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PUBLISHED THREE TU ?IS This bp ort ant Orgauizab^^^e Far mers Held MediDg.^6' ? \ >m -'- - \/ those who attended Meeting Held in Hall of House or Refuresentatira?Important Mat ' teni Relating to Agriculture Re ceiving . Attention?Organization Rejported in Good Condition Bal ' sace in Treasury. Thtj South Carolina State Far mers' union met Wednesday . night in the hall of the house of represent atives with a very large attendance f! of members and delegates. vThe evening was spent in per fecting the organization, hearing the annual address of A. J. A. PerriM, president, and in receiving reports, resolutions, petitions and memorial. The meeting was full of interest. The following officers of the State union were present. A. J. A; Perritt, Lamar, president; E. W. Dabbs, Mayesville, vice priesi dent; J. Whitner Reid, Columbia, secretary-treasurer; W. E. Bodie, Wards, chaplain; W. E. Hopkins, Hopkins, conductor; A. F. Valvert, Abbeville, doorkeeper; W. P. Cask ey, Lansaster, seargent-at-arms. Of the State executive committee the following members were present: First district, L. C. Padgett, Smoaks Second district, J. Z. Douthit, Pen dleton, Ninth district, J. F. Nisbet, Lancaster; Sixth district, J. H. Lam-, ,bert, Marion; Seventh district, B. F. Keller, Cameron Upon the enrollment of delegates, it was found that tie following were present: \ Abbeville?Brown Bowle, S. F. Pressley. Anderson?T. T. Wakefield, J. M. Broyles. Bamberg?J. P. O'Quinn. Barn well?T. F. Hogg, J. A. Jen kins. ' ?" Berkley?W. S. Avinger, W. , D. Byrd. Calhoun?S. J. Summers, G. W. Fairey. - Chester?J. G. L. White, C. C.'Mc Aliley .Chesterfield?J. F. Crowley, J. Clifton Rivers, A. F. Funderburk. Clarendon?B. P. Broadway, Jas. Reaves-,'J. .C. Dernis. Colleton?A. S. Varo, L. C. Pad gett, W. W. Smoak, J. O. Jaques, Jr. Darlington?S. J. Jeffords, J. B. Sans bury. Dillon?Arch M. Bethea, F. M. Page, S. F. Bailey. Dorchester?D. M. Wray, D. L. Mc Alhaney, T. J. Appleby. Cyrus" Ninis. Edgefield?O. B. White. Florence?W. R. Langston, Joe Parrott. dreenville?C. D. Smith, J. A. Fowler. Greenwood?J. H. Quattlebaum. Hampton?J. H. Adams, W. E. Davis, W. F. Davis. Horry?A. L. Davis, W. L. Mich ail, R. B. Glasgow, C. P. Stalvey, T. M. Lundy. Lancaster?C. L. McManus. W. E. Jordaa, J. S. Wilson. Laurens?H. J. G. Curry. Lee?S. N. Welsh. Lexington?B\ F. Efird. S. J. Clark. J. E. Haltiwanger. Marion?J. D. Montgomery, D. M. Dill, B. M. Carmichael. Newberry?A. D. Hudson. Dr. W. C. Brown. Oconee?J. B. Prickett. Orangeburg?J. H. Claffy, W. W. Culler, J. H. Price, T. "M. Dantzler. Pickens?Jno. T. Boggs. Richland?Dr. H. Claytor, J. W. McCreight. Saluda?J. W. P. Harmon, M. L. Wheeler. ?partanburg?E. F. Wall, A. F. Burton Sumter?Hugh Witherspoon, J. K. McElveen. Wllliamsburg?A. A. Brown. W. P. Gause. The following committees were appointed by the president. Education?A. D. Hudson. D. F. E?rd. E. W. Dabbs. J. Clifton Riv ers. J. 0. Jaques, Jr. Plans for Co-operation?J. H. Price, T. M. Lundy, Dr. H. Claytor. T. F. Hogg, C. L. McManus, F. M. Pago Good of the Order?Jas Reeves, Douglas Mclntyre, J. C. Dennis, J. W. P. Harmon, W. P. Goss. Revision of the Constitution?B. F. Keller. W. W. Smoak. B. F. Dill, D. L. .McAlhaney, L. J. Clark, J. H. Claffy. D. M. Way. ' Memorials?J B. Sanbury, Arch M. Bethea, A. S. Varn, Brown Bow ie, A. L. Lewis. Warehouse and Storage?J. D. Montgomery, J. G. L. White. T. M. Dantzler, T. T. Wakefield, J. S. Wil son. Resolutions?W. C. Brunson, W. R. Langston, Hugh Witherspoon, G. W. Fairey, J. P. O'Quin. Farm Demonstration?S. J. Jef fords. A. F. Burton. S. N. Welsh, H. J. G. Curry. J. H. Quattle,baum. Credentials?J. F. Nesbit, W. S. D. Avinger, Cyrus Mims. J. H. Ad ams, J. A. Fowler, W. L. Michau. J. K. McEIween. Press Committee?W. W. Smoak, E. W. Debbs, J. H. Claffy. Against Immigration. The State Farmers' union went on record in its meeting Thursday OS A WBKK. FOUND DYING MRS. JENNINGS AT SPARTAN BURG COJiLMITS SUICIDE. The Family While at Breakfast Was Startled by Pistol Shots.?Found Wife Dying. A special dispatoh from Spartan burg to the ColumDia Record R?ys Mrs. Marion B. Jennings committed . suicide Thursday morning by shoot-j iog herself in the left: temple. The i shots, two. in number, aroused the family as they were at the break fast table, and Mr. Jennings rushed into his wife's bedroom and found her already tfying, lying in a great pool of blood. For four months Mrs. Jennings had been in ill health and had re