0POK? or INHERITANCE. lt is assorted that Father Caspar Vartianan hud recently inherited a snug fortune from a brother, who died in Chicago, and t hal he also pos sessed a jewel of great value in the form of a orescent or a cross, which had been handed down generation to generation of priests. Those work ing on the case who subscribed to the robbery theory, believe these report id possessions furnish the motive lei the crime. Tho criminal examination of the organs of the dead priest is progress ing, and until the result of ibis is known, tho police will not say posi tively whether Father Vartianan was killed by drugs before he was placed in the trunk. SUCK RASCAL A So-Called Gem Broker Swindled Women and Jewellers. HEIRESS A VICTIM. ngngcd to Her, Though Married, He Minions Ton Thousand Dollars From Her. J. Edward Dook, Doon Companion of Now York Mil Motilares Indicted Following Ilia Disnnncnrnnco. At New York the grand jury has brought an indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses against J. Edward Boeck, of the Republican club, a bench warrant has been issu ed for him, and detectives the world over have been instructed to find him and bring him back to New York as soon as they can. Boeck was a broker in gems. He lived in splendid style at thc Repub lican club. He knew Senator Clark, of Montana, and be was a boon com panion of other men in New York. Ile could bring to a dealer in precious stones during the course of a week more wealthy customers than any other diamond salesman in New York might hope to bring in the course of a year. He sold J. Pierpont Morgan a diamond and pearl collar that cost probably $100,000. There is another charge against Boeck, made by a waalthy Pittsburg girl, who declares that he promisee! to marry ber and got $10,000 from her. Those to whom she has told her story will not divulge her name. She is the only child of a widowed moth er. Her father was among the steel kings before the United States Steel corporation was formed. She has great wealth. Soon after it became known that Boeck had disappeared she came here and sought the offices of Marsellus, Pitt & Co., asking for him there. On a linger she showed a diamond and emerald ring. It was recognized by the clerk who responded to ber call. Inadvertently he mentioned that Boeck had not paid for the ring. Thc Pittsburg girl tore thc ring from ber finger and threw it upon the table before her, bursting into tears. She was to have been married to Boeck last February, but the wedding bad been delayed. She bad loaned him $10,000 in cash and be bad given as security for the notes the same porcelains he had used with others. The young Pittsburg woman appear ed terribly distressed when she learn ed that Boeck bad decamped. She cried that the money she had given to the diamond broker was nothing:. She wanted to lind him. She was not told that Boeck had a wife. Boeck s wife often was seen in Maiden Lane. She was described to day as a woman with a face of youth and with black bair streaked with gray. Boeck never let her leave a Maiden Lane office for thc Courtland st reel, ferry, three blocks away, with out ordering a cab for her. Boeck was a member of the Bel mont Cricket club of Philadelphia, and has many friends here, it is .said. Some of the alleged victims of Boeck in New York believe that he has cleaned up a sum that may reach $750,000 in various ways in this and neighboring cities. One sufferer is Edwin W. Dayton, who deals in jewels and antiques of all kinds at 4 West Thirty-ninth street. Boeck took $32,500 worth of pearls and diamonds belonging to Rim, but re! urned to Mr. Dayton since he dissappeared pawn tickets for $15,000, representing jewelry he got from Dayton and pawned. The face value o?