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PUBLISHED THEEE ' GAME OF BLUFF President Taft and the Republi can Leaders FOOLING THE PEOPLE Meanwhile the Public Protests, and the President to Appease It Tries to Check the Clamor for a Time, Bat the Cost of Living Will Go Up When the Tariff Bill Passes. Zack McGhee, in his> Washington letter to The State abttut sizes up the 'game of bluff now being played by President Taft and the Republican leaders in their attempt to fool the people. Zack says Washington seems all expectant and excited about Mr. Taft's Ajaxing, and from mouth to mouth, and from Washington pa per to Washington paper, it is com municated that the tariff is to be re vised downward in spite of appear ances, and that the people are to come into their own. Ajax cut3 an impressive figure this morning and again this afternoon in the afternoon papers. And Mr. Aid rich is just going to be compelled to come under, -they say. The press as sociations have been given to under stand that Mr. Taft will just not put up with any foolishness about this thing, that he is committed to a re vision downwood and a revision downward there must be. But Sen ? ator Gore remarked the other day that the way for you to tell whether the promise has been kept is when you go to a store and find out if the ? price of: your sugar, your cotton cloths, your gloves, your stockings, and the various other articles you buy are any cheaper than they were last year. Last year, and ever since the Din gley tariff law been been in force the articles you have been buying was exceedingly high. The people pro tested against the high prices caused by tho Dlngley tariff for many years, till at last the Republicans could withstand no longer the clamor and promises to revise the tariff and re duce the exhorbitant rates of bounty the people have been paying to the extortionate protected interests. If they had kept their promise, or if yet they keep it^Jf Mr. Taft com pels them by this Ajaxing of his to keep thia promise made to the peo ple in the last campaign, why then the prices will be cheaper than they were last year. Members of congress are getting by every mail prepared statements from merchants and merchants' as sociations, showing now rates have been raised, and how, if the rates as fixed in both the house and the sen ate bills, which bills are now being harmonized in "conference," are en acted into law the people will have to pay higher prices for their arti cles of clothing, especially cotton and wollen cloths. Mr. Taft himself has been circularized and in various ways has been made to feel the weight of this showing up. Every dry goods merchant in this country almost 's already an active agent for the Democratic party. The importers in New York and elsewhere along the shore have been circulariz ing retailers all over the country, the merchants' associations and the var ious representatives of those concerns which have all to lose and nothing to gain by the raising of duties have been sending out letters and circu lars to the men and concerns which they deal with In the small towns and the merchants of the whole coun try are studying the tariff as they have not studied it before. I was in a little town in the South the other day and to my great sur prise I found a small dry goods mer chant who had never before been known to take any interest in na tional politics talking tariff. He took me behind his counter and showed me gloves that he sold for$2.25, but which. If the proposed Payne rates on gloves go into effect, be would be compelled to sell for $3. He showed me ladies' hose, which he was now selling for 25 cents a pair, ] the kind the greater number o? wo- j men buy, and he had figured out that if the proposed Payne duties on stockings go into effect he would have to sell those stockings for 35 or 4 0 cents. And he took me all about hb store and showed me cotton and woolen goods of various kinds which would have to be raised in price. ?No it does not make any difference whether a man is a Republican a Democrat, if he is a dry goods mer chant ho is going to raise the price of his goods so sure as this bil" goes j through, as It seems now destined to do. Mr. Tafl has been tola thi?. and he has been made to realize it. That's- tho reason he Is Ajaxing s^ marvelously. He hears a rumbling j of the political earth in America and ( he must bestir himself. Seeing how unpopular just at this j time Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Cannon \ are, who. by the way, are no worse ' and no better than their party, the J president does not want to appear to ] t>e doing what these two unpopular party leaders want him to do. More than that, he wants to have the peo ple believe that he it is who is- going to drive the two arch enemies of the people into doing his bidding, and he is going to bid that the tariff come down. In other words, the president is; making a desperate effort today to put a check to the tremendous and tTMES A WEEK. TWO LADS DROWNED CHESTER YOUTHS MEET DEATH IN BRUSHY CREEK. Little Known of the Pitiful Tragedy as No Witness Was Near Except Possibly Another Small Boy. A special dispatch f?