Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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a 1M 11 PS mi S3 m B Pubil?hs4f Weekly ABBEVILLE S C. A new cure for cancer has been dl? covered again. Chicago women smile naturally whether it helps their looks or not France gets a new cabinet more fre quently than many a man gets a new hat me American larmer win ue yioan ed to know that he is worth nearly nine billion dollars. If the "tip trust" provokes the travel lag men to effective resistance it wlli Dot have lived in vain. It Is said that Yal will have a Tecord-breaking crew, accent on the record or on the breaking? An English preacher has discovered >a cure for snoring. An old-fashioned dig In the ribs works pretty well some times. TO??n oniin lo coW tn ho a dellcacv in China, but Yuan Shi does not ap pear to relish the hornet's nest he has stirred up. Lawn tennis on ice is the latest port. Knowledge of the game might have helped the American players in Australia. Kansas City citizen wants a divorce because his wife keeps thirty-five dogs :in the house. Another marriage gone - 'to the dogs. New York gunmen broke into a gambling house the other day and held up the proprietor. One good holdup deserves another. It is predicted that 25 years hence - we will be eating reindeer meat. Aft ?r that to a mnv b? ready to eat the . 'Christmas toys. Since the automobile began to make -such great strides Into popular favor very few horse thieves have gained .prominence in the country. Brander Matthews predicts that we ehall have war again by 1930. We pre dict that in 1930 "war" will continue to be spelled the same old way. The Boston Transcript says:- "An exchange of feline amenities ia'en tertaining Boston." , One notion of feline amenities is to see the fur fly. "The mother-in-law is omnipotent in China," says Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Evidently Ella has discovered the real cause of the cnmese revolution. The Cambridge clergyman who doesn't mind if men sleep through his sermons probably will commend an alarm attachment to the contribution box. A Connecticut preacher denounces rice throwing at weddings as a filthy habit The only excuse for it is that it gives English sparrows a change of diet. Aviators are abandoning the flying game because of its dangers, and yet there are plenty of men who persist in venturing into the woods to hunt jdeer. -V -rr : r A stvle congress in Chicago ba? j doomed the bobble skirt to extinction, which, paradoxically enough, will re joice the narrow-minded critics of feminine attire. r / Wolves are said to menace the pop> vJatioa in some districts of Michigan, but Michigan is not the only state in which people have trouble in keeping the wolf from the door. \ Russia has imprisoned a man for writing a volume of poems. Are there, after all, virtues in autocracy? A learned judge was asked to pass upon the complaint of a family which objected to rag time overhead. He couldn't do it, being a mortal. New York policemen are learning wrestling that they may arrest of fenders "with less brutality." Why shouldn't they study etiquette? Chinese highwaymen, we are told, succeeded in getting away with a trifl ing sum like $850,000. Even at this early date the Chinese republic has developed successful financiers. One of our historians arises to re mark that Mother Eve was not a good looker, but what's the use of being beautiful when there Is only one man In the world and no other women? New Yorker dropped dead when he learned that he had been Jeft a legacy of $180,000, but in spite of its dan gers most of us are willing to take a chance on being left that much money. A young woman in Chicago has gone to jail rather than talk. Such a thing would seem incredible if there were not court records to prove this amazing charge against any daughter of Eve. a rich man in Pennsylvania, and a member of the bar at that, has had to pay a $20 fine and $80 costs be cause he tried to beat Uncle Sam out of a cent by sending through the mail a check folded in a newspaper. Served him right, you say? We thought you uould. Babies, say Chicago nurses, must not be rocked to sleep. The cradle and the potent hand which rocks It are to be abolished by up-to-date science, which, however, will never move the world half so well. A university professor and scientific expert wants scientific investigations of the class of human society that gives monkey dinners and snake dances by way of alleged rational amusement. This seems rather un called