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HOT TIME.
r and tho Vestry Have
Batt!? !n Church.
ELY FIST FIGHT
Ouo Of Philadelphia's Churchos
in Which tho Hectors Sovorol ol
the Vostrytuon and Even Somo
Women Wer? Activo Participants.
Tho Trouble Had Been Drowlug
For Sovoral Months.
A rough and tumble fight Sunday
morning, March 31. in which the rec
tor, several vestrymyn and even
some women took a hand was the
culmination of the trouble that has
. for months been brewing in the con
gregation of Emmanuel Protestant
Episcopal church, Marlborough
street west of Guard avenue, of
which Rev. E. G. Knight is rector.
It was after Rector Knight had
Kreached on the text. "Let. not your
eart be troubled," and in closing
had delivered the message, "Peace
be unto you," that the fight occurred
and all of those participating had
partaken of holy communion. The
real battle took place in the vestry
room, located under the chanel in
which the beautiful morning service
had just been held, and started over
the claims for the morning collection
entered by accounting wardens rep
resenting the two factions into which
the congregation is divided.
The trouble was expected and was
pulled off on schedule time, when
George Shegog, who, still claiming
his right as accounting warden, hav
ing been elected to that position on
Wednesday night by the faction op
posed to the rector, started to take
the collection from the two silver
plates that had been carried down to
the vestry room by the rector and
placed on a table preparatory tb sep
arating the envelopes from the coin.
Shegog left the main auditorium
during the recessional hymn and was
waiting in the vestry room to claim
tho money.
He made a reach for the money,
but as he did so lie was grabbed by
J. H. Watkins, who also claims to be
the accounting warden, having been
elected by the rector's faction at a
separate meeting on Wednesday
night, and Jacob Davis, Sr. The two
men grappled and pummeled each
other at a great rate. By this time
several of the other vestrymen had
taken a hand in the fray, and the
rector, wearing the vestments that
he wore in serving the communon,
was soon in the thickest of the fight
ing.
Chaos reigned, while the women
screamed. The fight, a running one,
was kept up from the vestry room to
the Sunday school room, then
through the hall to the choir room
and finally back to the vestry room.
At one time Hector Knight and She
gog had each other by the throat,
ana again as many as four men Were
hammering Shegog as he lay on the
floor.
The rector's faction seemed to have
the best of the fight at the wind-up,
while to the rescue of Shegog came
his 18-year-old daughter, Alice, who
dramatically demanded that the rec
tor take off the vestments of his of
fice and not disgrace them any long
er. Sobbing bitter, she cried:
"I will stand by my father until I
die. Let me go to him. He needs
me at a time like this." With the
young woman was lier brother Har
ry, a Dusky lad of 1G years, who gave
and took punishment like a soldier.
Several mixups were pulled off be
fore the fighters were scperatcd.
Rector Knight was exceedingly
nervous after the afi'ray, but beyond
admitting that the money was in his
keeping he declined, as at all times
during the trouble in his church, to
discuss the matter in any of its phas
es. Shegog made threats in the hear
ing of all present that during the
proceedings in court, when the case
will be called to prosecute the rector
on the charge of embezzlement of
church money, there would be some
starting revelations that would not
only disrupt the congregation but
unfrock the minister.
The trouble centers around the
Easter collection of 190(5, and has
brought much discussion into the
church. At that particular service
George Shegog, then accounting war
den, whose duty it is to take charge
of all moneys, was not present, so
the pastor took charge of the cash
collected. When Mr. Shegog asked
for it later Mr. Knight declared
that the Easter collection was the
rector's fund and was always given
to him personally. This began a
lengthy dispute and finally Mr. She
gog appealed to Bishop Whitaker
that he should force Mr. Knight to
pay back the money, which amount
ed to $1,060. and also remove him
from the rectorship.
The bishop refused to interfere and
the rector was arrested on a warrant
sworn out by Shegog charging him
technically with embezzlement, and
when brought before Magistrate
Kochcrsperger he was held in $1,000
bail for court.
It is believed that the fight of
Wednesday will result in the com
plete disruption of the congregation,
which now numbers only about 100.
Bishop Whitaker, whose requests for
tile cessation of trouble in the church
has been to a great extent ignored
by both factions, will probably now
take a hand in the affair that will
tend toward its untangling.
NEW COIN T IO I tFE IT MO N V, Y.
Spurious Ten and Twenty Dollar Kills
Arc in Circulation,
i
Tho discovery' Of n now counter
feit ton dollar (Buffalo) United
States note la announced by tho i
cot service, of tho norien of j 9o I,
cl. ick lotter A. Lyons register, Holi
er to treasurer.
Tho now counterfeit twenty dollar
national hank note has boon dlflcov
?rod on tho First National Hank of
Hereford, Texas, check letter A,
Lyons register, Treat, treasurer of
tho United Ktfitos. It hi n very poor
photographic, print on poor papor.
Declined to Talk.
Profddont -Roosevelt declined to
miiku any comment or discuss for
publication tho declaration made by
John Templo ({raves, of Georgia, nt
Chattanooga, Wednesday night, that
Mr. Bryan should bo tho forthcoming
national Democratic convention-nom
inate President Roosovclt, for another
term.
A DREADFUL WARNING
faa Thrown the Colorai jPeoplo Into
Consternation?
