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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-13
Uncle HeZ Makes
a Clean Getaway
BY STRICKLAND w. GILLIAN.

"Once," said Uncle Hez, our oldest
vet. as he hitched up or his crutch
and thoughtfully picked around over
the box of crackers until he found
one that wasn't Clipped, Il made
what some braggin' windbags round
hyer would call a purity keen git
away"
"Spin it, Hez: spin it.. Don't let it
ferment on yer mind. 'Tain't none
too strong. as It's" put in Oscar
Hamebuckle as he shaved off a quar-
ter-inch slice of cheese.
81 was in Andersonville prison.
time O. tn war, an l was wantin'
turrible bad t. git out. The meals
wasn't what Id ben ust to t home.
an some other things about tn place
he'd got us fellers some d~isgruntled
with tn management. I would OF
left a heap sooner, only them blood
hound dawgs was so alfred keen on
tn scent that mighty few O tn boys
that started ever got more'n a mile
or two before they was ketched.
"Once, though. I was hangin'
round tn drugstore o tn prison.
when tn Teller in charge steps out,
leavin' me standin' clost by tn door
unbeknownst t. him. A idee come
to me like a shot. + hustled inside
an grabbed a big half-gallon bottle
O. chloroform an got plumb COM
plete away with it afore he returned
back.
THAT night I fills m boots full O.
the stuff an sneaks through a hole
L dug n under tn stockade. Away
I went, lickety-split, an 'twasn't
more n ten minutes afore I hears
them hound dawgs a-bawlin' on the
trail.
"I hurried on, hopin' my roose
might work, an purity soon they
wasn't but one hound dawg a-bawlin'
on tn trail, an he wos stoppin' right
in the midst Of is loudest and survi-
grussest bellers t. cape an stretch
hisse'f. Ye could jest see i'm a-doin'
it. Between his bellers We could hear
t'other hound dawg a-snorin' half a
mild furder back. I was still hope
full.
"Finally tn other hound dawg laid
down an jined in tn %snorin', an 1
knowed I was saved. I tuck Off m
boots, emptied the rest o tn chloro-
form out O. my boots, worked over
my feet till I got 'em t set up an
take notices, an by mornin' I wos
out O. reach-hey, Oscar? What's
that you're putin through yep
From Judge.
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THE PRESIDENTS HUNT ENDS
Big Came Killed in Louisiana
Cane Brakes.
Summary CT the Hunt and a Dscrip-
ton Of the Shooting of tho
Third Bear.

Stamboul, La. - 1--WE got three
pears, six deer, one wild turkey,
twelve squirrels. n 'possum and one
wildcat. We ate them all except the
wildcat, and there were times when
we almost felt as If we could eat it,"
This was President Roosevelt's
summary of the results of his hunt.
He. arrived at the residence of Leo
Shields, where he will be a guest be-
fore leaving for V%icksburg.
The President came in on a gallop,
accompanied by a dozen hunting COM
panions, all mounted and in hunting
garb. Mr.. Roosevelt was slightly
more bronzed than when he entered
the wilderness fifteen days before and
his skin as we'll as his clothes had
evidence of contact with the brush.
Eyes, we got three BEARS" he add
ed, "all that we saw, and I think it is
a pretty good record. I am perfectly
satisfied"
The President declared that his
health had been perfect ard his appe-
tite good. With the exception OF a
day or two lost on account of rain he
had been in the saddle every day from
dawn to dusk. He declared that he
had never in his life had finer sport.
The third bear was killed by one OF
the Osborn brothers while it was in a
fierce fight with the dogs. The bear
slain by the President vas killed
Thursday, and the killing was wit
messed by one of the McKenzies and
by Alex Ennolds. They say that the
Presidents bearing was extremely
sportsmanlike. The animal had been
chased by the dogs for three hours,
the President following all the time.
When at last they came within hear
ing distance the President dismount-
ed, threw off his coat and dashed into
the canebrake, going to within twenty
PAGES of the beast. The dogs were
coming up rapidly, with the Presi-
dents favorite, Rowdy, in the lead.
The bear had stopped to bid de-
fanca to the CANNES when the Presi-
dent sent a fatal bullet from his rifle
through the animals vitals. With
the little life left in it the bear turned
on the dogs. The President then
lodged a second bullet between the
bears shoulders, breaking the Great
ure's neck. Other members of the
party soon came up, and the President
was so rejoiced over his success that
he embraced each Of his companions.
Ennolds said: "Mr. President, you are
no tenderfoot."
Mr.. Roosevelt responded by giving
Ennolds a'$20 note.
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TOBACCO TRUST GOODS
SEIZED BY GOVERNMENT
U. S. Takes Novel Action Against
Big Companies.
LAW USED FOR FIRST TIME
Customs Collector Takes Possession
of s,750,O0O Cigarettes Under
Sherman Act-Trust Must Show
1t Does Not Restrain Trade.

