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FFBIES STILL TI CHAMPION. A Short but Spirited Encounter? Knockout Blow in the Eighth. San Francisco, Juiy 25.?After fighting a battle of eigne rounds that was fraught with brilliant and cour ageous work, Robert Fitzsimmons to night forfeited his last claim upon the heavy-weight championship. He was knocked to the floor by James Jeffries and counted out after he had so badly punished the champion that it ' was a foregone conclusion among the specta tors that the Cornishmaa must win. Bleeding from a number of gashes in the face, apparently weakening* and clearly unable to cope with Fitzsim mons' superior skill, Jeffries delivered two lucky punches as Fitzsimmons paused in his fighting, to speak to him, and turned the tide. The battle was brief but noteworthy, and will live in pngilistic^history. j? itzsimmons tried once to arise from the mat, but sat down again in help- ! lessness and heard himself counted out; about a moment before he appa rently had had all the better of it "I will never fight again," said the battle-scarred veteran, of the ring when ? he had sufficiently recovered to talk. "The fight "was won fairly, and to the best man belongs the iaurela. " ' 4 You are the most dangerocs man eli ve,' ? said Jeffries in return, and I consider myself lucky to have won when I did." Fitz had been fighting at a [furious gait, cool and deliberate, and choping the champion to pieces wiih the terri fic rights and lefts that have made him famous, IT'."' It was the draught horse and the racer from the tap of the gong. "When the men came together Fitzsim mons appeared rather worried, but upon the opening of the first round he . assumed a confidence and fought with * ; the deliberation of the general that he is. As early as the second round Fitz V simmons had Jeffries, bleeding profuse ly from mouth and nose. Again and -again he landed on his bulky ^oppon i&t, getting away in such a" clever ^manner that-brought the house down ffeh cheers. It seems that Jeffries uld scarcely weather the gale. In eighth round ,the end came, and under a series of hot exchanges Fitz simmo?s paused- with his guard down and spoke to the champion. The lat ter s reply consisted of two terrific blows that brought back" to him the I ?eeting championship and forever re ?noved the veteran Fitzsimmons from the fistic arena. Fitzsimmons took his defeat with amazing good cheer, He walked to the center of the ring jyand raising his hand. addressed the multitude, saying: "?me best man has won. Had I beaten Jeffries tonight I would have conceded him the championship and retired forever. . ; "I retire just the' sanie now, buti ^ without having accomplished my am- j bition." After the fight Champion Jeffries was seen in his dressing room. He was jubilant over his success, despite the terrible scars of battle, f?e said to an Associated Press correspondent: "Well I have won, just as I expect ed , t?. It was a fierce fight?the ^ .fiercest I ever had?but Lwon. Yes I "got a good beating, as far as the marks of a battle count, but then I rather expected that." DR. HARTZOG ACCEPTS. ^Special to The State. Anderson, July 25.?A special to T?e Daily Mail today says : President H. S. Hartzog today forwarded to CoL S.W. Simpson, chairman of the board of trustees, his resignation as . president of the college, resignation ; to take effect at once. President , - Hartzog returned last night from a trip to Little Rock, Ark., and an mced that he had accepted the sidency of the Arkansas State col je to which position he was elected - last week. He is to enter upon his new duties ?. at the beginning of the next session of the college. CoL Simpson has called ??-meeting.of the Clemson trustees for August 12 for the purpose of electing : nis successor. Priest Gets a Patent A Baltimore paper says: Father Henry S. Nagangast, if this city, has just been granted a patent on a device to be used as an aid to the rite of the blessing of the throat. This cere ?Qony occurs annually in all Catholic churches on the third Sunday in February, its object being to secure the person blessed protection from the ; disease of the throat. In administering this' office the ?priest holds two lighted candies against rxhe throat of the petitioner. The fi?mes from the candles often singe the hair, and, in some cases, set fire to the veil or hat of women receiving the bless ing. The grease from the candles falls upon vestment or clothing. Father ?Segangast's device is a combined shield Jot the oandles and a drip pan to catch grease. It eliminates the element of danger and discomfort to the cere mony. Cardinal Gibbons" has sanction ed the use of the little invention in tae-churches of this diocese. Cut this ont and take it to Dr. A. J. ,hisut's Dreg Store and get a box of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Tbe best physic. They also correct dis orders Of the stomach. Price 25 cents. ^^^^^^^^^^ Eagle