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STATE RIGHIS Upheld i Two Trust Cases by the Feder al Supreme Court. STATE COURTS RIGT Decides that Missi-ippi Has Legal Right to Disband Lumber Dealers and That Kentucky Had the Right to Oust the Standard Oil from that State. The hands of the State ir their flight against "trusts" were uphe!-' Monday by the Supreme court of the United States with telling effect. The association of Retail Lumber Dealrrs in Mississippi and Louislan na was dis!nded by affirmance of the decree of the supreme court of Mississippi and the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky was ousted from Tennessee by the approval of the decree of the supreme court of Tennessee. Both. the state courts .had held, violated the anti trust act .of, the respective states. Justice Larton announce: the opin Ion of the court in the Missisippi case. It was his first utterance from the supreme court bench on the "trust" question. He said the mem bers of the association -had obligated themselves not to deal with any man ufacturer or wholesaler in lumber who sold to consumers in the locali ties in which they conducted a busi ness suffciently large to meet the de mand of the public. He accepted the findings of the state courts. and declared that it is an illegal comblnation and conspir acy under Mississippi statute. The proceedings in the Standard Oil case were begun in 1907 under the Tennessee anti-trust '.t. The charges against the standard -.rigi aated.out of a transaction at Galla tin. Tenn. The Standard of Kentuckj .bad oil stored in tanks in Tennessee. from which it procured a supply tr serve merchants throughout varlow -sections of the state. The Evansvill OU Company of Evansville. Ind.. sen: a sr'sman to Gallatin to sell oil -He obtained a number of order whereupon the agent of the Standard Oi offered to give the merchants ter gallons of oil per barrel to counter mand their purchase orders with th( EvansviUe oil company. Four ol them accepted. The Standard and two of its agent were Indicted under the State anti trust act, One of the agents wa convicted. but the Standard escaped pnnishment on the ground that i, could not be fined under the act. bul could only be ousted. Ouster proceedings were then be - gun against it, the charges beinj K.sed on the Gallatin transactions The State courts issued an ousting decree from which an appeal was taken to the Suipreme Court of it< United States.. tiustice -Holmes announced thd opinion of the court. All the conten tions of the company were <disposec of favorably to-the State. QUICK WIT SAVED TREM. Men Climbed Cable to Avoid Shoch as Elevator FeU. erks to a rare presence of mlnc Otto Herold and F. Howard. strue *tural Iron workers. at Memphis Tenn.. escaped what seemed cer-tait death with nothing worse than blis tered hands, while C. Porter. a fellou worker, who was not so quick tc grasp the situation, was painfully if not seriously. injured. Completing their day's labor nea1 the top of a 17-story building I.t course of construcrton, the three started to descend on a frail eleva tor. All went well until the 14th story was reached. Here something happened to the engine which holsts -the car and the elevator started a rapid plunge downward. 'Howard and Herold, grabbing the steel cable, started a climb agains1 the rapidly descending lift. making such headway that they were several feet above the car when it reached the ground. Porter clung to the caz and suffered several broken ribs and was badly bruised. while his two com panions were practically unhurt. CONViNCING ARGUMENT. Lash Prove Efficacious in Georgia Convict "Strike." The strike of thirty long term con victs in the county camps, near Reid ville. Ga.. -has ended. and their threat to die before returning to work proy ed .baseless. Twelve able-bodied guards, armed with whips, gave the thirty men a sound whipping. and before the lashes had ceased to fall upon the backs of the prisoners the *strike spirit oozed away. Supervisor Tuggle super-intended the job, and it was well done. The wholesale punishment was adminis tered Monday. and after it had ended thirty men went to their work with alacrity. They have promised not to rebel again. BROTHER KILLS~ HROTHrER. In a Family Row Orer the Boundary of Some Land. Peter Kenredy. a prominent young farmecr who lived on Fair Forest creek on the line, between Union and Spartanburg counties, was shot and killed by his Ibrother. David Kenne dy. Friday afternoon about 1 o'clock. The~ shooting occurred over a dis pute about a land line. Edward Hayes and Peter Kennedy. brothers in-law, were disputing about a line 'between th'eir land. David Kennedy came by and took the matter up. He went homne and got his pistol an.: returned and shot his brother. Death~ was almost instantaneous. A Fatal Fall In the collapse of a scaffold on which the bricklayers were work ing at the new Central of Georgia Rail way shops tionday'at Mlacon, Ga.. four men were