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DENIES GUiLT Cashier of Orr Milts an Alleged < Defaulter. BOOKS ARE TANGLED 11c Is l'lrtcetl I nacr /Arrest m tin* Instance of the President of the Mill?I ncashed Chwks and Hat lOaten Paper Money is Pound in the Vault. Calhoun Harris, secretary and assistant casli(ier of the Orr cotton mills, located at Anderson was arrested Tuesday morning in that city on a warrant obtained by President J. 1). Hammett, charging breach of trust it being alleged that be misappropriated $50,000 or more of the company's funds. Harris denies over having misappropriated one dollar of the company's money and that everything will be found all right when the expert accountants get through with auditing the hooks. The first intimation of a shortage came on Tuesday of last week. About two weeks ago two accountants of the American Audit Company went to Anderson to audit the books* of the niilIs, as is customary about once a year. After working for h few days the experts found one or two items which did not appear correct. On further examination it. appeared that Mr. Harris was short in his account $">t),000 and when his attention was called to it he said the showing was correct, but claimed that it was due to clerical errors. President ITannnett and the directors questioned Mr. Harris closely and were disposed to believe him, when he insisted that tho shortage was due to clerical errors. As the investigation proceeded, however, many false entries wore found and many things appeared which did not ntt .1 i\ 1 n n ?? \1 i? Tin fnrvtn v^iivi vv v ii. (ii .vii. I I cl I 1 1M I I U 111 hll.v picion. It was found that he not only made false entries to make correct balances but that he also had been kiting checks from one bank to another and that in many instances he had given the mill his own, personal checks to account for cash which the mill should have had on hand, had entered these chocks 011 tho books of the mill and then had never presented these chocks to the bank for payment. In another instance, a batch of personal checks from a merchant in Anderson were found in the vault of the mill oilice which had never been presented to the hank for payment. These checks bore different dates, several years old. They had been entered on the hooks of the mill, showing that tho merchant had paid his account. Tho books show that the mill on one occasion loaned $3,000 to Harris. A few weeks later it appeared that tills loan was repaid. A personal check signed by Mr. Harris was found in me vauu ior ine amount oi mo loan, the dates corresponding with the book's entries. In addition to those checks thers were found in the vault many parcels and packages of money, some in old envelopes, some in old pasteboard boxes and some in coin sacks. Some of the money was in bills and had lain in the vault until some of it had been eaten and partly demolished by rats All of those items will aggregate about $(>,000 to $8,000. Mr. Harris was for years treasurer of the First Presbyterian church. In the vault were found a great many envelopes which the members of the congregation use on Sundays in making their payments to the church. These envelopes hear the name of the contributor and the amount contributed. There were dozens of these envelopes that were never opened, some of them dating as far back as five vears. Thorn has been hound one instance of where chocks of the mill had been used by Mr. Harris in setting the church account fit the bank. The experts of the auditing company say that the accounts were In worse shape than any they have over j seen. Thev say that it will take them several months to verify all : entries. At the same time it is known that the shortage will in no ! wise cripple the in ill, as a large snr- I plus has been accumulated and the stock is worth more than par. Mr. Harris lias been secretary and assistant cashier of the Orr mills since their establishment. Ho received a good salary hut has not lived extravagantly and has not shown any ekrns of living beyond his moans. His hooks have been examined repeatedly by different auditing companion, Including the one now checking the accounts. It appears, however, that his accounts have been wrong for several years and that he has been able to cover up all indications of crookedness from the auditors by various means. When asked for a statement hv a nauro. paper man Mr. Harris said: "I just wmt to say that If a full examination is mad? It will bo found that I have not misappropriated a single dollar of the