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MANY FLAGS Followed by Major-General Henry Ronald Douglas Mclver. A ROMANTIC CAREER. A Soldier of Fortune Who Fought For Kightccn Countries Died I>a?t Week in New York.. He uniii .Adventures, One of Which Was tho Killing of Major Tonilin, of Vicksburg. Maj. Gen. Henry Ronald Douglas Maclver, of the Servian army, major j in the Confederate States army, and 1 with rank varying from the highest ( to the lowest under eighteen l*igs, who died in a lodging house in New York last week; was facing grim poverty when he went to his rest. His battle-scarred body was found by his landlady, Mrs. Mabel Campbell, who forced the door open after raping on it in vain, K The general had been heard moving about his room in the early morning. The night before he had complained of feeling cold and Mrs. CarJf>bell had sent him a drink of whiskey, and later a cup of tea. A fellow-lodger went to his room at midnight, and asked him if he needed anything. "I thank you, sir," the general replied. "I need nothing." The police of the Twentieth street station, taking an inventory of his belongings, wrote it down that the soldier of fortune, the warrior who had fought under eighteen flags for the mere love of fighting, had 46 cents in cash and his clothing. If the general hastened his end, it was done so carefully that no one suspected it. "Apparently natural death" was recorded on the blotter at the station. Mrs. Campbell said that her lodger was ready to start for Washington several days before his death, but received a letter which kept him in New York. Gen. Maclver was sixtyone years old, but showed few signs of his age. TT_ !i.! * ni-1 J TT 1 nt* was waiting ior mcnaru naming Davis, who has written so much about his fighting career," said Mrs. Campbell. He was expecting Mr. Davis in a few days, and told me about it. We all know that the old gentleman was a great soldier. He looked it." Gen. Maclver's scant belongings consisted of uniforms, his well-car ed-for street clothes and a trunk full of papers telling of his life of adventure. The general was born on Christmas day. 1864, in Hampton Roads, Va., aboard a ship seeking a harbor. His father was Ronald Maclver, a Scotchman. The son went to Italy and fought under Garibaldi. He served in the Ten Years' war in Cuba, in Crete, in Greece; twice in theCarlist revolutions in Spain, in Bosnia. He returned to Virginia, when war on a gigantic scale was framing. His sword was offered to Gen. Robert E. Lee and was accepted. He fought with Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, and was four times wounded during the great conflict. At the close of the war there was much dueling between the officers of the two armies. Maclver was in one of these affairs outside of Vicksburg. His combatant was Maj. Tomlin, of the Vermont United States artillery 1 i- rr.i v Li. ...:iL vuiuniema. xuukul wiui swords, Maclver running his opponent through the body and cleaning his blade with his handkerchief. "He is dead; we must go." called one of Maclver's seconds. A negro brought up the horses of Maclver^nd his seconds. "My friends are in haste." said Maclver, turning to the seconds of the man he had slain. "Is there anything I can do? I hope that you consider this matter settled honorably." Then he mounted and rode away. After the civil war Maclver, with other Southern officers, went to Mexco. He fought under Maximilian there. When the fighting was over he went to Egypt and then to France; everywhere that cannon were hot and the caravans of war were plowing up the roads Maclver was to be found. Maclver was appointed United States consul at Dania,. Spain. The man he was to succeed declined to get out, and the soldier of fortune immediately suggested that they go to the outskirts of the city and settle the matter with pistols or swords. Stephen Bonsai, the present corresSondent of the New York Times in t. Petersburg, who was then the charge d'affairs at Madrid, was sent to adjust matters. He adjusted the matter and Mclver was installed without bloodshed, The daring of Maclver was best exemplified, perhaps, when he took part in the Cretan struggle against the Turks. He was received more than gladly by the Cretans, who gave him "full power ty make war on land and sea against the enemies of Crete, and particulary against the Si !tan of Turkey and the Turkish forces, and to burn, destroy or capture any vessal bearing the Turkish flag." After getting through this proposition aliie he went to Athens, add later put jfi a few. months trying to exterminate the Grecian brigands, fighting in the mountains and doing 4 1 ) 1 WILL BE HIGH. Cotton May Go to Twonty Cents Per Pound. 