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&IT. J. B. HUMBERT PASSES TO BEYOND (Continued from Page Ono.) , was engaged in this duty when ('en eral Johnston surrendered. At the battle of Averasboro his lieutenant colonel said of him: 'There stands Humbert, as if the bullets were only hall stones.' On tho following day the adjutant general of the brigade said to him: 'Captain, if I had the authority. I would place a star upon your' collar.' At lentonville he had ochurge of part of 'lie picket line. Someone remarked: 'The line will not istand.' 'Yes, It will,' was the repuly; "iiutnbert is there, and he will hold it.' " Atter the war Captain Humbert gave his attention to farinitg, (evoting hi s tnic to scientifIc and practical agri culture with success. He was connect ed with the State Agricultural and Me sha nical society for a number of years, iserving as president in 1887 and 1888. 'He served two ternis in the state leg islatire. from 1876 to 1880, being a memiber of the famous "Whilace iouse." lie was also a candidate for state ettice on the Shoppard and Off ticket in 1892. lie was one of the -chief promoters of the Atlantic, Green. vilk' & Western railway, subseluently kntow n as the Carolina, Knoxville & Western. For three years or more 'e vas its president. Calpt. -Ium inbei't was married Octo er 5, 18'.; to Miss Maargaret i'nuna 1ooser. of Orangeburg county, a dtaugh der of -Ma.j. George 11. Pooser, a so[ diet of the Seminole war. Six ehildren were bor'n to them, four of wlom with1 Mrs. lumbert survive as follows: It. .B. Hluinhert, for several term:us super vinor of -the county and now engineer 'of lthe .Wevilie cotity hig) way colt anission: Johii 11. 'IItlliubert, of Ander ison: Mirs. Frank Nash, Princeton: Mrs. Al'ien J. Stll ivan, of Simpson v*illv. In al rtespects C'a'tain I ItumbertI 'a i manl of ideal ehtarnat(r. 11o. -was de.votedly inietested in te Metho -d1ist l 'i:scoipal faith and in the conduct -of the affairs of his church, of which le ws a stewa rd and tirtistee for imore 'than .1 years. lie sorved as superin deti-dent of tie Sunday School in his -'hurchtel' for more tlian half a oitury -iad a unbroken record from 18-10 -to the tile Io was striekent with pa ralysis some time last year. lPor a 'number of years he was a member of the general conference and attended 'the meeting of that body held lit Bal 'timo(re l;ast year. The whole comimiu nnity will mourn the loss of a citizen oi the best. type antd, in general terms, of one who was indeed a man among men. DON(iS MEASUIE. M.EFORE SENATIE eCumber (ets Bill it Night. One lFfort Falls. -Washington, June 8.-The soldiers bonus bill was formally presented to might to the senate after a first effort by Chairman McCumber of the finance committee to reo:ort it at the opening of the session had beent blocked by Bentator' Williams (Democrat) of Mis BissippIi. Senator W'illiamis was alment from the senate whon Senator' McCumber presented1 the measure for the see endl time but camte into the chamber a few minutes afterwairds. Thhe bill automatically went ta thei senate calendar'. in attemptting to offer' the bill soon after the sentate met at 11 a. in. to day Senator McCumber' said that "In tute very iteai' future I hope to be able to lay asidle the tariff bill foi' a (lay or so for' the putrpose of considering and piassing, if possible, the compen Satton bill,'' Senatoir 'Underwood of Alabama, .Demociratic leader, said If it was prio hlMose to pass the 1)1l1 at this session it might as well be considered now as ini .luly or' Atuguist, "t should be vei'y glad," he said, .."i the bill swent over until after' the oeetions so that the American ipeople -might have an opportunity to v'oice theIr sentiments on thte subject." ,~ Senator' Underwood saidl he felt "that, 'the bonus bill1, if .passed, wvill uot work injiury to the mn ~whom it :OPOses to help." Hie estimated the ill1 would cost anywhere from $4,000, 44.00,000 to $7,000,000,000, and said it :sWas lr'awnt in such a way that it eigould have to he paid for in the fu t4ure .and thus 'would become a bur'den .