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TIE COOPER mill PROBBCCTION PRESSES SENIOR DEFENDANT CLOSELV I The C>*?w-Examination Went Into the Sliady Past of the Old Man Who Rilled Carmaca. Nashville. Tenn.. Feb. lt.?After nearly twi days under one of the moat see rchlng cross-examinations ?.ever hoard In a Tennessee court. Col. pstWaean ^ Cooper was surrendered to hie osrn counsel tonight by the State. Tomorrow the case against the Coop? ers and John D. Shsrp for the slaying of formet* Senator B. W. Carmack ^elll be resumed with the aged de pendant still upon the stand. His ssMl h ive decided upon a redirect ?nation, promising to be brief. Immediately after Col. Cooper Is ly dismissed from the stand. Oov. Patterson snd his adjutant general, |CoL Tully Brown, will be called to tell what parr, they played In this politi? cal tragedy. Col. Brown waa In Jamas Bradford's office at the confer? ence, which began at I p. m.. the day of the m irder and which closed only 20 minutes before the killing. Just as the conference closed. Oov. Patter Wkwm telephoned for Col Cooper. It Is the defense's theory that while going to the g< vernor's mansion the Coop? ers met Senator Carmack and that the killing resulted. The cross-examination of Col. Coop ?ls easily the most striking feature ths trial thus far. The colonol ties the reputation of being hlgh splrited and easily moved to anger. It was common rumor that he took the stand against the ad*, ice of his coun iel. However. In Tennessee the de? fendant who does not take the stand jfBn looked upon with suspicion. Nev ?rthelses. all efforts of the State to eon fuse the witness on the subject ssatter of his direct examination fail? ed. The prosecution did some execution in Its efforts to show that Col. Cooper Sjm clerk and master In chancery was ?%e*rt 110 .000 and thut a legislative Investigation commltte? charged that a defaulting State treasurer used nearly $10*.000 of the state's funds In promoting a Mexican iliver mine and a walnut log camp wheh Col. Cooper ftfcanagml The witness Insisted, how ^ver. that every dollar of the chan? cery shortage, due to a faulty office system, had been repaid and that he did not know that the State treasurer, M. T. Polk, was using the State's funds in the Investments. ^^Col. Cooper today gave frequent HVplay* of temper and disregarded ths orders of his own counsel. Tht State's i.ttorney. to add to his annoy? ance. Jumped from one point of hla narrative to another, asked discon? nected and Involved questions, but al Mf m. gsjpe up the task and left the ^sBness. \ ?rsplrlng, flushed and ang< ered but self-satlsfled. Counsel for the defense stated that they require a few hours to meet the new chsrgeo brought by the State and promised to make the redlrct examination brief. ^JJpon this ssnurance. Judge Hart ^Wered an adjournment until 0 a. m. tomorrow. Nashville, Tenn.. { Feb. 2?.?The ninth duy ? actual testimony In the Cooper-8b a v trial for the slaying of farmer United States Senator Car Black was marked by lengthy and bit? ter argument between opposing coun? sel and closed with a decided advan? tage for the defense. At the sane time an Interesting law point was de? cided by Judge Hart. ?The defense early In Its case In lef offered proof that Col. Cooper was told by Edward Cralg. whom the colonel had sent to see Senator Car? mack, that Carmack was In an "ugly* humor." The defense's case wits based really upon this one expression. CCol. Cooper and Robin both test l tnat they armed themselves be? cause they were led to believe from this rmark that Senator Carmack might assault the elder Cooper. Todsy the State offered to prove by two of the defense's own witnesses. MoJ. Vertrcs and Assistant Stale In 4Qpranc? Commissioner T Leigh Thompson, that Senator Carmack w is not only not In an ugly humor but laughed at the Idea of trouble. Ths defense fought the admission of this testimony with more -*m and bitterness than has characterised any Argument since the trial began. nLsarned counsel offered two reasons why It should be excluded. First, that the State could cross-examine only on such matter as had been gone over In direct examination. The court promptly rejected this theory. Next, t? defense srgued that unless all the nversatlon of witnesses with Car? mack. as well as their observation of his msnner snd appearance, had been communicated to the defendants the testimony was Inadmissible. In the question of MaJ. Vertres' ten P|mony Judge Hart excluded the Jury and permitted the iftate to examine the major for the court's benefit. He admitted all that the State said he would, that Carmack laughed at the idea of trduble. said he had done nothing to provoke it. and that hs wanted a revolver simply to satisfy hla frlenda. Thla counael on both aldea argued and the court held with the defenae. Later In the day when Leigh Thomaon waa queatloned almost the same queatlon aroae and the argu? ment began anew. Judge Hart said he would render hla decision tomor? row but Intimated that unless the State had discovered some new au? thorities