justice! uuewn dead.

Km I ('miic Suddenly From Stroke ofA|H>plexy.

Washington, March 28..David Jo-slah Brewer, associate Justice of theSupreme Court of the Tutted States,died tonight at 10:30 o'clock as theresult of a stroke of apoplexy. Hisdeath followed in a minute or two ne-fore he could 1 to his bed.Mrs. Brewer was with him when theend Justice Brewer was 73years old.The end came altogether unexpect¬

edly. Although he had not been feel¬ing well for the past few days, the as¬

sociate Justice was up and out to¬day, apparently In the best of healthand spirits. He was In equally gfJOd.plrlts at dinner and spent the even¬

ing In reading.Shortly after 10 o'clock he retired

to his room, and within a few min¬utes. Mrs. Brewer heard a heavyfall and went to Investigate the cause.

She found her husband prone uponthe floor of the bath room. He didnot regain consciousness and died be¬fore a physician, hastily summoned,could reach the house.

Justice Brewer came to the Su-

preme Court from the Federal courtin Kansas. He was the second oldestmember of the court. Justice Harlan

only being his senior. He was regard¬ed as the most Democratic of all themembers of the court, most affable,approachable and accommodating. Hewas the one man on the bench whohad proof copies of his opinions pre¬pared for the newspaper and this he.did consistently.

He was a member of the old Fieldfamily, being a nephew of the lateAssociate Justice Stephen E. J. Fieldsind CyTus W. Field.

Justice Brewer's death raises a se¬

rious question as to the action of the.court regarding the Standard Oil and

"lean Tobacco Company suits,it Is not Improbable that thewill have to be retried, since

. now remain but seven Justicesss upon them, Justice Moody not

g participated in the trials bya of Illness.

RMATION HAS BEEN SUP¬PLIED.

lice In This Paper Brings WhatWas Desired.

t week a letter was publishedNelson Mann, of Randolph,

. asking for Information con-

tg the wife of Lieut. Wlllard A.y, who was a Miss Colburn.communication brought a replyDr. 8. D. Doar, of McClellan-which gives the desired lnfor-\. It Is In part as follows:Mr. Osteen:iw an Inquiry In the paperMrs. Huasey, the wife of Lieut.

. f.new her well before her mar-

and also Lieut. Hussey. Mrs.Anna Hussey, nee Colburnn childbirth In Charleston inl think was burled In St. Paul'st yard in the Matthews vault,>ly. 8he was the daughter ofP. Colburn. Their plantation,in." Is about three miles from

They spent the summers

narleaton. She was a grand-ter of old Mr. V\ illlam Mat-who was a man of wealth. Ifeslre more Information I can

dy supply It.Very truly yours.

S. D. Doar.

in MEET IN SVMTKR.

e Muinnl Will Hold Annuallectio* Here Next Month.

fnbla, March 29..The Southa State Association of Sewaneewill meet In BjMnter In May.

llor Hall will deliver the ora-

t, Swlnton Whaley, of Edlstoand Rev. W. W. Memmlnger,ita. but until recently of Char-especttvely, president and sec-

f the association. A dozen or

atend fr«>m Columbia.

dnes that aid nature are al-.st successful. Chamberlain'semedy acts on this plan Ithe cough, relieves the lungse secretions and aids natureIng the system to a healthy

Sold by W. W. Slbert.

M»r h 27..John Smalls, a

ployed on the constructionie N. and S. C. railroad, was

Instantly killed by anotherf the gang last night. Thedone In a shanty car, and

a used was a shotgun. Theof shot entered the left

netrated the hart. Smalls« from Charleston. The

i e gambling, It Is said.

ie out of every ten cases.m Is simply rheumatism

. es due to cold or damp.M heumatlsm, neither of¦ » any Internal treatment.Al eeded to afford relief Is

th Ication of Chamberlain'sLi Ive It a trial. You are

cei pleased with the quickrel affords. Sold by W. W.Bit

/ grows apace..Chiprroi

The Hundred-Point Man.

The other day I wrote to a bankerfriend, inquiring as to the responsi¬bility of a certain person. The an¬

swer came back thus. "He Is a Hun¬dred-Point man in everything andanything he undertakes.''