*Mpon the formeor soldi ers theimsel ves. as.,Informal canvasses of each Bide *s.ave Sndiceated thtat the bontus legisla *'.lMon has ,a sublstantial majority in the 111enate butt whether' the amended house pMIlt will be approved is prioblematicai. Inany event a long fight'on the mecas gstre is ezpected. -.'.hef'ore tunder'taking to present the umbl to the senrate, Chairman 'McCutm de -made ou blcloth its,,text and tho q.1cC4ompanyinlg report fromn the finance /1'0ommittee. The report estimpted that .stie..otal Cost of the leg'islation .would e $3,845,6'5,i8i, spread' over a period o~1.f -43nya -from next- sJanuariy 1; ;ahendthe legislation would -become 11ruprative. This total '~ is250,('OQ,000 Je~ than the ,estimate under the -house b. .o BERGOOLLIS IN S!ITZERLAND GOVERNMENT STILL IS DETER. MINED THE DRAFT bODGER SHALL BE PUNISHED. AGENTS ARE, AT HIS HEELS Case of This Arch-Slacker Makes a Remarkable Melodrama - Many of the Actors Have Disappeared From Public Life. -By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington. - Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the Philadelphia draft dodg. er, whom ex-service men love not a bit, and who has been flaunting the United States government from a safe distance for a long time, Is now in Switzerland. Secretary of War Weeks Is on record as-saying that before his term of office Is up he will have the slacker in custody and that lie will be given what a court decides is his due. It the ex-soldiers could say what Bergdoll's diue Is, lie probably would get something rather harder in the way of punishment than usually Is meted out to any prisoner for what. ever offense. The Bergdoll case still is alive. It is understood there are government agents in Switzerlnd mAtching this inan and vaiting the opportune mtoinent when soniething may happenl w wlil Nvill eiable themi to put onl his Ivrists whl. Eugene Aram was supn ed to wear when -lie walIod between his captors. A fellow newspimper man has said in treating of this case that the writer of fiction Coul (10 worse thtutn to take tle ca of ("rover ('leveliand llerg doll as : subject for a story and that by s, doing lie couli gratify his ldesire for action, no imatter how strong the desire tnight be, and still keep within thatt ru'lith wlich is supposed to he strianger than fletion. There svens to he something in tiis. The Itergdoll case has had ev Pry kindl of til eletnlent inl It to tua.-lie for interest -tr11nst1lire hunting, tht: credllity (if thIe trasu re hiuiinter, aceu sai tons of bribery, esenpes of tie kind that 1 oudini naikes w'iti puzzling ease. and a lot of otier things whlh coimpl inter'est anl keel) ex'ltement mtoving. Many of Its Actors Disappear. It is probable that in no o otr in Stnn~ee ini a goata ad nyaii ye'ars llave so many actors alppelared onl an11y of life's sce'es as hiaive played theiri parts in this liergtloll draimut, ielodrait, or Whatever if may be. ''hiere aire some ex-soldiie's wh-Io would not weelp tears If the ilial scene was at tragedy. Per haips this is brutaal, but it is true. The arm1y otlicer wlko wits stationed at (;iovernor's Island, New York, when Iorgdoll witas at prisoner, and who nmed tle gianrd which accompanied the siacker Otn the huilt for tile pot ,f gold alt tle foot of the ra inbow, is Ito longer Iln the military service. lie is living the life of at fariier In one lt, tie states of tills blessed union. Another olllcer of the army, who ap a'rovel til' request mta1de by one of lt'ier'gadill's cotlinsel that le be allowed to goa to Ilook for1 the gol wlh' never glittered, has beten re't Ii'ea fromt the serv'tlee antd is nuow~ somiewhvlere in Eu r'oii(. ( 'ei'taIn miore distInguished gena I lir'1n aot thet govei'minent service w~hc luutd mor4 oi'ar Iless to do wi th thle gr'ant ing~ (of lt'rmlission for the tip to dJig tip thle Iddaben tren'astii'e are 10 retIre ila ane