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TO LET POSTMASTERS FINISH THEIR TERMS That is Policy Enunciated by New Head of the Department?Congressmen Somewhat Shocked at Burleston's Announcement That Republican Officials, Barring Misbehavior, Will Not be Disturbed Until Commissions Expfre. Washington, March 10.?Perhaps the most important decision reached today by the new administration in anv of its deDartments was the fu ture policy of the postoffice department enunciated to Congressman Frank Clark of Florida and others who called to discuss postoffice appointments, that present Republican appointees, regardless of how much longer their commissions might run, would not be disturbed to make place for Democrats except in case of inefficiency or neglect of duty. This announcement, made direct by Postmaster General Burleston, came as a distinct shock to the Democratic congressmen who have been laboring under the impression that there 1 would at least be a gradual calling in of commissions held by Roosevelt and Taft appointees and that the va- ] cancies so created would at once be filled by Democrats. In plain words, this means, taking the South as an example, that at Richmond Postmaster Allien will serve out his term, at Savannah Postmaster Baker, who has almost four < years" to run, will remain; that at i Columbia G. H. Huggins, the incurfi- ] bent, will not be disturbed; that at I Jacksonville D. T. Gerow will remain i in office until his term runs out, and i that elsewhere throughout the coun- 1 try there will be no summary ejectments in favor of the Democrats. While the Democratic congressmen < who received this information today were loath to criticise Mr. Burleston, i the matter was seriously discussed. < It was pointed out in case these men : ?the present appointees?remain in ] and that the country should not again elect a Democratic president or the i senate get back into the hands of the 1 Republicans, so far as patronage is i concerned, the Democrats would get i very little from the postoffice department. To put it mildly, those who saw Mr. i Burleston in the interest of various i constituents were amazed at the 1 promulgation of such an order. They failed to understand why, for the ] sake of formulating a policy for the 1 postoffice department, Democrats all < over the country should be kept wait- 1 ing for the postoffices in their tarri- i tory to become vicant, for as long ( as four years in some instances. 1 GOVERNOR MANN REFUSES , TO COMMUTE SENTENCES j i The Aliens, Father and Son, to Die < in Electric Chair on March 28. Floyd Allen, leader of the outlaw band in Carrrol county, Va., and his son, Claude Swanson Allen, will be < executed in the Virginia penitentiary . on March 28 for their part in the 1 Hillsville court murder on March 14, < 1912, Governor Mann having refused ] to commute the sentence to life im/ prisonment. 1 The prisoners were to have died j Friday, but the governor granted a | respite of three weeks. The respite i was accepted by the Aliens as an indication that the governor would ex- < tend mercy. The rejection of the pe- ] tition, however, means that the case < is officially closed, as there is no other \ way by which it can again be opened. < Miss Nellie Wisler, a mountain girl 5 to whom Claude Allen was engaged, 1 made an unsuccessful effort to see j Governor Mann with a final plea for r commutation. s _ _______ < "La Pellagrins." t Mrs. B. G. Clifford entered this < month upon the fortieth year of her 1 work in the town of Union as a c teacher of girls?the thirty-third of j , her work as teacher in Clifford semi- t nary and "house-mother" to the girls < ?the thirty-third of her work as a t teacher in Clifford seminary and > "house-mother" to the girls therein. The State is privileged to present to- t . day, in the department "With t Writers and Books," some verses | from her pen, characteristically ten- 1 der and graceful, which she intends 1 as a sort of message to "her girls" i who are scattered throughout South c Carolina. 1 Mrs Clifford's note of transmission 1 closes with the assurance, "I am, t very sincerely, your well-wisher." I The State has friends of all ages and stations, whose regard it prizes, ] whose devotion it has proved; but i nothing brings it a satisfacton deeper t than that which it derives from the i friendship of such women as Mrs. Clifford. While it has moral support i of that quality it can not be tempted, however the adverse odds may in- I crease, to conclude ' "the battle f naught availeth."