1 read the telegram, and then pin¬ned It up over my desk, where I couldsee it. That night it sort of stuck inmy memory. I dreamed of it.The next day I showed the message

to a fellow I know pretty well, andsaid, "I'd rather have thr.l said ofme than to be called a great this or

that."Oliver Wendell Holmes has left op

rec ord the statement that you could.not throw a stone on Boston Com- |mon without caroming on three poets,two essayists and a playwright.

Hundred-Point men are not so

plentiful.A Hundred-Point man Is one who

Is true to every trust; who keeps hisword; who is loyal to the firm thatemploys him; who does not listenfor Insult nor look for slights; whocarries a civil tongue in his head;who is polite to strangers, without be¬ing "fresh;" who Is considerate to¬ward servants; who is moderate in hiseating and drinking; who is willing tolearn; who Is cautious and yet cour¬

ageous.Hundred-Point men may vary

much In ability, but this is alwaystrue.they are safe men to deal with,whether drivers of drays, motormen,clerks, cashiers, engineers or presi¬dents of railroads.Paranoiacs are people who are suf¬

fering from fatty enlargement of theego.They want the best seats In the

synagogue; they dem nd bouquets,compliments, obeisance, and, In orderto see what the papers will say nextmorning, they sometimes obliginglycommit suicide.The paraoniac is the antithesis of

the Hundred-Point man. The paran¬oiac Imagines he is being wronged,and that some one has It In for him,and that the world Is down on him.He Is given to that which is strange,peculiar, uncertain, eccentric and er¬ratic.The Hundred-Point man may not

look Just like all other men, or dresslike them, or talk like them, but whathe does it true to his own nature. Heis himself.He Is more Interested In doing his

work than what other people will sayabout it.He Qoes not consider the gallery.He acts his thoughts and thinks lit¬

tle of the act.I never knew a Hundred-Point man

who was not one brought up fromearly youth to make himself usefuland to economize In the matter oftime and money.

Necessity is ballast.The paraonolacs, almost without

exception. Is one who has been madeexempt from work.He has been petted, waited upon,

coddled, cared for, laughed at andchuckled to.The excellence of the old-fashioned

l»lg family was that no child got anundue amount of attention.The antique Idea that the child

must work for his parents until theday he was twenty-one was a dealbetter for the youth than to let himKet it into his head that his parentsmust work for him.Nature Intended that we should all

be poor.that we should earn ourbread every day before we eat it.When you find the Hundred-Point

man you will find one who lives likea person in moderate circumstances,no matter what his finances are.

Kvery many who thinks he has theworld by the tall, and Is about tosnap Its demnitlon head off for thedelectation of mankind, is unsafe, nomatter how great his genius in theline of specialties.The Hundred-Point man looks af¬

ter just one individual, and that isthe man under his own hat; he Is onewin. does not spend money until hesanM It: who pays his way; whoknows that nothing Is ever given fornothing; who keeps his digits off oth¬er people's property.When he does not know what to

say. he says nothing; and when hedoes not know what to do, does notdo it.Wo should mark on moral qualities

BOl merely mental attainments orprotleleney, because In the race of lifeonly moral qualities count. Weshould rate <>n judgment application;md Intent.Mm. by habit and nature, who are

untrue to ¦ trust, are dangerous justIn proportion as they are clever.

I would like to see a university de¬voted to turning out safe men, instead.f merely clever ones.

How would It do for a college togive one decree and only one, to thosewho ere worthy.the degree of II,P.IWould it not be worth striving for,

lo have i.liege prealdni say to you,over his own signature: MHe is a

ilundred Point man in everythingand anything be undertake*".UlbertII ubbard.

Dtaoordant notes here and there inthe opera situation.

TRIPLE KILLING NEAR LAUKEXS

Two Negro Men and NegTO Womanshot to Death.

Laurena March 27..A triple kill¬ing, the commission of which em¬braces some unusual circumstances,occurred in the vicinity of Parks Sta¬tion, three miles east of the city, lastnight, when Toney Anderson was shotdead In the cabin home of Ida McCoyNelson, the negress herself mortallywounded, dying a few hours later,and Alex Itay, living a mile distant,called to his door end shot throughthe heart, expiring almost instan¬taneously.

