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tSlf?S'C8?E& FOB THE POOR. tfcoc? J?ass Meeting Largely ?filtH?l a-^G .?enereus' Co&trtba i?cas f?ade? :ay School mass meeting it success Sunday after tendance of Snuda;? school ? grows folks as well, was J le contributions were so :r- poor ; child in have a present oa Christ el every needy'family will .provided for them, Eg was opened with a ten :g service followed by the I: programme in which, the e. severed churches took v. R. -K. Jones made a brief C. C. Browi. -made lT for generous giving. Parrot: was appointee, chair :.:;;:r:ee to distribute riffe?and the following : :3d to assisi; him : I ? Church?Misses Bessie McC?ell?n; _ ah?Mrs. Laaghery ist Church?Misses Ida 5 Mrs. Alice Lo wry. Church?Misses Lucia-} Mamie Edmunds. ;:;?; Church?Mrs. D. P. Mrs. E, . Wilder, trees Baptist Church? yjHughson. and Mary Bran - :reet Oh arch?Misses, tsedy and Mamie Briitkley. a amounted to $77.47 "ng donations of money . :=i : lodge, of P. $10. Camp, of W.,-ij?10. Tribe,'!. O. K M. $10. ge. A. F.-M. 810. ? ilected yesterday aft-er i be the largest ever col : Sunday School 'mass in. previous -..years, of money, groceries, 3e will swell the ..an .?double the- sum BALL REC0F1?). t Bail --Teas Has a Very ry Aeadeny foot a very successful was heard in' the a: King's Mountain - was' going ' the Camden team on Wednes representatrve of this team was o Carneen ?sd to. arrange a with the KM. & ?. team! >rti3 were mae to get the King's aiii Cadets to. come "to-.-Sumter refused to play the.S. M. ?s either in Camden or in'Sum . were offered 75 per cent > -receipts to. play in Cam den or ^penses, en?ert^inment and' $.5 over' 2 Sumter on Friday or Satur refused a U offers, so It is to resumed that they did not care to go sip against the crack team from the ne Cock school. L A. record for this season' .lows : - . - 'S. A. a, North Carolina Military Aca4?m^...a. S: M. A, 10, Charleston College," ?T & M. A. 35, Medical College of Charleston, . "S. . A. 29. worth Academy, 0. S. . A. 11, 'South Carolina Medical College, 0. Total, S. M. A. 90, to opponents 0. The vitorious team of -1902 pe rsonal is as follows : Steele, right end; Hicks, W., right tackle; George, right guard: Dun, center; Frierson, left guard; .Hicks, . B., left tackle; Brogdon, left end ; Moses quarter and coach ; Durant, J., left half ;. Cattino, right half ; Durant E., full back and captain; Subs. Griffin, Plowden,'Miilsap. BGBSE? ifi THE TESSPLE OF JUSTICE. T, L. Sreea Has His Pocket Picked in the County Treasurer's Office. Mr. T. L. Green, cf Shiloh, went into the County Treasurer's office Friday morning to pay his taxes and after taking from his pocket book the amount seeded for taxes, dropped the pocket book into the outside pocket of his overcoat A few minutes later having received his tax receipt from Treasurer Scarborough, he felt in his overcoat pocket for his purse to place the receipt in-it, but it wes gone. A careful search was made in the office but the pocket book could not be found. Tnere had been but one other man in the office while Mr. Green was paying his taxes, and as he had left rather hurried ly it was a natural conclusion that he,bad picket Mr. Green's pocket and skipped. Mr. Green says the poc ket book contained $50. The name of the negro is unknown, but as he had been cutting wood for Mr. Scarborough a description has been furnished the police and he can be identiied if captured The n^-go was waiting in the office to collect from Mr. Scar borough^his wages for cutting wood, and h/~;. ~^Xeft hurriedly and not having fe*^;. ^ to get the money due Mm there can be no doubt but that he got Mr. Gr?ent S5G. Pickpocket Arrested. ^Policeman Weeks on Saturday morn ing captured the aegro man who on Fri day stole Mr. T. L. Green's pocket book. The negro was walking along tho street when Officer Weeks recognized him and placed him under arrest. The ne gro admitted his guilt and gava up the pocket book after being placed in the guard house, although at first he stout ly denied any knowledge of Mr. Green's loss. The man' had been in hiding since Friday and had had no op portunity to spend the stolen money. When he delivered the pocketbock to Officer Weeks it contained fifty dollars in bills and- $103 in change, a few cents more than Mr. Green thought he had in it when it was stolen. The negro's name is Joseph Holmes but of his antecedents nothing is known. He has been committed to jail for trial. ' ? " il mi ,, ? The State correspondent says : 4 ' Rev. C. C. Brown, D. D., by his wit and humor captured the next Convention for Sumter." John Holland Fountain Pens, sold under a positive guarantee ; abo the well known Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens, at H. G. Osteen & Co's, Book Store. JOHN GALLOWAY KILLED. Fight Occurred Near Bishopville Friday Ni?ht and Bis Slayer, Beiton Stokes, ^Surrendered to Sheriff Sat urday Morning. At an early hour Saturday morning Chief of Police-Bradford was notified by