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railroad and asked them If they saw
any one going towards Curtis Dukes
home, and they said, as I understood
them, that it, was Curtis and Eva
Dukes. After that Charlie McAlha-
ney said that he would get stick
or something to hit on the ground
to make Bryant leave. Bryant and
my father were on friendly terms.
my father were on friendly terms.
shovel. Did not try to keep Bryant
from going out the gate. Did not
know why he shut the gate. Got
shovel from buggy shed. My buggy
was closer to my father than Bryant's
buggy was. He never had any whis-
key or wine that day. Bryant's bug
gy was the closest to the shed. He
had to walk around the back Of the
buggy to get he shovel. After get
ting the shovel he walked around
the buggy Bryant was walking OF
and my father was sorter following
him when he got the shovel. Ruftie
and Bryant were the only ones there.
Father did not talk after being shot.
Bryant shot him in the front and
did not go to look after my father
after he shot him. Bryant said, i
shot to kill you, and damn you, die"
He said neither Bryant nor Ruftie
looked after his father after he was
shot, in answer to question from
a juror. He also testified that Cur
tbs Dukes and Berry McAlhaney are
brothers-in-law, farm on the same
place together. Curtis Dukes mar
ried. his sister, daughter of the de
ceased, Charley McAlhaney, and Bry
ant Dukes Is brother to Curtis
Dukes.
After some consideration the jury
of inquest rendered verdict that
Bryant Dukes killed Charles Meal
haney in self-defence and that he was
justified in doing 80.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Cameron Graded School.

The Cameron Graded School open
ed on Monday morning with more pu-
pills enrolled than ever before at an
opening. The following are the
teachers: M. r. Carlisle, superinten-
dent; Miss Louise Jones, high school
assistant; Miss Lillian Goosby, sixth
and seventh grades; Misses Lillian
Candy. fourth and fifth grades; Miss
Marion Lykes, primary; Miss zola
Parler, music teacher. Interesting
talks were made by Senator S. ).
Summers, Prof. w. E. Derrick, B. +.
Keller; and Rev. ]. w. Oxner to the
students, teachers and patrons.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Important Industry.

Oh.
The Columbia State says: One of
the most important industries to be
inaugarated in this State Is that of
tile factory for Bowman, in Or
angeburg county. This will be the
first company to extensively manu-
facture tiles in South Carolina and
will mean a saving in freight rates
to the land owners of the coast coun-
ties who have decided to reclaim
the many thousands Of fertile acres
by the use of tile drainage. The fac
tory is owned by Samuel Dibble, who
has always been an advocate Of all
movements for the improvement Of
conditions"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Wish Him Many More.

At the smoker on Friday night
Hon. Samuel 'Dibble referred with
qualification to the fact that 1t was
his 73rd birthday and he would be
proud indeed to know that on this
anniversary he would hear any It'd
ings which would indicate that his
beloved native city was to get COM
munication by boat line with the
seacoast metropolis of the State. He
expressed his own abiding faith in
the feasibility of the project. DR..
Dibb.e will be a young man should
he live to be twice his present age,
and he has our best wishes that he
will do so.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Mule Killed by q Snake.

The Mullins Enterprise says re-
Gently while moving hay near Mar
ion, the mower got tangled II. and
on investigation it proved to be a
huge rattlesnake. His snaHcsh'p
enraged by the sudden awakening
from his slumbers, Immediately
showed fight and before the mules
could be gotten out Of the way, one
of them was bitten by the reptile
and died in less than two hours. The
snake was killed and measured sew
en- feet in length This should he
warning to those who are engag-
ed in moving their fields.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
They VIII All Help.

The State says: "The opening OF
the Edisto from Orangeburg to Char
lesion is an undertaking that de-
serves the hearty assistance Of the
South Carolina delegation in Con
gress. AS transportation way, a
river should be maintained just as
a railroad or highway should be
maintained. The Federal govern
ment has assumed the duty Of keep
ing open the inland waterways and
tn Edisto should receive its gener-
GUS attention"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
LIST OF LETTERS.
Those Remaining Unclaimed in the
Orangeburg! Post Office.

