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Tm BRAND.PHIMZY FIGHT. ot Both Pmrtlm c ?nie tu ?Axes* A personal encounter took place yeeterday afternoon between Mr. Bowdre Phtnlay, editor of the Even? ing Herald mid air. W. 8. Brand. *u pertntendmt of the Georgia railroad, Just ouUkle the entrance of the Geor? gia railroad onVe building. Neither hwn wae eerlously Injured. Mr. Brand had one *f his nngers palufully bltUn by Mr. Phlnliy and ?offered a scratch rn the nice where fee bumped hi* own head upon the ground, Mr. Pblnlay waa badly bruin The ngbt waa eougtffc by Mr. Phln kry because Buyer! n ten dent Brand had called him a liar In a card print? ed In the Chronicle Thursday morn > teg and] bad made other charges against him. superintendent brand had the advantage of the difficulty. Anally getting Mr. Phlnixy down and a naalsBtng him severely. Mr. Brand m was Anally pulled away by Georgia Railroad Trainmaster J. H. Chapman. Mr. Pblnlxy amid be was satisfied, and Mit gentler ended. Mr. X H. Chapman, trainmaster of the Georgia railroad, makes the fol I lowing statement. In substance, of f what be aww "Between 4 and I o'clock this after? noon I was at Mr. Brand's desk, when Mr. Guy Hamilton entered the ofAce alone, and naked to see Mr. * Brand privately. I Immediately left the <*nVe. "As 1 passed through the hall some of the w*yr UmI me that Mr. Pblnlxy standing outside. I went back to earn offleo, ' but bad not been In a minute When somebody called that Mr, Brand and Mr. Phtnixy were Agbtlxtur ' **I Harrte? outside, and just then I AgeUsfl that Mr. W H Wlngard and I Mr" 0#y Hamilton were m exchanging phfcsws also Mr Brand had Mr. Phin uWj ekren <m the ground and seemed tl ha 1 dring It to him pretty hard, so , t etariea to txB to dra* Mr. Brand Sn oMxm4 stop Che Agbt. Borne body ask #4 th* not to Interfere, but I pulled Mr. ?af*un4 of. while Mr. Phlnixy % t*blnbry was ashed If he had aba enough, and he replied; Yea, 1 ' asm satisfied. It had to come, and I At* the beet I could.?m The matter so Mr. Brand went back ? j wax ended V hie office % "Mr. Phlnixy wae ?n tended the eiaurteey of T K. Acoot's office and taexitoiy. where he washed up Und' Oven went away.'1 Mr. H. W. Wlngard said ? When I saw Mr. Brand and Mr. Phtnixy fighting 1 started to try to separate them, but Mr. Brand told me not to interfere. Then Mr Brand Maw Mr. Pfklnlxy to the ground. Mr. feaxnlllea called out to let them have fail* play I saht 'all right. let Chem alone.' Then Mr. Hamilton started to pntl Mr. Prand off. I pulled Hamil? ton away an.i he hit me. and then we exchanged several blows Mr. J. A. Butler, who Is not an atnplttv? of the Georgia railroad, also eanhenged several blows with Mr. Marathon. Butler says he saw Mr. Brand come out of the door, while Mr. Phtaisy was standing wultlng for htm. He say? theytwo men met and began to fight without having any? thing to say. He says after Mr. Brand bed thrown Mr rhlnlzy to the ground Mr. Hamilton, tried to stop the fttfht Ay pulling Mr. Brand off. Mr Butler says he remonstrated with Mr Humiiiof and that Hamilton then struck him. Mr. Guy Hamilton, cm the request of the Chronicle reporter, mad*? the following statement, in substance: "I went to the Georgia railroad of Aces with Mr. Phtnixy and while Mr. Phlnlsy watted outside I went in to see Mr. Prand. I told him Mr. Phln ixy thought the card In the Chronicle was untrue and unwarranted and was not willing to let It go by unnoticed, and wanted to *ee Mr Brand outside. I told him that Mr. Phlnixy und I were both unarmed, and that .all Mr. Phlnixy wanted was fair play." Mr. Himllfon was told what Messrs. Wlngard and But!, r ha 1 said, and was asked about his own en? counters H- na Id that h ? had not Cried to pull Mr. Brund off Mr. Phln Isy snd thst the two men with whom he exchanged blows had hit him first. He ad fed that Mr. Phlnlsy hud not been thrown do?n but had Stumbled end fallen during the fight. Nel'h. r Mr. AJftSjgxJ n ?r Mr PIHn> cared to make* any statement. Both men were summoned to up before the , *?< ..r I- r AgtA! 1<n Ing. The\aondltl.?n of Senator Tillman. who ls\ making a trip throiiKh Kn rope. le said to be very much Im? proved. ?Mrs. A. Joyce, Claremont, N. H., writes: "About a year ago I bought two bottles of Foley's Kidney Reme Ay. It cured me of a aevsre caae o kidney trouble of sevaral years' stand? ing It certainly Is a grand, gon 1 WMdK'nr. and 1 heartily r-..mnul II" Albert's Drug Atore. urn islk'an contests com? pleted. late Will ;ia\i CO.; Vote* on Tempo? rary Roll?.?AUW Issue u state .iiicnt Declaring that they are in the Fight u? u Finish and that Taft will m?t be Nominated on Hit- First Ual m%% Chicago, June 12.?Late today the Republican national committee com? pleted the 1. rings of all contest sub? mitted. The cmomlttee has been In sessalon forderen davi of actual work and has decided contests involving two hundred and nineteen seats on the temporary roltvcall. These con? tests have been decided as follows: For Taft?Alabama 22, Arkansas 2, Florida 8. Georgia 16, Kentucky 8, Louisiana 18, Mississippi 16, Missouri I, North Carolina 18. Ohio 7. Oklaho? ma 10, Pennsylvania. 