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SHUN BLIND TIGERS THE POISON TH 10Y SELL WILL KILL YOU. A Lot of Blind Tiger stair Seized In Anderson County Proved to be a Vile Concoction. Our advice to all people ls not to drink :il all, but if they will drink Ave advise thom to let blind tiger liquor alono. Wo think after read ing what is said helww they will agr?e With us that it is a vilo concoction that is liable to kill many who use it. is Hablo to kill many who uso it. Tho Anderson Mail says: There ls a big trunk in Sheriff Creon's pri vate office from which emits a terrille odor, tts contents can bo determined from a distance. It contains liquor, or that, which purports to bo liquor, lt is (ruo that when properly tested it could not bo termed such, yet it was sufllcient to convict 28 men in thc court ol' general sessions, and there romains yoi plenty moro for introduction as oxhibits in tho 40-odd cases continued. Constable .1. H. Fant, who has been In direct charge of t he crusade against tho illegal sale, of whiskey In Ander son county, which has beeil in pro gress during tho past four months, has tho key to this trunk. Ho open ed it recently and there disclos ed 80 or ST. bottles bottles of all kinds and sizes and descriptions; three-cornered bottles, square bot tles; the old flask kind, ole. And every one of them had some liquor in it. Constable Fant, Sheriff Creen and "tho other ofllcers have been making tests of all this booze, and il will be surprising to many to know that the vvh?lo caboodle does not average 25 lier cent. alcohol. The men who bought anil entered this liquor for market certainly had eyes for busi ness-they bad regular gold mines. Here is how they made their money : Twelve quarts of corn whiskey, at $1.60 gallou, would cost $4.50. In sonic cases, according to the tests, the doctoring of 12 quarts re sulted in 7'.' quarts. These 72 quarts retailed at $1.25 a quart. In r words, the retailer received for some doctored stuff which cost bim $4.50. Despite the that the stuff was badly doetor the rei a Hers found ready pur jrs at these exorbitant juices, i analysis of some- of tho honro ;e Wall Street speculators have _need the price of stocks beyond the pro-panic level, and it is hardly necessary to say, that with reduced incomes and smaller dividends, should not be in demand at higher prices on their intrinsic merits. As Harriman and Rockefeller are said to be engineering the advance, there rs no doubt they can force prices even higher, hut that is all the more reason for small fish to seek shallow water, or those big tish may swal low them up like the pike does the minnows. The Wall Street stock market ls no longer run on business principles, it is now entirely at. the morey of the big speculators, who force prices Up and down to suit themselves, and generally make money whichever way it goes. How can the ordinary business man com pete in such a nest of manipulation. TllK New York Times says "The opposition to Bryan's nomination comes from men that have the wel fare of the whole nation at heart." The State says it will give The Times a gold-mounted Taft button (it is going to support him) if it will di rect us to a man who has fattened off thc robber turill'who has enjoyed special privileges at the cost of the mate . ?> ho has I aid inoUey th keep the (!.(). P. in power eo he might keep both his feet in the t rough, and yet who does not claim that he has "the welfare of the whole na tion at heart." BANKS don't always pay. A re ceiver has been appointed for one in Jacksonville, Pla., which opened for business on May 1. The bunk started with a capital of $50,000 and it is saie that during thc month on ly $18,000 in deposits were received. When it closed the other day it is said there was but $l:'>() in the bank. GUSTAV Auder, the socialist, has announced a purpose to start a sim ple life paradise colony near Vera Cru/, Mexico, where he will pi ove that clothes do not make the man, but on the contrary are a groat hin dranee to piety. As tho colonists proj 5r??8 OT purity they are expect ed i. dis ard garments until at length mv.v will not need oven fig leaves. Such cranks as Ander should ho locked up. N MA Kl.y one hundred dogs were drowned in Charleston last week. No stray dog.', tue now allowed to run at large on the streets of Char leston. They want to stamp out hydrophobia. Tho Bryon Bund