ieir whio 11ue1 the slaceker on hais arri via! ha P'hlildelphht antd as )Oaned( iwr'aso nal r'esponsiility3 f'or' his sai eturn' iat to hte cuistody of tihe waray-eyeda alnd griping-handed oti ('iniIs, is dlead, mee'4ting his deathi uin' the~ caise it an 1athloritativye positIOn a atlaho, un1tluestilonably untjustly, wtais accused('( of haaviing necepted a lt lie, hais becen exceeingly ill, ie wilU be retired1 frm the servlee before long after iiaving spent somnethting like six maonths in a h'ospital as 'a gr'eiat suilferer' fromi an acute form of rhieumtatistii. Guilty Only of Great Credulity. Rtepr'esenttatlve in Congress Peters of Matine, who was the chairman of thea'congressionaal contmtittee that cona duiecd the investigation into the ese'nle of Blergdoll andl who slgned1 the miuinority reptort wleh cleared certiintmen of anythting in the nature of a conspIracy to assist in the escape, has taken himtself out of p~oiltleal lIfe.. He is now sitting upon the benfch. Thecre never was any belief any where except aumong a few of thoez whoit wanted so to believe that the men who were connected with thie Biergdoil caise, ot' at least in thea pot of-goild part of It, were guilty of any thing except credtulity' In an exagger atedl form. Therefore no one thinks that because men have fallen ill or have lost their jobs or have lad any thIng else happen to them, they have met with misfortune as a matter of retribution. It simply Is clear that many of these men have gone into retiremuent. The Bergdoll prop~ertles are still tied up by the alien property custo dian, Col. Thomas WV. Miller. Every effort that thec mtother of thte refugee and her attorneys htave mnade to r~e cover the properties has proved fruit less and~ it. is pretty well imnderstoodI in ,Washington that moans wilt 'be found to keep ,control of these proper ties :at 1et'at until after the ladker lhas been ~aught and.re urned t'o th~s eountry, to be ~iv Wb t isem [ONTIHLY MEETING OF BUSINESS LEAGUJ (Continued from age One.) any committee was that of the jai committee, this report being made b: Mr. W. R. McCuen. The report. wai "The Jail is down." The committes was thankgd and discharged.. In new business, a message - fron Mayor 'Dial was listened to with icee Interest. Mayor Dial called the league's attention to the work of thi city council and 'bespoke- the help o the league and the cooperatili. of al citizens, particularly for the aid o the bond issues now being asked for Outlining the necessity of nioney h4 said that the city can well take cari of the proposed issues and that th :resent tax levy will 'be sufficient t< carry -both the new and the old .bond d iIndebtedness. The subject of "Ice" ellicited consid crable discussion from members o the league who were present at th neeting and all agreed that somethni ought to be done to place 'Laurens o a parity with other cities as regardi the ,price and quality of ice. A lette from an erector of ice plants was rea( before the body and was received a: A Little Be With this thou, greatt DRES! Our Entire 50 TAFF] Values to $23 ALL 75 Garden Values to $2. $1. ALL GOODS SP Ladies' Leatiner Ladies' $1.50 an Be sure Ladies' Be All colors, White Satil for tha 35c and Red piamc 'at Unhec 24 inches ii 27 inches LAD LA Every womi showing every st Dr Posey's 01 3 Information. This owas followed by a Inotion t-hat a committee be appointed to confer with 'the mangers of the lee I plant in an effort to obtain a reduc r tion in the price of ice. The commit tee was also to be instructed to se cure, if possible, the placing of scales on delivery wagons so that the ice-may k .be weighed at the time of-del'Very. Further instructions were that it in vestigate regulations and ordinances 1 that are in effect In 6ther c)ties and ' towns relative to the sale and deliv I ery of ,ice, and that the committee r .handle the letter which was read at 'the meeting relative to the establish ing of another ice plant in Laurens. 