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WHY WAS If? President Roosevelt in the appoint ment of Crum as collector of the port of Charleston has placed himself in rather a bad light before the Southern people. Why was Crum appointed? The President had given his word that he would not appoint to oflices in the South negroes who would be obnoxions to the people of the communities af fected. Thousands of good men could have been found who would have been glad to secure the position. Why ap point a negro and a man without spe cial fitness? Was it a bid for the negro vote throughout the country, or was it in order to humiliate the Southern people? "It seems to me," said the President, in a private letter written to the mayor of Charleston, "that it is worth while putting a premium upon the effort. among them (the negro) to achieve the character and standing which will fit them to hold such posi tions." In other words, if the Presi (lent can find a negro who is barely competent to fill a position, no matter how obnoxious that negro may be to the people of the community, or how deeply his appoint ment may hurt the business interests of that community, he will appoint that. negro in order that other negroes may have something for which to'strive. The Southern people are to be disregarded entirely and the uplifting of the negro race is the only thing that is to demand the attention of the President. And this rule is to be applied to the South, a section of country which the 'resident ought. to have learned by this time, and whose people, even in his speech at Charles ton, he affectionately termed "my peo ple." William McKinley did a great, and noble work in his effort to wipe out sectionalism and to bridge the chasm which was opened in ISt;1. HIis succes sor, Theodore R:oosevelt, is undoing that work about as fast as it is possi ble for mortal man. Roosevelt may he regarded by the North as a statesman, but to the South just at present he has the appearance of a man who would sacrifice everything to succeed himself at the next Presidential election. Senator Tillman will have a good deal of sympathy from his constituents in his efI'orts to defe..t ('rum's con firmation by the senate. In this country of trusts and corpora tions it is not wise policy for any com munity to make itself dependent on coal for fuel, when it has at hand an abun dant alternative material, which can be easily preserved for use in e,1nergen cies. I'he Albany, N. Y., Argus notes editorially: ''Throughout New England and in the Middle West the shortare of fuel-although the real winter has hard ly begun- is already alarming. 1n Cleveland the county buildings are closed and much suffering among the people is reported. Some of the Iowa cities are destitute of coal, with the thermometer from five to fifteen de grees below zero. In the New England States, unless there should be a dlecided change for the better in the situation, sonie of the railroads may have to sus pendl the operation of trainis and many factories must soon shut (down. Thus, in addlition to cold many men amid w'omen dependent on t hese fac tories for wvork must face hunger as well. In New York and Brooklyn the coal supp~ly is entirely inadequate, and, take the situation as a whole, the outlook is most dlisquieting."' As the poet sings: Woodlman, spare that tree. Don't cut. it (down andl up) for cheap lumber. In youth it sheltered mie. In age I may need it to wvarmi my freezing marrow wheni a coal strike or shut-out is on in some distant State. -News and Courier. If the present coal famine checks the wantoii destruction of the forests, wvhich has been going on for the p)ast several (lecades it will have acconm p)lished one good result, at least, with all the evil it has (lone. The present coal famine may not bring this matter forcibly to the attention of the people of this section of the country just at p)resent, because we have never been entirely dependent uponi a coal suply. But it is a matter of wvhich we should seriously thinik. If the dlestruction of the forest con tinues for many years more, the time will come, and it wvill come soon, when we will feel a coal famine as much as the p)eople of the lamrge Northern cities. I Ieret ofore although there have been many movements looking towards the p)reservation of our forests, there has been little or no organization and small results have been accomp)lishedh. The coal famine nowv on andl the suffering which it is bringing in its wake, should be an oDject lesson. For financial reasons, as