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GO 'WAY; I'M BUSY! DISMISSAL UPHELD - , - i 1 i 5V v.V : Crr's Responsibility - - By Beatrice Fairfax. i'nOA,' do you know that it is your duty to make your men T iriends regard you as tne Best, miei. a." " it . ' a me worm. , . . ' - " Man sets a high standard for woman, and she must t live up .to it if she wishes to wield a good influence over him. 2 h m4n uhn is attentive to you realize ' x Xwu liiuoL XJ-ituvc uic limn - : - that you respect yourself and that you demand , that he re spect youalso. . ; Make him understand 'that he can not treat you wim familiarity; -that he can not be a friend of yours if he is vulgar in word or deed, nor If he is intemperate. , , V . vx ,.t, If he loves you and sees that you expect all this he will try to be worthy of you -I -" :r , i- But you must never lower his ideal of you or you will immediately lose your Influence over him. ' . If you drink a cocktail you can not expect him to. refrain. If you iauan at vulgar stories you can not expect that he will refrain from repeating them in your presence. 1 Let him see the high value that you place upon honor, and never swerve one inch! from your standard. " ; . ' Do not, of course, expect him to be a demigod, for nc man Is that, dui flo demand that he be an honorable temperate, manly man. Don't nag. The nagging girl never has any lasting influence over a man, trot keep steadily to your ideal of what -a good man should be. Forgive him if he occasionally has lapses, but on np account promise to marry him until you are quite sure that he is' the kind of a man that you 'would be proud of as your husband and the fatner of your children. The girl who marries a man to reform him, deliberately enters upon a life of misery and failure. The man who enjoys the friendship of a nice girl should be deeply ap preciative of the privilege. If he takes her to places of amusement, those places should be absolute ly above suspicion. He should see that she reaches home in proper time, and should never introduce her to any man ok- woman of whose good reputation he is not quite sure. : Now, you see, girls, for a man to treat you in that way it is necessary that he should look on you -as something very pure and precious. Never encourage a man to speak to you unless he has been properly in troduced. ' ' ' ' You cannot expect a man to have as much respect for a girl who makes eyes at him and allows him to speak to her without Introduction as he would lor the girl whom he had to ask to be introduced to. Of course, I know that once in a while a friendship formed in that way -will turn out all right, but it is a great risk and not at all the right way of doing things. Be dignified and modest, and you will find that the average man will treat you with respect, and that he will be anxious to stand well in your eyes. He will know that if he wants to win your regard he must live up to Your standard of what a man should be. It is your duty to make tnat standard, a mgn one. iNtjw ium Anirau, , Cartoon by Scar, in the New York Uote. COUNTRY MERCHANTS FLOCK TO NEW YORK WITH NEWS THAT EVERY SECTION IS PROSPEROUS Ten Thousand Buyers From South and West With $100,000,- 000 to Spend Tell East to "Cheer Up: like Law Against Killing Deep Rooted Feeling Jigainst Mur der Exists in Most Jlnitnals ..... By Ernest Thompson Seion. T HERE is a deep-rooted feeling against murder in most ani mals. Their senses tell them that this is one of-their own race, and their, instinct that, therefore, it is not lawful prey. New-born rattlesnakes . will strike instantly at a stranger of any other species, but never at one of themselves. I have seen a young mink, stfll blind, suck at a mother cat till fed, then try to kill her. Though a blood-thirsty creature, it would never have attacked its own mother. Wild animals often fight for the mastery, usually over d question of mates, but in virtually all cases the fight is over when one yields, j The vanquished can save himself either by submission or by flight. "What is commoner than, to see the weaker of two dogs disarm his conqueror 'toy groveling on the ground? The victor in a fight between two cats is sat isfied when the foe flies; he will not pursue him twenty yards. In either -case, had the enemy been of another race, the victor would have followed smd killed him. - : What makes the difference? Obviously not a reasbned-out conclusion, iut a deep instinctive feeling the recognition of the unwritten 'law against unnecessarily killing one's own kind. There are doubtless exceptions , to this. Cannibalism is recorded " of many specks, but investigation shows that it is rare except in the lowest forms, and among creatures demoralized by domestication or captivity. Tho higher jthe animals are, the more