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Accidentally Killed.
q sad and fatal accident occurred

about ten miles east OF Swansea iD
Lexington County on Wednesday
evening aoout o'clock. Vandy Say.
lcr, white, and Welton Glover, color
ed. were out hunting and by some &C
cident young Saylor's gun was dis
charged at short range, the entire
load taking effect in Welton GloVer's
back in the region Of the right kidney
and just to the right Of the spiral
column. The wound was two and a
half or three inches across. Weltou
died in IS hours after accident. Ic
ante-morJem statement Glover sale
that 1t was an accident.
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a DeadlS Fight,

Six negroes engaged IN deadly
light In a fourteen.foos ring, nea,
Curtis, La, the participants being
a,med with shot guns and pistols
After the battle three lay dead. The
)ther three scaped. & woman anC
swo children were also in the roon
during the ARRAY, but were nj
harmed. The trouble arose over tis
WSnSs,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-30
Entire Crew Lost.

The Swedish steamer Bur, from
Grimsby, Eag., with a cargo, founder
ed Thursday at the entrance OF ark.
sound. The entire crew, numbering II
men, perished. 1t is believed the yes
sci grounded and that her boilers ex-
pleded.
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4 EUGE NAVY.
Vast Expenditure of Money On 1t TO

Continue for Years.
With Secretary Morton asking cen
gress to give the navy stl4 $40, s4S. 8.
for its expenses In the fiscal year be-
ginning July l, 1905, it is apparent
that the feet that costs 500. 900. .00(
a year has come to stay.
This vast expenditure means thai
the policy Of naval expansion will &C
on until the American navy is seconc
only to that Il England in size, anc
will remain, as now, second to none
In ship to ship efficiency. When all
the Ameaicsn warships now building
are completed the navy will be tie
third largest in the world. Eng
land and France will be first and Sec
ond.
The sentiment which caused tie
upbuilding OF she navy was awakened
twenty years ago, when naval eIpen-
ditures were small. Only s14. sl9,-
s76 80 was appropriated by congress
in 1888 The cost gradually increased
Until 1898, when, with the Spanish
American war in sight. 1t aggregated
s33. .OO3, ,234 10. The expenditures IL
1899 jumped to $50. .os8, 1888, and since
teen by leaps and b unds they have
increased as ship after ship has been
added to the list.
The navy by January l, 1905, upon
which the brun5 Of service will fall ir.
event OF war will DO: Battleships, l3;
armored cruisers, 8; protected cruis.
ers, 81; torpedo boat dessroyers, l6;
tIpedo boats, 35. Not all OF these
ships are now in com mission. The
most potable additions will be the ar
mored cruisers Colorado, Pennsylva
MIA, West Virginia ano South Dakota
No arnored cruisers have bee;, added
to the feet since the Brooklyn an6
the New York we're put in conmis-
sion, more than ten years ag'.
When battleship is paid for it has
only begun to eat 10 money. New
ships mean more men, more officers,
and larger naval stations where the
ships may be dry docked and repaire4.
There must be q larger clerical force
in the nsyy department.. The pur-
chase OF supplies must increase. A
battleship has an instatiab)e nav for
coal. Fuel must be carried miles
across the seas In great colliers il it
cannot be had in plentiful supply and
satisfactory quality sbroad.
Congress has usually been generous
in authorizing new battleships and
has readily increased the number Of
blue, jockets to man them. The en-
listsd personnel in 1855 was 260; IN
| 1898, l2, $50; in 1889, 10000; in 1861
Is, ,o5e; in 1908, $1,000, and in 1904,
81, 200.
Provision for more officers was
made two years ago by doubling the
presentation Of the country at large
in the naval academy. Twice as
many midshipmen will now study
there and be graduated to receive
commissions. All this c-sts more
money. The esta blishnent OF large
and well equipped naval stations at
Guantanamo, Cuba, and at Olongapo,
P. l., also swells the financial rs quire-
mentS Of the service.
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Welcome Him.

President Roosevelt has promised to
visit Texas early il the spring, and
will; make speeches at Fort Worth,
Dallas, Houston and either Austin or
San Antonio.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-30
Negroes Must Go.