cently been suffering greatly from melancholia, but it was not feared that she would do herself injury. On Thursday morning she sent her youngest daughter out of her room, saying she d ?sired to be left alone io sleep, and the act was evidently then meditated. Within a Tew minutes two shots were heard. Mrs. Jennings secured an old pistol that had been left in the bedroom. The pistol was placed against her left temple and the head was practically torn completely off. The family are prostrated with grief. Mrs. Jennings*was about a year or more age married to Mr. Marion B. Jennings, son of State Treasurer Jennings, Mr. Jennings having for merly lived at Yorkville, where he practiced lav/ for several years after leaving Col umbia a few years ago. Mrs. Jennings was also a former Co lumbian, Miss Emma Hanahan, a 3ister of Dr. Hanahan of Columbia, She was first married to Mr. Er nest Beard, of Yarkville, aDd ,by that marriage has four daughters, all of whom are at home except one, whose home is in Yorkville. About & year ago she was married to Mr. Jen nings, and they made their home in Spartanburg where Mr. Jennings' is practicing his profession. Mrs. Jen nings was ? 7 years of age. ROUTED THE REBELS. Capturing the Leader and Some of His Armed Men. , . ? : .- . , .-'.-V*'?-? ?'.<?? .. Gen. Mfim'et, who two days ago started an uprising near El Caney, in Cuba, was surprised in camp on Thursday and captured by a de tatchment of the rural guard, under Lieutenant. Carrillo. One of Min iet's insurgents was killed. Miniet and two others were taken prisoner and the other fled. Lieut. Carillo and his detatchment came upon Gen. Minuet and -his .band of insurgents while they were en camped a;:d immeaiately opened fire. The insurgents1 returned the fire but when the guard charged they broke and fled, abandoning their arms. One of the insurgents was killed in stantly, while Miniet and two others were tak m prisoners. The ' rest of the baud is being hotly pursued by the rurais. None of the guard was hurt. Tie prisoners were taken to San tiago, whence they will be sent to Havana for trial on the capital charge of engaging in armed rebel lion. Another armed party is still believed to be in the field. All sec tions are reported tranquil. Head Struck Post. . Norman Crouse, a New York Cen tral engineer, was instantly killed when his head struck a signal post as he leaped out of his cab window when a south bound freight train his engine was hauling approached Williams Bridge near New York. Made Them Quit. A pest of mosquitoes on the doast of the Gulf of Mexico has compelled men in Texas to quit work. Vora cious swarms attack men and beasts alike. morning against the bringing into the Southland of "undesirable for eigners." The following is the resi lution adopted: "Whereas foreign immigration is being agitated again for the Sout.h and the diversion and distribution of foreigners now congesting and com ing into the cities of the northeast is proposed as a means of relief for northern immigration evils; and, "Whereas we are unalterably op posed, as set forth in our local. State and national union in resolu tions and our national committee's statement before the house Immigra tion committee to the present enor mous alien influx from the southeast Europe and western Asia and its distribution by the federal govern ment. "Therefore, be it Resolved, by the Farmers' Educational and Coopera tive Union of South Carolina, this 1'St.h day of July, 1910. that we hear tily endorse our national resolutions, approve the argument of our nation al legislative committee, and urge upon congress restriction by means of an increased head-tax, a money requirement, the illiteracy test, such as Australia and other new coun tries have kOT their protection against undesirable foreigners, the defeat of all distribution schemes and legislation that will carry out the recommendations of the United ! States Commissioner-General of Im-, migration contained in his last an-' nual report. j ORAXGEB? READ THIS, BOYS A LEAF FROM THE LIVES OF TWO GREAT CAROLINIANS. How Dr. James H. Carlisle Discover ed in a Little Boy a Great Man and Raiiroud Manager. 