Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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na tWWfM <?1 ?KM "1"M"M' !? MA : ; Thc Planter's loan j ; I and Savings Bank ;: Augusta, Ca. ;* ?I? Pays Interest on Deposits, . II J? Accounts Solicited. . - L.C. WAYNF, CHAS. C. HOWARD, X PRESIDENT. CASHIEu. RESOURCES OVER $1,000,000. . . VOL.73. EDGEPIELD, S. C., WEW?SDAY, MAY 27, 1908. .. >"i ;>3H- A^AJMeSn? <u'V THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA. AUGUSTA. GA. L. C. HAYNB, GHAJ? E. President. C?Hier, CAPITAL $250,000.00. Surplus & Profits $190,000*00. Tbe business of our out-of-town ff?tede J. receives the sam* cateTolar?enHoa.*s<ii*t j. o? our local depositors. The accounts ol ? careful conservative people solicited. . ( NO. 22. ct/iPDVP?nnv ^Palmetto Thc News of South Carol i 111 i 11 ll 118 M 1 ? H ii i H? ? Democratic State Convention.: Columbia, Special.-The Di'mo .ratic State convention was held here . ] Wednesday. The two most important ' matters before the convention were i, the instruction of the delegates to. the National convention and the elec- j tion of these delegates. United' States Senator Benj. R. Tillman was J elected by acclamation and made chairman of the South Carolina del egation, notwithstanding the fact he is now on the high seas en mite to Europe and will * not return to America until long after the Denver j convention. United States Senator Frank B. Gary of Abbeville was J.Iso elected by acclamation . The "other two members of the ''big four" are j Col. H. H. Watkins of Anedson aiid Gen. Wilie Jones of Columbia. Thc four alternates at large are: Hon. W. F. Stevenson of Cher?w Dr. R. F. Smith, of Pickens, John P. Grace of Charleston and Col. T. B. Crews of Laurens. By resolution of the con vention, Hon. W> F. Stevenson, hav ing received the highest, number of rotes cast for any candidate for al ternate at large will fill the vacancy on the delegation caused by the ab sence of Senator Tillman. By a de cisive vote the delegation was in structed to vote solidly for the nomi nation of Bryan for presidential can didate of the Democratic parly. THE PLATFORM. Adopted by the State Democratic Convention. " N We, the Democratic party of South ' Carolina, in convention assembled, re affirm our faith in the fundamental and historic principles of the party of Thomas Jefferson and call to the na tion to again put its trust in the party of individual liberty and of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none." ?. j V."e favor the exercise by the gener al government of all its constitutional au'hority for the prevention of mo-1 nopoly and for the regulation of in- ? teistate commerce; we insist that fed eral remedies shall be added to, and not substituted for, State remedies.' We denounce as revolutionary the policy of the Republican party, that thc powers of the gensral government V-onld be extended by ju*4"-1,1 -*nw. stmctions. A private monopoly is ii and intolerable. We, there the vigorous enforcement o inal law against trusts and li?tes ,and demand the en such additional legislation necessary to make it impossible for-j? private monopoly to exist in the; United States. ?. I We favor an immediate revision of ? the tariff by the reduction of import duties, and we denounce as hypocriti cal the promise of the Republican party to enact such legislation after the elections. Articles entering into competition with articles controlled by trusts should be placed upon the free list; material reduction should be made in the tariff upon the neces saries of life. Our present financial condition show the urgent necessity for a more elastic currency system. Tie Democratic party of the nation should . pledge the people that if plac ed in power it will enact prompt but conservative legislation to relieve the present conditions. We favor the enactment of a fair and just employers' liability law. . ' We sympathize with the efforts put .-1-i Attempted Suicide. Gaffney, Special.-Lelia Morrow, a j young woman who has passed through much trouble in her short lifetime, attempted suicide here last week by throwing herself into the lake. He~ actions attracted the attention of i gentleman who watched her and drew her out of the water in time to save her lifo. Hailstorm in Society Hill. Society Hill, Special.