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RETURN NO BILL (raid Jory At Newberry Refnse to Iodic! T. B. Felder, ON CHARGES OF BRIBERY Action In Case Follows Additional Charge by Court, at Grand JuryV? Request?Hill Handed Out by Solicitor Monday?No Comment from Winding-Up Commission. Shortly after -hearing an additional charge from Judge Gage, delivered In response to an inquiry as to whether they could take into consideration the expense to the county and tlio moral and social effect of a prosecution of Thomas H. Felder, of Atlanta, for alleged bribery in connection with old State dispensary affairs, the grand jury in the Sessions Court at Newberry Wednesday morning returned "no bill" in the Felder case. The Jury had had the bill since Monday morning. It is lnderstood that there was considerable division among the grand jury upon what finding should be made. From the question asked by the jury, and from other circumstances in connection with the consideration of the till by them, it is Inferred that the jury looked not alone to the question of the evidence submitted in support of the allegation, but took under consideration the wisdom of a prosecution. Attorney General Lyon stoppe' over in Newberry for a short time between trains on his way to his home in Abbeville. He did not appear in the Court room. In fact, he reached Newberry after the finding in the Felder case. Fred H. Dominick, Esq., a member of the dispensary winding-up commission, said Wednesday night that he had no statement to give out in regard to the jury's finding. Judge Gage In replying to the grand jury's question, said that this case arose "out of that terrible experiment which the State was induced to make some twenty years ago, and that was an honest effort to make respectable a nefarious business, that of selling liquor to men." "I trust," he said, "the State has tried that experiment to its heart's content." He said the grand jury was bound to know the public history of all of these dispensary orosecutions, and he gave the jury a brief history of the prosecution and the results, naming, among the others, the prosecution against Boykin, Towill and Evans, the three witnesses on the Felder bill, me prosecution agams iwans naving been brought in che Newberry Court and having been nolle prossod by the State. With reference to the matter of expense, be said, "if it is true that Folder offered these men a bribe, and if the testimony so satisfies jou, and - If tbe testimony satisfies you that this prosecution is in gool faith to vindicate tbe law of tbe land, you ought to find a true bill, no matter what tbe expense is. But, on tbe other hand if tbe testimony does not so satisf} you, if you are not satisfied that the prosecution is for public purposes, 01 to put it differently, if you are satisfied tbat tbe prosecution is not for tbe public good tnd will not end in public good, you have a wide discretion in tbe matter; you can eithei find no bill, or you can return the bill to the solicitor unacted upon stating to him that you will no: make any finding upon it, but prefer it to stand until more satisfactory proof comes to your hands. "But, above all things, gentlemen," said Ju 'ge Gage, "you should make one thing your pole-star and unless you do that you will do wrong Put behind you every personal consideration and look to the truth and the truth alone, and plant yourselves firmly upon (he truth, and go to that goal to which truth leads >ou. If you go at it in this spirit, and with this purpose, you are bound to reach a right conclusion. If you go at it in any other spirit, you are bound to reach a wrong conclusion." MOTHER FINDS KIDNAPPED SON. Sho is Able to Identify Mini by a Scar on His Head. A mother and her roti have just I come together at Galveston, Tex., af-j ter twenty-six years' separation, lie Is Paul Frederick, thirty-two years old, owner of 20,000 acres of grazing land and a herd of cattle in the western part of the State; she is seventy-five and all through the years of separation her maternal longing persisted until she located her boy. Having satisfied him by letter that he belonged to her, she came alone from Montreal to join him and will end her days on his ranch. Four Burned Alive. Fire on the farm of Lieutenant Governor T. W. Patterson, near Liverpool station, B. C., caused the death of four persons early Thursday. Thomas Moore, in charge of the farm, his young daughter and two small sons were the victims. Five children, boys, escaped. The mother and * sister were absent from home. MAKING FLOORS OF SAWDUST Artificial Floorings Are Manufactured Extensively In Germany?Resemble Mosaic Pavements. Artificial floorings, made of sawdust ind other Ingredients, are manufactured extensively in Germany. It is jnuerstood now that certain firms aro to introduce a similar process in this country. The flooring composition consists of % solution of magnesium chloride to which pulverized magnesia is added and which of itself forms a white, absolutely solid. artiilc'*! stone. If to [ this cement sawdust be added in considerable proportions