mill's money. Reyond this I have nothing to say at this WANT IT 10 STAY rilAKLNSTON HUS1M0SS MKX FA- ' VOU Til 10 DIsriONSAHV. I Thoy Boliovo It Should lw Kotaino/l I and the lllind Timers Driven Out of liiiNincaM. I The Charleston Post savs at a i meeting of a number of business men held Tuesday at the rooms of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, a resolution was unanimously passed, urging the voters of Charleston to support the dispensary system for the regulation of the liquor traflic 011 August 17, in preference to the prohibition and a committee was appointed to use its efforts toward this end. The meeting was held in response to a call signed by 10. K. Marshall, Walter Pringle, M. llornik, J. C. Hemphill, T. It. WaritLg, W. J. Stores, 10. 11. Sparkman, James It. Johnson and W. II. Cogswell. The call announced that the tax rate of the county of Charleston is now 4 1 1-2 mills, and the profits last year from the dispensary were $1 18,000, and the enactment of a prohibition law for Charleston would mean increased taxation. With the exception of Mr. Storen and Mr. Waring, the signers of the call were present and among others: Arthur I.ynah, John P. Sheppard, W. K. Tate, C. U. Valk. IV H. Cadsden. T. J. McCarthy, J. M. Connelloy, John Hertz, Capt. F. 1>. Phillips, W. M. Itird, M. Frank, Cupt. F. W. Wagoner, 11. Poarlstino, Dr. Pockwo?(l, Daniel P. Sinkler, It. I. Simmons, M. O'Shaughnossy, Robert Patham, Albert Orth and Paul Wierse. As I ho first signer of the call, Mr. Marshall, called tin* meeting to order and nominated Mr. llornik to lake the chair. Mr. llornik declined and then on motion of Mr. Cadsden. Mr. Marshall was made chairman of the meeting. In taking the chair, Mr. Marshall made a few remarks, explaining the purpose of the call which was later read hy C. Norwood llastie, as secretary of the meeting. Mr. Marshall made a strong plea for an honest effort, in enforcing the law. He disclaimed making any reflection upon the administration, but ho thought that the time had come for action. Business men have changed their attitude toward the dispensary and a satisfactory and adequate enforcement of the law is demanded for the best interests of Charleston's trade with the up-country, as well as for a community matter. Mr. Sinkler said that lie had attended several sessions of the legislature and knew the sentiment of many toward Charleston, and thought that by consistently standing to Charleston's attitude in the past, the prospects were bright for securing a license system. Mr. Sinkler declared that personally he i? opposed to the dispensary and prohibition and an advocate of the license system. lie then offered the resolution, expressing the sense of the mooting that tlie people should vote for the dispensary. STAKVKD TO DEATH. Three Children Found Asleep lie- j side Mother's Hody. The woman lying on a pallet on the lloor dead, her mouth filled with hits of a cracker, a last effort to sustain life and her three children, ranging in age from two to nine years old, asleep beside the hody, one unconscious, was tho gruesome picture presented when neighbors forced their way into the tenement apartment of Mrs. Delia Chrystie, 35 years of age, at Memphis, Tenn., on Monday. Mrs. Chrystie had been ill, dwellers in the tenement state, and for several weeks they have ministered to her wants. Monday night when their request for admission to the room was unanswered they forced an entrance. The condition of the body indi cated that the woman had been dead mm nnvenii Hours. 1 Mitt, death re- I suited from lack of nourishment was the opinion of the police surgeoi summoned. Mrs. Chrystie came to Memphis about twelve years ago from St. j Louis. Her husband died several | years ago. That she was a woman of refinement, neighbors declare was > apparent. I " " time." Those who know the chaotic coni diflon of the accounts at the mill office <1 o not know what to think. It is a very strange case. Thoso who have looked into the condition of affairs thus far say that they have never known or heard of anything like it. There appears to be a big shortage and on the other hand there appear many old checks and some money to decrease the shortage. Some of the checks may bo good. Some of the checks wero from the government for cloth purchased from the mill and some of these are several years old. Harris is about thirty-five years of age, and stands high socially. His bond has been fixed at |22,G00. t <* .?