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% Thi Facts A By Burton Holme + A PAN has nearl ? ? os the United S W The word "i x X Gate" or "the S The name t - The name( fifffffff The name c European d Rice is the Sixteen cents a day is now j years ago it was six cents. Japan has very few raillionai Tokio is a hundred vears oldt The lovely Japanese cherry 1 On the Japanese stage male There is only one Japanese i Danjiro, the great Japanese Japan. Japanese dead are buried in More than 10.000 pilgrims, m Fujiyama is 12,365 feet high, foot for every day in the year. The Japanese people, even tl Modern Japanese coins and b in Japanese. % Semi-nudity is common in ru and healthful. The average Japanese is bet Wrinkles are poetically term* It is quite proper, even eomr The Japanese "Hello!" at th< with the accent on the "nay." The Japanese farewell. "Say* so." or "If we must part thus, so 1 Kissing and shaking hands J Japanese mothers do not kis lips to the forehead or cheek of t Sewing on buttons is not a w Japanese inns furnish fresh guest. The brush is of wood, sha of fibre at the large end. All of the food served to a gu by him at the time is taken to h Japanese chop-sticks are deli The two sticks, already shaped, 1 broken apart by the guest. Japan has one of the largest vice to the United States and to . 4 Th< A the By C I. i N THE stage th< Ohe interprets, bi character and t< self in a charac == able to guide it logically so int which ->n actor ? dressing-room t To me the swil ways has formed one of the mosi profession. I have seen John Dn In his dressing-room, on being su versation in a foreign tongue irn jump from a funny story in the "When We Were Twenty-One;" ' her next season's route to make 1 tress Nell;" Calve, behind the see ador hat, stand back and laugh, i . . . Actors rarely are ill, and These characteristics of the pro every night the actor gets out of another life. Then. too. many pro 1 believe that the audience, like a c footlights, inspiring and rejuvera r\f fHncp mvQfpri 19 UUl UliC ixivtv v/i iuvwv w?v.. one direction or another and wh! within a wheel, that character w son. the actor's second self. "Wi nailing to each other across the ^ ^ Perils of t By Be j. OT only is there fi ^ ? a tum in an aut M a temptation to ^ the inclination i when standing fought against ^ ^ I refer now the outer fence yielded to ever unrl infA *. hil tpo laruugu UIC icuvc auu juiu Itiv. xv with whom I have talked intimat It comes because when turn! the track you feel as if you sure! you turn away, and there is a coi from that inner rail. Another peculiar fact about (3 is that it is the inside wheels oi this is not generally appreciated machine in a curve in which the ing out on the right-hand side of 1 down, whereas it is always from is any hanging out -being done. 4 Cost of Colle? * N ORDER to pi f? * against Prineet .NT ? <> spent, cr more 4 I 1' eight youths to J I > utes, cost Yale 4 ^ ? no: counting th | ??< the best part o The lootba, sible care. Th< which would ^indicate to the rani training. Uniforms and the arm nearly a hundred doilars for eac! from the training table cost the volved an outlay ot $794. The La chandiso and sporting goods, or c and shoes per man. Twenty years ago Yale footb ens even in those days. Today wearing gear.?Outing. Strange Sleeping Places. An eccentric man named H who has just died at Romford, di sleep in a bed for over twenty : His faw>rite night resort wai stokehole%t the parish church, the police stopped his visits, that he slept while leaning oi railings in the market place.?Lc (Daily Expres^ The cily of Salem, Mass., oi prizes last year to boys for k JirojED-taiJ moths, - ? lrty=two lbout Japan a fs, Traveler and Lecturer. y 50,000,000 people, more than half as many tates. Mikado" signifies something like "the Sacred ublime Porte." of the reigning Mikado is Mutsu Hito. )f the Empress is O Haru?"spring." >f the Crown Prince is Yoshi Hito. ress is worn at all court functions, common food of the common people. ;ood pay for unskilled labor in Japan. Ten res and practically no multi-millionaires. t than St. Petersburg. trees produce no cherries. actors play the female roles. actress?Mme. Sada Yacco. tragedian, is also the most skilful dancer of a squatting posture, chin upon knees, ale and female, ascend Fujiyama every year. , a thousand feet for every month, plus one le poor, travel muoh in their own country, ank notes bear legends in English as well as iral Japan, and furthermore it is respectable ter bathed than the average Britisher. >d by the Japanese "waves of old age." dimentary, to ask a lady's age in Japan. i telephine is "Moshi! moshi:" or "Ano ne!" anara," means something like "If it mu^kbe be it." tre rarely practiced in Japan. % s their children, though they may press the i very young baby. ifely duty in Japan?there are no buttons, tooth-brushes every morning free to every ped like a pencil, and frayed to a tufty brush est at a Japanese banquet and not consumed is home by the servants of iiis host, vered to the guest in a decorated envelope, form one tong-shaped piece of wood and are steamship companies in the world, with scrEngland by the way of Suez. e Stage Second Self A ustav Kobbe. 