for. as long as the monkeys and .snakes are not complaining. ... . COTTON ACREAGE WILL BE REDUCED IS THE OPINION GIVEN BY COM MISSIONER WATSON AND MR. ANDERSON. WORK FOR ROCK HILL PLAN The Commissioner of Agriculture of South Carolina Has Returned From , i a Trip Through the Cotton Belt and Tells of the Situation. Columbia. ? "Much interest was aroused and results will be secured," raid Commissioner Watson, upon his ' return to Columbia after a trip j through the cotton states in the inter est of the Rock Hill plan for a reduc tion of cotton acreage. He was ac companied on the trip by John G. An- J - - I derson, 01 kock jim, me unsuiaiui of the plan. Commissioner Watson said that throughout the cotton belt stales Mr. Anderson and himself were very cordialiy welcomed, and that the Rock Hill plan had been started on its way to real effectiveness. In North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missisippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma the state superintendents had been appointed and no fime was to be lost in getting the counties fully organ ized and actively at work. In Geor gia the Atlanta chamber of commerce cotton committee has undertaken to finance the operations of the state superintendent's office. In Ijttle Rock the cotton exchange has under taken to do the same thing. In none of these states did there appear to be the slightest indication to hang back, but a remarkable de gree of enthusiasm was manifested. No particular effort was made to or ganize the state of Louisiana, though there was an excellent meeting at Baton Rouge. Louisiana's acreage has already been much cut by the boll weevil and from other causes and therefore, even were there an in crease in that state the total crop in an small that it would make but " -J? ? little difference. To Enforce Income Tax Law. "Unless it can be more generally enforced, a result to be wished, it seems unfair and unjust to the pres ent income taxpayers; but if enforced generally it would be a fair and proper tax," says Comptroller General Jones .discussing the enforcement of the income tax law in his annual re port to the general assembly. The amount received from the income tax last year shows a slight decrease over 1910. Comptroller General Jones in his annual report renews his recom mendation in favor of a general sur vey of lands in the state and the as certaining of acreage and proper boundaries of school and other tax districts. Soon To Have A Bond Election. It is probable that an election will be held within the next few months to determine whether or not the city of Anderson shall issue $25,000 of bonds for sewerage extension. Sever al petitions asking for extension of the sewer mains' hava b?en before the city council recently, and a ma Joritv of the members of that body j believe that any extension of the sewerage system should be done by a bond issue rather than from the current expense fund. The council, at its February meeting adopted a resolution indorsing the holding of an election in the matter. To Be Made Postal Savings Bank. Postmaster Cooper has been noti fied by the Washington authorities that, the Mayesville office will be made a postal savings bank on March 7. This action has been expected for several anonths as the department has been making inquiries regarding the advisability of such action for some time. It is hard to say whether the new department here will receive a large patronage orv not, but doubt less there will be many who will de posit small amounts for the novelty of the thing. Invitation to South Carolina. Addressing tne memoers 01 uie house in the hall of the house of rep resentatives, ex-Gov. Gillett, of Cali fornia, extended an invitation to South Carolina to participate in the Panama-Pacific International Exposi tion, to be held in San Francisco in 1915 |o celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. He urged that a committee be appointed to investi gate the proposition. Robert Newton Lynch, another official of the exposi tion, told of the advantages and pur poses of the exposition. ; Relations of Gers To Disease. "The Relations of Germs to Dis ease" was the subject of the lec ture on public health at the Univer sity of South Carolina by Dr. J. A. Hayne, secretary of the state board j of health. This was the first lecture in the series on public health and | sanitation in South Carolina. Dr. j Hayne ana ur. L.anruce wara win : lecture on this subject every Tues ! day at 11 o'clock at the university, i The course is open