1 I The Spinner** in America A^e Short And a Cotton Famine Starts Them ( In the Face. v ) Cotton seems to be getting very scarce and hard to get in the South. The Florence Times says the cotton men all tell the farmers to refrain from selling their cotton, all admit fifteen cents cotton and some expect to see the staple bring as high as twenty cents. There is no cotton in the country and a famine faces the American mills. The English mills got the best of the American mills this season to pay them for having trick< d tli on two or three times in the past and they did their American cousins up to a brown finish. The European spinners sent a committee over here and that committee went over the country in company with the officers of the Southern Cotton association, made a tour of inspection of the cotton belt. The American spinners took the reports of the government and the estimate of Mr. Hester of New Orleans and others and they looked wise and let the European have the cotton. Liverpool quotations stuck steadily above New York in spite of the utiiiiiuui iuK <>i me American Dears and the cotton >rent in a steady stream to Europe. Now the cotton is gone from the fields, gone from the warehouses, gone from everywhere and the spinners of this country are crying for cotton and it is not to be had. The planters of Louisiana have planted four times and they say they have no crop yeC Frost and flood have played havoc with them. The Mississippi men have planted three times and no crop yet, and the country under flood. Cotton seed is running short. In Texas the farmers are paying any price for planting seed. Cotton seed is soiling in open market for $(>5 a ton and it is mighty scarce. The farmers all over the country have run out of seed and the crushers have not the seed to sell them back. They bought all they could, sweeping the farmer's floors and are still thirty percent behind last year. In Texas the boll weevil coming earlier than ever is destroying the young plants. Cotton, if it is good staple, can be sold today at the owner's own price. Evpti had will Krini* . TT ill MA 1115 5WU prices, the spinners want anything and they confess it. They let the cotton go in their efforts to beat the price down below that fixed by the association and they have lost. The association is stronger today than it has ever been and its future was never so bright. There is every reason today why the farmer, every farmer, should stand by the association and win his independence in this one year of grace. It will most likely be done. The farmer controls the situation and if he does not throw away his opportunity he just cannot help winning. A lot of cotton was sold by the very wise ones, who know better than the united wisdom of the whole association for nine and a fraction, future delivery this fall, and every effort is going to be made to force these sellers to deliver that cotton. It is going to be a most interesting situation. This, considered in connection with the recent fight on bucket shops and gambling in cotton is going to make a pretty state of affairs when the buyers of the contracts begin to squeeze. so well at it that he was given the highest decoration that the king of Greece could confer upon him. It was in Servia that Maclver attained his highest rank as an officer. He received a commission from the prince of Servia to organize an independent cavalry brigade. He left Fleet street, London, for Belgrade, and got busy gathering men who loved fighting. He got the right men and trained them well, commanding a legion of a thousand cavalrymen of Russo-Servians against the Turks. He received the cross of the Takovo order for gallant service, and was made major general in command of all of the cavalry of the Servians. The decoration was given him on the eve of battle. If Maclver was nothing else, he was picturesque?always. He lent a color to his surroundings, whether they were the coridors and vestibule of the Hoffman house, where he had been a character for years, or whether they were the table d'hote holesin-the-wall on the lower West Side, where all the patrons affect to be persons with mysterious missions or with pasts. Maclver had fought as an officer "under eighteen flags." In 1884 he got a newspaper man to write a book of his tales, entitled "Under fourteen Flags." It didn't get into the ranks of the ten best soldier of that day, but Mrs. Campbell's lodging house folk said that Richard Harding Davis had had the general in tow and the two of them had planned to publish another book some time next fall. They said also that Davis got most of his material for his "Capt. Macklin," from the experiences of the general. WHO WILL IT BE? The Political Pot Basins to Simmer Over the Country SOME BOOMS HEARD And Favorite Son? Figuri? in Several i Minor Skirmishes. The Peerless i Bryan In Acknowledged to be the Stnmlurd Bearer of the Jeffersonian Democrats aud Will Win the llace. Political activitives are engaging the attention of millions of peo] le' througout the United States at l lej present time. The question rf who v ill be the candidates for the Pr>s-! iuenjy pat forth by the two great j political parties is most engrossing. In several states hot battles are being waged by the adherents of "fav- i orite sons." In Ohio, the modern i "center of President making," a battle royal has been fought recently by the Foraker and Taft interests and the backers of the Secretary of War have come out victorious. In other words, when the National Republican convention meets, there ...111 l.