wvell as for others, let the wanton destruction of the forests cease. News From Excelsior. Sunday was a wet (disagreeable (lay and unfit for church going people. The service here on Sunday afternoon was slimly attended. On next Sunday after noon Rev. W. A. Lutz wvill preach in the school house here at 3:30 p. m. P>ub lie cordially invited. Mrs. Shealy is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Livingston, in Nowberry. Miss Chelsy Kibler andl Master Mag nuis Kibler spent a few days in New berry last week the guest of Mr. Henry Kibler's family. Mr. D. B. Cook spent Monday over at Saluda court house on b)usiness. .Miss Janie Kinard is visiting relatives in Saluda section. Mr. Malcomib Cook has gone to Col.. umbia where he will likely accept of work in that city. Yes, T. J. W. that cat has jumped and we have no more to say along that line. Thanks for your kindness. Mr, and Mrs. Sigma returns thanks to the donors for nice presents received the past week. They are very much appreciated. Some of our people are off to New,. berr'y today. Sigma. A GANG OF RURG LARS CAPTURED. BIG HAUL MADBE BY THi 11Ul~ Of COLUMRIA. The Police Aided by Postoflcc nsnpectrs who Have been on the trail of the Rob bers for Some Time The Gang Had Comnitted Robbtrls In no Less Than Ten Towns in South Carolina. Columbia. January 7. Spe cial t. News and Courier: There ha, b'cn considerable excitement here over A series of arrosts. The polioe are satr tied that they have a gang of safe, blowers. They think t.hey have arrest t'd the gang that robbod the postot'ces at Cameron. Enoree, Roaesai'1O. Ilarts ville, lineman, 1'sper;s Mount Morence, Ilateshurg. Ren, and g.t into the bank at Mullins and made gen eral raids throughout the State At Mu) lins the safe robbers - : at Cameron and E-;oree $ ,Ml oath and at the other points smaller amoun:s. The arrests were made by Cheif ha;v, with the active co-operation of k-testo ie Inspectors Gregory and Pulc"ifer, and they are satisfied that they have the right men. Two of the men arrested are known to be professional crachsmen and a complete set of burglars' tools was found in their rooms. Their fast life, utter extravagence and living with negroes attracted the attention of Chief Owen Daly and made himbnotify Postollice Inspectors Greogory and Pulsi fer, who work in this State, of his suspicions, and then the work was clone. 'The evidence will le developed in de Lail, but meanwhile the men will wait in .jail. The postoflice inspectors are likely to experlence (lifliculty in getting letailed evidence, hut, Mr. Gregory and Mr. P'ulsifer are active and successful workers. and Mr. Gregory is soeminent ly successful in his work and knows Howard so well that the expectation is that the details will soon he available. THE DEITAILED STORY of the arrests and the developments of the case so far is that Chief I)aly had information that a gang of safe-blowers was making its headquarters in Colum hia. lIe learned that the men were spending money very freely and throw ing money away, so he kept a watch on them and put Special Detectives Strick land andThackham to watching the men and keeping tab on them. Chief I)aly soon sent for Inspectors Gregory and Pulsifer, in whose district recent post DfTice robberies had occurred, and in formed them of his information and of the result of the investigations, he and his men had made. Last Sunday night Ed I)uggan, one of the men, was ar rested by Policeman McQuarters for having fired a pistol. He was caried to the stat ion and put up forty dollars for his appearance at Court on the charge of discharging firearms and paid a fine of forty dollars for carrying concealed wveap)ons. Charles H oward, who seems to be the chief of the gang, called on Chief Daly to talk wvith him about the Duggan case and wished to appear as a witness in behalf of D)uggan. Chief D)aly thought it a very opportune time to take action, and hold the men. So wvhen Howard appearedl as a witness, and D)uggan appeared to answer the charge Chief Daly arranged to have thenm detainedI, andl sent Officers Strick landi( and( Thackham to bring in the other members of the gang. Shortly after wvards TIhomias Nolan aud William Mc Kinley were brought into the station house. Officer Marsh wvent with Oflicer Strickland in quest of the missing men. When Officer Strick<land entered the house at which Nolan was stopping he knocked at the dloor. Nolan suggested' that Oflicer Strickland wait outside until lhe could dress, but Mr. Strickland suggested that this wvouid not be wise and so