to citizens as well | as students. Public health is one of J the livest causes in the South. First Long Staple Market. The first long staple cotton market j in South Carolina is soon to be open j ed in Columbia by J. Sumter Moore, I who has been in the cotton businrta j in this state for a score of years. He ' was for a number of years contacted i with (he Parker Cotton Mills of this city and recently resigned his posi tion. He will open an office in the Palmetto Bank building on Main street an I will actively enter the field to purchase long staple cotton and furnish the farmers with high class cotton seed at a reasonable price. CHANGE DATE OF MEETING The Teachers of the State Will Meet on April 15.?Change Satisfactory to Mr. W. W. Finley. Orangeburg. ? The date for the meeting of the state teachers' asso ciation which was to have been held in Charleston, March 28 to 29, has been changed to April 2ft |o 27, on account of the first named date con flicting with those of other important gatherings. When the change of date was decided upon, Prof. A. J. Thackston of this city, who is presi dent of the slate teachers' association and a member of the state board of education, notified those who were to make addresses on the occasion, and received favorable answers from all of them. The following telegram was received from President W. W. Finley, of the Southern Railway Com pany: "Your letter and telegram received. Change of date for my address to the evening of Friday, April 26, is satis factory to me." The Southern Railway Company has arranged to award agricultural college scholarships in the states through which its lines pass, and the company is taking a general interest in educational affairs. While the meeting is in session, the hospitable Charleston folk have an nounced, there will be boat trips to the islands, Fort Sumter and Mag nolia Gardens, and numerous Other 4-? n A ,1 */\ +Via nlnoenor r?f tVi nQfi attending the meeting Spartanburg Wants To Win. The Spartanburg chamber of com merce is going to back the farmers of this county in a competiton to win prizes at the big corn show in Co lumbia next year. At a meeting of 20 or more of the leading business men of the city it was decided to go in to win by employing the services of an expert in corn growing to in struct and direct 50 or more of the most progressive farmers in the county on the raising of at least one acre of prize corn. A committee of 12 was named to direct the organi zation of the corn growing forces. Interest, in Humane Work. ,The Richland Society for Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals held its quarterly meeting in the directors' room of the Carolina bank of Colum bia, the president, Capt. W. D. Starl ing, presiding. Some of the women who belong were present and ex pressed deep interest in the cause for which the society stands. A com mittee, appointed by . the president to bring in new members is composed of Mrs. Edwin T. Seibels, Mrs. Ar thur Williams Hamby and Mrs. Hen ry Warren Richardson. Police Charged With Murder.. H. W. Holcomb, ex-chief of police of Townville, and Justin Woolbright, I. B. Spears and Jim Baldwin, who charged 'with the murder of a white man named Doc Welborn, were - bound over to the higher court by Magistrate Muldrow after a prelim inary hearing. Judge Memminger granted bail in the sum of $2,000 for | Holcomb and Woolbright, and $1,000 for Spears and Baldwin. Three well { known citizens of Towoville signed their bonds, and the men were re leased. j Columbia.?The steel frame for the ' building of the state fair grounds, a structure 400 feet long and 168 wide, 1 which had just been completed, fell 1 with a crash and is considered a total J loss. Contractors in charge of the construction gave the opinion that the , wind caused the building to fall. The building was valued at $25,000. The heavy steel girders supporting the 1 structure wer^ bent and twisted. Many of the steel beams were snap ped. The minor supports were bent | aand broken. Brakeman Had Leg Cut Off. J. P. Browning, brakeman on the switch engine at Branchville was (brown under a car and his left leg cut off just below the knee. While switching in a side track he was knocked off by a car standing at the end of another side track. He was given immediate surgical attention by Dr. J. S. Wimberlv and is reported to be doing as well as can be expected. American Berkshire Congress. A telegram received by Secretary Hamby of Ihe Columbia Chamber of 1 Commerce announces that the next