-om Chester to The State says one of the saddest tragedies ever recorded in Chester County was enacted In the waters of Brushy creek near Chalkville Monday afternoon when Jesse, aged 10 years, and John, aged 12 years, the two little eons of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Chalk, were drowned. The two little fellows, accompanied by Perry Woods, the little son of Mr. md Mrs. Frank Woods, left their home Monday afternoon a: about 2 o'clock and strolled down to a lake on Brushy Fork creek in Mr. Mill's pasture. By and by little Perry Woods returned alone; the afternoon wore away, and still the other two boys didn't come home. The parents naturally became alarmed, and the Woods boy was questioned as to where they were. No satisfactory information could be obtained from him, howev( , and MeBsra Eli Wilks, J. B. Carter and others organized a party and proceeded to the swimming place to look for them, fears being had from the first that some accident had befallen them on the creek. Their clothes were found on the bank of the lake, which is about 150 feet long and several feet deep in places and the search began. All the party were good swimmers, and but little difficulty was experienced In finding the bodies and bringing them to the shore. The two boys were found only about four feet apart. ..One little body was rigid, while the other was not. When Messrs. Eli Wilks and J. B. Carter reached Chester In quest of coffins no statement had been obtain ed from Perry Woods as to the de tails of the tragedy. It is supposed, though, that he was along when the two little Chalk boys were drowned. Neither of the vic tims could swim, and it is Mkely that they ventured In beyond their depth and were engulfed In the water, which Is deep In places. MUST HATE BEEN CRAZY. North Carolina Farmer Rescued Wife Just in Time. At Patetown, Wayne County, N. C, Sunday night James Bivens instantly killed his brother. David, with a hoe. The slayer surrendered to the au thorities at Goldsboro on Monday morning and following a preliminary examination was released on $200 bond for his appearance at the Au gust term of court. The tragedy is enshrouded in mys tery. Bivens stated that he heard his wife screaming in his cotton field and running up was startled to sec that &he was being choked to death by his brother. After felling his brother, James Bivens carried his wife home and by vigorous effort saved her life. The dead man's wife, a sister of Mrs. James Bivens, the only witness to the fratricide, testified at the hearing that the killing was justifiable. The motive for the dead nan's attack on his 6ister-in-law Is unknown. Pushed from Window. Mrs. Mary Peck,-who lived on the fifth floor of a house in West Forty eighth street, Now York, was either pushed or fell from a front window of her apartment to the street before daylight Tuesday morning, and at an hour later died In the Flower hospital. In an antemortem state ment, Mrs. Peck said that Adam Hoffman, of Schnectady had been in her room1 with her, and declared that she had been pushed from the window. Paid Them to Hokl. C. Schussler and Sons, a mercan tile Arm of Lafayette, Ala., have sold to the local mills 1,650 bales of cot ton which they have had stored in the Columbus warehouses since last fall. The cotton sold at 12 1-2 cents, the lot bringing over one hundred thousand dollars. The firm made about thirty thousand dollars by holding the cotton. Commits Suicide. Standing before a ruirrow in his room in his home at Haytt's Park, Columbia, Louis R. P. Arndt, aged 2f>, took his life late Monday by sending a bullet crashing through his brain. Ill health and despon- ! dency are given as the cause for the act. He was well known in Columbia | having been employed by a local drug I store as a drug clerk. Sixteen Miners Killed. The fire damp exploded in a coal mine at Mansfield, Russia, Tuesday. Sixteen are dead and many uncon clous miners have been taken out. It is not known at this time how many ? men ar" still in the mine. tremendously noisy public clam Dr against the iniquities of the Payne Aldrich measure. He may stop the ' clamor, for a while, but he can no more stop it permanently than he can stop Messrs. Payne and Aldrich from doing what they have set out to do. And hear what Mr. Aldrich said one j day on the floor of the senate: "Soth-1 Ing is going to deter me from doing i my duty towards these manufactur- | ere." Zach McGhee. ORA2JOEBUKG. THE HOOK WOHM IS WIDESPREAD IN SEVERAL OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. Efforts Will Be Made to Eradicate the Terrible Disease by the Medi cal Boards. A Washington dispatch says the j book worm, or the "lazy bug," as it has been shown to exist in the South ern States, according to the investiga tions of the physical condition of the army recruits, will form an interest ing chapter in the forthcoming report of the surgeon-general of the army and will probably lead to widespread effort on the part of the boards of health in th Southern States to erad icate this disease, which a few years ago was brought prominently to the ! attention of the world In connection with the Porto Ricans. After being treated all of the infected soldiers gained in weight and improved in physical condltiou generally. Following this Investigation of the recruits, it was discovered that "uncinariasis," as hook worm is call ed in the medical world, was a com mon disease thoroughout the South ern States. It ia estimated by the army surgeous that 50 per cent, of the recruits iu the army today from the rural districts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana will show hook worm infection. The Investigation has been pro gressing quietly during the last six or seven months, so that when Surgeon General Torney makes up his annual report he will have much data to prove the pravalence of the hook worm among the soldiers en listed ,from the Southern States. These recruits passing though the army depot at Fort Slocum, N. Y., were examined to the number of 14 0, 109 of them beiug infected with the parasite. West Virginia, North Car olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor ida, Alabama and Tennessee all sup plied the recruits that were infected. Th e Columbia Record says the knowledge now in the possession of the government corncerning the hook worm has been secured largely through the investigations of Dr. C. A. Stiles, who spent a year or more iu Columbia and South Carolina for this purpose. He went Into the cot ton mill towns and out into the country, including the sand hills, liv ing among the people In their homes j and examining the children in the schools. His observations arc the basis for the present announcement, i YOUNG HORSE TIUEF. Twelvo Year Old Negro Boy flakes a Bad Start. Last Monday night Dr. Dorai nick of Prosperity returned from a patient and, hitching his horse in the yard, went into the housjy. He returned in a few minutes and was astonished to find that his horse and buggy had disappeared. Search was begun but not until Tuesday morning did he find which way the thieves had gone. It was fpjud that they had been seen going to wards Saluda river. Parties in auto-; information received along the road, one of the cars was able to follow the thieves, who were driving hard. About three miles from Leesville Messrs. J. B. Harmon and Jas. Hnut caught up with the thieves. They were captured and brought back t> Prosperity, and it developed that one of the thieves, was a little negro of | about 12 years of age, and his com panion was a negro picked up on the road. Sheriff Huford came down and car ried both to Newherry, and gave out the information that the little negro was wanted for breaking out of jail, and also for stealing a watch and a bicycle. Commits Suicide. John Wilson committed suicide at Fort Mill Township Saturday morn ing. He was a white farmor. He shot horaself with a shotgun iu the neck, the gun being so arranged that he pulled the trigger with his toe. The suicide is supposed to have been caused by family trouble. The de ceased was 55 years of age. A Sudden Death. Mr. John Henry Young, aged 61 j years, dropped dead at Iva In Ander son county Monday morning while 1 having his hor.H' shod. Mr. Young was a prosperous farmer and was ' holding the head of his horse when death came. Heart failure is the attributed cause. He is survived by his wife and several children. Droppetl Dead iu Church. A communication from Yancey-1 ville, N. C, says George W. Dailey, a prominent and wealthy citizen of that section, dropped dead Sunday morn ing, while making a talk at Prospect Church, near that place. Mr. Dailey was addressing the Sunday-school when he was seen to pitch forward to the floor, dying before medical as sistance could be summoned. Sunk by a Tug. Id New York harbor the small freight Bteamer, Martha Stevens, bound to Trenton, N. J.. was run Into and sunk by a tug boat Tuesday i morning. Two men were killed and I two were badly injured. S. C THURSDAY. JUI CASHIER SHORT A Trusted Man of Anderson Ruins His Good Name TOOK BANK'S FUNDS