Wagon. . The Bryan band wagon, in ita rounds last week, took on all tho passengers who were bound for Denver. Not a single delegate elect ed during the week was disposed to support anvhody other than the Ne braskan, savs the Charleston Post. "There were fifty-eight delegates elected to the Democratic national convention. Of those, fifty were defi nitely instructed to vote for tho nomination of Bryan and tho other eight, though not instructed, were openly pledged to support Bryan's candidacy. Mr. Bryan now has 543 delegates bound to him by instruc tions and forty moro who aro de termined to'voto for him on their own motion. That puts him within eighty-nine voi s of the nomination, and there are moro coming his way. "Throe hundred and seven dele gates are yet to be elected, and of these 1ST are counted oponas prac tically certain to be Bryan support ers; if these materialize Bryan will have 779 votes assured on tho first ballot, 98 more than sre needed to nominate, and he will probably bc made the candidate by acclamation. If the majority rule for nom inations prevailed in Dem ocratic conventions, as it should prevail, instead of the two thirds rule, Bryan would now have of in structed delegates .'SS more than enough to insure his nomination. "The failure of the opposition to capture a single delegate last week in the three State conventions that were held is significant of the devel opments of the situation. The op position has practically retired from the field, after having been most thoroughly-not to say ingloriously -beaten. The effort to make John son of Minnesota, a candidate has utterly collapsed. Except for the support of his own State Johnson would not be even mentioned as a candidate. He has not secured a single delegate outside of Minne sota, though his candidacy has been persistently and noisily boomed dur ing the period of delegate choosing. "The Bryan band wagon is mak ing its final rounds and seats on it are going at a premium. Those who have not vofr ?"ot eboard *vpl . he expects to be nominated by the Republican national convention. It will endorse the Roosevelt adminis tration in no uncertain language, we are assured by disoatches from Washington, and that it is not to be wondered at, since it is as reasona bly certain as anything can be that the platform will be dictated ver batim et literatim at the White House by the man who is master in that establishment. Of the charac ter and expression of the platform there can he no doubt. It will have the ring of Roosevelt, all right. Mr. Roosevelt will see to that. Rut the platform is not all. There is the candidate's letter of acceptance, which is always an importent feat ure of thc party's political chart. Something is predicted of that also, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Washington which ays: Should the Chicago plat f orm adopt this sort of platform and nominale Secretary Taft, it is predicted in authoritative quarters that his let ter or speech of acceptance will con I tain a pledge to carry out the Roos evelt policies already inaugurated, 'which "ill haye ;t Hug similar lo that pronoun ci b> Rr si .? i I i ? .r > ovelt on laking the oath IM ofhcC ov er the bodv of tia? dead McKinley. The Charleston Post says. "That should be welcome news foe the scared 'business interests.' If Mr. Taft is going to carry out the Roose velt policies there is moro trou ble ahead for the commercial and industrial interests which have been so racked and wrought, but if Mr. Taft is lo promise that he will con tinue the Roosevelt, policies in I he same spirit that Mr. Roosevelt promised to continue the policies of the dead McKinley, or, rather: if he is determined to abide his promise as Mr. Roosevelt, has abided his. then indeed, should there be rejoic ing and jubilation among the frightened financiers. No more effective bid for the support of 'predatory wealth' could have been made for Mr. Taft than this prom ise to maintain Hie htoosevelt poli cies even as Roosevelt maint inned the McKinley policies." The Democrats have won in the election of George Chamberlain to the United States senate from Ore gon to succeed Fulton, a Republi can, Ile was nominated in the pr i mary and will he elected by a Re publican Legislature. KOW IT IS DONE. SOM M FACTS THAT IS OF (?ION? IOU A li INTFIUOST. Statement of Mol hods Kniploycd by (ho Treasury Department in Local ing Federal i *? 