1 South Caro? lina 8, Tennessee 18, Texas-36, Virgi? nia 18, Alaska 2, Arizona 2. Total 218. For Foraker?Virginia 2, Ohio 1. Total, 8. As Taft had 387 Instructed dele? gates before the national committee began the hearing of contests he will now have a total of 603 delegates In? structed for him on the temporary foil-call, without taking into consid? eration any that have endorsed or declared for him In any other man j ner. The only complete defeat sustain? ed by the Taft delegates was In the contests In the 6th Virginia district, which includes Danville, where a Fo ? aker delegation was seated by a vote cf 18 to 16. because a man was al? lied to act as secretary of the dis? trict convention who had Issued a call for a convention In his county ed by the members of the committee that If they allowed delegates to the convention at which this man had acted ss secretary to be seated In the national convention that it would place the party In the light of ap? proving a call Issued to a portion of the votes. For this reason It was de? cided to seat the Wllsin-Russell dele? gates. The race question was the underly? ing cause In all of the Virginia con? tests except In the case of Lawrence Oroner, of Norfolk, who made the opening argument for the Taft peo ple4 saying that the representation of the negro on the Taft delegation Is tally proportionate to the number of negro voters In the State. He assert? ed that only about 8.000 were entl tit-U to vole under the laws of Vir? ginia, and that of these only between 3.000 and 4,000 have properly quali? fied. Major 'F. C. Ryan, of Ohio, an? nounced that he would withdraw the contest against the Taft delegates at large In Virginia, there being no evi? dence, and none of the protesting del? egates having put In an appearance. The Taft delegates of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th and ? h district were seat? ed. -?-x DK. SNYDEH ELECTTO. Selected to Manage the Affair* of the l ulveralty of South Carolina. Columbia, June 10.?The tniCtob? <>f the South Carolina university* v. - terdby mimed Dr. Henry N. Snyder of, Wofford college for president of the university. The election was unsought by T*r. Snyder und it is not known whether or not he will accept. A tel Cftajtl to the State from Spartnnburg is t?? the effect that the people of that city decline to give up Dr. Sny Jer. The president-elect has wired the trustees that he cannot accept un? til he has laid the whole matter be? fore his board of trustees Saturday. it may be of Interest to note that ibMHsf (boat who were voted for and Who were not candidates, but CrCfC voted for by members of the board as their preferences, were: Dr. J. W, ! M k of Columbia, Dr. J. A. B. a Soberer of Newberry, Dr. \V. Spencer CtffffoU of Washington and Lee, Prof. Wm. Hand of the university, John J. McMahun of Columbia, Dr. C. Al pboneo Smith <?f North Carolina, Prof. <'barb s H, Rarnwell;of Alabama. Pita, luiio tn Houston of Texas. Dr. J. L. Andersbn of Florida. DENTISTS OF STATE .Ml.FT. . Stute Association Holding it- Con. \ cut Jon at Columbia. c .In mbht. June 9.?The Slate Den? t;il Association meet this morning in annual convention. bei ng called to t*tof b> Um prosMi nt, i >r. t. t. MoOfO, Jr.. of Columbia. M ggOf Rag? mer OgtondOd the WlOOma of the city, and Dr. T. T. Moore, Sr., made an aiUmss of welcome on lehalf of the local b ntlsts. Tin-re are a large number of den tNts tn attendance and sessions were bold this afternoon and tonight In tlx laitloran publication building, at jubkb papers were read on proftat* I lonal subjects ami clinics were given. The case which certain Iftlgtofl ol the Rock Hill school have brought to retain poesesalon of the school build? ing, which was recently sold to the trustees of Winthrop College, will be argued In court at Rock Hill next week. A Tl<'Hmit'iil Home Wedding. : ; hopvll'.e, G, C., Jun? 11 ,-*-MFi ? i'inea," the county home of Mr. and Mrs. Lucius L. baker, on Wednes? day afternoon, June loth, was the scene of a beautiful home wedding, when Mr. Charles Leslie Wilson, of Charleston, S. C, and Miss Daisy William Scarborough were united in marriage by the Hev. Hugh K. Mur chison. An elegant luncheon was served the brlday party at high noon, after which the gusts began to gather. The spacious parlor was handsome? ly decorated with festoons