Washington, d. CA new and
seemingly effective weapon was used
against the Tobacco Trust when, at
the instance of Acknowledgement
Bonaparte, a consignment of cigar
cites, the property Of the Trust, was
seized while in transit from the fac
tories Of the British-American To-
bacco Company at Petersburg. Va,
and Durham. N. c.. to New York
and foreign countries. The seizure
was made by the collector of customs
at Norfolk by direction of the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury at the request
of the Acknowledgement.
The shipment consisted OF It's
cases containing S,750,000 cigarettes,
valued at S7272.5G. These goods
will be sold at public auction and the
proceeds turned into the Treasury.
This seizure was made under au-
/ thority Of Section 6 of the Sherman
antitrust law, which provides that
any property owned under any con-
ftract or by any combination, or pur-
suant to any conspiracy mentione--
in Section 1 of this act, and being in
the course of TRANSPORTATION from one
State to another or to q foIeign coun-
try, shall be forfeited to the United
States and may be seized and con-
demned by like proceedings as those
provided by law for the forfeiture.
seizure and condemnation of property
imported into the United States con-
trary to law"
This is the first time that proceed
ings have been taken under this Sec
ton of the Sherman law. and 1t is
believed at the department that it will
prove a salutary lesson to the trusts.
In the future this provision of the law
will be enforced vigorously.
The present proceeding is against
the property itself and not against
individuals. If the owners of the
property desire to make defense they.
must go into court, claim the proper
ty and file written ~pleadings denying
the charges that they have violated
the law, and show that there is no
combination in restraint of trade as
charged by the Government.
1nC pdpClo IL thO SooO "ShS AASo
in the United States Circuit Court at
Richmond. In them the Govern
ment charges that the property was
owned under a contract entered into
in 1901 by the American Tobacco
Company and the American Cigar
Company with three great English
concerns-the Imperial Tobacco Com
pany of Great Britain and Ireland,
It'd, |Ogdens. Ltd. and the British
American Company. Ltd.
1t is charged by the Government
that in these contracts it was agreed
substantially that the American and
English companies should not COM
pete with one another in the territory
apportioned to each. In effect these
corporations divided up the world
among themselves so far as the to-
bacco business Is concerned. IL is
also charged that the tobacco was
owned by a combination in restraint
Of trade.
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Brief News
BY RI
WASHINGTON

Mr.. Lane. of the Interstate Com
merce Commission. found that the
Southern Pacific Railroad had gwen
rebates.
Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans WIS.,
tied the Navy Department and con-
ferred with officials regarding the trip
of the battleship fleet to the PACING.
Postmaster-General Meyer will
urge Congress to extend the parcels
post system.
"Ill command the fleet on its trip
to the Pacific if I am on my pins
said Rear-Admiral Evans.
The American Tobacco Company
answered the Attorney-General, de
claring If it was a trust at all (which
it denied) that it was a benehcent
concern.
President Roosevelt killed his first
bear in the Louisiana canebraKes
after ten days hunting.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commits
sion announced the award OF twenty
four medals and S26,400 in cash.
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Amusant.

.an be used for dancing, has created.
a demand for a method whereby the
chairs can be quickly removed. One
of the methods suggested is an auto
matte disappearing chair, which IL
shown in the illustration. The chairs
are arranged in rows and supported
on uprights, which extend below the
level of the floor. Beneath the chair
is all opening. covered by a sliding
door. Each row of chairs is connec
ed to a lever, which is exposed at the
extreme sides of the hall. BY turning
the lever the chairs are made to fold
up and automatically disappear
What was formerly the back OF the
chair becomes the floor. Obviously.
all the parts are made to fit exactly
into place.-Washington Star.
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FOREIGN.

Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Es-
monde was ousted from the chair
manship of the General Council OF
the Irish County Councils.
Halter, Soehle & Co., bankers, Of
Hamburg, failed, with liabilities OF
$7,500,000.
The Marconi %transocean wireless
telegraph system was successfully put
into operation between Glace Bay, N.
S., and Clifden, Ireland.
An automobile in which Prince Won
Beulow, the German Chancellor, was
riding ran down and killed an aged
m lei Hamburg.
The Danish steamer Alfred Erland-
sen was wrecked near st. Abb's
Head, Scotland, and twenty men were
drowned.
Charles Humbert, a former captain
in the French army, has published a
book to prove that the French army
is valueless for defense.
An imperial edict issued in Pekin
warned all agents Of the Government
to take precautions against an upris-
ing of revolutionists.
1t has been decided, at Seoul. that
the Crown Prince of Korea shall go
to Toxic as 4 student.
At Stockholm q large part Of the
money necessary to build a ninety
foot challenger for the Americas Cup
has been subscribed.
Heavy rains in the south of France
flooded the Herault Valley.
The Council of Ministers, at st.
Petersburg, appropriated $4,000, 900
for colonization purposes in Siberia.
A new law just promulgated at
Rome provides that railroad employees
shall in future come under the same
regulations as employees Of the other
departments of the Government.
Cholera is reported to be rapidly,
invading the provinces Of Keif, Cher
nigoff and Ekaterinoslay. Russia
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PLUMBING 'sTRUsT" SUIT.
Merger Of Twenty Firms Alleged to
Control Trade.

Columbus. Ohio.-Attorney-Gener-
al Ellis filed in the Circuit Court OF
Franklin County a quo warranto suit
against twenty concerns doing busi-
ness or making supplies for plumbers.
They are charged with being mem
bers of an association whose object is
to control trade and fix the prices. OF
their goods.
The association is alleged to cover
the States of Illinois. Indiana, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York. Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota. Missouri,
Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Ken
lucky, Tennessee. Georgia. Alabama,
Louisiana and Texas. 1t is stated in
the suit that its headquarters are in
Chicago and the secretary is Paul
Blatchford.
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State Officer hppea'"d,

Acknowledgement Youni inne.
sofa, appealed TO the I'm states
Supreme Court from a fin, -: 500
for contempt Of court, imposed by
Judge Lochren, the issue being
whether a United States court can en-
join a State officer from enforcing
State laws.
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DOMESTIC.

The electrical pageant at Baltimore
was the browning feature Of Old
Home Week.
The Episcopal General Convention,
in session at Richmond, Va, adopted
the s%uffragan plan, thus settling the
question Of negro bishops.
A Butte bank in which F. Augustus
Heinze was the chief stakeholder sus-
pended.
Seven hundred survivors Of For
rests Confederate Cavalry held their
annual reunion at Memphis.
J.. C.. Mccoy and Captain Charles
De F. Chandler, in passing over CAL
lipolis, Ohio, in Signal Corps Balloon
No. 10, covered ABS miles. from st.
Louis, winning the Lahm Cup
Taxable property in Cook County,
Chicago, in 1907, increased $780,
$4,000 over 1905.
General Frederick D. Grant headed
a test ride by army officers at Fort
Ethan Allen. e..
Because his car killed one man in
jumping the track, Silas Tuning, q
Cincinnati motorman, was arrested
for second-degree murder.
A reward of $4,000 Was offered
for the capture and conviction OF two
train robbers who held up the Orien-
tai Limited near Rondo, Mont.
The worlds record price for corn
was $3.50 for a prize-taking ear at the
National Corn Exposition. Chicago.
That ninety per cent. Of the milk
sold in Chicago is impure or adul-
terated, the City Bacteriologist de-
clared.
New England shipping men de-
clared there were plenty OF American
bottoms available for. carrying coal
to Western waters for the Pacific
feet.
The Right Rev. A. F. Wilmington
Ingram, Bishop of London, preached
to Wall Street men from the steps
of the old Custom House.
General Gates P. Thurston was
elected president Of the Army Of the
Cumberland Society at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Old age killed David Redfeld Proc
tor, designer of the great Columbian
Exposition tower at Chicago. which
was never built.
At Suffolk Va, Bertha Knott, who
killed Elizabeth Powell, her rival in
love, was found guilty of murder and
sentenced to twelve years at hard
labor.
More than 100 European, accom-
panied by twelve American, cotton
/ manufacturers on their way to Can
ada, were guests of st. Louis COM
mercial bodies.
For the first time since the earth
quake of April, 1905, the regular
afternoon session of the grain depart
ment of the Merchants Exchange. OF
San Francisco, was resumed.
Arrested at lola, Kan, for the muir
der of May Sappe, Samuel F. Whit
low, a married man, said the girl
committed suicide because he would
} not elope with her.
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Miss Tllen Terry was born in Gov
entry fifty-nine years ago.
Eirs. John Gerken has decided to
sell her stable Of famous show horses.
It was amour led that Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt and Count SZechenyi are
to be married in New York City.
Helen Malohey's English friends do
not know ne. Clarkson. the young
Engiishman With whom she eloped.
Mrs. Ada Olive Van Heusen sued
tho Princess de M%ontglyon for s5O,-
600, alleging the Princess accused
her Of dye!ng her prizo dog "Chtn
Chin"
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Tea in Govt.

