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FRIEND OF TRUSTS BOW THEY HELPED TEDDY WHEN HE BEAT W. J. BRYAN SHELDON TELL OF FRAUD ? He Swears Arch bold, Morgan, Frick and Gould Each Gave One Hundred Thousand Dollars to Roosevelt's Campaign Fund According to the Records of Treasurer llliss. ? * ?inn nnn Four coiuriouiiona ui ?avv,vw ench, from John I). Archbold, of the Standard Oil Company; J. P. Morgan Co., H. C. Frick and George J. Gould, were made to the Republican national campaign fund of 1904, when Roosevelt ran against W. J. Bryan, according to records of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, which passed through the hands of George 11. Sheldon, treasurer of the 1908 Republican committee, who testified o* Wednesday before the Senate committee investigating campaign expenditures. Mr. Sheldon said Mr. Bliss gave him a detailed statement of the 1904 funds; that he noted "these large contributions," and twat ne was positive no record appeared of the $100,000 Archbold contribution having been returned. With equal positiveness, he swore that the records showed the disputed Edward H. llarriman fund of $240,000 had been received by <Mr. Bliss for the New York Republican State committee, headed by B. B. Odell, Jr. "That fund of $240,000 was raised at the request of 13. 13. Odell," said Mr. Sheldon, "and turned over to his committee in its entirety." Mr. Bliss's records showed it was en- j tirely apart from the funds spent by , the national committee." Mr. Shel- , - . <- ?? l,,n (1011 S Siaieilieilis weie mnuc in ?. iuii ( of a day of wrangle between Senator Joseph M. Dixon, manager of Col. j Roosevelt's present campaign, and members of the Senate committee. Senator Dixon charged the com- ; mittee with concentrating its activ- ( ities upon the Roosevelt funds and < ignoring the financial activities in behalf of all other candidates, Re- j . publican and Democratic alike. Committee members heatedly denied this, declaring that arrangements for the investigation had been left entirely in the hands of Chairman i Clapp, a stron)g supporter of the Progressive national candidate and that managers for all candidates had been subpoenaed to testify. Published statements of Govern- i or Wilson and Senator LaFollette, that they did not receive $70,000 contributions from Charles R. Crane, testified to by E. H. Hooker, win | result in the calling of Mr. Crane as' a witness at an early date. Senator i Dixon demanded as soon as he took ' the stand, and repeatedly throughout his testimony, that the commit- ' tee examine "before election" every 1 one who handled funds or might have contributed to tne pre-convention campaign of Mr. Taft, Wilson, Underwood, Harmon, Clark or LaFollette. Statements by Chairman Clapp and other members of the committee, that these men had been summoned did not silence Senator Dixon's demands, or his assertion that Col. Roosevelt was not getting a "square deal." The charge brought a sharp retort from Chairman Clapp, who said the statement" reflects upon the one member of this committee who is friendly to Col. Roosevelt." Senator Dixon accounted for over $96,000 more of Roosevelt's funds In the fight before the Republican National Convention, at Chicago. This was collected and expended by him personally, he said. Ho had kept no accurate records, ho said, the money "going out as fast as it came in," but over $52,000 was spent in the conduct of campaign activity from tho Washington headquarters. The fund handled by Senator Dixon was largely contributed by C.eorge W. Perkins, Frank A. Munsey and Dan It. Hanna. The Senator said he tried to distribute the burden equally amongst the three men and thought each had given about $25,000, while William Eno gave $10,000, and other smaller amounts. This fund of $96,000, was in addition he said, to the $163,000 handled by E. H. Hooker, at New York, # - ^ a nl4?> *M?t t\\ A Mlf #1 # rt ?1 /I 4 K A lOr lilt' til/ pi 1nun / ugiii auu mo Now York Dranch of the national KooBevelt committee, and the $102,000 given by William Flinn, in Pennsylvania. The amounts contributed fctfi by Mr. Perkins, Mr. Munsey and Mr. Hanna also were in addition to their contributions to the Now York fund. Senator Dixon declared he would tell anything he could about Uoosefc velt funds, but he insisted that tho committee show as much activity towarn other candidates us it ban towars the Progressive candidate. He if said lie had been informed that large sums had been contributed for the support of Taft, Wilson, Underwood, Harmon and Clark. Attempts by Senator Pomeicn.? 