-A terrific hailstoim swept over Society Hill and continued nearly an Jiour. The hail stones covered the ground like snow and drifted into heaps several inches deep. It was the largest that has ever been witnessed here. Some of the stones were as large as hickory nuts. The damage to corn, cotton, gardens, vines, shrubbery and trees is great. The extent of damage can not at this time be estimated with accu racy. War Eagle Company Formed. Greenville, Special.-Books of sub scription to the capital stock, $50,000, of the War Eagle Hydraulic Mining company were opened at the Ameri can bank. The stock is placed at $1 a share and the officers of the com pany-aie; Dr. T. C. Stone, president; Henry Briggs, vice president; Dr. E. W. Carpenter, secretary-treasurer; F. L. Plaisance, general manager. Legal Execution. Bennettsville, Special.-Jim Mal Jor> Friday, just at noon, paid with hin life for the brutal murder of his -wife over one year ago. The trap .wa? sprung at ll :39 and at 12:06 Dru. Carmichael and Kinney pro 5r:nced him dead as a result of etti nngulation. His body was cut down and taken away and buried in tin. ;> >tt'..r's. field, his family refusing to alee charge of the remains. The ex ; ici was orderly and only a few Wi ^.JS^il it. Hi I I I 1 I I I I 1 i i i ? I I I l-l I I I i I I I Affairs ii: wv ? " 1 ina in Condensed form I;; 11111111[111 M I ll ! 11 H tl 1 > forth for the reclamation of the arid lands of the West and the use of irri gation in the development of the country, and upon the same princi ple we also favor the reclamation of swamp lands. We favor the preser vation of the forces still remaining and the replanting of the denudad districts in all our mountain ranges, as well as the forestation of the west ern pains. We urge liberal appropriations for the improvement and deveopment of the interior waterways, believing that such expenditures will return a large divided in lessened cost of transpor tation. We favor the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, and regard this reform the gateway to other national reforms. We favor a federal law compelling the fullest publicity in the matter of contributions to the national cam paign funds of all the parties and we would call the attention of the na tion to the failure of the Republican pa ri y to enact such legislation as proof of the correctness of tV charges made on thc eve of the las: election by . the Democratic nominee for president that the Republic-it: wi ty had received assistance fr .un corporations desiring to control ibo policies of the national government iu their own interest. We welcomo Oklahoma to the -sis terhood of States and heartily con t'?ilulatc her up"n lhe auspicious b*? ghining of a grant caieer. We favor serrate stateh.?id for Arizona and New Mexico md demand for the peo ple of Puerto Rico the full enjoy ment of the rights and privileges of a territorial form of government. . To Borrow Full Limit. Columbia, Special-The State Treasurer's office expects to be forced to borrow the full limit of half a mil lion dollars allowed by law this year, owing to the heavy appropriations and the fact that the amounts bor rowed last year, $350,000 had to be paid in January, making a big hole in the winter tax receipts. So far already $200,000 has been borrowed, on notes payable next January, and within sixty days it will likely be necessary to borrow from $150,000 to $250,000 according to the demands that may be made upon the office be tv/een now and the 1st of July. The amount of next borrowing will de *""'-^ Wjrflv upon Jip w Winthrop^ the being done through the Falmetto Bank, of this city. An Unusual Court Order. Columbia, Special.-In the case of Will Foster, under sentence of death at Spartanburg for the murder of a white man named John Young, the Supreme Court filed an unusual order, granting suspension of the appeal in the case in order to allow Foster's at torneys to move for a new trial in the Circuit Court, on the ground that one of the jurors, Jesse Mahaffey, said before the trial that he would convict the negro regardless of the testimony. There were several affi davits from persons who heard him make this statement, although Ma haffey declares that he was only jest ing. Mahaffey is a former member of the legislature and a Methodist preacher. Tarn Mill Has Resumed Operations. j Yorkville, Special-The Neely Yarn Iiiill at this place resumed operations Monday, after having been closed down for one week. The two other mills, the York and the Tavora, have been closed down for several weeks and it is not known when either will resume. The mill at Clover has also resumed on full time. Big Event For Conway. Conway, Special-The Independent Republic of Horry on Friday cele brated the completion and occupancy of its beautiful new eourt house and substantial jail building. The day marked a new epoch in the life and development of this rich and fertile county. For the first time in th? county's history a governor of th? State was present as a specially in vited guest, and there were other dis tinguished persons in attendance foi the greatest event the county has evoi known. Snipping Fruit by the Car Load. Columbia, Special.