*. f . ?? - r I HOLD UP GAME % * The Tariff t il! Discussad in the Senate. THE TRUSTS ON DECK l>niiicl ( tin* Dobulo on tin* I;i11, Charging That the Democrats Wore lK'alt With Unfairly?llri.s tow Refuses to Vote for the Hill, and Huron Prepares Tuble of Votes Beginning its consideration of the conference report on the tariff bill by a tedious report of that document, the Senate dragged along during nearly seven hours Monday without accomplishing any important resit. After the Hill had been read Senator Daniel opened the debate Charges Had Faith. Mr. Daniel's speech consisted in the main of tin arraignment of the conference committee for the exclusion of Democratic members. Ho derated that the country was In a fair way to begin lynching by the Republican conferees. Ho said a practical fraud had been committed ii iuu> twill, l, U|,MU i;ui II 11 UUflVB U1 liUll^l t!hb. Mr. Aldrich at first gave close attention to the words of the Virginian. but later left the chamber. "This country and its institutions stand at this moment between the gallows and the ground," declared Mr. Daniel in commenting upon the method of the majority. "The senate is apparently in the control of lynch law." lie then referred particularly to what he charged was bad faith in the action of the committee in signing the conference report without allowing himself and his Democratic colleagues on the committee to meet with them and to vote upon it as agreed to by the chairman of the cominitee, Mr. Aldrich. Mr. Aldrich said emphatically he never had promised that the Democratic conferee should have a day with the committee. On the other hand, Mr. Daniel was sure that such an agreement had been made. Denounces the Dill. Recalling incidents of the last national campaign, Senator Dristow declared that President Taft, in Kansas, had favored a revision of the tariff downward, and he had been elected to the Senate 011 that issue. The fact was, he said, that practically no reduction had been obtained in the tariff bill. "The tax," he said, "has been taken off of hides and added to tbo solo leather suit case that the American citizens buy. And yet it has been advertised that a reduction has been made on the leather schedule for the benefit of the American citizen." "Apparently," said Mr. Rristow, "the only thing considered in formulating the cotton schedule has been the greed of the cotton manufacturer of New England." "As a Republican Senator," said Mr. Rristow, "I will not bo a party to placing Mr. Taft in the most embarrassing position in which it is possible for a President to be placed. lie has in substance appealed to this Congress to keep faith with the people, but in effect it is a bill to ignore that appeal. "I set up no standard for other Senators. Every man should vote as his conscience and judgment distate. But I feel that should I support this bill, I would be recreant to my duty as a Senator and unfaithful to the people who sent me here to represent them." Prepare Table of Votes. Saying he believed the passage of im? i a nix mil would only bo the beginning of a popular discussion of the tariff, Mr. Bacon expressed himself as extremely anxious that there should be no question as to the responsibility of Senators for the framing of that measure. lie had prepared a collection of every yea and nay vote taken on the many amendments to the bill, together with an explanation of the method of voting in the Senate, which he asked to have printed in the Record. This request was granted. The table shows the attitude of , the members of the two parties to j all the questions presented. Mr. Bacon's statement, he ex- j plained, showed that thero had been 1117 yea and nay votes in which the I Democrats had voted for lower and j the Republicans for higher duties, except that in two instances the Ro' publicans had voted for lower du ties, lie added a careful analysis of the votes of the insurgents and cerI tain Democrats who had voted with [ the majority. J Commit Suicide, Two young French girls of tho working class, aged sixteen and eighteen, have committed suicide at Nlco by suffocation from charcoal fumes. After strewing tho room with flowers and draping tho bed with long crepe bands, they put on white dresses, tied their hair with ribbons, drank some white wine and lay down. When discovered both ( girls were dead. - III?? FA KM KIW> KHOriJ) SUPPORT TIiono XcwHiii'pt'rs That l-'ight Tlit'lr Had les. In an audience composed monstly of the members of the Farmers' L'uion one of the speakers recently expressed the mutual friendship between the farm and newspaper in the