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' l.vt Justice Ho Done. Near Greer, in Spart inburg Coun ty a negro named Fowler shot and in stantly killed a young white man of .unsavory reputation by the name of Boyce Stone, who was attempting to o tirage Fowler's wife Fowler nani that lie hastened to his home in re sponse to his wife's calls for aid and found three white men assailing her. Stone knocked him down, but he re covered himself, sei/.cd his gun and killed the would-be-ravisher. The other men, Hammett and Duncan, ran away. They were later chased by ofheers and arrested. Immedia tely after the shooting Fowler sur rendered himself to the sheriff. Stone, who was a vicious young desperado, seemed to have met a deserved death at thc hands of a ne gro who was justified in protecting his home. Strange to relate Magis trate Wood, who acte? as coroner, permitted the two men arrested as accessories to criminal assault to ap pear in the role of principal wit nesses, and that as the result of their testimony their intended vic tim is held as an accomplice to the killing, by her husband, of the ring leader in thc assault! Fortunately such travesty on jus tice was not allowed to stand. The people of Greer were indignant when they heard that Fowler's wife and a number of other witnesses had not been examined and because thc testimony of Hammett and Duncan af the hearing was at com plete variance with statements they made in the hearing of a number of responsible citizens prior to their ar rest. Because of these facts, which Convinced them that there had been a miscarriage of justice, a number Of prominent citizens headed by Mayor Burgiss, made representa tion to Deputy Sheriff Beckneil suf ficiently strong to cause another hearing before the coroner. At this hearing tho verdict was practically the same as the first one, but the charge of being an accom plice against Fowler's wife was dis missed. Tiie evidence was sufli ciently strung against Hammett and Duncan to inst if v their being held and killed another man out in the West. From what we can hear Fowler did thc proper thing in rid ding the carib of such a monster. When killed He was attempting to commit a most hienou .> crime and we are glad to know that thc good wh to people of Greer are deter mined to see that Fowler gets just ice. Kxpcctiiig Detent. A staff correspondent of the Bal timore Sun writing from Washing ton says "the consensus of opinion at the capitol, if it could be accur ately ascertained, would disclose a belief on the part of thc Republi cans that their party is confronted with a prospect of defeatin the next election both as to the Presidency and as to the control of the House of Representatives. -"Moreover, some of them are reconciled to defeat in anticipation, believing that through it alone can the country escape the consequences of Mr. Roosevelt's usurpation of power and their own weakness to resist him. To some ex tent their nonresistance is due to their belief that defeat is bound to follow at the polls and their desire to escape thc responsibility for this defeat being placed upon them through their having made a breech in the part> urgimzatioii by open re sistance of the executive." It. will be seen from the above that the Re publicans don't think Bryan is such an easy candidate to beat as some of our Southern papers would have us believe. Acw York Fights Bryan, flt begins to look as if Mr. Bry an, in case he were nominated at Denver, would not have a single newspaper of consequence in New York city support ing his candidacy," says thc Springfield Republican. "The Hearst papers will have their own sideshow this year. The World luis worked itself into such a fury of opposition to tho nomination that support in the campaign is evidently out of the question. The Times and Brooklyn Hagle would pass a years dividends rattier than to have any thing to do with the unspeakable one. The Sun is clearly preparing to support Mr. Taft on the ground that he would prove conservative in the presidency. Wall street and The Sun will not be far apart, in this matier. Mr. Bryan, therefore, hs likely to enjoy less newspaper favor in .the big citjf than in 1896 ven, w.. time or i. for in that year the Hearst papers fought single-handed for his cause. The effect of such a total absence of journalistic support in New York city can only be surmised. In tho Empire State, New Jersey and Con necticut, the roi id opposition of tho cuy press that is most