* that jewelry is said to be about $50,000. According to Mr. Dayton, Boeck numbered among his friends the Guygemheims, He is also said to have acted for society women who wanted to exchange or sell their jew elry, and there is said to be a num ber of them who would like him to come back with jewelry they trust ed to him. From what could be learned Boeck has an interesting history. His fath er was an exiled Polish nobleman, who went to China, where he married an American girl. Boeck was born in China and his features and manner are Oriental. Boeck caine to this country from China with Prince Pu Lim, who had charge of the ('hi?ese exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. After the exposition, it is said, he disposed of a good part of tin1 ('hi ?ese exhibit to Senator ('lark. What, he did immediately after that is not known, but he soon appeared as a jewelry salesman. Mr. Dayton, who was a captain in the Twenty-second regiment, mot him in February for tho first time, j Mr. Dayton said that Boeck came to him with a letter of introduction from a well known downtown jewelry linn, for business reason he did not care to name. The first thing he did was lo take Mr. Dayton to the offices of the American Smelting company and introduce him to the members of tho Guggenheim firm. Anion"; oth ers who Boeck presented Mr. Davien to was P. A. B. Widener, of Phila delphia. Boeck had only known Mr. Dayton for a day or two when he said that Senator (Mark went to buy two valu able pictures which Mr. Dayton badin bis store. Senator Clark was to have called one afternoon, but he did not, and Boeck explained that Senator Clark's secretary bad tele phoned that tho senator would be there that evening. Sure enough that evening "Senator Clark" walked into Mr. Dayton's place. "Senator Clark," looked over the two pictures but decided that he did not. want gan, his alleged capture and death, together with thc anti-Masonic pat ty in America constitute one of the most thrilling chapters in the life ol' the republic bul these agitations only served to confirm thc order in its growth and prosperity until we find it today, as we saw it represented last week, composed of men high in the councils of state, distinguished in their private lifo and ornaments to society in general. It has expanded until it is repre sented in every civilized country of the world, with a membership of millions. The widow and the father less aro their especial charge; visibly or in imagination the eye of (Jod looks down upon them in all their walks of life, and their ministrations make the world brighter and bettor. > THE UNSEEN WORLD. Remarkable Utterances of Paul Ist Father. Suya Science Jins Proved tho Exlat onco ot Spirits.-They Hhoidd Bo hot Alone. George M. Searie, rector of the Paulist Fathers' Catholic church New York, caused a sensation by his ser mon last Sunday morning in which he declared his belief in spiritism. Thursday he consented to elaborate his views, as follows: "What I wished my audience to understand is, in the first place, that though there will, of course, be found here and there in spiritistic seances some attempts at fraud or, trickery, particularly where there is money to oe made by it, phenomena often occur in them which cannot be accounted for in this way. "These have been carefully exam ined by scientific men, and those who have done so agree that those phe nomena indicate forces entirely be- ! youd our normal powers and it isl practically certain that these forces are directed by intelligence which are not of this world. The only quos-1 tion is, what are these intelligences? i "They pretend to be deceased hu man souls, and support their preten-1 sions by what are called "proofs of identity.' That is they know many events in the earthly life of those whom they represent which could not! naturally be known to the medium or others who had not '.icen acquaint ed with them personally. But they fail in other points which ought to | bc as well known, if they really were what they pretend. "Furthermore, they fail to agree in their description of their present state, in their teachings about God, about Christ, and religious matters generally. Truth should agree with itself; falsehood, whether coming from ignorance or malice, will dis agree. It, therefore, appears that these intelligences are not what they claim to be; and it seems more prob able that they are deceitful than that they are ignorant. "Besides, their control of a medi um, when habitual, has been known to culminate in what is called diabol ic possession; and in no case does it seem to have had a good moral ef fect. "Also, the spirits communicating seem to have a dread of spirits and of the rites of the Catholic church. 