Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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" An old house stands- on the West chester shore, its face to the south, the north wind at it3 back. It has .watched'the dawns and sunsets for. two hundred years, has seen war times and days bf peace. It i's a quaint, rambling dwelling; each "generation added rooms to the original structure, placing each lower than the other, making small steps and staircases that catch unwary and unaccustomed feet. The uneven roof tells the same1; story, and the house has the appearance ot bittering it self by a second thought. . Down the garden walks roses, hol lyhocks, and old-fashioned flowers bloom. the season through; in lush growths of grass spring occasional blooms of daffodil and bluebell, mark ing some old-time garden, spot, long overgrown. Vines climb over win dows and porch to the sloping roof, aid in their depths generations of birds have nested and sung through many a forgotten summer. Foot paths worn in the grass lead to barns, to the ancient mill, through orchards and over hillsides, showing in spring and fall the earliest and latest green, as if the print of human feet gave .stronger 'life to the trodden way. ' In the Revolutionary period of tie coun try's history'the old/house was the scene of many exciting raids from . both of the contending forces, one of which threatened to bring, serious trouble upon the Inmates. One autumn day during the Revo lutionary struggle the daughter of the house', Anne Mott, sat in the quiet "living-room" spinning her daily j *'stent" Anne was a demure little maid; her" brown hair, twisted in a tight knot, was held by her mother's silver comb. She was just thirteen years old', and acted as her father's housekeeper, the entire care of the family, her aged grandmother, her father ?nd two brothers, falling on her young shoulders. The living-room was warm and still th?t day. The little spinner ? glanced out of the small window panes, down the garden pata and off -to the white-capped waters of Long ,| Island Sound. Neglected thread will knot, and Anne brought truant eyes to the slackening wheel. "It is so dull here tais eventide, with father and brothers away; I' wish something grand and thrilling j would happen to me, as it did to Lucy Lovelace. She went to the Govern or's ball and danced with an aide-de camp.. Oh! I wish it was considered suitable for a Friend to gb tb ? ball!" Nothing "grand or thrilling" hap pened in the quiet, sunlit room; the faithful. clock ticked pn, embers] dropped softly on the jhearth, the spinning-whe?l slackened and the lit tle spinner's head lay against the high-backed chair;. Anne was fast asleep. How l?ng she slept she never j knew, her sudden awakening dispel ling all memories of preceding events. A terrible explosion shook the house to its foundation, there were cries of terror and sounds of hurrying feet. Startled into wakefulness, Anne ran to the door, where she met Jinny, the colored cook, crying: ffitss Nanny! Miss Nanny! the ref cgres are coming!" - A Quaker's Sympathy., ' Anne's -father was of the strictest sect of Friends, and would have no gart or lot in war or fighting., but it was well understood that his un ". spo??a " sympathies were with the '^Continentals. His colored maa. Billy, . - Jinny's husband, was hand ia glove with th? whaleboatmen who made an ; Inlet near the house aplace of refuge. Two of these boats weire commanded. .'- by Captain Pete Davis, who had pre viously been in command cf a coaster *?wned by James Mott, Anne's father. >? This friendliness to the Continen tals and the fact that raids on the Tories..were of ."frequent occurrence created ^suspicion and-dislike . among the refugees and" the riffraff of. the English Army1", and threats were made that if the "blamed wbaleboatmen ??ere permitted to hang around there It would be worse for them all." Eut nothing came of the threats, and James Mott did not consider his ? household to be_ ia.danger.. The whaleboatmen had .'