~ ? ?i:,i al:. j_i - i win uc u suuu wuiu ueiegauon in favor of nominating Secretary Taft for the Presidency. He is the "favorite son?'of the Buckeye state to all intents and purposes at the present time. While Secretary Taft has not announced his candidacy absolutely, it is undersood that he will do so early in June in a speech he is about to make supporting the policies of goverment of Theodore Roosevelt and favoring their continuance for four years more. In making that speech Secretary Taft will outline the platform the Republican party will adopt, doubtless, at the convention. It must not be thought, however, that Ohio will rule the convention, simply because it has come out in support for Taft, instead of indorsing Foraker.are-actionary, for there are many other candidates in the field for Presidential honors. There are Fairbanks, who has already been assured the support of Indiana in the convention; Hughes, of New York, whose little boom started by former Gov. Odell, was not heard far: Elihu Root, who would like to be President, but who will have to work hard to get the backing of New York state, and Senator Knox whose Presidential boom has not been heard of since it was launched by Pennslyvanians in Wash, ingtona couple of months ago. All ] these men are possibilities, and 1 stroner ones. too. for thov ?ro nil mnn of marked ability in Executive work. BOOMS SOMEWHAT RESTRICTED. The well defined political movements in favor of certain possible candidates are not general. The Taft boom has no root in New York state: the Root movement has no J tendril in Ohio: the Fairbanks boom has ventured into several states, but it has had the effect of lowering the political temperature considerably; | the Hughes stir had a short gasp in New York state, although (iov. Hughes has gained great popularity and respect in many states on account of his individual work for good government; the Knox boom, just a tiny little noise, has not been , heard outside of Pennslvania pand the Foraker boom is dead and buried i under the massive predonderance of Secretary Taft. Therefore, it is seen there has been no definite campaign operations launched by any of the "favorite sons." The Roosevelt movement is the strongest Republican current in the political sea at the present time. There are millions of the admirers of the President who are anxious i for him to run again for the office he has graced so well. For many months, in spite of the President's ' statements that he will not be a candidate to succeed himself, there will j be a popular movement throughout , the country, the object of which ! \irill Ko fA fnv>on fVia naminntinn a? I tt 111 'v- WW i\/i V/\> 1/1 iv^ HUlillliatlUll uu j the President in spite of his own dei sires. To-day that movement is i the very greatest in the political life j of the country, and it is gaining strength week by week, such great ! strength that the adherents or the i "favorite sons" are beginning to become worried over the probable outcome of the agitation. IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP. All roads lead to Bryan in the Democratic territory. Without a doubt, according to the leading spirits in the party of Jefferson, Bryan will be the standard bearer in the coming Presidential campaign. The South would like to nave one of its Democratic statesmen President. There are those in the South, however, who are of the opinion the time is not ripe for booming a Southerner as a Presidential candidate. They think that a smouldering animosity exists between the old men of the North and the South. That is doubtless so, but it does not deter the Southerners from desiring to have one of their statesmen on the ticket with Bryan. There are many able Democrats in the South who would fill with ability the office of Vice President. Senator Culberson, of Texas, an able political gen' eral, has been spoken of as a prob KAGLK HKl/iKS CHILI>. Father Pnllw Down Hird iukI Its IVey With a Kake. A little child belonging to D. M. Rigee, a merchant of Braxton county. W. Va., was nearly carried away by a large bald eagle. The child was playing in the doorway of its home, when the immense bird swooped down, catching the child about the shoulder und waist with its claws. The screams of the little ono attracted its father who came out of his store just as the bird was rising with the child. Mr. Kigee immediately seized one of the rakes which he had on display in front of his store, and with it literally raked the bird and child down. The child was injured