CouBtornation of the moBt aggro- ?
ratod-typo hOB reigned at Summerton
Or some time. It seems that about
i week or more ago a dear mute neat i
boro for tho first and only time tu
ils sixteen years of existence wau
ion d to spoak hy roliablo members
>f hi? raco, and the?o aro the words
.lmt foll fro n hie hitherto unused
onguo: "Tno Lord ls goln' to rain
town Aro and brimstone." ,,
It is not known by what phenome- ,
ml chanco his lips wore unsealed
if tor all those yours of silenco and ul
owed to uttor this prophecy, Holla
jlo sogroos have attOBtod to tho facts
>f tho caso, and when, tho story got
inroad amongst tho negroes of Clar
mdon county lt did not fali,to.have
i most profound off oct upon'.thorn.
Somo regard it in tho nature of a
Divino uttoranco, whilo others say
Lhat bofore many days tho boys ton
ino will bo loosened and ho will make
itrango nnd fearful prophecies of tho
wrath of th/* Lord which will bo
[toured out upon this ovil generation.
Tho.colored man from whom The
News and Courier correspondent got
tho story W^B in toars of gonuino
fright when lt was suggested to him
that tho boy's words wore full of
loop significance. It will be many
tlays boforo tho full offects of the
miracle will wear off, and whilo it is
felt tho churches of tho negroes In
that section will bo crowded with
penitents and mourners, who road a
ilroadful warning into this event.
Christian Intimacy.
Because too great "Christian intim
acy" existed between the Rev .Solon
H. Bryan and Miss Ellen Newby, of
Millen, Ga., both are involved in a
scandal that will be aired before the
Methodist conference when it next
convenes. It appears that tho Rev.
Mr. Bryan was preparing Miss New
by for work in the foreign field and
that he took more time for his teach
ing than was deemed necessary, by
his wife and members of the congre
gation. They declare that he was
seen going and coming from Miss
Newby's millinery parlors at all times
of the day and night.
Finally the wife objected and was
given a sound boating for her pains.
The pastor was arrested by neigh
bors on.the charge of wife beating,
but the wife repented and bailed her
delinquent husband out of jail. Bry
an has been suspended from his con
ference and will have to stand trial.
When approached concerning the
affair Miss Newby said: "Only a
'Christian intimacy' existed between |
Mr. Bryan and myself." But the
people of the town refused such a
plea, and arc of the opinion that the
intimacy went a little to far.
It is! a pity that such men cloak
themselves with the garb of a min
ister, and by their acts bring re
proach upon the sacred ministry and
the church. And it is astonishing
how many men do it. The misdeeds
of such men, unfortunately, lessens
the respect of the people at large
for the ministry. There was a time
when a minister of the gospel was
looked upon as being different from
other men. The fact that he was
a preacher carried weight with it, j
and he was regarded as a good man
because he was a preacher. But
that day is passed, and preachers
are now judged after they are
known, as other men are. The ras
cals who have entered the ministry
has made this necessary. But we
thank God that a large majority of
all the ministers are cleanhanded,
and would rather die than bring re
proach oif their holy calling or the
church to which they belong.
Why They IAUIVO.
Earnest P. Bickell, head of the
Chicago Bureau of charities, believ
es he has found thc reason why men
leave home. He has been investiga
ting the cause of wife-desertions
for over a year. He names the
chief cause as the lack of means to
keep a family in anything like com
fort with the present cost of living,
which he says is a great deal more
than it was a few years ago.
Bickell's report shows that there
are 20,000 deserted wives in Chica
go, most of whom have been left to
shift for themselves because their
husbands find that they cannot pro
vide for them. This is true in a
special manner when the husband is
father of a growing family. In such
a case he linds that while his moder
ate earnings were sufficient to keep
him and his wife, they are not
enough to support them and their
children.
Yet one hears thc cry of prosper
ity on all sides. But when the mat
ter is investigated it is found to be
a myth, and that there is really no
prosperity, except for a few. It is
said the farmers ought to be pros
perous because cotton is worth twice
as much as it was some years ago.
Hut it should be remembered that
everything the farmer buys costs
about, twice as much as it use to.
Consequently he cannot buy any
more with his ten cent cotton than
he could with his five cent cotton.
This applies to all other callings.
A Grout County.
The Newberry Observer sr>ys:
"Orangeburg is a great county.
Thursday's Times and Democrat pub
lished reports of fifteen state banks
in that county, aggregating a capi
tal of nearly $-100,000 and deposits of
about one million. And these are
only state ban.. , there are national
banks also, which are not included in
this list." As the Observer says
Orangeburg is a great county, but
she has no national banks within her
hol ders. There are only two other
banks in the county besides those
whose reports were published in The
Times and Democrat two weeks ago.
Tho deposits in the banks whose state
ments we published was nearer two
million than one million as the Ob
server has it. The Times and Dem
ocrat.
PltAYIOIt OF FAITH
Unaided n Poor Drunkard to (Jive Up
lil ion/'. Drink.
Tho Chester Lanlorn says "our old
friend .Mr. R. M. Nunnery, of Fort
i.awn. was In town yesterday. Un
says he was once a drunkard hut has
aol touched liquor in 1 1 years and
has no desire for lt. Ho was n slavo
to Hie pipe nulli four years ngo, when
ho throw lt away and never smoked
again. Tho Rnioll of a pipo ls now
disgusting to him. ile chown tobac
co to ?onie extent but says ho will
quit lt at once if he determines that
lt Is injuring him. He attributes his
deliverance from these had habits
md the desire of Indulgence lu thom
to (ho prayer of faith.
Train Porter Kenton.
A dispatch from Huntington, Tenn
?sys that an enraged mob hoarded
ho Louisville and Nashville trnln at
iTozevant Thursday, seized tho negro
loiter and gave him a torriblo hoat
ng, from which he ls roported doad.
FOUND AT LAST
A Tribe of Monkey Men Discov
ered That May Be,
THE MISSING LINK.