injured, one of them dying a few hours later at the Mtacor. hospital. Without a mnoment's warn ing the temporary structure gave way, and the men fell a distance of WANTE IT BADLY MARK TWAIN WRITES ABOUT THE PENSION THAT He Failed to Get Bk-ause He Had .Served as a Soldier in the Von federate Army. A section chief in the pension bu reau has preserved a copy of a char acteristic 'Mark Twain letter, ad dressed to Gen. John C. Black. now president or the Civil Service Com mission, but at the time this com munication was received 'was com missioner of pensions. Senator Haw ley had called up the case of Samuel Clements. a soldier w.ho had disabil ity from "rheumatism and sore eyes," incurred in the military ser vice. When the pension was allowed Senator Hawley. in accordance with the usual custom, was notified. Hc had probably never neard of the soldier. the request for a call up and the filling of an inquiry slip being. as a rule, a part of ;he duty of a senator's private secretary. When the circular from the pension office ame under his eye he could think o: no soldier named Cle'eata. He jumped to the conclusion thV the pension was intended for his friend and fellow citizen. Samuel L. Clemens of Hartford. Conn.. and ad vreed him accordingly. The genia! aun: i:t said that there had been i "mixup" and inclosed Senator Haw ley's note in the letter to Commis sioner Black given below: Hartford. Conn.. July S. '85. Hon. John C. Black. Commissione" of Pensions: Sir: I have not applied for a pen slon. I have oftern wanted a pen sion-often-ever so often-but. in. asmuuch as the only military service I ever performed during the war was in the Confederate army I have al ways felt a delicacy about asking yo1 for it; however since you have sug gested the thing yourself. I feel strengthened. I have not any very pensionable disease myself. but I car furnish a substitute-a psan who i just simply a chaos, a museum 01 rll the different kinds of aches and pains. fractures. dislocations. dis tempers. distortions, contusions anc malformations there are: a man whc would regard 'rheumatism and sor eyes" as a mere recreation and re freshment after the serious occupa tions of his day.. If you grant me the pension, deal sir. please hand it to Gen. Hawley United States Senate-I mean .han: him the certificate. not the money and he will forward it to me. Yot will perceive by his postal card here with enclosed. that he takes a friend. ly interest in the matter. He think. I have already got the pension whereas I have only got the rheu matism. but I did not want that I had that before. I wish it wer catching. I know a man that!I woul: load up with it pretty early. W4 all feel that way sometimes. I hav seen the day when--but never mxn< that: you m.ay be busy: just handi to Hawley-the certificate, you un derstand. is not transferable. Very truly yours. (Singed) S. L. Clemens, Known to the police as "Marl Twain." Gen. Hawley's postal card read: "Dear Sir: I am informed that you1 pensionI is allowed, and I congratu late you. Very truly yours. J. R Hawley." HAS TRAGIC SEQUEL Girl, Who Eloped With Her Uncle Dies in Childbirth. Ida Markham, the 16-year-old gir 'educed by her uncle. Hllma-a Aigh who has since been convitcai an: sentenced to the roads for six yen-' ied Sunday night in Wake, . .. 0 after becoming the mother of a cl.lid TIhe young girl is reported ':' he' parents as testifying in the las' hbiu" of her agony that High forcel ht to yield to him at the point >f a lId~ to. She was a daughter of J. C Markham. a prosperous tobacco far-" in Richmond. The burial ter~e-f er of Wake. The two eloped i'a .ep tember of last year and were cau;. in Richmond. DECEDKBER AND 31AY. An Old Man Marries Young Woan in Romantic Way. The Spartanburg Journa I sayt Thomas C. Galloway, of Gadsden. Ala.. and Miss 31. B. McCarrolI of Asheville were married in the parlors of the Finch Hotel at 8:30 Tuesday morning. The groom is about 6. years old and the bride only about 5. The ceremony was wi'..essed by veral persons who were gursts of the hotel at the time. Rev. L. M1. Roper, pastor of the Firs? Baptist .hurch. performed the ceremony. The bride came to this city Monday and met the groom at the Finch. The party left immediately after the cere mnony for their future home in Gad sden. Ala. SIX INDICTMtENTS SIGNED). Government Agent Pays Negress $120J for White GirL 'A dispatch from New York say, six indictments a'gned by John I) Rockefeller. Jr.. as foreman of tLe special grand jury that has .'''i i'z vestigating the traffic in women. .e'1 made public Tuesday. giving thi' prices at which it is charged sil:-'a irs were sold into lives of .,ni ne. The state will seek to pro:e' :h:.t elle Moore, a negroes. accepted St0 from George A. Milor. a gov. ernment agent, for Belle Woods an-i Alice Milton. little girls so young t,hat they wept when they were part ed from their dolls. Trolley Smash. At Urban. Ohio. two men were killed, two men seriously injuredI