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rrjBLISHED THREE A SOLID SOUTH A Paper On the Subject by Mr JohnW. /omlinson HITS THE MARK Should aad Will the South Remain Solid is His Text?How Are We to Be Helped by Division??What Are the Democratic Principles In volved? ?In the current issue of the National Monthly Mr. John W. Tonilinson, of Alabama, discusses the Solid South in the following article: This question was agitated by the Republicans during the recent Presi dential campaign. They played it as a long shot with the hope of possi bly winning one or two of the South ern States. Local conditions were expected to help. Mr. Taft swung through the South. A few over-ap prehensive Democrats urged the Democratic National Committee to have Mr. Bryan do likewise. This was deemed entirely unnecessary. The- result showed the committee was. right. The South remained, and will continue, solid in its adherence to Democracy. And yet the echo of this question still sounds in some quarters in the South. Newspapers discuss it as in teresting speculation for the enter tainment of readers. A few take the affirmative, possibiy hoping to curry favor with the powers that be. Still a few others conscientiously think that it would be for the South's best interest to be divided political ly. All these represent a very small minority. The Southerner is a Dem ocrat only to maintaiu white super macy. The negro question is no longer a menace. it'ha* been solved by the South itself. Its solution has demonstrated the necessity and val ue of that Democratic foundation principle, local self-government, as is being shown now in the Pacific Slope States in the matter of the Japanese and the -schools. Those who contend that the solid South should be broken suggests that such is the only method by which the South can get into the game of Federal government. They seem to think the country is hopelessly Re pub'icaa and the only way out of the dilemma Is to join the Republi can party. We believe that Demo cratic principles will ultimately tri umph In the nation; that the contest ed States lu the North and West are Democratic; that iniluences are used, however, In those States to thwart the will of the people; that tbe enormous corruption funds that are used in each presidential year do this tbat in the South no amount of mon ey can buy an election; that the South stands today as a bulwark against such methods; that the time will come when such methods will not be tolerated anywhere; that a party that is against the publicity pf campaign committees will rot be allowed to collect or use any more money than is necessary for paying the legitimate expenses of the cam paign. It is furthermore urged that on account of its solidity for Demo cracy the South is not given proper recognition in the Democratic Na tional conventions or in Democratic councils. This is untrue. The South is entitled to and does get proper recognition. A Southerner was the chairman of our last Democratic Na tional convention; an Alabamian was chairman of a sub-committee of the national committee having in charge the work of organization during the campaign; a North Carolinian was chairman of the press bureau of the Democratic National Committee; another Southerner was chairman of one of the most important commit tees at our eastern headquarters; our Southern Senators, Representatives and prominent Democrats took a most important part as speakers in the contested States. It is urged thaf the Democrats of the South show cowardice in adher ing to their party. This is not ture. If then- is any cowardice displayed, i' is on the part of those who are j really at heart Republicans, but have not the courage of their con victions. They should join and alli liate with the party in whose prin ciples they believe. | hey should not remain ri the Democratic party, seeking at ail time and on all oc casions to uqplerniine and overthrow that party. If two parties in the South divided on matters of princi ple, nil right. But to suggest the splitting up of the South in order to get into lite game, or for any other matters of expediency, is un worthy of consideration. How is the South to be helped by division? What Democratic prin ciple or policy is detrimental? We are told we must progress, yet when Democratic principles are applied to the solution o7 present problems we are warned to get back to old fash ioned Democracy. On the other hand, when a protest is made against Republican measures striking at the foundation of our form of