HEWS STEMS.
Ten thousand people attended the
Fourth of July-celebration at Pelzer.
Among the midshipmen at large
appointed by the President ander the
new naval appropriation^bill is Bradley
T. Johnson, Jr., of Gen. Brad
ley T. Johnson, late of the Confederate
army.
Among the numerous bills which
were rushed through in the closing
hours of Congess was one introduced
by Senator Pritchard, of North Caro
lina, providing that those Confederate
Veterans who enlisted and served in
the Federal army prior to January 1,
1865, should be eligible to receive
pensions from the United States
Government. When this matter was
brought up before Commissioner of
Pensions H. Clay Evans, several
years ago, he ruled that men in this
class were not pensionable. By the
passage of this biH about $3,000,000
in pensions will be disbursed in
North Carolina and Tennessee.
The Florence fire department is to
be reorganized and a hose wagon . and
horses purchased.
Judge Bantzier has issued an in
junction against the establishment of
a dispensaries in Lake City and Scran
ton, Williamsburg county. The point
is raised by the opponents of the
dispensary that Section 7 of the dis
pensary law violates the . constitution
of the State.
Dr. B. A. Buchanan, father of
Judge O. W. Buchanan, and one of
the oldest citizens of Fairfield county,
died at Winnsboro on Tuesday night
King Edward continues to improve
so rapidly that it has been decided to
have the coronation between August
11th and 15th.
A special from Ofierman, Ga., July
7, says : Three white men and two ne
groes killed, one white man and one
negro injured, is the result of a severe
thunder and lightning storm here to
day. The men were employed in the
construction department of the South
ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, and were stretching wire when
struck by lightning. The construction
force was working in two sections
about five miles apart. Three white
men were killed and one injured in
one section, two negroes killed and
one injured in the other.
The cholera recor? Monday of Ma
nila was 50 new cases and 30 deaths.
For the provinces the record was 4?0
new cases and 335 deaths.
Secretary of the Navy Moody on
Monday after consultation with his
bureau chiefs, gave orders that one of
the batttleships authorized at the last
session of congress >:e [constructed at
the New York navy yard. Norfolk
and Boston both made every effort ' to
havo the Secretary order the ship
built at their navy yards.
Th*e Boersenhalles of Hamburg pub
lishes a dispatch from St. Petersburg
which ^says that the Standard Oil
Company and the Russian Oil Com
pany have signed a contract dividing
the British market, two-thirds going
to the Standard and one-third to the
Kassian company. The correspondent
of ;the Boersenhalles asserts that sim
ilar contracts in connection with other
countries are being arranged and he
assumes that Germany will be parti
tioned.
A terrific thunder storm swept over
Central Virginia Sunday evening.
At the far?n of C. J. Sledd, in Pow
hartan County; three of the children,
Annie, Hugh and Florence, and a lit
tle girl from Richmond, named Wenlin
ger, went out into a field near the
hous8 to drive up the cows. Light
ning struck a tree'in the yard jnst as
the children were driving the cows
under'it and -tore it into pieces.
Annie, aged 20y-was instantly killed;
Hugh and Florence, who are younger,
were rendered unconscious, and the
Wenlinger child was badly shocked.
Mrs. Sledd, who was watching the
children from a window, was stunned,
but soon recovered.
ENDORSED BY HIS COUNTY. .
W. Boyd Evans t?e Favorite of tbe Democ
racy of Marien io Convention Assem
bled.
Whereas, W. Boy? l?vans is a candi
date for Railroad Commissioner, Re
solved, That we, the Democracy of
Marion County, in convention assem
bled, endorse his candidacy and
commend him to the voters of the
State as one qualified to perform the
duties of the office with credit to him
self and fidelity to the State.
The above resolutions were passed
unanimously.
ENDORSED WHERE HE WAS BO SN.
Those Who Know Hiaa Best Speak in
Highest Praise of Him.
