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TO KILL IT. ' The Prohibitionist and State Dis- J % pensarites It Is Claimed WILL JOIN FORCES At the Next Session of the Legislature t<? Kill the County Dispensary Law, and Put the State' I'nder the Prohibition Law If they Can Secure Votes Mnonuh to Carry It Chit. The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston Post saysjgradual tendency of the State as a whole toward prohibition crows steadilv more no ticeable. Many wise in the ways of South Carolina politics are expecting the present legislature, which la^t winter enacted the Carey-Cothran county dispensary law, to pass a straight prohibition law. Talks which your correspondent has had already with State dispensary politicians and straight prohibitionists and county dispensary advocates who visited the capital on business of various kinds, indicate that the prohibitions and State dispensary people will line up behind a straight prohibition measure in numbers sufficient to sweep the house of representatives, and possibly to get through the senate with two or three majority. The prohibitionist who last winter voted with the county , dispensary people as a method of killing the State dispensary system. , now feel that they have discharged their obligation and now that the State dispensary is out of the wav, thov feel that the road is clear to t tie slaughter pen for the county dispensary law. Representative -J. Wrigt Nash, of Spartanburg, who made such a dramatic and effective speech in the house last winter in favor of county dispensaries, turning Abraham-like to knife his own Isaac prohibition bill when he came up for a vote under the name of Prohibitionist. Smith of Colleton, will again lead the prohibition forces next winter, but this time on the straight road for his own bill, bearing his own name, which is on the calendar of the house. He expects the house to pass the bill by a comfortable majority, and thinks it will get through the senate. When seen here today, Nr. Nash was cautious about talking for publication, but he casually remarked on the striking fact that in spite of all the pressure that was brougt to bear to line up in the house last winter for county dispensaries, the house failed to pass his prohibition bill by only two votes, the final vote being 51 to 49. He said that the period intervening this soring between the two systems, when there was straight prohibition throughout the State just after the State dispensary system went out and just before the county system was put into operation, had a most salutary effect in favor of prohibition. The taste of prohibition felt like more. There was no disorder nor flagrant violation of the law. And in the i? .?: 1 ?<J?.?? vwuni/ica wiuv:ii nave it.*iiicuiil*u ury like Spartanburg and Greenville where there are big towns, the law is obeyed much better than many had hoped, and sobriety is certainly more marked. Speaking of his own bill, Mr. Nash said there were certain features of it, notably that which places the sale of whiskey in the hands of the druggists under restrictions that intended to confine its sale strickly for medicinal and mechanical uses, which were not altogether satisfactory to him. He feared allowing druggist to handle it would be abused, and so far as he was concerned, he thought if such a law could be passed it would be well to outlaw altogether. As a means of meeting the interstate commerce law and preventing whiskev being shipped in for illicit traffic, the favored the Mississippi law, which requires all whiskey coming into the State to be consumed within 100 feet of the point of delivery. Mr. Nash will make a number of important changes in his bill before urging its passage. State Dispensary leader J. (i. Bichards, of Liberty Hill, author of the defeated Richards purification State dispensary bill authorizes your correspondent to say for him that he will support a straight prohibition bill. He says as he has talked to a large number of both State dispenl sary advocates and prohibitionists, and he is convinced both wili vote solidly for prohibition. With him was Prohibitionist Smith, of Colleton who said he would again introduce his Nash prohibition bill next session and urge its passage. "The next governor of South Carolina," said Mr. Richards, will be the best man who is smart enough to run on a phrohibition platform. Of course, Mr. Ansel will get a second term, according to custom, but three years from now a prohibitionist will be elected." Many prohibitionists and others think Mr. Nash is the man to put up on such a platform, but Mr. Nash himself is rather shy on the subject. He thinks "a great many things may happen in three years." A contest AGAINST LABOR LAW. I ludge Brawley Declares the State Statute Null and Void. Says Legislative Act Is In Conflict With Amendments to United States Constitution. In the United States district court at Charleston, Thursday, Judge Brawley rendered his decision in the case brought by Attorney John P. Grace, in behalf of Enoch and Elijah Drayton on habeas corpus proceedings, declaring the act of the Legislature, making the breach of a farm contract a misdemeanor to be unconstitutional, null and void and the two negroes are ordered to he released from custody. Judge Brawley\s decision is an able opinion covering many typewritten pages. It deals almost entirely with the law on the subject with but small reference to the facts of the case. The case is, however, briefly