of smilax, banks of ferns and potted plants. The ceremony was performed at an Im? provised altar, over which was sus? pended a large four leaf clover of daisies. Promptly at 2.30, Mrs. M. B McCutcheon sang "Whisper and I Shall Hear," accompanied on the pi? ano by Miss Alberta Woodward, who then played Mendelsohn's Wedding March, to the strains of which the bridal party entered. Rev. Hugh R. Murchison took his position at the altar, and then'entered little Estelle Scarborough, a niece of the bride, who carried an American Beauty rose, In the petals of which was con? cealed the wedding ring. Miss Emily Rlley, of Orangeburg, the maid of honor, followed. Miss Rlley loked very lovely in a gown of cream satin striped chiffon over taffeta silk In em? pire effect, and carried a bouquet of carnations and fern's. The groom then entered, attended by his b+V man, Mr. Clifford Thompson, of Charleston. The bride entered on the arm of her brother-in-law, Mr. Lucius L. Baker, who gave her away. She was ex? ceedingly beautiful in a three piece traveling gown of Copenhagen blue, and carried a bridal boquet of carna? tions and ferns. During the ceremony "Traumeri" was rendered softly and "LaReine des Fees" was played while congratulations were being showered upon the happy couple. The guests on entering the recep? tion hall, which was beautifully deco? rated In a color motif of lavender and green, were presented with dain? ty souvenirs. A delightful ice course was served by Misses Katherine and Marguerite Richardson. Mrs. Jean C. Lee and Miss Erline White pre? sided over the punch bowl. The color scheme was artistically carried out in the refreshments Mrs. Baker was assisted |n receiv? ing by Mesdames J. L. Scarborough. Abble Shaw, W. 8. James, with Miss Cora Shaw at the entrance of the par? lor. The many and handsome presents1 received attest the popularity of the bride and groom. Mr and Mr. Wilson left on the af? ternoon train for Jacksonville, Fla., and other Southern cities and will be ;it home. In Charleston after July 15. Mr. Wilson Is a populur rrt?n of 'Charleston and has *chosen as his bride one of the most charming girls among the fair ladies of Lee. Wlttf is Xo Death. CoAint Tolstoi, the famous Russian author, replying to a friend who con? gratulated him recently on the ap' proorch of^hls eightieth birthday, and the' celebration planned for It, said: ?It M another happiness that I await ?death." The Matin published a Utter from the Vttergl! writer, in which he amplifies that saying and adds that all earthly life Is a dream and death the true awakening. "All our life from birth to death," he writes, "is it not, with all its Irer.ms. itself a dream? Does not our belief in its reality spring solely and entirely from our ignorance of any other life more real? Our earth? ly life is one of the dreams of another and more real life, and that other life is a dream of yet another life, and so on ad Inllnltum, e ven to the last life, the life of Qod. "Death In youth It as when a man is awakened before ht iws slept full measure. Death in old age is as When a man wak.s <>f his own accord after a g??o(i Sleep, "Suicide is a nightmare which a man 'banishes by renu mbering that be atleep; he makes an effort, and he awakes. ??Deep sleep, without dreams. la comparable, to teml*beatlallty. it (i the sie.-per oontclOUt of what goet >ii around him, and ready to wake at my moment, who has-' knowledge, though but vague, of the iifg whence ht oame and whither ht thai] return. "Rven in this present dream-life wa feel that WhtCh the DOW life will per naps make real to us. The earthly fOftn In which the awakening of our hnowledgt tc the true life nndt us appears as a limitation to the devel opmetii of* our tpltit The true life begins when that limitation It remov? ed. This Idea embodies all the knowledge of the truth which give! to the man the consciousness of eter? nal Ufa, "I believe with All my soul In what I say. I feel, I know with certainty, that in lying I shall be happy, that I shall enter a life more real." On May 1 last 1,318,000 persons were receiving State relief in India. FREE! FREE} TWO DAYS' TREATMENT -WITH Bloodine Blood and Kidney Tablets -AND Bloodine Liver Pills* GREATEST KNOWN REMEDIES For Kidney, Liver, Bladder (?L Blood Diseases. If you are nit feeling well and don't know jaat what the matter is, if you feel tired all the time, and have no ambition, are looking strength, have no energy, no appetite If you are troubled with fits or nausea, belohing fits of vomiting, flatu'ency, or nervous heidache, we ask yoo aa a favor to yourself to come to our f?tore and get a free sample of this wonderful remedy, we kuow it will help you. Anyone unable to call at our utore can have a sample sent by