read might be very disastrous to Mr. Bryan, but in the Middle West and tranu Mississippi region it is possible that the spectacle would do him more good than harm. The West, tic fore it votes, will ask, perhaps, how Wall street feels, and if it should appear that Mr. Taft was thc only candidate that the New York press tolerated, the outcome might not be easy to predict. Those who most earnestly desire Mr. Bryan's defeat would be better pleased by far if one or two of the New York papers, for the sake of thc moral effect up on the entire country, would sup port him." All the so-called Demo cratic napers in New York, are trust ridden, and their opposition to the people's candidate should bring the balance of the country to his support. Bryan's tremendous hold on the people is the result of the war made on him by napers in all the cities of the country owned and controlled by men who are the ben eficiaries of the special privileges granted them by tho Republican party to fleece the people out of their hard earned dollars. Some of these papers that are published in the South claim to be Democratic because the Republican party is not strong enough in their localities to support them, but they are really Republican in ail but name. Happi ly such papers have no influence, as the people have found them out. Heyan lina (?real Lead. The Charleston Post has been do ing some figuring on the Democrat ic nomination for President, and finds that "of 168 delegates elected last week to the Democratic nation al convention, 15*1 were instructed for Bryan and two are favorable to his nomination. Twelve uninstruct delegates were elected, who are be lieved to be favorable to -lodge frrav. Johnson, of Minnesota, cot Democratic convention of that.State upon its delegates to Denver. "Wednesday the Democrats of New Hamshire held their convention and elected delegates without in structions. The four men chooser! to represent the State at large, how ever, are all for Brvan, so they will swell the Nebraskan's score. New Hampshire has been counted against Bryan hertofore, in the impartial casimates of the Denver convention line-up. so Bryan's capture of four of the votes of the Slate in the na tional convention is a marked gain, which, while scarcely needed toni sure his nomination, is still interest ing as indicating the trend of party sentiment. "The count ??ow shows dS7 dele gales elected and instructed for Bry an and forty uninstructed but practi cally assured to him. That is a to? tal Of 527 already in hand, a total exceeding the majority of the con vention's membership by exactly tho total number of votes in sight for Johnson, of Minnesota. There are to be elected delegates who will probably be for Bryan; and if these materialize he will have 717 votes certain on the first ballot, 75 more than the two thirds needed to nomi nate. That is without counting the New York delegation, which, accord ing to well informed political obser vers, will cist its solid streut, h of TS votes for the Nebraskan. The nom ination of Bryan has been a practi cal certainty for mai . .veeks and it will soon be written upon the record in actual figures." FRANCK has imposed an income tax on government securities, and as more taxation will oe neceossary here to meet Republican extrava gance and loss of revenues by retir son of vicious policies, we may have to eventually, like France, tax in comes on government bonds. , Au. the talk about. Hie negroes voting the Democratic ticket on ac count of the Brownsville affair is nonsense. The darkey leaders are just smart enough to know that un less they register a kick there will be "nothing doing," and t he price for workers will be cut to an un profitable basis. HVKN the four delegates elected last week to Denver from Florida turns out to be for Bryan. Looks' like the (?real Commoner will cap ture all the "doubtful" States. / Another iAv> Set Adrift. As soon ns one campaign lie on Bryan is run down and choked off another is started. Sometime ago it was asserted that Bryan called on Senator Tillman while he was in Worthington and boggod tho Senator ni ri indra vv hts objection to inc in- ! struction of Hie delegates from this j SHuo. This was such a clumsy and barefaced lie that only one or two pupers attempted to use it against Mr. Bryan, but they soon abandon ed it us they soon found that no one believed it. Then another yarn was started that Mr. Bryan had quit the Presbyterian ('burch and joined tho