Whereas, W. Boyd Evans is an
nounced as a candidate for Railroad
Commissioner; and, whereas, we, the
Democratic voters of the township in
which he was born and reared, know
ing him to be qualified in every par
ticular to fill the office to which he
aspires with credit *o himself and
honor to the State; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the Democratic
voters of Kirby Township, in meeting
assembled, do endorse his candidacy,
and instruct the delegates elected
toftbe County Convention to offer suit
able resolutions commending him to
the citizens of this State for their
support.
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Won the Miniature Range.
Little Miss Gladys Hurst won the
minature nickle-steel Buck range,
offered by T. S. Gregory, the local
representative of the Buck Range Co.,
to the little girl who clipped the great
est number of his advertisement from
the local newspapers. The winner
handed in 3,550 advertisements to the
committee. Her closest competitors
were Miss Carrie Winburn, 2,875; Miss
Marie Gregory, 2,243. Sheriff H. W.
Scarborough and B. D. Wilson acted
as a commitatee to receive the adver
tisements and make the award.
Salisbury, N. C, July 8.?Arch
Con ley, an Indian, and Dick Flem
ing, were hanged on the same scaffold
in this city today. Conley paid the
death penalty for the murder of a
yonng negro last November. Fleming
was hanged for committing an assault
on a white woman last February.
FOURTH OF JULY SHOOTING.
Vernon McLeod, Jr.^Seriously Wounded
by Jacob Bradwell.
There was but one row in the city
on the Fourth, but that was quite a
serious affray and Vernon McLeod,
Jr., colored, a son of Vernon McLeod,
the tinner is at the hospital suffering
from a serious, perhaps a fatal wound.
The difficulty occurred at Jacob
Bradwell's meat market in the Curtis
buidling opposite the old passenger
depot. Jacob Bradwell and Vernon
McLeod, Jr., got into a row between
10 and 11 o'clock, and it is said Brad
well struck McLeod with a stick. Mc
Leod threw a whiskey bottle at Brad
well and then got a rock. Bradwell
grabbed a rifle which was leaning
against the wall in the market, and
McLeod ran. Bradwell fired and Mc
Leod fell with a bullet through his
body. The ball struck him in the
rear part of the right side and passing
through the body lodged under the
skin just below the breastbone. Mc
Leod was taken to Dr. Baker's infirm
ary and the ball extracted and the
wound dressed. ?t first it was
thought that death' would ensue with
in a short time, but he rallied
j from the shock and at noon next day
! he was in better condition and there
is a chance of recovery.
Bradwell was arrested immediately
.after the shooting and was put in. jail,
but has been released on bond.
Vernon McLeod, Jr., who was shot
on Friday, is improving and it is now
thought that he will recover from the
wound that was at first believed to
I be necessarily fatal
Jacob Bradwell who shot Vernon
j McLeod, Jr., after spending two days
I in jail was granted bail by Magis
! trate Wells on Saturday afternoon and
released from confinement. If Mc
j Leod should die from the wound Brad
well would be re-arrested and a new
bond required before his release. The
bond is for $1,000, with H. Harby, W.
B. Boyle and W. ., Graham as sure
ties. ,
THE POSTMASTERSHIP.
Mr. Shore's Friends Confident of His
Early Appointment
Notwithstanding the statement made
in the Washington correspondence of
the News and Courier on July 4th,
that Mr. Geo. D. Shore might not be
reappointed postmaster at Sumter,
Mr. Shore as still confident that he
will shortly be reappointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt and receive his com
mission.
His friends are confident that he
will be the next postmaster, and
neither the failure of the Senate to
confirm his nomination nor the fact
that he was not immediately reap
pointed by the President has lessened
this confidence. The reappointment of
Jeff Richardson, at Greenville and
Harris at Charleston were emergency
appointments, as Richardson who has
been psotmaster at Greenville for
nearly a year under a recess appoint
ment by the President and the failure
of the Senate to .confirm the appoint
ment vacated the office: and in
Charleston*, Postmaster Cunningham
had been appointecLU. S. Marshal for
South Carolina and it was necessary
to appoint his successor at once.