q. :. T. [S=s = y
The following is the list Of. lei
ters remaining unclaimed in the pos
Office at Orangeburg for the wee
ending September 20, 1910. Person
calling for. same will please say the
are advertised"
Josephine Barnes.
81 DR.. zBozard.
Mrs. Lawrence Canada.
Mrs. Lawrence Canada.
w. D. Campbell.
MRS. Philadelphia Carmichael.
Mrs. H. A. Davis.
Furtick. =
3 Mrs. Alice Gardner. 4
Carter Gooden.
Emma Glover.
Rose Haynes. I
Americus johnson.
l.. J. Jones.
F. M. K. Livingston.
Mrs Carrie McFadden.
Rev. G. P Penny. = .,22G
Willie Richardson.
Jane Senior.
Clara Smith.
Mary Stevenson. 5
Sarah Summers. izl
Z w: a, Syfrett.
Mrs. Mary Taylor.
Elnora Tollison.
Anna Walker.
Mrs. Francis Williams.
Mrs. Carrie Woler.
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tEhe,nezer. Notes.

Cotton picking Is all the rage down
this way, though hands are very
scarce and hard to get.
Miss Grace Patrick left last week
for. Winthrop College where she has
been a student for the past two ses-
sions. @ :
Miss Jessie Easterling is visiting
relatives at st. Matt We. S
More of our girls will leave this
week for different schools.
Camp meeting is in the air. Sew
eral families are going to tent, so
we have heard.
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Notice to Rural Schools.

Sims Book Store, Orangeburg, S.
c., is depository for school books
in Orangeburg county, selling them
at the price fixed by the State Board.
Superintendent of Education, that is
at the price fixe by the State Board.
They also have a complete line of
all the books used by the country
schools in second-handed condition
at prices cheaper than new books.
Orders will be filed same day as re-
ceived. Express paid on all orders
for second-handed books.
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Must Slow Down.

The City Council at a special
meeting Friday afternoon passed an
ordinance requiring all automobiles
to slow down to rate of four miles
an hour while crossing the intersec-
tion of Russell street with Broughton
street and Railroad avenue. The
uniform speed limit for the whole
city is ten miles an hour. This Or
dinance has met with the favor OF
the Orangeburg Automobile Asso-
citation.
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Gave Small Bond.

INIr. Bryant Dukes, who shot and
killed Mr.. Charles McAlhaney On last
Saturday afternoon, has been bailed
in the sum of $1,000. On account
Of the general interest in the case,
we publish in another column the
testimony taken at the coroner's in
quest. 1t will be seen by that report
that the jury brought in a verdict of
self defence.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
Much Cotton Being Marketed.

A great deal OF cotton is being
marketed at Orangeburg each day.
Friday and Saturday were the largest
days so far, $50 bales being sold on
Friday and 400 on Saturday. A num-
ber of cotton buyers are in the mar
ket here and the cotton business
promises to be of a lively nature.
A large quantity Of cotton seed is
being sold here and Is commanding
good prices.
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Palace Theatre.
WITH DOG AND GUN

and lots Of game, the most exhiliar-
ating Of sport is afforded over Au-
tumn field and hillside; but If your
gun and ammunition Is not Of the
best, the keenest of sportsmen will
only suffer disappointment. In view
Of this fact we wish to call atten-
ton to the high quality of rifles and
shot guns to be had at M. o. DAN
TzLER's, who also carry full stock
of the very best makes Of loaded and
unloaded shells, black and smoke
less powder, shot, etc.
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DEATH At NEEsES.
Mr.. D. r. Joyner Dies Suddenly on
Monday Morning.

monday morning.
Mr.. D. r. Joyner, an old Confed-
crate Veteran, died early Monday
morning at the home Of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. M. S. Williams at Neeses.
Although he had been in i'll health
for some time, he seemed as usual
and his death was unexpected. Mr..
Joyner was seventy-four years old.
He was buried Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock at the old Joyner Burying
Grounds, about five. miles from Or
angeburg.
He is survived by his wife, three
sisters, and four daughters, the lat
ter being: Mrs. w. s. Joyner, OF
Jamison; Mrs. J. R. Punches, ..,ot
Rowesville; Mrs. M. s. Williams. OF
Neese, and Mrs. A. J. Glitch, of Vale
The entire community joins in sym.
pathy for the bereayed family.
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Business Locals.