but little, while the parent managed to deal the bird several telling blows with the rake. Despite this it managed to fly to some tall trees nearby, whore, while nursing its injuries, it was killed bv a rifle bull. The eagle Is one of the la gest ever seen there. CueqTiulIy Distributed. Th< re is considerable complaint about the distribution of the pension fund. It is claimed that some counties get a great deal more than they are entitled to, while others are shared out. Recently the Florence Times called attention to the correspondence from Spartanburg to The News and Courier about the pensions given out in that county. The correspondent thought that the pension roll in Spartanburg County was larger than it ought to be. He seems to think that there are names on the list which ought not to be there. Spartanburg County was given $20,000 of the pension money. Just about four times as much as Orangeburg County was given. We think there must be something wrong about this distribution, but just how to remedy it is the question. Of course Spartanburg has grown in population a great deal since the close of the war, and many cotton mills have been built, and no doubt confederate soldiers have moved in from other counties and from North Carolina, but it hardly seems creditable that they should have increased the pension roll as much as it now appears to be. Spartanburg County has about eight hundred names on her pension rolls. The roll should be purged, as we are satisfied that there are names on it that should not be there. The Abbeville Medium, which is edited by a gallant old veteran, makes a suggestion that each county take charge of its own pensioners, and provide a fund for them. We do not know how this would work. Unless t.ho Hiffprnrif nnnnfiou iuauM agree to pay their pensioners about the same, such a charge would cause a great deal of dissatisfaction. Then again in some of the counties that are heavily burdened with taxation, the needy old veteran might be neglected and given nothing hardly. On the whole we think it best for the State to manage the matter. Then the strong, rich counties can help the weaker counties and pay the neady old veterans a uniform sum. Hut the roll should be thoroughly purged in every county, and the money given only to those who are entitled to it. We are satisfied that many get it now who are not entitled to it. Tliolr Pay Raised. An increase of 10 per cent in the pay of conductors over the entire system of the Atlantic Coast Line has been granted by the officials, effective May 1, in response to a request made by the general adjustment committee. The raise will apply to freight as well as passenger conductors, and will practically meet the request made by the conductors, who had prepared a schedule of salaries for the conductors, computed on the number of miles traveled by them. The argument used by the committee in sustaining their claims for an increase of pay was that the price of living has greatly increased and they are requested to do a great deal more work than formerly over the same amount of mileage, the railroads getting the benefit of more work for the same amount of pay a mile. An order has been issued granting the increase, computing the salaries that will be paid to conductors according to mileage and time. This schedule bears a uniform increase of 10 per cent, and totals really more than was asked for by the conductors. The management of the road seemed perfectly willing to come to an agreement with the conductors, and after being shown schedules of prices paid in other sections of the county readily agreed to the advance. able running mate of Bryan. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, a seasoned political warrior of the strenous type, has also been mentioned as a man fit to travel in double harness with the Nebraska statesman. Senator Daniels, of Virginia, one of the deepest tnmKers in tne Senate, has been singled out among Democrats as a man worthy of being on the political banners with Bryan. It is the desire of the Democratic party to stick to statesmen for their leaders and not attach faith to millionaires such as Sewall, who ran with Bryan the first time, or Henry Gassaway Davis, w.ho was a weak running mate to Parker. Many of the Democrats do not sympathize with Bryan's government ownership ideas. The Nebraska man. however, has lately made it a point to state he would not insist upon his theories in that regard being embodied in the Democratic platform. DEVOIR EVERYTHING, The Kriffhtful I'liiKue of in Mouth Africa. From earliest Biblical times the locuse has been regarded as a nest and a destroyer of inanimate life. Swarms of them swooped down upon the green valleys of Egypt and made life miserable for agriculturists thousands of years ago. When the locusts , came, famine followed. In this country they occasionally do considerable damage to growing crops, but the plague has