10 get , the names of the Informants brought, on a bitter exchange. T?"ire Senator Pomerene appealed to Chair* 1 1 TMv/vn W-. mnn tJiapp IU WIUJICI ocuuivi UIAUII to g;:vc the names of men who knew about these funds. Senator Pi/on ieaid what he had stated was "common rumor," and that he had 'received much of his information from . Roosevelt leaders in the different [ districts, where it was hard to j)in( down informutio.i tj certain person*, j Aftm Senator Dixon had admitted: that ho did not know what arrange-' mentg the committee hil made forj In vest!gating the funds of other can-; didates. Senator Pom^^no enamel j the Roosevelt manager with attempt-] lug "to slander the commltte*." j Senator Dixon's referenced to cam LYNCHED IN PRISON WHERE HK HAI) BEEN TAKEN TO SAVE HIM FROM A MOB. But ConvictH in tlio IVison Learning That the Negro Had Assaulted a I White Woman Hanged Him. Details of the lynching of Frank Wigfall, the negro assailant of Mrs. Esther Higgins, known as the "prisoners' friend," by the convicts of the State penitentiary at Rawlins, Wyo., Wednesday, while Sheriff Willis, at the county jail, was holding off a party of would-be citizen lynchers may never be known. The sinister threat, "the first man who squeals is the next man hung," silenced all the convicts and prison guards examined by a coroner's jury The jury gave up the task late Wednesday afternoon, without learning anything. Wigfall was placed in the county jail late Tuesday for safe keeping, after his capture at Kort Steel. When the mob surged about the jail early Wednesday morning the sheriff probably saved the prisoner's life by slipping him out unseen and rushing liirn to the penitentiary nearby. Wigfall was placed in a cell, which soon aft prisoners marching to breakfast ha . to pass. As they filed by the negro made slighting remarks of his crime. With the mob at the jail still clamoring for the negro, about one hundred of the prisoners broke loose immediately after breakfast and made a dash for the negro, who also had been taken to breakfast. The guard was overpowered before he could thrust the negro into a cell and himself locked in the cell by the infuriated convicts. One of the convicts produced a rope and while the others held the negro he tossed a half hitch over the negro's head and made the other end fast to the balcony rail of the cell house. The negro was tossed over the railway and the convicts march3d back to their work. Not until the cries of the imprisoned guard brought other guards was the lynching known to any ono except those who took part in it. Sunday night Wigfall broke into Mrs. Iliggins' house, chopping down a door with an axe. About dawn .Monday he left her in a pitiful condition. A few hours later she crawled to a neighbor's house and told what happened. Posses searched the hills all Monday night for the aged woman's assailant. I.ate Tuesday night he was catured in an exhausted condition by a justice of tne peace. GAVE I1IS LEG TO SAVE CHILD. Cjonerous Act of a Cripple Newsboy at Gary, Indiana. At Gary, Indiana, a crippled newsboy lay on an operating table near a ;irl whom he did not know and allow" ' * > ? ful/n 1 C. fl 1 T> V") Q f> f " I 11IC Olllguuna ivy v IV iv i; i n v skin from his useless lee:, graft it onto the badly burned body of the Rirl and then amputate his leg. The boy, William Rugh, never had hea/J of the girl, Ethel Smith, 18 yea/s old, until he read an account of a motorcycle accident wh'cn told that she was so badly burned that death was certain unless a lar^e amoLiit of healthy skin could be grafted on*o h) body. My 'eg was useless, neve-' h;?a been any good to me, so I offered to g've '! up to save this girl's Mfe ' w :?? 'lie boy's explanation of why f made the sacrifice. When it became known Hugh had made such an offer a general protest went up. led by the girl's mother. Letters camo from all over the country advising against the operation. Seeing her daughte.