The chief Of police Of Reno, New,
has issued orders that all negroes
must Leave toWn-and they are leaT-
ing by every train.
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BOIL WEEVIL WAR.
Names Of Delegates to Convention to
be Held st Shreveport.
B.ITLE TO BE PUSHED HART.
The Pest Of the Texas Cotto
Fields is Now a Men
ace to the Entire
Gnrfh

The State says: Gov. Hayward il
taking great deal OF interest in the
meeting Of the cotton growers to be
held at Shreveport, La, on the 18th
OF December. At the suggestion o1
Commissioner Watson, the following
gentlemen we're appointed Tuesday to
represent this State at the meeting:
NJ. L. Donaldson, Greenville.
j. E. Wannamaker, St Matthews.
L. a. Sease, Prosperity.
E. J. Watson, Columbia.
Charles E. Chanbliss, Clemson COL
ege.
E. D. Smith, Magnolia.
E. W. Dahbs, Goodwill.
J. G. StribliDg, Pendleton.
r. NJ. Pegues, Cheraw.
81. B. Tindall, Greenville.
P. L. Hardin, Chester.
J. j. Fretwell, Anderson.
E. E. Werner, Seneca.
r. P. Hamers, Jr., Hame2.
a. W. Love, Chester.
Sumter Brabham, Manning.
J. W. McCloud, Manning.
Bright Williamson, DARLINGTON.
D. E. Cook, HartSville.
N. S. Gibson, Winona.
J. II Manning, Dillon.
G. S. Mccall, Bennettsyille.
A. J. Matheson, Bennettsville.
W. E. Lea, Timmonsville.
J. Lewis Lee, Conway.
S. G. May6eld, Denmark.
E. S. Addison, Ninety-Six
J. c. Lanham, Edgefeld.
J. B. Stepp. SWitzer.
J. Allen Tobin, Barnwell.
W. T. Jones, Santuc.
E F. Strother, Batesburg.
Harry Hammond, Beech Island.
W. D. Evans, Cheraw.
J. W. Lybrand, Wagner.
B. S. Booser, Newberry.
]. G. Mccullough, Bensar.
T. J. Moore, Mcores.
W. Q Hammond, Anderson.
W. &. Hinson, Charleston.
B B. Watson, Ridge Spring.
I. +. Still, Blackville.
W. S. Middleton, Clark's Hill.
a. E. Aycock, Wedgedeld.
B. q. Boykin, Boykin.
D. F. Bradley, Easley.
Richard Singleton, Acton.
D. A. Spivey, Conway.
A. K. Sanders, Hagocd.
]. a. Peterkin, Fort Motto.
D. e. Norris, Pendleton.
James Norton, Marion.
J. S. Cathcart, Winnsboro.
D. E. Edrd, Lexington.
John Il. Wharton, Laurens.
W. T. Aycock, Columoia.
F. q. Weston, Columbia.
G. 3. May, Walterboro.
Gov. Hayward requests that al
Who can attend will notify Com mis-
ioner Watson at once. The three
delegates first named are members of
he State board Of entomology, and
Prot. Ohambliss Is the entomoiogist
It Clemson who went out to Texas
his summer to study the boil Weevil.
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a MENACE TO THE SOUTH.


The executive committee Of the ma.
tional cJtton convention In Its address
says:
mo more serious menace has ever
confronted any crop In any country.
Since 1893 the cotton boil weevil has
spread and devastated the greater
part OF the cotton growing area OF
Texas and has this year invaded sew
eral parishes OF Louisiana. The fight
Of the weevil during the summer Of
1904 has been fully so miles north
and east into territory heretofore un-
infested, and indicates habit that Is
beyond the power Of individual States
tu control.
IN an effort to protect the p1oduc-
tion Of cotton from the raVages Of the
wee7il, large sums OF money have been
spent by the national government,
and the States Of Texas and Louis
lana; and most Of the cotton growing
States have enacted laws prohibiting
the Importation Of the product from
infested areas liable to introduce the
weevil. These past efforts have been
OF untold value to the territory in
volVsd, but nevertheless emphasize in
ho uncertain tones the danger threat
ening the cotton crop Of this coun-
try, unless immediate, definite and
cooperative action is taken by every
cotton growing State and every cot
ton interest to utilize the result Of
past Investigations to further perfect
remedial endeavor. a division OF
opinion and interest In campaign
against the Weevil will bring disaster
and defeat.
"a national cotton convention for
tL1Sss >urpose of discussing and organic.
ing-. uniform plan Of mpaign Is
opportune and e1psdient and the pro.
ceedings Of the convention should
reach the 6reside OF every cotton far
mer OF the south, ard should so
stimulate national interest as to make
this vexed problem much easier OF
solution. Let no State fail to inteIi-
gently shoulder its share Of the re-
sponsibility.'
THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.
The following programme has been
arranged:
First day, Dec. IL, 1904, 200 p.
m.-Address Of welcome, Governor
Blanchard OF Louisiana. Response,
the governor of Tennessee. Election
OF officers, appointment OF commit
tees.
Second day, Dec. 13, 1904, $50 a.
N. Address, Hon. James Wilson,
secretary department. OF agriculture,
q. S. ''The Boil Wee7il Situation, u
DR.. ". D. Hunter, bureau OF etomo,
logy, Q. S., department. OF agricul-
ture; Louisiana Legislation and the
Work Of Her Crop Pest Commission, "
Dr.. W. c. Stubbs. director Louisiana
experiment station; general discus.
sion.
Afternoon session 2.30 p m.-Dis.
cussions by the representatives from
the various cotton growing States,
limited to Is minutes each.
Third day, Dec. "A, 1904, $50 a
m.-"The Cotton Factors Interest III
the Boil Weevil," D. a. Tompkins,
Charlotte, N. c.; Cotton" S. F. B.
Narso "a Rrnadwav NaE York city
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03

