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SHUN BUND TIGERS. TliK POISON THNY SKLL WILL KILL YOU. A Lot of lllind Tiger Stuff Seized in Anderson County Proved to l?e a Vile Ooncoctlon. Our ndviuo to nil people is not to drink nt all, but if they will drink wo ndvise tlieni to let blind tiger liquor alone. We think after reading what is said below they will agree wit.h us that it is a vile concoction that is liable to kill many who use it. is liable to kill many who use it. The Anderson Mail says: There is It big trunk in Sheriff Green's private office from which emits a terrific odor. Its contents can be determined from a distance. It contains liquor, or that which purports to be liquor. Jt is true that when properly tested it could not be termed such, yet it was sufficient to convict 28 men in the court of general sessions, and there remains yet plenty more for introduction as exhibits in the 4 0-odd cases continued. Constable J. H. Fant, who has been In direct charge of the crusade against the illegal sale of whiskey in Anderson county, which has been in progress during the past four months, has the key to this trunk. He Opened it recently and there disclosed 80 or 85 bottles?bottles of all kinds and sizes and descriptions; three-cornered bottles, square bottles; the old flask kind, etc. And every one of t hem had some liquor in it. Constable Fant, Sheriff Croon and 1 lir> othi.i' nffipArR h:?v<? boon mnkinir tests of a 11 this booze, and it will be surprising to ninny to know that the whole caboodle does not average 25 per cent, alcohol. The men who bought and entered this liquor for market certainly had eyes for business?they had regular gold mines. Here is how they made their money: Twelve quarts of corn whiskey, at $1.50 gallon, would cost $4.50. In some rases, uccording to the tests, the doctoring of 12 quarts resulted in 7 2 quarts. These 72 quarts were retailed at $1.25 a quart. In other words, the retailer received $90 for some doctored stuff which had cost him $4.50. Despite the fact that the stuff was badly doctored, the retailers found ready purchasers at these exorhitant prices. An analysis of some of the booze held by Constable Fant discloses the fact that soapsuds, tobacco juice, pepper, etc., were mixed with the water and whiskey to retain the proper ;taste, color, etc., after being diluted. Wall Street Manipulations. The Wall Street speculators have advanced the price of stocks beyond the pre-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 is no doubt they can force prices even higher, but that is all the more reason for small fish to seek shallow water, or those big fish may swallow them up like the pike does the minnows. The Wall Street stock market is no longer run on business principles, it is now entirely at the mercy 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 compete in such a nest of manipulation. The New York Times says "The opposition to Bryan's nomination comes from men that have the welfare 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 direct us to a man who has fattened off the robber tariff who has enjoyed special privileges at the cost of the many, vGu> has Paul money to keep the G. 0. P. in power so he might keep both his feet in the trough, and yet who does not claim that he has "the welfare of the whole nation at heart." Banks don't always pay. A receiver has been appointed for one in Jacksonville, Fla., which opened for business on May 1. The bank started with a capital of $50,000 and It is saie that during the month only $13,000 in deposits were received. When it closed the other day it is said there was but $130 in the bank. Gustav Ander, the socialist, has announced a purpose to start a simple life paradise colony near Vera Cruz, Mexico, where he will prove that clothes do not make the man, but on the contrary are a great hindrance to piety. As the colonists protfWi on purity they are expected to Ais ard garments until at length tney will not need even fig leaves. Such cranks as Ander should be locked up. NEARLy one hundred dogs were drowned in Charleston last week. No stray dogs are now allowed to run at large on the streets of Charleston. They want to stamp out hydrophobia. The Hrynn Hand Wagon. The Bryan band wagon, in its rounds last week, took on all the passengers who were bound for Denver. Not a single delegate elect ' ed during the week was disposed to support anvbody other than the Nebraskan, savs the Charleston Post. "There were fifty-eight delegates ?. elected to the Democratic national convention. Of these, fifty were definitely instructed to vote for tho nomination of Bryan and the other eight, though not instructed, were , openly pledged to support Bryan's , candidacy. Mr. Bryun now has 548' delegates hound to him by instructions and forty more who are de- i termined to vote for him on their ! own motion. That puts him within 1 eighty-nine votes of the nomination, ( and there are more coming his way. ''Three hundred and seven dele- j gates arc yet to be elected, and of 1 these 187 are counted upon as prac ; tically