* gradually nearing death's door Monday, the mother reluctantly announced she ould agree to the unusual operation. Arrangements were quick! v made, and Tuesday the surgeons removed the skin from the useless bu; healthy leg of the boy and patehe I it onto the girl. The operation also caused postponement of a welding. Dr. J, A Craig, surgeon in jha-g?, was to have been married Tuesday t<# Miss Mary Arnold of Lebanon, Pa. When ho learned the operation was made possible by the mother waiving her protest he hurried to Gary and oillciated. Fifteen Million Bales Needed. Business men, traveling in the Interest of cotton milks and visiting null centers In Europe as well as In this country, agree in the conclusion that the world will need fifteen million bales of cotton this year. Any amount under that number will be a short crop. A fourteen million balo crop should give us fine prices for cotton. Taking all reports as they come in and putting them together, the indications are that fourteen Trillion bales will be raised this year, with the probability of running half a million less. ? < ? The New York Herald has just concluded one of the most elaborate presidential canvasses ever made by any newspaper. It instructed all of its canvassers and all of its correspondents to "get the truth". For more than a month reporters have been working from coast to coast, and the results of theii1 investigations, as well as tho work of men assigned to take test ballots, indicate fit it. rr.ai w liHon win sweep liiu cuuiiu;. paign activities for Governor Harmon, whom Senator Porao.*ene had supported, intensified the feeling between the two men. When Senator Dixon demanded of Senator Pomereno where Governor Harmon had made a public statement of his ex-1 penditures, the Ohio Senator half rose, grasped the arms of his chair,' glared at the witness an 1 said* "I! you'll step outside I'll answer that.' REPUBLICANS' EXTRAVAGANCE Government Cost More Than Doubled Under Roosevelt. DEMOCRATS' GREAT RECORD 8tartHng Figures Which Show That the Cost of Our National Existence and the High Cost of Living Must Be Reduced. Under a proper downward revision of tho Republican tariff schedules the people of the United States would save $2,000,000,000 each year, or over $100 # II- m^r^Aa pur luuiu/ uii aia.iuiin.iui vu puuuu alone. President Taft's vetoes of the wool tariff bill and tbo steel tariff measure passed by a Deinocialic house COST THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ABOUT $650,000,000 PER ANNUM. The coet of conducting the federal government MORE THAN DOUBLED between the close of President Cleveland's second administration (Democratic) and the beginning of President Roosevelt's second administration (Republican). As the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH REPUBLICAN TARIFF SCHEDULES the people of tho United States pay a tax FROM NINE TO SEVENTY-EIGHT PER CENT on food and ordinary household articles used in the home by every family, rich and poor. The total cost of running the federal government In 1S60 was $55,000,000. The amount appropriated at a single session of tho Sixty-first congress for the fiscal year 1911?$1,027,133,446.44? was more than double the amount? $954,496,055.13?appropriated for the fiscal years 1S97 and 1898 at both ses- | sions of the Fifty-fourth congress, the last congress of the second Cleveland administration. Only eight years elapsed between the oooAtiU nrlmlnlstmtion of President Cleveland and the beginning of the second administration of President Roosevelt and yet the amount appropriated duriiM the four years of the latter ? $3,842*03.577.15?was more than double that appropriated In the four years Mr. Cleveland was at the helm?viz, $1,871,59,857.47. For 1910, the last fiscal year provided for in eongreas under President Roosevelt, the highwater mark In appropriations? $1,044,401,857.12 ? was reached. President Taft's estimate to the last session of congress for government support for the fiscal year was $1,040, 48,026.55. In other words, governmental expenses for the FOUR YEAR3 of President Cleveland's administration (Dem' - A4XA/V *-,/%< f - -4 AA I ocratic) were oniy 933u.sqi,doi.v? muu than President Taft'e (Republican) estimate of the amount necessary to cover the expenses of ONE YEAR of President Taft's administration. Congressman John JT. Fitzgerald of New York, a Democrat and chairman of the committee on appropriations, In addressing the house Aug. 26, 1912, on the subject of appropriations said, "Thoughtful men have watched with alarm the rapid Increase In the cost of government in the United States." He further said that two causes seem responsible for many present evils: "One, the UNFAIR AND UNJUST SYSTEM OF TAXATION by which an undue share of Income by those whose circumstances in life are not considered more than reasonably comfortable Is taken through our customs laws for the support of our government; the other, the difficulty or inability to readjust our system of taxation and to remove many taxes from the necennaries of life, so long a? the GOVERNMENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLT CONDUCTED, or the Instrumentalities provided for the conduct of the public service are either inefficient or are not utilized so as to render the moat effective and comprehensive results.