govern ment, we are charged with being obstructionists. In the meantime, the gratuitous advice comes from the same sources to spilt up the solid South in order, forsooth, that some future Southern Republican may be come a cabinet officer under a Re TIMES A WEEK. MATED EIGHT TIMES GOT RID OF HUSBAND BY DEATH AND DIVORCE. Aged Indiana Matron Married to the Eighth Last Week, Hope* He May Out-Live Her, Five husbands divorced, one a sui cide and another the victim of a mysterious death is the modest rec ord cf Mrs. Polly Weed Baker, aged 68 years, and married this week to Simon Shippert, aged 60, of Burling ton. Ia. It was her ninth ceremony. Shippert was her eighth husband. "I hope he lives as long as I do," is the remark the bride made at tne c'.cse of the .atest ceuwuhy. The reason ior the disparity be tween the number of h'tsbands and marriages is that the woman married one man twice. Her first marriage in her remarkable career was tu Henry Fuquar, a farmer boy. Oi vorc separated them after seven years and the wife declared she would shun men from that day on. Ir a few months James Fuquar. erasing to the first husband, came marching home from the Civil war. Nine months later he came home drunk, shot up his home and was divorced . James Henry Robinson was the next husband. Three days after the wedding he was arrested on a breach of promise charge and was divorced. George S. Boyden managed to live with the divorcer ten years and was then cast aside. Four years later S. R. Reed, of New burg, began a life of bliss which was terminated by a mysterious death. Hoyden took a second chance and committed suicide. Three years lat er R. E. Edwards took up the burden and was divorced. William Baker, aged 40, married the divorcee in the hope that, she would die and leave her property to him, but the divorce ax cut him oft' and now as Mrs. Simon Shippert, the much-mar ried woman is leading a life of bliss. * ANOTHER SUMTER SUCID! 1. A Man Drinks Carbolic Acid and Dies at Once. Mr. James H. Witherspoon, man ager of the Whilden Furniture Com pany, committed suicide at his home on East Liberty street in 'Sumter about 7:30 o'clock Friday morning. He drank four ounces of carbolic acid and death ensued within a few minutes. S He was found in a dying condition in the* garden by his wife who had gone out to feed the chickens only a few moments after Mr. Wither spoon left the house. He was dead before Dr. Osteen, who lives just acrcss the street could reach him, although he was called immediately. Coroner Flowers summoned a jury and held the inquest immediately. The. verdict of the jury was that J. H. Witherspoon came to his death from poisoning by carbolic acid which he drank with suicidal in tent. The deceased had been a resident of Sumter for ten or twelve years and had many friends there. He was about 45 years old. He is sur vived by his wife and two children. He was a member of Game Cock Lodge K. of P.. Hollywood Camp, W. of W.. and the National Union. ? SWEPT INTO RIVER. Water Kims Over Dam, Carrying Engine and Men. Night Superintendent John Snyder of South Pittsburg, Tonn., was drowned at lock No. 15 in the Far rior river Friday afternoon and a negro fireman. Rasberry Jones, nar rowly escaped the same fate. The men were working on the dam when the high waters suddenly broke over the temporary fixture, sweeping a locomotive and the two men before, it. The negro saved himself cling ing to a crib. ? Driven ft Suicide. At New York the first bad and humid day of the summer's credit ed with similar attempts of three men to drown themselves in the Hudson ri\er. An expressman as soon as be struck the water changed hi> mind and was joyfully rescued. One of the in.-n returned home to read a pathetic death notice which he had left [or his family. ? publican administration! Such is the logic of Mr. Julian Harris and oth ers who have written recently on this subject. President Taft's proposed policy towards the South, as outlined in his recent utterances on the sub ject will have little bearing upon the question. His policy toward Dem ocrats who are untrue to their party will not. in my opinion, tend to strengthen the cause of his party in the South. The only way for the Republicans to build up their party in the South, in my opinion, is to convince Democrat that Republi? can policies are the best. Then, for such as are convinced, to join the Republican party boldly and advo cate its principles and receive its rewards. Democrats are not going to be split up by the undermining process c. rewarding those who fight the Democratic party from the inside. ? 