territory. (Renner VS.. Bennett, 81
Ohio, 4Sl).
The same is probably true as to the
Soldiers Homes in the other states
named. Until congress grants a re-
cession of the Soldiers Home territory
coded by the state of Tennessee to the
United States, the inmates Of said
Home, who reside there, must be treat
ed as non-residents of this state. If
citizens and residents of North Caro-
lima and Virginia are entitled to vote
in Tennessee, then these old soldiers
are entitled to vote. But il non resi-
dents are not permitted to vote, then
they can not vote, tor they are non
residents.
If it required an act Of congress to
give the soldiers in the Ohio Home the
right to vote in state elections, why
would not the same thing be required
to give the Mountain Branch soldiers
the right to vote in Tennessee cleo
tons. But the Staff man thinks they
ought to vote any way. The absence
of little thing like an act OF congress-
would make no difference with him.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03


Our little friend of the staff, and we
do not speak of him physically, for
Munsey has q great deal more bowels
than brains, has worked himself into q
high pitch. Exasperated beyond en-
durance because it can not show that
persons residing on the Soldiers Home
reservation are entitled to vote in Ten
nessee elections, and because it can
not bull doze the election officers into
violating their oaths of Office by regis
tering non-residents of the state, the
peace-loving and independent staff,
which appealed in vain to Gov. Frazier,
now appeals to mobocracy and anarchy.
1t says the officers and inmates Of the
Home must be given their rights quick
ly, and that if they are longer denied,
"why-they are not doughfaces." A
sort of a Patrick Henry, eff that be
treason-make the most of it" DECLARE
ton. "Why"-"Why"-as they are
not doughfaces, what terrible thing are
they going to do? Are they going to
get a writ of mandamus and compel
the registrars to register them? That
is what they ought to have done, but
they have waited too long to do that.
Are they going to vote in spite of the
registration law, or are they going to
hang the registrars and burn the editor
of The Comet at the stake9 Which Of
these dyre calamaties does the covert
threat forecast? Such dribble as this
is childish and feeble. These brave
old veterans are law abiding men,
They do not want to vote unless they
can do SO legally. The sworn officers
of the law have decided against them
Honest men at least will give these
officers credit for being honest. If thu
officers have done wrong the courts
will make them do right. Redress !,
any one aggrieved may be had by al
appeal to the law. II the courts d.
not direct them, the registrars vii
discharge their duties as they under
stand them, undaunted by the threat
of carping and envious newspspe
critics.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03

Thomas Taggart, chairman of the
national democratic committee, is be-
ing Swallowed by two men, who follow
him from New York to Indianapolis.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03
"THEY ARE NOT DOUGHFACES. y

Some would-be genius has filled up
about three columns OF the last issue of
the Staff to prove that the old soldiers
are not doughfaces, Does the fact that
a man has not the right to vote make
him doughface? Who said the old
soldiers did not have the right to vote?
We have only said that residence on
the reservation does not give one the
right to vote in this county and state,
and that voter can not register as O
resident of the Home. Those living
there know we'll enough how to exer-
else their right of suffrage if they wish
to DO so. The Act of the Legislature,
so often referred to, meant to provide
way for them to retain their rights in
this respect, and all they have to do is
to go to their respective homes and
vote. This is our opinion based on
the legal authorities quoted in our last
issue. What we object to, and what
the law we have quoted holds, is that
men may not come to that Home from
any and all other states of the union,
reside on that reservation for year
and thereby become citizens of Ten
nessee, with a right to vote therein.
Mr.. Justice Story, Chancellor Kent
and other high authorities say that
residence on such coded territory does
not make one citizen of the state with
in whose borders such territory lies,
but what is such authority in the eyes
of the Staff? The supreme court of
Ohio says it is eminently proper that
men, domiciled in such an institution
owing no allegiance to the state, and
contributing in no way to its revenues,
should not have the right to direct, or
assist in directing its government. II
the contention of the Staff is correct,
two or three Thousand inmates Of the
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03
FINALLY.