Nolan had to dress in the officer's p' esence. and go with him to the station. McKinley wvas arrested in restaurant, where lhe was taking things easy. A fter reaching headquarteri Nolan was searched and nearly $40( was found on his person. None of the others, except IIowvard, had any con sidlerable sunmon his person. Afterwards Chief Daly, Oflicers Thackham and Strickland and Post office I nspec tor Gregory wvent to the gang's apartments and( searched the rooms of Howard and Nolan, and found new (dress suit casei andl valises, and several suits of cloth. ing, some of them rough in appearane andl others intended for city usc-. The~ also found a great many receiptedl bills which indicatedl that Howard had pur chased a great (lea! of expensive furni hure, and that lhe was regularly operat ing a house in the tendlerloin (district. TPhe receipts were madle out in favor of HIowardl. In Nolan's room a complet< and fine set of safe-blowing instrumenti was found, that is all the delicate in. struments. It seems to be the custory to get the heavy instrumpents fron blacksmith shops in towns vigited, anm only the fine instruments are, carriet about. In addition to the instruments were found a flash light, with two bat teries, a p)ocket compass, a map o1 Georgia, Southern mileage 1hook in his name, a 44-calibre revolver andh other things. Howard and Nolan are supposed to be the actual safe-crackers. In a con versation with the officials all four of the men admitted having been in Co lumbia for two or three months, and minsstedl that they had not been outside of the city except to go to Charleston for Carnival Week, and that they did not go together, and did not know that any of their friend would be in C ANOTHER 01 TO BUY GO Thirty Thow Dry Goods, Millinery, Cl on the market at actual 1 and ends to s9lect from. After my big fall business I have most of the Newberry merchants h the Dry Goods business of the towr again in 1903. l am laying my pla Newberry has ever seen. When I I soil I promised the peoplo of Newb one of the best trading centers in ui from the crowds of thrifty buyers th out in the statement that I have fulf I have just opened up One Th< broideries. If you want Embroideri of white goods to land in the next f All winter goods to be closed out re to carry a dollar's worth of winter g COMPARE 0 25 doz. Mercerized Skirts, wort 1 5 doz. Mercerized Skit Thouisiu 1 of vards of White H >mspnn 3:.. . Ill '1h,ns d. tf ' ard- of Ca elic' to go at 3(. T1hound-tut(s of yarl.I Se ilbo t g) at .3 '!'l,ontiotds of % d40-in. beavy white cloth 'o go at 5c Thou' oi$ of 3 arIds Indlig u W no clit'o t o at Everything in Men's La derwear at cost. Every Suit of Clothes Pants at cost. Every Overcoat to go ir Every pair of Men's, Shoes in the house at act Get right into the PU Plenty of Salesrnen and the rush. Wishing my friends a New Year. The Cheapest Stor leston. Thiey claimed to not have Ofcr tika. seen each other while in Charles- ofc npcosG ton. They denied having been in any hdmtbfr,a other town in the State. All spe- meigwe o cifically insisted that they had nevertoM.rer.I been in any of the towns in which safe- ta eutdi h b)lowVing had occurredl in the last two or a( n i etn three months. They were asked oneWetVria,ht by one if they had been at Cameron,aperdsawi FEtoree or any of the other p)oints, buthajutfnhet insistedl that they did not even know ofnolieteiIao these communities. They dlenied ever ssi oubai having been in any of the neighboringcae States. When HlowardI was examined NoadndIgg at police station a wad of $380) was md hi aig found by Mr. StricklandI in the seat of ln,adDga his (drawers.lot$0inagn The four men were formally arrestednih.owdcl todlay on a wvarrant sworn out by In- ellg( nters s pector Pulsifer, before Ulnitedl States Mlily~a o Commissioner Lide, at Or-angeb)urg, in (iIUlyhgl)t which they were charged with, on or tm.Hwr,o about November 8, 27, 28 and 29, 1902, ihescaldnth andl December 14,1, 19 Iandl( 20, break- ugmn,adI ing in the p)ostoflices at Cameron, Eno- aot'3 nlIIw roe, Rowesville, Hart sville, 1Hineman,Aloftemnhv Motoeni atesbu rg and( Renno,adwl aeteI andl didl take various sums of moneytiealaermn andl postage stamjps. At all of these ralaed places, it is alleged that the safes wVere~ broken into andl money taken. Most of these postoflices are in stores, and( in ~ IO Imost eases p)ostothice money was taken, AMIRlAT: together wvith p)rivate funds(l. The post.. ( vilhve60b oflice inspectors had nothing to (10 withPmaiabu an B uch robberies as those at