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PoOTECTORATE FOR LIBERIA. AFRICAN REPUBLIC TO PRACTI? CALLY BK TERRITORY OF UNITED STATES. CoenmJwUoncr Falkner Responsible For Statement?London Papers s?und WAmins Note?Monroe Doc trbae Up Again. London. July 18.?The British prese Is manifesting the liveliest In? terest In the report that the United States Is henceforth to exercise a practical control of the affairs of the Republic of Liberia, on tho west coast of Africa. Without exception the papers be? lieve the enlargement of the Ameri? can sphere of influence in Liberia will prove beneficial and will be welcomed by other powers that have been trou? bled by problems arising In Liberia. The Morning Mall says the change "win affert history as perhaps no other movement in the last 10 years except the fall of Port Arthur." The basis for these comments Is an interview with R. H. Faulkner. Uni? ted States Commissioner to Liberia. In which hs said that America plan Bed to take entire charge of the re? public's finances, military organisa? tion, agriculture and boundary ques? tion. The Evening Olobe believes the movement a good thing for Liberia, but doubts whether it will benefit the United States "The statesmen of the United States," It says, "are gradually leav? ing safe paths for the stormy prov? ince of world politics, snd they may find trouble ahead. If the United States expands to Africa or to what? ever country she may choose, the world's statesmen will begin to ques? tion how far the Monroe doctrine ap? plies," 'The gus.dlanshlp of the United States is the best solution of the Ll beeian difficulty," the Pall Mall Os sstte says. The Evening Standard says: "No one will grudge the United States the 'white man's burden' that it has un? dertaken. We have enough of our own." A favorite solution of the race prob? lem has ever been the establishment %f a colony for negroes, self-governed sad Independent, but the failure of the Uberlsn experiment seems to prove conclusively the utter Imprac? ticability of this plan. The colony of Liberia was not a re? sult of ths Civil War, as Is commonly supposed, but was founded In 1812. Even at that esrly date the race ques 1 tion was a perplexlag one, and It was tho National Colonisation Society of America that was responsible for the colonisation of the froe blacks of the United States In West Africa. The settlers at first met with bit? ter opposition from the natives, who were then engaged in a flourishing ?lave trade. When this was over? come other difficulties arose, and the society's agents returned to the Uni? ted States with the lern persevering of the colonists. 'A leader then arose In one deter? mined negn?. Kiljab Johnson, and the work was got under wsy. From the ?tart Liberia had rather a precarious existence. *ut In 1847 It was declared an Independent republic, and finally. In 1881. it was recognised by the United States as a sovereign state. The government was based on that r?f this country and the Constitution framed after that of the United States. There was a President, Vb e-Presi? dent, council of six ministers and a Senate and House of Representatives, the two bodies consisting of 22 mem The frsnchlse was granted to all of negro blood who owned real estate, but ths natives cared little for the privilege of voting. No froelgm r was allowed to own land wthout Ina consent of the government. The state consisted of four counties?Mexurda, Oranbsssa. Slnoe and M iryland. The last-named f Maryland) was foun !? I In 18S1 and declared Independent In ISM. but about 1880 It became a part of the older colony. The capital of Liberia Is Monrovia, named after Presldont Monroe, and various other towns are named In honor of those who have rendered assistance, such as Edlna. which commemorates the financial aid sent by Kdinhurgh. Military service Is compulsory for Sil msles between 1?? and f>0. The regulsr army numbers about 1.000 and the militia 800. English pj tb > official language of the country and there Is a combination of American snd British standards In the admin? istration of Its affairs, English coin be? ing used, for Instance, and ueoouut* generally kept In American tnenoy figures. Perbaps the location of the eolouy was sn Insurmountable Impediment. The climate of Liberia Is said to be the hottent on the gl d>e, January be? ing the warmest month and four oth? er month* unceasingly rainy. The coast lln* h eobut 4o ? miles long, but Is developed for | width of only sev? en miles, and commerce i ottld never he carried on extemdvelv. since th> coast Is very dangerous for vusnula The soll H rich, the LH>erlan coffee being especially famed, but there Is L little or no manufacturing In the re? public. There Is some exportation of rubber, but this Is controlled by a syndicate. ? Rev. Ernest Lyon, colored, of Bal? timore, Md., was the United States Minister to Liberia for many years and was only a few weeks ago sup? planted by William D. Crum, whose appointment as Collector of the Port of Charleston, S. C, by ex-President Roosevelt aroused such bitter feeling throughout the South