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IK SBIKIUE PRESS m B11E Published Weekly ABBEVILLB. 6 c. Thus far it bas been a hard year on baby emperors. At last accounts the man who wrote "The Beautiful Snow" was still In hiding. Getting cold feet may be slang, but there is more truth than fiction In It these days. Our idea of a waste of time Is to fall In love with the hero of a mov ing picture film. The man who kicked on the 100 in the shade weather now sees where his Judgment was at fault. The time may come when a man can be a good and great actor without having more than one wife. Generally, man proposes and Provi dence disposes, but this year woman proposes and man hasn't the heart to reiuse. Eastern society woman tells us that the grizzly bear Is not as naughty as Its reputation. Isn't she the knocker! Kansas has a citizen who claims to be "the only hog dentist in the world." What's the use of casting gold fillings before swine? , We are informed that Mara Is ex periencing a hard winter, but, then, there is reason to believe that Mars has nothing on us. One good thing about the king of weather we have had this year is that it keeps your priceless chunk of but ter from melting away. A leading actress refuses to play in a theater that asks but one dollar for its best seats. ' This actress will yet be put on the retired list A food expert informs us that there Is as much nourishment in two eggs as there is in a good sized steak, but eggs were deceivers ever. Mile. Plaskoweitzkajaljpbie, a Rus sian dancer, is about to visit us. Lino type operators are in favor of the ex clusion of undesirable Russians. Paragraphers are taking sundry Jolts at the man who paid $27,000 for a Bi ble and does not read it, but how many paragraphers read the Bible? ? One of our financiers tells us that there Is a scarcity of $10,000 men, but In our varied career we have not seen many $10,000 jobs lying around loose. Never be In your place of business when a person wants to borrow money of you, because if you are in you will be out, and if you are out you will be lm Chicago lawyer is respopslble for the startling statement that a man nill be on the safe side if he obeys the ten commandments. Another Solo mon! ' Tho rmppn of Slam breaks into print with the story that she baa been robbed of her Jewels. We never knew there was a vaudeville circuit in Siam. I / ' One of the men "who broke the Monte Carlo bank" has been arrested on a charge of fraud. Maybe he spiked the wheel when the croupier wasn't looking. "A New Yorker was arrested for throwing money away on the streets." Don't be deceived; undoubtedly he was merely trying to entice suckers from the provinces. Government investigators are try ing to find out what hash is, but a respectable family newspaper would t not dare to print what the average knorrtep thinks r?f It. New York, we are told, has a mur der every thirty-six hours. And yet certain persons would have us believe that baseball is the most popular pastime in that city. * The TurkiBh fleet has been destroy ed again. Either the war correspond ents are afflicted with frenzied imag ination or the Turkish fleet has a fac ulty of unscrambling itself. Franz Lehar, who composed the "Merry Widow" waltz, is coming to this country.. Here and there he will no doubt be able to flnd an old inhabi tant who remembers the "Merry Widow" waltz. We are told that English society women have adopted the fad of being photographed while asleep; but we fail to see how a woman can fall asleep when she knows she is going to be photographed. Experts in care of infants in New j York are warning mothers not to rock i or cuddle their babies. But science cannot do everything, or It will have | to make mothers over from the orig- i Inal nature plan before it can stop the ; cuddling of babies. An office boy in Wall street has been made a partner in the firm. All 1 of which goes to show that there are a few office boys left in the world who do not divide their time between read ing detective stories and whistling "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Now a Pennsylvania surgeon pre diets that science will conquer all germs and that an ideal race of men will result. But it is to be feared that when this ideal race is evolved It will promptly emigrate to Utopia. England now has telephone connec tion with France through six cables, and will soon have telephone connec tion with Holland and part of Belgium, and later with Berlin. This will enable our English friends to study foreign languages with native teachers, with out going away from home. FIFTH NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION THE SCOPE OF THE GREAT CORN SHOW THAT IS TO BE HELD IN COLUMBIA. ro BE AN INSTRUCTIVE SHOW - -? Having It In a Southern State it Acknowledoement That South Is Not Looked Upon as Purely Cotton