I*rof. Klnatch Discovers a Trlbo of
Hairy Australian Natives, With
Hands and Feet Like Big Apes,
And Who Uve In Trees. Thoy
Aro Very Wild, and It Was Hard
to Examino Thom.
Professor Klaatsch, of thc Univer
sity of Heidelberg, hos discovered a
new and most important link in the
chain of evolution that binds man to
the ape.
He has observed a race of Austral
ian natives who possess Borne of the
most marked characteristics of apes
and yet are undoubtedly men. These
characteristics consist in having the
thumbs but very slightly developed
as in the apes, and in having great
toes of almost identical form with
the thumbs.
Professor Klaatsch set out to ex
plore the country between the Daly
and Victoria rivers, in northern Aus
tralia. This country a few miles in
land from the coast has hardly been
touched by the white man. While in
Port Arthur, on the coast of this re
gion, he happened to be present at
the trial of some natives who were
charged with the murder of a white
man. The trained scientific eye of
the professor noted with amazement
that one of these natives possessed
hands and feet like those of an an
thropoid ape and many other similar
characteristics.
Professor Klaatsch with great dif
ficulty ascertained the direction from
which the man came and then start
ed thither with the intention of find
ing and studying the rest of his tribe.
He reached the locality indicated
after a journey of three weeks across
the desert. At first he could observe
no signs of human habitation, but he
was prepared for this, becau.se ne
knew that the natives were exceed
ingly timid and possessed no regular
houses. He spread out various glit
tering objects as bait, and after a
few days these aroused the curiosity
of the wild men to such an extent
that they crept up to steal them.
The professor then put out food, and
after they had tasted this he was
able to make friends with them just
as lie might have done with some
wild animals.
He found that these natives were
covered with long hair from head to
foot in all parts of the body except
the face, the palms of the hands, the
soles of the feet and their haunches.
The most remarkable feature of all
I was the formation of their hands and
feet. The palms of the hands were
almost as long proportionately as the
sole of an ordinary white man's foot
and the fingers were proportionately
short. These were partially joined
together by skin. The thumb was
noticeably short, and its tip did not
reach half-way towards the base of
the fingers. It did not possess the
power of moving freely across the
hand, which is characteristic of the
civilized man's thumb. All the pecu
liarities noted in the thumbs of the
natives are found in the higher an
thropoid apes, especially the chim
panzee and gorilla.
The feet of the natives were form
ed in almost exactly the same man
ner as their hands. They were also
slightly turned up on the inner side,
so that the little men did not move
with the same apparent ease as white
men, whose feet came evenly upon
the ground, but nevertheless they
were able to run very well. Their
feet possessed the same prehensile
power as their hands, and they used
one and the other with equal facility
in climbing trees and seizing objects.
Now, the possession of a thumb by
the ape is one of the most remark
able facts indicating his close rela
tionship to man, but its lack of de
velopment shows the immense gulf
which still separates him from the
human family. The Klaatsch ape
man possessed<an absolutely ape-like
thumb and great toe, together with
the structure of a man in other re
spects, and therefore apparently he
partook equally of the characteristics
of an ape and a man.
Professor Klaatsch examined the
physical conformity of the natives
with the greatest minuteness and
found that apart from their hands
and feet their bony anatomy did not
differ in any fundamental respect
from that of man and did not present
any of the minor characteristics that
differentiate the skeleton of the an
thropoid ape from that of man.
The wild men are very simian in
general aspects. They have scarcely
any forehead and they have large
projecting ridges above their eyes.
They.are highly prognathous, that is
having protruding under jaws. Their
noses are flattened almost to nothing
at the bridge and are very broad at
the other end. the nostrils being large
and opening forward,
They build no houses but shelter
themselves under bushes or in the
branches of trees, when the women
are raising children however, the
men make night shelters of boughs
over them. They have no regular
marriage, but when a man desires a
wife he lies in wait for her behind a
tree, springs upon her, beats her into
unconsciousness with a club and
drags her off to his lair.
They do not posses.", a properly ar
ticulated language, and they make
known their wants by cries and howls
resembling the noises made by mon
keys and other animals.
They know how to build fires and
they kill small animals with rude
bows and arrows. Except in these
two respects they do not exhibit, the
rudiments of ordinary human know
ledge as exhibited by savages. They
cannot he said to possess a vestige of
civilization. They eat snakes, frogs,
insects and all kinds of things that
would be generally considered unfit
for human food.
The children are covered with a
soft fur, which disappears at the age
of about, t en, and is then replaced by
coarse hair, resembling that of tho
ape.
It must be a wonderful sight to
watch these wild men, women and
children playing in the trees, hang
ing by the feet and swinging from
branch to branch with the agility of
monkeys.' Professor Klaatsch narra
tes how one of them escaped ina'arm
it thc sight of his camera by running
np a gum tree and then hanging by
Mo feet, looking over his shoulder
PRIZE* OFFERED.
By Th? Behool ?w^r'?'V'??t?.s?it Asaseis
tlon of South Carolina.
Tho School Improvement Associa
tion of South Carol inn hat) decided
to offer 15 prlf.cs to the schools of
tho State for the most decided me
ti l lal improvement made during tho
glvou leanth of timo. Flvo of tho
prlzos are to bo flOO eaoh, and 10
aro to be $60 each. Regulations
concerning tho 16 pr?tes aro na fol
lows.
1. Improvomonts must bo made bo
twoon January 1 and November 16,
1907.
2. Prizes will bo ; dwarfed to
schools whore tho most decldod ma
torlal Improvomonts have been made
during tho timo mentioned.
8. Under tho material Improve
monts aro Included lotnl taxation
consolidation, new buildings, libra
rios, .intorion decorations, beautify
lng yards and bettor goueral equip
mont. v
4. No school eau compete for any
of those prlzos unloss lt is a rural
school. No town or city with moro
than 500 population shall be ollgiblo
to tho contest.