reviewed. showing that the two negroes were arrested in January, 1 DOT, upon a warrant sworn out by Magistrate Lebby Clement before Magistrate Beckett for failure to perform their contract under section 357 of the Acts of 1904. and that at this time, they were still under contract for a task of the year, not yet performed. The act provides that a conviction shall not operate for the release or discharge of the violator, and when the negroes were arrested in January, it was the second time that they hurl bnnn lionlnd nt* ?jml nnf /?i-? flin chain gang for the same offence. The fact is recited in the opinion of the court t hat Clement's books were never produced in court, and that Clement and his constable. Seabrook were the only witnesses for the prosecution. "The only criminal act," in the words of the decision, "was the failure to work." In the course of his decision, Judge Brawley states that the case is brought "by a young member of the bar, belonging to a race which has suffered three centuries of injustice and oppression, whose heart has been touched by the cry of the lowly and who has apparently at his own .cost and from sheer love of liberty and hatred of wrong, makes the appeal for liberty, to which they are entitled under every sanction of the constitution and laws of this country. It were better that the granite walls which support this court of justice be crumbled into dust than its doors be closed to such an appeal." The court proceeds to say that t \-\ o *v? i {' rtr\/\f O ?!/*%? . U ! .. U ? ? mtic 10 aiiwtiii:i ai^uniL'iii WHICH ct|Jpeals to State pride and racial instincts, that the legislation is a part of the local administration in matters of great convenience to the industrial life of the State and the claim of the supreme power of the State is also made. Judge Brawley says that he shares much of this feeling and however much others may proclaim their devotion to these principles, his body bears marks which attest to his sympathy in the cause. Judge Brawley proceeds to say that the lot of the agricultural laborer is hard and he has been called "the brother of the Ox," in his unceasing toil, scant remuneration and dreary isolation, "but the remedy is not found in statutes which chain him to the soil and force him to labor whether he will or not. Human nature revolts at it and he will es-! cape it if he can. It is by improving his condition and not by still degrading it that the remedy may be foundk'' Judge Brawley concludes by declaring the State act to he in conflict with the 18th and 14th amendments of the constitution of the United States and orders the release of the prisoners. United States District Attorney Cochran represented the government in the intervention proceedings which were filed in the case and the constitutionality of the act was defended by Attorney General Lyon, and Attorney William Henry Parker, and W. St. Julian Jervey. between him on a prohibition and Mayor Rhett of Charleston on high license local option platform would certainly be entertaining, and this is not only a possibility but a probability. Representative Nash, like others of his kind, whose opinion was asked on the point, do not believe it would be advisable to make any exception of Charleston in a prohibition law. Mr. Nash said he fully appreciated the position of Charleston, and would like to see that city get what it wanted in a liciuor law. but he fears making an exception of Charleston would not only not be acceptable to other parts of the State, but that such a law would be unconstitutional, That the cause of sobriety has greatly advanced in South Carolina in the past decade is not denied by any intelligent body of men who have had opportunity to observe and make comparisons. The State dispensary people are claiming credit for this as a result of fourteen years of dispensary, while there is no way to prove that part of this might not be true, it is likely that the attitude of the corporations and other business concerns toward whiskey has had more to do with making whiskey drinking to excess unpopular than all other agencies combined. A drinkihg man is no longer tolerated in business. MYSTERY CLEARED. Mr. John W. Fairey, Bank Cashier, Returns to His Home. Ho Suddenly Disappeared and Wont Wost W here Ho Itemniiied For Soino Tlino. A story full of romance and meaning conios from Orangeburg, says Co!. August Kohn, in one of his letters from Columbia to The News and Courier. In many of its details It is remarkable and brim full of what the novelist would call human interest liy the merest chance a bright young man has been restored to his family and to an honorable position in his home and among his people. He left home mysteriously. He returned almost from the unknown. The News and Courier awwy back in September told how John W. Fairey left Orangeburg one Sunday afternoon. and how, when he was in New York, he wrote the president of the hank of which he had been the trusted cashier that he had gone, and that he would not ho heard from again. He indicated that his accounts were hopelessly involved and that lie could not stand the strain. The suggestion was then made that he had left home for other reasons. No one could understand the disappearance. Cashier Fairey wrote that his accounts were tangled and asked his family and friends to spend his money to set him and his family right assuring all that he had not i taken a dollar. That was the hist heard of him since lust September. He felt that