in 1903. WIpKR, BROKEN, ARRESTED. Taken by Officers Near Rank lie Had Robbed. New York. July 29.?A frail little man with grey hair and hollow eyes in whose manner and presence there was nothing to suggest that, single handed he had cooly lifted $50,000 in bonds and stocks from the strong box of a bank, was arersted today in a downtown restaurant, not five min? utes' walk from the bank he had robbed. He was Erwin Wider, the missing cashier of the Russo-Chinese Bank. In the Court of General Ses? sions, his lawyer, Leon Qinsberg, said that he would plead guilty and he was committed to the Tombs in de? fault of $26,000 bail. Ginsberg pleaded vainly with Judge Warren Foster for a lower amount, saying none of this money is in my client's possession. It was all swallowed up in Wall street spec? ulation." Alrnost as Wider was arrested, the grand^ury handed up an indictment against him, charging specifically that he stole threo certificates, one of fifty shares, and two others of twen? ty-five shares each of Baltimore and Ohio stock, and that he disposed of them through the brokerage house of Dick Brothers, on May 22, last. This indicates that the theft had been go? ing on for weeks and possibly for months before it was discovered. How such a state of affairs could have existed is difficult to understand, for at least three other officers of the bank had access to the safety deposit box, in which the bank's securities were kept, and the box itself was brought daily to the officers of the bank, where it was kept during busi? ness hours, In the bank's safe. Brok? ers with whom Wider traded have said that he called up from the bank to give them orders over the tele? phone. The arrest today was due to the persistence with which detectives trailed Wlder's wife. She was in consultation last night with Mrs. Ginsberg, whose husband, besides be? ing Wlder's lawyer, was also his neighbor. And then she was traced today to the restaurant, where her own hus? band was arrested. Wider himself was pitifully broken. His lawyer said he was a sick man and he looked it. As ho was led into the Tombs he col? lapsed. Ginsberg's statement today that all the sum stolen had been eaten up in speculation would seem to indicate that the bank will never recover a dollar. It has been said heretofore that suits will be filed against the brokers with whom Wider dealt, but no such suits have yet been institut? ed. Wider will be arraigned for plead? ing next Monday. T. I?. A. NOT IN POLITICS. < urd From J. \\. 1.1 Hard. Secretary of South Carolina Division of That Or? der. To the Editor of The State. I notice in your Issue of this date that G. H. Mahon claims to have been Indorsed for the office of railroad ? ommlslsoner by the T. p. A.. I re? gret very much the necessity of en? tering Into the public prints about ?his matter, but It Is a well known fact that tho t. p. A. as an organi? zation can not enter into politics in support of one candidate against an? other, and 1 wish to say that my rec? ords as State secretary of the South Carolina division, t. p. a. of a., do not .show that anv candidate has been IndOfMd for any position. Mr. Mah<?n doubtless lays his claim of support from the T. P. a. to the I i I that a great many of those In tttondnnci upon the Annual conven? Hon of the T. P. a. In GltenvlllS dur? ing May 1. talked favorably of his iil.oy and some doubtless told him tbev would vote for him; how e\.>r, there were bss than III mem is rl Of th* T, P. A. In attendance up? on tin- convention, and they had no authority to promise to Mr. Mahon, or anv other candidate, the support of the 1 <>">0 members of this State division. This article d.es not mean that I. personaIIv, am opposed to Mr. Mahon, but is simply to "keep the re, <>rd straight." JnO W. l.illard. ?m% S. (*. IMv. T. P. a. of a. Columbia. S. <\, July 21, 1910 There Is only one political big gun. T'ntll he ceases fire, his size must be respected, if for no more than Its former roar. T'ncle JoMph Is, of course, the subject of our verbo? sity DECISION FOR RAILROAD CO. Judge* Wilson Orders Injunction Against North Western Railroad Company to Be Dissolved. The rase of Julia V. Beck, plaintiff vs. The North Western Railroad Co., defendants, has been followed with a great deal of interest by the people of Sumter. and the decision of Judge John S. Wilson, which follows, will be read with interest: State of South Carolina?Court of Common Pleas. ORDER Julia V. Beck, Plaintiff, vs North Western Railroad Co.. of South Car? olina. On July 16th, His Honor, Judge R. W. Memmlnger granted an order of injunction, exparte, upon the complaint of the plaintiff, restraining the Defendant from making excava? tions on a certain tract of land de? scribed in the complaint until the further order of court. The complaint and order of in? junction wer s -rved upon the defen? dant on the 18th day of July, and thereupon due notice, accompanied by affidavits in behalf of the Defen? dant, a motion was made before me on the 26th inst., to dissolve and set aside the temporary order of injunc? tion. The motion was fully argue before