telephone from Bishoptille that there had been, ? ?igbj; near that place last night whieh les?lted in the killing of Jobn Galloway by Beiton Stokes. He was disked to be on the watch for Stokes as he might pass through this city. A little later he received a message f:"om Camden that Stokes had boarded the. Northwestern train at that place and would arrive here about 9 o'clock. Deputy Sheriif Gail lard and Officer Barwick met the trai9 at the Junction near the cotton miliario! immdiately recognized Stokes from the description given in the BishopyHle message. . He was arrested at once and taken to jaiL His first statement was that he had come to Sumter for the purpose of surrender ing to the Sheriff. He refused to discuss the killing "except to make the bare . statement that there was a drunken row, that Galloway was coming ?t him with a drawn knife and that he shot him in self defense. Galloway was shot through the body at close range and died almost im mediately. Both Stokes and Galloway are said, to be well thought of by their neigh bors. The fight occurred at the old Smith place about three miles distant from Bishopville. WAR IN 8R00MST0WN. Great Expenditure of Ammunition, But No Biopd Spilied. A state of war again, exists in Groomstown and the neutral neighbors have withdrawn into their own boun daries arid are leaving the belligerent to fight it out among themselves. There will be neither intervention nor inter ference and the war.-like Groomses will be left to .shoot at each other with No. 8 shot until their ammunition is ex hausted. This most recent war broke out Friday night about 7. ?5 o'clock and the battle continued until long past the usual bed time of the combatants and their .neighbors. It is not positively known who fired the first gun, but the second followed so quickly that this is not a material point. :Those who come from the seat of war stated that hostilities were still in active progress and that another pitch ed battle was imminent. During the battle Friday night Manson Grooms, and his brother Charlie Grooms were the generalissimos of the opposing forces. Manson - was stationed in the center of his 40 acre principality, and . Charlie had his forces . drawn up in tbe far corner of the biggest cotton patch in his 38 acre dukedom. The lines ' of battle faced the boundary ditch that has been the bone of contention and cassus belli for a number of years. Charlie and Manson fired and fired at each other for an hour or two, using bird guns and small shot and as the neighbors heard no agonized cries of the dying, it is sup ?f recent years Manson and Charlie Grooms have occupied the same rela tion to Sumter county that the South American republics do to the nations of the world, and as a shooting match with small shot is liable to occur in Groomstown any day or night there is no alarm felt when one takes place. Masonic Election. At the regular communication of Claremont Lodge, No. 64, A. F. M., held last Thursday night, the election of officers to serve the Lodge for the ensuing Masonic year was had with the following result : W. M. ?Bartow Walsh. S. W.?Geo. E. Beaumont J. W.?Geo. L. Bicker. Treasurer?Abe Rettenberg. Secretary?W. F. Rhame. It was decided by vote of the Lodge to hold the annual banquet on the night of December 26th arid a com mittee was appointed to make all necessary arrangements. A resolution was adopted making the usual donation of 810 to the fund to be raised by the Sunday Schools for. Christmas gifts to the poor. The price of cotton has again passed the 8 cent mark and those who still have cotton to sell are congratulating themselves on their foresight in hold ing for better prices. The better grades of cotton on the market yesterday sold readily at S34 Bishopville was celebrating Monday afternoon and the cannon was roaring and bellowing with joy, so it was stated by telephone, and the statement was no doubt true although the ground hereabouts was not quaking and rat tling from the reverberations of the cannon. City Clerk and Treasurer Hurst had a busy day Monday writing tax re ceipts. He took in more than $3,000, the largest amount received for taxes in a single day since Mr. Hurst has been Treasurer. Mr. Hurst estimates that about seventy per cent of the tax es have been paid, the certainty of the imposition of the penalty having proven a great incentive to promptness in payment of taxes. An invitation is extended by H. G. Osteen &Co., to those interested in art to visit their store and inspect the large line of burnt and illuminated leather goods for which they have the exclusive agency in Sumter. The Wolf skins of which many of the articles are made arc prepared by the Indians on the North Dakota Reservation and the designs are executed in the studio of a well known art company of Cin cinnati. Included in the line are many handsome, durable and useful articles that are particularly suitable for Christmas gifts. Beiton Stokes is still in the Smr.ter county jail and will probably