he was 'done for" and studiously undertook to lose himself. He went to New York, hut that was not far enough, and then he went on to Chicago, and still on to Denver and Stilt Lake City and San Francisco, and even to Honolulu. Then he came hack to California and dually went to 101 Paso, which is on the borderland between the United States and Mexico. There he thought himself safe from identification and the detectives of the bonding company. Month after month passed and he tolled as a day laborer. Never a word did he write or hear from home. He wanted to he alone. One day while working in a packing house he was asked to put down some figures. He did so and checked them up. The foreman was so supprised at his speed and accuracy that he reported the fact to the office, and the young man was asked if he wished a place in the oillce. Then he was asked for references. The wanderer said he had no refer ences and could give none, but that ho could look every one In the eye and truthfully nay he was honest. The situation was curious, but the young man was asked to accept a position in the ofllce, with the statement that he could supply no recommendations, , that he was honest and that he only cared for clerical work. Then came a providential meeting. Month after month John Fairey had not seen a familiar face, he had seen no one he knew after he left the Fast. Hut one day, not many days ago, he encountered Or. Sam M. Deal, who had gone to live in one of the health giving outdoor camps at El Paso. Young Fairey at first thought he would avoid Dr. Deal, but they fully recognized eacli other. Dr. Deal has himself been away from Columbia for many months on account of his health, but he had kept in touch with home affairs, lie had known Mr. Fairey intimately while they both served in the SpanishAmerican war, and they were good friends. Dr. Deal was assured of Mr. Fairey's honesty, but Mr. Fairey felt that same despondency and hopelessness of getting his accounts straight. Then Dr. Deal, of bis own accord, got in touch with home folks and with Mr. Thomas F. Brantley, who has been persistent and faithful in trying to clear the record of his brother-in-law, in whom he always had the utmost confidence. Conferences were held with the bank officials, correspondence passed and as a result John W. Faire.v is today in Orangeburg, with a clean and (dear record and as happy as man can be. His own reputation has been cleared and his family escutcheon is as bright as it ever hr.s been. Why did John Fairey leave home in this mysterious way? He does not know, lie simply says he got rattled. Ho now tells that when he worked on his trial balance .in September that first, it was $100 out. He reported tills t,o President Moss, but expected to get it straightened out promptly. Then he figured and the more he figured the worse it got until it rounded up $10,000. He could not find the trouble. Fie worked until his head was dizzy and then thought how he could get away. He went to New York without telling any one a word of his troubles. As he got 011 the train for Chicago he mailed three letters telling of his troubles and assuring all of his honesty. That was the first any one knew of his leaving Orangeburg for more than a brief rest. The matter created a sensation but throughout the weeks of speculation and excitement there was never a suggestion that John Fairey bad stolen a cent from the Fdisto Hank. if lie really had wanted to take anything he could have taken the $2 8,000 in cash that was in the bank vaults and applied the time lock and as cashier he might have used the balances in Philadelphia and New York, but such a thing never entered his mnd. His sole thought was to get away and not to be recognized. He says he simply became rattled and could think of nothing more than tho unbalanced books and the folks he left behind. While in Honolulu for six weeks he saw several South Carolinians, a a e / A MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY. Three Men Die. Terrible Experiences of Shooting Party. Cuught in n Mountain Storm and Aftor CJrcat Suffering Die From Ex? poNurc. The London Mail Bays a "hunting foray" on the range of mountains in the northern part of County Antrim has been attended with the loss of three lives. Five young men, the sons of farmers, set out from their homes, about Parkmore, early on Tuesday afternoon, and met at a prearranged rendezvous at the foot of Collin mountain, which rises 1,700 feet above tke Glens of Antrim. Ascending about half way, they became so engrossed in the day's sport that they did not notice a thick cloudy mantle creeping down the mountainside, and soon they became enveloyed. With numerous ravines around, and night approaching, they became wildly alarmed, wandered about for a few hours, and lost their bearings. One of the party, Kielty, seeing, as he thought, a light in the distance, and thinking it denoted the small farmstead of a man named Courtney, whom he knew, went ofT, with one of his companions, White, in that direction to obtain guidance. They were not seen again alive. The other three, Miller, Smith and Connolly, remained behind together, the last having become exhausted and ill. Out of the darkness they heard the voice of Kielty shouting, "Pat's down," and understood that Patrick White had probably fallen into a bog-hole or down a ravine; but Kielty did not return. They sulfered so greatly from cold during the night that Smith volunteered to attempt to reach Courtney's