*4 Mr. Fitzgerald then called attention to the fact that the Democratic partf pledged itself If intrusted with power to do two things?REDUCE TARIFF DUTIES AND RETRENCH PtJBIJC EXPENDITURES bJ eliminating waste in administration end the abolft* tie* of useless, inexcusable oSeea. The Republicans talk about tariff revision, and yet when a Democratic bouse In fulfilling Democratic promises to the people reduced the tariff, a Republican president vetoed the measure. WA*Wa .Vl.11 VillllM (tkAm IUVII ff VI A* OU?l| / ? *?.?*?# W Democrat! In every state of the TTnlon should organize and prepare for polling a record breaking rote Nov, I. Be It remembered that no matter how certain victory teeraa, overcoaA* dance la always dangerous. la there any reason why the Dem* cratle party should go out of existence simply because Mr. Roosevelt has tafc en up the Progressive measures adopt* ed by the Democrats eighteen years ago??W. J. Bryan. ( ??________ Mr. Roosevelt stood as a guarantor (Or Mr. Taft. Mr. Bryan says, "Now^ when Roosevelt has failed so utterly In his judgement of men, I ask can ha pass eoiroot Judgment en htmealff t THE Til,1GOT (IF WAR , THE POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN NICAH ALGA AHK FEARFUL. With the United States Forces Augmented by Marines Quiet is Again at Hand. A dispatch says Americans In Managua, Nic., now know what a sickening tragedy a Central America.' revolution is. They have passed through a month of turmoil (August), witnessed three battles and experienced the horrors of a bombardment. They have seen the people ol' the city panic stricken, women and children killed; have borne the BUf lorings of hunger in a town beleaguered and have had miraculuous escapes from exploding shells uiuj bullets. Daily they saw hundreds of recruits marching out blithely, with vivas and laughter to fight, perhaps to meet the death thousands of their fellows already had met. The capital of Nicarauga in August was the focal point of the revolution of which Gen. Luis Mena, the deposed secretary of war, was the head. The two military heroes of the uprising in 19C9-10, which overthrew Zelaya, were Bmillano Chamorro and j mis Mena. Mena became minister of j I war and organized the assembly,; I ? > i, ii, in Ontiihiii* 1 Q 1 1 1 < ?( > t him' v? **'V iJ 111 V1VWU.,, , ' " 1 1 I v.v ! president of the republic for the term j i *. p Muiug Jariut.ry I, 19i3. Then the United States stepped in.} the American minister notifying Meno that his election was regarded as piemature and a violation of the pact made with the representative of the United States. Mena was deposed later as minister of the war and Clen. j Chaniorro was appointed commander-j ln-chiei of the army. Mena eventually tied and armed the Liberals. Thus began the revolution which reached its climax in the bombardment of non-combatants?a violation of all the morals even of the republica of Central America, except in the case of Zelaya who bombarded Managua in the revolution of 1 903. It was no part of (.Menu's plan, how ever, to take Managua by assault. CJen. Zeledon, some time minister of war under Zelaya, was responsible lor that when Mena lay helpless on a sick bed. The bombardment was on Monday although Zeledon had been warned that thousands of innocent women and children were in tiie city. All the day the savage shelling continued, the shells exploding all over the town. By a strange fatality women and children were the victims. In one house a mother and her four daughters were wounded. A child sitting on a door step was cut in two. woman with her babe at her breast, running across the street, was struck by a shell and both were instantly killed. One hundred and thirty-six women and children were killed or wounded. The escape of hundreds of others was miraculous. The second evening of the bombardment a shell hit the presidential houses and exploded in a room where the president and his cabinet were in conference with General Chomorro. Strangely enough, no one was injured. A shell exploded in the interior court of the house of an American official. Four American ofTicials and three servants wero on either side of the court but none was hurt. Through Monday and Tuesday the battle raged, culminating in a sharp attack in the afternoon. Chamorro saved the day by leading a force which routed the attackers momentarily. A battalion of 400 American marines under Maj. Butler reached 'Managua from Panama the following day. Their presence probably prevented another attack. The attempt to take the capital and thus capture the government having