remain there for sometime unless he is able to secure bond. As soon as Sheriff Manly Smith of Lee county found out that he could get possession of Stokes be did not want actual possession, having no place to put him for safe keeping, and he arranged with Sheriff Scarborough to take care of Stokes until such time as he is needed in Lee county. It was not actual possession that was desired but a legal or tech nical possesiiion, when Sheriff Smith of Lee county demanded the person of Beiton Stokes. LEE GG?NTY DECISION. The Petition for Injunction Dismissed. The Supreme Court Declares That the Court Cannot Go Behind the Act - of the Legislature. OPTION READ BY JUSTICE JONES. Columbia, Dec. 15..?The Supreme Court rendered a decision today that puts an end to the fight in the courts to prevent the establishment of Lee county and leaves the new county to go ahead unhampered under the act of the Legislature creating it. The opinion was read from the bench by Associate Justice Ira B. Jones. It is as follows : The State of South Carolina in the supreme court, November term, 1902 : William W. Fraser and others, peti tioners, vs. W. A. James and others as commissioners of Lee county, re spondents. Opinion by Jones, A. J. By this proceeding in the original jurisdiction of this court petitioners seek to enjoin the respondents as com missioners of Lee county, from -per forming any duty imposed upon them by the act of the general assembly to esablish Lee county approved 25th February, 1902, Stat. 1194, upon the grounds set forth in the petition here with reported, which assails the con stitutionally of said act "for the rea sons that the said Lee county 'did not certainly receive the favorable vote of two-thirds of the qualified electors in each section of said proposed new county; did not certainly have the necessary population and assessed value of property, nor leave the necessary population and assessed I value of property in the three old coun ties from which it was carved ; ha3 not the boundaries in the act that were designated in the petition and should have been controlled by the election ; and has cut the county, of Sumter within eight miles of its court house building." Respondents make return denying the material allegations of the peti ion, and petitioners gave notice of a motion for a reference to take testi mony upon the issues of fact raised. Upon the call of the case, however, respondents mads a motion to dismiss the petition, being in effect a demur rer thereto, upon the several grounds set forth in their demurrer or motion. After carefully considering the mat ter the court is of opinion that the petition should be dismissed upon the ground that it fails to state a course of action or facts warranting the in junction prayed. The case now pre sented- in Segars vs. Parrott", 54 S. C. I., wherein in the former act creat ing Lee county 28 Stat. 908, was de clared unconstitutional and the com missioners thereunder were enjoined from performing any duties imposed upon them by said former act. In that case the petition alleged, among other things that the result'of ?lection for the proposed county of Lee in that por tion of Darlington county sought to be embraced within the area of said new county of Lee was as returned by the managers of. election and as de clared by the commissi?ners"?"f election ' unfavorable to the creation of said new county, in that, as to reported and de clared it failed to cbiain two-thirds of the qualified electors in the Darlington section in favor of the new county. In this case it is alleged "that the managers and county election com missioners declared as a result of said election that two-thirds of the ballot cast separately in each of the counties of T?ersbaw, Darlington and Sumter had voted ' Yes' on the creation of the county and in favor of 'Lee' as its name and ' Bishopville' as its county seat." "That the resuit of said last mentioned election was certified in legal form by the commissioners of election for said three old counties to the secretary of state and by him was submitted to the general assembly at its next session. All which proceed ings were conformable to law." In the case of Segars vs. Parrott the former act creating Lee county was declared unconstitutional because it appeared by 'the result of the election as certified by the commissioners of election to the general assembly that two-thirds of those voting in the Dar lington section were not in favor of the proposed new county the majority of the court holding the view that the result of the election as declared and certified by the commissioners of election to the general assembly, in the absence of any judical action set ting it aside, was final and conclusive as to such result and could not be dis regarded by the legislateure. The con stitution required an election of the pro posed new county leaving it to the legislature to provide the mode of as certaining and declaring the result, which was done by the act of