1 am a great believer in the value
of tea as a preventive of govt, and as
aiding in the elimination Of uric acid.
It should be taken weak and quite
freshly made. | also always insist on
the avoidance of sweet fruits and on
the free use of vegetables .-From the
HnSnital.
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There is a sculptor in Germany,
Professor MAJ Klinger, who has out
done Robins Victor Hugo in his
statue of Beethoven, which is here
with reproduced. Of this statue MI.
Arthur Symons has this to say, in his
Studies In Seven Arts" "Bethoyen's
music Is national, as Dante's or
Shakespeare's poetry is national. and
it is only since Beethoven appeared
in Germany that Germany can be
compared with the Italy which pro-
duced Dante and the England which
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CANCER KILLS p IN WEEK.
%Philadelpl.ia's Death Roll ExcItes the
, Interest of Physicians.

Philadelphia.-In the week ending
on Saturday twenty-seven persons
died in this city from cancer. a fact
which has challenged the interest OF
the entire medical profession. Hun
dreds of cases are under treatment.
but no satisfactory progress is report
ed in relation to the many scientlhc
,''cures' attempted.
Consumption and Brignt's disease
are the only two maladies that out
ranked ANGER last week in the death
roll. More than four per cent OF all
the deaths were from cancer. Iy.
:Dhojd fever fatalities fell to nine and
pneumonia to seventeen.
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WILL NOT PLANT TOBACCO.
Kentuclians Thus Hope to Force the
=. Trust to Increase Prices.

Lexington, Ky.-Kentucky's to-
bacco war has taken a new turn. For
two years the planters have been
trying to increase the prices by COM
'bining and holding the crop away
from the trust buyers. Now they
have agreed not to raise a crop the
coming season.
The warehouses are full, and by not
producing any more they hope to
force the trust into paying their price
for what they have. If the planters
do raise another crop the association
must look for new warehouses and
for more funds with which to take
care of it. With the 1905 and 1907
crops unsold, it is feared they will
not be able to accomplish their part.
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wALL1NG ARRESTED IN RUSSIA.
Socialist Charged With Associating
With Finnish Progressivists.

London.-Dispatches from st. Pc
tersburg state that William English
Walling, who is described as a
wealthy American Socialist, has been
arrested there at the Hotel de France,
together with his wife and his sister,
in-law, Miss Stransky. The police
also arrested four Firms, including
the wife of Professor Malmberg, Of
Helsingfors. The Firms are supposed
to be Socialists.
Mr.. Walling has spent considerable
time in Russia watching the progress
Of the revolution.
He is a grandson of William H.
English, who was the Democratic can
didate for the Vice-Presidency in
1880,
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IoWans Wanted Whips.

The mar with the whip privilege
at the Iowa State fair probably made
more money with less work and on 9
smaller investment than any Other
concessionaire this season. 1t was
stated yesterday that he sold 24.O0e
whips during the week, making 3
profit of about s1S00.-Des Moinea
REGISTER and Leader.
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ALCOHOL A COSTLY FUEL.
Fifty Per Cent. More Needed Than OF
the Cheaper Gasoline.