And Lost Thera in Speculating in Cotton Futures, Disappears, Leav ing a Written Confession, Which Completely Stunned His Friends, Who Had Trusted Him. J. T. Holloman, who for two years has been cashier of the Bank of An derson, and who for four years was assistant cashier, has been found short in his accounts approximately $35,000, and has left for parts un known. In the cash drawer of the bank he left a letter, addressed to President B. F. Mauldin. in which he made a clear cut and complete confession, saying that he lost the money in speculating in cotton futures. Rather than face his friends, ho said in the letter, he would flee, and this he did on Sunday morning, when he left supposedly on his annual va cation. The people of Anderson are severely stunned, for there was no man in Anderson who enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the people more than did Mr. Towmes Holle man. The board of director issued tho following statement Tuesday: "The board* of directors of the Bank of Anderson make the follow ing statement in regard to the short age of J. T. Holleman in his accounts as cashier, which came to tho knowl edge of the officials Monday night: After carefully looking into the af fairs of the bank we find the amount will be about $35,000, and inasmuch as the capital stock is $150,000 and the surplus $225,000. making a total of $3 75,000 to which is added the liability of the stockholders, $150. 000, making a total available for creditors of $525,000, the public can realize that the standing of the bank 1s not. impaired and that the business of the bank, with its well-known abil ity to accommodate Its customers, will not be lessened. The lors will be charged off to-momw, when the hank examiner ascertains the exact amount." This stafai^gjg^wag p'^n^d. by Pres ident B. F. Mauldin, Vice President J. A. Brock. Attorney Joseph N. Brown and five directors. No statement ever Issued in An derson occasioned greater, piirprlse and consternation. The officials of the bank knew nothing of the matter until Monday nicht. Mr. Holleman left the bank Saturday afternoon, supposedly with the intention of go ing away for a vacation of a week or two. He told his associates in the bank of his intention last week and he Wt with their fullest permission, and they did not dream that there was anything wrong. He Is sup nosed to have left the city sometime Sunday. It is not known where he has gone. The bank waB opened as usual Monday morning and everything ran smoothly during the day. When Mr. A. H. Sharpe, assistant cashier, went to balance the cash that night ho found in tho cash box a letter ad dressed to Mr. Mauldin, the presi dent. He also saw that there was something wrong with tho cash. Mr. Sharpe sent for Mr. Mauldin, who was at his home and the letter was opened and read. In it Mr. Holle man made a complete confession. He said he hnd been speculating in fu tures and had gone from bad to w-orse and that hn had become des perate and decided to leave as he could not face his exposure. He turned over all his property to the bank, but this will not come near covering the shortage. The directors of the bank were summoned, and af ter examination they placed tho facts before Mr. Giles Wilson, the state bank examiner, who happened to be In the city on one of his regular trips, and he is now going over tho books. The directors, however, havo already satisfied themselves that the shortage is not more than $35,000, | and of course, this will not In any i way cripple the bank, which is one j of the strongest In tho up-country. Everything will go on as usual as the I bank has a large surplus fund, seven j or eight times sufficient to take caro of the shortage. Mr. Holleman. in his letter, said r.e first began speculating it: futures about a year ago w'?n $'?00 which he had saved. He losr that am* thfn borrowed $1,000 fr? m U13 batik wMh which to recoup his loss. This soon went and other sums in rapid succes sion. It is an old story or' 1 .small beginning by a man who was the somI of honor and had no intention of de frauding anvbody. Mr. Holleman is a nativo of Wal halla and has lived In Anderson about twenty years. has a wife and several children. II" has held several responsible nositions in the city and has been with the Bank of Anderson about six years. He was frugal in his habits, steady and In- I dustrious, and had always lived with in his income. He was just about the la>t man in the city that would have been suspected of being short in his accounts. The announcement of his trouble | will be received with tho greatest sur prise throughout the city and county and State, and there will bo the deep est sympathy for him. He was uni versally liked. It la not known where ,Y 22, 1909. ABOUT