and eleven others received minnr urts early W--dnesday when a car going south on the Ohio Electric railroad collided headon with a pas .enner car coming north from Springield on a hill just south of his city. Teddy has worked off a good deal of hot air on those -unsuspecting Frenchmen. It reads well, but Ted TILLMAN IN AUGUSTA IS QUITE FEEBLE BUT IS LOOK ING VERY WELL. The Visit of the Senior Senator Was of a Personal Nature, but Took a Shot at Teddy. The Augusta Chronici. says Sena tor Tillman was in Augusta for a few hours Tuesday. and while Lhere was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Morrison. Senator Tillman was ac companied by his wife. The object of his visit was of a personal nature. to look after the improvement of cer tain property of his in the city. E'nator Tillman was seen by a re porter of The Chronicle just before boarding the train Tuesday afternoon for his home. The senator. though somewhat feeb!e. and lacking the ac customed heartiness of handshake. was very cordial in his answers to questions regarding his health. Having found that his visit was purely of a personal nature, the re porter asked Senator Tillman if he had kept up with the happenings of ex-lresident Theodore Roosevelt. The senator's look and silence spoke more than any amount of sar --asm or ridicule could have done After a few minutes he mildly rc Mlied that he no longer tried to keep up with Roosevelt. that In his fam ily the newspapers were read to him. but all references to Roosevelt were skipped. "He is the grandest fakir in the world." said the senator. "and he ha! t-he best staff of press arents that there Is in the world." W!hen asked to talk further upon topics of the d.-;. especially the switch of Republican strongholds to Democratic strongholds. the senator asked to be ercused, pleading weari ness. 'His friends in Augus, were glad to learn that the senator was well enough to make the trip to Augusta. He came to Augusta from his home :n Trenton. S. C.. and returned thert Tuesday afternoon. SUMTER MAN S.ICIDES. Charles S. Poole Ends His Life b3 Taking Poison. Anothern suicide has occurred at Sumter. Leaving a sealed not ad dressed to his wife, the contents of w.hich is unknown, and with no known reason for the act. Charles S. Poole died (Monday at the Hote, Sumter. at 3 o'clcck. from the effects of a large dose of bicloride of mer rury. which he administered to him I rlf. Mr. Poole. who Is a native of Sumter, but w.ho has made his home away for the past several years. waq in the city on a visit. To all out ward appearances he was his nor mal self, and there was no reason to suspect his rash act. Sunday night -he registered at the Hotel, was assigned to a room, but oefore retiring, he went into the writing room and there wrote a let ter, which afterwards proved to be the one addressed to his wife. He went to .his room after 2 o'clock, and shortly before three, a bell bo' evas suimmoned to his room. He was found In a horribly nauseated con -lition. and instructed the boy to phone for his wdfe, and to inform her that .he was dying. 'Mrs. Poole was summoned and a -hysician se-nt for at once, every pos sible effort being made to save -him. but he succomed to the terrible ray ages of the drug at three o'clock Sunday afternoon. just twelve hours after it was administered. Poole was twenty-seven years old. RLEUNION OF VETERANS. 'Ibe Old Confeds Will Meet in Spar tanburg in August. Spartanburg Is getting ready for the Confederate reunion. At a joint mneeting of committees from Camp Joe Walker. of the Confedeh-te Vet erans. the city council and the Cham ber of Commerce, heid Thursday morning. August 17 and 18 were the -lates set for the annual reunion of Confederate Veterans. to be held In that city. These three bodies will cooperate in making alt arrange ments for the entertainment of the old soldiers and arranging a pro gramrme for the reunion. It Is thought that reunion this year will he the largest that the Veterans have ever held in this state, and the city of Spartanhurg -s making plans or givinr them a royal welcome. SAYS TEI)DY IS A BOOP. For Not 3;eeting the Pope Says Cath olic Arch Bishop. Theodore Roosevelt's action in not meeting Pope Pius on the former tresidents recent visit to Rome, was called insulting and a violation of Mr. Roosevelt's principle of a square eal by~ Most Rev. William IH. O'Con nell. archbishop of Boston at a puh tic meeting of the American.Federa tion of Catholic societies of i-he alo ese. in Lowell. Mass.. Tuesday. Jlno. Callan O'loughlin, former assistant sertary of state. w-ho conducted theI negotiations between Mr. Rooseveit and the vatican. was severely casti gated by the archbishop. WHITE SLAVE TRADE. Georgia Judge Charges the Jury on the Subject. As a result of t.h- charge of the grand jury at Columbus. Ga.. M-. day, by Judge Gilbert of the s-upe: ir court, indictments of white 3-ae: trafickers are expected to be han-i ed down. Judge Gilbert told the jurors that New York city was not alone in its~ horrible examples ,f the sale of young ;irls into a sife ef shame and made it plain :ha-. 