the combination, when it becomes hard, possesses many of tho qualities of both wood and f.A Attn 51UJIC. Some of these floorings are mixed on the spot and laid soft on the space to bo covered, while others are molded Into plates and delivered ready made. According to consular and trade reports, one Hamburg firm impregnates the wood meal with oil nefore mixing It with the magnesia paste and thereby renders it nonabsorbent. In Germany the cheaper grades of flooring are colored to resemble linoleum or mosaic pavements, and In many instances bave given entire satisfaction during a considerable term of years. The emigrant halls of the Hntnhnrp-. Amerfenn line In Hamburg ...... nre paved almost entirely with this composition. Floors thus made are more elastic than cement floors, are much warmer, and preserve a smoother surface. Under the fire test this flooring chars, but does not burn, and Is a poor conductor of heat. HEAT LOSS THROUGH GLASS Condition.of Snow on Greenhouse Roof Shows Relative Transmission ?Wood Is Best. The relative transmission of heat through glass and through wood is well illustrated In this drawing of the condition of snow on the top of a greenhouse roof some twelve hours after the snow began to fall. The total snowfall Is shown by the dotted line across the top. After the 12-hour fall the snow above the twoI ** >? J ?' ?$.1 Tfvnrturt lf<r I 1 Heat Loss Through Glass. inch thick wooden ribs of the roof was rIx inches deep, and only about one inch deep over the greater part of the glass sunace, says the Popular Mechanics. The loss of heat through the glass wa.. five times as great as the loss of heat through the two-inch wooden ribs. Novel Vacuum Cleaner. A creat variety of vacuum cleaners have appeared on the market and many of them vary from others only In the most minute details, but one which is on entirely novel lines lias been recently brought out and will fill i special place and may In the course of time he perfected so as to be applicable to all domestic establishments where a stream of water is available. It consists of two suction pumps, operated by a direct connected water wheel and a chamber in which the dust and dirt mix with the water discharged from the wheel. The machine, which weighs a little less than twenty-flvo pounds, is intended to sit over a sink or bathtub and the dirt and water pass out through the waste pipo. MECHANICAL m notes mi Germany sends 20,000 feathers a year to England for millinery purposes. Kid gloves have nothing to do with kids. They are made of the akius of Bhcep. Artificial wood for matches, made from straw, has been Invented by a Frenchman. The lumber Interest of the far northwest has shown a growth of 144 per : Dent, in ten years. j Sealing wax does not contain a particle of wax. It consists of shellac, turpentine and cinnabar. Whalebone is not bone at all. It has not a single one of the many distinctive properties of bone. Projectiles fired even from tbo heaviest guns, when they penetrate concrete, do so without splintering it. At Hamburg, Germany, a fashionable restaurant occupies a building mo/tfl nf r?nmnroRsed nancp. W I I i < I ' >? MO utuuw u. w?..., . The Malay states supply two-thirds of the tin used In the world. Their exports of tin last year were above $40,000,000. The wood of the willow tree is tough, elastic and light For this reason artificial limbs are usually made of willow wood. Recent experiments In Franco have shown that natural turf Is an excellent material from which to form beds for filtering sewage. While the United States wan a little slow In getting started In the ail* tomobile business, there are many who claim that we now lead. Germany Imported more than 3,000 tons of fruit waste In 1910, principally apple and pear pealing and core*, to be used by jelly manufacturers. SPOKt IN CHARUMON GOV. FOSS OP MASSACHUSETTS PBKSKNT AT BANQUET. Democratic Principals Declared Only Basis of Progress?Outlined Progressive Movement of Party. A closer run of the state for popular government, and the elimination of special tariff and other privileges, as the only basis for constructive national progress was advocated by Gov. Eugene N. Foss, of Massachu setts, in an address before the St. Andrew's Society Thursday night in Charleston. lie declared the business interests of the country must be built upon constructive business lines for the benefit of the people and that the Republican party had utterly failed in this regard. He outlined the progressive movement of the Democratic party, which, ho said, furnished the necessary solution of our national problems and declared that the country is calling upon that party to assume the leadership. He declared that the Slierman act had failed to safeguard and develop our industrial prosperity, and that it had reacted injuriously upon all business. He believed, he said, that each state must nc v tako up the duties of regulating Its trade and commerce, instead of leaving this to take its chances with unwise Federal control and litigation; called for a more business-like direction of public affairs and