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FLOOD RISING Heurly in Paris, But It Is Heped the Worst Has Been Passed. FRANCE ASKS CREDIT More Than a Hundred Thousand Refugees Doing Cared for by the Government and the Number ts Jlcing Increased by tlio Hundreds Kvery Hour of the Day. Tlio ilood at Paris, France, continues. A dispatch from that city on Thursday night says another day has passed, but tlio inexorable tide still creeps slowly higher, each iuch of water widely extending the area of destruction, desolation and ruin. Although the barometer *s rising rapidly, and bright sunshine Thursday succeeded the raging storms, a feeling of consternation, bordering on panic, prevailed when the authorities, who the day before promised the maximum of the Ilood for Thursday, announced that this would not be reach until Friday morning. The city counsel at a stormy ses si on Thursday night charged M. Lupine, prefect of Paris, with withholding the true gravity of the situation. The prefect defended his attidude by saying that he was governed by the necessity of not unduly alarming the people. In the meantime what is happening is enough to strike terror to the hearts of all. The very crust of the city seems ready to sink into the flooded subterranean labyrinth beA neath. Every hour drains are bursting in new localities, , causing a subciLl /Mt A/\ / \ f t L a t r\ f r\ ?? 1% it 1 nrl ii nr DIUUlll/U \J k Lite: OllVJUL \J I IMI IfSlllh them up feet above their normal level, while the overflow of surface water from the river is transforming the inundated districts into formidable lakes and the streets into canals. In the Bercy quarter the ware* is six feet deep in t lie streets, and t he entire left bank of the Sein from above the islands to Au Teull, comprising the law court institute, the fashionablo St. Germaine district, the foreign office, the chamber of deputies, and the Champs de Mars is submerged under from one to 10 feet of water. Some of the leputies loft the Palace Bourbon Thursd?" night in row boats, others 01 the backs of attendants, the wails of the -Invalides station are crumbling and both that structure and the wine of the foreign ollice opposite are in danger of collapse. The stress surrounding the St. Lazare station have sunk three feet, and the situation there is regarded as desperate. It Is also feared that the foundation of the two big neighboring department stores are being undermiued. The overflow of the broken sewers into the flooded basements, menacing the health of the occupants a id the smell of sewage is already permeating the buildings. Soldiers ar? working desperately by the aid of torches, disentangling drift-wood alK)ve tlie Solferino and Henry IV bridges, while largo forces of men are still engaged in building dams to divert the course of the water. There was a further shut-down of electric ligni pianis i nursuay iiigni, leaving the city in semi-darkness. The relief is proceeding bravely, none being refused food or shelter. Archbishop Amiette has ordered prayers in the churches and a collection taken up for the victims. In spite of the crippled water supply the authorities say that the reservoirs are Intact and that there is no danger of a famine if the water is husbanded carefully and confined strictly to drinking purposes. At the same time a warnin is again issued that the water should be boilIed. The situation below Paris is be1 coining appreciably worse. The stretch of water which ongulfs Boulogne, Neuilli, Punteaux, Severes, Malsons-Lafltte, Lepocq, and Poissy, is widening rapidly while farther Iks low the swollen Oise is pouring lr new torrents over the Pontoiso sec tion. The weather everywhere through out France has ameliorated and it ii believed that the worst of the floot is past. No Americans are reportei injured. The artists and student for the most part live in the Latli quarter, which is on high ground and the richer Americans generall; reside in the neighborhood of th Hue de L'Etoile, the highest portloi of the city. The boulevard life of the gay Par isian has been suddenly silenced Most of the music halls remain opo but they are deserted. A hushe multitude sits in front of the boulc vard cafes. At a special mooting a few night ago the board of health drew up in structlons for the prevention of a epidemic. The board especially in slits that none of the flooded house * must be re-occupled until they hav n thoroughly disinfected, and th ling and clothing, which hav yn contaminated by flood water ned. The board announced that ther o 304,000 cubic meters in th< snrolrs, enough for several day DIED THREE TIMES SUMEKAL DENNIS* WIDOW BAYS 11K HAS DIED IiATELY ? While the Pension Ofllco Had Iliru Doud Once in 1810 and Once Again in 1847. Zaeh McGee in his lotter to Tho State from Washington says a former South Carolinian. Sumoral Dennis, bears tho record of the nearest approach to tho nine lives of the cat. and the pension ofllco Is at work trying to figure out how many times he really has dlod. The Washington Star prints tho following story. which while the pension case' in of special interest In Alabama, is still of interest in South Carolina if there is anybody there now whose name is Dennis: "The officials of the pension office in Washington are accustomed to