5 actor is two persons. He is the character at, at the same time, he himself controls that ;lls it what to do. This ability to merge oneter, yet keep partly aloof from it, so as to be , this contradictory dual personality, psychoeresting, accounts lor the swiftness with can step from the society of friends In his o the stage and be In character 't merging of the actor's self into a role al; interesting things to be observed about the ?w, while conversing with a friend in French immoned by the call-boy, plunge from a conto an English speaking role; Nat Goodwin wings into the most sentimental scene of Henrietta Crosman run from a discussion of ter famous leap through the window in "Misnes, mischievously knock off Plancon's Toreind then go on or her Carmen death scenes. often dio in harness at a good old age. fession are considered due to the fact that himself, away from his own humors?leads essionals who have given the matter thought omposite personality, projects itself over the ting the actor with magnetic potency. This ous influences which cross the footlights in A ?.?t-/-. tkfit Tvhenl icn coninouie 10 uj*; uia?\v-u>j ui ithin a character, that person within a perireless?" Actor and audience have been sigfootlights for centuries.?The Delineator. f7 he Auto Pace 5 irney Oldjield. a peculiar sensation felt when swinging about omobile, but there is also what may be called commit suicide. It is something similar to that comes to throw one's self over the edge on a bridge or a housetop, and it has to be the same way. to the impulse to steer the machine toward when rounding a curve. If the impulse was so little, the machine and driver would hurl es or the crowd in a jiffy. 'Every racing man ely has this same temptation, ing in toward the pole to hold the curve of ly are going through the inside fence unless istant fight with one's self from steering out triving a machine around the turn of a track ! a car which leave the ground. Apparently . because I hav> seen drawings of a racing driver's assistant was renresentcd as hang the car, next t4o the driver, in order to hold it the inside edge that a man leans when there %e Sports Ralph D. Paine aco eleven young men of Yale in the field on and Harvard last autumn $26,990.00 was than two thousand dollars a head. To fit row against Harvard, a test of twenty niiu$16,026.85. or two thousand dollars a head, e coxswain. This is boat-racing at a cost of f a thousand dollars a minute. II men were equipped with the greatest pos?ir shoes alone cost $1189, a bill for foot-gear t outsider that a team of centipedes were in or of the foot ball warrior cost $3,735.52, or h of the squad. Hotel bills and meals away Yale'treasury $5,360.42. Carriage hire inse ball squad required $2,37S.13 worth of meribout one hundred dollars' worth of uuifornis ail cost SZ.YSZ.oU, ana mere were great eievthis would not pay for uniforms and other STILL LOVES THE RING, edge?1 Mabel?So you have broken off the d noi! engagement? Have you returned his rears , ring? s the! Amy?Why, no! that wouldn't be unti: reasonable. Of course. I have Aftei changed my opinion of George, but i the I admire the ring as much as ever, mdor ?Chicago Journal. t Fully 75 per cent, of the rural pop fforei nlatlon of the Prussian province of illinj Saxony has drifted to the large cities ?' Bays the Hanover Courier. I ' Minor Happenings of the Week at Home and Abroad. ] Down in Dixie. Miss Virginia Downer, of Norfolk, j was drowned at Alexandria. | j I Mrs. Eva Fuller was burned to death j at Petersburg from kindling fire with i coal oil. : / E. C. Edwards, of Henderson, was struck and killed by a Seaboard passenger train on Wednesday. I Gen. William R. Cox was married : on Wednesday in Richmond. Va., to I Miss Claiborne or mat city. The Virginia Corporation Commission has ruled that the Standard Oil j and the American Can Companies must i i pay charter fees of $3,000 and $3,000, 1 j i respectively. The annual meeting of the Southern