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mm mn o :.t. COtJtrr DtX IDfcH MAYORALTY coirraw in moclkllan 8 i?, FAVOR. Mo Court Dtreces o Verdict for In Now Torrn, June 30.?-Mayor Oeo. l\ MoClellan'* title to the oftUo of of Now Torn city war me.de Oy the dec Utfort of Juttloe Lam la the supreme court today when he ordered a Jury to render a rordlet that Modellen wee duly elected enuyee to INI W. It Hearet has boom eoataeUNj the mayor/e right to Met eehcs seaetfteell) ever trace the eketHeo and as a result of hfo charges of hand hi the original count of the legislature passed a law a race sat Attorney Otn eroi W. t. Jeoheoo then Instituted pr ooeod Inas on behalf of Use people, la which both Mr. and Mayor Modellen were ' the'recount left Mayor McCtellen a prareBty of l.ttl. whereupon J. Sheem rip res on ting Mr. Jechas a. alleejed that the ballot boxes ho* boon scoffed and esaosstit the eoawt to throw out the entire vote of lit ctstltca districts In which "ho chorgtl toot the be Hots found la the the number of the vote re. Yale, however, w 00 an laconsct Met of voters etjt sahen the oorruot last was pro too it today Mr fhearn tend that the tar eater than the Juetlc La sab art deoUaed to throw oof aha toalieti ft districts ? Mr. Mhsara thee) charted that the htapoc toru hod lOgMtsOed an excess number of Bassos hot said ho coald not prove ysetlot then deelared that the suite ae complete as tho ooe saada In court and that tho etidnoce showed no fraud as far as tho ssattlen bet pesters were con that If legal voters so readily as eat stautet hi that ease, this of gauss a sains would otot endure It tho Jury urore to return a eerosA Mi amid Hot I eosjai he dMwsssetUssd Mayor MoClellan. amid ho would not si? lt to stand and he ordered d vor* dtat to fasur of the ssayor. which was rendered. The furore were al? lowed Ittt tosh, having aat ?1 days. Mayor MoClellan Issued a atato ao night In Which, after defining to tooard to tho ho states that ho force* to pay out MO.tto to tetowd has auto, hot tootudtac spuneel feeei ore efjff WvpakL Tho amayor that 'the a to* the toot it of that enormous expenditure tad .attention has ?y total veto and official plurality by ted ballots.' MoOelle* says that he has iierehs oe so the course ho pur? t and that ho tools that the eon ?tot t MMV< ^ ohaot its). ottapsi tr > vet ay arm o| sosottoa esatoiU at this sort in tho future. He said that had ho ? tad thot his ejection was tho re Jseeo : of fraud ho would have acted dlf Mm ON A dsspstch from Columbia says: Cola weit people who h"P close track, of politics, but who occasionally not ae close as they Imagine have predicting all along that Cole D. Bleats, of Newberry. would get about SC.see votes In his campaign against fioilrnor Ansel, who would gtt th?? remiilndsr cf the 100.000 votet In the SMate. The/ hare beer: saying that for two powerful ressont nobody redd beet Ansel, he having made a od Oovemor and the second-term sentiment being Mtrong throughout the MMtth Mr. Bleast, who was here today, however, says he's got good money to oay that he will beat Ansel by a nest majority Me says he will carry thirty-six coutles out of a total of *orty-two. "' >. give the Governor s tittle more margin than that." said your corre? spondent, at a lolly. "I'll bet anyone 11.000 against 1100 that I am the next Oovernor of this ?t?te. 1 was the reply. I've got 18.? ?000 on deposit at Newberry that Is ready to talk Chat way. and I can get plenty more to cover all such bets. Put It In the peter that I said so. I don't care. I'm betting two to one on getting tlooted. And if you don't be? lieve I'm going to carry a lot more counties than a whole lot of people think ssk any member of the cam? paign party who has been sttending the meetings." la feats hi the Price of Peace. ?The terrible Itching and smarting. Incident to certain skin diseases. Is almost Instantly allayed .by applying Chamberlain's Halve Prtos. 