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N TRUNK to Be an Agent of tho irkish Sulton. SLAIN PRIEST i now II to 1)0 tx Pol Uh ian mid tor Dislike of Him Wits Openly Kxpressed by Wrecks and Others. Ho Crossed American Society in America Which Seeks to Free Ar ?nenla 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 the problem of how the body of thc 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 26. Two men, and possibly four, whom the police believe to be impli cated in the murder have not yet been found. The developments have brought forth two facts which may uncover the motive of thc murder and clear away to some extent the doubt con cerning how and when the priest met his death. Most important of these discoveries is the fact that Father Casper was a politician as well as a cleric, and that he had close alliance with one of thc American secret rev olutionary societies in this city. It was learned that very recently there had been a split, in thc 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 East Twenty-sixth street, and a number of Armenians gathered there ex plained to a reporter just what re lation the affairs of the Honchekis or Henchagain society may be found to bear with the murder of Father Casper when the hidden facts in thc 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 the 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 enter into details of the split, but feeling was high and there was still bitter recrimination and ac cusation of unfaithful passing be tween the two branches of the revo lutionary order. SIMES 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 the Hon chekis campaigns. "There have been spies in our own number/' and Terpossian. "The ac cusation of spy has been 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 the answer the Ar menian made. ._J The restaurant keeper and his com panions were asked if Father Casper had been a member of the Honche kis. They said that he 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 the speaker for the . group. "He was known to be mis erly and to prefer to beg his bread ami bed than work for it. We have always known him as a man who loit ered around and did as little as pos sible for a living. He had the repu tation of being no good." The second fact brought out in tho investigations which forced the de tectives to revise 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 the restaurant of the man Serpossian, who is strong in his condemnation of the dead priest's character. According to this man's story, the priest came to his place of business alone and carrying with him the black hand bag which he always took with him on his wandering through the city. When he left tho restaurant about noon he said he was going up town to meet some friends. Up to t he present the detectives Ihave not been able to trace Father 7 Caspar's movements after he was seen by Mrs. Schercr, the German woman who rented a room to tho two Armenians who disappeared on Wed nesday evening. MYSTERY BE( ?OM RS DEEPER. Mrs. Scherer say the priest in the company of Hie two at 8 o'clock in the morning, in the hallway of the Scherer Hat, on the third floor of tile tenement at 333 West Thirty-seven th street. Tho German woman told the detect ives she was sure! that she saw Sarkis, one of her lodgers, and a strange man coming upstairs, to the flat with a heavy trunk in the after no n of the same day. The de tective oom to acceptas positive the assumption that tho priest's body was ii. 'li trunk that Mrs. Sch erer saw bein , carried upstairs. Now that it has been developed that the priest was soon alive at 12 o'clock at 137 Fast Twenty-sixth Street, the puzzle Of bow and where hal lier Caspar's murders did him to death is deepened. Wilbin three hours, at most, after Serpossian, thc restaurant, keeper, saw the prest, his body.wan coiled up in a trunk at a place fully three miles away. An examination of the records in the Adams Express 0 ill ce shows that the trunk weighed 146 pounds, just heavy enough, the detectives say, to indicate,that h contained the body of a medium-sized person. The weight they declare, is far above the aver agoof thatof tho cort t en tsjthat could be placed into a trunk by a nomadic GROWS WITH TIME. Sonni Interesting Data About the Older of Masonry. ls HUM Expanded Until It In Now Found in livery Civilized Country of thc 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 the 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 ono ano ther into the shadows of the past. The oldest of those that still survive are but as creatures of yesterday compared with the brotherhood