1111 < i i 11 r \ ... Tho Supervising Architect ol* the United Slates Treasury Department requests Hie publication of (bo follow ing circular letter, Upon lin1 enactment of a law utl thorzing the acquisition of a sile for a Ia'odoral building tti<> Treasury De pai l mein invites. through a local newspaper, proposals for tho sale or donal ion ol' a sail able comer. This advertisement gives such information as to tho diluent ions of the sit?; and thc general requirements as will en able intelligent preparation ol' pro posals. Tho offers an? opened in Washing ton a: the time staled tn (he adver tisement, and as soon thereafter as practicable an agent of (In- Depart ment is sent to make a personal ex amination ol' the proposed locations and such others as ho deems desir able. Upon this report, together willi representations in writing from Other sources, the Department selects Hie sile and if. the property is to bc! acquired by purchase, accepts tho of fer ol' the successful bidder, subject lo the conditions staled In thc adver-! tlsemenl and the Attorney-General's approval of tho titi??. Whenever the Department is lin allie lo purchase an acceptable site at a reasonable price, or where Ac ceptable lille can liol be secured by voluntary conveyance, a selection is made and thc lille acquired hy con dell! na i ion proceedings, in which the price to be paid is jiidlcally deter mined. The building (If any) on the sile ?should be reserved by the vendor, to bo removed upon notice after pay ment for the land has been made, (le?era I ly, notice to move is not given until the construction of the Federal 1 uikil'i", is about to begin, if tho ven dor is willing, pending such removal, to pay a reasonable ground rent. Plans for public buildings are lakGn up in (ho order in which the titles to the sites therefor aro vested in the United States, and tho con traeis for their construction aro let at as early a date as practicable. Sites foi- l>??Mif *?TTV V ' . .... Li ii at? ur.v. in a lew days he will advertise for bids for the p?r chese ol' sins upon which to oreel new Federal buildings in Abbeville, Newberry, f.aili' ns, Union, Gaffney, Hartington and Orangeburg. Do foro Congress had adjourned twehty-f?hr hours Mr. Taylor was busy going over the appropriations just made lo sec what ho would have lu do in Hie building lino this year The result was that he immediately eognn to advertise for bids from per sons havinc available sites to offer upon which Federal buildings will ;> > erected. Abbeville, N< wherry, Laurons; Union, Gaffney, Orangehurg and Darlington will have about $5,000 or $0,00.0 each to expend In sites, the remainder of the $50,000, ap propriation lo go into tho buildings proper. One bf the ways In which the erec tion of these buildings may ho hast ened, Mr. Taylor said to-day, is for (hose having properly to sell lo offer il at a reasonable ligure. In ntnu> instances when ii is uuderslou I thal i lu? Government is in t he innrkn! foy propon v. price? go skyward, and tho results is long and tedious waiting, when, on Hie other hand. If moder.?te prices werf? asked work wbUld proco* ' wit bom delay. Mr. Taylor is preparing td spend about thirty million dollars ibis year hi new hjiilritnttS. this being the "UUOiMil o' . lip' bp; pited b\ (' gross? abd 'be fiu'l 'bal ?ie has al ready begun io iidvV?rtl?o fo iv bid ti shows thal he menus io lose no TT?h? in the work Win n Marriage i- a Failure. Ile did all Hie courting before marriage, lie hover talked his af air- 11 ver willi i s wife Uti thought ol' bis wife only as a cheap house keeper, ile never dreamed that a wife deserved praise or compliments. Ile married an Ideal was disappoint ed to lind it bad Haws. Ho paid no ?ltenll?n to his personal appearance alo r marriage, ile treated his wife as be would int have dared to trout. a not her wondul. Lite tor a Life. Called to attend the daughter of a millionaire in Pittsburg, Dr. John Murphy boarded a train in Chicago and milde a coco ld run. Tho young lady will CCOVOr. Al Salem. O., the doctor's special ran down and killed a woman. (luggage Destroyed by Fire, On Wednesday morning a car con taining about i nu trunks belonging lo young ladies w j tending Winthrop st roy od by Uro. 1 Tho Tarin: Issue', Outside of the intricacies of the different schedules of the tarilf, purposely made obscure and difficult tor voters to understand