certain to be Bryan support- 1 ers; if these materialize Bryan will i have 779 votes assured on the first t ballot, 98 more than sre needed to i nominate, and he will probably be 1 made the candidate by acclamation. , If the majority rule for nom- { inations prevailed in l)em- v ocratic conventions, as it should c prevail, instead of the two thirds f rule, Bryan would now have of in- f structed delegates 88 more than t enough to insure his nomination. t "The failure of the opposition to J 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 1 the field, after having been most J thoroughly?not to say ingloriously , ?beaten. The effort to make Johnson of Minnesota, a candidate has * utterly collapsed. Except for the 1 support of his own State Johnson ] would not be even mentioned as a , candidate. He has not secured a 1 single delegate outside of Minne- < sota, though his candidacy has been 1 persistently and noisily boomed dur- ( ing the period of delegate choosing. , "The Bryan band wagon is mak- I ing its final rounds and seats on it ' are going at a premium. Those ; who have not yet got aboard will have to jump quickly." i ???? 1 Taft's Oath of Allegiance. Secretary Taft is reported to be j giving some consideration to the . making of the platform upon which 1 he expects to be nominated by the Republican national convention. It t will endorse the Roosevelt adminis- ; tration in no uncertain language, I we are assured by dispatches from Washington, and that it is not to be j wondered at, since it is as reasona- j bly certain as anything can be that t the platform will be dictated ver- 'J 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 be no doubt. It will have i the ring of Roosevelt, all right. Mr. 1 Roosevelt will see to that. But the ' platform is not all. There is the , candidate's letter of acceptance, \ which is always an importont feature of the party's political chart. ' Something is predicted of that also, J according to an Associated Press j dispatch from Washington which i ays: t Should the Chicago platform adopt 1 this sort of platform and nominate r Secretary Taft, it is predicted.in x authoritative quarters that his let- 1 ter or speech of acceptance will con- N tain a pledge to carry out the Roosevelt policies already inaugurated, f which vill have n ring similar to ' that pronounced by President Roos- 1 evelt on taking the oath of office ov- ? er the bodv of the dead McKinley. 1 The Charleston Post says: "That should be welcome news fo^ the i scared 'business interests.' If Mr. Taft is going to carry out the Roosevelt policies there is more trouble ahead for the commercial and industrial interests which have been so racked and wrought, but if Mr. Taft is to promise that he will con- < A/\amrnlf aaKaiao i f U/\ I till UC 111U lVUUiX: Yvlt 111 tl IC 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 rejoicing 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 promise to maintain the Roosevelt policies even as Roosevelt maintianed the McKinley policies." The Democrats have won in the election of George Cnamberlain to . the United States senate from Oregon to succeed Fulton, a Republii can, He was nominated in the priI mary and will be elected by aRe, publican Legislature. I KOW ?) IS DONE. I ] ;<?|K FACTS THAT IS OF (iKN* ; KHAIj 1NTKHKST. hatcmcut <if Method* Ihnployed by th?' Tronsiiry lh'purtment in l,ocut? ing Federal lluildings. The Supervising Architect of the? United Stntos Treasury Department requests the publication of the following circular letter. Upon the enactment of a law authorzing the acquisition of a site for !i Federal building the Treasury Department invites, through a local newspaper, proposals for the sale or lunation of a suitable corner. This advertisement gives such information is to the dimentions of the site and the general requirements as will enihle intelligent preparation of proposals. The offers are opened in Wnshingon at the time stated in the adverisenient, and as soon thereafter as nacticable an agent of the Departnent Is sent to make a personal exunination 01 the proposed locations tnd such others as he deems desirihle. U|>on this report, together vith representations in writing from ither sources, the .Department selects , he site and if, the property is to bo ' icquired by purchase. accepts the <>for of the successful bidder, subject ^ o the conditions stated in the adver- 1 iseinent and the Attorney-tJeneral's 1 ipproval of the title. Whenever the Department is unible to purchase an acceptable site 1 it. a reasonable price, or where ncleptable title can not be secured by voluntary conveyance, a selection is mule and the title acquired by conlemnation proceedings, in which the )rice to be paid is judically deter- ' nined. The building (if any) on the site diould be reserved by the vendor, to , ie removed upon notice after pay- , mont for the land has been made, generally, notice to move is not given until the construction of the Federal Uuiloin? is about to begin, if the vendor Is willing, pending such removal, to pay a reasonable