There were a number of other presi
dential appointments that the Senate
failed to confirm and he has acted
upon emergency appointments only,
to which class the appointment of
Maj. Micah Jenkins as Collector
Revenue belongs, Collector Koester
being out of office the day the Senate
adjourned without confirming his .ap
pointment.
Mr. Shore is still a candidate for
postmaster, and the impression that
has gotten abroad in the community
that he has abandoned the race is en
rely misleading. On the other hand
his friends are confident of his early
appointment.
A DAY OF PIC NICS.
The Rig Gathering # of Woodmen of the
World.
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Last Friday was a day of picnics and
barbecues, and the city was deserted
by a large percentage of the male pop
ulation, most of the men folks electing
to celebrate the Fourth by going to
the country.
The largest picnic of the day was
the big Woodmen of the World picnic
and barbecue at Graham's Grove on
the boulevard in the suburbs of the
city. Hollywood Camp has a mem
bership of more than 250 and a ma
jority of the* members with their
wives and children were present.
Great preparations had been made and
a bountiful repast of barbecued beef,
mutton and pork was served with all
the other seasonable viands and ad
juncts that were needed to make up a
first class picnic bill of fare. The
large crowd spent a very pleasant and
enjoyable day and everyone voted the
Woodmen picnic a great success.
Shortly after dinner the rain and
hail storm came up and broke up the
picnic in short order. The wind blew
a gale and the hail fell in such great
quantities that the ground was cover
ed in a few minutes. Nearly every
one got wet, and the women and chil
dren were terrified while the wind was
at its worst.
The rain and hail storm Friday
afternoon was entirely local and did
not extend much beyond the city
limits. On Graham's farm and on the
Manning road near the Hoyt place the
storm was quite severe and there was
an unusually heavy fall of hail.
Trees were blown down and crops
were badly cut up by the hai I. A few
miles out of town there was neither
rain nor hail.
A Question of Color.
Columbia, July 7.?The f o ilo wing
physicians have been appointed
through the influence of Capt. John
G. Capers pension examiners at this
place: Dr. Frank Darby, Dr. L. B.
Owens and Dr. C. C. Johnson, color
ed. It is stated that neither Dr. Dar
by nor Dr. Owens will serve on the
board. Two white physicians of
Greenville refused, it is said, to serve
under like circumstances.
WHY THE DELGARS WON.
[By a Camden Coon.]
Joe McCoy say dat Deignar win
Fore de Lawd Joe, dat is er sin ;
For you know you hadn't orter
When you know Camden couldn't get
de water.
Camden made de run in 16 flat,
Look yer Joe ! what you tink of dat?
Delguar make it in seventeen 5-S
Which wid out preshure would ha bin
too late.
When de Delguars run, de preshure
bin so high,
Dey trowd e wattah up ford de sky.
But when Camden run, dey hold de
noz'le low
Jest to gib dat wattah chance to flow,
Yes, look yere nigger ; you coal black
Joe.
Jes tell the burkra where dey chedk'd
de ?ow,
Jes tell the burkra what mek some
stables so wet,
We know a few tings : We do you bet.
One ting I'll say poet Joe to you,
Dis kind of controversy, hit won't do.
?Wateree Messenger.
REPLY TO CAMDEN POET.
By Joe McCoy.
Camden boys seem to be offended,
Just after the Fire Tournament is
ended,
But we don't like so many Budges,
For theJTouniament was controlled by
earnest Judges,
The water stood alike all day long,
Only Camden started the hose on
wrong,
When Jenkins jumped from Delgar
wagon right,
To the hydrant he held the hose on
tight,
To the Grand Stand those horses did
ran,
George Warren held the nozzle in his
hand.
When he strucked the line, down he
jumped,
Then Ernst. Bultman that water did
pump,
Now those boys., they have done so
fine,
Their wagon was made of yellow pine,
Their nozzle was made out of tin, .
They broke the world's rekard when
they came, in,
Now boys we dont want no fights,
But we wanjs Camden to have her
rights,
Now we dont mean to insinuate,
But Sumter boys don't hesitate,
If Camden did make it in 16 Flat,
Sumter boys did not mind that
For Sumter made it in 15 Flat
And they broke the world's rekard
with that.