Pass, Tex., July 23.?The "apean Central passenger train was >bed near Bermejilo last night by men, supposed to be Americans, is reported that $53,000 was secured, le robbers escaped. No further de tails can be obtained at present Mother Always Keeps it Handy. "My mother suffered a long time from ^^tressing pains and general ill health ? ctee primarily to indigestion," says L. W. 4 Spa?chng, Verona, Mo. stTwo yeare ago I got her to try Kodoi. She grew better at once and now, at the age of seventy-six, eats anything she wants, remarking that " a fears no bad effects as she has her ttle of Eodol handy." Don't waste time goring symptoms. Go after the cause. : jour stomach is sound your health will j be good. Kodoi rests the stomach and ! strengthens the body by digesting your j food. It is nature's own tonic. J. S. Hngh- j son & Co. ? MoU?H'S LETTER. What he Said to the President in Declining the Judgeship. The following copy of the letter sent by Senator McLanrin to President Roosevelt/declining the appintment to the United States court of appeals has been published: Washington, D. C, July 17, 1905. Mr. President: While sincerely ap preciating your generous expressions of confidence, I have since seeing you concluded not to accept the appiont ! ment to the court of claims. ! I am sensible of the high honor and ! perfectly frank in saying that the office is "one that would be very acce t able. In view of the persistent efforts : to place me in the position of accept ing this appointment as a reward :for ! political services to the Republican party, 1 must decline. I entered the senate with the high purpose of trying to serve my country in spite of party, and the clamor against me is proof that to some ex tent I succeeded. I have fallen far short of the ideal, but with all that I now know, were it to go over again, on the great issues upon which I have passed, I would not have the rec ord different. S Perhaps it is because I. took so Jlt jtle thought of the effect my action might have upon my political or per sonal fortunes that it is so difficri for me to understand such attacks as are contained in the enclosed article. However, since the disposition seems to relegate the matter of my appoint ment to a question of reward for ser vices rendered to one political party or sacrifice for treachery to another, lat it be the latter, my only regret being that it is not greater. Yours truly, Jno. Loundes McLanrin. ?^-?>^? A RARI AVIS. Something of a man of his own mind has shown up in Memphis in the person of a colored individual who dares -to speak his ? honest opir ion to his race, regardless of the fact that his views are very distasteful to his brethren of color. This man, whose name is S. P. Mitchell, is the president of a "Na tional Industrial Council," an organi zation composed of negroes and at tempting to do work along lines indi cated by jts name. In one or more public addresses delivered in the inter est of this organization, this man Mitchell has had the audacity to de clare that Southern white people, es pecially ex-Confederate soldiers and their sons, are the best friends the negroes have. This sentiment expressed before negro audiences caused no little stir, and a" great deal of indignation was manifested. This, however, was but a gentle zephyr compared with the cyclone that followed the announce ment that Mitchel's speeches contain ing the sentiment were largely made up from the advance sheets of a 'book he had in press entitled " The Confed erate Soldier.*' Thereupon persecu tion of the author commenced in dead earnest, and diligent effort has been put forward by the negroes to make Mitchell' life miserable. A man named Green way, whether white or black does not appear, and does not matter, but who is said to be a postal official, has threatened to adopt some 'means to exclude Mitch ell's book from the mails. This, of course, he cannot do if the book is de cent, but it shows what efforts are being made to bulldoze and frighten the author. owever, Mitchell does not become very much frightened, and says he thinks now he will write a second volume or sequel to the first, to be entitled "A Negro Persecuted for Paying a Tribute to Confederate Sol diers." In a letter to the Memphis Scimitar Mitchell reiterates what he has said in his address, and concludes as fol lows : I want to say Mr. Greenway may be a good Republican, but his idea of free speech is entirely opposite to the so-called principles of his party, for he intimates, that my mails must be stopped for the tribute paid to the "Southern Confederate," who is the best friend the American negroes have. While the ex-Confederates and their sons are in the South helping to educate the negro, the good old Re publican Yankees are in Illinois run ning the children of color from the schools and killing the negro men hunting for work. While Mr. Green way denounces a negro for paying tri bute of respect to the ex-Confederates who are taking