The statement of the Staff that there
were two acts Of the legislature of Ohio
in regard to the ceding Of the Soldiers
Home reservation in that state is cor
rect. On the question Of voting the
original act had this provision, identi-
cal with the Tennessee act:
"Nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to prevent the officers, employees
and inmates of said asylum, who are
qualified voters of this state, from exer-
clsing the right Of suffrage at all town
ship, county and state elections in said
township in which the said national
asylum shall be located"
We presume the second or substitu-
ted act was not stronger on the subject
of voting, but whether it was or not
the supreme court of Ohio considered
both acts, as will be seen from the fol-
lowing language in the courts opin-
ion:
Gas for the concluding proviso OF
the first section of the Ohio act of ses-
sion, hereinbefore quoted, and the pro-
vision substituted therefor in the first
section of the act amendatory thereof,
it is unnecessary for us to consider and
determine their proper construction
and meaning, for the reason that it is
not constitutionally competent for the
general assembly to confer the election
franchise upon persons whose legal
status is fixed as non-residents of the
state. (Sinks vs.. Reese, 10 Ohio st.,
306; 2 Am. Rep. 403).
With both the acts referred to by the
Staff before it, the supreme court Of
Ohio, decided that the status of the in
mates of the Home was that of non
residents of the state, and that they
had no right to vote.
But it is said the inmates of the Ohio
National Home vote now. That is true,
but by what authority do they votet
Certainly not by any act of the OHIO
legislature, for after it ceded the land
to the Federal government it had nc
further control or dominion over it.
The real reason they are allowed to vote
is that Immediately after the decision
of the Ohio supreme court the congress-
of the United States, seeing the good
sense aud justice of that decision, re,
linquished to the state Of Ohio iurisdic.
ton over this same soldiers' Homs
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03
BANKRUPTCY SALE.
100000 Feet Of Lumber a
Auction.
In the mater of
Boyd & Anderson Lumber Company
Bankrupt.

BY virtue OF the authority vested in
me as receiver 1 will sell at public au-
ton to the highest bidder for cash, on
SATURDAY, THE 10TH DAY OF NovEM-
Der, 1904,
all the property, both real and person
al, belonging to the estate of said bank
rupt. Said property is situate in the
county of Mitchell and state of North
Carolina, described as follows, towit;
/. About fifty thousand feet OF saw.
ed lumber situate on the South L
Western Railroad at Forbes Station.
2. Sawed lumber situate on the wa
ters of Little Rock Greek at II. H.
lows, two mill yards, being about one
hundred and fifty thousand feet.
8. About seventy-fve thousand feet
OF saw logs on theabove two mill yards
consisting of oak, poplar, ash, etc.
4. Sawed lumber situate on the wa
ters OF Beans Greek, on the two mill
yards Of Young and Greene, amounting
to about three hundred thousand feet.
0. About two hundred thousand feet
of logs on the said mill yards and lands
adjoining the said yards.
Q. About four hundred thousand feet
of standing timber, trees consisting of
oak, poplar, ash, bass, etc., situate on
the waters of Little Rock Creek and
Beans Creek, standing on the lands of
@. w. Garland, Chas. Byrd and the
land known as the II. Q. Forbes tracts.
7. Also five thousand feet of sawed
lumber at the mouth of Pigeon Roost
Creek, on the South & Western Rail-
road.
8. Any and all interest of the said
bankrupt in and to boundry OF timber
situate on the lands of Gilbert Sparks,
on the waters Of Little Rock Greek, ad-
joining the lands of the said @. W.
Garland AM others, one half of the
purchase money having been paid for
the said timber and the other half long
past due, as shown by a contract be-
tween the said Sparks and the bank.
rupt, which will be exhibited at the
sale.
0. Also three good two horse wagons
in Bakersville, N. G.
All and each lot of property will be
sold at the time and places above de-
scribed.
This the End day of November, 1904
W. l.. LAMBERT,
Receiver of Boyd & Anderson Lumber
| Company.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03

Don't forger the Old man
with the fish on his back. ?
For nearly thirty years he
has been travelling around the
world, and is still travelling,
bringing health and comfort
wherever he goes,
To the consumptive he
brings the strength and flesh
he so much needs.
To all weak and sickly
children he gives rich and
Strengthening food.
To thin and pale persons
he gives new firm flesh and
rich red blood.
Children who first saw the
old man with the fish are now
grown up and have children
of their own.
He stands for SCOTS Emul-
sion of pure cod liver ola
delightful food and a natural
tonic for children, for old folks
and for all who need flesh and
strength.
SCOTT g. BOVINE, Chemists,
4O9-4l5 Pearl Street, New York
SOC. and $i.OO; all druggists.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03
WHO IS A QUALIFIED VOTER?