Methodist. Church, of which Mrs. Bryan is a member. This lie will have to run its course like dozens of others started about Mr. Bryan as he can't afford to notice the little campaign lies that are set drift hy those who are working in thc in terest of tho Republican party and tho Trusts. The latest lie started by the agents of the Kop ubi ?can party and the Trusts on Mr. Bryan is that if be is nominated he will not run be cause ho is so infatuated with tho idea of his money value as a plat form lecturer, due to his political prominence, that before he will risk losing this opportunity of making money by a possible defeat at the polls, he will withdraw from tlio race. This lie which is tho most absurd yet started on Mr. Bryah, is credit to one Koohlsuat, who was at one time a Republican editor of Chicago. Ile says "Mr. Bryan must appreci ate that his value as a lecturer and writer will be gone if he is nominat ed and defeated for the third time. On thc other hand il* he sacrifices his political prospects by urging the nomination of another man, he will bo bailed as a great, patriot, and his worth asa lecturer and publisher will go upward with a groat bound. He will be a bigger drawing card than ever on the lecture stage." This is about what Koohlsaat would do if he was in Mr. Bryan's place and had his brains to make a successful lecturer. It is irnpossi .?" ???.?liKorn Tho I'Vdernl reunion I.ISI. The Virginian Pilot says: "Forty I throe years have passed since the fall of tho Confederacy. Yet there j are still more than a million names on the federal pension list, or 400, , OOO mor(; than were enrolled from 1 first to last in the armies of the i South. Tho appropriation for sup ! port of those pensioners aggregates 1 for tho coming year $100,000,000, or I nearly six times greater than they Were 30 years ago. Tin; bounty has been extended to collateral objects from time to time, until now the bulk of it goes to persons other than tho veterans. In a New England village of today a survivor of the Civil war who is unmarried is sought after by the young girls of the vicinity as though he were a youthful Adonis; for when he tot ters to the grave already yawning before him the widow will fall heir to his annuity and can then seek a union with her real sweetheart. We are told that in that section a superannuated soldier stands no more chance of escaping tho clutch ot one of those rapacious Hobos than a Junebug would of escape when thrown into a coop of turkeys. No one objects to supporting the men who actually fought the bat tles of the Union; hut it is pretty j hard to be taxed for the benefit of an army of substitutes, bummers and lately made wives and widows and fictiotious descendants." A Johnson Bureau sends out the following: "The Chicago Tribune is authority for tho statement, that William Jennings Bryan could afford to pay $150.000 or moro for the Democratic nomination to the Pres idency, oven if he knew positively that ho would b;> defeated." The Chicago Tribune is a Republican pa per, which ?re the kind usually quoted by tho Johnson Bureaus against Mr. Bryan. Tnt: Johnson Bureau sends out the following: "The whole Scandi navian vote, which is Republican, will help Governor Johnson if he is nominated, is the opinion of ll. C. Stebl lins, a Minneapolis (lour man ufacturer, who is a Republican." Why don't the Johnson bureaus quote a Democrat occasionally. Accoitmi* ; to Mr. Tatt, the ad visability of revising the tariff should bo thoroughly considered. Evident ly, he has not yet considered it at all. ? \V;\lo Itoptlblics FllilUI'ON. Tho appeal of Liberia for aid to tho United States confirma the edi torial thai appeared in The State a few days ago on the decay of the B:ack Republics. The State says th ? ''ev?s of rh,* thinking men of Inc wore! ilav*- o?-t.-n MI Libella lor a long lime as .ne most perfect ex periment of a negro republic uno as a test of the negro to rule himself under the must favorable conditions, and the result is proof that the race is and will always be, the infant in the races of men on earth." 