me, upon the motion , upon the showing made by the complaint on the part of the plaintiff and the affi? davits on the part of the defendant in opposition thereunto, and the affi? davits on the part of the plaintiff In reply. It appears that in the year 1887, with a view to encourage the Eutaw ville railroad company, under its charter theretofore granted by the general assembly, to build and con? struct Its railroad and for other con? siderations mentioned, various land holders along the rights of way of the said railroad, entered into a con? tract, whereby they, all end each of them, agreed, in consideration of the premises, that they would grant, re? lease and convey unto said rallroai corporation, a strip of land for a railway one hundred feet in width on each side of the center of the main track of the proposed line of rail? way. Amongst the signers of this agree? ment, was one J. Adger Smythe, who. at that time, was the owner in fee of the lands described in the complaint, and under whom both parties hereto claim title. It further appears that the said railroad was built and constructed about the year 1889, and that the said strips of land of the measure? ments above stated, was laid out by the persons in charge of the survey and construction of said railroad; this strip of land extending through the premises described in the com? plaint, partly through Pocotaligo Swamp, and the remainder of said strip through an open field. In the process of construction, the trees along the roadway extending through Pocotaligo Swamp, were cut down and cleared out to the limit of the nght-of-wu. It also appears that the construc? tion force excavated the earth on the oast side of the line of railway nearly the entire length through the prem? ises involved, to a width of one hun? dred feet from the centre of the track and on the western side to a distance of thirty-five feet frorr the centre of said track, the earth thus excavated being used to Mil in the trestle of the railroad, in part, through Pocotaligo Swamp. The defendant company Unding it necesasry to render its Po? cotaligo Swamp trestle more sale and secure for the transportaion of pas? sengers and freight, began prepara? tions, and shortly before the com? mencement of this action, had locat? ed a firm of contractors with its steam shovel and entire construction plant, for the purpose of excavating additional earth within Its right-of way, to build up its roadway along the trestle in Pocotaligo Swamp. The Defendant Company claims the title and right to said roadway tinder the conveyances from the Buti?wdlle Railroad Company, and its succes? sors, this company having purchased the same in February, 1895, and is in possession, as well, under laid suc? cessive conveyance, is under its own cbarb r. (?o far as the Defend - r.* is concern? ed, the only change being by amend? ment to the original charter of the Wilson and Summerton Railroad Company, by changing Its name to the "North Western Railroad Com? pany of South Carolina." Prom the time of the building of the railroad until the present time, the Defendant and its predecessors, had such possession of the railroad track and right-of-way, as it was ca? pable of holding and exercising and was continuously using the same far railroad purposes. This, under the case of Matthews vs. Railroad, 87 B. C, page 607, and II union vs. Railroad Company, 72 s. c, page 23$, was equivalent to no? tice of the rights of the Defendant, and In Matthews vs. Railroad, supra. I? was held that the maintenance and operation of the trade is equivalent to an assertion of right to the entire width of the right-of-way. Independently, however, of the De? fendant's right to enter and excavate the earth on the premises in question it appears that the Plaintiff, if she has any remedy, would have adequate remedy at law. j I conclude, therefore, that the Or? der of Injunction granted by bis Honor, Judge Memminger, as afore? said, should be, and is hereby vacated and set aside, and IT IS SO ORDER? ED. JOHN S. WILSON, Judge 3rd Judicial Circuit of S. C. Manning, S. C, July 29, 1910. Nunc Protunc. MINNESOTA CONVENTION STORM Democrats Nominate John Lind for Governor. Minneapolis, Minn., July 28.?Dem? ocratic storm signals, which were fly? ing when the State Democratic con? vention met here today, were torn to shreds by the tempest of feeling which was let loose lat^ this after? noon over the nomination of John Lind for Governor, and the attempt to introduce a direct resolution in th\ party platform favoring county op? tion. For more than three hours there was no let up to the scene of disord? er, except for a few moments, when Chairman Michael Daly managed to make himself heard after terrifflc pounding with a piece of two by four scantling, which he used as a gavel. Mutterings of trouble were heard early in the day and an unusual con? dition existed. The entire convention was a unit in declaring that John Lind was one of the best Democrats in Minnesota. They were all his friends, but divided into two factions, one declaring that Lind must be nom? inated despite