repugnant does cannibalism become. It is seldom; indulged in except under dire stress of famine. Nothing but actual starvation induced Nansen's dogs to eat the flesh of their comrades, although itwas offered to them in a disguised form. Experience shows me that it is j useless to bait a wolf trap with a part or a dead won. Mis Kinsmen enun it in disgust, unless absolutely famished. . Obviously no race can live by cannibalism, and this is instinctively recog nized by all the higher animals, In other words, the law against murder has "been hammered into them by natural selection, and so fully established that not. only will they abstain from preying on one of their own tribe, but will rally to rescue one whose life is threatened. The fact that there are excep- j tionai cases does not disprove the law among beasts any more than amonrj men. From The Century. i ... f -Cood' Wealth and Bad By Dr. Felix Jidler. $5 8 fi si RESIDENT Roosevelt has drawn a distinction between Wealth which he condemns and that which he approves. Ho does not desire to create the impression that he is engag ed in a crusade against .wealth righteously gained, but is aggressively inclined against swollen fortunes. It is in his mind to bridle the corporations. Undoubtedly this reflects the sentiment of a preponderance of the people and is sig nificant for that fact. , , No matter how honestly he may come by it no person is entitled to a fortune beyond his needs. The extreme radicals, that is to say the Socialists, assert that all wealth is corrupt, on the ground that the employer and the capitalist do not contribute substantially to the product. Therefore the part the latter gains is stealing. I do not agree wih this, be cause the employer and the capitalist contribute valuably to product and therefore are privileged to a part of the gains. I do. say that under the present system, however, the game is ilj.ywl many times with loaded dice, so to speak. It doesn't mean that you mer chants are sharpers. But the system gives you unfair advantage. -There is -a, distinction between business and industry. In the former a man may start .as a huckster and in his wanderings finally acquire a store and credit and .go in for himself eventually. This is not true of. industry. A factory haDil iu laa&ny cases is not able to rise. He can't get away to study things around Mm. He is tied down to a certain place and is a fraction of industry. When you talk about a man ming from the bottom to the top you refer to the busi ness man. I join with President Roosevelt in his view of riches. I applaud the man -who has a mil-lion dollars or so that he has gotten honestly and say that's proper and right. If that person has been true to a higher standard he Is entitled to his million. .When wealth flows in excess of what you require distribute It freelj '. of your own accord. In this way you square yourself with your finer senses. One of the wealthiest men of this country goes about proclaiming that every time he sees a very rich man die he sees him die in a state of sin. I can't see why he should die in a state- of sin. I think it possible for a man to be 8 success In business and at tho same time save his soul alive. New York City. Ten 'thousand business men and women from the West and Southwest are in town spending, it is estimated, $100,000, 000. They have driven pessimism from the great down-town jobbing district with stories of assured pros perity and are spreading joy and cash among the hotels, theatres and other amusement places. This is the annual buying period for the spring trade and reduced rates on the railroads are bringing merchants here from the smair towns in far away Texas as well as from Chicago, St. Louis and the big cen tres. The registration at the Mer chants' Association is within a hun dred odd of the phenomenal registra tion last spring, when prosperity was at its height. Nearly 2000 buyers or their representatives, about one-half of whom are women, have registered. They are coming at the rate of nearly 200 a day. As only a portion take advantage of the special railroad rate3 it is estimated that the total number of buyers at present here is about 10,000. Hotels Are Crowded. Every hotel that caters to the out-of-town custom is crowded, the big hotels have all they can handle ana the family hotels are turning hun dreds of. people away. The buyers are. being entertained at clubs, din ner parties, theatres and with auto mobile trips by the merchants who are receiving the benefit of their trade. S. C. Mead, secretary of the Mer chants' Association, said of the influx of buyers: "It means that the country is all right. The men who are coming to New York now to lay in their spring stocks are mainly from the West and Southwest.: I have, not heard one of, them talk