The constitution Of the State of Ten
nessee, Article ~, Sec. 1, provides:
"Every male person of the age of TWEEN
ty-one years, being citizen of the Uni
ted States, and resident of the state
for twelve months, and of the county
wherein he may offer his vote for six
months, next preceding the day of
election, shall be entitled to vote, etc.
And there shall be no qualifica-
ton attached to the right of suffrage
except that each voter shall give to the
Judges of election when he offers his
vote satisfactory evidence that he has
paid the poll taxes assessed against
him, without which his vote can not be
received. And all male citizens of the
state shall be subject to the payment
of poll taxes, and to the performance
of military duty within such ages as
may be prescribed by law.
Thus speaks the highest law of the
land. Any legislative act in conflict
with the foregoing would, of course, be
null and void. In the.Acts of the leg
islature OF Tennessee, 1901, Chap. 90,
ceding to the United States land for a
National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers, Sec. 2, says;
"Be it further enacted, That iuris-
diction of the lands aforesaid and their
appurtenances be, and is hereby, coded
to the United States of America
provided, however, that all civil or
criminal process issued under the au-
thority of the state of Tennessee OF
any officer thereof, may be executed
on said lands and on the buildings that
may be located thereon, in the same
manner as if jurisdiction had not been
coded, as aforesaid; and
Provided further, That nothing IN
this Act appearing shall be construed
TO DENY to any officer, employee or in
mate Of said Home, who shall be quail
fed voters of the state the right tc
suffrage"
So runs the Act which must be con
strued in harmony with tue eonstitu-
ton, or be held te be void so far as
there is conflict, as every sane mind
will agree.
Under the constitution every yotel
must be a male person, twenty-ont
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-11-03

Home, g small per cent. OF
them being Tennesseans, or even hay
ing an interest in the state, could al
ways control the vote of Washington
county, and might, on close vote, de-
eide the political policy Of the state.
And more, from among those residents
on United States territory would be
found successful candidates for the
best offices in Washington county.
Might they not dictate the congress
man from the district
There is no argument in the Stats
article. There is asseveration without
proof; there is villification without
anything to base it OH. The savage,
who tears and burns the flesh and
brushes the bones of his foeman; the
midnight marauder who robs and
murders his sleeping victim; the fiend
in flesh, who rapes virtue, all are held
in execration by civilized man. Are
they worse than one who would sit in
judgment on the hearts and souls Of
his fellow men, set his little mind up
as judge, jury and executioner, and
proceed to rend, tear, defame and de-
stroy their charactersP There is an
old adage to the effect that we Judge
others by ourselves, and the man who
is SO fond Of calling Others hypocrites,
harpers, vermin, etc., is, nine times
out of ten, the thing he calls others.
Let us discuss the subject. The man
who descends to personalities in an
argument thereby shows himself de-
feated. Such an argument is like the
snarling and swapping Of a wolf as he
clinks off and shows his teeth at an
enemy that he is afraid to meet in fair
combat. Whenever a fellow gets his
dander up in boxing match and be.
/
gins to call the other fellow names, the
spectators know he is getting the worst
of it. So in an intellectual combat,
when one writer gets out of temper
calls the other writer names and snarll
and snaps at him, the world knows tha
the fight has gone against him.
One word in conclusions: We shall
not bow down to the old soldier as
heather to his fetch. To us he is
man as other men are. As to his pc
litical rights: He should stand on tn,
same footing as other men. The OLE
soldier from Ohio, located in the Home
should be as much bound to return t,
Ohio to vote as the department clerk II
Washington from Tennessee is bount
to return to Tennessee to vote. Or, i
he may stand on the same footing will
the soldier in the regular army, b
should vote as the regular soldier does
In all respects we take delight in think
ing of the great majority Of the oil
soldiers as heroes and patriots. W
do not begrudge the money devoted t
to their maintenance and comfort. W
are proud of the magnificent HON
provided for them in our midst, an
we think it very poor piece of smal
politics to put them up. as scare-crow
on which to hang the filthy rags of q
election bugaboo.