mail by addressing THE BLOODINE CORPORATION, Boston, Mass. ?ibert,s/Drugstore, Special Agents. THE COURT HOUSE GROUNDS. A Criticism of the Condition of the Surroundings of Sumtcr's iland dhoine Edifice. Editor Item; Please allow the writer space to call attention to the condition of the grounds surrounding Sumter's fine Court House, and also to insist that something should be done to put them In order and to keep them so. It is not proposed in this article to blame any special Individual for the present condition of the grounds, but It is a severe reflection upon the citi? zens generally, and one for which there is no valid excuse. t It is simply absurd to suftopse that Sumter county could afford to spend over $100,000 to build the finest court house in the State and then be unable to appro? priate a few hundred ^ollars to keep the grounds in decent condition. Strangers are being constantly taken to see the Court Hou^e, which is, of course, a good thing to do, but they get an unpleasant surprise when they aee the grounds covered with weeds and exhibiting a condition of general neglect. There ought to be a regular appropriation for keeping up the grounds and the money expended by some one who has the requisite taste and ; know ledge to conduct the work in a satisfactory manner, if this be done the grounds can be made very pretty and attractive and will very greatly enhance the oeauty of the buiding itself, but this can't be done by a little occasional and badly di? rected work. If the writer's information is cor? rect the county commissioners offered to turn over the grounds to the Civic, League, but would not assume any of the cost of improving them, vir? tually placing the whole burden on the league. This offct \vas very prop? erly declined and this is Just the con? dition at present, but in the mean? time the weeds are ?growing and can be safely counted on to produce a full crop of seed, and these seed will be very* strongly in evidence next spring, ju>t as soon as the weather begins to turn worm. The individual who would build a very line residence an then pretend that he could not afford to. keep his yard free of weeds, would make him? self the laughing stock of the com? munity, yet this is just what the peo? ple of Sumter County, in their col? lective capacity have done, bu!lt a very stately Court House and can't afford to keep the grounds In decent order. ' In 1900 the Court House in Marion were covered with horse racks, mud holes and Weeds and were just about as unsightly as they could well be. The ladles organised a Civic League and one of their first points of attack was to Improve the condi? tion of these grounds. The first ?tep w;is to secure the servtoei of one of the most expert landscape archi? ll i ts in tin- country to lay off the grounds. His plans have been strict" ly carried out with the result that the grounds become more beautiful every year, this being done to the general harmony of the design and to the in? creased growib of the plants, The cost up to the present time h;ts been |lt500, of which the county furnish? ed $100 and the town $800. Tbl* Is far from being all tie* work accom? plished by the league, but the writer mly desires to make special mention of the work of the ladl n in trans? forming an extremely ugl ? piece ol ground Into a place of exquisite beau? ty, Marlon has ? plain, old-fashioned court house standing in the mi 1st of beautifully kept and attractive grounds, while the gr ninda around gunitcr* beautiful and costly court hoiiwj lXrv allowed ? grow up In weefls .\s ha4 already been stated, the writer does not undertake to blame any one individual for the present condition of the court house grounds, but merely to direct attention to the fact that they are growing up in veeds, with the hope that something may be done to put them in proper order. W. D. Woods. Tick Eradication Resumed. The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Ag? riculture is resuming active opera? tions for the eradication of the cattle ticks which prevail In the southern part of the country and transmit the contagion of Texas fever to cattle. Its men are being sent into the field and preparations are being made to push the work of extermination vigorously during the warm weather, when the ticks are most active. Since this work was begun, two years ago, an area of about 56,000 square miles, or almost the size of the State of Georgia, has been freed from the ticks. As a result the quarantine on southern cattle has been either modified or entirely removed from this area. Last year work was done to a greater or less extent in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennes? see, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Cal? ifornia and