about hard times. - They laugh at the. idea, and I tell you their optimism is having a big effect here in New York. Our merchants rather had the idea that trade was going, to be dull th'is spring, but they have 'changed their opinion In the past few days. Buyers have registered here from towns, of nof over 1000 popula tion in Texas, the new State of Okla homa and the entire Southwest as well as from Chicago, St. Louis, In dic.ipc!, Detroit and the other big cities." , - "" "The most encouraging reports ar brought from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, where the crops have been good. I have been surprised at the number of new faces and have been told that scores o" new business houses are springing up." In the shops of the II. B. Claflin Company, Tefft, Weller & Co., C. B. Rouss, the Chelsea Trading Company and others extra employes have been hired to take care of the 'increased trade. There has also been a boom In the mail order business, while re ports from commercial travelers are to the effect that conditions are as good as they were this time Jast year. Alexander Bombard, representing one of the largest houses in Galves ton, Texas, said: "We have had -splendid crops down in our State, and we have no patience with hard-time talk. I am here to purchase one of the largest orders for expensive dry goods that our house has ever put in. Tesans hav,e money to spend and they are going to spend it this spring. My advice to New Yorkers is to cheer up." A. S. Semmes, of Detroit, said: "I guess I wouldn't be buying $50, 000 worth of clothing, mostly expen sive, too, if we were running bread lines in Detroit. The outlook in our section is very bright, and I am sure It is going to be a good business year." - "Business , was never better in my State," said Chester L. Walbridge, of Baton Rouge, La. "We anticipate a big spring trade, and I am going to take South with me the biggest stock of goods that I ever purchased. Not even the coming Presidential election has scared us." Similar statements were made by business men from Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and other cities. H.'C. Fisher, of Buffalo, said the merchants there are preparing for a great rush of trade. New York Alone is Nervous. "We are not worrying anything like the New York merchants seem to be," said Mr. Fisher. "It appears that New York is the most nervous town in the country. Further afield you find more confidence to the block than there is here to the acre." Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Newman, representing several departments of a large Chicago store, spoke for the Middle West. "We expect to do a' banner busi ness this year," said Mr. Newman, "panic or no panic. There is no fear of overstocking in Chicago, and I be lieve the same is true of the Middle West tbwns. I expect to purchase more goods on my present trip than ever before, and I've been a buyer for'a good many years." Representatives of firms in Colum bus, Cincinnati and ' Youngstown, O., had the same thing to say. t- Irwin Hochstein, of Atlanta, Ga., declared that Southern city to be just as prosperous, as the big towns fur ther' north. Cheer ,Up! Money's Plenty. "New Yorkers should cheer up," lie said. "There's plenty o money around, and people are spending all the more freely for the temporary stringency." , Aiuen r i wuu, ui a ivmiupms ui iii, r KAfri hi iindprstnnrl th-nt tho nln-ntoris ! expected a good year, and added that as the planters fared, so fared the South. - : President's Action in Browns-, i vilie Matter Sustained r REPORT WAS EIGHT TO FIVE Senate Committee -on Military Affeirs, by a Vote Action of TwentyFi of 8. to 5 Endorses ; the the Chief. Executive ; in Dissmissing Negro Soldiers of the testimony ta tfc Infantry. Washington, Special. That the shooting in :he affray at Browns ville, Tex., oi the night of Augusc 13th-14tb, 1906, was, done by some of the negro so diers of the Twenty-fifth United .State; 5 Inf antry, and that the committee on military affairs fails to identify the ion of eight guilty parties is the opin- members of the commit-i tee. Four members of the commit tee voted aaa member did declaring the submitted by inst this decision and one pot vote. The resolution A; .