of Free and Accepted Masons, lt is a guild which can afford to look down with indulgent patronage on all the other guilds and crafts, howeuer an cient may be their charters. The origin of Masonry is lost in the remotest period of thc past. Tra dition has ascribed it to the building of Solomon's temple, and it is alleg ed to have bad a leading part in the construction of the pyramids. That there is more than a more 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 hit- nomadic habits of life and began to erect fixed bodies, the mason, as. an artisan, began to come into re quest. He was necessarily a man of skill and combined something of the architect with his craftsmanship. As the Christian civilization spread over the earth,*particularly in Eu rope and in England, magnificent cathedrals arose as the expression of tho pious devotion of the people An adequate idea of their size and magnificence may be easily gathered from such of them as still remain, and one may readily understand that in the building of them men of the highest skill were required. Some of the oriental forms and ceremonies which had been their birth in the days of Solomon, un doubtedly came down through the ages, but it was at the period when artisans of every craft were organiz ing their respective guilds that ac tive masonry acquired its regular or ganization in something like the form in which we find it today. But there were necessary condi tions which differentiated the masons from all other crafts. The weavers, tho 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 them 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 eity. to another, to build a cathedral at York or an abbey at Kilwinning. Signs and pass words wore devised that the liveried members of the craft might make themselves known to one another and claim hospitality from their fellow-craftsmen as they traveled. It was perhaps from this circum stance that the arcana of Masonry was first devised. These were per fected and elaborated by Elias Ash mole and his literary associates In thc early part of the seventeenth cen tury, and from that time may be da ted the masonry of today. Charles II and William lil were ma sons, and the visible connection with operative masonry was kept up by the selection of Sir Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's cath edral as grand master. While it is not necessary to go in detail, it may be 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 the assem blage of masons held by St. Alban York in illifi. Such differences as ex isted were arranged in 1813, and tho fraternity has since been managed by the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Eng land. A century before that time, how ever, when the cathedral of St. Paul'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 the present day, when it is in a benevolent band ol' brothers, with out regard to craftsmanship, who "meet upon thc level and part upon the square." It has not escaped the fate of oth er noble institutions. Superstition and ignorance have attributed to it designs and purposes for which t here was no foundations. It has been ac cused of entertaining sinister pro jects against religion and govern ment, and has been assailed with bery zeal in many conn fries and at various periods of history. Thc oaf h of secrecy stirred thc suspicion and resentment of the uninitiated and factionalism has waged fierce war around it. But as it has lived through so many ages, unimpaired, so it will no doubt 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. Paul's." Tho alleged "exposures" by Mor Armonian. RKPORT OP INHEIUTANCIC, lt is asserted thal Father Caspar Vartianan had recently inherited a snug fortune from a brother, who died in Chicago, and that he also pos sessed a jewel of great value In t he form of a crescent or a cross, which had been banded down generation to generation of priests. Those work ing on the ease who subscribed lo the robbery theory, believe these report ed possessions furnish thc motive for I be crime, The criminal examination of the organs of the dead priest is progress ing, and until the result of this is known, the police will not say posi tively whether Father Vartianan was killed by drugs before he was placed in the trunk. SUCK RASGAL A So-Called Gem Broker Swindled Women and Jewellers. HEIRESS A VICTIM. ngaged to lier, Though Married, Hu Borrows Ten Thousand Dollars ?