'From water-carrier at 50 cents a week to general manager of a great railway system, at a salary of many thousands of dollars a year, is a ca- ( reer one doesn't hear of every day,; but that was the achievement of a i South Carolina boy, who grew up j in Columbia, and who became well! known all over the South. That i boy was William H. Green, who waB general manager of the lines now controlled by the Southern Railway system for a number of years." This statement was made to the Washington correspondent of the Spartanburg Herald recently by Mr. S. H. Hardwick, who, as passenger trafic manager, is at the head of the entire passenger business of the Southern. The story of Capt. Green's remarkable success was mentioned by Mr. Hardwick in an accidental way. On the desk of the busy rail way man's office lies a stack of rath er heavy Volumes, whose appear ance indicates that they are the work of printers and binders of many years ago: Closer examina tion revealed the fact that the books were bound volumes of a weekly magazine, printed in London, during the years from 1840 to 1852. Across the first page of each weekly issue were the words, "The Railway Times," and directly beneath this captain was a crude picture of a railway train of that date. Trailing along behind a delicate looking lit tie locomotive a train of cars was repaeneed, .the single passengei coach being very much like the old time "carry-all" drawn by horses Next to this in the train was a car loaded with cattle, while at the ex treme rear was a flat-car, loaded with boxes of goods, trunks and oth er kind of traffic. "The issues appearing during the period mentioned has been bound into a dozen sturdy volumes, bear ing the mark of an enterprising bookseller of Southhampton, Eng land. Mr. Hardwick was asked where he ran across these books, which were apparantly of much value and to reply he told the fol lowing story: "Why, about five or six years ago ?in 1905, I believe it. was?I made a talk down at Glenn Springs, S. C, on the subject which was all-absorb ing at that time, not only in South Carolina, but all over the country the railroad-rate question. After my address was finished, Dr. James H Carlisle, president emertius of Wof ford College, Spartanburg, who was spending a whiie at Glenn's, and who had heard the talk, came to me and spoke most kindly of my feeble effort. He declared that he had been interested in what I said, and seem ed deeply impressed with the im portance of the problem of railroad rate adjustment. As well as I can recall his words?and they were im pressive, I can assure you?he-snid: 'I feel that it is a great question, and I regret that I have not given it more careful study.' "Dr. Carlisle then told me that he had in his library on the Wofford College campus several bound voi umes of an English railway maga zine appearing about the middle of the last centry, which might be of interest to me. as they had been tc him so far as he. had had time to read them, and asked me if I would accept them. Of course I told him I should be glad indeed to get them, and I arranged for him to send them to me here. Those are the volumes he gave me. Most people would have destroyed them as worthless years ago. but I have no doubt that Dr. Carlisle has preserv ed them all these years, waiting for some such opportunity to give them to someone to whom they would be of interest and value. I have found them of great interest, as contrast ing the railway business of sixty years ago with that of today; and now that Dr. Carlisle has passed away, the value of those books to me has passed out of the realm of dollars and cents.' Continuing Mr. Hardwick said: "I suppose you knew of the close friendship that existed for so many years between Dr. Carlisle and Capt. Green, our late general manager? Well, it is not so generally known, but they were great friends until the death of Capt. Green, several years ago. Dr. Carlisle began his career as a teacher, after graduation from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and going to and from his school each day, he passed by a litle fruit-stand, kept by an old lady "from the sand-hills." Mrs. Green, in the suburbs of Columbia. Occa sionally, when she was not at the front of the little store, or when she was otherwise engaged, her little son, Willie, would wait on the young teacher, selling him such wares as he wished to purchase. The teacher soon discovered that the boy was unusually alert and intelligent, and became much interested in him. He persuaded the boy to attend the school he was teaching. The two became great friends, and the boy confided to his teacher his desire to get Into a larger world. His mechan ical taste and tendency had been dis covered by the teacher, and a posi tion was secured for the boy in the ?