CLEMSON WHAT IT TAKES TO RUN THE BIG FARMER'S COLLEGE. The Fertilizer Tax Brought in a Big Snni During the Year Ending June Lost. The finance committee* of the board of trustees of Ciemson College has finished its inspection of the books of the treasurer for the year ending June 30. Below are a few interesting facts and figures from tf?e treasurer's report for the year: The income from the fertilizer in spection tag tax was $177,271. Of this amount the trustees expended by order of the General Assembly $64,3S9.79 as follows: For inspection of fertilizers and mailing fertilizer bulletins, $13,628.59; for analysis of fertilizers, minerals, ores, waters, etc. $8,997.65; for entomological inspec tion, $1,415.72; for veterinary in spection, $2,177.11; for Texas fever tick eradication. $6,583.98; for coast experiment station. $15,953.69; for farmers' institutes, $516.26; for 165 beneficiary scholarships. $15,166.79.1 These expenditures leave a balance ! credited to the College of $112.SSI. 95, to which must be added the in come from productive funds, such as Ciemson bequest, tuition, rents, farm herd and dairy, etc, amounting to $9,702.81, and the income from the Federal Government. $23,254. These amounts, with a balance of $19,775. 16. make a total of $165,613.92 for the use of the College. The expenditures of the College proper for the year were for perma nent improvements, operating, equip ment, supplies, labor, insurance, paid cadet fund, and salaries?by depart ments as follows: Academic depart ment, $22,013.15; agricultural de partment, $.15,648.27; chemical de partment, $6,737.30: engineering de partment, $24,885.98; military de partment, $3,010.39; texile depart ment, $6,955.64; miscellaneous de partment, $67,11 6.11. The Items which make the miscel laneous department mount up are chiefly barracks, malntanenance and equipment, heat, light and water, \ construction and repairs, support of I convicts, expenses and salaries of president's and treasurer's office,' trustees expenses, library, printery. etc. WOULD BE ITEM) LYNCHED. Ordered Two Young Ladic? to Get Out of Buggy. King Green, a would-be negro fiend, was lynched nnd his body rid dled with builcts at Gum Branch four miles out from Eastman, Ga.. Mon day morning. The Misses Nicholson, daughters of Sam Nicholson, one of Eastman's prominent citizens, while four miles out from Eastman, were met In the road by the negro, who caught their horse by the rein and told them to get out, that it was his horse and he was going to have it. The young Indies whipped up their horse and tried to get away from him but he held on until frightened by their Bcreams. Dogs were sent from the county convict camp and placed on his trail, and after a run of several hours the negro was captured. The Sheriff and his deputies, while on their way to town, were met at Gum Swamp by a posse of 175 men, who took him away from the offi vers and strung him up to a sapling, after which the crowdly dispersed. PELLAGRA IN CHICAGO. Discovered Among the Inmate of the Asylum. Pellagra, a mysterious plague, as fatal as leprosy and usually found only in Southeren States and tropical countries, has been discovered in the insane wards at the Dunning asylum at Chicago. Three aged women are now suffering from the malady and six other women have succumed to the disease within the past year. At the time of their death the Dunning physicians were mystified as to the nature of the ailments. A suspicion that pellagra was the affliction of the women was confirmed by Dr. C. H. Lavinder, a surgeon of the United States public health and marine hos pital service, who for the past two months has been making exhaustive study of the baffling disease at a laboratory at Columbia. S. C. Negro Kills Negro. A difficulty occurred In the New Cut section of Lancaster county be-] tween two negroes, .Moody Thomas and Watt Watts, in which the firmer, was fatally shot, dying of his wounds , Monday afternoon. Watts is In Jail. | The trouble was about a woman, it | is said. j he has trone and no statement was made as to what steps would he tak en to apprehend him. All of his friends and the bank directors were ton stunned to map <>'l(. anj course i of act Ion. In the midst of the grief over his downfall about the only comfort is that the solidity of the bank was net Impired In the slightest degree, and, of course. It does not affect any of the banks In the city. Mr. Holleman's popularity Is shown l>y the fact that several of his friends ' said that, If he had told them of his ' trouble, they would have furnished the money to cover his shortage and given him a new etart. TV GIVES GOOD ADVICE _ K PRESIDENT HARRIS TELLS THri FARMERS NOT TO SELL, Truly Says' Cotton Producers the Worst Bcuj-s When They