Anderson and the woman were kill¬ed by Claude Ferguson, who was ac¬

companied by another negro, JimDavis, on his death-dealing tour. Fer¬guson was armed with a shot gun,Davis with a pistol, according to a

statement made by the woman beforeShe died, and that of her daughter,Rosa, an eye witness to the tragedy intheir house. And for certain rea¬sons, it is believed that Ray was kill¬ed by the same murderers, thoughthe coroner's jury today returned averdict to the effect that he came tohis death at the hands of parties un¬known.

Ferguson and Davis made goodtheir escape, although every efforthas been made since last night to ap¬prehend them.

A Great Drought.

In the matter of ra'nfall the SouthAtlantic States are specially blessedby nature. The moisture laden cur¬rents of air from the Atlantic arecarried westward, and a great partof their precious freightage is precip¬itated upon the earth before the high¬er altitudes of the Blue Ridge can becrossed. This givs to our section notonly an abundant rainfall as regardsquantity, but a rainfall also so welldistributed as to time and place thatdroughts are unknown. Such littledry spells as we sometimes have andwhich in our happy ignorance we calldroughts, are of such short durationas not to be considered as such Inother countries and In other sectionsof our country, where meteorologicalconditions are less favorable, and thepeople know by sad experience whata real drought Is.Texas is at present experiencing a

most severe drought. It has been onfor many months. Not that there isan absolute absence of all rainfall,but because the rainfall has been sofar short of the normal that the littlewhich falls is not sufficient to satisfythe thirsty earth. All of last yearthis drought prevailed, and a short¬age of three million bales in the cot¬ton crop in part tells the calamitousstory of the drought. The winter haspassed without bringing sufficientrainfall to soak the earth, and thedrought continues. The days andweeks pass without bringing the need¬ed rain. The new cotton crop is be¬ing planted with the certainty that,if the drought shall continue throughthis season as it did last year, the cot¬ton crop of the southwest will be stillshorter than it was last year.

It begins to look as if that sectionof the cotton belt is to experience asgreat a drought as that of East Austra¬lia, which lasted seven years. It be¬gan In 1896 and continued until 1903.Australia is peculiarly subject todroughts, but that was the most se¬vere one experienced since the firstsettlement of that country. In theprovince of Queensland, where sheepraising is the principal Industry, 13,-000,000 sheep perished for want ofwater and feed, two-thirdo of all thesheep in the country, and it has takenuntil now for the flocks to be againIncreased to ante-drought propor¬tions.

It Is by considering how the peopleof some other countries suffer occa¬sionally from drought that we canbest appreciate our favorable condi¬tion, in a country of abundant andfairly regular rains, a country of never falling springs and ever flowingrivers.

.Chamberlain's Stomach and LiverTablets are safe, sure and reliable, andhave been praised by thousands ofwomen who have been restored tohealth through their gentle aid andcurative properties. Sold by W. W.Sibert.

He just didn't believe the Housewould treat Its Uncle Joe that way

.Chamberlain's Stomach and LiverTablets InVarlably bring relief to wo¬men suffering from chronic constipa¬tion, headache, biliousness, dizziness¦allownsts of the skin and dyspepsia.Sold by W. W. Slbert.

The Mills Place near Mayesvllle, finedwelling, as Rood land as any, M horsefarm open, a real bargain, price ¦»:<;» anSCre, terms easy, hot saw tlmbnr and WOOdran be sold readily. Don't wait or youwill iiiKs the real Heal Kstate Bargainnow on the market. Possession Jan. 1st.Hnall payment down secures this ele¬

gant plant at ion. A ISOA Lot of City property, at asocrlflce for

qnlck sale.

J. J. MUTTON, JR.REAL BATATE

108 N MAIN ST. PHONE 395

WHAT THEY WILL GET.

it Mayor-Elect Jennings Carrlea OutHis Promise.