'ino views expressed by The Stale in Hie article we copy below is held by many of the best friends the negroes had at the North. Take ('barios Fran cis Adamo as an example. He has become convinced that the negro is incapable of self-government and that seperaled from the white man he has no future, He has reached this conclusion after studying the negro for nearl> fifty years. Here is what The State says: The fate of the black republics is <-ne of the most striking, and at the same time one of the most de-; pressing, facts in modern history. There wane no negro nations in ancient, times, at least none that could properly be so called; and it is only in very recent times that the experiment of a genuinely black na tion has been assayed. There are now but (hire of theSe independent black republics- Liberia, Haiti, and San Domingo. The causual classifi cation of Abyssinia among negro nationalities is. of course, due lo carelessness or ignorance. The true Abyssiniens are of the Hamitic lyne, a people very much more ad vanced and very much more richly endowed than the negro. Leaving out of consideration the petty and mongrel principalities and so called States of Darkest Africa, the only real negro governments of the world are the three we have mentioned Liberia, which we founded; Santo Domingo, which we control; and Haiti, which we govern. All are manifestly doomed to early extinc tion. "'Liberia seems confronted by at least two dangers, either of which throw round the turbid black do minion the widening boundaries of the imperial roublie. The other is, of course, the inherent decay of ali black governments. The race in its unmixed strains, has yet shown no trace of political ability. Whatever capacity it has had here and there in political affairs has come through an infusion of Caucasien blood. Li beria, therefore, is about as good as done for. lt has utterly failed to provide a rallying point for negro progress and civilization, a nucleus of the future negro power. Fven now its submergences into Darkest Africa-commingling its own blood with that of the parent stock would, if anything, add a little darker pigmentation to the darkes region of the world. "As to the other black republics, who?; case may be treated al most as if they constituted but a single petty domain, its they make up but a single island, the peril that lowers over them is partly political, partly commercial, partly of the warp and woof of that modern fev er of the nations-imperialism, They also are beset by the danger of decay from within, and would soon perish of that malady, were it not that a surer and swifter fate awaits them. The first visions that. France and America had of a canal through the Isthmus of Panama marked the doom of both these black republics as it very likely marked the doom of of other petty dominions and loosely moored islands of the seas in which are "(he still-vexed Rermoothes," though no longer remote or unes pied or undesired. When the Pan am canal became a necessity in the l art ber development ot commerce along lines that would continue to favor this country, tia? doom of these little black Splotches on the man became as certain and as un changeable as a decree of the Modes and Persians." DAVID H. Hill is going abroad and will be absent during the Presiden tial campaign. H is a pity rio did not go abroad in 1896 instead of helping lo carry New York against the Democracy. All such men as Hill ought lo come out openly for the Republicans. Tnt; Republican "let us alone" platform won't do. We want tar ill' and currency reform; we want some real trust busting; we want the railroads properly curbed. The party that lets things alone should bc put. out of business. As the capacity of Republican Congressmen diminishes their trick iness increases. A TKXAS woman committed sui cide because her husband did not kiss her good-bye. TRANSMIT SIflllT AIM'AUATTTS. Tciuiitoph-te Will Bring Dlsiii ni Points lo View. In '.redulous minds will probably be exercised over a:: announcement o! the invention of un Instrument, ''vu. .-. (ho tebtuterdioto, which :> tpimruill) designe:! MI bring all ro< molo pari . o? ?.? earth into closer touch by rendering il ?nt an I anti per haps now Invlv i/o objects to v'.ow 'n-" HOI nmc ;nh i, h electrical nhl. D ls aid. tv mid enable a Now vor' ci to! ?phoning Ida wlfo Iii Chi cago, to i duri, 'lum.' to stu ?-..i her expressions during the con versal inn !t Wdith! i 'D<"'r> San francisco nrlsu ?ght or Denver convention sumo day NH vi jblo from Die I'M.