March 9, 1896, 22 Stat. 64, making it the duty of the codtoissioners of election to eanvass the returns of the managers of election and certify the result to the secretary of state, to be by him trans mitted in tabulated statement to the general assembly. The result of the election having been determined pur suant to the constitution and act of the general assembly by the designated tribunal having bower so to do, was conclusive of the fact and binding upon the Legislature as well as all others. It follows in this case, in so far as the allegations relate to the election for the proposed new county of Lee, that Segars vs. Parrott, is authority for dismissal of the petition. In reference to the allegation in the second paragraph of the petition that the petition to the governoi for the creation of the new county was not sign ed by one-third of the qualified elec tors of each township school district or other terriorial division then exist ing within the limits of said proposed new county, we may say that such al legation states no ground for injunc tion for the reason among others that the words "each section" in Art. 7, Sec. 1 of the constitution providing that the "general assembly may es tablish new counties in the following manner: Whenever one-:third of the qualified electors within the area of 1 each section of an old county proposed to be cut off to form a new county shall petition the governor, etc," does 1 not refer to such division of a county as township, school district and the . like, but means that portion of the , territory of an old county which it is proposed to embrace within the new < county without regard to townships or school district.lines. We need not notice Ehe allegations of the petition 1 in detail as it will be sufficient for tbe purpose of stating our view to notice tbe allegations "that tha court house building of Sumter county is less than eight miles from the boundary line of said proposed new county," as this is the allegation specially relied upon to sustain the petition. Section , article 7 of the constitution provides: "In the formation of new counties no old coun ty shall be cut with eight miles of its court house building," and in sec tion 2 of said article it is provided that "no county shall be formed with, out compplying with all the conditions imposed in this article," said article imposing other conditions in reference to area, population and assessable tax able property, etc. "With respect to the ascertainment of the existence of these conditions no tribunal has been specially invested with power to determine the facts pre liminary to legislative action as was done in reference to the election for the proposed new county. The consti tution imposed upon the legislature the duty of creating a new county when the specified conditions existed. No other tribunal having power to determine the existence of the condition under consideration it was necessarily incum bent upon the legislature to determine of itself whether such condition exist ed as preliminary to the performance, of the duty imposed upon the legislature by the constitution in reference to the form?tion of new counties. The act to establish Lee county approved 25th February, 1902, recites that ail condi tions required by the constitution and laws of the State for the formation of new counties have been complied with. That determination of the existence of such facts or conditions cannot be assailed in any court by evidence aliende impeaching the correctness of the same. The legislature having the power to determine such facts and no fraud or deceit being imputable to a legislature body. The act to establish Lee county adopted February 25, 1902, is not un constitutional by reason of any thing alleged in the petition. It is therefore ordered and adjudged that the petition herein be dismissed and that the restraining order hereto fore made in these proceedings be and is hereby revoked. THE efl?t STfiIKE COMMISSION The Mine Workers Have Giosed Their Case?Nineteen Days of Testimony. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 15.?The mine workers, after occupying 19 cays in presenting about 160 witnesses, closed their case before the anthracite coal strike commission late this afternoon, excepting that they will call one im portant witness tomorrow morning. The afternoon session was one of the most important sittings the commis sion has yet held, because the question of- whether the close relationship of the coal carrying railroads with the mining companies shall figure in the commission's effort to adjust the con troversy, came squarely before the arbitrators. The decision of the com mission, if Chairman. Gray's remarks can be so called, was briefly this : That the commission in a general way is averse to widening the scope of th? InvestigaTi?h^ey dnd the "tenus of the submission of the miners and the operators: that in carrying on the investigation it assumes the coal companies can afford to pay fair wages, and