Norfolk, Va.-As the result of a
series of experiments at the United
States Geological Surveys fuel-test-
ing plant at the jamestown EXPOSE
ton to determine the relative fuel
value of certain fuel products, it has
been found that it takes one and a
half gallons Of denatured alcohol to
produce as much power as a gallon Of
gasoline, although alcohol costs
about twice as much as the gasoline.
The experiments were carried on
for about six weeks.
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Gypsy SONG.

Under me the grass.
Over me the sky.
/ can sleep and dream until
! The night goes by;
Till the shadows pass.
Till the stars depart,
Let a rowing gypsy fill
His hungry heart!
Voices in the vines.
Visions i'll the Wales,
1t is mine to know them all
Along green trails;
When the morning shines
/ Like a rose above.
Let me hear the gypsy call
A Of birds l love!
4 Murmur Of the stream.
Whisper Of the tree,
4 / can understand the song
4 They sing to me;
Y Mine the blissful dream,
Builded OF delight,
Let the gipsy's day be long,
And brief his night!
Frank Dempster Sherman, in MunseriI
Magazine.
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PHELPS, DODGE & co. INDICTED

For Coal Land Frauds i'll San Juan
County, New Mexico.
Santa Fe, N. M.-Indictments were
returned by the Federal Grand Jury
against the firm of Phelps, Dodge &
Co., of New York, for coal land frauds
in San Juan County. This firm owns
a large tract of coal land in that Sec
ton, as does the Southern Pacific.
Nineteen other indictments were
returned, one Of them for an attorney
for Phelps, Dodge & Co, and n for
former Territorial Engineer Wilson.
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piled with a sprinkling attachment.
The usual n Of accomplishing
this is by means Of a thread, and a
couple Of turns Of the two parts Of
the nozzle by which the stream is
transformed from a solid jet to a
spray. 1t is often desirable to make
this change a number OF times while
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produced Shakespeare. On the whole
Germans have not been ungrateful.
But they have had their own ways of
expressing gratitude. A German
sculptor has represented Beethoven
as a large, naked gentleman, sitting
in an emblematical arm chair, with a
shawl decently thrown across his
knees. In this admired production
all the evil tendencies, gross ambi-
lions and Intellectual energies Of mod
ern German art seem to have concen-
trated themselves.
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Spraying Attachment of Hose Nozzle.

The hose is now a household es-
s~ential, and where it is put to the use
of watering the garden, in addition
to the other duties imposed upon it,
it is desirable that it should be sup
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! Complain of Rate Laws.
: In their annual reports railroad
presidents again complained of tho
effect of rate laws.
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Disappearing Chars.

The nuisance and labor involved
in removing the chairs from a hall
after q performance, so that the floor
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General Grindlay Killed.

General James G. Grindlay, a clerk
in the Controllers Office at Albany,
was killed by an automobile in Troy,
n. Y.
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Average Cereal Crops.
! Government figures on crop condi.
tions showed that the country would
harvest an average crop of cereals.
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Automobile Industry Flourishing..
Automobile dealers say that no crl'
sis is impending in the American in"
6ustry.
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BOY KILLED AT FOOTBALL.
He Was 4 High School Freshman at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio-SkuIl Fractured.

GAINESVILLE, Ohio.-Albert Flowers,
sixteen years old, left guard on the
local high school eleven, was almost
instantly killed during a game with
the freshman team of Dennison Uni
versity. He emerged from a scrim-
mage unconscious and died before he
could be removed from the field. The
baSe of his skull was fractured.
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DIR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Secretary Taft opened the Filipino
Assembly at Manila.
The Insular Government of Porto
Rico has refused to honor United
States Marshal Hubbard's requisttion
for funds.
La Discussion, of Havana. declares
INSCRIPTIONS business men in and
out of Cuba are promoting bandit
bands end conspiracies in the island.
The son of the acting President of
Panama was sent on his way to Cuba
to present a gold medal to Governor
Magoon.
Acknowledgement Frank Feuille, Of
San Juan, Porto Rico, has presented
his resignation. He will become Gen.
eral Crowder's assistant in Cuba in
the Department OF State and Justice.
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Pretender Wins Battle.

Mulai Hsfd, the %pretender to the
throne of Morocco, defeated the forces
of his brother. the Sultan Abd-el-
Aziz. in the first pitched battle.
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Rochefort Leaves His Paper.
Feminine Notes.

M. Rochefort, editor Of the Intran'
sigeant, Of Paris, has left the paper.