meeting of the American Berkshire congress will be held in this city on the same date as those announced for the National Corn show. Tho tele gram was received from John F. Monroe of the agricultural depart ment of fhe Southern railway and was in response to an invitation of the South Carolina Breeders' Asso ciation, which met here with South i Carolina Live Stock Association, Daughters of Confederacy Meet. Paul McMichael chapter, United Daughters or tne uonieceracy, neia a /very interesting meeting at which time quite a lot of routine business was disposed of. The scholarship to Orangeburg college that is given by tlie chapter was awarded to Miss Inez Westbury, if this county, the success ful contes'ant. The Edisto district fnnfprpnfo will mppt at St Mnlflipw on March '11. The musical and liter ary programme rendered at the meet ing was a very good and entertaining one. Convention League Getting Busy. The lourists and convention league is getting busy, planning a campaign to bring a number of state and in terstate associations to Charleston. Professional and merchants associa tions and fraternal organizations are on the list, to be invited and |o be especially urged to meet here or at the Isle of Palms during the present year. The officers of the Hardware Dealers' Association of the Carolina? were in Charleston, making arrange meats for their meeting at the Isle of PUms June 11-14. V * 4! LABOR LEADERS ARE UNDERARREST UNION OFFICIALS ARE TAKEN BY WHOLESALE FOR DYNA MITE CONSPIRACY. FRANK RYAN IS INDICTED Nearly All of the Men Arrested Are Members of the Structural Iron Workers' Union. Indianapolis, Ind. ? The United States government arrested in cities from New York to Savannah to Den ver at least forty-one, almost all, of the fifty-four men indicted in .the dynamite conspiracy cases. It took into custody within a few hours practicaly the entire official staff of the International Association of Bridge and Srtuctural Iron Work ers, Including the chief officers, the members of the executive board and about twenty business agents and former business agents. These in cluded Frank M. Ryan, the president; John T. Butler of Buffalo, N. Y., the first vice president, and Herbert S. Hockin, the second vice president, LEADER OF THE DYNAMITERS and successor to J. J. McXamara as secretary-treasurer. Each of these men was required to give $10,000 bond for his appearance for arraign- ( J. J. M'NAMARA. ment here with all the otner aeiena ants on March 12. By its action the government re vealed the identities of the men whom it charges with being the ac complices of the McNamaras and Or- : tie E. McManigal, in the dynamite j plots, embracing almost 100 explo- ' sions, which were begun in Massa- * chusetts. in 1905, which were scatter- 1 ed over the country for six years, 1 and which resulted in the wrecking 1 of the Lob Angeles Times building 1 and an attempt to blow up President Taft's special train at Santa Barbara, * Cal., last October. Fourteen of those indicted are each ' required to furnish $10,000 bond and ' forty are each required to furnish j $5,000 bond, making an aggregate 1 bond required of $340,000. Some of 1 those whom the government was un- ' able to find were reported to have disappeared through fear of inability I to get bond. It was intimated that the iron workers' association would I be unable to furnish security for its indicted members. Immediately upon his arrest, Presi- , ilent Ryan addressed a statement to ( union labor men throughout the coun- j try calling upon them to believe in ( his innocence and in the innocence of his co-defendants. Anti-Racing Law in South Carolina. Columbia, S. C.?Shorn of its "in junction feature" and delayed in tak ing effect, the Erickmann-Osborne Carlisle anti-racing bill fight was ac cepted by the house and was orderedi ( en rolled as an act, the senate hav ing passed it in amended form. The bill now goes to the governor for ap proval. The fight on the racing bill eliminated the provision making vio lation of the law a common nuisance abatable by injunction proceedings. Arizona Now a State. Phoenix, Ariz.?Promising the new state a "golden rule" administration, George W. P. Hunt was inaugurated as governor of Arizona. Accompanied by a number of newly elected state of ficials and a few close friends, Gov ernor Hunt, who began life in Ari zona twenty-five years ago as waiter in a small mining camp restaurant, J walked to the capitol, about a mile Trom the center of that city, where the ceremonies took place. Governor