4 OBANGEBUBG. MOST FOULLY SLAIN YOUNG MAN SHOT DEAD FKOM AMBUSH BY ASSASSIN. Bloodhounds Trailed the Murderer to tho Edisto River, Where He Took to His Boat. A most horrible tragedy occurred ' near the old Phillips rjjill site in Aiken county tcne nv j above the ' Ornngeburg line on las Friday night, j Mr. Cleve Fanning, a y.ung man about 20 years old, was shot, and instantly killed while returning home in his buggy. Mr. Norris Porter, near whose home the tragedy oc curred, heard the shots, and later the young man's horse came up to his house. Finding the buggy all stained with blood, Mr. Porter be came alarmed and went in search of the young man, finding him lying in the road dead. Mr. Fanning was driving along the unfrequented road, when he was shot from behind a tall pine. His brother, Jack Fanning, who has charge of the county chaingang, was notified to come and bring the hounds. The searching party found the dead body near the old Phillips mill site, which is about, two and a half miles north of VVilliston. The news spread very rapidly, and in a short time the community was enraged at the cowardly act of an unknown person. Since there was no other trail than the murderer's the dogs had no trou ble in picking it up from behind a large pine, where the murderer stood to shoot his victim, as he sat in the buggy. The trail was then followed through the woods, for the fleeing man did not trust himself lo the traveled roads, to a point on the Bdisto river about six anl a half miles from the killing. There the dogs stopped at a tree on the river's brink and looked up as if they had the victim treed, but on closer ex amination it was seen where he had untied his boat. The dogs swam around in the river, but could pick up no trail on the other side. Mr. Fanning was shot in the face with a pistol and the back with a shotgun. It is believed that he was ambushed by two or three men, s;nd it is said that arrests may be made shortly, as certain parties are sus pected of the diabolical crime. Mr. Fanning remarked in the store of Matthews & Newsom, just before he started home, that he was "afraid to go." Bad blood, it is said, had existed between him and some par ties in the neighborhood for some time, and it Is thought that he was expecting to be assassinated. Mr. Fanning was a son of Mr. Gabe Fanning, a well-to-do farmer of his section, and the community is much saddened by his death. We hope the cowardly assassins will soon be caught. This crime, which is one of the most dastardly that can be conceived of, is getting to be very common in this section, and it should be suppressed.- With assassins stalk ing over the country no man's life is safe. This is about the sixth as sassination that has occurred in this section of the State in the last few years, and we regret to say that not one of the cowardly assassins has been caught and strung up. This condition of things should be chang ed. FALLS ONE HUNDRED FEET. Iron Workers Drop From New Man hattan Bridge. Falling IO0 root from a scaffold underneath a span of the new Man hattan bridge, now in course of con struction, into the Hast river. New York, Joseph N. Long and John Man ning, two structural iron workers, had a remarkable escape from death Friday. After rising to the surface the men, although considerably stun ned, managed to keep afloat until rescued by their fellow workmen. They were taken to a hospital, where it was said thai Long's skull was ap parently fractured. .Manning, al though' he suffered considerable shock, will be able to resume work within the next few days. BROUGHT (.()(>!> PRICE. Immense Profit Made on a Small Piece of Laud. By holding a pier.' of Chicago | down town property i weiity-four years. William C. Lobenstine, of New ; York idly, has made a clear profit j of more than $?.7i).000. This is at i be rate ol more than $20.000 a year. This became known when it was an- j noli need that Mr, Lolienstine had; sold the southeastern corner of Jack sou Boulevard and Plymouth Place. Tiie consideration mentioned in tin-! deed is nominal, but it is slated on good authority thai .Mr. Sears paid about $yii0.00u tor the land. Tie? property j.- SO by I0."