--Thc Souiherr. j Express company is being heavily taxed to move the shipments oi peaches, beans, etc., from the truck ing section of the State lying betweer Columbia and Savannah and betweer. Columbia and Augusta. The peacl ? crop is about ten days earlier thu season that last and the prospect! ? for a heavy crop are promising. A Big Picnic. Greenwood, Special.-The most im portant gathering of the people in tin whole up-country will take plac< Thursday at Jones in this county a the usual Jones high school picnic People from five counties come to th? Jones picnic every year as a regula: thing and even George Johnstone o: Newberry is to deliver the addresi this year.. Dr, W. W. Daniel of Co lumbia is also expected to deliver ai r.ddress. LIBERIANS APPEAL Desire Uncle Sam to Assist in Strengthening Their Nation BRIEF HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC Secretary Robt Will Receive a Dele gation Prom the West Coast of Af rica Which Comes to Ask Counsel and Aid in the Many Troubles Which Have Beset the Coloniza' tion of Freed Slaves. Washington, Special. - Secretary Root has made an appointment to receive Tuesday a delagation repre senting thc Republic of Libera, which has come from the west coasts of Af rica to ask counsel and aid in the many troubles which have continu ously beset the effort, to colonize the freed slaves of America which began tho latter part of the eighteenth cen lury. It is admitted officially that Liberia is, from the standpoint of nations, in practically a hopeless and helpless condition. Her latest tribu lation is in effect an ultimatum from England to maintain a better govern ment. Al tho ugh the United States is vir tually responsible for the existence of Liberia, diplomatic history shows that this government has hesitated to stand sponsor for the little repub lic before the world. . Story of Liberia. Thomas Jefferson's name first ap pears in the story of Liberia. *In L7S1 ho advocated thc abolition of slavery and the colonization of the freed slaves. In 1S0O the governor af Virginia directed by the Legisla ture of his State, took up the ques tion with thc President by correspon dence. Africa "Was selected as an ap propriate site and in 1816 Maryland joined Virginia in the undertaking to colonize. In 1818 the slave trade was made statutory piracy in this country, and the following year it was provided by law that negroes from captured slavers should be safely "removed beyond the limits of the United States." To carry out this act, the government chartered the ship Elizabeth and made provis ion for conveying and settling in Africa on a site selected by agents sent by President Monroe, three hun dred liberated^ slave trade victims. The offer of transportation was ex tended to all free blacks, but the Eli zabeth sailed with only SC, on Feb ruary Otb, 1820. On reaching the African coast the natives refused to sell the land they had agreed to and the two agents and a third of the colonists died with fe purchase of a coast strip or lanu J.W miles long and 40 broad, with per petual tenure. The price paid was a miscellaneous assortment of trading goods. This purchase is given as the last direct act of this government to wards the establishment or mainten ance of the settlement, although this government sent from time to time liberated negroes to the colony. A Bureau of Mines. ? Washington, Special.-The Senate committee on mines and mining met Friday to consider thc proposition to establish a bureau of" mines in the Department of the Interior. The committee is said to favor the bill and is expected to report it soon. It is believed that the measure may pass the Senate before adjournment. The new bureau is expected to sup plement the work now done by States. Bad Sonn in Texas. Austin, Tex., Special.