j , ! wholesale grocers began at Norfolk. Judge Berryman Green died at Dan- ( ville. i The training ship at Annapolis, * known heretofore as the Chesapeake, 1 has been named the Severn. ( O. M. Baldinger, a Norfolk political ( worker, was convicted of offering ] forged voters' transfers and was sentenced to three years in the peniten- ' tiary. * Elsie, the baby of Mr. Jack Penow, . of Lynchburg, was strangled to death, . its clothes having caught In the spring as it fell out of bed. The Credit Men's Association select- i ed Baltimore as the meeting place 1 for next year. 1 Confederate veterans paraded . through the principal streets of Louis- k ville. Ky. m In the municipal election at Jackson- 1 ville, Fla., George M. Nolan, Democrat- t 1c nominee for mayor, was re-elected, ( receiving 1,337 out of 1,473 votes cast. ' In St. Augustine. Mayor Boyce was re- i elected by 183 majority. 1 < At the National Capital. i Maj.-Gen. John C. Bates succeeded , Major-General Gillespie as assistant , chief of staff at the War Department. J Attorney-General Moody submitted ^ to President Roosevelt a statement re- t J lating to the Sante Fe rebate cases < and Secretary Morton's connection with j them. f Secretary Shaw is to try the experi- J ment of paying Government employes ' by check instead of cash. The President has appointed a com- t mittee of five to investigate the busi- j ness methods of the Government and suggests needed reforms. < A Washington special says: "It is ( intimated in official circles here that * negotiations are proceeding looking to 1 an armistice between Japan and Rus- * sia. The stumbling block in the way 1 of an armistice appears to be that | neither belligerent is filing to take ' the initiative. The present negotia- ? tions, it is understood, consists of an J effort to sound one or both governments as to their willingness to agree li ? ?? r* ioHnA f iu at at 1U10UV.V. J Through the North. The Chicago Civic Federation advised against municipal ownership. President Roosevelt spent a few days the first of the week In New 1 England. The City Trust and Safe Deposit J Co.. of Philadelphia, has failed as a i result of the Gaskill forgeries. . r The Lutheran Synod continued its c sessions in Pittsburg and received re- * ports on church extension and other j subjects. c Both of the 18-hour trains on the \ New York Central and Lake Shore rail- b road between New York and Chicago i arrived ahead of schedule time. c Paul Morton, chairman of the board i j of directors of the Equitable Life As, surance Society, has directed two expert accountants to make an investigation. Supreme Court Justice Gaynor has authorized Explorer Champ, to con- I tinue his search for the North Pole, i the expedition having been fitted out a by the late William Ziegler. r Jesse Wilson, of Indiana, was ap- 1 pointed Assistant Secretary of the In- J terior, to succeed M. W. Miller, re * signed. c The hot weather caused four deaths In Brooklyn, N. Y. It is rumored in Philadelphia that Mayor Weaver may cause the arrest < of Israel W. Durham, the Republi- s can organization leader, in connection < with certain contracts. Foreign Affairs. < Emperor Nicholas received a delegai tion of Zemstvoists, to whom he reaf firmed his intention of calling a na- 1 tional assembly. f Germany, suspecting Europe's intention. has engaged in unusual naval activity. The Chinese movement to boycott American goods is growing steadily. c j France will take part in an inter- I national conference upon Morocco. a Field Marshal Oyama is gradually ex- t j tending his line of Japanese troops ; from the Mongolian border to the Sea j * j of Japan. | Miscellaneous Matters. e Three hundred descendants of the j Fries family gathered in a reunion at l | Winchester. M. Rouvier, the French Premier, , has decided to retain the Foreign Af fairs porto-folio. * On motion of counsel for Gaynor ; and Greene, the habeas corpus pro- i * Tunc. I Iceeuings were jjuaipuueu uum * ( day, counsel stating that the motion j J J to quash his clients' appeal to the | 1 Supreme Court would be argued on < j Monday. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild bequep'lr 54.000.000 of his estate to ! , i charitable purposes. I ^ The Italian Heraldic Court decided 1 that titles of nobility conferred by the 1 | Pope are valid. '' It is officially announced that a Jap' anese detachment in northern Korea I completely occi^ied Kangsong on ^ Tuesday. A few thousand Russians, ' wtih artillery, imired toward Siasong, 12 miles nort^ard. The feeling^of doubt that James j Hazen Hyde ha^|eally sold his majority stock in the Equitable Life As- 1 surance Society to Thomas F. Ryan i appears to be on the increase and l there is a growing belief that there t may be as much one-man power in the s society under the trusteeship as be- t i fore. j msHRNZAL :orger Got His Hand in Cleverly For Near a Million KANY BANKS WERE EASILY DUPED Vn Investigation Into the Affairs of Benj. H. Gaskill, a Philadelphia Broker, Who Died Four Weeks Ago, Discloses a Sensational Case of Forgery. Philadelphia, Special.?One of the nost sensational cases of forgery that las ever been brought to light in flnan:ial circles of this city was disclosed vhen it was announced that certificates :alling for a small number of shares )f stock had been fraudulently raised x> hundreds of shares, causing a loss :o certain banks and trust companies >f this city of from $750,000 to $1,000,)0O. The forgery involves the name of Benjamin H. Gaskill, who went to his jrave four weeks ago. Gaskill was :he sole member of the banking and jrokerage concern known as Benj. H. Baskill & Co. He had offices in the Inancial district and his credit was :onsidered gilt edged. Gaskill died about four weeks ago, md at the time of his death he was jelieved to be worth about half-miliam dollars. He left no will and adnJmct-rtHnro h/?crnn tn /Oriop iin hla hue. ffess. A patron of the firm, whose lame is not given, bought from the ;state 100 shares of Philadelphia Tracion Company stock. This was sent to ;he Philadelphia Traction Company's )ffice to have the transfers recorded. The stock exchange, of which Gaskill *as a member, then sent out notices :o its members not to receive stock :ertiflcates from the Gaskill estate. A further investigation brought to ight a surprising state of affairs. It ivas found that Gaskill had credited limself on his own books with 6,000 jhares of Philadelphia Traction stock, ralued approximately at $600,000, while :he Traction Company's books showed >hat he only had 400 shases. It was ilso discovered that he had raised stock certificates of the United States Flail way s of New Jersey from two to 200 and the certificates of the Frank'ord & Southwark Street Railway Company, in this city, from two to :wenty. The latter stock is worth $450 i share. Gaskill kept two accounts, one re;ording the transactions of his customers, which was correct, and another riving his own transactions His books diowed that he was losing from $15,000 X) $20,000 a year in his business His nethod of operation was to obtain ceriflcates of gilt-edged securities callng for one, two, three or some other small number of shares, raise the figires and give them as securities for arge loans At kast six banks and :rust companies of this city admit lolding fraudulent securities for large oans. financier who has been making an nvestigation said that the amount of noney loaned on the raised certificates vill aggregate between $750,000 and 11,000,000. It Is believed that very ittle will be recovered from the estate. Texas Railroad Sold. Beaumont, Tex., Special.?The Beaunont, Sour Lake & Western Railroad, i twenty-mile line from this city to Sour Lake, tapping a rich lumber ana iil region, has been sold to B. F. Yoalum, of New York, representing the It. Louis & San Francisco. The sale cas ratified at a meeting of the stocklolders here. It is expected that the lurchasers will make the road the nuleus of a line reaching from Houston o New Orleans, with various branches. The terms of the s ile were not given ut. Ex-Governor Lubback III. Austin, Tex., Special.?Ex-Governor '"Yank Lubbock, one of the most promnent men in Texas, at the advanced ige of 86 years, was stricken with paalysis. It may be possible, it is said, hat he will linger for a day or t\ro, tut the attending physicians assert that lis advanced age gives no hope of reovery. Reddoch Goes to Prison. St Louis, Special.?M. M. Redlock, ex-postmaster of Yazoo, Mississippi when arraigned in the United States district court pleaded guilty o having trumped up charges against Congressman Claude Kitchen of the * ^ ^ n n*ao irst i\onn turuuud uiamti, auu ier.tcnced to serve one year in the Missouri penitentiary fit Jefferson City ind pay a fine of $100. Bowen Dismissed. Washington, Special.?The dismissal >f Herbert W. Bowen, for some years JuPed States Minister to Venezuela, ind the exoneration of Assistant Sec ctary ^f State Loomis, of the alleraiions brought against him by Mr. Jowen, are the outcome of the LoomisJowen controversy, which has attract;d wide attention for many months )?..