6. All who wish to enter this con
test muBt sond names and descrip
tions of schools, boforo improvements
aro made, to tho president, prior to
October 1.
6. All descriptions, photographe,
and other evidences showing improvo
monto must bo sont to tho prosident
before Novombor 1.
7. Prizes will be awarded in checks
sont hy Docombor 1. Tho prlzos aro
to bo used for furthor improvements
in tho schools recoiving them.
Tho prlzo winners last year woro
an follows:
Laurena.Wallace Ix>dgo.
York.Outhrlesville.
Florence.. .Snrdls.
Marlboro.Pino Grove.
Barnwell, diners nnd Healing Springs
Clarendon.Trinity.
Chester.Onkloy Hall
Dorchester.. . .'.Staliavillo
Marion. . . . ..Olivet
It ridght bo interesting to know in
what manner the schools havo dis
posed of their prizo money. Some
information along this line is glvon
in a bulletin issued by tho associa
tion. The bulletin is a book of 30
pages with illustrations showing how
cheerless, comfortless school rooms
had boon made bright and attractive.
Tho Trinity school, Clarendon
county, expended tho $100 as follows
Paint and Painting.9 76.00
interion building-material. . io.00
Chairs.' . . . . 10 00
Cash on hand of this fund. . 4.00
9100.00
This report came from the Oakley
Hall School, Chestor County.
"We bought a new boater, which
nmken the room very comfortable.
"We have also bought a splendid
j-evolvlng oihee chair. Wo have also
bought paint for the house, and ex
pect to have lt pointed ns soon ns the
weather permits. We have Ordored a
library. A wash basin and towels
have been placed in our school. We
expect to? secure a teachor's desk
with the rest of tho money."
The following statement carno
from tho Waallaco Lodge school,
Laurens county.
Pump.9 i r>.6r?
Stovo. 8.65
Teacher's desk...10.GK
Globo. 7.25
Toacher'B Chair. B OO
Chairs.H-00
Pictures..'. . . 10.5 6
Books.\. .. lo.00
Blackboards. . '. . 4.8G
Bucket.60
Erasers. 20
Hall for boys. 1.00
improvement n yards. 6.00
United States Flag. . . . .... 1.69
9100.00
The OuthrleBvillo school mndo tho
following report:
Library BookB.9 10.00
Pictures. 3.00
icacher'fl table and chair. . . . 6.00
Dusting Brush. 26
Flower seed. 60
Stovo Polish. 10
Entertainment supplies.. .. 1.16
Building fund.80.00
Mr. J. H. Williams of Marion coun
ty wrote as follows:
"Tho 9100 awarded to Olivet
School of this county, was spent In
improving the grounds, tho build
ings, for pictures, blackboards, maps,
and have a balance yet. We huve a
schoolclaimlng ono of tho prizes of
fered this year."
to see what the thing was.
The Australian bushman, as prev
iously observed by scientists, was
regarded as the lowest existing type
of man. Ile possesses many of the
characteristics mentioned as belong
ing to the new ape-man described
here, but not the apelike formation
of the thumbs and great toes. He
has the prominent eyebrows and
jaws, the flat nose and the lunk
limbs.
With all their degradation and sav
agery the bushmen possess skill of a
certain kind. They are the construc
tors of the wonderful boomerang,
which when thrown for a distance of
hundreds of feet comes back to the
hand of the thrower and damages
him unless he knows how to receive
it. The bushmen are also noted for
their "corrobor?es" entertainments,
at which they imitate the play of va
rious animals.
The newly discovered ape-man rep
resents one distinct stage lower or
farther back in the scale of evolution
than the bushman. Whether the
bushman is a direct descendant of
the ape-man or a cross between two
races will be an interesting question
to decide.
The newly discovered ape-man con
stitutes a most important factor in
the evidence that establishes the doc
trine of evolution. Dr. Dubois, the
Dutch army surgeon, had already
discovered in Java, which is adjacent
to Northern Australia, the remains
of an ancient creature, which he call
ed Pithecanthropus Erectos, or
"ape-man who walked erect." This
creature possessed even more ape
like characteristics in its skeleton
than the man now discovered by Pro
fessor Klaatsch, but yet in its erect
attitude and tile formation of its
skull it proved itself much nearer to
man than any existing ape. Now we
possess four links in the chain of ev
olution which proves the descent of
man. These are the ape, the Pithe
canthropus erectos of Dubois, the
ape-man of Klaatsch and the Aus
tralian. There is no longer an inex
plicable gap between the ape and
man. There is no longer a missing
link.
?t seems moro than probable that
ono of the principal issues in the
approaching campaign will be the
question of Federal and State rights.
Both Democratic and Republican
polit icians and newspapers are inclin
ed to raise this issue in order to de
termine popular sentiment concern
ing legislation enacted for the con
trol of trusts, corporations and rail
road companies.
\RKBST1 Jl> OM SI1RIOV8 CHAHGH I
I,'..VMW ... ??...iiin/.KniM, Man t 'hnHi?.?!
With A* m mit ou Negro Woman.
T. D. Mitchell, who ot one time
lived In this city and wau on tho
city police force huB hoon arrested on
a BOrlouB chnrgo In New Brooklyn,
near Columbia. Tho charge 1B that
ho attomptod a criminal usBault upon
Emma Lownian, a young nogro wo
man In Now Brooklyn last Saturday
night. We take tho following facts
relating to the case from the Colum
bia Record. They wore brought out
boforo tho magistrate who hoard tho
caso, aud granted Mitchell bail.