-A terrific wind and rain storm that at times de veloped into a tornado swept Texas from the Panhandle to the Gulf ear ly Sunday. The restruction to crops and vegetation, trees and shrubbery was the greatest reported in years. In numerous places houses were up lifted and small villages and hamlets in many instances were inundated by the terrific rainfall which in the space of four hours reached seven inches in many .sections. Trolley Car3 Collide. San Francisco. Special.-Two trol Icy carr, crowded with people collid cd Sunday at thc foot of a steep hill killing Henry Baer, a traveling sales man, and injuring twenty other pas sengers, one probably fatally, anc several severely. A car on Devisa dero street got beyond control of th? motorman rnd dashed down the hil with terrific speed, striking a Sacra mento street car just as it rounded ; curve. Fatal Explosion at a French Sugai Refinery. Paris, By ( able.-An explosion al a sugar refinery here buried a numbei of workmen under a heap of burning wreckage. Four are known to be dea*, and others are thought to bc in tin ruins. Forty-two of the injured hav< boen taken from the wreckage. Tin combustion of sugar dust caused i blast, burning thc workmen on th< upper floors. Choked to Death by Husband. Newark, 0., Special.-Mrs. Ernes Terwilger was found dead in he: room Sunday. She had been ehoke< to death. Her husband was arreste? and bo. confessed to thc crime. Sun day night such a large crowd gather ed about the prison that police re serves were called out. TO CUT MEMBERSHIP Bill Passes House to Reduce South's Representation SOUTHERN MEMBERS PROTEST By a Strict Party Vote, After a Live* ly Debate., the House Passes th? Crumpacker Bill Provides For a Reduction in Representation in the SUtes Haring Disfranchisement Laws. Washington, Special.-? campaign contribution publicity bill, embodying an amendment bv Mr. Crumpacker, of Indiana, providing for a reduction in the representation in the Honse of Representatives in those States hav ing disfrachisement laws, was pas ed by the House by a vote of 160 to 125, following a lively debate. The measure wa? brought up under suspension of the rules and but forty minutes were allowed in whicii to discuss it. The Southern members in particular were bitter in their de nunciation of the apportionment pro vision of thc bill. Mr. Williams the minority leader, was especially vigor ous in his attack characterizing the bill as being an attempt to revive the conditions of reconstruction days. On account of the Crumpacker amendment the Democrats voted against the bill in its entirety. In brief, thc provision regarding publicity of campaign contributions is made applicable to the national committee of all political parties and the national congressional campaign committees of all political parties and all . committees, associations or or ganizations which shall, in two or more Statis, influence the result of or attempt to influence the result of an election at which Representatives in Congress are to be elected. The Crumpacker amendment pro vides for the re-enactment of certain sections of the old Federal election law, except that the idea of the force bill authorizing the use of troops at the polls is eliminated. It also pro vides that the director of the cen sus shall submit to Congress a report on population showing the number of male citizens, white and black, in each State and the number disfran chised, for the purpose of enabling Congress to ascertain the apportion ment in representation to which such States must be entitled. Mr. Cmmpacker explained his amendment by saying they were de signed against fraud and intimida tion in elections. He undertook to say, he declared, that no member of the House would object to a law whose only purpose was to secure want. "It is horse play," remarked Mr. Hardwick, of Georgia. Mr. Williams declared that if the publicity feature of the' bill should become law, "it will damn your Re publican party and be worse for you than the force bill which defeated Harrison: "Like children you are paying with fire in a powder maga zine." He closed by asking the Re. publicans if they were fools enough to believe that the South would ever again submit to the policies to which she submitted when she was weak and helpless. . Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, said no greater evil than that gentlemen should be sent as representatives to the House, "not by virture of the votes of their fellow citizens, but by virture of the suppression of votes." Governor Browaxd Leads in Florida. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.