'he court exepected indictments re-.uran ed against several Columbus pteople. Village Destroyed. The village of Plymouth. six miles southwest of Emporia. Kansas, is re ported to have been destroyed by a tornado 'Monday night. Plymouth is a small town with 400 population I a~nd on the Santa F. railroad. All FARMERS ONWNJ feet in Conventiou at St. Louis to Dis cuss General Iatters W. I. BRYAN WILL SPEAK The Assembly Represents Millions of American Producers.-President Barrett Sounds High Note for the Planters.-Farmers Should Com mand and Not Beg. T.he joint convention of the Far mers' Educational and Co-operative Union of America, the American So 6ety of Equity and- 400 subsidiary organizations opened in St. Louis on Monday morning. 'Ninety addresses are on the pro rram. which concludes Saturday night. with an address by W. J. Rryan. Samuel Goupers. president of the American Federation of La ,or, spoke Monday afternoon and outlined his plans for bringing about a new political party through an af filiation of the farmers with the la boring men. President Barrett in opening the meeting made an excellent speech. He began his speech by saying that as the "representatire of 3.000.000 nil'itant American farmers. whose organized army rests one flan't upon the Atlantic and the other upon the Pacific ocean, I give to you a cor dial greeting, which shall know no boundaries of State or section. no narrowness or political partisanship or bigotry, but a tolerance as broad as justice and as wide as that sin cerity that underlies our common heritare of Anerican citizenship." Among other things -he said.: "the American farmer of tradition has been the farmer of the more of less humorous cartoon or caricature. var iously represented as fair prey to the green goods man or the gold brick artist. And the farmer has been slow in awakenin1i. His en vironment. In t.he Arst place, was arainst his awakening. The tardi ness of facilities for communication. the infrequency with which news napers penetrated to the far rural -istricts, and the naturr.l suspicion. w.hich is a part of -his temperament til militated to keep him in shackles -s to his own power. and his duty of self-government in the premises. "The era of sleep is at an end' The era of wakefulness to self-duty. to the obligation of self-help, to the obligation of duty to country is al ready dawning! I do not say that the farmer as a class is roused to his national im'portance and to his no tional obligations. But I do assert, with all the emphasis at my com mand. and supported by all the ex perience of a lifetIme, that the leaven or readjustment of revolutionary chan'ie is stirring throughout the mass of the American farmer." After statIng that vandalism and craft are being eliminated from our political life, the speaker said: "We are standing more resolutely each day for a literal interpretation of the doctrine of the 'square deal.' We are determined that the people and not the politicians shall rule. The Farmers' union Is responsilL both for the awakened farmer and the awakened nation, as regards the far mer. Pleading for sincere, constructive l-adership among the farmers. Presi dent Barrett said in the degree that this pervails. now and in the days to come, "we shall solve the agricul tural problems perplexing the best and most consecrated thought of this country." He said the selfish leader ship is inevitable incendiary and de structive. "For it is almost crimi rally selish aims It is willing to turn the farmer against his nei-ghbor against his merchant, against the banker. against the resident of the city. It is ledership for revenue on ly, without one redeeming aspiration. "A distinct part of the rural prob lem is the cultivation of a better and a more cooperative spirit between the city man and the country man. Af t-Nr all, they have almost everything in common. We are both interested in the curbing and purging, not the destruction, of great agencies of civ ilization. We are 'noth interested in building up a more staunch Amern ran citizenship, free of pollution from 'amaring alien strains, bred and brought up to ftnlfill the ideal of pure and militant Americanism. And un less we realize this .close mutual re lations we shall both suffer." Speaking of the campaign of the Farmers' union for the enactment of certain national legislation. Mr. Bar rett said: "Politicians in general have paid and are paying more at tention to the fa~rmer. and that is be cause the farmer is paying nwore at tention to the politician. Once let the public officer conceive the idea that he is being watched continually by his constituent, and that the lat ter is carefully comparing promise with performance, and we shall ele vate the standard of public service in this country. "I have urged upon Farmers' un ion nu.ymbers to refuse to let their attitude