?Sunday's State. \ t Henry Hartley, a white boy aged 14, was run over and killed by an Atlantic Coast Line freight train at r Alcolu, Clarendon county, Thursday night.?Newberry Observer. i Make* Horn Baking Easy < ROYAl A : POWDER Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powdor ' mado from Royal Qrapo Oroam of Tartar NO ALUM,NOUME PHOSPHATE WEBB BILL TESTED AT GREENVILLE. Express Company Refuses to Deliver Whiskey. Opinion From the Author. North Carolina -Representative -Telegraphs -His -Brother That South Carolina is not Affected. Greenville, March 7.?Acting on orders from headquarters the local agent of the Southern Express company today refused to deliver whiskey shipments to any person whomsoever whether for personal use or not, declaring the Webb bill is of this effect. Following this action several citizens prevailed upon C. S. Webb of Greenville, brother of Representative Webb, author of the bill, to wire the representative at Washington for his opinion as to the intent of the bill receiving late today the following reply: "Law does not prohibit private use shipment and' will not unless State forbids it and State can not where it allows sale to individuals by any one in the State. (signed) "E. Y. Webb." Senator E. D. Smith also answoroH ei request for information declaring an opinion similar to Representative Webb's. Mr. Hall, agent of the express company, stated that several showed him letters from whiskey houses acknowlsdging receipt of orders but stating that the purchasers would be unable bo get the whiskey out of the express affice. This would indicate that the whiskey houses take the same view of the bill as the Southern Express company. The general opinion here is that the express company is taking this method to test the legality sf the law. Lockhart Junction News. Lockhart, Junction, March 10.?The weather the past week was real fine. A. great many took the advantage of this and gardening work was in order, fixing, preparing, sowing, transplanting was done in this section. Some few davs Dlowinc was <lnnp but now it is raining and will put a stop to that for a few more days. So it looks like it will be late for the farmer again. Miss Alsie Smith, who has been teaching school for a number of years las resigned to take a position as :ounty organizer of the Girl's Tomato Clubs of this county, for which she has been chosen. Miss Smith stopped at the Gault school where she organized a club of eight firls who will plant tomato patches. This writer with other patrons of the school was present and heard Miss Smith explain the object of the club with much force and enthusiasm. The >f!icers of the organization is as folows: Miss Beulah Gregory, presilent; Miss Grace McKinney, vice resident; Miss Mary Tweed, secretary. The name of this club is "The banning Club." Miss Smith takes up .his work with much interest and we vish for her great success. Mr. J. W. Simpson, who has moved his year from Pinckney township, ind is livine at the T. L. Humes olH . dace, now owned by Mr. F. M. Elerbe, of Jonesville, while going home 'rom Union had an accident, though i t was not serious. In driving along >ne of the shdfts to his buggy came oose and dropped down and his horse 1 nsome frightened* and ran away, i h .-owing him from the buggy and i >roke several spokes in one wheel. 1 Mr. Millard Page and Miss Ora 'age of Fairforest visited relatives n this community Sunday and at- i ended Sunday School at the Gault 1 School house. , < Miss Carrie Haney spent Saturday j n Union with her cousin. < Misses Sallie Cunningham and < Florence Haney, who is teaching, will < ro to Columbia Thursday to meet vith the Teachers Association held at hat place. Moxy. , , 1 t As a rule a 22-calibre man makes < nore noise than a 44. i The rule is that if a woman is will- < ng to cry for it she can have it. ;an ship liquor c into south carolina Representative Webb and Senator ^ Tillman Explain Provisions of Much Discussed Webb Bill. < Washington, March 7.?"There is 10 amendment to the Webb bill or c my part of the bill which forbids the 1 shipment of liquor into South Caro- 1 ina or any other State when that * :ommodity is shipped in in conform- 1 ity to State laws." This was the 1 statement made here tonight to The * Stat's correspondent by Representa- * tive E. Y. Webb of North Carolina, author of the Webbb liquor bill, when ' asked specifically whether or not the 1 enforcement of this law would forbid ' the shipment of liquor into South ' Carolina. "This law," Mr. Webb continued, "only makes more perfect the enforcement of the present State laws ' by throwing safeguards around them ( in such a way as to render them less ( lioV.1. * - i? ?i L..I _ o.