Ayers & Williams Dairy Feed will
produce milk. s1.35 per sack.
Phone So.
Feed Ayers & Williams Poultry
Feed, will make your hens lay.
Phone so.
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Nj. O. Dantzler
Little Things in Furniture

count for much in completeness and
value. You'll find chairs, tables,
beds, ETC., etc., bought from us have
had every attention paid to the small
lest detail. That more than makes
ND the difference in price when one
piece of furniture "looks as good" as
another, yet costs half. Yet our
prices are low, quality considered.
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was with my father, Chas. McAlhan-
ey. We rode in the buggy to Berry
McAihaney's place. We came about
four miles from home, and went
straight to BERRY McAlhaney's home.
Bryant Dukes was there first, and
was taking out his mule. He hitched
his mule to post at the lot fence.
My father drove up to the right side
of the oak tree. Bryant Dukes got
out OF the buggy and carried his gun
with him towards the field. Bryant
and Rufie went to tie fodder and
had not gotten the first row Of the
field, when my father told them not
to tie up the fodder. To let Curtis
Dukes come and tie 1t up himself.
Then Bryant came back and said he
would go and feed the hogs, and my
father said to him not to feed the
hogs to let Curtis come and feed
the hogs himself. Then Bryant said
he would be d. If he did not feed
them. Then Bryant said you gray
headed son Of b., he shot my
father right then. MY father never
hit nearer a lick. My father said he
wanted to get something to make
Bryant leave. This was said by my
father when coming along the road.
Ally father had out some pea vines
that Saturday morning and had gone
over the same afternoon to see If the
peavine hay was dry enough to gath
-er. He never raised the shovel to hit
Bryant. He just hit on the ground
to make Bryant leave. never got
out of the buggy. My father had a
pistol in the buggy, until he got near
Curtis Dukes home, then he put Ii
in his back pocket and put cloth
over it. Bryant was at the place
and we came behind him. Then we
drove up to the house and Bryant
and Ruff had not gone into the field
yet. Bryant and his brother went
into the field and my father remained
In the yard. We came to Curtis
Dukes home first. and there was no
one at home. We went back to
Charlie Thompsoa's house to get
some sugar and coffee.
After leaving Charlie Thompson's
house, we met some negroes near the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-14