It seems that Mitchell followed
this nogro woman to hor homo and as
sho was entering tho gate he grabbed
her by tho arm and attomptod vio*
lenco. Mitchell, as ho grabbed hold
of hor stumbled over a board In the
gate and foll into the yard. This pro
vontod him. it is said, from carrying
out his purpoBO. Tho matter was at
onco reported to tho town authorltlos
but Mitcholl was not arrostod until
Monday.
Mitcholl denies tho chargo aud
claims that it is a made up affair be
tween this negro woman and a white
man of Brookland, who "had it in"
for him, and devised this plan of get
ting oven. Tho Record says "trouble
was narrowly averted Saturduy night
In Brookland when tho matter be
came generally known. NogrooB were
vory Indignant and throatened trou
bio and Mitcholl carno across tho ri
vor into Columbia and stayed in this
city all Saturday night, Sunday and
Sunday night and wont back to
Brookland Monday morning wheu the
woman had him arrested.!'
Mitchell was a wltnosB In behalf of
J. H. Tillman when he was tried for
tho murder of the lato N. G. Oouzal
oz. Lator on he was charged with
others of stuffing tho ballot boxes In
Brooklyn and tnoy were all convicted
and fined. Tho Record further says
last summor he was arrested one
Sunday afternoon for gambling In
the woods near Lexington and was
fined $16 or sontoncod to conflnmen
In Jail for throe hours. Bo lt seeiUB
that Mitchell has gotten Into consld
orablo troublo since ho left Orange
burg.
Mitchell sayB: "It ls n hatched up
plan on tho part of two whlto men In
Brooklyn to dispose of mo In some
manner and to got even for u minor
matter and to do thia they cocked up
this scheme with this colored woman.
She ls a woman of tho worst sort and
boars a disreputable name In this
town. I am going to fight the matter
Pto the end and will prove to the peo
ple of this place and Columbia that
?I am not guilty of the charge under
which I have been bound over to
hlghor court."
The Record says when Mitchell
was arrested he seemed to bo sur
prised. He was not In the cutsody
of tho magistrate long before Mr. P.
H. Stallings and Mr. C. T. Weed, two
citizens of Brookland, appoared to go
on his bond. Tho bond was fixed at
$350 and was promptly signed by
Messrs. Stallings and Weed, where
upon Mitchell was released.
Thu chargo against Mitchell ls a
very serious one and should he be
convicted of it ho would undergo a
long period of Imprisonment. He
does not say who tho white men are
that ho claims put up a Job on him
in collusion with the woman, but we
suppose their names will come out
lu'the trial.
Shot Self in Store.
At Boston Morris Mosessohn, a
pawnbroker, committed suicide Fri
day by shooting. Recently Mossos
sohn reported to tho police that his
homo had been robbed of Jewelry
valued at $3,000. Aftor an Investi
gation tho police arrested the man
charging that ho himself had ran
sacked his house with tho ldoa of re
covering Insurance
Gets Good Job.
Tho president has appointed R. W.
Tyler, a negro of Columbus, Ohio, to
be auditor of tho treasury for the
navy department. Tyler ls tho man
who lt wnB announced had been con
sidered by the president for a federal
position in Ohio. But the Republi
cana In Ohio would not have him.
Greek vs. Bulgaria.
Macedonia is the scene of a
bloody contest between Greeks and
Bulgarians. These two nations de
clared war against each other six
months ago, but as several hundred
miles of neutral Turkish territory
lay between them, an actual state
of war has been impracticable This
anomaly of hostilities does -not
prevent the Bulgar and Greek from
engaging in actual strife.
There are thousands of roving Bul
garians and an equal number of
Greeks in thc buffer state, Macedo
nia. These have espoused the cause of
their native lands and are engaging
in a war of extermination on about
the same scale as characterized the
bloody feud between Turks and
Armenians. The result is that every
time a Greek and Bulgar meet there
is a fight to the finish. The stories
told by those who escape are harrow
ing in the extreme.
One of the favorite modes of at
tack by the Bulgarians is to catch
the Greeks, while they are in church.
In a recent slaughter they destroyed
a church by throwing bombs int*"* it
when it was crowded, (?reeks ? ore
killed in great numbers. As the
survivors were rushing from thc
church they were killed as they left
the church door. Only a few es
caped and these had their tongues
torn out or were maimed in some
other way.
Both (ireece and Bulgaria are so
called Christian nations, yet they
are carrying on a war, the cruelties
of which would cause an Indian to
blush, if such a thing was possible,
Neither of them could tell what they
are at war about, or what is to bc
gained by it. Some way should be
found to put a stop to such a war
Why don't the adjacent powers in
terpose, and teach the foolish Greeks
and Bulgar a lesson in common
sense. If one nation don't feel like
undertaking thc job, let them all
join in and do it. By some means
this most foolish war should be stop
ped.
THE Kev. John Johnson, I). I).,
died at his residence in Charleston on
Sunday night. During the war he
was a Major of Engineers in the
Confederate army, and engineer in
charge at Fort Sumter for fifteen
months, covering the period of its
heaviest bombardments by thc ene
my. It was through his energy and
skill as engineer that the Confedera
tes were enabled to hold the old
fortress to the Inst, and his name
will be forever linked with thc suc
cessful defence of Charleston, a de
fence that was and is thc wonder
and admiration of the. world for
heroism and endurance of those who
took part in it.
CAPT. J. D. Browne died In Colum
bia on Sunday night. He was a gal
ant soldier of the "Lost Cause," and
by his death South Carolina loses ono
of her most loyal and patriotic sons.
Peace to his nsbea.
THE GOLDEN AGE
We Are Living In lt But Do Not
Know lt.