toward their congressmen be colored by any trival gifts on the part of :.he congressmen, the bribery of a petty office for a relative, or a cordial hanshake from the zreat man himself. The test of worthiness of continued endorsement at the polls is deedis. net flattery. and that man is a traitor to his country and to his ideals who betrays his fellows by con sidering a public obligation cancelled by a private favor. Alabama Local Option. Alabama had an election on Tuzes day and the rturns from sixty-seven rounties show that Emumet O'Neal local optionist-was nominated for Governor in the Democratic primary old in that State by a maiority of I.200 over his opponent. H. S. D. Mfallory. Mallory ran on a state-wide prohibition platform. Abduction Charged. TD. Barra. a telephone lineman. .vho has a wife and children in V'ir inia. has been jailed in Colum'ia harged with abducting Miss Ruby aeGinnis. who has been missing six noths. She is a daughter of John lcGinnis, who signed the warrant. a.. dnies his enit.ei A LCORPSE WERE MOST AGREEABLY SIR PRISED ON TRAIN ARRIVAL Went to Meet Dead Body of Brother. but Saw Him Get off Train WeU and Happy. Through a misunderstanding in a long distance telephone message rel atives of T. C. Chandlers of Washing ton. D. C., went to the depot at Wadesboro. N. C.. the other night expecting to meet the dead body of Mr. Chandler. and were most hap pily surprised to greet him well and happy. The Messenger and Intelli gencer tells the story: T. C. Chandler of Washington. D. C.. John W. Chandler of Virginia. nd R. W. Chandler of Mangum. aichmond county. are brothers. They are all getting to be old nen. and. though their paths through life have been divergent. they nevertheless. have preserved an unusual affection for each other. John W. Chandler has for some *ime been o'n a visit to R. W. Chand ler at Mangunr. T. C. Chandler at tended the reunion at Mobile and reached Charlotte Saturday on the return trip. From Charlotte he tel ephoned" R. W. Chandler that he would pay him a visit and to meet him in Wadesboro. with a wagon Saturday afternoon to carry his trunk to Mangum. Mrs. R. W. Chandler. who Is slightly deaf, received the message and she understood the per son talking to say that T. C. Chand ler had died suddenly' in Charlotte and to request that a wagon be sent to Wadesboro to meet his remains that evening. eImmediately there was consterna tion in the household and John W. Chandler at once made preperations to come to Wadesboro. He hired & team and reached town in time to meet the seven o'clock train frcm Charlotte. It was his intention to take charge of the supposed corpse anti take it to Virginia and deposit it beside the remains of his ancestors. With this end in view he went to the express car as soon as the train stopped and asked the express mes senger if he had a corpse aboard. Th.- messen;er answered in the nega tive. and while they were talking about the matter someone walked up from behind and slapped him on the shoulder. Mr. Chandler was so over come when he saw his brother stand ing before him alive and well, he fell on the s'pposed corpse's shoulder and wept. The good news was quickly tele phoned to the grief-stricken family, at Mangum. the brothers spending the night here and joining their brother at that place next day. OONJURED BY HER ENEMY. Negro Girl Thinks She Was Mado to Eat Smoke Dust. Leila Davis. a colored girl at Dur ham. N. C.. has been very ill under the belief that she has been conjur ed by ther rival. The girl and her bladk beau quarrelled some time agc and spatched up a miserable peace. Not long since che Davis girl begat to complain that Internally there wcre living things that bit her. She found out that 'her rival had con jured her. Trherteupon she went for SilaA Hamilton, and old conjure-breaker of Raleigh. a negro with forty years experience. His diagnosis was that the girl bad eaten snake dust whiot her enemyv must have powdered up and give~n her In liquid form. Dr. Silas says that snake dust will invar iably evolve itself into live reptiles as soon as it finds moisture in the hman economy and t'hat unless one gets it out quickly. he must die. IHe has cured thousands. and he thinks the Davis girl will recover. The snake dust is made by powder ing the dried 'bide of the serpent fine. As a medication it is said to -be some thing fierce and the woman who ad ministered it evedently knew what It would do. GAYE UP THlE FIGHT. "When a Man's Down and Out It's Time to Quit." . At Chicago J. Henry Ball, a car penter. 53 years old, committed sui cide In his room at a lodging house Tuesday by drinking carbolic acid. He left a letter addressed to a fellow carpenter. which reads: "Whien a man is down and out, in a land of plenty, and cannot even get a meal, it is time to quit. I went last night to the Mloody church and after the service I asked one of the minis ters for aid. "He opened his pocketbook. as he *did his heart, and gave me 25 cents. I bought the acid v-ith that 25 cents. If you ever see himi thank him for me. I ought to write to him to thank him, but I .have not the time." STRUTK BY LIGHTNING. F~ire Partially Des'troys Chattanooga Courthotu'e. At Chattanooga. Tenn.. the county Court House. valued at $I80.000. was damaged by fire S.