~t. This disposition of the case is cade by President Roosevelt in a letter idclressed to Secretary Taft, made pubic, approving Mr. Taft's report on his indings and conclusions in the case. Dropped Dead While Speaking. Chicago, Special.?S. P. Shecrin. formerly secretary of the Democratic naonal committee, dropped dead on the v>r>r of tho convention hall in the Au Itorium Hotel while making an ad"08s before the delegates to the con>ntion of National Inter-State Independent Telephone Association. Death vas due to appolexy. Mr. Sheerin vas president of the nev; long-distance :elephone company, of Indianapolis, ind had been selected to reply to an iddress of welcome. Negro Lynched in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn., Special.?Simon Ford, a negro who assaulted a white voman near Riverside, has been taken :rom jail at Hohenwald, Tenn., by a nob of fifty men and shot to death. Ford was arrested after being perhaps 'atally wounded. After his arrest he adnitted his guilt and was later identiled by his victim. Ford was hauled to he scene of his crime, about ten miles, iuffering from his wounds. He asked to )e killed the quickest way and did not dead for his life. South Carotin* Railroad Commiuion i After Thorough Investigation of the Wreck of the Ogden Special, Makes j Report. Columbia, S. C., Special. ? The Railroad Commission on Wednesday filed their finding on the wrcek of the Ogden special car near Greenville on April 29. The finding goes into the particulars in detailand makes some rather drastic recommendations. In addition to the regular finding Commissioner Earle filed a supplementary report on the wreck and makes some additional findingse. The commission says: "The yard engine and train engaged j in switching in the Greenville yards ] was neither a second or third class ! train, and the effect of the train or- ; ders above mentioned was not to alter j the* rolotinnc Kntvnon it anH PYtr? pn- i ; gine 1010, as established by the rules ; of the railroad company. We find the ' rules of the railroad company make 1 all extra trains inferior to regular trains of whatever class. The rule of the company which governed the train in question on the day of the accident was as follows: " 'Yard limits are indicated by sign boards reading 'Yard limits' located on either side of Spencer. Salisbury, Charlotte, Spartanburg. Spartanburg junction. Greenville, Toccoa, Lula, j Athens. Elberton. Armour and Atlanta Switching and other engines and trains may work within these limits without regard to second class and inferior trains, but must give way immediately upon their approach. Second class and inferior trains must approach and run through yard limits under full 1 control, expecting to find the main track occupied. In case of accident, I responsibility rests with approaching train.' "From this it is apparent that as , acording to the company's classiflca- ' tion of trains, which is the usual clas- ! siflcation on American railways, the I extra train of engine 1010 was inferior in class, and for the purpose of ascer- i taining its right on the road to sec- I ond class trains, it was its duty, in J I approaching and running through i Greenville yard, tq do so 'under full ; control,' and 'expecting to find the | main track occupied,' It was right | under the rules for the switch engine . and train to work within the yard lim- | its without regard to approaching second class or inferior trains, which ' include extra trains, but they are re- 1 quired to give way immediately upon their approach. ''Under these rules the entire obligation of safety rests upon the approaching train, and, in fact, the rule explicitly states that 'in case of accident, responsibility rest with approaching train.' "If we take the rules to govern a train crew, we must decide from the facts shown that the approaching extra train, in this case engine 1010, was, j in approaching and passing through j the Greenville yard limits, being run | In direct violation of these rules, and 1 of being under 'full control' was running from thirty-eight to forty miles per hour. It appears from the evidence that the engineer and conductor of this train had been furnished with the rules in question had been examin- ! ed on and knew them, but simply in i action, at least, misinterpreted them. HOLDS CREW responsible "The conclusion, therefore, of the i commission, is that the responsibility j for the accident rest primarily with i the crew of engine No. 1010." The commission after stating that j the rules of the company are standard says: "There is one point, however, that the commission are not fully satisfied ' with, and that is when the operator