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II USED UV MIDDIES. Klntl BtN|l V S|unik(Ml B] Com rade?* When a Boy? rr..m the New York World. The stature of the new King is not i impressive, and his portraits, like those of his tlrst eousln. the Czar of K'i- i.i ^\ v- mm he strikingly resem? bles, suggest that he Is slight and frail. Yet he Is an adept in all kinds of sports, rides well and boldly to ' hounds and excels as a boxer. He acquired his knowledge of the mitts whib> at sea, his first instructor being a ucii-known lightweight in' those days. Il- nry F? Mhatn, who serv- ' ed for a time with him as a sailor on board the I'.o ehante. He remains to this day exceedingly quick with his flats, and enjoys nothing so much as a bout with .he gloves, sparring with his equerries. As an illustration of the Iroli t. r. n of his messmates to his royal birth 184 ?f the spirit of equality with which he was treated by them while at sea. an incident may be related. GM night he declined to turn out. as he should have done, to go on watch. Ills fellow-middy, whom he was designated to relieve, aad who wanted to turn in. endeavored to arouse the prince. The latter, on receiving two or three good shakings, opened his eyes, swore picturesque]v and let drive his flst at the middy's The young fellow made no response, but returned to his post, resumed his watch and thus did d-ity for the prince. Now. if there Is one offense that is heinous, according to midship? man ethics, it Is the shirking of a watch On the following day. the lad, who had done double duty, reported the case to his comrades and he showed them his blackened eye. It was Im? mediately decided by the boys to hold a drumhead court-martial in the gunroom. Prince Oeorge was found guilty by unanimous count and sen? tenced to be spanked by the lad whose eye he had blackened. The royal culprit was seized by four of the senators and held face down? ward, while the middy with the dis? figured optic, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, carried out the sentence of the gunroom court. When the prince was released he was furious with rage and mortification and threatened all sorts of things. But a few ho*rs after he thought better of It. came to his messmates who had spanked him and apologized for tie blow he had given him, as well as for making him do double duty. No Disgrace to IV? Poor. I once heard a man say: "It Is no disgrace to be poor, but It Is disgrace? ful to sit around and worry over It when you ought to be up and hust? ling." Homo trUh In that kind of talk.?Exchange. We know what we are, but kn^.v not whvt we may be.?Shakespeare. Winthrop College SCHOLARSHIP ami F.NTHANC'F l \ \M I NATION. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col? lege and for the admission of new ?tudent? will be held at the County rt House i Friday, July 1, at 0 a. m. ) int-i must he not |Og| than fifteen years of age. When Scholarships are vacant after July 1 they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examln Htton. provided they meet the condi? tions governing the award. Appli? cants for scholarships should write to President Johnson before the ex? amination for Scholarship examina? tion blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. Tho next session will I September 11, 1910. For furth? er Information and catalogue, address i I?. B. Johnson. Bock Hill. S. C. THE CRITICAL BUYER Will ?nd ?Hl luruiturc of the ??Kit;11 P quality and the "right" price. Our stocks are honestly priced ? anil they are trulv representa? tive nf what the best factories produce. We cm meet VOMf every want as regards furniture?for we real ly have tkggOOdl and the honest prices. Witherspoon Bros. Furniture Co. Mark Twain's Experience with Bur? Klars. Probably the most startling and picturesque incident during Mr. Clem? ens' short time at Uedding was when the two misguided young men from New York burglarized the house on the hill. This came very near being a tragic affair, and our sheriff carries two bullet-wounds to remember it by, The following morning neighbor I. umsbury's stable-yard looked like a field hospital in time of war. The vil? lage doctor was busy binding up the battered head of one of the burglars and caring for the bullet-wounds in the leg and thumb of the doughty sheriff. By great good fortune I hap? pened to be In the little town clerk's office when Mark Twain himself en? tered. It was a small, narrow room on the west side of the little one-story building. A safe stood at the north end. near a plain deal table at w hich the officials sat. At the south end of the room there was. on this occasion, a small table, at which the two prisoners, with the gyves upon their wists, sat waiting their fate. One of them had his head swathed In bandages and the back of his coat stiff with his own gore. The other, with an insolent smile, was smoking a cigarette. Some kind neigh? bor had supplied them with sand? wiches and coffee. The sheriff was limping around, with one hand done up in bandages, and, as he said, "a bootful of blood begob." The odi cials were in the clothes they wore at their farm work, and the doors were crowded with rustics. In strong con? trast with the simple surroundings was the fashionably dressed Miss Clara Clemens and her feminine com? panions. When Mark Twain entere array? ed in his white flannel suit, he stopped at the table occupied by the two "yeggmen." This was before any of the newspaper men had arrived, and they missed a most characteristic and interesting heart to heart talk with a live burglar. Said the white philoso? pher: "So you're the two young men who called at my house last night and forgot to put your names In my guest book? Now that was a pretty sort of business for you, wasn't it, and a nice