(>, S. C, SATURDAY, J shops of the railroad at Newberry. His wages were 50 cents a week. Of course that was not enough to pay his expenses, but both he and his teacher were looking into ? the fu ture and some means were provided ?by which he could remain in the shops. His duties, at first, consisted in carrying water for the men em-! ployed in the shops. Continuing in the shops, he'; became apprentice, then fireman, then locomotive engi-, neer, then supervisor and division superintendent, general superintend ent, and finally general manager of j the great system he had served as a boy carryis water in the shops. His service covered a preiod of forty two years. Every step of his upward climb was marked by -great dilllgence i and efficiency. He was pointed to as a strong man, a kindly man, and indeed a great mani He was faith ful to his workj as well as to his benefactor and a|ways attributed his success largely to Dr. Carlisle's in terest and assistance. "We hear the boys these days talking about the honor of 'discov ering' a great baseball player. Dr. Carlisle 'discovered' a great man in the little boy attending the fruit stand, and was always proud of Capt. Green's success. And Capt. Green, w.henever he found it convenient, would stop off in Spartan burg and go over to the college campus to call on his friend. After he had achiev ed such a position in the railroad world that he always traveled in his own private car, Capt. Green fre quently invited Dr. Carlisle to be bis guest on the car, and to travel with him; but he was never successful. He said the doctor seemed to think that it was not exactly right for Jiim to ride on a railroad free, while oth ers were required to pay their fares. That is just the idea that has now been enacted into law: but Dr. Car lisle was several decades ahead of his generation in holding those views. "Yes, those books are valuable, and would probably sell for a good sum; but you may be sure I am not going to sellthem." THE MOSQUITO WAR. Brings Health to a Ijargc Scope of Land in Italy. As a result of a war on mosqui toes in certain party of Italy, a healthful, cheerful looking race and fat, rosy children have succeeded a population, which a few years ago consisted of a vfe.w miserable peas ants, their skins yellow as saffron and their bodies bitten and suffering. This is the report made to the De partment of agriculture by Dr. L. R. Howard, chief of the bureau of en tomology, who has returned from a recent visit, to the Italian Campagna. Most cf t.he visitors recollected this region as a vast tract of marsh land, where mosquitoes and malaria would breed. The country having been drained by the government, now is being extensively farmed and is beginning to support what eventual ly will be a large population. The Italian government lias u^cd the German method of systematic dosing with quinine. It is known as official quinine and as the govern ment has a monopoly on the tobac co trade, the cigarette boxes are made to carry a printed quinine ad vertisement. T.he drug is sold cheap ly and to the charitable institutions, the soldiers and other individuals too poor to pay for it, the medicine is given free. POLITENESS PAYS. While Traveling Assisted Stranger, Now Gets Legacy. An act of kindness which he ren dered an aged stranger six years ago has brought a reward of $10,000 to J. Y. Allen, a young man of Homer, La. While traveling in Texas, Allen met an elderly man, in looking out for whose baggage the former prof fered his services. On parting com pany with Allen, the old man took his name and address, with the dec laration: "You may some day be re warded for your kindness to a stranger." Allen was Thursday not ified by lawyers of his former trav eling companion's death and that the latter had bequeathed him $10,000 as "the young man who assisted an aged man while traveling several years ago." POLICE KILL TWO. Riot at Sugar Trust Plant Results With Fatalities. Two men were shot and killed and four were dangerously wounded, one a policeman, in a riot of strike sym pathizers Thursdaj at t.he plant of the American Su-'ar Refining com pany in Williamsbiirg, N. Y. A score of others were hurt. Crowds of sympathizers threw bricks at the strike-breakers from house tops and when the non-union men started on with their trucks to deliver sugar a rush was made for the wagons. The police on the trucks returned the fire of t.he crowd and two of the rioters were shot. Hidden from Lynchers. S win ton Fermenter, a young far mer, and two other men. named Comings and