25c. For stole by all drutjaiats T.Vil rich brother Newspaper Man Who Has Manipulat? ed Candidate's Destiny. In New York. In a quiet corner of? fice of a high building which he owns, with only a bookkeeper to keep him company, you will And any day, when he la not In New York looking at old masters and porcelains, a quiet, slim, white-bearded man. But for him William Taft might never have gone to the Philippines or become secre? tary of war or a candidate for presi? dent. "Did we beat the Poet on the base bail extra last night?" Charlea P. Taft calls do wnstairs to the editor of the newapaper which he owna. He enjoys hie r ewspaper, which haa aa lively headlines as any In the . Mid? dle West Besball interests him equally wltk. Oalnsboroughs and Sir Joshuas. Ho owna a large Interest in the Cincinnati Baseball Club, In the gasworks and street car lines, In the leading hotel and the opera house, not to mention much real estate; or, rather, ho and his wife together. Her fortune he laaa multiplied. Odo day the editor told him of a amort young baseball reporter who woo looking wistfully at a broken down league team and sighing for capital. "How much do you wont?" Chaslee P. asked the reporter. "One hundred thousand dollars." "Very good!" said Charlea P., who had boon watching that young man for a year. "We'll go Into partnership" A bus? iness man who makes business deals In this fashion naturally needs only a bookkeeper, and when he wants o stenographer he can send for the one downstairs In the editor's oAce. Everything the "Herr Doktor." aa ho woo called among his fellow Amer? ican students at Heidelberg, has touched since he came homo from finishing his education In Germany seems to have turned Into money or art Ho haa been a Republican, most? ly with the local boss, though some times against him. On the hoardings of the city he haa boon cartooned vil? lainously as a sinister "Interest" and smiled over it and bought another china Jar. In matters of music and art. Cincinnati agrees thai, he la her foremost cltlaen. "How do you like the Interior of the hotel?" he aaka the visitor from out of town, for Charles P. looked to the mural decorations in person. They are deservedly praised. In the evening he goes to an old fashioned house, once the Long worth's, whose domestic establish? ment Is maintained for leas than that of many houses occupied by a man of one-twentieth his Income. But no one of moderate means could afford such furnishings. To be vulgar about. It there are well over a million dol? lars* worth of art treasures In the Toft home. Dealers eay no false masters or 1m ffgetJon hawthorns hove been sold to him. He has the dlsorlmnatlon of the arias buyer and the taste of ths connoisseur. Boated among china of the Ming dynasty hs roads the base? ball astro of his lively newspaper. He never brings business homo unless It Is William H.'s campaign. William H?ls poor. Hs knows nothing of fortune-winning. The only way he could make money would bo by prac? ticing low. .... Charlea P. hi wil>tng to have fame In the family, but It must all descend on one member. From the day that the elder brother saw the gift of WU1 for making friends and for dic? tating in an easy way a legal analysts of a bundle of legal documents, that younger brother has been a hobby surpassing all the old masters. He haa always been trying to show Will the road to opportunity, knowing that once Will was started he could do the traveling himself. When McKinley wanted to send the younger brother to the Philip? pines Will waa all for declining. He wanted to remain on the bench. Charles P. argued far Into the night in favor of going. When Roosevelt asked the governor to return and take the secretaryship of war Will, who may be "slow to take a new job. but is a sticker when he is on it." ssld he wanted to finish his task in the Philippines. "Come home!" said Charles P. in a chorus with the pres? ident. Then Roosevelt said: "Get out snd run for president. You're the right man to carry out my policies." "Get out and run." Charles P. re? peated. But William H. did not. This was something new and indefinite. He did not exactly understand how, so his sctlve friends thought. The only run? ning he did was out and home to look after all the unfinished tasks that ths president had given him. Then Charles P. concluded that If William H. would not run he should be run. One morning Charles P.'s name actually appeared In hi* own paper. Under his signature he an? nounced that William H. Taft was a candidate for president before the Republican primaries in Ohio against Senator Foraker for both senator and president. He threw down the gauntlet smart? ly. Then he went to Columbus for a day, and when he returned he told the bookkeeper that he had engaged Arthur I. Vorys and rented a set of ? ?fTk---.