care of the old and infirm negroes that were turned loose by the Yankees empty-handed and barefooted, I am an outspoken enemy to the varmints who are continually dogging after the heels of our best Southern whites, who understand and aid the negro. Indeed this man Mitchell is a color ed rari avis, but sensible withal.? Richmond Times, LESSONS IN ENGLISH. _ (New York Tribune.) The efforts of teachers to increase the vocabulary of young pupils by giving them words to use in sentences of their own formation' results often in wondrous combinations. An Italian boy in Philadelphia, doing his best to master English, was aided in a peculiar way by an observation of his father's vocabulary. The other day his teacher asked the class to write a sen tence to include the word disarrange : The word is in advance of the Italian boy's stock of English, and be was sorely puzzled, but too proud to con fess the fact. Later he banded up a paper on which the following was written in round boyish characters: "When a fodda light the fire in the j morning he says, <4Damma-dis-a- j range.' " The Best Liniment for Strains. Mr. F. H. Wells, the merchant at Deer Park, Long Island, . Y.. says : 4*I always recommend Chamberlain's Pain Balm as the best liniment for strains. I used it last winter for a severe lameness in the side, resulting from a strain, and was greatly plea-ed with the quick relief and cure it effected." For sale by Dr. A. J. China. Detective stories of all kinds at H. G. Osteen & Co's book store. BIG TIBER CAUGHT. Constables Captured Liquor Train that Was Passing Through Marlboro. For someime it has been suspected that liquor was being transported across this county from Lackey's still on the North Carolina line to Darling ton county. Constables have heretofore made several attempts to intercept it I but failed. Phil Meekens determined to catch the tiger, and he went and staid till he got it. On Taesday night he and constable "Waiter. Pegues and Neil Usher were encamped on the Rock ingham road in the "Sand Hills, when j a liquor caravan hove in sight. They held their fire till they could see the white of the enemy's eyes, and then charged. A pitched battle ensued and several shots were fired on both sides, j but nobody was hurt so far as is known. Two men escaped, but two I others were captured with the whole ! outfit, which consisted of a two horse wagon, a one horse wagon, a buggy, one-horse, three mules a Winchester rifle and 175 gallons of corn whiskey. i The men captured gave their names as P. F. Moody (white) of Dovesville and Tom Tedder (colored) of|Society Hill. They are now in jail here. They refuse to give the names of their companions who escaped. The liquor has been ship]>ed to the I state dispensary. The teams also be come the property of the state, and will be sold at auction. ! There is no evidence that the li quor was being sold in this county, but it' was being carried to Darling ton.?Bennetts ville Advocate, July 24. An Investigation Needed. The attack made upon Editor Black man, offthe Greenville News, by Mr. H. H. Evans, a member of the board of directors of the State dispensary, will cause wide-spread comment and, if we mistake not the temper of our people, a good deal of quiet indigna tion. Mr. Evans' way of meeting public criticism is not the way to se cure public confidence. Assuming that he had a real and just ground for complaint, he sought satisfaction, judging from the account of the affair said to have been furnished by him self, in au unusually severe manner, and if the account given by the editor himself is essentially correct the at tack was brutal and uncalled for, and If law and order is to be maintained, and the people assured protection, the matter should be investigated by the courts. From its inception there has been on the part of certain dis pensary officials from time to time a good deal of sensitive ness when under the fire of public criticsm. That tis not very strange, for few men are pleased at adverse criticism. Not only have many of those in charge of the State^dispensary been criticised, but almost" from the beginning it has been charged, fre quently in the newspapers, on the hustings, in the legislative halls, that there has been a good deal of corrup tion in connection with this business. Recently there has been much quiet talk of corruption. Those who make the charges are sometimes challenged to prove them, and usually the matter ends there: A great deal is said, rumor upon rumor has been circulated, but remarkable to say, it has been almost impossible to prove the charges. Many people believe what is so gener ally talked and they think they have abundant reason for believing there is and has been corruption. There is no law against believing what becomes common rumor. This whole business ought to be in vestigated. Those most concerned ought to court and demand an investi gation. Such a course is far oetter than knocking down and whipping, or