-'. guilt of the negroes was Senator Lodge and was army officers ville. Throu versy which country has sue. the anti been directed the final vote en before the Senat-3 adopted after five resolutions by Sen ator Forakei, one by Senator Dupont and one by Senator Scott all of which were offered as substitutes had been voted down. A Prolonged Investigation. The vote was reached after pro longed investigation extending over two sessions of Congress and evi dence had been taken covering, thous ands of pag(!S. Practically every ne- gro of the three companies of infan try dishonorably discharged by Presi dent Roosevelt, testified in his own behalf, whihj evidence in support of the Presideni; was given ' by many and citizens of Browns- ghout the entire eontro- pn many sections of the been made a political is- -administration side has by Senator Foraker. In in the committee a ma jority of tho Republican, members came to his support. The Ohio Sena tor expressed himself as gratified as this, as it was apparent from the out set that all of the Democratic mern hers were convinced that the nea,roe did tho shb Fignt to tho Senate. . ' The fight the floor of tins:. again will be carried to the Senate. The repoi'ts from the committee will not be made for about teti days. After the reports have been riade to the Senate it 'is expected Se aator Foraker will , press to vote there. The Ohio Senator purposes also to introduce a bill to restore to. the military service such of the discharged negroes as were shovn beyond a reasonable doubt to hve been innocent of any offense connected with the affray. The' comriittee -was in session for nearly threi hours. It was in tho main harmonious. Practically the only passages at arms were" of a par liamentary nature. Senator Lodge of fered a resolution as follows: "That, in the opinion of this com mittee, the shooting in the aft'ray at Brownsville on the night of August 13th-14th, 1)06, was done by some of the soldiers fifth United PANIC DIDN'T HURT THE SOUTH Yakcinan Reports Only One yf - as a Result. rvew York City. Astonished that the recent panic affected the South so little, WHour Wakeman, treasurer and general secretary of the Ameri can Protective Tariff League, re turned from the cotton belt. He aald only one Southern bank craehea in the course of the' disturbance. Sev eral bank3 carried from fifty-five to seventy-five- per cent, of their depos its in cash from October 1. One sold $200,060 of currency here early in December, v ; ''The; possibilities of the ,Southfc" Wakeman continued, "are scarcely yet: fully understood by Industrials. Up the Savannah River there is 200, 000 horse power going to waste every day. Thajt covers the region above Augusta, Ga. Of virgin soil there are Its Banks Failed hundreds of thousands ofacres. Fer tilizers are in great demand, and when it was pointed out to me there were millions of tons of natural fer tilizer accessible by stripping the land of five feet of surface I thought Noah must have left the balance of the world in the neighborhood of Georgia and South Carolina. , V ."There is general enthusiasm throughout the South regarding the betterment of Waterways, which nat urally will have an important effect on transportation of freights.". He intimated convivial Georgians were not suffering from prohlbitldgTas.he understood, each colonel had laid in a household supply so lavishly as to cause a temporary locaT fi&amclal stringency. Farmers Bay-Michigan FifgonTw' ' Output of Biiq3erTwtee. Jacksoo, MhJh. Tie State Prison Board has just sold the. output of the binder twine plant in the State pTfcdn; etitianated at 1,000,000 pounds, for the next year, to the Order of the Gleaners, an organization of farmers. Representatives of the International Harvester Company and other dealers also bid for the output. The Glean ers will pay eight and one-fifth cents a pound and the twine will be sold to A'S Strsrar jymis -: Grinding THear ltd Capacity. Ha.Taija.'- The Agrarian League ha appointed acommitteo' to memor ialize. Governor Magoon and upge Sim to us& the $1,000,000 the last Cuban Oongress voted to promote immigra tion. The league bases Its action on the present scarcity of canecutters, which is due to roadbuildlng and other pub lic works. ' . farmers at this price with only the more thpn thrAnr, 6 cost of handHag added. ' j racity. " w belonging' to the Twenty- RtntAS Tn-fnntrv flipn sta tioned at Fort Brown, Tex." Foraker!' a Substitute Killed. Senator Foraker offered as a sub stitute the following: ''The testimony wholly fails - to identify the individuals or any of them, who participated in th6 shoot ing affray." ' The Foraker substitute was defeat ed by a vote of S to 5, the affirmative1 votes being Scott, Foraker, Hemen way, Bulkeley and Dupont. The neg atives were Warren, Lodge, Warner, Taliaferro, Foster, Overman, Frazici and McCreart. The last five named are Democratp. The alignment sub stantially was the same on most of the susbstituteU offered. The Lodge resolution finally was adopted by the same division! except that Senator Dupont did not vote, makingf 3 Re publicans and j 5 Democrats in favor of discharging the negroes, and 4 Re publicans on record against it. After the Lodge resolution was adopted Senator Warner offered the following resolution : "That the- testimony fails to iden tify the particular soldier