that if business cannot pay fair wages the employer ought to get out of it. The mine worker, depended a great deal on the evidence they had presented to show that the coal carrying railroads control the coal companies and that the railroads charge exhorbitant and discriminating freight rates, thus greatly decreasing the revenues of the mining properties. The miners want ed to present this evidence in docu mentary form, but as objection was made to it and sustained by the com mission with the above rulings the matter was not pressed. Several little girls employed in silk mills were called to the witness stand during the day, and as a result Chair man Gray plainly gave his opinion of parents who send their children to work at a tender age. Annie Denks, aged 13 years, said she worked at night from 6.30 o'clock until 6.30 in the morning. She had to stand up all night during her work and received 65 cents a night. When the girl said she was employed at night every member of the commission seemed to be shocked. Judge Gray ap peared especially indignant. He ask ed her where her father worked and she told him in the mines. The girl also told the number of persons in the family and finally Judge Gray said he would like to see the father. ' ' I would like to see the fathers of these girls," he repeated. It may be a necessity to send them to tbe mills, but I don't think a father has a right to coin the flesh and blood of his children into money. Its an outrage. I would like to see what instincts he has." The chairman of the commission spoke with much feeling and his views were ap parently received with approval. Mr. Darrow, for the miners, said it was not altogether the fault of the parents, but the employers are to blame for not paying wages enough to permit a man to keep bis children in school. Judge Gray replied, "That may be, but there are miners who receive enough pay to enable "them to keep their children out of the workhouse." Judge Gray#inquired as to the law in Pennsylvania regarding child labor at night. One statute was found which partially covered the case and the chairman remarked that it seemed as though the statutes of Pennylvania in this part of the State do not seem to bother any one. Prof. E. B. Bryan, recently ap po'nted sperinendent of public in struction for the Phillippine Islands, was a farm hand twelve years ago. While, plowing-on his father's farm, two miles from Kokohoma, Ind., he was accidentally injured in sucha way as to incapacitate him for such work. Then he went to college and later held chairs in Butler College and the Indi ana University. When appointed to his present position he was principal of the normal school in Manila. , Washington, Dec. 12.?Secretary ? Hay has received a cablegram from ? John Barrett, dated at Calcutta, India, : today stating that he regarded it his ? duty to conti nub his connection with 1 the St. Louis exposition and therefore < declining the Japanese mission which ? had been tendered to him. i y. S. GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION. ? Secretary Hay Informed the Ger- j man Government That There Must Be No Interference With Our Ships. Washington, Dec. 15.?Minister Bowen has confirmed the press reports to the effect that the guns of the allied fleet which bombarded Puerto Cabello Saturday were directed entirely at the fortifications and not at the town. Eegretable as it was, this statement relieves the fear of the first suspicion that it constituted a violation of in ternational law, in the fact that 24 hours' notice was not served of the bom bardment. The requirements as to notice applies to unfortified towns where the fire must be directed upon the in habitants, and this was not the case at Puerto Cabello, so that while the officials here regret that the firing took place they have as yet no cause to protest. But it is now probable that the United States will break its attitude of inactivity in the event that an at tempt is made to enforce the "peace ful blockade" toward an American ship. When the allies were consider ing ways and means of bringing Vene zuela toeterms*and a blockade of this character had been decided upon, the German government informed the United States that when the blockade was established it would turn back all shipping, though no effort would be made to seize the ships. \ The United States government made no response to this statement at the time (last year), not feeling called upon to do so before the presentation of an actual case. But now that the blockade is sought to be established, Secretary Hay has informed the German gov ernment that American ships should not be interfered with in their trad ing, except the inhabition applies to all shipping ; and further the note in timates a disapproval of any stoppage at alL It is within the legal ?ght of the allies to close these ports, but probably this can be accomplished without protest on our part only after a formal declaration of war. The hope is growing here that