-Com plete returns frons Tuesday's primary election have only been received from 22 counties out of the 46 in the State. From these returns Governor Broward. for United States Senator leads by about 1,100 votes, and Albert W. Gil christ for Governor, leads by 4,500 votes. Governor Browr.vd and Dun can U. Fletcher for United States Senator, and Gilchrist and J. N. C. 1 Stockton will have to fight it ont iu the second primary in June. McKinley Property to Be Sold. Canton, 0., Special-The McKinley block on South Market street, one of the two pieces of Canton property owned by the late President William McKinley, was sold by Sheriff Wilson at public auction. Tho property has been appraised at $60,000. The sale was decided upon by the administra tor of the estate of Abner McKinley and representatives of the remainder of the President's heirs. Sixty Killed in a Wreck. Antwerp, By Cable-One of worst I railroad accidents in Europe in re I cent times occurred at Contich, a sta ! tion six miles southeast of this city ! on the main linc, at 8 o'clock Friday : morning. The exact number of vic : tims had nut been determined np to ? a late hour, owing to the difficulty of i removing the bodies from the debris, ! but the latest estimate places the number at 60 killed and one hundred wounded. Oregon Train Wrecked; Three Killed, ' Oakland, Cal., Special-The sec r ond section of the Oregon express * train on the Southern Pacific Rail * road, was wrecked near Pineole Fri - day. Three men were killed out - right. One died Friday. Three were injured. The wreck is supposed tc have been caused by the front truck of the baggage car jumping the track ?UNE 1 KNOWN AS i sj*? National Prosperity Association Men-Evidences Fron I Times Have ^[8t. Louis. - The Simmons Hard ware Company, the Ferguson McKin ney Dry Gocds Company and the- Ely Walker Dry Goods Company are aba?ng the manufacturing and job-* bjng Companies which decided to re-1 employ several thousand idle work man on June 1. Tho National Enam eling Company and the Hdmholz Furnace Company have also decided toi Join the advance guard In the re employment movement, as the Na tional Prosperity Association was ad vised that these companies had al ready begun" putting a percentage of their idle employes back to work. The corporations mentioned will re engage 4000 to 5 000 men in their fac tories and shops. ?The Executive Committee of the National Prosperity Association at its Int meeting fixed June 1 as re-employ ment day. It concluded to call on all th? manufacturing, mercantile and financial corporations of St. Louis to give work to as many idle men as possible, and even tb recall more men th?n are needed right away. The plan bas taken definite shape In St. Louis, and the committee expects to haie a comparatively large list of companies which have acceded to the revues t. The committee also approved forms of J letters to manufacturers, mer chaVts and financiers of St. Louis and other cities regarding re-employment day.; Railroad officials are also in cluded. Officers of large concerns in all $arts of the country are requested to jbotify the association as to the number of workmen and clerks who SCIENTIST SURE HE HAS ] Dr. John D. O'Brien Cites Several-Gases W Mong Same Une as Those Which Di and Tunerci i ? curable. He summed up the result of his experiments in these two dec larations: That paresis undoubtedly is a germ disease and that the germ has been discovered; that, while in the experimental stage,sufficient tests have been made to show that paresis is curable, and that he has specific cases to point to as definite results. Dr. O'Brien does not believe it would be proper to make public the names of the patients whom he as serts the treatment has cured, but he gives the specific cases as a news paper man of Washington, D. C., who was treated for paresis and is again ?it work, cured; a civil engineer of prominence in Nashville, Tenn., who is cured and at work, besides a num ber of people in Ohio who were brought to the hospital with acute forms of the disease and cured. Oth ers who are now at the hospital still under treatment are showing marked progress toward recovery. Dr. O'Brien has at hand, Jn addi tion to his own statements, and re ports from hospital authorities in re gard to the successful treatment of paresis, patients' photographs which BASEBALL NINE Nineteen Montos Old Child Al Becomes "Mascot* Galveston, Texas.