-, ti'-on i.ull lin;.; ns a Kt iii Avenue stage. prose, f, however, tho tolarno phot(? will serve only as an attach ment to tho .elephone, and UH Inven tor. Mr. Sidney Rothschild, of No. 4 7 7 Klghtl. Avenue, New York, states that tn this connection it will glvo complete satIsfaotton. Alter two years of arduous work, mending hours every night at work on his Invention. Mr. Rothschild, who 1? loti twenty six years old. proved his .uvohlion ? theoretical success. Do sent lt to Washington, whoro it wns tipproved and patented, ?UKI ho ls now working With models, to .loni onstruto the practicability of tho de V'l f\ VVhlh Dr, Art ur Korti, of Mun ien succeeded hy tho transmission nf i photographic record, in convey !:).; :i distant likeness lo view, lt was not ??II ho t mia neons process like thai oi ! hr Ip'.antophoto. 11 . Rothschild claims that his tel .phone method Of transmission is rino h simpler than Hie negative post ;n : nwt h.wj employed by Dr. Koro. : ts founded upon tho well known truth i hal when ?denium ls struck bj fight tis electoral resistance changes In relation to tho amount Of ll c li I \v li j. li shines II pon 11 The Instruments employed in Die sending ami recoii t ol the electrical Influence ii;.(. of wonderfully .-implo work ni a ash I p. The transmitting consists of a selenium coaled cell, upon which any innige inaS be focussed h> a camera oi.-. through a transverse slot in a travelling steel belt. Tho belt mo es perpendicularly across the fare of the cell, which is mado up of alt?rnale copnor and mica plates. In sulated from each other out con? heeled aloin.' thu etle.es ni one side hy a selenium conting. The inten sity id tho Ugh! reflected upon tho cell .viii vary ?is the slot, travelling across the cell rx noses tho coating l'uni tho main cell (hal .ry point m i he surface ol' thc main cell ls (.overol ' he controlling cell inns fan orin - every point iii light into in gleetrten j impulse ttud semis it v wiro to a distant receiving sin on. \i ino receiving hulton is n bell, ?V>til per pen. lie. 'ar sh.ts, rotating so ha? a pulley willi horizontal slots .. sing it causes points ol liglu to ippi ar as one slot meets another. Tin? Igh* comes from n vacuum lube Wlth thc bolt, am. lt Vnrtos th accord vi.' the Intensity of tiio electrical irreiit from tho sending station ?otu receiving and sending apparatus .\ i ry nell I'OliOUSly bi regulated mo ors. Th? light which appears at. the 'oi: varied al oneil point to tho .-. " (legree with Hie light at the '.rn ns mi liing btation, throws the fig .re seen at the transmitting .allon through a lens apon ground glass scrcou. A? tho henomonon bf conlinuatlon ol' vis o:- (<e< ill's in thc moving picture, the ..ti.ving liglires oh the screen, which ippenr as lighted b> a single Hash, present <-ver? inovemeni o? tho ob . .ci ilise?j'iied. Mr Itolchscllild was born In New i rix ard was a gradual i ol ils pub ic ., noni.- lie earl.v undertook th? -indy i . electricity, building motors. Ki (di Hg's Day DIV. Liter arv enthusiasts aro somewhat i lo ly to foi'get thal authors aro not tl ways like their Works t lea nt i o ippo. rance ai,.i in i ti I con noc i?n an lt musing story is told nf a young lady iv lib had for years boen an ardent admirer of tho 'Munghi .took*," and "'Plain 'talk from tim 111 iv,. ? 'F*,r long she had been eager te J-o.i iv* 'dot In the llesh. and ono (lay, io iel- great joy, sin- was introduced, lit when she nut Mr. Killing face o f; e. (ho young lady's oountoiiun ti loll somewhat, tor sh" realized that tie was noli aller all, the exact coun terpart Of the Apollo shu had plc? : i red I) i m. Are von R ildya I'd Kipling?" sh? .ted, staring al tito author in dis ni uy. Mr. Kipling naturally felt Home rt1 h " I embarrassed, and murmured 'Vos,'' meekly. ?'..it I thought,"* explained the ia ly, Who could not cover her disap pointment, ' I thought I thought ou sri (pille different ! " "I n i oh. I am. madam!" Mr. .'??piing hastened to assure her in COU fidel) i Ul I tone:;. "I am indeed! Only, von see, this is my day off!" . Answers, Hailey Cured Deri-Deri. SOUK; lime aim, tho rico Supply be ing -boil, prisoners in ,1a pa nose Jails were led largely on harley. The re sult was tho Immediate cessation ot new bei 1-berl cases. THIA SOLWE1? BUSINESS. A Modem Anny Should bo Or . -o)y ed So As To Attract (Jood Men. In .tho old d:iy.s of chivalry i ho soldier ?lld not re?oive direct pay n ti??' exact'souse that ho docs to*da> (..il .m lus SOI . > .