.recently.;.been_sivc; cessful In capturing a boat from "tte British,'under the guns of a guard ship'lying off In the Sound, and the refugees had decided to eject them from the "blamed- Quaker rendez vous." At Pelham the band of refu gees', led by Captain Fade Merrit, started for the shore, where the/ caught and imprisoned . Uncle Billy and captured the boats of the, whale boatmen, in which a large supply of ammunition was stored. A bold push forward or quick retreat on the part . of the whaleboatmen must be de ' cided on at once. They chose the . .. former, and began firing on the refu .' gees from behind fences and bushes. Startled by the quick onset, Mer rit and his men charged on the foe. Captain Davis called to Merrit: '.Stop right here, Fade Merrit, or I'll save vou from the hangman!" a warning that preved ominous. "I won't stop at your bidding, Pete Davis, you robbing rebel." '"Then you will stop for my gua; another step will be your last." Mer rit halte-J, but d!d not retreat, shout ing: "Come- on, you sneaking thieves, from a'here you arc hiding." Anc Caotain Pete answered: "Fade Merrit, Ii you don't righi about facs and go off, my gun will gc off." Merrit, finding the position ol his antagonist impregnable, backed off his men and retreated into th? woods. Anne, pale wita excitement, bul firm, quieted the shrieking Jinny wno feared for the life of her hus band. As soon as the refugees nae gone the crews of the whaleboat! hastened to leave so dangerous a lo callty. As they rowed away Anne iel anxious and uneasy, left alone wltl her aged grandmother and the slavei cf the household. But her trainlni had been nt the feet of the strictes Gamaliels of her sect: "Resist th? evil. .Trust m the Lord. Not on sparrow is forgotten by God." Tho why did she feel anxious when th whaleboatmen rowed away? She tool herself severely to task ior her anxi ety and doubt, hut she could not but fear the return of the refugees. Nor was her uneasiness groundless. Receiving information from scouts ani spies that the.whalebo?tmen had gone, Merrit and bis party returned. Their object was twofold-revenge and plunder and revenge on the 'de fenceless household for harboring the wialeboatmen. Their approach was unheralded and the dam crossed and mill- surrounded before Jess-Billy's son who was grinding corn-was aware of the fact He' was taken prisoner at once and shut up in the flour cooler. Captain Merrit looked about the mill ior coffee that had been stored there. Jess told him it had been taken away. "Where to?" ? ! "To White Plains for the Conti nental Army." . "Was it paid for, and who had the money?" Jess could not tell. Angry and baffled, Merrit thundered out: "You are lying, you black scound rel, but we'll squeeze the truth or the life out of you!" i They attempted to hang the lad, but, getting no |urther information, cut bim down. He fell to the floor, blood gushing from, his mouth. When he recovered Merrit asked him if Miss Nanny knew. He could not tell, but if any one knew she did. They kicked Jess out of the mill and he ran to the barn to tell Billy that they were going to make Miss Nanny tell about the coffee or hang her. Billy waited to hear no more, but started for the house to protect his young mistress; but Merrlt's; men were there before him. Anne, pale but- quiet and firm, met them at the door. The men^said gruffly: "You must go to the mill with us." One of them seized her roughly by the shoulders. Then came an instant revulsion of feeling. The t*mid girl at the touch pf the burly ruiHa. : was transformed from a condition of ter ror to perfect fearlessness. She turned upon him, saying: "Take thy hand off!" The man was cowed and shrank back. Trying to Nerves. In her belief that a sustaining Hand, was near to support and tilrect her, she allowed herself to be quietly escorted to the mill. She was taken to the upper story. On the stairs she saw stains of blood, signs of Jess' maltreatment, which did not reas sure her. In the upper room Merrit and h's men awaited her. From a beam overhead a rope hung, a noose in the end. Under this she was led. Trustful and fearless, she looked at the crowd of hardened men with un quailing eyes. Some of them were known to her. Captain Merrit told her she need not be frightened, l'or if she would tell them where the toffee was taken no harm would come to her. With her steady look she said: "I hm not frightened; the coffee was taken by the Continental com missary." "How much was sold, and where Is the money?" "I do not know." "Come, girl, you must know? you] can tell something. What has be come of the money?" "I do not know and cannot tell," she said. Then he thundered at her: "Now, girl, we will find a way to get the truth out of you! " Calm and unmoved she ?answered: "I have already told thee the truth; more cannot be got out of me." "We will see what the rope will do!" He directed one of the men to put the noose around her neck. One stepped forward and raised the noose over her head. She looked him squarely in the face and said: "Thee must not touch me." The rope dropped from th6 . man's hand and Merrit said: "We will get the truth out of you this time, and-quickly, too, or we will stretch your neck." 1 He stopped to pick up the rope with a smile. Anne replied: ;. "If I cannot tell thee while living, I surely cannot tell thee after being hung." . A silence followed, while she calm ly