declared it to be the duty and the opportunity of the progressive Democracy to establish clean-cut business methods in government as well as industry and commerce. "The people now realize that the business interests of the country and all problems of public finances and all problems of public finances and fiscal policy cannot remain the prey of partisan schemes; but must be raised to the highest level on sound economic principles. Progress is possible on this plan, and on no other. "Legislation in regard to our industry and commerce has hitherto been far more destructive of broad, honest expansion than effective in checking dishonesty or in limiting monopolies. "We now enter upon a new era in which progressive legislation on these lines will take the place of tariff juggling and its attendant evils. "The era of the Payne-Aldrich tariff has been also the era of the political boss. It has witnessed the subversion of Legislatures, the dictation of congressional action, and the disturbance of executive duty, through forces that work in the dark, against the public welfare. It has been the direct representation of popular will supplanted by the dictates of political machines. "Relief from present conditions can be?and will be?accorded by Democratic administration and a Democratic administration and a Democratic Congress. These results can be secured by cur party through the twin policies of a reasonable tariff and a settled program of reciprocal trado agreements. "Hut there is, in my Judgment, a still more important step which remains for us to take. "It is time for Congress while upholding the principle that interstate and foreign trade shall be free from restraint, to define so far as practicable what specific acts shall be deemed lawful and what unlawful, it order that the legitimate business of the country may know wnat the conditions are to whhch business must conform. "It Is time, also, to reaffirm the principle that each state must do for itself all that human power can ac cornplish to utilize its constitutional powers. "Failure of the states to act effectively within their common sphere serves as a justification for undue extension of national authority. *'\Ve must now face a situation in which the fear of restraint by combinations of capital has given way to apprehension of greater restraint by the national government itself." ? ? GUILTY OF MUItDKK. Quick Justice Meted to Man Who Killed Mrs. Mary Hall. At Whito Plains, N. R., it took a jury but ten minutes to reach a verdict of guilty Thursday In the trial of Vinceazo Coma, charged with the murder of Mrs. Mary Hall at her home near Crotan Lake, on November 9 last. Never \vas a murder case cleared up in shorter time in that county. Two days after the murder live men .niogeu to nave ncen oanuivs, who killed Mrs. Hall in an effort to make her discloso tho whereabouts ot a largo sum of insurance money, were arrested; they were Indicted two days later; Coma, the alleged leader of the bandits, was placed on trial Monday. Tho defense presented no witnesses. ? Lever First At Capital. Representative A. F. I^evcr of South Carolina Is tho first member of tho congressional delegation from this Stato to reach Washington for the coming session of congress. With Mrs. Lever he will make his home while there at 218 north Capitol treet. WONDERS OF LC.V3 LIFETIME Michigan Nonogenarian Who Has Lived Through Ninety-one Most Marvelous Years. Plain well. Mich.?From the slow plodding of the saddle horse and the groaning ponderosity of the ancient stage coach to the rapid rush of the great locomotive; from the lingering postman to the wireless message; from the crude sailing vessel to the airship of the present day?these are some of the changes witnessed by anyone who may have lived through the most of the pa9t century?an epoch-making period?and Mrs. Sophia Bush of this village. Who recently passed hor ninety-first birthday, re members them all and her lively and unclouded mentality still maintains an interest in these great things of life, extraneous though they may be to her quiet ways of existence. Grandma Bush, as she Is commonly called, Is a remarkable woman, silver of hair and benign of expression, and she scans her daily paper without the aid of spectacles. She was born at Dingwall In the highlands of Scotland. It was a little town and during her girlhood she remembers seeing there Lord Brougham, Lord John Russell and William El. Gladstone, tnaeea tne grnnuiauier oi the last named was mayor of the town. She remembers distinctly the festivities incidental to the coronation of Queen Victoria. She came to America In 1839 by sailing vessel and the voyage took five weeks. The few steamboats of that day were considered entirely too dangerous to be trusted. From New York she came west via the Hudson river, Erie canal and the great lakes. At that time there were only two railroads in the United States; one ran from Schenectady to Albany, N. Y., and the other from Detroit to Ann Arbor, Mich. By means of the latter railway, In a train that was plain, slow, cramped and Jolty, she reached Ann Arbor. There a man and team were engaged and for days she rode through the dense forests to Gun Plains, Allegan county, where her home has since been. In contrast is her latest Journey, upon which she visited Chicago. Boarding a parlor car at her home station, she reached the city without change, and an automobile took her to the home of her relatives. She la not at all nervous about the "devil wagons'* and rather enjoys a little speed stunt down the boulevard. In going to the station upon her return home, she motored past Grant park, where a dozen aviators were clearing the air like birds, in close prophecy of yet more wonderful mode3 of transportation. ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED Miss Olga Roosevelt, a Popular Young Washington Heiress, Soon to Be Married. Washington.?Miss Olga Roosevelt, whose engagement to Dr. BreckenHrtfrrt Hnvne nf Wnshlneton has 1usl been announced, is the daughter oJ Robert Roosevelt of Washington and New York. She Is the possessor ol several million dollars, which she Id herlted from her mother, who wni Mr. Roosevelt's first wife. Mlsi Roosevelt made her debut In Wash lngton two years ago, and Is one <* the mtist popular of the capital*! younger set COLLAPSE OF GRAND STAND. Packed With People to Witness Foot Ball Game. At Jackson. Miss., fifty persons were Injured, several possibly fatally, when a temporary grandstand at the state fair ground collapsed just before play was started Thursday in ihe annual football contest between the elevens of the University of Mississippi and Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, a thousand or more spectators tumbling to the ground with the wreckage of the stand. ~ v 1 O Tlioinas spengier, 01 jacKsuii; o. C. Gathlngs, University student, Pra'rie, Miss., and T. W. Henry, Mississippi college student, Clinton, Miss., are the most seriously hurt. Uc.h of Spengler's legs were broken. Gathings and Henry were hurt internally. The stand gave way without warning, suddenly tilting to one side and going down under its burden of humanity. A number of women and children were among the occupants of the structure. The wounded wore hurried to hospitals and private homes for surgical attention as quickly as automobiles, carriages and other vehicles could be requisitioned. Lieutenant Governor Manshlp and Odnrnfoi'V r\f Qtotn I NJ Pnvvpp nf k j v v> * v;iai j w i uiuiv * ' . * ^ f Mississippi, were among those on the sti iul at the time it collapsed. They escaped with slight bruise*. The list of injured includes: W. P Henry, Clinton, internal injuries; William Chapman, Laurel, internal injuries; Con Sledge, Clarksdale, internal injuries; Miss Ida Attmve, Black Hawk, Miss., hack badly wienched; eVliss Mollie Bureh, Jackson, severe bruises. Injuries sustained by the others hurt consist of minor cuts and bruisej. SHOOTS 'POSSUM HUNTERS. ? Assailant Thought to Ho Negio Who Mistook Them for Pursuers. R. A. Richardson, Herman West ami a young man named Rogers, who live in and near Dover, were assailed by an unknown negro while possum hunting two miles rrom Dover Tuesday night were shot at three times with a shotgun by their unknown assailant. It is believed the assailant was a negro, 'Ben iMatthews, who shot Chief of Police Rouse Saturday night and who had been in hiding since then. It is thought that Matthews believing that the 'possum hunters were a pesse in search of him opened fire on them when he saw them coming through the woods with a torch. Mr Richardson, who was in front with the torch, received the greater part of the first shot from the gun, most of the charge lodging in his arm nnd one striking him under the eye. Messrs. West and Rogers received a small shot each None of the wounds are serious. Efforts were made to securo bloodhounds and track down the man who did the shootoing but they were not successful. They are still searching for him, however. ? ? Instantly Killed by Train. The Southern Railway train No. o2 Wednesday night at Steele's CrosEing, south of Rock Hill, S. C., struck a buggy driven by a farmer by tho name of Sims, instantly killed h'.m and his horse. The track is straight and open for half a mile or moro on each side. The stroot talk Thursday was that Sims had been drinking and that some one had put him in his buggy and started him homeward, tie leaves a widow. ? Twenty-Second Child. There is rejoicing in tho home of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Davis of Carbondale, Pa., for the stork lias paid another visit to their home and although the old bird had made twenty-ono previous visits, ho was welcomed and his burden, a son, was greeted as kindly as it would have been If it were tho first born. I.cg Cut Off by Box Car. While standing on a passcngOT track at Spartanburg Junction Tuesdnv nftornoon. watching a south bound train pull out, General Foreman J. W. Hideout, of the Southern Railway, was struck by a box car, which was backed up against him lie was dragged ten or llfteen feei and his left leg completely severed from his body. ? Thief Ate Too Much. A largo catamount was killod in one of tho busiest sections of IIuftt9-" ville, Ala. The animal raided'the henhouse of William Fletcher and'entered a coop in which there were seven pigeons. It ato all of the pigeons and 'sevoral chickens, and after its feast was unable to get out through tho hole it/had entered. ? ?