or soldiers who participated in the shooting af fray." It was agreed to by a vote of 8 yeas, 5 Republican Senators oppos ed to the Lodge resolution not vot ing. ; -v;; i. : Three Killed at Polish Wedding. Chicago, Special. -In a riot at the wedding of a Polish couple here Tues day three men were cut to death and eighteen seriously ; stabbed and club bed. The affair occurred over the sa loon of Joseph Kuza, 73 Front street, and was the outcome of an old feud. The police have locked up four men and five women as principals in the murder. In Brief MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Big Fire at Lancaster. " Lancaster, S. C, Special. Firo Vhich broke put in the livery stable Jof the Gregory-Hood Live Stock Com pany at 8 o'clock Saturday night wip ed out -'a. large portion of the town and threatened to burn the whole place there being no water supply here with which to eheck the con flagration.' The Rock ilill fire depart ment was wired for and held itself in readiness to come but there wa3 no use, without a water, supply. : The following are the losses: ' Gregory-Hood Company, $15,000 with $7,000 insurance. Methodist church, $5,000 with $1, 500 insurance. Dr. J.VF. Mackey's residence, $4, 000 with $2,000 insurance. The J. F. Maokey Company's fur niture warehouse, $4,000 with $2,000 insurance. Old Ledger office, $500, n insurance.. James Fanner Short Down. . Columbia, S. C, SpecialAnother dispensary tragedy occurred in Co lumbvv Saturday morning when Wade Hampton Sellers, known locally as "the booze king of Gervais street, ' ' the "king of Wind tigers," etc., shot and killed Dispensary Constable Ja-s. Farmer, a former policeman. The shooting occurred at "Sellers' place, when Mr. Farmer, accompanied by Detective' W. S. Ogg, applied -fpr en trance armed with a search warrant. Being denied entrance they forced the door. Sellers shot ohce with o sawed-off 41-calibre Winchester rifle, which it has been his custom to car ry about with him in his buggy and jumped behind his" door. By Wire and Cable. The race question bobbed up in the national house Saturday. Six people were killed at a grade crossing Sunday at Spring Valley, New York. Crosby S. Noyes, editr-in-chief of the Washington Evening Star, died in California on Saturday. Mrs. Dor McDonald was acquitted in Chicago of the charge of murder ing1 Walter Ouerin. The indictments against the Bridge Trust were declared defective by the Supreme Court of Ohio. The woman who accused Caruson of annoying her was fined for being drunk and disorderly. The four cruisers in advance of Admiral Evans fleet arrived at San Francisco. In a riot of unemployed foreigners in Phaladelphia 20 persons were in jured, some by shots. Midshipman Victor N. Metcalf, son of the Secretary of the Navy, has re signed from the naval service. Major Chittenden, U. S. A., and his brother, C. C. Chittenden, are ac cused in a land fraud suit at Seattle. Turkey has withdrawn troops from Persia territory and adopted a more conciliatory attitude . toward Russia. Western railroad managers repeat ed their declaration that wages will be cut and blame the president for his letter. Germany has effected a strategic move in Persia in securing an appro priation for a German school in Te? heran. The Republican primaries in Ohio for delegates to the State convention resulted in an overwhelming victory for Taft. A special from Starke. Fla.. says Mann Robinson shot and killed his father-in-law, J. L. Wynn, at Simp son City , Sunday during a difficulty between them., A coroner's jury un der Judge D. Jv. Lee found the shoot ing to, have been in self-defense. While on his way to church at Baxter, Fla., Dan Crewr, accompanied by his nephew and two ladies, wa4 shot bv James Pettv with a rifle nml instantly killed Sunday morning, The campaign for the nomination for governor of North Carolina wa formally opened at Wadesboro, An son county, Saturday, Locke , Craig and W. W. Kitchiri speaking on tho issues. A letter was read from Ash ley Horne also a candidate, declaring his candidacy, but stating tljat ho was hot a publie speaker, but a busi ness man. Rev. L. W. Crawford, ,D. D., a prominent member of the Western North Carolina conference of , tho Methodist Episcopal church, South, and a very able, minister, " died at Ashevills Saturday. ' . - A man wanted in Germany on a charge of arson was arrested in Phila delphia af ter a "chase 'v' of 10 years, which led three times around the earth. - r' ' . "Dean Rogers, of the Yale Law School, warned against Federalism in an address before - the students of Kentucky University. The case ; of Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian, who is accused by sev eral young girls, has been set for Feb ruary .24 . A ' 'A (
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