- for the Taft campaign, ??Vorye?" gaepe \ th< politu lana 'He's no political organizer!" Possibly Hitchcock still thinks he is not. But Brother Charles P. got the presidential delegation from the State of Ohio early enough for the other States on the fence to see, and William H. is started on a fresh journey, where, of course, he must do his own traveling as he has before. If Brother Will is elected, as Charles P. sits among his Gains boroughs, Sir Joshuas and black hawthorns, he ought to chuckle over that triumph as heartily as he does over beating the deadly rival on get? ting the baseball extra Into the su? burbs.?Collier's Weekly. GREATEST DEFICIT IN YEARS. Government's Balance $#0,000,600 on Wrong Side of the Leder. Washington, June SO.?The state? ment of the government receipts and sxpenditures for the deal year ending today shows a marked falling oft in the receipts as^ compared with the laat fiscal year; and a large, Increase In the expenditures. The excess of ex? penditures over receipts for the year will approximate 9f0.000.000, which haa been exceeded only twice alnce the civil war. In 1894 there waa a deficit of 9ff.80S.000. and in 189? there was another of a little over 889.000,000, and In each of the four intervening years the receipts fell considerably below the disbursements. Again in 1904 and 1905 there were shortages of 941,770.000 and 923.000.000 re? spectively. GAME COCKS TAKE TWO MORE. Defeated she Burghers In Both Games of o Double Header at Festive Dor llngton. I Darlington, July 8.?Sumter took both gamea from Orangeburg today, winning the morning event by a 8 to 1 score and the afternoon game. 2 to 1. The first game went only five In? nings on account of rain. The fea? ture of the day was the brilliant pitch? ing of Cowell for Sumter, who yield? ed only three hits and fanned more than a dosen In the afternoon game. Batters, first game: Orangeburg. Avesrett and Sturtevent; Sumter, Long and Stephens. Second game: Orangeburg. Roberta and Sturtevent; Sumter, Cowell and Stephens. SERVED IN MEXICAN WAR. ? ? ? i ? R. L. Logon Dies at Manning fat His flat Year. I , Manning. July 8.?Mr. Ransoms L. Logan, the oldest man living in this vicinity, died today In the ?1st year of his age. He waa a native of Cam den, but had lived in this county for 0 number of^years. Mr. Logan was both a Mextemn and Confederate was veteran, and up to last week was aa active and vigorous aa a man of much younger years. He waa twice mar? ried, and leaves his second wife, four sons and two daughters. The re? mains of ths deceased will be Interred in the Manning cemetery at 11 o'clock, tomorrow. . . .,? (Men*'. MILEAGE HEARING CALLED. Railroad Consmkeiton Summons Rail? way Officiate to Meet Drummers July to. Columbia. June 30.?The railroad commission this afternoon Issued a summons to ths passenger officials of the Seaboard. Southern, Cost Lino and the Charleaton and Western Car )?< Una roads to meet the traveling men and others finding the new mileage arrangements burdensome for a con? ference here on July 20 on the ques? tion of changing the present require? ments or doing away with them alto? gether. FOUR MILLS TO CLOSE. 200,000 Spindles WU1 be Idle In Spartanbunr for IS Dn*s. Spartanburg, June 30.?Following the suggestion of the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturer's Association at its annual meeting at Glenn Springe recently, It is announced today that four of the largest mills in Spartan? burg County, the Whitney, 8partan, Pacolet and Arkwright will close down to-morrow for thirteen days. This stops for that length of time about two hundred thousand spindles. It Is understood that others will give their employees a lay-off of two weeks later In the summer. A commercial grade of gas is being made from corncobs, hay and other vegetable matter at Beatrice, Neb., for lighting and fuel. It is sold at 91.19 a thousand, the lowest price of gas in Nebraska. In quality it is said to be as good as coal or oil gas. Ab? solutely nothing is said to be used in manufacturing the gas except farm refuse. Because of the cheapness of the raw material, the gas can be manufactured and sold at much lower rates than coal gas. SeVd us your Job work. THE NEWM1 iPl n It Is a Great Business and One That Will.Be Developed Even Further_ The Business End of It. Newspaper making;, like government Is first of all a business. Statesman? ship ig the ability to make compro? mises; government Is regulated by the necessities even more than by the Ideals of the people. Newspaper mak? ing Is no better and no worse. Ideals are essential to a proper grasp of newspaper's possibilities, as well as of its limitations, but plain business sagacity, well-directed hard work, and