- feet. * Beats tlie Men. Mrs. Ada Topperweiu, a woman trap shooter, was a member of the squad which shot at ih" Chicago Gun Club Friday and easily succeeded in beating the male members of the or- 1 ganization. Shooting from the ninr teen-yard mark she broke forty-eight out of fifty. Shooting from the six teen-yard mark she broke fifty straight, a total of ninety-eight out of 3 00 she fired at. ' * S. C., TUES?DAY. JU} INSIDE FACTS Of the True History of the Clem son Bequest. Given by Col. R. W. Simpson, Who Whs a Friend of Mr. Clemson, and Wlio Drew His Will Deeding His Land and .Money to Establish a College. Col. R. W. Simpson, who was an Intimate friend of Mr. Clemson, gives the following history of the bequest of that gentleman to establish a col lege: There seems to be so little known about the life and purpose, of Mr. Thomas G. Clemson in connection witli the donation of his property to the State for the purpose of founding an industrial college, in justice to his memory and his purpose I feel it to be my duty to state the facts and let the people judge. A short while before Mr. Cal- I noun's death his friends in Charles ton, seeing Iiis declining health, sub scribed liberally to purchase or chart er a yacht to send him on a cruise, thinking thereby to restore him to; his usual vigor. Before this laud able purpose could be carried into effect, Mr. Calhoun died. I can not speak accurately of the amount sub scribed, but according to my recol lection it was between $IJ0,00U and $40,000. After his death it was agreed by the subscribers to this fund to apply it to the payment of Mr. Calhoun's debts. He was not a rieh man and was largely in debt at the time of Iiis death. Mr. Cal houn's debts were paid, and his children released their interest in his estate in favor of their mother, Mrs. Floride Calhoun, and her afflicted daughter. Miss Cornelia Calhoun. Subsequently Mrs. Floride Calhoun sold Fort Hill plantation and the ne groes, formerly the property of John C. Calhoun, to her son, Col. A. P. Calhoun. for the sum in round num bers of $40,000, for which he gr.ve his bond and mortgage. Mrs. Flor ide Calhoun was to reside with her son, but there arose an unfortunate difficulty between the mother and son, and Mrs. Calhoun purchased a home in Piedmont and resided there to the time of her death, and it was there she had her friend and rela tive, Mr. Armstead Hurt, to write her will, in which she willed and de vised her Pendleton property to her grandsons, sons of Wiliiam and John Calhoun, then deceased, and the bond and mortgage of A. P. Calhoun on the Fort 11 il plantation, three-fourths thereof, to Mrs. Clemson, her daugh ter, aud one-fourth to Mrs. Lee, her granddaughter, with the provision that if the bond and mortgage were given in exchange for the land, it was to go to Mrs. Clemson and her daughter, Mrs. Lee, in the same pro portion. Some time after the close of the war and after the death of Mrs. Floride Calhoun and Col. A. P. Cal houn, Mrs. Clemson began proceed ings to foreclose the mortgage on the Fort Hill plantation. After a great deal of litigation, accounting, etc., the court ordered the planta tion to be .sold. Mr. Clemson attend ed the sale at Walhalla, and bid in the land (Fort Hill) for Mrs. C!em -on and his daughter, Mrs. Lee, for the sum of $15,000, considered at the time the full value of the land. The cost and expense* of the litiga tion connected with this foreclosure proceedings, owing to the complicat ed questions involved and the num ber of attorneys employed, amount ed to $8.000.? These costs and ex penses, instead of being paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the land, were paid by Mr. Clemson out of his own private funds. Mr. and Mrs. Clemson resided at Kort Hill, after the death of their two children. .Mrs. Lee ami Calhoun Clemson, they entered into an agree ment to make wills in each other's favor and tin- survivor was to devote their joint property to the State to round ;m industrial college, Mrs. Clemson having nothing to will but her three-fourths of tin" Fort Hill plantation, while Mr. Clemson had j quite a sum of money which he had fortunately saved after the war. j It was also a part of this agree ment thai Mr. Clemson was to will out of hi- private property the sum of $io.nun to their granddaughter, the only surviving child of their daughter, .Mrs. Lee. and their object in making this donation to their granddaughter was that they could donate their property to th ? 