by the Re publicans, the question of high or low tariff is tnu real lact at issue. That plain issue cvoryone can com prehend, The present tariff ?Aas i;op?i,aii> U? t>l??..v;u pi. .v ..t Inti ?trustsand manuiacturergfrom for eign competition, und tiie question I of raising revenue for the govern ment was u s< condary consideration. The Republican politicians when concocting the present tariff law to suit the Trusts and protected mo nopolists rashly discarded the pre sumption that loreign countries, when they found the schedules so prohibitive that they could not pr o ti-1 tab ly exp >rt their products to this country, would retaliate by increas ing their rates of duties, so as to prohibit the importation of Ameri can goods. Poreigners want our wheat and Hour, our corn and meat and tobac co, and other products they do not raise themselves, or do not produce in sufficient (inanities to supply their own consumers, but they do not want our manufactured goods to compote with their own like pro ducts. Such countries as Germany France, Austria, Russia, and in fact every country, but England, has raised a higher tariff barrier to pre vent competition from the United States. They declare, if you will not trade with us, we will buy as li .tlc as possible of you. The trusts try to overcome their foreign tariff barrier by selling at much lower prices to the foreigners than to our own people. The Euro pean and other foreign markets are loaded down with bargain counter goods from the United ?States, while trust prices here are still kept at the top notch. Therefore, the question the voters of the United States must decide at) thc coming election, is whether they , are satisfied to pay high prices for j much they buy. or hy reducing the tariff participate in the reduced prices that the foreigners enjov. That is a very simple proposition to vote upon. Those few voters who benefit by Trust high prices will, of course, vote to continue the Re publican party in power. Those who think the trusts should shift for themselves and be subject to competition that will force them to sell their products as cheaply as abroad will vote the Democratic ticket. The Republican National platform will declare as former ones have, for "the principal of pro*-tr* . .< i h torn!. ! bei 0 wi . . .. no . . j '. . , ' t\] :e ' > i ( . . it b>W if ) i?VA' ? ? \) .*<.% V-, w.l ?'ho ti I (?vUit?r iii hui i ive wi . ?pocilio ieductions are included. Defeat ol' dov, Smith. There is much discussion pro and con as to what caused the defeat of Hoke Smith in his race for re-elec tion as Governor of Georgia by -Joe Brown in the recent white primary in that State. Several things con spired to bring about tho defeat of Gov. Smith. The most potent was the fight made on him by tho rail roads and other corporations locat ed in Georgia. Then all the old sa loon element was arrayed against him because they held him partly re sponsible for tho prohibition law. Then, again most of the old Poouljst clement, under tho leadership of Tom Watson, who is mad with dov. Smith because he would not pardon a notorious Augusta murderer, vot ed against him. These are some of the things that combined to beat for re-election ono of the best gov ernors Georgia has had in recent years, ll Till? News and Courier and other plutocratic papers are jubilant over thc defeat of Moke Smith by Joel Brown, and claims it as a Conserva tive victory over the Radicals. Well informed people sa> thal tho for mer Populists led by Tom Watson defeated Smith. This knocks the Conservative victory chum in in tho head, as the Populists are the most extreme Radicals now in politics. P'ROM this distance it looks as if Georgia bas tinned herself over completely to the corporations. Wo hope they will pluck her good before they let her go so as she will have better sense next time. .Joe Brown the newly elected Governor, will be a pliant tool in thc hands of any corporations that wishes to ex ploit tho State. Gov, .Johnson, it is said, ?s of opin ion that no ono should be allowed to receive more than ten thousand dol lars income per year from accumu lated wealth. Ho is more than half right, but such an opinion from him I would cause Wall Street to give bini tho cold hand al once THE Mud dog epidemic id getting worse and worse. In a little while it will be dangerous for people to t all linleSS somethino ?ck the spread ? ! ie among