1 know specially of one case in which a priest, going incognito to a seance for investigation, was requested by them not use holy water. "On account of all these reasons, as well as of the distinct prohibition in Scripture (Dent, xviii: 2) of such performances, which archy no means merely modern, the church is abso lutely opposed to them, and considers them as extremely dangerous to our salvation." Dr. Searle is a nan of high scien tific attainments, and his name is as sociated with astronomical research and discovery among savants all over the world He was formerly a Con gregational minister in Boston and has been connected with Harvard observatory and with the observa tory at Georgetown college. He as serts positively that spirits can be communicated with through medi ums, and believes that these spirits are evil ones-fallen angels-who have never inhabited a human body. Dr. Searle said that in his sermon that only ignorant persons now deny the existence of spirits and the pos sibility of human communication with them. He isa member of the Society for Physical Research and a friend of Father Paupert, who show ed the "spirit, pictures" in his lec ture before the Catholic club last week. "The overwhelming probability," said the preacher, "isthat the spirits communication arc either devils or lost human souls subject to devils in hell. These devils are not confined in their operation to a local hell. Such may be the case after general judg ment, but not now. Warning his hearers against exper imenting in this field, Dr. Searle said in his sermon that endeavor to ascertain the truth about the depart ed by means of seances is not only a waste of time, but extremely dan gerous, ll is prohibited by Divine command, he said. HOM ACM TO SNAKES. Indians Who ('ced Hable? (o und Worship Serpents. lil spile of i in- fact that a similar charge was Investigated and dismiss ed by a grund qury some limo UKO, another complaint bas boon bled with Putted States District Attorney Llewellyn, of Now Mexico, ( ..af a tribe of indians in that torritory are given io tho worship of an enormous serpent, io which is fed the now-born bahes Of a puebla lu which it is boused and carefully tended and guarded, The complaint was bled hy a Cath olic priest, who alleges thal a dozen ramilles were segregated from BOV ornl pueblas two years ago, and fol io ed into a puebla by themselves. Al Ibongil il is known that many chil dren have boon born to these fami lies, not a child is to lound in the puebla. This led the priest to press his In vestigation, With tho result, as al iened, timi bo discovered that In an adobe liOUKO, isolated and closely guarded, there ls an enormous ser pent, which is worshiped by the In dians ol' all the pueblas around, and thal every bubo boru IP. tho small pu ebla, and. il ls suspected, iii many others, is fed to the serpent, (beni for his collection. About this time Boeek remarked that he was on very friendly terms with members of the Newport '.-(do ily, and he could easily dispose of $125,000 worth of jewelry and anti ques if ho could got il. Mr, Dayton took him to Alfred Smith, who has a jewelry store ?>n Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth street, and there, ac cording to Mr. Dayton, Boeek made a deal whereby lit? disposed of a lol of jewelry. There was some dispute with Smith over Boock'scommission, and tho latter sued. Only a short time before he disappeared he got a judgment for $4,000 against Smith for his commission. Afterward Boock, through his ac quaintance with Mr. Dayton, secur ed diamonds and pearls from other firms, some of which were pawned in various loan offices. "MAKES u RHEUMACIDE ail thc germs and pol spots in the body an Nature's way. Purelj most powerful of cl< time regulates the liv up the entire system tnat cures rheumatisi MOST POWERFUI 0UR?S RHEUMAC'DE \ other remedies and Percoll?, of Salem, V? dreds of dollars ? of ph by half a dozet? bo J 2120 Ramsay sVcec, man." Mrs. 8. A. Con it cleansed her blood Alter Noted Doctora Palled lloro ls a enso cured bv Hil KUM CIUK A hoi ii?ied New Yu >. * > . ; Ists luid railed. Mr. NV. K Hugli writes non? / tklns, Va. : "Foui boules ot RHKUMACI? have entirely cured mo ?