Growing Section. Columbia.?The fifth National Corn Exposition will be held in Columbia January 27 to February 8, 1913. The four previous expositions were held in the Northern statesvand the selec tion of a Southern state for the next is an acknowledgement of the fact, that the South is no longer looked upon as purely a cotton producing section. For the first time in the history of the country, all sections?East, North and West?will have an op portunity to meet in the South for the holding of a great national agri cultural exposition. Those who are familiar with the past history of this movement and what it stands for in its relation to agricultural education and develop ment, know that it is more than a mere corn show. The competitive exhibits of corn, other grains and grasses is only a minor part of the exposition. The great feature will be the exhibits and demonstrations of the various state agricultural col loe-po and exDeriment stations and the United- States department of ag riculture. These exhibits will depict in graphic and forceful manner the various lines of agrciultural experi mentation and investigation being carried on by the United States de partment of agriculture and the dif ferent state agricultural institutions. Each exhibit will be in charge of ex perts, who will explain the details to the visiting farmers and point out how the results of this work may be applied to their own farm condi tions. Express A Difference of Opinion. Three justices of the supreme court expressed a difference of opin ion as to whether or not a railway company is liable for punitive dam ages when one of its agents refuses to turn over a shipment of goods un til the exact .amount of freight due is ascertained. The case was from Aiken county and is an appeal through the circuit court from a mag istrate's verdict ior $iuu ior piainun. The main opinion is by Chief Justice Gary. Associate Justice Hydrick con curred in a separate opinion and As sociate Justice Woods wrote a dis senting opinion. The other two members of the court, Associate Jus tices Watts and Fraser, did not par ticipate in the cjjse, as they1 were not on the bench at the time of ap peal. The Farmers Are At A Standstill. The farmers of Lexington county are at a standstill, so far as real work on the farm is concerned. Less land has been broken at this sesfeon of the year than in many years past, due to the very severe winter. The land is full of water everywhere. However, building operations and other improvements on the farm are being pushed rapidly, so that when good weather comes the preparing of the land will receive the entire at tention of all hands. Work Progressing On New Road. The laying of rails on the several routes of the Greenville, Spartan burg and Anderson Railway entering Anderson will be begun in the near future and within six weeks the road will be completed and ready for traf fic. The big steam shovel to be used In excavating for the handsome freight station to be erected on the corner of Murray avenue and Federal street has arrived, and everything is being put in shape for the erection of the building. Found Body Floating In Pond. Suicide, foul play and accidental drowning were theories advanced when the body of Henry Lynder, col ored, was found floating on the pond of the cotton mill at Chesnee. The ' negro was last seen a few days ago. A search lasting twenty-tour hours Jr. fin/liner nf tVin I I CBUllCU 111 HlXJ lumniQ \jl iuc u\j\xj , No reason can be assigned for suicide and, if so it was. no one knows of any reason the dead negro had. He was capable and quiet. It would prove exceedingly hard for anyone to acci dentaally drown in this pond. General Sessions Court Convened. The court of general sessions at Hampton convened with Judge R. E. Copes presiding. Only three cases have been disposed of so far. Charlie Moore, a negro, was found guilty of murder with recommendation to mercy. He killed his wife in Estill I in January. Luke Conner was found not guilty for assault and battery with intent to kill Reilly Miller. The court has been busy with the trial of the State vs. Albert Kearse and Davis Etal. indicted for assault and battery with intent to kill. Medical Society Holds Meeting. The fourteenth annual session (ft the Tri-State .Medical Society met at Columbia with over one hundred phy- \ sians of North Carolina, South Caro lina and Virginia in attendance. May or Wade Hampton Gibbes of Colum bia welcomed the visitors on behalf of the city. Mayor Gibbes injected South Carolina politics into his ad dress suggesting to the North Caro lina physicians present that if that state will take some of the modern politicians he would be willing for that stace to have Andrew Jackson. \ AN ADDRESS ON DRAINAGE A. G. Smith Speaks at the State Uni versity?What It Means to State of South Carolina. Columbia.?"One