KhonM Bull the Market. We now hear of some farmers sail ing their cotton for future delivery in October or November. At first the buyers enter the field offering ten cents. They bought what they could at that price, then they offered 10Ms. and bought what they ctwld up to ,the present, and are now offering 1" j cents for it. Why does the farmer] do this? It is because he does not | use good business judgment. He' should' realize at once that this is a 1 game of the speculator to defeat the ' objects of the Farmer's Union. The farmers should realize at once that I the speculator know that cotton will j be worth more in October and No- j vember that he is paying for it now. I With the bright outlook for cot ton the coming season to go very | much 'nighor, why should the farmer act with such little judgment? Why did cotton take a tumble on Friday I last on boll weevil report? One of ! Price's tricks to catch the suckers. They had been taking the bait and the boll weevil report was all he wanted to catch them with. Any one with common sense ought to know that when the weather gets so hot and dry enough to kill the boll wee vil that It will kill cotton also. Tel egraph reports on the 17th of July states that tho drought-stricken sec tions of five millions of acres in Texas has had practically no relief, and conditions are serious. Rain must come iu the next few days or it will be too late. The world generally does not realize that this crop Is getting such a backward start. Its powers of recuperation from this time on are very limited and we are practically up to the period where the dry, hot weather of July and Au gust will set in and find the tiny, sappy, dwarfish plant is in no con dition to stand the trials of the heat. Brother farmers, just remember if it rains In the drought-stricken dis tricts in Texas to revive the cotton plant, the boll weevil will revive in proportion to the cotton, and if the heated term still stays, to 104 and up to 10S degrees of heat, cotton and boll weevil will suffer alike. Brother farmers, no need to be j alarmed. You have the best position in this fight. Tho man who has sold his cotton for October and November delivery will ever regret his mistake. Now let's see why he Is able to sell for October and November deliv ery. This was never heard of before the organization of the Farmers' Educa tional and Co-operative Union of America. This within itself should stimulate every farmer to join this great and grand organization. What is the reason the Farmer s Union has not achieved to Its. fullest extent its aims and objects? "t is because of the great ignorance of tho farmers them selves. But I .nm proud to s.,y thrst day by day the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union of America is growing stronger and stronger and being better forliried to free themselves of the great harden of speculation. I am proud to say that the farmers are beginning to learn some valuable lessons through the teachings of the Farmer's' Education al and Co-operative Union of Ameri ca. Its power Is being felt not only In this country alone, but all over the world. I would to God the farmer could realize the power he has, as the world sees it for him. I am proud to say that the cloud of mist is being rolled oway through this great organization, and sunshine and brightness is be ginning to peep through. The farm er is beginning to see that help must come through his own personal ef forts, and that there Iii help for him through organization, co-operation and diversification of crops. This is the greatest lesson for him to learn, and when this Is learned suc cess is his. I am proud tc say that the farmers did cut acreage this year one and one-half million acres, and planted an increase of food crops. I want to tell you, brother farmers, this cut ting of acreage Is helping to make the price of cotton today more than it is getting credit for. Why will cotton producers raise thirteen million bales of cotton when they know they can get as much money for ten million bales as they can for thirteen million? It seems | to me that no sane person would do j such business as this. If a manufac turer, by stopping one-third of his looms, could make as much money as by running the whole he would stop that one-third at once. I licit her farmers. I do not want, you to forgel that you have a valuable crop in your cotton seed, and just recollect and keep <'::?? eye on them until the price gets right. If you do let your seed go be sure and know what you will have to give for your meal before letting them go. I want to call your attention that ? August. 