Mullins and Oc n )yyu other p)oints where no postoiice(111 fn at- o aisl i werec involved. The men werte ar- hu tbc tn raignedl before Commissioner Lide, who dleputized Chief D)aly to make the ar- Jnay1t 93 rests, and each of the men was held in dlefault of $20,000 bonda. They were tkh de held at p)olice station tonight, andl to- r~ANA morrow go to the county jail. They Shroloso will be given thoir preliminary exami- o ebry .C nation beforo Commissioner Verner, Ofofrcofterei Columbia. The police dIepartment man- dyo Jnity 9 agedl its end of the line wecll, and the o lcig(ietr p)ostoflice inspectors arc loud in thteir ato fsc te praises of Chief Daly for the success. neJfOCt cc ful manner in which he engineered the poy 1.3 l mattr, a(l fr th co-peraion ofic Janryector 1Gr TORTUETY OD CHEAP! and'Dollars othing and Shoes thrown first cost, not a few odds as big a stock of merchandise as ad to start the season on. I did in 1902, and I am going to do it ns for the largest spring business planted my feet on the Newberry erry and the surrounding country per South Carolina, and judging at flock to my store daily bears me illed my promise. )usand Dollars worth of New Em es, now is your chance. A big lot ew days for our big January Sale. gardless of cost, as I don't intend oods until another season. TP PRIC ES! $1.50, to go at 99c. ts, worth $2.00, to go at $1 .49 cTh . Ahof 1-4 of Ouutin; worth 10c., t-Og at (Qc Thou w ids uf yards Bed Ticking t, , at 5e. ' 'hiut.vi. I~f yards Feat her Ticking for this sale 11c. 100 dz Monc's Grey Half Hose for this sale 5c pr. 100 d.z La.iis' Black Hose for thi sale 5:. Ldies' and Children's un and every pair of odd a the big sale at cost. Ladies' and Children's ual cost. SH and join the crowds. Salesladies to wait on tnd custorners a happy LUG H'S e in the Carolinas. nd Thackham. Post- LICt egory and Howard 10 rI--Gv e4 d itwa a Turous wor TrlioF ard was presented was in the case DI0 8 U( ( conviction of How- They have alil k ind of Blread - e of three years in Patent Bread, Milk Bread1 Inspector Gregory Grahuam Hrund, ( reamn Bread, ness, and Howard Cap Bread, 1R e Bread, at sentence andI did Kimme.l Seed Rye Bread, meeting his neme- Boston Brown J3read. niother safe-blowing L1argest assortment of fresh, fanucy Cakes ever shown here. hie'ore. mn claim that they Orders taken by Telephone and de while here at gamb- livered free of charge as we have out boasted of having our new dlelivery wafron. 3here in a single Call and see us, or ring up Phone ims to have been No. 48. iurant business, and 1uite sure whether lE . Mey r&S n gamble for a pas- ----- jei'n More than Half Hie is a man of rd is only about 28. the banking business of the emplendtcounsel United States is done onr t l)e up gainst ac- capital less than one-thirdl as anl aruhlarge as the assets of The Mutual Life Insurance Comn. Flour ! pany of New York. )TO SUPPLY TH'Il EOver 6r per ceng. of total bank clearances of c:. e flour needled now, Clavi"g ough ew. or Lrels more to rutehi Icombine i capital NewYork CityClearing liouse b;,2 Flour, and if you h1 price and quahl ty I 3, 20 2,500 xpeCnse. HI. COUNTrS Assets The, Mutual J.ife Insurance Co. of New V. Pomaria, E. C. $352,838,971 's Men'ting Your life insurance policy !EETING OF~ THif is not p)rotecd by suIch secur wil heli~~I) it y, unless it is in The Mutual nt, ati Ne rry Write to-dasy for "Where Shall I Insure?" 3, for th pur rote THlE NIUTUJAL LIFE INSURANCI. bUsiness as may CM'N FNWYR ing. Shareholde.rs I4'C"^AJt ^- McCUaDy, President. "f"c"""li .' HYAI- MUR a118 Colamiba, & 0 CP. PLMK Agmt, uNowory e ( SOMETHING FOR WHICH TO BE THANKFUL! That's what the woman has who owns ' one of our labor-saving machines. SOMETHING FOR WHICH TO BE" -- THANKFUL! i; That's what thewoman has who owns a hand some, durable BUGK COOK STOVE. . SOMETHINGI FOR WHICH TO BE* T H-A-THANKFUL! That's what the man has who pays the W little fuel bills c.aused by a Buck's Stove. GLENN SPLNGS Ginger Ale! THE BEST On the Market. FOR SALE BY W. G. Mayes and Gilder & Weeks. SIXTEEN OUNCES TO T HE POUND We give 16 ounces to the pound, down weight, on all goods sold over our counter. druggists give apothecary's weight when they sell Cream of Tartar, Borax, Sulphur, and hnndreds of other Items sold by the pound. This is a mistake. We give you Avoirdupois Weight, sixteen ounces to the pound. The apothe cary ounce is heavier, but the avoirdupois pound is heavier by 240 grains, because it contains 16 avoIrdu pois ounces. 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