looked into the faces .about her. Then, turning to Merrit, she said firmly: "Thee knows that I have spoken truly, and that I know nothing about any money, and now I tell thee fur ther, that ii I did know I would not tell." A whisp?red consultation was held around the leader. Anne's every fac ulty wa3 .keenly alert; not a move ! ment or a word escaped her. "She can't be frightened." "It's of no use." "We can't find out anything from her." "We must search the house; we may get something besides money." These whispers reached her from all j si??er. - . ? -. .. The men conducted her back to the I house and the search began. Closet j doors were broken open by blows from gunstocks, bureaus pried open j by bayonets, and beds and pillows j pierced to ascertain if the money was j hidden in them. * It was a scene of wanton destruction. The cellar 'was j esamined for signs of recent digging, and eatables of all kinds were taken. Not Grandmother's Cheese. Anne saw one of the men coming ' out of the pantry with a new cheese 1 under his arm. This was a recent & i qc f-mi "The flowering of civiliza & The world wants men-1 Men who shall join in ch The psalm of labor and oi 4^ The' age wants heroes-h ?gb To struggle In the solid r TT To clutch the monster, e w To bear opinion to a loft To blot the error of oppr< ^ And lead a universal free ???????????? girt-to her grandmother. The theft was too much for Anne's patience. She took hold of the cheese, saying firmly: "Thee shall not take this; It is for' grandmother." The man gave it up to her. Angry, at getting no money, the raiders gathered all the valuables and prepared to leave. Merrit said to Anne: "Tell your father this is what he gets for harboring rebels and rob bers." - Her unshaken cour?ge prompted the quick retort: "Thee is a prudent man. Thee knows father is absent, and does not believe it right to fight; yet thee comes and robs the house, with only women and children to defend it." Merrit swore roundly at her and rode off. / .* But he paid ?early for his-raid on the defenceless household, for soon after vhe fate he had threatened the fearless girl became his own. When peace was finally concluded Anne was fifteen. Her life, at that time with her father is pleasant to remember. She went everywhere on horseback with him, having an excel lent little horse for her own use-? one of the famous Narragans?tt pacers. Once they rode to the yearly meeting in Philadelphia, and often to New York meetings. She wore on such occasions a broadTbrimmed bea ver that tied down under her chin; over her dress she wore a long skirt, and under her cape, pinned to her dress, her white apron, which she put on after the riding* skirt was re moved, \ut women in those days were not fully dressed without a fine white linen apron. At the age of sixteen Anne became a bride, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren have listened with pride and. throbbing hearts to the story of grandmother's heroism. The eighth satellite of Jupiter i dis covered at the Greenwich observa tory^ January of last year, proves remarkable not only for being so far from the planet but also for its very eccentric orbit,, its distance from Ju piter varying from about 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 miles. It revolves around the planet in about twenty six of our months. The keel has been laid in New York for a most unique vessel for the Car negie Institute, of New York. She is being built in order to dodge all mag netic influences and perhaps search for the actual magnetic pole. Very lit tle iron or steel is being used in her construction. What is hot built of wood is Victor Vandlum bronze. Only fifty years ago the dust of coal was considered to be entirely useless, bat since then a great change bas taken place, and at present in Rhenish Westphalia the Ruhr coal iistrict alone produces 3,000,000 tons of briquets each. year. Up to the present time coal tar pitch has been used for making coal briquets, and its production ,In the past ten years has Increased ahout 100 per cent.. The new chimney of the Great Falls (Mont.) smelter of the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Sliver Mining Company was re cently topped out. This chimney is 506 feet in height above the founda tion, and Is the largest, both in size and capacity, in the world. The foundation of the chimney consists of an annular mass, the circular inner edge of which is forty-seven feet in diameter at the bottom and the octa gonal outer boundary 103 feet across flats at the footing level tapering to sixty-four and eight-one feet diame ters at the top of the concrete.