thc do Tho Twilight Zone. At tho recent conference of gov ernors held at tho white house Mr. Bryun coined a phrase which will go down in history with some of thc most celebrated he hus yet given to the wojld. He pointed out that ''there is no twilight /.one between the nation and thc state in which ex ploiting interests can take refuge from both." It was a phrase which struck thc fancy of the president, who enlarged upon it, and went as far as he could bo expected to go, in the light of his record and con victions on the subject of state's rights. But the phrase has been taken up and used extensively throughout the country in its broad er application. The Philadelphia North Ameri can, for instance, points out that "the tw i lighters are not all incorpo rated." The /.one docs not exist, but the fiction of it does, according to The, North American. In com moron, as in our daily conduct, there is a right and there is a wrong. There is no twilight land in which the two can blend. The twilightcrs according to the contention of our contemporary, are men, known in every community, who are not ab solutely dishonest, and yet between their characters and real rectitude there is a wide gap. These men are usually among the "most respected citizens " They are always among the most self-respecting of men. The North American says: Bry an and Roosevelt were right-as far as they went. But they were wrong in saying that thc twilight /.one does not exist. It should not exist. It must not exist, lt. will not. exist af ter the people win the fight now waging against usurped privilege and vested wrong. But it does exist, and will, until the darkness is scatter ed by the light of righteous decisions from our highest courts based on legisla4 ions framed by pure patrio tism inspired by administrations such as Roosevelt's. In that twi light now hide the bank director who feels no responsibility for dis aster due to his neglect of duty; the railroad manager who sees on dmpiu s neglect or pnnmrrony; the banker who Sj lbj it)Oneil to ? ?-t:? i Ol . A '. . U*e?il ' - {.'HOM $. i . ; . i.1 ' if ? \veut uv'?A .^. poop i?.; to bankruptcy or distress by such use of their own money to satisfy his trustee soul by making extra profits for his stock holders. Twilightcrs one and all! ? "The users of th.? twilight /one are not all twilighters. By choice, the Harri mans and Rockefellers and Morgans and ail the Wall street gamblers dwell then i i. All the corporations that one day denounce federalism and the next, with equal vehemence, assail aggression by state legislatures hunt that dusk. But these aro intruders fouling a nest already foul. They are not true twilightcrs. They soe in that /.one safety-a "no man's land"---a sanctuary for such outlaws as they know themselves to be. The twi lightcrs are of a diff?rent breed. They are in that delusive gloaming only hecause they do not know the light. They arc blinking and com plaining a little now, because in the past few years there has hoon a new dawning. And into that dark ened zone there aro flashing strong er, brighter every day thc rays of I thc aroused national morality, lt. is not comfortable for tho twilight crs. But the light, will shine on! And hoi', re the end of this our day every miasma ic mist will laue nod tin clear light ol* right, blazing in to every dark spot, will mark the ending bf the twilight zone." Ti IK Now York World knew it was hoing when it said W. -J. Bryan received twenty-thousand dollars from Ryan for supporting Barker in 1001, and all the papers that insist on circulating tho lie have done so knowing it was an unmitigated lie. Si? what is thc use of trying to get The World or tho papers that have persisted in circulating its lie to do thc honorable thing by Mr. Bryan. Tho World and its sat?lites seem to t link that a Ho well told and stuck to is about as good as the truth, so far as their purposes in telling and cir culating this particular lie is con ! cerned. A MAP dog in Columbia on Thurs day afternoon bit seven Ol' eight p ?opie. The head of the dog was sent to the Pasteur Institute at Bal timore for examination, and it was ascertained that the dog had hydro phobia. All those bitten were sont I treat A NICE POINT. I HIO SC I'It HM IO COI KT /VSKE? TO HAY AV I fiori I IOU m \ ? 