-The adoption cf a nlneteen-rmonths-old baby by the Houston Professional Baseball Club has just been announced. On a train on which were riding the members of the Houston team, of the Texas League, the players noticed a woman and a curly haired child. The woman requested W. E. Hester, a pitcher, to hold the child for a few minutes, then stepped into another coach and left the train at the next station. A note found on the child gave its name as Edmund Winters, and the ball player decided to adopt the hoy. Before the end of the journey every member of the club fell in love with the abandoned baby and entered into a compact to care for the little one, electing it the mascot of the club. At.the games in Dallas and Fort Worth tie mascot was exhibited in the grounds during the game, and was showered with money from the French Budget Shows Deficit of $8,800,000. Paris.-M. Caillaux, the Minister of Finance, annouuees that the bud get for 1909 shows an estimated de ceit of $8,800,000, the revenue being estimated at $785,SOO,000 and the sxnenditures at $794,000,000. in order to make up the shortage it has been decided not to issue short term bonds, but to reform the collec tion of dues on stock and boud trans fers, and strictly to enforce the eiist ing regulations against evasions of iutles. Jottings About Sports. Stewards of the Pennsylvania Breeders' and Racing Association an nounced an attractive program for the 9rst race meet of the organization. Melvin W. Sheppard, the American llstance runner, is so eager to ba a taw York policeman, that he may not tccompany the Olympic l?aw to Eng and. W. B. Burroughs, of the Illinois University, scored a double win in the leid events at the Pennsylvania relay .aces. In the shot he easily outdis ?anced Krueger, the intercollegiate ibampion. LVLI1 I T. A. Rogers, in the New,-York Herald. RE-EMPLOYMENT DAY i Helps Restore Work to 5000 1 Pittsburg That Good Come Again. will he re-employed and the date when the men will be taken ba k. Two large dry goods concerns told the committee that they decided to celebrate "Employment Day" by put ting back some 3000 employes. Similar assurances have been m?,de by other concerns, and. the committee believes that June will mark in a large degree the return o? prosperity. Pittsburg.-That a return to pros perity has come wa:] evidenced here when It was announced that many of the Carnegie Steel Company's mills had been started up again. The Carnegies started their Twen ty-niuth and Thirty-third street mills here, also two more of the Home stead group. The Singer Nimick Mills, making hoops and bands, were started full after an idleness of sev eral months. The Carter Iron Works, outside Pittsburg, were also started, and the National Tube Company, which has been repairing mills at McKeesport, announces that It will ask for an additional appropriation immediately for more repairs. Evidence of returning prosperity 13 furnished by the announcement that the Pittsburg and Lake FVie Railroad has ordered the Standard Steel Car Company to begin construction of 2 000 all-steel cars for that road. The new cars will be used to handle the tonnage between the coal and coke regions and the lakes. The order calls for 1000 specially designed all steel coke cars, and 1000 all-steel gondolas. The contract was origin ally awarded last summer but held up. POUND GERM OF PARESIS bien He Asserts He Has Cured-Experiments smonsirated Existence of Diphtheria i los i s Germs, ' ;/ i .i>., hfo?avt->ni fnrm of attack theory of diphtheria and tuberculosis was advocated. We feel warranted, from the number of cases treated and from the satisfactory results of the experiments made, in stating without qualification that paresis ls a germ disease. We also feel that, from the work done, we have found the bacil lus. We have cured patients, are helping many now and expect to go forward with the work." Dr. O'Brien has confined hl6 work to living subjects; no pathological in vestigation has been done on post mortem subjects. He now has germs in cultures. He says that, like a farmer, he ls seeking to find the best culture in which to grow bacilli from serum extracted from patients, and to that end ls doing considerable ex perimenting. Dr. O'Brien began his experiments by taking serum from the spinal col umns of living patients. With this he treated dogs, rabbits and rats, with results which proved to him that the animals inoculated contracted well developed forms of paresis. He then used the treatment on human pa tients. ADOPTS A BABY. bandoned by Mo'iier on Train * of Houston Club. audience, and at Houston collections were taken up, and the baby now has a fund of more than $2000 to its