i at Greenville received the last mes- j sage, that is that the Ogden speeial j was running forty minutes late, if he j received it in time, and it seems from j the testimony that he did, he (the op- I erator at Greenville) should have made every effort to convey this notice to the yard crew. If this could have I been successfully done, in all proba- | I bility this unfortunate accident could have been averted. ."It appears that the trainmen on this special misunderstood their orders, and that they considered that they were running a first-class train. It further appears that the yard men in Greenville regarded them as a special, and that they should have come into the Greenville yard uador control, expecting the main track occupied. It appears that the train crews having the safety and lives of the passengers | in charge are not sufficiently familiar [ with their orders, and that railroad companies should only employ men I for these position who are thoroughly familiar with all orders, rules, etc., j concerning their work. "It further appears that when so j many trains are handled over a single track, that in all such cases the railroads should use the block system, and any other precautions that it is j possible to use. It further appears that there is not sufficient track room in the Greenville yard, and that more room should be given for the handling of the large amount of business there. "The commission recommended that in cities like Spartanburg, Greenville, j Charleston, Columbia, and other cit- \ ies like these, that the railroad companies should have an employe for the purpose of delivering messages, telegrams. etc.. to the yardmaster and all yard crews that may be in the yard ; nvor. I limits on duty, concerning au , due trains and the approach of all extra trains. "Respectfully submitted. "J. H. Wharton, chairman, "B. L. Caughman, "John H. Earle. "Commissioners." j I Shot For Hiring Negroes. ! A special from Florence says that H. D. Granger, a local Baptist preach- | er. was shot from ambush and killed j while working on his farm near there ; Friday. He lived in the district i known as the "dead stretch," where I it is said that negroes are not wel- j come, and the only explanation of his death is that he had hired two negroes j to work on the farm and had protected , them?even allowing them to sleep on his premises. Two New Majors. Major Walter B. Moore, of Yorkville, ! and Major W. T. Brock, of Cberaw, went to Columbia and stood successful- j Iv the examination for promotion. These are the only new majors in the I j militia under the recent elections. MaI jor Moore came through Chester xnd [ reports that the condition of Mr. Paul G. McCorkle is extremely critical. Mr. McCorkle has never rallied from the g kick in the face which he received 1 from a frightened horse a few weeks R as*. . Oconee People Ask Poi^jCTarte^^^ff County Road. A new railway the "Oconee County ! Railway Company," applied for a charter Monday. The railway will be capitalized at $50,000 wlta the privilege of increasing to $200,000. and will run from Westminister on the Southern to Fairplay, which is near the conjunction of the Oconee, Anderson and Georgia lines, and will run through intermediate stations including Oakway. The declaration asks for powers to dam rivers and furnish light and power and provides that the railway may be operated either by steam or electricity. The corporators are W. P. Anderson, and Wm. Bibb of Westminister; J. W. Shelor of Walhalla; J. J. Halley. Jas. Bates and L. A. Edwards of Oakway; W. L. Thomas of Tugalo; J. D. Sheldon, E. C. Marett and J. R. Heller of Fair Play, and J. W. Shirley of Town ville. I Steamboat Launched. Columbia, Special.?"The City of Columbia," Columbia's new freight boat, to make weekly round trips between here and Georgetown, was launched Tuesday afternoon with impressive ceremony and in the presence of several hundred people, the attendance being large in spite of the excessive heat. The boat has a gross tonnage of 300 and a net tonnage of 360, is 135 feet Ion;;, 30 feet wide, and is a stern-wheeler propelled by an 85-horse power engine, with a down-stream speed of 15 miles an hour and an up-stream speed of 9 miles. The christening was by little Miss Janie Murray, daughter of Dr. W. J. Murray the president of the company. The Enterprise is backed by the strongest and most successful local business men, who intend to make this an interior port of Importance, adding a number of various kinds of boats in the immediate future. With this is view correspondence has been opened with the Washington authorities and with the head officials of the Southern and Seaboard railroads looking to the construction of a draw bridge across the Congaree at a point near where the roads have ordinary bridges over which they come into the city a short distance below the present landing of the boat. The company intends to blast out the entire river, if this is necessary, in order to put on a complete line of boats. Edgefield to Discuss the Dispensary. XT' A rrc\ flnlrl cnncin 1 A ooll ft\ * f| UUgCUVlU, ayctiai.