The following card was handed theItem man a day or two ago with thestatement that if Mayor-Elect Jen¬nings c-arries out his promise to ridthe town of Mind tigers this is whatthe tigers will get:The following appeared on a sign

in the window of a blind tiger in thisState:

"What Each Man Gets:"From a bushel of corn the distiller

gets four gallons of whiskey, whichretails at.$16.00The government gets. 4.40The farmer who raises the corn

gets.60The railroad gets. 2.00The manufacturer gets. 9.4 0The tiger gets (fined $200) .. ..hellAnd the consumer gets.drunk

Camden, March 27..About 4o'clock this morning fire destroyedthe barn and stable of Col. W. D.Trantham, on Chestnut street, to¬gether with their contents. Mr. W.D. Trantham, Jr., who is the mailcarrier on Route 5, had two horses inthe stable and one of .hem was burn¬ed to death, the other being badly In¬jured. The origin of the lire is un¬known. The ioss is partially coveredby Insurance.

?Are you frequently hoarse? Doyou have that annoying tickling inyour throat? Does your cough annoyyou at night, and do you raise mucusin the morning? Do you want relief?If so, take Chamberlain's CoughRemedy and you will be pleased. Soldby W. W. Sibert.

The conclusion will be universalthat Bryan has abandoned the chasefor a senatorial toga because hisheart, despite numerous disappoint¬ments, is set on a more glitteringprize..Evening Wisconsin.

ACT QUICKLY.

Delay Has Been Dangerous In Sumter.

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ney ills.Plenty of evidence to prove this.Mrs. Charles Browning, 101 E. Ca¬

nal St., Sumter, S. C, says:"For some time my kidneys were

disordered and the secretion fromthese organs became unnatural. Ialso suffered from dull, nagging back¬aches and had distressing painsthrough my loins. My head achedconstantly, I could not rest well andin the morning I felt tired and lan¬guid. Since using Doan's Kidney Pillsprocured at China's Drug Store, Ihave been free from backache, amable to rest well and the kidney sec¬retions are regular in passage. Theheadaches have ceased and I feel bet¬ter in every way. I give Doan's Kid¬ney Pills the credit for this improve¬ment."For sale by all dealers. Price 50

cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,New York, sole agents for the UnitedStates.Remember the name.Doan's.and

take no other. No. 20.

Where They Got Done. Bryan's Equitable Methods.

"Among the gambling stories thatthe late Pat Sheedy used to tell inhis art ¦hop," said a New York re¬

porter, "was one about a jackpot."A beautiful young bride, the story

ran, entered a corner grocery onemorning and said:

"Have you got any jackpots, Mr.Sands.' 'No, ma'am,' Sands answered,and he hid a smile behind his hand.I've got teapots and coffee pots, butjackpots I don't stock.'

" 'Oh, dear!" said the bride. Afrown wrinkled her smooth and beau¬tiful brow. 'I'm so sorry! You see,Mr. Sands, my husband's mother usedto cook for him, and nearly everynight he talks in his sleep about ajackpot. So I thought I'd get one,for, since he mentions it so often, hemust be used to it. Could you tellme, Mr. Sands, what they cook injackpots?'

" 'Greens, ma'am,' was the quickanswer:".Detroit Free Press.

The rejection of the income taxamendment by the lower house ofthe Virginia legislature displeases TheCommoner. That periodical saysamong other things: "Democrats gen¬erally will keenly regret this actionon the part of the Virginia legisla¬ture. The income tax is 10 well es¬tablished in popular favor and seemsso equitable a method that it washoped that Democratic legislatureswould lose no time in ratifying theproposed amendment." The troublein this matter is that all the Demo¬crats are not so broad-minded as Mr.Bryan. Many Democrats oppose theincome tax measure because it hap¬pens to be a Republican administra¬tion measure. Mr. Bryan supports itbecause it is an equitable method ofraising revenue for the support ofthe government..Knoxville Sentinel.

Half-p.nd-Half."I don't understand you, Linda.

One day your're bright and jolly, andthe next depressed and sad."

"Well, I'm in half mourning, that'swhy.".Fliegende Blaetter.

Also, when it comes to sightseeingin Khartoum, the educational advan-tages are, of course, mutual..Indianapolis News.

Uncle Joe Cannon's theory that amajority is competent to have its ownway does not lack demonstration..Washington Star.

Six hundred thousand feet of lum¬ber were burned in Maryland theother day, which included about four-fifths of the State's available supply..Richmond Times-Dispatch.

If Caruso will take the entire bandof Black Handers back to Italy withhim, all will be forgiven.

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