his repeated refusal to be a candidate for the nomination, and his final flat declaration in a telegram from Portland, Oregon, that he would not accept the nomination If made; the other declaring that John Llnd had been Governor of Min? nesota and had nothing to gain by the nomination, and that he was of sufficient importance to have his wishes heeded by the convention. The latter faction manoeuvred, argued, shook their fists at the chair? man and at the other side, while those who were bent on nominating Lind howled, hissed and completely blocked the proceedings, until by sheer force of noise and enthusiasm they won their point and secured the nomination. After the Lind nomina? tion was out of the way the nomina? tions of the other candiadtes were quickly made by acclamation. On the matter of resolutions there was no contention, except for a plan on county options. The committee on resolutions heard the resolutions offered by the county optlonists and then voted them down and Inserted a plank declaring for the initiative and referendum, which the committee de? clared would answer the same pur? pose. On national issues the platform says: "We deplore the weakness and tim? idity of President Taft, who with his own campaign promises still fresh, but dominated by the predatory in? terests, weakly failed to use the tre? mendous forces of his high office to force a recreant congressional major? ity to do its duty of tariff reform. No subsequent effort to fulfill party promises can atone for this supreme failure to restore public confidence. "We condemn the national admln stration for initial effort to prevent the conservation of national resources and have nothing but contempt for its insincere efforts to appear to sup? port conservation, after public disap? proval of its course was manifested. "We condemn the retention of Richard A. Balllnfler as Secretary of the Interior, after the exposure of his methods of conducting the affairs of that office relating to conservation and declare it to be a national scan? dal. "We deplore the discharge of Gif ford Plnchot from the office of chief forester as a national crime. "The Democrats of Minnesota com? mend the Republican insurgents of Mh. ^sota for their vote on tho Payne bill. We demand the election of Uni? ted States senators by direct vote of the people." A resolution favoring additional laws protecting women wage earners and several other State issues of mi? nor Importance were included in the platform. If the candidates cut personalities out of their banalities, what will they talk about? Their exchanges of wit and near-wit have stirred up something of an Interest In the stumping tour, and now we see them about to slay the goose that has been laying the golden egg. The Legare-Lesesne act Will be soi? ly missed from the circuit. According to Speaker Cannon, the Payne-Aldrich tariff speaks for itself. In the opinion of most people It ?peaki against itself.?Philadelphia Record. Will Stallward, a negro, was drown? ed near Alken. FELL FROM WINDOW. Prof. Barrow's Mother-in-Law Seri? ously Injured at Clemson. Clemson College, July 28.?Mrs. Mims, the mother of Mrs. D. N. Bar? row, fell from the second-story win? dow of Prof. Barrow's residence to? day at noon, and was seriously hurt Mrs. Mims' home is near Fort Worth, Texas. THE DARK CORNER, A. B. Williams in Roanoke Times. With some surprise we observe va? rious southern newspapers print and apparently accept as a fact a story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of the appearance before the national conference of Charities and Correc? tions in that city of Mrs. Shankie "of the Squirrel Mountain School in the Dark Corner of South Carolina." Mrs. , Shankie is made to tell of conditions in her school and neighborhood sup? posed to be typical of those in the southern mountain countries. She is I quoted as saying that the boys at her school shoot pistols around her head, that preachers who go into the sec? tion are shot at and chased off, that 1 the people generally practically are savages and uncivilized, j The story bears falsehood?prob? ably the falsehood of a newspaper re? porter?on the face of it. The woman is represented as saying that her I scholars have become so far civilized that they raised last year "six bales of cotton and 100 bushels of corn" on 1 the 108 acres of school land. If they I have succeeded in raising cotton in j the depths of the mountains, they J have done what nobody ever before I succeeded in doing, j We happen to know this special Dark Corner quite intimately and also J the people who live In It. They have J some moonshine stills, but they treat I revenue officers as revenue o.fleers treat them. They do not shoot at I strangers or waste ammunition firing I around the heads of school teachers. I They have churches and we never I have heard of a preacher being mo? lested. To the contrary all through the southern mountains the Methodist I and Baptist preachers have done far I more to run the blockade stills into I the farm hollows and to put the J moonshiners out of business than the I United