house and bring assistance. Scarcely able to crawl, Smith eventually reached the farmhouse, but fell insensible before he could deliver his message. With hot fomentations and such other rough and ready treatment as the cottage allowed, he revived after a few hours and t61d his startling story. Meanwhile Connolly had died in the darkness of the mountain side. His sole companion, Miller, realizing that he could be of no further assistance to his comrade, marked the place where his dead body, lay, and with the approach of dawn he also crawled away. With many rests, he reached Courtney's farm. Courtney himself, having previously learned some of the circumstances, had set out at break of day down the mountain to the nearest village postoffice, Martinstown, and telegraphed to Connolly's father. When he returned Miller and Smith had sufficiently revived, and the three went off to find the body of young Connolly, which they carried on an ininvoviwvl siitn tVin ?illo<r<> - r . ^ . .v.w? k;vi VWIIU1 W VIIV- Y II . Meantime the elder Connolly had organized a search party of a dozen friends. When the old man learned that his son's body had been already recovered he and his friends removed the remains to his home. A large body of police and civilans went up the mountain seeking for Kielty and White. Their bodies were found late in the* afternoon in a stream which the melting snow and heavy rains had swollen to a ranging torrent. but none of them knew him, and when he went to El Paso every day he passed the telegraph office, in which Tom (Hover sat as manager, and yet he was not recognized. Glover was born and reared in Orangeburg. While John Fnirey was working as receiving clerk and then as C. O. I), clerk and as bookkeeper in El Paso, the expert accountants were straightening his accounts. It took them months and months to get things straight, but the last of the troubles had been corrected, the discrepancies adjusted and whore there were overdrafts they have been paid. It Is too long a story to tell how the discrepancies occurred. The largest error occurred by a large draft being j sent for collection and then the draft was returned. The draft was sent a second time and returned a second time, and the third time it was paid. The trouble was that, while it was credted three times, it was charged as a return item only once. Orangburg county raises more cotton than any other in the State and the city does a temendous business. The bank often keeps business men's books and it evidently did so largely In several Instances. The errors have been indicated and righted and all is once again serene and happy. Mr. Fairoy is now in Orangeburg rewriting the hooks for his own satisfaction. lie is a young man of ability and, after he has satisfied him self and every one else, he will go to work, possibly in El Paso. Now that it. is all over it ought to be very gratityng to Mr. Fairey and his family to know how well everyone thought of him, and it ought to be pleasant to tne Edisto Bank to realize the confidence of the public in it and in its management. The bank was in no danger of losing a cent or impairing its strong surplus. The stock went up instead of down. Nobody stampeded. No accounts were withdrawn, but .instead money and offers came from all sides in case funds were needed, but there were no signs of trouble. The bank lias grown stronger in the confidence of the home folks. The incident is now closed but who will say that it is a romance in I real life? , A TAINTED FORTUNE. ? Texas Farmer Getting Rich by Growing Bermuda Onions. \ ' 11 "J This Year's Crop Is Estimated at 1,500 Car I^oads and the Profits to ( rowers Amount to $1,000,000. What Texas considered an experiment four years ago bids fair in tlie space of four years more to be the principle industry of tlie state, outside of cotton growing. This is nothing more or less than growing Bermuda onions, and for the ?/uality and quantity of this product the Lone Star state bids fair to soon excel the group of islands in the Atlantic that these onions have made famous. The state is now busly engaged in harvesting the annual crop of muda onions, and this season's output, which is expected to be on cars bound for the north by June 1, will be about J7.f?0(MN)o pounds, or about 1,r?00 car loads. Considering that this produce sells for between two and a half and three cents a pound, the value of this new industry to those engaged in it is apparent. Four years ago the ground now used for growing onions, was considered useless and could be bought for ;*>0 cents or $1 an acre. Today it I. <* I " A A. - A A 'I nifin 11 *.mii 91 uu 10 an acre, and is cheap at this price considering that tne profits of onion growing run from $300 to $7 00 per acre a season, the average yield of an acre per season is about 20,000 jounds. The element in i..e soil of Texas give the onions a peculia flavor, and they are said to excel even those grown 011 the Bermuda islands. The planting season is in October, which is a de.