ground rent. Plans for public buildings are taken up in the order in which the titles to the sites therefor are vested In the United States, and the contracts for their construction are let at as early .a date as practicable. Sites for Public Puddings. In connection with the above the following will be of interest. The tYav.hiugi.oA C( ('respondent of be \ews una courier says: One of the busiest Government oficials in Washington at this time is I. Knox Taylor, supervising architect if the treasury. In a few days he vi 11 advertise for bids for the purchase of sites upon winch to "rod tew Federal buildings in Abbeville, dewberry, Laurens, Union, Gaffncy, larlington and Orangeburg. Before Congress had adjourned wenty-four hours Mr. Taylor was >usy going over the appropriations ust made to see what he would have o do in the building line this year 1 The result was that he immediately 1 >egan to advertise for bids from pero'ns having available sites to offer tpon which Federal buildings will erected. Abbeville, Newberry, Laurens, Jnion, Gaffney, Orangeburg and ] Darlington will have about $r>,000 < ?r $6,000 each to expend in sites, he remainder of the $50,000, apiropriation to go into the buildings J noper. One of the ways in which ihe oroe- J ion of these buildings may he hast- , ned, Mr. Taylor said to-day, is for hose having property to sell to offer t at a reasonable figure. In many nstances when it is understood that he Government is in the market for ( iroperty, prices go skyward, and the esults is long and tedious waiting, vhen, on the other hand, if moderate IVI tiu iitkcd wnrV would iii'ni'PAfl vithout delay. Mr. Taylor is preparing to spend ibout thirty million dollars this year n new buildings. Ibis being the unount just appropriated by Congress, and the fact that he has already begun to advertise for bids diows that he means to lose no time n the work. When Marriage is a Failure. He did all the courting , before marriage. He never talked his afuirs i.ver with 1 ? wife i?<; thought Mu tvlfo r\ti I u nu a ntionn tinnun. keeper. He never dreamed that a wife deserved praise or compliments. He married an ideal was disappointed to find it had Haws. He paid no attention to his personal appearance after marriage. lie treated his wife as ho would not have dared to treat another woman. Idle for a Life. Called to attend the daughter of a millionaire in Pittsburg, Dr. John Murphy boarded a train in Chicago and made a roeoid run. The young lady will ecover. At Salem, O., the doctor's special ran down and Killed a woman. * lluggage Destroyed by Fire. On Wednesday morning a car containing about 100 trunks belonging to young ladles who have been .attending Winthrop Cdllege, was destroyed by fire. ? The Tariff Iksuc. Outside of the intricacies of the different schedules of the tariff, purposely made obscure and difficult tor voters to understand by the Repuolicans, the question of high or low turitr is I he real fact at issue. That, plain is.-no ev< ryone can coniptenejid. 1 ho j/rooent lai'ili vt uo e?i)eciuiiy uesigtiio to protect the trusts and manulaoturers from foreign competiiion. and the question of raising revenue for the government was a st conuary consideration. The Republican politicians when concocting the present taritF law to suit the Trusts and protected monopolists rashly discarded the presumption that foreign countries, wnen they found the schedules so | prohibitive that they could not profi-1 tably expjrt their products to this country, would retaliate by increasing their rates of duties, so as to prohibit the importation of American goods. Foreigners want our wheat and flour, our corn and meat and tobacco, and other products they do not raise themselves, or do not produce in sufficient quanities to supply their own consumers, but they do not want our manufactured goods to compete with their own like products. Such countries as GermanyFrance, Austria, Russia, and in fact every country, but England, has raised a higher tariff barrier to prevent Icompetition from the United States. They declare, if you will not trade with us, we will buy as little as possible of you. The trusts try to overcome their fnrninrn hopfiof Ku cnllinor a f I kV/1 Vl^l 4 VU1 WI 1V/1 MJ wvumft uv much lower prices to the foreigners than to our own people. The European and other foreign markets are loaded down with bargain counter ?oodsfrom 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 the coming election, is whether they are satisfied to pay high prices for much they buy. or by reducing the tariff participate in the reduced prices that the foreigners enjov. That is a very simple propositien to vote upon. Those few voters who benefit by Trust high prices will, of course, vote to continue the Republican 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 protection," and although there may be a promise to revise the tariff, there will be no direct promise to revise it lower. How can the protective principle be perpetuated without continuing or even increasing the present rates. Don't be again fooled by promises