it is proposed this year to continue in the same States with the addition of a small portion of Mississippi. Most of the work has been and will continue to be done in sections contiguous to the quarantine line, the object being to push the line farther south from year to year; but encouragement Is given to local work in any part of the quarantined dis? trict in the assurance that when any considerable area is rendered tick free it will be released from quaran? tine. The work is being done by coope? ration between the federal govern? ment and the State and local author? ities. Cong.'oss has appropriated $250,000 for the year beginning July 1. and it is expected that the States and counties where the work is car? ried on will duplicate this sum. The committee on appropriations of the house of representatives expressed it? self very strongly to the effect that the States should bear a reasonable share of the cost and that the federal work should be mainly confined to States where cooperation is receiv various methods of exterminating I the ticks are used, including transfer ; ring the cattle from pasture to pas ' ture at suitable intervals, and dip? ping, spraying and hand dressing the cattle with oil and oil emulsion. In sections where- there are large herds and large ranches dippig on a large scale \-i practiced, either alone or in connection with pasture rotation, while in other sections where the Cat? tle on some farms frequently consist only of B cow or an ox team, hand dressing with oil is found to be the only practlc ible method. . The damage caused by the tlcki and the b* n-:its to follow from their eradication are not generally aprpe clated. II i< estimated that the Tex? as-fever tick Is responsible for about $40,000,000 of loss annually to the i.pie of the Infected country, and that it also lowers the assets of the South by an additional $23,2*.,000 nmking the enormous aggregate of 163.250,000. To wipe out this heav> lo<s is the object of the work now under way, and the results already accomplished leave no doubt that suc? cess is possible, though, a number ?t yearn will be required for tin- complet? ion ?f the Undertaking. Much de? pends upon the cattle owners. Who can either hasten or retard progreei according as they corporate or refuse to assist in the work Literature giving full information as to the ticks the disease w hich they j transmit, and methods for their I eradication has been Issued by the Department of Agriculture and will be supplied free of charge on appli? cation to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Washington, D. C. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF The Bank of Sumter Located at Sumter, S. C, At the Close of Business June 4th, 1908. RESOURCES. Loans and Discount?, *391.50.5 29 Overdrafts, 4,510.01 Bonds and Stocks owned by the bank, 15,500.00 Furniture and Fixtore?, 1,000.00 Other Real Estate, 17,550.00 Dae from Banks and Bankers, 39,008.68 Currencj, 7,C85.00 Gold, 2,117.53 Silver, Nickels snd Pennies. 3,740.73 Checks and Gash Items, 4,472.32 Total. |487,449.5a LIABILITIES. X Capital Stock Paid in. $75,000.00 U ..divided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes paid, 51,369.78 Doe to Banks and Bankers. 1,694 31 Individual Deposits sobject to Cheek, 167,609.20 Savings Deposit*, C4.i76.24 Rjser\e for Dividends & Taxes 5,0f 0 00 Notes *nd Bills disqounted 5<\0C0.00 Bills P. yable, 72,500.00 Total, |187,449 53 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF 8UMTEB. Before me came W. F. Fthaine, Cashier of the above nam< d Bank, who being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said Bn kv as shown by the bcok- oi" said B wk W. P. RHAME, Cashier, Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9th day of June, A. D.. 1908. R. L. WRIGHT, [i~ a.,] Notary Public for 8. C, Correct Attest: ? RICHARD L MANNING, l'resident? MARION MOISE, R. F. HAYNSWORTH, Juue 9, 1909. Directors. $1.50 TO And Return -VIA Special train leaves Sumter 11:40 A.M. June 22nd. Tickets on sale for special train only; good on regular trains returning up to rnofntng train June 24th, or on special train leaving Charles I ton 7 A. M. June 24th. For further information call on ! Ticket Agent or write W. J. CRAI6. T. C. WHITE, Pas. Traf. Agt. t)en Pas. Agt. WILMINGTON, N. C. Birnie's Drug jD Store DE A fuil line of Drugs, Chemi? cals. Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, Cigars and Candies. GIVE US A CALL. We have recently installed a new Soda Water Fount and are fully prepared to serve the best Soda Water and Ice Cream. :-: :-: :-: birnie's drug store, 5 W. Liberty St. Eugene Oreen, the young man who was shot in Oreenvllle by hla sister, Mrs. Alice Campbell, may recover from the wounds he received.