comprehensive recognition of the demands of the public make the nation's newspapers what they are, the great power In the national life, says a writer In Appleton's Magazine. The American people form the Jury that passes on all newspapers, the Jury that every newspaper maker and every business man has to meet, sooner or later. It may be said that newspapers print much matter that may be uselees and worthlese. Any newspaper doing this soon finds It? self behind In the race of competition; the people decide what they wish, and will hare it Newspapers simply meet the demand of the age, in site and quality, as the shoe manufacturer meets the demand of the public when he puts out his leading style of shoes. The people know what best fits their own feet. The value of a paper's advertising depends upon the character of its cir? culation, that Is, whether it Is a home read paper, or one read only in street cars and other public places. The most prosperous papers In the Uni? ted States are those that go into the home. The women of the household are the buyers of the family supplies, If not actually their ideas prevail. To reach them is the aim of every newsaper advertiser who has any? thing to sell which can be used in the home. This reaching for home circulation on the part of publishers and adver? tisers has the important effects of raising the tone of the papers. The advertising columns of a newspaper are a public place, which a man may enter by paying a fee. It la the aim of the average editor to keep objectionable . advertising out of his paper; and the public would scarcely believe how large a quantity Is excluded. As evidence that the cleanest ad? vertising pays best, one may consider who are the largest advertisers In the great olty dallies. They are the great dry goods merchants. Their adver? tising Is as ttmely and fresh as news, and Is as much a legitimate part of the paper. Their returns are com? mensurate with their outlay; other-, wise they would not spend as high as ft,0frO for a day's advertising, for the merchant Is no philanthropist In his advertising. Having attained his circulation by conducting a clean and able paper, and having gained sufficient advertis? ing business to make the paper psy the publisher has achieved one of the moot difficult feats In modern busi? ness. He must make his goods as well as sell them, and upon hit man? ner of making them, or dressing up the raw material depends hit success. First of all he must be fair. He must always assume there are two sides to every story, atnd that the under dog may have some rights. He must be careful to print no piece of news that might Injure an innocent person. He must give equal prominence to the statements of both parties in a po? litical contest and to reports of the meetings of both sides, and the utterance of both candidates. The most successful newspapers In the country are along those lines. The day of the party organ has passed. $100 a Day License Demanded. Chester, July S.?The city council at a special meeting Monday after? noon granted the Johnny Jones Car? nival Company license to show here for one week, beginning July 20, but the county authorities have demand? ed a license of 1100 a day for the car? nival, In accordance with the law of the State on the subject: and it le likely that the show will be called c. in consequence. Mrs. Lanliam Dead In Texas. Spartanburg. Jul>2.?A telegram was received here today telling of the death of Mrs. Lanham, wife of Ex-Governor Lanham, and formerly Congressman, of Texas. The bereav? ed husband is a former resident of this county and his friends and rela? tives were grieved to learn of the death of his wife. "The late Bishop Fowler," said a Buffalo Methodist, "had the happiest knack of Illustrating, with one lumi? nous sentence, traits of character, faults, villainies. Once I remember talking of gambling-houses and the little mercy shown to ruined players, Pishop Fowler, with a grim smile, s:\id: "The men who took Jonah's money were the same, remember, who threw him overboard. Things like that stilt happen."