5T(ite free of any claim or equitable right ' 'bat she. the grandchild, might have to tin- Fort Hill plantation. In the meantime the Kort Hill plantation had been divided accord ing lo the terms of Mrs. Calhoun's will, setting off three-fourths to Mrs. Clemson and one-fourth to Mrs. Leu or her daughter. They having agreed to donate this three-fourths to the State, they considered the $S. 000 paid to Iiis granddaughter, which subsequently hi- increased to $15, OUO, would be indisputably the full ) value of the land. Mr. Clemson al ways considered that the Fort Hill plantation, or three-fourths there of, was legally and rightfully his prop erty as far as any claims that the Calhouns might set up, and there OS 8, 190!?. MUROtRER LYNCHED SLAYER OF SHERIFF HUNG UP BY MOB IN JAIL YARD. "hey Were Afraid an Attempt Would Be Made to Get Him Off on a Plea of Insanity. At Tallahassee, Fla., dangling from a limb in the county jail yard, and within sight of the dome of Florida's Capitol, the lifeless body of Mark Morris, colored, greeted the people of that city Sunday morning. Already condemned to death for me murder of William Langston, late sheriff of the county, this negro would have, on Friday, June 11, .just five days hence, paid the penalty of his crime with his life at the hands of the law. A mob of not more than fifteen men overpowered the jailer, and at 3 o'clock in the morning Morris was dragged from his cell in the jail and strung to the limb of a tree within the jail inclosure. As if to add emphasis to their lawlessness, the masked band emptied a round of cartridges into the lifeless body of the negro and rode away without the slightest molestation. Lately Monis had been acting strangely, and it Is believed thai fear that the negro would attempt to es cape the gallows through feigned in sanity prompted the act of the mob. fore was his to do as he pleased with, he having paid $2:1,000 therefor. These facts are.all matters of record except as to the agreement to compensate their granddaughter, and let the Fort Hill plantation be free from any claim that might be set up by the Calhouns or others that they, Mr. and Mrs. Clemson, were donating that which they did not have a moral right to donate. 1 was a witness to these facts and to the purposes they had iu view. There is, therefore, no foundation for the statement that Mr. Clemson had settled Calhoun's property to the State and then given him name to the proposed institution. I wrote Mr. Clemson's will and I state posi tively that if any one is responsible for his name given to the college I am thai one. Mr. Clemson wanted to give the name of Calhoun to the proposed institution, but I insisted that it should bear his name, be cause I knew of the transactions by which his granddaughter was to be compensated for the full value of the plantation and that which he was donating to the State was his indi vidual property and Mr. Calhoun had nothing whatever to do with the property or the donation. Hut if was Mr. Clemson's purpose and desire to name the college Calhoun and not Clemson. 1 was his confidential attorney and managed all of Mr. Clemson's affairs for two years preceding his death. I visited him once every week, and spent the day with him and he lived the life of a dignified, heart-broken hermit. During his last sickness In talked to me about religion and ask ed his friend and attending physic ian. Dr. T. J. Pieken?, to pray lor him, and he asked me to bring a min ister to see him, and I carried Rev, Mr. Clarkson to see him. He told me that during the several conversa tions he had with Mr. Clemson he confessed his faith in Christ, and said that Christ was able tu save as great a sinner as he was. It was Mr. Clarkson's opinion that he was a con verted and saved man. Mr. Clemson was a strong believ er in Mr. Calhoun and his political doctrines. During the early part of the war, while residing at his home near the city of Washington, he was notified by a friend that h<- was to be arrested next day uu account of hi.- sympathies for tin- South. There upon he and his son, Calhoun Clem son, escaped and that night crossed tiie Potomac in a skirt" and then walk ed to Richmond and tendered their services to President Davis. .Mr. Clemson was attached to the nitre and mining works in the department of the trans-Mississippi, and bis son was given a commission in the regu lar army. Mr. Clemson served iu the department to which In- was attached to the end id' the war. He then came to Pendlelon and later to Fort Hill where he resided to the day of his deat h. His daughter, Mr-. Lee, died i:i New York, and 17 day.-, thereafter Iiis sou. Calhoun Clemson, was killed iu aj railroad accident at Seneca, .S. ('. Not a great while after the death of their two children Mrs. Ca I lion n died suddenly. For in year.