beating, an editor because he has pub lished a communication in which cor ruption is hinted at, or even openly charged, even if he does refuse to give the name of the writer. An attack with fist or whip, will not be taken as sufficient evidence cjf a person's inno cence, but a fair, impartial, thorough investigation would go far to satisfy the public mind of the innocence or guilt of those concerned.?Baptist Courier. The End of the Human Race. (From the Woman's Home Com panion. ) . In the wise economy of nature it is so orderd that all vegetable life puri fies the air for animal life, and vice versa. Animals consume' oxygen and exhale carbonic acid, while vegetation absorbs carbonic acid, robbing it of its carbon and setting the oxygen free. The original atmosphere of the earth before animal life existed consisted es sentially of nitrogen and carbonic acid. Our supply of atmospheric oxygen has been furnished by the great forests of vegetation, such as the coal-ferns, which covered the earth in the Carboniferous Age, when the coal-beds were formed. The same con ditions, only on a smaller scale, con tinue to prevail; but it is not likely that the oxygen given out by present vegetation is, or will be, sufficient to keep pace with its enormously increas ing consumption by man. Lord Kel vin, has estimated that if the present consumption of coal in human indus tries continues with anything like its present ratio of increase, the great coal-measures will be exhausted and the oxygen of our atmosphere practi cally consumed by its combustion, within the next four or five centuries. This is the most likely, perhaps, of all possible calamities to generally af'ect the human race, and it more directly concerns us at the present time, from our realization that we are extravagantly wasting the breath of life of those who are soon to follow. Poisoning the System. it is through the bowel3 that the body is cleinsecl of impurities. Constipation keeps these poisons in the system, causiag head ache, dulness and melancholia at first, tLen unsightly eruptions and finally serions i li nes* unless a remedy is applied. DdWittrs Litr.le Early Risers prevent this trouble by stimulating the liver and promote easy. heu!i;hy action of the bowels. These little pills do not net violently but by strength ening the bowels enable them to perform their own w>rk. N^ver gripe or distress. J. S. Hughson & Co. TOLD BY BRYAN. j Wiiham J. Bryan found time to tell a story or two while he was at luncheon at the House restaurant at the cap?tol today, says the Washing ton correspondent of the Philadelphia North American. "Awhile ago," he said, "I went with a party of friends to visit the Nebraska State hospital for the in sane. I became separated from my party and wandered through some of the rooms alone. "An inmate approached me, and seeking to be friendly, asked, 'What are you inhere for?' 'Because I be lieve in the free and unlimited coin age of silver at the rate of 16 to 1, ' I replied, thinking to be facetious. 'Huh !' eaid the inmate, moving off in disgust, "You ain't crazy, you're just a plain dura fool." Walt Whitman Tackles the Stand ard Oil Trust. Walt Whitman could not raise the $50 fee necessary to be paid before he could enter the canvass as a candidate ; for Governor, but he is a benefactor of his people nevertheless. He is fight ing the Standard Oil trust and no doubt that combination of cormorants is quaking in its boots at the formid able competition. A dispatch to the New York Herald explains his plan : "Whitman conducts a small grocery store here, and when Colonel Jones' ruled him out of the primary he made a specialty of selling kerosene oil, and announced himself in the public prints as an opponent of the Standad Oil Company. In order to get his supply of the fluid he hit upon an original idea. The owners of the cotton factories hereabouts all run stores in connection with their plants, using as a medium, of ex change aluminum checks, which are taken at the store in place of money. Of course these checks are not good at the dispensary, and the factory men often find themselves unable to get their drams, for the simple reason that the dispensary is a State insti tution, and the Stete will not extend any one. So Whitman offered to re deem a dollar's worth of aluminum checks for 80 cents in real money. The factorymen approved of the idea, and he has been busy ever since raking in the aluminum checks at a profit of 20 per cent. With these checks he goes to the factory store,.' where he buys oil at the face value of the cheeks. He thon disposed of it to his customers at a small profit. The morning after Colonel Jones re fused to allow him to enter the pri mary, Whitman inserted in one of the local papers the following advertise ment: "I .sell kerosene oil cheaper than the Standard Oil trust. I am also in the race for Governor until I die. "G. Walt Whitman." * All laughed when they read the "ad.," but they all