Now when Sumter boys made that
run,
From the stage the cheers and echoes
begun,
Their colors was made of white and
blue,
You could see them waving as Sum
ter came through.
Now Camden poet is out of sight,
I hope they will win in Raleigh all
right, .
Now boys you must all be happy and
jolly,
Sumter will meet you the next time
in Raleigh,
Where Sumter boys will try to win,
And if they get beat it is ?o sin,
Now we will bid you all adieu,
We will meet you nest time in Raleigh
sure.
Darkey Ways in Dixie.
By Margaret A. Richard.
The above is the title of a book of
poems written in dialect, picturing
the typical Southern negro, as he is
in the land of his abode. Iiis fanati
cism in religion, his proneness to be
"light-fingered" when opportunity
offers, (especially when the proverb
ially loved watermelon and chicken are
concerned) : his various and amusing
superstitions, and other things charac
teristic of him, are written of in a
humorous ivein. On the other hand,
the aothor touches minor chords in
singing of the love the faithful old
servant bears for ' * Missus' ' and
"Marsa" ; ?f the prisoner serving a
long sentence on the chain-gang for
some minor offence; of the old and
afflicted waiting patiently for the call
to Heaven where gladness shall be
theirs in the sweet "by-en-by." The
book is illustrated with photographs
from Ufe, and is well adapted to ful
fiiing the purpose for whch it was
designed, that of being offered as a
souvenir of the South to all interested
inthe"cullud race," and especially
to winter tourists from the North.
Cloth, 3J2mo, one dollar. May be or
dered through any bookseller, or will
be sent postpaid for the price by The
Abbey Press, Publishers, of one Hun
dred and Fourteen Fifth Avenue, New
York.
Good Will of Newspapers.
The Supreme Court of Indiana held,
in the recent case of Hart et al. vs.
Smith et aL, that the State Board of
Tax Commissioners and other taxing
officers have no authority to assess for
taxation any species of property except
such as the general assembly has
selected to be taxed ; that there is no
law authorizing the taxation of the
"good will" of newspapers and other
businesses which does not inhere in
any property strictly so-called owned
by them ; that shares of stock in the
Associated Press are ^taxable at their
actual value, which the State Board
has power to ascertain for the purpose
of assessment, and that the courts
have power to arrest acts of the State
Board of Tax Commissioners in excess
of its jurisdiction in assessing property
that is not legally taxable. The court
found in this case that a proper as
sessment of the Associated Press stock
and an improper assessment of good
will could not be separated, and it
held the entire assessment invalid.
Orders have been issued by the offi
cials of the Southern Railvray notify
ing station agents and others that Col.
A. Tripp has been appointed Assistant
Superintendent and Mr. E. H. Shaw
Division Freight Agent, headquarters
of both these gentlemen being at
Blacksburg. Their duties extend over
that part of the Charleston Division
lying between Kinsgville acd Sumter
and MarioD, N, C, and Gaffney.
Wedgefield Items.
'Wedgefield, July 9.?The rains of
Monday and Tuesday were were -wel
comed by all ; the crops were suffering
j badly, it being our first rain in seven
! teen days.
Dr. F. M. Dwight has moved up to
Sherwood, his summer home.
Eev. Louis J. Bristow is spending
some time with relatives at Darling
ton.
Miss Carrie Brown, of Branchville,
and Miss Fannie Nettles, of Privateer,
are visiting at Mr. Jim Whilden's.
Miss Annie Fort, of Mayesville, is
spending some time with her brother,
Mr. W. G. Fort.
We extend our sympathies to our
fellow townsmen, Messrs. R. H. Ram
sey, C. G. Keels, G. S. Hinson and
D. C. Blackman. whose families are
visiting in different parts of the State.
A pleasant sociable was given at the
home of Mr. W. H. Ramsey yester
day evening in honor of the visiting
young ladies.
A FORGOTTEN STATUTE.
A Fool Law and Nearly Every
Firm in South Carolina Vio
lates it.