-, after the death of bis wife and children Mr. Clemson lived a lonesome, desolate life and hi., death was one of the saddest scenes I ever witnessed. In my many conversations with him lie impressed me as one who thoroughly understood the conditions iu which the people were left by the result of the war. Having graduated from the school of mines in Pari- lie was (irm ly impressed with the conviction that an industrial education would alone meet the condition.- then existing and he was vitally interested in help ing to establish such an institution for the benefit of the rising gener ation. It. W. SIMPSON, Pendleton, June 3. 1D0D. * Killed by Cannon. Explosion of a cannon at St. Marys, 0., this week, killed Henry Mahan, a veteran. OF THE SOUTH TO BE TREATED SAME AS OTHERS. Senator Tillman Urges the Free Entry of Cotton Bagging and Ties for Their Benefit. Senator Tillman, says the Wash ington correspondent of the Charles ton Post, made an earnest plea at the session of the Senate Thursday night to secure a vote on free cot ton bagging. Senator Aldrich asked that the paragraph go over. In discussing the subject and in re ply to Senator Aldrich, the Senator from South Carolina said: "It seems to me that we might settle this to night if the Senator from Rhode Island and the committee are dispos ed to treat the Southern farmer as they have treated the Western fann er. This cotton bagging is absolute ly necessary to the Southern farmers j and it is thrown away as su;>n as wo pack the cotton. "We have to buy it and pay for it. and then we lose it. when the cotton gets to the market for it is subtracted us tare. The Western farmer who has to cut his wheat and oat.s sets his binding twine free, and i why should not tne Southern farm-j er who has to prepare bis cotton for market get his bagging and ties I free. "1 made an appeal to the Senator and bis committee in the last tariff hill twelve years ago in relation to this matter. | got no hearing then, but I think that bis heart is a little softer now than it was a long time ago, and that lie will realize that he ought to make some reasonable con cessions and let us feel that we are not simply discriminated against, but we are from the South." .Mr. Aldrich: "1 assure the Sena tor from South Carolna and the Senate that the committee at an early day will take up this matter and give it very careful considera tion." The suggestion was made that the Senate might do as it did twelve years ago, and put. cotton bagging on the list and then in conference yield to the Houte and recede from the attitude. Senator Tillman was assured by Senator Aldrich that free cotton bag ging would receive careful consider ation by the finance committee and instructed that Senator Tlllman's request be complied with. TAFT WANTS PEACE. Vorth Carolina Republicans Must Harmonize. There seems to have been some thing doing in Republican circles in North Carolina the past week. It is stated that President Taft is anxious to see harmony established between the North Carolina Republican chief tains, and is willing to lend his aid and Influence towards "bringing to gether all Republican elements in the State so that they will at least be on speaking terms." The fact is, it is declared, that President Taft has practically given orders that the Republican factions must get together, and that the invi tation extended to the three North Carolina Repuhjilqan Congressmen, Messrs. Cowles. Morehead and Grant, to dine at the White House one day last week, was to yet them together .-o be could tell them that the fac tions must disappear. This is the way the dinner order was put by Tom Pierce, Washington correspondent of the Raleigh News and Observer. "Duncan and Adams must lie down together, and that Moreheati, Grant. Cowles-. Holton. Skinner and the resl should get in bed with them. Of course this suggestion from the big chief caused wry faces, but they promised to try the harmony diet for tin- good of the cause. The presi dent wants tie- revivified Industrial News to lie tin* altar around which all North Carolina Republicans shall i gather ami smoke the pipe of peace." HANGED HIMSELF. Tried to fiel Poison From Druggist I tut Failed. An unidentified man was found j hanging from a limb of a tree on the | outskirts of Dover, N. J., late Friday. I lb- had $ I. I!'.':.71' in hi< pocket. Seen on the streets since Monday, his eratic behavior was noticed. On i Tuesday morning he asked a drug gist for "just enough carbolic acid for one." lie was nonchalant about it that the druggist, refusing the request, suggested that the canal was not far off. "Acid is better they tell me," the ! man replied. * ! Tluiw'.H Apponl Denied, Harr K. Thaw is io utay in th" State Asylum for Oho Criminal ti sane at Mat tea wan. A d?