-turday night to the ensent of at least $75.O'00. and if thp valuable r'-cords are touind to have~ been destroyed the loss will reach in rhe neighbo~rhood '-f $1. 00000. 'lhe fire was caused by a bolt of lightning. which struck the tla-pole on -top of Ilbe d'eme. contain ing .he big clock. Th-- entire upper portion of the building was consum They Are Held. The Servian government hasre -eived a dispatch from Uskub sta tion that a number of foreign n'ews paper men reporting the war in Al bania were seized by the AlbanIarns at Katchanik Pass some days ago and carried off to a lonely and almost inaccessible place in the moun Two Die in Sewer. A sewer ditch' in West Winston. N. C.. caed in at noon Mlonday. killing F-arry Stockton and William Nash. negroes. Three other men had nar TEDDY TALKSU SAYS HE WILL NOT BE A CANDI DATE FOR PESIDENT. Sticks to Taft, Who He Says, Is Working to Carry Out the Poli ches He Started. The Washington Post says in let ters whici Theodore Roosevelt is al leged to have written to President Taft. Senator Root and Wm. Loeb. Jr.. the former president thoroughly endorses the Taft administration. favors M. Loeb to succeed Governor Hughes of New York and indicates that his decision to remain in private life is final and unalterable. The Colonel will not even be a candidate to succeed Chauncey M.. DePew in the Senate and much less would he desire any other office. It is said also the former preal dent will in no sense be a candidate for the presidency In 1912. On the contrary his letters are said to indi cate that it is his conviction that the re-election of President Taft is the Republican party's duty. While Col. Roosevelt believes that a fight within the party, when it is confined to opinions of legfslation. may be healthful, he does not favor a degree of insurgency that threatens to disrupt the party at the polls and will probably deliver some speeches in the congressional campaign in the West. urging the return of republi cans, to Congress. W.hen Col. Roosevelt speaks be fore the national conservation con gress in St. Paul in September. it is said .he will declare himselif again for the policies for which he has al ways stood. but will insist that the work be pressed forward with ou-t conservation a pr -ot tor politi cal expedients. .In a word. former President Roose velt before seeing Gifford Pinchot in Europe and since. has expressed him self as convinced that President Taft has been working hard and con sistently to carry out the policies which started during the Roosevelt administration, and has given to the Taft administration his whole ap pruval. REFUSEi) TO ANSWER. Census Questions and Warrants Have Been Isued. The Columbia Record says Census Supervisor Dupre may in a few days cause warrants to be issued against four persons in this district, who are refusing to give information to enum erators. Three of these live In Col umbia. and the fourth in Orangeburg. In all four cases, the only reason givea for refusing is that the persons "just didn't want to bother wit.z an swering questios.' Mr. DuPre has tal"'saei a letter 23 of the censn saw. <vbich m ke refusal to give iniormanst.u a misie meanor subject 'o) - noe of $iig0 One of those reif~tit it a lady Cf some prominence n. (Clun~ba S3-e referred the enuaw. -.-.r-e to her hor band, who also refuses to give to information. The Record d'oes rct naine the parties for w~hom warrants have been issued not the question they refused to answer. Nor do we whow who the Orangeburm party is br~t it will all come out when the warrant is served. The government b.e goo reasons for asking the ques'imns it does or it would not ask them. andi all will save themselves uOIulae t13 answering them as best they can We hope all the cases will be a~l justed. THE WAGES OF SIN. Fiend Killed H imself Becaus He Feared Being Lynched. . William Teet, a farmer who was arrested on the charge of attempted criminal assualt upon a young white girl, committed suicide by shooting, himself, while being taken in a buggy -by Marshal Sears to Brook ville. Ky.. for safe keeping. Mar shal Sears. hearing that threats had been made to lynch Teet, secured a buggy and started wrth his prisoner for the Brockville jail. On the way Tet drew a revolver from his boot leg and shot hi mself through the heart. Whether he had the revolver on is person when seached or se cured it later is not known. CIAIMS BIG DAMAGES. The Columbia State Sued for Fifty Thousand Dollars. A libel suit for $50.000. filed Sat urday against the State Company calls attention to t'be fact that there is no ifbel statute in South Carolina and only the com'mon law applies. Several years ago the State