-Ce ment Age. In a lecture before the Aeronautic Society in New York City, Hiram Maxim brought out the point that the dropping of dynamite from air craft would not be as dangerous to fortifi cations and buildings as was general ly supposed} because, in order to do much damage, this explosive must be confined. If 100 pounds of It were dropped into the smokestack of a warship or. exploded In the water close to the vessel, lt would be effec tive, but dropping'it upon the deck would be of no avail. Mr. Maxim, as is well known, is an expert upon ex plosives. He also described some new explosives that may be available for use in explosive motors. Translated Into English. Every one has heard the story of the Englishman who was told, when asking what wr.s done with all the superfluous fruit grown in California -"We eat what we can, and what we can't we can." I- The joke was told to another Eng lishman, who received it with rather ! a sickly smile, and upon his return I home gave his own version of it. "Quoer peopl?z those Americans," he said. ''Peculiar" sense of humor. They told me as one of their choice jokes that when asked weat they did with their fruit that was lefl over, they answered that 'They ate what they could, and what thev couldn't they could." - New Yori Times. Putting on Airs. "When country peop:e come to towi they talk a good deal about the purei air they breathe at home." "Yes, they put on a good manj fresh airs."-Kansas City Times. ?g? ??pje? IV]an ? aldo Hmer^on. o tion is in the finished man. arge-heartea\ manly men; W orus and prolong <$> t love. eroes who shall dare an ks of truth; rror, by the throat; " 1er seat; 38S?OQ OUtt ?dom in." s aAm??g Diamond Gossip and Gen STAINS OF VICTORIES A -- Eio:doo of Losing; Home Ground .james Routed. If any doubt still lingered in some obscure corner of fandom that those fighting Pirates had routed' the hoo doo that brought, defeat, to them so often on the home- grounds in past years, Clark's warriors certainly re moved it during the past week. ' Tb ere hasn't been the faintest sign of a let-itown In their- wonderful work at the park where they could do little better than break even in, other sea sons, and ins lead of going to pieces every other day after strtkipg their home let, the local pennant chasers actually improved in their all-around ! play until they had hung up the long j est string of successive victories.re corded this year.in,the-major league. And it cannot be sa'id that the Buc ! caneers' sensational success has been ; due to luck or that it has been the re sult of meeting -weak opposition. On ; the contrary, all clubs have appar ently looked alike to Clark's hustlers JAMES J. JEFFRIES! Champion of. the world Jeffries and ht hibition bouts in the loading citie form and should be able to giv ation for the chamnionahln._ and they have not picked out any soft spots on which to -land their savage wallops* All opponents'have fared- alike, and j among the t*am? at whose expense the , total of consecutive victories was In ; creased to sensational proportions i were the holders of the world's cham pionship, another that is conceded to he a sure n>st-divlsion cltt?, and one j otheri that - ?s recognized' everywhere I as faf stronger in every way than it ! was a year ago. e I Following the double victory over j the Chicago champions on their ,own j lot one week ago last Sunday, the I starting point of the great winning I streak, the Buccaneers came home and met St. Louis, Boston and Phila delphia in eight successive games, all three being sent hiking mournfully .out of town without the solace of a single game won from Pitl:sburg's pen nant chasers. When it is considered that againsl these same teams *ln pa:?t years thc locals were seldom able to do bettei than get an even break on the hom? grounds, the proof appears conclusive that the old Exposition park hoodor lias b-??n rVocor) ol? the job/durine: the Pirates' hum month at ti?**"" --"1c and that the same big home games won may be epecitu art er the1 shift is made cn June 30 to ths new Forbes field. And if 'this proves to be the cast lt Is mighty difficult to see how an] other National league club is going tt wrest the 1909 pennant from Clark< and his gallant crew. Inability to wii on the home grounds has "been th< principal obstacle in the way of Pitts burg's flag success in past seasons and with this removed, it must be ad mitted by even the fans of rival cit ies that only misfortune or. a loni run of what the players call "ba< breaks'' can prevent the Buccaneer: from capturing the championship KLAUSE COMING CHAMPION. New York.