receive claim for pensions which are stranger than llctlon. They are at work on acclaim mado by Mrs. Summoral Dennis of Dadevillo, Ala., which caused them no end of surprise. "Snmeral Dennis, It appears on the official records, died in 1815, after serving in the American army during the war of 18 12, According to the records, he silso died in 1847 at the close of tlie war with Mexico, in which he also did good service. Now comes his widow and declares that Sumcral Dennis died only a few years ago, having lived to a ripe old age. "Senator Johnston of Alabama has taken much interest in the claim and is pushing it before the senate committee on claims with the hope of winning the pension for the old lady, who lives now in Dadeville with her son, Perry C. Dennis, a prominent attorney. "If the pension claim goes through Mrs. Dennis will receive in the neighborhood of $2,000, including the back pension which is due her. "Snmeral Dennis has a death record that few can beat. The officials in Washington aro afraid that he may yet be discovered alive. "Way back in 1S12 he lived in South Carolina. During the second war with Great Britain, Mr. Dennis became a member of Cap. Beatty's company in the First regiment of the South Carolina militia. He serv ed gallantly during the war. Hut. according to the records on file in Washington, he died his first death in 1815. "Hut, in spite of the fact that ho was officially dead, Mr. Dennis, who was still a young man, moved to Alabama, where he settled and lived prosperously until the Mexican war broke out. His old spirit for war was still alive, and ho organized a company of volunteers himself and joined the army of invasion. "After this war ho was officially reported dead for the second time. However, he lived to return to Alabama and to marry Mrs. Eva P. Dennis some years later. It is Mrs. Dennis who is now seeking the pension. The old man was 94 years old when he died the third time. "When the officials in Washington raise the crticism of the claim that Mr. Dennis died after the Mexican war, before Mrs. Dennis claims to have married him, Senator Johnston points to the fact that, according to the records, Dennis was dead in 1815, and yet the later records show him to have served in the Mexican war. "The senator argues , therefore, that if the records as to his death were wrong in the first instance, they might be wrong in the second, and that Mr. Dennis' widow should know, if any one, when her husband died and if she married the shadow of a man." and therefore there was little fear of a water famine. All omnibuses, street cars and other heavy trafllc on the bridges wore stopped Thursday night. Prei niier Bryand declared that persons , who hoarded up provisions in the , affected places with the Intention oi . reselling them at a profit, would be i drastically dealth with. The residence of United Statej Ambassador Bacon has become un - tenable and the family has romovec s to the Mercedes hotel. \ The Red Cross society, which ha< 1 received a substantial check fron s Ambassador Bacon, established sou] a kitchens for the destitute at a hun , dred points. Thursday afternoon Mr y Bacon called upon Foreign Mlniste o Pinchon and informally tendered th? a sympathy of the Aemrlcan govern ment and people. J. Pierpont Morgan has cable* I. from New York tendering $20,000 i o outside contributions to their relio j ^ i i nil. ^ tt -i - ' (1 wwtllll IJU iUH't'lHl'll. 1 IltJ IOUII fl ill lOIl ?- of the National Porcelain factory a Saveres are Kinking, s Thursday Paris resembled a be i- leagured city. The government o n the municipality has placed the mill i- tary barracks and public school butd h ings at the disposition of the refugee! o who already number, it Is estimated e more than 100,000. Fifteen thou e sand laborers of the city are out o , work, and though subscriptions art pouring in, the government hai e decided to ask parliament for aT e additional credit to, be used in rellel s work. ILLICIT BOOZE MUCH OF IT MADE IN OKKKXVILINK'S DAltK COHXKH. During the I*a*t ?o?r Kovenue Officers OontlKcatcd and DoHtroyed Over Twenty Still* a Month. Never la the history of South Carolina ha? illicit whiskey distilling been bo popular ub iu the year just past. So busy have tlio moonshiners ocen that the staff of United States deputies under command of Revenue Oilicer Merrick have been going day ind night trying to lind and destroy the stills from which conies most of the so-called "tanglefoot" which certain whites and a great many more Carolina "darkies" consider far superior, so far as effect is concerned, to the strongest government approved stuff ever distilled in Kentucky or Tennessee. The South Carolina dispensary system may or may not bo responsible tor the activity of the moonshiners but it lias been suggested that "the prohibition wave has had a wonderful effect 011 the 'moonshiners' in ilie re-establishniont of their illicit business." During the year 1909 the revenue oillcers destroyed an average of 20 illicit distilleries a month, confiscating over 200,000 galions of whiskey and low wines, ineluding, of course, the white "csrn licker" that a negro preacher once described as "pow-ful po'in tais' but pow'ful god in de geellu's it gen'rates." It is in Greenvillo county, one of tlie