hundred miles of tile drains are in South Carolina. There should be 500,000 miles. No single thing would mean so much to the state as good drainage." Such was the statement made by A. G. Smith, in a practical address deliv ered at the university in the course on agriculture. His subject was "Drainage." He handled it in a skill ful way. There sat before him many members of the faculty as well as a large company of students, and all were richly repaid by their presence. Mr. Smith exhibited various kinds of tiles that are actually in use. He also had on the desk a number *bf dif ferent kinds of tools used in drain age. He spoke of the three tile fac tories in this state, and the possibili ties of tile manufactures The whole task of drainage fairly glowed before the minds of his audience. "Drainage is essential," said Mr. Smith, "to the highest development oi agriculture. The removal of the surplus water is necessary to the proper root development of the plants, to the warming and friability of the successful cultivation of the land. Drainage makes land, uncer tain in production, produce good crops every year, and brings into cultiva tion land that otherwise is worthless. It increases the value of the land, and makes the unhealthy communities healthy." Appointments by The Governor. T!?p following appointments were made by the governor: Dr. Thomas R. Caruthers of Rock Hill, regent of the state hopsital for the insane, to take the place of W. J. Gooding of Hampton, deceased. E. Tom Rauch, magistrate for new upper township in Richland county, Ballentine post office. B. W. Daniels of Columbia, J. W. McCreight of Killians, J. W. Free man of Columbia station A were ap pointed as the Richland county board of supervisors of registration. L. A. Griffith, C. C. Stanley and G. W. Col lins were appointed as commissioners of election for the city of Columbia. J. W. Hill, member of the house from Colleton county ,has been appointed to the office of highway commission er of that county, which takes the place of the county supervisor and the county board of commissioners under the terms of an act passed by the legislature at this session. The Bad Weather Delays Work. The farmers of the community are at a standstill on account of the very bad weather. Last week was wet from the beginning to the end. No fertilizers have oome into Dillon yet.to amount to anything. The mer chants have had few inquiries about them. Everybody seems to be hold ing oil expecuug a. siump m pnuee. The fertilizer bills in Dillon county will be cut about one-half under last year. The merchants are going to ask better collateral than ever be fore and are not as anxious about selling guano this year as last. There is yet lots of cotton to be picked and many are heard to say they will ge^ what is in the fields if it takes them until April or May to get it. Is Charged With Murder. James Moultrie, a negro near Mount Pleasant, was held for the killing of another, named James Jef ferson. Moultrie alleges that Jeffer son destroyed the happiness of his home in the wilds of Christ ^hurch parish. He hid in his home and awaited the coming "of Jefferson and then attacked both the man and his wife. He beat them both over the head, and Jefferson died a half hour after he had been beaten. is Candidate For Sheriff. J. C. Hall, former chief of the con stabulary for upper South Carolina, has announced himself as a candi(fate for sheriff of , Greenville county This announcement . makes three avowed candidates for this office the Encumbent sheriff P. P. Poole, former ' Sheriff J. D. Gilreath and Hendrix Rector of the police force. There are yet more to come, it is said. Chester.?Miss Rosa Lemon, a resi dent of the Eureka Mill village, made a desperate but ineffective effort to commit scicide Filed Suit For $5,000 Damages. Suit for $5,000 damages was filed at Newberry in the Circuit court for this county by the American Cash Purchasing Company against Cope land Bros; The basip of the suit is that two vears ago. CoDeland Brox sold their stock of goods to the Atnc-rican Cash Pu.-chasing Company, a condition in the trade- being that they would not go back into business of a similar nature for five years. Recently they bought a stock of goods and reentered business. The defend ants have not filed their answer. Breeden Speaks At Lander College. Prof. J. K. Breeden, dean-treasuref of Anderson College, was one of the speakers at the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Lander Col lege at Greenwood this week. He spoke on the subject of "Our Sister I Colleges." Work on the buildings of | Anderson College on College Heights is progressing very nicely., The buildings will be completed in plenty of time for the opening of college next fall. The college is to be con ducted .under the auspices of the state Baptist1 