credit and still growing. Offers from some of the wealthiest families In tho State to adopt the child have been re fused and the baby mascot will not be parted with by the club. The mother, who is less than eigh teen yeai-3 of age, was found in Hills boro and her tragic story unfolucd. She had lived with a drunken father until twelve years of age, whea she ran away from him. Before she was sixteen years of age she was married, and after the birth of her child her husband deserted them and disap peared. The child-mother found em ployment in a packing house at Fort Worth, earning $6 a week. Recently the packing house cut down the num ber of its employes, and the mother, determined that the baby should not ? starve, gave it to the ball player. Judge P.ules that Stock Yard is a "Hotel For Hogs.*' East St. Louis, 111.-Judge Francis H. Wright in the United States Cir cuit Court decided that although the National Stock Yards here has several miles of tracks, engines and cars and other equipment it was not a common carrier and Is not subject to Federal railroad laws. The Stock Yards attorney contend ed that his clients were conducting a "hotel for hogs and other live stock" and not a railroad. In this he was sustained by the court. Stub Ends of News. Rear-Admiral Sperry took com I mand of the Atlantic battleship fleet. Secretary Taft arrived in Washing ton, returning from his trip to Pan ama. A bill to create an Appalachian forest reserve was passed by Con gress. The battleship fleet sailed from San Francisco for ports on Puget Sound. Frank Merritt, of New York City, repeated his offer to give himself to ?science to be experimented on in the. 'search for a cure for consumption. AUGUS 1 Savings D Pays ?f% interest on all ac< compounded every six moi Capital and Surpl GOTO HAULING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. At The Farmers ] Leading Southern Manufactur ers Gainer in Richmond, Va. MANY PROBLEMS TO CONSIDER Twelfth Annival Convention of the American Manu foci curers' Associa tion Meets in Richmond With Over Four Hundred Delegates in Atten dance. Richmond, Va.. Special-The American Cotton Manufacturers' As sociation, with au attendance of 450 delegates, begun its twelfth annual convention h?K Wednesday with two sessions, the evening being devoted to social features. Aside from the consideration of questions affecting the intergrity of contracts between buyer and seller, a matter regarded as the most impor tant that will come before the asso ciation, the feature at thc opening session was the address of Mayor Carlton McCarthy the trend of whose remarks was to the general effect that the highest type of manhood is to be found in the South to-day. Made before representative spinners from New England as well as from .the South, the utterance brought au an swering denial from the former pres ident of the association and from Congressman John H. Small, of North Carolina. The contract in two forms came ton exchanges, in tue luiviesi ox u contract which will be equitably sat isfactory, and which will insure the delivery of colton of spinnable j grades. One session was held, Cap tain Smyth announcing in thc after noon that a formal report will bc submitted later. Thc, uniform .''ale contract, of greater importance, relates to the manufacture and buyer, or commis sion agent, and on thc intergrity of it depends the success of all. Chair man Lewis W. Parker, of South Car olina, whose committee had been dealing with thc subject sent in a report containing the recommenda tion that larger committee he au-v thorized to take up this matter dur ing the year and to employ legal counsel with the hope of preparing a form of contract which will bc sat isfactory to buyer and seller alike and which will stand thc test of the courts. Lilley Not Warranted. Washington. Special.-The conclu sion of the special committee which has been investigating the charges of Representative Lilley, of Connecti cut, that members of the House had been improperly influenced in con nection with submarine torpedo boat legislation, that Mr. Lilley had violat ed his obligations as a member and tiad acted in bad faith with the com mittee C:H1 in contempt of the House were sustained by thc House by a vote of 257 to ?2. Five hours of thc session were devoted to the case, four of which were consumed in reading thc report. The Connecticut members joined in voting against the resolution by which the House adopt ed the conclusions of the committee as its own. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, de nounced Mr. Lilley as being guilty of treason for which, he said, he should be expelled. He presumed that thc reason the committee did not carry its report to a recommendation to that end was because Mr. Lilley was at his home ill and unable to be pres ent to defend himself in such a pro ceeding. To Prevent Desecration of Flags. Washington. Specia.-Thc Senate passed a bill to prevent the dese cration of the Hag bf the United Siates with an amendment providing that its restrictions shall not apply to banners or flags carried fey military or patriotic organizations authorized by law. Th:s amendment was to meet objections by Senator Bacon, of Georgia, who had previously explain ed that in his State Confed?rate sol dier organizations had blended the Union and Confedei**te flags, a prac tice which he feared would not bc permitted under the proposed law. THE EGOTIST. He-Well, my ?lear. I had my life Insured today. She-That's just like you-always t?inking of yourself-Pathfinoer. CA, OA.. :ounts in this department, Iths, January and July. ns $550,000.00. i SEE & EYED Wegrepresent the Best Bank of Edgefield ! Laf?? JSfebvs I /n Tirief ?A $ MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Throngs again visited the Guinness death farm at Laporte, Ind. Archbishop Peter Bourade, of Son ta Fe, died in.Chicago of heart fail? ure. ? Clarence Darrow says Mayor Brand Whitlock, of Toledo, Ohio, will bf Bryan's running mate. Thc Massachusetts Legislature will be asked for an appropriation of $300,000 to fight the gypsy inotbraod other pests. Arrests in Pittsburg followed- th? alleged discover}* that an organized band had been formed to rob tele? phone slot boxes all over the coun try. The French steamer Brei:* Ilael, which broke its radder at sea and ran short of coal, was towed into New York. . A stirring appeal for money for missions was made by Rev. Dr, R. *J, Willingham before the S?nnern Bap tist Convention. The Atlantic fleet of battleship! will sail for Seattle this week. Cars were bsing operated in Cleve land without any serious outbreak on the part of the strikers. King Manuel of Portugal is said to have upset plans to marry him t,o ~n-~>r> ni'm'hlo nr?nress bv declaring which shall secure protection for American interests in Japan and Ko rea. Congress will adjourn this week, if the Senate and House conferees /an agree upon au acceptable currencv bill. Tl e clique of old Senate leaders is ?aid to have chosen Burrows as chair man of the Chicago convention as a rebuke to the younger element. Though there is considerable John son sentiment in the Soath, Bryan seems likely to get a large majority of the delegates from that section. , Richmond residents adopted reso lutions urging Bishop Van de Vyver not to resign. Rev. W. T. Palmer was installed pastor of the Westminister Presby terian Church, Lynchburg. William D. Heywood, addressing thc Socialist Convention, denounced -ourts, judges, the President and a Dumber of others. Secretary Taft arrived at Char leston from Panama, well and smiling ? The Russian general sent to punish marauding Persians has been ordered to burn and kill. French forces lost 13 killed and 65 wounded in an engagement with Arabs. The Senate substituted the orisri aal Aldrich bill for the Vreeland bil] and both houses sent the currency measure to conference. Thc House passed the omnibus pub lic building bill and the Military Aca demy Appropriation bill. General Sherwood, of Ohio, made a caustic attack on General Keifer, of Ohio, in the House. President Roosevelt and William J. Bryan made the closing addresses at the National Resources Conference. The Governors have agreed to hold an annual convention of State exe cutives. The convention of machinery men ; at Parkersburg elected officers for next year. Thc Wright brothers have broken up their aeroplane, wrecked on tbt North Carolina coast, but tliev hive a now and s*ronger machine at Day- | ton. Ohio, with which they will ex periment in August. Roar Adimral Charles Stillman Sperry assumed command of the batleship fleet at San Francisco. The jawbone found in the ruins of thc Guinness home at Laporte. ind.. was identified by a dentist as that of Mrs Guinness. Freight shippers at.a meeline; '?.* Chicago took steps to fight the r^c in rales announced by the railroad.--. A Xew Yor?: usurer ?as been seat to jail for ten days. During that time, pines the Washington Post, he can hardly be expected to take any interest in his business.