?(?mw Iteflectlons on tho Past, Tho
Prosont mid tho Futuro and Its
Lessons*
It has long boou tho foshiou to
scold farinera for their disposition to
bo dissatisfied. Every penny-a-liner
?n tho lino has denounced thom us
"chronic grumblers." Onilrst thought
this may soom to bo a serious reflec
tion, but after closer analysis It dooB
not appear BO formidable. By. the op
oration of a natural law It ls Inipos
siblo for any of UB to bo ontlroly satr
isflod with present conditions. If
thoro is no discontent thoro will be
no progrese. It is dlBsatlsfaction with
conditions which gives life to thc"
groat reformers. It is because they
do not like things ns thoy aro that wo
have tho great roformors in religion
and politics. ,
The farmor who is content to go
as his ancestors did is certainly not
a deslrablo acquisition to tho world
of ag*loultUre. It is that class who
woar out tho land, who deteriorate
tho Btock, who nover learn and novor
forget anything. Tho improvements
ure brought about by those who SUB*
poet there in a bettor way. Ho knows
that it has always been tho custom to
do so and BO, but, like tho iconoclas
tic Hamlet, ho bluntly declares that
the custom is bettor in tho broach
than theo'Borvanco. Ho determines
to chango things and striko out on
new lines. In this resolve wo havo tho
'germs of- reform, the vanguard of
all Improvement on tho farm.
Without Impatience with tho Btate
tn which wo live it ?B manifest that
there would bo no deslro to improve.
This impatience, however, while lt
stlmulatoB UB to surpass proceeding
genorntloiiB, disposes us to overate
tholr happiness. It 1B unreasonable
and ungrateful tn us to be constantly
dlscontod with a condition which
is constantly improving. Hut in truth
thoro ls constant improvement pre
clBely because there is constant dis
content. If wo wore perfectly satis
fled with tho present wo should cease
to contrive, to labor and save with
i view to the future. Another curious
Illustration of the operations of that
mystery of mysteries, tho human
mind If found In the fact that to our
dissatisfaction with tho present ifi
due the tendency to form a too favor
able estimate of the past.
Though tho times In which we live
are infinitely superior to anything
ever known to the world, there ls an
Irreslstahlo Inclination to imagine
that our own period is inferior tc
others that base gone before. For the
Ufo of us, we cannot escapo tho ten
dency to place the golden ngo In tn?
past, whereas wisdom would suggest
that it is esentlal to progress thal
this goal of all our struggles should
he placed In tho future Thus wc
would look forwnrd to it ns a prize
to be struggled for, an ideal to bc
reached, instead of taking tho dis
heartening view that the best hod al
ready been accomplished.
In always Imagining that times pasl
were superior to tirneff present.wc
are under a deception similar to thal
which misleads the traveler In thc
Sahara desert. Beneath the caravar
ali ls dry and bare, but far in advance
and far in tho rear ls the semblance
of refreshing waters. The pilgrims
hasten forward and find nothing hui
sand whoo an hour before they har
seen a luke. They turn their eyei
and seo a lake where, au hour before
they were tolling through sand. /
similar Illusion seems to haunt na
tlonB through every Btago of tho lorif
progress from poverty and barbarian
to the highest dogreo of opulence ant
civilization. But If we resolutely chas*
tho mirage backward wo shall find 1
receedo beforo us into the regions oi
fabulous antiquity.
George Washington, tho richesi
man of his day, did not have BO gooe
a bed to sleep in as that now at thc
service of every one of the thousands
of farmers who read this. There were
no comforts lp the kitchens of Mad
ison or Jefferson which would nol
now he spurned by every farmer'!
wife, with the latest range or cooli
stove, her neatly arranged pantry
her ice box and her convenient purni
that BOIKIB water through all thc
house. A hundred yearn ago noble
men in England were destitute ol
comforts which millions of modert
farmers now consider tho common
places of existence. Depend upon lt
the golden ago ls all around us al
this moment, but this does not mili
tate against the proposition of thlt
article, that discontent is the result
of a natural law without which there
would bo neither individual growth
nor national progreso.
They Come High.
Hens must be held in high esteem
In Jonesville. One strayed over Into
the yard of a neighbor of her owner
and was killed and now tho owner
?a suing his neighbor for fifty centn
for the hen and ono thousand dol
lars as a balm for the owners lace
rated feelings.
President Roosevelt says Hard
man is aliar, but he does not deny
thatliarriman raised abigcampaign
fund for the Republicans in 1904.
He knows better than to do such n
thing as that. If he did, Hardman
would put him in the Ananias club
by hauling the record on him.
Ex-Senator Burton, of Kansas,
who has returned to his home from
prison, is said to be sharpening hhs
tomahawk for Roosevelt's scalp. He
blames the President for all hi.s
troubles.
If Roosevelt is not a candidate for
a third term how can there be a con
spiracy on the part of the great fi
nancial interests to defeat him? This
is a question that even the faithful
Loeb can't answer.
The political contest in Ohio is
not a contest between Eoraker and
Taf t but a contest between Roose
velt and his enemis led by Foraker.
As a choice between two evils we
hope Roosevelt will win.
The new dispensary law is quite a
bonanza to the press of the State.
Every county has to call for liquor
bids through at least two daily pap
ers and one weekly paper. This
amounts to a neat little sum in a
year, two-thirds of which goes to
the dailies.
Ex-Congressman Grow, who died
the other day at his home in Penn
sylvania at an advanced age, had a
fisticuff with Congressman Keitt, of
Orangcburg County, on the floor of
the House, because Keitt called him
a puppy. Thc light occurred before
the war, when the debates in Con
gress were red hot.