way to treat me, after I've been down on the East Side working for just such fellows as you, and after I made Ringham take back what he said about the Jews." "Excuse me, Mr. Clemens," Inter? rupted the battered and wounded pris? oner, for the first ne showing any interest in tee proceedings, "ray pa? rents are Jewish." "Then you're a disgrace to your race!" "Well, , I guess I am," replied the burglar, "Now you two young men," con? tinued Mr. Clemens, "have been up to my house, stealing my tinware, and got pulled in by these Yankees up here. You had much better have stayed in New York, where you have the pull. Don't you see where you're drifting to? They'll send you from here down to Bridgeport Jail, and the next thing you know you'll be in the United States senate. There's no oth ?r future left open to you." It was worthy of remark that even the burglar treated Mark Twain with a deference which was the more marked because of the sullen con? tempt with which the "yeggman" greeted every one else.?From "Mark Twain as ? Neighbor," by Dan Heard In the American Review of Reviews for June. ANSEL REFUSES REQUISITION. Tennessee Ciovernor's Bequest Turned Columbia, May II,?"If the defen? dant baa violated the law as charged in the indictment, the courts of this State are open to the prosecutors, and he can be tried for the same in South Carolina, writes Governor Ansel to? la) In refusing to honor the requisi? tion ol the Governor Ol Tennessee for :?ir. a. Shop Pearlatlne, ol Bamberg, who is charged with embesslomentby a Tennessee firm. The order issued at tiie Governor's office this morning concludes an int? resting contention U* the matter of extradition. The sole question arising In the case, according to Governor Ansel's order, is whether or not Mr, Pearl stine is a fugitive from Justice. The defendant P/SS quite willing to be tried In South Carolina, but did not Mranl to go t ? Tennessee, where he ared he would rot get an impartial trial. The merits of the case Itself were not gone Into by Governor Ansel except in so far as the question of ex? tradition was con< ei ned, it was charged by a Tcnneaaee^is? that Mr, Pearlatlne had em ././??. about I It. SOI in dealings with them in peas, Mr. Pearlatlne was quoted as saying that an effort had been m I do by tins firm Palmer Bros.?to corner the pea market. The firm hai denied this in dispatches sent out over the country. Down. Adversity's iWOOt milk, philosophy ?Shakespeare. - ???? I Roosevelt anil I*latt. The thing in the history of New York n?.'st readily tugested by Gov? ernor Hughes' transference to the Su? preme Court was the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt for the Vice-Presidency ten years ago. He also was in the thick of a reform movement, and he expected a second term as Governor, with a prospect of being nominated for the Presidency In if04. The work of Senator Platt, Senator Quay and other politicians of New York and Pennsylvania In trying to force the convention to put Roosevelt on the ticket with McKinley was for the frankly avowed purpose of getting him out of New York politics. Cor? poration interests demanded his "shelving." The Vice-Presidency was an office which had previously been re? garded as terminating an incumbent's active career. An unforesen tragedy made Mr. Roosevelt President, and the machinations of his enemies were turned against them, in the current numler of McClure's there is an ar? ticle purporting to be posthumous au tohh graphy by the late Mr. Platt| It tells with much frankness?though with an incompleteness that might tempt those who knew all the facts to rour.d the story out?how Mr. Platt in his own opinion made and un? made Roosevelt as Governor, and how he made him Vice-President. Mr. Platt could never understand that great force of public opinion whl h Roosevelt always knew how to reckon with, and which, also, some of those whom Mr. Platt was wont to desig? nate as Roosevelt's "self-constituted friends," were in a position to under? stand and to measure with some ac? curacy. Mr. Roosevelt was never a puppet in Mr. Platt's hands. Platt had very re? luctantly accepted him for Governor, because the State wan about to go Democratic, the public was demand? ing Roosevelt, and the independents had already obtained from him what they regarded as a qualified consent to run at the head of their separate ticket. While it is true that the trac? tion companies?because Governor Roosevelt had signed the Ford fran? chise tax bill?had ordered the poli? tical bosses to take Roosevelt out of State politics, he could nevertheless have won his renominatlon and re? election as Governor, in spite of Mr. Platt. Nothing would have been so easy as an exposure of the origin of the conspiracy against Roosevelt at that time, and a mere setting forth of undisputed facts Would have re? sulted in Mr. Roosevelt's renomina tion and re-election as Governor. Thus j the attempt on Mr. Platt's part to i make it appear that Roosevelt was , soft clay in the hands of a great boss ll not only mistaken but ridiculous. Furthermore, although Platt and Quay started the R josevelt boom at the Philadelphia convention, their motives were perfectly understood and were n<>t in the least the factor that turned the situation in the end. Mr. Roosevelt, four months in ad- : vance, had given to the press a for? mal statement to the effect that under no circumstances would he accept a nomination for the Vice-Presidency. ! In the great campaign of 181)6 many j of the Western States had been car- ' ried by the Populists The Western Republicans, w ishing to make sure of their local situations, demanded i Roosevelt for the strengthening of the ! ticket in 1900. They declared that' the party needed him and must have ' him on the ticket and in