most prosperous cotton manufacturing centers in the Southern States that tho appropriately named "dark corner' is found, and it is declared that every half hour the moon stays behind a cloud means a gallon of whiskey for every minute. Revenue Offlcer Merrick says there is scarcely a day that his 111011 are not tipped off that some new still has started operations and is running full blast. Raids are of daily occurrance. The distilleries range from ten to SO gallons in capacity and some are said to lie the finest copper stills ever manufactured. The "dark corner" of Greenvillo, however, lias not a monopoly of the illicit whiskey trade by any means. Dig outfits have been discovered and destroyed in Pickens, another of the mountain tier of counties, within the last few weeks, and there was a "tip" a few days ago of a fine plant near Springfield, in Edgefieid county, the home of United States Senator Tillman. LEXINGTON MAN'S CLOSE CALL. County School Superintendent Martin Comes Near Losing Life. County Superintendent of Education A. D. Martin of Lexington, came very near losing his lifo a few days ago, while attempting to cross Watereo creek in the Dutch Fork. Mr. Martin was on his way from Chapin to Spring Hill, and was not aware of the depth of the creek which was considerably swollen by the heavy rains of a few days ago. and before he had gone very fa^ into tho stream the current carried the horse and buggy down, and Mr. Martin had to swim to the shore. lie rushed to a house nearby and told of his experience, and two young 111011 went to tho creek to save the horse. The horse and buggy were found some distance down the stream, and by beroic work the animal was cut loose from the buggy ? ?-? .1 lv. 1. i 1- * * - aim mullein io me oanK in satety. The buggy was a complete wreck, and Mr. Martin went to Lexington horseback, arriving there about 6:30. This is said to lie a very treacherous stream, others having had similar experiences. The heaviest rain of the season fell in Lexington Friday morning, accompanied by lightning, and reports form all over the county indicate that the streams are rising. !( Suicide Over in Sumter. , Major Marlon Moise, a leading law yer and financier of Sumter, klllec j himself with a Colt's revolver Sun day afternoon about G o'clock. Hi j had been in bad health recently am this is supposed to have been thi 9 cause of the tragedy. Shorty after i ^ o'clock this evening, Dozier Lee, soi r) of R. D. Lee, Major Moise's partnei wont into the office and dlscovere , the major's dead body on a settee i r the centre of tho office. In his righ p hand which rested on his hip, was . Colt's revovlver and in his right toni pie was a bullet wound that showo rj conclusively the cause of his deatl f Davis Moiso, a son of the dead mar f was summoned immediately and h s in turn called in Dr. Walter Cheyn< t the family physician. Dr. Cheyn said that death had resulted instant . iy. f CM C. and O. Employees Killed. A dispatch from Bristol, Tenn f? says Brakeman F. A. Thomas an , four laborers on a construction trai .. were killed a few nights ago, whe f the train on the Carolina, Clinch ? field and Ohio railroad ran into 3 slide near St. Paul, Va. The ca i hoose, In which the men were rid t Ing was thrown over a high embank ment and landed in a river. CASH CUT OFF Junketiag Trips by Members of Congress Does No Good Bot WASTES LOTS OF MONEY Immigration Commission Scored? uvui iii v/i umo^ mvum^i u/ *?*> quest for $123,000 More-?I*?to Souator Latimer, of This State. Was a Member. By cutting; off a deficiency appropriation of $125,000 for the National Immigration Commission, the House Monday lent its support to soveia) members, led by Representative Macon of Arkansas, who denounced the commission aud its work and threat- ( ened it with immediate extinction. Unless friends of tiro commission succeed in having the item restored to the urgency deficiency bill in the senate it will be compelled to suspend for lack of funds. The commission asked for the $125,000 ap propriation which it needed to wind up its work. Senator Dillingham of Vermont is chairman of the commission, the other members being Senator Lnige, Representative Howell of New Jersey, Bennett of New York and Burnett of Alabama; Prof. J. W. Jenks of Cornell University, and William R. Wheeler of San Francisco. When the paragraph making the appropriation for tlie commission was reached during the consideration of Ilia lll'amit I.Ill M .. vi.v Ui>)viii uviu.iuiivj uin mi. rtincon made a point of order against it on the ground that it was not a deficiency. Following this action caino a general assault against the commission by several members, Mr. Macon making a scathing attack on the body. He charged that the commission had gono on a j.mketing expedition abroad, had spent $057,91)3 and had accomplished practically nothing. "I am advised," said Mr. Macon, "that this commission went abroad during tlie summer of 1 907. and that no report of the trip ha? ever been published, and in my judgment will not, for it seems the Hip was a pleasure junket for most of the members, rather than an informationgathering trip. The commission made no progress until force 1 to do so by the late Senator Latimer of South Carolina, who threatened to return home on the