convention. Butler Given Preliminary Hearing. Isaiah Butler was given a prelim inary hearing on the charge of assault and housebreaking at the county jail at Charleston, the crime having been committed several nights ago in St Paul's parish, and upon his arrest a short time after he was quickly brought here for safekeeping. The news of the affair was kept as quie as possible and only recently when the preliminary took place, was the main facts of the case made known Magistrate Towles came to Charles ton to hold the hearing. # BURNED AREA IS MILE AND HALF LONG AND IN SOME PLACES OVER HALF MILE WIDE. NO OUTSIDE AID NEEDED No Lives Were Lost, But There Were Many Narrow and Thrilling F o/?fi rt*e Houston, Texas.?In the wake of the most destructive fire in the his tory of Houston, smouldering wreck age covers an area about one and a half miles in length and varying in width from 200 yards to half a mile in the northeastern section of the city. More than a dozen of the city's most important industrial enterprises are in ruins, 200 or more dwelling houses and store buildings are in ashes and approximately 1,000 per sons are homeless. The most con sedative estimates are that the loss will reach at least $7,000,000. The in surance carried will not exceed 40 per cent. Except for a few who suf fered minor burns and bruises, no casualties attended the fire. Breaking forth without warning in an untenanted rooming house known locally a? the "Mad House," shortly after one o'clock, in the morning, and at a time when a fierce gale was sweeping from the northwest, the flames made remarkable headway. Leaping from its place of origin, the flames pounced upon adjoining struc tures and from them careened toward the southeast, generally making clean and desolate its route, but occasional ly, in seeming sport, sparing a struc ture, sometimes a mere shanty, and again a place of pretension. The industrial plants destroyed in clude three cotton compresses, to gether with 55,000 bales of cotton; a syrup factory; a pencil factory; two rice mills; a cotton pickery and three lumber yards. The compresses ao<l cotton alone were valued in excess of $5,000,000. Another building de stroyed was St. Patrick's Catholic, church and academy. Quick action was taken for the re lief of those rendered homeless, and nightfall found the victims at least with their immediate needs cared for. The destroyed area is what is vrtnwn as the Fifth ward, for the most part. The Houston ship chan nel divides the city, running east and west, and it was not until the con flagration had reached its banks that the slightest headway could be made toward checking it. Except for an occasional dip across the stream the line of destruction ended here. Outside aid will not be needed in caring for those made homeless. Tel egrams came from the mayors of Lou isville, Ky., Boston and several other cities proffering aid, but to these the mayor has responded expressing grat itude, but asserting that there is no need prevalent that Houston cannot meet. VALET BRANDT IS FREE Justice Gerard Declares Thirty-Year Sentence Was Illegal. New York.?ftxcept for service of five years in prison, Folke E. Brandt is the same man in the eyes of the law as he Was before he was sent away on April 4, 1907, to serve thirty years for burglary at the home of Mortimer L. Schiff, where he once worked as a servant. The long pris on term was broken up when Justice fierard of the supreme court sustain ed a writ of habeas corpus obtained in Brandt's behalf. According to records Justice Ger ard read into his opinion, Brandt op March 28, 1907, withdrew a plea of not guilty to the indictment changing that he feloniously broke into the Schiff home and stole "two pins and a shoe horn" and pleaded guilty. In sentencing him, a \teek later, to thir ty years in prison Judge Otto A. Ros alski illegally condemned the man, according to Justice Gerard. The court held that the examina tion of Brandt at the time he was sen tenced tended to refute the plea to a charge of first degree burglary, as he denied thaf he forced entrance to the Schiff house. Teddy's "Hat Is in the Ring." Clevaldn.?"My hat is in the ring." This is what Theodore Roosevelt said here when an admiring Cleveland friend sought to learn whether, he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Columbus, Ohio.?"Big Rusiness," the fitness of the American people for self-government, the recall of judges , and praise for the progressive legis lation in Wisconsin were topics dis cussed by Theodore Roosevelt in his address before the Ohio constitution al convention. I Tennessee Wants Maneuver Camp. Washington.?Adjutant General \Ia loney of Tennessee urged before the house military affairs committee a bill for government acceptance of o, 000 acres of land near Tullahoma, Tenn., donated for a maneuver camp for troops of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas. Opposition devel oped in the house against the Hlack mon resolution providing a commis I sion to investigate tlie availability i of land near Anniston, Ala. House Passes Chemical Tariff. Washington.?For tlie first time since the Insurgent Republicans broke away from the regulars in the light on the petroleum duty, the Re publicans of the house (presented practiealv a solid front against the passage of a tariff revision bill. All Insurgents voted with the regular Re publicans of the house presented I wood chemical tariff, which was pass ed. 