Burfield, are under ar rest in Louisville, (Mass., charged with the murder of Miss Jennie Sharp, daughter of a planter. The three men were spirited away from i the Louisville prison to evade lyn- j ULY 30, 1910. TRIED TO SELL GIRL i RESULT, MAX ?S JAIL OX "WHITE . SLAVE"CHARGE. Atlantic City Police Believe They Have Agent of Gang Which Deals in Immigrant Girls. Alter a chase lasting over two weeks the police of Atlantic City, N. J., believe they liave captured a I "while, slave" operator ror whose j arrest the Federal authorities have been looking for some time, and al- ? so gotten on the trail of traffic in' immigrant girls which may cause: an even greater scandal than the one which came before the Rocke feller Grand jury in New York city recently. As the result of the work of De tective Herbert, a man who gives his i name as Geo. E. Nelson, is locked up in jail without bail, whiie a Slav girl, unable co give her name, is be ing held as a witness. The charge made by the police is that Nelson openly took the girl to'a tenderloin resort in Atlantic City with a price for her possesscn. The charge is made that Nelson went to Atlantic City several weeks ago and offered to sell the girl, whom he said had just arrived in this country and would be "perfect ly tractable." A day or two after ward the girl escaped from her cap tor and went to New oYrk city, Nel son followed her and reappeared in about a week with his charge whicn he attempted to sell again. Nelson now in a cell, denies that he ever attempted to sell girls, but the police are working on the theory that he is an agent for a "white slave" gang dealing in immigrant girls, and whom the Federal authori ties have been attempting to eaten for some time. TIDE SETS TO SOUTH. Immigrants Are Fast Flocking to Dixie Land. The day of immigration into the South has arrived and with it has be gun an exodus of Americans who have tried Canada and the Northern States and now have quit that local ity for more profitable farming in Dixie land. The tide is carrying with it'colonists from Iowa, Kansas,' ?Nebraska and the West and North west, and the influx is expected to reach its height about next Occober. A recent report to the land an? industrial department of the South ern railway shows that since last May about 50,000 acres of land in Southern Alabama had either been purchased or was about to be obtain ed fcr Northwestern firms and cor porations for locating settlers. Large tracts have also been taken in Geor gia and Northern Florida since the first of the present year. Another movement is that of a colony of Slovaks from Western Pennsylvania to Southern Alabama. In Northeast Georgia there has been started the nucleus of a colony for Canada. Individual farmers from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are buying improved as well as wild lands in Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Northern Alabama. German ami Memmnnite settlers are also travel ing' to the South lands in goodly numbers. ENDED IN TWO DEATHS. Husbands of the Same Woman Kill Each Other. As a culmination of an enmity of 20 years standing, B. V. Barger, of Memphis, was shot and mortally wounded by C. M. Gaynon, a rail road employee at Little Rock Wed nesday night, who in turn was kill ed by Barger. The affray took place at the Gaynon home and was wit nessed by Mrs. Gaynon and her 18 year old son. The differences be tween the men began when Mrs. Gaynon secured a divorce a score uf years ago from Gaynon and married Barger. Within a year, however, she secured another divorce and re-mar ried her first husband. IJarger, it is said, sought Gayncn at his home Wednesday night and the shooting resulted. Meet* Death Under Train. Sacrificing his life by gallantry in picking up a handkerchief dropped | on the tracks by a child unidentified, ' a subway employee was mangled to death under a train at One hundred | thirty-fourth street station in Now! York Wednesday. Man May Die. At Chicago Carver Remington, son ! of Samuel Remington, who .shot I himself after preparing for his bur ial is hovering between life and death. The motive for the shooting was disappointment of several busi ness ventures. English Cuttle Barred. Owing to the discovery of foot and mouth diseases among cattle in Kur land, importation of cattle from that country into the United States has .been prohibited until the extent of the disease is dclermicd. Fewer fame. Official figures show that 283. 