>? Peculiar Skin Disease. Dudley Payne, the negro who turned white at Chlllicothe, Mo., is dead, and efforts will bo made by the Missouri Medical Society to ascertain the tho nponliar skin disease. V'? uoy Vfc vow r . which has baffled phystCAns'for several years. Splotches appeared on Payne's hands and then spread to the upper part of the body. 1 ? 1 i Much that passes for real wlftdott} Is nothing but nonsense. , m BRUTAL ATTACK ? While Wemao Accosts While Via ni a Vegre of ao Awfoi Crime* HCST FIENDISH TALE The Story, According to Reports, Is Doubted, However, by Many People at Cuinhoy?Little Kxciteinent at Wamlo Hiver Village Over Alleged Victim'** Story. The News and Courier says Cainhoy, the little town at tlio further end of tho Wando River which has furnished so much news of a startling nature in its history, now sends a tale of a whito woman criminally assaulted a few miles from tho villago and loft on the public highway after tho deed was accomplished. Tho woman is the wife of a well known resident of Cain hoy and the vicinity and she herself told the story to Magistrate P. It. Donnelly, of Cainhoy, according to reports from the town (Monday morning. The crlrno is said to have been committed on Saturday night and as a result of tho woman's statements, it is reported that steps have been taken to place a white man and his son and a negro it ?? I AP o me f Kl II I. V I ill The stories which were told by people coming from Cainhoy wore to tho effect that the white woman told a tale of a heinous crime to Magistrate Donnelly. She said, according to tho reports, that she had been at home Saturday night with only her baby and that at about 1 0 o'clock some 0110 had rapped 011 the door. She said they asked If her husband was in, and, upon her replying to tho contrary, the men outside said: "You'ro a d?n liar," and camo into tho house. The woman said, according to the reports, that when she found the men meant to do her harm, she offered to give tliem $100 to spare her life, and that they took this and took $.100 more from her.' She js said tohave identified a negro as tho man to whom sho handed the money. v There were several men in the crowd, ' white and colored, according to her \ reported story. The men then took tho woman, it ie alleged, out into the woods and criminally assaulted her, keeping her in the woods all night and placing her on tho road early in the morning. The woman is said to have stated that fhov l>nti nrl ttnr ivitli rnn/.o hofni-n tnl/ * vpVM MVIWI V LUlk" ing her from the house. ^ She went into Cainlioy, from which place her home is about five miles distant, and there told her story, She is said to have charged the two whitemen and the negro with having part in the affair. It is said that bad blood existed for some time between , the two white men and the negro on one side and the woman's husband on the other. Although from the woman's reported story she had been most brutally attacked, it is said that outwardly she shows no signs whatever of injuries. This has led a number of people to doubt tlie story, espep uuiy in view 01 LiiG empnauc aeniais of the men concerned. Contrary to what might be lmag- ^ ined, it is said that there is not much excitement in Cainhoy as the result of the occurrence. It is stated that many people do not credit the alleged victim's story, believing that she had not been attacked at all, in view of w the fact that the woman's condition ^ Is apparently normal an 1 that tho accused men so confidently deny tho allegations. Latest reports from Cainhoy stated that the three men were lining kept under guard, although they were not locked up. This report could not be confirmed. A "KISSMOSS milDK." New York Doctor Declares Wife Kelt fused to Let Him Show His Love. Another young woman of New York, nominated by'her husband for membership In the apparently growing class of "kissless brides" is tho 4 defend,ant in a suit for marriage an- * liniment there. . I)r. Castanoa Samcralli alleges that during his courtship of Severinl Gloyinni she had been seemingly affectionate but after marriage she grew "chilly as ice" and refused to permit him to demonstrate his love. The defendant denies that sho was not affectionate and claims sho was obliged to leave her husband because 1 of his ungovernable temper. * ? Died on the Street. At 'Muskogee, Okla., C. A. Nichols, president o fthe Guaranty Stat?' Hank, 'i United State commissioner at Musko- ^ gee and wealthy property owner in I Muskogee and Asheville, N. C., dropped dead on the street there 3 Thursday of heart failure. Ifi Aviator Falls to His Death. I Lieut. Baron Von Freytage. Lorlng- L hoven, a military aviator, fell at I Doeberits, Germany, Monday and was S killed. He was a son of the chief 1 quartermaster general of the staff in 1 the Germad army. 1