>ghtful time of the year along the Bio Grande border, 1 he season for irrigating and cultivating is during the winter months when there is just enough coolness in the air to make working out of doors a pleasure. The harvesting time is in the spring when all nature is abloom. By June 1 the crop is out of the way. That leaves June, July, August and September to the onion planter in which to follow his own inclinations as to pleasure or some other business. Most of the men who have made comfortable fortunes in raising onions spend the vacation period of four months at some Northern resort. By doing this they escape the enervating heat of this region in summer. The healthgiving properties of the onion are well known. The people of Laredo eat onions as th . apple lover eats apples. Any day here children can be seen running around will, a big onion in one hand and a piece of bread in the other'. ey take first a bte of bread. The combination is delicious. Laredo is one of the healthiest towns in Texas and the onions is sam 10 be me principal cause of it. THKItOKIZHI) BY YKGGMHN. One Killed and Several Injured at Hortiell, N. Y. Hornell, N. Y., was terrorized Friday morning by a gang of yeggmen. Night Watchman Henry was fatally shot. Night Watchman Kelly badly beaten and others injured. Three yeggnien were arrested after two of the gang nad been shot. The robbers first appeared at a grocery where they blew open the safe. A private residence was next entered, where articles af value were taken. A woman next door put her head out of a window when shots were fired at her, flying glass cutting her. The gang next broke into the Steuben silk mills. Being apprised by Night Watchman Kelly, they beaut him into insensibility. They secured no plunder there. At the street railways offices they were confronted by Night Watchman liendy, who was shot fatally. By this time the town was aroused. The robbers jumped on a morning freight, police and posse following on switch engine. One robber jumped from the train into the river and was captured by the police, after a swim I A/k .r,..wlr. 4* ?-1 ui i w \ at u?*>. ;\i V/ciiiiu?triu,? nun? ? the police met them, two were wounded with buckshot before giving up. will m; m\itivi:i). Craves of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors lluried North. The War Department will award within a few days a contract for 2 0,000 white marble headstones to mark the graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors who died in Federal pris-1 ons and military hospitals in the North during the Civil war, and who were burled near the place of their confinement. f'r?l W111 i n millnO o .1 the Confederate army and formely a Congressman from South Carolina, has been appointed commissioner to take charge of the work. f WANTKl) OM> J J | PIANOS & ORGANS Z for which we will allow the 4 highest prices toward new in-o struments. No Club Kates to O X offer, but we pledge better in- J \ struments for the same or less { ? X money than those at club rate ' > X Offers. Write Malones Music ; ; # iloase, Columbia, S. CM for spe-ii. 2 Oial prices and terms. ' i ? Al Cataloj to aiiy of pur customers for the ask planting <Vr hardware business, and page ^atal^gue wtiich will he. found v prices (?n anything in the supply line. Columbia Supply < I "SHIUNG CLEANING" NEEDED. The Hotly He(|ulrt>s It Just as Much us the House. "You look sick this morning." "Yes I woke tip with a dull headache, a coated tosgue and that dark brown taste in the mouth." "Ditn't you have pains in your joints and muscles." "Yes. As my old negro mammy used to say, 'I have misery in my joints. "Better take a bottle of Hheumaeide, old man. "What does Hheumacicle do?" "Why ItlieumnCjde is the most powerful and efTeo^tve blood purifier in the world. It sweeps all the germs and poisons out of the blood and 'makes you well all over.' " "Ever try it yourself." "Sure I take a couple of bottles of it before spring begins. Give my blood a spring cleaning. And Kheumacide puts me in such fine shape mat i never have that tired feeing.' "Well, I am going to try this Ithcumiicide you say Is the best ever. "Thats right. All the druggists sell it. Hotter get a bottle today. You start to get well with the first dose. The proprietors say that ltheumncide gets at the joints from the inside and makes you well all over. And that the truth, old man." WltKCKKKS HITCH A TKAIX. Pulled the Kails Apart as the Train Approached. Train wreckWs ditched the Southern Pacific train, "daylight limited," one mile north of Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday morning. It is reported that one man is killed and 22 injured, two fatally. A fish plate was removed and two rails pulled apart with wire as the train approached. The engine, running 45 miles an hour, struck the opening and ran a hundred yards on the ties, when the cars piled up in the ditch. 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Intelligent treatment at your home KY One of the greatest mistakes made by people residing in the oouinry sud small towns is their fai'nro to consult tho experienced specialist for their deep-seated ?>r chronic disorders. They suffer along day alter day, shortening their lives by months and years, either through ignorance of what the specie ist could do for them or the beliet h>?t special treatment would require tlveir removal to the city. I t is not neoes'a y that you should resif ? in tho same city In order to receive benefit of our special treatment. U7~ -? 111 > lit* nn putlereiB from doepseated, long-sta'oing troubles of Heart, Head. Lungs, Stomich, Bowelf, Liver, Bladder, Blood, Nerves, or diseases pecxdiar to eithor spx, to write or call upon us and learn what we have done for others similarly nitlicted, and what we can do for them. There is no chargo for this consultation, and it is worth your time and effort whether you decide to tregin treatment or not. 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