<Vr?m Her. ?. Edward Hook, Hoon Companion of New York Mil* I lon tares Indicted Following His Disappearance. At New York the grand jury has brought an indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses against J. Edward Bocck, 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. Bocck was a broker in gems. He lived in splendid style at the Repub lican club. He knew Senator Clark, of Montana, and he was a boon com panion of other men in New York. He 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. Ile 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 promised to marry her and got $10,000 from her. Those to whom she ha? told her story will not divulge her name. She is thc only child of a widowed moth er. lier 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 (inger she showed a diamond and emerald ring. It was recognized by the clerk who responded to her call. Inadvertently he mentioned that Boeck had not paid for the ring. The Pittsburg girl tore the ring from ber Unger and threw it upon the table before her, bursting into tears. She was to have been married to Boeck last February, but the wedding had been delayed. She had loaned him $10,000 in cash and he had given as security for the notes the same porcelains be had used with others. The young Pittsburg woman appear ed terribly distressed when she learn ed that Boeck had decamped. She cried that the. money she had given to thc diamond broker was nothing. She wanted to find him. She was not told that Boeck had a wife. Boeck's wife often was seen in Maiden Lane. She was described to day asa woman witb a face of youth and with black hair streaked with gray. Boeck never let her leave a Maiden Lane oilicc for the Courtland streetforry, three blocks away, with out ordering a cab for her. Boeck was a member of the Bel mont Cricket club of Philadelphia, and han many friends here, it is said. Some of the alleged victims of Bocck 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 ?Bufferer is Edwin W. Dayton, who deals in jewels and antiques of all kinds ai 1 West Thirty-ninth street. Boeck took $32,500 worth of pearls and diamonds belonging to lum, but returned to Mr. Dayton since bo dissappeared pawn tickets for $15,000, representing jewelry he got from Dayton and pawned. The face value of that jewelry is said to be about. $50,000. According to Mr. Dayton, Boeck numbered among his friends the fiuygemheims. Ile is also said to have acted for society women who wanted to exchange or sell t heir 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 fat li eu- was an exiled Polish nobleman, who went t o China, where he married an American girl. Boeck was born In China and his features and manner are Oriental. Boeck came to this country from China with Prince Pu LUM, who bad charge ol' the Chinese exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. After the exposition, it is .said, he disposed of a good part of the Chi nese exhibit to Senator ('lark. What, he did immediately after that is not known, but be soon appeared as a jewelry salesman. Mr. Dayton, who was a captain in the Twenty-second regiment, met him in February for the first time. Mr. Dayton said that Boeck came to him with a letter Of introduction from a well known downtown jewelry firm, for business reason he did not care to name. The first thing he did waste take Mr. Dayton to thc Offices of the American Smelting company and introduce? him to the members of the Guggenheim firm. Among oth ers who lloeck presented Mr. Dayton to was P. A. H. Widener, of Phila delphia. Boeck bad only known Mr. Dayton for a day or two when he said that Senator ('lark went to buy two valu able picture's which Mr. Dayton bad in his store?. Senator (Mark was to liave> called one* afternoon, bul lu> elid not, and Bocck explained that Senator Clark's secretary bael lede> phoncd that the senator would be the-re 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 elie! not want gan, his alleged capture' and death, together with thc anti-Masonic par ty in America constitute one of tim most thrilling chapters in thc life of i h<> republic but 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' life' and ornaments to society In general. li 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 are their especial charge; visibly or in imagination the eye of God leioks elown upon them in all their walks of life, and their ministrations make the world brighter and bettor. THE UNSEEN WORLD. Remarkable Utterances of Paul 1st Father. Says Science lins Proved tho Exist onco of MpirHs.