-i- i name w uc viuiaieu, uui in tt ovale like South Carolina there is nothing that will prevent the shipment of liquor there so long as the State per- ^ mits it. There need be no fear that 1 the dispensaries will suffer or that 1 any private person will suffer so long 1 as the State law is not violated." Senator Tillman said: "The Webb ' law is in effect, but not in language, the same measure that I introduced 1 in the senate 16 years ago, but on I which I failed to get a favorable committe report. It simply provides that liquor shall not be shipped into any State in violation of the laws of that State. This will not affect the shipment of liquor to the dispensaries nor to private parties in South Carolina, except for uses which are at present 1 unlawful.' The full text of the law is as follows: "Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the shipment or transportation in any manner or by any means whatsoever of any spiritous, 1 vinous, malted, fermented or other | intoxicating liquor of any kind from one State, territory or district of the United States or place noncontigous 1 to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof into any' other State, territnrv rtr Hia/ tV?? TT*%?*aJ -w. J V..UVKW vx VI1C UXUVCU OUIICS ' or place noncontigous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof or ^ from any foreign country into any ' State, territory or district of the United States or place noncontigous 1 to but subject to the jurisdiction A thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented or other intoxicat- 1 ing liquor is intended by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold or in any manner used, either in original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of 1 such state, territory or district of the United States or place con contiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited." Some objection to the bill in congress was based on the fact that it provides no penalty for violation, but it is likely that interstate railroads and express companies will obey the law, notwithstanding this fact. Some liquor has already been confiscated under the new law in Oklahoma, a dry State, by State officers.?P. II. McGowan, in The State. A Message to Railroad Men. E. S. Baenn. 11 Rast St Mom M? sends out this warning to railroaders everywhere: "My work as conductor caused a chronic inflammation of the kidneys and I was miserable and all played out. From the day I began taking Foley Kidney Pills I began to regain my strength, and I am better now than I have been for twenty years.' Try them. The Rice Drug Company. Wm. B. Young shot Austin Lybrand at Great Falls, Chester county, Saturday in a row at a baseball game. 1 The wound is not mortal.?Newberry Observer. Pneumonia Follows a Cold But never follows the use of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. It stops the cough, heals the sore and inflamed air passages, and strengthens the lungs. The genuine is in a yellow package with behive on carton. Refuse substitutes. The Rice Drug 1 Company. J At Cayce, Lexington county, Saturday night, John Geiger and Collip Mady shot and fataUy wonrded Wade Gowers, and J. A. Langford of Columbia shot, but did not kill a negro. Two negroes and one white man ] are in Lexington jail on account of ! the shootings?Newberry Observer. i One hundred alleged blind tigers, 1 under indictment before the Green- 1 yille recorded, compromised their ! :ases on Friday by paying sums ag- ] gregating $4,300?probably the larg- i 2st sum ever nniH in eooK in on? < r ... WJ, :ourt in South Carolina.?Newberry Dbsirver. 1 Rev. Jno. F. Vines, D. D., pastor 1 >f the First Baptist church in Ander- J ion, has bene offered the presidency ] > fthe Anderson female college. He vill remain pastor of the church and { arry on the college at vhe same time. ?Newberry Observer. j rOVERNOR'S CHAUFFEUR PARDONED BY THE GOVERNOR Vas Fined $3.75 for Exceeding the SpeedLimit in City of Columbia 'Columbia Evening Record, 8th.) "If the police authorities of the :ity of Columbia do not remit the fine >f $3.75 assessed my chauffer Saturlay morning by the recorder I will lereafter pardon every man who applies to me from that court. If they will steal from me?who paid the Ine?they will steal from the other bellow." This morning the statement made >y Governor Blease Saturday afterloon when he discussed the fining of ftis automobile driver, Harrison Neeey. Charges Pique. The governor further said: "Clinch Cathcart is angry because his father was not reappointed as ulerk to the Richland county board >f control; and he is trying to take it Dut on me." Friday Officer W. T. Kelly held the Watch on the covernnr's nntnmnKilo being driven by the chauffer, Harritior. The policeman claims that the machine was overspeeding the limit allowed by ordinance. He summoned the driver to appear before the recorder this morning and he was convicted of the charge, being fined $3.75 or five days on the chain gang. The governor's private secretary paid the fine. The Testimony. The following is the transcript of the testimony offered this morning by Officer Kelly: * "I was standing in front of Bryan's book store, on the 1400 block Main Btreet, with my watch in my hand, when I saw this man (Harrison Neeley) coming in an auto; caught his time from Plain and Main streets Ran the block in 12 seconds. Caught time from south side of Main and m ? * * - * - nam streets to south side of Washington and Main streets." As a full city block is 517 feet, the speed of the automobile, if the evidence of the officer is correct, would be approximately 30 miles an hour. The speed ordinance of the city only allows 12 miles an hour. Issued a Pardon. This morning the governor issued a pardon for his chauffeur. The governor granted the pardon because, as he stated, the automobile was not exceeding the speed limit. Th chief executive, who was a witness and an occupant of the machine, jnas not. summoned before the recoi tier IT "W^rt to testify in behalf of his chauffeuV. Chief of Police Cathcart stated to a reporter of The Record Saturday that he had received the pardon, but refused to consider it until he had the opinion of the city attorney, H. N. Edmunds, if the governor had the right to pardon from a municipal court. He had not remitted the fine. Will Sue for Fine. The governor stated that, if the fine is not remitted, he will sue for it, in order that the legal status of pardons for municipal offenses will be settled for all times; that "it will be the dearest fine the city of Columbia placed on any person," if not remitted. Chief Cathcart's Statement. Chief of Police W C. fnfVicnr* o + ot ed that he declined to remit the fine imposed on the governor's chauffeur because he waited the decision of the city attorney to whom the matter was refered for an opinion. "The defeat of my father has nothing to do with my attitude," said Chief Cathcart emphatically. A platonic friendship by any other name would be as unsatisfactory. Foley Kidney Pills will reach your individual case if you have any form of kidney or bladder trouble, any backache, rheumatism, uric acid poisoning or irregular and painful kidney action. They are strengthening tonic and curative, and contain no habit forming drugs. The Rice Drug Company. Luther, the 12-year-old son of Rev. C. L. Miller, of Greenville, claimed that he was kidnapped from his home by a strange man and carried to Atlanta Saturday, where he escaped and appealed to the police, who sent him home.?Newbery Observer. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter iiuny, aciing airecuy upon tne blood and mucous surface of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they jflfer One Hundred Dollars for any lase that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. I WHY INVITE Tl | MURDEI + BY CARRYING Y * IN A POCKE ^ Why not carry a check b< + tation to thieves? It is the <4* your money safe. With yo -ft and one of our check books 4* safer from thieves than if + vers. Our vaults and in: ?ft money from fire and burgl ?ft will know that you don't ca -ft you alone. ^ Yours for Servit i Citizens Nati % UNION, SOUTH f STATE, COUNTY AND + 4? 4* 4?4? 4? 4? 4?4? 4? 4? 4* 4? 4? 4* X t Columbus ar | WAG 4* + | Do you need * See the Coli Of | Webber Wag* I you buy. 4 4* ________ 4* | Peoples Si 4* ?|* *f* ?|l? <if? ?if# ?|i? ?|* w|? ?^a> ?^i? (ifi? ?^j? DON'T TRIFLE WITH C Many Have Filled Consumptive Grs a Cough or You never know how soon a cold Col will become a serious malady. It WQ1 may be in the head to-day; in the ^a(< lungs to-morrow and the next day mo you may be fighting deadly pneumo- cov nia for your life. It's much the same hui with a cough. Inflamed and cough- rori worn throat and lungs otter the best 'uri chance to consumption germs to be- jj)C gin their murderous work. There's wh only one way to prevent these deadly hat diseases getting a hold on you. As nn( soon as a cough or cold attacks you, ^ take Dr. King's New Discovery until fa[ you are entirely cured. Sometimes a Pr dose or two will do the hminess s?v. he ing you suffering and a doctor's bill. Thousands of cures like these below prove its wonderful power to cure coughs and colds. cloi "I feel sure it's a Godsend to humanity," writes Mrs. Effie Morton, Sold and recomrr ALL Dl ? ?THB I Lawrence Smitl I WANTS A T V If its good lumber or bui wanting, the Smith Lumbe at the lowest price that the |? can be had for in this secti< V If you are skeptical, giv( V |> our statement. Our busine Let us make you prices thing built of wood from a I Lawrence Smitt i Y Jas. H. Hope Lawrence I 4^4 A 4^4 A A A A A 4V ilEVES AND $ REPS I OUR MONEY ? T BOOK? * * ook and offer no temp- 4* ; simplest way to keep 4* ur money in our bank in your pocket you are 4? you carried ten revol- 4* surance protect your 4* ars. The hold-up men 4* rry money and will let 4* 4 :e and Safety. ^ onal Bank! 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"Yours respectfully, "Wm. Cogger." tended by EtUGGISTS i* i ^ ! i Lumber uo. f WORD! | ? iding material you are i ir Company has it and i same quality of goods i >n of the State. i us a chance to verify i i iss is to please you. and estimates on any- i v hencoop to a mansion. ?? T i Lumber Co. | Smith J. F. Johnson i v ATA ATA AVA ATA ATA IMF