'rhe insurgents opposed the meas ure on the ground that it was a re vision upward instead of downward. ffiitm and miffi FAR-REACHING DECISION IS REN DERED By HIGH TRIBUNAL OF THE UNITED STATES. Supreme Court Has No Authority to Object to Initiative and Refer endum Government. __ Washington.?Only congress, and not the Supreme court, of the United States, may object tp the initiative and referendum method of legisla tion in the statjs, so the court itself decided. That tribunal held that the ques tion in the states, so the court itself tained a republican form of govern ment, guaranteed by the Federal con stitution, after it adopted the initit tive and referendum method, was a political problem for congress and not a judicial one for the courts. The decision was based on the claim of the Patiflc States Telephone and .Telegraph company that a tax upon It, imposed* by the initiative .and referendum method in Oregon, was unconstitutional. The initiative and referendum pro visions of Missouri, California, Ar kansas, Colorado,. South Dakota, Utah, Montana, Oklahoma, Maine and Arizona hung in the balance. An ad verse decision would have affected proposed legislation of that charac ter in many other states. TAFT APPOINTED PITNEY New Jersey Man Succeeds Harlan on Supreme Court Bench. Washington.?President Taft s^nt to the senate the nomination of Chan cellor Mahlon Pitney of New Jersey to be an associate justice of the Unit ed States Supreme court. He also nominated Julius M. Mayer of New Rork City to be judge of the United States district court for southern New York. Mr. Taft does not antic ipate any opposition to the nomina tion of Chancellor Pitney in the sen ate. Chancellor Pitney long has been a prominent figure in New Jersey. In casting about for a successor to Justice Harlan, Mr. Taft first looked by the Mississippi river. At onetime it seemed certain that he would name Judge William C. Hookb of the United States circuit court; and again it seemed that Secretary Charles Ngael of the department of commerce and labor would be the president's choice. There was a protest against Judge Hook because of his decisions in two Oklahoma cases, one involving the 2 cent car fare law and the other the "jim crow" car law. The latter case, t- lurirro T-innn decided in favor Ill w Ui^lA o UU0v ? of the railroads and against the con tention of the negroes affected, is said to have been the tinal cause of the president's turning from the Kan sas jurist. When Chancellor Pitney shall have been confirmed by the senate, and has taken his place on the Supreme court, President Taft will have had the extraordinary experience of hav ing constituted a majority of the highest tribunal in the land?a bench on which it had been his most exalt ed ambition to serve as Chief Jus tice^ Burned Bodies of His Victims. Rutherfordton, N. C.?Authorities here were notified of the arrest of Will AlcEntire at Tampa, Fla., want ed here for the alleged murder of three men in 1905. According to the indictment returned by the grand jury at the last term of court, Mc Tntire, who was for years proprietor of a distillery in the county, killed and robbed the men, afterwards cre mating the bodies in the furnace of his plant. According to the evidence submitted, the murders were lor the purpose of robbery. Mob Shoots Three Negroes. Nashville, Tenn.?Armed with clubs and revolvers, a mob of eighteen or twenty men, all of them said to be citizens of Nashville and employees of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, shot and killed Watt Greer, dangerously wounded Dave Neal and badly beat up Green Bo mar at Shelbyville, Tenn. The vic tims are the negroes charged with the murder of S. W. Eversou, special officer of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, which occurred near Bellbuckle, February 10. j Triple Murderer Hanged at Mobile. [ Mobile, Ala.?Refusing the offers of ( a faithful minister of the .Methodist church, who labored with him. his own son ami members of the Salva tion Army, J. L. Odom, a triple mur derer, was hanged here. On the gal lows the condemned man, when ask ed to say his last prayer, answered by requesting that his young five year-old daughter, Hazel, be brought to him. lie mounted the