-Thoy Should Bo . ?ct Alono. ? George M. Searie, rector of the Pauligt 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 tho 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 be 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 yond our normal powers and it is practically certain that these forces are directed by intelligence which are not of this world. Tho only ques tion is, what are these intelligences? "They pretend to be deceased hu man souls, and support their preten 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 uiedium or others wdio had not been acquaint ed with them personally. But they fail in other points which ought to be 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. I know specially of one ease in which a pnest, 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 are by 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 man 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 ?cen connected with Harvard observatory and with the observa tory at Georgetown college. He as serts positively that spirits can be communicated with tlnough 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 is a 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 are 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 ease after general judg ment, bul not now. Warning his bearers 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. It is prohibited by Divine command, he said. HOMAOH TO SNA HNS. Indians Who Ferd Itabb-s (o and Worship Serpents. In spile of tho fact that n similar charge was investigated and dismiss ed by a maud fjury some time ago, another complain! bas boon bled With United States District Attorney Llewellyn, of New Mexico, t,.al. a 11 il.f Indians in I bat territory are niven lo Ibo worship of an enormous sorponl, to widen ls fed (lie new-horn babes ol a puebla lu which it. is housed and carefully tended and guarded. The complaint was filed by a Cath olic priest, u ho alleges that a dozen families were segregated from sev eral pueblas two years ago, and form ed IlltO a puebla by themselves. Al Ihough it is known that many chil dren have heen horn to these fami lies, not a child is to lound in the puebla. This led the priest to press, bis in vestigation, with the result, as al leged, that he discovered tl>.it in an adobe house, isolated and closely guarded, lhere is au enormous sci lieut, which is worshiped by tho in dians of all Hie pueblas around, and thal every babe born in Hm small pu obln, ami, it is suspected, in many others, is fed lo the serpent. them for his collection. About this time Boeek remarked that he was on very friendly terms with members of the Newport, colo ny, and he could easily dispose of $125,(100 worth of jewelry and anti ques if ho could get. it. Mr. Dayton took him to Alfred Smith, who has a jewelry store on Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth street, and there, ac cording to Mr. Dayton, Boeek made a deal whereby he disposed of a lot of jewelry. There was some dispute with Smith over Boeck'scommission, and the latter sued. Only a short t ime before he disappeared he got a judgment, for $ 1,000 against Smu'.l 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 olfices. "MAKES fi RHEUIV?ACIDE all the germs and po spots in the body ar Nature's way. Purel most powerful of cl time regulates the ii up the entire systerr that cures rheumatis MOST POWERFU! DURtS RH KUM AG! DE other remedies and Percelle, of Sale n, V dreds of dollars i or pl by half a dozer? ho? 2I&0 Ramsay s'tcet, man.'* Mrs. 3. A. Coi lt cleansed her Llocc Alter Noted Doctora Paltet] Hero fsa ensecaren* l>v RIP?Uft CIUK .MUM puled New Yo ,> ? !sts lind railed. Mr. \V. l< lti,K writes (rom / tithe:. Va. : "Four l><>uks <?f kUKUMACI 11 a \ c- entirely Cured me ;>i n I RiaiK?ti' cuso ot rlicumhiistn ; greatly improved my ircneial hca 1 was a iota I wroelt, ?ia vi or had rh matismi) r twenty yen rs. i pents oral weeks and mitch mr ey try specialists in N"w York. I ; RHV M ACIDE is Clic only cr?-a I li; found t WI von I hei*nn u uso t wekhed HO po'im.fl. Now : vetch pounds, niynok'nial weight. . W. VU HUGHES, MANY KILLED And Wounded by a Tornado That Sweeps Texas. PROPERTY DAMAGE IS Quito Heavy ns the Tornado Covered n Dig Scope of tho Coun try, Blowing Down Houses, and Scattering Horses, Cattle and Fowls Along Its Path. All Crops Are. Seriously Hurt. A tornado Struck the eastern por tion of Wills Point, Texas, on Mon day, cutting a swath 200 yards Wide through the town, killing three per sons and injuring many others. The dead : Mrs. T. C. Douglass. Jesse Douglass, 8 years old. Mrs. McClellan's child. Tho tornado came from the south West and traveled to the northeast, cary lng with it 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 slorin swept over nert horn Texas Monday night, causing much damage lo prop erty and some loss of life. Tho known dead: VV. P. Lyon, Kills comity, finnier, struct by lightning. Harry Sneed, Rosebud, struct