Governor Comer of Alabama, is a
firm believer in tho "unwritten
law." During the past, two weeks
ho has issued pardons to two men on
this ground. Gilbert Jarvis killed
Harry Ready for betraying his
niece. He was released. W. E.
Shill, who killed a man for betray
ing his daughter, wa., pardoned.
orne Statistics Showing tu* \Vs>*h '
That Is Being Done.
The Salvation Anny all over tho
world ls holding a week of special
prayer. The army has dopurtmonta
in many landa, including. Sadia, Afri
ca and Japan. The work in this
country has been fruitful of much
good.
The Btatistics of the Salvation Ar
my show that in this country thoro
aro 727 corps headquarters and 104
outposts. Tho total attendance in
doors Inst year was 11,140,782 and
in open air meetings 1,677,280.
There are 4,294 local, offlcors and
bandsmen, 80,455 junior companies
and 4,124,745 War Crys sold.
Thoro aro CG industrial homos, ac
commodating 1,686 people. Thoro
woro mealB given to 1,318,044 men
and beds supplied to 463,?60.
Tho following summary shows the
romarknablo work claimed for the
Salvation Army in tho foroign field:
Countries and colonloB oe
cupled. 63
Languages in which salva
tion is proached. . 80
Corps aud Outposts. . . . 7,684
Ofllcers, cadets and em
ployers. 20,078
Training Homes. . 31
Accommodation of samo. . iyT,''68?
Local officers...,H,G;S89
llandsmon. 19,498
Numbor of periodicals . . 68
Circulation por Issuo .. ..1,086,490
Social Institutions. . 766
Accommodation of came.. 22,647
Shelters and food depots. . . 206
Accommodation of same. . 20,024
Prison gato homes. ...... 16
Accommodation of sam?. . i'-'449
Satisfactory cases por an
num. . . ?.. .1,642
Hoscuo homes. . t . .107
Accommodation of same1. . '"''!?,76i
Satisfactory cases per au
niim. ?s 6,554
Land Colonies. . 18
Acreage of samo.. .. . -29,255)
Tho Salvation ' Army workers are
not pessimists, hut uro always, happy
and always cheerful, although' their1
work is among the poor ..and '-needy
and Ul. Tho following statistics, ;ib
would seem, would tend, to overawe*
them In their of forts but they go^
plodding along.
CURBS ALL SKIN TROUBIiBS
Sulphur tho Accepted Romedy for a*
i
Hundred Years.
Sulphur ls ono of tho greatest
remedies nature ever gavo to mau.
Every physician knows lt cures Bkln
and blood troubles. Hancock's Liquid
Sulphur enables you to get tho full
benefit in most convenient form. Do
not take sulphur 'tablets' or 'wafers'
or powered sulphur In molasses.
Hancock's Liquid Sulphur is pleas
ant to tuko and perfect in its action.
Druggists sell lt.
A well known citizen of Danville,
Pa., writes: "I have had an aggra
vated case of Eczema for over 26
years. I have used seven 60-cont bot
tles of tho Liquid and ono jar of your
Hancock's Liquid Sulphur ointment,
and now I feel ns though I had a
brand new pair of hands. It has
cured mo and I am certain it will
euro anyone If they persist In using
Hancock's Liquid Sulphur, accord
ing to directions. 'Butler Edgar.'
RURAL CARRIERS
Are Allowed to Carry Packages' Un
der Certain Conditions.
On and after July 1 the pay of
rural carriers on the routes lu this
county will be paid $900 per annum.
This should enable the cnrrlers to be
fairly paid and to have tho means
necessary to pay for tho maintenance
of their horses and vehicles.
A carrier ls entltlod to carry any
package In balk largor than that
which the postofilce department will
tnko, but he ls not allowed to receive
remuneration for his services from
tho person who sonds tho package.
In all cases he must colloct for his
services from tho recipient of such
package.
If a carrier was allowed to col
lect from a merchant who desired to
Bhlp goods to local patrons by menus
of the carrier it would influence the
carrier to tr} to increaso the busi
ness of the merchant having such
facilities for delivering and at any
rate would cause people to buy at
the storo of such merchant, becauso
lt would bo convenient.
This would necessarily work a
hardship with the merchant who did
not employ the carrier as a dollvory
agent, and for that reason lt ls host
that all packages carried by tho car
rier which do not con h let nor com
pete with his regular mall business
be collected for at their destination.
LETTER BARTY.
A Suggestion for u Good Evening's
Entertainment.
Roys and girls, ns well ns thoso of
larger growth, will greatly enjoy hav
ing their wits sharponod ut a "Lotter
Party," and for this the following
sot of questions to bo answered by
one, two or three letters is morely u
suggestion :
Kamo a beverage T
Name a common bird J
Nanto one of the human organs I
What ls Jealousy NV
VS hat ls it to suprcsB others XL
Name a summer dross goods PIC
Name tho condition of winter
pavement IC
?amo n county In England BX
Nanto too much of something XS
Nanto n sailor's response II
Nanto a creeping plant IV
Nanto a kind of popper KN
Nanto a void MT
Nanto a composition SA
Nanto a mournful poem LEO
Tile Train Foll.
Ono person wns killed and about
1 5 Injured in a wreck on tho St. John
bury and Lake Champlain railroad',
about two miles east of Hardwick,
Vt., Thursday. The ontiro train, a
westbound passenger train, with tho
exception of the locomotive loft the
rails and plunged down a 4 0-foot em
bankment.
THE Socialists have announced
that for the present they have aban
doned effort to carry certain States,
among them South Carolina. The
Socialists had out a candidate for
governor last year in this State, and
he polled three votes. We do not
blame them for quitting nndor the
circumstances.
Hemphill sixty years old. Never.