*islGn fcu derod Saturday by the appellate div ision of the Supreme Court in Rrook !;. II so held. Killed in Roving Malch. Ed Lyons, aged 30, diod Saturday as a result of injuries received in a boxing match with George Kenne. Keene was arrested. Lyons was knocked out in tho eleventh round. O CENTS PER COPY A Hero Risks His Life in Swirlhg River in Vain. SHE DIES IN HIS ARMS Louis Cohen Plunges Into the Niagara Above the Cataract am! Makes a Valiant Attempt to Res cue His Young Wife, Who H:uJ Jumped Into the River. Louis Cohen, of Buffalo, saw his young wife lern in:o the swirling Niagara river between Second and Third Sister Islands at ? o'clock Sunday afternoon, only 1T>0 feet above the brink of the cataract. Without a moment's hesitation, he followed, and struggled to save her. She probably died in his .arm.?. Before it was possible to bring ef ficient help, an hour had passed, dur ing all of which' Cohen was making frantic attemp to reach the short;. The current at this point is about twenty miles an hour. But fortune aided him. With his wife tightly clasped to him. he felt himself bump iuto a grounded tree stump, and on this he got a grip with his one free hand. It was nearly an hour after Mrs. Cohen jumped into the river, when a police officer, .lames Martin, ar rived with ropes, and representative .las. H. Simons and three other men. Three times they threw the rope before it fell within Cohen's grasp, and then he was too weak to tie it about bis own or. his wife's waist. The two were twenty feet from shore, and it was difficult to make a good cast. Cohen had been unable to keep his wife s face above wa ter. Once Cohen laid hold of the rope, the men on shore began to pull. When within fifteen feet of the shore Cohen lost his grip on his wife's body, and it was carried down stream and lost to view. When (/jhen got on shore, he. could not 'k for ten miuutes. His first wv?r. 0 were: "Sbe is out there. Go anil get he . Shfc is dead. She died in my arms." At last two searchers spied Mrs. Cohen's body, held fast by a rock, about one hundred feet above the brink. It was with the greatest dif ficulty that the two men brought the body to land. Life was extinct. Cohen says that worry over the fact that she was unable to suckle h-T infant depressed his wife greatly, and probably caused her desire for death. He is robust and quickly re covered from the shock of Ills ex perience. CENSUS COTTON REPORT. On Condition of Crop and Acreage Planted. The condition of the growing crop of cotton on May 25 was 81,1 per 7T>.7 a year ago. and a ten-year aver age of SI.4. The area planted this year is about 95.6 per cent of the area planted to cotton last year, and aggregates about 31.91S.000 acres, a decrease of 1,452,000 acres or 4.-3 per cent from the bureau s revised estimate of last year's planted area. This was. Friday's report of the ag ricultural department. Revised estimate of last -year's planted area was 33,370,000 acres. Figures for area planted this year includes that already planted and ex pected to be planted. By States the area planted in acres in 1909 and the condition on May '!'>, respectively, is: Virginia 2S.000 and Sa per cent. North Carolina 1,436.000 and 8:: per cent. South Carolina 2,436,000 and 8;'. per cent. Georgiil 4,763,000 and si per cent. Florida 264,000 and !t 1 per (??Dt. Alabama 3,552,000 and 8:; per cent, .Mississippi 3,244,000 and TS per cent. Louisiana 1,155,000 and 74 per cent. Texas ft.716.000 and 78 per cent. Tennessee 754,000 and 80 per edit. * WITH DEAD LT ACID. .Man Kills ||js Wile Bern use She Whs Too Beautiful. ({??cause he thought bis wife th* most beautiful woman in the world. Gasper Zittinick poured sulphuric acid over her face as she slop' ir. their home, in New York, intending to mar her beauty and make her un attraletive y lither mem, but tht acid cot into her eyes and penetrated Inr brain, killing her; This was Zitiinick's excuse when brought" be fore Judge Ma lone, in general ses sions court, having plead guilty to manslaughter in the second degree. He was sentence! to not less than t??i nor more than twenty years ;?: prison. Shot at Wife. A race horse man known as ' Sug.tr Babe" Courtney, v.H't at bis wife In ?* hotel in Columbia Saturday, after kicking in the pane'.i of her roo*n door, i-lter she oil locked him oir. The shot old not tafco effect.