- A v??it iwt ? mass meeting of the citizens of Edgefield county in the court house has been made and the same will be published in the county papers this week announcing Monday July S, as the time to discuss the matter of voting out the dispensary here. This action is fathered by some of the leading and most influential citizens throughout the county and there is little doubt but that an election will be ordered and the State rum mill dislodged from this baliwick. Whether prohibition absolute is in the majority is questionable and it remains only to be seen, but the people here are sick of the State selling liquor. A Negro Shot. Laurens, Special.?Ferrell Milam, a young white man of the county shot Ader Madden, a negro farm hand Monday while the two were engaged in a personal difficulty. A warrant was issued for Milam, but he came' In and was granted bond in the proper sum for his appearance at the next term of the criminal court to answer to the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. It seems that Milam shot at the negro several times, but only one shot struck Madden, which took effect in the arm just above the wrist and ranged upward or inward, coming out at a point between the elbow and shohlder. During the fight Milam was struck on the head, apparently with a brick or rock. According to the statement of Milam the negro was whipping a negro woman and he decided to interfere for the purpose of stopping the fuss. Madden resented and the ngni ensuea. Heavy Storm Damage. Tampa. Fla., Special. ?One death and damage to property amounting to thousands resulted from an electric storm and cloudburst which occurred here Tuesday afternoon. Beatrice Colin. aged 7. colored, was killed by lightning while standing in the door of her hom'e. The roof of the Peninsular Telephone exchange, fell in smashing the switchboard and injuring several young lady operators, none seriously. Major Carrington'5 Case Up. Washington, Special.?The proceedings in the case of Maj. F. del Carrington. tried by court-martial in the Philippines. have arrived at the War Department for review by the President. Major Carrington was in charge of the battalion of Philippine scouts at the St. Louis Exposition, and his trial was based on charges of misappropriation of funds and the duplication of accounts. The court sentenced him to dismissal. Carrington was tried by civil authorities of the Philippines and sentenced to sixty years and five days imprisonment. New Enterprises. The Lynchburg Mercantile Company of Lee County received a commission this week. The concern is capitalized at $5,000 and its corporators are: W. E. Mcintosh. J. F. Mcintosh. Jr., S. W. Frierson. J. W. Tarrant and E. D. Smith. - - ! Another commission was issuea 10 > the Evins Land company of Spartan- i burg. The capital is $11,000 and the j corporators are: J. Choice Evins and ; Thos. M. Evins. The Independent Canning Company of Charleston will have a capital stock of $40,000 and the corporators will be: William Fait, William Q. Lloyd, A. C. Tobias and Edward W. Wynne. The Wateree club of Camden will be a hunting and fishing club. A number of northerners are among {he corporators. They are: W. G. Fellowes, Ralph N. Ellis and Floyd Warren, all of New York city and John ^^tey of Camden. This is an eleej^Bsynary organization. " Judge Thomas J. Christian died in a hospital at Newjort News. Many Langley coiumBHJ^H^^^H^B tangle^, a car ^pairing depa^CTOnt at the Southern railway in has unaccountably disappeare^^^^^H^^^B been seen by his family his friends since Monday. home on the Barh&mville than a mile from the shop* Monday morning. He w^ . accustomed place all day *.j hours timer^sUatu^pvi.