3 The following committer was later ap pointed by 'Pres. Wright: 1r. W. 11. > Gray, cha'rmani; 2Nlessrs. R. 1. Roper - and J. 11. Powe A suggestion that the Business League consider the endorsement of some form of mid-week holiday for the stores in the city died in its in fancy, no .action or discussion hav ing been taken up on the suggestion. In consideration of the reports that the Order of the Easte'n Star is con temiplating the erection of an orphan age and that this city is being looked tter than You Expec the C COH ght in mind, we hear bst showing of real v; 3ES-FOR QUICK Stock of Ladies' Silk Dre Therefore 1 "TA DRESSES .75, to close out at ;7.50 MILLINERY PRICEI] Hats and Sailors 50, to close out at 9 Each ADVERTISED HERE A 'ECIAL Vanity Boxes at 39c ci $2.00 Leather Bags Lt 98c to see these. droom Slippers ribbon trimmed, aPair me for Petticoats t Thin Dress 45c a.Yard n4~ Diaper Cloth ard of Prices ride, 10 yard bolt p1.29 ide, 10.yard bolt p1.49 LSSIE CLOTH mn knows what this cloth ripe, checls and solid mad 19e~ Zor e look at this eoh; upon.as a possible site, a motion was made that a cbmmnittee be appointed to cooperate with other committees of other bodies aid that they render all assistance they can in an effort to lo-g eate the .orphanage in Laurens. The committee appointed. consists. of Mr. T. L., Monroe, chairman, and Msers. Janfes Dunklin and Frank Caine. . A PabIlc Forum That 'plans -are being formulated for the organization here of a public or civic forum was announced yesterday by Mr. Ralph T. Wilson. Although no definite plan has yet :been determined upon, tlie desire of those Interested in the forum is that well informed speak ers and lecturers be invited here at regular intervals and also that debates be 'held . between local intellectual giants. Because.this city has a num ber of such men, the success of a forum can almost be assured. Poets and the People. The reputation of the great poets has not been made by the scholarly critics, chiefly. but rather by the plain people of their own time or of the years immediately following.--Brander Matthews. ted at the Price---Tl xse at EN'S 'tily welcome you t dues to be seen any CLEARANCE---DR sses Must be Closed Out 'hese Prices 50 CANTON CRI Values to $35.00, $12.%9 FOR QUICK DISP 5 Dozen Midsuimme White and all w ...Values to $5.95,' RE THIS SEASON'S h5 SPECIALS JN B Yard Wide B lack Taffeta, worth $1 Ladies' Lisle Hose, I * Black, white, 25ca ] Ladies' Whit Low and medium also one-stri $1.49 a PEPPERELL 1 * 2'yards wide, 39c aj1 / 2 1-4 yards wii LA~ieL4Ssa is ti guaraneked *asI ~ n thi cloth; 50 patiter ou w*'.be teased to bu Leguer- Hear Debate - -emb-rs of the 0gworth League ,or the Methodist church deviated from their regular course of study last Sun day night when they listened to a de bate -by four of thom members, three of whom. were introduced as able at torneys and the fourth as a capable lecturer. The query "ResoLved, That we educate America instead of the Far East," was welihandled iby both teams. The affirmative ewap represented by R. T. Wilson and 0. L. Long,. while X. . Nickels and James H. Sullivan spoke for the negative. The debate was listened to with interest by a large number of Leaguers, many of whom later conceded that both teams' won. Mr. Huminbert Announced iMr. H. B. H umbert, forme' simner visor of the county, Is announced by a friend this week for the office again. Mr. Humbert was in the city the first of the week on account of the death of his father, -but he was not asked for an authoritative slatement as to whether or not he would run. It has -been currently reported that lie was seriously considering th-e race. aat's Always D come see the where. ESSES This Week, IPE DRESSES to close out at ;0 OSAL r'rimmed Hats anted colors; to close out at IERCHANDISE LACK SILKS Messaline and .0a yard, at 'ard Iighly Mercerized and brown Pair - e Slippers heel oxfords; Lp Pumpa Pair SHEETING bleached (ard Ie, bleacheid (ard CLOTH colors We are as to e loose fromn. Laurens, 8.C