>i a i .1 standin; case <,l rheum: tisin a yrently hnnroveil my venced deal I was a lout I wi ck. lia vim; lind rh. mat ison i r twenty yen rs. i -neutra oral weeks ami much rn? y t ry i specialists ?n.N>v; York. I : RHte M ACIDIC is (ho .only CI?M 1 lia found When i huyan t' usc it welKlieu HOpO'indo. Now : vetch : pounds, my no. mal weicht. . W. R. tlUGHtiS.' MANY KILLED And Wounded by a Tornado That Sweeps Texas. PROPERTY DAMAGE IS Quite Heavy ns tho Tornado Covered a Big Scope of thu Coun try, Blowing Down Houses, and Scattering Horses, Cattle mill Fowls Along Its Path. All Crops Aro Seriously Hurt. A tornado struck tho eastern por tion or Wills Point, Texas, on Mon day, cutting ti swath 200 yards wldo through the Iowa, killing three per sons and Injuring many ol hers. The dead : Mrs. T. C. Douglass. Jesse Douglass, 8 years old. Mrs. McClellan's child. Tho tornado cunio from the south west and traveled lo the northeast, carving with lt portion of buildings and other debris like whirling leaves. Dead horses, cattle and fowls are scattered along the path of tho storm. A severe rain and electrical storm swept over northern Texas Monday night, causing much damage to prop erty und some loss of life. The known dead: W. r. Lyon, Kills county, farmer, struct by lightning. Harry Sneed, Rosebud, struct by lightning. A. H. Sanderson, Park Spring, struct by lightning. Near Denton eight members of Wardlow family were injured, ono fatally, whim tho home was over turned by wind. Seores of barns and other small .-buildings were dostroyed. Many animais were killed. Six Killed at Kinory. A tornado bore down on Emory, Texas Monday ?'vening from the southwest, hui suddenly veering to tho west circled tho town, killing six persons and injuring li) or r?o. Tho dead : Walter Marlin, Mrs. Byrhnltor,, Harvey, three negroes. Seriously injured: Miss Simmonds, Miss Cora York, Miss Belle York, six other white persons and bel ween MO and IO negroes were hurt. Emory is well provided with storm reliais and to this fuel is due the small num ber of dead. Evory building on tho county poor farm was demolished ns well as sev eral costly residences. Tho grontcsl lest i ncl ion, however, occurred in the legro sel I lomon I. Many of tho in jured may die. Dc th and Destruction. A tornado struct Gribble Springs Monday, wrecking 25 houses, killing tWO persons und Injuring a score. l)o;id: liarlos MeCloskoy, .lames Mc Oloskoy, both children. Injured severely: .lames MeClos koy, Sr., faiber ol' dead children, may die; Josie Turpin, may die; tina Jack sou, may die. TU. tornado dev?stale.1 growing hind ahotll two miles wide and sever al miles long. Wisc and Otherwise. The good eil lier die young or poor. A misfit bargain isn't fit for any thing. I'nklnd words are always the wrong kind. Ignorance I hat pays looks like wis dom to some poole. All men are brave until lhere is a demand for bravery. Some men Imagino Illili a moral wrong is ii commercial right. If you would learn of a man's gOO(1 doods attend his uncial. When some peoplo loll tho truth others are able lo recognize it. Il hikes ?i lol Of good luck to en aldo mo men lo roach tho top. When one man tries to Hattet another he has something lo sell. Most men think they know a lot moro than they know they know. Peoplo would havO l>nl fow real troubles If they didn't try lo ucl smart. When a man's moral rieht;- go wrong he begins to talk about bis legal rights. A man's fool friends cause bini al most as much trouble as his wise onomios. it doesn't necessarily follow thal ii man ls any good just because ho's as good US his word. A broad-minded man never looses any sleep because another man's opln ioiis fail to agree with his own. lt ls seldom (lifltctlll for a man to gel rich after he has acquired tho art of hypnotizing his conscience. Most peoplo waste a lot of valuable timo tolling their troubles to othor peoplo who aro not even Intorcstod. I i YOU WELL goes right to the seat of th sons out of the (blood, clean! d sets ail the organs to wor / vegetable, non-alcoholic, it lansing medicines, and at 'er, tones up the stomach a . R H EU M AC-IDE is the on!; m to stay cured. . BLOOD PURIFIER T'Sn las curod thousands of case f ai ri ors doctoro had filles i., spent $200 in medicines ysicians* fees, and at fast heii tics of Rheumaclde. G. Dh B?