swindled in silence by titled friends picked
up In Europe. 1t is nothing. The remark
able thing is the international nobility
band that makes the majority of the
hauls.
Nobility is its lure, although its leaders
are slick men of business, hidden in their
Offices of London, Paris and New York;
and while d'Aulby de Gatigny-whom the
Paris police believe to be certainly affil-
iated-is bogus, they tried to make him
noble And the experience of the young
Countess " shows them securing accom-
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wood carvings, furniture, porcelain ana
tapestries Lucy is fiuttered and mamma.
touched to tears on hearing it whispered:
What pity he must sell ii. He is too
proud to marry for money!.
In her gay malice the poor. proud
French girl of title gave away an animus
that 1 could pity-a jealousy against
these rich Americans who lay their hands
on everything they want I'm Europe by
a new kind of divine right
You think that they deserve being
duped?" 1 suggested.
'I stand aside" she answered. 81 re-
main poor, but I permit myself to smile
when Americans calmly propose to take
advantage of falling family's misfor-
tunes-when they are there on visit
''Oh. nor I said.
Surely. that is the nobility band
chief bait. They accept the invitation to
dinner. and when sad old dowager calls
their attention to the real Sevres service.
whispering. Our unhappy hostess is
about to sell it to dealer for $1,000. a
downright robbery-and all because her
husband gamblesr' their fingers itch to
write the check out. Quick. find.
Write out check. quick, for Sc, 1OOe'
'Mademoiselle,'' said. you completely
misunderstood our people"
THE nobility band understands them. -
she answered gaily. Listen. 1 live in
five rooms of a ruined chateau i'm the
Garden of France. The family portraits
are gone. The furniture has little value.
1 shall live there, monotonously, al
ways"
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You would have only to receive the
rich Americans they sent YOU" 1 said.
land aid in the sale of old paintings, fur
niture, porcelain and art objects supposed
to be inherited from your family?
Yes: and only when the rich Americans
should try to buy. Also We should make
finds in villages and farmhouses on auto
mobile trips. They would be things put
there on sale, yes. but genuine or nearly
So and dearer than their worth-to give
the Americans the pleasure of picking
things up by their own intelligence and
luck
:.
cit would be a romantic adventure for
the unsuspecting Americans" 1 said.
They would prize the Objects
'They would be on visit to my chateau,
paying heavily in London or Paris for the
invitation; but 1 must ignore it. So the
emissaries of the band explained it to me.
Now 1 see that 1 should have been their
slave. as much as the unhappy bogus
d'Aulby.''
Two years ago. at Vichy, she met the
bands agents, fashionable English
couple. Later. in Paris. they tried again
to tempt her, doubtless because she
seemed SO promising a tool without
troublesome family, really noble and with
an ancestral pile. easy to restore-a gold
mine, ready for the sailing. In their anX-
iety to secure her they introduced three
so-called directing members of the band,
who told her anecdotes of affiliated no
b es and gave her a glimpse of power
full association. laughingly called the no
bility," which took good care of its men,
berS.
How we'll it takes care of dAulby de
Gatigny remains to be seen; and If he
weakens under the third degree it re-
mains to he seen how much he can betray
them-probably with only few worthless
addresses in London and Paris. The
French police have not been able to dis
cover how the bogus Titians, Van Dycks,
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WOUND worth OF reservations. In none OF
his accounts of himself - ii Aui, y a-ie u
explain where he got such a lump sum
at that moment
Their restoration of the castle and their
unextravagant but kindly hospitality
won the newcomers all the recognition
they wanted from the local gentry and
made them favorites with the officers OF
the Tours garrison. The idle officers
played tennis with the refined American
chatelaine and her frequent American
guests. How could they imagine that
they were acting as stool-pigeons to
guarantee the d Aulbys' nobility?
A retired high school professor. below
ed in Tours, was tutor to their four nice
ca aren. When d'Aulby would say to
him: 'That Titan is worth s16O. OOOi'' or
THAT Murillo Is worth 100000 nothing
1oubting. he would reply: II would sell
them And when the count answered:
You woulu do wrong. Each year the
values of such paintings mount $4,000"
he wOu.,- iLnOcently put it into his small
talk with the rich American guests.
While it seems certain that d'Aulby's
American wife, from Boston, was victim
rather than knowing accOmplice, 1t was
she who made Mrs. Paine's acquaintance
on a transatlantic liner; and the Paines,
husband and wife, were soon guests at
the Castel, playing tennis with the
written on their faces-and listening to
the artless prattle of the tutor about
Titians worth si6~ goo.
Mr. Paine was a hard-headed copper
SPECTATOR, VINO had wrested millions
from a hard-hearteI market. You know
the rest. He fell unfamiliar ground
He did not know paintings or furniture
--e may have hard vaguely that there
are art-artisans who will duplicate you
any antique chair or che St-of-drawers in
the Cluny museum, shooting worm-holes
into 1t with bird-shot, and that for the
tapestry upholstering there are artists
like 1.-THE Alsatian" who yearly make two
copies of a certain Boucher SCREEN
thread by thread, from scrap tapestry of
the epoch. Each copy costs $780, but Is
sold the original for $3.50 to really
hnowing collectors.
Such stories merely put Mr.. Paine on
guard against the Paris dealers. Here
was an expert who would cost him moth
ing, the Count dAulby with a chateau
on the Loire, who said: Leave it to met"
The Paines had rented a great mansion
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Fame.

A WASHINGTON dentist praised en-
"A Enthusiastically the respect paid to the
memory OF Horace Wells by the French
government. 1t has erected recently a
statue OF him in the Place des Etats
Unis. in Paris. and the unveiling cere-
mony in March was attended by dis
tinguished scientists from all over the
world
Prof Wells" said the dentist. was
born i'm Hartford in 1915. He was a
pioneer In the use OF nitrous oxide gas
in dental operations to prevent pain, and
for his discoveries in anesthesia he may
be regarded as a benefactor TO mankind.
Wells has been dead fffty years. and
France Ia the hrst-a tardy hrst-to &C
knowledge the importance OF his discov-
cry and raise a tribute to his almost
forgotten memory. This case reminds
me OF q conversation between a little boy
and his father.
Why are statues erected to famous
men. fatherT said the child.
so that they may become known,
dear, was the answer.
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Very MonopoIous.

CENATOR BEVERIDGE. discussing q
- certain monopoly. said with a smile:
This company reminds me Of the old
man in the train who said to his neigh
Dor:
Would you mind lending me your
Specs sir?'
Why. certainly the neighbor an
swered. and he took of his spectacles and
surrendered them with a courteous ges-
ture
And now said the old man. since
you can no longer see to read your news
paper. I'm sure you'll be willing to lot
me run my eye over the sporting pages"
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In Mourning.