There is one law in the statute
books which is violated by nearly
every firm doing business in this
State, and the Greenville News calls
attention to it as follows :
"With hardly a single exception every
merchant in Greenville has a sign
board or plate in a conspicuous place
at his or her business stand. In fact,
such boards are noticeable in every
city.
"In conversation with a reporter of
the News, .Major John H. Earle refer
red to the following section, which,
on the contrary, is violated by nearly
every merchant in Greenville:
' 1 Section 143 of the Revised Statutes
of South Carolina, vol. 1: 'Every
mercantile partnership in this state,
in addition to a proper or conspicuous
signboard or plate containing the
name and style of the firm, shall post
up in some conspicuous place at the
business stand and stands of the firm
the given and surname of each mem
ber of the firm, under pain, in case of
default, of being sued and proceeded
against, without naming the individ
ual members of the firm, and also of
forfeiting and paying, individually
and each, the sum of fifty dollars to
any one who shall sue for the sanie, of
each and every month they shall make
such default as aforesaid. Every per
son conducting any business as agent
shall post up and keep posted in like
manner the name of his or her princi
pal, under the like penalty.' "
SUPPED AND .SPARKED.
Editor of the Greenville. News As
saulted by Hub Evans on Ac
count of Defamatory Commu
nication of Anonymous
Correspondent.
Special to The" State.
Greenville, July T.?A personal
altercation took place tonight in front
of The Daily News office between H.
H. Evans of Newberry and J. K.
Blackman, editor of the Greenville
News. Mr. Evans came here this af
ternoon to make a pressing demand
upon the editor of The News for the
authorship of an article signed "A
Looker on in Vienna," which appear
ed in Saturday's issue, and alleged
that a member of the State dispensary
board living in Newberry had profit
ed largely by his connection therewith
?buying farms, wearing diamonds,
etc
Evans telegraphed the editor of The
News Saturday night asking for the
name of the writer, to which the fol
lowing response was made: We decline
without his consent to give the name
of ^author of the article to which we
presume you refer, and unless you are
prepared "to deny its truth, we do not
recognize your right to demand any
thing about it. We are responsible for
the article. ?Editor Greenville News. ' '
Soon after reaching Greenville this
afternoon Mr. Evans saw the business
manager, Mr. J. F. Richardson, who
disclaimed any responsibility for the
publication of or knowledge of the
! article before its publication and at
Evans' suggestion he telephoned Mr.
ackman, who said that he was un
well, to which Evans replied that *he
would stay hero until Blackman got
well.
Between 7 and S o'clock Blackman
went to the office, Mr. Evans crossed
from the Mansion house and accosted
him, telling him that he had come for
the name that he had been refused,
to which Blackman replied that he
would not give it. Evans then asked
if he stood by the telegram and if he
was the man who sent it, to which
no affirmative answer was given, when
Evans immediately landed a left hand
ed lick upon Blacman's face, knock
king him down, beating him severely
and then taking him across the lap and
spanking him. No weapons were
drawn or used, and Evans was not
armed.
Evans was at once arrested by the
police, and friends went with him to
the residence of Mayor Jones, who re
leased him upon $10 for his appearance
to answer for disorderly cenduct.
Evans preferred no charge against
Blackman, who was carried into The
News office.
Evans disclaims any purpose of en
gaging in a fight with Blackman, and
says he only asked in a civil way for
the name of the author of the article
to which he took exception, as he was
determined to make some one responsi
ble and upon the name being divulged
he would have relieved Blackman of
all blame fcr its publication.
EDITOR OF THE GREENVILLE |
NEWS MAKES A STATEMENT.
According to His Version He Was
Struck Before He Knew What
Was Up.
Special to The State.
Greenville, July 8.?The following
has been handed to the correspondent
of The State this afternoon, and is
intended to correct some portions of
the account given in today's State of
the altercation between Messrs. H. H.
Evans and J. K. Blackmail, the facts
being given to yonr correspondent last
night by Mr. Evans, who was the only
one of the parties accessible at the
time, and the honr was too late for
* _ _
investigation. Mr. Evans can make
his own comments upon the discrep
ancies as to what took place when they
met in front of The News office, which
is the only material difference in their
statements.