- H-Wi.nl: W i (ute, and ii?M-i), s?.rily so. lo preserve In hun propoi MI bord ?nntio?j Hie keep ?ind his Weapons wore furnish, OJ lum hy his "ovoi lot 1." and with i. ui.. rood : nd lalnient, and oertrun p.iviiegos |)ertah ?nu io his art. now liiovu and included in tho modem toi tn "loot." Thc ruto ?uife passed down tho asos that .i lighting man must needs light for Homet h lng ut ?re substantial thuu priuciph . iu,?I more satisfying than patriotism, so iii.ii oven In tho Rev olutlon, ?lu- obscuro pages o? history. ls found tins momentous question ol pay, and right troubling HS it was at that time. in tho War of 1812, a hotter regu lation had como into offed and the allowances for rations and clothing and pay wore Baner and moro satir-: fylng, as indeed was true in th? later war with Mexico, and in thu great Rebellion of I SOO. Tho sid? won which had the money behind !t; tho armies which were foil and cloth? od and paid, were maintained at effective strength daring the terri ble later days' struggles, while Hu. loss fortunate opponents lound theil lighting strength dwindling away, true perhaps, owing to physical ex haustion, but nevertheless equally tine, indeed, owing to an uncertain supply ol' the essential elements lor Soldiors; and not tho least ol' these was pay, Parallel with this question ariser, tho fact that a soldo r's profession lu a trade in exactly the same sense that carpentry, masonry oi- mechau'CB are a source ol livelihood, and to maintain an eft' yt!Ve. disciplined ar my, tho renumeration must bo com petitive with tho prue paid in civilian life. So in the War of tho Rebellion, lifter the supply ot volunteer eniist 11 '-lils bad Peen practically exhaust ed, ihe authorities did not appeal to tho partiotism of tho nation, 'Mit lo the pockets, in the shape of f? bounty, and this c< rtalnly uni meet the situation tor tin- lime being. Th" days ol' going to church with a lille over the shoulder have been for gol ton, the menace ol* tue Indino ol the West bas passed, thor?! is uni versal security practically iroiu one end of the country lo ino oilier, and tho soldier's weapon, once so UOCess ar) for sqjf-preservnilon, ts used in ly as a diversion in tho few rematu a principie aim me uiuui ui ina ?su perior. ?So that thu lirst question asked by a prospectivo recruit is tho momentous question of. pay. and ms ll rsl mental ?ellon is a comparison botween tho soldier pay ami that ol his former occupation. The attrac tive re,-n Ring posters do not stale much about the actual advantages oV i? soldier's lite from a patriotic po'nt ol view; they dwell upon tho pay and the allowances, and 3o mo what of course upon the cbaugo of life In volved. So tho great fallacy that -ach and every American is a soldier by 1 ri - st I net and race If a rille us hut pluc ed in his band, is pathetically appar ent to-day. This was indeed true to a certain extent when tho edge or tho forest might harbor the savage Indian, but that has long pa sod, ami Die performances of our citizen sol diery, such as at Bladensburg :mdi at Queenstown, and later tn the earl ier day? of tho Civil War, does not reflect any great amount of credit 0U America. A modern army to-day must bc organized upon a business basts if it must compete for mon with tho in dustrial world; tho soldier must re ceive adequate pay and allowances to bo contented, disciplined and ell cfont, so that the present scale ot pay, existing since 1870, both tor officers and enlisted men, ls totally inadequate io warrant malting Iii? army a career for the best men ot tiie nation, and Ihe American Anny sholl ld he ol' the best tho country can furnish. Prom Army ami Navy I,ile. Almost ll ii man Intelligence. Something new and interesting about ants was recently learned by a florist. For a week or so ho nad been bothered hy ants that got into boxes ol' seeds, which rested on a shelf. To rot rid of the ants ho put Into execution an old plan, which was to place a unaly bone closo by, which the ants soon covered, deserting the boxes ol' seeds. As soon as the hone voca nie thick ly inhabited by tho little eroepp?-g the florist tossed it into a tub ol waler. The ants having boen wash ed oil', thc hone was again put in u><o as a trap. The florist bethought himself that lu- would save trouble hy placing tho bono In the center of a sheet of fly. paper, believing that thc ants would get caught on tho sticky tly-pap.T while trying to reach the food, (tut tho Hortet was surprised to timi timi tb? mts, upon discovering tho nature of the paper trap, formed a working force and built a path on the papei clear to the bono. Tho material for tho work wa? sand, secured from a little pile mur by. For houri? tho ants worked and whoo tho path was completed thoy made their way over Rr. dry sar? f<ico In couples, as In a mareto, to th* bone.- -Nature.