D OBERT GOBLET, during the Easter
= parade in 9Th avenue, stood i'm con-
versation with group of friends when q
lady in a beautiful gown passed.
why, there goes Mrs. X" said a
young matron. She was gray last year,
and now her hair is as black as jetr'
Mr.. Goelet. buttoning his smart morning
coat. answered, with a smile:
We'll. you know, she has recently be-
come a widow"
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A Cynical Synonym.

"PooR Myra Kelley" said a maga.ine
editor at the Authors Club in New
York, was almost as distressed as Mr.
Carnegie at the spirit OF graft and crook
edness rampant among US.
THE young writer, at a dinner OF mag
azine contributors, said that We wor-
SHIPPED wealth-that was our trouble
Then she crystallized her meaning I'm an
anecdotc
She said that one man asked another:
What position does Blank hold in the
community
"A very honorable position was the
reply.
is he wealthy?
Wealth and honor said the other,
are synonymous terms I'm America to-
day."
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career. Whenever he needed lot OF
precious old Oil paintings they fell into
his hands by magic. Confessedly the son
of a poor English tailor named Daulby,
he tells the French judges that he in
herited the paintings from an uncle; but
where the latter lived. died and made
such valuable collections remains a mys-
terry.
In the chateau of the Loire Mr.. Paine
admired quantity of them. by Rigaud,
Van Dyck, Corregio, Vanloo, Rubens.
Natter, Rembrandt. Murillo. GreuZe,
Titan, Bennington and David. First, he
rented the collection for $1,000 year.
Later he bought Corregio for $4,000,
Mingard for $1,000. a Corot for $4,000
and Titan for $1,000 If real they
would have been SO cheap that Mr.. Paine
would have been victimizing the count.
Possibly there was such an audacious
hope, because dAulbys wife explains a
check of $1,000 from Mrs. Paine as a
gift for persuading her husband to sell
the PaineS that Titan!
Mr. Paine died in Boston, while Mrs.
Paine was hunting art antiquities with
d'AuIby in Austria-where the band had
planted them. Had the poor English
tailor's son really made this situation
for himself he would be admirable. AS
the puppet of an invisible band he is
merely tantalizing.
He was born plain John Daulby. Quit
ting school at seventeen aand refusing to
learn tailoring. his parents managed to
support him two years as student of
musical composition in the London Con-
servatory Music is the mans passion.
Penniless in London, he worked as valet
to a Czech professor in return for post
graduate lessons. He had no knowledge
Ito, To Cob 1oh1 Ia
titles.
He quit the Czech suddenly, to work his
way through musical studies in Paris;
and, suddenly in a cheap boarding house
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CHATEAU OTHER RICH


plices in poor but authentic aristocrats.
For a poor girl. without brothers, with
out dot. yet bearing an old name and
passionately devoted to the ruined home
of her ancestors, it was a real tempta-
tion. says the countess. They called it
saristccratic commerce. free from all vul-
garity. or business hidden under social
graces. They offered to restore my be-
loved ruins and put me in as chatelaine."
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Corregios, Murillos and other old masters
got into the Castel de Ia Tour.
The dAulby had not a single canvas
when they moved in; and there are no
traces Of paintings being shipped them
through the Tours railway depot. No one
knows where they were painted. although
the general detective service had warn
ing, three years ago. that an important
center of false paintings existed some
where IN Touraine. They must have
reached the d'Au.bys by automobile, as
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mysteriously as in an Arsene Lupin
romance.
ture we run up against these mysteries
OF an occult band.
Eight years ago Mrs. Paine's swindlers
quiet and correct couple, bought a
half-ruined Renaissance chateau outside
Tours for $4,000: and. although they
never paid but $1,000 of it, they put on
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1Nobll4lY;8AwNf 1Repge )wnpd11RHAMpEAw

in the Avenue du Bots, and the forty
thousand dollars worth of counterfeit
Louis XIV furniture put into 1t with such
magical rapidity by the count reveals the
occult gang again at work.
Such a collection of bogus old furni-
ture takes deal of getting together at
short notice. The number of pieces must
be decided, their designs selected here
and there, their execution must be con-
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A N International Band of
"A Swindlers Described by
the ountess x. Mrs.
Paine's Suit Against the
Count de CATCHY - The
Strange Tempting of a Poor
Aristocrat.