Blackman's story, corroborated by
several witnesses, is as folows :
"After getting Mr. Richardson's
message that Mr. Evans was in the city
and wanted to see me, I got np from a
sick bed and went down to The News
office between 7 and 8 o'clock, as I
had said I would do. I was met near
the bottom of the steps, leading from
the ground up tc our offices, by Mr.
Evans?as I learned afterward. He ap
proached me and asked if I was Mr.
Blackman, and, upon being answered
affirmatively, held out a copy of the
telegram I had sent him Saturday
night, asking if that was my message.
I looked at it and replied that.it was.
I was standing partly sidewise to him
reading the telegram and before I could
raise my head he muttered: 'Then I'll
kill yon,' and struck me a terrific blow
from behind, landing about the base
of the brain at the back of - the head.
I fell forward semi conscious. He con
tinued to beat me titer I was]down. I
was helpless, the biow on the back of
the head having temporarily paralyzed
.me. I was entirely unarmed, but had
I had an arsenal I would have been
powerless to use it, from the fact that
the Attack came so unexpectedly and
from the rear. I had no idea of
impending trouble, and had Mr. Evans
asked for the name of the author of
the article, asserting its incorrectness,
I should certainly have endeavored to
obtatin the author's consent to give it
to him."
STILL PARTIALLY PARALYZED.
Mr. Blackman's physician stated
today that for two days past Mr Black
man had been suffering from an acute
attack of cholera morbus, for which
he was under treatment at the time of
the assault. He saw Mr. Blackman
about a half hour after Monday even
ing's occurrence, and again Tuesday
morning and afternoon. TIe told a re
porter that Mr. Blackman was suffer
ing from concussion of the brain caus
ed by a blown on the back of the head
at the base of the brain, similar to
what might obtain in a person who had
been sand-bagged, and that the result
ant partial paralysis in the limbs still
persists at this writing. He hopes to
have Mr. Blackman out in a day or two.
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A New Food For Cattle.
It is understood that plans that were
first taken into consideration about a
year ago -have been developed in the
last few months to the point where
some of the great packing establish
ments in Chicago have begun experi
ments on what may prove a revolution
of the cattle industry of the country.
The project involves the settlement of
several hundred thousand acres of what
is at present nearly valueless land in
northern and northwestern Florida
and southern Alabama, the cultivation
on a large scale of the cassava root
and its use in feeding cattle and hogs.
If the plan develops, as it is now in
the minds of the leading packers, the
southern states will become a great
cattle-raising center. It is stated that
arrangements are now being made for
the accommodation of a considerable
number of cattle to be shipped from
the stock yards in Chicago to north
ern Florida to be fed on cassava root.
The results of the fattening process
will be compared with similar work in
the west, regarding which the condi
tions and the cost are already definite
ly known. The result obtained will
determine the future of the cassava
experiment.
HE WAS ?l3~Y?k OLD.
Remarkable Case of Longevity in
Marlboro County.
Bennettsville, July 8.?Jeremiah
Poison, the oldest man ever known in
this section, died at his home ten
miles southeast of Bennettsville last
Friday and was buried at the Haskew
cemetery, near Clio Saturday. He
claimed to be 113 years old, and he
claim is not doubted by those who
knew him. The oldest citizens of
this place remember him as an old
man in their boyhood. He has a
numerous progeny, and some of his
grand children are now old men and
women. Mr. Poison celebrated his
113th birthday on July 2, and told his
family to prepare a good dinner and
hold a prayer meeting at night, as
he was about to finish Iiis earthly
career. He could remember events of
the centuries, and talked sanely till
the last.
Bishop Alexander Coke Smith
The General Conference did well
in the election of Bishops, when E.
E. Hoss and A. Coke Smith were
elected to the Episcopacy. I voted
for the latter at Baltimore *in 1898.
If I had been a voter at Dallas, I
would have voted for both of them.
A good deal of merited praise has
been published about both of thes3
godly men recently. I have cordially
endorsed all I have seen. We have
made no mistake in making these
two brethren Bishops.