-There is consideraba talk about Frank Klause In Philadel phia, as being the next man to batt! for the middleweight championship Good judges of boxers who sa; Klause beat Harry Lewis all over th ring until he- was deliberately foule In the sixth round say Klause ha shown wonderful improvement in th past six months, and the PIttsburge is Undine It hard to pet n rrt?w Kin use and Hugo Kelly meet at mw burg on June 23. ORLANDO THE WINNER. New York-Defeating a field of 13 starters, Joseph Orlando, of the En pire City Wheelmen, New York, wo the amateur bicycle Marathon Sunda; over a course irom Valley Stream 1 Massapaqua and return on the Me rick road, Long Island. Patsy D mans, National A. C., Brooklyn, wi second, and Floyd W. Bedell, of Bal win. L. ti third. The winner's tin was I hour. 18 minutes 50 3-5 second but he had a five-minute advantage i the handicap arrangement. Ti weather was favorable for the co teat eral Sporting WILL JOHNSON CRAWL OUT OF KETCHEL MATCH? Big Negro Has Developed Into Great Jumper of Contracts and He Is Somewhat Fearful of Stanley. Never is pugilism without its all absorbing question. Thi3 time it is, "Will Jack Johnson crawl out of his match with Stanley Ketc?ell as he has out of his matches with Sam Langford and Al Kaufmann?" The big black has come to realize that Ketchel is a pretty hot proposition in fact, about the hottest that John son can stack himself up against out side of Jeffries. Of course, as soon as the question is put before the house, discussion follows, and in this case the discus sion will consist mainly of "dope." Here it is: "Ever' since Johnson became cham pion he has been sidestepping the real ly good men who have been suggest ed as possible opponents for him. Not only that;- but he has also crawled out of all the matches that he has gone into when he had time to get scared as to the possible outcome of the en counter. True, he "fought" Jack O'Brien, a six-round session in Phil adelphia, but, shucks, what was that for the heavyweight champion to do. He didn't even put O'Brien "to the bad" in the whole six rounds, and e Johnson a sudden jolt in his aspira : here's a little fellow from out of the West who wallops Philadelphia Jack I so hard in two rounds and forty sec : onds that the referee has to stop it to save O'Brien from probable disas ter. So much for thai There may he a dozen folks between, here and the ! Hawaiian Islands who think Johnson might beat Ketchel in a finish fight, but they have never seen both men perform In the ring. Nov; as to this Johnson feller: He has developed greatly since he won the title from Burns-as a jumper. In fact, Johnson .can jump a bigger pile of contracts than anv of his prede cessors in the pugilistic world. Johnson's action in insisting that the battle between himself and Ketc hel be limited to twenty rounds shows that he is afraid of the Westerner, and also shows plainer than anything else that the big black Is very confident that he cannot knock out Ketchel in twenty rounds. If he thought he could, he wouldn't care if the contract called for a million rounds. Another thing that it mieht be well *o bear in mind: Ketchel i? " r?**v hard man t~ .--t- ?--- ,.c of ? ? o puucneit? iu the ring . rurther the fight goes, the better his chances with a man like Johnson. It will take only one of Stanley's punches to make Johnson take lt on the run, and then-well, it will be all off. There Is no better "Iceen-^way" man in the rinsr than Jack O'Brien. He ls nrobablv the greatest sidesten per and retreater ever. Certain it is that he is at least as fast as John son, if net faster; he surely was ahout three times ns fast a? Johnson when they met in Philadelphia. And if O'BriPn couldn't Veep away from Ketch*! for two rounds, how can John son h ?ne to keep away for twenty rounds? Jimmy Kelley Is Dead. r'*->ago.-Jimmy Kelly, a veteran pugilistic manager and trainer, died .es*?relay. Kelly was one of John fi Pv.llivan's trainers when tho latter 'wrp in his prime. Kelly was born in Boston 48 years ago. Weston Still in Wyoming. Granger, Wyo.-Edward Payson Weston, who is wallting to the Pacific Tviqcoij the day at Marston, the ?.?ol io wu east ol' Oranger, waiting for a pair of new shoes. VANDERBILT WINS "DERBY." Paris.-The French derby was run Sunday at Chantilly and was won by W. K. Vanderbilt's Negofol in Impres sive style, from Edmon Blaius's Union, with Negofol's st^Me '"omnanion. Oversight, third. The stake was worth $40,000 and the r?ce was wit nessed by an Immense crowd, includ ing thousands of Amer'r>"?io. -who won heavily on the American victory. The French derhy is a three-year old event at one milp and a half. Last year W. K. Vanderbilt's Seasick II ran a dead heat with M. E. Des champ's Quintette II. and In 190G Mr. Vanderbilt's Maintenon won. SUGAR TRUST ?