by lightning. A. lt. Sanderson, Park Spring, struct by lightning. Near Denton eight members of Wardlow family woro Injured, one fatally, when i he home was over turned by wind. Scores of barns and other small buildings were destroyed. Many animals were killed. six Killed at F.mory. A tornado hore down on lOmory, Texas M outlay evening from the southwest, bul SUddonly veering to tho west circled tho town, killing six persons anti injuring 10 or 50. The dead: Waller Martin, Mrs. Hyrhaller,, Harvey, t hr io negroes Seriously 'rijurod: Miss Simmonds, Miss Cora York, Miss Helle York, six other white persons anti between 30 and 10 negroes wine hurt, Km orv is well provided with storm cellars and lo this fact ls due (he small num ber of dead. Bvory building on tho county poor farm was demolished as well as sev eral costly residences. Tho greatest .Instruction, however, occur rod in tho legit) settlement. Many of tho in jured may die. Death and Destruction. A tornado struct (?ribble Springs Monday, wrecking 25 houses, killing two persons and Injuring a score Doad: liarlos MeOloskoy, .lames Me Oloskoy, both children. Injured severely, .lames McClos key, Sr., lather t>r (lend children, may tl i o ; Josie Turpin, may die; Una .Jack son. may (He. The tornado devastated growing binti about two miles wide anti sever al miles bing. Wise anti Otherwise. The good eil her die young or poor. A misfit bargain Isn't ht for any thing. Unkind words aro always tho wrong kind. Ignorance that pays looks like wis dom to stone peole. All inch are brave until lhere is a dom a nd for bravery. foo mo men imagine that a moral witing is a commercial right. If yon would leam of a man's good tleeds attend his miora!. When stone people tell tho truth others are able to recognize lt, lt takes a lot ol' gootl luck to en ftblO some men lo reach Hie (op. When one man (rles lo flatt Ol another he has something lo sell. Most men think they know a lol more than they know they know. People WOUld have but few real troubles If they didn't try to act smart. When n man's moral rights go wrong he begins to talk about his legal righi?, A man's fool friends cause him al most as much trouble as his wise enemies. lt doesn't necessarily follow thal a man ls any gootl .inst because he'* as geed as his word. A broad-minded man never lote e;, any sleep because another man's opin ions fail (ti agree with his own. It ls seldom difficult for a man to gel rich after he has acquired tho arl of hypnotizing his conscience. Most, people waste a lot ol' vnlunblo time tolling their troubles to othor people who aro not even Intorostod. goes right to tho soat of th ?sons out of tho blood? clean: id sets ail the organs to wor y vegetable, non-alcoholic, it eansing medicinas, and at ^er, tones up the stomach s I. RH EU MAGI DE is tho onl m to stay cured. L BLOOD PURIFIER j$ti E BY REMOVING THE has curod thousands of case famous doctors had failes a., ^pent $200 In medicines .ysicians* fees, and at last he i ties of Rfceumacide. O. Di? Baltimore sr.ys it Ins "ina nbes, 114 S. Gifmor street, B; !, took av/ay her pains, and rr J ike a nov/ woman." \ I. and recommends Rheur B CURES ?FTEr" DB Sample bottle and Iwi for postage to Ith. I Bobbitt Chemical ive r START TO G BRYAN WILL WIN. Champ Clark Says the Common er is Going to be Nominated foi' tho Presidency ?nd1 I Timi Ho ls Going to Ho Elected Hy a United Democracy. j A dispatch from Savannah to the Augusta Chronicle says that Champ Clark,"member ol' Congress from Mis souri, can seo nothing but Bryan on the Democratic horizon. He also be lieves* the Bryan sun is rising, not setting. Ho does'nt tako much stock in the "favorite son" idea. Ho thinks Bryan ls going to be nominated for president and that he is going to be elected by a united Democracy. Mr. Clark believes tho Republicans are hoplessly divided. lie thinks HOMO is going to be much of a row in (?. (). P. circles before their candi date for president is named and he would not be surprised to see Boose volt run again if Tatt is turned down in Ohio. Mr. Clark said: "I don't think the time has arrived when a Southern man can be nominated, because the plain Democrats are tor William J. Bryan. For years I have advocated the nomination of a Southern man. I may iud have been the pioneor in that matter, scores of men in the South who would make tiptop presi dents, but it seems to me from road lng and from conversing with tho people of eight or ton states in which I have lectured since congress ad journed, that the rank and file ai o for Brya.l, and that he can hav.