to aupport its contention, he would rule out the testimony. How the Lien Law Works. It has been aaaerted that If the Hen law la repealed there will be some good but poor people, who will be un? able to get credit and who will have an awfully, awfully hard time because thereof. Here la an incident related to us by Mr. B. Harria. preaident of the State Farmers' Union, which may throw some light on the matter. Mr. Harria says the Incident came under his per? sonal observation: There waa a man?a middle aged white man?in a county not far from Anderson who got so poor that he could not give a lien. He had been giving Hens for eight or ten years, and had never been able to get any? thing ahead. Finally he began to fall behind. He found it impossible, with a growing family of small chil? dren, to get along, although his wife and the children who were old enough worked in the fields with him. Two years ago the merchant who had been furnishing him for so long declined to run him any longer. "No," aald the merchant, "you have fallen behind now for two years, and I do not care to handle your account again. You do not owe me a great deal, but I am willing to square off. But you crust get some other mer? chant to run you this year." The man tried other merchatns for a lien, but failed. The other mer? chants. It seemed, knew that the man had not been able for two years to fulfill his obligations, and knew that this was why the other merchant had dropped him. The man went home to his wife and children in the deepest dejection. He told of his troubles and then his wife counseled him. "You must hire out aa a day laborer," she said, "and I will stay home with the children tnd we will try to make a Httle crop. You can send us or bring us your wages for us to live on. It Is a bad arrangement, but It la the best we can do." The man got a Job In a sawmill, and his wife and children stayed on the farm. The man sent his wages home, and the wite lived on them, while she and the children worked a mall crop. Thb was no great hard? ship on them, for they had been working In the fields before. At the end of the year the man did not owe a dollar. His wife and chil? dren had made five bides of cotton and over a hundred buahela of corn, about aeventy-five buahela of peas, besides potatoes, etc., and they had two large hogs to kill. They were In better circumstances than ever be? fore. The man Is an illiterate?he cannot read and write, and he had never had mtich ambition. But the accumula? tion of so much wealth In one year has changed his views of things. He is going to do better from now on. He has enough aupplles to run htm this year, with money ahead, and he considers that his fortune is as good aa made. The man says that the'best thing that ever happened to him in his life waa when he got too poor to be able to give a Hen. He got his nose away from the grindstone, and he began to aee the world. If he had been able to give a lien laat year he i would atlll be In a net. and hla chil? dren would atlll be growing up In I Ignorance.?Anderson Mall. Cape J. A. Pcterkln Dead. Fort Motte. Feb. 26.?Thla morning at 4 o'clock Capt. James A. Peterkin died at hla realdence at Lang Syne af? ter a brief Illness of pneumonia. Hla remalna will be Interred at St. Matthew's Episcopal church ceme? tery, two miles from Fort Motte, at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. The Yorkvllle Knqulrer says that the King'a Mountain monument will be only elghty-aeven feet high instead of 116 feet aa waa originally Intend? ed. This Is because of the difficulties that developed In connection with the foundation. It was at first thought that It would be necessary to excavate only a few feet for the foundation, and the unexpected trouble encoun? tered here is to be taken off the height of the monument, unless there la an additional appropriation. Bennettaville. Feb. 26.?Frank Ha ney. the two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Haney, of Blenheim, this county, met with a horrible death yesterday afternoon. The little child was knocked down and run over by a loaded two-hors*; wagon and Its skull terribly crushed. The State camp of Woodmen of the World w 11 meet in Spartnburg on March 9th. A DANGEROUS MOTH. Entomologist Says Pest is Being Bought Into South in Imported Trees. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 26.?In a circu? lar prepared for immediate issue, E. L. Worsham, State entomologist warns the fruit growers of this State against the brown-tail moth, known scientifically as the euproctis crysor I rhae. He states that the dangerous pest is being brought into the State by means of imported trees and plants. Efforts are being made to in? spect all such importations in order to detect and destroy the parasite on arrival. v The Insect Is one little known in the South but widely prevalent throughout Europe and Asia, and in some parts of New England it has gained a firm foothold. While apparently unimportant, the insect contains great possibilities for ruin and disaster. It is of the cater? pillar variety and very prolific. It is usually found on pear and apple trees, but will take to any plant ex? cept those of the pine family. It Is not only dangerous and damaging to the plant life, but annoying to the human species. A fur is cast off from Its body, and when this comes In con? tact with the skin of a person it causes a serious disease. It has been known, in this way, to depopulate en? tire communities. 