such a declaration can, after all, be avoided owing to the energy with which Mr. Bowen has acted. It has developed that the reason for the delay in the consideration of Presi dent Castro's proposal to arbitrate the disputes with Great Britain and Ger many was the absence frcm London of Lord Lansdowne, the British minister of foreign affairs. It appears that this arbitration had more than a per functory endorsement by the United States government.. Mr. Bowen hav ing asked permission to endeavor to settle the matter by arbitration, Secretary Hay not only promptly ac corded the permission but went to the length of himself dispatching the proposai, which up to that point had been rather vague and informal, to the British and German governments. HORRORS OF VIVISECTION. Senator Gallinger Replies to Rece?? Letter of Dr. Keen." Washington, D. C, December 14.? Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, who also is a member of the medical profession, gave out a letter tonight in reply to the published letter of Dr. W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia, sent him a week ago, calling attention to the case of Midshipman Aiken, a clct on whose brain Dr. Keen had re moved, and who said his success in the operation was due to experiments on animals such as the anti-vivisec tionists wanted to prohibit. Senator Gallinger denies that he wishes to prohibit vivisection, and says his bill seeks merelty to regulate it and pre vent cruel and inhuman experiments. The senator deniesjthafc localization of brain troubles has been brought about by experimentation on animals. The Drains of animals, he says, differ from the brain of man and also differ from one another, "so that stimulation of a certain part of the brain will produce a certain effect in one animal and another effect in another animal. The long history of exepriment on the brains of animals has shown that it is not only not safe to reason from the brain of animals to that of man, but that such reasoning is not safe as between the brain of one animal and that of another. It has been so in general with animal experimenta tion. When such experiment had es tablished a fact with regard to any species of animal the next thing was, "Now let us see if it is the same in man." The experimentors, therefore 'saw,' by experiment in some form upon man, and some times the result was similar and sometimes not. That such experiments upon man as re sults of reasoning from the lower animlals have been to a great extent disastrous is certain, for it is the testimony of great surgeons and phy siologists. By 'experiment' upon mnn I mean in general operations up-?ii human beings, with the expectation that they would have the same result as they had had with animals." He then says his bill seeks to prevent such experiments as those. One ex perimenter is in the habit of plunging dogs for thirty seconds into boiling water : another fastens a dog to the dissecting table and, discarding the use of anesthetics, stands above it with a large empty stone bottle, with which he strikes with all his strength a dozen violent blows on the head, while the same experimenter says he dislocates both the shoulders, doing it with difficulty. Another experimenter claims that he has "consecrated" more than eighty largo animals, mostly horses and mules, to the extremest torture possible, not, as he expressly tells us, to solve any problem in medical theory, but simply to see what degree of pain can be inflicted through irritation of the spinal cord. He is willing to submit to the American peo ple, he says, whether such barbarous practices should not be condemned. A bill was passed last week by the Georgia legislature over Gov. Ten-ill's veto, which extends the terms of the governor and other State officers eight months beyond the time at which they would otherwise have expired. The bill also provides that the legislature shall meet on the fourth Wednesday in Tune instead of the fourth Wednesday in October, as at present TEX?S FEVES II BlMViLLE. The State Veterinarian, Dr. Nesom. Gives Some Facts About the Whittle Cattle?The Loss. Columbia, Dec. .?Dr. G. E. Nesom. State veterinarian, arrived in the city Saturday evening from Black ville where he had gene in response to a telegram from Mr. J. D. Whittle. Some* weeks ago Mr. Whittle bought; in western North Carolina one hur. dred and fifty steers for his feed pens. About a week ago fifteen of them bci gan to show signs of being sick and soon four died. The State veterinarian examined them and found that thev were dying from Texas fever, or southern cattle fever. Mr. Whittle has just gone into the business if feeding cattle and will no doubt be very much discouraged with such un expected results. Two other gentlemen who have re cently sustained losses are Mr. W. E. Rutland who is feeding 200 steers 02 his farm at Batesburg, and Mr. J. F. Bland,. Jr., of Mayesville, feeding 125 head. The three have a total of nearly 50) choice steers, from western