-; the nomination if be wants it. "As to platform declarations they should be thoroughly Democratic and only Democratic. New fads in thc platform are more likely to weaken than to strengbten 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 plat form thoroughly democratic in every plank We do not propose to buy any moro presidential pigs In pokes." WOlTd) KI 1.1, HOOSKVKBT. Humored That Brother of McKinley Assassin Was in t'anton. Despite a rumor ol' doubtful orgin that Michael CzolgOSCZ, a brother (d' tho assnsiu of President McKinley, would be in Canton, Ohio, Wednes day, thc funeral of Mrs. McKinley and the contingent visiting of Presi dent Roosevelt passed off without lu cidon! of sinister not?. Taking precautions against the one chanco in a thousand that thc rumor of C/.oigoscz's presence was true, the local police, assisted by se cret service men from Washington and Cleveland, oxorclsod the moil alert vigilance dining the president's stay in the (Itv. No trace whatever was found of C/.olgoscz nor any anarchist, although Ibice Strangers to the city were held in the jail (luring tho prosidont's slay 'lhere was nothing against them, however, and they were released. That, the police weir taking no chancos was evident by the precau Dons taken at the McKinley home All friends and relatives of the Mc kinley family bad to go to their car riages through the front door. Crowds had gathered In front of the place, Including a number of men with cameras, who wished to catch snap shots of the president. The original plan bad been changed, how ever, and while the crowd waited on north MurkCl street the presidential party was led out of tho side door lo carriages wailing on Louis street. The trip to ibo cometary was made quietly and wlthoul inciden! ami i .'< minuted ahead of the appointed Hmo Hie president roached Iiis car. A large crowd gathered for a speech, bul tho president merely lifted bis hat and wished Diem "good luck."' Went, l p and Down. Ile sallied out one pleasant OVO To call on tho fair young miss And when hr reached her residence this. like stops the up Ban Der papa nu t bini at the door. Do did not see tho miss; He'll not go back there any more, Kol be weill down like this! THE supervisor of Aiken County has refused to order an election on the liquor question for the reason that tho petition asking for an elec tion was not niprned by one-fourth of thc registered v ?tors. ALL OVER. e disease, sweeps i up all the plag?e le again In is yet tho tho same ind builds y remedy WORLD. s after all !.. Au ?tin and hun? vas cured etrich, cf de him a new iltimore, says lade-her "feel rour druggist n acid e. I ALL OTHERS F booklet free if you send fiv sells I Company, m^pihJ ?ETWELLTOI KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Tho GlUltld Lodge Had a Pleasant Meeting at Anderson. Tho twenty-first annual conven tion of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, was hold in Anderson last week. The meeting was ono of tho largest over held in this State. Much business of importance to Pythlanism in South Carolina has been disposed of, possibly the most important thing being the decision to establish a monthly Pythian Journal. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, grand chancelor. Ii. S. Matt ison, of Columbia, vice grand chancellor. Prof. A. G. Hombert, of Wo ff ord college, Spartanburg, grand prolate. Dr. J. H. Tho rn well, of Fort Mill, grand keeper of records and seal. Wilson G. Harvey, of Charleston, grand master of exchequer. J. L. Reeves, of Branchville, grand outer guard. The repr?sent?t iver to tho su preme lodge, which meets in Boston in 1908, are Con. M. Li. 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, Here Is a Woman Who Certainly flosses thc linnell. Joseph Bjelik, -18 years old, small and meek, was before Magistrate Finn In Yorkville court on a warrant obtained by bis wife. Katherine, who Charged him with abandoning her and their two children, says tho Now York Herald. Tho home of the fam ily is No. 340 Fast Forty-eighth st., New York. When the magistrate asked Bjelik what be bad lo say for himself Joseph hold up a crooked little linger and pointed lo an eye that was out of or der. "She did that," he exclaimed (brough an interpreter, "and she makes me sleep under the bed and levis me on cold vituals. Besides she is jealous, ur.d when she sees mo as ni neb as speak to another woman she beats me." "Dow is this?" demanded Magis trate Finn of Katherine. "Do you beat your husband?" "Yes, sometimes," replied tho wo man. "Mow often?" persisted the mag istrate. , "Whenever he needs it; sometimes only two or three a month, some t? mes every day. When he ls good I don't beat hm." "Why do you make