gallows sto ically and laughingly asked to see his wife. UNITED STATES INSULTED, 1 Recall of the Colombian Minister and' Termination of Diplomatic Re lations Expected. Washington.?A grave diplotmatic situation between the United States arid Colombia has been precipitated by the publication of a letter which Senor Pedro Nel Ospina, the Colom bian minister, has written to Acting Secretary Huntington Wilson of the state department, suggesting that it might be "inopportune" fot Secretary Knox ro visit Colombia during his projected tour of Central America. The Colombian minister, first draw ing attention to the fact that the views are his own, and not officially those of his government, seriously criticises the United States for not Riihmlttintr to arbitration the differ ences with Colombia growing out of this government's acquisition of the Panama canal zone. Inasmuch as the letter, admittedly, is the personal expression of the min ister, written without having com municated with his government, It was received at the state department In tLe nature of a personal insult to this government. No action has been taken and no official would comment on it, but the incident is known to have stirred of ficials of the United States to such an extent that the recall of the Co lombian minister is expected as a matter of course. At present, how ever, the United States Is disposed to wait until Senor Ospina receives the instructions he has asked for. In diplomatic circles it was believ ed that Colombia, smarting under eight years of Ineffectual attempts to secure arbitration of the canal zone differences, would confirm the unof ficial views of her accredited repre sentative. A more profound sensation is look ed for, and it is believed that a ter mination of diplomatic relations be tween this country and Colombia' Is in prospect. nitmii at r An nAAA Plf n T riNunui run iiuuocvcli Former Forester Will No Longer Sup , port Senator LaFollette. Washington.?Gifford Pinchot, in a signed statement, announces that he has withdrawn his support from Sen ator LaFollette's presidential candi dacy, and that he will hereafter ad vocate the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Pinchot declares that the events of the last month have made it apparent that Senator LaFollette's candidacy will neither hold the Pro gressive Republicans together as a fighting force, nor prevent the nomi nation of "a reactionary Republican." "The course which the senator has selected to pursue," says Mr. Tinchot, "will not keep the Progressives to gether, and in that course I cannot IOUOW mm. Chicago. ? Prominent Democrats from all parts of Chicago thronged at the Hotel Sherman, where the headquarters of Speaker Champ Clark's presidential campaign have been opened. It has been the liveli est presidential headquarters that have been opened in Chicago. Madero Would Muzzle ' Pres?. Mexico City.?Believing that all the insurrections against the government are largely a result of the publica tion of sensational news, President Madero and his cabinet have appeal ed to the permanent commission jn congress to suspend that article of the constitution providing for a free press and have been given a negative reply. The commission was asked also to authorize the extension of the zone in which the suspension of per sonal guarantees are operative. This, too, was refused. Plot to Steal $500,000. New York.?Former State Senator Frank J. Gardner of race track leg islation fame, was aressetde and locked up, charged with conspiracy to gain control of the half-million dol lar estate of Samuel E. Haslett, an aged recluse, through a power of at inmev which Haslett is alleged to have repudiated. Gardner, who, a year ago, was acquitted of a charge of attempting to bribe State Senator Otto 0. Foelker, in connection with the anti-race track legislation, plead ed not guilty. For Development of South. Baltimore.?Representatives of 1f> Southern states and officials of raij road and transportation companies met in tills city to discuss plans for the agricultural development 'of the South and the immigration question as affecting that section. The states represented are: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisia na. Maryland, .Mississippi, Missouri, Maryland, Mississippi, -Missouri, Ten nessee, North Carolina, Texas, Vir ginia and West Virginia. SOUTHERN SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION IS FORMED AT BALTIMORE. FARM LABOR DEPARTMENT Transportation Companies of Slxteiiv Southern States Represented at the Baltimore Conference. Baltimore, Md.?Representatives of sixteen Southern states, heads of roads and steamship lines that serve thai; section and men who have stud ied the agricultural and industrial. nrr?si?mu nf the South for years, met. here and formed the Southern Set tlement and Development Organiza tion. Baltimore was made the head quarters, with S. DaVies Warfleld of this city as chairman, and Ell Franks also of Baltimore, secretary. It was resolved to start at once to raise funds to carry on the work of the organization, to establish branch, offices where necessary and to carry on such educational or other work in. the sixteen Southern states as may be deemed desirable with the view to procuring desirable immigration, col onization and settlement as the needs of the several states may require. It was further decided to recom mend to the several states of th?