failed, the scene of war was shifted. ? ? ? BLEW HIMSELF TO PIECES. Sat on Load of Dynamite and Touched it Off. The chance encounter at West Pelham, Mass., Wednesday of Mrs. Jennie B. Shaw and her husband, Geo. tfhaw; a wealthy farmer whom she * a v. ? I lert two years ago, was iu;iuw?u uj a barbarous attack upon the wife by the huflband and his self-destruction. The woman had come from Hartford, onn., to visit her son's grave, was seen and pursued by the husband. lie opened fire upon her as she redo with two other women in a buggy. The horse ran away, throwing the woman out, Mrs. Shaw having been shot twice through the abdomen. Shaw then fell upon her, beating her in the face with his flats and striking her with the revolver butt until she was insensible. Authorities soon afterward found parts of Shaw's body strewn over a field near his home. They ascertained that after filling a stump with dynamite Shaw had sat upon the stump and then discharged the explosive. Mrs. Shaw cannot live. The twe had been married many years but had not seen each other since the wife left. The cause of their disagreement never was disclosed. Paint Your Wire Fence. The practice of painting wire fencing is by no means as common as It I should be. itepeateu expBniumuai have shown that even the best of gal-j ! vnnized wire Is Improved and Its pe-. | riod of usefulness extended by a coat of paint. The cost Is very slight, j about one cent per rod. The main! dlff culty Is to get n kind of paint j I that wiU work successfully over wire.? Faints that prove very satisfactory for buildings are not always suited for this class of work. A basic chropie green paint Is recommended , by some but In general we would ad-! vise the'man who wishes to paint his fence to get the opinion of some one who understands the paint business, thoroughly before making his selecttlon. a . I BANK OF Con wh} Has largest capital and surplus of an than the combined capital and surpli CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK? SECURITY OF &KPOSITG DIRKC jbert B. ^rborough, .. Buck, } > ?>e J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acco will justify, and we s< SO0EHT B. 80ARB0B0U0S, H. i'EX* ID BUT. ^ . . c We continue to pay j j.ro FATHKH AM) SON' SFXTFN'OICJ). - I Given Fifteen ami Seven Years Imprisonment. Fifteen years and seven years, respectively, at hard labor in the State Penitentiary or ujk>ii the public works of Lexington County, was the sentence of the Court at Lexington Friday in the case of Jacob Watts and Govan Watts, father and son, who were convicted of manslaughter in the General Sessions Court last week. The two were charged with the killing of Adam Watts, a Conied< rate soldier, 72 years old. the 7th o" August last. Adam Watts was tlw bred her of Jacob Watts and an uncle of Govan Watts, and the killing occurred after a general row in the home of the aged veteran. Judge Sbipp said that lie would show the bo> mercy on account of his youth, aid that he hoped that he would yet ?? f-onri inw-nhidinir citizen JIICIIX\> (I y .? .. Jacob Watts, according to his testimony on the stand, is now 51 years of age, while his son is only 19. * MONEY LOST AND GAINED. <? Amount Foreigners Drought in and Carried Out. The 1,114,919 aliens emigrants as well as aliens temporarily here, arri\ing in this country during the lad 1 ? months, brought $46,7 1 2,tin 7. Th< immigrants carried $33,13 J,550 They had an average of $33 per capita during the fiscal yet* and K iur ? g the two months 'o?! wii g These figures are given in a comparative report made to Commissioner Keefe of the immigration bureau. The report shows that the tide of irr.migration is running stronger than a year ago, that the 58 per cent, greater for July and August, although that the first five months of the fiscal year ran heavily behind the previous year's figures. Of the fiscal year's arrivals 1.6 per cent, were debarred from this country. The immigrants from Canada carried the greatest amount per capita and those crossing tho (Mexican border had least money. ' REMOVED TO COLUMBIA. Long Taken From Aiken Jail to the Penitentiary. Representative-elect Hugh Long, who at Wagener Saturday afternoon o?n I r> H i r> t /-I t wnnnrln where. n Ut/IV U^U iUIIIV VV\4 V ? vy tf -w ? ? from Pickens Gunter, bank presi-', dent, died Monday n*gnt, was at 1 j o'clock Tuesday night taken to thei State Penitentiary in Columbia, os- | tensibly for safe keeping. He left I Aiken on the so-called midnight 1 train, accompanied by Tils wife and; Sherix T. B. Uaborn. Some have pro-! nounced this step as over-precaution-i