North Carolina, valued at about $15,000, and the aggregate loss from Texas fever i ; about 81,000. When it is known that similar losse 3 are occurring all over the State from June to January the disease must be reckoned as one of great/importance to the stockmen. Dr. Nesom estimates that last year it caused losses amounting to over $100,009, and says it will be consider ably more for 1902. Texa:3 fever was not well understood, until about twelve years ago, but is. now known to be a specific disease oi cattle similar in many respects tc human malaria. The primary cause of it is a microscopia protozvan (animal germ) which destroys the red cells of the blood. The animals be come infected by being bitten by the common cattle tick, formerly so "num erous in all cattle in this State. All native cattle that carry ticks from the time they are calves, acquire im munity to the disease when very youn?, but if cattle have never had ticks cn them they readily take the disease when they are exposed to tick infesta tion. That is the trouble with cattle from the northern States as well as western North Carolina, which is en tirely free from ticks and above the government quarantine line. These feeders who ship from there should be very careful never to ship before frost, to load cattle into clean cars, not to unload into stock pens where tick infested cattle have been kept during summer, and to scrupulously avoid driving the cattle over roads cr through woods where seed ticks- may be on the grass and leaves: also to avoid the use of straw or leaves for bedding if taken from woods where tick-infested cattle have used the past summer. If, however, it is found that the cattle have gotten the ticks on them, begin at once to remove them by oiling tbe parts where they are found, using cotton seed or cheap lubricating oil. A good way is to build a chute consisting of two slatted fences sixteen feet long and two feet apaf^lmbr~s?~ "arranged that the "cattle may be shut in with bars as driven through. Put the chute in a cross fence so that cattle may be driven from one let to another, making sure that all of them are greased. If any are taken sick, they refuse food, stand with head hung low or lie with the head stretch ed on the ground in front, have high ::ever, and in bad cases red urine. After death the most noticeable lesion :.s that the spleen (melt) is very much enlarged, black, easily torn, and filled with black clotted blood. A good treatment Is to give a pound of salts every 24 hours till bowels act freely and; twice, a day give half ounce of quinine. * Mr. Nesom says many people do not believe in the "tick theory.-' An ap propriate answer to this is that those who do not believe in Newton's law of gravity and step cut of a fifth story window to prove their disbelief will pay the penalty just as though they had been the most devout believers. . All who are interested in this dis ease should write Dr. Nesom at Clem son college for Bulletin No. 72 on Texas fever. Murder in Barnweii County. Allendale, December I!.?Some two months ago Mr. Sam Lighisey disap peared from his home, about twelve miles from Allendale. Mr. Lihtsey was about 35 years old, a man who sel dom left his fathers' house and led a quiet home life. His disappearance was a deep mystery till yesterday after noon, when his body was found a short distance from his home. Signs of foul play were evident, and three negroes, Steve Harley, Bill Daniels and Ed Daniels, were soon ar rested. Ed Daniels turned State's evi dence, and says that Steve Harley and Bill Daniels called him out of his house at night and made him go with them, that they had the body of Mr. Lightsey and buried it in a shallow hole, throwing only a little dirt and straw on it, and that about a week ago* Steve Harley and Bill Daniels made him go with them again: took up the body to move it elsewhere, but were frightened by the barking of dogs and left the body where it was found. Stove Harley made his escape and a large party are after him with blood hounds. Ed and Bill Daniels were taken to Bnrnwell jail. As the ninteenth century was about to close, Mr. P.. W. Perks, a London lawyer and member of Parliament, pro posed to raise a million guineas?about 65,000,000-from a million Methodists in Great Britain as a thank-offering for denominational purposes. The sum was raised, and more besides. The Methodist Bishops of the United States in November. 1S9S, started cut to raise 820,000,000 for a like object. The date fixed for this fund to close is Dec 31, of this year, and at the present time the sum of SIS,500,000 has been raised. The money is to be used for education, for philanthropic work, for the en dowment of evangelization, for con frence claimants,, for the payment of , Church debts and for mission fields. t Mr. H. R. Jackson, division pas' senger and freight agent of the Cly?' Steamship Company, has been elect the manager of the Charleston frei bureau and he will take charge sJ the first of next month.