_ -Cartoon br PRESIDENT-W?S~W?I?iEEri Receiver Earle Admits He Pleaded Witt He Divulged Both the Weighing Fra in tices-Notning in Fiction to Equa Intense, Intricate Crime in Cu Court in My lime"-! Have 1 Your Aid," He Wr Philadelphia. - "In common with j every other good citizen, I am at the service of my country," said George! H. Earle, Jr., receiver of the Penn sylvania Sugar Refining Company, when asked whether he would aid the . Government in a criminal prosecution directed against the heads of the -su gar trust. These who knew Mr. Earle keenly appreciated the irony of his remark when they recalled that he had plead ed with and petitioned President Roosevelt and Attorney-General Bon aparte in vain to institute or to per mit him to institute just such crim inal proceedings as are now threat ened by the present Department of Justice. As long ago as November, 1906, Mr. Earle now admits, he warned President Roosevelt and his Attorney-General of the weighing frauds in New York and rebating practiced by the sugar trust, but no action was taken. >, Earle's Personality. Mr. Earle is the son of the late j George H. Earle, Sr., one of the fore most lawyers of the Philadelphia bar. The son, himself a lawyer, is the ex ecutive head of five of the lars: banks in the city. He has rescued many concerns from the graveyard of high finance, was too busy to be Mayor o.f Philadelphia, is not "against" trusts, is worth $5,000,000, but lives on one of his many salaries, and his hobbles are coins, first prints and a model farm. He was offered 5100,000 for reviving the Real Est?te Trust Company, and went into court and told the judge that his services were worth only $50,000, and he has not yet collected the $50,000 because "the 'company needs the money more than I do." While a financial genius Mr. Earle has absolutely no ambition for great wealth or political preferment and no desire for social glories. Upon his unsupported word the 55.500 depos itors of the defunct Real Estate Trust Company turned over to him all that was left of $7,500,000 deposits at the time of the crash. August 2S, 1906, and every stockholder In the company assigned his property to Mr. Earle without "recourse or recovery," with I out a scratch of a pen to safeguard the equity. "It would be manifestly improper for me to discuss any ph asa cf the sugar trust case at this time," said MT. Earle, "because I am still an offi cer of the court in my capacity as re ceiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re fining Company.'* "Does the same apply to the Gov ernment and its agents?" he was asked. I "Oh, yes, I suppose so. They did not care to discuss the case two or three years ago, and I prefer not to talk about it now, for the more par ticular reason that we have agreed upon a settlement and I consider it hardly fair to agree to a settlement and then participate In an expose of the other party to the bargain. Then, too, I must keep in' mind the fact that the court has yet to review the terms and conditions of our settlement, and I might be subjected to some criti cism for commenting upon the case at this time." Gave Warning in 190C. "Is it true that you directed the attention of the Government to the scale frauds and rebating more than two years ago?" "Mr. Frank L. Neall, of Peter Wright's Sons, told me about these frauds so long ago that I cannot now fix the date, but I certainly wro'.e to the Attorney-General about them on November 8, 1906. as the papers in the Pennsylvania Refinery case will show. "I am not fixing responsibilities. I am not naming men who performed their duties, nor am I pointing out any one who failed to measure up to their responsibilities. "I must not be placed in the posi Th?O?at?nnnl Game. Cobb's base-running shows no let up in pnp^d or brains. '"ellbf?g, tc? Toronto pitcher, is a lett-han'der of more iban ordinary promise. Toronto has sold Ditcher Pre? Hickey to th New Britain team, of t.hp Connecticut League. The McConnell Tibi?* ^'in-getting combination'is a wonderful factor ir. the Red Sox winning games. Mitchell, of the Toronto team, was a good pitcher, but baseball experts say that he is destined to attain more fame as a catch pr. _ Skimmed Milk Sale Illegal in New York City. Albany, N. Y.