Press As-! ociaion framed a libel law, but it was not passed by the General As senbly. Ths' $50.000O suit is filed by attorneys for Joh'n E. Black. an9 grows out of the recent local politi cal election. The complaint alleges that ..he. plaintiff was damaged on ac count of publications in tihe State during the recent ntunicipal cam paia in Colarmbia. Cleaning Gas Explodes. At Atlanta. Ga.. D. A. Bentley. manager of a local dry cleaning es tablishment, and two negro helpers were serShusly -burtled Wednesday when their clothing caught fire as the result of an exploding of gas in the plant. The interior of the building was wre'cked by the ex plosion. Shot for Ten Centa. In a 'ii5ute over ten cents. whic.h -.rcse vAhile the parties were gam-b lin - .nl Wicker Sunday morning rhot and probably mortally wounded Enci Bridres in the St. Phillip's scka~ of Newb.'ry country, both parics being colorer. Killed by Train. Jack Hall. white. aged 83 years. was killed! by a south-bound Central of G' orgia passenge'r train at Ivey. Ga.. at an early hour Friday morn-i ing. Mr. Hall had bee fishing an dIa was caught on the trestle and knock- J .4 dIng instantly.* Adds Heathfil Qualties to the Food Economizes flour, % Butter andFggs IO'$AL The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar No Alun-A Lhie Pajenne SAVE THE GIRLS White Slaves Ake Beug Bov* a Sold al the New York Maret DEALERS RAN TO EARTH Two Young Earnes t Wonen Woz*. ers Make Most Revolting Discov eries and Uncover the Vilest and Most Horrible of Traefis and Bring the Guilty Fiends to Justice The New York World cays white slavery in that city was shown to be a real, hideous ract in the last few days. The following proof of the above we take from the World: After three months of careful planning by District Attorney Whit man and John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. foreman of a Grand Jury now in ses sion, four girls were bought in New York by an Assistant District-Attor ney and two courageous women. graduates of Smith and Radcliffe Colleges. who had worked with the Rockefeller Grand Jury on the cases. The girls were purchased In the open market. The Ilstrict-Attor ney has the receipts for the money paid for them. The were sold with the direct understanding that they were to be carried to Alaska for im moral purposes. They were sold as slaves. without any reservation, ac cording to the evidence in the pos session of the District-Attorney. Each of tre girls gave her age officially as sixteen and seventeen years old. One girl wbheu found by the authoirities cried bitterly for a half hour because she had been tak en so quickly from a home of vice that she did not bring her doll. Another little girl cried equally .hard for her Teddy bear. Thee arrests have already been made In the cases and other arrests are predicted by the District-Attor ey within a short time. The first was that of Harry Levenson. 27 vears old, living at No. 16 East 3rd street The District-Attorney charg'a that through the agency of Assistant District Attorney James B. Rey nolds. and the two college women two girls were purchased from him. The second arrest was that Of Belle Moore. a negress, living at No. 348 West Forty-first street. The District Attorney charges that two white girls were purchased from her last week by the same agents. In connection with the woman's ar rest the District Attorney stated that not one-quarter of the facts could be made public at this time. Later in the evening Alex Ander son, who is employed In the Union Cafe in Broadway. near Fortieth street. and which is said by the oM cials to be under the manoagement of George Considine, was arrested. The eficals admitted that warrants are out for several other persons, but said they did not expect any more arrests before morning. While the arrests were being made the police were searching all the hospitals in the city for an eleven year old girl. who had been bar gained for and who, it is declared. would have been sold but for the tact that she became so ill because of mistreatemnent in an immoral re or that she had to be sent to a bst'l. There is reason to be lieve .aat the girl has been found and will tell her story later, but her whereabouts are being kept se The investigation was made by the grand jury and .\r. Rockefeller, who each devoted a large sum of money to the search for the root of the wht' Rlave trade. It was found 'or them by two young college wo men who had devoted themselves to the interests of their distressed sis ter. They went to Alaska. w-here he traffic is fierce, and there got ac quaited with theunder world and with the people who trafficed in de bauchery. 