following: "As a rule the farmer has no firmer friend than the country press. The homo paper is distinctly the farmer's own paper, supported directly and indirectly by farmers, who compose the backbone of the subscription list of the printer and . u ~ * A v. - A . . mifsvij iui wuiii. me enterprising merchant advertises. Now, brother, let us not forget our friends. Let us see that our subscription is paid a year in advance. We can do it. "The man or the paper that fights my battle shall have my support. Another thing, the merchant advertising are the ones that make it possible for us to get a good local paper. The man or local firm that is too penurious to advertise and help support the local press has no right to the farmer's patronage. "I promise hereafter to go to the live advertiser and the man who does his share in supporting the local press, thus contributing to my support, rather than buy of a man who proposes to take all and give nothing back. If farmers as a class would support their friends, the other fellow would soon go out of business." riiorciiikn ovkk precipice. Two Young <>ii ls I land in Hand Met Their Dentil. A distressing accident has occurred at L'Herniitago above Xeuchatol, Franco, to two girls who were nicking wild flowers from a precipitous bank. They had joined hands and one had climbed down a precipice to reach the flowers, when she lost her footing. Her companion tried to hold her, but her weight proved too much and both fell over the precipice. One girl, Mile. Banwart h, landed on her dead, on the rocks and was immediately killed. The other, Mile. Koenig, suffered severe injuries. MANY 1)110 FROM CANCER. It Baffles Medical Scientists and is Spreading. One man in every thirty-two, and one woman in every eleven die from cancer in this country, according to I)r. Edward Milton Foote, consult ui? {in)siciiiu to i-ii 13 xncw xorK skin and cancer hospital. "I have no hesitancy In announcing cancer the worst physical scourge with which we have to contend today," said Dr. Foote, in an interview. "Cancer is far more dreaded than tuberculosis, for although the death rate from cancer is not yet so steadily on the increase, while the great white plague has been partially conquered by medical experimentation and is on the decrease." LEADING LAWRR TO PRISON. New Orleans Attorney Forgo<l to Extent of Over $150,000. To begin serving a sentence of fourteen years Robert J. Maloney, formerly a leading lawyer of New Orleans, will he taken to the State penitentiary shortly. Maloney was charged with forgeries exrredincr $ 1 0 nan TVfo?.r 0 T a. v v ) vr V V ? ATI till J KJ k the clients whom Maloney defrauded petitioned the governor to let him remain in Now Orleans, with the hope of straightening out some of the tangled transactions of which they were victims. This was done. The governor decided a few nights ago, however, that six months was long enough for such assistance and ordered that the penitentiary term be begun at once. Saves Woman's Tiife. At Roanoke, Va., Berth a DeTine, a young white woman, after quarreling with her sweetheart, shot herself in the head, In an attempt to commit suicide. A "rat" in her hair saved her life, the speed of the bullet from a ..12 calibre rovolver being checked by that appurtenance. When the physicians at the hospital pulled the hair from the wound the bullet came out with the mass of false adornment. Tn\ve<l Launch l>y His Teeth. Fred T)icke, a lawyer, of Two Rivers. Wis., fhis n, . . v.. ?? V/V i* I Oil v Oil I III. lives of seven women when the gasoline en pine on his launch exploded by Jumping overboard and taking the pointer in his teeth and thus towing the craft to shallow water, where he women jumped out and wo'e saved. Used His Gun. While on their way to church Wednesday night near Renno, T.aurens county, Poarl Gist and Buhl] Golden, negroes, engaged in a pistol duel, both using Iver Johnson "guns," with tho result that Golden was left dead in the road with a bullet through the heart. Gist was lodged In jail. -v.. -1 - Southern States ^ BUY Kf Machinery A AkA U' (lk!? .Mv A.W F'lurnblny .. i... j?