him sleep tin dor Dm 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 finally arranged, and Joseph will try home life again. DHATll BY IT Bli. Burning of a Yilla Causes the Death of Four. Three bodies were extricated at Long Branch from thc ruins of Jacob Uothchlld's villa and one person died from Injuries sustained in the fire Friday. Fight others were injur ed. The origin of the ure is un it now. A sub?cribei once received a dun through the postoflico, and it made him mad. lie vent to sec the editor about it, and the editor showed him a few duns of his own-ont? for po per, one for tppe, one for fuel and several others. "Now," said the edi tor, "I didn't got mad when these came I ecause I knew that all Iliad to do was to ask several reliable gen tlemen like you to come and help me out, and then I 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 be 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." JV Oil talof to any of our customers for tho ask plumbng or hardware business, am pago cataloguo which will be found prices on anything in tho supply line. OOX-,T^MBlA,?UPl?JLV!ir < CURES Rheumatism, Sciatica, Rheumatic Gout, Lumbago, Catarrh, Indigestion, Constipation, Kidney Troubla, Liver Diseases, La Orippe, Contagious Dtood Poloon. All Blood Diseases? 'OUR GRAND MOTHER USED IT. ' ? tut She Never lind Sulphur In Sucb Convenient Form As Thin. Your grandmother used Sulphur as her .favorite household remedy, and so did her grandmother, Sul phur has been, curing skin and blood diseases for a hundred years. But in tho old days thoy had^? take powered sulphur. No*w~Hnit? rock's Liquid Sulphur gives lt to you In the host possible form and you got the full benefit. Hund cock's Liquid Sulphur and Ointment, quickly cure Eczema, Tot ter, Soil Rheum nnd all Skin Dis eases. lt cured an ugly ulcer for Mrs. Ann W. Willett, of Washington, D. C., In three days. Talton Internally, it purifies tba blood and clears tho complexion. Your druggists sells it. Sulphur Booklet freo, If you writ? Hancock Liquid Sulphur Company, Daltimoro. When a woman has no one to talk to she writes a letter. Why you should consult a specialist BY "M oiuot wont to tho ranmtaln' for o >vl >U3 rfluom and ho w J i \ wiso man. Hit it is not necessary for you to remove to tho ??tv to receive intel ligent treatment for chronic or uer? vous (I Hordora, by a oapab'e, experi enced s ooialist iu those ?loop scated troub ?>s of long stnndin , that ST often bullio lin ordinary physic an. Our 1 ter oxporlenco of upwards of twonie tears enables vs to diagnose oorr.ioliy, and on re, whore othor physl otam, lesi experienced, have trcvOed tho CHM*, without success, lor on entire ly diff?rent disease 1 iu i o all sufferers from duop heat ed, lo*?g standing troubles ol Heart, Head, lings, Stomach, bowels, Nor* V08, . t diseases pocupar to either BOX, to wri o us ond loon what wo have dono for othoro bl mi lari y alllct tl, and what wo an tlo for them, Thore is no cha-go for this coiimlta tion, and it is wor'h your time and of fert wh'ihnr you docido t<? begin treat ment or not. It is I r cheaper to writo toa compe tent specialist ard got prompt, suroand lasting benefit, than to waste your time, mono and opportunity-group ing in the dark-with inoxporloncod physicians. Write today. Send f >r our "Hool'h Kssoys." Mail od freo in unprinted wrapper. ^ Dr Hat1 awoy & Co., 22?S. Broad St., Atlanta, Gs. Plea, send mo in unprinted envel ope, your hook for men, for which thou is no oharas and which does not placo mo under any obligations to you. Nanio. Address. Name of popor. WANTED OLD PIANOS & ORGANS for which wo will allow tho highest prices toward new In struments. No Club Rates to offer, but we pledge better In struments for the same or less money than those nt club rate offers. Write Malones Music i House, Columbia, S. C., for spo ! dal prices and terms. ?W?>e<f OFFERED WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE. No matter how limited yonr meaos or ado* nation, If you desire a thorough business train* tug and good position, wri to for our ORB AT fl ALP RATB OFFER. Success, Independence and probable FOR* TUNK Kuartinteed. Don't del??; write to-day. The OA.-Al A. BV?< COLLBuC. Mscor? tte* FRECKLES, As well ns Sunburn, Tan. Moth, Pimples and Chnps. nro cured with Wilson's Freckle Cure. Sold and gunranteod hy druggists. 50c, Wilson's Ealr Skin Soap 25 cts. I. It. Wilson & Co., Mfgrs. and Drops, filt nnd f..r> Alexander streot, Charleston, S. C.When ordering di rect mont lon your druggist. e Free, lng, and to any in tho machinery, il any machinery owners. A 400 vahmblo in ovory way. Writ? us for DO., Col-unil>I?v S. O