knew it was a true expression of the old man's inten tions, and if he continues to sell oil as fast as he has since he hit upon the aluminum check idea, there is very little doubt that the next time he runs for Governor he will ride on a railroad train and not a bicycle." HANDY SHIRT STUDS. Oliver Herford was with a party of friends who were discussing the trou bles of masculine mortals with collar buttons and shirt studs. When Mr. Herford's turn came, he said : 4 ' I never use shirt studs. I buy brass paper fasteners. They cost 35 cents a gross and when new look like Roman gold. I insert them .in my shirt bosom, and they would deceive the oldest inhabitant. I am not bothered about removing them. I let the'laun dryman attend to that." "Why didn't you wear that kind of substitute tonight?" asked one of the party, pointing at Mr. Herford's wide expanse of immaculate shirt front, in which threo tiny gold buttons show ed. "I did," said Mr. Herford, and he reached up, grabbed a button, gaved a tug and pulled it out. It was a paper fastener.?New York Times. The Vatican and Filipinos. Rome, July 22.?Besides an Apostol ic delegate for the Philippine Islands the Vatican is preparing to appoint an Archbishop of Manila, who will probably be Bishop Messmer, (a Swiss, ) professor of canon law at the Catholic University in Washington since 1890. Three new Philippine dio ceses will also be created. Governor Taft before starting for Naples to visit Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, expressed a desire that the Bishop of one of the dioceses be a na tive Filipino. Major Porter has started for Paris to spend few a days there before ; re turning to Washington. Abraham Stimmer, an Iowa, mil lionaire, believes the college and li brary donation business is being over done, proposes to donate his millions to establishing hospitals for women in distress and homes for aged people. He couldn't put it to better use. He says he got his money from the peo ple and is going to give it back to the people. ' A curious and interesting experi ment was conducted recently by Prof. McWeeney on the premises of a Dublin manufacturer, who was anxious to as certain whether he ran any risk to health from the presence on a neigh bor's premises of a refuse heap, the intervening distance being 800 feet, says Chamber's Journal. Prof. McWeeney took a number of easily re cognized microbes which were not common to the neighborhood and sprayed them into the atmosphere over that heap of refuse, taking care that the wind was in the right direc tion. On the premises of the manu facturer culture dishes were exposed for three hours, and at the end of that time examination showed that colon ies of the newly introduced microbes were developed. It is noteworthy that rain was fallin?: heavily during the progress of the experiment. We thus learn that even under untoward condi tions germs can be conveyed through thpi air from a distant point, and that it is quite necessary to see that the surroundings of a house are as clean ? as to attend to its interior sanitary i condition. Tlie Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per T$fy?j>/ sonal supervision since its infancy. ? <<???<4/4? Allow no one to deceive you in this. AU Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just?as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of infants and Children?Experience against Experiment* What is CASTOR IA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare? goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It Y ontains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic V .abstance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* The Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend* GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Haye Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CCNTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY STREET, ZW TORR ?TV. orses AND Mules. We took in a lot of : Good ; Young : Stock : Which have since fattened up, and being acclimated are really more fit for present use than fresh ones. The time approaches when planters are pre paring for the next year* Come and see them. They will be sold worth the money. HARB Y & CO. Dec 8 CGLEMAN-WAGENER HARDWARE CO. (Successor to C. P, Poppenheim.) 363 King Street, ----- Charleston. S. C* SHELF HARDWARE A SPECIALTY. ?Agents for? Buoksye lowers, Briniey Plows, Oliver Chilled Plows. OFFICERS: GEORGE A. WAG?NER, President: GEORGE Y. COLEG?AN, Vice President; L G. BALL, Secretary and Treasurer. Correspondence Solicited. ^one 11?3m. GLENN SPRINGS. South Carolina, QUEEN OF Southern Summer Resorts. HOTBL Open from June 1st to October 1st. Electric Lights, Electric Fans, Elec tric Bells, Baths and complete water and sewerage system. Pure air, free from malaria, free from mosquitos. M T?R?L WAITER Still in the lead for the Liver. Stom ach. Kidneys and the Blood. For furtherginformationjapply to THE GLENN SPRINGS CO.