?Indianapolis News. rhe IbKurdlti ??! Ute Hod fscare The following; article, which was published recently by the Christian Ad? vocate, is reproduced by request. It condenses into a minimum space prac? tically all lof the so-called arguments against a reasonable and proper re? straint of dogs. The approach of "dog days" brings with them the periodic mad-dog scare and a consequent senseless and brutal usage of the most faithful of man's brute friends. To the honest man the special dog tax is fast converting the ownership of a dog into a luxury. Owing to the special premium offer? ed in some towns for the catching of stray dogs or to the value of the city furnished dog collar, no man's dog, however tax protected, Is free from the sneak thief who owns a collarless dog or covets the public premium. And all this cruelty., the penalizing taxation, and incitement to thievery grows out of an almost baseless panic ?a fear as little likely of realization as death from a falling brick-bat or a lightning stroke. For the comfort and restraint of our readers we print herewith extracts from several lead? ing papers of the North and West. Chicago Inter-Ocean: "There Is a danger of hydrophobia. It amounts to less, however, than the danger of being kicked by a horse. Yet no one proposes to farmers that horses be de? clared a public nuisance, to be swept off the earth. Why cannot we dis? play the same common sense about dogs N Boston Herald: "The most amia? ble house dogs are so treated by It .at law the the wonder Is they do not go mad. There Is no need for this alarm. Well authenticated cases of deaths from rabies are exceedingly rare, so rare that the disease Itself Is still questioned. But delusions do not die easily." Detroit Free Press: "We can't get along without Fido. His suceptlblllty to rabies Is serious, but not necessari? ly fatal to his race. England and Oermany haye checked It effectively. Even In our own country rabies has become a rare affliction. There are far too many dogs who live and die without going mad to wipe out the entire race for the fault of a few." Pittsburg Gazette-Times: "It Is a fact that dogs are no more likely to be Infected with rabies in the sum? mer than In the winter, and the 'dog days,' as all Intelligent persons know, have nothing whatever to do with the spread of the disease, but It is also a fact that popular fear of rabies Is at Its height In the warm weather and this Is the time when many ner? vous persons suffer mentally on that account." Learn to Smile. If half the girls knew how silly they looked and sounded when they constantly giggle they would stop It. Learn to smile; not giggle. Nothing is more Infectious and charming than a good laugh; but very few people know how to laugh, It Is as rare in life as it is on the stage. A giggle usually comes from ner? vousness. A girl wtll giggle when she cannot think of anything to say or when she Is trying to be at ease In company. .? ? She will glgle when a boy meets her and says "Good morning." She will giggle when he says "Good-bye.' She Is only nervous, but she appears silly. ? .is It Is no wonder that young men speak with utter scorn of this gig e'.lng girl. They seem to think her the least attractive maiden on earth; It Is trying to attempt to hold any kind of conversation with a girl who giggles. It Is hot always possible to know, at first thought whether or not you are one of the girls who giggle. Stop and think about it. Watch yourself the next time you are with any one See whether this senseless trick is a part of your social equipment. If It Is take any heroic means to stran? gle that giggle until it is dead. Far better be silent; you may then get the credit for wisdom that you have not got. Better than all, if you don't know how to give a cherry, musical, spontaneous laugh, then try your best to learn how to smile. Do not let yourself give a weary 'smile, for that is the result of effort and self-consciousness; but anything Is better than a silly giggle.?New Haven Register. Cleveland Leader: "If the dog Isn't worth his cost in hydrophobia, and a large margin above It. then a solitary human life, here and there, outweighs a prodigious amount of self-denial and loss by mankind." St. Louis Republic: "The bite of a healthy dog causes no Infection of the blood. Its only injury is i' pain? ful, lacerating wound. Dog bite is to be avoided, to be sure, but the suf? ferer from it need not be stricken with a hydrophobia panic." ?One application of ManZan Pile Remedy, for all forms of piles, soothes, reduces inflammation, soreness and itching. Price 50c. Guaranteed. Sold by Slbert Drug Co. 7-l-2m Send us yO'ii Job work KOUTIfKK* ROAOH AMD CO V Have the Railroads of This r Formed a Comprees True' A dispatch from Washington that charges have been filed wi department of justice and with the Interstate commerce commission te> the effect that "the