4,At this season of the year," says the entomologist, "the insect is in the caterpillar stage and hibernates in winter nests. These nests are made of leaves and webs spun by the cater? pillars and fastened to twigs of trees that they infest. The caterpillars that have been found In nursey stock shipped from Europe into Georgia were from one-third to one-half grown. When they are full grown they are one and a-half to one and three-qua: ters of an Inch long. The head Is rile brown and body dark brown or black and covered with long reddish brown and white hairs. There may be as many as five hun? dred to oie thousand individuals in a single nest. They emerge in the early spring and feed on the swelling buds and new leaves until fully grown and then change into moths. These moths are perfectly white with the exception of the abdomen which is brown. The female has a tuft of brown hair on the tip of the abdomen and It is from this that the Insect gets its name. Egg laying begins as soon as the moth emerge. The eggs hateh within a few days and the little cater? pillars begin their work." "We are making every effort to lo? cate all shipments of nursery stock into Georgia from foreign countries," concludes the bulletin, "making in? spections of the same, destroying all infested stock and burning all winter nests before the Insect bcomes es? tablished, but there Is dangr of its becoming established In Georgia, and if parties purchasing plants from Eu? rope find any insects of which they are suspicious of being the brown-tall moth, they should enclose specimens In wooden or tin boxes and send at once to the State entomologist for identification " ROOSEVELT'S OBSCENE LITER? ATURE. Til I man Would Bar Messages From Mails. Washington, Feb. 26.?Senator Till man today astonished the senate by the Introduction of a resolution in? structing the committee on postoffices and post roads to Inquire whether messages and reports recently sent to congress by the president should be excluded from the mails as obscene lit? erature unfit for circulation. The res? olution was, on motion of Mr. Tin? man, referred to the committee on postoffices and postroads, its reading in the senate and reference causing no dlscusaslon. The resolution Includes not only the president's message, but the report of the commission, and the committee on postoffices Is directed to consider whether the use of the mails should not be prohibited to the entire matter. The resolution refers to the presi? dent's home commission, dealing with homes In Washington, to the message on the commission's report and to the report itself, which treats of con? ditions In the alley homes of the city in plain language. Though the Panama Canal Is still dry, It is drawing a steady stream of money out of the United States Treas? ury. 4 The prosecutor of the Sugar Trust says It had seven ways of weighing Sugar and nil wrong. Why not use a longer and uglier word??New York World. Supervisor Miles of Spartanburg will advertise for bids In the near fu? ture for a bond Issue of $2 50,000 to pay off the floating Indebtedness of the county. The bonds will be Issued under an act of the legislature and Just as soon as the money is in hand all outstanding claims against the county will be paid off. NATION'S MONEY GONE. Hale Says a Government Bond Issue Is in sight?Funds Spent Reckless? ly. Washington, Feh. 25.?The closing days of congress are being enlivened with severe criticism of the Roosevelt administration. Much of the time at each end of the capitol today was de? voted to onslaughts upon the admin? istration. In the senate the agricul? tural appropriation bill opened the way for bitter criticism of the presi? dent's commission on homes, on the methods of the forestry service and the Increase of military expenditures. A proposition in the agricultural bill to authorize the publication of the reports of the country life com? mission was adopted by vote of 48 to ^9, after an exciting discussion, in which Mr. Bailey exhibited to the senate a copy of the report of the president's commission on homes and declared It was "unfit to go through the mails" on account of the space which the report devoted to certain social evils. As he lifted the volume aloft, Mr. Bailey said: "I cannot read extracts from this document without asking that the galleries be cleared, but I do hope that any other presi? dential commissions detailed to make Investigations of this character will submit expurgated reports." Senator Carter made a terrific as? sault upon the forestry service, charg? ing it with reckless expenditures of the public funds and other evils. He spoke for nearly an hour, and so fierce was his