If the genial Major stays on earth as
long as Methuselah did he will still
be less than sixty years of age in
spirit and good fellowship.
We Have
Ono 25 Horse Power Talbott, si
Cen tl y been overhauled. Title Engli
bo a great bargain for anyone who
gino.
Wo aro headquarters for any
piles and prompt, attontlon will bo ?
trusted io our cato. Write un whei
and ho suro to get our pricos bofo
Columbia Supply Co.,
"?uVttlNG OWANIXQ" N?Kl?m?,
T|,n %?-ii .
-rr--* ?W^JI???.^? xv -> ??t
a? the House,
"You look elck this morning,"
"Yea I woko up with ? d;;??
ache, a tun tod tosgue and that dark.
blown taste in tho mouth."
"Dltn't you have nain* in your
joint* aud munden."
"Yes. AB my old negro mammy
used to say, 'I have mieery In my
Joints.
"Bettor take a bottlo of Ilhouiua
elde? old man.
"What does Itheumaeide do?"
"Why Ithounincldo ia the most
powerful nnd effective blood purifier
*a tho world, it sweeps all tho gorme
and poleons out of the blood and
'makes you well all over.' "
"Ever try it yourself."
"B?ro I take a couple of bottles of
lt before spring begins. Give my- #r
blood a spring cleaning. And lihou?
macido putB mo in such fine shape
that I never have that tired feeing."
"Well, I am going to try, thia
Ithcumueirio you Bay ls the bout ever,
"Thats right. All tho druggists
sell lt. Better get a bottle today.
You start to get well with tho mot
doso. The proprlotorB Bay that Hhe.u
niaclde gets at the joints from, tho
Insldo ?nd makes you well .all over.
.And that tho truth, old man.'" *
CUKE-5 ALI, SKIN THO?HL?S
?FTEK TWENTY. YEAHS
Man Turned Loose After Bel nj j In
Prison that Long. -
?ov. Hoch, of Kansas, one day
Inst wool: decided to parolo "Wilde
Bells" who has oorved no?rly twenty
years in tho Kansas penitentiary, for
^murdering his father, mother, Bister
and brothor in March, 1888. .Selle
stoutly maintained his Innocence. It
iwne"Argued in his defense that he.',
was o Kiek ly lod of thirtcon years ,?
when^the crlmo was. committed, lt" ^
'had been a physical Impossibility for ..
..him tq hove committed the crme.
. iSpeeciiless and Paralyzed. . . i'-.
." Butumouod to tho office of Dr. John ; \
W. Ballard, of Logansport, Ind., sup-5^
posedly for a friendly call, H. . F. \<d
Btoughton, a farmer, found Ballard
and Others assembled ns a lunacy.'
board to Inquiro into his sanity. "Mfc- iff
God,'.-John, would you Bond mo to 'the. ; \.
mad house?" ho screamed, then feU %.:y
unconscious from his chair. When V;
resuscitated, he was speechless nii'd .
totally paralyzed.
Shot the Right One.
It. M. Crowe, of Pittsburg, shot
himself while in a box watching a v
vaudeville performance at the Grand
Opera bonne Thursday. Ethel Levy,
ono of the singers, was on the stage'-'*,
when Crowe arose and pointed the .;.
revolver at her shouting: "It's
over." Mrs. Levy lied from the otago y
and Crewe shot hiniBolf.
Roosevelt seems to be seeing all
kinds ol political spooks these days,
or is he only stooping to the word
heeler's tacticr to gain political
sympathy.
; : >
Intelligent
treatment at
your home
BY
O. ? ot tho greato?t ra I Blake* mada
by p opio rending in tho country and
ania 1 towns ?a tholr fal uro to o^naulfc
the experienced B|>oclaliat for their
dee]> coated or chronic disorders.
They sulTor ah ng duy nitor day,
shorn liing tholr li voa by mondia a?m
year., <-iihor through igno-anoe of wliat
i h? ?p'-oiu iat could do tor them . r tha
belief hat apccial iron tm nt would re
qulie their removal to tho city. 1
It i? not necee n y thttyou shotdd
real e in the anmo city in order to re
ceive benefit of our upochd ti oat men I.
We in? ho ni' i ii (Torem from deep
Bented. I..?.,...<."! Q?IIK troubles ol Heart,
Iii ul. I,unca, Stoimoh, Boweb, Liver?
Blndder, blood, N?rvea, or diseases pe
cul ar io either .;? jr., to write or c ll
npon us and lear ? w,hat hw., don? -
for others similarly i-lllioti-.il, ?MU? what
we cnn ? 0 for U fin.
Thc:e 18 no charg? for thia oonau'ta
tlon, nod it i ; w rth your time Mid- of
fort who the! you dtcldo to be^in treat
Dieill or not.
Fdr i,i oi e than twenty years, I, an A
thosproi distant?) eint od with me, ka ve
given our entiio tirae, thought and
! i inly to the euro of the deep seated
dir ni or aervous disorders,.bick
?ave bu filed tho lesa experienced all
round phyaician.
Whatever you may think jour ailment
la, it is not probable that you can be
Suito iure of your own diagnosis or
int of t ho ordinary physician.
Or you may write us, first, in eatha ,
confldono*, if yon choose. Borne crea ' .* ?,\
do uot : ced a personal vidi, although
al wafs adv s?fele.
Send f r our booklet on "Brain and ... i
Nerve Kxhauation " Mallod free in
uiiprlntnd wrapper
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22? S. Broad St, Atlanta, Gs.
Plea-?. stud me in unprinted envel
ope, your book for tren, for which
there is uo charge and which dots'
not place raeundorany Obligation?
to you.
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Write us at once for our special
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If you buy either Instrument through
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