unless specific reductions are included. Defeat of (iov. Smith. There is much discussion pro and con as to what caused the defeat of Hoke Smith in his race for re-election as f^nvernnr of floorcrin hu .Too Brown in the recent white primary in that State. Several things conspired to bring about the defeat of Gov. Smith. The most potent was the light made on him by the railroads and other corporations located in Georgia. Then all the old saloon element was arrayed against him because they held him partly responsible for the prohibition law. Then, again most of the old Pooulist element, under the leadership of Tom Watson, who is mad with Gov. Smith because he would not pardon a notorious Augusta murderer, voted against him. These are some of the things that combined to beat for re-election one of the best governors Georgia has had in recent years. ~ The News and Courier and other plutocratic papers are jubilant over the defeat of Hoke Smith by Joe Brown, and claims it as a Conservative victory over the Radicals. Well informed people say that the former Populists led by Tom Watson defeated Smith. This knocks the Conservative victory claim in in the head, as the Populists are the most extreme Radicals now in politics. FltOM this distance it looks as if Georgia has turned herself over completely to the corporations. We 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 the hands of any corporations that wishes to exploit the State. Gov. Johnson, it is said, is of opinion that no one should be allowed to receive more than ten thousand dollars income per year from accumulated wealth. He is more than half right, but such an opinion from him would cause Wall Street to give him the cold hand at once. The mad dog epidemic is getting worse and worse. In a little while it will be dangerous for people to venture out at all unless something is done to check the spread of this terrible disease among the dogs. ? Th?* Twilight 7a*ne. At the recent conference of governors held at the white house Mr. Bryan coined a phrase which will go down in history with some of the most celebraU d ho has yet given to the world He pointed out that "there is no twilight zone between the nation and the state in which exploiting interests can take refuge from both." It was a phrase which struck the fancy of the president, who enlarged upon it, and went as far as he could be expected to go, in the light of his record and convictions on the subject of state's rights. But the phrase has been taken up and used extensively throughout the country in its broader application. The Philadelphia North American, for instance, points out that "the twilighters are not all incorporated." The zone does not exiet, but the fiction of it does, according to The, North A*' **ican. In commerce, 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 twilighters according to the contention of our contemporary, are men, known in every community, who are not absolutely 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: Bryan and Roosevelt were right?as far as they went. But they were wrong in saying that the twilight zone does not exist. It should not exist. It must not exist. It will not exist after 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 i such as Roosevelt's. In that twilight now hide the bank director 1 who feels no responsibility for disaster due to his neglect of duty; , the railroad manager who sees on his hands no stain of blood of men and women killed by reason of his company's neglect or parsimony; the banker who sends money to New York for Wall street's gaml| ling in time of stringency, driving his home people to bankruptcy or distress by such use of their own money to satisty his trustee soul by , making extra profits for his stockholders. Twilighters. one and all! "The users of the twilight zone are not all twilighters. By choice, the Harrimans and Rockefellers and ( Morgans and all the Wall street gamblers dwell theni.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 are intruders fouling a nest already foul. They are not true twilighters. They see in that zone safety?a "no man's land"?a sanctuary for such outlaws as they know themselves to be. The twilighters are of a different breed. They are in that delusive gloaming only hecause they do not know the light. They are blinking and complaining a little now, because in the past few years there has been a new dawning. And into that darkonnrl vono at-a flocKinnr otvAnrr. mw.4v viiviv m v 1imuik115 oviv/u^ er, brighter every day the rays of the aroused national morality. It is not comfortable for the twilighters. Rut the light will shine on! And bef re the end of this our day every miasmatic mist will fade and the clear light of right, blazing into every dark snot, will mark the ending of the twilight zone." The New York World knew it was lieing when it said W. J. Bryan received twenty-thousand dollars from Ryan for supporting Parker in 1904, and all the papers that insist on circulating the lie have done so knowing it was an unmitigated lie. So what is the use of trying to get The