denunciation that Sena? tors Dolliver and Nelson felt con? strained to come to the rescue of the administration. Mr. Carter said large sums of money were spent in sending representatives of the fores? try service all over the country to de? liver lectures. Mr. Carter called at? tention to an estimate of a deficit of $140,000,000 in government revenues the coming fiscal year. In regard to the reckless expendi? ture of money Senator Hale said: "I want to notify the senate and the country now, as I have done before, that at the rate at which we are now going there will soon come a day when the treasury of the United States will be swept as clean as a country contribution box. That time will soon be here, and when it arrives we will be compelled either to borrow money or issue bonds or impose extra taxes in order to meet the expendi? tures of the government. These ex? hibits of expenditures which the sen? ators have been reading show the re? markable encroachment of the exe? cutive power." Mr. Hale pointed out that these expenditures were made from lump-sum appropriations, and ie said that*the expenditure of money for the traveling expenses of lecturers must cease. He regarded it as a grave abuse of the executive power. ?'FLYER" CHECKS OUTLAWED. I louse Passes Senator MnuleMn's BUI With Amendment. tibia, Feb. 2ti Columbia, Feb. 2T.-V-There was long fight at the session of the house ?t sterday on Senator Mauldln's bill to prevent fraud by giving worthless checks. Mr. Fraser moved to recom? mit the bill. For nearly two hours the bill was debated and by a vote of 58 to 38 the house refused to re? commit the bill and by a vote of 51 to 38 the bill was sent to the senate. The bill reads as folows: "Section 1. That from and after the approval of this act, any person who shall draw and utter any check on draft on bank or banking house in which he has no funds, or not funds sufficient to pay such check or draft; and who, on being notified of refusal of the bank or banking house to hon? or such check or draft, shall fail for 30 days to deposit funds sufficient to meet the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon convi* tion, shall be punished by fine or h prisonment, or by fine and imprison-* ment, In the discretion of the court.|? i English View of Roosevelt. London Daily News. Mr. Roosevelt is clearly determine that his long term of office shall no end tamely. It has been a period of active and successful administration, which will live in history. But it has had another aspect, which we are now forced to consider. It has been a period of big talk, ringing plati? tudes and furious personalities. The recent election broke all the precedents of American constitutional practice, for the president, who is supposed in theory to leave party behind him when he enters the White House, nominated his successor and supported him through the contest In a series of heated attacks upon Mr. Bryan, enforced by charges of cor? ruption against his lieutenants. A few weeks later Mr. Roosevelt was round? ly describing several of the more prominent American editors as liars. If nothing worse, and involving him? self In a rather obscure controversy over the morals of persons connected with the Panama canal purchase. It seemed indeed as though Mr. Roose? velt had abandoned, as his term of office drew to Its end, all sense of restraint and responsibility. TAFTS CABINET COMPLETED. No Statement by Mr. Taft But There I? No Secret About His Selec? tions. New York, Fei). 25.?All qualifica? tions of uncertainty in the prediction that Franklin ::.icVeagh of Chicago has been selected by Mr. Taft as his secretary of the treasury, are hereby removed. Mr. MccVeagh accepted the place yesterday and thereby the Taft cabinet was mad 3 complete as here? tofore announced. No official or unofficial declaration of Mr. MacVeagh's appointment is to be made by Mr. Taft until he pro? mulgates his entire cabinet. But In this case, as In other notices of ap? pointments, the facts are known to be correct. The cabinet as complete with the selection of Mr. MacVeagh is as fol? lows: Secretary of State?Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Treasury?Frank? lin MacVeagh of Illinois. Secretary of War?Jacob M. Dick? inson of Tennessee. Attorney General?Geo. W. Wick ersham of New York. Postmaster General?Frank l! Hitchcock of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy?George ^Von L. Meyer, of Massachusetts. f Secretary of the Interior?Richard A. Balllnger of Washington. Secretary of Agriculture?James Wilson of Iowa. Secretary of Commerce and Labor ?Charles Nagel of Missouri. With his postmaster general, Frank H. Hitchcock, Mr. Taft took a five-mile walk through Central park In the biting wind today. He saw a number xof New York city financiers during the day, but said the calls were those to express friendship and had on other significance. There was a genuine reunion of the Taft family tonight at the Henry W. Taft residence. On Monday, near Ora, in Laurens County, Eugene Rowland, young far? mer in attempting to prevent his