\t\mov% sr.ys it litis "ma* nbes, 114 S. GI!mor street, B , took av/ay her pains, and rn like a new woman." M and recommends Rheur & CURES AFTEF >B Sample bottle and mi for postage to til. 1 Bobbitt Chemical 2 START TO G BRYAN WILL WIN. Champ Clark Says the Common er is Going to be Nominated for tho Presidency Mud1 That Ho is Going to Bo lOlocted By a United Democracy, j A dispatch from Savannah to the Augusta Chronicle says that Champ Clark,'member of Congress from Mis souri, can soe nothing but Bryan on the Democratic horizon. He also be lieves the Bryan sun is rising, not setting. He does'nt tako much stock in the "favorite son"' Idea. Ho thinks Bryan ls going to bo nominated for president and that he ls going to be elected by a united Democracy. Mr, Clark believes thc Republicans are hoplessly divided. He thinks there ls going to be much of a row in (!. O. P. circles before their candi date for president is named and bc would not be surprised to seo Roose velt run again if Tait is turned down in Ohio. , Mr. Clark said: "I don't think the time has arrived when a Southern man can be nominated, boca use the plain Democrats aro lor William J. Bryan. For years 1 have? advocated the nomination of a Southern man. 1 may not have been the pioneer in that matter, scores of men in tho South who would make tiptop presi dents, but il seems to me from read lng and from conversing with tho peoplo ol' eight or ten states in which 1 have lectured shute congress ad journed, that the rann and lile me for Bryn.J, and that be can hav.j the nomination il* he wants lt. "As to platform declarations they should be thoroughly Democratic, and only Democrat ic. New fads in the plat form are more likely to weaken than to strenghten us. The surest way to win ls to nominate candidates who are not only Democrats from skin to core, but whose opinions aro known to place them upon a platform thoroughly democratic in every plank We do not propose to buy any moro presidential pigs In pokes." w<H i7?> KI tili B<)<>si5vloi/r. Humored That Brother of McKinley Assassin Was in Canton. Dospite a rumor ol' doubtful orgin that Michael C/olgoscz. a brother ol' the nssa8ill ot' President McKinley, would be in Canton, Ohio, Wednes day, the funeral of Mrs. McKinley and the contingent visiting of Presi dent Roosevelt passed off without bi elden! of sinister note. Taking precautions against tho one chame in a thousand that tho rumor of Czolgoscz's presence was true, the local police, assisted by se cret service men from Washington and Cleveland, exorcised the mo: t alert vigilance during Hie president's slay lu tho city. No trace whatever was found of (V/.olgoscz nor any anarchist, although three strangers to the (div wore held in the jail during the president's slay lhere was nothing against them, however, and they were released. That the police were taking no chances was evident by Ibo precall lions taken at Hu- McKinley home All friends and rolaflvOB ol' tho Mc kinley family had to go lo their car riages through tho front door. Crowds had gathered lu front of ibo place, including a number of men with cameras, who wished to catch snap shots of tho president. Tho original plan had been changed, how ever, and while the crowd waited on north Market streol the presidential party was led oui ol' Ibo .- ide di.or lo carriages wailing on Louis street. The trip to ?bo cometary was made [pi loll y and Without incident and If) minuted ahead of tho appointed time ibo president roached bis car, A large crowd gathered for a speech, luit tho. president morel> lifted bb li?t and wished them "good luck." Wont l p and Down. Ile sallied oui ono pleasant eve To call on the fair young miss And when h^ reached her rosldonc.O this. like stops tho up Ran Her papa mot him at tho door, Ho did not soe the mis:-; He'll not go hack there any more, Coi be wont down like this! THK supervisor of Aiken County has refused to order an election on thc liquor question for tho reason that the petition asking for an elec tion was not signed by one-fourth of tlic registered v .tors. A OVER" o disease, sweeps supallthe plague It again in is yet the the same nd builds WORLD. s after all 1. Austin and hun vas cured strich, cf de him a new ?ltimorc, says lade her "fee! rour druggist n.aclde. I ALL OTHERS f booklet free if you send fi\ sells I Company, E^?J ?ETWELLTOI KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, Thc Grand Lodge Had