<>---vtiiumalo O OLUMf CIUMINATj assault. Fiendish Crime CI 1 urged Against Young White Man. The Journal and Review says on Thursday afternoon P. P. Warreu, a white man, was committed to the Aiken Jail on a very serious charge, that of assaulting a young white girl 1 who lives near Wagener, in the Lybrand section. The assault is alleged to have been committed on the 5th day of . July, but only recently the young lady's parents heard of it. Relatives of the girl swore out a warrant ns soon as it became known to them and Warren was arrested and committed to jail by Magistrate II. B. Garvin. Warren runs a mill, or Is employed at a grist mill, and it is here the assault is alleged to have been committed one afternoon, when the young girl went on business. The young girl was alone there with him at the time. The girl is only thirteen years old, and comes of good people. Under a recent law this is made a capital offense, and if Warren is convicted it will mean that he must ' suffer the death penalty. This is the second white man that has been charged with this fiendish crime in this State in the last few months. A speedy example should be made of one of lite fiends and then possibly such crimes by whito men would stop. ?? ? I CIGAltHTTH IS AN OUTLAW. Smokers Buy at High Prices During Last flours. The cigarette is an outlaw in Minnesota. The new State law prohibiting the sale has gone into effect, | and it is now illegal to put them on the market. At Minneapolis the cigarette mar- J ket assumed a good purchase in the rlnRtnP' hmira Ttin ...0 1 1IU |ll ItC Y clI lUll and was unsettled as the stock market after a flurry in Wall street. Early in the evening there was a shortage in popular brands at some cigar stores and clerks sent up J prices. Reports came in from other sections of the city that a fresh supply I had arrived, which caused a rush to theso stores. The prices were kept at top notch. At least a million , cigaretts were sold in Minneapolis during the day. Nearly very store in the city had sold almost its entire supply before the end came. CAUSED INDIGNATION. Citizens yof Mississippi Town Deny I Preacher's Story. Indignation was caused at Ethel, Miss., a few days ago by a dispatch from Cincinnati quoting the Rev. Frank It. English as saying that ho was threatened with mob violence and driven out of Ethel without anything to oat when he came to take the presidency of Itust University at Holly Springs. Leading citizens of Ethel admit that Mr. Ensrlish tr?wi w . VUIU IU ICIIVO I town because he was seen shaking I hands with negroes and acting faI miliarly towards them, which they | believed would excite the blacks and stir up race strife. They say, however, that no mob was formed and that no throats were made. They say Mr. English became frightened when told that it would be better for him to leave. Short Meter Sermons. Selfishness is the seed and sin is the harvest. Think only of yourself and others will forget you.The empty bead is easily wrinkled into furrows that look like deep thought. A small life often takes all its time waiting for a chance at a big I job. Gambling has taught many a young man how lie couldn't make I money. 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If you are contemplating the purchase of a piano or organ, write ua at once for catalogues, and for our special proposition. MALONE'S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, S. C. o r > o 53 O O ? Cotton 11 Mill Apply 0 Fulton Bag and TTaItI W Cotton Mills, XAtJljJ Atlanta, Ga. Wanted ? >?< > I r tWOOD, IRON AND ^ RrltlniTi Packing. Lacing. _ . LOMnARD COMPANY. AUGUSTA, GA. CHEAT PLAGUE OF MOTHS. Thousands of Them Swarm Hotels in New York. What appeared to be a heavy snow storm was really mylards of small white moths which again visit| ed New York Monday night. I Again the little pests swarmed i into the brightly lighted hotels and ! restaurants and clouded the streot lamps, but this timo they were accompanied by millions of large brown moths, some of them flvo inches from tip to tip, and as these I I1..H I miLioroa about the lights they lookeil like bats. A strange feature of these visitations which this summer are worse than ever before, and which the entomologists are trying to fathom, is what becomes of the moths at the break of day. With the first ray of daylight they disappear, but no one has found where they go. Two Hoys Drown. While in bathing with several other young boys tit, a point seven mile9 from Kingslands eio ?- ^ in me St. I Mary's river, two white boys, Isaac Carlton and Uoy Haddock, each fifteen years of ago, were drowned. It. was stated that the lads were seen struggling together and It Is thought one was endeavoring to save the life of the other. The bodies were recovered. r "Up-to-date" Sawmill ias absolutely all the LATEST IMPRO VEITS. And we think we aro safe in saying, >est feed on earth. A money maker for the 'BEST GOODS-BEST PRICES" lmbia Supply Co* Columbia, S. C. ? i