784 fewer immigrants landed in the last fiscal year Llian in the year pre vious; THE CORN CROP BIG INCREASE IN THE ARCEAGE IN THE SOUTH. Enoimous Sums Which Have Been Going West for Foodstuffs Will be Kept at Home. With 26,277,000 arces corn plant ed this year, being an iocrese of 1, 535,000 over 1909 and 2,776,000 acres over T908, the farmers of Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Caroli na, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi are furnish ing very substantial proof of the fact that the South is constantly de voting more attention to raising its own food supplies. These figures are from the bureau of statistics of t.he United States department of ag riculture. The acreage in corn for the pres ent year is shown as follows: Virgin-! ia 2,142,000; North Carolina, 3,-| 072,000; South Carolina, 2,428,000; j Georgia, 4,532,000; Kentucky, 3, 639,000, Tennessee, 2,71 S,900; Ala bama, 3,524,000; Mississippi, 3,232, 000; Total, 26,277,000. The total acreage for 1909 was 24,742,000 and in 190S it was 23, 501,000. The figures indicate that each State showed an increase over 1903 in 1 909 and an increase over 1909 in 1910. The condition of this year s crop as reported by the department shows the States of the South lead in the country. Mississippi being first, Alabama second and Georgia third. This great increase in the acreage devoted to corn is considered one on the most hopeful signs in the South today. In a tetter to the directors of the Southern Railway company, President Finley called particular at tention to these figures and said: "The increase in the acreage of corn, accompanied, as it is, by a quite general adoption of improved cultural methods, is one of the mcst encouraging features of Southern agricultural progress. It is one of J the results of a general movement throughout the South in the direction of diversified agriculture?a move ment which we are endeavoring to I encourage and assist as far as we can properly do so." As the farmers of the South in crease their yield of corn, they will save enormous sums which they have been spending iii the West for food products and will consequently them selves realize more from cotton and other market crops. Economic au thorities agree in declaring the American corn crop the basis of the country's prosperity since in such a large measure the . production of other crops as well as the pork sup ply depends upon it and a greater yield of corn in the South conse quently means a greater share of prosperity for this section. FIGHT ON THE BRIDGE. Officer Kills Man Who Tried to Throw Him in River. Police Officer William Caudle was shot below the heart and John Grubbs, of Barnwell, S. C, said to be of prominent family, was shot through the brain and killed in a J struggle on the bridge near North Augusta Wednesday afternoon. The shooting attracted a great crowd and for a time trouble was feared, but the arrival of the police platoon brought quiet. Grubbs, accompan ie by a man named Green, both of whom were said to have been drink ing, were disorderly on the bridge near the Augusta end. Officer Can dle was ordered to get away and they attempted to throw him over the railing into the river. A tight followed in which Grubbs shot twice, the second bullet taking effect. Cou dle then fired and killed his man. Green was arrested. KILLED BV TRAIN. Boiled the Baby Carriage in Front of a Train. Mrs. Peter Montrelle, failing to see the approach of a passenger train, wheeled the baby carriage con taining her twin sons, one-y. ar-old. on the track in front of it vVednes tlay, was unable to snatch it back, and saw the carriage and her bah!3d hurled 75 feet in the air. ? Wh.'? she reached them, one of the twins, Guido, was playing gleefully in tne sand, but the other, Joseph, was dead. The accident occurred 9 miles east of Hammond, Ind., and 'he train was the Erie Flyer. PI ysi cians w4io attended her after the ac cident expressed the fear that sh.j would not survive the shock. Very Sad Case. John Wiiholt, formerly a student at the University of Georgia, and a son of William F. Wiiholt, president of the Cotton Oil company of Atlan ta, Ca., pleaded guilty to burglary in the criminal court there Friday. He was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Kills Wife Before Child. In New York in the presence of his five little children, Abraham Uotb, a tailor, after quarreling with his wife. Hertha, plunged a bread | knii'e into .her neck then slashed his; throat. The woman died soon after-! ward in agony. TWO CENTS