never been anything like that in South Africa this spring. A year ago Pennsylvania and parts of adjoining states were visited by i locusts but they stuck mostly to the woodland, and the grain crops were not much molested. In the early morning and at sundown the woods 11 was turned into a bedlam of noise by i, the chirning of hundreds of thous-1, ands of them. They fed on the young , j trees, and acres of them turned brown as in autumn from the bites of the insert*?. Not very long a ro great warms of locusts passed overt hi? Rai.d in South Africa. The whole country, lovely < in t' e growth of splendid crops, and made greener and more beautiful by timely rams than it had been in many , years, was in a brief few days turned into a bare, brown and withered desert. The swarm literally ate its ( way through the country, and made a clean job of it. They consumed whole fields of grain, and the loss to the farmers is incalculable. The country is at a loss to know how to deal with the scourage. The ordinary methods which have been used in the past in combatting the pest have utterly failed. Cyprus screen has been of no use. So immense was the swarm that the fields and forests were not large enough to i hold the myriads, and they swarmed 1 into the towns and cities. Streets of the city of Johonnesburg have been made hideous by the ceaseless, dreary chirping. A locust can make more noise for its size than any other insect, and its chirp is a weird, unpleasant sound that is particularly trying to the nerves. A half dozen of them can make enough noise to annoy a whole square. Fancy tne stale or things where countless thousands of them are holding their daily concert. In Johannesburg the streets are litterally a brown mass of crushed locusts. They have tied up the street car traffic by settling on the rails, their crushed bodies making the rails so slippery that the car wheels revolve without moving the car. Men are obliged to go over the line and sweep clear the track for the approaching cars, and in 15 minutes they have the job to do over again. Already this state of afTairs has caused several bad accidents. A motor car has been smashed, and two tram cars have been telescoped. The motormen have great difficulty in controlling the cars on the greasy tracks, Steam cars are having the same trouble. In some of the smaller towns where no particular effort has been made to keep the streets clear of the dead bodies, pedestrians slide about in the squirmy mass in a most disgusting manner. All are obliged to remove shoes on entering their homes after having been on the streets. A Wise Law. One of the wisest things aver done by the Legislature was the passage of the law giving the County Commissioners the right to levy a tax of one mill to build good roads. The law wisely provides that the tax so collected shall be spent in the township in which it is collected. We are glad that the County Commissioners of this county has levied this tax and we hope that they will continue to levy it until every road in the county 1 llil rm ir? |)ia 111 guuu eunuiuon. 1T11S1S a luxury that new counties like Lee, Dorchester, Greenwood, and others, cannot afford as they are heavily taxed for ordinary county purpose and other necessary expenses, such as building courthouses, jails, and so on. Good roads are necessary if we want to keep up with the times. The postoftice Department requires the rural mail carriers to travel only those roads that we keep in good condition. So it will be seen how important it is for our roads to be kept up. Then, too, under our road law, there is no danger of the money being collected in one part of the county being spent on the roads of another part, as it requires that the money collected shall be spent in the tnwn?hin in u/hir?t it iu wv ff ?* IV IW Wi IVV CV>V? Thk St. Matthews correspondent of The State says more agitation on the subject of a new county has been conducted by the various county papers and their corresponded-, than by people who are most mi crested. We came to this same conclusion a short time ago, and cone, uded so far as The Times and Democrat is concerned to suspend discussion of the matter unti! something definite is known about the proposed scheme. After the survey is made and the lines are established will be time enough for all the discussion needed. We < an find more readable stuff for ' our columns just at this time. Thk Durham Herald says "we would like for the Democrats to put up a conservative man, but we are ( not among those who believe that a conservative Democrat could win. li is our belief that the more radical the candidate the more votes he will receive." The Herald is more than half right. If the Democrats win they can 6nly do it with a man that stands for something. 4 NEGROES Ii?