the cam? paign; and they freely pledged them? selves that under any circumstances they would make him President in 1104. It was not Mr Platt's intrigues and his alleged award of the Gover? norship to Odell that led Roosevelt j to sacrifice his own wishes at Phila- I delphia. It was rather his feeling that he must Respond to that larger call from the whole country, which had become irresistible through the lack of any other well-presented candidacy ? for the second place on the ticket, j Mr. Roosevelt has long been in the j game of party politics; but he was never in the game In that craven, ab? ject fashion set forth in these Platt reminiscences. Seldom has anything ever been printed in the field of poli? tics which so illustrates the blindness of a certain type of so-called leader. At Albany this winter we have been reaping the aftermath of the sort of political and legislative life that was built up under the boss-ship of Mr. Platt, the gradual disintegration of which dates from the Governorship of Mr. Roosevelt. Public opinion sometimes arouses itself tardily, but I in the end it prevails over the in? trigues and star-chamber methods of the bosses and spoilsmen.?From "The Progress of the World," in the American Review of Reviews for June. GUNSHOT WOUNDS PROVE FATAD Negro Shot by M. Q. Chappol, Near Newberry, Dead?Inquest. Newberry, May 21.?Considerable excitement was caused in Newberry yesterday afternoon by a report re? ceived from Saluda County, just across the line, that as a result of an attempt on the part of Mr. M. Q. Chappell to arrest a negro there had been considerable trouble, and several Xewberrians immediately left in aut? omobiles for the scene of the report? ed trouble. When they reached the place, however, everything was quiet but last night the negro died as a re? sult of the wound. Mr. Ballinger's "vindication' won't impress the American people even if it is done in tinted whitewash. FRANKLIN APPEAL DISMISSED. ! Negro MttlM !>io For Murder of Valen? tine. Washington, ay 31.?Pink Franklin, ; the South Carolina negro, whose con? viction for the murder of Special Con? stable Valentine led to an attack on the so-called labor contract laws of the South, will suffer the death pen? alty, according to the decision today ol the Supreme Court of the United Slates. It was claimed by Franklin that the constable came to his home at right and entered without announcing himself as an ofHeer of tha lav It was while in Ura-.kiln's catyn thai Valentine was mortally wounded by a shot. Former Attorney General Bona? parte became interested in the case and after the negro lawyers for the condemned man had appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the Uni? ted States, Mr. Bonaparte filed a brief in Franklin's behalf. He contended that Franklin had a right to resist ar? rest, which was sought to be made on a warrant Issued under an unconstitu? tional law. This law was the so-call? ed "labor contract law," which pro? vided that agricultural laborers un? der contract to work were guilty of misdemeanors if they break their con? tracts after receiving wages in ad? vance. Mr. Bonaparte denounced this law as an attempt to reduce the negroes of the South to captivity. Justice Day, in announcing the de? cision said the court could inquire only into Federal questions. He said the question of resistance of arrest under an unconstitutional law was not raised in time in the State court. Colonel Bryan says that he will nev? er again be a candidate, and yet ser.;e people are pessimistically dubious.? Detroit Free Press. By all accounts, the Ballinger-Pin chot investigation has conferred no laurels upon any of the parties con? cerned in it.?Philadelphia Record. I ? Children think not of the past, nor of what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.? La Bruyere. EIHSOVK ICEWEST PRODUCT. Has Invented Moving Pictures in Their Natural Colon. Newark, N. J., May 31.?Thomas A. Edison, the "electrical wizard," said today that he has succeeded in pro during a moving-picture photograph? ing machine which will take pictures in their natural colors, the experi? ments showing such results as to war? rant the inventor saying that almost any day would see its perfection. "While color photography is not new by any means," said Edison, "its difficulty for just ordinary landscape pictures 'n such that only a few ex? perimenters care to use the Lumiens plates, and even in the hands of the experts the results are indifferent. "I am also working on a machine which to ill reproduce the pictures as well ?>s the moving-talking-picture machine. I know that there are some on *he market, but none of them are iny good. There's no synchron? ism between the pictures and the talking. Just think of having a pic? ture colored true to nature, with the action and talking clearly reproduced. "I've had Mr. Lumiere here. He stayed with me a couple of days and was satisfied with what I have done." Mr. Edison was asked what was the principal invention needed by the hu? man race and which had not been invented. "I ami no prophet," he replied, "and do not care to answer that question. Let's rather talk of what we have done. "Do I intend to write a book? Not on your life. I have not written any? thing for 20 years, except an article the other day for a friend who runs an electrical magazine. The only things I write now are autograpi ' Will Teddy hunt the elephant in this country??Charleton News and Courier. Remember, an old-fashioned 4th ot July celebration includes the Declara? tion of Independence, pink lemonade and gingerbread. We love any forms, however ugly, from which great qualities shine.? Emerson. LIGHTNESS WITH STRENGTH. is a feature of our road harness. 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