'They got in touch wit~h their cor-J respondents in all parts of the coun-I try, and finally got letters to parties in New York. the state for whichj they were working. They returne home. took the district attoirney's of ie into their confidence, and withi . merber of the grand jury naile~i the traficers beyond question, as reported above. They found that formerly white lrls could ly- bought for $5 to 5(. but the activity of the grand juries all over the country had ae the price of these articles of omerce rise,. s that the dealers aimed $200 for the great risk that hhey ran. Thy found also that little white rls wre brought and sold for de aachery to w.hite men or negrces. hey found many things most re olting and sensationa!. but they will ot talk much until the cases are; rought to trial. The recitation of nch that is published. even now ny well maki' one question wheth r this is a christian country or not? The latest abuse of the cold stor ge evil is the freezing up of all he... yon cotnad corn in the STOR IN YANKEEI AJMN RACES SHOW MARKED IN CREASE IN CONNECTICUT. Birth Rate Among Native Stock Is In the Decine.-Lstins Lead all Foreign Races. The report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of Connecticut Indicates that that state. once the home of the New England Yankee, is becom Ing a foreign community. Study of the tabulations concerning births re veal that the native stock of the com monwealth is being overwhelmed by the superior numbers of the Invading races from oversea. Italians, Slavs, and Austrians are beginning to fgure prominently In the payrolls of Con necticut factories, and they are also raising crops and families on worn out farms on which Yankees find it dificult to provide a decent living. The extent of the injecl on of im ported blood and the shifting propor tions of new racial elements are creating marked changes in the pop ulation and -the citizenship of Con necticut. In its Connecticut rounds the stork prefers to visit alien hcuseholds. In 1908 there were 26.694 births In the state. The number of cases In which both parents were foreign born - foots to 14.130. establishing a new -high record. The percentage of for eign births in the past decade has increased from 41.7 to 52.9 per cent. Meanwhile the percentage 0 f birth where both parents are native bors has undergone irregular decline. In other words the percentage of purely American births In Connecti cut suffered a shrinkage of 7 per cent. during the ten year period. while the ratio of purely foreign births mounted 11.2 per cent. The percentage of births when one parent is returned as native born and the other foreign born was 12.3 in 1908. while in 1.2 per cent. of the cases the nationality of the fathers and mothers was not given. The Italian race is supreme in the number of foreign children born in 1908. Of the total of 14.130. just 4.421 were of Italian origin. Rus sian born parents. most of wh6m are Jews, contributed 2.364 babies in 1908. The decline of the Immigra-. tion of Irish and German stock is al so noticeable. In 1899 the Irish led the percentage. In 1908 that na tionality was third in the list. Slas. Hungarians and Canadians show an increase in population. especially In the manufacturing centers. Twenty-six towns in Connecticut show an excess of deaths over births for the year 1908. In most of these the old native stock predominates and the infusion of foreign blood hal been small. In the rural town of. Andover. for example, three birth certificates were filed during the year. All the births were of Amer lcan parentaxe and all the deced ents were American born. Of the I h births which occurred In the farm lng town of North Stonlngham In New London county. all wvere from Yankee born fathers and mothers, 'w'bfle ?2 out or ?5 decedents were native Americans. In North Bran ford. .to cite oiie more illustration., eight of the eleven, babies born durinir the year were of purely Amer ican parentage and 17 of the 19 persons who died were of native stock. MURDERERS IDENTIFIED. By One of the Men They Attempted to Assassinate. It begins to look as If the two negroes who held up a car, mur dering the motorman, and danger ously wounding the conductor, near Atlanta. Ga., some time agn has been caught. Willie Johnson and Charlie Walker. have been Identified by Conductor Walter -Bryson as the as sailants of himself and Moterman S. T. Brown. Brown was killed on spot. Almest by a miracle Bryson, w~io was shot through and through. is fast on the road to recovery. He will be~ released from the hospital within a day or two. Bryson, who ever faltered once in his identifica thon. says the nerro Jackson shot im and that WValker killed Brown. Very Heavy Rain. '!'he heaviest ralnfaell in years fell n Greenville for the twenty-four .'curs ending at S c'ciock Sunday oring. eight and ona-~alf inches eina recorded by the Government eather m.:n. Many rriiges have een washed away in Greenville ounty, and crops are badly dlam .ged. Stove Explodes. At Philadelphia Mrs. Yette Fried ian. 64) years old, was killed Monday y an explosion of w.hat is believed :o have been dynamite in the range f her hoe Several other j~ersons wre Injured and the .house was bad ry damaged. It is believed that t.he rposive was placed In the fuel by