1909, is the month to begin fixing a price for your 1910 cotton crop by preparing to sow down a large acreage of oat and wheat, also plenty of winter cover crops, and grow your nitrogen in the soil. One dollar and fifty cents'worth of Crim son clove/ seed sown on an acre of your cotton land about the fifteenth ' of September will grow Into your soil thirty dollars' worth of nitrogen. Think of what an investment for $1.601 Also sow one and a hull. CENTS PEE COPY FALLS INTO SEA Oaring French Aviator Attempts to Fly From JCE TO ENGLAND Herbert Latham Attempt* to <io from Franco to England in his Monoplane, but After Covering Half the Distance, the Motor Foil*. ItcHcned by Torpedo Boat. Herbert Latham, the French avi ator, made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to cross the English channel in his monoplane Monday morning. He got away splendidly under per fect .conditions from the top of the Chalk Ciiffe at Sangatte, and had cov ered over half the distance at an average height of 500 feet, when the motor slowed down and he was oblig ed to descend. The air space of the wings, how ever, kept the machine afloat and the monoplane, like a wounded bird, was stretched out on the water, when the French torpedo boat destroyer Har pon, which had kept abreast thorough out the journey, came alongside and picked up the aviator. M. Latham was not wet and still sat on the saddle, which is located above the wings? and behind the mot or, calmly smoking a cigarette. He immediately announced that he was not discouraged by the failure and would try again as soon as the ma chine was repaired. The injuries to the monoplane were slight, the prin cipal damage being caused when it was hauled aboard the torpedo boa: destroyer. The motor is intact. The watchers on both shore had an anxious hour after the machine was lost to view behind a thin veil of fog on the French side, and apprehension was not allayed until it was reported at Calais that the Harpon was re turning with M. Latham, uninjured, aboard. On landing the aeronaut was giv en a frantic, reception. The failure.of the motor is attri buted to a bad carbureter on the. monoplane, which, when 400 feet in the air. began to descend. When the machine was 200 feet above the .wa ter M. Latham f-hut otT the power and the machine glided down gently and alighted on the. waves with hard ly a spiaih. In a brief interview M. Latham said: "I cannot exactly say what stopped the motor. 1 tried to get the engine working again, but could not. ami was obliged to lly gradually dov.n to the sea. The heavy motor immediately went under water, but the machine itself floated like a cork, and I lifted my feet to a spar to keep them dry. I found my matches still dry, and so was able to light a cigarette. 1 believe the machine would have float ed for two hours in a calm sea, but the wings were soon broken to shreds. "'My experience haa shown me that the English Channel can be crossed. Never mind. I will have another An toinette monoplane from Cfiarlons, with which another attempt will be made to cross the channel withiD a week or ten days. " NATIVE OF THIS STATT]. Andrew Jackson Says So and He Is Supposed to Know. To the Editor of The State: I read recently a statement that the question of President Jackson's native Slate was still, and would per haps ever remain unsettled. Today I read in an old magazine I found in my father's library, styled The Examiner and Journal of Politi cal Economy, printed in Philadel phia, dated Wednesday, May 28, 1834, a proclamation issued by An drew Jackson, president of the Unit ed States, addressed to the citizens of the State of South Carolina, reason ing with them on the rights of a State to nullfy the act of congress, which the state had recently passed, in which proclamation he uses these words: "Fellow citizens of my native State, let me not only admonish you as the first magistrate of our com mon country, not to incur the penal ties of the law," etc. It seems to me that Jackson thus speaks of South Carolina as bis na nlve State and there should be no further controversy about the ques tion. R. W. Simpson. Pcndleton, July 10, 190!?. Fatal Crap Game. As the result of a quarrel over tie- devislon of tin? winnings in a gnmt ui cards at Dean's Camp on the Carolina. Clinch field and Ohio Road in Sparfanhurg County Saturday, nigh1. Habe Kirby and Jim Logan, both colored, were shot and perhaps fatally wounded by Chris Sims, also colored, who made his escape. bushels of oats with thirty-five pounds of hairy vetch per acre, and you will raise an abundant supply of ni.'i- hay which will be ready to cut about June the first. If yon havo never tried the above begin by try ing a few acres this year, and you will not. stop until you sow many, many acres in the future. Just re member hog and hominy Is the key EDte of the situation. B. HARRIS, Pros. 8. C. 8tate Farmeri' Union.