ary, believing that the existing conditions failed to warrant such action, but it is well known that, particularly since the death of Mr. Gunter, tlio T feeling in Wagener, though not runnig to riotous demonstration, is certainly strong against Mr. Long. m ? -? Back to the Days of Cheap Kggs. j The Greenville Piedmont says: l "We can remember when you could buy six eggs for a nlckle." The New- { berry Observer says "those were good old days undoubtedly; but I can re- ( member when eggs, fresh from the ] est, sold in Prosperity for 8 1-3 cents ( a dozen from merchants nt that price, they having taken them in trade. But "never again". Once upoji a time ' wo bought two dozen eggs from a I ;nan for fifteen cents which had four- 1 teen chickens concealed in them for i which he made no pharg?. J Shoots and Kills His Pftthor, At Troy, Ala., Charlie Wilson was shot and Instantly killed there after he made an alleged attack upon his wife. Wilson is nlleged to have threatened to khi ms wn? im utivm* him arrested charged with abusing J her. The boy remonstrated with his father, and the latter is said to have threatened to kill him. The boy stepped into an adjoining room, secured a shotgun and then blew his father's brains out. Three brothers to Hang. At Halifax, three brothers, Alfred, Fred, and Harry Graves, will be hanged on January t for the murder r-.t itftnnofh nonr Fort Williams Iti June. Tho brothers started a!, quarrel with Lea and one of them'j struck him with the butt of a pistol, which was discharged, mortally wounding Lea. William Hulzor Nominated. William Sulzer, Representative In Congress from New York City, was nominated for Governor early Wednesday morning by tho New York < Democratic State Convention. It was the seventh time bo had been a can- i dldate for this nomination. HORRY, i| r. S, C. I y bank in Horry county. Mors* I is of all other banks in the county. | I i&o.ooo ffl 12,500 m lOLDKKS . . . . 50.000 HS US.500 I0RS < I AKDKON I W. JotiXjrOU I W ill \ J ve, nm. I mntodation which then accounts? elicit your business. I v. Richardson, win a. vaxahsi I 10 B I it KM Oi'. VI Cammiic*> I cent, on yearly deposits. '^njrrWMH <.f* A ? <\ ?VI > to. M. WOO I* -V/1K-'. mati Oounc<??<>< \*? < x .m.VWi*, ,H. ? f,. to. ?OAJO*i?l?l CO.\ VS 4 1 . a.- , j kfio M4?-> "*k t^Vl I ?il li li? ff 'I 4 H t? j ^h/0i<-'MlU ?VI k*J Allium* 1 (JONWAV. b. C. j Ai. W OFi?'UAii> W AJ 4 . -U <lltoru?i m ii? . Xl?uk of Mori) fiuildiMft 1 DON WAV, fc. O. j RENfO 1UVKNEL I l**n<i Murveiing and I Drainage ftplvey RnUfilng Ootmay. S. O. IE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACBM k J.IGHT RUNNING ^ teLHfc IfWMWmnt either a Vibrating Shuttle, Rota^ bettie or sSlnrle Thread [Chain SUuS^J Sewing Machine write to ' m mm home iiwini machine %nmtmm Orangtt M?m* HbWreeotea wechlnc* ere made to tell receeAMOdV pdhyf bat Um Slew HemtUadcavMa OviufMTBevatttMMa. MWaMOBV HQMEtOY <vl#.r? mi *. V.1* l.kwwM, fi. (}. Must Ciive Up Drink Hnhit. In traveling safety is the first consideration. To secure that for their matrons is the chief aim of steamship ^ uid railroad companies. And these companies learn by experience with he result that improvements are constantly being made In equipment to lessen the danger of collision and [)i.her accidents. With the same object in view companies are far more careful as to tN e habits of their employees than they used to be and regulations are becoming more numerous and more stringent. That it as It should be. When one loaves by boat or* train for some given point ho wants to be as sure as possible that he will reach it without injury or nnneccessary discomfort. The traveling public therefore welcomes ev(uythlng done to secure that end. ['or that reason it approves the action 'Via r\ril ?i iif n r/i T (lAV'lU'alinO an/1 Ill I I H5 >T fH */, uuV/iVvt n (iii iii? Uitv* Western railroad In insisting upon, total abstinence for its trainmen. , Costly experience, duo especially to recent awful wrecks on that and other lines, has led to this drastic order. If anyone thinks the order too drastic lot him remember that the life of a person is of first importance and that life should not be imperilled by carelessness, insufficient precautions, 01 by wrong habits of officials and a-en. ^ Bashful Lover Bent Proxy, liobert E. Alexander, a young of Atlanta, Ga., didn't have the nerve to propose to pretty 18-year-old Hattle Hood, so he got a policeman to do It. The person of brass buttons, handcuffs. and authority, was gone but a few minutes when the following message was sent to the yoiitl}: "Go buy four license, Robert; she's accepted."