PER COPY LATEST CRIMES Many of the 0M Reliable Ones Are Now Strictly Out of Style SOME NEW ONES ON TAP Highway Robbery, Burglary and Thuggism Has (?Iren Way to a Very Large Extent to the Slicker Game of Pickpockets, Forgers and Confidence Men. "In exact ratio to the ability of the law to discover and promptly and efficiently punish a certain claBS of crimes, will the criminals who live by them be compelled to seek other fields of occupation." This is the statement of Judge William N.1 Gen mill, of the Municipal court, of Chic ago, a man who has made a study of crime and criminals during the long and honorable career he has had on the bench in the Illinois metropolis. There is no other maa in Chicago that knows more about the under world and ;:ts operations in that city than Judge Gemmill. and he is re cognized as; an'authority upon mat ters of this sort. Criminal statistics prove that the crimes have increased or decreased just in the poportion that the pun ishments therefore have been swift and cetain," continued the judge. "Highway robbery, far instance, is almost a lost art and one does not have to seek far for the reason. If the robber escapes death at the hands of the victim he becomes an outlaw and is hunted like a wild beast. In Chicago arrests for rob bery have decreased from 1,200 in 1905 to 730 in 1909. "Twenty-five years ago the bur glar was more feared by the public than any other criminal. Today housebreaking in t.he night is al most unknown. I have ot had a. single case of such housebreaking in the 8,000 criminal cases heard by me during the past three years. "In Chicago arrests for burglay have deceased since 1905 from 1,780 to 1,263, a decrease of 34 per cent. in five years. What has brought about the change? It is not That the .burglar has become more honest, but it is because he has found, the business more dangerous - and its punishment more certain and swift. "Certain crimes, however, are on the increase. We have in Chiaago no: less than 500 professional pick pockets. If the criminoligists could erainine their heads they might be taken for bank clerks. They are of the best ? dressed and best looking young fellows in the city. They travel in groups of three or four. They haunt the crowds and ply their calling with a skill scarcely equalled in any other profession. They hire their lawyer by the year and send him a Christmas present at Christ mas time. "Their number is constantly in creasing. Why? Because they know that they have nine chances out of ten to escape punishment. Seldom do their victims discover The loss of their pocketbooks before they have made good their escape. . , "Counterfeiting was once the be setting crime of the nations. . The counterfeiter has become rare, but in his place has come the smooth con fidence man. The number of these fellows has increased 50 per cent in Chicago in five years. It is the saf est criminal business outside of that of the pickpocket. "The same conditions apply to for gery, and as a consequeuce the ar rests for that crime have increased 4 6 per cent, in the last five years. There have been reformed robbers and burglars, but so far as 1 know never a reformed forger or confi dence man. ".Much that is hopeful has been accomplished in Chicago during the last few years. Of the 202,924 crim inal cases brought into the courts of the county in the last three years SO per cent, were tried within 24 hours from their arrest and 95 per cent, within ten days from the ar rest. "While crimes based upon fraud ulent business transactions have in creased, all of the more serious crimes have decreased. This does not include homicide, which has re mained almost stationary. The num ber of homicides in a city is* no criterion of the crime of a city. They are usually committeed by men and women who had hitherto been use ful and law abiding citizens." Shoes iMut 30 Years. If all men were like Isaiah Berg, of Milton Grove, Ind., shoe factories would be forced out of business. He has a pair of "Sunday" shoes he has worn for 30 years and his "every day" shoes have been worn for 25 years. Slain About Whiskey. In a quarrel over a bottle of whis key William M. Keed was shot to death in Capt. Charles, Va., by Wil liam Richardson, his brother-in-law. Reed was accused of not having paid his share on the bottle. She Refused Him. Disappointment in love affairs is assigned a3 the cause of suicide by shooting of Edgar H. Shrock, aged 25, of Fort. Wayen, Ind., in the head. Shock was formerly in the navy.