World or the papers that have persisted in circulating its lie to do the honorable thing by Mr. Bryan. | The World and its satelites seem to t link that a lie well told and stuck to ' is about as good as the tr \th, so far ' as their purposes in telling and circulating this particular lie is concerned. A mad dog in Columbia on Thursday afternoon bit seven or eight paople. The he*d of the dog was sent to the Pasteiir Institute at Balj timore for examination, and it was ascertained that the dog had hydrophobia. All those bitten were sent to the Pasteur Institute for treat! ment. i t I % A NICE POINT. TIIK SI I'KKMK i'Ol UT ASKKI) TO SAY AVUKTHIOlt ? Oiiin^'hiirK County litis ilie Right it<i Soil Calhoun County Liquors f'n(k'l1 I ho l.u w. A Agiiin tho Orangeburg-Calhoun County dispensary question has route to the front. Tho matter was up bofore the State Supreme Court yesterday on the following return of the Hoard of Control: State of South Carolina. In Supreme Court.?Calhoun iffcomty.?T. A. Aniaker of nl petitioners, against It. k\ Taylor ot al, respondents.? Amended and additional return. The respondents, .1. CJ. Smith, T. R McCants and L. A. Carson, the county board of dispensary control for Orangeburg County, respectfully making return in the above stated proceedings showeth: 1. That under the Constitution and laws of South Carolina intoxicating liquors cannot be 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 the sale of intoxicating liquors in South Carolina at the present time is regulated and governed entirely by the Act of the Genera* Assembly commonly known ss tho "Care.v-Cothran Act," enacted by the Legislature in the year 1'? ??. to which reference is respectfully craved 3. That Orangeburg County and Calhoun rnnnl? ?? " - inv; rm II rt* and distinct counties, subdivisions and municipalities of the said State as will be seen by reference to the Act of the General Assembly enacted in the year 190X creating and forming Calhoun County, to which reference is respectfully craved; and that pursuant to such Act Calhoun, has been duly organized, elected officers and Is being conducted as an entirely seperate and distinct county. A. That the rejipoudents, J. G. Smith, T. R. McCants and L. A. Carson, are members of, and constitute, the duly authorized and qualified county dispensary board of and for Orangeburg County, in said State, under the "Carey-Cothran Act" cf::rebo id. 5. That the county dispensary board of and for the county of Orangeburg, in said State, have no r'pht autre vMv or legal powe. under the laws of the State of South Caro- ^ Una, to buy for, sell to or furnish intoxicating liquors to the county dispensers of Calhoun County, nor to conduct or operate the county dispensaries of Calhoun County, their power and authority being limited entirely and exclusively to Orangeburg County, and not extendng to Calhoun County. G. That they deny each and every other mntfirhil nnd roiovnni tion in the petition in tlris proceeding contained referring or relating to them not hereinbefore specifically admitted to J^e true. Wherefore, they and each of them, having fully answered and made return to the said rule, pray that so much thereof as relates to them be discharged with costs, and that they have such other and further relief in all and singular the premises ae may be just and reasonable. W. C. Wolfe, L. K. Sturkie, Attorneys for respondents. While the Orngeburg County dispensary board does not object to the present arrangement continuing, provided the same is not in conflict with the State's Liquor laws.^fcH they are deshious oT having j^n^'inreme Court say wh< ther or -s l'W<l fo.* them to supply with go >d > ;*. ? i rraiuge the affairs of dispells tries in another county; hence the county hoard has made a return to the original petition of the citizens of Calhoun County and prays that the Supreme Court grant the relief asked fo" therein: FAST Tit A IN WHUCK Kl). Million Dollar fixprcsn Crashed Into Switch Engine. Speeding at f>0 miles hour through the Post Morris ;yards the "million dollar" express, carrying eight, cars of valuable freight from Boston to Washington, crashed into a switch engine head-on, at 133rd street and Willow avenue, New York, early Thursday morning. Eight men were injured seriously. Doth engines were demolished and fire which started immediately after the crash, reduced both big iron horses to scrap iron. In the forward car of the trai nwas $115,000 i.n currency, which was being carried the sub-treasury in Boston to th^ treasury in Washington. The car vpis aeiugea wun waier ana tne flro hfcpt in check. Threo trainmen, on switch engine, ' were hurled to the ground when collission came. All brujseA, fcnd cut by flyng metal. Names unk'novfci. Engineer NaughtoiV of the express and Engineer Willett "M. Bradley, of the switch engine, wero detained .^v the police of the Alexander avenue station pending an investigation. Naughton was so badly hurt ^hat he was sent back to the hospital. Brad- ? ley escaped without a scratch. The wreck was due to a misunderstanding of signals.