next steamer and inform the government on the iloor of tlie senate that the commission intended merely to doi.iv immigration investigation. Messrs. Latimer, Burnett and Howell of the commission were allowed to go to work while ths chair- 1 man told Mr. Wheeler, seore.a.y nf the commission, to come wda mu. and enjoy himself, that (.09 immigration problem had been tli u'onghly investigated by the indust:!.u commission and that only he and one other know t.h? rojii nnmnsi nt _ w*?a gf v? a v/ ?J w L (/HO commission. "I have heard that the auditoi for tho State department has entered a protest against a certain mu?2her of the commission for charging up as part of his expense account amounts paid out by him for laundry, hair-cuts, shampoos, shines and rutomobile rides for pleasure on Die Appian way." Mr. Tawney, chairman of the appropriation commission, which reported the bill, condemned tho principle of creating commissions with "permanent appropriations," but iiid be never had been able to stop mt practice. Mr. Sabath of Illiois, Butler of Pennsylvania, Burett of Alabama, who is a member f the commission, and others a'so poke against the appropriation after zhich it was stricken out on Mr. dacon's point of order. DOCTOlt GAVE MAX POISON. Ho Was Asked by tho Patient to Administer Deudly Drug. A dispatch from Budapest, Hungarla, says a sensational murder charge, involving the ever intricate problem as to the right of a doctor to kill an incurable patient, is absorbing public attention there. The accused man is Dr. Joseph Kokete of Hosinjo, Hungary. He admits having given poison to a patient at the latter's request. i i ne vicum lias endured appalling a suffering ff>n ten years, and, his i- malady being without remedy and d probably likely to entail many more i. years of torture, the doctor admini, istered poison with the full consent e of the family, who were assembled i, at the bedside. o A nursemaid had been listening - at the door, and on her evidence Dr. Fokete found himself charged with the capital offense. The case is without precedent in the courts there, but with public d opinion wholly in favor of the prisn oner it is not likely that he will be n severely punished. i. ? a It's better to have a foolish belie! i- that comforts you than a wise one I- that pains you. You cannot tell what a woman aims at by what the hits. w Will Dye liftdiM' or Men's Garments Cleaned < Cleaned a n< C. C. Laundry ai OOLUMH 1/ Southern States IVIeoht n?r,y mm l"r^7r ^lurgbincr % OOL.U M B lONCIMO STltlKKS WAGON. Two Mules Killed, Driver Hurt and N 1 Wagon Demolished. An engine on the Atlantic Coast Line struck a team of Mr. E. Albert ^ Muldrow's at the Mount Hope Cemetery crossing near Florence Thursday afternoon about 2 o'clock, killing the two mules instantly, demol- ^ isliing the wagon completely, cutting off the leg of the negro driver of the team and seriously injuring Switchman Wilson. The engine, which was a switcher, was carrying fc a carload of coal to the Jersey's Creek pumping station, and was running extra, with Engineer Herbert Howell at the throttle. The mules had gotten almost en- j tierly across the track when the engine struck them. The mules were rolled along the track for about a hundred yards, and were killed outright. The wagon was scattered, in parts, for twice that distance, and j it was a most miraculous thing that Wilson, the switchman, was not instantly killed, as ho was sitting on the front of the engine when it struck the mules and wagon. The negro driver and Wilson wore ( pjHuvu auoara oi tne engine and hurried back to the city for medical treatment. At this time the driver is in a precarious condition, and it is doubtful if he will survive. < THE NEW FERTILIZER. A discovery of far-reaching lmpci tance to the farmers of the South t? _ the new fertilizer which has beet J perfected on one of the islands near Charleston, S. C. It has long been known that lime is an essential food for plants of all kinds and that they cannot live when It has been exhausted from the soli. It has also been " known that old worn-out lands are \ extremely deficient in lime, and that sour, badly-drained lands have their lime is a for mthat is not usable by growing crops. Farmers' Bulletin No. 124, U. 8. Dept. of Agriculture, says: "All the applications of lime increased the yields * The best yields were _ obtained with the lime in the form ^ of carbonate, the finely ground oyster shells standing first * Lime with fertilizer was more profitable than depending upon fertilizer alone." This new fertilizer which presents lime in its most usable form is made by a new process of burning oyster shells and using a burner that can supply potash. The result la a high grade fertilizer costing the consumer only $7.00 per ton. It reclaims worn-out lands .in a marvelous manner if applied broadcast two months ahead of ammoniated cnrwtn tt'o i ' sweetening effects on sour lands is almost magical. Charleston freight rates apply on this new fertilizer. The factory is located on Young's Island, S. C., but all letters should be addressed to E. L. Commins, Sales Agent, Meggetts, S. C. Free descriptive circulars will be sent *o any one on request. BARGAINS! BARGAINS! While They Bast. 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