a Pleasant Sleeting at Anderson, Thc twenty-first annual conven tion of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, was held in Anderson last woolt. The meei lng was ono of tho largest ever hold In this State. Much business of Importance to Pythianhnn in South Carolina has been disposed I Of, possibly the most important thing being the decision to establish n monthly Pythian Journal. The following oflleers were olected for tho ensuing year: Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, grand chancolor. L. S. Mnttlson, of Columbia, vice grand chancellor. Prof. A. G. Item bert, of Wofford college, Spartanburg. grand prolate. Dr. J. H. Thornwell, of Fort Mill, grand keeper of records and soul. Wilson G. Harvey, of Charleston, grand master of exchequer. J. L. Reeves, of Branchville, grand outer guard. Tho representatives to tho su preme lodge, which meets in Posion in 100 8. are Gen. M. L. Bonham of Anderson, Col. B. A. Morgan of Greenville and Col. Edmund Bacon of Columbia. Memorials were adopted on Knights A. C. Mustard of Charleston, J. M. Knight of Sumter and James Thayer of Charleston, who died tho past year. HANDLING A HUSBAND. Hero Is a Woman Who Certainly Bosses thc Danell. Joseph Bjelik, 4 8 years old, small and meek, was before Magistrate Finn In Yorkvillo court on a warrant obtained by his wife. Katherine, who charged him with abandoning her ?md their two children, says the Now York Herald. Tho homo of the fam ily is No. 340 Fast Forty-eighth st., New York. When the magistrato asked Bjelik what be had to say for himself Joseph held up a crooked little huger and pointed to an eye that was out of or der. "She did that," he exclaimed I brough an interpreter, "and she makes nie sleep under the bed and fods me on cold vituals. Besides she is jealous, ard when she sees me as ni neb as speak to another woman sin- beats me." "How is this?" demanded Magis trate Finn of Katherine. "Do you heal your husband?" "Yes, sometimes," replied the wo man. "How often?" persisted tho mag istrate. . "Whenever he needs it; sometimes only two or three a month, some t? nu's every day. When he is good I don't beat hm." "Why do you make him sleep un der Hit- bed?" The woman was unable to answer this question for tho flt of laughter into which lt threw her. Then the magistrate asked Joseph if he was willing to go home with Katherine. Joseph didn't think he was. but a truce was Anally arranged, and Joseph will try home lifo again. DEATH BY Flit IO. Burning of n Villa Causes the Death of Four. Three bodies were extricated al Long Branch from the ruins of Jacob Kolhchlld's vihn and one person died from Injuries sustained in tho fire Friday. Fight others were Injur ed. The origin of the ure is un it now. A subscriber once received a dun through tho posto flt ce, and it made him mad. Ho wont to see the editor about it, and the editor showed him a few duns of his own-ono for pa per, one for tpuo, one for fuel and several others. ''Now," sait! the edi tor, "I didn't got mad when these came I ecause ? knew that all ? had to do was to ask several reliable gen tlemen like you to come and help mc out, and then 1 could settle all of them." When the subscriber saw how it was he relented, paid up and re newed for another year. SMALL men with small purposes do not help to make a town lively and ? progressive, The man who never ( contributes to public enterprises or, voluntarily assists in supporting any ? of the public enterprises is not worth, coaxing to remain in a town, and should he decided to move out it is always a matter of congratulations. It's units and not mere eiphere that counts for something. "Be a unit." to any of our customors for tho ask plumhng or hardware business, an pago catalogue which will he found prices on anything In tho supply Hue. OOJUVMOIA^?U:PI?X,Y < OUR GRANU MOTHER USED IT. ' ? tut she Never Had Sulphur In Such Convenient Form As This. Your grandmother used Sulphur as her favorite household remedy, aud so did her grandmother, Sul phur ha? been, curing skin nnd blood diseases for a hundred years. Hut in tlio old days thoy had to take powered sulphur. Now Han? cock's Liquid Sulphur gives it to you I in tho best possible form nnd you get tho full benefit. 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