-According to a de cision of the Court of Appeals the sale of skimmed milk in New York City can he stopped. The court sustained the lower courts in overruling a demurrer of a dairy company to an action brought by the State to recover a $5000 pen alty for selling skimmed milk. The company demurred on the ground that the statute under which the ac tion was commenced was unconstltu tional. _. _ . _j_ CAUGHT AGAIN! CRM cauley, in the. New York World, N 1905 OF SUGAR FRAUDS [ Administration to Prosecute and loaf Is in New York and the Hebat? Prac 1 If, Says Earle-'VflOst Dramatic, nning Ever Brought Before Any Details; I Imperatively Need ote tbe President. tlon of discussing this case in any phase for publication. It would be discourteous to the court. What I have said I will stand by. What I , would like to say Is another matter. I will repeat, however, that fiction knows no story equal to the cold blooded facts in the conspiracy which has been proved in this case, and I shall always consider myself amply, repaid for my work in this matter if I get nothing more out of it than the satisfaction of having been a player in what I consider the most dramatic, intense, intricate crime; in cunning ever brought before any court In my time." That Mr. Earle put this "crime in cunning" squarely up to President Roosevelt soon after he learned of it is proved by his letter dated Septem ber 21, 1906, in>which Mr. Earle, ad dressing the President by name, said: "I have all the details of this con spiracy. I believe I know the indi viduals responsible for lt. ' "I represent but a body of Innocent - stockholders and creditors who have incidentally been crushed by an effort to plunder the whole people. You represent that people. I imperative ly need your aid and co-operation. With it I feel assured that justice will be done; without lt I may be myself crushed in the effort to obtain that justice for the smaller body which I represent; but with it or without lt, no consideration that I have been . able to give this subject has enabled me to feel that I can possibly absolve ;. myself from the duty of going on, with you, if suca good, fortune awaits me; without you, I must act alone. Documentary Evidence. "T have not gone into the details of this matter. The details I ha^e, and they ere at your service, cir that of the Attorney-General of the United States. Of course you will under stand that all this I have upon infor mation; but one of the peculiarities of this crime has been that the par ties engaged in it, whether made reck less by past successes and Immunities or not, have left a perfectly incon ceivable amount of documentary evi dence of what I believe to be their .crimes. "I am overwhelmed with the duties of this receivership. It is compli cated and trying beyond words. But I trust that you will understand that I shall at any moment give up any time necessary to inform you of the conditions that I have found exist ing." Earle Appealed to Moody. . President Roosevelt acknowledged the receipt of the document through his secretary's secretary. Six weeks later Mr. Earle addressed a last ap peal to the then Attorney-General, William A. Moody, who now sits upon the Supreme bench of the United States. In his letter of appeal Mr. Earle gave Attorney-General Moody an outline of the/essential evidence in his possession, and in closing said:1 "Standing alone, ls this a case that the Government of the United States can afford to ignore? Has there ever been another like it In wickedness?" In justice to Mr. Moody, it is right to set out with particular emphasis the fact that he was then about to re tire from the Roosevelt Cabinet to go upon, the Supreme Court bench. It was agreed by all parties con cerned that it would be manifestly improper for him as Attorney-Gen eral to:pass upon a case which he as a Justice of the highest court in tho land might later have to pass upon as a Judge. Months later Attorney-General Bo naparte, after carefully reviewing the correspondence and withoui. calling for the more defined evidence at hand and at his service, solemnly wrote to Mr. Earle, setting out his belief that the Knight case finally disposed of the matter under discus sion. That was the end of it, so far as Mr. Bonaparte_figured in the case. Newey Gleanings. Clement Hopkins, actor, stabbed J "himself fatally while ill at his bunga low in Montgomery. N. Y. A cargo of 400 frogs arrived in New York City from Germany to be used as weather fov?casters. The bill amending the law uuder which Porto Rico is governed was passed In the House at Washington, D. e. As a result of the denial of recog nition of the union by the Philadel phia Rapid Transit Company lt was predicted that the strike of its em ployes would be resumed. Liquor Mon Warns Trusts That Properties May Be Confiscated. Atlantic City, N. J.-Charges.that big corporations have financed "anti saloon movements are given as the reason for the warning issued to the trusts by G. C. Dempsey, of the Na tional Liquor Dealers' Association. Chairman Dempsey declares vhat prohibition laws have acted as prac tical confiscation of the breweries and distilleries, and says that similar legislation levelled at corporations would have practically the same. ef? feet on their properties.