> .1) UP NEGROES Highwaymen \iTv*(fd ami Iiocked l'p in Um> Jail. Last Saturday night at Gaston Shoals, wh??.e the Drave company is wotkng <>n the big d..ni across IIroad river a negro name.. Will Byarn "held up" another negro named Davis Petty, and relieved him of $20. OyurH used a .38 calibre revolver as a persuader. llyars was carried to Gaffney and lodged in jail. He also was bound over to court on the charge of selling whiskey. llyars has a brother who is also in Jail for selling whiskey at the dam. A negro named John Henderson was also held up at the point of a pistol by another negro at the Southtun power plant at the Ninety-Nine islands and compelled to disgorge three "slmolaons." This negro was committed to Jail by Magistrate Ligon of lilaeksburg. fudge With a ltackl>ouc. We have Ion# been of the opinion that most of our judges allowed hail in many cases when it should not lie allowed. In fact it was a rare thing for bail to be refused in any est \ it is therefore with pleasure thaiv e commend Judge D. H. Hydriek, ut:o is now holding court here, for refusing bail to W. H. Mills, who murdered Frank Deal at Hlacksburg soinetime ago. Mills claimed justification under the much abused "unwritten law" for his crime, submitting a most horrible affidavit from his wife, which told all about her relations with Deal. This very properly had no effect on Judge Hydriek, and he promptly turned the application for bail down. We cordially agree with the Spar tanburg Journal that "this fiction of the 'unwritten law' has been grc atly overworked of late and, if we understand sentiment correctly, it will hereafter be applied more strictly than has been the custom in recent cases. The avenger of the spoliation of his home will still be held guiltless, but the circumstances must more closely tit the rule than has sometimes been allowed. We are not trying Mills, not pronouncing him guilty or not guilty. That is for the jury to do. His case is not bailable, however, according to the constitution and he is not entitled to have a circuit judge, by admission to bail, deny his guilt 'the proof is evident or the presumption great' and enjoy the benefit with the jury of this pronouncement. Neither should his case be prejudiced by this decision." As we said above the granting of bail in homicide cases has been too live iuiu eaay in nit' past ill tins State, and we are glad ? halt has been called. The Journal goes on to say that 'the writ of habeas corpus is a sacred one, but it should not l>e abused. Many men have been admitted to bail who did not deserve this benefit, and such acts on the part of the judges has led to miscarriages of justice. Judge Hydrick has taken a stand that might well be imitated by other circuit and also supreme court judges in South fCarolina. It should take a better showing than Mills makes to secure admission to bail in any amount. They Advertise More. One of the most notable facts connected with a country newspaper of today is the large increase in the amount of advertising of local business houses. The change has taken place gradually, and has been marked especially during (he past year or two. It is highly significant, and an inquiry as to the cause of it is of great profit, not only to those in the newspaper business, but to every business man and citizen of our town as well. The change, in brief, means that local merchants have found it necessary to call attention to their goods because of the immense competition they face the most deadly element of which is that from the great stores of the large cities. These great establishments advertise their wares most lavishly and the metropolitan newspapers which contain their advertisements are distributed over the country, some one paper of which enters nearly every home. The result is that these me iropontan establishments have built up an immense mail trade. In our town, and indeed in most of the towns of the state there it* no occasion for this out-of-town buying. The duty of citizens in the matter is plain, and where other things are equal support should be given local dealers. Our merchants have invested their capital, have erected buildings, which are the pride of the city, and have established concerns which are almost metropolitan in character. They have built up our little city, and it is only a fair return that they nave the city's trade*, to turn trade otherwise, even in the line of small purchases which are great jn the aggregate, is to invite the decline of property values in our town. Mr. Cortelyou may as well come to the front with the facts about the contributions to the republican campaign fund. The public is getting them one by one. There was the $50,000 Mr. Perkins took from the insurance money, the $50,000 that Mr. Harriman gave, and the $200,300 that Mr. Harriman raised among his friends. That accounts for about ve per cent of the total slush fund. The Washington Post thinks that Michigan man who is accused of having seventeen wives must have been determined to have his buttons sewed on if he went to jail for it.