^^^^^^^H o'clock that night work he was seen by oing towards his home and that can be learned of him is was at the store of Mr. William G. jHH Allworden. on the Barhamville road, BB that night. jUM His wife is unable to account for his absence, and she says she thinks hp has heen foully dealt with. She and ',vfl her two young children have b^n left /mI ^ in a most deplorable condition, ^oth of the children are sick an-.i she her- ? self Is just recovering from a receflt V illness. The eldest of the two chil\ J dren is two years old and the youngest \ \fl is only seven months old. They are \J]J without money or the necessaries of life and are dependent on the bounty > fl of their good neighbors for food^a>A~*s*sJH shelter. The Langleys investsd in $75 worth 1 of furniture on the installment plan - V when they began housekeeping some j time ago, and this has been seized and 9 removed by the furniture house from i J which it was bought because of her inability to pay the installments. Mrs. 1 Langley said that she had paid about half of the $75 and that she had taftt that and her furniture too. She and her J children are being cared for at thn _A home of Joseph L. Gates, who live# J near the broken up home of the Lang- * icyu. So far as can be learned there is W absolutely nothing to indicate why v Langley should have left except that V he was in debt and could not meet' his obligations. His wife states that he had no enemies, so far as she knew. A There is no reason to believe that he << has met with foul play. >j Petition For Pardon. A petition for the pardon of John, tj Hendrix, of Pickens county, has been - 3 filed with the Governor. The convict is said to be a weak-minded boy who, in 1900, was given a life sentence on the charge of burglary with attempt toassault. Daniel Doe, an imbecile, of Barnwell county, who a few weeks ago pleaded ? guilty to the charge of larceny and J was given a sentence of thirty months on the chaingang, is the object of the- , Js sympathies of the county officials In Barnwell who have written to the Gov- ^ Jj ernor to have the boy released on a pardon. Hurley Jones, of Greenville, is serving a life sentence on the charge of as- p sault. The mother of the woman who alleges that she was assaulted, has asked for the prisoner to be pardoned, as there were circumstances which are in the convict's favor. J New Enterprises. The Bank of Norway has applied for a charter. A commission has been Is- - -a sued to the following corporators: ' W. C. Wolfe and J. A. Berry, of Orange- * burg, and C. H. Able, J. G. Williams,. $, ^ L. W. Jeffcoat, C. T. Dowling and A. L*. Garick. of Norway. The capital stock, will be $10,000. Tho GipcHnc Music House, of Char- .< j leston. wants to be incorporated with a capitalization of $24,000. M . ^ A commission was Issued to the following corporators of the Bank of Lynchburg, which will have a capitalization of $20,000. T. G. McLeod. E. D. Smith. J. C. Kilpatric, J. A. Rhame, J. G. Stokes. The Georgetown Boat Oar Company was chartered, capitalization. $5,000. ;^ F. D. Wilsey Is president; Walter Haz- $ ard, vice-president, and F. C. Clutter- f v buck, secretary. The Timmonsville Lumber Company was given a commission, the corpora tors being B. D. Dargan ana t\ u wucox. The capitalization will be $40,000. The United Brotherhood of Labor of Enon. Richland county, was given an eleemosynary charter, as was the "Industrial Health and Accident Company, of Aiken," a burial aid society. A charter was Issued to the Charleston Steamship Company, capitalization $20,000. A. C. Tobias is president; Wal- J ter Pringle. vice-president: John W. Peterman. secretary and treasurer. The largest stockholder is Moses Marks, of Georgetown. -It/ Walter B. Dean, of Spartanburg, was appointed a State constable. . A charter was issued to the Barnwell County Building and Loan Association, capitalization, $30,000. George H. Bates is president and W. C. McXab, secre- L tary and treasurer. ? - fc Violating Game Law. I Mr. H. McRae, of Albriton. Marion I county, has written to Capt. John C-. ^ Sellers that the fish laws are bekjg violate dflagrantly on the Little Pee Pee river. Dynamite, traps and other means of wholesale destruction are being used. ,, Captain Sellers has written to Governor Hey ward and recommends the appointment of Mr. S. G. Moore, of Albriton, as game warden, under the provisions of the act passed in Februr ary last. * Two Great Men. It was when Odell was govenor or" New York state and ^ visitor to the fair at Mineola. L. I., that a plainlooking, plainly dressed woman shoved her way through the crowd and said . ' to him: ^ 'J "Governor, I want your permission to bring my husband here and intn> duce him." "What's the name, please?" queried Odell. "Jones, sir?Tim Jones." ^ "Jones? Jones? I beg pardon, but I don't remember to have heard of him before." "No, I don't s'pose you ever did;' hut he's just won the race for 3-yearolds, riding his own horse, and is noat as big a man as you are." m