Hunt is a Misourian, and 50 years old. Mississippi Mob Lynches Negro. Starkville, Miss.?Mann Hamilton a negro, identified by Mrs. John Bell as the man who attacked her at her home near Starkville, and after club bing her about the head with an iron bar, threw her into a well, was hang ed by a mob near Starkville. Mrs. Bell is probably fatally wounded. She was found in the well, which contain 1 f "' > Af lwf hnr I ed only several ieei ui u-r 10-year-old son when he returned from school. Posess wore immedi ately organized and Hamilton was captured and lynched. Fewer Weevils Brought Cotton. Washington.?Reduction of boll weevils in the cotton belt- during 1911 undoubtedly had an important bearing on the production of the rec ord cotton crop, in the opinion of W. D. Hunter of the bureau of entomol ogy. In a r&eport on the movement of the Mexican cotton boll weevil, Mr. Hunter says: "During 1911 the boll weevil was greatly reduced in num bers throughout its entire range. This resulted from a combination of climatic influences extending over a period of three years. ^Copyright, 1912.) AMERICA FOR AMERICANS Secretary of State Knox's Visit to Car ibbean Republic Has a World wide Significance. Washington. ? World-wide signifi cance attaches to the visit soon to be made by Secretary Knox, at the direction of President Taft, to the countries bordering on the Carribbean oca. European diplomats, recalling a re cent speech of Mr. Knox before the New York State Bar association, on the Monore doctrine, look upon the proposed trip with more than a pas sive interest. That speech is now being interpreted as the latest notice given by the United States that,the principle of America for Americana must be observed. Central American diplomats were unanimous in their statements that the secretary's visit not only would allay interal doubt as to the attitude of the United States government to ward their countries ,but would warn off possible encroachments of nations in the other hemisphere. The present state of unrest in many Latin-American countries the efforts or the state department to maintain neutrality as between the republics of the South, and its endeavors to un ravel their financial tangles have pro ceeded, it is said, not without the potential influences of world powers. Particular attention was drawn by a number of diplomats, discussing the wide circulation now being given to Secretary Knox's speech, to those por tions in which he advocated the im mediate adoption of the loan conven tions with Nicaragua and Honduras, now pending in the United States sen ate. It was pointed out that Mr. Knox bad urgea tneir passage utjunuoc af "the ever-increasing political rea son of avoiding the danger of Euro pean entanglement in the affairs of the countries surrounding the Carib bean." It is understood that aside from the moral effect that Secretary Knox's irlsit may have in removing suspicions jt American territorial agrandize nent, the heads of various Central \merican countries will receive a personal legislation of the hopes of :he United States with reference to the Panp.ma canal. cm u nniTS FOR CLARK I VSfc.ll y w . . . _ ' Former Governor of Missouri Retires From Presidential Race. St. Louis.?Gov. Joseph W. Folk withdrew as an active candidate for the Democratic nomination for pres ident. He withdrew after he had re ceived a telegram from Champ Clark, in which he agreed to divide the Mis souri delegation to the Democratic na tional convention as recently suggest ed by William J. Bryan. Friends of Mr. Folk said he will have half of the state delegation which is to be selected at Joplin on February 20, but that the Folk men. on the delegation will support Mr.' Clark. If it is seen that Speaker Clark cannot get the. nomination on a reasonable number of ballots in the Baltimore convention the former gov ernor will consider that he has the right to enter the race for the nomi nation. Governors Endorse Roosevelt. Chicago.?Eight governors and del egates from twenty-eight stales met here and in an informal conference organized a permanent committee to push the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican nomina tion for president. The governors ad dressed a letter to Colonel Roosevelt in which they explained the purpose of the meeting and asked him to let . iUn* if nnnnlo Ho. it be Known mat <* ,?,? mand he accept the nomination, the demand would not be unheeded by him. Taft Opens Headquarters. Washington. ? Taft headquarters are to be opened here immediately, and