States government has booa I able to do in forty years. I The mountain people have their j own rows among themselves and set I tie according to their own codes. That I is because they have been isolated I people with little access to towns and j courts; but they are getting out of j that. In most of the mountain sec I tion8 it can be said as was said of I England in King Alfonso's time, that J a maiden might walk through it from end to end with a crock of gold on I her head and never be disturbed or J injured. They pester nobody who J doesn't pester them. They attend to their own business, and want other j people to do likewdse. They are as eager for education as any people In I tho world and when they get re? ligion get It as hard and stand to it as faithfully and rigidly as any peo? ple in the world. They have their peculiar faults and their peculiar vir 1 tues, but nearly always they have charp.cter and force which if directed 'in the right ways will make them the strongest people on the continent. The evidence of this is that in all the towns and cities along the foot hills of the mountains from Virginia to Arkansas some of the very strongest and foremost men in every depart? ment of life are of mountain stock. When they are mean they are pizen mean, as we say in the Dark Cor? ner, and when they are good they aro good and solid as beaten and tested gold and will stay with the right man in the right cause as long as a p:ece of them Is left to wiggle. There Is no sense or justice in al? lowing these people to be advertised to the world as swaggering murder? ous, savage ruffians. As fast as they get a chance they develop into the finest kind of men and women. Like all people who are kept shut off to themselves and denied advantages, they have prejudice*, and their pre? judices are strong, but where the world gets to them they play their hand against it and their part in it as well as any people we know. In the South Carolina Dark Corner is some mighty good, straight, clean strain Anglo-Saxon, Irish and Scotch stock, that has been kept pure. Through generations of poverty and ignoran?-o Its instincts have lived. We suspect it Is the same way with other Dark Corners of the southern moun? tains. The churches and school houses are claiming them. All the mines that can be opened and the riches that can be dug from the mountains will be of small value to the minds of sturdy, real manhood and strong worranhood that advancing education and religion and opportunity will de? velop among them and bring out to vitalize the low lands. ?In buying a cough medicine, don'i be afraid to get Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. There is no danger from it, and relief is sure to follow. Especial? ly recommended for Coughs. colds and Whooping cough. Sold by W. W. Blbert. HOW TO BE HANDSOME. From tiu* Man's Magazine Page of The Delineator. By Charles Battell Loomie. To be handsome is not always io be good, but there is surely no harm in be.ng handsome if you can become so without spoiling your face. For years I was considered homely. My best friends admitted it and my ene? mies made unkind reference to it. I knew that there were dermatologists who were perfectly willing to give silver bridges to bridgeless noses, daz? zling brilliance to lack-luster eyes, and ravishing outlines to hideous profiles, but I did not care to go to the expense. I determined to be my own dermatologist. I have drawn an outline of my pro? file as it was before I began to work on my fa.ce. It will be seen that, while intellectual, it was not hand? some. My ear was too long and r'' I nose too like a toe, while my brow I needed building up and my chin J pushing forward. My eye, while not beautiful, had character, and I de? cided not to alter that, but the other features needed manipulation. I began with my nose. When I went to bed I lay on my back with a flat-iron bound to my nose. It was I painful at first, but I soon got used I to It, and day by day my nose chang I ed its shape until at last it was per I feet. I next tried sleeping standing I up in a specially prepared bed, with I heavy weights hung to my chin. This I had a tendency to bring my chin for? ward. Luckily I was out of a Job, so I was able to do my sleeping In the I daytime. To give myself a high brow I made a hat like those used I by hatters to ascertain the size of the I head. This I screwed on my head I on retiring, increasing the pressure I each night. I also took double doses I of headache powders as I needed I them. As I look back it does not seem I more than six months that I labored I with my visage, but my diary tells I me it took a year. I append a profile of my face as It I was after I had secured beauty for myself. The difference between the I two profiles is great and the torture was great, but it is certainly pleasant I to hear people say whenever I appear jln public: "Who is that strikingly I handsome man?" \ SOTJTH'S COTTON CROP POOR. Report of National Ginners' Associa? tion Give Condition Up to July 25 As 72.9 Per Cent. 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