railroads of the South have completed a monopoly, which threatens to control absolutely* the cotton market of the country and dictate cott >n prices both at home and abroad." This looks like an ex? treme statement which is not likely to be sustained by the actual charges, the text of which is not given; but certain fact* are stated on the author? ity of some of the complainants which, if authentic, would Indicate a combination in restraint of trade and) one would think that by this time the railroads would be chary of entering: into any such arrangements. They have no right to complain of hos? tility" and legal restrictions so long as they persist in violating or evad? ing the law which forbids discrimina? tion. Ths substance of the statement la that "the railroads"?what particu? lar railroads are not specified?havn gained control of a chain of cotton, compresses running through the* principal centers of the cotton grow* lng States from Georgia to Oklahoma, through the Atlantic Compress Com? pany, whose stock they are said to own. This is said to have a capital of $1,000,000 and to control 67 com? presses, having forced the smaller competitive plants into bankruptcy and then leased or destroyed them. Another charge is that they take cot? ton free to their own compresses*, charge 8 1-2 cents a hundred pounds for compressing It in the bales for the* market, and include that charge In the rate for carrying to the seaboard. This charge being made a part of the carrying rate, it must be paid by the planter or owner of the cotton, even If it is compressed at an independent plant, besides which cars will not bo promptly or regularly supplied at tho plants of independent concerns. The> result is to freeze out these concern* and monopolize the business of com? pressing thus practically controlling the marketing of the cotton crop. If this kind of combination had gone to the extent described, more would surely have been heard of it. but charges would hardly be filed , now if there was not some substantial ground for them. It is said that tho "independent interests," apaprenthr including some railroads not In tho compress "combine." are to attach: the alleged combination along three separate lines, one by complalat to the interstate commerce commission* under the "commodity clause," ono by petition to the attorney general under the anti-trust law and one by prosecution in the State courts. An the railroads are not alleged to bur or own the ootton. we do not buy or own ths cotton, we do not see hoar the "commodity clause" has any appli? cation, but If the facts are as state* they may be construed aa pro vine* restraint of Interstate trade. Wheth? er prosecution In State court win avail depends upon State law and i*V administration. *?>.???1 m^^k?) In any case, If the statement* pub-* lished are true in substance, the rail? roads of the South have adopted n very foolish course in thus provoking? renewed attack which will be sure of popular sympathy and support. Per? haps they may have denials or em planatlont that will put a different, aspect upon the matter, but union* they have they would be wise te> withdraw from the cotton comproaav business and cease discrtmnatinc among shippers of cotton both to and from the compresses.?New Yorhv Journal of Commerce. i ^4a\\*r ffc. China, a Collection of Nations. Samuel Meriwin, in Success Magazine. China is not a nation in the sense in which we ordinarily use the word If we picture to ourselves the coun? tries of Eurooe, with their different languages and dirTtrent customs, drawn together into a loose confed? eration under tK? government of n conquering race, we filial] have some* small conception of what this Chinese "nation" really is. The peoples of these different European countrlea are all Caucasians; the different peo? ples of China are all Mongolians. These Chinese peoples speak 18 or. 20 distinct languages, each divided into almost innumerable dialects and sub-dialects. They are governed bj?j Manchu. or Tartar, conquers who> spring from a different stock, wear different costumes and speak among, themselves a language wholly differ? ent from any of the 18 or 20 native, tongues. Fire in Cotton Warehouse. Lancaster. July 8.?Wednesday af? ternoon Are was discovered In a. warehouse filled with cotton at tho Lancaster cotton mills. About 50 bales were scorched, but little other damage was done, prompt work by the fire department preventing fur? ther loss. The origin of the blaze la unknown.