Representative William B. Mc Kinley of Illinois, chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee, will be in charge of the president's political interest from now until the Chicago convention. Mr. McKinley, in his capacity as chair man of the Republican congressional committee, will have exceptional means of keeping in close touch with tViTv-iuirhnnt fhe rniin political auuno ? try. Clark and Wilson Split Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla.?Unofficial re turns to The Oklahoman from forty six of the seventy-six Oklahoma coun ties in which primary conventions v/ere held .indicated that Woodrow Wilson would control twenty-five and Champ Clark fourteen of the conven tions which elect delegates to the na tional convention. The twenty-five counties credited to Wilson will have 187 delegates in the state convention. The fourteen counties credited to Clark will have 138. \ MANCHUS LOSE THRONE AFTER' THREE CENTURIES OF POWER THE MANCHUS ABDI CATE CHINESE THRONE. Premier Yuan Shi Kai 1 Is Charged With the Establishment of a Republic. President Sun Yat Sen Citizen of United States. Washington.?Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first president ol the Chi nese republic, is a naturalized American. The department of com merce and labor so held in 1904 on the eTound that Doc + tor Sun, who had been born * 4* in the Hawaiian islands, had + + been endowed with American + + citizenship. ! + + + Pekin.?After occupying the throne of China for nearly three centuries, the Manchu dynasty, represented by the child emperor, Pu Yi, abdicated. Three edicts were issued, the first proclaiming abdication; the second dealing with the establishment of the republic, and the third urging the maintenance of peace and approving the conditions agreed upon by Yuan Shi Kai and the republicans. PRESIDENT OF CHINA. DR. SUN YAT 8EN. Arizona Was Member of Confederacy Phoenix, Ariz.-rWhen President Taft signed the proclamation admit ting Arizona into the sisterhood of states, the ceremony also marked the fiftieth anniversary of the territory's admission into the Southern Confed eracy. On February 14, 1862, Jeffer son Davis issued a proclamation to this effect. Federal troops were sent into Arizona from California and on February 24, a year later, President T.innoln signed the proclamation con ferring territorial government. Taft Submits Boll Weevil Report. Washington.?The president for warded to congress a speoial report by experts of the department of agri culture on the Mexican cotton boll weevil. There has been so much de mand for the information that the president asked a special congres sional print of'it. Secretary of Agri culture Wilson in an accompanying letter said that since 1905 the wee vil had spread throughout Louisiana and entered Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama and threatened to invade the entire cotton growing region. To Reveal Pension Secrets. Washington.?Publication of the names and addresses of the 900,000 pensioners now on the Federal pen sion rolls, feeding on the bounty of the government, is provided for in a bill offered by Senator Bryan of Flor ida. and adopted by the senate pen sion committee as an amendment to the Smoot substitute for the dollar-a day pension bill. A howl of protest will now ?o MP from a large group of these pensioners. For years the demand that the list should be made public has met with opposition. Express Companies violating i_aw. Washington.?Commissioner Frank lin K. Lane of the interstate com merce commission, who has been pre siding over the' inquiry in the express companies of the country, stated that 3,000 violations of law had been dis covered in one day's transactions of one express company. The penalty for each violation is $1,000. It is esti mated that 10,000 case? ould easily be made by the comm on against the companies. The tc J fines would amount to $100,000,000 - SOUTHERN MERCHANTS AT A MEETING IN ATLANTA FA VOR ROCK HILL PLAN. REMEDY DIVERSIFIED CROP Another 16,000,000 Bale Crop Would Bankrupt Hundreds of Farmers in the South. Atlanta. ? The Rock Hill plan off cotton reduction was indorsed By the Southern Merchants' convention at their meeting in this city, in the fol i lowing resolution, which was unani mously adopted: "Whereas, the South made 15,000, 000 to 16,000,000 bales of cotton in 11911, 3,000,000 more than the spin ners need in any one year; find, "Whereas, the European mills gen* erally and many American mills are '"V ' now buying the surplus of the last I crop