3i'migc!ntrg County Uns tho Right to Soil Calhoun County Liquors Un der tho Law. ^ Again tho oVahgolhiVg-ciilhojin County dispensary question lias como lo the Iront. The nuil ?er wat; up he lore tho State Supremo Court yester day on the following return of tho Hoard of Control: Slate of South Cfc roi ma. Ia Supremo Court.-Calhoun County,-T. A. A maker ol ul. eetltlonerc, ngaiqitt X lt. IO. Taylor et al. respondents. Amended and additional return. Tho respondents, J. G. Smit^/fl. It Mettants and H. A. CarsonN'ffie- . [.minty hoard ol' dispensary control for Orangeburg Cornily, respectfully making return in the above stated proceedings showell): 1. Thal nuder tho Constitution and laws of South Carolina intoxicat ing liquors cannot ho sold in said State except in accordance with such statutes thereto pertaining as are f -om time to time enacted by the General Assembly. 2. That tho sale of intoxicating liquors In Som li Carolina at the pre sent lime is regulated and governed entirely by the Act of tho Goneraa Assembly commonly known as tho "Carey-Col bran Act," enacted hy the Legislature in tho year I'1?.', to which reference is respectfully crav ed. . Thal Orangeburg County and Calhoun County are each separate md distinct counties, subdivisions md municipalities of the said Stat? 1.4 Will he- seen by reference to the \ci ol' the General Assembly enact .d In the year 1908 creating and orniing Calhoun County, to which (.terence is respectfully craved; and hal pursuant to such Act Calhoun las heen duly organized, elected of Icers and is being conducted as an inti rel y separate and distinct eoim y. 4. That tho respondents, J. G. huit li. T. IL McCants and L. A. Car on, are members of, and constitute, he duly authorized . and qualified otoily dispensary board of and for )rang( burg County, in sai l Siate, mder the "Carey-Cothran Act ' ofnre nid. P That ?ie r< ?nfy cilspen?iar> ? I have ? ? ile I ti ? i of thc Ut otr o -M\ Co i i., i .. . .- i'?fiJt^>'i''Ui.'j ..vi.?.i.!,:- Ifni nore hi thc rOitntv dis ..'.ii conduct or operate the county dis- . pensarlos of Calhoun County, their \ (rawer and authority hoing limited 1 .lithely and exclusively to Orange- ; lung County, and not extendng to 1 Calhoun County, 0. That they deny each and every >i her material and relevan! allega- . lion in tho petition in this proceeding lontaiucd referring or relating to them not hereinbefore specifically id m it ted to be true. Wherefore, they and each of them, lin vim; fully answered and made return to tho sahl rule, pray tba' so milch thereof as relates to them ho llscharged with costs, and that they liave such other and further relief In all and singular tho premises as i may bo just and reasonable. ' j W. C. Wolfe, L. K. Stink ie, t Attorneys for respondents. J While the Onigoburg County dis-, i neusa ry hoard does not object to the- VJ . resent arrangomont continuing, pro- I ir i dod tho snmo is aol In conflict with he Slate's Liquor laws, still they aro :lns!>lous of having tho Sunvnine VA erl say whither or not. it ls ligal u>- ihom to piipply with ?o ul.i aoj II -.n; !.>. the al';': irs of dispon .nies in mother county: hence tho county hoard has made a return to tho origi nal petition of Ihe citizens of Cal houn Cornily and prays that the Su pp me Court grail! tho relief asked io- therein: I \s I THAIN WHI K KCl). Million Dollar Express Crashed Into Switch Engine (j^ S|.ding al ?o miles an hour through tho Host Morris yards tho '.million dollar" express, carrying olglll ears of valuable freight from Huston to Washington, crashed into n switchtonglno head-on, at 133rd stree! and Willow avenue, Now York, early Thursday morning. lOight. men were injured seriously. Holli engines were demolished and lire which started immediately aftei Ihe crash, reduced both big iron horses to scrap iron- III the for ward car of tho tra! awns $ 1 15,000 in currency, which was hoing carried from tho sub-tronsury In Huston to tho treasury hi Washington. The car was doltlged with waler and tho Hl'O kept i? check. Three trainmen, on switch engine, were hurled lo tho ground when col lission caine. All bruised and cut by Myng metal. Nantes unknown. lOngtnoor Naughton, of ibo express and engineer Wilie!' M. Hradley, of the switeli engine, were detained by tho police of tho Alexander avon no station pending an investigation. Naughton was BO badly hurt, that ho was soul hack lo Ibo hospita!. Hrad ley escaped without a scratch. Tho wreck was due to a Misunderstanding af signals.