A personal word about our Bishop
Coke Smith. I knew him before he
was a preacher. 1 knew his exxcellent
and now sainted father and mother.
When I was in charge of Bishopville
Circuit in 1871 - nd 2, Rev W. H.
Smith, the Bishop's father, a saintly
and useful local pracher on the Lynch
burg Circuit, used to come occasion
ally to my appointments and some
times to help me at my protracted
meetings. Our common work and our
mental sympathies brought us close
together. This relationship was
cemented still more closely through
my interest in his promising son, and \
my outspoken admiration for him,
after that he came into the conference
and soon took a very high stand among
the brethren.
I have written all this to mention
a short correspondence between the
father and me about the then rising
son. After he?the coming Bishop?
had been five or six years in the
ministry; he helped in protracted
meetings which I frequently attended.
I was delighted and edified with his
preaching; and sat down and wrote
to my friend, his father, about it.
The old gentleman's reply I shall never
forget. It was so sensible and candid
and true to the occasion. He said that
he had discovered early in the life of
his son, his brilliant ability,and at first
feared that his head might be turned by
the spontaneous praise he was re
ceiving. But said j^the thankful fa
ther, ' ' whenever I have heard him he
just preached the plain and simple
gospel." And so it has always been
when I have heard him. Lik e the
Apostle, he preaches not himself but
Christ Jesus the Lord (2'Cor. 4 :5) I
am so glad that our younger preachers
are to have just such a model and in
spiration as is promised in the magnet
tic and Apostolic ministry of Bishop
Coke Smith as he goes in and oui
amongst us.?S. A. Weberin Southern
Christian Advocate.
Bennettsville, July 8. --Arch D. Gray
was yesterday excluded.from the Ben
nettsville Baptist Church because he
had become a Mormon. The Mormons
have been doing missionary work in
this country for several years and have
established a church with a dozen or
more members five miles west of town.
Seattle, Wash.. July 8.? Harry
Tracey, the convict who has killed six
men and wounded several others since
June 9, is being hotly pursued by men
and dogs in the country southeast of
Seattle and will probably be slain or
captured within a few hours. . His
pursuers who have with them two fine
bloodhounds are only a short distane
behind him.
Bennettsville, July 8.?Yesterday
afternoon while a crowd of colored
youths were swimming in Crooked
creek, in the edge of town, Pat Rich
ardson tied Mat Thomas' clothes into
knots. Mat was angered and attacked
Pat with a scantling, fracturing the
latter's skull. He has since been un
conscious and is not expected to re
cover. Thomas escaped.
The Skin of S?? Tcetfc.
In the bcoi; of Job appears the sen
tence. "? an; escaped with the skin of
my teeth/* which is modernized "by
the skin of my teeth'" and gives the
idea of a narrow escape, one so close as
to be just by the thickness of the skin
on the teeth, which is sc thin that no
microscopist has yet been able to rind
it. "To cast in the teeth" means to
throw defiant reproaches or insults
spitefully, as one would ?ist a stoue at
the exposed teeth of a snarling dog.
"Tooth and nail" denotes the manner
of an action full cf frenzied fury, typi
fied by biting and scratching, as when
two belligerent cats make the fur fly.
A Diligerli Police Official. "-^
A man who was "wanted" in Russia
had been photographed ?? six different
positions, and the pictures were duly
circulated among the police depart
ments. The chief of one of these wrote
to headquarters a few days after the
issue cf the set of portraits and stated:
"Sir, I have duly received the portrait
of the six miscreants whose capture is
desired. I bave arrested five cf them,
and the sixth is under observation and
will be secured shortly."
According to Gnnler.
The phrase "according to Gunter"
remains in our l?nguage as a perpetual
memory of Gunter, the English mathe
matician, who was born In 13S1 and
died in 1G2?. Almost to the present
time the works of Gunter were consid
ered standard. He was the inventor of
the surveyor's chain, of the logarithmic
line, of the quadrant, of the scale bear
ing his name, and anything in mathe
matics to be right must be "according
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