brother, Ernest Rowland, from firing a second or third shot at a negro with whom he had an altercation, was himself shot through the thigh, ac? cidentally receiving the bullet Intend? ed for the negro. The negro escaped unscathed. Senator-elect E. D. Smith has just tccepted an invitation from Mrs. Ed? ward Burton Williams, president of the New York chapter. United Daugh? ters of the Confederacy, to deliver the principal, oration on "Hampton day" at the annual celebration of the -'outh Carolina Society on March 29. next. The address will be delivered after the dinner at the Waldorf-As? toria hotel. Marked Tree, Ark., Feb. 23.?Six persons were killed, more than a score were Injured, several seriously, und practically every building in the town of Fisher was wrecked by a tor? nado, which swept through the north vvestern portion of this county early today, according to advices received late this afternoon. It Saved His Leg. ?"All thought I'd lose my leg." writes J. A. Swenson, Watertown. Wis., "Ten years of eczema, that 16 doctors could not cure, had at last laid me up. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured It sound and well." In? fallible for Sk.n Eruptions, Eczema, salt Rheum, Bolls. Fever Sores, Burns, Scalds, Cuts and Piles. 25c at Sibert's Drug Store. Roosevelt's Nephew Killed. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 21.?Stew? art Douglas Robinson, aged 19 nephew of President Roosevelt and a sophomore at Harvard college, fell from a six-story window in Hampton Hall, a dormitory on Massachusetts avenue today and was killed. He was a son of Douglas Robinson. CURE YOUR KIDNEYS. Do Not Endanger Life When a Sum? ter Citizen Shows Von the Cure. Why will people continue to suffer the agonies of kidney complaint, backache, urinary disorders, .lame? ness, headaches, languor, why allow themselves to become chronic in? valids, when a certain cure Is offered them? Doan's Kidney Pills is the remedy to use. because it gives to the kidneyi the help they need to perform their work. If you have any, even one, of tin symptoms of kidney diseases, cure yourself now, before diabetes, dropsy or Bright's disease sets In. Read this Sumter testimony: J. H. Grady. 16 Wright St., Sumter, S. C.i says: "I have no hesitation in recommending Doan's Kidney Pills as they proved beneficial to me. I used them for kidney trouble and they helped me more than any other rem? edy I had previously taken. My back ached nearly all the time and I had severe pains in my kidneys. The kid? ney secretions were Irregular in pas? sage and when allowed to stand con? tained a dark sediment. I finally used Doan's Kidney Piils, procured at China's drug store and they regulated the passages of the kidney secretions and removed the lameness from my back. I have had no return of the trouble since and 1 know from ex? perience that they are a remedy that can be relied upon." For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-MUburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember ihe name?Doan's?and take no other. No. 1. An ideal jury in the Carmack mur? der case?four of them can neither read nor write. In Missouri they want to compel the lobbyists to wear uniforms. Mis? souri will insist on being shown how. CASTOR IA For Infant? and Children. 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The genuine FOLEY'S HONEY and TAR is in a Yellow package. Refuse substitutes. Prepared only by Foley A Company, Chicago. SIEBERTS DRUG STORE. PATENTS IROCU RE D AND DEFENDS D.Bend modi*, rawing or photo. forexpert?earc6ai?dire*- rr|>ort. Free ftTvicv, how to obtain patent*, trade mark*,] copyrmrhta.it*-. |N ALL COUNTRIES. Business direct with Washington saves time%\ money and often the patent. Patent and Infringement Practice Exclusively. Write or come to us at 61S Ninth Btrwt, Opp. Ualtod State? Patent 0?ct, WASHINGTON, D. C. OASNOW! TAX NOTICE. The County Treasurer's office to Court House building, will be open fox the collection of taxes without penal? ty, from the 15th day of October to the 31st day of December, 190S. The levy is as follows: For State, 5 1-2 mills. For County, ordinary, 2 3-4 mills. For Sinking Fund loan of 1907, 1 mill. For Sinking Fund loan of 1908, 1-4 mill. For Constitutional School, 3 mills. Polls, $1.00. Capitation Dog tax, 50 cents. Also Special School tax as follows* School District, No. 1. 2 mills. School District, No. 2, 2 mills. School District. No. 3, 2 mill*. School District, .No. 4, 2 mill?. / School District, No. 8. 1 mill. I School District. No. 11. 2 mills. BchOOd District, No. 12. 3 mills. School District, No. 13. 3 mills. School District. No. 14. 3 mills. School District, No. 16, 2 mills. BohOOl Pistiu't. No. 17, 3 mills. BChOOl District. No. 18. 2 mills. A penalty of 1 per cent, added for month of January, 1909. Additional penalty of 1 per cent, for month of February, 1909. Additional penalty of 5 per cent, until inth day of March, 1909. when the tax books will close for the collection of taxes for fiscal year, 1908. T. W. LEE, Co. Treas. for Sumter Co., 8. C. 10-7-mchl6,09