to cary over into 1912; there- , | fore, be it "Resolved, That we, the Southern Merchants' convention, deem it un wise to encourage the production of a large crop in 1912, because anoth er bumper crop, would certainly sell for a very low. price, which, in turn, would cause general and serious de- V moralization in business. Be it fur ther "Resolved, That we indorse the 'Rock Hill plan* of cotton acreage re /InoflAn on/f hbHffa nnrsolvPfl tn worlc for it." ' "Another 16,000,000-bale crop of cotton will1 bankrupt half the farm era in the state and hundreds of mer- t chants," said a~speaker at the South ern Merchants' convention and the 500 and more of the most progres sive business men in Dixie gathereed in the hall at the time subscribed to the statement. "Plant only so much cotton as can be raised at a profit and devote the remainder of your endeavor to the raising of corn and other crops need ed at home," said another speaker. and the convention went on record \ as believing that this is the oqly certain method of avoiding the fit*an cial stjrigency which is now following in the wake of the South's record cot- - - ton crop." Not oply did the convention go on record as believing that the reduc tion of the cotton crop is the farm er's only salvation in the matter of V better crops, but it went further and adopted a resolution faVoring the Rock Hill plan of reduction, follow ing strong addresses by prominent ;wpS men from different sections of the state, showing the absolute necessity of drastic and immediate action to remedy existing conditions relative to the price of cotton. When the meeting was called to , - order there was hardly standing roonj for the merchants who came to Atlanta to discuss problems of in terest, both to them and the farm ers. That another crop of cotton as . large as that of last year will bank rupt almost half of the farmers of : the South and hundreds of merchants was the opinion set out in a letter j * ? ? ? Omlth an/1 fn art. iroin JillUCS iVl. oiunui uuu ?u dress of J. G. Anderson of Rock Hill, S. C., the originator of the Rock Hill plan for the reduction of cotton acre age. "It is my candid opinion," said Mr. Smith, in his letter, "that another 16,000,000-bale crop of cotton will bankrupt half the farmers and thou- / sands of business men in the South." "Every farmer in the South," con tinued the letter, "should do what he knows to be the sensible thing, de termine to reduce his cotton j acre age at least 33 1-3 per cent and then stick by his determination." Says Roosevelt Can't Come Back. Lansing, Mich. ? Franklin Mac Veagh, secretary of the treasury, fir ing an administration pre-couvention campaign gun here at the annual din er^ of the Zach Chadler Republican club, where he was the guest of hon or, came out flatly with the express ed belief that Theodore Roosevelt "would not?and with his make-up, could not?run against Taft," for the Republican presidential nomination this year. Secretary MacVeagh con fined his confidence to the present contest. U. S. Will Not Intervene in Mexico. Washington. ? "Foolish stories" about American intervention, circu lated in ^lexico through erroneous press dispatches, have aroused so much feeling throughout the troubled Southern republic and so endangered the safety of American residents there, that the state department is sued a circular to its diplomatic and consular representatives In Mexico denying all such stories and reiterat ing expressions of good will and sin* cerest friendship for Mexico. Living Cost Caused Lawrence Strike. Boston.?The fundamental cause of the textile strike at Lawrence is " 1 o- tho nnininn the high cost 01 imug, of Governor Foss. In a letter to Rep resentative Oscar W. Underwood, the Democratic leader of the Federal house of representaives, Governor Foss urges the immediate removal of the duties from foodstuffs and other necessaries of life. The letter says, in part; "Back of whatever local causes there may be for this strike, the fundamental cause is the high cost of living." Pirectors Held for Banks' Loans. Washington.?Comptroller of the Currency Murray announced that he would strictly enforce the law which holds directors of national banks lia ble for losses sustained through loans in excess of legal amounts. He in structed national bank examiners, when such losses are discovered in , future, to request the board of di * " J o ffantarl tn rectors 01 me msimmwu aUwwU pass a resolution setting forth the | names of the directors responsible ! for the excess loan.