^ South the urgent necessity of estab lishing in each 'tate a state immigra tion bureau for the purpose of dis seminating reliable information re grrding the resources, the possibili ties and the opportunities of the South, to be supported by the states' machinery and money, under the in direct supervision of the governor of each st$te, with a good, practical business man in charge, whose du ties shall be to co-operate with the United States government, the trans portation companies, the commercial bodies, the real estate men and press, and the Southern Settlement and De velopment Organization in placing the country properly before the peo* pie of the world." Tue establishment of a farm labor tn. ho <wiri?-rl tn the func ucpai itiivuip cu i/v tions of the state bureau was also recommended if the bureau found it expedient and practical to do so. A resolution that caused some dis cussion before it was finally perfect ed to suit the ideas of the delegates, set forth that the north Atlantic pors of entry are receiving a very large percentage of all of the desirable im migrants, who remain In the cities and states adjacent thereto. It declared that the present com mercial importance and possibilities of the.South justify the1 Federal gov employees of railroads engaged in cilities for the reception of immi grants at Baltimore, the south Atlan tic and gulf ports, from lack of which said ports are rOw suffering," and called upon congress and the proper Federal officials to "take such steps as may be necessary to provide such facilities at Baltimore, the south At lantic and gulf ports as to put these ports on a parity with said north At? lantic ports." . ? r?u itw I a Uf UtCCACC I.IABILI I I LMn muugnub Taft Recommends That Congress Pass New Liability Law. Washington.?President Taft sub mitted to congress the report of the employers' liability commission and the commission's proposed employers' liability and workmen's compensation bill, accompanied by a message urg- j v ing / he enactment of the measure which is the most advanced pigce of liability legislation yet presented. The president sets forth that the pro posed law not only would insure to eemployes of railroads ''engaged in interstate commerce quick adjust ment of their claims for damages, but also would relieve the courts of a vast amount of work and enable ibem t) administer judicial affairs with greater dispatch. "I sincerely hope that the act will I ass," said the president. "I deem it cue of the great steps of progress to ward a satisfactory solution of an im tortant phase of the controversies Ktween employer and employee that 1-as been proposed within the last two c? three decades." Missouri for Champ Clark. Joplln, Mo.?After an all-afternoon fight on the floor of the convention, caused by the effort of David A. Ball of Bowling Green, a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, to op pose the slate agreed on by party loaders, the Democratic state conven tion elected eight delegates-at-large to the Baltimore convention, each with half a vote. Each of the six teen congressional districts chose two delegates to. Baltimore. The delega t'.on was specifically instructed td v?te foY Champ Clark for president. Savannah Passes 2,000,000-Bale Mark. Savannah, Ga.?Savannah cotton r^jeipts for the first time in the his tory of the port for any one season passed the two million bale mark. There was great rejoicing on the floor of the exchange at the fact that Savannah has become the second cot ton port of the world and a giant banner was strung across the top of the exchange telling of the reaching cf the new record-breaking figures. Many telegrams of congratulation l*ave been received by the officers of the cotton exchange. Cabinet Discusses Colombian Affair. j Washington.?President Taft and fnlnmhiail the cabinet msmaacu me v.?. situation, but no statement was given nut. Neither the stale deparment nor the Colombian minister had re ceived any advice from Bogota as j to whether a visit by Secretary Knox | to Cartagena would be welcomed Ly tjie Colombian people. The impres | ston prevails that the reply, when if. do?'s come, will be a substantiation I of the attitude taken by Minister Ca pina, and that Colombia will be omit ted from the Knox itinerary.